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The Muster Full Show: 15/10/26 · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon and welcome to the Masa on Hōkanui. Andy
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  Speaker 1: Muio here. The show is brought to you by Peters
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  Speaker 1: Genetics on a Thursday. Welcome along. It's wet and gore
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon. Currently we're on 8 degrees. Talk weather shortly,
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  Speaker 1: but looking into the next five or six days, it
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  Speaker 1: does warm up again getting into the mid to late
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  Speaker 1: teens later on in the weekend. Anyway, International Rural Women's Day,
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a theme around that today, but probably
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  Speaker 1: should have chosen the music a bit better, let's be honest.
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  Speaker 1: We might finish with a bit of Shania or something
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  Speaker 1: towards the end of the hour. It is mental as anything.
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  Speaker 1: This song here, Live It Up, I just remember it
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  Speaker 1: on the Crocodile Dundee soundtrack for whatever reason. When the
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  Speaker 1: guy's in there doing a certain substance in the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: Mick Dundee comes in, mixes it in with some hot
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  Speaker 1: water and says, here, mate, this will clear your senses.
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  Speaker 1: If you know, you know. Let's pick up a journal.
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  Speaker 2: Getting a Crocodile Dundee reference in there, that's as good
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  Speaker 2: as it gets on a Thursday, right?
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  Speaker 1: Rain this afternoon with breezy southwesterlies. And a high of
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  Speaker 1: 9 Friday. Cloudy with sour westerlies. 4 and 11 Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Sunshine with breezy westerlies. Turn that up.
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  Speaker 3: There we go.
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  Speaker 1: There's our music. 3 and 13 Sunday. Partly cloudy with
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  Speaker 1: westerlies forming. 5 and 18. And Monday, partly cloudy with
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  Speaker 1: breezy westerlies. Once again, 8 and 17. That's the theme
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  Speaker 1: for the next three. Soil temperatures, Clinton 10.9, Harriot 11.4,
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  Speaker 1: Northern Southland 12.6, Riverton 12.4, Te Anau 11.3, Titiroa 12.6,
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  Speaker 1: Woodlands 11.8 and Woodlands 11.3. Peter Gardine of Napdale. We
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  Speaker 1: have a catch up to see how things have gone
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  Speaker 1: as lambing is a bit of memory for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people now. It's all about getting the iron horse
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  Speaker 1: into the paddock along with tailing. Isla Pringle at Hedgehog.
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  Speaker 1: Dairy farming out that way. Same scenario. We spoke to
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  Speaker 1: her last month. It was rather wet. So Isla gives
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  Speaker 1: us an update on how things are going as we
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  Speaker 1: head into spring properly. Anna Irwin's here talking to the
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  Speaker 1: South Northern Support Trust in the beef and lamb slot.
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  Speaker 1: Mel Young of Southland Girls High School, teaching agriculture there.
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  Speaker 1: And as part of International Rural Women's Day, getting Mel's
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  Speaker 1: perspective on what it's like teaching agriculture at a secondary
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  Speaker 1: school these days. And is it coming back as a
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  Speaker 1: sexy subject? Well, I'm going to say that more of
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  Speaker 1: a subject about getting people involved into the rural sector
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  Speaker 1: as well. And Jacob Duffy, Black Caps Bowler. Born and
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  Speaker 1: raised in Lumsden, but these days doing great things on
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  Speaker 1: the world stage as a fast bowler for the Blackcaps.
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  Speaker 1: We have a catch-up. Dave Morrison of PGG writes in, talks.
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  Speaker 1: Stock sale results from Charlton actually come through on the
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  Speaker 1: text machine just before the first of the spring lambs
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  Speaker 1: up country, $ 326. The rumour is coming out of Colgate,
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  Speaker 1: so it'll be interesting to see if there's a bit
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  Speaker 1: of truth to that. It will start the hour next anyway.
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  Speaker 1: With Isla Pringle, this is the muster thanks to Peter's
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  Speaker 1: Genetics 7 After 1. We're away to Hedgehog this afternoon
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  Speaker 1: on the muster to catch up with Isla Pringle, dairy
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  Speaker 1: farming out that way with her partner Hayden. G'day Isla,
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  Speaker 1: how's things?
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  Speaker 4: Good thanks Andy, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not bad. Look, last time we spoke to you,
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  Speaker 1: it was a totally different situation. We've got rain today
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  Speaker 1: in the south, I think it's a high of around
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  Speaker 1: 8 or 9 degrees. But we spoke to you last time,
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  Speaker 1: it was September and it was wet, wet, wet. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty saturated then, and it was only going to
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  Speaker 4: get worse. So glad we're through it. And, yeah, woke
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  Speaker 4: up this morning with a wee bit of PTSD, but
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  Speaker 4: now on the other side of it, it's probably quite
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  Speaker 4: nice to keep that growth going, a wee bit of rain,
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  Speaker 4: so not too many complaints.
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  Speaker 1: How did you fare exactly there in September?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, like, we're pretty high-spirited the whole way through. It's
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  Speaker 4: sort of... Oh, that last week of real bad weather
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  Speaker 4: before we got some sunshine and that was, yeah, that
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  Speaker 4: was pretty hard to be honest. It was, you know,
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  Speaker 4: sending cows into mud and coming out with even more. But,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's pretty funny how quickly things change and
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  Speaker 4: also how quickly people forgive and forget away. But we
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  Speaker 4: went to discussion group last week and we went around
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  Speaker 4: the room to.
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  Speaker 4: Sort of rate how well the pastures or the farms
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  Speaker 4: recovered since the wet, 10 being well recovered and one
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  Speaker 4: being not at all. And everyone was sort of sitting
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  Speaker 4: in the seven, eight, nines, and it had only been
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  Speaker 4: a week. So, yeah, it's pretty amazing, really.
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  Speaker 1: But the fact we got sunshine when we did in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days of temperatures, dare I say, at
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  Speaker 1: 14 degrees and warmer, and everyone thought, well, this isn't
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  Speaker 1: so bad, and you've just got to look forward. That
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  Speaker 1: was the key.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And that's it. You couldn't dwell, really. Just see that
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  Speaker 4: sun coming and then, yeah, even just feeling it on
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  Speaker 4: your skin, eh? It's just like a bit of healing, probably.
