June 7, 2026 • 8 mins
Jamie King says the bull prices this season continues the upward trend that the rural sector is seeing.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
An Jamie King Farms and laker Oco and joins us
in the Saturn Dam farming ground up, thanks of course
of sagein dy and sock foods here on the main
street to go. We speak to different farmers around the
Southern province each and every Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Get a jabie gooday mate? What a tune for a Monday?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
You rate it?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Uh, depends on spires, mate. It was a good song
of suppose that day. But yeah, don't know what we
call it, but yeah, yes.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Well, once upon a time, Eric Krois said some of
the music I played was okay, but he was a
fantas lean dion, so I thought I'd just played ball
for Eric. I've never played Michael Jackson before ten days
ago on the show either.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh look at yougo, mate, it's pay in there.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Absolutely. Hey, we catch you on tour today. You're where
are you at? A kai kura?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You might under start getting into and the road just
taking around heave and look at some some here, some
saibles because obviously we've got some redgs to Hereford. So yeah,
just sort of so it's taking the ball season and
then getting through them and having squidz around the country.
You see what everyone else is up to. It's been
really strong obviously off the back of a very strong
meat schedule and looking very very positive going forward. So
(01:16):
now it's all pretty good mate, and me personally know
I had a good, good day of full clearance, no
big money, but clearly everything for a very good average.
So really happy boys. So it's good to see people.
It's back investing in a bit of positive around the
whole industry. Made it's it's really good to see for
a change.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Was that the key thing you took away from the day, Jamie,
people just talking about farming, giving a smile on their
face when they do as well, because there's been a while.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, I suppose as odd persons but cheapers about parting
her heads up too far. But just at the moment,
we're going good end. You know, we've needed this. We've
been getting there, getting in the bottom of the doll drums,
getting tricked on the backside for you know, the last
couple of three years. So it's good to see a
bit more bit more steady optimism, I would call it.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, just cross most of sectors as well, depending on
who you speak to. Yes, war hasn't been flashed, but hey,
it can't be any worse and what it's been, and
you're starting to get more than a.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Couple of twenty four pegs for your for your.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Clip too, oh one hundred percent, mate, And everything's sort
of paying some paying some money, you know, and yeah
so and even on a huge genational level what the
government coffers, you know, there won't have been a lot
of great deal of tax being paid out of the
egg cecter will the read meat sector in particular the
last two or three years, so they'll probably been for
a couple of good years possibly going forward. So it's
(02:30):
all going to help the economy a bit, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So what about yourself?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You're pretty positive going and head looking twelve months into
the future, perhaps.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, one hundred percent. Well we've got to mate, But
yet now everything's looking pretty rosy again. Look, you know,
four casts out six eight months and sort of you'll
probably stop chewing your fingernails wondering how long it's going
to last war. But it seems to sort of found
a bit of but a steadiness. I'm on that note, don't.
I don't think it can afford to fall the bits
because yeah, there was will all have nothing to do
(02:58):
you know I really looking looking for the next next
twelve months anyway? Ay for sure?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So how did you learn budget finish up this year?
I did say you would have been in the positive?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah yet no, not for sure for sure yet now
we're well well into the positive. On that night I
have we have spent plenty two but sells through when
you're going to play to catch up A bit more
ferret and a couple of pieces of infrastructure and a
plant updated, so you know you know we're going real good? Yeah,
real good.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So how's the start of winter being Lake a Roco?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Outrageously good? Like I said, I haven't been here for
the last couple of days, but like from so we
got those for you already frost and it was a
little bit no, where's this going to go? And then
it's here? Would happen if I had a petictive cultivator
ground signed down in the winter? Cereal well in the
lower and valley mate, we don't really genuinely put a
player on the ground in May, but I got a
(03:50):
wife and good, so really good. Has got wet underfoot
the last week.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Though, outrageously good. That's not something you here very often?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
No, no, and it's my so some of them are crops
probably not quite up to scratch. So it's been a
blessing in the skies. I'll see, we're talking about New
Nino coming in, so we could bend for a bit
of a way to winter. But at the moment we'll
just take every day as it comes and box on.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
So your covers are looking up to party, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, yep, yep. No, we're just yeah, yeah, we're just
jogging along, just nice in a real good, good place
at the moment.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Right, I've got to throw this one at you, Jamie Counsel.
