September 9, 2025 • 7 mins
Jared Stockman of Dairy NZ looks at events that have occurred around the south recently.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're going to be welcome back to the master. Jared
Stockman of darien Zed joins us this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You a Jared, good andy?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hell are you pretty good yourself? You would have been
pretty reasonably busy lately on Imagine.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, he has been. Has been a busy time, but
pleased that we've got through last weeks whether without too
many challenges. So that's been that's been positive.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
When you're talking to farmers on the ground, carving has
been all right.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Calving's gone really well. Like I said, were we blep
last week but for the most part our farmers well
through the calving and pretty happy with the results for
getting as well. So that's again that's going to be
positive for future seasons. Now.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The team at darien Z quite a few events occur
more often than not. You had an event held yesterday
regarding oral professionals. What was that about.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, we had we had Nico Lyons and Dawn Delhi.
Nico's the head of science and Dawn's theme scientists. She's
got strong links to Southland. They came came down and
talked to a bunch of royal professionals and farmers there
as well, and Nico talked about admissions to the pasture,
and that's one of the programs that we've been part
(01:21):
of looking at methane emissions specific capacity based theory systems
in conjunction with our Irish counterparts. One of the one
of the kind of ironing things from that is that
there's early indications that suggest we're producing up to twenty
percent less methane than what the what's calculated in the inventory.
(01:44):
So there's a long way to go, but the science
look very encouraging, which I think is as an awesome
result so far. He also talked about extended lactation over
two years, so that's carving half the herd one year
and the other half of the year the second year,
and the importance of that was just around improving attractiveness
(02:07):
and were attention in the deer industry, reduced carving, reduced mating,
reduced bobby calves, and Dawn talked about things like some
of the research that's been done on the Southern dairy. HB.
Baylor's wintering the Eco pond out of Lincoln University, which
is quite fascinating. Eqment ponds, you know, the second biggest
(02:32):
producer of emissions on farm and we've done some trials
on about ten funds around New Zealand, one in Southland,
and about ninety eight percent on the one in Southland
where the methan was actually reduced or eliminated. So ye,
thered some really positive scientific research that's kind of coming
(02:56):
out of the work that we're doing through deary en Z.
I think that there's a new one. There's a new
one happening around farmer workload, and we've got teams of
farmers wearing GPS watchers to monitor sleep and activity and
things like that, and so I guess you know that
the question is why science is important, probably for a
(03:17):
couple of reasons. One is it supports policy sciences, and
you know, when we're talking to regulators, science is really
important to back it up, back up their thoughts with
credible evidence. And the second thing is that the scientists
or darians are taking the risks so that farmers can
actually just get on and keep farming. So really positive event.
(03:39):
We're only two people there listening for an hour and
a half to a scientists and yeah, really really positive
outcome and good feedback from the people that tender.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Now let's talk about farmer workload Jared, is that type
of year and when I'm speaking to farmers, just asking
them for tips they do on farm to try and
ease the mind when they're going about their landing or
their cave. Be so interesting to see what the stats
are going to be wearing these smart watches as such.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, it'll be fascinating. The early indications, I believe suggest
that farmers or the people that are wearing the watches
are getting potentially less sleep. But again, this is very
kind of raw data. I spoke to one of the
scientists and sort of said, give me some of the
fun and they said, oh, I just you know, we
(04:26):
haven't really had a good chance to look at it,
and we're still collecting data. But I think the key
is is that if we can get some really good
insights out of it, I think we can just better understand,
you know, what what's required from farmers during certain times
of the season. So these farmers throughout the country are
going to wear these farmers dens, are are going to
(04:47):
wear these GPS garment type watchers for a whole year,
so we can just see the peaks and troughs which
are probably going to align with the seasons, and you
know what sort of activity that spending, sleeping, stationary and
in actually around physical activity. So I think that's certainly
(05:09):
a study that's it pays to keep your eye on.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And how long's the study over?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
What's the timeframe at twelve months?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Twelve months? It'd be interesting to see results that come
out of that. Now website resources are regarding darien Z.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
What is there? Andy, You might struggle to believe this
is over eight hundred resources and tools on our website,
and I reckon you could just about read them and
start farming the following day. There's that much. There's that
much stuff in there, and look, it is all really
really good and topical information. The sections on animal biosecurity, business, environment, feed,
(05:49):
milking people. There's some really good podcasts on there. And
I know that farmers of time poor and don't always
have the ability to just sit down and read information,
but there indeed have just launched some new kind of
bite sized chunks which go for ten minutes, and I
think what we're finding is is people are more busier
and stuff. It's easy to throw on a bit of
(06:11):
a podcast and have a listen to them. And I
think their podcasts number one hundred and twenty, you know,
just just on their own account. But I'd really encourage
our farmers to have a look at their website, but
just as important encourage the staff or contract milkers to
actually get on there a bit of a look around.
(06:33):
The Other thing about the website is it gives you
a really good understanding of what events coming up. We've
got some We've got a couple of really good events
coming up in Southland in October and it's around the
correlation between emissions, LARA emissions and profitability. And I'd really
(06:53):
encourage our staff and farmers to get along and actually
have a look at some people who have a love
missions for print but have still maintained or improved their profitability.
