September 14, 2025 • 8 mins
Andy Dennis says Spring is just being as temperamental as always, although sunshine wouldn't go astray to get the feed moving.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Andy, Dennis is on the Gold Coast of the South Island,
which is beautiful. Men of Poorie and joins us this
afternoon in the Sergeant Dan farming around up. Thanks for
Sergeant Dan. Stock foods here and Gore. Good afternoon, Andy.
How was the Gold Coast of the South today?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
God, it's pretty wet. Yeah, we've had we've had a
typical September so far, a lot of rain, a lot
of northwest rain, sort of warm enough, but yeah, it's uh, yeah,
we're we're pretty wet now on the foot and sort
of the next sort of ten days, if we don't
start getting some sun, we're going to get right on
top of covers if we're not already there now. So yeah,
(00:39):
it's about where we're at in the Gold Coast.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
So as far as these wins you were saying before,
this more northwesterly, so it hasn't been has cold, Well, it's.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Been sort of a yeah, we've had a lot of rain.
There's been snow on the tops every night, so it's
definitely cold ish, but it hasn't been from Seeuth like
a lot of the rest of Southenings were getting a
lot of subties, haven't they. So you know, they can
they can sort of have a high threat and lambs,
whereas we just sort of tick around. And yeah, it's
(01:10):
not as bad as last year. Last year was Yeah
that was was that two undred and fifty miles for
the first twelve days of September whatever, that was terrible.
But yeah, we're gonna need some sun so in otherwise
where we just back on track. But yeah, I mean
it's been a it's been a squeeze to get through
the season from that dry and you know, to get
your crops the last and ever glass we should have
(01:31):
probably you know, you're pretty much expecting they have a
little bit of feet to set stock on and there
it's there. It's on track to be the typical September,
seeth and September.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, so catas and the likes, you've had a bit
of fade there, but just disappear because of these cool
the temperatures I suppose.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, no, we're just caught up with it there. So yeah,
bring on some sun. But yeah, we're getting we're sort
of getting a fine break even here and then so yeah,
hopefully we'll well, you know what it's like, you just
get through September here, you can come out the other
side either and it's one way or the other. Sort
of sets up the rest of the season, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So hell's lambing bean for you.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So far, you're not too bad. I've had a higher
rate of abortion than the older use. Yeah, i'd say
it's probably double where we usually are. So, yeah, i'll
sort of out some shad of out some week drives
the last couple of days, so we'll put them on
a truck and make them will weave it, just make
things go. But yeah, are there seems to be a
(02:31):
few leaves around Yeah, it'll be around here bridge, just
like it's again, it wasn't great, so you can't expect
Leming to be a whole lot better either.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Are you intensive on the Leaming beat?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Not really, well, not not as probably, No, No, I
could be more intensive, But you start running at a path,
don't you after a while, and yeah, the subticks. That's
sort of done, and now we sort of start on
the romney, so they're still two theirs and check the leambs.
So used to do quite a lot of mother ups
and sort of make everyone count. But it creates a
(03:04):
lot of work, and I sort of started that way
and then yeah, we're all that wet weather and you
could just see that. You can go and put yours
and lambs and boxes and everything else and they just
pick up bugs. So I uh, is about the fifth
I gave up mother ups and that might be me
for the rest of my life. Actually, that's here I'm
feeling at the moment it all said and done. It's
(03:26):
it's yeah. It it saves a lot of work because
you've got to get grained fit out and you've got
to keep feeding hinds, and you know, there's other stuff
to be done on farms. So yeah, you can only
do what you can do some days.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So any of you without a lamb that she's down
the road, yes.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yep, yep, see will be this year. Yeah, So that's
just here it goes. Usually once the romney's get going,
you get a better survivability, so they are all the
younger sheeps, so it seems to go better. But yeah,
I can't do anything. If you've you know, you've had
abortion earlier on in older yous, you can't do anything
about that. So that's just here it goes. That's farming. Yeah,
(04:03):
so move on.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And I understand you've got a slinky run happening up
there too.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, no, we have got a shrinking run for the
first time. I can't remember. It would be five or
six years ago. I reckon it's stopped up here, So yeah,
follow Ben but no, now he's from Winton, he's running it,
so yeah. I haven't didn't even ask him about price.
