November 18, 2025 • 8 mins
Steve Henderson says a busy November hasn't dampened enthusiasm on the farm as the tractor work gets into full swing.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome back to the Muster before we catch up with
Steve Henderson. The Muster Events Diary brought to you by
Beef and Lamb New Zealand. Click beeflambenzed dot com Beef
and Lamb New Zealand's latest We're in Moyes workshop from
Milk to Meat. It's happening at the Gore Golf Clubs Thursday,
November the twenty seventh, That is tomorrow week on Tterry Road.
(00:25):
Beeflaminz dot Com, Slash Offensive Register all about tackling flock performance,
looking at body condition, scoring on news after weaning and
just yeah, you know what, you know what the go
is for the team from Beef for Lamb New Zealand.
Happening next week at the golf at the golf at
the Gore Golf Club. Latest Wear and Wiys Workshop. Steve
Henderson farming down at Oh oh, good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
How are you afternoon, Andy, I'm not too dead. Actually,
her thing's gone up there.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, it's a beautiful day. It's like twenty three degrees.
Forecasts are high today. Tourists everywhere around town. There is
a real vibe in detail.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, yes, it's been a mintor eight I think the
fact that they can so to our self has made
a hour afer weather.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, but the problem is a sed A scheduled for January.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I will need January. It'll be fine, not maybe not
so much a few days piece, but as a farmer, yes.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We need absolutely. I mean field day, Southern field Day's
coming around sooner the later. How's everything looking on the
farm though, Are you getting those trees under control?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yep, yep, we've yeah spake last time. We've got them
more cleaned off the lines and got pair all resurrected
and everything's pretty much as it was. We've just got
quite a few piles when we'll take a bit of
fireway out of the mix and and get them heaped
up and burnt when time permits. But it's probably just
just keeping an eye on in calf kills now going
(01:45):
into peddocks with mecca cap pulled up on them so
smoking sore. We fenced them and make sure pairs on
the fence, and the other last thing we want is
to go through and have a dose of that Meca kappa. Yes,
it may be worse for them than the third trimester,
but still.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
A bit of a risk of losing a feeders.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So yeah, yep, just keeping neck a capa up bay
until we burn it and I think we'll be back
under control another couple of four weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So you're busy with mating at the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, yep. So we just finished. We'll finish here into
the first three weeks on Saturday. So as a whole,
mata's been down pretty good. There's always good pub talk
when you talk about it, submission rates and stuff. But yeah,
where we're on, we're actually about five percent hit last year,
and last year was reasonably good. We had it was
eighty one submitted in the first three weeks, so we
(02:34):
don't well we Paige can get ad old chaos. But
other than that year, there's no seeds, were not too
much interventions.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So yeah, we're tracking pretty good and.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
You can you can hit as many as submitted as
you want.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
But it's all about in calf for that first three weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So yeah, non return rights will tell a story from
next week.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Would you say mating's a stressful time of year or
just a matter of it's just a matter of effect
for the time of season.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah. I often talk to stuff and you talk to
a lot of people about it. They oh, are you
ready for carving, and like carving's carving's pus easy. There's
nothing else happening at that time of the years, literally carving.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
So yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Right now yet made it. It's not stressful, it's just
tim consuming, you know, as there's a person there grabbing
cals and you obviously got the tech turning up, so
that's one person tied up there. And you're also right
now we're waning calves literally right now, you know, the
top and patents and cultivation trying to get seed in
the ground. Yeah, there's a lot going on at the
(03:32):
time of the year. It's just managing what needs to
be done at first, and then you go stecking at
the third. So yeah, I think the top of the
air the heack of a lot more busy, not necessarily
more stressful, but just busier. And you're just pretty good
at your time management and human air deallocation.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
So ground conditions there are pretty good.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Starting to get better would be how you describe that. So, yeah,
we're still pretty dead. We haven't had any disk come
off the back of the pair, how are yet? So
I suppose God's and central up and there'll be a
bit easy of so bit, but they probably didn't catch
as much rain as we did during those.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Winds and stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So yeah, we were getting seed in the ground, and
we actually just had to resource some summer turnips. We
put some in three weeks ago and it's all two
much is played out at about eight degrees, so a
lot of them rotted. So we're going to scratch a
few more than hopefully today tomorrow we've got them back
for februry grading.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So temperatures all around twelve to thirteen degrees at the
moment as you'd expect.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, yeah, definitely, and and hindsight TOAs goodhead I know,
and that we were going to have another you know,
two or three weeks of eight degrees all temperatures, we
would have never put them in the ground, but we
were sort of on that false rising plane and then we.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Had that crip come through.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So and you've got to get your summer turnips and
reasonably early. So you've got the turnaround to get you
young grass grazed before we dry off. So well with
this as their last week this window, so if we
don't get them in this week, we'll you probably grass
the grass them and go down a different.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Train so how many paddics are summer turnips are you
putting in?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Ah, we're doing about ten heap tears on one place
and then about fourteen on the other place. So it's
just enough to do about two or three kilos of
their diet for about forty days to push that round about.
