September 17, 2025 • 6 mins
Lyn goes over some reminders around grazing stock off-farm.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You start, you just start this.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
This is the Master. Lynn Berry joins us once again.
She's been over touring all the Stars and recently returned
from a couple of weeks in the North Island. Good afternoon, Land.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Good afternoon, and it is good. It stopped raining up here.
We've got a bit of snow on the top of
the Dunstons last night. But it's just a bit windy,
but the sunshining.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's a light ground condition wise, be pretty saturated, is it.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's not too bad. We're actually a bit dry.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Good goodness.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I was quite surprised when I was walking around when
I got home yesterday and garden was pretty dry, and
I was talking to somebody else and they're saying they
hadn't had a lot of rain. So the rain we
got last night was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We're talking about heifers today, checking heiffers before mating. Of course,
carving is just about done for a lot of people,
and all of a sudden mating comes around.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, it's really important to be making sure that your
young stockers are growing well. They're the future of your
hurt and they need to be looked after. So it's
really important. And everyone's been busy over carving, but we're
coming up. We're just about finished in a lot of cases,
and we are looking at mating coming up. So it's
(01:22):
important to just pop out and have a look at
those heapers that are away grazing, making sure that they
are at the weights that you need, and also catching
up with the grazier to see what's going to be
happening over the spring and the mating time.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, and interesting important you bring up there. Of course,
heaf is away on twelve months grazing. Having a relationship
with the graziers is the big thing.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Right, Oh, it's really important because it's no good just
sticking them on the truck, sending them away and then
getting them back is in carf in the winter time
and they walk off the truck and you go, oh
my goodness, greater they are like skin and bone, or
they're not to the size or the condition or the
(02:10):
weights that you were expecting to be. So having really
good grades in contracts seat out so that everybody knows
that you know when the animals come on farmers, they
come as when cards that they are at a set weight,
and then have good weight targets for those animals as
(02:34):
they progress to in car keepers have written down who's
responsible for the animal health, like I mean, what the
animal health program is going to be. It may be
that you seem a staff member up there when it's
time to do some drenching or whatever to give the
grazier a hand, or you're doing it yourself, or the
(02:56):
grazier does it all by themselves. So that needs to
be set out in a good contract. Also what the
animal health pain is going to be around expected feeding levels.
If you have a weight gain contract or you have
targets weight, what those targets weights are so that the
(03:18):
expectation is written in black and white and there can't
be any arguing about it. And also what's going to
happen at making time, So who's going to organize the balls,
what type of balls if you have balls, Helen, they're
going to be in for if you're going to ai
your cup hessers, and the involvement of everybody around that
(03:41):
and how that is going to work as well. A
good contract is really important with well set out expectations.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's the big thing about this having that contract, because
a handshake doesn't cut the mustard if it goes to.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Gag Oh no, and in my time, I've seen in
some contracts that's around grazing that have well they're not
even contracts, as you said, they were a handshake that
have turned to custard right at the end, and heppers
have come home and they have not met their weight
(04:14):
gain targets. And then we have the follow on is
shoes with them carving and light condition and they're not
cycling as soon as they should be, so then they
end up being late for the rest of their lives
because if they're late in that first year getting in carts,
then they'll be late for the rest of their life.
And it's a big loss in production and genetics for
(04:36):
your farm.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And you're reckon something else you want to touch on
at the moment. Don't be a grumpy bum.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well it's not. Everybody's going to be grumpy a little
bit at the moment because what we're near the end
of September through carving, so some people have started carving
in the middle of July and we've had hasn't been
too bad as far as conditions go, but it's long hours,
a lot of work, and you traditionally we've seen at
(05:07):
this time in the year September October staff moving around
because they've got to the end, or the pressures come off,
and everybody's been tired and grumpy, and it only takes
one conversation or one little thing to happen, or in
some cases a number and they throw their hands up
(05:27):
in the air and I'm not working here anymore, and
I go find another job somewhere else. And you've had
those staff all through carving and you've been they've gained
all that experience from working with you over carving, and
have them leave. It's actually quite a big cost on
a business to then find replacement start and then train
(05:51):
them up for working on your farm and how you
manage your animals and feed and the sheer. So it's
really important to sit down and have a yack with
your staff and see how they're getting on now that
the pressure maybe you've come off a little bit, maybe
getting a few more sleepings or an extra half day
(06:13):
off somewhere along the line. But you know, making sure
that everybody is as happy as possibly can be at
this time of the year, and the good staff are
hard to come by, and good staff are really important
to make sure your business is ticking over.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, good words, Lynn especially regetting the fruit juice at
the end of the day as you call it, just
to decipher things. Always appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's all right. You have a good day, Lynn Barry.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
This is the muster before we finish up our residents
Sporting Gury Nathan Burdon, I think we need to talk
some rugby
You start, you just start this.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
This is the Master. Lynn Berry joins us once again.
