September 7, 2025 • 8 mins
With lambing almost here Ben looks ahead to the next month with renewed optimism.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The Masters on the Farm brought to you by Southland
District Council working together for a better Southland. Ben Dooley
Farms down near winder and a sheep, beef and YouTube
farmer as well. He's got a YouTube channel called Deep
Seth Sheep and Beef and joins us this afternoon, dolls after,
(00:23):
good afternoon. How's the weekend?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah you get and he's a going. Yeah it was.
It was alright. It could have been a bit better.
Where just got the old girls leaving at the moment,
old girls and some lighter ones and stuff at mating times.
So there's about three hundred there. They Yeah, they were
going pretty well. Saturday night was a bit rough, but
it didn't do a huge amount of damage. Just a
bit of work to do the next morning. A few
(00:45):
old girls that have got a bit confused and got
cast and started leading and stupid stuff like that. And
you've got one land bother for right now. His mother
decided to drop him in a creek. So he's still alive.
He's doing well now, but he wasn't very nice when
I picked him up. So yeah, just is what it is.
One of those things.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You're lucky this occurred when it did not say in
another ten days time.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, all the rest of them start on the twelfth. Well,
the triplets are just starting now with typical fashion. So yeah,
we'll see what the weather does for the rest of
the month. Hopefully it's not a repeat of last year,
because I don't know how many of us will handle
another one of those. But yeah, if it does, what
changes we make moving forward, I don't know, but yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Got to think happy thoughts. It hasn't happened yet. Every
day is going to be different.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Right, absolutely, absolutely. We've already had three inches around for
the month here, so it's got a balance out right.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You've had three inches for September so far.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, I'll including those last two or three days of
alves think it is since it started rainings. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
But to be fear, things are holding up pretty well.
I mean, it all happened after spreading out, so it's
not like we made a hit of mud anywhere, and
us are still looking pretty good around the place. Covers
are taking a bit of a hit, but they're still reasonable,
so yeah, yeah, we'll just look forward and cross their
fingers and hope it's good.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
How's the situation with bearings for you.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
We've actually been really low this year. Don't ask me why.
I have no idea. I think today we've had eight.
Normally we would expect between twenty five and one hundred.
Sort of wonder four percent, one hundred being absolute worst
case scenario, one percent being best case. And yeh, normally
we've had most of them by now. They could still
be coming. But yeah, they've been really low numbers so far.
(02:22):
And ironically, normally when we have low numbers of bearings,
we have really no supplicability with them. But actually this
year we're sitting at about sixty percent, so there's only
been three away from beerings so far, which is quite promising.
Well that's a positive, yeah, absolutely, yeah, No, and udifs
has been a bit lower. Whether it's because we did
them a bit oh, I shouldn't say harder this one.
(02:43):
Do we hit them on swedes for longer than we
normally would, so whether that plays a bit of a
part into it. They didn't get the huge amounts of
grass in the gats or something. I don't know, maybe
they're not quite as fat still in good note, but yeah,
either way, it's working at the stage.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Ben Weston Peters has been in the news once again
over the last couple of days in New Zealand. First
conference occurred, ruling out working with Chris Hopkins. But by
the sounds of it, it means he wouldn't rule out
working with Flavor. But this brings in an interesting equation
for a lot of people naming with Mark Petterson going
around doing all these wallshared meetings around the future of
warwen In all honesty, how do you think he go
(03:18):
going into people's walls sheds knowing that they are with
a left coalition?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah? I don't. I honestly don't know. I feel sorry
for the men because I quite like him, But I
think he's done a feevit of good work in there.
But yeah, goes back to the old thing. Winston ruled
out working with her darn back in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, it was thanks he ruled out working with her.
Obviously she didn't hang around for that election anyway. Thankfully
he didn't go with him at the time. But he's
done this before. Twenty seventeen is ingrained in my mind.
He didn't go with the Right because of a personal grievance,
nothing else, nothing to do with the country which I
(04:00):
think was absolutely just wrong. So yeah, he certainly won't
be getting my vote. You've got to give them. Give
the guys credit for what they're doing at the moment.
