November 5, 2025 • 8 mins
Nigel Woodhead looks ahead to a great growing season as the feed starts to move in South Otago.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Welcome back to the Muster Niger Woodhead Farms in South
Otago between Balcluther and Milton, and we catch up once again. Nige,
Good afternoon. It's been a hectic a few weeks since
we last spoke.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, afternoon, Andy, it's been he's been a bit go on.
Actually it's yeah. Anyway, it's saddy out and the grass
of the ground now, so we're on the up.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
So how did you guys fear in that breeze in
the windows such We've got to stop calling it a breeze.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, it was a bit of a breeze. Yeah, we
talked talk a bit of a hammering. We my parents
over the last of the thirty odd years have planted
about thirty five years of pine plantation and they took
they took a bit of a hammering. So these trees
down all over fences and go through through the blocks,
like some blocks have hardly been touched apart from around
(01:01):
the edge, and then other blots of you know, these
big swedes cut through the middle of them. It's quite funny,
like we have our places sort of flapped to rolling
ridges and then gullys and the winds come up the
galleys sort of from the sort of see our west,
come up the galleys and over through settles and then
cut a sway through trees on the other side. Tope
thing you can you can really see the path of
(01:24):
the wind, you know, a couple of galleys that's just
gone straight up the middle and just you know, bold
every tree at the bottom of the gallley. So yeah,
but we're we're sort of quite lucky really and that
we don't have too many big hedges, and the hedges
we do have have been really relatively unaffected, you know,
like all of all. Yeah, we've got probably a couple
(01:46):
of caves of fence, you know, underneath trees at the moment,
but it's all into forestry blocks, so we'll still be
able to you know, went waning and six or eight
weeks time, you know, it won't be a major for us,
because some beyond lim might push into forestry blocks. But
we don't have big hedges down you know, banking two
petics into one, if you know what I mean. Like
(02:06):
some of those guys here's a lot of guys and
Seapland and even around here up on top of Heilend
with big hedges, and they've come over and they've squashed
one fence on one side of the hedge and they've
lifted the feet off the ground on the other side.
So you know, you sort of don't really have a
pedick anymore. So we we're not quite in that position fortunately,
but yeah, big clean up a head. We'll just chip
away and we'll get it done.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And you only got power on last night.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
We got power last night. So I've been I've been
away actually and of course in Auckland for since since Sunday.
And to be fear, I probably needed three days in
Auckland like a hole in the head. But it was
actually it's been quite good. Like, yeah, the pressure was
starting to get to us a bit thereby, but I said,
there's just so many jobs sticking up and things things,
(02:50):
you know, it's just starting to start to get to us.
So getting getting up to Auckland for a few days
and you know, focusing on something else on a on
a course was quite good. And then come home last
night and dead was at the farm. So when he
left the farm about five o'clock, the pair wasn't on
quite ye, sorry, it had just come on. So we
got at about five o'clock last night so that's whatever
(03:11):
it is today. Two weeks since the win so year
two weeks were up there and the novelty was starting
to wear off, but we got through it, and yeah,
it's it's quite novelty. This morning wake could happen. It's
looking the light switch on and the light comes on.
It was good.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So you're not the kind of person to hang it on,
to hang out on Javoi Road having deca reason night.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
No, no, no, no, we were it was it was
the final phase of a governance. Of course I was doing.
And yeah, so it was there. She actually quite there
was quite a bit to it, and there was I
wasn't overly physically texting, but it's quite mentally texting. But
it was so good. So no, there was no you
a couple of years after afterwards each night, but definitely
(03:55):
there was no partying going on. But yeah, I reagdn't
and either listeners an apology because it was two weeks
ago today, like the day of the window was ying
to Chris and hedh, it's beautiful day. It's nice and
warm and calm and hopefully the storm won't get us
too bad, and all hell had broken loose, so I
don't know if anyone noticed that, But it was something
I thought about, was the fact that I said how
(04:18):
good the day was, and that by the time the
interview went to ear it was anything but a good day.
