December 7, 2025 • 8 mins
Jamie King looks at red meat prices which are keeping farmers in a positive mindset heading into Chrsitmas.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Start start Jamie King farms over at Lake Heroko and
joins us in sagean Dan Farming around that. Thanks for
Sergeant Dan Stock Foods here in the main street of Gore.
(00:21):
Good afternoon, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good mate. Here a were we going today?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Ye're pretty good after an interesting weekend of weather. It's
been hot, it's been cold, it's been wet, it's been dry.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's interesting and you lot. Yeah, we've
been twenty fast degrees the last three days and finally
looks at the weeds sort of slow down and weave
it and we're getting a bit of got to better
feet again, crops and young grasses that are probably enjoying it.
There to be feed from all the camps around the area.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So your season in general over there, how would you
rate it?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Mate? Ups, we're still you know, still off the back
of the well ground preep just to tidy up after that,
like say, we got another pasting in the spring. But
now we're going better there, getting longer days and getting
a few jobs ticked off. Any young grassal and haven't
quitched that on crop grand yet, but yeah, I own
(01:14):
a few cares for that. Plugging away. He got a
few sheep leaned the east day and hendful of lambs
away the works, and you know we're going pretty good
when like I said, we didn't get that well. We
were looking at ninety miler around there on that Thursday
last week for yesterday, but we just are probably fifteen
or twenty mil last night, so probably just what the
doctor ordered.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, I think gohead around about six mil last night
looking at my little place of grain gauge, which seems
to do the job when the boys aren't filling it
up with the garden hosts. So that's open to interpretation.
So certainly it's been an interesting couple of weeks to
say that, I supposeingcause especially when you talk about track
to work and the lights.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah yeah, And I'm like, we're arguably still quite a
bit later over here. I know quite a few guys
south of waders, so looking for a bit of moisture.
That's definitely not wrong off the day for these whistlies.
And the whistlies we then we cop a little bit
of wind, but then we get the fear the burnt
of the rain, so we don't need any any more moisture,
but this heat can keep pugging around. Andy and get
(02:10):
a bit of bottom and some cloves and leadiums ground
and keep things plugging away.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
But then we just hit over the hills. Over the
hills they had Andy Dennis and he's just saying, look,
we just need sunshine for a week so we can
get the tractor going. It sounds like a totally different situation.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
He took a couple of guys up the up the
base there and you kick that had bee head into
them the same stroll. I thought we were rough down
here in the spring. But then you just catch up
with the Indian. Another couple of guys up there, and you
know they got they're still still under the pump bit
of hailing up to do so. But we'll wait and
see what the season does. Hope he doesn't go draw
(02:46):
on them up there.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
So how have you gone with waning or have you
started wanningh.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We just got to win a few of the cast
rage one lorn he got the east and yeah, there's
a couple hundre lanstraw on the truck and got with
some old us and that. So now the lembs looking
really good. Actually any probably surprisingly good or that, and
they felt really good. So we'll just wait and see
what they they toidy up and getting rid of a
few few kettles. That's always quite a good chick to
(03:11):
get to, Andy. Just at the moment, the beef schedule,
it's plugging away pretty nice, so making up for my
loss of velvet income, mate, Well.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
We'll talk about the red meat prices at the moment
and certainly looking very buoyant for the season ahead.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, it's nice, Andy, it's nice. It feels good, mate, nice.
You know, it feels like there's a bit more optimism
out the end. People are back to farm and not
just dragging their knuckles going to the motions, you know,
as if you guys getting caught back up with some
ferret and looking forward and having a bit of a
play and you know, even as lots of ourselves, you know,
you sort of those jobs you've been archiving and we
(03:46):
can get back to it again and and not the
back of by interest rates to mate, you know, there's
a lot of us still good mortgages. So it's it's good.
It's yeah, looking forward to the weext couple of years
at least.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Be honest, across the red meat sector, people especially alliance suppliers,
just want things to carry on now.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, we're just charging away. The schedule is pretty competitive
again the right or wrong, but no, and it's it's happening,
you know. On that note, team mate, there's you know,
we've got that critical mess problem and the plants are
trying to keep full, so we've got their procurement thing
going on, not hanging about for a couple of years.