She's been over touring all the Stars and recently returned
from a couple of weeks in the North Island. Good afternoon, Land.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Good afternoon, and it is good. It stopped raining up here.
We've got a bit of snow on the top of
the Dunstons last night. But it's just a bit windy,
but the sunshining.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's a light ground condition wise, be pretty saturated, is it.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's not too bad. We're actually a bit dry.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Good goodness.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I was quite surprised when I was walking around when
I got home yesterday and garden was pretty dry, and
I was talking to somebody else and they're saying they
hadn't had a lot of rain. So the rain we
got last night was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We're talking about heifers today, checking heiffers before mating. Of course,
carving is just about done for a lot of people,
and all of a sudden mating comes around.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, it's really important to be making sure that your
young stockers are growing well. They're the future of your
hurt and they need to be looked after. So it's
really important. And everyone's been busy over carving, but we're
coming up. We're just about finished in a lot of cases,
and we are looking at mating coming up. So it's
(01:22):
important to just pop out and have a look at
those heapers that are away grazing, making sure that they
are at the weights that you need, and also catching
up with the grazier to see what's going to be
happening over the spring and the mating time.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, and interesting important you bring up there. Of course,
heaf is away on twelve months grazing. Having a relationship
with the graziers is the big thing.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Right, Oh, it's really important because it's no good just
sticking them on the truck, sending them away and then
getting them back is in carf in the winter time
and they walk off the truck and you go, oh
my goodness, greater they are like skin and bone, or
they're not to the size or the condition or the
(02:10):
weights that you were expecting to be. So having really
good grades in contracts seat out so that everybody knows
that you know when the animals come on farmers, they
come as when cards that they are at a set weight,
and then have good weight targets for those animals as
(02:34):
they progress to in car keepers have written down who's
responsible for the animal health, like I mean, what the
animal health program is going to be. It may be
that you seem a staff member up there when it's
time to do some drenching or whatever to give the
grazier a hand, or you're doing it yourself, or the
(02:56):
grazier does it all by themselves. So that needs to
be set out in a good contract. Also what the
animal health pain is going to be around expected feeding levels.
If you have a weight gain contract or you have
targets weight, what those targets weights are so that the
(03:18):
expectation is written in black and white and there can't
be any arguing about it. And also what's going to
happen at making time, So who's going to organize the balls,
what type of balls if you have balls, Helen, they're
going to be in for if you're going to ai
your cup hessers, and the involvement of everybody around that
(03:41):
and how that is going to work as well. A
good contract is really important with well set out expectations.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's the big thing about this having that contract, because
a handshake doesn't cut the mustard if it goes to.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Gag Oh no, and in my time, I've seen in
some contracts that's around grazing that have well they're not
even contracts, as you said, they were a handshake that
have turned to custard right at the end, and heppers
have come home and they have not met their weight
(04:14):
gain targets. And then we have the follow on is
shoes with them carving and light condition and they're not
cycling as soon as they should be, so then they
end up being late for the rest of their lives
because if they're late in that first year getting in carts,
then they'll be late for the rest of their life.
And it's a big loss in production and genetics for
(04:36):
your farm.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And you're reckon something else you want to touch on
at the moment. Don't be a grumpy bum.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well it's not. Everybody's going to be grumpy a little
bit at the moment because what we're near the end
of September through carving, so some people have started carving
in the middle of July and we've had hasn't been
too bad as far as conditions go, but it's long hours,
a lot of work, and you traditionally we've seen at
(05:07):
this time in the year September October staff moving around
because they've got to the end, or the pressures come off,
and everybody's been tired and grumpy, and it only takes
one conversation or one little thing to happen, or in
some cases a number and they throw their hands up
(05:27):
in the air and I'm not working here anymore, and
I go find another job somewhere else. And you've had
those staff all through carving and you've been they've gained
all that experience from working with you over carving, and
have them leave. It's actually quite a big cost on
a business to then find replacement start and then train
(05:51):
them up for working on your farm and how you
manage your animals and feed and the sheer. So it's
really important to sit down and have a yack with
your staff and see how they're getting on now that
the pressure maybe you've come off a little bit, maybe
getting a few more sleepings or an extra half day
(06:13):
off somewhere along the line. But you know, making sure
that everybody is as happy as possibly can be at
this time of the year, and the good staff are
hard to come by, and good staff are really important
to make sure your business is ticking over.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, good words, Lynn especially regetting the fruit juice at
the end of the day as you call it, just
to decipher things. Always appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's all right. You have a good day, Lynn Barry.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
This is the muster before we finish up our residents
Sporting Gury Nathan Burdon, I think we need to talk
some rugby
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