December 3, 2025 • 7 mins
Geordie Eade looks at the situation over at Riverton and he says why the season has been reasonably positive.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're away to the River Era of the South this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Of course it's Riverton. We're catching up with Jordi A Jordi,
good afternoon.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
The music today is David Bewie and you just threw
off me. You just threw at me, sorry, off the
top of your head. Labyrinth from back in nineteen eighty six.
There's a good movie.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah know it was a good movie. Yet I haven't
actually watched it probably for forty years, thirty years, thirty years. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, the problem is when you go and watch movies
from yester year and you've got all these high expectations
and unfortunately time has evolved.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, I know times evolved, but you know, probably the
hobbit from the Lord of the Rings. I haven't watched
any of them, and you know that was probably the
first of those types of things. I suppose.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
How's everything over at the River Era of the South?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, no, it took on pretty well related that in
terrain sort every weekend or every once a week, you know,
it's everything's doing pretty well. We're about to do weaning
next week. So you know, I can't believe that the
schedule's held around that still e eleven dollars and yeah,
so get into it.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, have been pretty cynical about the way things have unfolded,
especially with the Alliance group from that, well was it
six weeks ago we got the news and we had
there were six weeks today since the winds occurred, and
everything just went pretty quiet, understandably so. But then since
then everybody has spoken to who's been really grumpy. They're
just looking at the situation saying, right, we've got this
in front of us, let's just get on with it.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, I suppose it's been done and dusted. You can't
know use looking back. You just got to move on
and go with it. What the decision there has been made.
So we've just got to be happy with whether. You know,
I didn't disagree. I disagreed with it, but that was
my call because you know, I hadn't supplied lions of
lamb for their reasons, and I didn't feel as though
that they've really altered anything of that, nothing's changed. So
(01:53):
I suppose time will tell to see what happens off
this new input, and we'll see what happens. I mean,
we still supply all our cows and beasts, but yeah,
I suppose time will tell.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I think the biggest issue going forward is going to
be over capacity and how do they get rationalization within
the industry.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
How do you start it?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh, yeah, there's massive over capacity in this industry. Like
you know, we're part of a hoggit group and we're
just sort of you know, there's probably a bit of
capacity to be still gained in the industry with people
lambing their hoggits, but I don't really see any sheep.
Flocks are probably still only going to diminish, you know,
like those thirty odd to thirty two conversions in Canterbury.
(02:31):
You know, they will be cropping farms, but there'll be
still a big portion of them, will still have some
sort of sheep operation involved with them, but they'll be
all wiped off.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Like you talked about, Jordi, the fact that we got
this ten dollars at the moment or between ten and eleven,
goodness almost around eleven as well, it's pretty buoyant for
the re meat sector.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh, it is really buoyant. You know, we're into our
fifth season of having a dairy farm and I think
this is the first time nearly since of those five
years that the lamb's going to be exceeding the solid price,
so you know, after it's still a passionate she can
beef Farmer's sort of jumping with joy inside myself a
weabit because you know, that's what I've been wanting, really,
But I just hope that we can stick it up there.
(03:11):
I know that, you know, there's a lot of positive
news out there that will will stay around. But you know,
we are seeing a bit of downward slide on the
dairy side, but that's probably a supply and demand thing
that supplies sort of saturated really. But you know, maybe
with the lamb it's the opposite way around, is that
year suppliers really waved under demand.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
You've more or less got your bets a dollar each
way around the situation that you can't really lose given
that dairy is still at nine nine dollars fifty is
and break even as a midway point.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Sorry for Frontierra, well.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I fixed halfair milk at nine ninety, so that's you know,
that's already done and us it's sort of something at
Frontier off and I got caught out the other way
a wee bit last year. But this year I thought, well,
they're not going to anything around that ten dollars. I'll
take it, and by the look of it that I
might hopefully it might be on the winning side this year.
But no, I've got that half air supplies lopped in
at nine. So yeah, I would you still hope that
(04:02):
the average is going to really still have a good
nine in it?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Do you know have many people who have taken up
that forward option?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
No, no, no, I was just I'm just amazed the
last six months barely they've been really undertaken, and I
was just a surprise. They reckoned that the earlier ten
ones were taken up a fair bit, and that may
be why, but I think the dairy industry was just
bullish that was going to be you know, another ten
to eleven dollars, and you know, I think that's what
they want or need. But I suppose time will tell.
(04:30):
But quite a few dairy farmers have got them thousand
situations where there high cost operations now for this halter
and everything. So yeah, I suppose I'm hopeful that it
would have been ten, but I suppose we'll just gott
to hope that it still doesn't drop too much more
than what it is now.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And of course fon Terra sawing your commercial arm. There's
a nice way you could chink and checking the pipeline
as well.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, that might be a bit of a benefit to
head it up to the ten dollars. We'll see, but yeah,
it's the sort of probably were fortunate that I had
shed up to halfway about four years ago, so that
was quite good. So we've had a sort of good
benefit of that.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So what's your reign twy been like over the past
couple of months.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
We're running at about We've had about thirteen fourteen hundred
for the year so far, but November ended up about ninety,
but that was on the back of having sort of
thirty on the thirtieth, so November was really pretty dry.
