September 2, 2025 • 9 mins
With lambing getting into full swing James says it is the time of year that shows the proper transitioning of the farming seasons.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Away up to my flat this afternoon on the mustard
James Egger Farms up that way, and a beautiful blue
sky riden afternoon down here in the south James, good afternoon.
How's a lambing beeat?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
No, it's very good. Yeah, down in Tapanoy today.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
We've been driving down there for a couple of weeks
and I'm reasonably pleased to see the sun, shall we say,
because yeah, it's been it's been reasonably testing, I suppose
for three or four days there.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
But yeah, it wasn't well.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Just all the all the healthy sheep got the lambs
up straight away.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
We're fine, but yeah, just anything, they just didn't quite
get them right.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
We're rotten the middle of the sleet, hail and borderline
snow down here.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, didn't quite get up, which was a bit frustrating.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
But however, when the blue sky is out sort of
a distant in some way, so yeah, shout out to
all the guys who have been carving and lambing and
slagging around in the mud and the wet weather gear,
and yeah, enjoy the nice day.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, it's like this for a couple of days. Anyway.
The five day forecast was talking about it getting a
little bit cooler again on Saturday and on a Sunday,
but I suppose the temperatures at the very least did
not going below minus. So the frosts are a bit
of a memory, I suppose at the moment.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, no, that's good.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
We're definitely I suppose early on we looked like we
were probably going to set stock on record covers and
we're probably now.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Maybe just below average. Actually, to be fair, we.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Actually needed the rain, especially at Male flat Wood missed
out on a lot. We'd probably be nine weeks before
that without significant rain, which was great for the winter, but.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Also being aware that, yeah, you do need some rain
to get the grass growing.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We actually had to bring all their sheep off their
swedes early, which put a bit of pressure on because.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We found they went sort of like rocks. They were
unbelievably hard.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You drive over in the tractor and you just hear
them popping and you pick them up and you're not
the singles they were fine, but those twin news we're
feeding them plenty of bailage, but no, it just went
off them and.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, just very very hard the swede. So we pulled
them off early, and we'll probably spread them out a
little bit earlier than usual, but it'll be about Friday,
so yeah, it'll come around fast enough this time.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yere, your cropping paddicks would have been as dry as
what they've been for August too though.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, no, certainly it's not often you could drive the well,
you probably drive around in your town car to be
as if the brakes. By the end of it, it
was amazingly dry. So yeah, and the sheep did quite well.
But then I reckon about the fifteenth of the twentieth
of August. The Swedes, they didn't say much drop a
seed here. Now I've seen that when the sheets don't
(02:51):
like it from there, But I just think the hardness
of them. Yeah, possibly the sheep thought the season was
a bit earlier than what it was. I don't know,
but yeah, we brung them off and had the conveyor
over the other day so drenched them and mouthed and
picked away.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So yeah, getting through the jobs.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I just want to have you on there the town car.
You could have driven the town car and the paddix
it's called to you.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, oh no, no, you could have driven the town
car and you probably could have if you've got the
right dry afternoon.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You could have driven it right around the whole farm.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
And there's probably not many weeks of the weeks of.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
The year that that's ever possible. So that was it
was really dry. It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well that's what we call the nager what head effect
of moving the crops, moving the crops and your crops.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, yeah, it could have been in your bare feet.
It would have been just what you needed.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So no, it has been. Yeah, every years different, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So hopefully we get some sun and yeah, it's going
to be nice from now on, so we'll see how
we go. I actually had the longest lending beat in
my life yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
My father budget he well, we bring the hill us.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So they lamed their first four years up at Mark
Flat and we don't do a lot of lemming, but
we bring them down here and they're sort of grown
up with a very intense lemming beat, you know, often
three times a day.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Bit of you know, he loves it. It's his favorite
time of year.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Back up a punishment.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh no, he's pretty passionate.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So but anyway here, yeah, yeah, bit of use to
these he'll youth, because they don't like that. They're not
used to it and they're a bit wild. Yesterday he
managed to he caught one to see the lamb and
then released it out of his trailer and it went
straight through an electric fence, carried on, went straight into
the Palmaharka River and then swum to the other side.
