taranaki farming lifestyles, september 2015

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A recent survey of Federated Farmers members indicates banks are providing much needed support to the dairy industry during this low forecast payout period.

The survey was conducted the week following Fonterra’s August 7 announcement of a forecast payout to farmers of $3.85 per kilogram of milk solids. Over half of the 1,300 farmers surveyed nationwide work in the dairy industry. Federated Farmers president Dr William Rolleston said the organisation took the step because it was vital the industry knew exactly what level of support it was receiving.

“The support of banks is absolutely critical in these market conditions. They have the ability to make a significant difference to farmers, the industry and the economy if they work constructively and take a long term view.”

“The high levels of satisfaction our survey has identified are extremely encouraging for the dairy industry, but at the same time it’s concerning that same farmers are coming under pressure from banks,” he said.

“We are following this up and continue to urge banks to stand by the industry.”

Only 6.6 percent of dairy farmers surveyed said they have come under undue pressure from banks over their mortgage. Just 5.7 percent are dissatisfied with banks over

their mortgages, and as few as 3.1 percent are unhappy with the quality of communications from banks over the past three months.

Across all farming industries the level of dissatisfaction over mortgages is even less at 5.2 percent, with 5.5 percent saying they have come under undue pressure in this area, and 3.5 percent unhappy with how banks are communicating with them.

Figures in the Taranaki/Whanganui/Manawatu regions show just 4.1 percent felt dissatisfied with banks regarding their mortgage, and 2.7 percent felt under undue pressure from banks regarding their mortgage.

The survey also found that 25 percent of dairy farmers do not have a detailed budget for the current season. This compares with 33 percent of all farmers.

“More than 10 percent do not have a mortgage and many more have very low levels of debt so this is not entirely surprising,” said Dr Rolleston.

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Entries for the 2016 Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA) opened nationwide last month with Auckland also signing up to join the competition.

The annual contest is open to all farming and horticultural sectors, recognising sustainable land management, environmental awareness, good business practices, along with social and community responsibility. It has become a major event on the rural calendar.

The competition is facilitated by the New Zealand Farm Environment (NZFE) Trust.

The contest was first opened to Taranaki farmers in 2014. Trewithen Farm at Tikorangi, owned by Gavin and Oliver Faull of Faull Farms Limited and operated by sharemilkers Tony and Loie Penwarden, won the supreme award that year.

This year’s winners were Eltham dairy farmers Mark and Jacqui Muller and their manager Conrad Maeke.

NZFE Trust national judging co-ordinator Andrea Hanna said every farmer, including orchardists, vegetable growers and viticulturists, should give it a go.

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Mrs Hanna said the competition offers an excellent educational opportunity for any farmer wanting to learn more about how to improve business profitability and environmental management.

“Past-entrants have described their participation as a highly worthwhile experience.”

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Neither Aaron nor Laura grew up with agricultural backgrounds. The closest they came to

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decided dairying was the career path he wanted to follow. A farm management position was the next progressive move as Aaron worked two seasons for Richard and Lynne Milne, just a short drive up the road from their current location.

Prior to going farming, and starting a family, Laura spent five years working at Fonterra’s Whareroa site in Hawera as a machinery operator.

In June this year, the couple took another step up and began working in a variable order sharemilking position for the Bolton Walker Trust in South Taranaki.

The Bolton Walker Trust’s farm covers a total of 36 hectares which includes a milking platform of 24.5 hectares and a further 12 hectare run-off located one kilometre down the road. One-hundred Jersey cows, kept on an all-grass system, are milked in a ten-aside herringbone.

Most of the day-to-day farm work is completed by Aaron whilst Laura takes care of the calves in spring. The couple are already endeavouring to increase the herd’s production figures. Laura said previous sharemilkers were targeting around 30,000kgMS. “We are targeting for 36,000kgMS through improved

pasture management and strategic use of urea to fill any feed shortages.”

Although young stock are grazed on the run-off, the herd is wintered on the farm.

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The couple have found the lifestyle that dairy farming presents is proving ideal for raising their two children, Kauri (4) and Stella (1). “We see dairy farming as a way to provide our children

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“Whether it’s just over the farm to walk the dog or doing calves, we are both very lucky to have a great family support network around us as well. Money is secondary,” she said.