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  Speaker 1: Your covers as such, though, through spring, what were they like?
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  Speaker 4: They did drop down. We were lucky because we were
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  Speaker 4: trying to build a bridge amongst all that terrible weather, too,
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  Speaker 4: to access some more land. And... Yeah, so that sort
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  Speaker 4: of helped us out for another week, sort of extended
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  Speaker 4: our round out, which, yeah, the timing was perfect, to
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  Speaker 4: be honest. So, yeah, bounce back now. Like, I think
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  Speaker 4: the farm's sitting at 2250, and, yeah, we're growing, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, 65 a day or something like that at
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  Speaker 4: the moment.
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  Speaker 1: They talk about mending bridges and the likes and life
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  Speaker 1: in general, but building a bridge in September is a
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  Speaker 1: different one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah i've been on the cards for a while and
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  Speaker 4: just just the way it sort of fell with um
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  Speaker 4: designs and final designs and getting engineers sign off and
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  Speaker 4: stuff so yeah the boys um yeah contractor and a
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  Speaker 4: builder smashed it out in two weeks so from final
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  Speaker 4: sign off um of the designs to getting cows across
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  Speaker 4: so yeah big ups to them.
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  Speaker 1: Boys too how the animals fed.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, there's a big feed bill this month anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you won't be the only ones with that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I think, like, at one point we worked
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  Speaker 4: it out, we were feeding, like, 14 kgs of supplement.
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  Speaker 4: So it was pretty dire, to be fair. Felt a
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  Speaker 4: bit bad for the cows, but I guess, yeah, same thing.
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  Speaker 4: We bought a few PK trailers to start at the
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  Speaker 4: end of last year, and it's probably saved us. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they're getting 10 kgs. and those in the paddock, which,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they make a bit of mud around them,
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  Speaker 4: but it does save a lot of mud across the
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  Speaker 4: whole paddock.
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  Speaker 1: You weren't, like, likes of heifers, you weren't holding them
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  Speaker 1: just around the parlour during the day and feeding them
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  Speaker 1: there near the platform and such?
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  Speaker 4: No, we didn't. It definitely was on the cards, and
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  Speaker 4: a few of our mates did do that, but, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we managed to just push through.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you understand there's still a few places that are
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  Speaker 1: going through the recovery, especially on the coast and down
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  Speaker 1: south as such. But certainly, like you say, covers are 2250,
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, well, somebody talked about seeing
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  Speaker 1: silage being made yesterday, and it's by no means are
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  Speaker 1: we through it, but the fact is that we've managed
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  Speaker 1: to get to this point. It's a big thing. It's
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  Speaker 1: almost like a barrier's been broken.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was only a matter of time. Just
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  Speaker 4: needed a wee bit of sunlight, to be honest. But
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  Speaker 4: the soil temps were always sort of up. They weren't
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  Speaker 4: real low. Woodlands was showing, you know, 9, 10 degrees
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  Speaker 4: the whole time. So it was just saturation. So we
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  Speaker 4: just needed a bit of drying and a bit of sunlight. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they've just taken off, you know. Bit of furrowed on and, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: she's all gone. I mean, we're definitely not out of
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  Speaker 4: the woods and there's still quite a bit of supplement
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  Speaker 4: been thrown at them. But, yeah, we're pretty happy with
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  Speaker 4: the cow's condition so far. considering and yeah I guess
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  Speaker 4: just trying to get them up in condition now for
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  Speaker 4: mating so you just have to look forward really and
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  Speaker 4: you can't dwell on what's happened, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Happened Mating's kind of appeared out of nowhere I suppose.
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  Speaker 4: Feels like we're just getting on top of things and
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  Speaker 4: then we'll be bogged down again with trying to get
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  Speaker 4: cows and calves.
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  Speaker 1: Today is International Day of Rural Women, arguably every day
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  Speaker 1: is because, let's be honest, the attitudes are different to
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  Speaker 1: how they were decades ago. I suppose for you, Isla,
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  Speaker 1: what got you involved with your partner Hayden getting into farming?
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  Speaker 1: What was the driving force for you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, look, I grew up on a farm, watched my
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  Speaker 4: mum farm her whole life, my nana and gran, both
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  Speaker 4: sides have been farmers their whole lives. Yeah, so my
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  Speaker 4: mum's yeah, my nan aside, I'm, like, fifth generation farmer, so, um,
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  Speaker 4: it's always been sort of a dream of mine to
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  Speaker 4: work the land, um, and, oh, yeah, there's, there's nothing better, really.
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  Speaker 4: When you're outside, I mean, it's not so nice when
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  Speaker 4: it's raining for months on end, but, like, when you're
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  Speaker 4: outside and you're just breathing fresh air and, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you're surrounded by, um, the landscapes you are and the
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  Speaker 4: animals you, um, you see, they're in good condition and
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  Speaker 4: they're producing great milk, like, Honestly, nothing better. um and
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  Speaker 4: like i just think in the farming industry there's so
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  Speaker 4: much support and so much um knowledge and networking and
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  Speaker 4: all the rest and yeah honestly it's a great industry.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great observation you've made there, just having the
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  Speaker 1: support networks in place, whether it be talking to your
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  Speaker 1: mates or people with a bit more expertise in certain things,
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  Speaker 1: I suppose, it is there at your disposal.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, there's so many knowledgeable people within the industry
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  Speaker 4: and they've all had, you know, crazy different experiences across different,
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  Speaker 4: you know, systems and landscapes and all the rest, so.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one of my favourite things to delve into
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  Speaker 4: other people's knowledge and sort of, yeah, change our views
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  Speaker 4: and have a think about things differently at times. So, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you're involved with Young Farmers, who I've, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's well documented, I've got a lot of time for
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  Speaker 1: and quite happy to push the cause of the organisation.
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  Speaker 1: And the numbers that you guys are getting to meetings now,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter which club it is, they're just going
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  Speaker 1: one way. So it's certainly in a good space and, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just showing the sector where it's at.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, 100%. And it's quite important that people realise young
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  Speaker 4: farmers isn't just for farmers. Like, it's for, we've got nurses,
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  Speaker 4: we've got, you know, bankers, all sorts of different people.
