May 13, 2026 • 7 mins
Geordie Eade looks at a positive regarding the current fuel situation.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This interview is brought to you by agri Center South
branches in Lawnville, Gore, Cromwell, Milton, and Ranfurly. Drop by
your local agri Center South brunch today.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Jordy yed farms over at the River Era of the South,
which is of course beautiful Riverton and we catch up. Jordy,
Good afternoon. How's everything at the river Era?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, good afternoon and a year The sun's out now,
but pobby this morning. But nice to see the sun
really after a favorite of crappy weather over the weekend.
We had sixty year and thankful that only the dairy
farm only got half that, but we certainly had enough.
You wouldn't really want to see anymore for the until
the end of May. That'd be quite good if we
can see it out less you've had enough.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
So your rainfall figures, would you be behind the eight
ball for the season.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
No, we're about fifty ahead of this time last year,
so we're up to about that five fifty five sixty
marks already for this year. So yeah, it's probably a
round about normal for about a fourteen hundred milimeter rainfall
for the season, so we're about the running on average.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You would say, so, how are your covers looking.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, I know the covers are really good with grass
growth all the way through really. I mean, you know,
April has been as good as grass growing here as January.
So you know, the covers have all done pretty well.
You know, the user on bro hind fences now, so
you know what, you're a bit of grass grows now,
keep it, store it and keep it for the winter.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So you've got all the lambs away, Yeah, I've.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Got one hundred and forty left, but they are just
probably they were due to go next week that I
pushed out a following week. It's still got a bit
of feed there for them, so I might as well
just keep going on them. The schedule went back up
again on Friday night, so it's gone the right direction again.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well, how much does it drop with your company over
the season, They wouldn't have been stuff all. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I think they might have dropped probably twenty cents in
the whole season. So you know, that's unbelievable because you
normally get that weaning draft and you sort of you know,
there's sort of maybe sixty eighty cents drops out of it,
you know, as you come into January. But for it
to hold as it did, you know, and only dropped
that sort of tweet it thirty cents. Yeah, no, it's
unbelievable really.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Now you've got a dairy farm over in your neck
of the words too that you're operating, so you've got
a lot of bases covered. How's it been.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
There, Yeah, and it's been really good. We have a
sort of a unique sort of set up there as
the farm's sort of divided into forty nine paddocks, only
one hundred and twenty three hectores and forty nine paddocks,
and we do a twenty three day round from start
to finish because the grass grows the all year round,
so it's quite unique and we just you know, as
you get into these months, you just sort of start
wearing your covers down a bit, and you know, it
(02:32):
seems to work really well. Really. It's easy for a
management position anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Growing grass all year around, that's a hell of a
problem for.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
South one, Oh it is. Yeah, yeah, No, I think
I don't know. I think the winters where they get
more mild, I don't know. From when I was a kid,
I can remember playing a lot of rupy and fross anyway,
but you've been right down down the estuary. It doesn't
get much frost anyway, and yeah, I mean that's one benefit.
You can probably take a bend down there anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So how the cows be milking as you come towards
the end of the season.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
You were about on par now what we're doing this
time last year, but we're sort of about four percent ahead.
But we lost those six days of the windstorm, so
to be sort of three or four percent ahead, and
when you take six days out of it, I'll take
it run. So you know, they've been milking really well
of late. We had a few higher emptiers this year,
but I went through them and they're all older cows.
But it was something bit unusual is that we didn't
(03:21):
peak milk until the middle of November, so that's yeah,
contrasting with trying to get them in calf at that
time too. That could have been a bit of an effect,
But I suppose we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Hey, we're talking about the diesel situation, Jordy. It sounds
as I was not good supply won't be an is shoe.
