November 12, 2025 • 7 mins
Geordie Eade looks at the positives around red meat as the weaning season approaches.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And this is the master on Hakanui. Taylor Swift is
the artist. Don't mind that line. I don't know about
I don't know about you, but I feel like in
(00:20):
twenty two there was a hell of a long time ago,
if I'm perfectly honest, Jordi, ye joins us. Next though,
he is at the river Era of the South, which
is Riverton Farming over that way and mixed operation. Good afternoon, Jordy, Yeah,
getting on any pretty good. Taylor Swift, are you a
Taita fan.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
No, I've got two daughters that absolutely love her, and
neither my wife or I can actually stand her. Really. Yeah,
So I think you have to be born in that
generation to like that sort of stuff. I think you reckon.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I don't mind it. Actually, therese were stuff around.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Jack could be a sickness of hearing it from the
kid probably more than anything. If you hear it in
moderation is probably not for that.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Everything in moderation and life, Jordi. Hey, I haven't spoken
to you for a little while now. We're just talking.
Just before though we had it came to air about
the situation over your way with the weather. Sounds as
though it was a nightmare like everywhere else.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, well, well I counted it down to the air
as we had the pair off one hundred and fifty
one hours. So we got a generator for the cow
shed on day two. Then that ran smoothly for about
three milkings and then we had engine problems with it
and then we run out of water. Then we got
another generator and then that's that flight to the plug
on the wall. It's got a bit of moisture into it,
(01:34):
so no, it didn't run smoothly. The last day of
the pair off, we were supplying milk again, so we
were on the road and then the pair come back
on and pretty much when the pair come back on,
the sun's come out and it's been the River of
the South.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
As far as damage on the farm from the wind,
trees down in the lakes, or trampolines flying five hundred meters,
did you have any of that?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
No, no, no, we didn't have any building damage other
and a bobby calf pen that we loaded the calves
out on, so that was lucky. Our home farm had
about a dozen trees down, Unfortunately half of them were
over a neighboring boundary fence. But yeah, the dairy farm's
bit of a mess because they've got big heatrows. So yeah,
it's but daunting wan to clean up that. I think
it's going to be a contract and material really together
that up. But I have've purchased a grab for the
(02:16):
tractor and realized that bid my neighbors and realized how
good of things they are, so yeah, ready to go.
The generator was to arrive this week for the dairy farm.
That was actually purchased prior to the power going off.
But I'd say they're in demand.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So pretty much a glamping experience for the family for
a while.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, it was a glamping experience, but by about day
three we were over it really Yeah, and that was
probably at the peak of getting the cut. That was
getting really cold too, Like we have a sexual eating
house and it got down to nine degrees and like
third world problems really, so how are your.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Fake hovers looking over there? So temperature wise, Robinson looks
pretty buoyant at the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, we don't wear The dairy farm was the under
the pump all the way through really, to be fair,
that's downside of carving real early. I mean we were
finished carving by the end of September, so we had
all cows pretty much on the vat from all of
October and we're only really just starting to get a
weave ahead there now. The cows are peaking pretty well
and now at the moment, funny enough as the season
(03:15):
comes on. But yeah, I think there's a sheep farm
starting to be a bit of surface in front here.
And now you can tell that that past week ten
days that I would say it's probably been the excess
of sixty to eighty a day. I would say.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Taylor would be in the rear view mirror. Now i'd
imagine number wise, how did that go?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, Taylor went down pretty well for probably better than
I expected. We're going to end up somewhere aro out
in the mid one fifty, so I'll be pretty happy
with that. Off the weather we had and the conditions
and everything else go along with it, and the cows
that's coming cycling really well. So we're nearly about halfway through.
The cows have come up the first ten days of cycling,
so that's done really well. You know, everything Maybe on
(03:53):
the upside is we might have a good drop for
everything else and the cows wise, you know, as cows
have come early and there might be some positive upsides.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It's ironic, though, wasn't it. I Mean, we think about
the timing and weaning, isn't that far away? And tailing
still on the table for a lot of people, never
mind pre ween drinks in that.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, well we just tailed about a week ago. We'd
leave it pretty late so we can drench them. And
the tailing contractors said they're not too bad behind that
they weren't just didn't reckon that they were as bad
as the year before. But you know, they still had
about another week ten days in front of them of
gone around doing everybody's late stock. But I said, so
what was the lambing percentages because they go all over
(04:31):
south and they said, oh, anybody at lamb around there?