And it's also a bit of a regrassing regime. Some
of those petics are bit tired, so it does just
up up your rear grassing rates. So and it also
gives a bit of opportunity to do some drainage a
(05:21):
bit of development rather than through the winter crop phase
when you can sort of do it within three or
four months and get that pedic as good as kN be.
So yeah, we've done it for a few years and
last year we missed out of one farm getting the
turnip in and it was yeah we needed it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
So yeah, we use a lot of.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Things silver gat but turnips is obviously still a very
cheap feed and why you need to keep kill of
milking through that debris Late January, Debrie.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Would you call it a safety need as such for summer?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I think it is.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You know, it's a yeah double sword a year. You
don't need your turnip stuff ground really well, high yielding.
You've got a lot of grass, but you still got that,
you know, preheat, You've still got to grow as much
well not necessarily grasped as much drying as you can.
So yes, you've grown all the turns you need to
deep but so you can harvested grass and put it
(06:11):
into a little put it into onto crop.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
So yeah, I don't think that's either a lose by
putting turn ofs in, but some years you don't need them,
but you'll always make use of it out of grass.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
So it is a good a strange policy.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Now you've gone away from grass wan terrain putting in swedes.
Tell us about that, and what are you thinking the
next season, because you're going against the grain affixing effectively.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, so it was last year's where there just wasn't
that what do you call it? Well for trying to
make as much better as we could. So we ended
up putting cropping to try and bridge that gap that
we've never had enough to a meta. So we put cropping,
and the kils actually wanted probably the best of heaven
(06:56):
a long long time, and just looking back at what
we were doing, we were.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Making vald but the variability of them have led.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
It's quite high, so it could be you know, she
could have some eight and a half up to maybe
teen and a half. But you winter crop your swedes
are pretty consistent emy. So this year we were going
to joint by we'll work on breaskers.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
And then we're going to try and sport end period
pretty carving that they'll transition onto graphs and bailers so
when they carve down their diets as it would be
when they're milking, and hopefully they'll try and leasen a
bit of a bit of the milk fever issues we
had this spring coming off the deck of crop, and
probably transition wasn't as good because we had too much
crop of deed and we had to try and get
(07:35):
through it. So yeah, you know, change is always good
and if we can change something to.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Make something better, that'll work out. So that's what's the
planners this year.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
So made about I guess she's this year you touched
on milk. Fore the hell they ranked compared to other seasons.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
At the point in time, you think you're getting bloody
heaps and milk favor because you're big and the kale
here and there there, But we're only probably teen KOs
more than the previous years. So as a whole, you know,
we might have had thirty or forty maybe clinical stuff
either pre carving or post carbon. And yeah, the year
before we might have been you know, thirty odds. So yeah,
(08:10):
there's a whole not a huge amount, but it's still
an issue that I think we can try and get
on top of.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And you're putting.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Gypsum in the mix during the Springers was yeah, bit
of a mind chain or two. So we'll go to
next week too, and yeah, bet the public chose no fair,
sort of just knocked it on the head, like your
dad putting gypsum. So if we can transition in a
bit better and get chipsum in the diet, yeah, hopefully
next springs looking pretty good.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Good on you, Steve. We'll let you carry on, but
we always appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Now it's genetic.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Steve Henderson farming down at Alarua. You're listening to the
muster before the end of the hour of Clayton Peters
out of Peter's Genetics. Up next from Dari and Z
James Burrows
Welcome back to the Muster before we catch up with
Steve Henderson. The Muster Events Diary brought to you by
Beef and Lamb New Zealand. Click beeflambenzed dot com Beef
and Lamb New Zealand's latest We're in Moyes workshop from
Milk to Meat. It's happening at the Gore Golf Clubs Thursday,
November the twenty seventh, That is tomorrow week on Tterry Road.
