November 6, 2025 • 8 mins
Today’s farmer panel features the 2024 and 2025, respectively, Young Farmers of the Year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Farmer Panel with the Iszuzu Dmax, the Kiwi Ute
built off.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
With truck DNA.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Smagan came away.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Oh you are okay. It is today's Farmer Panel twenty
twenty four, twenty twenty five Young Farmers of the Year
George Dodson and Hugh Jackson, and here will start with
you as the incumbent Young Farmer of the Year. We
don't normally do requests on this show, but this is
your musical request. The bush Buds of the song is
(00:33):
called good Company. Did I get that right?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You sure, Jamie?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's it's an absolute bang of the song and the
bush Buds they've got some good music, good Kiwi band
and a good lad of mine. F McColl is the
lead singing guitarist there and Young Farmers fellow, Young Farmer's mate.
So it's great to see them doing some awesome stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
So where do the bush Buds hail from?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Taranaki? There? So it's from the Taranaki man and he
along with his brother and dad and a few others. Yeah,
they've really hidden their strips and doing some cool stuff.
So go along and give it a list and you'll
won't be disappointed.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well, we are sampling it, as they say, and Radio Hugh, well,
I've still got you talking about Young Farmers you too, obviously.
The Young Farmer district competitions are on. You go from
the districts to the regionals to the Grand Final if
you're good enough.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. We've had like at about any
district last Saturday and had a cracking Summer's day for it.
And twenty seven entrants was a good turnout in the
end and some testing modules, so it's great to find
that top eight and send them through to the next
stage and start the season again.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You and George not only share titles as Young Farmers
of the Year, I think you both cut your teeth
and saying this George at the Thornberry Young Farmer Club
in Southland.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, that's correct. That's actually where I met you. So yeah, yeah,
pretty close to our hearts, i'd say that club.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
You've got a ninetieth reunion coming up. Are you both
heading down?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, I'm helping me out.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Sorry, One at a time, lads, One at a time.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You go too, Yeah, yeah, heading down next Saturday. It's
going to be an awesome, awesome event down there and
make sure you get along. If you you've been involved
with the club, or even if you've just been involved
with young farmers down those ways, it's going to be
a really cool event.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
George. Are you going down as well from your Canterbury
dairy farm?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Unfortunately not, Jamie. We're right in the thick of mating.
We've on our fourth day of mating now, so quite
at the moment, and a little bit short on staff,
so I wasn't quite able to make it happen.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
All right, Well here you're going down. You didn't bring
your chainsaw down with you to Southland and make yourself
fall over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, I'll definitely have to pack it all right, Jamie.
They've had a rough run down there, for sure, and
it's pretty tough. Two springs in the row having some
some rougherea So thoughts and and prayers go out to
them and hopefully I think it's some good weather soon.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
They've been hammered by the wind. George. I keep forgetting
where you were. You were in Dunsandal, but you've moved
somewhere else, haven't you.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, I'm sort of near Darfield now, I've just gone
a bit more inland.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, Okay, so we know that a bit further up
the road in North Canterbury, it's got a hell of
a hiding, especially in the Culvern and area there. How
did you guys fear with the big win A couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
We got off quite lucky, to be fair, We had
about probably an hour of probably the worst wind that
I've ever seen, but it blew through pretty quick and
apart from that one hour, probably wasn't even the windiest
day of that week, to be fair for us.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Uh, while I've got you, because you've all you've all
got some topics you want to talk about. I'll stay
with you, George. You want to talk about the Dairy
Industry Awards. I note a bit like the Young Farmers
which is up and underway for next season. The nominations
are open now for the Dairy Industry Awards.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yes, you can actually enter yourself for all the dairy
industry awards. So they are closing I think on the
fifth of December, so if you're a dairy traine or
a dairy manager or a sheer farmer. And there's also
a few new awards such as the Alumni of the
Year now, so there's a bit of something for everyone,