You know, there was only about four days of actual
rain and each time it came it was over an inch.
So yeah, I don't mind that. That's quite the light
turning the irrigator on.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yes, certainly, going to just keep things propped up nicely. Hey,
just before we wrap up as well, I mean we're
two years out from the Ragya World Cup. For Pete's sake,
they're doing a drawer early. But nonetheless this is going
to be fascinating. So the all black so I don't
know if you're caught up on this. Australia, Hong Kong
and Chili are in there in their pool, So then
against Australia and Perith sounds like it will be the
opening World Cup twenty twenty seven. But if we win
(05:50):
that pool, we've got the spring box in this in
the quarters and England's on our side of the drawer
as well.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I mean it's two years out.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
It's a long way to try and predict what's going on,
but certainly the intrigue starts towards the next ravy cycle
halfway through it and get into the guts of it.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, I'm just amazed and spitting taxwe but that you know,
it's not really that the drilled it. So it's going
to be Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere team in
the final. You know, all these Southern Hemisphere teams are
all going to strike one another before the end, and
you know that's it just laughs to me, what World
rugby are doing. You know, I watched a bit of
that sare for an Irish game. It wasn't too bad,
(06:27):
but you know they're going to have to really majorsly
do some olderation to the rules. Nobody's going to be
watching this game. It's just just getting out of it
beyond a joke. Yeah, well, there was one of those
non Hemisphere games, the All Black School to Try and
it was pulled back about six phases. Now. I went
and googled it and said it's only two phases for
a knock on, and so yeah, I don't know what's
going on there, just yeah, you know, once the time
(06:50):
the conversion was taken, that was it. But yeah, you're right,
they go back halfway now and recall it up again.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Please go and blame Wayne Barnes. We've got to have
a scapegoat somewhere. Jeordie yid, Hey, thanks very much for
time on the muster this afternoon and throughout the year,
and you enjoy the holiday season.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Will catch you in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That good as cold cheers. Ye, hopefully we don't have
as much wood next year.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Jordy reed at the River Era of the South, which
is beautiful Riverton. You're listening to the musta before the
end of the year, A logan Savry out of the
South in Tribune.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But up next in the Beef and Lambslot, Robert Young
We're away to the River Era of the South this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Of course it's Riverton. We're catching up with Jordi A Jordi,
good afternoon.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
The music today is David Bewie and you just threw
off me. You just threw at me, sorry, off the
top of your head. Labyrinth from back in nineteen eighty six.
There's a good movie.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah know it was a good movie. Yet I haven't
actually watched it probably for forty years, thirty years, thirty years. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, the problem is when you go and watch movies
from yester year and you've got all these high expectations
and unfortunately time has evolved.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, I know times evolved, but you know, probably the
hobbit from the Lord of the Rings. I haven't watched
any of them, and you know that was probably the
first of those types of things. I suppose.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
How's everything over at the River Era of the South?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, no, it took on pretty well related that in
terrain sort every weekend or every once a week, you know,
it's everything's doing pretty well. We're about to do weaning
next week. So you know, I can't believe that the
schedule's held around that still e eleven dollars and yeah,
so get into it.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, have been pretty cynical about the way things have unfolded,
especially with the Alliance group from that, well was it
six weeks ago we got the news and we had
there were six weeks today since the winds occurred, and
everything just went pretty quiet, understandably so. But then since
then everybody has spoken to who's been really grumpy. They're
just looking at the situation saying, right, we've got this
in front of us, let's just get on with it.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, I suppose it's been done and dusted. You can't
know use looking back. You just got to move on
and go with it. What the decision there has been made.
So we've just got to be happy with whether. You know,
I didn't disagree. I disagreed with it, but that was
my call because you know, I hadn't supplied lions of
lamb for their reasons, and I didn't feel as though
that they've really altered anything of that, nothing's changed. So
(01:53):
I suppose time will tell to see what happens off
this new input, and we'll see what happens. I mean,
we still supply all our cows and beasts, but yeah,
I suppose time will tell.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I think the biggest issue going forward is going to
be over capacity and how do they get rationalization within
the industry.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
How do you start it?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh, yeah, there's massive over capacity in this industry. Like
you know, we're part of a hoggit group and we're
just sort of you know, there's probably a bit of
capacity to be still gained in the industry with people
lambing their hoggits, but I don't really see any sheep.
Flocks are probably still only going to diminish, you know,
like those thirty odd to thirty two conversions in Canterbury.
