October 8, 2025 • 8 mins
Nigel looks ahead to tailing time as he reckons it puts the Spring grind into perspective.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
This is the muster the music as the Police. That
song there do Doo Doo Doo De Da Da da
song from yester year, nonetheless, but great tunes for a
Thursday afternoon that sees the sun out here over Main
Street and Gore. We catch up next with Noge wood
Head farming in South Tago between Balcluth and Milton Gidde Night. Yeah,
after Andy, how's everything looking in your neck of the woods.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh, we took along right now. Yeah, although another day
like you, so it would be nice. It's quite cool
up here, cold breeze here, but yes, it's good to
see that. We're the sort of starting to settle down
a bit and warm up. Yeah, we need it.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
How have you been faring over the past couple of weeks?
So I likes of this rainfall. We're hearing certain rainfall
figures around south and anyway being above normal. What have
you guys had?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I couldn't tell you how it compares to normal, but
I'd like that. Wow, I assume it's about normal. Yeah,
I've heard a few people sort of say, oh, these
are these are good old seth Taga springs where it's
not real settled until until the middle of October, So yeah,
I just think it's normal. Usually, yeah, we're going to
(01:19):
start well, I think we're tailing on Saturday and again
coming on Saturday, and it usually starts blowing about when
you start boxing up for tailing. So yeah, that's it's
a it's breezy. I wouldn't call it window. It's just
breezy here today. So that's just what you get in
this time of year. But yeah, like we had what
did we get, sort of fifty five meals or fifty
(01:40):
odd meals out of there easterly on the weekend, and
you know, there was a bit miserable. It wasn't much fun.
It was interesting. Dead Yeah, dead is here most days.
He didn't come on the weekend obviously with the with
the rubbish weather and come for a look on Monday
and see where's all your grass gone? Like he could
see a difference in three days and pasture covers three
(02:00):
cold weekdays. So yeah, hopefully it warms up and we
can build some build some grass around us.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Again, we catch you out in your field, literally, you
got sounds like you've got some balls around your other life.
What's the picture you got in front of you?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I'm trying to hide behind a tree line at the
moment to keep out of the wind for here. But
and these marble balls that have just come up to
the fence to say hello. So yeah, if you're lucky,
you might hear my heating dog decide that she's had
enough of them and give them a tune up because
she she's got it look in her eye. But yeah,
so we the balls came off by the beat. The
(02:34):
area probably won't be three weeks ago, two weeks ago,
and they're on rotation, so just split them up in
the barbesty sorry, someone trying to ring me, and yeah,
they're on rotation now. So these guys are These guys
are on Italian rye grass. So they took along pretty good,
(02:54):
which is yeah, it's good. Heaven got a food stick
up in front of kettle.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So the beats all over and done with. Just to
got you just need to get the iron horse out
and about at some stage.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, so I head dead on the track there. Last
week at here we got all the crop petits. He's
been over there with the aerader so that we've lifted
them all half and opened them up. And yeah, well
we'll get in and I'll probably the one I'm standing
up the side one and there'll go and barley and
pease for signage. Actually, so I'm sort of hoping we
can wipe be able to get down in next week
(03:26):
after where the stays are up. The ground tep is
still pretty cold, so I was sort of hoping to
have some seeds in the ground by now. But I
haven't rushed because the ground temper is still cool enough.
And you know there's barley and peas are we first
to go in? And then then there's a heap of
cal and plantains so that I'm not going to not
going to rush too much on the carl and plantain
because you need it to get out of the ground
(03:47):
and grow. So that's all reliant on sore temperature.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And it So how many us lift a land would
you say? You must be pretty well through it.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Then oh yeah, we're about about dunderby fear. There's a
handful heart it's thirty or forty hobits go and.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Well there we go.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I'm just hit enough thirty forty habits to go, and
I think I had one hundred and sixty lights and
there's probably half to a third of them to go,
So yeah, not not many to be fear like, I
say that the gang coming on Saturday to tail or
the first cycle, so good we'll get hopefully get a
(04:24):
couple of thousand and a thousand lambs tailed on Saturday
and get the bark of that done, which will be good.
So I'm sitting in the middle of just shoffing if
you're using lambs around, starting to box up for that,
and then we have a big day tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So as far as your hogg it lambing, though it's
gone as expected, not a lot of assistance required.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I haven't touched one yet. Well that's bad, but to
be fair, I only I will have to admit I've
only got fifty five or something. Then I just because
I cocked up my Yulem management in the spring in
the summer and didn't have anywhere near as many heavy
enough to go to the room as I wan wanted.
So and I bought some bought some ram limbs to
(05:03):
go over my hoggot. So I thought, I've bought these
m lams. I've been to put something, put them over something.
So I just threw the fifty hebeous out with the rams.
So they're looking good and they you know, they're getting
their lambs born pretty well. The couple, a couple went
down in the in the weekend. A couple of limbs
have killed in it easily in the weekend. But by
(05:25):
and large they're they're lemming them well and the survivals good.
