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The Muster Full Show: 16/10/26 · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: Once again, it is Friday afternoon, so we catch up
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  Speaker 1: with Nathan Abernethy from Regional Ford. How are you, Nathan?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very well, Andy. And, yeah, at the end of
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  Speaker 2: another week, I don't know, I reckon closer to the
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: end of the year, these weeks roll around faster. But, yep,
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  Speaker 2: it's another one that's rolled over, and the day's not
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  Speaker 2: too bad out there. I think it's sitting on 11
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  Speaker 2: or 12 degrees. But, yeah, let's hope the forecast is
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: better over the weekend and into next week. But, look,
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  Speaker 2: it's busy here as always. There's lots of new stock
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  Speaker 2: come around. We've had a wee bit of a shuffle
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  Speaker 2: around the guard's. um we've opened up another yard sort
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  Speaker 2: of on the other side to give us of the
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  Speaker 2: road to give us a little more room um so
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  Speaker 2: that's that's exciting but we've got a lot of stock
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  Speaker 2: to arrive to up to fill that um but look
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  Speaker 2: on a friday it's just a quick run down with
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  Speaker 2: used stock really we've got a lot of secondhand commercial
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  Speaker 2: coming through at the moment still a lot of new
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  Speaker 2: trucks going out andy and a lot of new 41st
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  Speaker 2: going going out the door as well and we've got
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  Speaker 2: pretty good stocks of those in at the moment as
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  Speaker 2: well so um Yeah, second-hand-wise, a lot of ranges coming
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  Speaker 2: through and a lot of SUVs. We won't pick on
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  Speaker 2: any one thing today. Just remember that, you know, we've
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  Speaker 2: got trucks there from all price brackets, generally probably from, well,
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  Speaker 2: I think at the moment, double cab four-wheel drive, I
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  Speaker 2: think we've got from about $ 16, 000 out there, ranging right
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  Speaker 2: up to, you know, maybe mid-60s or late-60s for a
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  Speaker 2: late-model Raptor that's just gone on the yard that's still
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  Speaker 2: the very latest model, which is basically sort of $ 25, 000
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  Speaker 2: or $ 30, 000 cheaper than a new one This one's a one-owner.
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  Speaker 2: It's dressed up on a really nice set of aftermarket
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  Speaker 2: 20-inch wheels. It's white. It does look really, really good.
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  Speaker 2: We can put the finance together for you really easy.
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  Speaker 2: It's a really quick job with our business manager. Cody
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  Speaker 2: in here does that, and we just sit you down
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  Speaker 2: for a couple of minutes and just go over a
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  Speaker 2: couple of numbers with you and get that finance sorted
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  Speaker 2: and try to make it as easy as we can.
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  Speaker 2: And before you know it, you're driving away with a
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  Speaker 2: big smile on your face in a new or a
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  Speaker 2: late model vehicle. That's how easy it is. As always, look,
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  Speaker 2: it's all systems go here this afternoon. The workshop's busy.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not a bad time to start thinking about that
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  Speaker 2: caravan or boat that's been sitting in the shed all winter.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the time they're out of a warrant
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  Speaker 2: of fitness, so maybe get in early this year. Get
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  Speaker 2: that done. Parts department, of course, all makes and models.
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  Speaker 2: If there's anything we can do, pick up the phone,
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  Speaker 2: give us a yell, or drop in and see us.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, Nathan. Let you go and finish that sandwich.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Andy.
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hokonui. Andy
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  Speaker 1: Mewi here. Until two o'clock, the show's brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Peter's Genetics. On a Friday, like Nave said, a
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  Speaker 1: little bit brisk outside. Currently around nine, hovering onto ten
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  Speaker 1: here over the main street of Gore. So we'll look
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  Speaker 1: at the forecast very shortly. No Phil Duncan today. He's
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  Speaker 1: away for a couple of weeks, but yeah. Not looking
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  Speaker 1: too bad into next week. Tunes for a Friday. Black
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: Eyed Peas. This is one of their breakout songs from
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  Speaker 1: back in the late 90s called Weekends. There you go,
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  Speaker 1: one big lump. Clinton. 10.4 gets us underway in soil temperatures.
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  Speaker 1: Heria at 10.1. Northern Southland, 11.3. Riverton, 11.8. Te Anau, 10.3.
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: Winton and Woodlands at 10.8. Jamie Mackay starts us off
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  Speaker 1: in the country crossover, followed up by Morgan Green of NSVETS.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Henderson farming down at Awaroa. We see how the
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  Speaker 1: season's gone from feast to famine as far as feed.
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  Speaker 1: Steve says it's certainly been a bit of a game
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  Speaker 1: changer recently. And Robin Greer follows up too, based out
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  Speaker 1: at Tutorail these days, Robin, and just talks about how
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  Speaker 1: things have... taking a step for the positive. And we
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  Speaker 1: wrap up the show with Andrew Alderson out of Newstalk
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  Speaker 1: ZB looking ahead of a big weekend of sport. We
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  Speaker 1: start up next though with Jamie Mackay. This is The
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  Speaker 1: Jamie Mackay is host of The Country and joins us
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon. G'day Jamie. Don't know about you, but gee,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a busy old week.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a busy old week, all right, and there's
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  Speaker 4: lots happening on the farms in the south, no doubt
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  Speaker 4: about that, and And the improved weather has been welcomed,
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  Speaker 4: even though we've got a bit of a cold snap
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  Speaker 4: going through at the moment. We're a balmy like nine
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  Speaker 4: degrees or something here today. But we've had some lovely
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  Speaker 4: warm weather earlier in the week. And I think from
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  Speaker 4: Sunday on again, the weather's good and goodness knows we
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  Speaker 4: need it. So we just look in the rear vision
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  Speaker 4: mirror at shit timber and flush the dunny, as Steve
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  Speaker 4: Hansen would say.
