February 18, 2026 • 7 mins
Anieka Templer talks about the farming operation that her and husband Nick are involved in near Balfour.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
At super Tramp on a Thursday, and why not you're
listening to the Muster. A naked templar joins us next.
She is based on a dairy farm up a Belfer
(00:20):
Saint Patrick's to be more precise for her husband Nick,
and joins us this afternoon to give us a bit
of a background about her operation and moving to New
Zealand at a young age. Anika, Welcome to the Muster. Hello,
how's it going pretty good? Firstly, you came from New
Zealand at a young age. You're formerly from Holland. Must
have been a big change from what you can remember.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, yeah, it was just the main thing I remember
is not being able to speak English. I started school
like as soon as we moved here, and I couldn't
speak any English, So that was probably my main memory
of it. But apart from that, I've obviously adapted pretty
quick and lost my accent and everything. So but yeah,
it's still still Dutch still. Yeah, definitely got the genetics
(01:05):
for you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So when you moved to New Zealand, are your parents
as such, were they were working on a dairy farm
or is this an industry you've picked up?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
No, they are dairy farming. Yeah, they started. I think
they were managing just on a small farm just outside
of Auckland at Wyuku and they were I think about
two hundred and fifty cows from memory, but yeah, so
they were dairy farming. Yeah, the dairy farm, sheer milks
the whole way through to farm ownership.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Now, of course you're based up there some patricks with
your husband Nick. Just tell us a bit of background
about the farm there.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Two hundred and twenty eight Heacdares, the dairy farmers. We
leased another farm about two minutes just down the road,
which is one hundred and forty five Heacdares. And then
we own a runoff just outside of Lumson, the eight
kilometers away from a dairy farm with fully South contained
milking six hundred and eighty cows. And we obviously do
(01:58):
all our own south fully south, and all our own
young stock and grow all our own grass for the
dairy farm.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So dairying was an industry you always wanted to get into.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh more, I fell into it. I didn't actually want
to when I left school. I didn't actually want to
be dairy farming, and I kind of just fell into it.
I offered a relief milking job at the neighbors and
while I was still at school. So I did that
and I did the car wearing there and when I
left Gold and know what I wanted to do, but
(02:32):
I just they offered me a full time job and
I just never and I just fell in love with
it and I've never left the industry.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, you've obviously done pretty well because in twenty fifteen
yourself and Nick you were awarded Managers of the Year
and the Ottago Southland Dairy Industry Awards. So you must
be going pretty good.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yep. Yeah, there feels like a lifetime ago. Now. Yeah,
we were contract milking on the farm then, and we
had our goals of what we wanted to achieve, which
was fifty to fifty, which we started doing I think
four years after we won that. So and we're still
fifty to fifteen now. But we've obviously brought our own
(03:12):
wi farm and one day hoping to go into equality
into this farm.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Now you've got air shis on the farm as well,
Is that correct? You're into your breeding.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yes, yeah, I've got eshys. I've got short worn heard
is predominantly freezing, but I like to mix in a
bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, So why the air shi.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I feel like they're a breed that just gets quite
harsh criticism, and I just feel like I could improve
them and make them, you know, a cow that is
a fertile cow that can milk as well. So it's
just the week projects that I have on the side.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Now. As far as the season up there, about for
every year is different. It hasn't been the summer that
we'd expect, but the feed's been okay by the sounds
of it.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, we're a bit tight through the end of November
December and started January, and we've got rain in the
January and we're looking all right at the moment. So
we're sitting at about twenty two hundred cover at the moment,
and which is pretty good. We kind of sat between
the eighteen and nineteen for about three months there been
a bit dry, not from the sun obviously because we
(04:19):
haven't really seen that, but from the wind, which is
still an ongoing battle of the wind. But apart from that,
we're looking like we're going to hit a good autumn.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Like some winds are grazing. Do you check the animals
on fun.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I'm not on the dairy farm they go to either
the least block or the our runoff down at Lumsdon.
