The Country 16/01/25: Bjorn Andersen talks to Rowena Duncum

PGG Wrightson area livestock manager for Dannevirke and Pahiatua takes our monthly look at the livestock market and reviews the Waewaepa on-farm sale.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Taking a monthly look at the livestock market. Joining me
is Bjorn Anderson, pgg Wright's an area livestock manager for
danny Vik and Pie Here tour, Good afternoon, happy new year.
Here going very well. Thank you. What have you seen
for the start of twenty twenty five. I've heard a
wee bit of chat from farmers I've been mixing with

(00:21):
that they're pretty optimistic about the year.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, you for you're to say that the beatitudes out
there are pretty positive at the moment on the back
of two or three weeks of raigh especially in this
East Coast area, that certainly brightens people's orisons. You know,
it was looking pretty average, pretty Christmas, but a bitter
rain around certainly put a small on a few faces.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, I bet it. Indeed, Hey, you've had a big
wink already, no rest for the wicked. Why we're past
station there, which is a renowned Tuttadoer District property, first
on farm sale. That's pretty exciting, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Really exciting. You're really exciting, little bit new wrecking pre
the sale. I must admit a few pretty big days
put in bore the stuff out there a while or
powering more team than any of it. But now it
was very exciting and ye it went well, went really well.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's always a relief. Huge quantities of stairs using lambs
are obviously really good hill country farming as well.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, absolutely, Tim Stevenson, the manager, actually does a very
good job and I mean a lot of the credit
falls on home. As far as the stock goes. The
kettle were very, very good. They're nicely bred. They use
the same US as the best rams in the lambs
as well, the renowned for the way they shift, and
very good, very good drench steatus as well.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
What were the prices looking like though, Because it's all
well and good to have the good stock, But are
people opening their wallets?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Absolutely? Yeah, people will always play a little bit more
if something's nicely bred. The board would have thought on
the day, where were the market was? It was pretty sound,
probably a pretty feet representation of of what you'd see,
what the sort of results you'd get out of a
saliad anywhere in the care I would have thought.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Wat's in store for the next month? What's coming up
on the live stock calendar?

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Full swinging the US is at the moment, We've got
a lot of breeding news on the market. I think
the Fielding sale tomorrows, I've got sixteen and a half thousand,
and we've got other sales started throughout the north Lands
coming up throughout the month. I mean, of course, a
lot of the hell Country goes the waning lambs, so
we've got plenty of store lambs on the market as well.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
What about in terms of export, are you sending much
stock that way to end up overseas.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
To meat processes. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's probably just buttoned
off a little bit this month on the back of
this rain. He's a bit of feed around and a
lot of people are forbly intending to hold on to
hold on to prime kettle and put a bit more
weight on them he as opposed to near that they've
got the feed as opposed to killing them straight off
the straight out the gate.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, if you and Anderson pgg right's an area live
stock manager for Danny verk Impie here Tala, look, thanks
so much for your time and the update here on
the country. You sound like you're busy at work, so
I'll let you carry on anything.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
You very much for having me