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  Speaker 1: Shit timber, just about going the Oxford Dictionary.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it should, and no doubt, I mean, farmers remember
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  Speaker 4: these things. I'm an old codger now, and I remember
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  Speaker 4: the lambing of 87 and people who were about at
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  Speaker 4: that time, yourself included, remember the stadium. I always liken
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  Speaker 4: it to when the roof collapsed on Stadium South in
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  Speaker 4: the big snow of 2010, I think it was, and
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  Speaker 4: people remember these things, and they're just a peg in
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  Speaker 4: the sand and a reminder that things can only get better.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what was a good watch on TV
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  Speaker 1: the other night. Paul Andrews. He was an outback trucker,
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  Speaker 1: but they're outside Andrews' main yard there in Riversdale. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you credit, the old town come across pretty well.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's a beautiful town. It's the capital of northern Southland.
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  Speaker 4: Why wouldn't it? And that's back to the future for
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  Speaker 4: Paul Andrews. Of course, his dad, Fred, set up Andrews Transport,
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  Speaker 4: and it's been the cornerstone, really, of Riversdale. as a
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  Speaker 4: business for a number of years, and they do a
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  Speaker 4: great job there.
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  Speaker 1: I miss that.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, I saw the election debate, and like everyone else,
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  Speaker 4: even though I'm a political tragic, Andy, I'm kind of
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  Speaker 4: getting over them, and these leaders' debates, neither of the
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  Speaker 4: Chris's were that impressive. They kind of both had gaffe moments,
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  Speaker 4: and I just think people are People are over the election,
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  Speaker 4: but it's a very, very important one, especially for.
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  Speaker 1: Rural New Zealand.
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  Speaker 4: And I think, you know, I just feel the coalition's
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  Speaker 4: been on the back foot. But just when you think
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  Speaker 4: it might be done and dusted, if top get past 5%,
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  Speaker 4: the Greens and Te Pāti Māori bless them, go and
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  Speaker 4: get some photos done with the gangs, which is absolutely despicable,
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  Speaker 4: posing for them, posting for them. I think middle New
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  Speaker 4: Zealand doesn't want to borrow that. And that's what we're facing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Labour, to be fair, are kind of sensible,
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  Speaker 4: top the juries out. But Kiu-Lei Wong, to be fair
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  Speaker 4: to her, presents very well. She certainly presents as being
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  Speaker 4: more sane than the Greens and Te Pari Māori. But
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  Speaker 4: I really fear, I really fear for farming and some
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  Speaker 4: of the rules that will change under a left-leaning coalition.
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  Speaker 4: And I know that Chippy and Joe Luxon are making
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  Speaker 4: soothing noises, they're not the problem. Chloe and co. will
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  Speaker 4: extract a high price if it comes to coalition agreements.
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  Speaker 4: So if I was a farmer, you can vote for
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  Speaker 4: who you want, but you need to vote centre-right, especially
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  Speaker 4: if you're a livestock farmer.
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  Speaker 1: Your old mate, Rowan Horrell, drills farm there. Now, we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about this today. We've both crutched there, and you
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  Speaker 1: were one of the first ones to christen the shed,
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  Speaker 1: so to speak.
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, I was the very first, Rowan Horrell. Horrell,
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  Speaker 4: my old mate, passed away, unfortunately. Yeah, we were the
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  Speaker 4: first ones to use the new wool shed in the
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  Speaker 4: early 80s. I can't remember quite what year it was,
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  Speaker 4: crutching the lambs. And I used to have a crutching
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  Speaker 4: gang with my brother and cousin and a few other
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  Speaker 4: people we would drag in from time to time. And
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  Speaker 4: the funny thing, there is a connection between you and I,
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  Speaker 4: because as I moved out of farming and into radio...
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  Speaker 4: The successor was Bat, our old mate Ewan McClay, and
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  Speaker 4: he got you into the gang. So you ended up
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  Speaker 4: doing the shed as well with both crutch lambs at
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  Speaker 4: the Horrell shed. And I'll tell you what, they were
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  Speaker 4: the easiest crutching lambs you could get. Bill, Rowan's father,
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  Speaker 4: bless him, used to cut the tails off right at
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  Speaker 4: the backbone and you could just go straight over with
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  Speaker 4: your handpiece. They were really quick crutching. And if you
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  Speaker 4: could knock out a thousand of those a day, tail crutching,
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  Speaker 4: It was brilliant, brilliant money for a hard-up young farmer.
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  Speaker 4: Had some great times, had some wonderful times in that shed.
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  Speaker 4: And just on the subject, I've got to get a
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  Speaker 4: shameless plug in here for my old mate. So Shea
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  Speaker 4: Mosby at Country & Co's got this on. I know
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of interest in the property. Look, along
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  Speaker 4: with Mark Shallard and Tania's farm in Riversdale, this is
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  Speaker 4: the best farm in Riversdale, possibly in north and south,
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  Speaker 4: and beautifully set up with lanes and and hedges, 380 hectares,
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  Speaker 4: that's 950 acres, sheep, beef at the moment, beautiful cropping land,
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  Speaker 4: five titles. There's a house on the property. The main homestead,
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  Speaker 4: I think, is being sold or kept separately. But the
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  Speaker 4: house that's for grabs on the property has been extensively renovated.
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  Speaker 4: And believe it or not, believe it or not, Andy,
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  Speaker 4: in the early 80s, I used to flat in there.
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  Speaker 4: And as I said, great wool shed. Covered in yards.
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  Speaker 4: This is shameless. We're probably breaking an election law here, Andy,
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  Speaker 4: but go and see Shea Mosby.
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  Speaker 1: I am.
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  Speaker 4: I am, and I don't care if I'm sacked from
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  Speaker 4: this job because it's a non-paying one. Speak for yourself
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  Speaker 4: on this.
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  Speaker 5: On this.
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  Speaker 4: Shay Mosby, Country & Co. Look, I know a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people are looking at this farm.
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  Speaker 1: It is a beauty.
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  Speaker 4: If I was a sheep and beef farmer, this would
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  Speaker 4: be the farm I'd pick.
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  Speaker 1: What was a ring crutch worth back in the early 80s?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I can remember that because we used to get $ 20.
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  Speaker 1: We used to.
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  Speaker 4: Get $ 20 a hundred for the tail crutch or the
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  Speaker 4: ring crutch, and it was $ 25 for the full crutch.
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  Speaker 4: And anyone who's done a bit of crutching can figure
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  Speaker 4: out there was no eye-wigging or anything. They were open-faced
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  Speaker 4: Coopworth lambs, no dags at all on them. So if
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  Speaker 4: you could knock out $ 1, 000, that was $ 200 a day.
