March 8, 2026 • 8 mins
Jon Pemberton looks at a million and one things that are happening on his farm at the moment during a busy time of happenings.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Lay mile, will you well? John Pemberton farms down and
means he's fairy. He's got a block as well at
Brighton and joins us on the Sergeant Dan farming round
that thanks for Sergeant Dan Stock foods based hearing gore
John a good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How things been.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It's been pretty hectic over the past few weeks for you,
by the sounds of.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It, probably the last year. And he made between this
snuffield and the conversion. Yeah, just just enough on the plate.
But it's all Nuffield reports about done. He actually builds
about halfway through and yeah, I just feel like we're
taking boxes actually and got a block. There's some transactions
(00:46):
down the herd sales and got nothing coming one, So yeah,
things things are slowly coming together, you know. Just a
game of patience, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
What's it like getting consent for a couch shit in
this day and age.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Ah, look, I guess she wasn't too bad at all,
just a building concent required and we didn't need to
get an obviously another consent for efforent stories built a
big week of war a fee pad but it's been
nursing process. We converted an organic sheep farm under. I
guess you'd say the Parker's rules. Just the rhetoric we're
(01:22):
hearing was name all black and white. So when you
looked at it and looked at your options, that didn't
seem to be the case. So we decided to test
it and we went with it. And it's yeah, I'm
quite comfortable it's played out. Got a large number of consents.
But that gives me in my business and family certainty
for the next decade or so on what we're doing.
So yeah, I guess it was going to views on
(01:44):
what what the purpose of consent is and mine it
gives the business socurety to make decisions.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well the arguments here you'll be tearing your hero out,
but we know that you are just a little bit
pholically challenged, John O.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's it's you know, it's what the
kids do to you. Oh, I thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Just what life throws at you sometimes and you talk
about what you've been doing over the past twelve months
and making everything work is called the short term for
the long term.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, and look, you know I really enjoyed it. You know,
there's nothing like you know, when we first did the
first cut, this year on the block, and I think
I might have seen you to Snapper standing on top
of all the earth that we pulled back for the
shed and the we had multiple contracts on site and
the choppers going, and it did feel like the early
two thousands, where you know, there was a vibe around
(02:35):
south and of something that was changing and the positivity
was kicking around the rule sector. And yeah, things were
pretty crazy back then, and I think we had a
better understanding of what we're actually doing and what we're
trying to achieve and the mitigations are going to put
in place, so we don't I guess, expose ourselves through
just going with the boarder gate and not looking at
(02:57):
the signs. But it was quite cool to filling in,
to be honest, because it does feel like things have
been a bit mundane in the last fifteenth years or so.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
So how are you looking there feed wise? Because varying
reports around the province regarding rainfall.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, Mensie's playing it exceptionally well. The last probably six weeks,
six to seven weeks Brighton we got what twenty five
thirty meals yesterday, very welcomed. We just got another ten
or fifty ton of solid off in the stack on
Saturday night, so that rain was perfect and I was
(03:31):
standing here looking a week when we're just doing a
few more touches on it. It's groundwater that feeds and
it's really slowed down, so that dry before Christmas and
the little January has really affected the groundwater levels. So
that's a good indication that you know, we're still subsurces
are still be quite dry. So I hearing north of
Gauze things are a pretty challenging feed wise, but I'm
(03:55):
hoping that they perceive something there ain't yesterday too.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Ye'll be pretty pleased. And all your travel with the
Field scholarship was last year and not this year due
to the situation in the Middle East as well.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I went pretty hardly up from the start. As soon
as got the scholarship, I started booking flights and just
getting it done. And I could have ended up pushing
a lot of the flights further back into the period
where now and yes, it would have been quite challenging.
So you know, as interesting as I think the States
were just leaving the States as they bombed that first
shelter or bomb bombs and strong all the Nuks or
(04:29):
wherever it was underground back in June, and it was
really interesting in the States that you know, people just
were like, nah, he's Trump's just bluffing, You'll never do
it like that was there was no you'd think being
over in a week leading up to it to be
a lot of talk about it, but it hardly either
came up because people didn't Americas didn't think that the
government will be going as aggressive as what they are,
(04:49):
so I can only imagine what the discussions are like
over at the moment. It's it's a bloody crazy scene
and certainly creating some uncertainty, which I guess is what
we've been living with for the last fifteen odd years
with just evening gets thrown at us in New Zealand.
But very grateful of location and obviously timing those of
the season, having all we're furt on and most of
(05:10):
these will spend all bit they've a little bit more
to do on the care should yet you know, it
will just depend on how quickly this war comes and
goes or who else gets involved. And I'm picking China'
going to start making their opinion very clear now that
having between Little Swaler and the past being shut, their
excess energy is going to get constrained in a few months,
(05:33):
I suppose will be the worries. So yeah, just gratefully. Key.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, it's actually a bit of a bit of a bleasing.