Amalgamation has been all the talk recently. What do you
make of all of this? What's your preference?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Blah, not to fazed, mate, I mean they're all sharks.
I've all got their hands out. I've got my owner
shoes with districtifications and roading. But some pieces, if they
will make the best thing we see is get rid
of some of that fringing maine that gets gold up
and all the Edmond and horsecrap. What that would be
the dream result. It's the one good thing to come
(04:52):
of it, and that'll be probably what they're steering towards.
But if it happens or not. Good. Lord only knows,
But yeah, I don't know. It'd be nice some bureaucratic,
bureaucratic stuff from in the middle, But then some of
those people have to go and get real jobs, won't they.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So in other words, you're trying to say mainstream, just
trying to streamline services provided one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yep, just mop it up. We've got a he of
a slip on our road, mate, It's been there for
eight months and there like tween council and contract there's
there's just nothing being done with it. It's absolutely headache
and there's them currently forty log trucks going over every day.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
How often do you see a greater on your road?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Not? Probably Well, generally it's pretty good, but we've got
a lot of long traffic at the moment, so it
probably needs to be up kept. That we get on
the phone and bring the people that do it and say, chop, chop,
get it going, because the road is an empty of
abortion like it is at the moment. But yeah, it's
just I know, we seem to get forgotten about in
the BEACONO suppose all population based, isn't it? But hell,
(05:54):
I ay, we pay our rates too, mate?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Do you think perhaps the owners should be under logging
companies in these very calls that are putting extra weight
on these country roads to be paying a bit more.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I used to know that those logging companies they pay
rates on all their land too, So you know, like
it's we're all in the same pot. So it's still
at the council level. What you know, who's doing the
budget and who's doing the friggin' up? Kick.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Hey, how's ground conditions up and North Canterbury? I suppose
you're in too. How's that looking out there?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
They're looking good, mate, Yeah, looking real good. And where
I'm going to they're grinning from EU tou two and
they had a really good summer and that's still green
and quite more outside actually, so they're looking looking pretty rosy.
I don't we run the country's got any we to
comptain a bit at the moment. And even I just
come back from the West Coast and they are really
good over you too.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Hey, A bitter news out of the Orblacks this morning.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Tony Brown's going in there as a coach after the
twenty twenty seven Rugby World Cap. I'm not sure if
you've caught up on this, Jamie. But it's a bit
of a coup for the All Backs teaching For the
Orbacks coaching staff, I'd.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Say, yeah, right now, I didn't haven't got much. Well
there you go a couple of days. But it's interesting,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well that's a big question from the box perspective because
he's such a technical maestro.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Do you hang on to him to the Rugby World Cup?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And he probably has a good rapport going with resci
arrestmus or the noise going to be out for him
in the republics saying put him on guarding le if
you don't want to get him gone.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
He's got our secrets.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, it'll be very interesting, won't it cool?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
That is a big cool. So as far as this trip,
how long are you away for? When are you bet
home doing some work?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Roll back on Wednesday night? Mate, so becking my tools
on Thursday. So you got a couple of bull cells
up here and want a name blee tomorrow another one
there that make a OA and then bick Wednesday night.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So no doubt you're in bed nine thirty every night.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, probably be the nightmare because we've hitd a couple
of late ones the last couple, so a couple of
late nights an early starts, but that's all. Heavens tur
the season just at the moment, good only Jamie.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Always good to catch up.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Hey spot on, Thanks so much, mate.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Jamie, Kenny Lake, Oko and the Saturn damn farming around
up thinks So Saturday and stop foods here on the
main street of Gore. Speaking of Ira Kroi, we catch
up next and the political roundup
An Jamie King Farms and laker Oco and joins us
in the Saturn Dam farming ground up, thanks of course
of sagein dy and sock foods here on the main
street to go. We speak to different farmers around the
Southern province each and every Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Get a jabie gooday mate? What a tune for a Monday?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
You rate it?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Uh, depends on spires, mate. It was a good song
of suppose that day. But yeah, don't know what we
call it, but yeah, yes.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Well, once upon a time, Eric Krois said some of
the music I played was okay, but he was a
fantas lean dion, so I thought I'd just played ball
for Eric. I've never played Michael Jackson before ten days
ago on the show either.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh look at yougo, mate, it's pay in there.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Absolutely. Hey, we catch you on tour today. You're where
are you at? A kai kura?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You might under start getting into and the road just
taking around heave and look at some some here, some
saibles because obviously we've got some redgs to Hereford. So yeah,
just sort of so it's taking the ball season and
then getting through them and having squidz around the country.