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  Speaker 4: And back in the early, early 80s, that was great money.
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: That was great money.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was like 20, we were like
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  Speaker 1: about $ 97.
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  Speaker 5: 98, $ 0.
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  Speaker 1: 28 and $ 0. 30 for a ring and a full crutch.
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  Speaker 1: So certainly it was one of those things you were
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  Speaker 1: able to do being at home to earn a bit
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  Speaker 1: of cash. Hey, Jamie, the ABs against Wallabies, you happy
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: with this AB side, where they're tracking? Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And in fact, I shouldn't say this, but I was
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  Speaker 4: a bit, I was disappointed. I thought the Aussies would
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  Speaker 4: bring more and I think they might this weekend, but
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  Speaker 4: To be honest with you, I enjoyed the Springbok tests,
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  Speaker 4: even though we lost them because they were real test matches. Look,
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  Speaker 4: I do like the way the All Blacks are tracking,
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  Speaker 4: and I love that. I'm a big Scott Barrett fan.
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  Speaker 4: He adds some real grunt and a bit of mongrel
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  Speaker 4: to that forward pack, and I love it that Fabian
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: Holland's back in there as well. I'm not quite sure
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  Speaker 4: what Ethan DeGroote's done to be dropped or omitted. There
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: must be some story behind that. But I like the
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: look of this team. I like Damien McKenzie at first 5-8.
• 11:44
  Speaker 4: And regardless of where you play him in the All Blacks,
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  Speaker 4: and he's either going to be first 5 or a
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  Speaker 4: first-choice fullback, and when Ruben Love or if Richie Mwanga
• 11:53
  Speaker 4: comes back, that's Rennie's decision. But I'll give you the
• 11:57
  Speaker 4: clue here, Andy. When it comes to goal-kicking, Damien McKenzie
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  Speaker 4: should be doing the goal-kicking full stop for the All Blacks.
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  Speaker 4: He's the best they've got.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: Over Reuben Love?
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  Speaker 4: Yep, absolutely over Reuben Love.
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  Speaker 1: What about Bodie, though? He still chugs around not too bad.
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  Speaker 1: All things considered, Don Morrison will feel free to hear
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  Speaker 1: your impression around this because it'll differentiate.
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  Speaker 4: Well, is Don not a Bowdoin fan?
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, not at all. God, no. No, he can't stand it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you've got to remember back to after Dan Carter
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  Speaker 4: retired after the 2015 Rugby World Cup, Bowdoin Barrett was...
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  Speaker 4: World Rugby Player of the Year in 2016-17. He's been
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: a brilliant player. He's probably passed his best. He's 35,
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  Speaker 4: but he brings the smarts and the experience, and I
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: know that he's a man with a very keen sense
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  Speaker 4: on rugby history, and I know what he's after. He's
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  Speaker 4: after Sam Whitelock's record for the most capped All Black
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  Speaker 4: of all time, and if he can stay in the
• 12:55
  Speaker 4: team and get through to the Rugby World Cup, he
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  Speaker 4: will do that, which is a pretty amazing effort, really,
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  Speaker 4: for a back. an outside back in his case in
• 13:05
  Speaker 4: some cases because it's easier to chug along at 35
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  Speaker 4: like Sam Whitelock did as a tight forward. So, look,
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  Speaker 4: good luck to him. I mean, maybe Bowdoin, the jury's
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  Speaker 4: out on whether he's in the top 15. Howie, I
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: won't argue with Howie because he was one of the
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  Speaker 4: greatest fullbacks ever to lace up boots.
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  Speaker 1: Just ask him.
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  Speaker 4: But the other two Barretts, they are lock-ins. That's the
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  Speaker 4: best forward and the best back in the team.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, Jamie. Good luck with that real estate career.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Shea Mosby, if you're listening, former Riversdale rugby player.
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  Speaker 1: Are we getting anything out of this?
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  Speaker 5: Eh?
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: Are we getting anything out of this, or is this
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: all on you? No, this is all on me.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't promote the property. You've just given me some
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  Speaker 4: air time. Country and co, Shea Mosby.
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  Speaker 1: Got to go.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Jamie Mackay and the Country Crossover, thanks to Bioactive Soils.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Henderson's up next.
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  Speaker 5: Can you see me halfway? Right up the borderline is
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  Speaker 5: where I'm going away.
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  Speaker 1: For you, I'll be looking out. Away down to Awarua
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon on the muster where we catch up with
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  Speaker 1: Steve Henderson along with his wife Tracy. Farming down there,
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  Speaker 1: the farm is called Legendaries. It's a great play on
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  Speaker 1: words as well. They're quite active on social media too.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't really talked about that too much, Steve-o. How's things?
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  Speaker 5: Afternoon, Andy. I'm very good.
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  Speaker 6: Nah, it's sort of not really my forte. I haven't
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  Speaker 6: even got Facebook, so nah, it's Chase's thing and, yes,
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  Speaker 6: he tries to just put on there what's real and
• 14:33
  Speaker 6: what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: Right, you're not a Facebook man, you're more about the
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: TikTok generation, are you?
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  Speaker 6: I still go through the old negatives and look at
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: photos and albums.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: No, you'll still be playing Snake on your Nokia.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you struggle to get a charge of the fits
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  Speaker 6: at these days.
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  Speaker 1: How's everything been the last couple of weeks, though? A
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  Speaker 1: bit of a change in feed?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it has, yeah. No, we're... We're starting to grow grass.
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  Speaker 6: We're using 60, 55 a day, which is more than demand. So, well,
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: we're pushing covers ahead of us. And, yeah, over the
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: next few days, we'll start to take a fair bit
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: of that bulk supplement we're putting into them. So cows
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  Speaker 6: will be back on an almost all-grass diet, which will
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: be good for a change. It'll stop the old invoices
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: coming through the email and make a bit of cheap
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: milk for a change.
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  Speaker 1: That must be a good feeling, knowing you can just
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: work on grass.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it is. It is, especially when, well, I'm speaking
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  Speaker 6: probably on behalf of all the Southland, the amount of
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: feed invoices that have come through the email, yeah, they
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: only just match the milk check. So, yeah, it is good.
