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Southern Farming Muster with Southland Farm Machinery
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Interview Vault - July
Graham Butchers - July 15. Listen here
Graham is a Gore based farm consultant. We cover scanning results, condition score vs liveweight for ewes, hogget feeding on swedes and ewe feeding in mid pregnancy.
Andy Fraser - July 14. Listen here
Andy gives us his take on the weather past, present and future. We learn about white ice vs black ice and why Andy will not attend the Brass Monkey event again.
Graham Cooney - July 14. Listen here
Graham from Blue Sky Meats talks about commodity price volatility, currency movements and the impact on farmer returns. We review a great All Black performance and the Stags retaining the Shield.
David Rose - July 13. Listen here
David from Federated farmers reviews the Young Farmer competition in Gore last week and we review our respective competition years. We also look at rural security and why your letter box may have to be permitted if you live in Christchurch.
Ceri Lewis - July 13. Listen here
Ceri is the GM at Mt Linton. We review winter, some trial work with AgResearch and the logistics of scanning 50,000 ewes at Mt Linton.
Peter Gardyne - July 12. Listen here
Pete was the Otago-Southland representative in the Young Farmer of the Year contest. We review the contest and his thoughts after getting second.
Colleen Neutrotsky - July 5th. Listen here
Colleen is one of our monitor dairy farmers. She brings us up to date with what is happening for winter at their place and also the plans being made for calving.
Morgan Green - July 5th. Listen here
Morgan is a Riversdale based vet for Northern Southland Vets. We talk the new rules on inducing dairy cows and preferential feeding of twin bearing ewes.