I suppose where is this on the bus at the
bottom of the world exactly?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yep, yep. And and we kind of get its own
devices from most of them, don't we. So no, no,
I think, yeah, it's going to be interest to see
what the immigration does things on too, won't it with
you know, with the rich and famous if I want
to come here, or even the free trading? But yeah,
(06:06):
is that going to really push another's upcoming over here?
So you know, it's I guess that somebody has been
at radio in New Zealand is you know what is
immigration look in the next twenty years? He has in
New Zealand. What is a culture in New Zealand going
to be? Where our politics is going to be? And
we can't think we're immune to that. I start looking
at the story of Iran and it's quite fascinating, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, you just talk about positives on the ground in general.
You talk about the payout amongst other things, and I
think the mood and sentiment is one of a very
good feeling.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, absolutely assuredly via the banks have got appetites and
means which we get to see. And you know, when
it was the last time we hit theory and the
releet seeks are so aligned on performance that there was
it was creating healthy tension between the two systems. And yeah,
it's all good. I guess we're just going to make
sure we're all looking at reinvesting into our businesses to
(06:58):
keep to make sure that when there is a bit
of a flipping prices that we can manage it and
carry on and show that we've got a fair bit
of resilience within our business and our farming systems so
that you know, we can we can keep focused. And
I guess trying to avoid some of the hysteria that
(07:19):
certain parts of the rule sector sometimes get caught up in,
which I don't think is helpful at all for the
well being of the community.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
To be fair, National Lamb Day must seem like a
distant memory.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, but he wasn't it great? Like one memo was
an absolute success, Andy And it was just bloody outsing
the grubs lambs running through the site on the on
the front. It was fantastic and it was just very
well received and reports back from everybody the Prime Minister
had been what a fantastic day it was for the
(07:52):
National Lamb Day. And we're just hoping to really build
on this going forward and I hope that you know,
we can keep evolving in the Field Days every second year.
I think it's a great platform, but we are ambitious
about going bigger. So watch the spaces. This is what
I'll be saying.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Good only John, Oh, good luck there with everything that's
going on.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
We'll catch up.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Again, Jeers Andy, Thanks mate, John Pemberton and the Sergeant
Dan Farming roundup. Thanks to Sergeant Dan Stock. Foods based
here and Gore. You're listening to the muster. Jeff grind
Is Up next is talk some politics all the way
Mana
Lay mile, will you well? John Pemberton farms down and
means he's fairy. He's got a block as well at
Brighton and joins us on the Sergeant Dan farming round
that thanks for Sergeant Dan Stock foods based hearing gore
John a good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How things been.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It's been pretty hectic over the past few weeks for you,
by the sounds of.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It, probably the last year. And he made between this
snuffield and the conversion. Yeah, just just enough on the plate.
But it's all Nuffield reports about done. He actually builds
about halfway through and yeah, I just feel like we're
taking boxes actually and got a block. There's some transactions
(00:46):
down the herd sales and got nothing coming one, So yeah,
things things are slowly coming together, you know. Just a
game of patience, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
What's it like getting consent for a couch shit in
this day and age.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Ah, look, I guess she wasn't too bad at all,
just a building concent required and we didn't need to
get an obviously another consent for efforent stories built a
big week of war a fee pad but it's been
nursing process. We converted an organic sheep farm under. I
guess you'd say the Parker's rules. Just the rhetoric we're
(01:22):
hearing was name all black and white. So when you
looked at it and looked at your options, that didn't
seem to be the case. So we decided to test
it and we went with it. And it's yeah, I'm
quite comfortable it's played out. Got a large number of consents.
But that gives me in my business and family certainty
for the next decade or so on what we're doing.
