March 20, 2025 • 6 mins
Today's farmer panel features the two Stus as we chew the farming fat.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, well hang on, you haven't been introduced yet. Background noise,
it's the farmer. I think that's Stu Duncan. I can hear.
Never want to keep quiet for too long. He's I
don't know where he is today. He was in Riversdale,
my hometown and Stue Low. You might hear the background
noise there of an auctioneer because Stu Low, I'll start
(00:21):
with you in North Canterbury. You're at a calf cell.
You must be feeling very wealthy if you can afford
to buy some calves this season.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Oh the fact that I do stop everything before my
operation mane opto got to restock again. Now that the
grass is growing, we can hope to make some money.
But but hot for me today. Didn't purchase any year
at Tivia today.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
So Canterbury as unless you're a seed farmer or a
cropping farmer and trying to get the harvest done, has
fed as well as anywhere this season in terms of
the dry Stewlow.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, no, we have just a little bit and of
nothing that it's not far down, but we're green and
it's selling pretty good. But yeah, I see the great
boys are about to start harvesting too, so they want
a bit of warm weather as well, with the complete
opposite to see can beef the grape growers and just
(01:18):
south of me at Whitebraoh.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Those grape growers also, as we've heard today on the show,
need you to do your bit for the wine industry
to start having a wine with dinner each night. I
know Stu Duncan doesn't need to be asked twice. Stue,
you've been down on Riversdale, my home patch. What are
you doing down there?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I was fortunate to get invited on a hunting trip
up the Kettle Flat station and the guys up there
gave a prize for a school fundraiser for two nights
and a hut up there and a bit of hunting.
So we went down there and drove food all and
south in which is looking an absolute picture, and what
a beautiful sort of we settlements everywhere, and the country's
looking magnificent. So we're two days hunting and a wee
(01:55):
bit of fishing and the mighty materia and I had
a good look around to the fed and thought a
few farming stories and that was about it. So I'm
home there, backing the weaning kettle and doing a few jobs.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So yeah, we used to holiday there when we were kids,
on the banks of the Matara River and go fishing.
I never caught any fish. I never had the patience
for it. I was useless ad at a bit like golf.
Really haven't got the patience for that. But anyhow, it
is a wonderful place. I'm glad you enjoyed you stay there,
Stu Dunk and I'll stick with you. You've got your
fingers in a number of pies, including farm tourism or
(02:27):
tourism on the Central Otago rail trail. But correct me
if I'm wrong. You're involved in sheep, beef, dairy and
deer right or four?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, venison, velvet, yeah both yep.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, So rank them in order? How do they stack
up in terms of profitability at the moment? Is it
dairy at the top?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Did be derey at the top? Followed them by the
cattle kettle really strong? We've got a lot of cattle
and a kettle start obviously, and then per hectory do
you take a bit of strugglum other than Velvet's down
a leave it now. It's probably knocks them away from
the dairy guys. And then the sheep which are coming
home pretty quick at the moment the land price is
where they are, but yeah, definitely the dairy and beef
(03:09):
at the moment are pretty pretty successful.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, okay, and Stu, how would you rank them on
your farm because you're only sheep and beef?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, just the beef's price Pequilo has been very good,
hadn't dropped much over the summer, which it kins to
and coming into the peak kill now with all the
dairy couldairy cave and it's looking like it's going to
hold up. Obviously, the US markets after that grinding beef,
so after anything they can kill release, so it's yea,
(03:39):
the beef side of things good. And obviously I've changed
my stocking ratio to more kettle than sheep, so I've
preserved my body for another fifteen years hopefully.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well, as I said, the Crusaders and the Canterbury Rugby
Union should be paying for your replacement, and he's stew
for service given over many years. How is the pace
now off the mark with the new knees come lambing time?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, yeah, I didn't didn't really have much hands on.
I left them to I think when the bond spiel
heavens down. So the big ones grassful little ones too.
