December 7, 2025 • 8 mins
Dean Rabbidge looks at a change of focus around lamb shearing which he says is a no brainer.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The musters on the farm brought to you by Southland
District Council working together for a better Southland.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Dean Ravage Farms at Glenham and joins us this afternoon. Dan,
A good afternoon. How's everything down in Yournich of the Woods?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Good afternoon and yeah, very good at the moment. I
suspect it's just a lot like the the rest of
the province penny feed and during these warm temperatures. But
this win could bagger off. Really it's getting a bit tiring.
But apart from that, everything's looking pretty good and shopping
up for a good summer.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, that winds red it's ugly head over the last
couple of days once again.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, I see there's a notification this morning on the
phone that the school bus had to take a detour
because the trees over the road again. So I suspect
that there's still a lot of trees that have had
root systems weakened and that from the event we had
at the end of October, So that could still be
upsetting a few something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So everything's just taking away. All the lambs have been weaned.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Ah, Look we just started winning this morning. We just
did the two eternal twins, got them out of the road,
and Wednesday we'll have a big crack at all the
terminal lambs and hopefully get off whack of them away
and then we'll chiff way at the rest of them
eternals over the next few days. Really, So yeah, just
(01:26):
sign steady ones of the restaurant here when it comes
to winning, I.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Hopes for numbers away. You're just pretty pragmatic around the situation.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Look, we're not going to go chasing big numbers. We'll
keep our weights up a little bit, trying target sort
of an average evading kilos, and we'll try and maintain
the average right across the season. Really, I think at
times at winning, just the way payment structures work in
the sector, that we can be guilty of chasing the
(01:54):
money and their average weights dropped considerably, and I don't
think it's doing industry, and you're good and providing a
consistent product throughout the year, which is unfortunate. So yeah,
we'll just keep the bar reasonably high. Plenty of feeding
(02:14):
still building up new numbers, so we've but slightly understocked
for us compared to normal stake. We'll care on putting
the weight on I think this year.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So you're not worried about stores or anything giving them money.
Where is where it is, the covers are where you
want them to be or suppose.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, Like in just talking to people in the industry,
I don't think we're going to feed the big schedule
drops like we've seen in the past, and I'm probably
be proven wrong, but at the moment, I'm yeah, still happy.
Just we'll keep those trying to kill anything that's going
to kill above seventeen and a half and try and
average aid in kilos or something like that. So there's
(02:51):
a plan of the stage. But yeah, happy to be well,
more likely to be proven wrong as usually him and
regret something, but that's plentless age. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You were telling me before, you're not crushing your lambs
this year. You're going to take a part. You're going
to get the feathers off them next week.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, I just wanted to sharing contractor the end as
I was winding them all the lambs are still very
clean and that so we normally share everything at the
end of January. January anyway, so why not do it now?
There's plenty of will on them. They're a good neck
in your feet around and then that'll eliminate heaving to
dip anything and fly strike prevention and all that sort
(03:29):
of stuff later on and crush them before sharing as
well in a month's time. So all going to plan.
There is this bit of a spread of the moment
decision this morning as we're wedding, but we'll do that
next week. But they only hold up we've got is
that my bullshd currently doesn't have a roof. So yeah,
(03:49):
just trying to sort out a few logistics and we'll
we'll give it a crack and see what happens. Anyway,
that's what happens in the North Island and it seems
to work well for them, so I don't see why
we can't do it down here, but this is South Yeah,
I know, anything can change it. I'll talk to you
in a few weeks time and the plan will have
completely changed for this plan at the moment.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh nothing, A big old tap can't hold for a
couple of days, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
We'll see. It's going to be fine. It's going to
be fine.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So in general though, and you were saying it before
as well, the way that wolves rebounded. Hearing likes some
dirty price for crossbred wall being over three dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, it's quite encouraging, isn't it. We just then you'll
share all our years in genuary and they normally share
in it four kilos of walls, So yeah, look, it's
quite positive. I think at least the sharing bill is
going to be more than covered this year just looking
at it. So yeah, we'll just carry on and try
(04:47):
and maintain a high quality club and give it the
works over the cable like we have been, like we
always have. And yeah, hopefully we'll see a bit of
a all of a black figure at the bottom of
the wall budget this year.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yes, certainly it's not. It's a silver bullet the industry needs.
By no means is going to fix the industry, let's
be clear about that. But it's all small steps. I suppose,
it's like eating an elephant, just so little bites.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, exactly, And once we start plucking dead troop again,
I the ball thing today.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So you tell the younger generation that, lad and see
what they come up with their idea. Yeah, I know,
I know, but that'd be a great problem to have.
