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The Muster Full Show: 06/10/26 · The Muster on Hokonui

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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 2 o'clock. Of course, the show is
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Speaker 1: brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Thanks for your company
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Speaker 1: on a Tuesday that sees overcast skies over the main
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Speaker 1: street of Gore. Reasonably mild. What are we, 16 degrees
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Speaker 1: at the moment? We'll look at the weather shortly. Quite
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Speaker 1: a bit to get through, though, so we'll crank straight
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Speaker 1: into it. Music for your Tuesday is Roxy Music featuring
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Speaker 1: the legendary Brian Ferry.
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Speaker 2: Hakanui's five-day forecast with Twin Farm, Tefrom and Softex. The
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Speaker 2: proof is in the progeny.
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Speaker 1: So the forecast for the week isn't too bad. This afternoon,
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Speaker 1: cloudy with breezy northwesterlies and a high of 17. Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: afternoon showers with breezy northwesterlies, 5 and 18. Thursday, sunshine
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Speaker 1: with breezy easterlies, 4 and 17. Friday, sunshine with calm
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Speaker 1: variable winds, 5 and 20. That's not bad. And Saturday,
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Speaker 1: partly cloudy, we come variable winds 7 and 21. So indeed,
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Speaker 1: it is actually looking pretty good for the next five days.
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Speaker 1: We'll take that as we move all these soil temperatures,
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Speaker 1: get that grass cranking. Clinton 9.5, Heriot 9.8, Northern Southland 10.1,
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Speaker 1: Riverton 11.7, Titiroa 11.5, Winton 11 and Woodlands at 10.5.
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Speaker 1: We're away to Close Spirits Station to catch up with
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Speaker 1: Tuesday regular Grant Disaster Big Master. Talks about going incognito
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Speaker 1: on the farm. This sounds like a hectic yarn, and
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Speaker 1: coming from disaster, I'm sure it's going to be. From
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Speaker 1: open country, Cody Patterson catches up. Daryl Moyles of Sergeant
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Speaker 1: Dan's Stock Food has a chat. Anna Gillespie, now she
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Speaker 1: is president of Otago Federated Farmers. There's a situation with
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Speaker 1: the town of Lauda and poo going on paddocks. And
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Speaker 1: Anna's not very happy about this, and understandably so. And
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Speaker 1: Hazza Makazza, Harry McCallum out of Te Ana Young Farmers
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Speaker 1: has a chinwag in our Young Farmers segment for a Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: Sam Riley of PDG writes in, gives a rundown on
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Speaker 1: stock prices from the Longville sale, which was held this morning.
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Speaker 1: And then we'll start the hour with disaster. This is
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Speaker 1: the muster. We're here until 2 o'clock and it's brought
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Speaker 1: to you by Peter's Genetics. Just coming up seven minutes
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Speaker 1: after one.
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Speaker 3: Oh, catch that buzz.
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Speaker 1: Love is the don't. Grant Disaster McMaster joins us once again,
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Speaker 1: thanks to Batman and the team at Arby Rural. G'day, Grant.
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Speaker 2: G'day, Andy.
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Speaker 3: Good afternoon to everyone.
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Speaker 1: Life in the basin today, how is it?
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Speaker 3: It's rather nice. It was not quite as hot as
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Speaker 3: it got yesterday. Yesterday got to 20 degrees, not a
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Speaker 3: breath of wind, lake like a mill pond, but a
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Speaker 3: bit of a frost that morning, to be fair. But anyway,
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Speaker 3: today it's sitting at 10 degrees and it's a wee
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Speaker 3: bit cloudy. I think there's a little bit of rain
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Speaker 3: for tomorrow, but good with, say, 10 degrees. Our soil
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Speaker 3: temperature is sitting at 8, so that's looking all right.
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Speaker 3: And there's been quite a bit of a lift in
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Speaker 3: the grass since we spoke last week, so very noticeable.
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Speaker 1: It's been like that, very similar in Southland. Actually, I
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Speaker 1: was up in northern Southland at the weekend, Grant, and
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Speaker 1: just the way things have changed with a couple of
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Speaker 1: days of hot weather. Hopefully that weather is making a
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Speaker 1: difference for farms around the region.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure it is. And we spoke last week. We've
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Speaker 3: got everything set, stocked and what have you. And since
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Speaker 3: we spoke last week, it's looking better.
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Speaker 2: Everything's sort of.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'd like to say settle down, but I'm a
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Speaker 3: bit like the Pied Piper at the moment. So I've
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Speaker 3: got obviously all the ewes set stocked around the place
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Speaker 3: on the hills and what have you, and a few
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Speaker 3: flats out by Moat Lake that from sort of now
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Speaker 3: until they get into Lambie and get the odd cast ewe,
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Speaker 3: and you shouldn't need to sneak out there and have
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Speaker 3: a look. But the last two times I've been out
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Speaker 3: there in the truck, every thing on the hill thinks
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Speaker 3: you've got the grain trailer on and it's... It's like
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Speaker 3: the Pied Piper. We've only got a few lambs at
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Speaker 3: the moment, so I've actually borrowed a mate of mine's side-by-side.
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Speaker 3: So I can sneak around there and have a look
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Speaker 3: without the bloody ewes thinking that I've got a grain
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Speaker 3: trailer on. So grain is really good to feed, and
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Speaker 3: you get them onto it. But those ewes, when they
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Speaker 3: see the truck, actually a lot of times you drive in,
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Speaker 3: they see the truck, and they think there's something on
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Speaker 3: the back of it.
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 3: This time of the year, that first sort of week,
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Speaker 3: and when we get into lamb, which is in the
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Speaker 3: next couple of days, you know, there could be a
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Speaker 3: few lambs left on the hill, but I suppose those
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Speaker 3: good parentals will go back. They seem to get through
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Speaker 3: the bloody fences, so they'll go back to the lambs,
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Speaker 3: no doubt. But, yeah, so I had to pick up
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Speaker 3: the side of the side yesterday so I can just
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Speaker 3: get around and strategically look at what's going on.
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Speaker 1: This is outstanding. You've had to go incognito to escape
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Speaker 1: from your animals on the farm.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's certainly... We actually put some salt out this
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Speaker 3: morning onto the flat, and that always causes a bit
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Speaker 3: of mayhem anyway, but just for a few cows and
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Speaker 3: what have you. But, you know, so I got that
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Speaker 3: done today, so I don't have to go back around
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Speaker 3: there unless I'm on the side of the side. So, yeah,
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Speaker 3: they just, you know, they obviously get addicted to it,
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Speaker 3: like kids to lollies. I've got a couple of them,
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Speaker 3: three of them staying at the moment, so I'm only
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Speaker 3: feeding stock and kids, so... Yeah, no, they're cunning old buggers,
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Speaker 3: the sheep. And like the cows, when they see the
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Speaker 3: truck coming this time of year, they'll come up looking
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Speaker 3: for a bit of salt, which is, you know, the
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Speaker 3: bag of salt on the back. But, yeah, so we
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Speaker 3: put that to rest so everything's sort of ready and
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Speaker 3: got the motorbike so I'll be able to sneak around
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Speaker 3: and not be seen.