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  Speaker 4: And it all sort of just adds to it. Like,
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  Speaker 4: you just come along, have a yarn to the set
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  Speaker 4: with like-minded people. So, yeah, I think that's, like, One
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  Speaker 4: of the things I'm trying to push at the moment
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  Speaker 4: is you really don't have to be a farmer. And
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  Speaker 4: to be honest, you don't even have to be in
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  Speaker 4: the rural sector. You just have to be happy to
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  Speaker 4: support the organisation, really.
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  Speaker 1: Any influencers in the club? What do you mean? Exactly that.
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  Speaker 1: Influencers using their name through social media to make money.
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  Speaker 1: Are they involved with the club? I mean, is that
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  Speaker 1: an occupation for someone?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I guess. There's no one in our club,
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  Speaker 4: but I imagine some people can do that, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Isla, thanks for your time.
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  Speaker 4: Out of my realm.
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  Speaker 1: What's that, sorry?
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  Speaker 4: Out of my realm.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough. Hey, we'll leave it there. Always good
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  Speaker 1: to catch up, Isla.
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  Speaker 4: Well, here's Andy. We'll catch you next time.
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  Speaker 1: Isla Pringle of Headshot. This is the muster. Next, we're
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  Speaker 1: away to Napdale. Peter Gardai. Let's see how things have been.
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  Speaker 1: Peter Gardine farms in Napdale and joins us once again
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  Speaker 1: on the muster. G'day Pete, there's a bit of rain
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  Speaker 1: happening around the province today, dare I say it. Did
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  Speaker 1: you need another little skiff?
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  Speaker 2: We didn't need some rain. We do have some country
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  Speaker 2: that we're putting into barley that does need some rain
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  Speaker 2: to soften it up to cultivate it. But I think
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  Speaker 2: we're all enjoying a quiet day and knocking off a
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  Speaker 2: bit earlier last night off the tractors and been in
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  Speaker 2: the office today tidying up some paperwork. So to be fair,
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  Speaker 2: I probably do need a day in the office to
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  Speaker 2: catch up or else I'd be still burning diesel.
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  Speaker 1: How did September treat you at the end of it all?
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  Speaker 2: We actually got on pretty well. We probably handle those
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  Speaker 2: conditions better than some, but then we do risk the
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  Speaker 2: dry in the summer a bit more than those people do.
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  Speaker 2: I think we had about 150 mils of rain in September,
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  Speaker 2: so that's a heck of a lot for us, but
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  Speaker 2: I realise a lot less than those further south. And
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  Speaker 2: with survival, we've got on pretty well because it was
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  Speaker 2: never cold, cold. I mean, there was snow quite a
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  Speaker 2: lot of times, but it was, yeah, it was all right.
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  Speaker 2: And we've put a lot of work into the survival
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  Speaker 2: side of things. And I think all those little incremental
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  Speaker 2: gains that we've made, they pay off in a spring
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  Speaker 2: like what we had.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting your comment before, Pete, saying that you pay for
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  Speaker 1: it a bit more in summer. What do you mean
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  Speaker 1: by that?
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  Speaker 2: We can get pretty dry here. We're on stones and
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  Speaker 2: we're 7, 80 mils of rain a year. So last summer, autumn,
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  Speaker 2: we got pretty dry. We were probably by the middle
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  Speaker 2: of November, we were losing grass growth dry last year
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  Speaker 2: and we had to wean some sheep early about the
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  Speaker 2: 25th of November because we're running out of feed pretty fast.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, homes, it's good when it's cold and damp
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  Speaker 2: in the shoulders and then it goes off the boil.
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  Speaker 2: But then the ground we lease at Pokerau, it's really
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  Speaker 2: the opposite. It was pretty muddy in the gateways there
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  Speaker 2: with the lambing beet, but it does hang on very
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  Speaker 2: well in the summer.
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  Speaker 1: Have you tailed yet?
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep. We've done some of it. The twin paddocks
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  Speaker 2: are sort of coming through around that mid-180s and through
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  Speaker 2: the tailing pen, so we're pretty happy with that. But
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  Speaker 2: like I said, we've put a bit of work in
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  Speaker 2: with genetics and that over the years, and I just
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  Speaker 2: think all those wee things you do, they add up
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  Speaker 2: in a more tougher spring.
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  Speaker 1: How are your covers looking now, bearing in mind that
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  Speaker 1: things have dried out to what they were?
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  Speaker 2: Covers are looking pretty good. We actually brought a bit
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  Speaker 2: of cattle in the last 10 days. I would like
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  Speaker 2: to have brought more, but we've also got a few
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  Speaker 2: paddocks that we're going to rip up. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that's one of the advantages of a mixed arable and
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  Speaker 2: livestock system is Obviously we weren't doing much cultivation in
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  Speaker 2: September so we were still able to graze, regrowth, forage
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  Speaker 2: oats and stuff like that. When in a drier year
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  Speaker 2: they would have been tipped off already. So that does
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  Speaker 2: all help and we do also have a few paddocks
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  Speaker 2: that are about to come out of fodder beaten for peas.
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  Speaker 2: So it probably allows us to have a slightly lower
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  Speaker 2: stocking rate per hectare in September and then we squeeze
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  Speaker 2: those sheep off in October once we start ripping up
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  Speaker 2: those paddocks.
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  Speaker 1: Burning diesel would be the name of your game at
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  Speaker 1: the moment then?
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  Speaker 2: We are burning a fair bit of diesel right now,
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  Speaker 2: and I had a bit of a shock when I
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  Speaker 2: saw the invoice for Monday's fuel drop-off. Very good service
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  Speaker 2: from the fuel company, and no complaints about the company,
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  Speaker 2: but far out the invoice was large.
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  Speaker 1: What was it worth per litre? Because I filled up
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  Speaker 1: diesel this morning at Gore at one of the South
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  Speaker 1: Suras as discount, eh? $ 3. 02.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're at $ 2. 55 plus GST a litre
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  Speaker 2: for diesel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably about right, but it's just, it's an
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  Speaker 1: expensive cost, and it's been talked about a lot on
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  Speaker 1: this show recently as well, fertiliser and fuel. Julie Edwards
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  Speaker 1: in the UK used to be initiating that they've got
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  Speaker 1: the same issues that we do, so this very much
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  Speaker 1: is just not a New Zealand problem.
