September 30, 2025 • 9 mins
With a suprising jump in the recent Christchurch wool sale, Matt is hoping this could be the start of an upward trend for the wool sector.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Friend Square, Whisky Down.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Jay, Welcome back to the muster, Garth Brooks. It is
a country Wednesday for no other reason than Wednesday Night Country,
of course. This evening Sheryl Anderson hosting things thanks to
Regional Ford from seven o'clock three hours of country music.
Our next guest Matt Wood Farming at Morton Mainz. May
or may not be a fan of Garth. Good afternoon, Matt.
(00:29):
Are you a fan?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
You're great and yeah, I am a fan.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Actually that song does pop up on my Ondify playlist
every now and again.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Are you more of a country you're a Western fan?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Would you say, oh, I probably, I'd probably go more
country than Wiston.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
To be fair, are the only two genres of music
that exists for a lot of people. But look, it's
nippy outside today, Matt. How are you fearing there?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, it is a wee bit fresher gains this morning, nervy.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
So we've had a few snowflowers.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Come through, and but I know there'll be a lot
more people.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Worse off than us, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
All the words thought that we've only got fifty odd
Jews left a lamb and I'll get through in the
thick of it. They copped a little bit of a
hiding this morning. But but now you look around and
got those later lemmings that later country, they would getting
a field hide and sort of feel for them on
days lot today because you can't really do a hell
of a lot about it, can you.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well the snow flurries this morning, what do we have here?
And gored it was crazy about Quarterpas State. We had
a hell of a snowstorm last for about ninety seconds.
Then the sun came out in blue sky and probably
warmed up about seven or eight degrees, just overcast at
the moment. I think it's just mother nature telling us
that she's going to give us a kick in the
ass every now and then.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, yeah, and that's and lo you think a few
days ago, well last week, how we're getting those real
nice days and get some good winds driver everything out again,
and then yeah, get a morning like that. Shit, Well,
we're not really not really turning in a corner either.
We just need the heat to keep going a like
grass is slow and we're just sort of just plodding along.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Really as far as you've grass covers, though they would
have taken a check, are you holding on not too
badly or things considered.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, we're holding on not too bad. I always sort
of these a couple of weeks just after letting around
that tailing time where I came away even a pinch
period just trying to can I sit stock everything? So
try moreby written up for tailing and then be bouncing
using lembs around to get enough grass in front of
them all sort of Yeah, that's sort of shifting onto
not much. But they're looking at the woodlands past pasture growth.
(02:32):
We're worse off this time at the moment than we
were this time last year, and we're half is what
we were the year before, So it sort of paints
a picture of yeah, like the sun might be out there,
we're still just just slow enough really and last year
that was as bad as it's probably been.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So yeah, sort of just need that, just need that.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Hate really, So how would you compare it to say,
twelve twelve months ago. I'm asking quite a few people
that this week because I'm for Watunately, it seems to
be a bit of a correlation.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, yeah, I reckon started last week or said we
were on par with last year, and then you have
a good have a good enough week and we start
drying out and start to see the grass start freshen up,
and then you get dates like today and I'd say
we're still beg on par with last year.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
In my opinion.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I don't know if we've had the same death like
Lamb Death's wife. We've never had any of those, like
big long storms come through, but Jesus where like, yeah,
everything's just sitting there and anything that does have a
bit of cover on it's all dirty grass, and it's yeah,
but it'll grow one day. I'll grow one day. Then
(03:39):
we'll be sitting there wondering what the hell do with
all the grass?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Get ourselves they will pay in Interesting last week as well, Matt,
and I remember this first time, the first time I
spoke to you on the muster ractually you talked about
China and the wall situation there with the one hundred
and eighty million ewes in the flock there, and we
look at New Zealand and you've seemed pretty cynical about
the wool situation. But interesting times last week how the
(04:05):
South Island price update going up forty six cents, which
was they're talking about a generational wool sale.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, promising a it's promising, it's good.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I'm here. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I don't know if I'm cynical about the warm as
passionate as about crossbreed wall as the next person. You'll
never see me with the shedding sheet in my life.