They're doing some great work and they're they're saying some
great things. They're pushing some buttons that certainly need to
be pushed. But that twenty seventeen election is certainly stuck
in the back of my mind.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But well, if these policies that New Zealand First are
coming out, with all these thinking, especially around drilling and
the likes, you can't really see it aligning with labor.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
No, you can't. But like I said, I just just
look back to the things they were saying from twenty
seventeen to twenty twenty and they're saying the opposite things now. So,
like I say, they do some good work, they do
some great things, but at the same time, they do
what they need to do to get into pair. So
always very cautious of trusting them. But yeah, if the
current calison carries on, and let's be honest, if you know,
(04:50):
the next election around, if they're right get in, it's
not going to be a two party one up the stage,
it'll be a three and it is working quite well
at the moment. So yeah, it'd be great to see
it carry on. Like I say, yeah, we just need
some security that it's a right wing government.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Right back to the lambing beat dolls at that time
of year. What's the tip you've got for the lambing beat?
What's something you do to break things up while you're
out and about.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, So we'll sort of changed things around a bit
here this year. I'm going to be doing most of
the leaving because we've got a few more carves around
and we're we're just going to see how it goes.
But we're planning to pull any any trip at you
that has three live lambs, we're just going to leave
her with two if we can. So it's going to
be a bit of hand rearing stuff to do. So yeah,
might well both of our errors will be expanded a
(05:34):
wee bit. But a few things I do. I've got
the old said EarPods just you know, headphones. Whatever you do,
can't be listening to a bit of music on the
way around. If it's really really really horrible weather and
it works, there's nothing wrong with stopping for a coffee
if you round can sort of fit where you can
wind up. You've got a three hour round to do.
Cought on after two hours and have a coffee and
(05:56):
go backhead after that. But yeah, biggest, one of the
biggest things I find, it's just keeping on top of
the deads, keeping those picked up. If it is really nasty,
whether there's nothing more demoralizing than going out and seeing
a whold of stuff in the pedic and going, man,
how much of that's fresh? If you don't know, because
often it's not as bad as you think. But if
you don't, just especially the lambs, if you just keep
(06:16):
on top of that, just keep them picked up, keep
them tidy, and then when you go out around your paddocks,
it looks a lot better from the road, but it
also looks a lot better from your own mind's point
of view, and yeah, can make a big difference to things.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Is there a slinky trailer running this season?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I'm not sure in a lot of the areas, but
yet we've got one here, so mimmy, how I think
marcar Eder and Glennam have got one going. They're going
up to the old Newton's factory just st up the
hill behind us, So yeah, they they've got a few
good numbers out of us a couple of nights, but
to be fear actually numbers of dead lambs are probably
down of it this year so so far. So yeah,
they seem to think they're going to be able to
(06:54):
pay us something, and regardless of whether they are or not,
just to keep the industry going. If you get nothing
for it, it's you might as were given to them
instead of putt them down the whole. But yep, there's
one gown.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
But not that long ago it was fifty cents per
sound lamb.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure in more recent times we might
have got.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
A dollar lamb now the farm Jesus.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Still still not much. But the argument had cost us
nothing to put the lambs up and it keeps them going.
So yeah, if they're making a buckhead of it, we
might as well support them, hadn't.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
We absolutely deals. Hey, we'll leave it there, all the
best on the cold face. We'll catch up again, mate
on your oh behind, laugh out loud with ag proud
because life on the land can be a laughing matter.
Brought to us by sheer Well Data working to help
the livestock farmer. The House Sinke to Toronto flight was
(07:46):
loaded with two hundred passengers but only one hundred lunches.
The airline made a mistake and the crew was in
a difficult situation. However, a clever attendant had an idea.
After thirty minutes to take off, she announced, Ladies and gentlemen,
I don't know how this happened, but we have two
hundred passages on board and only one hundred lunches. Anyone
who is kind enough to give up food for someone
(08:07):
else will receive an unlimited amount of free wine for
the entire flight. Her announced her Knix announcement was made
six hours later. Ladies and gentlemen, if anybody wants to
change their mind, we still have one hundred lunches available.
The moral of the story wine drinkers are very big,
kind souls.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So you're easy.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That's us for the afternoon. Thanks for your company, I
mean I you. This has been the muster on Hakkanui.
