September 17, 2025 • 9 mins
Geordie Eade say the rainfall figures on his farm near Riverton for September are on a par with last year.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
We're away to the river ere of the South, which
is Riverton. This is the must of the song is
bored in the USA, or daddy was born in the USA.
But Jordy Eat is farming over at Riverton joins us
this afternoon. He is a dairy farm to go to
go along with the sheep farming operation. Good afternoon, Jordi,
or that doesn't sound as it's too good.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, that's a bit of a challenge any here you can.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh, look, we're hoping over here. But the figure is
these rainfall figures. Do you tell me before the rain
you've had for September go through these figures for us?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, it was pretty funny, you said people in the USA.
But like Forrest Gump, we've had sideways rain. We fed
upwards rain, We'll faid. We haven't had much just straight
downwards rain. But we've had for September return in twenty mil.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's almost lamb last year's proportions, is it not.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, we're two twenty for the whole September last year,
so we're running the head with September. We've had. We've
been on this farm. We've been here in two thousand
and one was twenty ten in the snowstorm, we had
two sixties. We're we're on track for a record or
it's going to be a dry second half of September.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
How did August treat you would have been pretty good
on imagine, all things considered, butch in Away was a savior. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well it still one hundred and twenty odd melts, but
you know, probably a bit warmer, but you know, the
dry July, so I would have said it was probably
a dry, well fed air dry time of the year.
Sort of got indication from a couple of mates we've
been ever drought, but no, I think we'll fair air
dry time of the year.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, so your rainfall figures will be on power with
what you traditionally have, probably above again.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, now we've caught straight back up again. So yeah,
so I would think we're probably just gonna have a
normal everge rainfall year of around that thirteen fourteen hundred
melts for the season. And I would say as we
see the year.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Well it's it's the eighteenth of February, eighteenth to September.
You've had what just on nine inches, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, yeah, well we had thirty eight meals just on
Saturday alone, and most of that came pure sideways. So
I don't know how rain gate has worked, but I
suppose are the angle works. But yeah, it got thirty
eight mills that day in it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
As far as the lambing situation, you're probably running the
guts of it as well.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, right in the guts of it now. I took
the decision this year to sort of lamb about three
days later, and that was probably a bit of a savior.
I just when they had dead lamb telly up there
or forty least than last year. So that's probably a
bit of a positive, even though a bit more rain,
but grass covers are definitely happened more than I had
this time last year. And with at the next lot
to start lemon yesterday, and you know, I've been old.
(02:34):
I've been able to have sort of three days later
that then going out too will have been a bit
of a benefit. So you know, in all positive, it's nice.
I've had nice to see a bit of wind, but
not extreme like we've had because the wind does dry
things out of it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And you're so temperature today over there Riverton ten degrees.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, well that's surprising. Yeah, if you'd asked me what
it was, I wouldn't have sety ten degrees because we
certainly do need it to grow a bit, because it
hasn't grown much in the last ten days.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Well, would you have said it was probably about six
to seven?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh, yes, exactly. Yeah, yeah, I would have seen above
the six, but probably the seven seven ish, I would
have said, because we definitely haven't been you know, that's
probably only just climbed out because of the last two
or three days. But you know, at the weekend, I
would have said it was probably six or seven.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
So how are your feed covers?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, on the sheet farm here, not too bad. Every
farmer on the second round we sort of do something
a bit different there. We just sort of probably gallop
around and try not do past damage, and then second
round and we up and shed feeding or do silent.
I don't see much. Yeah, I'm sort of new to
the dairy game that I don't see much and damaging
passes and trying to push that that first round out
(03:40):
to the end of September, and then stuff you passes
along the way that doesn't go with me. So yeah,
so I sort of find it's better just to you know,
south and it's going to come right somewhere along the line.
And I mean last year it took a bit longer,
but yeah, you normally get it out in the long run.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
As far as carving that it'll be well through, I'd imagine.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, know, well through. We're down to sort of the
last sort of fifteen, so things have really gone well there.
We're ahead of production, not so much for the year yet,
we're going to be shortly, but we're head of for September.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So how intensive on the lambing bee are you?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh, I'm still reasoning intends I do the morning an afternoon.
But it's nice sort of since we had the dry
fun the sheep don't scan the high I used to
atraditionally scan around that two teen was. Now I'm down
around that one nineteen, so I don't have quite the
triples I used to them. That has removed a lot
of more work. But you know, one of the biggest things,
I think probably for the lambing that we've used in
(04:34):
the last four or five years, the dextros into the stomach,
and I'm quite a bigidificate of that, and that sort
of saved a lot of more time and ease. And
you know, I can get these lambs inside and they
don't have to have their clossrom straight away, you know.