Lamb weight, birth weight seems to be really good, and
they took along pretty good. So yeah, it's yeah to
be for you when there's only fifty of them. It
only takes ten minutes to zip five minutes zip around
a couple of pecks, and that's that's not particularly a
street sport. It's good.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That's a great thing about this time with you. You
can give yourself a little bit of a reset, having
got through the struggles of September and let you say,
a few hoggarts to go, but you can start looking
forward to the rest of the year for a bit
more certainty. It's always good to get through that September period, right, Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You know we're out the other side now, and you
know the lambs that are here, you know, the lambs
there we've gone are pretty much all on the ground
now essentially. So I always look forward to tailing because yeah,
then you get a picture of where things are out
for the next year, and you can put a bit
more accurate budget on numbers and or a bit more
accurate number and your budget for how many lambs you're
(06:22):
going to have. And yeah, getting a few gates open
after tailing, so that's a bit more stress free with
the stock and hopefully it warms up and and the
lambs just start growing. So yeah, like even this past
week has been pretty cruisy, really good, and I've been
able to get some other jobs done, you know, pittch
up a few fences and get some jobs done they
(06:45):
haven't been Yeah, it didn't get done over the winter,
and it's a lot more pleasant to do them now
than in the middle of the winter. You know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
So does Mental Health Awareness Week noise? Do you just
do anything outside of the square to keep yourself saying
in the top three inches?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Big things for me over the last a few years
has been going to the gym couple of times a week.
So Tuesday night and Thursday night I go to a
gym class in Milton and it's you know, mix of
people there, from transport operators to a few farmers, a
real estate agent, but to just people from all over
(07:22):
the show and skip our gym man just puts us
through the ringer for an hour and it's good. Like
it really keeps on the straight and narrow, and there's
a fair bit of venture and almost verging on abuse
goes on between us all. But that's what it's all about.
We're all really really good friends and get on really well.
I look forward to that, so it's amazing. You Sometimes
(07:45):
you get busy with meetings and family and farm and things,
and you don't get to the gym for a couple
of weeks and you walk out the door treading what's
about to come. But you definitely feel a lot better
out the other side of having a good blowout, and
on a Thursday night we sit around afterwards and ever
be here. It's good. So that definitely, yeah, that definitely
kicks me on the straightened arrow and I can definitely
(08:06):
feel it and myself and I haven't been for a while,
both the fitness side of it and also that sort
of companions yarning, yarning to the crew because we all
get on pretty well.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You know, can only lia leave it there all the
all the best of those balls in the background.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It nostjers Andy.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Nigel would here in South Otago plus a dog and
a couple of balls as well put a background noise.
Nothing wrong as that class sevenberg from b from the
New Zealand's up next and before the end of the hour,
our residents sporting guru Nathan Burden
This is the muster the music as the Police. That
song there do Doo Doo Doo De Da Da da
song from yester year, nonetheless, but great tunes for a
Thursday afternoon that sees the sun out here over Main
Street and Gore. We catch up next with Noge wood
Head farming in South Tago between Balcluth and Milton Gidde Night. Yeah,
after Andy, how's everything looking in your neck of the woods.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh, we took along right now. Yeah, although another day
like you, so it would be nice. It's quite cool
up here, cold breeze here, but yes, it's good to
see that. We're the sort of starting to settle down
a bit and warm up. Yeah, we need it.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
How have you been faring over the past couple of weeks?
So I likes of this rainfall. We're hearing certain rainfall
figures around south and anyway being above normal. What have
you guys had?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I couldn't tell you how it compares to normal, but
I'd like that. Wow, I assume it's about normal. Yeah,
I've heard a few people sort of say, oh, these
are these are good old seth Taga springs where it's
not real settled until until the middle of October, So yeah,
I just think it's normal. Usually, yeah, we're going to
(01:19):
start well, I think we're tailing on Saturday and again
coming on Saturday, and it usually starts blowing about when
you start boxing up for tailing. So yeah, that's it's
a it's breezy. I wouldn't call it window. It's just
breezy here today. So that's just what you get in
this time of year. But yeah, like we had what
did we get, sort of fifty five meals or fifty
(01:40):
odd meals out of there easterly on the weekend, and
you know, there was a bit miserable. It wasn't much fun.
It was interesting. Dead Yeah, dead is here most days.
He didn't come on the weekend obviously with the with
the rubbish weather and come for a look on Monday
and see where's all your grass gone? Like he could
see a difference in three days and pasture covers three
(02:00):
cold weekdays. So yeah, hopefully it warms up and we
can build some build some grass around us.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Again, we catch you out in your field, literally, you
got sounds like you've got some balls around your other life.