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: It is good, and that's what cows are bred for,
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  Speaker 6: and that's why you pasture farm down here. So, no,
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  Speaker 6: it's good to get back to that stage, and, you know,
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  Speaker 6: the long-term forecast looks pretty good too, right after the
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: next 10 days, doesn't it? So, yeah, we'll continue to
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: grow a bit of grass and... hopefully dry a bit
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: more out so we can get a bit of ag
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  Speaker 6: work done and, yeah, the whole cycle continues.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: What about all the people you're speaking to around you
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: on the farms? How are they coped over the last
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: week or so? Because, understandably, down south did get hammered.
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody's, you know, got a bit of perk in
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: their voice now, which, and that's just Big Yellow does that.
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: And knowing that soil temperatures are rising are probably the
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: two key things. So, And no one's really behind the
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: eight bull years either, but we're still only, what are
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: we today, 15th of October or something?
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: 16th of October.
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so we're not, you know, middle of November or
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: middle of December trying to fight getting crops in the
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: ground and pasture renewed. So, yeah, I think everybody's up
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: with the play. Most people have calves outside, which they've
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: probably been in the shed for a bit longer, but
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: they tend to grow out in the shed pretty good too. So, yeah,
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: all that comes around, weeding calves and, AI starts. So, no,
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: it's good to have a bit of yellow and a
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: bit of grass in front of you when all those
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: things start to happen.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: So your route disking today must be good to be
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: in the paddock and if you do cock up and
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: get stuck, well, you can go and get your old
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Pentax camera out for the 1970s and take a photo.
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: That's right and that's the beauty of it. No one knows.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we are.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: We're just trying to get on. We're going to put
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: some summer turnips in again and also just get on
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: those paddocks that we're in, crop going into new grass
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: and make a start somewhere, dry it out so we
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: can get back on them next week or the week after.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: It's sort of that period in October where there's a
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: bit of a lull so to speak, not too many
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: cows left calving and you've got a couple of free
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: hours between milking so yeah, go and make the most
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: of it.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: So you're okay in the paddock? It's not too sticky?
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't say we'll be sowing behind the disc right
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: now but No, it's all pretty good. It does dry
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: out reasonably quick, and I think that's what most of
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: Southland would have found is literally when it stopped raining,
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: it dries out, which is a crazy phenomenon, but I
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: start to believe it now. If you've got no rain,
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: you dry out. So that's what's happening. There's a bit
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: of heat in the soil too, so it's more about
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: just trying to break up those, you know, those sort
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: of soil pans and stuff to let that top water
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: go that's hanging around so when you have a decent
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: crack at it next time, you can get the whole
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: paddock done and make a good job of it.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Are you going to stay off the swedes for next winter?
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we will. We'll go swedes and cattle again and
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: that worked pretty well growing that bulk feed but we're
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: probably more focused on transitioning the cows on grass and
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: baleage out the back of those swedes. We might be
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: upwards of 20 days, 25 days pre-carving on grass and
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: baleage to try and transition that cow properly. It's It's
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: worked well this year with our next to no metabolic issues,
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: and yeah, if that can continue, I think that's the
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: plan going forward.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: So as far as metabolic issues, you touched on it then,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: you've seen nothing out of the obvious with the grass
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: come on like it has?
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: No, not as of yet. We did actually have a
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: couple of excellent paddocks we held off on, and then
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: we did get three milk fever cows. But that was,
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: you know, we knew the why, and that's what happened,
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: and those paddocks had to be grazed, so Yeah, you've
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: still got to be a wee bit mindful, and as
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: this grass grows a bit quicker and a bit lusher,
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: and peak milk, yeah, you've still got to keep that
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: calcium and a bit of mag going in to try
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: and keep those balances right, and yeah, hopefully there'll be
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: no more metabolic issues until next carbon.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're looking forward to mating then.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it does come around quick. We've got a handful
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: of non-cyclers, and they're no particular group, they're just Cows
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: that have calved more than 50 days we're going on
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: and there is a wee gang of older cows which
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: we probably won't do much with but we'll sit down
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: and have a look at those other non-cyclists early next
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: week and just see what group they fit in and
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: if there worth doing a bit of intervention because obviously
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: an in-calf cow is a good cow so we've got
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: all that information now so that's next week's job and
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: then also heifer mating starts on the 27th too so
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: PG program happening there and yeah you start to get
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: busy and good yard work and yeah no it's always
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: a good.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Time of year I spoke to Mel Young on the
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: show yesterday from Southland Girls, talking about agriculture being involved
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: on their curriculum, and I delved in a bit deeper,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and this looks as though you guys have hosted them
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: a couple of times previously.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we have, yep.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: We try to make the farm available to whoever wants
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: to come and have a nose in. Yeah, they bring
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: a group out, oh, it might be twice a year.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: So they were out early August. They were doing, I
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: think they were doing the animal health side of things, so...
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: or the insides of cows, so they've got to sort
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: of understand that when the whole calving process and then
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: going through the calves in the shed. So, yeah, they're
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: a great, you know, gang of people, and Mal, I mean,
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: she does a good job, and she promotes the ag
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: industry like it's nothing else, and that's what we want
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: to see, just give everybody the opportunity. It does sort
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: of get filtered down, and ag gets lost out there, but,
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: you know, Mal's doing a great job, and the Southland
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: girls are going gangbusters with, you know, between young farmers
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: and also farmers, ag classes, it's.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Great to see. 120 members in Young Farmers, but she
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: said it was being driven by the students themselves who
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: wanted more hands-on and just learning around agriculture, which is brilliant.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it is, and that's what we see. We've spoken
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: there a couple of times. We've gone into the school
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: and over the lunch hour done a few scenarios with
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: the Young Farmers clubs, and it's all driven by them.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: There's not a teacher to be seen. It's the older
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: girls They take the bull by the horns and run
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: the club as if they were, you know, 18, 19,
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: 20 and running clubs like Sepulotani and Belfort. But, yeah, no,
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: it's great to see and it's just such a big
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: driver and there's such a great group of girls and,
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: you know, they're not all off farms. They just want
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: to learn about it and be active in that industry.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: What's in store for the weekend, Steve? Just keep on working?