Then get on the warm and get warmed up. Then
get the clossroom when they've sort of come around a.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Bit, because you go into wool sheds around the south
at the moment and all you can see is lambs
just under cover under the warmth of the hate lamp
or whatever. There's coffee mags everywhere, there's music going, because
that's just part and pass and unfortunately it seems as
though the mother nature is giving us another serve.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, it's part and past and I you know, when
the weather is fine used today for it is probably
called a pleasurable sort of a job and you only
enjoy a beer there. We have a few drinks sitting
on the on the and the fridge the end that
you can act a variety at the end of the
day and when it's a nice good day, it's quite
a pleasurable to sit the in habit of the yard
and what's gone down.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, that's a great tip you bring up there as well, Geordy,
because we coincidentally so have the Rettal Support Trusts. Katrina
Thomas Design she's speaking the beef and lambs stot this afternoon,
but asking farmers about tips what they do at this
time of year, just to deviate away from the norm,
to break up the monoton the other day, especially when
mother nature isn't playing. Well, what's a couple of other
things you reckon? Are a good idea?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Well, another one is I go to the Rainbow Confectory
nearly empty them out of seconds lollies, and so I
always have lolly's on hand and the sheet there so
when you ever walking past, you can just grab a
lolly and chewing up for the next half an hour,
so or a lollipop or something like that, you know,
just something to change the scenery. And I mean it's
quite good because the kids. The kids are pretty keen
(06:09):
to come and get it too. When the it's holly involved.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Those pair of over lollies kicked.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
But oh yeah, you know we had to run on
the year. Actually, I think we've got there that much
of them. We haven't really got them there this year really.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So we can blame you for that.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, they weren't on the tickens popular.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
We talk about the situation on hered as well. Look,
that's the big thing at the moment isn't it Just
trying to keep yourself fresh when you're going through groundhog
Day when the weather isn't playing balls. So just offering
tips and just catching up with mates, sending a snap
sending and getting on a WhatsApp group or whatever, and
just chewing the fat, taking the purse. You just do
what you got to do.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh, you're definitely over Ruber Hopcroft. And we're probably in
communication two or three teachers a day of it. And
if I'm not seeing them on the road, and I mean,
you know, you just always touch the base. And I've
got another mates and deeply when we peaked Thompson at
Thompson's Crossing, and I mean we're always in communication one another.
Just haven a bit of a laugh and you know
you've got to see the sun comes out and see
out the new service does get you down, but yeah,
(07:10):
they just got to hope that it comes out the
long run. I mean, we just killed the last of
their dreg gleabs last two days ago and teen dollars thirty.
I just hope we can still keep a portion of
that when we actually do start killing lambs. That would
be that great.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
That's as good as money as you're saying for red meat.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Oh either, yeah, totally, yeah, you know, and to get
that sort of money for Italian lambs. It's just you know,
we left at the wrong time, shouldn't we be you know,
it sort of makes an embarrassment, really is when you
come to December and that you know we need the money,
get in the smart and.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Just before we finish up as well. I mean you
can talk about positives, the steaks. They've got the chance
for redemption this weekend. Alright, you just got to flash
the Daddy on Sunday. That was terrible what they served
up at Rugby Park. So they've got Wellington I think
they might not have beaten them since two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, they've got I just saw there this morning too,
the sort of without two of their strike when yeah
they've been bad boys, Yeah, been bad boys, but they
sort of looked as though that they probably need a
bit of a spell anyway. But yeah, it was pretty
bad weekend. Ready to be a South all blacks. I
don't know whether it get any worse. I mean, whether
that stuff sort of comes in threes, I don't know,
(08:19):
but yeah, Southern I would have said probably the Southern's
performance was actually even worse than the All Blacks one.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Really yeah, that last ten minutes, all those tries just
appeared out of nowhere, and at one stage Ame Amim
appeared saying, stop it. They're dead already, the old Simpson's quote.
But we go again to stag fans of nothing else,
the golden ness on the left. We live in hope.
Always got to catch up, Jordy Red, and appreciate your time.
When the battle's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Let the sunshine see.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Jordy ed over at Riverton hardly the river era of
the South was more of a weaver of the river
at the South two hundred and twenty mils so far
for September. There's some rainfall. Figure Joseph Mine here, people said,
oftens up next lease power man,
We're away to the river ere of the South, which
is Riverton. This is the must of the song is
bored in the USA, or daddy was born in the USA.
