January 30, 2025 • 5 mins
At a recent sale in Southland, a top price of $24,500 was paid for an Exlana/Wiltshire cross ram - a strong indication of farmers' frustration with strong wool breeds. The second highest price of $7500 was paid by the patriarch of a high-profile shearing family, who says he's now too old to shear his own sheep and his world record-holding daughter is too busy shearing everyone else's sheep.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now I can promise you this song is not a
finalist or a previous winner of a Grammy or a
Country Award at the Grammys. This is new music to me.
This is DJ Sash and Ecuador. It already wrecks of drugs,
doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
The reason we're playing it is because our next guest
on the country an old sharing made of mine, Quentin Whitehead.
I said, well, I'll play some music, and he what
was your favorite sharing song? And I thought he'd go
with ac DC or something like that, but Quentin, no,
DJ Sash and Ecuador. Did that do it for you?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well? I did. It was the best way to get
the blood up and get things pumping. So you hit
that first sheet with a bit of pace and you
know that the whole as quick as you could. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
What about your daughter Meghan, who's the world record holder?
What does she like sharing too? Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
She's specific, she listened all the old stuff. Yeah, I'm
really disappointed in her playlist Me to sleep.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh well, I reckon. A lot of your old sharing
mates will be really disappointed with you, Champion Shaer. I
know you had a cracket. Did you ever get a
world record? I know you had a crack at them.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
No, I never actually tried for a world record my
South well just just the cost of it was just
too expensive for me. I was too too hungry. Really,
I wanted a farm.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So well you've got a farm now. And I'm saying
that your old sharing mates will be disappointed in you
because you're going to start breeding self. Shearding, sheep, you're
going to do your daughter out of a job.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well yeah, but that's not It's not my job to
affix the wall industry. It's there's plenty of people who
have been trying for years and they've failed. So yeah,
it just gets to the stage where I love well.
I mean, I'm a you know, we've got wall in
their house, so I wear west Ridge jerseys, you know,
the best jersey on the market. But if I'm going
(01:55):
to keep farming for much longer, I've got to cut
my workload. And if I if I get rid of
the wall, I get rid of my workload. And I
haven't made money at a wall for at least eight
to ten years, so yeah, we're going to lose money
again this year.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So yep, I hope I'm not speaking out of turn now,
but and I guess it's public knowledge. It was a
public auction. Twenty four and a half thousand dollars was
paid for an ex Lana Wiltshire cross ram and I
think it was Hamishbowski, who is a reasonably high profile
farmer in himself. There, big region farmer. He's gone and
boots and all.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean there's quite a few people. I mean,
it's just it's just dollars and cents really, you know,
like the shedding cheaper genetically are getting better and better.
They started from a fairly low base, granted, but there's
some really savvy people now breeding these shedding cheap and
bringing in a lot of different breeds, a lot of
different semen from overseas, and the heading in the right direction,
(02:53):
I reckon, you know, I've just weigh up lands this
morning and you can tell the lambs that were shedding
the most, they were always the heaviest to cross the
scales and they yield really really well.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
What about going for the sheep that have no wool
at all. I think Derek Daniel's breading them. Why Raary
calls them the nudies. They've only got a wee fine
that a hair like a goat or something like that.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, there was Noody Crosses at that auction as well.
The one that I brought, he's fifty percent Explana and
only twenty five percent Wiltshire and twenty five percent of
the white. So you know, the Ozzie White, I think
it's probably got something to offer. It's got into muscular
fat like the Wago beef. And yeah, I mean we
(03:36):
had one of our best lemmings ever this year and
we had some atrocious weather, so you know, they've got survivability,
they've got vigor, they've got good growth rates and very
high yielding. They yield higher than anything that I've found before.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
So are you going to did you buy the ram
just for your own breeding purposes? Are you going to
set up a stud?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
No? No, not set up a stud myself. But I
just really get into genetics, and I think it's money
well spent to seven and a half thousand dollars, But
when you think about what he's going to give me,
and as I said before, you know, the genetics aren't
probably quite as good as they could be in the future,
(04:18):
and so you really have to target those really good
rams to get there as fast as you can, because
let's face it on. Coming up sixty one now, so
I haven't got that much longer. I need to get
there in a hurry.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
She's you're an old bigger Give you on the pension shortly, hey, Quentin,
it'll be gone by the time you get there. Hey,
just very quickly. What's Meghan up to this year? Any
world record attempts?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
No, not this year. No, she's going to have a
year off. She's just trying to change a pat in
the leave it, get her first time league a little
bit better. And yeah, she's after a fairly hefty sort
of target, so we need to get it right. We
don't need to be failing on record attempts. So yeah,
she'll do her best and we'll do our best and
we'll probably give it a cracker year the East.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Good on you, Quentin, always good to catch up again.
