December 3, 2025 • 5 mins
Robert Young has a catch up as part of the Beef and Lamb Southern South Island Farmer Council.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The Muster Events Diary brought to you by Beef and
Lamb New Zealand click Beeflambenz dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Robert Young is part of the Beef and Lambs Southern
Farming Council and joins us this afternoon on the Muster.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Robert, how are you good?
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Good after nor?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How's everything been on the ranch over the last week
while you've got through October and November?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Ok?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Yeah, it's ok. It hasn't been the most joyful spring,
but it's been better than last year. And I guess
for us, we went into eleven with good covers, so
it meant that while we ended up dropping probably a
bit on cover from where we wanted to be, we
could still feed the stock, okay. And we've system. We've
got a few a bit of trading stock and bit
of grazing on the system, so it gives us the
(00:49):
opportunity to pull a few springs when we need to.
And so we did things like shut up by illigilator
and stuff like that so that we could so that
we could feed stock. And so everything's looking okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
For the uninitiated, Robert, just tell people about your farming operation.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Right, we're farming just a poco. We do a combin
that we've got the U flock. We also breed out.
We're breeding us, and then we also do trading stock.
We store lands on the three or four thousand a
year probably, and then we also do some trading cattle,
buying our twos and selling them November through January FIB three,
(01:26):
and we create a few dewycales, winter grease at dewycales
and do a few made the mahapas, which is how
it happened.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, it sounds like a little bit happening, but everything
that's happening as well sounds as though it's in the
right price range at the moment.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, it is nice. We're killing beef kettle at the moment.
And of course I've never killed three thousand dollars kettle before.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
However, you on the Hawks, when you get in three
k though cheapers.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Three twenty eight the last lot, Yeah, and that was
three hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You'd almost use the word unprecedented.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I'd say it would be. Yeah, hopefully it's not a
one off, but it's nice at the moment.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Just speaking to Jordie before and he was saying the
same thing and depending on who you speak to, the
lamb schedule looking pretty buoyant for the season.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah. Well, regardless what's happened with Alliance, we've still got
an extras killing capacity. So I guess they're going to
be hunting for our lambs, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And that's great if you're a if you're trading lambs,
if you're growing those lambs out, and heaven knows after
the spring, we've had two springs in a row where
you consider consider them to be duds and the lambing
percentage hasn't been as people want her. But at the
same time, there's certain things that you can enjoy about
the sector.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah. Well, I always say you don't get good production
in good prices in the same year. So we're doing that.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
How did your lambing end out? By the way, tailing
and the likes get through our.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Can here, we got through. Ok. It came in very
similar to last year. We were one hundred and thirty
five or something like that. Probably a little bit disappointed,
but it was okay. Skinning was back and yeah it
will do.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, honest, you always want more at tailing, right, Oh, absolutely,
just the.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Nature of the game.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Now you're part of the Beef and Lambs Southern Farmer Council.
Everything going pretty good that side of things.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, it's all taking along. There's a little bit happening.
I think next week we've got a farming for profit
session over Odapiri on Tuesday. I think they're looking at
technology on farm and help integrated onto the farmer, specifically
looking at resolution and farm like Q how they can
be integrated and heaven what other ideas can be used,
(03:32):
and a bit of a farm tiller as well. So
it would be a good day.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, Nick and alexis Wold.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Whereas property, certainly, the way that technology evolves on farm
is amazing. Would you say the days of being a
decent farming operator without a cell f home in your pocket,
those days are gone?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Be close to it? Yeah, it's you can it doesn't.
I guess. There's all tools and none of them make
you good farmers, but we use them can help to
make you a better farmer.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, well, embracing technology. I suppose there will always be
a place for a notebook. Granted I can see Breu
Seed rolling his eyes of be right now, but at the.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Same time, books on the phone now, yeah, well that's it.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Well, that you go for a lot of people. That's
the why it's all evolved.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And they've got everybody in there, they're working on teams
or whatever, and it's just the evolution of farming I
suppose from technology.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Absolutely, And I guess we're seeing things like holding the
other animal apps like that now where we've initially we thought,
oh they're a dairy thing, but them out there getting
up take. The uptake with beef industry is huge now,
so it's gonna be really interesting to see where that goes.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Same we can't do it with so absolutely.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Now the Southern Farmer Council, how would you sum up
the year from your potion from How would you sum
up the year from your perspective?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh, it's pretty good. We've got some good new people
in it as well, and yeah it's going to go
of en George, my involvement with it, I've only been
in it just over a year probably I'm just still
finding my feet to a certain extreme. But you've been
doing it.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Hey, We'll let you carry on, mate.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Always appreciate your time on the muster and hopefully you
get a bit of sunshine before Christmas time, and always
appreciate your chat.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I do you'll thinks Indy.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Robert Young and the Beef and Lamb Sluts. So that
Farming for Profit Field Day next week is happening at
Beer Hill Farming, Nick and a Lessus, Nick and alexis wild,
whereas Property twenty nine to twenty nine Oda Perrie Manibal
Road next Tuesday, starting at one o'clock. So go to
Beeflaminded dot com slash events to register.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Logan's every of the Southern Tribune's up next
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Snart Terror
The Muster Events Diary brought to you by Beef and
Lamb New Zealand click Beeflambenz dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Robert Young is part of the Beef and Lambs Southern
Farming Council and joins us this afternoon on the Muster.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Robert, how are you good?