But Jordy Eat is farming over at Riverton joins us
this afternoon. He is a dairy farm to go to
go along with the sheep farming operation. Good afternoon, Jordi,
or that doesn't sound as it's too good.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, that's a bit of a challenge any here you can.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh, look, we're hoping over here. But the figure is
these rainfall figures. Do you tell me before the rain
you've had for September go through these figures for us?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, it was pretty funny, you said people in the USA.
But like Forrest Gump, we've had sideways rain. We fed
upwards rain, We'll faid. We haven't had much just straight
downwards rain. But we've had for September return in twenty mil.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's almost lamb last year's proportions, is it not.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, we're two twenty for the whole September last year,
so we're running the head with September. We've had. We've
been on this farm. We've been here in two thousand
and one was twenty ten in the snowstorm, we had
two sixties. We're we're on track for a record or
it's going to be a dry second half of September.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
How did August treat you would have been pretty good
on imagine, all things considered, butch in Away was a savior. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well it still one hundred and twenty odd melts, but
you know, probably a bit warmer, but you know, the
dry July, so I would have said it was probably
a dry, well fed air dry time of the year.
Sort of got indication from a couple of mates we've
been ever drought, but no, I think we'll fair air
dry time of the year.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, so your rainfall figures will be on power with
what you traditionally have, probably above again.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, now we've caught straight back up again. So yeah,
so I would think we're probably just gonna have a
normal everge rainfall year of around that thirteen fourteen hundred
melts for the season. And I would say as we
see the year.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Well it's it's the eighteenth of February, eighteenth to September.
You've had what just on nine inches, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, yeah, well we had thirty eight meals just on
Saturday alone, and most of that came pure sideways. So
I don't know how rain gate has worked, but I
suppose are the angle works. But yeah, it got thirty
eight mills that day in it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
As far as the lambing situation, you're probably running the
guts of it as well.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, right in the guts of it now. I took
the decision this year to sort of lamb about three
days later, and that was probably a bit of a savior.
I just when they had dead lamb telly up there
or forty least than last year. So that's probably a
bit of a positive, even though a bit more rain,
but grass covers are definitely happened more than I had
this time last year. And with at the next lot
to start lemon yesterday, and you know, I've been old.
(02:34):
I've been able to have sort of three days later
that then going out too will have been a bit
of a benefit. So you know, in all positive, it's nice.
I've had nice to see a bit of wind, but
not extreme like we've had because the wind does dry
things out of it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And you're so temperature today over there Riverton ten degrees.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, well that's surprising. Yeah, if you'd asked me what
it was, I wouldn't have sety ten degrees because we
certainly do need it to grow a bit, because it
hasn't grown much in the last ten days.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Well, would you have said it was probably about six
to seven?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh, yes, exactly. Yeah, yeah, I would have seen above
the six, but probably the seven seven ish, I would
have said, because we definitely haven't been you know, that's
probably only just climbed out because of the last two
or three days. But you know, at the weekend, I
would have said it was probably six or seven.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
So how are your feed covers?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, on the sheet farm here, not too bad. Every
farmer on the second round we sort of do something
a bit different there. We just sort of probably gallop
around and try not do past damage, and then second
round and we up and shed feeding or do silent.
I don't see much. Yeah, I'm sort of new to
the dairy game that I don't see much and damaging
passes and trying to push that that first round out
(03:40):
to the end of September, and then stuff you passes
along the way that doesn't go with me. So yeah,
so I sort of find it's better just to you know,
south and it's going to come right somewhere along the line.
And I mean last year it took a bit longer,
but yeah, you normally get it out in the long run.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
As far as carving that it'll be well through, I'd imagine.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, know, well through. We're down to sort of the
last sort of fifteen, so things have really gone well there.
We're ahead of production, not so much for the year yet,
we're going to be shortly, but we're head of for September.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So how intensive on the lambing bee are you?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh, I'm still reasoning intends I do the morning an afternoon.
But it's nice sort of since we had the dry
fun the sheep don't scan the high I used to
atraditionally scan around that two teen was. Now I'm down
around that one nineteen, so I don't have quite the
triples I used to them. That has removed a lot
of more work. But you know, one of the biggest things,
I think probably for the lambing that we've used in
(04:34):
the last four or five years, the dextros into the stomach,
and I'm quite a bigidificate of that, and that sort
of saved a lot of more time and ease. And
you know, I can get these lambs inside and they
don't have to have their clossrom straight away, you know.
