December 10, 2025 • 8 mins
Matt McRae says lamb drafts are going to plan with not a lot of pressure on lamb space.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome back to the muster. You two as the band
or the artist. The song is where the streets have
no name Mocker reata. I don't think there's many streets
around there, but we do find plenty of farms in
this afternoon we catch up once again with Matt McCrae. Matt,
good afternoon, how's mighty Mockareta.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good afternoon, Andy at sun shining and another Barmi summer
seven days. Yeah great at the.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Moment this is this isn't always the case down here
in the Deep South, though. The last couple of weeks
have taught used that right.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, No, it's we've had plenty of wind which has
dried things out of late. I think, yeah, someone sent
me the solistographed from Mede Now there a couple of
weeks ago and it was about as live as it
have been in the last twelve months, which is quite
unusual at this time of the year. But we've yeah,
we had fifteen last week and kind of the rest
(01:01):
of the showers are going around this but yeah, at
this stage it suits their climate. The things are humming
along pretty nicely. The stock is certainly enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well. You're notorious for quite a consistent rainfall there At
this time of year, do you start thinking to yourself,
will take any rain on offer for the next six
weeks because you're not sure what January is going to bring. Well,
are you generally a bit more summer safe?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, there's a draught and operator there's bigger issues at
play in south and I'd say so we're pretty pretty
summer safe. There's if we go three weeks without a
decent and terrain, we'd think their throats cap, but they Yeah,
but generally one hundred miles a month and might be
one month a year that we don't get there. In
one month we get three tom set But yeah, pretty
(01:48):
summer safe country here.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
So you've got the tacker humming at the moment. The
good quality land feet, yeah there is.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Obviously we've got fairly top feet over lemming and mine
that covers away back, but it's meant that, Yeah, the
quality has been god the whole way through which has
got the lambs have certainly picked up a lot in
the last couple of weeks with a bit more sunshine
on their back, and yeah, surprising started doing a wee
bit of waning and they're looking pretty good. Certainly well
(02:14):
up on us years. Yeah, feed quality is pretty good
and managed to get a crop ground out and all
the winter crops now on the ground and should nearly
all be through the grounds. Yeah, things are looking pretty good,
and get waning out of the way and start worrying
about a bit of balags and things like that.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Shortly for waning waiting for you guys. Is it like
a lord of the rings and it's ongoing over the
course of a couple of weeks or has it over
and done with them a couple of days. It's more
of a thirty minute seccom.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
No I py like to dog it out of the way,
but yeah we've done. We ended up waning at chunk
of end maternals this week. We've swapped it up away.
But this year they were mid sixteen. A lemming wind
them and got a handful of way out of them
this week. And yeah we're going to do all their
terminals and singles next week. So seeing the capacity throes
aren't the same, have gone to left them as light
(03:11):
as possible to get as many of them as way
off mums expecting looking at them in the paddict we
should get a feel of good worker for them a
way off mum next week, and we'll spread that over
a couple of days to try and avoid drenching thems
too late in the day. We kind of start early
and we have lembs back in the peddict for lunch stomps.
I can see the afternoon from mustering up and getting
(03:33):
a break for the following day. So yeah, spread it
over a few days if we can.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's the interesting thing at the moment, Matt. What you
alluded to, the fact that getting getting stuck into the
works isn't a problem.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, it's quite different. They keep telling us at next
week's full, next week's full. But yeah, I haven't seen
it in some plants. Some plants and some instances they
may be. But so phony of competition for lambs out
there at the moment, and so good short term position
for the farmers to be in with that concessions driving
(04:05):
some pretty healthy process. We haven't seen the slide in
the schedule that a lot we're predicting for December. Yeah,
if you ask the question, it's amazing what you get.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And of course there are figures were released by Beef
Lamb yesterday regarding the national lamb crop for this year,
they're predicting, well, what twenty five to twenty six season
is estimated at nineteen point six million head, which is
a list of one percent or one hundred and eighty
eight thousand more lambs on last season. We're talking to
new performance and the likes, but that's just pretty much
(04:36):
the season we've had. But I found this figure surprising.
At the same time, I thought, due to change of
farm practice and the likes, those figures would have been
slightly lower. So it's good that it stayed where it was.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, it was great news. Isn't it good to see
a bit of a list that just goes to show
how bad last spring was then, especially in Otago South,
and realize there's a lot of areas that we're probably
more this year. But yeah, it's good to see that
performance or resilience and the numbers down to shoe shine through.