But it was the one guy's opinion that sort of
stuck with me because we hold a lot of hold
a lot of weight. Putting a wool into china like that,
and when he's saying that there's no future for it
sort of makes you sit back and think like, are
(04:38):
we flogging a dead horse? But you get a sail
at last week and God, there's nothing but promising, is it? Like?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
As long as they can sit there for all these.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Guys that are summer sharing yous in a few months time,
and if they can jump on that bandwagon, it'll be
pretty promising, won't it.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
So what do you do, Matt?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Are you a six months man? Or do you just
go twelve months for your sharing?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I'm eight months?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So yeah, So my us got shorn in the start
of June, and then they'll get shorn again in March
pre tap and then get shorn again with lembs and
foot on them.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Just I don't.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I don't like them being twelve months well when it
will just loses its quality and its color. And in
six months here I'd love to, but it's just yeah,
it's just tricky enough trying to get them dry in
the winter. I'd only rather, I'd rather try to get
them dry once every two winters than trying to get
them dry every winter. But it works well out like that,
(05:34):
getting them short at the start of June before they
go and crop here and then they sing through winter,
carry condition and you can check like it's just so
much easier to keep keeping an eye on their condition.
And yes, that seems to work. It seems to work
pretty well for me.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Well, the next South Island sale date is on the ninth,
so what I want to at the first, so towards
the end of next week. That'll be the proof in
the pudding there.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, yeah, hopefully it's just not a blip on the
radar and it can carry on carry on like that,
because sure, yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Would be nice.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It would be nice to be getting more than just
paying for a sharing, but it would be nice to
get a wee bit of cream on top, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, do you sell your eggs or are they a
buy product to end up in the roads around the
roses in the dead they.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
End up there's actually a big pole of them sitting outside,
and they end up in the Viga garden and they
end up all over. The show took them on to
crop paddocks and work them in and I remember as
a kid guing he had and turning Diggs over on
the hay trailer and it was the spear change, taking
them into tisbree there and selling dried up eggs.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
But no, I don't have I don't have a hand
for you that would do it for me. Now.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You don't remember the giddy heights of plucking sheep for
pocket money?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, I uh not as a kid.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I remember my first my first job when I went
up to rend fairly. We had to pluck pluck sheet
and that was like, well, was still not worth very much.
I don't know whether, yeah, why that was the case,
but I.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Think that.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think they were testing your internal fortitude.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Matt, Yeah, yeah, And there's a sort of doe you
don't you can't say no, you just gotta shibble at it.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
But it's definitely you look big now and it's like
what the hell were we up to?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Hey, just finally, very quickly. The Stags an an interesting
thought given to me the other day. Would you rather
South than stays a middle of the pack team and
they just you know, six wins in a year on
the verge of the quarters will make the quarters then
goes out? Or would you rather a season like this?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So far?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
They've had three wins possibly a fourth tomorrow night against Tarbor.
You win the Renfredy Shield for a week, but then
you can see fifty points three or four weeks in
a row. It sounds like a daft dream. But at
South and Ragby in twenty twenty five, which would you
rather have?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Oh that's a very good question.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's a horrible question, really, yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, yeah, I quite like that middle of the pack.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I think I think winning games that you really should
be winning would be the key. Like that Red Frilly
Shield that was that was an unreal performance and even
the weeks leading up to it like they're playing good footy,
but now it's just yeah, it's pretty hard guard.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Are we understand? How they go against North Harbor this weekend?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And I'm sillily but angry at a targo for not
losing the shield against them because it would have been
nice ever another week challenge, but yeah, we're interested because
I reckon North Harbor will be up for it too. Well.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You put this in your calendar for next year stag
Day because the targo's got in the gate. I think
they may have North Otago who's requested a challenge pre season,
the Heartland competition winners. But then I reckon we'll be
game on for stag Day first round Forsyth Bar that'll
be pressed by the heads of South and Stadium.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I'd say, yeah, good, that'd good.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
We'll be hanging out for.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
That absolutely, and hopefully they might have stopped snowing by
their Matt always good to chat mate. All the best
out there.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Eh yeah, no, good man, Andy, thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Matt Ward of Morton, Maine. This is the muster, Brandon Smith,
I've Mount McLain. Plus we have a chat next bag
go so
Friend Square, Whisky Down.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Jay, Welcome back to the muster, Garth Brooks. It is
a country Wednesday for no other reason than Wednesday Night Country,
of course. This evening Sheryl Anderson hosting things thanks to
Regional Ford from seven o'clock three hours of country music.
