March 9, 2026 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're willing. This is the master on Hacke Andrew Welsh
of twin fum Genetics, the sponsors of the long Range
four long range forecast. Here on hack he joins us. Next,
cold as ice, probably a little bit of a frost
down the way Mere Valley this morning, i'd say, snow.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good afternoon, Yeah, afternoon, they're andy, no touch wood. We
had a sort of a heavier or sort of what
we do this morning, but no frost. So we're actually
just we've been through the all of you lamb yesterday
and to their final cold down, to their toxo and
campo vaccine, all the rives this afternoon. So nothing like
leaving until the last minute. We sort them out. So
(00:41):
now we're actually in the wall shed just not too
hot afternoon, and we're actually smacking off a few bellies,
just tidy the muster, the works.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
He'll be pretty handy on the hand piece on imagine.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I know enough just to be dangerous.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Well. The problem with a hand piece is like riding
your bikes, you never forget.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
That's right, yep, And you can Yeah, it's quite good
to teach the stuff. You can show them a few
tricks as you go. So yeah, but yeah, the longer
we talk, the less I have to do any So
this is great.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well, there you go, just a little bit for the
economy out there at Wimere Valley down conditions though it
has gotten nippier and noticeably, so how are you holding up?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We're still we had nineteen meals of rain there on Sunday,
which was really good. We're what we're calling a green
dry still, so we definitely want more moisture yet, but
we don't want these the days a shortening up, and
we have had a couple of week tiggles across so far,
so we don't want those just to kick and just
yet because we need a few bit of growth to lead.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Us in the winter, because not far away from you,
they're actually in need of a good raine.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yes that's right, yep, No riverstole down there to drive
over there on the weekend and it's yeah, they're definitely dry,
and we notice that the further out the Riversdale side
of their farm we get the drawer it gets. So
we've actually opened up the silo stick and we're feeding
out to yous just to try and create a bit
of a buffer with lambs because we're having to bounce
them around every day at the moment just to try
(02:07):
and give them a bit of fresh scenery and the
greeness pick we can.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
So it's noticeably drier than what you'd normally have this
time of year.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It's a funny one because if you'd asked me, we've
probably had enough moisture for the season, but we just
seem to have those never ending winds there and it
just sucked the single dry and it's never had that
real chance to give us a real flush of feed
to come away. So yeah, we're actually brought in managed
to buy twenty hectys of standing grass and brought in
some bailage, and I've managed a whole crop one paddic
(02:39):
of her barley I was going to take through the harvest,
and I'm sitting on the fence at the moment trying
to do a bit of a budget and decide whether
we're going to do another one too.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
And of course you've got some lambs running around on
kale tops.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yes, yep, that's right, so there. Actually it's the next job.
As soon as we've finished selling these culu lambs, we're
going to bring them in today and bradle them off
and weigh them off the kale. They're looking fantastic. So
they've been on there a month now, so I'm suspecting
that most of those will go chuck seven hundred out
there at twenty of the heat there, and they're looking
(03:13):
really good. You can only just see in the last
week that they've actually got lambs on the kale. Usually
they'll go and then smack out a bit of a
corner of the paddock or something, but this year they
seem to have just yeah, timed it right and they've
spread through nice and they just see them starting to
strip off the odd pature leaves in the in the
middle of a paddock on a ridge.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Now, so how pecky are you when it comes to
you lamb selection?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh very yeah, that's your key time, that's your genetics
going forward, what you want to do. The studs of course,
so we've got a lot more information behind them. So
we've got all their data loaded on the on the
laptop and we go up the race and I visibly
look over every single one up the race and wind
up their figures and you decide what we keep there.