(00:25):
Beeflaminz dot Com, Slash Offensive Register all about tackling flock performance,
looking at body condition, scoring on news after weaning and
just yeah, you know what, you know what the go
is for the team from Beef for Lamb New Zealand.
Happening next week at the golf at the golf at
the Gore Golf Club. Latest Wear and Wiys Workshop. Steve
Henderson farming down at Oh oh, good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
How are you afternoon, Andy, I'm not too dead. Actually,
her thing's gone up there.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, it's a beautiful day. It's like twenty three degrees.
Forecasts are high today. Tourists everywhere around town. There is
a real vibe in detail.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, yes, it's been a mintor eight I think the
fact that they can so to our self has made
a hour afer weather.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, but the problem is a sed A scheduled for January.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I will need January. It'll be fine, not maybe not
so much a few days piece, but as a farmer, yes.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We need absolutely. I mean field day, Southern field Day's
coming around sooner the later. How's everything looking on the
farm though, Are you getting those trees under control?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yep, yep, we've yeah spake last time. We've got them
more cleaned off the lines and got pair all resurrected
and everything's pretty much as it was. We've just got
quite a few piles when we'll take a bit of
fireway out of the mix and and get them heaped
up and burnt when time permits. But it's probably just
just keeping an eye on in calf kills now going
(01:45):
into peddocks with mecca cap pulled up on them so
smoking sore. We fenced them and make sure pairs on
the fence, and the other last thing we want is
to go through and have a dose of that Meca kappa. Yes,
it may be worse for them than the third trimester,
but still.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
A bit of a risk of losing a feeders.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So yeah, yep, just keeping neck a capa up bay
until we burn it and I think we'll be back
under control another couple of four weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So you're busy with mating at the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, yep. So we just finished. We'll finish here into
the first three weeks on Saturday. So as a whole,
mata's been down pretty good. There's always good pub talk
when you talk about it, submission rates and stuff. But yeah,
where we're on, we're actually about five percent hit last year,
and last year was reasonably good. We had it was
eighty one submitted in the first three weeks, so we
(02:34):
don't well we Paige can get ad old chaos. But
other than that year, there's no seeds, were not too
much interventions.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So yeah, we're tracking pretty good and.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
You can you can hit as many as submitted as
you want.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
But it's all about in calf for that first three weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So yeah, non return rights will tell a story from
next week.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Would you say mating's a stressful time of year or
just a matter of it's just a matter of effect
for the time of season.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah. I often talk to stuff and you talk to
a lot of people about it. They oh, are you
ready for carving, and like carving's carving's pus easy. There's
nothing else happening at that time of the years, literally carving.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
So yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Right now yet made it. It's not stressful, it's just
tim consuming, you know, as there's a person there grabbing
cals and you obviously got the tech turning up, so
that's one person tied up there. And you're also right
now we're waning calves literally right now, you know, the
top and patents and cultivation trying to get seed in
the ground. Yeah, there's a lot going on at the
(03:32):
time of the year. It's just managing what needs to
be done at first, and then you go stecking at
the third. So yeah, I think the top of the
air the heack of a lot more busy, not necessarily
more stressful, but just busier. And you're just pretty good
at your time management and human air deallocation.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
So ground conditions there are pretty good.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Starting to get better would be how you describe that. So, yeah,
we're still pretty dead. We haven't had any disk come
off the back of the pair, how are yet? So
I suppose God's and central up and there'll be a
bit easy of so bit, but they probably didn't catch
as much rain as we did during those.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Winds and stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So yeah, we were getting seed in the ground, and
we actually just had to resource some summer turnips. We
put some in three weeks ago and it's all two
much is played out at about eight degrees, so a
lot of them rotted. So we're going to scratch a
few more than hopefully today tomorrow we've got them back
for februry grading.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So temperatures all around twelve to thirteen degrees at the
moment as you'd expect.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, yeah, definitely, and and hindsight TOAs goodhead I know,
and that we were going to have another you know,
two or three weeks of eight degrees all temperatures, we
would have never put them in the ground, but we
were sort of on that false rising plane and then we.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Had that crip come through.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So and you've got to get your summer turnips and
reasonably early. So you've got the turnaround to get you
young grass grazed before we dry off. So well with
this as their last week this window, so if we
don't get them in this week, we'll you probably grass
the grass them and go down a different.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Train so how many paddics are summer turnips are you
putting in?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Ah, we're doing about ten heap tears on one place
and then about fourteen on the other place. So it's
just enough to do about two or three kilos of
their diet for about forty days to push that round about.
