July 24, 2025 • 6 mins
Today’s farmer panel chews the farming fat! Do record prices equate to record profits? And a timely reminder of farmer generosity.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
September. Before we get to September from earth wind and fire,
we've got to get through August. Maybe some wet weather
for some of you. Anyhow, well, let's talk to a
couple of cockies out at the cold Face. Ones in
the Mania Toto Inland Central Otago, the other ones in
North Canterbury, stew Duncan and Stu Low, And I bet
(00:20):
you the pair of you must be enjoying this weather,
great wintering weather. I'll start with you stew Duncan.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, we've had a pretty good run. We've had hardly
any frost this morning, this corner and last couple of
days that has been some good frosts in the early
week and not quite sunny here, but magnificent day yesterday
and we like norwester so we were sharing so it
was magnificent sharing weather really, so it's been pretty luckily
we dodged most of the snows and the stock and
great orders. I know it's been quite good.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Stu Lower here, you've had some good frosts and Canterbury
although Rooks was on the show yesterday winging about no snow.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, no, I don't think there's too much out there.
But no, we've been getting some good frost, killing all
the rugs and getting good utilization out of feeding out
and break feeding for the beaten kale and things like that.
So now it's from three weeks ago. We were pretty
pretty wet when we're mates up and tears when we're
copping a bit. We sort of got the tail end
(01:16):
of it, but it's dried out since then and it's
been very good.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
You're a summer dry country, unirrigated country in North Canterbury there.
That means you lamb early. You get the lambs away early.
They'll be worth a bomb this year, stew Low, When
do you start lambing?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, the early ones are just about at the end
of the first cycle now, so they're just about tidied up.
I haven't got many us this year, and the second
lot start on about August the tenth, so yeah, there's
been any any sort of weather events, So yeah, everything
getting good survival and yeah it's looking pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And stew duncan you're not only sheep farmer sheep and
beef like stew you're also a deer farmer and a farmer.
You literally won't know what to do with all your
money this year, although I didn't. I didn't see any
of it when you were in lunar having a bear
with me the other night it failed to a pair, Stu.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You're pretty crick to pull out the money that night, though,
weren't you.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, I was just been shouting a correspondent.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well it's good. Now it's been good. Hopefully it flows
through because I think the sheep thing's only just starting,
and you know, if you're holding a few cattle and
a few winter lambs are like got a few really lambs,
I think you're going to get a good next eighteen months.
So hopefully it does flow back into really puzzles balance
sheets and it gets sped back around the community and
but a fertilizer and the third maintenance goes on and
everyone gets a bit of the whack of it. But
(02:38):
definitely it is positive and it's been quite an amazing
turn around an eight to nine months. Really.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Absolutely, it's not that long long ago that Lamb was
languishing in the sixers. There's talk, I don't know whether
it's there's any truth to it, but this talk of
a Lamb schedule at ten or eleven dollars, could that
be possible?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Stu duncan absolutely possible. In Australia, it's into the thirteens
and fourteen dollars aquila and we'll tag along behind. So
you know, we've been having discussions at the pub the
other night even you know they' about a three hundred
dollars lamb in New Zealand. So you get ten eleven
dollars and you get these twenty six or seven kilo
lambs if they can take them that were heavy and
some someone will and we'll tag on behind what they
(03:13):
was doing. A four point thirty. I saw an article
on account and sent the other day some lambs in Australia.
So you know you could take two hundred and fifty
dollars from a lamb to three hundred outstanding, wouldn't it right?
Four around the community?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Four hundred and sixty dollars for a mind you a
bloody big lamb in Australia this week from our Elsie correspondent,
Chris Russell stew Load. Do you remember the bad old
days when we used to be penalized for heavyweight lambs?