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: This weekend, yep, we'll be on farm and just a
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: few tidy up jobs with heifers running through yards, get
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: some yards tidied up and fingers crossed we can get
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: away next weekend up to the Aotearoa fishing competition. So
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: that'll be good. Get up there and catch a fish
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: and have a couple of cans and have the weekend
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: off and then come back for a year ready for mating.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: But it's still, like I've always said, we know August, September,
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: October is just a busy period and we make the
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: most of it after Christmas.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Good on you, Steve. Enjoy the weekend. Catch up again.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: No worries.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Cheers, Andy.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: Cheers.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Steve Henderson, based down at Awerua. You're listening to The Muster.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Morgan Green's up next. I've been his vets, based in Riversdale.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: The Muster's animal health segment with NS Vets.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Adding value through practical advice and service.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: No gimmicks, no potions.
• 22:53
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• 22:55
  Speaker 1: She's got me... Morgan Green of Ineos Vets, based in Riversdale,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: joins us. Morgan, good afternoon. My humps. If you see
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: humps on your animals, better go and see the team
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: at Ineos Vets. How's that?
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: It sounds good. Well, actually, to be fair, we have
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: seen some humps on animals recently. So we've had a
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: few cases of subcutaneous emphysema. So the air basically underneath
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: the skin of the cow is So a couple of
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: reasons for that. You can get it as a result
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: of some form of lung damage. And typically what we've
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: had just now at the moment is, it's normally something
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: we see in autumn, a thing called fog fever. So
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: it's not actually to do with fog. It's to do
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: with a term that comes from the UK called foggage.
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: So foggage is after growth from when they've, you know,
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: cut silage or done something like that. But essentially, it's
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: really lush pasture. So you get a change in the
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: type of pasture that's there. And effectively, you get an
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: allergic reaction going on in the lungs. The lungs swell
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: up and you can get little tears, I guess, in
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: the lungs and air leaks out of the lungs and
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: goes underneath the skin of the cows. So in severe cases,
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: it's euthanasia. sometimes they will spontaneously recover as well if
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: it's not too bad but the cow will feel like
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: bubble wrap and in severe cases they'll actually look like
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: the Michelin Man so we've had a few cases of
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: that just recently and that all follows on from that
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: good weather that we have that we had last week
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: and then the bit of rain again and things have
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: just grass obviously has just changed phenomenally so it's a
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: thing called acute bovine pulmonary emphysema and edema. So really
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: long term, but as I say, essentially it's air underneath
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: the skin of the cows. So in some situations, Andy,
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: they do look like they've got humps.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: That's a hell of a correlation to start, but I mean,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: it sounds as though it's emphysema in cows, like if
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: you're smoking at 20 darts a day. Is that the case?
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: Look, a little bit along those lines, but like if
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: you do a post-mortem, these lungs are just completely swollen
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: and and they get damaged, yeah. So, you know, as
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: I say, it's effectively almost like an allergic reaction to
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: the grass is effectively what it is. So, yeah, it's
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: not a particularly pleasant condition, and we've seen a few
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: cases of it just in the last few days.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: A bit of bloat around at the moment. What are
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: the side effects of having grass?
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: 100%, yeah. So that's happened as well with all of
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: the lush plants grass that we have just at the
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: moment and of course when we've had rain over the
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: last couple of days it discourages cows from drinking from
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: troughs and so we're much more likely to end up
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: with bloat as a result so yeah unfortunately I had
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: an early call this morning and yeah there was a
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: couple of dead cows from bloat unfortunately and look it
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: is just one of those things and it is a
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: bit of a reminder that people possibly may not be
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: putting bloat oil in, but if they are, cows may
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: not be drinking once we get that rain. And probably
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: a more effective way of prevention for bloat at this
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: time of year is going to be something like Ruminox,
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: which is a monensin product. So that's an ionophore, and
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: what it does is that effectively it changes the type
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: of microbe that's.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: In the rumen.
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: So it changes them from being.
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: Less of the gas producers, I guess. So you go
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: to the bacteria that are producing propionate rather than acetate
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: and butyrate. And so there's less of those gas producing bacteria.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: So the other good advantage that you have with something
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: like ruminox is it does improve the quality of feed
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: conversion efficiency. So effectively, it's almost like animals are able
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: to eat a kilogram more or they're more effective at,
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: you know, If they're eating 20 kilos, it's like they're
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: eating 21 when monox is in the mix. And as
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: I said, the other thing is it prevents bloat because
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: it changes the microbes. And if cows don't drink for
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: a day or two, it doesn't matter because the rumen
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: microbes don't change back that quickly. So it is a
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: very good product around bloat prevention at this time of year.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Are you seeing any issues of animals finishing up winter crop?
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: No, we haven't. But yes, that certainly can happen. So
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: once you get the winter crop flowering, there is certainly
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: issues around that. More so, though, to be fair, if
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: animals have not been on the crop or they've been
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: on a different paddock and then they go on to
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: a crop that has flowered, then you can have issues there.
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: But I would say if when animals are on that
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: crop all the time, they don't tend to have problems.
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: So SMCO is one of the issues that you get
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: which leads to red water so effectively you get blood
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: vessels being or blood cells being damaged and the cows
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: or the animals can effectively have blood loss as a
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: result of that but we haven't seen anything at the
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: moment and you know it's not something that we see
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: all that often but it is something that we do
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: see some years but as I said this year at
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: the moment no we haven't seen anything along those lines fortunately.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Mating's just around the corner as well so while there
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: may be a few concerns when grass perks up the
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: way it does it also means that you can get
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: a bit of feed into the girls right?
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: Oh look 100% and you know I guess the amount
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: of baleage and silage that's left you know for supplementary
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: feed is it's pretty thin on the ground at the
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: moment so And, you know, it does help that we
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: are able to get more grass into the cows at
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: the moment. And it certainly makes a big difference. And obviously,
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: you know, the few warm days, I know in some
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: cases we were probably complaining it was a little bit
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: too warm. But, you know, those warm days just make
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: such a difference. Just a demeanour of people and animals,
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: you know, so much happier than being stuck in the
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: deluge that we were for so long.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Tayling, how's it been going from your guys' perspective? Nothing
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: out of the ordinary?