Picky with the sheep anywhere and somebody wants to swallow
(04:26):
a big pill. I don't know where to leand up,
but at the mean Toomas encourage you want to utilize
the good money and where we go?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Are you looking at your velvet situation? Given what's happening
with the price, not so much.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Mate, It's not a big part of moine coming away.
We've only got one hundred and fifty odd. You know,
we've had them for thirty forty years. It was just
always that a little bit of money coming in before
Christmas to cover a sillygung grass and crop stuff. It's
obviously not really doing that this year, but like mate,
we did have some Like Dave Stevens the other day,
we've had some good yews in the over to Andy.
(05:01):
You know, you know we're one hundred and twenty one
hundred and three dollars of keiler. So I think the
day thing it came to quite a ball at all.
It does fall a bit quite quickly, but it does
seem to come up quite quickly. And there's all sorts
of things you can play one but I'll just pull
the trigger on a quarter a B project here. We'll
put another fifteen court lisdening up and put some more
(05:23):
venis and horns on just for ease in the in
the top of the country. It's in pully care numbers
back just a little bit, just for environmental reasons and
in other things. So yeah, but yeah, it's a host
of course, a versification, Andy, I think is the key,
and that we you can do on the any finger.
Probably we haven't got a finger in as a as
(05:44):
a dairy fan. And if we keep plugging away there
for the next couple of years made it won't be
on the horizon maybe, but we'll wait and see.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
But it's under is sing You mentioned environmental reasons regarding
can numbers. What do you mean by that exactly?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I just wait, Springs mate. You know I could argue,
you know, you clob the change is climate change or
it won't go as far as saying global warming, but
we're definitely wetter. Our rain falls the same throughout the year,
but our intensities are huge. You know, we don't get
to the fine that meals anymore. We get twenties and
thirties and and there's some plenty of beef cats run around.
(06:17):
They're always born in here to develop land, and we
all cut over in the run country that we did have.
And I've sort of done their job now, Andy, arguably
I'm not. I'm just going to pull the numbers back
a little bit and I can see a better, better
probably margin. We're turning out of putting venice and hones
up there and just slightly stock it with them versus
(06:37):
some big, big care run around up there. So that's
the sort of thinking behind that. And on man mate,
just because it's dealing can up. He doesn't mean to
say you're to put a deer behind it. You can
put whatever you lock upon it.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Of course again you've just got a bit more fortification.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, and no, there's other things around that too. You know,
there's a lot of wild here on that on that
pick side where I am. And yeah, it takes a
few boxes, and like I say, we're lucky enough with
returns and beckhamon straight talking. So it's sort of been
water around in the beck of the morning for four
or five years, and even they've said twenty years ago.
So I'm like, oh, well, we can probably afford to
do it this year. So we're we'll clumb into it.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
As far as wild deer, how big a concern is
it for you?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Look, mate, we're throunded by obviously fuel land, and then
we've got documentaged merely forest behind us, and we've got
twenty and t old klometers of Huculu, this self a
boundary right around us. So we are well hearsed in
the effects of wild animals and we just keep hunting. Mate.
We now teleas you know, we're going to take twins,
(07:39):
so three and four hundred deer off the property year,
and we've just we've been in this game for thirty
years and you so you just got to fan with it,
work with it. So from the people out there that
aren't used to it, there in the bandar and forestry blox,
we can see what the up. You know, it's going
to cause heat aches, but you just got to get
onto it and think outside the box. It doesn't turn
into so much hunting, mate, it starts turning into peace control.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Jamie kingy of Lakeerroko, thanks very much for your time
on the Muster throughout the year as well. Enjoy the
holiday season and we'll catch up in twenty twenty six.
Always appreciate your time, hey spot.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
On, Appreciate that any tourist is out there, have a good,
good break in recharge victories and it's roll on twenty
twenty five has been better than twenty twenty four, So
let's go twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Jamie King of Lake Roko and the Sergeantdan Farming round up.
Thanks of course the Sagean Dan Stock, Food's here and
gore and just a further reminder as well, the twenty
twenty five National Velvet Competition and Awards night happening at
the Ascot Hotel in Vercargol five o'clock this Thursday. Penny
Simmons is up next, MP from the Cargoll and Minister
for the Environment. You're listening to the mustard
Start start Jamie King farms over at Lake Heroko and
joins us in sagean Dan Farming around that. Thanks for
Sergeant Dan Stock Foods here in the main street of Gore.