So if you're a dairy farmer, then get stuck into it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Are you worried about the downward trend in the global
dairy trade auction? We haven't had a positive one since
the beginning of August.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
No, it's certainly a little bit concerning, isn't it. But
I think we all knew it was coming, right. It's
been a couple decent payouts in a year, and especially
last season with a ten dollars plus payout. When you
dairy is pretty cyclical, and it was always going to
come down at some point.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Not affecting the cow price. I note that cows which
was sort of not languishing. I guess it's not languishing
if you're in the market to buy them. But eighteen
hundred to two grand now three thousand to three and
a half thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
The value units, oh, incredibly expensive. And I've just seen
a dairy farm down at require has sold just in
the last week for a record in Canterbury of eighty
six thousand dollars a hect here, so pretty phenomenal money
and dairy at the moment.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, now that's an a too farm, right Yep. That's
got all the bells and whistles.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, so very high performance I speak farm.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yes, eighty six thousand a heck there, it's almost like
a keyw fruit auction. What about you you, Hugh, you're
a sheep and beef farmer in the North Island. Remind
me where you're farming again? Sorry, I should be better
prepared for this, right the Mighty.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Tiac out, Yes, right on the North coast, just that coast,
just north of Raglam there.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So, and how's your season going?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Good?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Good, thank you. Yeah, we've we've had some good rain
up till the last week and we're starting to really
dry it now. Some hot days and warm temperatures, but
we cannot we can cannot really complain. There's been obviously
some dry temperatures and the Hawks band the likes of that,
so we're in a good spot really.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You also want to touch today on mental fitness and
that's been tested for a lot of farmers in the
past couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. It's never never easy sing trees
fall down and too much water or too much done.
So it's important to make sure you look after yourself
and get out there. A really important reminder. So this
week for me and at home pretty hard. One of
my neighbors passed away pretty unexpected expectively, and I'm actually
(06:37):
just finished the funeral proceedings today, so it sort of
put things in perspective a bit. And you've got to
make sure that when the sea's flat or when the
conditions are right, you get out there and make the
most of the things, because you never know what's around the corner.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, George Dodson, Getting off farm so important, obviously very
difficult for you dairy farmers at this time of the year.
You've just got through carving, you're now on mating, you're
making silence. It's all in some ways, it's the perfect
storm of work.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I just try to get off a little bit every day,
you know, and try get out to the young farmers meetings.
Even though we're quite busy end of the day, we
can still make a couple of hours in the evening.
So whether it's just making time for a small thing
like taking a partner out to the pub for a
quick meal or going down the river for a quick
swim after work, you can make it work. It's just
maybe a little bit less time than you'd hope for
during the likes of summer and the quiet times a year.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And one final one, George, you wanted to comment on
the Super Rugby team announcement. You're not one of those
Crusaders fans, are you?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Definitely not, Jamie hundred percent up the Highlanders. So it's
good to see our team looking so positive and a
good opportunity to build heading into twenty twenty seven when
we do get Josh Jacob joining us as well. So
good couple of years coming up for Highlanders there.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, I reckon we get Josh Jacob. Mind's you Cam
Miller's doing all right the Gore boy, but we get
Josh Jacob and Dylan Pleasure nine and in twenty twenty
seven Jamie Joseph coaching. Yeah, I think I watch out
for the Highlanders.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, for sure. It's going to be a World Cup year.
World Cup year as well. And we know what happened
in twenty fifteen who won the supertitle in when All
Black class won the World Cup. So could we get
a bit of bit of Dajobu?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah? Okay, and Hugh for your sons, who do you support?
You'll be a chiefs man, you have to be.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, chiefs Man Jamie Sertz. We've got close to the
last couple of years and I'm sure they'll give it
another good nuts this year.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well the perennial bridesmaids, So here's some of the bush buds.
The song is called good Company. You two have been
good company today on the show. George Jodson, Hugh A.