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: No, nothing out of the ordinary. Things have been ticking
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: along well. Obviously, there's been a huge number of lambs
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: tailed over the years. last sort of 10 days or
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: so ever since the the weather changed you know people
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: were having to do all sorts of things to try
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: and get tailing done before then um you know just
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: because things were getting so muddy i think we spoke
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: about that a couple of weeks ago you know putting
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: carpet down and rubber matting and all sorts of things,
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: bringing them to the yards in smaller mobs. So it
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: was a heck of a lot of extra work compared
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: to normal. And then we've had a couple of good weeks,
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: which have made a huge difference. And I think things
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: are well on track. Nothing out of the ordinary again.
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: And on the cow side, I guess the one issue
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: that we have had actually last Friday on our BVD
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: bulk milk test, we actually had five farms come up
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: as positive for BVD, which we've gone for a long time. Well, actually,
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: the last couple of years, we might have had one
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: or two cases. And prior to that, we actually went
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: for a number of years where we didn't have any. So, look,
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: it's just a reminder to be vigilant around BVD and
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: making sure the bulls that you're sourcing, they are BVD
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: vaccinated and tested. Really, really important. And if you're not
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: testing things in milk, really good idea to do that.
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: And for the beef guys, Really good idea. You can
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: get it done through the M. bovis scheme, where they'll
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: test animals for M. bovis, and you can get some
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: BVD testing done at the same time. So, look, it's
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: a disease that's still hanging around. You know, it's still
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: causing problems. And, yeah, it's just a reminder to everybody,
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: just make sure you get that testing done.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: NSVets, how did people get in touch, Morgan?
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: Look, best way to do it is just pick up
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: the phone, give us a call on 2025636 here at
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: Riversdale or 2497039 at our T & L branch.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Good on you, Morgie. Enjoy the weekend.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Will do, Andy.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: You have a good one.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Morgan Green of NSVET. So I've never seen a correlation
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: of a Black Eyed Peas song through to issues of cattle.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: But there you go. Lumps, humps, they're all the same,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I suppose. Robert Greer's up next. This is.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: The Muster.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Muster. The song is Boom Boom
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Pow by Black Eyed Peas. I know. But anyway, Robin
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Greer joins us next. Good afternoon, Robin. Boom Boom Pow,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: does that describe the grass growth at Tutorau?
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: Ah, certainly has, yeah. It's been amazing, going from, you know,
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: just sort of getting through, having enough to get through, to, gee, now,
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: how soon before we're cutting bailage?
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: It's got to that stage down in your neck of
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the woods.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: Yep, yep, yep. Philip's pretty close to getting the mar on.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: It's been a heck of a fast turnaround. Like, you know,
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: we all knew it would come right, but, gee, it...
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I don't remember very well from
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: past years, but, gee, it's turned around extremely quick.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: As far as ground conditions, though, is everything settled down?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, you guys had quite a bit of rain there, too.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Let's not forget.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, like, we ripped our crop paddocks, yeah, last week,
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: and they were drier than I thought. Like, I thought
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: there'd be areas that we wouldn't get through, but managed
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: to get all of every paddock, which, that really surprised me,
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: just how quick, them ground conditions have turned around.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: So your feed levels, where would you say you're at
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: at the moment, Robin, compared to, say, 12 months ago?
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, we're not in a bad place at all.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: Like I say, we've got a heap of surplus that
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: we're going to have to take off in the next
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: couple of weeks.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Which, yeah, like we've been able to fully feed our
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: cows right through. Feeding the cows hasn't been a problem. So, yeah, no,
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: we're pretty excited about the season going forward, really.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: What do you put that down to, Robin? Just good
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: management regarding having the feed available?
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we grew a fair bit in the winter and
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: our cows did carve a little bit slower this year
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: than what we would like. But yeah, Philip's doing a
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: great job of managing it. I can't take credit for that.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: I'd like to, but no, I can't.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Regardless, though, to be in that situation, especially with mating
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: around the corner, it's a good place to be.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, look, hey, we all need our cows in good
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: condition and good feeding levels going forward for mating. So
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: I think it's looking very promising for mating this spring.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: Like most people, while people might have spent a bit
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: more on feed in the spring than what they were
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: sort of hoping to or planning to, I think most
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: people going forward now should be in a reasonable place.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Is that your major focus at the moment, or do
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: you say it's just tractor work and looking at getting
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the soilage slash baleage shut up if it isn't already,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: and just thinking about the late spring cycle as such?
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, like, gee, there's going to be a bit
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: of diesel burnt in the next two or three weeks,
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: that's for sure, whether it be, you know, getting grass
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: in and getting baleage done and that sort of thing,
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: and at the same time, you know, it is, that
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: mating time is extremely crucial on dairy farms, so, you know,
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: it's It's a very busy time between now and Christmas.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: You know, we say calving and lambing is busy, but, yeah,
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: between now and Christmas, it's certainly there's plenty that has
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: to happen. And, you know, we need the weather on
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: our side to do that.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: And the diesel supply isn't going to be an issue.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: It's the pricing.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: Yes. Gee, it hurts, doesn't it? It's easier to fill
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: up on the farm than fill up at the gas station.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: You see the dollars when you fill up there. It's
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: a bit frightening.
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Well, when you're living on a farm, it's a luxury
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: having a pump, I suppose. But in town, Thursdays when
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: you have the discount days, generally between 15 to 20
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: cents off a litre at the self-serve stations. And at
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the moment, it's still, what is it, about $ 3.
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: 12.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Yesterday on discount, it was just over $ 3.
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I see up at Cromwell, $ 3. 40 something for diesel. Like, gee,
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: it bling and hurts, that's for sure.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's that all about? Is that just a location,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Central Otago Pricing?
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it does tend to be a bit dearer up here. But, yeah,
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: it certainly frightened me when I seen that price. I'm
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: glad I fill up in Gore.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: We're talking to you at the moment. You've got a place,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: a residence up in Cromwell as well. How's it looking
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: around there from a farming sense? Because generally it can
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: get dry pretty quickly, but is it coping pretty well?