The price needs to relax a bit. Although you were
telling me before that bulk delivery exclusive has actually come
right back to what it was.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, it's come back, you know, it's come back probably
a good sixty or seventy cents from what it was
about a month ago. But yeah, so the bulk delivery,
so you know that's probably everybody that used a lot
of fuel that sort of you know, we'll be getting
that sort of rate back. I mean, one thing is
from be really annoying, means these fafs amongst the transport companies,
so there's no consistency. Every transport company or contractor has
(04:08):
a different rate or just asked if they all could
have the same. So yeah, it's annoying, really annoying.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
That's a bit like any contractors though. They're going to
be horses for courses the way they want to sell
their product day, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, I suppose you're right. Yeah, I suppose the sec
I was in buying even all folders in the Macagle
last Friday, and even there they've got to sign up
that they've got an FAF on buying all fielders. So yeah,
wait till they have that on the suitmarket shelf or
into the suit market, that might cause a bit of grief.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well, all of a sudden, the hemoz straight. I said
this the other day, it's going to be one of
the terms of the twenty twenties that we're going to
look back at about ten twenty years time, and either
Chuckle or Win said, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, to be fair, probably before this I'd never even
heard of it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
There's one thing about these world issues. You're learning geography
all the time. But look, I'm still getting my email
from the field company I was with that. I was
on the phone and the greatest wording for hoarding is
precautionary ordering, and I was saying, everything's back to normal now,
but a lot of precautionary ordering was going on when
all this stuff kicked off. So it sounds as though
(05:13):
deliveries are going back to normal.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, well, I mean there's only so much you can
store on farms. I suppose it was that bit of
rush to get all that filled up. I know, my
south I was getting down of it, so you know,
I just probably get it filled up. But then everybody
else thought the same thing. So you know, we have
central heating for the house too, so I was sort
of probably making sure that it was going to run
out for diesel for that, so you know, I think
the precautionary ordering was probably and then that's you know,
that ship sailed and we're all got enough now and
(05:37):
I think we'll probably out there want to not need
much more.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, there's not one thing, it's the other. Hey, i'll
leave you or this. I'll get this. Your thoughts on
this before we wrap up as well? Regarding counsel amalgamation
down here in the South, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, no, I thought I think it definitely needs to
be done. You know, I'm always been an avoot. I
can't you know, I can't understand how gore On itself
has here and a council for the little amount of people.
What has I mean of any amalgamation. I can't understand
how they're not under the district council. But I mean
there's sort of a few Robs Scott had quite a
good article in the Southern Times, so we'd only get
(06:12):
the Southern Times on a Saturday, and you know about
how these sort of duplication things done and they're trying
to work for one another, and I understand that, you know,
I think it's probably a good thing as long as
everybody can still get the essay, I suppose.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And that's a big thing being a democracy. And the
councils have been given three months to work this south, well,
to work it out, otherwise it's going to be worked
out for them.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, well that's right too, But I mean saying that
it wasn't really put on. They knew that it was coming.
So it's been no year, has been no shock. You
would say, good.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Only Jody will leave it there and enjoy the AVO.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
No good airs the sun shining, so thank you, good heed.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Jordy ye the river era of the South, which is Reverson. Yeah,
the greatest word for hoarding, precautionary ordering. Gotta love terminology, right, Niga,
what heads up next? Up in South Tago, you're listening
to the Master Hurricanes movie.
This interview is brought to you by agri Center South
branches in Lawnville, Gore, Cromwell, Milton, and Ranfurly. Drop by
your local agri Center South brunch today.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Jordy yed farms over at the River Era of the South,
which is of course beautiful Riverton and we catch up. Jordy,
Good afternoon. How's everything at the river Era?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, good afternoon and a year The sun's out now,
but pobby this morning. But nice to see the sun
really after a favorite of crappy weather over the weekend.
We had sixty year and thankful that only the dairy
farm only got half that, but we certainly had enough.
You wouldn't really want to see anymore for the until
the end of May. That'd be quite good if we
can see it out less you've had enough.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
So your rainfall figures, would you be behind the eight
ball for the season.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
No, we're about fifty ahead of this time last year,
so we're up to about that five fifty five sixty
marks already for this year. So yeah, it's probably a
round about normal for about a fourteen hundred milimeter rainfall
for the season, so we're about the running on average.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You would say, so, how are your covers looking.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, I know the covers are really good with grass
growth all the way through really. I mean, you know,
April has been as good as grass growing here as January.
So you know, the covers have all done pretty well.
You know, the user on bro hind fences now, so
you know what, you're a bit of grass grows now,
keep it, store it and keep it for the winter.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So you've got all the lambs away, Yeah, I've.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Got one hundred and forty left, but they are just
probably they were due to go next week that I
pushed out a following week. It's still got a bit
of feed there for them, so I might as well
just keep going on them. The schedule went back up
again on Friday night, so it's gone the right direction again.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well, how much does it drop with your company over
the season, They wouldn't have been stuff all. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I think they might have dropped probably twenty cents in
the whole season. So you know, that's unbelievable because you
normally get that weaning draft and you sort of you know,
there's sort of maybe sixty eighty cents drops out of it,
you know, as you come into January. But for it
to hold as it did, you know, and only dropped
that sort of tweet it thirty cents. Yeah, no, it's
unbelievable really.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Now you've got a dairy farm over in your neck
of the words too that you're operating, so you've got
a lot of bases covered. How's it been.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
There, Yeah, and it's been really good. We have a
sort of a unique sort of set up there as
the farm's sort of divided into forty nine paddocks, only
one hundred and twenty three hectores and forty nine paddocks,
and we do a twenty three day round from start
to finish because the grass grows the all year round,
so it's quite unique and we just you know, as
you get into these months, you just sort of start
wearing your covers down a bit, and you know, it
(02:32):
seems to work really well. Really. It's easy for a
management position anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Growing grass all year around, that's a hell of a
problem for.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
South one, Oh it is. Yeah, yeah, No, I think
I don't know. I think the winters where they get
more mild, I don't know. From when I was a kid,
I can remember playing a lot of rupy and fross anyway,
but you've been right down down the estuary. It doesn't
get much frost anyway, and yeah, I mean that's one benefit.