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Speaker 1: Remember back in the 80s, the old trench coat and
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Speaker 1: the moustache or the beard with the sunnies and the
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Speaker 1: top hat so nobody could figure out who you were.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't really work with livestock.
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Speaker 2: No, it doesn't.
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Speaker 3: I don't think you'd do that going through Queenstown either.
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Speaker 3: You'd probably get arrested. But, yeah, no, it wouldn't be
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Speaker 3: a problem. Imagine that, going around sort of dressed up
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Speaker 3: so the doc couldn't see you. You'd probably end up
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Speaker 3: on the bloody funny farm. But never mind. Yeah, it's funny,
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Speaker 3: isn't it? Even after you use a weaned, and sometimes
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Speaker 3: there's always the odd, when you're driving through, there's a
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Speaker 3: few sheep will always look up at the truck and, hello,
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Speaker 3: whatever we follow. So, yeah, they certainly don't forget.
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Speaker 1: You'd either be arrested or embraced, knowing that community up there, mate. Look,
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Speaker 1: you've been further afield over the past week, and you
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Speaker 1: just want to talk about the situation just on your travels.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, we went up to Christchurch for a couple
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Speaker 3: of nights, had a couple of things on up there,
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Speaker 3: and just went up on the Wednesday and back on Friday,
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Speaker 3: but actually drove over to Alexandra and went up through
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Speaker 3: the pig route. So, you know, from Alexandra through to
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Speaker 3: the Omakau, things are looking pretty good. So up through
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Speaker 3: the Maniatoto and the Ida Valley, especially the lucerne. You know,
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Speaker 3: lucerne is one great crop, I think. And you sort
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Speaker 3: of look at lucerne at certain times of the year
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Speaker 3: when you're not grazing it, when you can't. But at
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Speaker 3: this time of the year when it's growing, it's just
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Speaker 3: head and shoulders, especially in that country above everything. So, yeah,
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Speaker 3: the Manitouro looked pretty good. And, you know, it was
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Speaker 3: only a few weeks ago that we saw in the
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Speaker 3: news that they had snow there. But even their feed
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Speaker 3: levels looked pretty good. Going through that pig route, which
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Speaker 3: is normally pretty hard country at the best of times,
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Speaker 3: it looked really quite... It was quite green, so there
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Speaker 3: was a bit of, you know, new stuff coming away
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Speaker 3: and through the tussock and those blocks that they get into.
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Speaker 2: And.
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Speaker 3: Which is, you know, north of Targo and up through
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Speaker 3: Oamaru there. The crops are looking good. The market garden
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Speaker 3: stuff looks great. And, you know, there's tractors working away.
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Speaker 3: And then into mid-Canterbury and, well, south Canterbury, mid-Canterbury, right
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Speaker 3: to Christchurch, you know, it just looks a picture. There
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Speaker 3: were tractors out, you know, rolling, and there's dust and
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Speaker 3: what have you, and all those lovely big flat paddocks,
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Speaker 3: drilling stuff, and where they've got their crops that have
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Speaker 3: come up are looking pretty good. So... All the stock
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Speaker 3: looked good throughout that drive and thought, well, if you
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Speaker 3: get the weather right, it makes everything so much better,
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Speaker 3: doesn't it? It's good to hear that we're on the
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Speaker 3: mend down south at this stage.
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Speaker 1: The name Lucerne originates from the medieval Latin name Lucinense
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Speaker 1: or Luceria.
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Speaker 3: And they call it, in the States, they call it alfalfa.
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Speaker 1: Alfalfa.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just random fact for a Tuesday. That first one
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Speaker 1: in particular, the Eiffel for one's pretty common. But I
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Speaker 1: don't know, that's just the way that names work, depending
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Speaker 1: on where you are, potato, patata.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, or spud.
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Speaker 1: Hey, that'll do, Grant. Hey, we'll let you carry on, mate. Thanks,
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Speaker 1: as always. And by the time we catch up next week, log,
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Speaker 1: may this good weather continue.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the youths don't recognise me on the side beside,
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Speaker 3: and the kids are going back to school.
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Speaker 1: Go to the op shop and get a trench coat.
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Speaker 1: That's my advice.
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Speaker 3: Don't say that because Karen volunteers at the Oscar shop.
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Speaker 3: I could end up with three of them.
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Speaker 1: Grant is asked to McMaster, thanks to Arby Rural. He's
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Speaker 1: having to go incognito on his own farm. For goodness sake,
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Speaker 1: the man's too well known. Cody Patterson's up next from
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Speaker 1: Open Country.
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Speaker 5: Dance away in the heartache. Dance away in the day.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the muster. Cody Patterson is Milk Supply
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Speaker 1: Manager of Open Country. and catches up once again. Cody,
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Speaker 1: good afternoon. How's things?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, good.
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Speaker 5: Andy, yourself?
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Speaker 1: Pretty good. Sunshine puts a spring in the step, that's
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Speaker 1: for sure. No pun intended. Well, it is, actually. Yeah, no, no.
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Speaker 5: It's certainly good for morale, I can tell you that much. And, uh,
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Speaker 5: and you can see it in us, but you can
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Speaker 5: see it in the bloody cows and calves and even
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Speaker 5: the old lambs out in the paddock too, so vitamin
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Speaker 5: D is good for everyone, isn't it?
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Speaker 1: You had your open day last week down here at
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Speaker 1: MVM in Gore, and no doubt the mood would have
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Speaker 1: been pretty much that, just the sunshine after the rain.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, certainly.
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Speaker 5: We had our supply meetings the day before, and then
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Speaker 5: we had the open day at our Gore site, Matera Valley,
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Speaker 5: and no, it was everyone was in good spirits, and
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Speaker 5: It was just nice. The staff at the Matara Valley
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Speaker 5: site were just, you know, so proud to show us
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Speaker 5: around their factory.
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Speaker 2: And, geez, it.
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Speaker 5: Was– she's a flash factory and just so well-kept and
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Speaker 5: well-looked after. You know, it was great to have a
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Speaker 5: look around, yeah.
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Speaker 1: What was the key messaging from farmers regarding everything?
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Speaker 5: Oh, hey, look, I mean, we've had a few days
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Speaker 5: of sun on our back and we've got a few
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Speaker 5: ahead of us, but it's pretty tough out there at
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Speaker 5: the moment. I mean, we've all been living through this
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Speaker 5: wet weather and that sort of thing. But things are
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Speaker 5: remaining positive, like sales of milk and the milk price
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Speaker 5: are still steady strong. We're still talking a mid $ 9
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Speaker 5: pay up for the season and can't see any change
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Speaker 5: in that at the moment. Things are pretty consistent, steady,
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Speaker 5: demand still up. Yeah, so we're feeling pretty positive, and
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Speaker 5: I guess that helps. And then it's just a case
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Speaker 5: of everything else going on in the world, we can't
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Speaker 5: change that. So we've just got to, you know, just
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Speaker 5: keep track of our costs and, you know, try and
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Speaker 5: keep things as tight as possible.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Now, milk flows down in the south, without stating the obvious.