(00:21):
Good afternoon, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good mate. Here a were we going today?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Ye're pretty good after an interesting weekend of weather. It's
been hot, it's been cold, it's been wet, it's been dry.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's interesting and you lot. Yeah, we've
been twenty fast degrees the last three days and finally
looks at the weeds sort of slow down and weave
it and we're getting a bit of got to better
feet again, crops and young grasses that are probably enjoying it.
There to be feed from all the camps around the area.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So your season in general over there, how would you
rate it?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Mate? Ups, we're still you know, still off the back
of the well ground preep just to tidy up after that,
like say, we got another pasting in the spring. But
now we're going better there, getting longer days and getting
a few jobs ticked off. Any young grassal and haven't
quitched that on crop grand yet, but yeah, I own
(01:14):
a few cares for that. Plugging away. He got a
few sheep leaned the east day and hendful of lambs
away the works, and you know we're going pretty good
when like I said, we didn't get that well. We
were looking at ninety miler around there on that Thursday
last week for yesterday, but we just are probably fifteen
or twenty mil last night, so probably just what the
doctor ordered.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, I think gohead around about six mil last night
looking at my little place of grain gauge, which seems
to do the job when the boys aren't filling it
up with the garden hosts. So that's open to interpretation.
So certainly it's been an interesting couple of weeks to
say that, I supposeingcause especially when you talk about track
to work and the lights.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah yeah, And I'm like, we're arguably still quite a
bit later over here. I know quite a few guys
south of waders, so looking for a bit of moisture.
That's definitely not wrong off the day for these whistlies.
And the whistlies we then we cop a little bit
of wind, but then we get the fear the burnt
of the rain, so we don't need any any more moisture,
but this heat can keep pugging around. Andy and get
(02:10):
a bit of bottom and some cloves and leadiums ground
and keep things plugging away.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
But then we just hit over the hills. Over the
hills they had Andy Dennis and he's just saying, look,
we just need sunshine for a week so we can
get the tractor going. It sounds like a totally different situation.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
He took a couple of guys up the up the
base there and you kick that had bee head into
them the same stroll. I thought we were rough down
here in the spring. But then you just catch up
with the Indian. Another couple of guys up there, and you
know they got they're still still under the pump bit
of hailing up to do so. But we'll wait and
see what the season does. Hope he doesn't go draw
(02:46):
on them up there.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
So how have you gone with waning or have you
started wanningh.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We just got to win a few of the cast
rage one lorn he got the east and yeah, there's
a couple hundre lanstraw on the truck and got with
some old us and that. So now the lembs looking
really good. Actually any probably surprisingly good or that, and
they felt really good. So we'll just wait and see
what they they toidy up and getting rid of a
few few kettles. That's always quite a good chick to
(03:11):
get to, Andy. Just at the moment, the beef schedule,
it's plugging away pretty nice, so making up for my
loss of velvet income, mate, Well.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
We'll talk about the red meat prices at the moment
and certainly looking very buoyant for the season ahead.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, it's nice, Andy, it's nice. It feels good, mate, nice.
You know, it feels like there's a bit more optimism
out the end. People are back to farm and not
just dragging their knuckles going to the motions, you know,
as if you guys getting caught back up with some
ferret and looking forward and having a bit of a
play and you know, even as lots of ourselves, you know,
you sort of those jobs you've been archiving and we
(03:46):
can get back to it again and and not the
back of by interest rates to mate, you know, there's
a lot of us still good mortgages. So it's it's good.
It's yeah, looking forward to the weext couple of years
at least.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Be honest, across the red meat sector, people especially alliance suppliers,
just want things to carry on now.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, we're just charging away. The schedule is pretty competitive
again the right or wrong, but no, and it's it's happening,
you know. On that note, team mate, there's you know,
we've got that critical mess problem and the plants are
trying to keep full, so we've got their procurement thing
going on, not hanging about for a couple of years.