(03:55):
Technology is fantastic. You can go through with your computer
at night and sit down and mark out anything you
don't like in the figures, or just have it come
up with an alert or the bottom twenty percent of
your flock, anything like that. So that is really good
having that ability with the studs. And then the commercials
we readdle them through. We've already done a color earlier
(04:15):
on to sort of have them tied it up to
just about the numbers we need anyway, and then we
just go through the race again and have the staff
of the chalk in the hand at the back. If
there's anything with DAGs or anything we don't like, they
put a we read on it, and then I have
that split second on the drafting gate to decide whether
you like them. We're not coming up if you had
a million miles in air, So.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Pray the day's of technology you reckon. It's a game
change of what you present them with these days.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh absolutely, But at the end of the day, the
tag's fantastic, but it doesn't store any information, so it
still comes down to your ability to be able to
use that information and store it. And I'm really lucky.
Captain's fantastic on the computer, and I just tell her
what it is that I want to have done and
she somehow manages to make it happen.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
So how many lambs did you have left compared to normal?
Were you pretty much.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
On par We're pretty much on power to be fair.
Even though the season i'd say has been a good
couple of weeks, if not a month and behind where
we normally are, lambs have still done really well. If anything,
we've had to chuck a wee bit more cobal hit
than this year. I think, just they head that, yeah,
see if you're coming on with their scally years and
that sort of thing. So they've had two jebs that
(05:26):
be twelve now just to sort of keep them going,
and they've got that nice color and they are doing
really well. It'd be great, like fantastic season price wise.
Just need to try and yeah, get those wakes up
as much as we can with yeah factoring and how
far through the season we're getting now and only about
a month away from looking to put the first of
the ramsel.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Now the crop side of things there, have you got
that harvested yet or was it to be announced?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
No, we're all spring so and BALI, so we're still
probably nearly a month away for that, But yeah, it
would certainly be keen to get some of that off
if we can and get some back into young grass
going forward to trying to ease that winter pressure or weave.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
So all the noise, you sound like everything's pretty much
at the speed.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
There's always jobs to do on the list. Standy, I've
been running behind the technology where we're saying it's great
on one hand, the other hand of my records for
the ram lambs getting them cold down was a bit
later this year getting through so has put the pressure on.
So I should really be into selling rams this week,
but we're sort of going to put it off and
be into next week. Get the Wanica show out of
(06:29):
the way, and yeah, rip into it. Then.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
As far as this price of fuel, with what's happening
in the Middle East, how are you viewing this as
obviously you're gonna have a lot of diesel on the farm,
that's a given when you're a cocky. Are you having
to change your approach at all?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It's more just a nervous wait and see At the moment.
Obviously we've gone through, we've filled up all the tanks
that we can. If there's some magic way that you
could sort of try and fix the price and just
sort of locking a few of those costs that we
know are going to be big ones going forward would
be fantastic. But I haven't got the magic look for
getting around that one just yet.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Any you talk about the one I can show you're
heading up.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, I'll try and get up there for a day
anyway and just have a bit of a look around.
And we're not going to have a stand or anything there,
just try and get around and catch up with a
few clients and I think pretty much most of people.
And so I intend to go up to that one
of the show. And now it's just a nice one,
especially after the Southern field goes down. Here BYMMO, we're
seen to be run around like a headless truck trying
to do jobs. To just go there and relax and
(07:27):
watch other people run around a lot better, Well.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
There's a bit more relaxed after being on the other
side of the corner space.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, it is all right, but you find yourself going
around and sort of looking for week things that we
could do better with here one too. So yeah, you're
always going to learn something to andy.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah. Coincidentally, the Muster's broadcasting live from one on the
Friday snow Hey, thanks for your time. Once again, I
don't wanted to know your time on the hand piece
to show the young ones how it's done, so I'll
let you carry on, of course. Twin Fan to Nix
a home of Teff from sponsors of the five Day
Forecast here on the muster, as well as Hakanelian with.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
The vy I've got to go, Cheers, Andy.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Andrew Welsh of Twin Farm Genetics, a home of Tifrod.