What's the picture you got in front of you?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I'm trying to hide behind a tree line at the
moment to keep out of the wind for here. But
and these marble balls that have just come up to
the fence to say hello. So yeah, if you're lucky,
you might hear my heating dog decide that she's had
enough of them and give them a tune up because
she she's got it look in her eye. But yeah,
so we the balls came off by the beat. The
(02:34):
area probably won't be three weeks ago, two weeks ago,
and they're on rotation, so just split them up in
the barbesty sorry, someone trying to ring me, and yeah,
they're on rotation now. So these guys are These guys
are on Italian rye grass. So they took along pretty good,
(02:54):
which is yeah, it's good. Heaven got a food stick
up in front of kettle.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So the beats all over and done with. Just to
got you just need to get the iron horse out
and about at some stage.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, so I head dead on the track there. Last
week at here we got all the crop petits. He's
been over there with the aerader so that we've lifted
them all half and opened them up. And yeah, well
we'll get in and I'll probably the one I'm standing
up the side one and there'll go and barley and
pease for signage. Actually, so I'm sort of hoping we
can wipe be able to get down in next week
(03:26):
after where the stays are up. The ground tep is
still pretty cold, so I was sort of hoping to
have some seeds in the ground by now. But I
haven't rushed because the ground temper is still cool enough.
And you know there's barley and peas are we first
to go in? And then then there's a heap of
cal and plantains so that I'm not going to not
going to rush too much on the carl and plantain
because you need it to get out of the ground
(03:47):
and grow. So that's all reliant on sore temperature.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And it So how many us lift a land would
you say? You must be pretty well through it.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Then oh yeah, we're about about dunderby fear. There's a
handful heart it's thirty or forty hobits go and.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Well there we go.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I'm just hit enough thirty forty habits to go, and
I think I had one hundred and sixty lights and
there's probably half to a third of them to go,
So yeah, not not many to be fear like, I
say that the gang coming on Saturday to tail or
the first cycle, so good we'll get hopefully get a
(04:24):
couple of thousand and a thousand lambs tailed on Saturday
and get the bark of that done, which will be good.
So I'm sitting in the middle of just shoffing if
you're using lambs around, starting to box up for that,
and then we have a big day tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So as far as your hogg it lambing, though it's
gone as expected, not a lot of assistance required.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I haven't touched one yet. Well that's bad, but to
be fair, I only I will have to admit I've
only got fifty five or something. Then I just because
I cocked up my Yulem management in the spring in
the summer and didn't have anywhere near as many heavy
enough to go to the room as I wan wanted.
So and I bought some bought some ram limbs to
(05:03):
go over my hoggot. So I thought, I've bought these
m lams. I've been to put something, put them over something.
So I just threw the fifty hebeous out with the rams.
So they're looking good and they you know, they're getting
their lambs born pretty well. The couple, a couple went
down in the in the weekend. A couple of limbs
have killed in it easily in the weekend. But by
(05:25):
and large they're they're lemming them well and the survivals good.
Lamb weight, birth weight seems to be really good, and
they took along pretty good. So yeah, it's yeah to
be for you when there's only fifty of them. It
only takes ten minutes to zip five minutes zip around
a couple of pecks, and that's that's not particularly a
street sport. It's good.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That's a great thing about this time with you. You
can give yourself a little bit of a reset, having
got through the struggles of September and let you say,
a few hoggarts to go, but you can start looking
forward to the rest of the year for a bit
more certainty. It's always good to get through that September period, right, Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You know we're out the other side now, and you
know the lambs that are here, you know, the lambs
there we've gone are pretty much all on the ground
now essentially. So I always look forward to tailing because yeah,
then you get a picture of where things are out
for the next year, and you can put a bit
more accurate budget on numbers and or a bit more
accurate number and your budget for how many lambs you're
(06:22):
going to have. And yeah, getting a few gates open
after tailing, so that's a bit more stress free with
the stock and hopefully it warms up and and the
lambs just start growing. So yeah, like even this past
week has been pretty cruisy, really good, and I've been
able to get some other jobs done, you know, pittch
up a few fences and get some jobs done they
(06:45):
haven't been Yeah, it didn't get done over the winter,
and it's a lot more pleasant to do them now
than in the middle of the winter. You know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
So does Mental Health Awareness Week noise? Do you just
do anything outside of the square to keep yourself saying
in the top three inches?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Big things for me over the last a few years
has been going to the gym couple of times a week.
So Tuesday night and Thursday night I go to a
gym class in Milton and it's you know, mix of
people there, from transport operators to a few farmers, a
real estate agent, but to just people from all over
(07:22):
the show and skip our gym man just puts us
through the ringer for an hour and it's good. Like
it really keeps on the straight and narrow, and there's
a fair bit of venture and almost verging on abuse
goes on between us all. But that's what it's all about.
We're all really really good friends and get on really well.
I look forward to that, so it's amazing. You Sometimes
(07:45):
you get busy with meetings and family and farm and things,
and you don't get to the gym for a couple
of weeks and you walk out the door treading what's
about to come. But you definitely feel a lot better
out the other side of having a good blowout, and
on a Thursday night we sit around afterwards and ever
be here. It's good. So that definitely, yeah, that definitely
kicks me on the straightened arrow and I can definitely
(08:06):
feel it and myself and I haven't been for a while,
both the fitness side of it and also that sort
of companions yarning, yarning to the crew because we all
get on pretty well.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You know, can only lia leave it there all the
all the best of those balls in the background.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It nostjers Andy.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Nigel would here in South Otago plus a dog and
a couple of balls as well put a background noise.
Nothing wrong as that class sevenberg from b from the
New Zealand's up next and before the end of the hour,
our residents sporting guru Nathan Burden
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