I just thought it was great to get it going again.
So yeah, out the gate they go, not down a hole.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, well you might end up for a little bit
of a check for the pub later on.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, if you don't know, everything's positive, isn't it. You know,
everything's a surprise.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And the rest thing as well. Now, the Rabobank Farmer
Confidence Survey came out recently and for the fourth consecutive quarters,
saying that confidence is coming back into the industry just
quickly as well. Jamie mccoe talked about this as Todd
Jatter as just previously, but nonetheless, I'll get your thoughts
around this, saying that confidence in the broader agri economy
is high and now a second highest level across the
(05:01):
last decade. Amongst farmers holding a positive outlook and the
agro economy, higher commodity of prices were cited as a
major source of optimism, with increasing demand and following interest
rates being there as well. Farmers expectations of their own
farm business performance over the next twelve months also marginally
up as well. Dairy farmers, sheep and beef farmers are
more positive, more so than growers. Farmer investment intentions were
(05:24):
largely unchanged. Oh, dairy farmers have the strongest investment intent
horticulturalists the weakest. And finally, concerning over the recent increase
in the US tower fraid of New Zealand goers of
fifteen percent is Max, what are your initial thoughts on that?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I'm glad you had to sat not me.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I'll be honest. I have a bit of paper in
front of me. It's written down well, very well done.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Andy wants the one a way to start on Monday. No, yeah,
I'd agree with all that. Marginally is probably the word
everyone's everyone's definitely feeling more positive. But I think people
over the last few years just sort of don't get
too ahead of yourselves and just sort of, yeah, look
to the future in just sort of baby steps, I suppose.
(06:11):
But yeah, I mean, your prices are at all time
high across the board, which is great. We just yeah,
you need those seasons and you need the environment to
sort of click the same to to be able to
read those rewards. And yeah, sitting in September when looking
around able to start raining again makes you wonder, makes
(06:33):
things a wee bit tough to look too forward. But yeah,
I can see what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, how do you seem lampinning out over the next
not so twelve months, but perhaps twelve to eighteen months?
Or is it too hard to ball get crystal bull
gaze as such?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
No, I think you know, we're wearing for a good run.
But yeah, I think it's it's not getting too carried away.
Get some dept down instead of paying that high entrance ball,
look at maybe more debt repayments, and just sort of
set yourselves up for a long term sort of goals.
(07:07):
Really over then, over the new purchases of getting two
carried away, I'm pretty conservative generally. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Just finally, Andy, we've I've been talking to farmers over
the last week or so about little tricks of the
trade they've got for the busy September period. What's something
you do to deviate away from the norm to keep
yourself saying at this time of year. What's something you
can pass on for.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I think it's just the same as everyone else. Like
you sort of just got to go through gat and
do a shuffle if you think you need a shuffle.
And we're not all shape, we're not all deal. We've
got to mix. So sometimes you're just pinch and feed
off something to go and feed something else for a
while and then yeah, but yeah, you've got to get
(07:56):
off farm and you've got to have a break every
there and then just yeah, whatever it is. Yeah, team
was never fun and saffing is it, Like, let's be honest.
So you just somehow you get through the other side
and it's done and you start getting things start warming
up and things start coming right, and then yeah, and
(08:17):
then it all starts all over again. So well we'll
get these weak drives gone, and there's some works names
gone in the middle of the week and some days
today so you start lighting it load and and he
just keep boxing on, really, don't.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You, Andy Dennis always appreciate your time on the mast.
You enjoy the gold coast of the South of South today.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, well hopefully the gold casters turn it back on
as usual, but yeah, thats what it is, We'll keep
taking away.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Thanks Eddy, Andy Dennis filing at Malo Pori. Thanks, of course,
the Saturday and Stock foods. Penny Simmons impede from the cargo.