Thanks for Peter Genetics. Enjoy the afternoon. See you tomorrow
one o'clock
The Masters on the Farm brought to you by Southland
District Council working together for a better Southland. Ben Dooley
Farms down near winder and a sheep, beef and YouTube
farmer as well. He's got a YouTube channel called Deep
Seth Sheep and Beef and joins us this afternoon, dolls after,
(00:23):
good afternoon. How's the weekend?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah you get and he's a going. Yeah it was.
It was alright. It could have been a bit better.
Where just got the old girls leaving at the moment,
old girls and some lighter ones and stuff at mating times.
So there's about three hundred there. They Yeah, they were
going pretty well. Saturday night was a bit rough, but
it didn't do a huge amount of damage. Just a
bit of work to do the next morning. A few
(00:45):
old girls that have got a bit confused and got
cast and started leading and stupid stuff like that. And
you've got one land bother for right now. His mother
decided to drop him in a creek. So he's still alive.
He's doing well now, but he wasn't very nice when
I picked him up. So yeah, just is what it is.
One of those things.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You're lucky this occurred when it did not say in
another ten days time.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, all the rest of them start on the twelfth. Well,
the triplets are just starting now with typical fashion. So yeah,
we'll see what the weather does for the rest of
the month. Hopefully it's not a repeat of last year,
because I don't know how many of us will handle
another one of those. But yeah, if it does, what
changes we make moving forward, I don't know, but yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Got to think happy thoughts. It hasn't happened yet. Every
day is going to be different.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Right, absolutely, absolutely. We've already had three inches around for
the month here, so it's got a balance out right.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You've had three inches for September so far.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, I'll including those last two or three days of
alves think it is since it started rainings. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
But to be fear, things are holding up pretty well.
I mean, it all happened after spreading out, so it's
not like we made a hit of mud anywhere, and
us are still looking pretty good around the place. Covers
are taking a bit of a hit, but they're still reasonable,
so yeah, yeah, we'll just look forward and cross their
fingers and hope it's good.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
How's the situation with bearings for you.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
We've actually been really low this year. Don't ask me why.
I have no idea. I think today we've had eight.
Normally we would expect between twenty five and one hundred.
Sort of wonder four percent, one hundred being absolute worst
case scenario, one percent being best case. And yeh, normally
we've had most of them by now. They could still
be coming. But yeah, they've been really low numbers so far.
(02:22):
And ironically, normally when we have low numbers of bearings,
we have really no supplicability with them. But actually this
year we're sitting at about sixty percent, so there's only
been three away from beerings so far, which is quite promising.
Well that's a positive, yeah, absolutely, yeah, No, and udifs
has been a bit lower. Whether it's because we did
them a bit oh, I shouldn't say harder this one.
(02:43):
Do we hit them on swedes for longer than we
normally would, so whether that plays a bit of a
part into it. They didn't get the huge amounts of
grass in the gats or something. I don't know, maybe
they're not quite as fat still in good note, but yeah,
either way, it's working at the stage.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Ben Weston Peters has been in the news once again
over the last couple of days in New Zealand. First
conference occurred, ruling out working with Chris Hopkins. But by
the sounds of it, it means he wouldn't rule out
working with Flavor. But this brings in an interesting equation
for a lot of people naming with Mark Petterson going
around doing all these wallshared meetings around the future of
warwen In all honesty, how do you think he go
(03:18):
going into people's walls sheds knowing that they are with
a left coalition?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah? I don't. I honestly don't know. I feel sorry
for the men because I quite like him, But I
think he's done a feevit of good work in there.
But yeah, goes back to the old thing. Winston ruled
out working with her darn back in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, it was thanks he ruled out working with her.
Obviously she didn't hang around for that election anyway. Thankfully
he didn't go with him at the time. But he's
done this before. Twenty seventeen is ingrained in my mind.
He didn't go with the Right because of a personal grievance,
nothing else, nothing to do with the country which I
(04:00):
think was absolutely just wrong. So yeah, he certainly won't
be getting my vote. You've got to give them. Give
the guys credit for what they're doing at the moment.