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Speaker 1: It's early days, but it hasn't been flashed. But around
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Speaker 1: the country, what's it been like?
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Speaker 5: Oh, look, hey, North Island's going strong. I think they'll
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Speaker 5: be close to peak up there. So now they've been
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Speaker 5: getting rain when they want it and getting sunshine when
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Speaker 5: they want it. So most of the areas up there
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Speaker 5: have been good. To be fair down here, we've probably
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Speaker 5: flatlined a little bit at the moment, but we're still
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Speaker 5: holding steady on our production. And I guess, unfortunately, this
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Speaker 5: isn't the first study radio for our farmers with the
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Speaker 5: wet springs. We've had a few in a row, so...
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Speaker 5: I think there has been quite a bit of prep
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Speaker 5: done in the sense of having an extra feed on
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Speaker 5: hand or contracting some extra PKE and grain, although I
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Speaker 5: think it's getting tight now. But the sunshine will certainly
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Speaker 5: help maybe stretch this route out or get a bit
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Speaker 5: of grass growth and do that. But yeah, our farmers
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Speaker 5: are resilient, so they're working their way through it.
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Speaker 1: So regarding the tight feed situation, everyone seems pretty confident
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Speaker 1: they can negate the current situation?
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Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, I think so. Well, it was getting a
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Speaker 5: bit day by day there, so I guess it'll just
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Speaker 5: how long we can keep the sun around for. And,
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Speaker 5: I mean, I know there's plenty of PKE and grain around,
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Speaker 5: but it's actually getting it to farmers, you know, talking
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Speaker 5: to agri-feeds and that sort of thing. So it's probably
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Speaker 5: just a bit of pressure on the supply chain, but...
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Speaker 5: As I say, that's not giving us a bit of
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Speaker 5: breathing room at the moment and get caught back up.
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Speaker 5: But as I say, the milk flows have flattened. But
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Speaker 5: hopefully we won't. It wasn't almost the time last year
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Speaker 5: we had a bit of a windstorm come through right
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Speaker 5: in our peak and dropped things for a few days.
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Speaker 5: So hopefully we don't get anything like that this year.
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Speaker 1: We're seeing a lot of events occur down in the
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Speaker 1: south from businesses putting on shouts for farmers and the likes.
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Speaker 1: You guys here, Melissa Brown and Berg at Pemberton have
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Speaker 1: got something lined up. What's happening there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 5: The girls have had a bit of a drive to
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Speaker 5: do with weathering it together and holding some coffee days
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Speaker 5: around the region, Kaka Point, Mandeville, Winton, Limbaugh, Cargill next week.
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Speaker 5: They're just targeting that to the ladies on the farm.
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Speaker 5: They're stressed to come in and have a coffee and
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Speaker 5: have a catch-up and just sort of connect. And one
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Speaker 5: of the things they're really emphasising is... We're sending it
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Speaker 5: out to our suppliers, but bring a friend. And the
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Speaker 5: friend can be anything. It could be on your farm.
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Speaker 5: They could be a sheep farmer. They could be supplying
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Speaker 5: another dairy company. But just bring a friend along and,
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Speaker 5: you know, it's just a chance to catch up and connect.
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Speaker 5: And I guess, you know, everyone knows everyone's doing it tough,
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Speaker 5: but it's always better to, you know, when you can
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Speaker 5: get together and have a bit of yarn about that
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Speaker 5: or other stuff anyway.
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Speaker 1: Suppliers will be in the know regarding these dates and
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Speaker 1: where they're occurring. Cody, you take it?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, there's been emails go out, but if anyone's
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Speaker 5: listening and they're not sure, just give one of your
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Speaker 5: milk supply managers a ring and we can give her
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Speaker 5: the dates and timing and that sort of thing. But yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 5: or keep an eye out. There'll be another email coming
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Speaker 5: out shortly. And we've also, we've recently, we've partnered with
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Speaker 5: the rural support with their brunches on us. So we
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Speaker 5: got around, I think it was about, nine or ten
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Speaker 5: events in south one yeah to most of them and
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Speaker 5: i think we gave away near on 400 kilos of
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Speaker 5: cheese at those just the farmers is always good if
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Speaker 5: they can take a block of cheese home and share
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Speaker 5: in a few coffees and that sort of thing so
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Speaker 5: that was a good way to connect as well a bit.
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Speaker 1: Of messaging here too we hear about starlings and birds
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Speaker 1: at this time of year doing nesting nests in tractors
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Speaker 1: but milk fats this is occurring as well for the
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Speaker 1: sun what's happening Yeah, no, we've just had.
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Speaker 5: A wee run, not too many, but the old starlings
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Speaker 5: or the birds are getting into the milk vats and
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Speaker 5: they're cleaning them and look, it's not widespread, but what
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Speaker 5: happens as a result is they get milked on top
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Speaker 5: of and then we have to dump that milk and
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Speaker 5: it's too bloody precious to be putting down the drain,
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Speaker 5: that's for sure, so it's just like your tractors putting
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Speaker 5: your bonnets up and checking and all that, it's the
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Speaker 5: same thing, you know, before you close your door on
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Speaker 5: your vat, you know, to milk and poke your head
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Speaker 5: in there and have a look and make sure there's
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Speaker 5: nothing in there and And just follow your procedures, you know,
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Speaker 5: don't leave it open all day, that sort of thing,
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Speaker 5: because as I say, that bloody white gold's too precious
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Speaker 5: to be bloody going down the drain, that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: How common an occurrence is that to happen?
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Speaker 5: Oh, it's sort of this time of year, not too common, but,
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Speaker 5: you know, it's just another one of those little things,
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Speaker 5: and I know there's a lot going on on farms
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Speaker 5: at the moment and that sort of thing, so it's
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Speaker 5: more just, you know, I know sometimes it's the little
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Speaker 5: things that sort of slip by, but Hey, it's seven o'clock,
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Speaker 5: having to ring a farmer and say that we've had
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Speaker 5: to dispose of that milk. So, yeah, but yeah, we
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Speaker 5: get three or four a year or a wee bit more.
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Speaker 5: So it's nice to get none and then we don't
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Speaker 5: have to worry about it.
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Speaker 1: So more or less it's a case of roll on
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Speaker 1: this warmer weather and get that grass growing, get production pumping.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, get it going. Yeah, no, we want to
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Speaker 5: fill those factories up. You know, we've got the two
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Speaker 5: factories down here now, so we want them full. And, yeah,
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Speaker 5: so we just get it going, yeah. And, as I say,
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Speaker 5: hopefully the sunshine will be getting their grass growing and then,
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Speaker 5: you know, stretch the rain out a bit and get
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Speaker 5: a bit of breathing room and we'll see what comes
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Speaker 5: later on. But we're going to deal with what we
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Speaker 5: can see in front of us at the moment. So, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Good times ahead, Cody. Thanks for your time as always.
