January 28, 2026 • 7 mins
Geordie looks at a rather buoyant growing season over at the riviera of the south!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From. This interview is brought to you by Agri Center
South Branch is in Lawnville, Gore, Cromwell, Milton, and Ranfurly.
Drop by your local agri Center South Branch.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Today we are away to the river Era of the
South this afternoon on the Muster. We we're catching up
with Jordy yd sheep beef and dairy farmer based over
that way. JORDI, welcome to the muster. First time chatting
this year. How's things been.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, that thing's been taking a long pretty well over here,
No good, Andy can't complain. Really, that's not too hot,
not too cold, and the grass is growing, so I
suppose that, you know, I think that's the first time
in my farming career twenty odd years that better reasonable
growing seasons for lambs and it can hit the high money.
So yeah, sheep farmers going to be happy on that
(00:49):
sort of things.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
You're reckoning what you're actually seeing. The sun over there.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Eye today is a weap of sun, but it's really
blind at the moment. But I think the next three
days look reasonably good, and the forecast is about twenty
odd degrees for the next week or ten days, so
really it's good, good recipe of grass grund. But we've
got about forty something mills at the weekend. The hill
behind this's got one hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And seventy cheepers. That's a lot of what there's a
lot of rain, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, which caused a bit of a flood down the bottom.
But you know all the alert systems now, you know
you can get there and do it, but you just
got to keep the alert on it and be aware.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, you saw temperature over there, today's sixteen point four,
so that's telling you something, right.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, I would a port to be ashy as that,
but to all take that.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Well, well, the river here always delivers in the saw
temperature front.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yes, yes I did. I was breeding the local little
paper too, and I saw the rainfall for Rift in
the last season was one thousand and forty two mills,
and us up in the valley here was fourteen fifty. Yeah,
you know, it's two thirds of what we get down there.
So yeah, I got a reliable rain, and I suppose
it doesn't go amiss.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
But fourteen fifty in the scheme of things, isn't all
that high for you guys there, woul that be fair
to say?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh, that's about average. I mean, we can't have eighteen hundred,
we can have twelve hundred, so we're sort of in
the middle. And I mean we're probably tricking below average
until we got there three hundred for September. So yeah,
so fourteen fifty is probably about the average of us
for the last twenty odd years, I suppose.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So you're getting through these lambs are a way that
the works in good timing obviously.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, well we've killed sort of quarter of our lambs
off mum all but about fifteen percent of our singles
went off mum. I've killed half the single hogit lambs
off month, which is something that's been really working on
for the years and it's finally got it this year
and got a two hundred dollars cheap for them too,
so that was a bonus. But yeah, no, it's one
of those years that you know, lambs are grown well
(02:41):
and we're getting paid well for them, and that they
don't very often happen.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, the schedules going up at the end of January.
When did that last happen or has it?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah? Yeah, Well the lamb one hasn't moved much, but
it's not going down, so we'n't plained about that. But
the must one seems to be tricking up, which is interesting.
But yeah, and then the dairy trade going up to
it's yeah, been a good surprise.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You've got no concern around your covers.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
No, no, no, the cave has sort of certainly taken
off there now. I mean we're not feeding a lot
through the shed that the sheep farms sort of come
and gone. I'm still shutting up more silence for a
second round still would be weave with more valis to make.
I mean there was the odd people trying to make
it but a hay, but I looking with a forecast
the next ten days, that doesn't look very conducive to
do that. But you know, grass has sticking along pretty well.
(03:22):
I mean, if it's sixteen degrees, no wonder the clothes
started the left.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And even while was having a good old couple of lifts.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, yeah, I do like the optimism there. But at
the end of the day I went back and worked
it out and I thought, well, it's about three eighty.
I mean last year I think we got just under
three dollars, so you know, it's still it's going up
a bit. But you know, it's Yeah, it's got a
long way to go, unfortunately it has.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
But are still better than two dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes, it's still better than two dollars. And I mean
I like the optimism there. But yeah, you know, we're
having a dairy farm on the side. I know that
dairy farm thinking and meat now would would people would
have kicked a dairy farmer would kicked wall in the
gaps long before us persevering with it.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I think though, well, it's been down for so long
that people have just held out internal hope that there'll
be a bit of a corner to turn and maybe
touch wood. We could be seeing that occur. I mean
it's been positives all around from the sales around the
country for that matter, just based on demand overseas, so
who knows, right, Yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Is, it is. I mean, it's all about the supply
and demand. I was talking to a guy I know
and Wanaka and he's been fifty year of wortchires and
he was saying, how you know, you don't realize how
much work is involved with sheep. If we remove the
wall out of the system and you know, with persis,
do you hope that? And it in me that it
does come, but you know, how long do you keep
at us? And I mean, this could be the light
(04:41):
of the tunnel.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Surely I'm speaking to Penny Simmons next, Jordi. One of
the things I spoke to her about recently was around
connectivity with Southhone Courage and the lights where you're farming there.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
What kind of an issue or is it an issue?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I would have said twenty years ago, I could go
anywhere on my farm. I can't. I can't go near
trees or anything. Even talking to you now, I've got
to select where I can not only get the other wind,
but I can't I can't answer a phone in their
caven yards or walkshead or it's got worse, and it
just frustrates the hell out of me. I mean even
their ruin. See in the house we get burst of
(05:15):
it running the rice and then you will get burst
and it doesn't run all right. But yeah, there's certainly
something that the cell phone coverage has got worse, probably
the broadband and it's probably improved a bit, but yeah,
sometimes it just drives. And that how worse it's got.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, and you're not the first person to say that,
And the fact remains a three gene network which is
being phased out as the system that got us through
the October wind events.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, well that's the hard case of that, isn't it.