(05:12):
So hopefully positive prices might drive away bit more of
that and we can if you know, the whole or
of next year would be great, might helpful some of
these punts up a bit more.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Do you think it's a case of supply and demand
around the world with is that less a lamb available
to what there used to be. Is it still going
to be a premium product? And there will be enough
people throughout the world who want to take on this
product even though it is dearer. Though the answer just
almost seems to be yes to would.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Agree, Yeah, Yeah, I definitely, I agree, I yus. We
don't want to pricessselves out of the market and where
Lambas at the moment as should be clearly profitable for
our second big farmers. So if we can get a
stabilized period where it is at the moment and put
a bit of money in the bank would be quite good,
(05:57):
and it might encourage a bit of an investment pack
and of the industry which has been well over Joe.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
As far as we're always seeing little lifts in the market,
there will certainly some big lifts. Do you think we're
going this is going to be sustained going forward and
perhaps well may have another day in the sun.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, I would like to think. So. I'll see there's
some good contracts coming out for Lambswall in January, so
we're just from the lining up whether or not regrupted
or your Lambsford during that period. So I would like
to think it's sustainable, but it's still pretty disappointing compared
to where it was. So I've only been back farming
(06:37):
for thirteen years and it's still not as well as
what it was when I started. And I know there's
plenty of people that would have better stories than that,
but it is encouraging to start start paying for the
sharing cost of sharing, which is a good start. Just
be nice to be making some money off it, because
not many things you do in life you would do
for bake even.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Would you absolutely just finally as well, ram selling season
at your place, So it's all guns to the gunnel.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, so we've all got at the moment just getting
shit up for himself tomorrow it's the first one in
my head. I'm hosting it on time, so it's soaked
up a few days in between waning and everything else
the last few weeks getting it all set up. But yeah,
I'm pretty happy with you that winds are looking and
it's kind of an uncomfortable, nervous place to be in
(07:22):
but pretty exciting at the same time to them sorrow
them all up there and let the let farmers be
the judge of what we've been trying to achieve. Yeah,
you're in Lucian tomorrow afternoon. Be good to see it
for a beer if nothing else.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Nothing wrong with a bear in December. Matt, Hey, thanks
for your time on the Master of this afternoon and
through the year as well. Have a good Christmas, take
a bit of time off and we'll catch up in
January at some stage.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Seems good. Andy, you have a good Christmas Doctor, and
you know listens out there. I hope you have a
good break over the best of season.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Matt McCrae of mocar reader all the yems. You're listening
to the muster up next Wall holiday from beefrom that
New Zealand. We're talking hornets.
Welcome back to the muster. You two as the band
or the artist. The song is where the streets have
no name Mocker reata. I don't think there's many streets
around there, but we do find plenty of farms in
this afternoon we catch up once again with Matt McCrae. Matt,
good afternoon, how's mighty Mockareta.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good afternoon, Andy at sun shining and another Barmi summer
seven days. Yeah great at the.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Moment this is this isn't always the case down here
in the Deep South, though. The last couple of weeks
have taught used that right.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, No, it's we've had plenty of wind which has
dried things out of late. I think, yeah, someone sent
me the solistographed from Mede Now there a couple of
weeks ago and it was about as live as it
have been in the last twelve months, which is quite
unusual at this time of the year. But we've yeah,
we had fifteen last week and kind of the rest
(01:01):
of the showers are going around this but yeah, at
this stage it suits their climate. The things are humming
along pretty nicely. The stock is certainly enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well. You're notorious for quite a consistent rainfall there At
this time of year, do you start thinking to yourself,
will take any rain on offer for the next six
weeks because you're not sure what January is going to bring. Well,
are you generally a bit more summer safe?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, there's a draught and operator there's bigger issues at
play in south and I'd say so we're pretty pretty
summer safe. There's if we go three weeks without a
decent and terrain, we'd think their throats cap, but they Yeah,
but generally one hundred miles a month and might be
one month a year that we don't get there. In
one month we get three tom set But yeah, pretty
(01:48):
summer safe country here.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
So you've got the tacker humming at the moment. The
good quality land feet, yeah there is.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Obviously we've got fairly top feet over lemming and mine
that covers away back, but it's meant that, Yeah, the
quality has been god the whole way through which has
got the lambs have certainly picked up a lot in
the last couple of weeks with a bit more sunshine
on their back, and yeah, surprising started doing a wee
bit of waning and they're looking pretty good. Certainly well
(02:14):
up on us years. Yeah, feed quality is pretty good
and managed to get a crop ground out and all
the winter crops now on the ground and should nearly
all be through the grounds. Yeah, things are looking pretty good,
and get waning out of the way and start worrying
about a bit of balags and things like that.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Shortly for waning waiting for you guys. Is it like
a lord of the rings and it's ongoing over the
course of a couple of weeks or has it over
and done with them a couple of days. It's more
of a thirty minute seccom.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
No I py like to dog it out of the way,
but yeah we've done. We ended up waning at chunk
of end maternals this week. We've swapped it up away.