So yeah, it's just something that stuck on my mind.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You're talking about the grass situation is going from a
femine to a feast.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh yeah, Well, like I say, we left on Saturday
and things had warmed up a weaver, but it's obviously
been beautiful and warm and good grass growing conditions and
went since I left, and there's actually grass around there.
I'm sitting I just just pre emerge on a cup
of cail and plantain peddics. I'm just sitting in a
(04:51):
grass pedic next door and he's actually he's actually feed
come away underneath. Yous and this mob were right on
top of things. So yeah, I'm probably going to have
a couple of mobs of kid all to shuffle around today,
just to put some peddocks that have got away bit
of grass coming away, just try and keep on cartier quality.
I've got one pedic of Byler's locked up, but it's
(05:11):
not far away from mowing. There was just a spear
pedic and a bull block and we'll beating the half
of it, but I'll mow the other half. And we
might have got lots of more up so yet, but
why belong and we'll we'll need grass iviously because it
will be ground yet for four of eating swedes and
bits and pieces. So yeahs things have turned around significantly
(05:31):
in three days.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Essentially a messive shout out to all the contractors as well,
whether they're on the tractors or they're in the tailing pain,
they're well behind at the moment, and there's only so
many hours in the day, so keep out the Friday.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh yeah, definitely year. I was yelling into my my
contract there this morning. He yeah, I was town them
last night any in this morning, and yeah he came
and roller drilled this car and plantain for me on Monday.
And then he reason he only got to beat it
five o'clock this morning or something, just trying to get
a job done before before the wee bit of moisture
that it's meant to turn up today. And yeah, he
(06:04):
he's under the pump, but he's got people ringing them
all the time. So it's just that it's that time
of year, and especially when you know, we're all probably
a bit behind behind where we want to be, partly
because of the weather. Well probably because of the weather really,
whether it was because of the cold and wheat or
whether it's because of the win. You know, all the
contractors will be under the company, have a big long
(06:25):
list in front of them. So yeah, I suppose my
thing would be just keeping contact with your contractors. Can't
be respectful the fact that they've got everyone else ringing
them too. And you know, if you've got a good
contractors on the ball, he'll he'll get roundty you eventually,
and you know the job will get done. We've we've
got a pedic last pedic of spring and planning eachs
(06:48):
corupt ground to going and we'll hopefully going early next week,
just in the barley and peace for Silid. So I
was just chatting to him about that and making a
planet just needs that chair and roll down and then
he can come and drill it and then we can
hopefully part the trector app we'll put the loader back
on and start cleaning out some treats for a few
weeks before we need to start garm pedics yet.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So the course of Auckland a governance course. Did I
go into this into quite a bit of detail.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it was more of an advanced
I sort of done a couple of sort of more
introductory courses up until now. This was more of a
sort of advanced you know with Rabbits meets the Road
type course, and yesterday there was we had boardroom simulations
with a couple of really experienced directors and he had
had some really experienced directors from all sorts of businesses
(07:35):
in New Zealand come and speak to us, and yeah,
it was it was great actually, and you know, awesome
networks and great people on the course. I met you
on you a couple of them, but there are a
lot of them, with a lot of them I've never
met before, so it was great to sort of experien
the network. And yeah, so we'll see, like in time,
you know, if I can head some value on the
(07:56):
board somewhere, I might might stick my hand up. That
brought on my skill base a bit, and you see
things from a different perspective when you're thinking about things
from a governance point of view instead of just management
day to day on the ground. So yeah, it's really good.
I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Good on you know, I joys appreciate your time, and
good to hear that things are on the app over
in your neck of the woods, no worse.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
And yep, I hope he runs on the men day
and suf and years. Like I say, don't be too
hard on yourself, and don't be too hard on the
people around you. We're all under the pumforts. But the
sun's coming out. So the other day is a day
close to the heaven. All the mist stody that day.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Roger Wright head in South Otago. You're listening to the
muster next week hit shut with the only young of
people in New Zealand,
Welcome back to the Muster Niger Woodhead Farms in South
Otago between Balcluther and Milton, and we catch up once again. Nige,
Good afternoon. It's been a hectic a few weeks since
we last spoke.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, afternoon, Andy, it's been he's been a bit go on.
