October 28, 2025 • 9 mins
Jared Stockman give some reminders around mental health and the Spring workload.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome back to the muster. Jared Stockman of dariens Z
joins us to give us an updates on the situation
from a dearying perspective. Jerry, Good, afternoon once again. Andy. Okay,
so a later st update you've had there regarding the
situation down here in the South. From a diaryan Z perspective,
what are we saying?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Look, and he's still kind of four and a half
thousand power connections that are out. That probably equates around
one hundred and eighty dairy sheds. That was kind of
as of last night. It's probably a few more gone
on today. Yeah, white scale tree damage, you know, infrastructure damage,
(00:53):
feaces and but some pieces a number of you know,
people haven't been able to milk cows, particularly in at
first forty eight seventy two hours, and so obviously we're
getting the usual animal health issues that come out of
that high semitic cell count, smessitus, down cares and stuff.
(01:16):
So yeah, still pretty grim down here, I've got to say,
but slowly making progress.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
As far as milkings. Farmers have managed to get a
hold of enough generators to make that work, sharing them
and the likes.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, look, I think we're in a reasonable position there
we probably a flow off the mark to be fair
in people head head and miss milkings. But you know,
sharing generators and stuff is not ideal because you've got people,
cows milking it, you know, all sorts of ours. So
(01:53):
not great for people, not great for animals. Yeah, bit
of a bit of you know, something to think about
moving forward to building some some risk management into into
your farming business.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Took you touched on animal wealthfare just before, Jared. What's
the biggest concern around that? Obviously not getting the milk
out of the animals.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, just obviously we've got you know, emerging issues with
semitic cell counts, a mess like this, you know, down
cows because with no power a lot of these sheds,
the dose tron doesn't work. So there's the you know,
animal health minerals not getting through the troughs. So yeah,
(02:36):
just a combination of stuff. But once you're milking them
and stuff, generally, you know, two to four days you
can get these semitic cell counts down. But then you've
you know, again you need power to tell your milk
and make sure it's the right you know, the right
temperature for pickup because we've got to remember that milk
is a it's a it's a food product, and so
(02:59):
we've got to have you know, healthy enders around it.
So yeah, just yeah, just a few things to think about.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Farmer fatigue comes into the equation as well, and this
is something we need to be really aware of. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Look, that's the thing that probably concerns me most at
the moment farmers of finished mating sorry, finished finished calving.
You've had this big event mating starting, They've got you know,
there's there's hundreds and thousands of trees down throughout Southland.
People are you know, pretty stressed at the moment. And
(03:36):
then through throwing the fact that we've still got a
large number of of of our farmers without power. Yeah,
I'm really worried, and I guess you know, that's that's
quite a good thing. We all support Trust have organized
some awesome community barbecues that are helping in the evenings
and what we really want to encourage people to get
(03:58):
along to those events, so check out the Reyal Support
Trust page. Simon hot Croft has just done an amazing
job over the last you know, five days in terms
of standing up events and providing support and getting things moving.
You know, I don't know how he does it with us.
He's got his own three farms, but yeah, he's been
(04:20):
a man. He's been tagged in all directions. So health
and safety really important. You know, if you're tired and stuff,
it's just you've got to think about what sort of
decision you're making. And the last thing, you know, we've
come through this event with no fatalities or you know,
serious injuries or anything like that. And my best concern
(04:40):
is in the coming weeks and months when people started
taking down trees with chainsaws. That's where you know, that's
where our next biggest risk is coming from.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And that's where we need to have some clear messaging
as well. Jared fatigue is and good around a chainsaw.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
No, yeah, yeah, like one hundred percent. And we just
kind of need everyone to, you know, take a take
a bit of a breath, get themselves right on the head,
help themselves, help their staff, make sure everyone's coping okay.
When they're in the best frame of mind. You know,
the trees are not going to go anywhere, but just
(05:16):
make the right decisions. It will look. We know how
practical farmers are and they just want to get stuff done.
I think everyone gets that. But yeah, message from us
is just put people first, and put yourself first at
the stage and just make sure you know you're right,
you're clear in your mind about the decisions that you're making,
and just do risk assessments.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Have you had many farmers getting in touch so far,
Jared regarding the situation.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, we have. We look that the challenge has been communication, right,
So with you know, the bulk of sell towers down
throughout South and very early you know, post the post,
the kind of the guts of the storm, we just
couldn't communicate with people, and so we we we've been
(06:05):
dropping out Texas on a regular basis to try and
understand who's got power, who hasn't, what supports needed, and
then try and getting them to connect with the right
people to get to get things moving. We continue to
do that on a regular basis. A Ya, multiple, I've
lost count on how many times we've had to charge
(06:27):
my phone over the last four or five days just
with the phone calls. And look at our teams. Yeah,
you know, have worked through the weekend as you'd expect
us to do, ken to support dairy farmers and yeah,
just hundreds of course have been made and received and
returned and you know, messages passed on. So it's been
(06:50):
not just us. I mean, you know, the Frontier Team
have been based based in the power net, helping helping power.