They're doing some great work and they're they're saying some
great things. They're pushing some buttons that certainly need to
be pushed. But that twenty seventeen election is certainly stuck
in the back of my mind.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But well, if these policies that New Zealand First are
coming out, with all these thinking, especially around drilling and
the likes, you can't really see it aligning with labor.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
No, you can't. But like I said, I just just
look back to the things they were saying from twenty
seventeen to twenty twenty and they're saying the opposite things now. So,
like I say, they do some good work, they do
some great things, but at the same time, they do
what they need to do to get into pair. So
always very cautious of trusting them. But yeah, if the
current calison carries on, and let's be honest, if you know,
(04:50):
the next election around, if they're right get in, it's
not going to be a two party one up the stage,
it'll be a three and it is working quite well
at the moment. So yeah, it'd be great to see
it carry on. Like I say, yeah, we just need
some security that it's a right wing government.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Right back to the lambing beat dolls at that time
of year. What's the tip you've got for the lambing beat?
What's something you do to break things up while you're
out and about.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, So we'll sort of changed things around a bit
here this year. I'm going to be doing most of
the leaving because we've got a few more carves around
and we're we're just going to see how it goes.
But we're planning to pull any any trip at you
that has three live lambs, we're just going to leave
her with two if we can. So it's going to
be a bit of hand rearing stuff to do. So yeah,
might well both of our errors will be expanded a
(05:34):
wee bit. But a few things I do. I've got
the old said EarPods just you know, headphones. Whatever you do,
can't be listening to a bit of music on the
way around. If it's really really really horrible weather and
it works, there's nothing wrong with stopping for a coffee
if you round can sort of fit where you can
wind up. You've got a three hour round to do.
Cought on after two hours and have a coffee and
(05:56):
go backhead after that. But yeah, biggest, one of the
biggest things I find, it's just keeping on top of
the deads, keeping those picked up. If it is really nasty,
whether there's nothing more demoralizing than going out and seeing
a whold of stuff in the pedic and going, man,
how much of that's fresh? If you don't know, because
often it's not as bad as you think. But if
you don't, just especially the lambs, if you just keep
(06:16):
on top of that, just keep them picked up, keep
them tidy, and then when you go out around your paddocks,
it looks a lot better from the road, but it
also looks a lot better from your own mind's point
of view, and yeah, can make a big difference to things.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Is there a slinky trailer running this season?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I'm not sure in a lot of the areas, but
yet we've got one here, so mimmy, how I think
marcar Eder and Glennam have got one going. They're going
up to the old Newton's factory just st up the
hill behind us, So yeah, they they've got a few
good numbers out of us a couple of nights, but
to be fear actually numbers of dead lambs are probably
down of it this year so so far. So yeah,
they seem to think they're going to be able to
(06:54):
pay us something, and regardless of whether they are or not,
just to keep the industry going. If you get nothing
for it, it's you might as were given to them
instead of putt them down the whole. But yep, there's
one gown.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
But not that long ago it was fifty cents per
sound lamb.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure in more recent times we might
have got.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
A dollar lamb now the farm Jesus.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Still still not much. But the argument had cost us
nothing to put the lambs up and it keeps them going.
So yeah, if they're making a buckhead of it, we
might as well support them, hadn't.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
We absolutely deals. Hey, we'll leave it there, all the
best on the cold face. We'll catch up again, mate
on your oh behind, laugh out loud with ag proud
because life on the land can be a laughing matter.
Brought to us by sheer Well Data working to help
the livestock farmer. The House Sinke to Toronto flight was
(07:46):
loaded with two hundred passengers but only one hundred lunches.
The airline made a mistake and the crew was in
a difficult situation. However, a clever attendant had an idea.
After thirty minutes to take off, she announced, Ladies and gentlemen,
I don't know how this happened, but we have two
hundred passages on board and only one hundred lunches. Anyone
who is kind enough to give up food for someone
(08:07):
else will receive an unlimited amount of free wine for
the entire flight. Her announced her Knix announcement was made
six hours later. Ladies and gentlemen, if anybody wants to
change their mind, we still have one hundred lunches available.
The moral of the story wine drinkers are very big,
kind souls.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So you're easy.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That's us for the afternoon. Thanks for your company, I
mean I you. This has been the muster on Hakkanui.
Thanks for Peter Genetics. Enjoy the afternoon. See you tomorrow
one o'clock
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