Our next guest Matt Wood Farming at Morton Mainz. May
or may not be a fan of Garth. Good afternoon, Matt.
(00:29):
Are you a fan?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
You're great and yeah, I am a fan.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Actually that song does pop up on my Ondify playlist
every now and again.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Are you more of a country you're a Western fan?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Would you say, oh, I probably, I'd probably go more
country than Wiston.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
To be fair, are the only two genres of music
that exists for a lot of people. But look, it's
nippy outside today, Matt. How are you fearing there?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, it is a wee bit fresher gains this morning, nervy.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
So we've had a few snowflowers.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Come through, and but I know there'll be a lot
more people.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Worse off than us, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
All the words thought that we've only got fifty odd
Jews left a lamb and I'll get through in the
thick of it. They copped a little bit of a
hiding this morning. But but now you look around and
got those later lemmings that later country, they would getting
a field hide and sort of feel for them on
days lot today because you can't really do a hell
of a lot about it, can you.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well the snow flurries this morning, what do we have here?
And gored it was crazy about Quarterpas State. We had
a hell of a snowstorm last for about ninety seconds.
Then the sun came out in blue sky and probably
warmed up about seven or eight degrees, just overcast at
the moment. I think it's just mother nature telling us
that she's going to give us a kick in the
ass every now and then.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, yeah, and that's and lo you think a few
days ago, well last week, how we're getting those real
nice days and get some good winds driver everything out again,
and then yeah, get a morning like that. Shit, Well,
we're not really not really turning in a corner either.
We just need the heat to keep going a like
grass is slow and we're just sort of just plodding along.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Really as far as you've grass covers, though they would
have taken a check, are you holding on not too
badly or things considered.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, we're holding on not too bad. I always sort
of these a couple of weeks just after letting around
that tailing time where I came away even a pinch
period just trying to can I sit stock everything? So
try moreby written up for tailing and then be bouncing
using lembs around to get enough grass in front of
them all sort of Yeah, that's sort of shifting onto
not much. But they're looking at the woodlands past pasture growth.
(02:32):
We're worse off this time at the moment than we
were this time last year, and we're half is what
we were the year before, So it sort of paints
a picture of yeah, like the sun might be out there,
we're still just just slow enough really and last year
that was as bad as it's probably been.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So yeah, sort of just need that, just need that.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Hate really, So how would you compare it to say,
twelve twelve months ago. I'm asking quite a few people
that this week because I'm for Watunately, it seems to
be a bit of a correlation.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, yeah, I reckon started last week or said we
were on par with last year, and then you have
a good have a good enough week and we start
drying out and start to see the grass start freshen up,
and then you get dates like today and I'd say
we're still beg on par with last year.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
In my opinion.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I don't know if we've had the same death like
Lamb Death's wife. We've never had any of those, like
big long storms come through, but Jesus where like, yeah,
everything's just sitting there and anything that does have a
bit of cover on it's all dirty grass, and it's yeah,
but it'll grow one day. I'll grow one day. Then
(03:39):
we'll be sitting there wondering what the hell do with
all the grass?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Get ourselves they will pay in Interesting last week as well, Matt,
and I remember this first time, the first time I
spoke to you on the muster ractually you talked about
China and the wall situation there with the one hundred
and eighty million ewes in the flock there, and we
look at New Zealand and you've seemed pretty cynical about
the wool situation. But interesting times last week how the
(04:05):
South Island price update going up forty six cents, which
was they're talking about a generational wool sale.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, promising a it's promising, it's good.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I'm here. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I don't know if I'm cynical about the warm as
passionate as about crossbreed wall as the next person. You'll
never see me with the shedding sheet in my life.