Richard White is up next in our young Farmer's chair
You're willing. This is the master on Hacke Andrew Welsh
of twin fum Genetics, the sponsors of the long Range
four long range forecast. Here on hack he joins us. Next,
cold as ice, probably a little bit of a frost
down the way Mere Valley this morning, i'd say, snow.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good afternoon, Yeah, afternoon, they're andy, no touch wood. We
had a sort of a heavier or sort of what
we do this morning, but no frost. So we're actually
just we've been through the all of you lamb yesterday
and to their final cold down, to their toxo and
campo vaccine, all the rives this afternoon. So nothing like
leaving until the last minute. We sort them out. So
(00:41):
now we're actually in the wall shed just not too
hot afternoon, and we're actually smacking off a few bellies,
just tidy the muster, the works.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
He'll be pretty handy on the hand piece on imagine.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I know enough just to be dangerous.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Well. The problem with a hand piece is like riding
your bikes, you never forget.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
That's right, yep, And you can Yeah, it's quite good
to teach the stuff. You can show them a few
tricks as you go. So yeah, but yeah, the longer
we talk, the less I have to do any So
this is great.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well, there you go, just a little bit for the
economy out there at Wimere Valley down conditions though it
has gotten nippier and noticeably, so how are you holding up?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We're still we had nineteen meals of rain there on Sunday,
which was really good. We're what we're calling a green
dry still, so we definitely want more moisture yet, but
we don't want these the days a shortening up, and
we have had a couple of week tiggles across so far,
so we don't want those just to kick and just
yet because we need a few bit of growth to lead.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Us in the winter, because not far away from you,
they're actually in need of a good raine.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yes that's right, yep, No riverstole down there to drive
over there on the weekend and it's yeah, they're definitely dry,
and we notice that the further out the Riversdale side
of their farm we get the drawer it gets. So
we've actually opened up the silo stick and we're feeding
out to yous just to try and create a bit
of a buffer with lambs because we're having to bounce
them around every day at the moment just to try
(02:07):
and give them a bit of fresh scenery and the
greeness pick we can.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
So it's noticeably drier than what you'd normally have this
time of year.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It's a funny one because if you'd asked me, we've
probably had enough moisture for the season, but we just
seem to have those never ending winds there and it
just sucked the single dry and it's never had that
real chance to give us a real flush of feed
to come away. So yeah, we're actually brought in managed
to buy twenty hectys of standing grass and brought in
some bailage, and I've managed a whole crop one paddic
(02:39):
of her barley I was going to take through the harvest,
and I'm sitting on the fence at the moment trying
to do a bit of a budget and decide whether
we're going to do another one too.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
And of course you've got some lambs running around on
kale tops.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yes, yep, that's right, so there. Actually it's the next job.
As soon as we've finished selling these culu lambs, we're
going to bring them in today and bradle them off
and weigh them off the kale. They're looking fantastic. So
they've been on there a month now, so I'm suspecting
that most of those will go chuck seven hundred out
there at twenty of the heat there, and they're looking
(03:13):
really good. You can only just see in the last
week that they've actually got lambs on the kale. Usually
they'll go and then smack out a bit of a
corner of the paddock or something, but this year they
seem to have just yeah, timed it right and they've
spread through nice and they just see them starting to
strip off the odd pature leaves in the in the
middle of a paddock on a ridge.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Now, so how pecky are you when it comes to
you lamb selection?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh very yeah, that's your key time, that's your genetics
going forward, what you want to do. The studs of course,
so we've got a lot more information behind them. So
we've got all their data loaded on the on the
laptop and we go up the race and I visibly
look over every single one up the race and wind
up their figures and you decide what we keep there.
