The Country 10/07/25: Mark Cuttance talks to Hamish McKay

PGG Wrightson’s Dairy Sales Manager - South Island, with the latest on the market.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right here on the country. We're heading to the deep South,
the Mighty Gore and Mark Cuttings of course, PGG Livestock,
South Island Dairy Manager.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Get a Mike Harris, how you doing here?

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Good? Thanks? Ripping day down there? Is it?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's one of the bitter days we've had. It's been
it's been living in a fridgeville the last ten days.
That today is quite promising.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
A good stuff, good stuff ridio feeder calf outlook, the
one hundred kg carf prospects. Take us through that.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, okay, okay. I've had a lot of inquiry about
feeder carves, about the supply and the priceless season where
they're coming from. I mean, if you look at beat
numbers out there, they're sort of falling around the place,
and they're getting quite expensive. And people seeing the dairy

(00:46):
beef market as an entry level for themselves and looking
at rearing a few calves. So there's been certainly been
an increase in inquiry for those, and you know, I
expect that the early calf market to be really quite
sought after and securing those cards for the rears, and
I see a little bit of a lifting the price
there for them good stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Okay, dairy beef, what dairy beef in the overall place
in the beef markets.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, So if you look at dairy beef, if you
look at the beef kill stats throughout throughout the country,
with kill about just short of a million prime stairs
and heifers in New Zealand a year, and that number
has sort of been decreasing a little bit, and that
has made up of fifty beef beef killing and fifty
percent dairy beef kettle. And I see the short fall

(01:34):
being made up by dairy beef going forward over the
next decade, and I see that percentage going more in
favor of the dairy beef out there. So you know
it's a big part of New Zealand's killed out there.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Famish yeah too, right, okay, So and what about in
the old cold cow zone? What's happening there?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
So a lot of cold cows out there mate in
demand at the moment from all processes. You'll see the
price of them lifting around the country. I was looking
at the Tamuka sale last week and I see you're
bettering kels your four hundred and eighty kilogram and better
freezing freezing type cross type kels making up to three
dollars fifty okay, live weight out there, which is sort of,

(02:15):
you know, really good value for these kels when you
tap out the numbers, you know, and the processes. They're
doing a lot of spot pricing out there. I mean,
if you've got a volume of cold kels the sale,
you really need to ask the question on the price
and you could be surprised and you're what you achieved there.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Okay, a couple of bullet points before we wrap it up.
Dery livestock sales. What's the outlock there?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
The dairy is the place to be at the moment.
That's sort of keeping the lights on in the country.
You know. I have a lot of talk about dairy,
a lot of inquiries about kels going forward with potential
conversions throughout the central part of the South Island. This year,
I see a real lift and dairy kew prices you
know for the Currencyason.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Man, Yeah, like and the overall diary outlook them in milk,
solid price everything. Hell, we're looking.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, it's fantastic. I mean Frontier come out with an
opening bed this year of ten dollars, you know. The
only thing, the only Cavin in there is calling range
in there from eight dollars to eleven dollars sort of thing,
you know, depending on what happens out there in the
world events and it comes off. You know, this previous
season which is gonna wrap up around about the keen

(03:23):
dollar mark, which is a record. I think the previous
est place has been nine dollars thirty back in six.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Great game, Zack, Yeah, fantastic. As there we go make
Cutten's PGG Livestock, South Island Dery manager. Cheers, Marke, have
a great day.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
You two have us