January 18, 2026 • 8 mins
Jamie King looks at the perks of having lakes on your doorstep.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Jamie King Farms at Lake Heroko and near the edges
of Feud and more western south and I suppose and
joins us this afternoon and the Sergeant Dan Farming ground
up thanks to Sergeant Dan Stock foods here and gore Jamie,
good afternoon, and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Good mate, here we go, and I'm heavy twenty twenty
six and all that jeers. And it might be a
bit late to say that Neil was it?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, well last week was acceptable. The second week and
they we'll just put it. I'll put it across through
your name right there, fella.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hey, yeah, perfect, perfect, Now it's good. Everyone's back on deck.
And well the lucky people got to go away, but
I didn't. I was getting a bit frustrated on at
the fifth of January. No one was ansty phones and
once on and you leave. And but now we're bi
bick slugging away Andy, So that's good.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
So you have to just slogging your way through the winter,
grip through winter, try the holiday graft.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I suppose, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Mate, you're just chipping away. There's ways plenty of weeds
of spray and also plug away. Still getting bit of crop,
a bit of balagin and oh to the season. Yeah,
one of these days, my good ladies is Canadian. As
a lot of people know, it would be nice to
go over North an America for Christmas allrecon because when
there's snow on the ground and six hours a daylight,
you just don't do anything. We just switch it round
of it mate for a year.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, it's ironic you say that. Once upon a time
I was working on a potato farm in Essex in
the UK, riddling potatoes and the most crappiest, coldest conditions
you can imagine. It was dark at three point thirty
in the afternoon. It was no pecnic.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, that's right. This's been no excuse. You wouldn't be
making bailor still in the clock at r in the
summer seasons on, would you. But now this year just
plugging away and it's quite good and well we sort
of just take your breaking and then been shooting up
the river catching for your fish of the kids night
and just just relaxing. The phone sort of slows down
a bit, of emails and some things just slow down,
so you sort of enjoy that. But yeah, getting into
(01:54):
rigging there well, of.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Course, beautiful lake of Rocos running your doorstep, and we
were fortunate enough to go through and do a jeep
boat ride there over the break jam.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
We've actually managed to see there. It's hard case.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Like I go to Minapouri, the first person I see
on the beach is Andy Dennis. And I go to
Laker Okay, the first person I sees Jamie King.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You'd think we don't do any farmwork, wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Made I didn't say that at all, but just the
irony of being in your neck of the woods. But look,
it was, yeah, beautiful area you've got there. Those have
been busy though, because that rode through to the lake.
It's a long gravel based right as you have, you
had a lot of traffic.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
This summer probably hasn't been as bad as quite often
normally as Andy bringing campus, but and even Fort of
Barter as like it is a long way from nowhere
in the lake. Keetorisley has got a bad name for
getting rough, so go pack your days when you go there.
But it is when you do get a good doubt.
We can't beat it, but it's quite nice. It's probably
not as busy as other areas. There's no shops to
(02:51):
stop it and lay in there Andy sez. Yeah, I'd
argue it's probably been quieter than another years to be fear,
but yeah, nut's been good.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
That's like when I sort of on the farm up
there on the headwaters of the Mattawa and people saying,
why do you want to go on a holiday when
you've got this on your doorstep? But every now and
then use the staycations. Good, but you've got to get
away and just come to your senses.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh that's right. Even though staff new members spraying a
few fistles and making the room. Well, we've got no
wind that's come and I've just said bagger at lunchtime, world,
grab the kids and we're going to shoot up to
moner wif first see we can catch your fishing for
the afternoon and a player for quakes up there and
not slow down. But this has always been self employed. Mate.
You can pick and choose, can't you.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
So what's your growing season being like? Overd there?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
We're hearing various reports around the province. How are you
holding out?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You know, we're obviously dry, but we're not. Yeah, we
suit the dry andy like our league him. Their bases
are really good. The clover is thumping away lambs again
real good. The dry grass obviously gone off, but crops
are sort of that they could do it for a drink.