That's what I mean. You have self self hearing for
the for the big ones they use. So no, he
had a pretty good lemming. So in the end you
(04:24):
said the money held up. The lambs are worth good
money too now, but I'll probably just went to a
few lambs this year, not actually leaming me down.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You remind me of a bloke I played rugby with
back in the day. In fact, you'll be at our
nineteen eighty five reunion this year for the Riversdale footy team.
Fred Sudland on Aim and Shaman. He never got round
to feeding his sheep on a Sunday if he'd had
a big night on a Saturday, and his theory was
always the big ones, we'll look after the little little ones.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, that's what I heard. What happens when they go
koling in the minutata the gates are open and the
way that they walk away.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, Okaytu, you're living the life of Riley the many
a toto there, Stuve Duncan's pretty good for feed What
about you guys. I know you've been down on South
and it's been quite dry by their standards. But you're
quite dry, are you.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, parts of the many Tato down the bottom end
of the Pulbourn and pedr Rah have are really dry,
but we've been catching those rains, so we're sort of
green and our crops are really good, and we're still
most about Padic countries are as okay, but where it's
been irrigated exceptionally good. So now we're actually just on
the edge of having a bit enough feed to flushy
us and having a completely different autumn than last year.
(05:34):
But yeah, if we were getting late for us, we
get another month, will stop growing. But we're in this
top corner for Naisby and KiB and have probably never
been better through the Simbathans. But there's patches that have
missed out in all that rain. So we're okay. But
that's not the same for everyone.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Okay, and Steel, I just to finish with you, but
a fuddy your Crusaders, I reckon they're good value. Paying
two dollars head to head against the Blues at a
dollar seventy five, I'd back them to go up to
Eden Park and win this.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, I actually haven't heard of who's turning out for
the Blues, but yeah, you'd like to think they they
can't catch your break at the moment. So lost a
few players, key players, and hopefully their crusaders can carry
on the merry way from last week.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And as Rob Penney said, that's the tragedy. There we go. Okay,
lad's gotta go. There is the Farmer panel Stu Duncan
and Stu Low
Okay, well hang on, you haven't been introduced yet. Background noise,
it's the farmer. I think that's Stu Duncan. I can hear.
Never want to keep quiet for too long. He's I
don't know where he is today. He was in Riversdale,
my hometown and Stue Low. You might hear the background
noise there of an auctioneer because Stu Low, I'll start
(00:21):
with you in North Canterbury. You're at a calf cell.
You must be feeling very wealthy if you can afford
to buy some calves this season.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Oh the fact that I do stop everything before my
operation mane opto got to restock again. Now that the
grass is growing, we can hope to make some money.
But but hot for me today. Didn't purchase any year
at Tivia today.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
So Canterbury as unless you're a seed farmer or a
cropping farmer and trying to get the harvest done, has
fed as well as anywhere this season in terms of
the dry Stewlow.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, no, we have just a little bit and of
nothing that it's not far down, but we're green and
it's selling pretty good. But yeah, I see the great
boys are about to start harvesting too, so they want
a bit of warm weather as well, with the complete
opposite to see can beef the grape growers and just
(01:18):
south of me at Whitebraoh.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Those grape growers also, as we've heard today on the show,
need you to do your bit for the wine industry
to start having a wine with dinner each night. I
know Stu Duncan doesn't need to be asked twice. Stue,
you've been down on Riversdale, my home patch. What are
you doing down there?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I was fortunate to get invited on a hunting trip
up the Kettle Flat station and the guys up there
gave a prize for a school fundraiser for two nights
and a hut up there and a bit of hunting.
So we went down there and drove food all and
south in which is looking an absolute picture, and what
a beautiful sort of we settlements everywhere, and the country's
looking magnificent. So we're two days hunting and a wee
(01:55):
bit of fishing and the mighty materia and I had
a good look around to the fed and thought a
few farming stories and that was about it. So I'm
home there, backing the weaning kettle and doing a few jobs.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So yeah, we used to holiday there when we were kids,
on the banks of the Matara River and go fishing.