(04:39):
We had a process after yeah, of course, it was
about five thirty after work.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
About just what you need.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So we had to drive around the other side and
Wallace Ralston gave me a hand and you know, got
soaky wet, dragged this thing all the way out and
through the vines and got it all the way back again.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So we did. We did get it back again.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
But you know, reflecting that there'll be tails like that
all over Selton at this time of the year because
it is It is a time when certain things happen,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You know he can be lighthearted moments.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We had a process to get the lamb. There's something
to cinder, ok, Cinder Durham would.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Say, yeah, practicing been a politician and now I was laughing.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I was giving giving my father some instructions at these
hill yeus, you've just got to drive a bit faster
and not look quite it's hard because I've sorted up themselves.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But yeah, they put appear and I win them and
they just just not used to the handling.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
So yeah, he's learned at least, and hopefully hopefully we're
not swimming the Palmerhaker again because yeah, it wasn't actually
that warm at this time of year.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
She can be idiotic animals at stages. I remember once
at home there at Kendel Flat back in the day,
and there was a year she lambed. I had the lamba.
She took off across the panic I went to get
I went through a three reel and she crossed. She
swam the river and she stayed there. So I thought, well, buggy,
you can stay there the night, and so we had
to go and get her in the morning. I think
(06:04):
she may have come back on her own accord. In
the afternoon. We put her in the mother up boxes.
But god, she can give you drama.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, they certainly can. We have one of the blocks
at mar Fleet.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
We've got quite a few creeks, so they take a while,
but when they actually get quite good at crossing them,
so they.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Not scared the water so much. So I suppose it.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Looked at the pot Maharker and thought, oh, it's only
a slightly bigger creek.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So had to go. So yeah, pulled it out, sir.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
But anyway, she's taken her two lambs, so we did.
We did get her and the lamb price is looking
good and the sun's out, so yeah, it's a bit
of a lighthearted moment. You can't grizzle too much, can you?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
No, you can't. Now Badgie's keen on us three times
a day around the US. What philosophy do you take
chip off the old block?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh no, no, about twice someone's go around.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
This thing was a bit more, but yeah, we sort
of fit it to the country to be fear when
we're up and marfleys.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Just at least you can do.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
We always tip over the cast ones and yeah we
do it, do it based on them. You do make
quite good money by doing the lemming beats.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah. Do you text just what what you get used
to andy on it?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Now?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Do you tag the users that are cast Some people
do that.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Well we sort of have all their annual draft used
down here, so they're all mouthed up and then they
get waned in late November and sold, which has actually
been to be fair, it has actually been a game
changer for their business because the problem with Mars Flat
was if you weaned, certainly when we were weaning in January,
sometimes we still had their freezer us on and like
(07:33):
March if you had a.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Bad year and the space was a bit tight.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So that was a long time, Yeah, a long time
to have extra mouths on. Whereas this way we can
get rid of them in November and it's quite good
for cash flow for a start, and by about four
months of grass we're not.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Eating with animals that well.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Well, the problem was even the schedule was only gone
down to when you were holding onto them and the
freezing works didn't want them. So no, it's actually worked
out really well.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
For them down just finally, even though you're in a tiger,
you're doing pretty chaff to watching the shield come down
South on Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, it was just awesome, actually, Andy, Yeah, good on South.
And it's amazing when you're getting them.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I've heard even on your show Andy, you know, a
wee bit of prodding from the sidelines, and yeah, those
boys really just grew another.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Arm, didn't they.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
They amazing effort for them, and good on them and
hope they enjoy it. So yeah, I do love seeing
I do love seeing the small guy.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Tip over the big guy.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
So I enjoyed that, enjoyed that very much, which was
really nice.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Well, I've got Morgan Mitchell on in studio later on
in the Yeller, James, and I'll tell them this as well.
They've reinvigorated the MPC.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, you tell them to hold on to it in
Canterbury because do they have does Tiger have a shield
challenge if they hold hold on to it this week?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
No, we've already played a tager. You beat us on
Stag Day, remember, No, I thought.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
There was some complicated thing there I saw where all the.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, the float chart comes out for the ram Freely
shield in about sixty different palmotations come out. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, So if the right person does the right thing,
I think it gets a challenge. But no, good on
and fingers crossed. The tip over Canterbury.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Absolutely nothing better than beating Canterbury.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Is there nothing better than that? And the Stags have
been there before and done that too. James Egga, thanks
for your time as always.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Oh cheers, Andy. I hope you've wont enjoy us a
nice day and yeah, back into it.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
James Egger farming at ma Flat, Don Morrison farms at
Willow Bank in an alliance for director. We catch up next.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
This is the Master
Away up to my flat this afternoon on the mustard
James Egger Farms up that way, and a beautiful blue
sky riden afternoon down here in the south James, good afternoon.
