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The Muster- Alan McLeary: Shearwell NZ · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: This is the muster on Hokanui.
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  Speaker 2: Alan McClary of Sharewell New Zealand joins us once again.
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  Speaker 1: G'day, Alan. Your neck of the woods.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say the situation is the same as everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: It's just pretty darn wet.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I haven't used much sunscreen this month, mate.
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  Speaker 3: It had to be waterproof stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's a saving, I suppose.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, she looks, yeah, it is. It's been the
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  Speaker 3: wettest it's been here for many years, but it's just, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know which paddock to wreck next, mate.
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  Speaker 1: Your farm is based down near the Catlins. What's it like?
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  Speaker 1: Is it probably as damp as what you've seen it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it hasn't been this wet for probably 10 or
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  Speaker 3: 12 years. It's, yeah. I don't know how you describe it, mate.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a big sponge. It's just wet as.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you're a duck, you're probably happy, but that's
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, look, it'll all come right eventually, I suppose,
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  Speaker 3: but it's just hanging in there until we get there,
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  Speaker 3: isn't it? That's pretty tough, but you've just got to
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  Speaker 3: hang in and, you know, we're a day closer every day,
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  Speaker 3: aren't we?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, we are, mate.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Shewell, New Zealand, tagging options, they'll be coming up
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  Speaker 2: sooner than later, believe it or not. Probably not today
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  Speaker 2: or tomorrow, but in the next wee while, how's things been?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it just a quiet season for you guys?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, we've been full ball. I think last
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  Speaker 3: time I was on, we were still full ball with
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  Speaker 3: the stud guys. That's just tapered off now. They've ordered
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  Speaker 3: all their tags. I've actually been out and done a
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  Speaker 3: couple of half days tailing and tagging, so that's sort
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  Speaker 3: of got me out of the ruttery bit. But, yeah, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: we've had another record month. It's just full on. The
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  Speaker 3: heat waves have been— we' ve actually sold quite a few of
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  Speaker 3: them this month again, just, I suppose, because of that
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  Speaker 3: bloody weather, a few weeks. A few lambs just not
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  Speaker 3: going to make it otherwise. So they seem to be
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  Speaker 3: going really well. People are happy with them. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I've seen some pretty good setups. Some pretty happy lambs,
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  Speaker 3: to be fair.
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  Speaker 1: Whereabouts were you tailing?
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  Speaker 3: I was in Beck and one of them was down
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  Speaker 3: at your old stomping ground, mate, down in Riversdale.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm Belfort.
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  Speaker 3: And Belfort, well, you know, Riversdale, Belfort.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on, hang on. Don't go down that avenue, pal.
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  Speaker 3: I can spit from one to the other. Right here.
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  Speaker 2: The stud work for you guys is a big deal,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it? Not you yourself personally, but for the company.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, look, I only just got over the bruising from
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  Speaker 3: the last time we got in for trouble with my wife. Crikey.
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  Speaker 1: That was self-inflicted. It wasn't me.
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  Speaker 3: But no, no, we have. We've got a lot of studs.
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  Speaker 3: The last count I had, I think we had something
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  Speaker 3: like 50-odd studs in the South Island, sheep studs plus
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  Speaker 3: the cattle ones. But, yeah, so it is. It's pretty
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  Speaker 3: full on getting all their... There's a short window between
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  Speaker 3: their scanning and getting the tags ordered and them start lambing. So, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: it keeps Ray pretty busy. He's been pretty flat out.
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  Speaker 2: Things just tick away with Shearwell at the moment. That's
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  Speaker 2: what it comes down to. It is.
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  Speaker 3: We just have a wee bit of a quiet spell
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  Speaker 3: here for a couple of weeks and then it'll be
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  Speaker 3: on again. But we have got a bit of exciting news, though, Andy.
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  Speaker 3: We've been doing our NAIT tag trials, Barton trials, and
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  Speaker 3: we've just been approved for So that'll give farmers another
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  Speaker 3: option to ordinate tags. We can't quite sell them yet.
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  Speaker 3: There's still a wee bit of nitty gritty to be
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  Speaker 3: done between Osprey and Shero on the details. But the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing is our retention on our trials and them reading.
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  Speaker 3: Their readability is past the flying colours.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's exciting news. That's something you guys have been
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  Speaker 1: working on for a while. It has.
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  Speaker 3: It's a long process, the trials. Pretty strict. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've got them done and we've passed. That's probably one
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  Speaker 3: of the first tests I've ever passed before Andy, if
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  Speaker 3: it's really truthful.
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  Speaker 1: You would have done Scope, sir, and UE and all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of jazz?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think I might have passed a couple of
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  Speaker 3: sharing school tests, I think, but I think that might
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  Speaker 3: have been about my limit.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's better than nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they gave me certificates in those days. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I haven't got them hanging on the wall, though.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they hand out certificates for participation, so you'll probably
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  Speaker 2: be pleased you did it when you did.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, blow my bubble, buddy. But, you know, look, the
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  Speaker 3: NAIC tag thing, it's a big thing, and with three
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  Speaker 3: companies now providing, that should help quite a bit with
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  Speaker 3: the turnaround period on it. So, yeah, pretty excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: So when are you hoping to have this out in
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  Speaker 1: the public arena as such, Al?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, mate, we don't know. You know, all the details,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how long it'll take, but I'm pecking
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  Speaker 3: it'll be weeks, you know, so we should be in
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  Speaker 3: time for calf marking. I'll keep you posted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be the best way to look at it.
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  Speaker 2: Mate, we'll leave it there because you've got a bit
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  Speaker 2: going on today with your own beat and the likes,
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  Speaker 2: but I'd like to share with you when the times
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  Speaker 2: come clearer and people want to get in touch with
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  Speaker 2: yourself or Ray, what's the numbers?
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  Speaker 3: My number's 027-232-4488. And Ray is 0800-799-89. And we're always
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  Speaker 3: there somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, Al. And you get to listen to this,
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  Speaker 1: you lucky devil. Stand by. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Shearwell Data, working to help the livestock farmer.
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  Speaker 2: Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson were going camping. They pitched
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  Speaker 2: their tent under the stars and went to sleep. Some
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  Speaker 2: time in the middle of the night, Holmes woke Watson
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  Speaker 2: up and said, Watson, look up at the sky and
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  Speaker 2: tell me what you see. Watson replied, I see millions
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  Speaker 2: and millions of stars. Holmes says, and what do you
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  Speaker 2: deduce from that? Watson replied, well, if there are a
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  Speaker 2: million of stars, and even a few of those have planets,
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  Speaker 2: it is quite likely there are some planets like Earth
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  Speaker 2: out there. And if there are a few planets like
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  Speaker 2: Earth out there, there might also be life. And Holmes said, Watson,
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  Speaker 2: you knob, It means someone stole our tent.
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  Speaker 1: I actually got that one. I got that one way
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  Speaker 1: earlier on. Give the man a hand. Hey, good on you, Al.
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  Speaker 2: for your time, mate. We'll catch up again. You too.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, guys. Catch us later.
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  Speaker 2: Alan McLeary of Shewey on New Zealand wrapping up the muster.
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  Speaker 2: Podcast will be going up shortly.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Andy Muir. The show, of course, is brought to
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  Speaker 1: 1 o'clock.