So I think that'll be I'm really looking forward to
that to eat myself. So but again back to the website,
just please make sure that you're you know that you're
(07:16):
actually making sure your start has got access to that,
because it's a really valuable resource that you've got. The
tippy fingers good.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Only Jared, always good to catch up. You enjoy the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I think we can be appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And then Jared Stockman of Derry and z Before we
wrap up. On a Wednesday afternoon, Taylor Painter out about
the young farmers
You're going to be welcome back to the master. Jared
Stockman of darien Zed joins us this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You a Jared, good andy?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hell are you pretty good yourself? You would have been
pretty reasonably busy lately on Imagine.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, he has been. Has been a busy time, but
pleased that we've got through last weeks whether without too
many challenges. So that's been that's been positive.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
When you're talking to farmers on the ground, carving has
been all right.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Calving's gone really well. Like I said, were we blep
last week but for the most part our farmers well
through the calving and pretty happy with the results for
getting as well. So that's again that's going to be
positive for future seasons. Now.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The team at darien Z quite a few events occur
more often than not. You had an event held yesterday
regarding oral professionals. What was that about.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, we had we had Nico Lyons and Dawn Delhi.
Nico's the head of science and Dawn's theme scientists. She's
got strong links to Southland. They came came down and
talked to a bunch of royal professionals and farmers there
as well, and Nico talked about admissions to the pasture,
and that's one of the programs that we've been part
(01:21):
of looking at methane emissions specific capacity based theory systems
in conjunction with our Irish counterparts. One of the one
of the kind of ironing things from that is that
there's early indications that suggest we're producing up to twenty
percent less methane than what the what's calculated in the inventory.
(01:44):
So there's a long way to go, but the science
look very encouraging, which I think is as an awesome
result so far. He also talked about extended lactation over
two years, so that's carving half the herd one year
and the other half of the year the second year,
and the importance of that was just around improving attractiveness
(02:07):
and were attention in the deer industry, reduced carving, reduced mating,
reduced bobby calves, and Dawn talked about things like some
of the research that's been done on the Southern dairy. HB.
Baylor's wintering the Eco pond out of Lincoln University, which
is quite fascinating. Eqment ponds, you know, the second biggest
(02:32):
producer of emissions on farm and we've done some trials
on about ten funds around New Zealand, one in Southland,
and about ninety eight percent on the one in Southland
where the methan was actually reduced or eliminated. So ye,
thered some really positive scientific research that's kind of coming
(02:56):
out of the work that we're doing through deary en Z.
I think that there's a new one. There's a new
one happening around farmer workload, and we've got teams of
farmers wearing GPS watchers to monitor sleep and activity and
things like that, and so I guess you know that
the question is why science is important, probably for a
(03:17):
couple of reasons. One is it supports policy sciences, and
you know, when we're talking to regulators, science is really
important to back it up, back up their thoughts with
credible evidence. And the second thing is that the scientists
or darians are taking the risks so that farmers can
actually just get on and keep farming. So really positive event.
(03:39):
We're only two people there listening for an hour and
a half to a scientists and yeah, really really positive
outcome and good feedback from the people that tender.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Now let's talk about farmer workload Jared, is that type
of year and when I'm speaking to farmers, just asking
them for tips they do on farm to try and
ease the mind when they're going about their landing or
their cave. Be so interesting to see what the stats
are going to be wearing these smart watches as such.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, it'll be fascinating. The early indications, I believe suggest
that farmers or the people that are wearing the watches
are getting potentially less sleep. But again, this is very
kind of raw data. I spoke to one of the
scientists and sort of said, give me some of the
fun and they said, oh, I just you know, we
(04:26):
haven't really had a good chance to look at it,
and we're still collecting data. But I think the key
is is that if we can get some really good
insights out of it, I think we can just better understand,
you know, what what's required from farmers during certain times
of the season. So these farmers throughout the country are
going to wear these farmers dens, are are going to
(04:47):
wear these GPS garment type watchers for a whole year,
so we can just see the peaks and troughs which
are probably going to align with the seasons, and you
know what sort of activity that spending, sleeping, stationary and
in actually around physical activity. So I think that's certainly
(05:09):
a study that's it pays to keep your eye on.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And how long's the study over?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
What's the timeframe at twelve months?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Twelve months? It'd be interesting to see results that come
out of that. Now website resources are regarding darien Z.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
What is there? Andy, You might struggle to believe this
is over eight hundred resources and tools on our website,
and I reckon you could just about read them and
start farming the following day. There's that much. There's that
much stuff in there, and look, it is all really
really good and topical information. The sections on animal biosecurity, business, environment, feed,
(05:49):
milking people. There's some really good podcasts on there. And
I know that farmers of time poor and don't always
have the ability to just sit down and read information,
but there indeed have just launched some new kind of
bite sized chunks which go for ten minutes, and I
think what we're finding is is people are more busier
and stuff. It's easy to throw on a bit of
(06:11):
a podcast and have a listen to them. And I
think their podcasts number one hundred and twenty, you know,
just just on their own account. But I'd really encourage
our farmers to have a look at their website, but
just as important encourage the staff or contract milkers to
actually get on there a bit of a look around.
(06:33):
The Other thing about the website is it gives you
a really good understanding of what events coming up. We've
got some We've got a couple of really good events
coming up in Southland in October and it's around the
correlation between emissions, LARA emissions and profitability. And I'd really
(06:53):
encourage our staff and farmers to get along and actually
have a look at some people who have a love
missions for print but have still maintained or improved their profitability.
So I think that'll be I'm really looking forward to
that to eat myself. So but again back to the website,
just please make sure that you're you know that you're
(07:16):
actually making sure your start has got access to that,
because it's a really valuable resource that you've got. The
tippy fingers good.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Only Jared, always good to catch up. You enjoy the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I think we can be appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And then Jared Stockman of Derry and z Before we
wrap up. On a Wednesday afternoon, Taylor Painter out about
the young farmers
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