She's up next
Andy, Dennis is on the Gold Coast of the South Island,
which is beautiful. Men of Poorie and joins us this
afternoon in the Sergeant Dan farming around up. Thanks for
Sergeant Dan. Stock foods here and Gore. Good afternoon, Andy.
How was the Gold Coast of the South today?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
God, it's pretty wet. Yeah, we've had we've had a
typical September so far, a lot of rain, a lot
of northwest rain, sort of warm enough, but yeah, it's uh, yeah,
we're we're pretty wet now on the foot and sort
of the next sort of ten days, if we don't
start getting some sun, we're going to get right on
top of covers if we're not already there now. So yeah,
(00:39):
it's about where we're at in the Gold Coast.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
So as far as these wins you were saying before,
this more northwesterly, so it hasn't been has cold, Well, it's.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Been sort of a yeah, we've had a lot of rain.
There's been snow on the tops every night, so it's
definitely cold ish, but it hasn't been from Seeuth like
a lot of the rest of Southenings were getting a
lot of subties, haven't they. So you know, they can
they can sort of have a high threat and lambs,
whereas we just sort of tick around. And yeah, it's
(01:10):
not as bad as last year. Last year was Yeah
that was was that two undred and fifty miles for
the first twelve days of September whatever, that was terrible.
But yeah, we're gonna need some sun so in otherwise
where we just back on track. But yeah, I mean
it's been a it's been a squeeze to get through
the season from that dry and you know, to get
your crops the last and ever glass we should have
(01:31):
probably you know, you're pretty much expecting they have a
little bit of feet to set stock on and there
it's there. It's on track to be the typical September,
seeth and September.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, so catas and the likes, you've had a bit
of fade there, but just disappear because of these cool
the temperatures I suppose.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, no, we're just caught up with it there. So yeah,
bring on some sun. But yeah, we're getting we're sort
of getting a fine break even here and then so yeah,
hopefully we'll well, you know what it's like, you just
get through September here, you can come out the other
side either and it's one way or the other. Sort
of sets up the rest of the season, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So hell's lambing bean for you.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So far, you're not too bad. I've had a higher
rate of abortion than the older use. Yeah, i'd say
it's probably double where we usually are. So, yeah, i'll
sort of out some shad of out some week drives
the last couple of days, so we'll put them on
a truck and make them will weave it, just make
things go. But yeah, are there seems to be a
(02:31):
few leaves around Yeah, it'll be around here bridge, just
like it's again, it wasn't great, so you can't expect
Leming to be a whole lot better either.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Are you intensive on the Leaming beat?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Not really, well, not not as probably, No, No, I
could be more intensive, But you start running at a path,
don't you after a while, and yeah, the subticks. That's
sort of done, and now we sort of start on
the romney, so they're still two theirs and check the leambs.
So used to do quite a lot of mother ups
and sort of make everyone count. But it creates a
(03:04):
lot of work, and I sort of started that way
and then yeah, we're all that wet weather and you
could just see that. You can go and put yours
and lambs and boxes and everything else and they just
pick up bugs. So I uh, is about the fifth
I gave up mother ups and that might be me
for the rest of my life. Actually, that's here I'm
feeling at the moment it all said and done. It's
(03:26):
it's yeah. It it saves a lot of work because
you've got to get grained fit out and you've got
to keep feeding hinds, and you know, there's other stuff
to be done on farms. So yeah, you can only
do what you can do some days.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So any of you without a lamb that she's down
the road, yes.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yep, yep, see will be this year. Yeah, So that's
just here it goes. Usually once the romney's get going,
you get a better survivability, so they are all the
younger sheeps, so it seems to go better. But yeah,
I can't do anything. If you've you know, you've had
abortion earlier on in older yous, you can't do anything
about that. So that's just here it goes. That's farming. Yeah,
(04:03):
so move on.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And I understand you've got a slinky run happening up
there too.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, no, we have got a shrinking run for the
first time. I can't remember. It would be five or
six years ago. I reckon it's stopped up here, So yeah,
follow Ben but no, now he's from Winton, he's running it,
so yeah. I haven't didn't even ask him about price.