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  Speaker 2: But then on the other side, we're killing stock for
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  Speaker 2: really good money, so it's sort of an in and
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  Speaker 2: out thing, so As long as the money stays up
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  Speaker 2: on the income side, if it's up on the outgoing side,
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  Speaker 2: it's not the end of the world. It's just a
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  Speaker 2: bit crazy if they go the wrong ways. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like as much as it's high, I mean, you've got
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  Speaker 2: to spend money to make money.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose we just have to wait and see what
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  Speaker 1: a certain president in the US decides to do next
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  Speaker 1: to try and get a bit of a soundbite.
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  Speaker 2: Well, to be fair, what he does or what he's
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  Speaker 2: going to do is well above my pay grade. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like I say, you know, we've sent some...
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  Speaker 2: A handful of wet-dry ewes three weeks ago or so,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: or probably dry-drys and a handful of wet-drys, and they're
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: amazing money. We sent some coal ram-lams the other day, and, yeah,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: far out. It's better than we've ever had. So, yeah,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: it's definitely a pretty cool time to be in the business.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: It's a perspective of what the prices are, and Jamie Mackay,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: not that many years ago, used to go on about
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: the $ 100 lamb being the pipe dream, and you look
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: at the way that things have gone with inflation, and
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: that's well and truly just down the stairwell now when
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: you look into the future.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Like our average price last year, and like I said,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: we got dry and we had to sell some lambs
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: in stores last season, and even with that taking into perspective,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I think we were very close to double the price
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: that we were two years before that, on average, which
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: is pretty massive. Two years ago was not a very fun.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: Year, though.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: No, it's been a few years like that, if we're honest.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: So as far as the hoggart lambing, lambing's pretty much
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: on the wind down for a lot of people now.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: We started in mid-September. And, well, it used to be
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: at home when it got to Labour Weekend, if there
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: was a handful of girls left, you put them behind
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the Hawthorne hedge, and you're seeing them on the Monday
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: and how they were faring, and generally they've tidied themselves up.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: It just gets towards that time of year again.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will admit that I land the stud hoggets,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: but I don't land the commercial hoggets personally. The stock
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: manager and the shepherd do that. But they seem to
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: say that they're getting on pretty well, which is cool. But,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: you know, once again, you breed for it, and I
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: think a hoggart now is just so much more productive
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: than they were when I started my career, and I
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: think we've learned how to do things better than back then.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: So they're following through them pretty well. We do kick
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: on and lamb for quite a wee while because we
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: give the hoggarts two cycles at mating, so then we
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: kill all the ones that don't get in lamb, so
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: we do give them a good chance to get in lamb.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: But the late hoggarts all lamb at home, on the
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: home place, and... Like I say, we just put them
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: in a holding paddock near the yards and it's not
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: hard to go out and have a look for one person.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Those later hoggarts though, they just don't seem to have
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: too many problems which is quite cool.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: So at the moment it's just taking a little bit
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: of a back step for 24 hours while there's a
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: bit of moisture around?
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: 100%.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Everybody's put a lot of work in with the stock
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: people over the September obviously and with the tractor boys
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: have been working pretty hard for the last week or
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: 10 days or so. Dates at the moment sort of,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: you know, slip my mind away a bit because, yeah,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: you sort of put a few hours in. So the
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: main thing is, yeah, take it chill, take it easy,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: and we'll get back into the track and stuff again
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: on Monday. And, yeah, have a great day.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Weekend is the idea.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: So I actually think this rain's amazing.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Good on you, Pete. Always appreciate your thoughts.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Good to have you on.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Peak Ardine based out of Natdale. Enjoying a little bit
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: of moisture. Hopefully where you are, you're appreciating this. Here
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: in Gore, it's just been drizzling. It was quite heavy
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: this morning, actually, when I was out for a walk.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: But nonetheless, the forecast is looking good. Into next week,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: up next on The Muster, Anna Irwin and the Beef
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: and Lamb Slot. The Muster Events Diary, brought to you
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: by Beef and Lamb New Zealand. Click beeflamnz.com. Anna Irwin
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: joins us this afternoon in the Beef and Lamb slot
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: on behalf of the Southland Rural Support Trust. Anna, good afternoon.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Always great to chat.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks, Andy. Yeah, and thanks to Beef and Lamb
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: for allowing us to fill in this support slot. They
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: are part of our response that we've been doing with
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: the rural support, so it's great to have the opportunity.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I suppose over the past seven or eight weeks, the
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Southland Rural Support Trust, you've been earning your crust.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right. And it is a real privilege to
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: be in this position where we can step up and
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: help support the community, which is what has been happening
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: along with a lot of great people. So just letting
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: farmers and growers out there know that there is a
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: Rural Support Trust here able to help you.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: People are getting in touch now because let's remember not
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: that many years ago, I've talked about this a lot,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: but farmers being of the stoic persona, not getting in
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: touch regarding their feelings and that, are they now starting
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: to realise that there are avenues out there?
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and I mean, we do look at numbers of
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: phone calls, obviously, and it's free and confidential, so we
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: never know who these phone calls come from and support
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: comes from, but whenever the Trust sits down, we look
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: at these numbers and There has been an increased demand
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: and you always have this like, oh gosh, is that
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: because there are more problems or because people are more aware?