Actually it's yeah. Anyway, it's saddy out and the grass
of the ground now, so we're on the up.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
So how did you guys fear in that breeze in
the windows such We've got to stop calling it a breeze.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, it was a bit of a breeze. Yeah, we
talked talk a bit of a hammering. We my parents
over the last of the thirty odd years have planted
about thirty five years of pine plantation and they took
they took a bit of a hammering. So these trees
down all over fences and go through through the blocks,
like some blocks have hardly been touched apart from around
(01:01):
the edge, and then other blots of you know, these
big swedes cut through the middle of them. It's quite funny,
like we have our places sort of flapped to rolling
ridges and then gullys and the winds come up the
galleys sort of from the sort of see our west,
come up the galleys and over through settles and then
cut a sway through trees on the other side. Tope
thing you can you can really see the path of
(01:24):
the wind, you know, a couple of galleys that's just
gone straight up the middle and just you know, bold
every tree at the bottom of the gallley. So yeah,
but we're we're sort of quite lucky really and that
we don't have too many big hedges, and the hedges
we do have have been really relatively unaffected, you know,
like all of all. Yeah, we've got probably a couple
(01:46):
of caves of fence, you know, underneath trees at the moment,
but it's all into forestry blocks, so we'll still be
able to you know, went waning and six or eight
weeks time, you know, it won't be a major for us,
because some beyond lim might push into forestry blocks. But
we don't have big hedges down you know, banking two
petics into one, if you know what I mean. Like
(02:06):
some of those guys here's a lot of guys and
Seapland and even around here up on top of Heilend
with big hedges, and they've come over and they've squashed
one fence on one side of the hedge and they've
lifted the feet off the ground on the other side.
So you know, you sort of don't really have a
pedick anymore. So we we're not quite in that position fortunately,
but yeah, big clean up a head. We'll just chip
away and we'll get it done.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And you only got power on last night.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
We got power last night. So I've been I've been
away actually and of course in Auckland for since since Sunday.
And to be fear, I probably needed three days in
Auckland like a hole in the head. But it was
actually it's been quite good. Like, yeah, the pressure was
starting to get to us a bit thereby, but I said,
there's just so many jobs sticking up and things things,
(02:50):
you know, it's just starting to start to get to us.
So getting getting up to Auckland for a few days
and you know, focusing on something else on a on
a course was quite good. And then come home last
night and dead was at the farm. So when he
left the farm about five o'clock, the pair wasn't on
quite ye, sorry, it had just come on. So we
got at about five o'clock last night so that's whatever
(03:11):
it is today. Two weeks since the win so year
two weeks were up there and the novelty was starting
to wear off, but we got through it, and yeah,
it's it's quite novelty. This morning wake could happen. It's
looking the light switch on and the light comes on.
It was good.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So you're not the kind of person to hang it on,
to hang out on Javoi Road having deca reason night.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
No, no, no, no, we were it was it was
the final phase of a governance. Of course I was doing.
And yeah, so it was there. She actually quite there
was quite a bit to it, and there was I
wasn't overly physically texting, but it's quite mentally texting. But
it was so good. So no, there was no you
a couple of years after afterwards each night, but definitely
(03:55):
there was no partying going on. But yeah, I reagdn't
and either listeners an apology because it was two weeks
ago today, like the day of the window was ying
to Chris and hedh, it's beautiful day. It's nice and
warm and calm and hopefully the storm won't get us
too bad, and all hell had broken loose, so I
don't know if anyone noticed that, But it was something
I thought about, was the fact that I said how
(04:18):
good the day was, and that by the time the
interview went to ear it was anything but a good day.
