September 28, 2025 • 8 mins
WIth a busy period of travel coming up for his Nuffield Scholarship travels, Jon is trying to get all the work up to date while he can!
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
John Pemberton farms down at Menzi's Fairy and joins us
in the Sageant Dan Farming roundup. Thanks for Sergeant Dan
stock foods here and good John, No, good afternoon. The
situation down at Means's Fairy. How are you faring?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, go mate, Look we've got more more grass and
we had a week ago a bit of a cold
day today, but in general I think we've got off lightly.
Looking at the forecast, sounds like the rightdown against the
coast has taken a bit of a bit of a
hammer in the last few days. So well. And you know,
the previous weekend was supposed to be horrendous weather and
all the where the watchers were out and we got
a bit of win, but it wasn't. Yeah, there's certainly
(00:41):
a couple of weekends prior to that we more ugly
to be fair, So we'll take it.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
What's it like compared to say, twelve months ago? Then
there's the ultimate comparison.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, ten days ago I would have said, you know,
if someone tells us and as bad as last year,
I might say, hea words with it. But no, it's like, say,
the last week's been a reprieve and you dig a
hole in the ground that madement and below the regezone
still reasonably dry. So it was last year the water
table was up and everything was floating, so still better
(01:14):
than last year. But I think there's been more storms
this year. It certainly feels like there's been some more
horrible cold fronts. Was last year was just more consistent rain,
and of course by this time last year, I think
we'd had two floods across the property. So any season
winn a month with out of floods a bit of
a bonus down our ways. So now it cows at
(01:35):
milking well. I just had a look at the older
girls of Brighton a little bit lighter than I'd like
to be seeing them, so they're cranking pretty hard on production.
So you just have to probably sneak a bit of
palm kernel into them a couple of kilos now leading
up to mating. But there's reasonable out of grass around,
so just trying them to it and she can be
(01:55):
a bit of a challenge where you go a bit
of grass, but all in all going for good and
there looks like we've seen some reasonable numbers cycling on
the collars on the computer at the moment so yeah,
all in all, not too much to grizzly that.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Really, how far through carving would you be?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I think we have around fifty the eleven fifty to go.
So we went through and put being news in bowluses
and anything that's five and older that's to carve in October.
So we put did that last week, so by Tommy
had October, that should be they should be effective because
we all know those last thirties cause a bit of grief,
and we honestly have had a few more down kios
(02:34):
this year. I'm not too sure why we haven't changed
anything in what we do, but yeah, it's it's it's
when you get down to that last handfuls when you
tend to have all your problems because the only one
or two carve a day, they're not getting checked on
as regularly, and it's a human nature just to chuck
them down the back of the farm and go we'll
look at them tomorrow. So now it's about when I
(02:56):
sort of make sure we keep a real good eye
on them, because the old eddies go downhill pretty quick
if they do go down, and they can be a
bit of a bettle get up. So yeah, and obviously
is worth a bit this season. Regardless. We killed some cares,
some empties last week and they range from fifteen hundred
to two and a half grand. So the works price
(03:16):
is just phenomenal at the moment. So I think she
one of them was a here for so, you know,
I think she was like nine dollars. I think, what's
what I saw on the kilo. So no, it's it's
it's all pretty exciting at the moment in the dairy sector.
And you know, there's more and more hype coming out
of Canabroy and that's just going to flow through the
South and you know we'll see that hype down here
(03:37):
in Christmas. And you know, I think pretty exciting space
to be in for the ear farming at the moment,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
When you say hype, elaborate on that.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Oh, just the numbers that have come out around a
face up there I'm hearing. You know, at the back
of last year they had a really good they were
dry early on, then they got rain and they probably
have on the more efficient seasons as far as negation
or feed inputs is my understanding. And so depending obviously
where you were in can every probably the cheapest milk
(04:07):
they made and then the record payout and then you're
throwing this if it goes through this two dollars capital return,
you know, it's it's the returns. You know what else
is returning like agriculture, and with an agriculture dairy. So
I just think there's going to be a bit of
a shift that we saw back in O seven early
(04:29):
two thousands of external money coming into agriculture because the
investments around New Zealand aren't rewarding quite the same. So yeah,
it does feel like we're going back to what it
might have you know, sort of some of the behavior
we saw back in the twenty two O seven and
such like where cowsh heads an investment and all that.
(04:51):
But we're cranking along and we probably are getting to
the age of stage and a lot of farms and a
lot of that needs replacing as well. So timing wise,
I think is probably perfect for the dairy sector to reinvest.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Now you're enough for Yould scholarship. You were telling me
just before we came to air that you've got a
ridiculous amount of time at the airports over the next
three weeks. Sell us in a bit more. It sounds
pretty pretty adorous almost what you've got to do to
be fair.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, I've got a couple of weeks, so I head off,
So just trying to check those final jobs done and
systems in place in a law for five weeks. What's
different about this trip is the previous two since away
have been I've organized some I've chosen where I've traveled,
traveled with how it's all played out. This trip is
(05:37):
what they call the Global Focus Program. There's six of
these options for all the global scholars. Most countries do.