There we go, Quentin Whitehead
Now I can promise you this song is not a
finalist or a previous winner of a Grammy or a
Country Award at the Grammys. This is new music to me.
This is DJ Sash and Ecuador. It already wrecks of drugs,
doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
The reason we're playing it is because our next guest
on the country an old sharing made of mine, Quentin Whitehead.
I said, well, I'll play some music, and he what
was your favorite sharing song? And I thought he'd go
with ac DC or something like that, but Quentin, no,
DJ Sash and Ecuador. Did that do it for you?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well? I did. It was the best way to get
the blood up and get things pumping. So you hit
that first sheet with a bit of pace and you
know that the whole as quick as you could. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
What about your daughter Meghan, who's the world record holder?
What does she like sharing too? Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
She's specific, she listened all the old stuff. Yeah, I'm
really disappointed in her playlist Me to sleep.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh well, I reckon. A lot of your old sharing
mates will be really disappointed with you, Champion Shaer. I
know you had a cracket. Did you ever get a
world record? I know you had a crack at them.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
No, I never actually tried for a world record my
South well just just the cost of it was just
too expensive for me. I was too too hungry. Really,
I wanted a farm.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So well you've got a farm now. And I'm saying
that your old sharing mates will be disappointed in you
because you're going to start breeding self. Shearding, sheep, you're
going to do your daughter out of a job.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well yeah, but that's not It's not my job to
affix the wall industry. It's there's plenty of people who
have been trying for years and they've failed. So yeah,
it just gets to the stage where I love well.
I mean, I'm a you know, we've got wall in
their house, so I wear west Ridge jerseys, you know,
the best jersey on the market. But if I'm going
(01:55):
to keep farming for much longer, I've got to cut
my workload. And if I if I get rid of
the wall, I get rid of my workload. And I
haven't made money at a wall for at least eight
to ten years, so yeah, we're going to lose money
again this year.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So yep, I hope I'm not speaking out of turn now,
but and I guess it's public knowledge. It was a
public auction. Twenty four and a half thousand dollars was
paid for an ex Lana Wiltshire cross ram and I
think it was Hamishbowski, who is a reasonably high profile
farmer in himself. There, big region farmer. He's gone and
boots and all.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean there's quite a few people. I mean,
it's just it's just dollars and cents really, you know,
like the shedding cheaper genetically are getting better and better.
They started from a fairly low base, granted, but there's
some really savvy people now breeding these shedding cheap and
bringing in a lot of different breeds, a lot of
different semen from overseas, and the heading in the right direction,
(02:53):
I reckon, you know, I've just weigh up lands this
morning and you can tell the lambs that were shedding
the most, they were always the heaviest to cross the
scales and they yield really really well.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
What about going for the sheep that have no wool
at all. I think Derek Daniel's breading them. Why Raary
calls them the nudies. They've only got a wee fine
that a hair like a goat or something like that.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, there was Noody Crosses at that auction as well.
The one that I brought, he's fifty percent Explana and
only twenty five percent Wiltshire and twenty five percent of
the white. So you know, the Ozzie White, I think
it's probably got something to offer. It's got into muscular
fat like the Wago beef. And yeah, I mean we
(03:36):
had one of our best lemmings ever this year and
we had some atrocious weather, so you know, they've got survivability,
they've got vigor, they've got good growth rates and very
high yielding. They yield higher than anything that I've found before.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
So are you going to did you buy the ram
just for your own breeding purposes? Are you going to
set up a stud?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
No? No, not set up a stud myself. But I
just really get into genetics, and I think it's money
well spent to seven and a half thousand dollars, But
when you think about what he's going to give me,
and as I said before, you know, the genetics aren't
probably quite as good as they could be in the future,
(04:18):
and so you really have to target those really good
rams to get there as fast as you can, because
let's face it on. Coming up sixty one now, so
I haven't got that much longer. I need to get
there in a hurry.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
She's you're an old bigger Give you on the pension shortly, hey, Quentin,
it'll be gone by the time you get there. Hey,
just very quickly. What's Meghan up to this year? Any
world record attempts?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
No, not this year. No, she's going to have a
year off. She's just trying to change a pat in
the leave it, get her first time league a little
bit better. And yeah, she's after a fairly hefty sort
of target, so we need to get it right. We
don't need to be failing on record attempts. So yeah,
she'll do her best and we'll do our best and
we'll probably give it a cracker year the East.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Good on you, Quentin, always good to catch up again.
There we go, Quentin Whitehead
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