But mutton prices too, they've rebounded strong and just a
red meat sector in general. Venison schedules are up there,
red meats up there, we talk about beef, we talk
about Mutton, we talk about LAMB. So it's a good
(05:45):
vibe heading into Christmas.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah. I was just flucking through map on the phone
looking at weights and prices we're getting for product this
time last year and Mutton was four seventeen and Lamb
dot Lamb was eight o six. It was oh that
was last week in November then, so it probably would
have come back by now. But yeah, so this year
we're talking sort of six forty and around there, eleven
(06:07):
dollars for LAMB. So it's pretty positive out there and
it's really exciting, and yeah, it's fantastic and it's a
shame it's probably eighteen months too late because we've lost
a lot of sheep and beef out of the system
across the country. But yeah, in mind, it's really good
and a positive, positive space going into Christmas.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Hey, we talk about the Arima changes as well that
are in the pipeline of council amalgamations to follow on
after that from this central government directive. What are your thoughts?
Is it good?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Oh, look, it's good that it's been locked there and
it's been torn apart and rebuilt. I guess the devil
will be in the detail. And yeah, that's still a
lot of detail to expose itself, I guess. But I
just hope whatever happens it has by partisan support and
we're not just going to see the Irama becoming a
poitical football and getting revented every three years, because that'll
(07:03):
just lead to a huge waste and costs and bureaucracy
and probably not achieve anything. At the end of the day,
we'll just be continuously living in a state of so
the limbo. So yeah, excited to see what comes out.
Hopefully it will be positive in make farming and lend
uses quite beneficial moving forward. But yeah, it just whatever
(07:27):
happens just needs to be supporting, be allowed to bed
in for a few years before massive changes happen again.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Really Yeah, interesting how it's going to pan out.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Dean.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Hey, we'll leave it there, mate, Thanks for your time
once again, we always appreciate your time on the muster.
Enjoy the holidays and good luck getting that type up
for sharing.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah. Thanks, Ruch Shendy Ladder.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Dean Rabbage Farming at Glenham. Ye're listening to the muster
before the end of the hour. Alan McCleary from Sheerwell,
New Zealand. Up next, so Jason Pine from New Still.
It be the black Caps, the drawer that got away.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
M
The musters on the farm brought to you by Southland
District Council working together for a better Southland.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Dean Ravage Farms at Glenham and joins us this afternoon. Dan,
A good afternoon. How's everything down in Yournich of the Woods?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Good afternoon and yeah, very good at the moment. I
suspect it's just a lot like the the rest of
the province penny feed and during these warm temperatures. But
this win could bagger off. Really it's getting a bit tiring.
But apart from that, everything's looking pretty good and shopping
up for a good summer.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, that winds red it's ugly head over the last
couple of days once again.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, I see there's a notification this morning on the
phone that the school bus had to take a detour
because the trees over the road again. So I suspect
that there's still a lot of trees that have had
root systems weakened and that from the event we had
at the end of October, So that could still be
upsetting a few something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So everything's just taking away. All the lambs have been weaned.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Ah, Look we just started winning this morning. We just
did the two eternal twins, got them out of the road,
and Wednesday we'll have a big crack at all the
terminal lambs and hopefully get off whack of them away
and then we'll chiff way at the rest of them
eternals over the next few days. Really, So yeah, just
(01:26):
sign steady ones of the restaurant here when it comes
to winning, I.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Hopes for numbers away. You're just pretty pragmatic around the situation.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Look, we're not going to go chasing big numbers. We'll
keep our weights up a little bit, trying target sort
of an average evading kilos, and we'll try and maintain
the average right across the season. Really, I think at
times at winning, just the way payment structures work in
the sector, that we can be guilty of chasing the
(01:54):
money and their average weights dropped considerably, and I don't
think it's doing industry, and you're good and providing a
consistent product throughout the year, which is unfortunate. So yeah,
we'll just keep the bar reasonably high. Plenty of feeding
(02:14):
still building up new numbers, so we've but slightly understocked
for us compared to normal stake. We'll care on putting
the weight on I think this year.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So you're not worried about stores or anything giving them money.
Where is where it is, the covers are where you
want them to be or suppose.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, Like in just talking to people in the industry,
I don't think we're going to feed the big schedule
drops like we've seen in the past, and I'm probably
be proven wrong, but at the moment, I'm yeah, still happy.