So yeah, it's just something that stuck on my mind.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You're talking about the grass situation is going from a
femine to a feast.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh yeah, Well, like I say, we left on Saturday
and things had warmed up a weaver, but it's obviously
been beautiful and warm and good grass growing conditions and
went since I left, and there's actually grass around there.
I'm sitting I just just pre emerge on a cup
of cail and plantain peddics. I'm just sitting in a
(04:51):
grass pedic next door and he's actually he's actually feed
come away underneath. Yous and this mob were right on
top of things. So yeah, I'm probably going to have
a couple of mobs of kid all to shuffle around today,
just to put some peddocks that have got away bit
of grass coming away, just try and keep on cartier quality.
I've got one pedic of Byler's locked up, but it's
(05:11):
not far away from mowing. There was just a spear
pedic and a bull block and we'll beating the half
of it, but I'll mow the other half. And we
might have got lots of more up so yet, but
why belong and we'll we'll need grass iviously because it
will be ground yet for four of eating swedes and
bits and pieces. So yeahs things have turned around significantly
(05:31):
in three days.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Essentially a messive shout out to all the contractors as well,
whether they're on the tractors or they're in the tailing pain,
they're well behind at the moment, and there's only so
many hours in the day, so keep out the Friday.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh yeah, definitely year. I was yelling into my my
contract there this morning. He yeah, I was town them
last night any in this morning, and yeah he came
and roller drilled this car and plantain for me on Monday.
And then he reason he only got to beat it
five o'clock this morning or something, just trying to get
a job done before before the wee bit of moisture
that it's meant to turn up today. And yeah, he
(06:04):
he's under the pump, but he's got people ringing them
all the time. So it's just that it's that time
of year, and especially when you know, we're all probably
a bit behind behind where we want to be, partly
because of the weather. Well probably because of the weather really,
whether it was because of the cold and wheat or
whether it's because of the win. You know, all the
contractors will be under the company, have a big long
(06:25):
list in front of them. So yeah, I suppose my
thing would be just keeping contact with your contractors. Can't
be respectful the fact that they've got everyone else ringing
them too. And you know, if you've got a good
contractors on the ball, he'll he'll get roundty you eventually,
and you know the job will get done. We've we've
got a pedic last pedic of spring and planning eachs
(06:48):
corupt ground to going and we'll hopefully going early next week,
just in the barley and peace for Silid. So I
was just chatting to him about that and making a
planet just needs that chair and roll down and then
he can come and drill it and then we can
hopefully part the trector app we'll put the loader back
on and start cleaning out some treats for a few
weeks before we need to start garm pedics yet.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So the course of Auckland a governance course. Did I
go into this into quite a bit of detail.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it was more of an advanced
I sort of done a couple of sort of more
introductory courses up until now. This was more of a
sort of advanced you know with Rabbits meets the Road
type course, and yesterday there was we had boardroom simulations
with a couple of really experienced directors and he had
had some really experienced directors from all sorts of businesses
(07:35):
in New Zealand come and speak to us, and yeah,
it was it was great actually, and you know, awesome
networks and great people on the course. I met you
on you a couple of them, but there are a
lot of them, with a lot of them I've never
met before, so it was great to sort of experien
the network. And yeah, so we'll see, like in time,
you know, if I can head some value on the
(07:56):
board somewhere, I might might stick my hand up. That
brought on my skill base a bit, and you see
things from a different perspective when you're thinking about things
from a governance point of view instead of just management
day to day on the ground. So yeah, it's really good.
I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Good on you know, I joys appreciate your time, and
good to hear that things are on the app over
in your neck of the woods, no worse.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
And yep, I hope he runs on the men day
and suf and years. Like I say, don't be too
hard on yourself, and don't be too hard on the
people around you. We're all under the pumforts. But the
sun's coming out. So the other day is a day
close to the heaven. All the mist stody that day.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Roger Wright head in South Otago. You're listening to the
muster next week hit shut with the only young of
people in New Zealand,
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