Picky with the sheep anywhere and somebody wants to swallow
(04:26):
a big pill. I don't know where to leand up,
but at the mean Toomas encourage you want to utilize
the good money and where we go?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Are you looking at your velvet situation? Given what's happening
with the price, not so much.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Mate, It's not a big part of moine coming away.
We've only got one hundred and fifty odd. You know,
we've had them for thirty forty years. It was just
always that a little bit of money coming in before
Christmas to cover a sillygung grass and crop stuff. It's
obviously not really doing that this year, but like mate,
we did have some Like Dave Stevens the other day,
we've had some good yews in the over to Andy.
(05:01):
You know, you know we're one hundred and twenty one
hundred and three dollars of keiler. So I think the
day thing it came to quite a ball at all.
It does fall a bit quite quickly, but it does
seem to come up quite quickly. And there's all sorts
of things you can play one but I'll just pull
the trigger on a quarter a B project here. We'll
put another fifteen court lisdening up and put some more
(05:23):
venis and horns on just for ease in the in
the top of the country. It's in pully care numbers
back just a little bit, just for environmental reasons and
in other things. So yeah, but yeah, it's a host
of course, a versification, Andy, I think is the key,
and that we you can do on the any finger.
Probably we haven't got a finger in as a as
(05:44):
a dairy fan. And if we keep plugging away there
for the next couple of years made it won't be
on the horizon maybe, but we'll wait and see.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
But it's under is sing You mentioned environmental reasons regarding
can numbers. What do you mean by that exactly?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I just wait, Springs mate. You know I could argue,
you know, you clob the change is climate change or
it won't go as far as saying global warming, but
we're definitely wetter. Our rain falls the same throughout the year,
but our intensities are huge. You know, we don't get
to the fine that meals anymore. We get twenties and
thirties and and there's some plenty of beef cats run around.
(06:17):
They're always born in here to develop land, and we
all cut over in the run country that we did have.
And I've sort of done their job now, Andy, arguably
I'm not. I'm just going to pull the numbers back
a little bit and I can see a better, better
probably margin. We're turning out of putting venice and hones
up there and just slightly stock it with them versus
(06:37):
some big, big care run around up there. So that's
the sort of thinking behind that. And on man mate,
just because it's dealing can up. He doesn't mean to
say you're to put a deer behind it. You can
put whatever you lock upon it.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Of course again you've just got a bit more fortification.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, and no, there's other things around that too. You know,
there's a lot of wild here on that on that
pick side where I am. And yeah, it takes a
few boxes, and like I say, we're lucky enough with
returns and beckhamon straight talking. So it's sort of been
water around in the beck of the morning for four
or five years, and even they've said twenty years ago.
So I'm like, oh, well, we can probably afford to
do it this year. So we're we'll clumb into it.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
As far as wild deer, how big a concern is
it for you?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Look, mate, we're throunded by obviously fuel land, and then
we've got documentaged merely forest behind us, and we've got
twenty and t old klometers of Huculu, this self a
boundary right around us. So we are well hearsed in
the effects of wild animals and we just keep hunting. Mate.
We now teleas you know, we're going to take twins,
(07:39):
so three and four hundred deer off the property year,
and we've just we've been in this game for thirty
years and you so you just got to fan with it,
work with it. So from the people out there that
aren't used to it, there in the bandar and forestry blox,
we can see what the up. You know, it's going
to cause heat aches, but you just got to get
onto it and think outside the box. It doesn't turn
into so much hunting, mate, it starts turning into peace control.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Jamie kingy of Lakeerroko, thanks very much for your time
on the Muster throughout the year as well. Enjoy the
holiday season and we'll catch up in twenty twenty six.
Always appreciate your time, hey spot.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
On, Appreciate that any tourist is out there, have a good,
good break in recharge victories and it's roll on twenty
twenty five has been better than twenty twenty four, So
let's go twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Jamie King of Lake Roko and the Sergeantdan Farming round up.
Thanks of course the Sagean Dan Stock, Food's here and
gore and just a further reminder as well, the twenty
twenty five National Velvet Competition and Awards night happening at
the Ascot Hotel in Vercargol five o'clock this Thursday. Penny
Simmons is up next, MP from the Cargoll and Minister
for the Environment. You're listening to the mustard
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