You can probably take a bend down there anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So how the cows be milking as you come towards
the end of the season.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
You were about on par now what we're doing this
time last year, but we're sort of about four percent ahead.
But we lost those six days of the windstorm, so
to be sort of three or four percent ahead, and
when you take six days out of it, I'll take
it run. So you know, they've been milking really well
of late. We had a few higher emptiers this year,
but I went through them and they're all older cows.
But it was something bit unusual is that we didn't
(03:21):
peak milk until the middle of November, so that's yeah,
contrasting with trying to get them in calf at that
time too. That could have been a bit of an effect,
But I suppose we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Hey, we're talking about the diesel situation, Jordy. It sounds
as I was not good supply won't be an is shoe.
The price needs to relax a bit. Although you were
telling me before that bulk delivery exclusive has actually come
right back to what it was.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, it's come back, you know, it's come back probably
a good sixty or seventy cents from what it was
about a month ago. But yeah, so the bulk delivery,
so you know that's probably everybody that used a lot
of fuel that sort of you know, we'll be getting
that sort of rate back. I mean, one thing is
from be really annoying, means these fafs amongst the transport companies,
so there's no consistency. Every transport company or contractor has
(04:08):
a different rate or just asked if they all could
have the same. So yeah, it's annoying, really annoying.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
That's a bit like any contractors though. They're going to
be horses for courses the way they want to sell
their product day, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, I suppose you're right. Yeah, I suppose the sec
I was in buying even all folders in the Macagle
last Friday, and even there they've got to sign up
that they've got an FAF on buying all fielders. So yeah,
wait till they have that on the suitmarket shelf or
into the suit market, that might cause a bit of grief.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well, all of a sudden, the hemoz straight. I said
this the other day, it's going to be one of
the terms of the twenty twenties that we're going to
look back at about ten twenty years time, and either
Chuckle or Win said, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, to be fair, probably before this I'd never even
heard of it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
There's one thing about these world issues. You're learning geography
all the time. But look, I'm still getting my email
from the field company I was with that. I was
on the phone and the greatest wording for hoarding is
precautionary ordering, and I was saying, everything's back to normal now,
but a lot of precautionary ordering was going on when
all this stuff kicked off. So it sounds as though
(05:13):
deliveries are going back to normal.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, well, I mean there's only so much you can
store on farms. I suppose it was that bit of
rush to get all that filled up. I know, my
south I was getting down of it, so you know,
I just probably get it filled up. But then everybody
else thought the same thing. So you know, we have
central heating for the house too, so I was sort
of probably making sure that it was going to run
out for diesel for that, so you know, I think
the precautionary ordering was probably and then that's you know,
that ship sailed and we're all got enough now and
(05:37):
I think we'll probably out there want to not need
much more.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, there's not one thing, it's the other. Hey, i'll
leave you or this. I'll get this. Your thoughts on
this before we wrap up as well? Regarding counsel amalgamation
down here in the South, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, no, I thought I think it definitely needs to
be done. You know, I'm always been an avoot. I
can't you know, I can't understand how gore On itself
has here and a council for the little amount of people.
What has I mean of any amalgamation. I can't understand
how they're not under the district council. But I mean
there's sort of a few Robs Scott had quite a
good article in the Southern Times, so we'd only get
(06:12):
the Southern Times on a Saturday, and you know about
how these sort of duplication things done and they're trying
to work for one another, and I understand that, you know,
I think it's probably a good thing as long as
everybody can still get the essay, I suppose.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And that's a big thing being a democracy. And the
councils have been given three months to work this south, well,
to work it out, otherwise it's going to be worked
out for them.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, well that's right too, But I mean saying that
it wasn't really put on. They knew that it was coming.
So it's been no year, has been no shock. You
would say, good.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Only Jody will leave it there and enjoy the AVO.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
No good airs the sun shining, so thank you, good heed.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Jordy ye the river era of the South, which is Reverson. Yeah,
the greatest word for hoarding, precautionary ordering. Gotta love terminology, right, Niga,
what heads up next? Up in South Tago, you're listening
to the Master Hurricanes movie.
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