(02:31):
You know, they will be cropping farms, but there'll be
still a big portion of them, will still have some
sort of sheep operation involved with them, but they'll be
all wiped off.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Like you talked about, Jordi, the fact that we got
this ten dollars at the moment or between ten and eleven,
goodness almost around eleven as well, it's pretty buoyant for
the re meat sector.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh, it is really buoyant. You know, we're into our
fifth season of having a dairy farm and I think
this is the first time nearly since of those five
years that the lamb's going to be exceeding the solid price,
so you know, after it's still a passionate she can
beef Farmer's sort of jumping with joy inside myself a
weabit because you know, that's what I've been wanting, really,
But I just hope that we can stick it up there.
(03:11):
I know that, you know, there's a lot of positive
news out there that will will stay around. But you know,
we are seeing a bit of downward slide on the
dairy side, but that's probably a supply and demand thing
that supplies sort of saturated really. But you know, maybe
with the lamb it's the opposite way around, is that
year suppliers really waved under demand.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
You've more or less got your bets a dollar each
way around the situation that you can't really lose given
that dairy is still at nine nine dollars fifty is
and break even as a midway point.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Sorry for Frontierra, well.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I fixed halfair milk at nine ninety, so that's you know,
that's already done and us it's sort of something at
Frontier off and I got caught out the other way
a wee bit last year. But this year I thought, well,
they're not going to anything around that ten dollars. I'll
take it, and by the look of it that I
might hopefully it might be on the winning side this year.
But no, I've got that half air supplies lopped in
at nine. So yeah, I would you still hope that
(04:02):
the average is going to really still have a good
nine in it?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Do you know have many people who have taken up
that forward option?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
No, no, no, I was just I'm just amazed the
last six months barely they've been really undertaken, and I
was just a surprise. They reckoned that the earlier ten
ones were taken up a fair bit, and that may
be why, but I think the dairy industry was just
bullish that was going to be you know, another ten
to eleven dollars, and you know, I think that's what
they want or need. But I suppose time will tell.
(04:30):
But quite a few dairy farmers have got them thousand
situations where there high cost operations now for this halter
and everything. So yeah, I suppose I'm hopeful that it
would have been ten, but I suppose we'll just gott
to hope that it still doesn't drop too much more
than what it is now.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And of course fon Terra sawing your commercial arm. There's
a nice way you could chink and checking the pipeline
as well.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, that might be a bit of a benefit to
head it up to the ten dollars. We'll see, but yeah,
it's the sort of probably were fortunate that I had
shed up to halfway about four years ago, so that
was quite good. So we've had a sort of good
benefit of that.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So what's your reign twy been like over the past
couple of months.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
We're running at about We've had about thirteen fourteen hundred
for the year so far, but November ended up about ninety,
but that was on the back of having sort of
thirty on the thirtieth, so November was really pretty dry.
You know, there was only about four days of actual
rain and each time it came it was over an inch.
So yeah, I don't mind that. That's quite the light
turning the irrigator on.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yes, certainly, going to just keep things propped up nicely. Hey,
just before we wrap up as well, I mean we're
two years out from the Ragya World Cup. For Pete's sake,
they're doing a drawer early. But nonetheless this is going
to be fascinating. So the all black so I don't
know if you're caught up on this. Australia, Hong Kong
and Chili are in there in their pool, So then
against Australia and Perith sounds like it will be the
opening World Cup twenty twenty seven. But if we win
(05:50):
that pool, we've got the spring box in this in
the quarters and England's on our side of the drawer
as well.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I mean it's two years out.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
It's a long way to try and predict what's going on,
but certainly the intrigue starts towards the next ravy cycle
halfway through it and get into the guts of it.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, I'm just amazed and spitting taxwe but that you know,
it's not really that the drilled it. So it's going
to be Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere team in
the final. You know, all these Southern Hemisphere teams are
all going to strike one another before the end, and
you know that's it just laughs to me, what World
rugby are doing. You know, I watched a bit of
that sare for an Irish game. It wasn't too bad,
(06:27):
but you know they're going to have to really majorsly
do some olderation to the rules. Nobody's going to be
watching this game. It's just just getting out of it
beyond a joke. Yeah, well, there was one of those
non Hemisphere games, the All Black School to Try and
it was pulled back about six phases. Now. I went
and googled it and said it's only two phases for
a knock on, and so yeah, I don't know what's
going on there, just yeah, you know, once the time
(06:50):
the conversion was taken, that was it. But yeah, you're right,
they go back halfway now and recall it up again.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Please go and blame Wayne Barnes. We've got to have
a scapegoat somewhere. Jeordie yid, Hey, thanks very much for
time on the muster this afternoon and throughout the year,
and you enjoy the holiday season.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Will catch you in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That good as cold cheers. Ye, hopefully we don't have
as much wood next year.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Jordy reed at the River Era of the South, which
is beautiful Riverton. You're listening to the musta before the
end of the year, A logan Savry out of the
South in Tribune.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But up next in the Beef and Lambslot, Robert Young
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