I mean, like I can't drive from my house to
the Macago on the car phone. It cuts out in
about four places. If you asked me to do that
fifteen years ago, it would have been possible, but it's
not anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, those Nike th twenty two eighties are undestructible.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh yeah, that's a beast. Yeah, you can't. You couldn't
go wrong with that. They probably still would be going
now for.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well, somebody actually turned on the in Nokio. I've seen
it on social media. They hadn't used it for years,
and the darn thing was still. Well the network's not
going for the actual phone, like it was not an issue.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, well, I mean when I had one, I think,
I don't think you only have the chaps about once
every three days.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, and that's we're playing snake as well.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, I know, Yeah, that was about all the year
you had to play. And I mean you could couldn't
really look at the newser and you think, even though
I don't do that much anyway on there.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, simpler times Johnny, Hey, just before we wrap up.
So it's only pretty chip about the situation. Anything that's
your primary focus over the next month or so.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
No, just really getting some Furt on I do probably
just speaks about balance and the fertilizer that I just
see a few oppositions starting to get up now were
going down the same line, the co oportive. The prices
are starting to get up there as a post opposition.
I know that they are importing furt but that's sort
of something that you know, there's one hundred dollars a
time difference and emp and things like that if you
(06:57):
go to the opposition, but you know, being aquiteport of person,
I don't want to think of that. But you know,
at the same time, you're got to look at competitiveness
and you know, so that's the time the year of
doing those fertilized jobs and the albums catching up on
a bit of maintenance.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Really, yeah, it's going to be interesting regarding the first situation,
but in general though, it's good to see the moods changing.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Jeordie always appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
No good gold with any.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Jordy E from the River of the South Riverton.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You're listening to the Muster and Vocato MP Penny Simmons,
Let's ever catch up next
From. This interview is brought to you by Agri Center
South Branch is in Lawnville, Gore, Cromwell, Milton, and Ranfurly.
Drop by your local agri Center South Branch.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Today we are away to the river Era of the
South this afternoon on the Muster. We we're catching up
with Jordy yd sheep beef and dairy farmer based over
that way. JORDI, welcome to the muster. First time chatting
this year. How's things been.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, that thing's been taking a long pretty well over here,
No good, Andy can't complain. Really, that's not too hot,
not too cold, and the grass is growing, so I
suppose that, you know, I think that's the first time
in my farming career twenty odd years that better reasonable
growing seasons for lambs and it can hit the high money.
So yeah, sheep farmers going to be happy on that
(00:49):
sort of things.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
You're reckoning what you're actually seeing. The sun over there.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Eye today is a weap of sun, but it's really
blind at the moment. But I think the next three
days look reasonably good, and the forecast is about twenty
odd degrees for the next week or ten days, so
really it's good, good recipe of grass grund. But we've
got about forty something mills at the weekend. The hill
behind this's got one hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And seventy cheepers. That's a lot of what there's a
lot of rain, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, which caused a bit of a flood down the bottom.
But you know all the alert systems now, you know
you can get there and do it, but you just
got to keep the alert on it and be aware.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, you saw temperature over there, today's sixteen point four,
so that's telling you something, right.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, I would a port to be ashy as that,
but to all take that.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Well, well, the river here always delivers in the saw
temperature front.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yes, yes I did. I was breeding the local little
paper too, and I saw the rainfall for Rift in
the last season was one thousand and forty two mills,
and us up in the valley here was fourteen fifty. Yeah,
you know, it's two thirds of what we get down there.
So yeah, I got a reliable rain, and I suppose
it doesn't go amiss.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
But fourteen fifty in the scheme of things, isn't all
that high for you guys there, woul that be fair
to say?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh, that's about average. I mean, we can't have eighteen hundred,
we can have twelve hundred, so we're sort of in
the middle. And I mean we're probably tricking below average
until we got there three hundred for September. So yeah,
so fourteen fifty is probably about the average of us
for the last twenty odd years, I suppose.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So you're getting through these lambs are a way that
the works in good timing obviously.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, well we've killed sort of quarter of our lambs
off mum all but about fifteen percent of our singles
went off mum. I've killed half the single hogit lambs
off month, which is something that's been really working on
for the years and it's finally got it this year
and got a two hundred dollars cheap for them too,
so that was a bonus. But yeah, no, it's one
of those years that you know, lambs are grown well
(02:41):
and we're getting paid well for them, and that they
don't very often happen.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, the schedules going up at the end of January.
