June 18, 2025 • 5 mins
Our Australian correspondent comments on a great State of Origin game in Perth, lamb and milk prices, and mustering with drones and e-bikes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is there Osie correspondent Chris Russell, And I'll tell you
what Chris today, I am dog tired. I've been binge
watching something on Netflix over the past few nights, and
of course last night I had to stay up late
for that State of Origin game and that magnificent Firth
Stadium where I'm going later this year to support the
All Blacks. What a game of Boddy. I thought it
was done and dusted at halftime, but your cockroaches came
(00:22):
back against the cane toads.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well it's never done on dusted. You know. You can
bury them doves on their grave having six foot under
and they'll still be alive and kicking. You know, there's
so much further in that. Of course, the Maroons were
really fired up after the spate that were spat that
went on during the week, particularly over Billy Slater being
called a grub by the commentator Aaron Woods in Sydney.
(00:45):
That really got them fired up and that actually little
bit of fuel. I mean it was hopeless, mind you.
The penalty count was pretty ordinary. Eight penalties against New
South Wales, none against Queensland. The first half. They need
to take the pea out of the whistle of those
referees sometimes, but nonetheless it's set up for a wonderful
third game where we'll we'll flog the morons, I'm sure.
(01:06):
But it was certainly very exciting last night, and so
such difference between the two halves. I've never seen a
game like it, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So that's enough forty. Let's get on to the farming.
We've been talking in recent weeks about record lamb prices
across the Tasman Okay, this week we're talking about four
hundred and thirty dollars for a lamb.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's unbelievable. I was looking at the comparison between last
week's price and last year at the same time. Light
lambs last week nine hundred and twenty eight cents a
kilo carcassweight last year three hundred and thirteen cents. Heavy
lambs last week one thousand and forty two cents. That's
(01:48):
ten dollars forty two a kilo carcassweight. Last year's same
time three dollars thirty three. Even mutton last year was
six hundred, it was two hundred and eighty six cents
two dollars eighty six akilo this year is six dollars
sixty eight. I mean, the comparisons are just astonishing. Nobody
thought they'd be getting four hundred and thirty dollars ahead,
(02:10):
and it looks like those prices might stick around right
through the winter as people's lambs come into that heavyweight category.
But even light lambs are bringing three times bringing this
time last year. Amazing pricing and of course a lot
of very happy farmers.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Jomie So I may have missed this because I was
reading your script as you were talking, but how big
are those four hundred and thirty dollars lambs.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Twenty six kilos plus? It's just that I think all
the supermarkets and indeed the abatis are feeling you know,
shortages coming up ahead, and of course, with a little
bit of rain we've had down the south this year,
people be holding back some of their lambs that they
were going to put on the market, so that'll only
increase the prices that they see over coming weeks. So amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So the sheep farmers doing quite nicely, thank you. What
about the dairy farmers over here on Tira's paying ten bucks?
Are you dragging the China bud? In Australia we have.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
As I've been talking to you about we have been.
It's interesting Suputo Australia as the latest supply to announce
an increase in its milk price. They're now up to
nine dollars ten Australian, which is not that far away
from ten dollars New Zealand from an opening price of
eight dollars eighty. Fonterra of course have whacked their price up.
(03:26):
They came up to eight dollars ninety up from eight
dollars sixty. So they're still dragging the chain. And if
you look at some of the other players, Australian Dairy
Farmers Corporation nine dollars thirty, Australian Consolidator's Milk eight dollars
eighty five. So they're all beginning to lift their prices.
They say it's all in response to farmer concern that
they're just not getting a good return for their milk.
(03:49):
But it always seemed extraordinary than in New Zealand. You know,
your prices are so much higher than here, and yet
over here we've got so much fewer dairy farmers and
therefore you know, milk's in short supply.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Jomie, mind you, I think keyweed milk is a bit
like kiwied tomatoes. They tell you they taste better than
Aussie ones.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Here we go, so you can't get a tomato over
here at the moment. The problem with this new fungus
that's been ravaging some of the tomato crops, plus indeed
the floods up in Queensland made if I go to
in the soup barke. At the moment, if I can
get any tomatoes, I'm paying probably five or six dollars
a kilo, more than what the normal price would be
(04:28):
expected to be ten or eleven dollars a kilo. But
that's expected to improve in the next few years as
the new crops come on the market.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Jamie, you've got a great story about the art of
small drones and electric bikes when it comes to mustering cattle.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I love this story. So I was listening to an
article by a bloke called Wilson of Calliope Cattle Company.
OU at Calliope, and he's been using drones for years
up there, and he started with big drones and he
was driving. He said he was hopeless, but he found
that was a mistake because you don't actually need big
(05:04):
noisy DRAMs. They actually respond to small ones. He said,
you can herd a mob of cattle with a swarm
of bees in all bit or flies. And he's also
swapped to electric bikes now all right, so sure about
electric bites. I was talking to a bloke up the
road who's a bit of a Harley fanatic, and he
went and drove an electric Harley Davidson the other day.
(05:25):
He said the performance was amazing. He said, the takeoff speed,
the speed was let drove. But he said, Chris, it's
a little bit like going to a brothel for a hugez.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I don't know if you can say that, Chris Russell,
but you have live rading.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Haven't, and I can just it tells the story perfectly.
So a less noisy electric break, how would that go.
I'm not a big fan of bikes for mustering anyway.