I just thought it was great to get it going again.
So yeah, out the gate they go, not down a hole.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, well you might end up for a little bit
of a check for the pub later on.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, if you don't know, everything's positive, isn't it. You know,
everything's a surprise.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And the rest thing as well. Now, the Rabobank Farmer
Confidence Survey came out recently and for the fourth consecutive quarters,
saying that confidence is coming back into the industry just
quickly as well. Jamie mccoe talked about this as Todd
Jatter as just previously, but nonetheless, I'll get your thoughts
around this, saying that confidence in the broader agri economy
is high and now a second highest level across the
(05:01):
last decade. Amongst farmers holding a positive outlook and the
agro economy, higher commodity of prices were cited as a
major source of optimism, with increasing demand and following interest
rates being there as well. Farmers expectations of their own
farm business performance over the next twelve months also marginally
up as well. Dairy farmers, sheep and beef farmers are
more positive, more so than growers. Farmer investment intentions were
(05:24):
largely unchanged. Oh, dairy farmers have the strongest investment intent
horticulturalists the weakest. And finally, concerning over the recent increase
in the US tower fraid of New Zealand goers of
fifteen percent is Max, what are your initial thoughts on that?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I'm glad you had to sat not me.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I'll be honest. I have a bit of paper in
front of me. It's written down well, very well done.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Andy wants the one a way to start on Monday. No, yeah,
I'd agree with all that. Marginally is probably the word
everyone's everyone's definitely feeling more positive. But I think people
over the last few years just sort of don't get
too ahead of yourselves and just sort of, yeah, look
to the future in just sort of baby steps, I suppose.
(06:11):
But yeah, I mean, your prices are at all time
high across the board, which is great. We just yeah,
you need those seasons and you need the environment to
sort of click the same to to be able to
read those rewards. And yeah, sitting in September when looking
around able to start raining again makes you wonder, makes
(06:33):
things a wee bit tough to look too forward. But yeah,
I can see what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, how do you seem lampinning out over the next
not so twelve months, but perhaps twelve to eighteen months?
Or is it too hard to ball get crystal bull
gaze as such?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
No, I think you know, we're wearing for a good run.
But yeah, I think it's it's not getting too carried away.
Get some dept down instead of paying that high entrance ball,
look at maybe more debt repayments, and just sort of
set yourselves up for a long term sort of goals.
(07:07):
Really over then, over the new purchases of getting two
carried away, I'm pretty conservative generally. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Just finally, Andy, we've I've been talking to farmers over
the last week or so about little tricks of the
trade they've got for the busy September period. What's something
you do to deviate away from the norm to keep
yourself saying at this time of year. What's something you
can pass on for.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I think it's just the same as everyone else. Like
you sort of just got to go through gat and
do a shuffle if you think you need a shuffle.
And we're not all shape, we're not all deal. We've
got to mix. So sometimes you're just pinch and feed
off something to go and feed something else for a
while and then yeah, but yeah, you've got to get
(07:56):
off farm and you've got to have a break every
there and then just yeah, whatever it is. Yeah, team
was never fun and saffing is it, Like, let's be honest.
So you just somehow you get through the other side
and it's done and you start getting things start warming
up and things start coming right, and then yeah, and
(08:17):
then it all starts all over again. So well we'll
get these weak drives gone, and there's some works names
gone in the middle of the week and some days
today so you start lighting it load and and he
just keep boxing on, really, don't.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You, Andy Dennis always appreciate your time on the mast.
You enjoy the gold coast of the South of South today.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, well hopefully the gold casters turn it back on
as usual, but yeah, thats what it is, We'll keep
taking away.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Thanks Eddy, Andy Dennis filing at Malo Pori. Thanks, of course,
the Saturday and Stock foods. Penny Simmons impede from the cargo.
She's up next
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