July 30, 2026 • 7 mins
Nigel Woodhead looks at the end of the winter grazing season, and contemplates the lead-in towards lambing.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome back to the muster.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
So that song there has dropped the pilots by Joan
Armor Trading that came out in nineteen eighty three, but
we're going back to twenty twenty six. Funny that we're
going to catch up nige Woodhead Farming in South Otago,
not far off the main road between Burclos and Milton
nige House things.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, afternoon, Andy, things are but nippy today.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
She's a but Carl, you're talking about a wind chill
factor there?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, yeah, the old we a station six degrees but
it feels like Nega won and I'd agree with that.
It's pretty nippy out.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
What's it been rightful, Windyre Lately.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
We've had a beautiful runner weather. Actually it's been really warm.
What was it choose date? Must have been a real
warm day and we have a workshop and wooshed keeps
hammered day get hammered with cluster flies. Well, there must
have been warm on Tuesday because the classic fliers came
back to life. So yeah, it's been good. We've better
(01:00):
growth starting to turn up. It's yeah, every.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Days classifies in July and real.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh yeah, I hate those blaming things. And yeah I
opened the workshop door, and now you could see them
buzzing around, so it must be warm. So yeah, they
usually they know, they don't turn up again till well
later on and they're well done by the So obviously
it was some hiding, you know how they hide behind
things and every little gets full of them. There's obviously
(01:27):
a few of them and gets in the workshop. You
may get it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So how's everything working out with your want to feed?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
We take along a rite, yeah, the us the use.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We always try to get ten to twelfth of August,
and they'll make it to the easy enough, I think
the habits I would like to see another teen days
in front of well, teen days more in front of them,
but they'll probably finish about the teat as well. And
for these singles, and they got heats of swedes in
(01:57):
front of them, so something that else might have to
go on there and help the tidy them up. And
singles are under forestry, so they got grass up their knees,
just eating some of the long brink grass under the
under the forestry to give it a tidy app So
everything's tooken along ride. Actually the only probably thing that
frustrates me a weaver, it's just the far A beat
probably didn't quite yield as well as I'd hoped, and
(02:19):
we didn't quite end up with enough Quada beat because
We've bought kettle in the autumn, so I've got the
old calves on a bit tighter ration than what i'd like.
So probably if they're gaining weight, they won't be gaining
a lot. But we just need to keep them on
fard A beat until the end of August at least.
So yeah, we'll just try and make up make up
(02:41):
that growth rate with the compensator and growth in the.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Spring when the hoggits go off. Swedes, is that it?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Or could you use them for a tidy app on
crop if need be, or if you're going on to
beat different propositions, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Well, they're they're on carl and plantain at the moment,
so yeah, they might just run on to the top
end of the sweet pettic and tidy it up for
a bit. I need to do some mess and see
see how much is going to be. But yeah, that's
actually probably something I might do. Actually, yeah, a few
lump of them are in lamb, so I don't reckon
(03:13):
swedes are an ideal feed for them hoggits, but that
might just be the way that but we'll see. We
might might have us switch around and bring the US
back to the Swedes for a few days and keep
hoggitts on. I haven't really made my mind up too much.