If I could just see mother nature just a GPS
plot of the crop paddocks and get it a truck
an inch on them would be a grand But failing that,
(03:56):
nothing complaining about. Eat andy, But another week of ten
days and we'll be looking for another for a bit
of British rang. But we had quite a bit of
most driver the last week ten days. With it easterly,
it's sort of lingered round and a bit of foggy
stuff up with a bit of fur round and it's
all just you know, dissipitated pretty well. So all in all,
not too much to complain about. I know a lot
(04:17):
of other people are starting to look for a bit
of mosture there.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So how would you compare January to other years?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Right now, absolutely terrific. We could go terrible with it
easterly probably more on ha. Well, well what's the new normal.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Now though, endy, Well there is, yeah, exactly, but now
it's a little This is probably the best clover and
league games sort of season we've had in the last
so this is the best ever.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Last three anyway, what I said, we sort of better
away weave it. But now it's small, arguably traditional, but
not gone good but be and the barley's humming along,
so you're more traditional, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Wait, it's on your lambs, on the lambs in, that'll
be going pretty well, I'd imagine.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, we've got to hook on and we've got a
couple of unit loads going end of the week, so
you know, they come along pretty good. They smoke up,
run it mid forties out of and we winned evening
obviously pretty Christmas, so you know that was a good
call to getting and get them and waned early. So
just with the way the spring was, mate, the you
sort of gone off and there's a few out of you.
So we got them, got lambs drenched and a god
(05:28):
what killed kind of remember I couldn't tell you that
mate before Christmas, and grab a couple of unitloads of
stores just so likely and now something along too. So
now we all all pretty good, eddie. But as fast
as I'm making money, mate, we're fled out spinning it too.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
So what does the red meat schedule? You're alion so
an't you? Where are you at this week?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
We are I see Lambs side and schedules at teen
sixty and innocence training still up above teen bucks on
schedule coming what was teen sixty two, I think teen seventy,
and there's they had quite a look at a trade
out for balls. I think they're talking nine twin deling.
It was quite that mark. But everything's close to close
(06:07):
to team Bucks mate part from the wall. But I
we'll start here in here this week. But it's on
the up and up too. So it's quite nice that
he hasn't sort of folded so and it's just gone
up nice and gently. It hasn't just scare awkward. You know,
there's store no volatility in it. So maybe fingers crossed
the might have a good couple of years. Well.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
The update from the PG willso sweek out up in
christ Church was a rise in the south of thirty
eight cents.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, so you know we're up around that, you know,
four twenty four and five bucks to being clean and
greasy or whever you read it. So, yeah, no, it's
it's good because it was a pretty rough business model
here for the last three or four years. You know,
at least we'll get there'll be something ahead of it, But.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You were saying off here as well. Use these prices
are great, but we need to keep pushing for more.
What would you accept as a price for red, mate?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, what would I realistically?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Though?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Obviously the sky is the limit, but you got to
just rain it in.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Ah. Look mate, if you hang around that ten or
eleven bucks on lamb or hit ten and it stays
over teen, that's quite comfortable. We can work with that.
The venicon needs to probably crank a bit more, mate,
that's around ten. But I mean realistic, if we want
high numbers to just increase in people sort of have
all of that, that needs to be closer to probably thirteen,
I would argue. And and the beef's probably pretty nice
(07:21):
around that, you know, like nines, but they'd be nice
to see it over teen too. So I'm on a
happy boy now, any but I'll be happy if we
here all that, and of course we'll walk would be
good at teen.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
That'll be fantastic. And ten of course number mates, And that's.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
What Jamie McKay talks about, just having ten as a
number across all the sectors at the moment.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
One hundred percent, one hundred percent and then yeah, so
but no, we'll just start in course we're going to
You know, we've got leaks from this year seven and
could unravel itself. But art's exciting, isn't it. You know
you never know what's around the corner.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Never a dull moment. Jamie, how you enjoy boating this afternoon?
And we'll catch up with you in due course.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
So it's good to caet h up Hey sport On.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Good on you any things, mate, Jamie King of Lake
Roko and the Sergeant Dan Farming roundup thanks to Sergeant
Dan Stock foods here and Gore Southland MP Joseph Mooney.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Parliament isn't back until next week, but we catch up
with Joseph anyway. See how things have been over the
holiday season.