Jackson our Farmer panel for Today
The Farmer Panel with the Iszuzu Dmax, the Kiwi Ute
built off.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
With truck DNA.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Smagan came away.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Oh you are okay. It is today's Farmer Panel twenty
twenty four, twenty twenty five Young Farmers of the Year
George Dodson and Hugh Jackson, and here will start with
you as the incumbent Young Farmer of the Year. We
don't normally do requests on this show, but this is
your musical request. The bush Buds of the song is
(00:33):
called good Company. Did I get that right?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You sure, Jamie?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's it's an absolute bang of the song and the
bush Buds they've got some good music, good Kiwi band
and a good lad of mine. F McColl is the
lead singing guitarist there and Young Farmers fellow, Young Farmer's mate.
So it's great to see them doing some awesome stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
So where do the bush Buds hail from?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Taranaki? There? So it's from the Taranaki man and he
along with his brother and dad and a few others. Yeah,
they've really hidden their strips and doing some cool stuff.
So go along and give it a list and you'll
won't be disappointed.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well, we are sampling it, as they say, and Radio Hugh, well,
I've still got you talking about Young Farmers you too, obviously.
The Young Farmer district competitions are on. You go from
the districts to the regionals to the Grand Final if
you're good enough.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. We've had like at about any
district last Saturday and had a cracking Summer's day for it.
And twenty seven entrants was a good turnout in the
end and some testing modules, so it's great to find
that top eight and send them through to the next
stage and start the season again.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You and George not only share titles as Young Farmers
of the Year, I think you both cut your teeth
and saying this George at the Thornberry Young Farmer Club
in Southland.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, that's correct. That's actually where I met you. So yeah, yeah,
pretty close to our hearts, i'd say that club.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
You've got a ninetieth reunion coming up. Are you both
heading down?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, I'm helping me out.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Sorry, One at a time, lads, One at a time.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You go too, Yeah, yeah, heading down next Saturday. It's
going to be an awesome, awesome event down there and
make sure you get along. If you you've been involved
with the club, or even if you've just been involved
with young farmers down those ways, it's going to be
a really cool event.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
George. Are you going down as well from your Canterbury
dairy farm?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Unfortunately not, Jamie. We're right in the thick of mating.
We've on our fourth day of mating now, so quite
at the moment, and a little bit short on staff,
so I wasn't quite able to make it happen.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
All right, Well here you're going down. You didn't bring
your chainsaw down with you to Southland and make yourself
fall over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, I'll definitely have to pack it all right, Jamie.
They've had a rough run down there, for sure, and
it's pretty tough. Two springs in the row having some
some rougherea So thoughts and and prayers go out to
them and hopefully I think it's some good weather soon.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
They've been hammered by the wind. George. I keep forgetting
where you were. You were in Dunsandal, but you've moved
somewhere else, haven't you.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, I'm sort of near Darfield now, I've just gone
a bit more inland.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, Okay, so we know that a bit further up
the road in North Canterbury, it's got a hell of
a hiding, especially in the Culvern and area there. How
did you guys fear with the big win A couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
We got off quite lucky, to be fair, We had
about probably an hour of probably the worst wind that
I've ever seen, but it blew through pretty quick and
apart from that one hour, probably wasn't even the windiest
day of that week, to be fair for us.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Uh, while I've got you, because you've all you've all
got some topics you want to talk about. I'll stay
with you, George. You want to talk about the Dairy
Industry Awards. I note a bit like the Young Farmers
which is up and underway for next season. The nominations
are open now for the Dairy Industry Awards.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yes, you can actually enter yourself for all the dairy
industry awards. So they are closing I think on the
fifth of December, so if you're a dairy traine or
a dairy manager or a sheer farmer. And there's also
a few new awards such as the Alumni of the
Year now, so there's a bit of something for everyone,
So if you're a dairy farmer, then get stuck into it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Are you worried about the downward trend in the global