It's all grass and daylydge that we do. Most people
can probably see it from Lumsdon as you're driving down
the main road at the farm just it's got all
the bales of Baylor's shipping up on the hill. It's
kind of like a little statue out of view that
(04:52):
everybody can see.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
No but as a statue that's got his place in
the farming synergy for you guys. But what was the
driving factor to going to grass? Wondering?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And for us it was mainly even no transition, and
we're also the environmental side of it. It's a lot
less mad and stuff like that. And we're right on
the main road vs. Well, you know what all those
bloody people are like love taking photos and thankfully we've
never been on one of those pages yet, not saying
(05:22):
it won't happen, but at the moment we've managed to
escape it. But yeah, it's just for us. It's that
the cows have obviously picked up quite a lot of
production without having that transition. We've tried a lot of
different crops over the years from kale swedelot of beets
and stuff like that, but the grass and bailags seems
(05:43):
to work the best for our system.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Do you feel self conscious being the side of main road?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah? Sometimes, but then sometimes I'm quite happy to be
by a main road to show that we aren't as
bad as they make out we are too, so like, yeah,
we're I'd like to think that we're doing the industry
proud that we are actually, you know, fencing off all
the ways and back fencing and stuff like that, you know,
showing that it can be done well instead of it
(06:11):
always being a negative thing.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
So you saying no, yeah, just finally as well appreciate
your time as afternoon. Would you say the industry is
in a good space considering the payouts looking good, the
grass is there, and production seems to be going along
pretty well.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, I think it is. Yeah, I just need obviously
the GDT week their cat piece today again and hopefully
the payout reflects there as well. So it's looking good
at the moment. But yeah, I think at the moment
it's looking really good. Yep.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Are you thinking ten dollars is going to be back
on the cards?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Perhaps, I'm thinking I'm hoping hopefully, but at the moment
I'm thinking High.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Nine certainly a good place for the industry to be in. Hey, Anika,
thanks for your time on the most of the safternoon.
We'll catch up in due course. Hopefully the way the
plays ball and we get a bit of sunshine sooner
than later.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I thinks.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
A naked templar farming up at Belfer with her husband
Nick and their daughter Macy as well. Great to chat with, Anika.
Up next, our residents Sporting Gury Nathan Burdon
At super Tramp on a Thursday, and why not you're
listening to the Muster. A naked templar joins us next.
She is based on a dairy farm up a Belfer
(00:20):
Saint Patrick's to be more precise for her husband Nick,
and joins us this afternoon to give us a bit
of a background about her operation and moving to New
Zealand at a young age. Anika, Welcome to the Muster. Hello,
how's it going pretty good? Firstly, you came from New
Zealand at a young age. You're formerly from Holland. Must
have been a big change from what you can remember.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, yeah, it was just the main thing I remember
is not being able to speak English. I started school
like as soon as we moved here, and I couldn't
speak any English, So that was probably my main memory
of it. But apart from that, I've obviously adapted pretty
quick and lost my accent and everything. So but yeah,
it's still still Dutch still. Yeah, definitely got the genetics
(01:05):
for you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So when you moved to New Zealand, are your parents
as such, were they were working on a dairy farm
or is this an industry you've picked up?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
No, they are dairy farming. Yeah, they started. I think
they were managing just on a small farm just outside
of Auckland at Wyuku and they were I think about
two hundred and fifty cows from memory, but yeah, so
they were dairy farming. Yeah, the dairy farm, sheer milks
the whole way through to farm ownership.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Now, of course you're based up there some patricks with
your husband Nick. Just tell us a bit of background
about the farm there.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Two hundred and twenty eight Heacdares, the dairy farmers. We
leased another farm about two minutes just down the road,
which is one hundred and forty five Heacdares. And then
we own a runoff just outside of Lumson, the eight
kilometers away from a dairy farm with fully South contained
milking six hundred and eighty cows. And we obviously do
(01:58):
all our own south fully south, and all our own
young stock and grow all our own grass for the
dairy farm.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So dairying was an industry you always wanted to get into.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh more, I fell into it. I didn't actually want
to when I left school. I didn't actually want to
be dairy farming, and I kind of just fell into it.