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: And we like to think it is just because people
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: are more aware that there's support and that they're reaching
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: out and taking advantage of it, which is a great thing.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: What's the messaging, I suppose? We've had the last six
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to eight weeks. It's been really wet around the province.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: People are starting to take stock of what they need
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: to do ahead of the spring popper. I mean, is
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: there a sense of being overwhelmed at the moment with
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: workload and everything just getting on top, as well as
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: life getting involved as well? Yeah, absolutely, Andy.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: So those, you know, mega lifts that I'm sure exist
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: in every laundry and every farm around it, you know,
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: they don't get smaller. So there are massive hours being pulled, which,
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: you know, leads to fatigue. We've come out of, or
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: we're still coming out of a really tough spring, so
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: already fatigue there. So, yeah, there is, there hasn't been
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: a farmer that I haven't talked to that hasn't talked
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: about the long hours and the exhaustion that exists. So,
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: you know, a pretty obvious but really important message here
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: around looking after yourself and staying safe because, goodness me, it's,
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: you know, it would, the consequences of just not taking
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: a second to think about it can be quite dire
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: as well. So, yeah, so there is a lot of fatigue,
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: and that's really being felt across the province.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Mental lists, I like how you bring that up. I
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: suppose it's a good opportunity. Instead of it just living
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: in your top three inches, get a pen and paper out,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: write things down, and then correct it. Maybe a couple
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: of times a week so you can just tick things
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: off as they occur, just wee things like that, I suppose,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: to keep people fresh mentally.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, whatever tool you're going to use, that's great.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: And whether it's on your phone, and even if you
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: don't have staff, if you're working solo, it can be
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: pretty handy to work.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Through it and prioritise.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: And then, you know, hopefully on that list, put a
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: bit of time off to reconnect, which has been a
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: real focus for the Rural Support Trust over the spring
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: and the whole wider sort of coordination group and stakeholders
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: as those opportunities to connect, which we know in its
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Mental Health Awareness Week this week, you know, that's one
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: of the really strong pillars of wellbeing is to sort
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: of reconnect with people. So hopefully that's on people's lists
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: as well.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: As far as Mental Health Awareness Week, what does the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Rural Support Trust, what do they do to get involved?
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so a lot of our thing is around messaging
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: and promoting of events. So we've got Fishing for Farmers
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: in coordination with a whole group of stakeholders there this
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: Sunday and Like, what a cool opportunity to get off farm,
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: you know, either with your neighbour or even with your kids.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: So that's on this Sunday, so just look on the
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Facebook page. So, yeah, it's bringing an awareness of that
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: it's OK to feel, you know, pretty frustrated and tired.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: But if things are, you know, really if stuff is getting...
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: On top of you, that to reach out for help
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: or so that might be a friend, it might be
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: a real support trust, just pick it up early and
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: reach out. And at that point, you know, we can
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: work through things and the outcome can be a lot
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: better than if you just let it bottle up.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: That's the purpose of these events, I suppose, Anna, to
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: give farmers an outlet to go and do stuff. I mean,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: just staying on the farm and working and working, yes,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: everybody's got the work to do, but every now and
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: then when you get to breaking point, you just have
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: to take a reset.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, and particularly if the sun comes out, a
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: bit of sunshine on your back when you're doing something
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: you love or around people that you enjoy really does
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: just help immensely.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: So fishing for farmers, I think, like surfing for farmers,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: biking for farmers, for example, there's heaps of initiatives that
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: are coming up over summer as well. So there's certainly
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: plenty on, right?
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right. So just keep an eye on. We
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: try and share the ones on our Facebook page or listening.
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: We will be advertising them on the radio as well
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: and in the print. So, yeah, just keep an eye
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: out for those things. And most of them, almost all
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: of them are free. And, yeah, just keeping an eye out.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: And we'd love to see as many people along and
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: bring your neighbour.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: The Southland Rural Coordination Group, what's this about?
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so, look, we've always been so lucky down here
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: in Southland that people that work alongside farmers, you know,
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: roll up their sleeves and really get involved when things,
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: you know, are pretty tough. So we've always had awesome
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: support from all our stakeholders. And I want to thank
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: them for... the events and everything that's been happening. But
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: we have got a more focused rural coordination group, which
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: is Humane Levy Bodies, so Beef and Lamb, thank you,
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: Dairy and Zed, MPI, Thriving Southland, Feds, and this time around,
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: rural coordinators, contractors too, Andy. And that has been supported
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: with Emergency Management Southland. So we're really lucky to have
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: a new regional manager down here. And a shout out
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: to Phil McKay, who's been a blimmin' goody to come
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: down from Canterbury, actually, and brought a lot of learnings.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: He's really rural-focused. He's a farmer by background. So it's
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: been a really useful group to bring in what's happening
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: and then just quickly get actions and then, you know,
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: push that out wider to all the people that work
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: with farmers. So that's worked really well in this particular response,
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: and we'll be looking to carry that forward, you know,
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: once we start to get some more favourable conditions too.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Those days are ahead of us, Anna. Always good to chat. Lovely.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: Thanks for your time, Andy.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Anna Irwin of Southland Rural Support Trust, 0800 787 254.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Get in touch with the team. And as well, Beef
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and Lab New Zealand, beefflamnz.com slash events to receive the
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: e-diary into your inbox every Friday morning. Mel Young's up next.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: You're listening to The Muster.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: In a sad face come up to my.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Place and Welcome back to the muster. Mel Young teaches
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: at Southland Girls High School. She's involved in teaching agriculture
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: down there. Now, of course, it is International Rural Women's Day,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: so I thought no better time than to catch up
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: with Mel and talk about the work that is going
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: on down there at Girls High and especially regarding young farmers,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: some staggering figures around people wanting to be involved in
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the Young Farmers Club. Good afternoon, Mel. Thanks for joining us.
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: Thank you so much, Andy, for taking this opportunity to
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: talk to me.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Teaching agriculture in a female's school, you don't really see
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: a lot of this in New Zealand at the moment.
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: I know, but it definitely should be a lot more,
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: to be fair. There's so many girls getting into ag.
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: They want to see pathways, and we need to have
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: that opportunity for these girls so that they can see
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: where pathways they can grow into and make a difference
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: in the world because there's just so many jobs in
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: the ag industry, and we just don't have enough. people
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: to be in those jobs so we need these girls
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: and this is their thing so they live and breathe
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: farming so they are doing the thing that they love
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: and they're enjoying it so it's just making it fun
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: engaging and hands-on for these girls.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Did the students drive the need or the need for
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: agriculture in the curriculum?
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah well originally the numbers were a little lower because
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: they weren't as popular so when we took over when
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: I took over the program about eight years ago I'd
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: asked the girls what they wanted and tailored the whole
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: curriculum and content to them. So teaching the curriculum, but
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: teaching subjects that they would or topics that they might
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: like to do and then the way to get these
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: girls interested more so is getting their hands dirty and
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: getting out on the farm so that's been a huge
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: impact and something I've had a major focus in in
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: the last few years. So last year was probably one
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: of our pinnacles of the number of field trips so
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: we We would usually go on a handful, but now
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: we're going on a huge number, and it's all because
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: of the community, you know, supporting Girls High. We've worked
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: with MPI as well, and they've put us in touch
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: with a lot of industries that are willing to help out,
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: and then people that are quite close in proximity to
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: Southland Girls, if possible, but definitely the hands-on practical experience.