I was sort of just trying to get through the
end of this week anyway and then get this rugby
(03:34):
tournament we're talking about out of the road tomorrow and
then make play next week.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Do you have many breakouts of the hoggots on the
kalemare one?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But that was my fault because I probably left them
on their break for half a day too long. But
they and the pair was a bit dodgy as well actually,
so there wasn't a lot of power part wise. I
know it's it's pretty good, but heaving because with the
kale and planting we grazed in the summer, it's not
big tall kale. Although one of the pedics out the
(04:05):
back it's gone up. But yeah, the pedics at the
hogots are grazing. It's only like waist high best. There's
a lot of it, sort of only just up over
your knees. So it's a couple of lines and it
off the bike and it's pretty easy to put a
hot wire up.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Here plantain and there they'll be ground like little baggers,
I hope.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, there they love it like and
then they do do well on it. This will be
at a third year, I suppose wintering pivots on the
car and plantain, and yeah, it's it's awesome, and it's
just so versatile as a crop. You can use it
and you've got to craze it in the summer to
keep the plant in there. But last year we mated
(04:49):
some ews on it and they made it really really
well considering their body weight. So it was it was
it's a good protein spite for them at mating. And
then obviously you've got the winter grazer and then you
still got a green panic in the spring. Some some
panics in the past where we have grazed the car
and plantain early like June, and it's said, plenty of
(05:13):
time for the plantain to come back with endo. That
set stocking sort of eight us to the heck, you're
honor that sets stocking. And by the by October you've
got to keep poking us into it to keep control
of the plantain. So yeah, it's it's awesome. I really
really race it as a crop.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
So we're all we're likely used to be off cross
for good months before the set stock, so we're always
aimed for teenth of the twelfth of August for the
us to stay on crop until.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Eat and then you know, I'll start landing about the
twelfth of September, so I will spread them out to
the fifth sixth or something, so we know, we always
try and keep forty fifty years of grass up a
sleeve through the winter that we don't touch in the winter,
and then that's that's the August grass for years before
(06:06):
they get set stopped and just to really poke good
quality by protein green grass into them. And then yeah,
basically early September they'll get spread out of the second
half of the first off. We usually stay behind the
wife for another week and the habits will go on
rotation or the ones who the dry hobbits will go
(06:28):
in rotation and and land ones get spread out reasonably
reasonably early as well, a lot earlier, probably second week
of September as well. Just give them plenty of time
and try and feed the snot out of them before
they land here.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Not as flat sounds like the place to be tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, well, I don't know if there's going to be
the place to be. I think it's going to be
pretty cold.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Half of a tiger and most of the will be
there by the end of the old tournament, so it's
going to be good.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You're speaking of Jamie before hearing was going there when
he was a wee nippers. So this fear play of
Miller's flat, this tournament's managed to survive the ups and downs,
has been there since.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Now I was on the aarc.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, well, I.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Was going to say I was never much a rugby player.
I didn't play much, but when I was real little
I played and where I'm even going to mother's flat.
But yeah, Jamie was a handful decots before me. So
he takes a take on it.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
He is like mid nineteen fifties or something. Wasn't he
the old gray headed ghost.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Oh I'll before that naturally good.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Idea, No, I'd probably catching tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
That very good takes Andy.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Niger Woodhead based in South Totago and it's a little
bit nippy as it is around the province down here
in the south. That next fell Dunkin of weather Watch
to give US a rundown on the weather for the
next seven days,
Welcome back to the muster.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
So that song there has dropped the pilots by Joan
Armor Trading that came out in nineteen eighty three, but
we're going back to twenty twenty six. Funny that we're
going to catch up nige Woodhead Farming in South Otago,
not far off the main road between Burclos and Milton
nige House things.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, afternoon, Andy, things are but nippy today.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
She's a but Carl, you're talking about a wind chill
factor there?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, yeah, the old we a station six degrees but
it feels like Nega won and I'd agree with that.
It's pretty nippy out.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
What's it been rightful, Windyre Lately.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
We've had a beautiful runner weather. Actually it's been really warm.
What was it choose date? Must have been a real
warm day and we have a workshop and wooshed keeps
hammered day get hammered with cluster flies. Well, there must
have been warm on Tuesday because the classic fliers came
back to life. So yeah, it's been good. We've better
(01:00):
growth starting to turn up. It's yeah, every.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Days classifies in July and real.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh yeah, I hate those blaming things. And yeah I
opened the workshop door, and now you could see them
buzzing around, so it must be warm. So yeah, they
usually they know, they don't turn up again till well
later on and they're well done by the So obviously
it was some hiding, you know how they hide behind
things and every little gets full of them. There's obviously
(01:27):
a few of them and gets in the workshop. You
may get it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So how's everything working out with your want to feed?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
We take along a rite, yeah, the us the use.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We always try to get ten to twelfth of August,
and they'll make it to the easy enough, I think
the habits I would like to see another teen days
in front of well, teen days more in front of them,
but they'll probably finish about the teat as well. And
for these singles, and they got heats of swedes in
(01:57):
front of them, so something that else might have to
go on there and help the tidy them up. And
singles are under forestry, so they got grass up their knees,
just eating some of the long brink grass under the
under the forestry to give it a tidy app So
everything's tooken along ride. Actually the only probably thing that
frustrates me a weaver, it's just the far A beat
probably didn't quite yield as well as I'd hoped, and
(02:19):
we didn't quite end up with enough Quada beat because
We've bought kettle in the autumn, so I've got the
old calves on a bit tighter ration than what i'd like.