I never caught any fish. I never had the patience
for it. I was useless ad at a bit like golf.
Really haven't got the patience for that. But anyhow, it
is a wonderful place. I'm glad you enjoyed you stay there,
Stu Dunk and I'll stick with you. You've got your
fingers in a number of pies, including farm tourism or
(02:27):
tourism on the Central Otago rail trail. But correct me
if I'm wrong. You're involved in sheep, beef, dairy and
deer right or four?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, venison, velvet, yeah both yep.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, So rank them in order? How do they stack
up in terms of profitability at the moment? Is it
dairy at the top?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Did be derey at the top? Followed them by the
cattle kettle really strong? We've got a lot of cattle
and a kettle start obviously, and then per hectory do
you take a bit of strugglum other than Velvet's down
a leave it now. It's probably knocks them away from
the dairy guys. And then the sheep which are coming
home pretty quick at the moment the land price is
where they are, but yeah, definitely the dairy and beef
(03:09):
at the moment are pretty pretty successful.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, okay, and Stu, how would you rank them on
your farm because you're only sheep and beef?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, just the beef's price Pequilo has been very good,
hadn't dropped much over the summer, which it kins to
and coming into the peak kill now with all the
dairy couldairy cave and it's looking like it's going to
hold up. Obviously, the US markets after that grinding beef,
so after anything they can kill release, so it's yea,
(03:39):
the beef side of things good. And obviously I've changed
my stocking ratio to more kettle than sheep, so I've
preserved my body for another fifteen years hopefully.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well, as I said, the Crusaders and the Canterbury Rugby
Union should be paying for your replacement, and he's stew
for service given over many years. How is the pace
now off the mark with the new knees come lambing time?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, yeah, I didn't didn't really have much hands on.
I left them to I think when the bond spiel
heavens down. So the big ones grassful little ones too.
That's what I mean. You have self self hearing for
the for the big ones they use. So no, he
had a pretty good lemming. So in the end you
(04:24):
said the money held up. The lambs are worth good
money too now, but I'll probably just went to a
few lambs this year, not actually leaming me down.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You remind me of a bloke I played rugby with
back in the day. In fact, you'll be at our
nineteen eighty five reunion this year for the Riversdale footy team.
Fred Sudland on Aim and Shaman. He never got round
to feeding his sheep on a Sunday if he'd had
a big night on a Saturday, and his theory was
always the big ones, we'll look after the little little ones.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, that's what I heard. What happens when they go
koling in the minutata the gates are open and the
way that they walk away.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, Okaytu, you're living the life of Riley the many
a toto there, Stuve Duncan's pretty good for feed What
about you guys. I know you've been down on South
and it's been quite dry by their standards. But you're
quite dry, are you.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, parts of the many Tato down the bottom end
of the Pulbourn and pedr Rah have are really dry,
but we've been catching those rains, so we're sort of
green and our crops are really good, and we're still
most about Padic countries are as okay, but where it's
been irrigated exceptionally good. So now we're actually just on
the edge of having a bit enough feed to flushy
us and having a completely different autumn than last year.
(05:34):
But yeah, if we were getting late for us, we
get another month, will stop growing. But we're in this
top corner for Naisby and KiB and have probably never
been better through the Simbathans. But there's patches that have
missed out in all that rain. So we're okay. But
that's not the same for everyone.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Okay, and Steel, I just to finish with you, but
a fuddy your Crusaders, I reckon they're good value. Paying
two dollars head to head against the Blues at a
dollar seventy five, I'd back them to go up to
Eden Park and win this.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, I actually haven't heard of who's turning out for
the Blues, but yeah, you'd like to think they they
can't catch your break at the moment. So lost a
few players, key players, and hopefully their crusaders can carry
on the merry way from last week.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And as Rob Penney said, that's the tragedy. There we go. Okay,
lad's gotta go. There is the Farmer panel Stu Duncan
and Stu Low
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