Aaron said he particularly enjoys working with the cows.

“They are honest, caring and extremely tough,” he said.

“I have had a pretty checkered past and unlike people, a cow makes its judgement on me by the way I treat it.”

The couple have set clear goals to continue their progression up the dairy farming ladder. “Within the next five years we hope to own our own herd of

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“Our long-term plan is to provide a safe and secure place for our children to grow up in, and to be able to offer them the opportunity to do whatever they want to with their life.

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“I loved it when the shearers came to my parents small-holding and it usually meant I got a day off school to help,” he said.

“I started wool handling after school and in the holidays for a mobile shearing gang when I was 13.”

When Matt left school, the lure of farming continued to beckon and he took up a range of farm work.

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Matt first travelled to New Zealand in 1997, primarily to learn how to improve his shearing technique.

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“My wife is from Taranaki and we moved here from the United Kingdom permanently in 2003.”

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“Now I no longer shear in the larger shearing sheds, but I do miss it as I was lucky to work with some great people over the years.”

Through helping out with the organising and preparation for the Urenui Speed Shear, Matt has kept up his involvement with shearing sports. This annual event is held the night before the Taranaki Shears. “We also

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Matt has been asked to carry out a few shearing demonstrations over the years as well — mainly for schools.

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According to geologists the Redmond Real Salt deposit is the remnant of an ancient inland sea, The Sundance Sea, which places the deposit within the Jurassic Period, 65 million years ago, when the planet was as pure as it could be. Over time the salt that settled at the bottom of the sea was trapped within the earth and then forced up near the surface, close to the town of Redmond, Utah, USA.

Redmond Real Salt is currently harvested about 300 feet (100 metres) below the surface of the earth. From there the salt is screened and crushed to size before being shipped to the food grade facility in Northern Utah, where it is screened again and packaged.

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Redmond Real Salt is healthier than white salt, because of the things Redmonds don’t take out of it such as trace minerals. Redmond Real Salt is 98 percent sodium chloride and 2 percent minerals and it is these 60+ minerals that make Real Salt REAL. Some of these minerals don’t dissolve in water, but are bio-available through the micro-organisms in your gut — increasing health.

An excellent source of organic sodium, Redmond Real Salt is the key to alkalising, detoxifying, remineralising and rejuvenating your whole body. The combination of 40 percent Real Salt and 60 percent aluminium free baking soda, blended together in a small jar and used as toothpaste, is a magical way to start each day. Agrissentials wish Cyril and Glennis Fausett a healthy and happy retirement and thank them for the courage and foresight to push forward promoting and selling Redmond Real Salt 100 percent natural products.

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Loyalty has its own rewardThe resumption of Russian imports of hydrous milk fat, whey and milk protein concentrates from Fonterra sites is good news for the cooperative.

New Zealand is not on the list of Russian-banned countries and in spite of trade minister Tim Groser asking primary exporters not to exploit any possible advantage that Fonterra and others may have in dealing with Russia, the government has stated that it is important not to upset trade talks with the United States through the Trans-Pacific Partnership and also with the European Union.

New Zealand has a history of being a good and loyal trading partner not only to Europe but also the United States, but there are numerous examples where this loyalty has not been taken into account, when Europe and America act in their own self-interest.

For more than 100 years, New Zealand’s butter and cheese had arrived in ports in Britain. During the Second World War, New Zealand supplied its dairy products under very favourable terms to the so-called mother country. This trading relationship changed dramatically with Britain joining the European Community, forcing New Zealand to look for alternative markets throughout Asia, Russia and latterly China. The then NZ Dairy Board showed commercial enterprise by taking advantage of the then Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s new open ‘perestroika’ (reconstruction) and ‘glasnost’ (or openness) policies giving new trade opportunities throughout the world. Mikhail Gorbachev’s ties stem back to the Ukraine or Little Russia, along with other Russian leaders including Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Chernenko.