So probably if they're gaining weight, they won't be gaining
a lot. But we just need to keep them on
fard A beat until the end of August at least.
So yeah, we'll just try and make up make up
(02:41):
that growth rate with the compensator and growth in the.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Spring when the hoggits go off. Swedes, is that it?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Or could you use them for a tidy app on
crop if need be, or if you're going on to
beat different propositions, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Well, they're they're on carl and plantain at the moment,
so yeah, they might just run on to the top
end of the sweet pettic and tidy it up for
a bit. I need to do some mess and see
see how much is going to be. But yeah, that's
actually probably something I might do. Actually, yeah, a few
lump of them are in lamb, so I don't reckon
(03:13):
swedes are an ideal feed for them hoggits, but that
might just be the way that but we'll see. We
might might have us switch around and bring the US
back to the Swedes for a few days and keep
hoggitts on. I haven't really made my mind up too much.
I was sort of just trying to get through the
end of this week anyway and then get this rugby
(03:34):
tournament we're talking about out of the road tomorrow and
then make play next week.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Do you have many breakouts of the hoggots on the
kalemare one?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But that was my fault because I probably left them
on their break for half a day too long. But
they and the pair was a bit dodgy as well actually,
so there wasn't a lot of power part wise. I
know it's it's pretty good, but heaving because with the
kale and planting we grazed in the summer, it's not
big tall kale. Although one of the pedics out the
(04:05):
back it's gone up. But yeah, the pedics at the
hogots are grazing. It's only like waist high best. There's
a lot of it, sort of only just up over
your knees. So it's a couple of lines and it
off the bike and it's pretty easy to put a
hot wire up.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Here plantain and there they'll be ground like little baggers,
I hope.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, there they love it like and
then they do do well on it. This will be
at a third year, I suppose wintering pivots on the
car and plantain, and yeah, it's it's awesome, and it's
just so versatile as a crop. You can use it
and you've got to craze it in the summer to
keep the plant in there. But last year we mated
(04:49):
some ews on it and they made it really really
well considering their body weight. So it was it was
it's a good protein spite for them at mating. And
then obviously you've got the winter grazer and then you
still got a green panic in the spring. Some some
panics in the past where we have grazed the car
and plantain early like June, and it's said, plenty of
(05:13):
time for the plantain to come back with endo. That
set stocking sort of eight us to the heck, you're
honor that sets stocking. And by the by October you've
got to keep poking us into it to keep control
of the plantain. So yeah, it's it's awesome. I really
really race it as a crop.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
So we're all we're likely used to be off cross
for good months before the set stock, so we're always
aimed for teenth of the twelfth of August for the
us to stay on crop until.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Eat and then you know, I'll start landing about the
twelfth of September, so I will spread them out to
the fifth sixth or something, so we know, we always
try and keep forty fifty years of grass up a
sleeve through the winter that we don't touch in the winter,
and then that's that's the August grass for years before
(06:06):
they get set stopped and just to really poke good
quality by protein green grass into them. And then yeah,
basically early September they'll get spread out of the second
half of the first off. We usually stay behind the
wife for another week and the habits will go on
rotation or the ones who the dry hobbits will go
(06:28):
in rotation and and land ones get spread out reasonably
reasonably early as well, a lot earlier, probably second week
of September as well. Just give them plenty of time
and try and feed the snot out of them before
they land here.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Not as flat sounds like the place to be tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, well, I don't know if there's going to be
the place to be. I think it's going to be
pretty cold.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Half of a tiger and most of the will be
there by the end of the old tournament, so it's
going to be good.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You're speaking of Jamie before hearing was going there when
he was a wee nippers. So this fear play of
Miller's flat, this tournament's managed to survive the ups and downs,
has been there since.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Now I was on the aarc.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, well, I.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Was going to say I was never much a rugby player.
I didn't play much, but when I was real little
I played and where I'm even going to mother's flat.
But yeah, Jamie was a handful decots before me. So
he takes a take on it.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
He is like mid nineteen fifties or something. Wasn't he
the old gray headed ghost.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Oh I'll before that naturally good.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Idea, No, I'd probably catching tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
That very good takes Andy.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Niger Woodhead based in South Totago and it's a little
bit nippy as it is around the province down here
in the south. That next fell Dunkin of weather Watch
to give US a rundown on the weather for the
next seven days,
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