(03:55):
Technology is fantastic. You can go through with your computer
at night and sit down and mark out anything you
don't like in the figures, or just have it come
up with an alert or the bottom twenty percent of
your flock, anything like that. So that is really good
having that ability with the studs. And then the commercials
we readdle them through. We've already done a color earlier
(04:15):
on to sort of have them tied it up to
just about the numbers we need anyway, and then we
just go through the race again and have the staff
of the chalk in the hand at the back. If
there's anything with DAGs or anything we don't like, they
put a we read on it, and then I have
that split second on the drafting gate to decide whether
you like them. We're not coming up if you had
a million miles in air, So.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Pray the day's of technology you reckon. It's a game
change of what you present them with these days.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh absolutely, But at the end of the day, the
tag's fantastic, but it doesn't store any information, so it
still comes down to your ability to be able to
use that information and store it. And I'm really lucky.
Captain's fantastic on the computer, and I just tell her
what it is that I want to have done and
she somehow manages to make it happen.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
So how many lambs did you have left compared to normal?
Were you pretty much.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
On par We're pretty much on power to be fair.
Even though the season i'd say has been a good
couple of weeks, if not a month and behind where
we normally are, lambs have still done really well. If anything,
we've had to chuck a wee bit more cobal hit
than this year. I think, just they head that, yeah,
see if you're coming on with their scally years and
that sort of thing. So they've had two jebs that
(05:26):
be twelve now just to sort of keep them going,
and they've got that nice color and they are doing
really well. It'd be great, like fantastic season price wise.
Just need to try and yeah, get those wakes up
as much as we can with yeah factoring and how
far through the season we're getting now and only about
a month away from looking to put the first of
the ramsel.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Now the crop side of things there, have you got
that harvested yet or was it to be announced?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
No, we're all spring so and BALI, so we're still
probably nearly a month away for that, But yeah, it
would certainly be keen to get some of that off
if we can and get some back into young grass
going forward to trying to ease that winter pressure or weave.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
So all the noise, you sound like everything's pretty much
at the speed.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
There's always jobs to do on the list. Standy, I've
been running behind the technology where we're saying it's great
on one hand, the other hand of my records for
the ram lambs getting them cold down was a bit
later this year getting through so has put the pressure on.
So I should really be into selling rams this week,
but we're sort of going to put it off and
be into next week. Get the Wanica show out of
(06:29):
the way, and yeah, rip into it. Then.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
As far as this price of fuel, with what's happening
in the Middle East, how are you viewing this as
obviously you're gonna have a lot of diesel on the farm,
that's a given when you're a cocky. Are you having
to change your approach at all?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It's more just a nervous wait and see At the moment.
Obviously we've gone through, we've filled up all the tanks
that we can. If there's some magic way that you
could sort of try and fix the price and just
sort of locking a few of those costs that we
know are going to be big ones going forward would
be fantastic. But I haven't got the magic look for
getting around that one just yet.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Any you talk about the one I can show you're
heading up.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, I'll try and get up there for a day
anyway and just have a bit of a look around.
And we're not going to have a stand or anything there,
just try and get around and catch up with a
few clients and I think pretty much most of people.
And so I intend to go up to that one
of the show. And now it's just a nice one,
especially after the Southern field goes down. Here BYMMO, we're
seen to be run around like a headless truck trying
to do jobs. To just go there and relax and
(07:27):
watch other people run around a lot better, Well.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
There's a bit more relaxed after being on the other
side of the corner space.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, it is all right, but you find yourself going
around and sort of looking for week things that we
could do better with here one too. So yeah, you're
always going to learn something to andy.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah. Coincidentally, the Muster's broadcasting live from one on the
Friday snow Hey, thanks for your time. Once again, I
don't wanted to know your time on the hand piece
to show the young ones how it's done, so I'll
let you carry on, of course. Twin Fan to Nix
a home of Teff from sponsors of the five Day
Forecast here on the muster, as well as Hakanelian with.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
The vy I've got to go, Cheers, Andy.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Andrew Welsh of Twin Farm Genetics, a home of Tifrod.
Richard White is up next in our young Farmer's chair
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