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Speaker 5: Cheers, Andy, and to everyone out there, you know, just
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Speaker 5: keep up the good work and, yeah, roll on the
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Speaker 5: good weather.
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Speaker 1: Cody Patterson there out of Open Country. They do good cheese.
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Speaker 1: Gillespie of Otago Federated Farmers. All I ever want to
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Speaker 1: be by surprise Welcome back, you're listening to The Muster.
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Speaker 1: Anna Gillespie is President of Otago Federated Farmers, farming just
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Speaker 1: out of Omakau. Anna, good afternoon. Oh look, it's been
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Speaker 1: a hot topic up there in your neck of the
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Speaker 1: woods regarding sludge being carted onto farmland and it's been
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Speaker 1: going on for a while and it's got a few
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Speaker 1: people hot under the collar.
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Speaker 4: Cheers Andy, yeah it certainly has. Yeah, it's been going
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Speaker 4: on since probably July or August 2017 Yep, carting sludge
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Speaker 4: from Wanaka treatment plant, well, yep, Wanaka sewerage ponds to Lauder.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I think the obvious question is why?
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Speaker 3: For QLDC, for.
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Speaker 4: The Queensland Lakes District Council, it's a cheaper option than
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Speaker 4: trucking it to Southland to the AB line pit at Winton.
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Speaker 4: And so, I mean, cost-saving. they were looking for some
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Speaker 4: other way of dealing with it and really cost us
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Speaker 4: a driver around that, which is understandable. I mean, we're
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Speaker 4: all at them to keep their rates down. So, you know,
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Speaker 4: they're looking for other options and, yeah, came up with
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Speaker 4: this option. But, yeah, we don't consider that a good
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Speaker 4: strategy or, you know, a long-term option.
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Speaker 1: Where does this stand regarding the consenting process? Did it
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Speaker 1: all go through?
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Speaker 4: Yes, so the... Otago Regional Council gave them a non-notified
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Speaker 4: consent to spread.
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Speaker 3: It to land.
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Speaker 1: So how treated is this so-called water when it goes
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Speaker 1: on the land or the sludge.
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Speaker 3: As it is?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not treated.
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Speaker 3: It's dewatered.
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Speaker 4: It has a thickener in it. it's pretty much, add
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Speaker 4: water and she's good to go again. It's kind of,
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Speaker 4: you know, like it's not a, I mean, yeah, it's
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Speaker 4: not treated at all, really. And a sense of treating
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Speaker 4: it and taking any chemical elements out of it or
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Speaker 4: changing it, really, it's not treated.
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Speaker 1: The residents around Lauda, what do they make of the situation?
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Speaker 4: No, they're pretty angry about it. And real fear over
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Speaker 4: it getting into stock water and house water systems. Like
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Speaker 4: it's kind of in the... you know, the higher end
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Speaker 4: of the catchment in terms of it's got a lot
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Speaker 4: of lauder catchment below it. So, yeah, there's a lot
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Speaker 4: of stockwood bores and house systems that it could get
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Speaker 4: into that people are pretty upset about. As you can imagine,
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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, and the guy next door, I mean,
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Speaker 4: he's been farming there for 54 years and now his
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Speaker 4: house stinks like a bloody toilet and, you know, like
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Speaker 4: he's just... absolutely in the firing line of it. It's
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Speaker 4: like you get a windy day and it's just going to,
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Speaker 4: you know, any dust from it's going to blow in
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Speaker 4: his direction and it's pretty horrific. The consent holder bought
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Speaker 4: the property and then, yeah, I've got consent to spread.
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Speaker 1: What's the dialogue been like between you guys and the
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Speaker 1: OIC and other parties? Has it been existing?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, OIC have certainly come up, um, I mean, it
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Speaker 4: wasn't to start with, obviously, and the consent went through
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Speaker 4: in January, and it wasn't until May that it kind of, yeah,
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Speaker 4: people became aware of it and what was actually happening,
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Speaker 4: and ORC have come up and been up and had
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Speaker 4: community meetings since then, and, yeah, working with the community
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Speaker 4: to gather information that wasn't in the consent. So when
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Speaker 4: the consent application went in, it was missing a whole
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Speaker 4: lot of information, you know, about stockholders and stuff like that,
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Speaker 4: the effect on neighbouring properties. And so, yeah, I see
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Speaker 4: working hard now to actually gather all that information and
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Speaker 4: they will start reviewing the consent at the end of October.
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Speaker 1: As far as cubic metres or the amount of sludge
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Speaker 1: allowed to go on this farmland, what's it consented to?
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Speaker 4: Oh, gee, you've got me on the fly. I can't
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Speaker 4: remember off the top of my head.
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Speaker 3: It's quite a lot.
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Speaker 4: Like it's, yeah, it's a big truckload a day pretty much.
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Speaker 3: As well, though.
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Speaker 4: And I think, I mean, it's consented to more than that,
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Speaker 4: but that's what's kind of coming in at the moment.
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Speaker 1: Now, you think about your average cocky innovator and something
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Speaker 1: like this, they'd be hauled over the gunnels.
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Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I mean, and that's the thing. I mean, you can
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Speaker 4: kind of pick out all the different factors within it,
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Speaker 4: within the consent. But, I mean, one of the standout
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Speaker 4: in farmer lingo is 600 kilos of nitrogen per hectare
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Speaker 4: in one application, basically. So... So, and then they're going
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Speaker 4: to grow a crop in dryland central Otago and soak
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Speaker 4: that up, supposedly. It's like, well, anyone with a farming
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Speaker 4: background knows that it's not going to work. So, you know,
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Speaker 4: I mean, the best dryland crop around here you'd grow,
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Speaker 4: I mean, it would have to be a cracker season.
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Speaker 4: You might get 12 tonne if you're lucky. But I mean,
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Speaker 4: on average, you'd be, like our dryland, you know, I
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Speaker 4: measure grass weekly. So our dryland stuff does about seven
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Speaker 4: tonne of grass. And it's, you know, when it's absolutely cranking.
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Speaker 4: It's growing as much as the irrigated, but as soon
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Speaker 4: as you're in a moisture deficit, then you just, it
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Speaker 4: shuts down and, you know, in the summer it gets
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Speaker 4: too hot and doesn't grow at all. You get kind
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Speaker 4: of soil temperatures over 28 degrees kind of thing.
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Speaker 3: It gets pretty.
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Speaker 1: What's it going to be like with all these housing
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Speaker 1: projects on the go as well? I mean, you don't
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Speaker 1: really want to have to comprehend it.