It prioritized farms to get mains power on. There's just
been so many organizations that have just stepped up and
then you know, just their rural communities. I think resilience
(07:12):
is an over over used word, but I don't even
know how to describe it. I mean, they're just just
so good in terms of rolling around and getting stuff done.
So yeah, it's been a full court press, I think
from all parties.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
So you key messaging more or less today. Jared as
for farmers to check in with their neighbors and their mates.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Look, I don't think, to be fair, I don't think
they've got time to check in with their neighbors if
I'm being honest, because they flat out we're about to
you know, there's some farmers who are still dealing with
loss of pair in that. I think when the time comes,
you know, that'll that will happen naturally. But I think
look after yourselves, look after your starff. If you need help,
(07:54):
reach out. You know, all of our area managers on
are on the Geranted website of available to have a
discussion with dairy farmers, particularly if there's anything technical, but
myself included, so all of our numbers are on the website.
If anyone's got any consumes about anyone's kind of fatigue
(08:15):
and thinks that they're doing too much and not in
a good head space, we've got real support and just
keep yourself safe and yeah, when the time's right, you know,
checking with your neighbors. But hey, there's some good community
barbecue is happening every evening. I think tonight Woodland's Rugby
Club for that that area five eight o'clark and Robson
(08:38):
Rugby Club for kind of the people out western Southland
five eight to get along. We'll have people there. I'll
be at the Reuton one tonight in happy to have
a chat and if we can do anything to help,
just let us know.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Jared Stockholm of Darry and Z, thanks for your time
on the Master once again.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Cheers, Andy, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
There you again Jared Stockman of Derry and Z with
some really relevant messaging as well. This is the muster up.
Next we go to James Egger at MAA flat no.
Not only has the trees been and the shirt sounds
like Snow's part of the equation as well.
Welcome back to the muster. Jared Stockman of dariens Z
joins us to give us an updates on the situation
from a dearying perspective. Jerry, Good, afternoon once again. Andy. Okay,
so a later st update you've had there regarding the
situation down here in the South. From a diaryan Z perspective,
what are we saying?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Look, and he's still kind of four and a half
thousand power connections that are out. That probably equates around
one hundred and eighty dairy sheds. That was kind of
as of last night. It's probably a few more gone
on today. Yeah, white scale tree damage, you know, infrastructure damage,
(00:53):
feaces and but some pieces a number of you know,
people haven't been able to milk cows, particularly in at
first forty eight seventy two hours, and so obviously we're
getting the usual animal health issues that come out of
that high semitic cell count, smessitus, down cares and stuff.
(01:16):
So yeah, still pretty grim down here, I've got to say,
but slowly making progress.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
As far as milkings. Farmers have managed to get a
hold of enough generators to make that work, sharing them
and the likes.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, look, I think we're in a reasonable position there
we probably a flow off the mark to be fair
in people head head and miss milkings. But you know,
sharing generators and stuff is not ideal because you've got people,
cows milking it, you know, all sorts of ours. So
(01:53):
not great for people, not great for animals. Yeah, bit
of a bit of you know, something to think about
moving forward to building some some risk management into into
your farming business.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Took you touched on animal wealthfare just before, Jared. What's
the biggest concern around that? Obviously not getting the milk
out of the animals.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, just obviously we've got you know, emerging issues with
semitic cell counts, a mess like this, you know, down
cows because with no power a lot of these sheds,
the dose tron doesn't work. So there's the you know,
animal health minerals not getting through the troughs. So yeah,
(02:36):
just a combination of stuff. But once you're milking them
and stuff, generally, you know, two to four days you
can get these semitic cell counts down. But then you've
you know, again you need power to tell your milk
and make sure it's the right you know, the right
temperature for pickup because we've got to remember that milk
is a it's a it's a food product, and so
(02:59):
we've got to have you know, healthy enders around it.
So yeah, just yeah, just a few things to think about.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Farmer fatigue comes into the equation as well, and this
is something we need to be really aware of. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Look, that's the thing that probably concerns me most at
the moment farmers of finished mating sorry, finished finished calving.
