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Speaker 1: Left. It's been a while, Hello, David Eckland. A cracking

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Speaker 1: final week of winter, A far cry from this date

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, where folks across Canterbury awoke to a

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Speaker 1: blanket of snow, the big snow, the heaviest in thirty years.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember it? Well?

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Speaker 2: Well I do in sense it was looking at photos

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Speaker 2: and I can remember my father going down country from

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Speaker 2: here with a tractor or a couple of tractors and

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Speaker 2: snowplowers and calling them different different properties to snowpair. And

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Speaker 2: you think about the changes since then, because you know,

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Speaker 2: there was sheep all across the Canary Plains then in

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Speaker 2: the middle of lending.

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Speaker 1: And it estimated one million died, costing forty million dollars

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Speaker 1: to farmers, equivalent to nearly seventy million if you equate

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Speaker 1: for inflation. Now that's that's a big hit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's incredible, wasn't it. And change? I just think

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Speaker 2: about the change in farming since then, change in the

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Speaker 2: in Canary since then, and all the different things that

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Speaker 2: happen here. Now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there were a couple of big dumps ninety two,

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Speaker 1: weren't there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So we got in ninety the autumn of that

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Speaker 2: year was really tough as well, so feed going into

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Speaker 2: that winter was tough. And then we got I know,

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Speaker 2: we got hatten in July of nineteen ninety two and

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Speaker 2: we had to send send all our sheep down country

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Speaker 2: for grazing that winter. And yeah, so we've got images

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Speaker 2: of sheep going down through Mountainers Village sort of three

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Speaker 2: or four thousand and one mob troops off down country.

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Speaker 1: The Howden's got particularly hammered that year. Two snowfalls, and

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Speaker 1: I was born late October, and that's the gift that

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Speaker 1: kept on taking, keeps on taking. Even so, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: mentioned changing times, but surely we've still got a few farmers,

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Speaker 1: maybe even the likes yourself around that have one or

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Speaker 1: two us. If you got some lammies jumping around yet,

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Speaker 1: oh we've got a.

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Speaker 2: Few jumping around that shouldn't be jumping around that you

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Speaker 2: always get those, and I see, Yeah, we do have

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Speaker 2: a lot of sheep still, and there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: still through the foothills. But and there's one or two

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Speaker 2: flocks down across the Canary planes, but mainly finishing lambs

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Speaker 2: from last season names finishing on all the arable farts,

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Speaker 2: which is an important part of the sheep industry nowadays

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Speaker 2: as well. So yeah, it's all quite quite a different

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Speaker 2: systems and that sort of things.

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Speaker 1: And cars. We're away with the dairy, with the with

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Speaker 1: the the calve guys.

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of dairy guys they would they

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Speaker 2: were hopefully into the end or close to the the

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Speaker 2: final stage of the peak peak period of carving, and

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Speaker 2: they were into the tail end, and there'll be calves

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Speaker 2: and sheds. And I see there's a few. I would

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Speaker 2: drove through to Croatias yesterday and there's a few calves

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Speaker 2: cruising cruising around outside that have come out of carf

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Speaker 2: for in sheds. So it's great to see and he's

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Speaker 2: been brilliant with it for that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so saved today. It's a busy old time for

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Speaker 1: many of our local farmers. What advice do you have

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Speaker 1: for managing the workload, for managing those long days.

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Speaker 2: This time of you, I think you do. You have

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Speaker 2: to just stop and take a breather and look around

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Speaker 2: and enjoy, not necessarily and when you do get the

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Speaker 2: which insually pop or farm, but all out of the

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Speaker 2: business that you're in, it goes for town as well,

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Speaker 2: doesn't it, And have a refreshing to catch up, even

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Speaker 2: if it was like we went in to watch the

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Speaker 2: Mouth Summers girls in the netball last week and that

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Speaker 2: was a great, great win by them. Yeah, and then

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Speaker 2: you know you got you've got rugby. This Saturday in town,

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Speaker 2: I see the mckennary girls are playing.

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Speaker 1: And oh yeah, that's right there, their big final final game.

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Speaker 2: Against South Canary. Those small opportunities to to shoot in,

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Speaker 2: shoot in and just take a breather and then come

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Speaker 2: back out and carry on. They are the important important

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Speaker 2: things at this time of you. And get through to

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Speaker 2: that period once it's calmed down, and take a bit

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Speaker 2: more time off