So yeah, I guess it was going to views on
(01:44):
what what the purpose of consent is and mine it
gives the business socurety to make decisions.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well the arguments here you'll be tearing your hero out,
but we know that you are just a little bit
pholically challenged, John O.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's it's you know, it's what the
kids do to you. Oh, I thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Just what life throws at you sometimes and you talk
about what you've been doing over the past twelve months
and making everything work is called the short term for
the long term.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, and look, you know I really enjoyed it. You know,
there's nothing like you know, when we first did the
first cut, this year on the block, and I think
I might have seen you to Snapper standing on top
of all the earth that we pulled back for the
shed and the we had multiple contracts on site and
the choppers going, and it did feel like the early
two thousands, where you know, there was a vibe around
(02:35):
south and of something that was changing and the positivity
was kicking around the rule sector. And yeah, things were
pretty crazy back then, and I think we had a
better understanding of what we're actually doing and what we're
trying to achieve and the mitigations are going to put
in place, so we don't I guess, expose ourselves through
just going with the boarder gate and not looking at
(02:57):
the signs. But it was quite cool to filling in,
to be honest, because it does feel like things have
been a bit mundane in the last fifteenth years or so.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
So how are you looking there feed wise? Because varying
reports around the province regarding rainfall.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, Mensie's playing it exceptionally well. The last probably six weeks,
six to seven weeks Brighton we got what twenty five
thirty meals yesterday, very welcomed. We just got another ten
or fifty ton of solid off in the stack on
Saturday night, so that rain was perfect and I was
(03:31):
standing here looking a week when we're just doing a
few more touches on it. It's groundwater that feeds and
it's really slowed down, so that dry before Christmas and
the little January has really affected the groundwater levels. So
that's a good indication that you know, we're still subsurces
are still be quite dry. So I hearing north of
Gauze things are a pretty challenging feed wise, but I'm
(03:55):
hoping that they perceive something there ain't yesterday too.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Ye'll be pretty pleased. And all your travel with the
Field scholarship was last year and not this year due
to the situation in the Middle East as well.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I went pretty hardly up from the start. As soon
as got the scholarship, I started booking flights and just
getting it done. And I could have ended up pushing
a lot of the flights further back into the period
where now and yes, it would have been quite challenging.
So you know, as interesting as I think the States
were just leaving the States as they bombed that first
shelter or bomb bombs and strong all the Nuks or
(04:29):
wherever it was underground back in June, and it was
really interesting in the States that you know, people just
were like, nah, he's Trump's just bluffing, You'll never do
it like that was there was no you'd think being
over in a week leading up to it to be
a lot of talk about it, but it hardly either
came up because people didn't Americas didn't think that the
government will be going as aggressive as what they are,
(04:49):
so I can only imagine what the discussions are like
over at the moment. It's it's a bloody crazy scene
and certainly creating some uncertainty, which I guess is what
we've been living with for the last fifteen odd years
with just evening gets thrown at us in New Zealand.
But very grateful of location and obviously timing those of
the season, having all we're furt on and most of
(05:10):
these will spend all bit they've a little bit more
to do on the care should yet you know, it
will just depend on how quickly this war comes and
goes or who else gets involved. And I'm picking China'
going to start making their opinion very clear now that
having between Little Swaler and the past being shut, their
excess energy is going to get constrained in a few months,
(05:33):
I suppose will be the worries. So yeah, just gratefully. Key.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, it's actually a bit of a bit of a bleasing.
I suppose where is this on the bus at the
bottom of the world exactly?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yep, yep. And and we kind of get its own
devices from most of them, don't we. So no, no,
I think, yeah, it's going to be interest to see
what the immigration does things on too, won't it with
you know, with the rich and famous if I want
to come here, or even the free trading? But yeah,
(06:06):
is that going to really push another's upcoming over here?
So you know, it's I guess that somebody has been
at radio in New Zealand is you know what is
immigration look in the next twenty years? He has in
New Zealand. What is a culture in New Zealand going
to be? Where our politics is going to be? And
we can't think we're immune to that. I start looking
at the story of Iran and it's quite fascinating, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, you just talk about positives on the ground in general.
You talk about the payout amongst other things, and I
think the mood and sentiment is one of a very
good feeling.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, absolutely assuredly via the banks have got appetites and
means which we get to see. And you know, when
it was the last time we hit theory and the
releet seeks are so aligned on performance that there was
it was creating healthy tension between the two systems. And yeah,
it's all good. I guess we're just going to make
sure we're all looking at reinvesting into our businesses to
(06:58):
keep to make sure that when there is a bit
of a flipping prices that we can manage it and
carry on and show that we've got a fair bit
of resilience within our business and our farming systems so
that you know, we can we can keep focused. And
I guess trying to avoid some of the hysteria that
(07:19):
certain parts of the rule sector sometimes get caught up in,
which I don't think is helpful at all for the
well being of the community.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
To be fair, National Lamb Day must seem like a
distant memory.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, but he wasn't it great? Like one memo was
an absolute success, Andy And it was just bloody outsing
the grubs lambs running through the site on the on
the front. It was fantastic and it was just very
well received and reports back from everybody the Prime Minister
had been what a fantastic day it was for the
(07:52):
National Lamb Day. And we're just hoping to really build
on this going forward and I hope that you know,
we can keep evolving in the Field Days every second year.
I think it's a great platform, but we are ambitious
about going bigger. So watch the spaces. This is what
I'll be saying.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Good only John, Oh, good luck there with everything that's
going on.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
We'll catch up.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Again, Jeers Andy, Thanks mate, John Pemberton and the Sergeant
Dan Farming roundup. Thanks to Sergeant Dan Stock. Foods based
here and Gore. You're listening to the muster. Jeff grind
Is Up next is talk some politics all the way
Mana
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