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Speaker 4: No, and that's the issue, right? It's a wider kind
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Speaker 4: of conversation that we need to have about regional infrastructure
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Speaker 4: and national infrastructure and you know, it's all very well
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Speaker 4: to keep passing through, you know, 250 house subdivisions. I mean,
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Speaker 4: that's happening right around central Otago. That's not just a
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Speaker 4: Wanaka issue or a Queenstown issue. That's a, you know,
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Speaker 4: that whole triangle, Wanaka, Queenstown, Cromwell, Alexandra is expanding. I mean,
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Speaker 4: the last 15 years that I've lived here, it's probably
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Speaker 4: damn near doubled in size, I would venture to say,
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Speaker 4: in terms of the number of houses. Like, that's just
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Speaker 4: growing flat out as well. Omakau is the same. I mean,
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Speaker 4: all the The little towns as well are growing. So
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Speaker 4: it's just becoming more and more of an issue. And
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Speaker 4: we need to be having, you know, a long-term kind
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Speaker 4: of discussion around it, just not coming up with these
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Speaker 4: short-term solutions. And really that's around like a biochar system
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Speaker 4: or something like that that incinerates it, that you get
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Speaker 4: a product out of it that's ash that can be
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Speaker 4: spread onto farm. Or, you know, I'm no waste expert,
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Speaker 4: but there's other systems. I mean, God, this is... I'm
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Speaker 4: kind of like, this is going back to the 80s,
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Speaker 4: where they used to spread it along the sides of
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Speaker 4: the roads kind of thing. It's like, this is not
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Speaker 4: where we want to be as a country, and if
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Speaker 4: everyone wants farmers to clean up their act, then the
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Speaker 4: urban population need to do the same, because they're not
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Speaker 4: dumping it on us.
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Speaker 1: And the concern around rate rises as well, where that
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Speaker 1: money's going to, well, that all comes into the equation
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Speaker 1: as well, doesn't it?
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and that's, I mean, this is what, you know,
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Speaker 4: as a farmer, you know in a budget you have
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Speaker 4: your needs and your wants, right, and And councils need
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Speaker 4: to start doing the same. It's all real well to
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Speaker 4: want a great big community centre, you know, in Cromwell
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Speaker 4: they just got a new one and then they haven't
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Speaker 4: emptied their bloody surge base for the last 10 years.
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Speaker 4: It's like, come on folks, it's, you know, what's your
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Speaker 4: need and what's your want? And I get that they
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Speaker 4: think that their wants are actually needs, but you've got
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Speaker 4: to kind of cover your basics first as a council
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Speaker 4: and all councils need.
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Speaker 3: To do this.
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Speaker 4: They're all guilty of it. Yeah, do the basics right
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Speaker 4: and then, you know, if you've If the community thinks
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Speaker 4: that they need something after that, then fine, go for it. But,
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Speaker 4: you know, if they're all happy to pay the rates
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Speaker 4: on it, that's one thing. But, yeah, it's just getting
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Speaker 4: a bit out of.
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Speaker 3: Hand, really.
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Speaker 1: Just while we're talking to you briefly, Anna, as well,
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Speaker 1: the season down here in Southland has been a rough one.
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Speaker 1: The last week's offered a bit of a spite. You're
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Speaker 1: up there in central Otago, just out of Omacow. You've
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Speaker 1: had a bit of snow recently, but overall, ground conditions?
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Speaker 4: Pretty good now yeah it was pretty dry through August
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Speaker 4: September we had about 80 mil of rain yeah it
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Speaker 4: dried out a wee bit now which I mean it's
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Speaker 4: perfect ground conditions at the moment it's still cold which
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Speaker 4: is kind of late we're probably at least two weeks
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Speaker 4: late growing yeah and you know but onwards and upwards
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Speaker 4: look forward to spring and growing as much grass as
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Speaker 4: we can through the spring before the summer hits good.
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Speaker 1: On you Anna thanks for your time thanks Andy Anna Gillespie,
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Speaker 1: President of Otago Federated Farmers, and this issue with the
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Speaker 1: sludge going onto farmland. Up next on the muster, we
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Speaker 1: have Daryl Moyles of Sgt Dan's Stock Foods, and before
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Speaker 1: the end of the hour, Harry McKellen out of Te
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Speaker 1: Anau Young Farmers. I didn't mean to hurt you I'm
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Speaker 1: sorry that I made you cry This is the muster
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Speaker 1: on Hokanui. Daryl Moyles of Satin Dance Stock Foods joins
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Speaker 1: us once again. Tell you what, you talk about the
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Speaker 1: drive-thrus being busy and gore at 7 o'clock during the evening. Well,
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Speaker 1: during the day here, as I look out from Hokanui Studios,
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Speaker 1: I can see nothing but just lines and lines of
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Speaker 1: trucks going through the drive-thru at Sergeant Dan's Stock Feed.
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Speaker 1: It is, of course, the big figure on the score
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Speaker 1: skyline just over the railway line here with the thistle
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Speaker 1: on the side. And Daryl joins us this afternoon. I
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Speaker 1: tell you what, Daryl, if you want a good date night,
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Speaker 1: go and give him some flowers and a bowl of molasses.
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Speaker 2: OK, that's a new one on me. Yeah, why not?
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Speaker 2: Good call.
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Speaker 1: Good smell through Gore the other day. We talk about this,
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Speaker 1: especially during wintertime, you get that waft coming through Main Street.
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Speaker 1: The other day it was prevalent and it was a
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Speaker 1: thing of beauty. Like you say, you're immune to the smell,
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Speaker 1: but rest assured when you get that waft, you know
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Speaker 1: that things are going on.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm pleased it's a pleasant smell. Andy, it would
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Speaker 2: be a bit untidy if it wasn't so pleasant to
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Speaker 2: the nose, but no, the molasses smell is pretty sweet,
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Speaker 2: so there's no dramas there. It's always going on. We've
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Speaker 2: always got quite a tonnage. We normally hold about 60
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Speaker 2: tonnes of the stuff in the plant most days, so yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's better than pond sludge, put it that way.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure it is. Yeah, I'll go with that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll go with that, Daryl. Look, you guys... You've
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Speaker 1: been busy at the moment. You see the lights on
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Speaker 1: at Sparrowfart. You're going late into the day. There's just
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Speaker 1: a situation at the moment. You've got quite a bit
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Speaker 1: going on regarding calf feed or cattle feed, cow nuts.
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Speaker 2: All of the above, really. I mean, October's our busiest
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Speaker 2: month by quite a bit. So, obviously, the dairy feed's
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Speaker 2: at its peak. The girls are coming into mating, so
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Speaker 2: guys are feeding them well to keep them... on that
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Speaker 2: rising plane, and car feed, it's pretty much peaks this
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Speaker 2: month around Labor Weekend, it's normally the peak for us
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Speaker 2: on car feed going out, so we're flat out trying
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Speaker 2: to keep plenty of stock in front of the people
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Speaker 2: that are using that, so there's plenty to do to
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Speaker 2: fill the day, and then of course we're doing all
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Speaker 2: the other lines, chicken, pig, you name it, so very
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Speaker 2: busy month for us, yep, and the lights are on early,
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Speaker 2: I think Blue's normally not here just after five, and
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Speaker 2: I think I think Darren was away till half past seven,
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Speaker 2: eight o'clock yesterday, so we're going as fast as we
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Speaker 2: can go, pretty much.