Jamie King Farms at Lake Heroko and near the edges
of Feud and more western south and I suppose and
joins us this afternoon and the Sergeant Dan Farming ground
up thanks to Sergeant Dan Stock foods here and gore Jamie,
good afternoon, and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Good mate, here we go, and I'm heavy twenty twenty
six and all that jeers. And it might be a
bit late to say that Neil was it?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, well last week was acceptable. The second week and
they we'll just put it. I'll put it across through
your name right there, fella.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hey, yeah, perfect, perfect, Now it's good. Everyone's back on deck.
And well the lucky people got to go away, but
I didn't. I was getting a bit frustrated on at
the fifth of January. No one was ansty phones and
once on and you leave. And but now we're bi
bick slugging away Andy, So that's good.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
So you have to just slogging your way through the winter,
grip through winter, try the holiday graft.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I suppose, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Mate, you're just chipping away. There's ways plenty of weeds
of spray and also plug away. Still getting bit of crop,
a bit of balagin and oh to the season. Yeah,
one of these days, my good ladies is Canadian. As
a lot of people know, it would be nice to
go over North an America for Christmas allrecon because when
there's snow on the ground and six hours a daylight,
you just don't do anything. We just switch it round
of it mate for a year.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, it's ironic you say that. Once upon a time
I was working on a potato farm in Essex in
the UK, riddling potatoes and the most crappiest, coldest conditions
you can imagine. It was dark at three point thirty
in the afternoon. It was no pecnic.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, that's right. This's been no excuse. You wouldn't be
making bailor still in the clock at r in the
summer seasons on, would you. But now this year just
plugging away and it's quite good and well we sort
of just take your breaking and then been shooting up
the river catching for your fish of the kids night
and just just relaxing. The phone sort of slows down
a bit, of emails and some things just slow down,
so you sort of enjoy that. But yeah, getting into
(01:54):
rigging there well, of.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Course, beautiful lake of Rocos running your doorstep, and we
were fortunate enough to go through and do a jeep
boat ride there over the break jam.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
We've actually managed to see there. It's hard case.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Like I go to Minapouri, the first person I see
on the beach is Andy Dennis. And I go to
Laker Okay, the first person I sees Jamie King.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You'd think we don't do any farmwork, wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Made I didn't say that at all, but just the
irony of being in your neck of the woods. But look,
it was, yeah, beautiful area you've got there. Those have
been busy though, because that rode through to the lake.
It's a long gravel based right as you have, you
had a lot of traffic.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
This summer probably hasn't been as bad as quite often
normally as Andy bringing campus, but and even Fort of
Barter as like it is a long way from nowhere
in the lake. Keetorisley has got a bad name for
getting rough, so go pack your days when you go there.
But it is when you do get a good doubt.
We can't beat it, but it's quite nice. It's probably
not as busy as other areas. There's no shops to
(02:51):
stop it and lay in there Andy sez. Yeah, I'd
argue it's probably been quieter than another years to be fear,
but yeah, nut's been good.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
That's like when I sort of on the farm up
there on the headwaters of the Mattawa and people saying,
why do you want to go on a holiday when
you've got this on your doorstep? But every now and
then use the staycations. Good, but you've got to get
away and just come to your senses.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh that's right. Even though staff new members spraying a
few fistles and making the room. Well, we've got no
wind that's come and I've just said bagger at lunchtime, world,
grab the kids and we're going to shoot up to
moner wif first see we can catch your fishing for
the afternoon and a player for quakes up there and
not slow down. But this has always been self employed. Mate.
You can pick and choose, can't you.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
So what's your growing season being like? Overd there?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
We're hearing various reports around the province. How are you
holding out?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You know, we're obviously dry, but we're not. Yeah, we
suit the dry andy like our league him. Their bases
are really good. The clover is thumping away lambs again
real good. The dry grass obviously gone off, but crops
are sort of that they could do it for a drink.