How's a lambing beeat?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
No, it's very good. Yeah, down in Tapanoy today.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
We've been driving down there for a couple of weeks
and I'm reasonably pleased to see the sun, shall we say,
because yeah, it's been it's been reasonably testing, I suppose
for three or four days there.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
But yeah, it wasn't well.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Just all the all the healthy sheep got the lambs
up straight away.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
We're fine, but yeah, just anything, they just didn't quite
get them right.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
We're rotten the middle of the sleet, hail and borderline
snow down here.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, didn't quite get up, which was a bit frustrating.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
But however, when the blue sky is out sort of
a distant in some way, so yeah, shout out to
all the guys who have been carving and lambing and
slagging around in the mud and the wet weather gear,
and yeah, enjoy the nice day.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, it's like this for a couple of days. Anyway.
The five day forecast was talking about it getting a
little bit cooler again on Saturday and on a Sunday,
but I suppose the temperatures at the very least did
not going below minus. So the frosts are a bit
of a memory, I suppose at the moment.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, no, that's good.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
We're definitely I suppose early on we looked like we
were probably going to set stock on record covers and
we're probably now.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Maybe just below average. Actually, to be fair, we.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Actually needed the rain, especially at Male flat Wood missed
out on a lot. We'd probably be nine weeks before
that without significant rain, which was great for the winter, but.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Also being aware that, yeah, you do need some rain
to get the grass growing.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We actually had to bring all their sheep off their
swedes early, which put a bit of pressure on because.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We found they went sort of like rocks. They were
unbelievably hard.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You drive over in the tractor and you just hear
them popping and you pick them up and you're not
the singles they were fine, but those twin news we're
feeding them plenty of bailage, but no, it just went
off them and.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, just very very hard the swede. So we pulled
them off early, and we'll probably spread them out a
little bit earlier than usual, but it'll be about Friday,
so yeah, it'll come around fast enough this time.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yere, your cropping paddicks would have been as dry as
what they've been for August too though.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, no, certainly it's not often you could drive the well,
you probably drive around in your town car to be
as if the brakes. By the end of it, it
was amazingly dry. So yeah, and the sheep did quite well.
But then I reckon about the fifteenth of the twentieth
of August. The Swedes, they didn't say much drop a
seed here. Now I've seen that when the sheets don't
(02:51):
like it from there, But I just think the hardness
of them. Yeah, possibly the sheep thought the season was
a bit earlier than what it was. I don't know,
but yeah, we brung them off and had the conveyor
over the other day so drenched them and mouthed and
picked away.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So yeah, getting through the jobs.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I just want to have you on there the town car.
You could have driven the town car and the paddix
it's called to you.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, oh no, no, you could have driven the town
car and you probably could have if you've got the
right dry afternoon.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You could have driven it right around the whole farm.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
And there's probably not many weeks of the weeks of.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
The year that that's ever possible. So that was it
was really dry. It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well that's what we call the nager what head effect
of moving the crops, moving the crops and your crops.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, yeah, it could have been in your bare feet.
It would have been just what you needed.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So no, it has been. Yeah, every years different, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So hopefully we get some sun and yeah, it's going
to be nice from now on, so we'll see how
we go. I actually had the longest lending beat in
my life yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
My father budget he well, we bring the hill us.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So they lamed their first four years up at Mark
Flat and we don't do a lot of lemming, but
we bring them down here and they're sort of grown
up with a very intense lemming beat, you know, often
three times a day.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Bit of you know, he loves it. It's his favorite
time of year.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Back up a punishment.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh no, he's pretty passionate.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So but anyway here, yeah, yeah, bit of use to
these he'll youth, because they don't like that. They're not
used to it and they're a bit wild. Yesterday he
managed to he caught one to see the lamb and
then released it out of his trailer and it went
straight through an electric fence, carried on, went straight into
the Palmaharka River and then swum to the other side.
