The Country 12/02/26: Andrew Gibson talks to Jamie Mackay

PGG Wrightson’s Taranaki Area Livestock Manager and Auctioneer.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Monthly.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Here on the country, we catch up with the team
from PGG Rights and have a look at the livestock
selling industry. Today we're off to I can't call it
the dairy in Capital of the country. I might get
in trouble in way katto would I? Andrew Gibson, you're
the area livestock manager auctionaire there on Taranaki. Do you
guys call yourself the dairy in Capital or do you

(00:20):
leave that to the tron?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hey, Jamie, so the baity will mate. De Pences generally
won the last game of rugby between us. We get
the rights here the skype, but I like to think
we're still there there in Capital.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, wow, you've got You've got lots of dairy farms
and dairy farmers there. Now that those guys are doing
incredibly well with their dairy beef sales. They're booming. You
were telling me in the break that dairy beef sALS
for calves these are calves, wereen calves hundred kilos to
one hundred and twenty getting over one thousand bucks. That's

(00:55):
huge money.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, it is a slate to you know, February sales
and stuff. We had our tale last Thursday and year
on hundred one hundred and twenty kilow white faced balls
and stairs and charlet or beef breeds were making definitely
over a thousand you up to twelve hundred bucks. It's
you know, but there's still so much positivity in their
market and it's good to see that there's grassy the words.

(01:18):
So yeah, the guys that buy them with confidence. It
looks like we could be in another couple of years
of the shortage.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, well the dairy beef calves probably worth more than
the dairy dairy calves.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, it'll be oh yeah, it'll be about the same word.
We're selling a fair few though, the one dairy kettle
down to the south, all of those books down there
at the momentary scene, so yeah, it's it's not far
off the same sort of money.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, yep, brilliant money. And you guys at PGG Rights
and do a brilliant job for the ic calf and
rural scheme. And I know that they've got record returns
this year for their calves, so that's absolutely fantastic. The
wider cattle market still strong across all rangers.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, it's it's obviously said bye by the schedule at
the moment on the primes and and and even the
cow and the ball. Those guys there's finishes are selling
their cattle for good money and they got they just
they climbing back in on the same sort of market.
You know, there's a there's not much you can do. Really,
it's a splind demand. So if you're not buying kettle,
you're pay the contractor So yeah, the options are fairly limited.

(02:25):
But like I said before, the looks so positive that
the buying with confidence that it's working both in favor
for both lots, really both parties.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
And when when it comes to farming, there's some things
you can affect and other things you can't affect, and
a mother nature's one of those. Jack wiln Rowth was
on the show, i think on Tuesday. She was in
Taranaki and she said, how great the provinces looking.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, it is, it's that well, the whole country is
looking pretty good. Went right up with the family holiday,
right up north right to the top, and from from
here in Taranaki right up through that's all did so good.
And yeah, it's leading to some real good markets and
doesn't look like it's going to slip away. We'll be
into the autumn rain soon. And yeah, it looks looks good, good,

(03:11):
nice and positive.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I kicked off. I kicked off that conversation talking about
whether Taranaki or White Cat I was the dairy in
capital of the country. You realize that Canterbury and south
and might have a crack at that title as well.
But does anyone celebrate a National Lamb Day and your
neck of the woods. Is it a big deal? Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:30):
I think a few guys are. It will be celebrating
on the Sunday roast table. But yeah, look, yeah, looked
at Lamb thanks obviously taking along pretty well. Lambs are
worth really good money. I don't know how much of
a celebration they'll be around the place, but yeah, we've
got actually leading into that one. I spot. I've got
a rather pigo Drpers have got a special reduction sale

(03:54):
next Friday the twentieth.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Hey, Andrew, sorry Andrew Gibson, what's a reduction sale?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, boyd, he's got to an age who always wants
to cut some numbers back, so he's going to put
up turner in seventy five doorpers in that as the
Black Dorpers as well, which are pretty uncommon. Yeah, I
got all the facts and figures there, So that's going
to be about eleven o'clock on next Friday, the twentieth,
and they'll be on Bitter as well, So if anyone's
interested in grabbing some doorpers, that's the dating gym.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, well they're the South shedding sheep. Everyone's been rushing
into the likes of Wiltshires and doorpers, but as fate
would have it, as always works this way, you change
your sheep breed and then suddenly wall's worth something.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, it's always hard to know what's going to happen
in the market, so that I've had plenty of time
to get that wall right, and guys are going the
other way now, but supplying the man, if there's no
wall around it always going to jump up a bit.
But yeah, the strength and the meat and those doorpers
is really surprising me. That they've got some really good figures behind.
So yeah, good meaty sheep.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, they've got a big rare end all right, brilliant,
brilliant for National Lamb Day, if you're lucky enough to
wrap your chops around a lamb shop or a Lamb
league or something like that, Andrew Gibson from PGG Rights
and out of the Taranaki region. Thanks for your time
today on the country.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh good. Thanks Jamie