The Ukraine has been part of Russia for over 240 years, when Catherine the Great reached a peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire in 1774. The Crimea Peninsula which is part of the Ukraine

came under Russian rule in 1783 and is a major naval base for the Russian Navy. The region’s vast wheat fields have served as the breadbasket of the Russian Empire and then the Soviet Union.

The current American and European embargos against Russia are because the Ukraine wants to secede from Russia, with American and European support. An interesting argument could be made — what if Hawaii, a state within America, wished to secede from the United States. Would the Americans be so accommodating if it meant giving up their naval bases there?

Fonterra director Malcolm Bailey who is the Dairy Companies Association chairman, stated in the press last week that the industry had no intention of ramping up trade with Russia as a result of the latest reinstatement of licences or any future relaxation of market access conditions and that the Association supported the Western Alliance led by America.

With the greatest of respect, the facts are that while European and American dairy farmers are receiving between $6.95 and $8.15 per kilogram of milk solids, New Zealand dairy farmers are witnessing our so-called allies dumping their surplus dairy produce caused by their embargo against Russia, into our hard-earned markets in China and throughout Asia, without a care for our struggling New Zealand dairy farmers, who may receive $3.85 per kilogram of milk solids this year, if they are lucky. In economic terms our situation is ridiculous and completely unsustainable. They profit while we stand naively by.

It is hypocritical that we are told that we shouldn’t take full advantage of our unrestricted access to market our dairy products to Russia.

Scottish-born Tim Groser who has acted as New Zealand’s chief negotiator in trade for many years, once summarised that New Zealand could be screwed in areas of trade. Almost everything New Zealand exported was at the mercy of other countries.

It is ironical that in the book Till the Cows Came Home, Mr Grose reportedly states that to him, the key issues involved getting a framework for international law that would protect New Zealand from what he regarded as outrages.

Wealthy nations had to be stopped from ruining the country’s economic future with their export subsidies — even if a measure of quota constraint and import control might have to be accepted for some time to come.

It is my view that America and Europe should have kept this in mind when they unilaterally decided to place a trade ban against Russia to the detriment of small, agricultural-reliant countries like New Zealand.

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The incorporation of � ve percent emollient at its one to three use-rate provides good teat conditioning protection all year round.

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“It can be applied manually using a spray gun or even a walkover sprayer. Certainly if there is only one thing a farmer does after milking, it should be to use a teat spray.

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A lightbulb moment for Northland man Dan Hall of Danz Zappz, has recently won him the 2015 National Agricultural Fieldays Vodafone Innovation Award for his mobile phone app that detects whether or not an electric fence is on.

The app, Fence Detective, is available for most Android phones and an antenna is about to be released which enables even more Android phones to use it and means users can detect a fence current from even further away.

“It has been pretty exciting and a bit of a rollercoaster ride. We have had a lot of off-shore interest particularly from South Africa, Canada and Ireland,” says Mr Hall.

He says the idea came to him when he was out walking and needed to cross an electric fence.

“I couldn’t go over it or under it and I wasn’t going to walk a kilometre around it, so I pulled my phone out to call the farmer and ask him if the fence was on and that was the lightbulb moment.

“I thought why can’t I point my phone at the fence, you seem to be able to do everything else with phones, so I looked up who makes apps and discovered Massey University, Beta Solutions Ltd.

“On the website was an automated form that said we make entrepreneurs out of ideas. So I filled out the form with my idea and within half an hour my

phone rang and it was the university wanting to know more.”

The app works by picking up the electromagnetic waves and sending the phone a signal. The new antenna extends the range that the current can be picked up from.

The Kaihu resident owns a 10-acre lifestyle block planted in pine trees and says he has always been into entrepreneurial concepts.

“I think it is related to growing up and surviving in a rural area and having to use your mind.”

The app was created with assistance from Muli Mobile, Beta Solutions Ltd, Palmerston North Massey University and Dan’s company Danz Zappz. “It’s a revolutionary app, there is nothing like it in the world,” he says, noting that trampers seem to be his largest market. It instantly gets rid of the fear factor. With most other fence checking devices you have got to touch the fence or get very close to it and this one you don’t have to.We have launched a free demo app which gives you five free trials. The app is sold at $5 from www.

fencedetective.com or google play. We have had about 100 downloads of the trial a week.” The team are hoping to launch the app on the iPhone market within the next month. “Just knowing that this was a successful idea has

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It’s a trend in modern utes — when the core product reaches a certain stage in its shelf life, manufacturers take out the pad and paper to give it a facelift.