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, look, hey, they've had rain. When I arrived up
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: here last night, it was raining. So, yeah, like it's
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: looking pretty green up here, really, I would say, for
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: this time of the year. certainly don't need to water
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: your lawn at the moment, but that day will come,
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: because yeah, it does dry out quick, that's for sure,
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: once it starts drying out.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Regarding cell phone coverage, it's been a big issue for
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of people recently, Robin. How are you finding
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: it there, but as well in Tootarail, how do you
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: find the coverage? Have you had issues with it?
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: It's been shocking, and it drops off in places that
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: we used to have coverage. I obviously do a lot
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: of travel around Southland with my real estate, and Gee,
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of places that have shocking coverage now
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: compared to what they used to. It's definitely a problem.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: It's factual. It's not just people's thinking, that's for sure.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: A lot of people are saying it's a 3G network
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: got switched off, and that's been the issue, and 4G
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: and 5G just isn't up to it at the moment,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: even with satellite calling, which isn't readily available either.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like, it certainly... It's dropped off markedly.
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: Um.
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: And even at two to three hour times, sometimes we
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: blink and, yeah, we just lose coverage where we had coverage.
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: I have to be careful where I use my phone
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: at times.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Do you still have a landline at home?
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: No, we haven't had a landline for years, but sometimes
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: you begin to think that maybe you should have.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Interesting you say that. I remember we got rid of it. Oh, gee,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: it was about the mid-2010s, and the rationale was the
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: only people that ever called it were the parents or telemarketers.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. But, hey, it was reliable, though.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: We dropped the landlines thinking that, you know, cell phones
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: had become reliable and we could count on them, but, yeah,
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: I'm not quite so sure at the moment.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: It'll turn around again, but maybe enough of us need
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: to complain about it and make us think about it
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: to get something to happen.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: You might have had a neighbour with a big short
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: going through or somewhere in the line through to Balfour,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: but at least you knew you could speak to someone.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: There was just a.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah... to.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Tolerate, like a tick in the background, but you had coverage.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. You knew you could pick the phone up
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: and you could always talk to someone when you needed to.
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it....
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: Obviously, us rural areas don't really count, you know. When
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: you go to a city and it's all good, but
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: those of us in the rural areas, they don't seem
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: to matter.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: It's an interesting one, Robin. Hey, we'll let you carry
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: on up there in central Otago. We'll catch up again
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: and you enjoy the weekend.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: I will do.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: You too.
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: Thanks, Andy.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Bye.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Robin Greer, bass of Tutorau. You're listening to The Muster.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Before we wrap up for the week, Andrew Alderson out
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: of Newstalk ZB. Let's talk sport ahead of a big weekend.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: This is The Muster on Hokonui. Andrew Alderson out of
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Newstalk ZB joins us on a Friday to look at
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: a bit of sport ahead of the weekend. G'day, Alders.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Greetings, Andy.
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: I'm well.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, looking forward to it.
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: It.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: It's a full slate of sport, that's for sure, coming
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: up this weekend. But when isn't it, I suppose, these days,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: with the calendar as it is?
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Well, Term 3 of the schooling year is pretty quiet.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Get to Term 4 and it all kicks off. I
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: think with sport as well, from now through until Christmas,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: there's something happening every weekend. Like the Rugby League World
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Cup kicked off last night. I watched that game till
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: halftime and the argument was there the Kiwis were the
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: better side, but the Kangaroos are pretty polished as well.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and just from what I can see, I mean,
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: I haven't watched the highlights and it looked like the
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: Kangaroos did seize their opportunities. They didn't let them lie and...
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: A couple of intercepts and also just a great effort
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: in the air in the 76th minute from Jack Bostock
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: to leap over his Dolphins teammate Jermaine Asako to snaffle
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: that bomb and get that hat-trick on debut. That was
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: a phenomenal way to end it. But I think what
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: we can take from this is that the Kiwis are
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: right there or thereabouts. Kevin Walters, Kangaroos coach, acknowledging that afterwards.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Stacey Jones looking to down and out and distraught as
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: a result of the season. I mean, it's a 24-22.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: It's a cracking start to the League World Cup in Sydney.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: I think they've showcased that pretty well. So, yeah, good
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: on them.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Well, the league's going off at the moment. The All
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Blacks are playing the Wallabies this weekend in the return
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: leg of the Bledisloe Cup. This is 12 times in
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: a row that we've beaten the Wallabies. They haven't held
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: the Bledisloe since 2002. Is it kind of getting a
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: bit meh now, or is it a case of it's Australia,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: we just want to rub their nose in it every time?
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Well, I can remember when we did have it between
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: what was about.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: 98 and 2002, it was a.
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: Bit bleak too.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's quite the cracking weekend to be in Sydney, actually,
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: isn't it, when you think about, you know, if you
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: love your code, whatever code it is, that's the place
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: to be. But I think with this, it's hard when
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: you don't have a three-test series. I always feel like
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: a two-test series, it's already wrapped up, you know, there's
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: nowhere for this series, for it to go now. I
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: think that's always awkward. I know they do it, you know,
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: three or even four in the past that they've had.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: But Yeah, it does feel flat. Whether you have to
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: put it on the line every time, ran for the
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: shield-like or something, if it's at home, I don't know.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Or maybe Wallaby Rugby just needs to get stronger as
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: a result. But, yeah, it has been in that cabinet
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: for a fair while now. And, yeah, it doesn't look
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: like it's going anywhere. And nor, you know, I thought
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: the Wallabies might have had a chance last weekend. And,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: you know, I know you're dealing with Fort Droseden Park, etc.,
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: But I think it's indicative of just how far ahead
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: perhaps the All Blacks and the Springboks are. And the
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: All Blacks have had that tremendous precursor to it with
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: the series in South Africa, etc. And it's really got
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: the match fit and hardened.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Is it arrogance that there isn't a three-test series for
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: the Bledisloe anymore? Is that how we view Australia?
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: Possibly.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they should be. I mean, I suppose they've got
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: to fit it in, don't they, with what's now the
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: Nations Championship at the former Northern Tour as well. You've
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: got to fit it all in there. It's a lot
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: of test match rugby. So maybe it ends up being
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: a logistical problem for them more than anything.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: The Black Caps get this Indian tour underway. Oh, the
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Indy are coming over here. Sorry, these T20s are cranking weird.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Jacob Duffy on the show yesterday. But 8pm start times,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: that's past your bedtime almost.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Well, it is indeed. And, you know, I just, I
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: really can't fathom this. If you want to bring cricket
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: to a younger audience and to younger people, you know,
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: you cannot have it at 8pm at night, can you?