Later August thirty September, it was hemming pretty hard, and
then the ones either side weren't too bad.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So on the dairy farm, production has been pretty good.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, production has been pretty good. Where the cows are
peeking right now, which is probably about two to three
weeks later than normal. Whether that's because the relative to
the feed supply down there because we were fairy well
under the pump. We're still feeding daily up to about
a week ago, so and then she had feeding. You know,
we're still doing a feaverit of that there, but yeah,
I'm just optimistic to hope that we're going to get
(05:03):
near that ten dollar payouts every sort of two weeks.
It's just a bit more gloom. That's not going to happen.
But yeah, Fonterra's fixed milk price this month was nine
sixty five, So you know, is that near enough what
it's going to be? I suppose we'll see what the
uptake was of that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Were you attempted to take some of that.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Oh, I only had about ten thousand left to take,
so I took that, and so I'm fully kissed out.
Now it's just under ten dollars. So I'm pretty happy
with that.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
That's pretty darn good money, though we think about even
just a couple of seasons ago. Yes, that seems a
long time ago now twenty four months, but price wise,
it's pretty done good.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh yeah, And if we were getting off of that
in the sheep industry, would if you know, he get
ten dollars for a lot, we would sign it up.
We woud run out of ink in the pen.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
But it sounds as a lamb's going to stay reasonably
buoyant for the season too, Jordy, Yeah, no, it does.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
No, that sounds real positive. The only negative person I've
heard is Keith Woodford say that it's not sustainable what
it is. But I mean, at the end of the day,
we've needed these prices. And I mean I just saw
bit of an article I never really read it to
saying that that months is the new butter. Well, my
heart bleeds for all the stuff we've had to you know,
we need to be earning that to be making a
bible and maching beef now.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And months has always looked at when you get the
kettle bee speck from the butcher, you've got about a
zillion months is but I know it's almost like a
trading commodity in its own right now.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Right, Yeah, it is. It is an No, a family
of three kids that months is always a good stable menu.
Really that whether you have an archos or something else
or that certainly one would probably have once a week
so you will get through this year a month.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
No, that's so versatile. Hey, we'll let you carry on.
Always appreciate your time. And here's a bit of Taylor
Swift to see out for the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh goody.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Jordy. At the River of the South which is Riverton.
This is the master on Hokanui out next from beef
for Air New Zealand Sarah Swimbourne
Speaker 2 (07:00):
M see
And this is the master on Hakanui. Taylor Swift is
the artist. Don't mind that line. I don't know about
I don't know about you, but I feel like in
(00:20):
twenty two there was a hell of a long time ago,
if I'm perfectly honest, Jordi, ye joins us. Next though,
he is at the river Era of the South, which
is Riverton Farming over that way and mixed operation. Good afternoon, Jordy, Yeah,
getting on any pretty good. Taylor Swift, are you a
Taita fan.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
No, I've got two daughters that absolutely love her, and
neither my wife or I can actually stand her. Really. Yeah,
So I think you have to be born in that
generation to like that sort of stuff. I think you reckon.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I don't mind it. Actually, therese were stuff around.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Jack could be a sickness of hearing it from the
kid probably more than anything. If you hear it in
moderation is probably not for that.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Everything in moderation and life, Jordi. Hey, I haven't spoken
to you for a little while now. We're just talking.
Just before though we had it came to air about
the situation over your way with the weather. Sounds as
though it was a nightmare like everywhere else.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, well, well I counted it down to the air
as we had the pair off one hundred and fifty
one hours. So we got a generator for the cow
shed on day two. Then that ran smoothly for about
three milkings and then we had engine problems with it
and then we run out of water. Then we got
another generator and then that's that flight to the plug
on the wall. It's got a bit of moisture into it,
(01:34):
so no, it didn't run smoothly. The last day of
the pair off, we were supplying milk again, so we
were on the road and then the pair come back
on and pretty much when the pair come back on,
the sun's come out and it's been the River of
the South.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
As far as damage on the farm from the wind,
trees down in the lakes, or trampolines flying five hundred meters,
did you have any of that?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
No, no, no, we didn't have any building damage other
and a bobby calf pen that we loaded the calves
out on, so that was lucky. Our home farm had
about a dozen trees down, Unfortunately half of them were
over a neighboring boundary fence. But yeah, the dairy farm's
bit of a mess because they've got big heatrows. So yeah,
it's but daunting wan to clean up that. I think
it's going to be a contract and material really together
that up. But I have've purchased a grab for the
(02:16):
tractor and realized that bid my neighbors and realized how
good of things they are, so yeah, ready to go.