Sometimes a rummage through the parts bin adds bigger wheels, beefier suspension, roll bars and nudge bars and acres of lamps.

There are already two utes on the market which have followed this formula, tagging themselves with a permutation of AMG-Mercedes’ marketing speak. The Toyota Hilux Black Edition and the Holden Colorado Black Edition shamelessly borrow the chic of

is, at it’s core, as much of a rough and tumble working man’s ute as any Japanese or American offering.

If a traditional ute is like the workman it serves, then the Amarok has the cachet of being a bit like that other guy on the worksite — the one who wears boots and a hard hat, but who also wears a shirt and tie. Sure, he might

have a bigger pay cheque and drive home on heated alcantara, but those hands never get dirty.

A shame in this analogy, because many Dark Label Amaroks will share the same fate.

Supremely confident and well set up utes which may never see an hour off the tarmac.

Standard Amarok was already a contender for top ute — now it’s been given the Dark Label treatment

the howlingly mad AMG Black Edition sports cars, famously spine-pulverising Nürburgring attack dogs designed to make already loopy AMG-tuned Mercs into weapons of speed-limit destruction.

Now another German brand has picked up the Black Edition fever —though their proximity to Mercedes HQ has seen them change the terminology slightly. The Volkswagen Amarok Dark Label edition tweaks the popular ute with the addition of a little bit of everything a dab of style with huge alloy rims and alcantara trim, a touch of sports-car DNA from the company’s Golf GTi heritage with a fat steering wheel and carbon fibre accents, and a whole lot of serious off-road truck bling in the form of matt black steel bars, steps and blindingly powerful bi-xenon headlights. There’s even an under-ride guard to protect the underbody and drivetrain. So far so good, and the Amarok is a competent ute on which to build this Dark Label monument. Euro priced, but definitely Euro specced, the Amarok can safely have its name uttered in the rarefied company of the Hilux and Ranger.

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In all forms of motorsport, the kind of ‘blue sky’ design and development used to dominate the racetrack fulfills a practical purpose for more prosaic application as well.

Those advances in weight saving, safety, power and handling engineered to provide podium finishes filter through to the workaday vehicles which make up the bulk of any marque’s stable, in turn spurring sales and generating enough company revenue to tackle another grueling year of high-speed autosport.

It’s very much the same for today’s modern off road machines as it is for those road cars which have brand-name brothers in WRC and Formula One competition.

Big races can make or break products, and occasionally whole companies. And nothing tests drivers and machines likes the insane Baja 1000, a race which traverses some of the most rugged desert in Mexico.

This race made the names of both Mickey Thompson and Ivan Stewart, and in 2014 it was the proving ground for a field of 19 ‘class 19’ UTVs. Only eight would finish, with a one-two through the gate going to Polaris RZRs. Lessons learned on the anvil of desert sand would be taken back to the lab to create even more powerful, durable machines. So we can now welcome the

Polaris RZR 1000 XP ‘White Lightning’, a formidable four wheel drive, 110 horsepower, double overhead cam missile which takes on the turbocharged Maverick at the top of the UTV table.It’s an exercise in superlatives, with more power, 110 horsepower used to be road sports car territory not long ago. Longer suspension travel, better cooling systems, and more grip to provide what Polaris are calling their smoothest ride ever.

Truly, this is a machine which demands your full attention for a test drive. Beyond the smoke and velocity, the RZR 1000 XP carries a serious message for the rest of the Polaris bloodline. It’s a simple one.

If Polaris can manufacture a machine to conquer the Baja and trails from Canada to Kathmandu putting down all those horses and taking the tough knocks, then their farming and hunting range just slightly down the power band must share that engineering know how. That bodes very well for Polaris overall. If you feel the need for extreme off road speed, the evidence of those podium finishes speaks for itself.

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