I'd much prefer to be using a horse, because in
my case, the horse knew more about what he was
doing than I did.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Chris Russell, thanks as always for your time, No worries,
Jamie
Is there Osie correspondent Chris Russell, And I'll tell you
what Chris today, I am dog tired. I've been binge
watching something on Netflix over the past few nights, and
of course last night I had to stay up late
for that State of Origin game and that magnificent Firth
Stadium where I'm going later this year to support the
All Blacks. What a game of Boddy. I thought it
was done and dusted at halftime, but your cockroaches came
(00:22):
back against the cane toads.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well it's never done on dusted. You know. You can
bury them doves on their grave having six foot under
and they'll still be alive and kicking. You know, there's
so much further in that. Of course, the Maroons were
really fired up after the spate that were spat that
went on during the week, particularly over Billy Slater being
called a grub by the commentator Aaron Woods in Sydney.
(00:45):
That really got them fired up and that actually little
bit of fuel. I mean it was hopeless, mind you.
The penalty count was pretty ordinary. Eight penalties against New
South Wales, none against Queensland. The first half. They need
to take the pea out of the whistle of those
referees sometimes, but nonetheless it's set up for a wonderful
third game where we'll we'll flog the morons, I'm sure.
(01:06):
But it was certainly very exciting last night, and so
such difference between the two halves. I've never seen a
game like it, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So that's enough forty. Let's get on to the farming.
We've been talking in recent weeks about record lamb prices
across the Tasman Okay, this week we're talking about four
hundred and thirty dollars for a lamb.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's unbelievable. I was looking at the comparison between last
week's price and last year at the same time. Light
lambs last week nine hundred and twenty eight cents a
kilo carcassweight last year three hundred and thirteen cents. Heavy
lambs last week one thousand and forty two cents. That's
(01:48):
ten dollars forty two a kilo carcassweight. Last year's same
time three dollars thirty three. Even mutton last year was
six hundred, it was two hundred and eighty six cents
two dollars eighty six akilo this year is six dollars
sixty eight. I mean, the comparisons are just astonishing. Nobody
thought they'd be getting four hundred and thirty dollars ahead,
(02:10):
and it looks like those prices might stick around right
through the winter as people's lambs come into that heavyweight category.
But even light lambs are bringing three times bringing this
time last year. Amazing pricing and of course a lot
of very happy farmers.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Jomie So I may have missed this because I was
reading your script as you were talking, but how big
are those four hundred and thirty dollars lambs.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Twenty six kilos plus? It's just that I think all
the supermarkets and indeed the abatis are feeling you know,
shortages coming up ahead, and of course, with a little
bit of rain we've had down the south this year,
people be holding back some of their lambs that they
were going to put on the market, so that'll only
increase the prices that they see over coming weeks. So amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So the sheep farmers doing quite nicely, thank you. What
about the dairy farmers over here on Tira's paying ten bucks?
Are you dragging the China bud? In Australia we have.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
As I've been talking to you about we have been.
It's interesting Suputo Australia as the latest supply to announce
an increase in its milk price. They're now up to
nine dollars ten Australian, which is not that far away
from ten dollars New Zealand from an opening price of
eight dollars eighty. Fonterra of course have whacked their price up.
(03:26):
They came up to eight dollars ninety up from eight
dollars sixty. So they're still dragging the chain. And if
you look at some of the other players, Australian Dairy
Farmers Corporation nine dollars thirty, Australian Consolidator's Milk eight dollars
eighty five. So they're all beginning to lift their prices.
They say it's all in response to farmer concern that
they're just not getting a good return for their milk.
(03:49):
But it always seemed extraordinary than in New Zealand. You know,
your prices are so much higher than here, and yet
over here we've got so much fewer dairy farmers and
therefore you know, milk's in short supply.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Jomie, mind you, I think keyweed milk is a bit
like kiwied tomatoes. They tell you they taste better than
Aussie ones.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Here we go, so you can't get a tomato over
here at the moment. The problem with this new fungus
that's been ravaging some of the tomato crops, plus indeed
the floods up in Queensland made if I go to
in the soup barke. At the moment, if I can
get any tomatoes, I'm paying probably five or six dollars
a kilo, more than what the normal price would be
(04:28):
expected to be ten or eleven dollars a kilo. But
that's expected to improve in the next few years as
the new crops come on the market.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Jamie, you've got a great story about the art of
small drones and electric bikes when it comes to mustering cattle.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I love this story. So I was listening to an
article by a bloke called Wilson of Calliope Cattle Company.
OU at Calliope, and he's been using drones for years
up there, and he started with big drones and he
was driving. He said he was hopeless, but he found
that was a mistake because you don't actually need big
(05:04):
noisy DRAMs. They actually respond to small ones. He said,
you can herd a mob of cattle with a swarm
of bees in all bit or flies. And he's also
swapped to electric bikes now all right, so sure about
electric bites. I was talking to a bloke up the
road who's a bit of a Harley fanatic, and he
went and drove an electric Harley Davidson the other day.
(05:25):
He said the performance was amazing. He said, the takeoff speed,
the speed was let drove. But he said, Chris, it's
a little bit like going to a brothel for a hugez.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I don't know if you can say that, Chris Russell,
but you have live rading.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Haven't, and I can just it tells the story perfectly.
So a less noisy electric break, how would that go.
I'm not a big fan of bikes for mustering anyway.
I'd much prefer to be using a horse, because in
my case, the horse knew more about what he was
doing than I did.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Chris Russell, thanks as always for your time, No worries,
Jamie
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