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Speaker 1: Are you having to go six or seven days a
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Speaker 1: week at the moment? Has it come to that, or
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Speaker 1: is everything organised?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we actually did work Saturday, Sunday last weekend, and
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Speaker 2: we do plan to work at least Saturday this weekend.
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Speaker 2: But we've only got so many trained staff that can
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Speaker 2: run the plant, so we can't go indefinitely. And it's
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Speaker 2: really a seasonal business, so those busy months, September, October, November,
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Speaker 2: we just have to stretch everyone as far as we
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Speaker 2: can and then give them a spell when we're quieter.
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Speaker 2: So that's the plan.
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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, Karen, the palletiser, can only do so much.
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Speaker 2: She doesn't talk back and she's going pretty good, going
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Speaker 2: very fast. The boys are putting through a minimum of
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Speaker 2: about 50 tonne a day through their bagging car feed.
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Speaker 2: And we need to be putting out at least that.
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Speaker 2: So we're trying to do 75 tonne 80 tonne a day,
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Speaker 2: just depends on the staff availability and what else we're
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Speaker 2: making in the plant.
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Speaker 1: So the key message is you're keeping up with demand
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Speaker 1: at the moment and if anybody wants to talk regarding
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Speaker 1: feed for dairy cattle then by all means get in touch.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, we're not really looking for any extras, we're just
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Speaker 2: trying to keep our satisfier existing guys but always if
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Speaker 2: someone needs a hand we'd probably attempt to do something
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Speaker 2: for them, that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: Everything else ticking away?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no dramas. The plant's going good and staff are
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Speaker 2: all good. So there's no dramas at all, really. We're
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Speaker 2: just enjoying the nice weather and hopefully that'll take the
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Speaker 2: pressure off a lot of farmers going forward. Another week
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Speaker 2: of fine weather and that might take a wee bit
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Speaker 2: of pressure off, hopefully.
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Speaker 1: Chicken feed's a big one for you guys.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're still doing big volumes of chicken. We're doing
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Speaker 2: close to 120 tonne a month of chicken, which is
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Speaker 2: a lot of feed for a chicken. And that's going
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Speaker 2: exceptionally well. We do a lot of... free-range customers who
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Speaker 2: are buying half-tonne and one-tonne bags, and that's huge for us,
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Speaker 2: very good product. Natalie's got that one pretty well tuned,
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Speaker 2: and the production out of that's going really, really well.
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Speaker 2: Everyone comments on how good the chickens go on it
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Speaker 2: for bird health and egg production, so a very popular product.
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Speaker 1: Is the chicken situation pretty much a kickback from the
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Speaker 1: COVID era?
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Speaker 2: I think it is. There's still a lot of, you know,
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Speaker 2: we didn't sell anything like this prior to that, So
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Speaker 2: a lot of free-range outfits out there and anywhere from
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Speaker 2: 100 to 1,000 birds. And we've got the Pringles up
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Speaker 2: at Clydevale with about 6,000. I think last time I
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Speaker 2: talked to Tony, they were running around their dairy farm.
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Speaker 2: So they chew up a bit of feed, that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: Of course, Natalie Crystal, your animal nutritionist. We talk about
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Speaker 1: her more often than not because she's got the formula
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Speaker 1: that comes up with the goods.
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Speaker 2: You know, she's pretty smart when it comes to most
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Speaker 2: classes of stock, but chicken is one of her fortes,
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Speaker 2: and so the formulations are very robust. Most people that
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Speaker 2: buy our chicken feed should agree that it's a pretty
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Speaker 2: good product.
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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, your Mauritius contract has come to an end.
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Speaker 2: Well, we haven't heard any more from Mauritius. We did
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Speaker 2: have a bit of drama around MAF numbers, and they're
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Speaker 2: very fussy on what can come into that country. And
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Speaker 2: we've done a lot of work with our biosecurity people
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Speaker 2: and MPI, but they just wanted a lot of paperwork
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Speaker 2: that we didn't have or don't have in this country.
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Speaker 2: So we have heard no more from Mauritius. So unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: I won't be going to visit them at this stage anyway, Andy.
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Speaker 1: No tax write-off coming off there. How did this actually
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Speaker 1: come about again? Was it just a random one-off order?
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Speaker 2: No, there's a relative who lives in New Zealand from
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Speaker 2: the guy that runs the big deer farm over there.
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Speaker 2: And he was researching all over the world and found
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Speaker 2: that the product he wanted was pretty much matched what
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Speaker 2: we were producing as a standard line for velvet production.
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Speaker 2: And so through that, we got the order to send
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Speaker 2: her over. Yep.
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Speaker 1: No way it means, I suppose. That's certainly something to
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Speaker 1: put on your CV.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah, it's a one-off, one-hit wonder, but we'll take it.
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Speaker 1: Now, we'll talk a bit of Cove with you, Darrell,
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Speaker 1: because you can before we wrap up. The Bledisloe Cup,
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Speaker 1: the All Blacks. Are you nervous about the Zazie side
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Speaker 1: heading into next year's World Cup?
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Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely.
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Speaker 2: I'm always nervous about Australia. They seem to just come
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Speaker 2: up with a team every now and then, and they've
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Speaker 2: got the ability to beat us when you don't expect it. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: even though it's a second or third string Springbok team,
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Speaker 2: they're looking quite sharp. So it'll be a good game.
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Speaker 2: I'm really looking forward to it, actually.
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Speaker 1: There's an individual who stood out in the NRL Grand
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Speaker 1: Final on Sunday evening. He played for the Sydney Roosters,
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Speaker 1: formerly of the Australian Sevens. His name's Mark Nawakanitawasi. He's
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Speaker 1: a winger. He is very, very good. He is a
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Speaker 1: name you need to look out for next year. I'm
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Speaker 1: giving you the tip.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 2: No, I didn't watch the leg.
33:49
Speaker 1: You're not a leggy, I know.
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Speaker 2: No, but it was good to see the Roosters win it, actually.
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Speaker 2: That used to be a... A team I followed way
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Speaker 2: back in the day, absolutely, yep.
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Speaker 1: What, you're talking about like.
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Speaker 2: Had a shirt and all, because they had City Ford
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Speaker 2: written on it.
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Speaker 1: City Ford, I had one of them too back in
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Speaker 1: the day. That was around the time that Kurt Sherlock
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Speaker 1: played for them, and if memory serves me correctly, he
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Speaker 1: played Union for Auckland back in the early days of
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Speaker 1: the MPC in the 80s.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember him. The only reason I started following
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Speaker 2: the league was when Matthew Ridge went to Manly, so
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Speaker 2: I was actually a Manly supporter way back. We had
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Speaker 2: the Iroh boys there, so that was the team I followed,
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Speaker 2: but that was a couple of years ago now.
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Speaker 1: And the irony of John Gallagher going to league with
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Speaker 1: Matthew Ridge, it was Ridge he wouldn't have gone over
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Speaker 1: because John Gallagher was the incumbent fullback during the tour
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Speaker 1: of 1989 to the UK.
