Moved too the south island two days ago. Can report Im on the board.

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How's your seasonal pasture production going to compare to the previous farm? 600 cows still sounds like a lot to me, I presume you took your herd with you? It will be interesting to see if they make the transition easily or not.

I'm grazing Fleckvieh at the moment, cool looking cattle. Plus Vikings, reds, Monties etc, the guy I'm grazing for is trying alternative breeds too.

Heard a guy on the radio yesterday saying his farm interest rate had increased from 6% to 11%, plus massive on-farm cost inflation. Not a great time to be in debt.

Yeah, part of the reason we made the move was that we could buy a better farm yet reduce debt considerably. Helped by the high prices carbon forestry were paying in our area at the time. We were quite high and wet where we were. In fact up to a meter more rain than where we are now on the coast. Honestly I dont know that I can compare pasture production. We were a farm that was marginal for dairy up north for a number of reasons and the only way we could compete was to be organic. Down here is just high quality pasture and land and no need to go down that path. So they will be so different in structure and management, that comparison is hard.