February 27, 2025 • 5 mins
Today's farmer panel ponders sheep farming (to shed or not to shed), the dry and a bit of footy. And have they ever been to a Golden Shears open final?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm going to wrap it with today's Farmer Panel Stu
(00:02):
Low and North Canterbury Stu Duncan and the many A Toto.
But you're somewhere else today, stew.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, I'm halfway up the Knobby's on a full drive
training course with Foreign Emergency just so we can learn
how to get into these real tricky spots for to
save a few idiots. Even now and then where's the
nobbies about the tvate? Just Fruitland's out of Alexandra on
the way through to Rocksburgh.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, be pretty Is it getting dry there?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah? Really dry? Just looking around we're fair way up
and even some of the stock water is pretty quiet,
but it looks really dry. And looking back down towards
the Tivate Valley from here and over towards Paulburn, the
Mini Ben looks pretty dry. So no, I think the
whole country down air Corner is really dry. So we
I think the rain forecast ladder and beginning next week,
so it must be be much needed.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, yeah, I hope you get some. The news isn't
so good for the North Island. It's terrible there.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well I was up in the Coramandel there a week
or so going off of there in Benchhack, really it
was really dry, so everyone needs a good drink.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Probably an area that's fared as well as anywhere is debris.
In fact, the arable farmers and the seed farmers can't
get enough fine weather to harvest their crop. Stewlo, how
are you going?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
You're not too bad. We've here. I think there's much too.
We've got to Futherly due really next week, which will
be well received. Yeah. This time last year, Yeah, the
tech got turned off for us. So yeah, we're in
comparison to this time last year, we're a lot better off.
So we've got good covers. At the moment, it's green,
but the moist is not very fat.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, all your lambs will be gone stew Low years.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yep, no sort of de stock due to health issues.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, and those health issues are your two new knees.
How are they going?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah? Pretty good. Yep. We're just ditch the clutches and
get around. But you won't be in a in a
race digging or drinching lambs for that too.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't think have either of you two ever been
to the Golden Shares to an open final. On Saturday night,
I'll start with you, stew Duncan.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Not doing Golden Shares. No, it would have been to
the shears here a few times to finals. Not a
Golden Shares.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
May well, you're missing something. It's a treat to behold
quite literally, what about you, stew.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Lo No, I've been to a few local shows and
here they it's good to watch those. The real good
year is poetry emotion, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah? And we've got like record number of novice and
junior sharing and wool handling entries this year at the
Golden Shears. And when you look at the numbers, you know,
like sheep numbers I'm talking about. I think the entries
peaked in nineteen eighty two or nineteen eighty for the
Golden Shares. But back in those days, lads and you
(02:40):
would have been very young farmers who are about to
be young farmers. We had seventy million sheep. We've only
got twenty three million sheep now, Stu Duncan. Do you
see the arrest and the declared an arrest and the
decline of sheep farming?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
No, not really this year will probably but least to
the ram, but we have more cattle ground, a bit
of grain and yeah, no, I think it until we
start seeing wall come up doubling it at a minimum,
and we've got to stay around that eight nine ten
dollars a kilo, or there's other land use types you
can do. And I think there's been a big change
down here. There's a big place sold of twelve thousand
(03:17):
ewes the other day, and then there's words going into
forestry just not far from where I'm sitting actually, so
there's a lot of us being sold out of these
areas lately. So no, until the wall thing tidies up,
and there's a lot of people running around and promised
in the world, but we've got to see it happen.
In the balance you to euth so I guess kind
of disappear.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And you you fare a bit better on the wall
front because yours is not a strong crossbread wall.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, well we're in now. Our u wall's at twenty
three twenty four, so that hits the market right, and
our Hogit walls and that nineteen to twenty twenty one
microan so we do go readsonably well there, but we've
also got a couple of thousand crossbreds where you don't
get much change out of the day there, but as
they compare it to other land use types and other
issues on farm, it just doesn't sack up. So it's
a byproduct of sheep, I guess. But if you've got sheep,
(03:59):
you've got to share them if you haven't got self shedding.
But you know, there's a lot of quality wall through
central targets. A lot of people are reluctant to get
rid of it because of the quality espect but it's
just going to come down to numbers over time. But
if it does come back, it's probably not hard to
get back into sheep.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
True, with your two new knees, you might have a
renaissance on the end of a hand piece. If you've
got any brains, you won't have. But if you do,
would you ever consider self shedding sheep?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well, obviously being laid up a bit, I've been watching
bid Hour and there's oddly enough there's a shedding new
sail up in the mastered and during the week which
I watched, and you know, I see Derek Daniels head
his new sat gramsail and if you have a stroll
through those the prices, he'd be well pleased. He's done
gone down that road. So yeah, they looks like there's
(04:44):
a bit of a bit of a following at the
start with always there's been. There's a bit of a
change and people want you want the same product, probably
for less less work, and that's that's what yeah, all
about it as the farmers as we get older.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Strue Duncan our Highland is a going to win tonight
over Moana PACIFICA. Who have the crusaders got Stue really quickly,
I'm running out of time.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
They're definitely going to win. They've got the boy.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh okay, there we go. The Crusaders will definitely have
a one. Hey, thanks for your time, guys. And I
do hope seriously for the you other farmers around the country.
It is getting desperately dry, you make no bones about it.