You see what everyone else is up to. It's been
really strong obviously off the back of a very strong
meat schedule and looking very very positive going forward. So
(01:16):
now it's all pretty good mate, and me personally know
I had a good, good day of full clearance, no
big money, but clearly everything for a very good average.
So really happy boys. So it's good to see people.
It's back investing in a bit of positive around the
whole industry. Made it's it's really good to see for
a change.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Was that the key thing you took away from the day, Jamie,
people just talking about farming, giving a smile on their
face when they do as well, because there's been a while.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, I suppose as odd persons but cheapers about parting
her heads up too far. But just at the moment,
we're going good end. You know, we've needed this. We've
been getting there, getting in the bottom of the doll drums,
getting tricked on the backside for you know, the last
couple of three years. So it's good to see a
bit more bit more steady optimism, I would call it.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, just cross most of sectors as well, depending on
who you speak to. Yes, war hasn't been flashed, but hey,
it can't be any worse and what it's been, and
you're starting to get more than a.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Couple of twenty four pegs for your for your.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Clip too, oh one hundred percent, mate, And everything's sort
of paying some paying some money, you know, and yeah
so and even on a huge genational level what the
government coffers, you know, there won't have been a lot
of great deal of tax being paid out of the
egg cecter will the read meat sector in particular the
last two or three years, so they'll probably been for
a couple of good years possibly going forward. So it's
(02:30):
all going to help the economy a bit, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So what about yourself?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You're pretty positive going and head looking twelve months into
the future, perhaps.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, one hundred percent. Well we've got to mate, But
yet now everything's looking pretty rosy again. Look, you know,
four casts out six eight months and sort of you'll
probably stop chewing your fingernails wondering how long it's going
to last war. But it seems to sort of found
a bit of but a steadiness. I'm on that note, don't.
I don't think it can afford to fall the bits
because yeah, there was will all have nothing to do
(02:58):
you know I really looking looking for the next next
twelve months anyway? Ay for sure?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So how did you learn budget finish up this year?
I did say you would have been in the positive?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah yet no, not for sure for sure yet now
we're well well into the positive. On that night I
have we have spent plenty two but sells through when
you're going to play to catch up A bit more
ferret and a couple of pieces of infrastructure and a
plant updated, so you know you know we're going real good? Yeah,
real good.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So how's the start of winter being Lake a Roco?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Outrageously good? Like I said, I haven't been here for
the last couple of days, but like from so we
got those for you already frost and it was a
little bit no, where's this going to go? And then
it's here? Would happen if I had a petictive cultivator
ground signed down in the winter? Cereal well in the
lower and valley mate, we don't really genuinely put a
player on the ground in May, but I got a
(03:50):
wife and good, so really good. Has got wet underfoot
the last week.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Though, outrageously good. That's not something you here very often?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
No, no, and it's my so some of them are crops
probably not quite up to scratch. So it's been a
blessing in the skies. I'll see, we're talking about New
Nino coming in, so we could bend for a bit
of a way to winter. But at the moment we'll
just take every day as it comes and box on.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
So your covers are looking up to party, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, yep, yep. No, we're just yeah, yeah, we're just
jogging along, just nice in a real good, good place
at the moment.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Right, I've got to throw this one at you, Jamie Counsel.