You've had this big event mating starting, They've got you know,
there's there's hundreds and thousands of trees down throughout Southland.
People are you know, pretty stressed at the moment. And
(03:36):
then through throwing the fact that we've still got a
large number of of of our farmers without power. Yeah,
I'm really worried, and I guess you know, that's that's
quite a good thing. We all support Trust have organized
some awesome community barbecues that are helping in the evenings
and what we really want to encourage people to get
(03:58):
along to those events, so check out the Reyal Support
Trust page. Simon hot Croft has just done an amazing
job over the last you know, five days in terms
of standing up events and providing support and getting things moving.
You know, I don't know how he does it with us.
He's got his own three farms, but yeah, he's been
(04:20):
a man. He's been tagged in all directions. So health
and safety really important. You know, if you're tired and stuff,
it's just you've got to think about what sort of
decision you're making. And the last thing, you know, we've
come through this event with no fatalities or you know,
serious injuries or anything like that. And my best concern
(04:40):
is in the coming weeks and months when people started
taking down trees with chainsaws. That's where you know, that's
where our next biggest risk is coming from.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And that's where we need to have some clear messaging
as well. Jared fatigue is and good around a chainsaw.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
No, yeah, yeah, like one hundred percent. And we just
kind of need everyone to, you know, take a take
a bit of a breath, get themselves right on the head,
help themselves, help their staff, make sure everyone's coping okay.
When they're in the best frame of mind. You know,
the trees are not going to go anywhere, but just
(05:16):
make the right decisions. It will look. We know how
practical farmers are and they just want to get stuff done.
I think everyone gets that. But yeah, message from us
is just put people first, and put yourself first at
the stage and just make sure you know you're right,
you're clear in your mind about the decisions that you're making,
and just do risk assessments.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Have you had many farmers getting in touch so far,
Jared regarding the situation.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, we have. We look that the challenge has been communication, right,
So with you know, the bulk of sell towers down
throughout South and very early you know, post the post,
the kind of the guts of the storm, we just
couldn't communicate with people, and so we we we've been
(06:05):
dropping out Texas on a regular basis to try and
understand who's got power, who hasn't, what supports needed, and
then try and getting them to connect with the right
people to get to get things moving. We continue to
do that on a regular basis. A Ya, multiple, I've
lost count on how many times we've had to charge
(06:27):
my phone over the last four or five days just
with the phone calls. And look at our teams. Yeah,
you know, have worked through the weekend as you'd expect
us to do, ken to support dairy farmers and yeah,
just hundreds of course have been made and received and
returned and you know, messages passed on. So it's been
(06:50):
not just us. I mean, you know, the Frontier Team
have been based based in the power net, helping helping power.
It prioritized farms to get mains power on. There's just
been so many organizations that have just stepped up and
then you know, just their rural communities. I think resilience
(07:12):
is an over over used word, but I don't even
know how to describe it. I mean, they're just just
so good in terms of rolling around and getting stuff done.
So yeah, it's been a full court press, I think
from all parties.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
So you key messaging more or less today. Jared as
for farmers to check in with their neighbors and their mates.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Look, I don't think, to be fair, I don't think
they've got time to check in with their neighbors if
I'm being honest, because they flat out we're about to
you know, there's some farmers who are still dealing with
loss of pair in that. I think when the time comes,
you know, that'll that will happen naturally. But I think
look after yourselves, look after your starff. If you need help,
(07:54):
reach out. You know, all of our area managers on
are on the Geranted website of available to have a
discussion with dairy farmers, particularly if there's anything technical, but
myself included, so all of our numbers are on the website.
If anyone's got any consumes about anyone's kind of fatigue
(08:15):
and thinks that they're doing too much and not in
a good head space, we've got real support and just
keep yourself safe and yeah, when the time's right, you know,
checking with your neighbors. But hey, there's some good community
barbecue is happening every evening. I think tonight Woodland's Rugby
Club for that that area five eight o'clark and Robson
(08:38):
Rugby Club for kind of the people out western Southland
five eight to get along. We'll have people there. I'll
be at the Reuton one tonight in happy to have
a chat and if we can do anything to help,
just let us know.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Jared Stockholm of Darry and Z, thanks for your time
on the Master once again.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Cheers, Andy, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
There you again Jared Stockman of Derry and Z with
some really relevant messaging as well. This is the muster up.
Next we go to James Egger at MAA flat no.
Not only has the trees been and the shirt sounds
like Snow's part of the equation as well.
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