I offered a relief milking job at the neighbors and
while I was still at school. So I did that
and I did the car wearing there and when I
left Gold and know what I wanted to do, but
(02:32):
I just they offered me a full time job and
I just never and I just fell in love with
it and I've never left the industry.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, you've obviously done pretty well because in twenty fifteen
yourself and Nick you were awarded Managers of the Year
and the Ottago Southland Dairy Industry Awards. So you must
be going pretty good.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yep. Yeah, there feels like a lifetime ago. Now. Yeah,
we were contract milking on the farm then, and we
had our goals of what we wanted to achieve, which
was fifty to fifty, which we started doing I think
four years after we won that. So and we're still
fifty to fifteen now. But we've obviously brought our own
(03:12):
wi farm and one day hoping to go into equality
into this farm.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Now you've got air shis on the farm as well,
Is that correct? You're into your breeding.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yes, yeah, I've got eshys. I've got short worn heard
is predominantly freezing, but I like to mix in a
bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, So why the air shi.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I feel like they're a breed that just gets quite
harsh criticism, and I just feel like I could improve
them and make them, you know, a cow that is
a fertile cow that can milk as well. So it's
just the week projects that I have on the side.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Now. As far as the season up there, about for
every year is different. It hasn't been the summer that
we'd expect, but the feed's been okay by the sounds
of it.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, we're a bit tight through the end of November
December and started January, and we've got rain in the
January and we're looking all right at the moment. So
we're sitting at about twenty two hundred cover at the moment,
and which is pretty good. We kind of sat between
the eighteen and nineteen for about three months there been
a bit dry, not from the sun obviously because we
(04:19):
haven't really seen that, but from the wind, which is
still an ongoing battle of the wind. But apart from that,
we're looking like we're going to hit a good autumn.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Like some winds are grazing. Do you check the animals
on fun.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I'm not on the dairy farm they go to either
the least block or the our runoff down at Lumsdon.
It's all grass and daylydge that we do. Most people
can probably see it from Lumsdon as you're driving down
the main road at the farm just it's got all
the bales of Baylor's shipping up on the hill. It's
kind of like a little statue out of view that
(04:52):
everybody can see.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
No but as a statue that's got his place in
the farming synergy for you guys. But what was the
driving factor to going to grass? Wondering?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And for us it was mainly even no transition, and
we're also the environmental side of it. It's a lot
less mad and stuff like that. And we're right on
the main road vs. Well, you know what all those
bloody people are like love taking photos and thankfully we've
never been on one of those pages yet, not saying
(05:22):
it won't happen, but at the moment we've managed to
escape it. But yeah, it's just for us. It's that
the cows have obviously picked up quite a lot of
production without having that transition. We've tried a lot of
different crops over the years from kale swedelot of beets
and stuff like that, but the grass and bailags seems
(05:43):
to work the best for our system.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Do you feel self conscious being the side of main road?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah? Sometimes, but then sometimes I'm quite happy to be
by a main road to show that we aren't as
bad as they make out we are too, so like, yeah,
we're I'd like to think that we're doing the industry
proud that we are actually, you know, fencing off all
the ways and back fencing and stuff like that, you know,
showing that it can be done well instead of it
(06:11):
always being a negative thing.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
So you saying no, yeah, just finally as well appreciate
your time as afternoon. Would you say the industry is
in a good space considering the payouts looking good, the
grass is there, and production seems to be going along
pretty well.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, I think it is. Yeah, I just need obviously
the GDT week their cat piece today again and hopefully
the payout reflects there as well. So it's looking good
at the moment. But yeah, I think at the moment
it's looking really good. Yep.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Are you thinking ten dollars is going to be back
on the cards?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Perhaps, I'm thinking I'm hoping hopefully, but at the moment
I'm thinking High.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Nine certainly a good place for the industry to be in. Hey, Anika,
thanks for your time on the most of the safternoon.
We'll catch up in due course. Hopefully the way the
plays ball and we get a bit of sunshine sooner
than later.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I thinks.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
A naked templar farming up at Belfer with her husband
Nick and their daughter Macy as well. Great to chat with, Anika.
Up next, our residents Sporting Gury Nathan Burdon
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