When did that last happen or has it?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah? Yeah, Well the lamb one hasn't moved much, but
it's not going down, so we'n't plained about that. But
the must one seems to be tricking up, which is interesting.
But yeah, and then the dairy trade going up to
it's yeah, been a good surprise.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You've got no concern around your covers.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
No, no, no, the cave has sort of certainly taken
off there now. I mean we're not feeding a lot
through the shed that the sheep farms sort of come
and gone. I'm still shutting up more silence for a
second round still would be weave with more valis to make.
I mean there was the odd people trying to make
it but a hay, but I looking with a forecast
the next ten days, that doesn't look very conducive to
do that. But you know, grass has sticking along pretty well.
(03:22):
I mean, if it's sixteen degrees, no wonder the clothes
started the left.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And even while was having a good old couple of lifts.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, yeah, I do like the optimism there. But at
the end of the day I went back and worked
it out and I thought, well, it's about three eighty.
I mean last year I think we got just under
three dollars, so you know, it's still it's going up
a bit. But you know, it's Yeah, it's got a
long way to go, unfortunately it has.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
But are still better than two dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes, it's still better than two dollars. And I mean
I like the optimism there. But yeah, you know, we're
having a dairy farm on the side. I know that
dairy farm thinking and meat now would would people would
have kicked a dairy farmer would kicked wall in the
gaps long before us persevering with it.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I think though, well, it's been down for so long
that people have just held out internal hope that there'll
be a bit of a corner to turn and maybe
touch wood. We could be seeing that occur. I mean
it's been positives all around from the sales around the
country for that matter, just based on demand overseas, so
who knows, right, Yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Is, it is. I mean, it's all about the supply
and demand. I was talking to a guy I know
and Wanaka and he's been fifty year of wortchires and
he was saying, how you know, you don't realize how
much work is involved with sheep. If we remove the
wall out of the system and you know, with persis,
do you hope that? And it in me that it
does come, but you know, how long do you keep
at us? And I mean, this could be the light
(04:41):
of the tunnel.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Surely I'm speaking to Penny Simmons next, Jordi. One of
the things I spoke to her about recently was around
connectivity with Southhone Courage and the lights where you're farming there.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
What kind of an issue or is it an issue?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I would have said twenty years ago, I could go
anywhere on my farm. I can't. I can't go near
trees or anything. Even talking to you now, I've got
to select where I can not only get the other wind,
but I can't I can't answer a phone in their
caven yards or walkshead or it's got worse, and it
just frustrates the hell out of me. I mean even
their ruin. See in the house we get burst of
(05:15):
it running the rice and then you will get burst
and it doesn't run all right. But yeah, there's certainly
something that the cell phone coverage has got worse, probably
the broadband and it's probably improved a bit, but yeah,
sometimes it just drives. And that how worse it's got.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, and you're not the first person to say that,
And the fact remains a three gene network which is
being phased out as the system that got us through
the October wind events.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, well that's the hard case of that, isn't it.
I mean, like I can't drive from my house to
the Macago on the car phone. It cuts out in
about four places. If you asked me to do that
fifteen years ago, it would have been possible, but it's
not anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, those Nike th twenty two eighties are undestructible.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh yeah, that's a beast. Yeah, you can't. You couldn't
go wrong with that. They probably still would be going
now for.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well, somebody actually turned on the in Nokio. I've seen
it on social media. They hadn't used it for years,
and the darn thing was still. Well the network's not
going for the actual phone, like it was not an issue.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, well, I mean when I had one, I think,
I don't think you only have the chaps about once
every three days.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, and that's we're playing snake as well.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, I know, Yeah, that was about all the year
you had to play. And I mean you could couldn't
really look at the newser and you think, even though
I don't do that much anyway on there.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, simpler times Johnny, Hey, just before we wrap up.
So it's only pretty chip about the situation. Anything that's
your primary focus over the next month or so.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
No, just really getting some Furt on I do probably
just speaks about balance and the fertilizer that I just
see a few oppositions starting to get up now were
going down the same line, the co oportive. The prices
are starting to get up there as a post opposition.
I know that they are importing furt but that's sort
of something that you know, there's one hundred dollars a
time difference and emp and things like that if you
(06:57):
go to the opposition, but you know, being aquiteport of person,
I don't want to think of that. But you know,
at the same time, you're got to look at competitiveness
and you know, so that's the time the year of
doing those fertilized jobs and the albums catching up on
a bit of maintenance.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Really, yeah, it's going to be interesting regarding the first situation,
but in general though, it's good to see the moods changing.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Jeordie always appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
No good gold with any.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Jordy E from the River of the South Riverton.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You're listening to the Muster and Vocato MP Penny Simmons,
Let's ever catch up next
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