Tour Of Roddy's Sheep, Beef & Deer Farm - My South Island Trip Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- I'm heading down south to catch up with a mate and pick something up so I've brought my camera and he's going to give me a tour around his sheep, beef and deer farm which is in one of the most beautiful spots in NZ
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Hey I’m Andrew The Once A Day Farmer, I farm alongside my father on my family dairy farm in New Zealand.
Our Dairy system is quite unique as we only milk our 320 jersey cows Once A Day (hence the name), and they stay outside on grass for 365 days of the year!!
Email Enquiries to:
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macknit@gmail.com
If you want to send me something my address is:
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118 Bank Road
RD3 Ohaupo 3883
New Zealand
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Andrew, this is great Andrew farming countries with amazing sceneries of great New Zealand farms 🚜. I love your visits cos I fall in love with farming while at Lincoln College in the 1980s travelling that beautiful country never fading away from my mind for years now just turning 69 this month May. Thanks Andrew it a real healing in my soul. God bless that country and the people. Benny & Frieda from Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬
Thanks mate appreciate it.
Never had a comment form PNG before, that’s pretty cool 👌👍
Hipe you managed to grab a pie from the bakehouse! Actually the best pies in NZ!
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I have eaten their pies and, yes, they are the best and a lot of interesting variety, I lived just near there next to the petrol station for a year as I was looking after my mum before she died. Also eat at the Farm Barn up on the hill looking over the plains on the way to Geraldine.
Loved your video Andrew from the other side of the world what amazing scenery
That bale wrap was something else 👏
What a beautiful view wherever you look.
Thanks for showing us around and the talk.
Lovely,thanks for taking us along .
Thanks for the video Andrew. It's an awesome view from your friends office!
Great video Andrew, a bit like country calendar 👍
I liked seeing Roddy petting his dogs, they looked well cared for.
Thanks Andrew
Is country calendar still going in NZ ?
@@paulveenings6861 Yes it is. A must watch every Sunday night when it's running.
Super video Andrew...Beautiful countryside.
Excellent video. Glad to see you enjoying a coldie.
Hello very nice looking place. All looks great. Looks like he had more rain than you. Have a great day.
Outstanding Andrew,what a beautiful country 💚👍
Great video Andrew your mate keeps great stock and what a view from his farm 👌👌
Great to see the sale yards. The prices are pretty high! Thanks for bringing us along, very interesting.
Great video - love that country !
You fellas are lucky ain't no green grass at all where we live only on front lawn lovely place lucky people
Hi i like your video
Nice to get a wee break away from daily dairy farming..cracking countryside
Nice video now I know how those tubes are made
Great video Andrew , as usual 🙂
Nice to see Canterbury green for a change this time of the year .
Love the huntaways , best working dogs .
Had a laugh when you said 8 hectares is a big paddock . 🙂
Haha to me it is 😂
@@TheOnceADayFarmer 😂👍
Andrew Thank you for the tour of your friend's farm. Beautiful country. It is funny how different things can be in short distances. Their farms getting 200 ml difference in rain just a short distance away. Elevation really effects foothill rains.
The alfalfa look really nice. We line wrap a fair amount of hay and straw/bedding here. We have even started wrapping about half of our corn stalk bales (dry fodder for bedding). The plastic wrap keeps the material air and moisture tight. It makes good feed or bedding. It is much simpler than individual wrapped bales. Faster to feed and way less plastic to handle.
Sheep are about non existent here in the American mid-west. I have friends that can not give the wool away, there just is no market here anymore. Also there is not the mutton system either. I am an old dude and I have not eaten mutton in over fifty years here. I do not know of anywhere within a 100 miles that would even retail it.
I love mutton and lamb it’s definitely one of the tastiest meats around 👌
Someone told me when I was in the US that the perception of mutton is that it was a cheap meat only eaten during the depression 🤷
Awesome video man, lived in temuka for five years, awesome part of NZ 👍
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Awesome thanks very much for sharing that. good to see how tube wrapping is done and refreshing to see other parts of the country, I think I need to get out of northland once in a while lol
Yeah we don’t tube wrap much up here 🤷
The South Island is beautiful 👌
Great video, interesting, to see how the ours half live ,no calves from dairy farms on his farm
Close to home Andrew, next time you should show the dairy country around ashburton different way of farming altogether again
Yep planning on doing a few videos that was in November when I come down for show week 👍
Welcome to Ashburton!
Looks great now go back in August,the Waikato will be growing but Farlie will be freezing.Cattle prices are half of that here in Gippsland Australia, wearner steers sell around $8 a kg live weight .
That’s right! We actually grow grass through the winter unlike them. Jeepers they must be making good money at that 😳👌
Great video Andrew ,hope you dropped in to the Fairlie bake house for a few pies
We tried but the que was half way down the Main Street! 😂
oh wow, I love Fairlie, I miss it so much .My family have a sheep farm in Fairlie and also run Deer. My parents, Grandparents and Aunties and Uncle are all buried in Fairlie cemetery, I have spent many wonderful times at Fairlie. My Cousin is Mark Adams who I think owns Rocklands.? Its been a few years now since i was there...i live in Australia and long to come back :)
Ah the west inland ,but home is always home
It’s a beautiful place and yes it is your cousins farm! That’s a very small world 😳
Wow Andrew, wouldn't you love to have 400 cows milking on those pastures. You would milk all year round. Enjoy the trip. Gerry.
Beautiful dairy country but definitely wouldn’t be milking through the winter there, it gets freezing and quite a lot of snow 🥶
@@TheOnceADayFarmer oh I didn't realise that Andrew, not ideal 😕
Your friend has a great set up shame he doesn’t let the hinds calf , it’s just sad they don’t get the whole circle of life but I understand why I’m just a softie for newborn calves
Is this the sort of stocking rate expected from the area? 0.064 DSE/ha? That's roughly 1.25AU/ac. They either feed a lot of hay/silage or have extremely productive pastures.
What’s DSE/ha, but yeah seems pretty typical . There not on farm all at the same point, they trade cattle so they come and go a fair bit.
Think they made 1500 bales of silage for the winter so they feed out a bit 👌
Another good one Andrew! Two questions if I may- Firstly, how much corn silage do your cows get each, feeding it just as a supplement like you do? And second, as milking once a day is supposed to improve your quality of life, why are you still getting out of bed in the dark? :) Jay
They get around 400kgDM per cow over the season .
And it’s nice to get the milking over with at the start of the day, especially in the summer when it’s nice and cool 👍
@@TheOnceADayFarmer Thanks for the reply Andrew. Is that 400DW over the lactation- 305 days? I have one Jersey house cow. My pasture is Ok but not in the same class as yours. I grew a patch of an old American corn variety this year and it did well. Thinking about growing enough for the cow next season and wondering how big an area I'll need to sow. Jay.
That rapper is way faster then single rap machines and safer . Wish I had the funds for one of those
How many bails does a roll of wrap do in the tube wrapper
I think he said about 160 bales before he has to change it, but depending on the temp it can do +- 10
I miss New Zealand! I was there for my honeymoon in 2019 and I’m itching to get back
🤞hopefully one day 👍