Amalgamation has been all the talk recently. What do you
make of all of this? What's your preference?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Blah, not to fazed, mate, I mean they're all sharks.
I've all got their hands out. I've got my owner
shoes with districtifications and roading. But some pieces, if they
will make the best thing we see is get rid
of some of that fringing maine that gets gold up
and all the Edmond and horsecrap. What that would be
the dream result. It's the one good thing to come
(04:52):
of it, and that'll be probably what they're steering towards.
But if it happens or not. Good. Lord only knows,
But yeah, I don't know. It'd be nice some bureaucratic,
bureaucratic stuff from in the middle, But then some of
those people have to go and get real jobs, won't they.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So in other words, you're trying to say mainstream, just
trying to streamline services provided one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yep, just mop it up. We've got a he of
a slip on our road, mate, It's been there for
eight months and there like tween council and contract there's
there's just nothing being done with it. It's absolutely headache
and there's them currently forty log trucks going over every day.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
How often do you see a greater on your road?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Not? Probably Well, generally it's pretty good, but we've got
a lot of long traffic at the moment, so it
probably needs to be up kept. That we get on
the phone and bring the people that do it and say, chop, chop,
get it going, because the road is an empty of
abortion like it is at the moment. But yeah, it's
just I know, we seem to get forgotten about in
the BEACONO suppose all population based, isn't it? But hell,
(05:54):
I ay, we pay our rates too, mate?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Do you think perhaps the owners should be under logging
companies in these very calls that are putting extra weight
on these country roads to be paying a bit more.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I used to know that those logging companies they pay
rates on all their land too, So you know, like
it's we're all in the same pot. So it's still
at the council level. What you know, who's doing the
budget and who's doing the friggin' up? Kick.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Hey, how's ground conditions up and North Canterbury? I suppose
you're in too. How's that looking out there?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
They're looking good, mate, Yeah, looking real good. And where
I'm going to they're grinning from EU tou two and
they had a really good summer and that's still green
and quite more outside actually, so they're looking looking pretty rosy.
I don't we run the country's got any we to
comptain a bit at the moment. And even I just
come back from the West Coast and they are really
good over you too.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Hey, A bitter news out of the Orblacks this morning.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Tony Brown's going in there as a coach after the
twenty twenty seven Rugby World Cap. I'm not sure if
you've caught up on this, Jamie. But it's a bit
of a coup for the All Backs teaching For the
Orbacks coaching staff, I'd.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Say, yeah, right now, I didn't haven't got much. Well
there you go a couple of days. But it's interesting,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well that's a big question from the box perspective because
he's such a technical maestro.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Do you hang on to him to the Rugby World Cup?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And he probably has a good rapport going with resci
arrestmus or the noise going to be out for him
in the republics saying put him on guarding le if
you don't want to get him gone.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
He's got our secrets.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, it'll be very interesting, won't it cool?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
That is a big cool. So as far as this trip,
how long are you away for? When are you bet
home doing some work?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Roll back on Wednesday night? Mate, so becking my tools
on Thursday. So you got a couple of bull cells
up here and want a name blee tomorrow another one
there that make a OA and then bick Wednesday night.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So no doubt you're in bed nine thirty every night.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, probably be the nightmare because we've hitd a couple
of late ones the last couple, so a couple of
late nights an early starts, but that's all. Heavens tur
the season just at the moment, good only Jamie.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Always good to catch up.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Hey spot on, Thanks so much, mate.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Jamie, Kenny Lake, Oko and the Saturn damn farming around
up thinks So Saturday and stop foods here on the
main street of Gore. Speaking of Ira Kroi, we catch
up next and the political roundup
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