The generator was to arrive this week for the dairy farm.
That was actually purchased prior to the power going off.
But I'd say they're in demand.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So pretty much a glamping experience for the family for
a while.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, it was a glamping experience, but by about day
three we were over it really Yeah, and that was
probably at the peak of getting the cut. That was
getting really cold too, Like we have a sexual eating
house and it got down to nine degrees and like
third world problems really, so how are your.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Fake hovers looking over there? So temperature wise, Robinson looks
pretty buoyant at the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, we don't wear The dairy farm was the under
the pump all the way through really, to be fair,
that's downside of carving real early. I mean we were
finished carving by the end of September, so we had
all cows pretty much on the vat from all of
October and we're only really just starting to get a
weave ahead there now. The cows are peaking pretty well
and now at the moment, funny enough as the season
(03:15):
comes on. But yeah, I think there's a sheep farm
starting to be a bit of surface in front here.
And now you can tell that that past week ten
days that I would say it's probably been the excess
of sixty to eighty a day. I would say.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Taylor would be in the rear view mirror. Now i'd
imagine number wise, how did that go?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, Taylor went down pretty well for probably better than
I expected. We're going to end up somewhere aro out
in the mid one fifty, so I'll be pretty happy
with that. Off the weather we had and the conditions
and everything else go along with it, and the cows
that's coming cycling really well. So we're nearly about halfway through.
The cows have come up the first ten days of cycling,
so that's done really well. You know, everything Maybe on
(03:53):
the upside is we might have a good drop for
everything else and the cows wise, you know, as cows
have come early and there might be some positive upsides.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It's ironic, though, wasn't it. I Mean, we think about
the timing and weaning, isn't that far away? And tailing
still on the table for a lot of people, never
mind pre ween drinks in that.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, well we just tailed about a week ago. We'd
leave it pretty late so we can drench them. And
the tailing contractors said they're not too bad behind that
they weren't just didn't reckon that they were as bad
as the year before. But you know, they still had
about another week ten days in front of them of
gone around doing everybody's late stock. But I said, so
what was the lambing percentages because they go all over
(04:31):
south and they said, oh, anybody at lamb around there?
Later August thirty September, it was hemming pretty hard, and
then the ones either side weren't too bad.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So on the dairy farm, production has been pretty good.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, production has been pretty good. Where the cows are
peeking right now, which is probably about two to three
weeks later than normal. Whether that's because the relative to
the feed supply down there because we were fairy well
under the pump. We're still feeding daily up to about
a week ago, so and then she had feeding. You know,
we're still doing a feaverit of that there, but yeah,
I'm just optimistic to hope that we're going to get
(05:03):
near that ten dollar payouts every sort of two weeks.
It's just a bit more gloom. That's not going to happen.
But yeah, Fonterra's fixed milk price this month was nine
sixty five, So you know, is that near enough what
it's going to be? I suppose we'll see what the
uptake was of that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Were you attempted to take some of that.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Oh, I only had about ten thousand left to take,
so I took that, and so I'm fully kissed out.
Now it's just under ten dollars. So I'm pretty happy
with that.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
That's pretty darn good money, though we think about even
just a couple of seasons ago. Yes, that seems a
long time ago now twenty four months, but price wise,
it's pretty done good.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh yeah, And if we were getting off of that
in the sheep industry, would if you know, he get
ten dollars for a lot, we would sign it up.
We woud run out of ink in the pen.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
But it sounds as a lamb's going to stay reasonably
buoyant for the season too, Jordy, Yeah, no, it does.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
No, that sounds real positive. The only negative person I've
heard is Keith Woodford say that it's not sustainable what
it is. But I mean, at the end of the day,
we've needed these prices. And I mean I just saw
bit of an article I never really read it to
saying that that months is the new butter. Well, my
heart bleeds for all the stuff we've had to you know,
we need to be earning that to be making a
bible and maching beef now.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And months has always looked at when you get the
kettle bee speck from the butcher, you've got about a
zillion months is but I know it's almost like a
trading commodity in its own right now.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Right, Yeah, it is. It is an No, a family
of three kids that months is always a good stable menu.
Really that whether you have an archos or something else
or that certainly one would probably have once a week
so you will get through this year a month.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
No, that's so versatile. Hey, we'll let you carry on.
Always appreciate your time. And here's a bit of Taylor
Swift to see out for the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh goody.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Jordy. At the River of the South which is Riverton.
This is the master on Hokanui out next from beef
for Air New Zealand Sarah Swimbourne
Speaker 2 (07:00):
M see
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