Then get on the warm and get warmed up. Then
get the clossroom when they've sort of come around a.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Bit, because you go into wool sheds around the south
at the moment and all you can see is lambs
just under cover under the warmth of the hate lamp
or whatever. There's coffee mags everywhere, there's music going, because
that's just part and pass and unfortunately it seems as
though the mother nature is giving us another serve.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, it's part and past and I you know, when
the weather is fine used today for it is probably
called a pleasurable sort of a job and you only
enjoy a beer there. We have a few drinks sitting
on the on the and the fridge the end that
you can act a variety at the end of the
day and when it's a nice good day, it's quite
a pleasurable to sit the in habit of the yard
and what's gone down.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, that's a great tip you bring up there as well, Geordy,
because we coincidentally so have the Rettal Support Trusts. Katrina
Thomas Design she's speaking the beef and lambs stot this afternoon,
but asking farmers about tips what they do at this
time of year, just to deviate away from the norm,
to break up the monoton the other day, especially when
mother nature isn't playing. Well, what's a couple of other
things you reckon? Are a good idea?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Well, another one is I go to the Rainbow Confectory
nearly empty them out of seconds lollies, and so I
always have lolly's on hand and the sheet there so
when you ever walking past, you can just grab a
lolly and chewing up for the next half an hour,
so or a lollipop or something like that, you know,
just something to change the scenery. And I mean it's
quite good because the kids. The kids are pretty keen
(06:09):
to come and get it too. When the it's holly involved.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Those pair of over lollies kicked.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
But oh yeah, you know we had to run on
the year. Actually, I think we've got there that much
of them. We haven't really got them there this year really.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So we can blame you for that.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, they weren't on the tickens popular.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
We talk about the situation on hered as well. Look,
that's the big thing at the moment isn't it Just
trying to keep yourself fresh when you're going through groundhog
Day when the weather isn't playing balls. So just offering
tips and just catching up with mates, sending a snap
sending and getting on a WhatsApp group or whatever, and
just chewing the fat, taking the purse. You just do
what you got to do.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh, you're definitely over Ruber Hopcroft. And we're probably in
communication two or three teachers a day of it. And
if I'm not seeing them on the road, and I mean,
you know, you just always touch the base. And I've
got another mates and deeply when we peaked Thompson at
Thompson's Crossing, and I mean we're always in communication one another.
Just haven a bit of a laugh and you know
you've got to see the sun comes out and see
out the new service does get you down, but yeah,
(07:10):
they just got to hope that it comes out the
long run. I mean, we just killed the last of
their dreg gleabs last two days ago and teen dollars thirty.
I just hope we can still keep a portion of
that when we actually do start killing lambs. That would
be that great.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
That's as good as money as you're saying for red meat.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Oh either, yeah, totally, yeah, you know, and to get
that sort of money for Italian lambs. It's just you know,
we left at the wrong time, shouldn't we be you know,
it sort of makes an embarrassment, really is when you
come to December and that you know we need the money,
get in the smart and.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Just before we finish up as well. I mean you
can talk about positives, the steaks. They've got the chance
for redemption this weekend. Alright, you just got to flash
the Daddy on Sunday. That was terrible what they served
up at Rugby Park. So they've got Wellington I think
they might not have beaten them since two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, they've got I just saw there this morning too,
the sort of without two of their strike when yeah
they've been bad boys, Yeah, been bad boys, but they
sort of looked as though that they probably need a
bit of a spell anyway. But yeah, it was pretty
bad weekend. Ready to be a South all blacks. I
don't know whether it get any worse. I mean, whether
that stuff sort of comes in threes, I don't know,
(08:19):
but yeah, Southern I would have said probably the Southern's
performance was actually even worse than the All Blacks one.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Really yeah, that last ten minutes, all those tries just
appeared out of nowhere, and at one stage Ame Amim
appeared saying, stop it. They're dead already, the old Simpson's quote.
But we go again to stag fans of nothing else,
the golden ness on the left. We live in hope.
Always got to catch up, Jordy Red, and appreciate your time.
When the battle's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Let the sunshine see.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Jordy ed over at Riverton hardly the river era of
the South was more of a weaver of the river
at the South two hundred and twenty mils so far
for September. There's some rainfall. Figure Joseph Mine here, people said,
oftens up next lease power man,
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