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Speaker 2: That's right, but Ridge did pretty well over there. I mean,
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Speaker 2: mind you, he had a pretty good coach in Graham Lowe,
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Speaker 2: so he didn't do too bad at league.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he wasn't the worst guy going around, that's for sure, Daryl. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Sgt Dan's Stock Foods. How do people get in touch, Daryl?
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Speaker 2: Just 800-S-G-T-D-A-N.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, mate. Keep up the great work. We'll
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Speaker 1: catch up again.
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Speaker 2: Good to talk to you, Andy.
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Speaker 7: Cheers.
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Speaker 1: Daryl Moyles of Sgt Dan's Stock Food. Dairy cattle. I
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Speaker 1: don't think I've said that saying for a while. First
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Speaker 1: time for everything, right? Harry McCallum. Hazza McCazza of Te
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Speaker 1: Ana Young Farmers. He wraps up the show next. Welcome
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Speaker 1: back to The Muster. Roxy Music is the other tunes today.
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Speaker 1: That song there, Age of Lines, a very long intro.
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Speaker 1: So we'll crank into it next with our guest, who
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Speaker 1: is Hazima Kaza, although Harry McCallum is the name he
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Speaker 1: goes by. He's based up in Te Arau and joins
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Speaker 1: us on behalf of Te Arau Young Farmers in our
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Speaker 1: Young Farmers chat for a Tuesday. G'day, Harry.
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Speaker 6: How you doing, Andy?
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Speaker 2: How are you?
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Speaker 1: Pretty good. Yourself? How's life in the basin? You've had
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Speaker 1: some blue sky recently, I understand.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, the weekend was probably about a month late
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Speaker 6: for good weather, but no, we're looking not too bad
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Speaker 6: at the moment, yeah. Been wet, been wet.
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Speaker 1: You'll be drying out now, gradually?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I think we're into a wee bit of
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Speaker 6: ground work today by the sound of it, yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's a good way to be when you can finally
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Speaker 1: get the iron horses out into the paddocks.
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Speaker 6: Dead right, yeah.
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Speaker 1: To you now in general though, how's it been recently, Harry?
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Speaker 6: Farm-wise or club-wise?
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Speaker 1: Oh, just everything.
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Speaker 6: No, it's been not too bad. We've got a wee
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Speaker 6: bit of snow right in the middle of Lambing and
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Speaker 6: it has been wet, but probably not as a comparison
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Speaker 6: to last year's spring. I think, yeah, we're getting more
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Speaker 6: dry days than what we did last year, so that's
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Speaker 6: probably a bit more of an ups for us. And, yeah,
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Speaker 6: long forecast, I think, right through a bit of rain
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Speaker 6: tomorrow and then... Into the weekend, we're looking schmick, really, yeah. So,
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Speaker 6: other than that, can't really complain. Covers aren't too bad,
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Speaker 6: sort of.
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Speaker 2: For lambing.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, like I said, we're just into shedding out now,
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Speaker 6: so hopefully they'll start to crank the further we get
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Speaker 6: on into the year.
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Speaker 1: How would you say the lamb drop's been?
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Speaker 6: Not too bad, yeah. No, can't complain. From what I've
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Speaker 6: seen this morning, there's plenty of lambs about, and.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, not too, yeah, personally not too many wet dries
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Speaker 6: sort of shedding out. Mind you, I'm not.
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Speaker 2: That good at it either.
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Speaker 1: What, you're not too good at shedding out or wet dries?
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Speaker 6: Nah, shedding out.
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Speaker 1: Do you not have, it's a patient's thing, that's why.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I've got zero tolerance for all of that, unfortunately.
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Speaker 6: But that's all right, no, we're having fun doing it.
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Speaker 6: But no, lamb.
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Speaker 7: Drops are fine, yep.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, shedding out's one of those things. Everyone's got a
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Speaker 1: different rationale behind it, I suppose. What do you do
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Speaker 1: in your place there? It's a pretty large-scale operation that
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Speaker 1: you're managing. Shedding out, I mean, or do you just
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Speaker 1: set stock and just go from there with the main use?
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Speaker 6: Nah, set stock, bit of lamb, then sort of once
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Speaker 6: you're sort of wearing the end hood or you're sick
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Speaker 6: of going around them, then we'll just shed off the one. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: we'll just shed them out, essentially, yeah. Only on the flat, though,
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Speaker 6: the hills will... have a crack at trying to do that,
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Speaker 6: maybe after tailing when we bring everything down. But, no,
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Speaker 6: it's one of those jobs, slow is fast.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty much about it. So when do you hope
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Speaker 1: you get the tailing going?
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Speaker 6: That'll be a week after next. We'll get into the
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Speaker 6: studs and then we'll just roll on after that. Nice.
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Speaker 1: OK, Young Farmers chat, how it's been happening? You guys
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Speaker 1: have got a big weekend coming up.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we've had a pretty... We've got a pretty busy
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Speaker 6: week ahead of us, and last week was busy as well.
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Speaker 6: Did some tailing last week. What did we do? Probably
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Speaker 6: 1,600 lambs, which was a big day for us, I suppose.
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Speaker 6: Pretty unorganised chaos. But, no, we had a real good
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Speaker 6: crew turn up, about 14, 15. And, no, everyone got on.
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Speaker 6: Good vibes.
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Speaker 2: No, it was great.
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Speaker 6: That was a good day out. And, of course, we
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Speaker 6: had to wet the pallet at the church afterwards because
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Speaker 6: it was such a good day. And then leaning into...
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Speaker 6: This weekend we've got our fourth bar cup event, annual
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Speaker 6: bar cup event, so that's happening at the Janet Rugby Club.
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Speaker 6: It just kicks off at five and yeah, we've got
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Speaker 6: quite a good prize pool this year with a lot
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Speaker 6: of local sponsors donating prizes and half the... profit from
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Speaker 6: the evening is going to go to the Nauru Primus
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Speaker 6: swimming pool. So just another local community outfit to, yeah,
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Speaker 6: donate towards. Yeah, no, it's going to shape up to
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Speaker 6: be a really good night. We've got a kids event,
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Speaker 6: kids and pets event. and then, yeah, just the main
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Speaker 6: event is, um, the Hunterways, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Now, Mark Gascoigne is going to speak earlier on in
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Speaker 1: the day talking mental health. Tell us about that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so, um, Otago Southland, we run a, um, we
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Speaker 6: try and run a wellbeing event once a year, just
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Speaker 6: with everything else going on, tournaments and competitions, we thought, um,
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Speaker 6: that it'd be good to run a wellbeing event. So, yeah,
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Speaker 6: we've got Mark Gascoigne, he's coming before the bar cup
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Speaker 6: at two o'clock, and that's, uh, um five dollar a
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Speaker 6: head event and yeah he's just going to talk about
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Speaker 6: he's a dairy farmer up from cambridge and he's going
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Speaker 6: to um talk about just the mental health side of
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Speaker 6: farming just sort of the the stuff that doesn't really
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Speaker 6: get talked about enough essentially yeah and a open sort
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Speaker 6: of platform so yeah the crew the crew it's a
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Speaker 6: it's an open community event so anyone can come to
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Speaker 6: that the bar cup's the same anyone can come to
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Speaker 6: the bar cup even if they don't have a dog
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Speaker 6: or anything as such as um Yeah, just come for
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Speaker 6: a conversation in the yard and really go.