And it's also a bit of a regrassing regime. Some
of those petics are bit tired, so it does just
up up your rear grassing rates. So and it also
gives a bit of opportunity to do some drainage a
(05:21):
bit of development rather than through the winter crop phase
when you can sort of do it within three or
four months and get that pedic as good as kN be.
So yeah, we've done it for a few years and
last year we missed out of one farm getting the
turnip in and it was yeah we needed it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
So yeah, we use a lot of.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Things silver gat but turnips is obviously still a very
cheap feed and why you need to keep kill of
milking through that debris Late January, Debrie.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Would you call it a safety need as such for summer?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I think it is.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You know, it's a yeah double sword a year. You
don't need your turnip stuff ground really well, high yielding.
You've got a lot of grass, but you still got that,
you know, preheat, You've still got to grow as much
well not necessarily grasped as much drying as you can.
So yes, you've grown all the turns you need to
deep but so you can harvested grass and put it
(06:11):
into a little put it into onto crop.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
So yeah, I don't think that's either a lose by
putting turn ofs in, but some years you don't need them,
but you'll always make use of it out of grass.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
So it is a good a strange policy.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Now you've gone away from grass wan terrain putting in swedes.
Tell us about that, and what are you thinking the
next season, because you're going against the grain affixing effectively.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, so it was last year's where there just wasn't
that what do you call it? Well for trying to
make as much better as we could. So we ended
up putting cropping to try and bridge that gap that
we've never had enough to a meta. So we put cropping,
and the kils actually wanted probably the best of heaven
(06:56):
a long long time, and just looking back at what
we were doing, we were.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Making vald but the variability of them have led.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
It's quite high, so it could be you know, she
could have some eight and a half up to maybe
teen and a half. But you winter crop your swedes
are pretty consistent emy. So this year we were going
to joint by we'll work on breaskers.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
And then we're going to try and sport end period
pretty carving that they'll transition onto graphs and bailers so
when they carve down their diets as it would be
when they're milking, and hopefully they'll try and leasen a
bit of a bit of the milk fever issues we
had this spring coming off the deck of crop, and
probably transition wasn't as good because we had too much
crop of deed and we had to try and get
(07:35):
through it. So yeah, you know, change is always good
and if we can change something to.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Make something better, that'll work out. So that's what's the
planners this year.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
So made about I guess she's this year you touched
on milk. Fore the hell they ranked compared to other seasons.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
At the point in time, you think you're getting bloody
heaps and milk favor because you're big and the kale
here and there there, But we're only probably teen KOs
more than the previous years. So as a whole, you know,
we might have had thirty or forty maybe clinical stuff
either pre carving or post carbon. And yeah, the year
before we might have been you know, thirty odds. So yeah,
(08:10):
there's a whole not a huge amount, but it's still
an issue that I think we can try and get
on top of.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And you're putting.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Gypsum in the mix during the Springers was yeah, bit
of a mind chain or two. So we'll go to
next week too, and yeah, bet the public chose no fair,
sort of just knocked it on the head, like your
dad putting gypsum. So if we can transition in a
bit better and get chipsum in the diet, yeah, hopefully
next springs looking pretty good.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Good on you, Steve. We'll let you carry on, but
we always appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Now it's genetic.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Steve Henderson farming down at Alarua. You're listening to the
muster before the end of the hour of Clayton Peters
out of Peter's Genetics. Up next from Dari and Z
James Burrows
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