How stupid was that?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I think they brought out a greg called the w
X grade and that was sort of around about the
eighteen kilos and that was sort of making people take
them through the biggest, bigger weights. I think I was
just starting out in the stocking station agent game, and yeah,
that was a bit of a bit of a novelty
to draft lambs that big. But I suppose Southland's always
always been away but ahead of everyone else because they
could head the feed and grow them out. But yeah,
(04:00):
w x Lands, it seems a year long time.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Ago, half a lifetime. It goes to you want to
remind people a timely reminder of farmer generosity. We've had
all this Shuhara and Barry soapers coming up and I
think he's got something to say about it. But it's
been a bit of a dog's breakfast, This buttergate, whatever
they want to call it. People squealing for not squealing.
I mean, I understand how people are frustrated with the
(04:24):
price of dairy, but they just seem to be concentrating
on dairy. They're not talking about meat or key, we
fruit or any of these other products that are going
really well and offshore markets.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, there's always alternatives. And I went up to and
in competition here a month or so ago, not can
we had a competition up in Rotherham and you know
the hunters with farmers at them on they land and
they donated three hundred or three thousand kilos of mints
via the venison that was all killed and handed in
to local food banks in Fontira. Do that with him
(04:59):
milk because do the milk and schools anymore. And and
his meat the need where you know she can be
farmers in dairy farmers tonate, you know, a segment of
the kill sheet to the meat the neat and then
siwer fans to make mints to the local food pink.
So a lot of that gets doesn't get a highlighted enough.
(05:20):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Oh, I think it's a wonderful charity. And there are
a number of them around the country doing the stew duncan.
At the moment they're going out, they're getting wild deer
or feral deer and they're shooting them and they and
they're mincing them up great meat.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's a good callity product, doesn't it. And I know
the helicopters started around here again now there's a bit
there's a new outfit and to need and picking up there.
So the tchops are starting to move around because there's
a lot of deer around. There's a huge number of
deer all through Central all over the country and they
always hear stories to deer, so I mean as good
if people can do that, and it'd be good to
get a few of them tidied up as well, because
they do, of course havoc a lot of the window
(05:55):
feed crops, especially around the harder parts like where we are.
It's hard to grow them. The lane gets dear eat.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
There we go, stew Dunk and Stelo Today's Farmer Panel
September. Before we get to September from earth wind and fire,
we've got to get through August. Maybe some wet weather
for some of you. Anyhow, well, let's talk to a
couple of cockies out at the cold Face. Ones in
the Mania Toto Inland Central Otago, the other ones in
North Canterbury, stew Duncan and Stu Low, And I bet
(00:20):
you the pair of you must be enjoying this weather,
great wintering weather. I'll start with you stew Duncan.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, we've had a pretty good run. We've had hardly
any frost this morning, this corner and last couple of
days that has been some good frosts in the early
week and not quite sunny here, but magnificent day yesterday
and we like norwester so we were sharing so it
was magnificent sharing weather really, so it's been pretty luckily
we dodged most of the snows and the stock and
great orders. I know it's been quite good.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Stu Lower here, you've had some good frosts and Canterbury
although Rooks was on the show yesterday winging about no snow.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, no, I don't think there's too much out there.
But no, we've been getting some good frost, killing all
the rugs and getting good utilization out of feeding out
and break feeding for the beaten kale and things like that.
So now it's from three weeks ago. We were pretty
pretty wet when we're mates up and tears when we're
copping a bit. We sort of got the tail end
(01:16):
of it, but it's dried out since then and it's
been very good.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
You're a summer dry country, unirrigated country in North Canterbury there.
That means you lamb early. You get the lambs away early.
They'll be worth a bomb this year, stew Low, When
do you start lambing?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, the early ones are just about at the end
of the first cycle now, so they're just about tidied up.
I haven't got many us this year, and the second
lot start on about August the tenth, so yeah, there's
been any any sort of weather events, So yeah, everything
getting good survival and yeah it's looking pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And stew duncan you're not only sheep farmer sheep and
beef like stew you're also a deer farmer and a farmer.