(04:39):
We had a process after yeah, of course, it was
about five thirty after work.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
About just what you need.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So we had to drive around the other side and
Wallace Ralston gave me a hand and you know, got
soaky wet, dragged this thing all the way out and
through the vines and got it all the way back again.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So we did. We did get it back again.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
But you know, reflecting that there'll be tails like that
all over Selton at this time of the year because
it is It is a time when certain things happen,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You know he can be lighthearted moments.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We had a process to get the lamb. There's something
to cinder, ok, Cinder Durham would.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Say, yeah, practicing been a politician and now I was laughing.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I was giving giving my father some instructions at these
hill yeus, you've just got to drive a bit faster
and not look quite it's hard because I've sorted up themselves.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But yeah, they put appear and I win them and
they just just not used to the handling.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
So yeah, he's learned at least, and hopefully hopefully we're
not swimming the Palmerhaker again because yeah, it wasn't actually
that warm at this time of year.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
She can be idiotic animals at stages. I remember once
at home there at Kendel Flat back in the day,
and there was a year she lambed. I had the lamba.
She took off across the panic I went to get
I went through a three reel and she crossed. She
swam the river and she stayed there. So I thought, well, buggy,
you can stay there the night, and so we had
to go and get her in the morning. I think
(06:04):
she may have come back on her own accord. In
the afternoon. We put her in the mother up boxes.
But god, she can give you drama.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, they certainly can. We have one of the blocks
at mar Fleet.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
We've got quite a few creeks, so they take a while,
but when they actually get quite good at crossing them,
so they.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Not scared the water so much. So I suppose it.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Looked at the pot Maharker and thought, oh, it's only
a slightly bigger creek.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So had to go. So yeah, pulled it out, sir.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
But anyway, she's taken her two lambs, so we did.
We did get her and the lamb price is looking
good and the sun's out, so yeah, it's a bit
of a lighthearted moment. You can't grizzle too much, can you?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
No, you can't. Now Badgie's keen on us three times
a day around the US. What philosophy do you take
chip off the old block?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh no, no, about twice someone's go around.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
This thing was a bit more, but yeah, we sort
of fit it to the country to be fear when
we're up and marfleys.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Just at least you can do.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
We always tip over the cast ones and yeah we
do it, do it based on them. You do make
quite good money by doing the lemming beats.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah. Do you text just what what you get used
to andy on it?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Now?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Do you tag the users that are cast Some people
do that.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Well we sort of have all their annual draft used
down here, so they're all mouthed up and then they
get waned in late November and sold, which has actually
been to be fair, it has actually been a game
changer for their business because the problem with Mars Flat
was if you weaned, certainly when we were weaning in January,
sometimes we still had their freezer us on and like
(07:33):
March if you had a.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Bad year and the space was a bit tight.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So that was a long time, Yeah, a long time
to have extra mouths on. Whereas this way we can
get rid of them in November and it's quite good
for cash flow for a start, and by about four
months of grass we're not.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Eating with animals that well.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Well, the problem was even the schedule was only gone
down to when you were holding onto them and the
freezing works didn't want them. So no, it's actually worked
out really well.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
For them down just finally, even though you're in a tiger,
you're doing pretty chaff to watching the shield come down
South on Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, it was just awesome, actually, Andy, Yeah, good on South.
And it's amazing when you're getting them.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I've heard even on your show Andy, you know, a
wee bit of prodding from the sidelines, and yeah, those
boys really just grew another.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Arm, didn't they.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
They amazing effort for them, and good on them and
hope they enjoy it. So yeah, I do love seeing
I do love seeing the small guy.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Tip over the big guy.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
So I enjoyed that, enjoyed that very much, which was
really nice.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Well, I've got Morgan Mitchell on in studio later on
in the Yeller, James, and I'll tell them this as well.
They've reinvigorated the MPC.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, you tell them to hold on to it in
Canterbury because do they have does Tiger have a shield
challenge if they hold hold on to it this week?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
No, we've already played a tager. You beat us on
Stag Day, remember, No, I thought.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
There was some complicated thing there I saw where all the.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, the float chart comes out for the ram Freely
shield in about sixty different palmotations come out. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, So if the right person does the right thing,
I think it gets a challenge. But no, good on
and fingers crossed. The tip over Canterbury.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Absolutely nothing better than beating Canterbury.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Is there nothing better than that? And the Stags have
been there before and done that too. James Egga, thanks
for your time as always.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Oh cheers, Andy. I hope you've wont enjoy us a
nice day and yeah, back into it.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
James Egger farming at ma Flat, Don Morrison farms at
Willow Bank in an alliance for director. We catch up next.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
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