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: I just, plus it's this time of year, it's still chilly.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: around the country, you know, you're needing your rug and your,
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: you know, thermos of soup, really, to go head along
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: there if you're going to have it at that time.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: I know it's to deal with the, you know, I
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: guess working with Indian broadcasters, et cetera, and make it
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: more palatable for them. But I just think for that
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: New Zealand audience, you're asking an awful lot, especially on
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: school nights, et cetera, to go out there and to
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: take your family along and talk get the kids in
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: bed at a reasonable time. It's just not going to
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: happen as a result. So I think it's a shame
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: there can't be more done in that regard to, I guess,
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: create a, what would you say, a compromise.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Well, the same question I asked you before regarding New
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Zealand's attitude towards Australia. Is this Indian cricket's attitude, the BCCI,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: towards the rest of the world?
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Well, possibly. I mean, they can certainly dictate terms or
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: is it New Zealand cricket going to them and trying
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: to make the the tour as palatable as possible. I mean,
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure where the onus lies there, but you've
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: just got to think of the final product or the
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: audience that it's going to, and I suppose it is
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: a massive Indian audience. Perhaps it's going to be more.
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's what?
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: It's going to be coming sort of mid-afternoon there. Those
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: games will be broadcast. Whereas in New Zealand, yeah, I mean,
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: in terms of getting people to the ground, if you're
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: going to be getting out of the ground at, you know,
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: 11 o'clock, half past 11, even possibly midnight... I think
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: that's a difficult sell.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Jacob Duffy on the show yesterday. The players are a
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: fan of having a New Zealand T20 league, not getting
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: involved in the Big Bash. What's your thoughts around this?
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: Well, I tend to agree, mainly because it does limit
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: the pathway if you just have the one team in
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: the Australian competition. A flip side to that, I mean,
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: it's worked seemingly for the Breakers, in the A-League, for
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: the Phoenix, for the Auckland FC, for the Warriors. You
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: could go along those lines, but then you've only got
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: one team there, and you really get the beck and
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: call of the Australia. They can dictate terms to you
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: in that regard, albeit you do get probably revenue through
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: the various sources for having that team there. I probably
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: side with the idea of the NZ20 in that you're
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: trying to build your own league. You've got things under
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: your own.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: Steam, if you like, if you're trying to create a
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: business and trying to build it. It's just how they
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: sell it. New Zealand's not in a particularly good time zone,
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: as noted with the previous point with the 8pm start
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: times for the Indian market. So I think it's a
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: tricky sell, but do they sell it on the basis
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: of New Zealand's a terrific, clean, green country to come to,
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: amazing scenery, etc.? But, I mean, the players hopefully will
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: live up to their promise that they're going to actually
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: come back and compete in it. But you think that
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: the price has to be right and they have to
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: be able to get these investors across the line too.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: So it's a real conundrum, Andy, in the bigger scheme
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: of things. But I don't think the difficulties as well,
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: the big bash we could have with privatising it through
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: Australian cricket, have been well documented too. So I don't
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: think there's any sort of magic solution there either by
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: having just the one team. So at least this keeps
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: the pathway open for cricketers in a wider scale.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Well, as far as netball goes, the Plummer Aitken medal,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: what's this about?
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: Well, it's just come through today, actually. I think it's
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: quite a nice touch. Most valuable player for the Constellation
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: Cup netball series between Australia and New Zealand. So I'll
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: get the Plummer Aitken medal. Of course, the series starting
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: four tests beginning on Sunday in Auckland, but named after
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: Norma Plummer, of course, of Scrubbers fame, with that magnificent
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: quote back through the years. And Dame Ruth Aitken, both
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: their contributions spanning generations as well. I hadn't worked this out, actually,
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: but they're both actually World Cup-winning players and World Cup-winning coaches.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: So they seem a pretty appropriate combination to have behind
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: this medal. And just as a statistic of note, you
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: said at the day, Andy, that between 2004 and 2011,
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: when they were coaching those respective teams, 35 times they played,
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: Australia won 18, New Zealand won 17.
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: So.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: That was a tremendous era, really, wasn't it, with the
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: plumber eight contests?
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Norma Plummer was fantastic. She didn't hold back in being forward.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: Well, isn't that the quote? Nothing but a bunch of scrubbers.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Bunch of scrubbers.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: Absolutely outrageous stuff. It just riled people up. It did
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: build that.
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: Rivalry up rather nicely, I thought, back in the day.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, she's been... recognised for this contribution, Andy, with
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: this new meal, and justifiably so.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Just to wrap up, you're our South Auckland farming correspondent.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: How's life on the land?
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: Jesus, plenty of growth. I can tell you that at
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: the moment. Relatively mild at present, plenty of grass. Not
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: many hay bales have been sold out of the shed
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: this year, so that probably tells you about the nature
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: of the winter as well, Andy. So I don't know
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: if we'll be getting the contractor in this year, but
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: we'll see how we go between now and then. But, yeah,
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: we've got a few head of stock on board and
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: just munching their way through those lawnmowers as they are
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: in the paddocks and doing rather well. So we're pretty
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: happy at the moment.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: How about you? Oh, down here we've seen some sunshine.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: We spoke to you last month and it was a
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: different scenario, but we have seen the soil temperatures come
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: up and the grass growth has occurred. It's a marathon,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: not a sprint, though. But, look, I mean, you've got
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: all that hay on board, so anybody who's Pukakoa after
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: some hay, you're the guy to get a hold of,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: I suppose. There you go.
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, good plug. Nice one.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: I like that.
• 49:10
  Speaker 7: I like that.
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, it is great, though, seeing that spring growth come out.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: And then when you do, you know, when you smell
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: the mowing grass as well, you know, crickets just around
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  Speaker 3: the corner.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a great time of year. So, yeah, we're
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  Speaker 3: raring to go.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Alderson on Newstalk ZB. Always appreciate your time. Enjoy
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  Speaker 2: Lovely.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, Andy.
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