You literally won't know what to do with all your
money this year, although I didn't. I didn't see any
of it when you were in lunar having a bear
with me the other night it failed to a pair, Stu.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You're pretty crick to pull out the money that night, though,
weren't you.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, I was just been shouting a correspondent.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well it's good. Now it's been good. Hopefully it flows
through because I think the sheep thing's only just starting,
and you know, if you're holding a few cattle and
a few winter lambs are like got a few really lambs,
I think you're going to get a good next eighteen months.
So hopefully it does flow back into really puzzles balance
sheets and it gets sped back around the community and
but a fertilizer and the third maintenance goes on and
everyone gets a bit of the whack of it. But
(02:38):
definitely it is positive and it's been quite an amazing
turn around an eight to nine months. Really.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Absolutely, it's not that long long ago that Lamb was
languishing in the sixers. There's talk, I don't know whether
it's there's any truth to it, but this talk of
a Lamb schedule at ten or eleven dollars, could that
be possible?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Stu duncan absolutely possible. In Australia, it's into the thirteens
and fourteen dollars aquila and we'll tag along behind. So
you know, we've been having discussions at the pub the
other night even you know they' about a three hundred
dollars lamb in New Zealand. So you get ten eleven
dollars and you get these twenty six or seven kilo
lambs if they can take them that were heavy and
some someone will and we'll tag on behind what they
(03:13):
was doing. A four point thirty. I saw an article
on account and sent the other day some lambs in Australia.
So you know you could take two hundred and fifty
dollars from a lamb to three hundred outstanding, wouldn't it right?
Four around the community?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Four hundred and sixty dollars for a mind you a
bloody big lamb in Australia this week from our Elsie correspondent,
Chris Russell stew Load. Do you remember the bad old
days when we used to be penalized for heavyweight lambs?
How stupid was that?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I think they brought out a greg called the w
X grade and that was sort of around about the
eighteen kilos and that was sort of making people take
them through the biggest, bigger weights. I think I was
just starting out in the stocking station agent game, and yeah,
that was a bit of a bit of a novelty
to draft lambs that big. But I suppose Southland's always
always been away but ahead of everyone else because they
could head the feed and grow them out. But yeah,
(04:00):
w x Lands, it seems a year long time.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Ago, half a lifetime. It goes to you want to
remind people a timely reminder of farmer generosity. We've had
all this Shuhara and Barry soapers coming up and I
think he's got something to say about it. But it's
been a bit of a dog's breakfast, This buttergate, whatever
they want to call it. People squealing for not squealing.
I mean, I understand how people are frustrated with the
(04:24):
price of dairy, but they just seem to be concentrating
on dairy. They're not talking about meat or key, we
fruit or any of these other products that are going
really well and offshore markets.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, there's always alternatives. And I went up to and
in competition here a month or so ago, not can
we had a competition up in Rotherham and you know
the hunters with farmers at them on they land and
they donated three hundred or three thousand kilos of mints
via the venison that was all killed and handed in
to local food banks in Fontira. Do that with him
(04:59):
milk because do the milk and schools anymore. And and
his meat the need where you know she can be
farmers in dairy farmers tonate, you know, a segment of
the kill sheet to the meat the neat and then
siwer fans to make mints to the local food pink.
So a lot of that gets doesn't get a highlighted enough.
(05:20):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Oh, I think it's a wonderful charity. And there are
a number of them around the country doing the stew duncan.
At the moment they're going out, they're getting wild deer
or feral deer and they're shooting them and they and
they're mincing them up great meat.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's a good callity product, doesn't it. And I know
the helicopters started around here again now there's a bit
there's a new outfit and to need and picking up there.
So the tchops are starting to move around because there's
a lot of deer around. There's a huge number of
deer all through Central all over the country and they
always hear stories to deer, so I mean as good
if people can do that, and it'd be good to
get a few of them tidied up as well, because
they do, of course havoc a lot of the window
(05:55):
feed crops, especially around the harder parts like where we are.
It's hard to grow them. The lane gets dear eat.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
There we go, stew Dunk and Stelo Today's Farmer Panel
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