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: Like I say, these girls love to get their hands dirty.
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: They They love doing things and they learn so much better.
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: So the more I can incorporate that, the more the
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: numbers grow because then the girls see that, hey, this
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: looks pretty fun and that's something I want to do.
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: And that's a bonus. So our girls are going on
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: to a lot of different future pathways like cadetship, growing
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: future farmers, Telford, Lincoln, Massey, et cetera. There's just the
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: world's your oyster and that's these girls realise that, you know,
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: there's a pathway for them and ag is pretty awesome.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: What do you see as the main driver behind the
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: students wanting to be involved with farming as such?
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: I think a lot of them from our community are
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: coming off farm. So we've got the hostel and that's
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: full as well. And so the majority of the girls
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: coming in are like they are on the farm helping
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: their families out, you know, working on their neighbour's farm
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: during summer work, etc., And it's just what they do.
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: They know all about it. They enjoy it. They like
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: being outside. And so they're coming into our school wanting,
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: you know, to do something that they know really well.
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: And so then they see academic excellence for themselves because
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: they're writing down what they've been doing on the farm.
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: And then they can share their knowledge with others. But
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: definitely feeding in through the Southland community. with our high
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: number of girls coming in into the hostel. But also
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: a lot of townies, like in our Young Farmers Club, yeah,
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: a big chunk are hostel girls. But then, you know,
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: we've got 120 members and there's a big chunk of
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: townies that also would like to be on the farm
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: or connect with the ag industry. So that's what we're
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: seeing and that's why it's grown so much. And I
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: think the kids are talking, they see the videos, they
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: see the photos, they see what we're up to. And
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: that's just... what they think, you know, it just makes
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: them excited. So then we get excited because we want to,
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: you know, we try to outdo each year, I suppose,
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: and make it better. So, yeah, like even this morning,
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: we just reached out. I reached out to some industries
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: to come in and chat to us. We had our
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: own Young Farmers event last night, which was absolutely magic. So, yeah,
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: thank you.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Just describe exactly what you're doing around agriculture as a subject.
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: So this year we've been fortunate putting in a junior
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: ag program. So Girls High has always been senior ag.
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: This year coming, like next year in 2027, we're offering
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: year nine and a separate year 10 ag course, which
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: we've never done in the past. And we are so
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: excited about that.
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: I've got a.
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: Second ag teacher to teach that, who also helps run
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: the young farmers community.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: Club.
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: And so we're catering to those girls. So a lot
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: of girls will come into Girls High from into year
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: nine from country schools. And so we're meeting their needs.
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: We're also meeting the needs of the majority of our
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: young farmers club in year seven and ten. So we're
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: aiming for those girls. Also, our year 11s can choose
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: senior ag, so they can take year 12 ag even
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: in year 11. And so that's huge for these guys.
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: They don't have to wait to do a subject that
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: they're passionate about. I think it's really cool for Southland Girls,
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: and I feel that we're leading the way in ag,
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: young farmers, and teaching the subject in New Zealand.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: 120 members in the Young Farmers Club. There's a lot
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: of clubs in the South, and I think a lot
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: of them would struggle to have half those figures.
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: Exactly, and I think it's all to do with people talking,
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: kids talking to each other and saying how good it is.
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: And also with the club, it's like you don't have
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: to come to, so we probably meet nearly every single
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: week for the year, but I'll just put in an
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: email to the girls saying, this is who's coming to
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: talk to us, or these are the activities we're going
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: to do. And if you're interested, you come along. You
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: don't have to come if it's not for you. If
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: there's any kind of competitions, we'll get the full probably 120.
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: We're actually struggling at school to find a space big
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: enough to hold this many people, especially when we do
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: hands-on activities with different industries and things like that. So
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: we've had Fonterra doing cream and we're whipping the cream
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: on pikelets and their cream that they send to China
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: is quite different to the cream that.
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: We sell here.
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: That was probably one of the highlights and then we've
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: had other ex-students coming in and talking to girls and
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: running big team competitions. They love team competitions shown by
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: last night with our At the end of our Young
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: Farmers event, we ran a team challenge. So my two
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: Young Farmers captains, Katie and Emma, they ran like a
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: sack race, egg and spoon. And then they had a
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: bridle that the girls had to put together as fast
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: as possible and they're super competitive and they love that
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: kind of stuff. So it was a great way to
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: finish the night.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I suggest if you're looking for a bigger piece of
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: real estate to hold your meetings and to do these events,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: there's a certain rugby park right beside you guys that
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: is pretty much redundant for eight months of the year.
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: We could go there. The girls saw the country calendar
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: at Building High School where they had two farms, so
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: they thought the backfield would look really cool as a farm.
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: I didn't think the PE department would be too happy
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: about that. But if we had a farm, we're in
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: a city in the middle of town, We don't have
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: farms on our back doorstep, but honestly, that would be
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: a dream if we had a farm that we could
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: get out on all the time. That would be great.
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: But I'm trying to create that, but we have to
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: obviously travel. But, like, we're always looking for more people
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: we can work.
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: With, more industries.
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: The more, the better because, you know, we've only just
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: started and we've got, like, You know, we've just got
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: this great momentum and the girls, what they want and
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: we'll try and cater to their needs and, yeah, try
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: and get them out of the class and get their
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: hands dirty as much as possible. And that's the plan
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: for the year 9-10 course for next year too.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Mel, thanks for your time this afternoon. We're going to
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: follow up quite frequently to see how things are going.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Great to see the passion for the agricultural space occurring
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: at Southland Girls High School. Thanks for your time. Enjoy
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the rest of your lunch break and good luck in
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: the classroom this afternoon.