dairy trade auction? We haven't had a positive one since
the beginning of August.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
No, it's certainly a little bit concerning, isn't it. But
I think we all knew it was coming, right. It's
been a couple decent payouts in a year, and especially
last season with a ten dollars plus payout. When you
dairy is pretty cyclical, and it was always going to
come down at some point.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Not affecting the cow price. I note that cows which
was sort of not languishing. I guess it's not languishing
if you're in the market to buy them. But eighteen
hundred to two grand now three thousand to three and
a half thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
The value units, oh, incredibly expensive. And I've just seen
a dairy farm down at require has sold just in
the last week for a record in Canterbury of eighty
six thousand dollars a hect here, so pretty phenomenal money
and dairy at the moment.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, now that's an a too farm, right Yep. That's
got all the bells and whistles.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, so very high performance I speak farm.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yes, eighty six thousand a heck there, it's almost like
a keyw fruit auction. What about you you, Hugh, you're
a sheep and beef farmer in the North Island. Remind
me where you're farming again? Sorry, I should be better
prepared for this, right the Mighty.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Tiac out, Yes, right on the North coast, just that coast,
just north of Raglam there.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So, and how's your season going?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Good?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Good, thank you. Yeah, we've we've had some good rain
up till the last week and we're starting to really
dry it now. Some hot days and warm temperatures, but
we cannot we can cannot really complain. There's been obviously
some dry temperatures and the Hawks band the likes of that,
so we're in a good spot really.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You also want to touch today on mental fitness and
that's been tested for a lot of farmers in the
past couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. It's never never easy sing trees
fall down and too much water or too much done.
So it's important to make sure you look after yourself
and get out there. A really important reminder. So this
week for me and at home pretty hard. One of
my neighbors passed away pretty unexpected expectively, and I'm actually
(06:37):
just finished the funeral proceedings today, so it sort of
put things in perspective a bit. And you've got to
make sure that when the sea's flat or when the
conditions are right, you get out there and make the
most of the things, because you never know what's around the corner.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, George Dodson, Getting off farm so important, obviously very
difficult for you dairy farmers at this time of the year.
You've just got through carving, you're now on mating, you're
making silence. It's all in some ways, it's the perfect
storm of work.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I just try to get off a little bit every day,
you know, and try get out to the young farmers meetings.
Even though we're quite busy end of the day, we
can still make a couple of hours in the evening.
So whether it's just making time for a small thing
like taking a partner out to the pub for a
quick meal or going down the river for a quick
swim after work, you can make it work. It's just
maybe a little bit less time than you'd hope for
during the likes of summer and the quiet times a year.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And one final one, George, you wanted to comment on
the Super Rugby team announcement. You're not one of those
Crusaders fans, are you?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Definitely not, Jamie hundred percent up the Highlanders. So it's
good to see our team looking so positive and a
good opportunity to build heading into twenty twenty seven when
we do get Josh Jacob joining us as well. So
good couple of years coming up for Highlanders there.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, I reckon we get Josh Jacob. Mind's you Cam
Miller's doing all right the Gore boy, but we get
Josh Jacob and Dylan Pleasure nine and in twenty twenty
seven Jamie Joseph coaching. Yeah, I think I watch out
for the Highlanders.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, for sure. It's going to be a World Cup year.
World Cup year as well. And we know what happened
in twenty fifteen who won the supertitle in when All
Black class won the World Cup. So could we get
a bit of bit of Dajobu?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah? Okay, and Hugh for your sons, who do you support?
You'll be a chiefs man, you have to be.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, chiefs Man Jamie Sertz. We've got close to the
last couple of years and I'm sure they'll give it
another good nuts this year.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well the perennial bridesmaids, So here's some of the bush buds.
The song is called good Company. You two have been
good company today on the show. George Jodson, Hugh A.
Jackson our Farmer panel for Today
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