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Speaker 1: My son was asking if there's a human bark competition
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Speaker 1: as such.
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Speaker 6: I think there is, yeah. Yeah, no, there'll be a
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Speaker 6: human bark. I'm not a handy on what the prize
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Speaker 6: is for that, but that's usually a good laugh as well.
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Speaker 1: What time for the bark up proper starting?
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Speaker 6: Five o'clock. Yeah, I think the bar opens about 5.30.
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Speaker 6: And the Tiana Rotary Club, they're going to be running
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Speaker 6: the chip band this year. So, yeah, that's going to
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Speaker 6: be hot chips and hot dogs, it's going to be true.
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Speaker 6: And that's another thing as well. The money they make
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Speaker 6: goes back into Rotary, which they're another community-based organisation that
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Speaker 6: relies on volunteers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, great to keep it local, Harry. So you guys
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Speaker 1: got a meeting this week?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we've got one on Wednesday. So Wednesday, 7 o'clock
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Speaker 6: at the Tiana Workingmen's Club. So yeah, if you're keen
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Speaker 6: to come along and either join the club or just
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Speaker 6: come along for a yarn, yeah, we're really open to
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Speaker 6: new members. I think we're sitting at about 27 paid
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Speaker 6: up members so no we're a good strong healthy club
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Speaker 6: well I wouldn't say healthy we're a good strong club
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Speaker 6: not so healthy on the weekends.
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Speaker 1: You're healthy financially and as far as mindset let's say
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Speaker 1: that to a degree that's a good cut of the
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Speaker 1: run hey good on you Harry it's going to be
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Speaker 1: fun I'm going to be helping you guys out on
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Speaker 1: Saturday I'm looking forward to it as well because let's
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Speaker 1: be honest everybody's due for a couple of brews and
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Speaker 1: a chinwag after the past six weeks right Yeah, dead.
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Speaker 6: Right, yeah. Nah, the last two, three years has been,
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Speaker 6: the event's been getting bigger and bigger, and we're getting
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Speaker 6: a lot of young farmers sort of out of Southlands,
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Speaker 6: jumping in a van and making the trip. I know
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Speaker 6: we did. We took a van up to Terrace Barker.
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Speaker 6: I think there was 12 of us in an eight-seat van,
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Speaker 6: so nah, that was a good trip. I didn't even
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Speaker 6: went on that one, but that was a good trip
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Speaker 6: by the sounds of it, yeah. Bit of mischief, no dramas,
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Speaker 6: but yeah, no, it was good. So it's good to
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Speaker 6: see that. Some of the other clubs and stuff are
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Speaker 6: coming and supporting events because that's the one big thing
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Speaker 6: we try to drive as well is having other clubs.
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Speaker 6: Every time there's a club event, I'm going scratch their backs,
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Speaker 6: scratch theirs essentially, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Can I just say 1,500 lambs for 15 people turning up,
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Speaker 1: you could have set a world record then if you
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Speaker 1: wanted to.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I don't know about that.
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Speaker 1: If you wanted to.
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Speaker 6: Oh, potentially, yeah. I reckon there was more people than Prattleaf,
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Speaker 6: put it that way.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Harry. All the best for the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Looking forward to it. We'll catch up again, mate.
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Speaker 6: That's tidy. Cheers, Andy.
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Speaker 1: What's your cooler horny cow?
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Speaker 6: Beef jerky.
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Speaker 1: Just before we go as well, Beef for Lab New
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Speaker 1: Zealand's spring shouts continue tomorrow. At the Three Rivers Hotel
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Speaker 1: at Wyndham, starting at 5. And on Thursday, the Brunnel
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Speaker 1: Peaks Cafe over in Harry's Neck of the Wood, or
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Speaker 1: near it anyway, at Blackmount. And then on Thursday as well,
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Speaker 1: Safatago Town and Country Club in Valklutha. And then concluding
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Speaker 1: this Friday at Waimumu at Titipu Hall. We'll leave it there.
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Speaker 1: I'm Andy Muir. The Must has brought to you by
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Speaker 1: Peters Genetics. Enjoy the afternoon. The podcast is going up shortly,
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Speaker 1: and I'll catch you tomorrow at 1 o'clock. Stock selling
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Speaker 1: action occurred at the Louisville sale yards this morning. It
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Speaker 1: comes courtesy of the team at PGG Wrightson. Sam Riley
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Speaker 1: is on the ground once again to give us an
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Speaker 1: update on prices. Slammer, good afternoon. How did we fare?
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Speaker 7: G'day Andy, how you getting on mate? Yeah, everything probably
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Speaker 7: slight lift in the market. Definite lift in the store
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Speaker 7: cattle market just on the back of three days of sunshine.
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Speaker 7: It was quite nice to see. They'll kick off those
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Speaker 7: prime lambs. Those good heavy lambs are $ 300 to $ 420.
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Speaker 7: The mediums, $ 250 to $ 290, and the lighter end primes
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Speaker 7: are $ 200 to $ 250. The ewes, good routing of ewes
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Speaker 7: in today, $ 280 to $ 340 for the tops of those,
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Speaker 7: $ 240 to $ 270 on the mediums, and $ 200 to $ 230
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Speaker 7: on the lighter end stuff. Lower condition ewes are $ 160
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Speaker 7: to $ 180. Rams, the best of those are $ 100 to $ 140.
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Speaker 7: Just a very small yarding of store lambs in today.
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Speaker 7: The best of those were $ 190 to $ 200, and $ 170
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Speaker 7: to $ 180 on the mediums. And using lambs all counted
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Speaker 7: were $ 150 to $ 168 on the better end of those.
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Speaker 7: Into the prime cattle, very small yarding of prime cattle
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Speaker 7: made up mainly of cows. 500 kilo plus cows, $ 3,
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Speaker 7: and 450 kilo cows at $ 2.
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Speaker 4: 80.
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Speaker 7: So that market was still reasonably flat, but the store
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Speaker 7: cattle market, Some good yearling Charolais and Angus cross heifers
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Speaker 7: in today. They sold very well for the weight of them.
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Speaker 7: So Charolais cross heifers, 200 kgs, they're $ 1, 070. Angus cross
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Speaker 7: heifers at 205 kilos at $ 1, 140. And Hereford cross heifers
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Speaker 7: at 343 kilos.
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Speaker 2: They were yearlings at $ 1, 630.
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Speaker 7: So, yeah, definitely a shift in the store cattle market,
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Speaker 7: which is.
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Speaker 2: Good to see.
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Speaker 1: There grew a man who played it good.