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: I'll be great. Thank you so much for taking the
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: time to talk. I really appreciate it. But honestly, it's
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: a team effort and everyone has helped me out throughout
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: the years with the ag and that's the reason why
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: it's so successful because we've got grandparents, parents. you know,
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: aunties and uncles, amazing industry, willing to give up their time,
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: just shown by last night as just a small tip
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: of the iceberg. So I'm hoping other schools can really
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: pick up on what we're doing. I'm more than happy
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: to work with them and try and get their ag
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: programs or young farmers, you know, into the next level
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: to help their students as well. So, yeah, watch this
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: space for our interschool next year.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Good on you, Mel. Thanks for your time.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Awesome.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: See you.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: Bye.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Mal Young of Southland Girls High School. 120 members of
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: their Young Farmers Club. It's pretty impressive. So young farmers
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: starting at grassroots for sure. Jacob Duffy's up next. Blackcaps bowler.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: You're listening to The Muster. Welcome back to the muster.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Jacob Duffy, Blackcaps fast bowler, and the 15th recipient of
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: the Players' Cap has voted by his peers at a
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: recent Blackcaps camp over in Adelaide. Jacob, good afternoon. Good
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: to chat once again. Firstly, tell us about this Players' Cap.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: G'day, Andy. Yeah, thanks for having me back. Yeah, Players'
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: Cap's a pretty special one. It's sort of the Players'
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: Association initiative campaign. It's the 15th year running now, and
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: what we do is every game we play, we do
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: sort of a 3-2-1 system at the end of each game.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: So the manager comes around and you write down, you know,
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: not necessarily statistically the best performers in the day, but
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: the guys who sort of have made the most sort
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: of meaningful impacts on the game that day. So, yeah,
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: that accumulates over the 12-month period. And, yeah, the boys,
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: it's pretty cool. You know, the guys obviously... put your
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: name down a few times and, yeah, like I say,
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: to have the approval of your peers is probably the
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: coolest award you could get, I reckon.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think there's no better accolade when your
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: own teammates actually put you on that pedestal as such
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: regarding your contribution during the season.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: 100%.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: And then, yeah, looking back at the guys that won
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: in the past, you know, I think Kane's won it
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: sort of three or four times. You've got Salve, you've
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: got Rupchen, you know, Daryl Mitchell. Yeah, these are the
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: guys that are.
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: The black caps that have performed consistently over the years
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: and that's all you ever want to do is you
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: get to the black caps as one step and then
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: obviously the next step is to make meaningful impacts for
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: your country and that's what I've sort of prided myself
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: on and that's what my dream was. I've had a
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: good period of being able to do that and I
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: just want to be able to do a bit more.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: What's the training camp like in Adelaide for seven days?
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Not a bit of Barossa Valley wine tasting with some
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: training mixed in?
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: We do actually sneak a bit of Barossa in. Well,
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: that players camp, the day one we got there, we
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: actually played a bit of golf.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, a couple of days to.
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: Get over the play and everything. So we had golf
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: on the first day. Had a kumbaya a little bit,
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: you know, just talk about where we are as a
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: team and, you know, what we're doing well and, you know,
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: things we want to improve on, sort of or culturally
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: more than anything, which was quite cool. And day two, yeah,
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: we had a day at Penfolds, so, you know, we
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: had a bit of a wine tour and a really
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: nice lunch there. We got hosted by the guys at
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: Penfolds really well, and that's where we did the cap ceremony,
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: which was, yeah, a pretty cool setting for it. And
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: the guys at Penfolds chucked in a nice bowl of
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: wine for me too, so that was cool. And then, yeah,
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: after that, we sort of got stuck in, and some
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: pretty big days, sort of nine to five. We tried
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: to replicate sort of a test match, really, so we
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: had five... five training days of 9-5, breaks and everything.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: Awesome facilities, got over there and we were playing on
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: the middle wicket there in the out of ground, the
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: Caron-Rothen Oval, which they used the Adelaide Oval drop in,
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: so that was quite cool to get some good experience
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: on that wicket. And then yeah, just the facilities they got,
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: beautiful nets out back, just really good set up there.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Chances are it was a little bit warmer than the
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Southern Spring.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: They actually got there. It wasn't actually that nice. It
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: was only about 14, 15, but by the end of it,
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: it was getting pretty nice. I think they said it
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: was a bit cool for that time of year, but
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: just their facilities, man.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: They do it bloody well over there.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Is that just Australia and sport in general? They just
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: look at the bigger picture and they put the infrastructure
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: in place?
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: I think so. Even we went to the.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: what's it called?
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: The, like the high performance gyms, obviously all their athletes,
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: their Olympians. And, um, you know, we got in there
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: to do our lifting.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: And stuff like that.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: And just their set up is, I hate to say it,
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: but it's just, it's just a step up from what
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: we got. It's, um, you know, beautiful facilities, amazing gym,
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: like their hot, cold, their hot pools, their cold pools,
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: just everything all in one place. It's just, um, they
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: do it bloody well.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: I've been to the one in Brisbane. Apparently the one
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: in Sydney is amazing. Like these are cricket specific venues too, that, um,
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: have these amazing facilities and, Yeah, it's no secret. There's
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: a lot more money over in, you know, sort of
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: England and Australia for places like that, so they can
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: obviously put it into those facilities, and I think they'll do.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: It really well.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Now, it all starts next week. India's coming over, the
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: rock stars of world cricket, and as a result of
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: that rock star status, with the money and the fan
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: base they bring, you've got an 8 o'clock start for T20s.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: How does that go? How do you find that?
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a bit funny, isn't it? But Yeah, I
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: think we all know the state of play in world cricket. Obviously, India's,
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: you know, where the money's at, so you've sort of
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: got to play ball and sort of, you know, you've
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: got to please them a little bit, so I guess
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: that's to do with the time difference and just allowing
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: more Indian viewers to be able to watch. But, well,
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: I've been going to bed at 8.30 lately. I've got
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: a newborn baby, so we're pretty tired, so we go
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: to bed quite early, so I'll have to adjust my
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: sleep schedule a little bit. But, yeah, if obviously adrenaline
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: kicks in and everything, we'll be fine. It just might
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: be a little bit chilly, that's all.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Having India and New Zealand for the three-match format like
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: they are over a number of weeks, it's quite a
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: big deal, though, eh?