If I could just see mother nature just a GPS
plot of the crop paddocks and get it a truck
an inch on them would be a grand But failing that,
(03:56):
nothing complaining about. Eat andy, But another week of ten
days and we'll be looking for another for a bit
of British rang. But we had quite a bit of
most driver the last week ten days. With it easterly,
it's sort of lingered round and a bit of foggy
stuff up with a bit of fur round and it's
all just you know, dissipitated pretty well. So all in all,
not too much to complain about. I know a lot
(04:17):
of other people are starting to look for a bit
of mosture there.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So how would you compare January to other years?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Right now, absolutely terrific. We could go terrible with it
easterly probably more on ha. Well, well what's the new normal.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Now though, endy, Well there is, yeah, exactly, but now
it's a little This is probably the best clover and
league games sort of season we've had in the last
so this is the best ever.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Last three anyway, what I said, we sort of better
away weave it. But now it's small, arguably traditional, but
not gone good but be and the barley's humming along,
so you're more traditional, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Wait, it's on your lambs, on the lambs in, that'll
be going pretty well, I'd imagine.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, we've got to hook on and we've got a
couple of unit loads going end of the week, so
you know, they come along pretty good. They smoke up,
run it mid forties out of and we winned evening
obviously pretty Christmas, so you know that was a good
call to getting and get them and waned early. So
just with the way the spring was, mate, the you
sort of gone off and there's a few out of you.
So we got them, got lambs drenched and a god
(05:28):
what killed kind of remember I couldn't tell you that
mate before Christmas, and grab a couple of unitloads of
stores just so likely and now something along too. So
now we all all pretty good, eddie. But as fast
as I'm making money, mate, we're fled out spinning it too.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
So what does the red meat schedule? You're alion so
an't you? Where are you at this week?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
We are I see Lambs side and schedules at teen
sixty and innocence training still up above teen bucks on
schedule coming what was teen sixty two, I think teen seventy,
and there's they had quite a look at a trade
out for balls. I think they're talking nine twin deling.
It was quite that mark. But everything's close to close
(06:07):
to team Bucks mate part from the wall. But I
we'll start here in here this week. But it's on
the up and up too. So it's quite nice that
he hasn't sort of folded so and it's just gone
up nice and gently. It hasn't just scare awkward. You know,
there's store no volatility in it. So maybe fingers crossed
the might have a good couple of years. Well.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
The update from the PG willso sweek out up in
christ Church was a rise in the south of thirty
eight cents.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, so you know we're up around that, you know,
four twenty four and five bucks to being clean and
greasy or whever you read it. So, yeah, no, it's
it's good because it was a pretty rough business model
here for the last three or four years. You know,
at least we'll get there'll be something ahead of it, But.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You were saying off here as well. Use these prices
are great, but we need to keep pushing for more.
What would you accept as a price for red, mate?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, what would I realistically?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Though?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Obviously the sky is the limit, but you got to
just rain it in.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Ah. Look mate, if you hang around that ten or
eleven bucks on lamb or hit ten and it stays
over teen, that's quite comfortable. We can work with that.
The venicon needs to probably crank a bit more, mate,
that's around ten. But I mean realistic, if we want
high numbers to just increase in people sort of have
all of that, that needs to be closer to probably thirteen,
I would argue. And and the beef's probably pretty nice
(07:21):
around that, you know, like nines, but they'd be nice
to see it over teen too. So I'm on a
happy boy now, any but I'll be happy if we
here all that, and of course we'll walk would be
good at teen.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
That'll be fantastic. And ten of course number mates, And that's.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
What Jamie McKay talks about, just having ten as a
number across all the sectors at the moment.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
One hundred percent, one hundred percent and then yeah, so
but no, we'll just start in course we're going to
You know, we've got leaks from this year seven and
could unravel itself. But art's exciting, isn't it. You know
you never know what's around the corner.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Never a dull moment. Jamie, how you enjoy boating this afternoon?
And we'll catch up with you in due course.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
So it's good to caet h up Hey sport On.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Good on you any things, mate, Jamie King of Lake
Roko and the Sergeant Dan Farming roundup thanks to Sergeant
Dan Stock foods here and Gore Southland MP Joseph Mooney.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Parliament isn't back until next week, but we catch up
with Joseph anyway. See how things have been over the
holiday season.
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