The Country 11/04/25: Stu Duncan and Stu Loe talk to Jamie Mackay

Today’s farmer panel talks weather, meat and wool prices and footy.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wrapping the country with the farmer Panel, Stew Duncan and
Stu Low. I'll start with Stew Duncan and the Manni
a Toto. Stew you look a wee bit dry on
the knee word drought index mat but I think you've
had some rain. But along with that rain came snow.
That's a wee bit early.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah. We're on the Croutching trail on Tuesday and it
was horrid. It was cold and looked up and gotten
snow was right down to the cottages really at Wedderburn,
just on the mountain there. So it was cold and
still there now, but pretty much a beautiful day. A
wee been norwisterday and it's gone. But we picked up
another twenty miler thereabouts of rain, so it's been really good.
So we're green and yeah, having a really good autumn.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Stew Low, you're farming in North Canterbury. I drove from
Duneed and Teamaru for the South Island are event I
must say, like North Otago and South Canterbury. That's as
far as I got looking an absolute picture. It's been
a good season unless you're a grain farmer. And they
had a few issues with the harvest. But if you're
a pastoral farmer on the east coast of the South Island,

(00:58):
you've done pretty well this year.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, were much the same we've had. We've never really
got dry this, you know, since the New Year, and
you had a little bits to run off and we're
not you know, the moisture is not fa down. But
we've got good covers going into the into the winter here.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Now all your lambs will be well and truly gone,
are they?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Stu Low pretty much? Yeah, just a few Tally and Charlie's,
but they're growing into some good money and hopefully you
get well well auth of eight back for them at
some stage.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Well, the schedule schemes seems to keep on keeping on.
Stew Duncan. You'll have quite a few left. You could
make a fortune as long as Trump doesn't make things
up for you.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah. Well that's got killed yesterday. We're nineteen I kilos
and we need to get a really few more away.
But we're taking some halfbreads. We'll take out of nine
hundred half bays through the winter, and I hope you
get a deal on the walk somewhere along the line
and get them into the nines. Or even could be
ten dollars in the spring, so it there'd be good
money if we do that. We've got plenty of winter
feed to get them ticking through, and they're in pretty
good shake now. So no, we're looking forward to that,

(01:58):
but we need it. It's been a tough eighteen months past,
so that's good to see if you brought lots, that's
for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, and I'm glad that Lamb and Muttons are going well.
The wall market was no good again yesterday's stelo and
this is just not being helped at all by the
international uncertainty.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Now. Well, obviously a lot of our walking the strong
wall goes to China on occasions and they can convert
them into something. But if if mister Trump's going to
put some terraffs on them, he has only helped there
the manufacturing side of things.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Is it so where every morning you wake up, stew
and there's a new he slapped another one on there
at about one hundred and fifty percent or something at
the moment.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, yeah, not very good to have an email address
in China at the moment. I wouldn't think of you
all right.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Just quickly, Hurricanes Crusaders. You're a former Crusaders, stew Low,
this will be well, I think Crusader. I think Crusaders
will win this even though they're away.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah, hopefully it'll be pretty even. Gain the two good
Ford pets and hopefully yeah, but the bets can finish
off a few good moves and get a few tries.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
And Stu Duncan. Our Highlanders are up against the drawer
in Duneda and tomorrow night. I hope it chills off
a week. But because those are the drawer are a good.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Side, Yeah, they are the whole they go some fency
becks to me. They're going pretty good, but they've had
a few unlucky losses that know, the big tough games. No,
they're good. Two good sides.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, and Michelle's come up with the bet of the
week taking Moana pacifica unders unders Here you go against
the Highlanders, not against the Highlanders, against the Blues and
that'll pay you the Princely Summer five dollars seventy five.
But actually, don't take advice from me because I am
literally I'm the world's worst driver, but I'm also the

(03:53):
world's worst sports better