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's huge. It sort of happens sort of once
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: every four or so years, and I know it's a big,
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: huge financial impact for New Zealand cricket. I know all
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: part of their forecast and everything, they sort of schedule
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: in once every four years Indians coming over, and that
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: makes a huge bump into our.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: Revenue, so.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: So to have them for three formats, obviously a jam pack,
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: I think we played 10 white ball games in about
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: 22 days or something. So I really rammed it in
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: and then obviously a couple of test matches on top
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: of that, which would be, that's pretty bloody exciting. Obviously
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: I've never played them in test matches, but that's really exciting.
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: But I've played a lot against them lately, but all
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: over in India. So I'm very keen to get over
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: there on some hopefully bouncing green wickets and, you know,
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: it'll be a little bit more in our favour than
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: it is over there, hopefully.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Nothing like a howling southerly at the basin, you reckon?
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: It's better than a flat track at Hyderabad, put it
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: that way.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Hey, regarding ODIs, they've almost become like the third wheel
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: in the cricketing window these days. Are they starting to
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: lose relevance from a player's perspective?
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: It's an interesting one. I'd say currently at this point
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: in time, no, because there's a World Cup in sort
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: of 12 months from now. In my opinion, I would
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: say the 58 World Cup is sort of the pinnacle
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: of world event for our game. That's the one I
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: always grew up watching, you know, it was the 2015
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: World Cup or the 2019 over in England, you know,
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: where we lost on the tyre or whatever. Those are
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: sort of the memorable World Cups to me as a
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: fan growing up, so I always put that as sort
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: of the pinnacle event and obviously leading in, we're only
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: one year away from that, so as a player, I
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: guess these are very important for us. I know as
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: a fan, sometimes they can drag on and be a
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: little bit long, so But, yeah, I think there's already
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: talk that things might change a little bit. We might
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: take the World Cup and only play the one day
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: of sort of letting in that year or two going
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: towards that, or they're tossing around all sorts of options. But, yeah,
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: I sort of understand people's opinion on that one.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: It's a busy old season ahead. India, Bangladesh and Sri
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Lanka are coming over. But then there's just a slight distraction,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: I suppose, of a tour over to Australia. Jeez, you
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: must be fizzing at the bung to rip into this.
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, very much so. Obviously getting a bit of a
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: taster over there in Aussie, just get on those hard tracks,
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: you know, a bit of bounce and stuff. It's obviously
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: a very cool place to play. I didn't actually go
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: to the Adelaide Oval, but it's a beautiful-looking stadium, and
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: we're obviously playing at Optus in Perth. We play, obviously,
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: Adelaide Oval, and then you've got the box in that TCMCG,
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: and then Sydney as well. So we're playing at sort
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: of the four main grounds. You know, I feel like
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: the team's in a really good place to, you know,
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: compete and push those Aussies around. So, again, like I say,
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: you grow up watching a lot of Australian test cricket
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: as it's always on Sky Sport and stuff like that
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: growing up. So, yeah, to go out there and live
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: it will be pretty special and I just hope we
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: give them a bloody good run.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: And your mate from RCB, Josh Hazlewood, he's on fire
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: at the moment too.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I did see that. He got his career best
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: the other night. So, yeah, it's cool. I think that's
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: a very interesting one. Obviously two very good.
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: Teams, so.
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: So definitely keeping a close eye on that to see
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: what those sort of guys are doing.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Regarding this New Zealand T20 scenario with the big bash
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: talk of putting a team in over there, has this
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: become a distraction for the players as such?
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: No, not really at all, to be honest. We don't
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: really talk about it. I guess, you know, as a
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: player group, we've made our opinion very clear that we're
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: pushing for a homegrown sort of New Zealand-based franchise, I think,
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: in T20. you know and I literally haven't talked to
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: anyone that opposes that so I know everyone's pretty keen
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: on that and then you know I guess there's a
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: bit of noise at sort of board levels and CEOs
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: and Richard Hadley Piper and things like that so they're
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: allowed their opinions and stuff it's just we're just very
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: keen to push on and get this NZ20 thing happening
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: because you know I think we're the last country in
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: the world or last test playing nation to not have
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: their own franchise tournament we're seeing sort of what it
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: can do for, you know, not only financially for the
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: local players, but obviously for the development. And, you know,
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: guys get to rub shoulders with these overseas players and
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: the sort of facilities and sort of all the things
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: around it that it brings into our local game. I
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: just think it's an absolute no-brainer. But it just seems
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: to be slow going at the moment for whatever reason.
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: And I guess it's the big fish up top to
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: figure that stuff out. And we just worry about.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: Hitting bat and ball.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Having India coming over here, is it a chance to
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: perhaps show that New Zealand is sexy and will attract
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: investment from over there on the subcontinent, perhaps?
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, potentially.
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: As far as I'm aware, I know there's, yeah. New
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: Zealand's very well respected around the world in terms of
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: our quality of players and stuff, I guess. You know,
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: we talk about World Cups and all these world events
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: and we always seem to put it about our weight
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: and make it sort of to semis and finals and
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: things like that. I know we haven't crossed the line
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: for a wee while yet, but That's okay, son. I
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: know there will be interest out there for sure. It's
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: just get everyone on the same page and get it
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: across the line, I imagine.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Hey, good on you, Jacob. Always appreciate your time and
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: good luck next week against India. It's a big summer ahead.
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: It's a huge summer, but looking forward to it.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: Cheers, Andy.
• 47:58
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon to you. Just a quick rundown. Not a
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: big yarding today. Obviously, the lamb numbers are starting to
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: ease off. But look, we saw very, very heavy lambs today.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: Did get very close to the 500 mark again. They
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: were 485 to 490. Just some smaller pens though, Andy.
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: Back to the normal category of lambs. The best lambs,
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: sort of 250 to 280. Two or three dimes to
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: get up over $ 300 as well. And then into the
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: smaller prime lambs, sort of $ 220 to $ 230. But like
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: I said, those numbers are starting to dwindle a bit.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: The lambs that have cut their teeth, sort of $ 160
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: to $ 180. Into the ewe section, yeah, a few ewes,
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: and again, a few wet dries, et cetera, coming through.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: The best of the ewes touch over $ 300. Mediums anywhere
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: from sort of $ 230 to $ 270, $ 280. Again, in the
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: light use, something exceptionally well, anywhere from sort of 160
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: to 190 for the light use. No store lambs. Those
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: days are gone now. No used lambs or counted. They're
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: pretty rare at the moment. And that wraps it up, Andy.