Selling lambs & Pulling out Rams

[@steely9723]

Good your showing people the reality of farming, it can be very hard to make a living. Our neighbours just had his valmet tractor repaired, 5k for new axle parts.

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks mate. It's a costly business at the moment.

[@jptiger773]

Genna, loved the "Too much condition" comment, had me laughing out loud! Alister, you didn't have to agree!!! I reckon she's "Prime"! 😍

[@kiwifarmernz]

Hehe all in good fun.

[@allanrowland130]

A KiwiFarmer cap was seen at the Diddlysquat farm shop yesterday.

[@kiwifarmernz]

Nice that's 👍

[@azamyahmad]

Hello Sir .. I really appreciate and enjoy watching your beautiful sharing countryside content video and you doing an excellent great job, as always beautiful filming captured, keep it up Sir .. looking forward for more uploading adventures from you, have a wonderful blessing weekend to you and your beautiful family .. Merci beaucoup

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks very much.

[@icryostorm3727]

that was some great stockmanship with the ram.

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks mate. I'm glad I got that on camera

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Interesting

[@johnjordan4647]

The downturn in sheep and beef prices is not reflective in the retail outlets.

[@joedennehy386]

Yes it is yesterday I bought a leg of lamb from countdown hamilton for $11.99 a kilo

[@johnjordan4647]

@@joedennehy386 not here in Australia

[@mixoldschool1381]

Take the good with the bad mate that’s life but good on you for making those decisions can’t be easy take my hat off to ya

[@thebighectares]

$108 isn't bad at all. We're selling about half of our remaining lambs next week and will be lucky to get $140 average for a line of 42-50kg live weight lambs. Lamb a lot earlier than you up North obviously too. I think you're bang on to shift priorities around now. Trying to finish them all you'll be dealing with trying to find good grass to finish a tiny tail end for probably 2 months still. Even a 10% improvement in lambing % next year should make it a profitable decision. We're shifting a bunch of Friesan bulls store to do a similar thing and retarget feed.

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks Mate. It's about shifting the mindset to next season. Hope you lambs sell well.

[@rossholmes178]

Good on you folks and greetings from Oz...nice work in the yards there mate - very skillful indeed. Looking nice and green through Canterbury...had a bit of rain recently here but we're staring down a drier winter and spring than what I'd like. However, it is what it will be...cheers then,

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks Ross. We are very wet currently which doesn't bode well heading into winter for us. Hope you get some moisture and have a good winter.

[@justinpihama3405]

Like your huntaway mate when your dagging the ewe lbs

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks. He's going pretty good

[@paulholmes7444]

Same here in Aussie, farmers price has dropped yet the shop prices haven't moved.

[@kiwifarmernz]

Yep someone is making heaps of money but it's not the farmer

[@phil6465]

29:11 What happened to the view?😀

[@kiwifarmernz]

Oh bugger I didn't realize that clip didn't go through.

[@phil6465]

@@kiwifarmernz You can stick the clip in next video!

[@KiwiJim13]

👀🙄🐾👍Hopefully the prices stay up through the winter and early spring

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks Mate. Same here

[@Adrian-c9u]

Yeah store lambs can be a mixs bag with the price. This may be a dumb question, what about farming deer on your hill block? Would that be a thing for you to do.

[@kiwifarmernz]

We have considered deer but the fencing costs and volatility of the market make it risky for a new development in my opinion

[@markmeredith5521]

May I ask you a question.....when you were crutching,you lifted the left leg on each lamb. I have never done that....what does that achieve? I have been selling fat lambs for a couple of months.....came to £142/head last week,which is incredible really considering our economy is, well is buggered basically 😅 Are you happy with $108.....it sounds pretty good.

[@joedennehy386]

That's $283.00 nz dollars, I can't understand why you are not making millions. Your land is cheaper, your groceries are cheaper, and nz farmers get no subsidies either

[@markmeredith5521]

@@joedennehy386 That price only went up in last 3 weeks because of Easter, been pretty average before that.We can make good money on lambs as I fatten on stubble turnips. Some are feeding £400/tonne lamb creep...ouch. The trouble with farming is fluctuating prices. We can cope with low prices and we can cope with high prices but when it fluctuates wildly we are in trouble.Last year I paid £270/tonne for Nitrogen. This year I paid £895 ! Now it’s back to £460. It’s hard to budget for that! Our economy is a mess. Teachers on strike, nurses on strike,ambulance drivers not happy,junior doctors on strike and looking to emigrate.... I know some. We have no ministry of agriculture and no energy policy. Apart from that all good 🙄

[@kiwifarmernz]

I think I do that go life their hooves off the ground so they don't struggle as much. Yea im happy with the money. It is better than when we sold lambs at weaning in January.

[@garymadden2656]

👌

[@andrew5036]

Jenna, how is your hemprimo jumper going?

[@gennabird107]

Funny you should ask, I recorded it on video but the Chief Editor decided to cut my rather rambling monologue and my review went with it 😂 I genuinely love my hemprino jersey- used every day since I bought it. And I can machine wash it 😍 such feel appeal. I don't usually spend much on clothing so it was a big decision, but no regrets here. 😊

[@ian-gb3gr]

you'll be able to afford that new king pin with ypur extra $2k

[@kiwifarmernz]

Yea hopefully

[@mattyallen3396]

$108..... ouch

[@craigslattery934]

Winter is coming mate