In the UK doesn't, which is interesting because they make
up about a third of the scholars globally, but they
don't do the GFP. And so the GFP is organized
by Australia Nuffield And it's not particularly you don't go
(06:00):
into thinking all my topics on this. So this is
what I want to get out out of it. It's
more around performing up the pressure and working with groups.
I'm traveling with about eleven other international scholars. We have Japanese, German, Chilean, Brazilian, American, Australian,
and you're with those people twenty four to seven. It's
(06:23):
a five week trip. In that time, we start in Canada.
We do Scotland, Italy, Spain in the Australia fifteen flights.
I think what I'm looking at for the whole journey
of five weeks, so yeah, it's going to be pretty
full on and there might be one or two days
off in there, but there's not a heap of a
(06:45):
heap of time off. So obviously with the amount of flights,
it's going to be pretty communicating with home. So I
just need to make sure I've got things pretty well
nailed down with systems and stuff, being that we're starting meeting,
so yeah, I'll be lying for seven of us. But
the previous two times things have gone recently smoothly, so
you just got a bit of faith that people step
up and get on with it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I just hope for your say, you get on with
all these other individuals.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Oh look at you, it'll be fascinating. Yes it will. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've certainly taken a bag of popcorn at some point
something to go pear shape. But yeah, yeah, I think
fundamentally it'll help.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I've been quite a bit of travel already, so that
does help. But the understanding cultures is ninety percent of
how situations work out, right, So they do actually spend
a bit of time and their conference in Auckland, the
international conference which is having to be in Auckland this
year of all the new scholars coming to you actually
ran a day of working through how different cultures make
(07:48):
decisions and it was fascinating. Like the the key, we's
very much down the middle of stuff, so they end
up being the sort of the mediators and a lot
of stuff for as you. They sort of had a
graph on where people's positions within their culture and the
French look to be all o the show and save
the Japanese and the Germans are to one side and
the Dutch or to the other, and the Key was
(08:09):
on little So yeah, really fascinating and at the time
I think it can be pretty grawling, but every Enoughield
I've spoken to done the GP program said it was
the highlight of their trip. So yep, I'm just going
into it with that with that attitude.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Good on you, John, Happy travels which had again jeers.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Andy, Thanks mate, John O.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Pemberton at Landa's enough Field Travels yet again as part
of the Global Focus program that is involved with noth
Field Scholarship. Well over the show. Good luck at those airports.
Mate up next to MP Eric Fumer MP that is
Eric Croix. This is the Muster
John Pemberton farms down at Menzi's Fairy and joins us
in the Sageant Dan Farming roundup. Thanks for Sergeant Dan
stock foods here and good John, No, good afternoon. The
situation down at Means's Fairy. How are you faring?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, go mate, Look we've got more more grass and
we had a week ago a bit of a cold
day today, but in general I think we've got off lightly.
Looking at the forecast, sounds like the rightdown against the
coast has taken a bit of a bit of a
hammer in the last few days. So well. And you know,
the previous weekend was supposed to be horrendous weather and
all the where the watchers were out and we got
a bit of win, but it wasn't. Yeah, there's certainly
(00:41):
a couple of weekends prior to that we more ugly
to be fair, So we'll take it.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
What's it like compared to say, twelve months ago? Then
there's the ultimate comparison.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, ten days ago I would have said, you know,
if someone tells us and as bad as last year,
I might say, hea words with it. But no, it's like, say,
the last week's been a reprieve and you dig a
hole in the ground that madement and below the regezone
still reasonably dry. So it was last year the water
table was up and everything was floating, so still better
(01:14):
than last year. But I think there's been more storms
this year. It certainly feels like there's been some more
horrible cold fronts. Was last year was just more consistent rain,
and of course by this time last year, I think
we'd had two floods across the property. So any season
winn a month with out of floods a bit of
a bonus down our ways. So now it cows at
(01:35):
milking well. I just had a look at the older
girls of Brighton a little bit lighter than I'd like
to be seeing them, so they're cranking pretty hard on production.
So you just have to probably sneak a bit of
palm kernel into them a couple of kilos now leading
up to mating. But there's reasonable out of grass around,
so just trying them to it and she can be
(01:55):
a bit of a challenge where you go a bit
of grass, but all in all going for good and
there looks like we've seen some reasonable numbers cycling on
the collars on the computer at the moment so yeah,
all in all, not too much to grizzly that.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Really, how far through carving would you be?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I think we have around fifty the eleven fifty to go.
So we went through and put being news in bowluses
and anything that's five and older that's to carve in October.