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Good after nor?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How's everything been on the ranch over the last week
while you've got through October and November?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Ok?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Yeah, it's ok. It hasn't been the most joyful spring,
but it's been better than last year. And I guess
for us, we went into eleven with good covers, so
it meant that while we ended up dropping probably a
bit on cover from where we wanted to be, we
could still feed the stock, okay. And we've system. We've
got a few a bit of trading stock and bit
of grazing on the system, so it gives us the
(00:49):
opportunity to pull a few springs when we need to.
And so we did things like shut up by illigilator
and stuff like that so that we could so that
we could feed stock. And so everything's looking okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
For the uninitiated, Robert, just tell people about your farming operation.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Right, we're farming just a poco. We do a combin
that we've got the U flock. We also breed out.
We're breeding us, and then we also do trading stock.
We store lands on the three or four thousand a
year probably, and then we also do some trading cattle,
buying our twos and selling them November through January FIB three,
(01:26):
and we create a few dewycales, winter grease at dewycales
and do a few made the mahapas, which is how
it happened.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, it sounds like a little bit happening, but everything
that's happening as well sounds as though it's in the
right price range at the moment.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, it is nice. We're killing beef kettle at the moment.
And of course I've never killed three thousand dollars kettle before.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
However, you on the Hawks, when you get in three
k though cheapers.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Three twenty eight the last lot, Yeah, and that was
three hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You'd almost use the word unprecedented.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I'd say it would be. Yeah, hopefully it's not a
one off, but it's nice at the moment.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Just speaking to Jordie before and he was saying the
same thing and depending on who you speak to, the
lamb schedule looking pretty buoyant for the season.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah. Well, regardless what's happened with Alliance, we've still got
an extras killing capacity. So I guess they're going to
be hunting for our lambs, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And that's great if you're a if you're trading lambs,
if you're growing those lambs out, and heaven knows after
the spring, we've had two springs in a row where
you consider consider them to be duds and the lambing
percentage hasn't been as people want her. But at the
same time, there's certain things that you can enjoy about
the sector.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah. Well, I always say you don't get good production
in good prices in the same year. So we're doing that.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
How did your lambing end out? By the way, tailing
and the likes get through our.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Can here, we got through. Ok. It came in very
similar to last year. We were one hundred and thirty
five or something like that. Probably a little bit disappointed,
but it was okay. Skinning was back and yeah it
will do.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, honest, you always want more at tailing, right, Oh, absolutely,
just the.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Nature of the game.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Now you're part of the Beef and Lambs Southern Farmer Council.
Everything going pretty good that side of things.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, it's all taking along. There's a little bit happening.
I think next week we've got a farming for profit
session over Odapiri on Tuesday. I think they're looking at
technology on farm and help integrated onto the farmer, specifically
looking at resolution and farm like Q how they can
be integrated and heaven what other ideas can be used,
(03:32):
and a bit of a farm tiller as well. So
it would be a good day.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, Nick and alexis Wold.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Whereas property, certainly, the way that technology evolves on farm
is amazing. Would you say the days of being a
decent farming operator without a cell f home in your pocket,
those days are gone?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Be close to it? Yeah, it's you can it doesn't.
I guess. There's all tools and none of them make
you good farmers, but we use them can help to
make you a better farmer.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, well, embracing technology. I suppose there will always be
a place for a notebook. Granted I can see Breu
Seed rolling his eyes of be right now, but at the.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Same time, books on the phone now, yeah, well that's it.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Well, that you go for a lot of people. That's
the why it's all evolved.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And they've got everybody in there, they're working on teams
or whatever, and it's just the evolution of farming I
suppose from technology.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Absolutely, And I guess we're seeing things like holding the
other animal apps like that now where we've initially we thought,
oh they're a dairy thing, but them out there getting
up take. The uptake with beef industry is huge now,
so it's gonna be really interesting to see where that goes.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Same we can't do it with so absolutely.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Now the Southern Farmer Council, how would you sum up
the year from your potion from How would you sum
up the year from your perspective?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh, it's pretty good. We've got some good new people
in it as well, and yeah it's going to go
of en George, my involvement with it, I've only been
in it just over a year probably I'm just still
finding my feet to a certain extreme. But you've been
doing it.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Hey, We'll let you carry on, mate.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Always appreciate your time on the muster and hopefully you
get a bit of sunshine before Christmas time, and always
appreciate your chat.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I do you'll thinks Indy.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Robert Young and the Beef and Lamb Sluts. So that
Farming for Profit Field Day next week is happening at
Beer Hill Farming, Nick and a Lessus, Nick and alexis wild,
whereas Property twenty nine to twenty nine Oda Perrie Manibal
Road next Tuesday, starting at one o'clock. So go to
Beeflaminded dot com slash events to register.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Logan's every of the Southern Tribune's up next
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Snart Terror
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