So I do hope that in the next week or
so we get a bit of a change in the
weather pattern and we get you some rain.
I'm going to wrap it with today's Farmer Panel Stu
(00:02):
Low and North Canterbury Stu Duncan and the many A Toto.
But you're somewhere else today, stew.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, I'm halfway up the Knobby's on a full drive
training course with Foreign Emergency just so we can learn
how to get into these real tricky spots for to
save a few idiots. Even now and then where's the
nobbies about the tvate? Just Fruitland's out of Alexandra on
the way through to Rocksburgh.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, be pretty Is it getting dry there?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah? Really dry? Just looking around we're fair way up
and even some of the stock water is pretty quiet,
but it looks really dry. And looking back down towards
the Tivate Valley from here and over towards Paulburn, the
Mini Ben looks pretty dry. So no, I think the
whole country down air Corner is really dry. So we
I think the rain forecast ladder and beginning next week,
so it must be be much needed.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, yeah, I hope you get some. The news isn't
so good for the North Island. It's terrible there.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well I was up in the Coramandel there a week
or so going off of there in Benchhack, really it
was really dry, so everyone needs a good drink.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Probably an area that's fared as well as anywhere is debris.
In fact, the arable farmers and the seed farmers can't
get enough fine weather to harvest their crop. Stewlo, how
are you going?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
You're not too bad. We've here. I think there's much too.
We've got to Futherly due really next week, which will
be well received. Yeah. This time last year, Yeah, the
tech got turned off for us. So yeah, we're in
comparison to this time last year, we're a lot better off.
So we've got good covers. At the moment, it's green,
but the moist is not very fat.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, all your lambs will be gone stew Low years.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yep, no sort of de stock due to health issues.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, and those health issues are your two new knees.
How are they going?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah? Pretty good. Yep. We're just ditch the clutches and
get around. But you won't be in a in a
race digging or drinching lambs for that too.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't think have either of you two ever been
to the Golden Shares to an open final. On Saturday night,
I'll start with you, stew Duncan.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Not doing Golden Shares. No, it would have been to
the shears here a few times to finals. Not a
Golden Shares.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
May well, you're missing something. It's a treat to behold
quite literally, what about you, stew.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Lo No, I've been to a few local shows and
here they it's good to watch those. The real good
year is poetry emotion, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah? And we've got like record number of novice and
junior sharing and wool handling entries this year at the
Golden Shears. And when you look at the numbers, you know,
like sheep numbers I'm talking about. I think the entries
peaked in nineteen eighty two or nineteen eighty for the
Golden Shares. But back in those days, lads and you
(02:40):
would have been very young farmers who are about to
be young farmers. We had seventy million sheep. We've only
got twenty three million sheep now, Stu Duncan. Do you
see the arrest and the declared an arrest and the
decline of sheep farming?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
No, not really this year will probably but least to
the ram, but we have more cattle ground, a bit
of grain and yeah, no, I think it until we
start seeing wall come up doubling it at a minimum,
and we've got to stay around that eight nine ten
dollars a kilo, or there's other land use types you
can do. And I think there's been a big change
down here. There's a big place sold of twelve thousand
(03:17):
ewes the other day, and then there's words going into
forestry just not far from where I'm sitting actually, so
there's a lot of us being sold out of these
areas lately. So no, until the wall thing tidies up,
and there's a lot of people running around and promised
in the world, but we've got to see it happen.
In the balance you to euth so I guess kind
of disappear.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And you you fare a bit better on the wall
front because yours is not a strong crossbread wall.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, well we're in now. Our u wall's at twenty
three twenty four, so that hits the market right, and
our Hogit walls and that nineteen to twenty twenty one
microan so we do go readsonably well there, but we've
also got a couple of thousand crossbreds where you don't
get much change out of the day there, but as
they compare it to other land use types and other
issues on farm, it just doesn't sack up. So it's
a byproduct of sheep, I guess. But if you've got sheep,
(03:59):
you've got to share them if you haven't got self shedding.
But you know, there's a lot of quality wall through
central targets. A lot of people are reluctant to get
rid of it because of the quality espect but it's
just going to come down to numbers over time. But
if it does come back, it's probably not hard to
get back into sheep.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
True, with your two new knees, you might have a
renaissance on the end of a hand piece. If you've
got any brains, you won't have. But if you do,
would you ever consider self shedding sheep?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well, obviously being laid up a bit, I've been watching
bid Hour and there's oddly enough there's a shedding new
sail up in the mastered and during the week which
I watched, and you know, I see Derek Daniels head
his new sat gramsail and if you have a stroll
through those the prices, he'd be well pleased. He's done
gone down that road. So yeah, they looks like there's
(04:44):
a bit of a bit of a following at the
start with always there's been. There's a bit of a
change and people want you want the same product, probably
for less less work, and that's that's what yeah, all
about it as the farmers as we get older.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Strue Duncan our Highland is a going to win tonight
over Moana PACIFICA. Who have the crusaders got Stue really quickly,
I'm running out of time.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
They're definitely going to win. They've got the boy.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh okay, there we go. The Crusaders will definitely have
a one. Hey, thanks for your time, guys. And I
do hope seriously for the you other farmers around the country.
It is getting desperately dry, you make no bones about it.
So I do hope that in the next week or
so we get a bit of a change in the
weather pattern and we get you some rain.
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