So we put did that last week, so by Tommy
had October, that should be they should be effective because
we all know those last thirties cause a bit of grief,
and we honestly have had a few more down kios
(02:34):
this year. I'm not too sure why we haven't changed
anything in what we do, but yeah, it's it's it's
when you get down to that last handfuls when you
tend to have all your problems because the only one
or two carve a day, they're not getting checked on
as regularly, and it's a human nature just to chuck
them down the back of the farm and go we'll
look at them tomorrow. So now it's about when I
(02:56):
sort of make sure we keep a real good eye
on them, because the old eddies go downhill pretty quick
if they do go down, and they can be a
bit of a bettle get up. So yeah, and obviously
is worth a bit this season. Regardless. We killed some cares,
some empties last week and they range from fifteen hundred
to two and a half grand. So the works price
(03:16):
is just phenomenal at the moment. So I think she
one of them was a here for so, you know,
I think she was like nine dollars. I think, what's
what I saw on the kilo. So no, it's it's
it's all pretty exciting at the moment in the dairy sector.
And you know, there's more and more hype coming out
of Canabroy and that's just going to flow through the
South and you know we'll see that hype down here
(03:37):
in Christmas. And you know, I think pretty exciting space
to be in for the ear farming at the moment,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
When you say hype, elaborate on that.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Oh, just the numbers that have come out around a
face up there I'm hearing. You know, at the back
of last year they had a really good they were
dry early on, then they got rain and they probably
have on the more efficient seasons as far as negation
or feed inputs is my understanding. And so depending obviously
where you were in can every probably the cheapest milk
(04:07):
they made and then the record payout and then you're
throwing this if it goes through this two dollars capital return,
you know, it's it's the returns. You know what else
is returning like agriculture, and with an agriculture dairy. So
I just think there's going to be a bit of
a shift that we saw back in O seven early
(04:29):
two thousands of external money coming into agriculture because the
investments around New Zealand aren't rewarding quite the same. So yeah,
it does feel like we're going back to what it
might have you know, sort of some of the behavior
we saw back in the twenty two O seven and
such like where cowsh heads an investment and all that.
(04:51):
But we're cranking along and we probably are getting to
the age of stage and a lot of farms and a
lot of that needs replacing as well. So timing wise,
I think is probably perfect for the dairy sector to reinvest.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Now you're enough for Yould scholarship. You were telling me
just before we came to air that you've got a
ridiculous amount of time at the airports over the next
three weeks. Sell us in a bit more. It sounds
pretty pretty adorous almost what you've got to do to
be fair.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, I've got a couple of weeks, so I head off,
So just trying to check those final jobs done and
systems in place in a law for five weeks. What's
different about this trip is the previous two since away
have been I've organized some I've chosen where I've traveled,
traveled with how it's all played out. This trip is
(05:37):
what they call the Global Focus Program. There's six of
these options for all the global scholars. Most countries do.
In the UK doesn't, which is interesting because they make
up about a third of the scholars globally, but they
don't do the GFP. And so the GFP is organized
by Australia Nuffield And it's not particularly you don't go
(06:00):
into thinking all my topics on this. So this is
what I want to get out out of it. It's
more around performing up the pressure and working with groups.
I'm traveling with about eleven other international scholars. We have Japanese, German, Chilean, Brazilian, American, Australian,
and you're with those people twenty four to seven. It's
(06:23):
a five week trip. In that time, we start in Canada.
We do Scotland, Italy, Spain in the Australia fifteen flights.
I think what I'm looking at for the whole journey
of five weeks, so yeah, it's going to be pretty
full on and there might be one or two days
off in there, but there's not a heap of a
(06:45):
heap of time off. So obviously with the amount of flights,
it's going to be pretty communicating with home. So I
just need to make sure I've got things pretty well
nailed down with systems and stuff, being that we're starting meeting,
so yeah, I'll be lying for seven of us. But
the previous two times things have gone recently smoothly, so
you just got a bit of faith that people step
up and get on with it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I just hope for your say, you get on with
all these other individuals.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Oh look at you, it'll be fascinating. Yes it will. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've certainly taken a bag of popcorn at some point
something to go pear shape. But yeah, yeah, I think
fundamentally it'll help.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I've been quite a bit of travel already, so that
does help. But the understanding cultures is ninety percent of
how situations work out, right, So they do actually spend
a bit of time and their conference in Auckland, the
international conference which is having to be in Auckland this
year of all the new scholars coming to you actually
ran a day of working through how different cultures make
(07:48):
decisions and it was fascinating. Like the the key, we's
very much down the middle of stuff, so they end
up being the sort of the mediators and a lot
of stuff for as you. They sort of had a
graph on where people's positions within their culture and the
French look to be all o the show and save
the Japanese and the Germans are to one side and
the Dutch or to the other, and the Key was
(08:09):
on little So yeah, really fascinating and at the time
I think it can be pretty grawling, but every Enoughield
I've spoken to done the GP program said it was
the highlight of their trip. So yep, I'm just going
into it with that with that attitude.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Good on you, John, Happy travels which had again jeers.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Andy, Thanks mate, John O.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Pemberton at Landa's enough Field Travels yet again as part
of the Global Focus program that is involved with noth
Field Scholarship. Well over the show. Good luck at those airports.
Mate up next to MP Eric Fumer MP that is
Eric Croix. This is the Muster
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