But it was the one guy's opinion that sort of
stuck with me because we hold a lot of hold
a lot of weight. Putting a wool into china like that,
and when he's saying that there's no future for it
sort of makes you sit back and think like, are
(04:38):
we flogging a dead horse? But you get a sail
at last week and God, there's nothing but promising, is it? Like?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
As long as they can sit there for all these.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Guys that are summer sharing yous in a few months time,
and if they can jump on that bandwagon, it'll be
pretty promising, won't it.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
So what do you do, Matt?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Are you a six months man? Or do you just
go twelve months for your sharing?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I'm eight months?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So yeah, So my us got shorn in the start
of June, and then they'll get shorn again in March
pre tap and then get shorn again with lembs and
foot on them.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Just I don't.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I don't like them being twelve months well when it
will just loses its quality and its color. And in
six months here I'd love to, but it's just yeah,
it's just tricky enough trying to get them dry in
the winter. I'd only rather, I'd rather try to get
them dry once every two winters than trying to get
them dry every winter. But it works well out like that,
(05:34):
getting them short at the start of June before they
go and crop here and then they sing through winter,
carry condition and you can check like it's just so
much easier to keep keeping an eye on their condition.
And yes, that seems to work. It seems to work
pretty well for me.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Well, the next South Island sale date is on the ninth,
so what I want to at the first, so towards
the end of next week. That'll be the proof in
the pudding there.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, yeah, hopefully it's just not a blip on the
radar and it can carry on carry on like that,
because sure, yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Would be nice.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It would be nice to be getting more than just
paying for a sharing, but it would be nice to
get a wee bit of cream on top, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, do you sell your eggs or are they a
buy product to end up in the roads around the
roses in the dead they.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
End up there's actually a big pole of them sitting outside,
and they end up in the Viga garden and they
end up all over. The show took them on to
crop paddocks and work them in and I remember as
a kid guing he had and turning Diggs over on
the hay trailer and it was the spear change, taking
them into tisbree there and selling dried up eggs.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
But no, I don't have I don't have a hand
for you that would do it for me. Now.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You don't remember the giddy heights of plucking sheep for
pocket money?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, I uh not as a kid.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I remember my first my first job when I went
up to rend fairly. We had to pluck pluck sheet
and that was like, well, was still not worth very much.
I don't know whether, yeah, why that was the case,
but I.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Think that.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think they were testing your internal fortitude.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Matt, Yeah, yeah, And there's a sort of doe you
don't you can't say no, you just gotta shibble at it.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
But it's definitely you look big now and it's like
what the hell were we up to?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Hey, just finally, very quickly. The Stags an an interesting
thought given to me the other day. Would you rather
South than stays a middle of the pack team and
they just you know, six wins in a year on
the verge of the quarters will make the quarters then
goes out? Or would you rather a season like this?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So far?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
They've had three wins possibly a fourth tomorrow night against Tarbor.
You win the Renfredy Shield for a week, but then
you can see fifty points three or four weeks in
a row. It sounds like a daft dream. But at
South and Ragby in twenty twenty five, which would you
rather have?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Oh that's a very good question.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's a horrible question, really, yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, yeah, I quite like that middle of the pack.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I think I think winning games that you really should
be winning would be the key. Like that Red Frilly
Shield that was that was an unreal performance and even
the weeks leading up to it like they're playing good footy,
but now it's just yeah, it's pretty hard guard.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Are we understand? How they go against North Harbor this weekend?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And I'm sillily but angry at a targo for not
losing the shield against them because it would have been
nice ever another week challenge, but yeah, we're interested because
I reckon North Harbor will be up for it too. Well.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You put this in your calendar for next year stag
Day because the targo's got in the gate. I think
they may have North Otago who's requested a challenge pre season,
the Heartland competition winners. But then I reckon we'll be
game on for stag Day first round Forsyth Bar that'll
be pressed by the heads of South and Stadium.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I'd say, yeah, good, that'd good.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
We'll be hanging out for.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
That absolutely, and hopefully they might have stopped snowing by
their Matt always good to chat mate. All the best
out there.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Eh yeah, no, good man, Andy, thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Matt Ward of Morton, Maine. This is the muster, Brandon Smith,
I've Mount McLain. Plus we have a chat next bag
go so
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