But this year they were mid sixteen. A lemming wind
them and got a handful of way out of them
this week. And yeah we're going to do all their
terminals and singles next week. So seeing the capacity throes
aren't the same, have gone to left them as light
(03:11):
as possible to get as many of them as way
off mums expecting looking at them in the paddict we
should get a feel of good worker for them a
way off mum next week, and we'll spread that over
a couple of days to try and avoid drenching thems
too late in the day. We kind of start early
and we have lembs back in the peddict for lunch stomps.
I can see the afternoon from mustering up and getting
(03:33):
a break for the following day. So yeah, spread it
over a few days if we can.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's the interesting thing at the moment, Matt. What you
alluded to, the fact that getting getting stuck into the
works isn't a problem.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, it's quite different. They keep telling us at next
week's full, next week's full. But yeah, I haven't seen
it in some plants. Some plants and some instances they
may be. But so phony of competition for lambs out
there at the moment, and so good short term position
for the farmers to be in with that concessions driving
(04:05):
some pretty healthy process. We haven't seen the slide in
the schedule that a lot we're predicting for December. Yeah,
if you ask the question, it's amazing what you get.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And of course there are figures were released by Beef
Lamb yesterday regarding the national lamb crop for this year,
they're predicting, well, what twenty five to twenty six season
is estimated at nineteen point six million head, which is
a list of one percent or one hundred and eighty
eight thousand more lambs on last season. We're talking to
new performance and the likes, but that's just pretty much
(04:36):
the season we've had. But I found this figure surprising.
At the same time, I thought, due to change of
farm practice and the likes, those figures would have been
slightly lower. So it's good that it stayed where it was.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, it was great news. Isn't it good to see
a bit of a list that just goes to show
how bad last spring was then, especially in Otago South,
and realize there's a lot of areas that we're probably
more this year. But yeah, it's good to see that
performance or resilience and the numbers down to shoe shine through.
(05:12):
So hopefully positive prices might drive away bit more of
that and we can if you know, the whole or
of next year would be great, might helpful some of
these punts up a bit more.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Do you think it's a case of supply and demand
around the world with is that less a lamb available
to what there used to be. Is it still going
to be a premium product? And there will be enough
people throughout the world who want to take on this
product even though it is dearer. Though the answer just
almost seems to be yes to would.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Agree, Yeah, Yeah, I definitely, I agree, I yus. We
don't want to pricessselves out of the market and where
Lambas at the moment as should be clearly profitable for
our second big farmers. So if we can get a
stabilized period where it is at the moment and put
a bit of money in the bank would be quite good,
(05:57):
and it might encourage a bit of an investment pack
and of the industry which has been well over Joe.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
As far as we're always seeing little lifts in the market,
there will certainly some big lifts. Do you think we're
going this is going to be sustained going forward and
perhaps well may have another day in the sun.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, I would like to think. So. I'll see there's
some good contracts coming out for Lambswall in January, so
we're just from the lining up whether or not regrupted
or your Lambsford during that period. So I would like
to think it's sustainable, but it's still pretty disappointing compared
to where it was. So I've only been back farming
(06:37):
for thirteen years and it's still not as well as
what it was when I started. And I know there's
plenty of people that would have better stories than that,
but it is encouraging to start start paying for the
sharing cost of sharing, which is a good start. Just
be nice to be making some money off it, because
not many things you do in life you would do
for bake even.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Would you absolutely just finally as well, ram selling season
at your place, So it's all guns to the gunnel.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, so we've all got at the moment just getting
shit up for himself tomorrow it's the first one in
my head. I'm hosting it on time, so it's soaked
up a few days in between waning and everything else
the last few weeks getting it all set up. But yeah,
I'm pretty happy with you that winds are looking and
it's kind of an uncomfortable, nervous place to be in
(07:22):
but pretty exciting at the same time to them sorrow
them all up there and let the let farmers be
the judge of what we've been trying to achieve. Yeah,
you're in Lucian tomorrow afternoon. Be good to see it
for a beer if nothing else.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Nothing wrong with a bear in December. Matt, Hey, thanks
for your time on the Master of this afternoon and
through the year as well. Have a good Christmas, take
a bit of time off and we'll catch up in
January at some stage.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Seems good. Andy, you have a good Christmas Doctor, and
you know listens out there. I hope you have a
good break over the best of season.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Matt McCrae of mocar reader all the yems. You're listening
to the muster up next Wall holiday from beefrom that
New Zealand. We're talking hornets.
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