Just we'll keep those trying to kill anything that's going
to kill above seventeen and a half and try and
average aid in kilos or something like that. So there's
(02:51):
a plan of the stage. But yeah, happy to be well,
more likely to be proven wrong as usually him and
regret something, but that's plentless age. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You were telling me before, you're not crushing your lambs
this year. You're going to take a part. You're going
to get the feathers off them next week.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, I just wanted to sharing contractor the end as
I was winding them all the lambs are still very
clean and that so we normally share everything at the
end of January. January anyway, so why not do it now?
There's plenty of will on them. They're a good neck
in your feet around and then that'll eliminate heaving to
dip anything and fly strike prevention and all that sort
(03:29):
of stuff later on and crush them before sharing as
well in a month's time. So all going to plan.
There is this bit of a spread of the moment
decision this morning as we're wedding, but we'll do that
next week. But they only hold up we've got is
that my bullshd currently doesn't have a roof. So yeah,
(03:49):
just trying to sort out a few logistics and we'll
we'll give it a crack and see what happens. Anyway,
that's what happens in the North Island and it seems
to work well for them, so I don't see why
we can't do it down here, but this is South Yeah,
I know, anything can change it. I'll talk to you
in a few weeks time and the plan will have
completely changed for this plan at the moment.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh nothing, A big old tap can't hold for a
couple of days, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
We'll see. It's going to be fine. It's going to
be fine.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So in general though, and you were saying it before
as well, the way that wolves rebounded. Hearing likes some
dirty price for crossbred wall being over three dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, it's quite encouraging, isn't it. We just then you'll
share all our years in genuary and they normally share
in it four kilos of walls, So yeah, look, it's
quite positive. I think at least the sharing bill is
going to be more than covered this year just looking
at it. So yeah, we'll just carry on and try
(04:47):
and maintain a high quality club and give it the
works over the cable like we have been, like we
always have. And yeah, hopefully we'll see a bit of
a all of a black figure at the bottom of
the wall budget this year.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yes, certainly it's not. It's a silver bullet the industry needs.
By no means is going to fix the industry, let's
be clear about that. But it's all small steps. I suppose,
it's like eating an elephant, just so little bites.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, exactly, And once we start plucking dead troop again,
I the ball thing today.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So you tell the younger generation that, lad and see
what they come up with their idea. Yeah, I know,
I know, but that'd be a great problem to have.
But mutton prices too, they've rebounded strong and just a
red meat sector in general. Venison schedules are up there,
red meats up there, we talk about beef, we talk
about Mutton, we talk about LAMB. So it's a good
(05:45):
vibe heading into Christmas.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah. I was just flucking through map on the phone
looking at weights and prices we're getting for product this
time last year and Mutton was four seventeen and Lamb
dot Lamb was eight o six. It was oh that
was last week in November then, so it probably would
have come back by now. But yeah, so this year
we're talking sort of six forty and around there, eleven
(06:07):
dollars for LAMB. So it's pretty positive out there and
it's really exciting, and yeah, it's fantastic and it's a
shame it's probably eighteen months too late because we've lost
a lot of sheep and beef out of the system
across the country. But yeah, in mind, it's really good
and a positive, positive space going into Christmas.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Hey, we talk about the Arima changes as well that
are in the pipeline of council amalgamations to follow on
after that from this central government directive. What are your thoughts?
Is it good?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Oh, look, it's good that it's been locked there and
it's been torn apart and rebuilt. I guess the devil
will be in the detail. And yeah, that's still a
lot of detail to expose itself, I guess. But I
just hope whatever happens it has by partisan support and
we're not just going to see the Irama becoming a
poitical football and getting revented every three years, because that'll
(07:03):
just lead to a huge waste and costs and bureaucracy
and probably not achieve anything. At the end of the day,
we'll just be continuously living in a state of so
the limbo. So yeah, excited to see what comes out.
Hopefully it will be positive in make farming and lend
uses quite beneficial moving forward. But yeah, it just whatever
(07:27):
happens just needs to be supporting, be allowed to bed
in for a few years before massive changes happen again.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Really Yeah, interesting how it's going to pan out.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Dean.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Hey, we'll leave it there, mate, Thanks for your time
once again, we always appreciate your time on the muster.
Enjoy the holidays and good luck getting that type up
for sharing.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah. Thanks, Ruch Shendy Ladder.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Dean Rabbage Farming at Glenham. Ye're listening to the muster
before the end of the hour. Alan McCleary from Sheerwell,
New Zealand. Up next, so Jason Pine from New Still.
It be the black Caps, the drawer that got away.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
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