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2 January 2016 WAIKATO FARMING LIFESTYLES

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10 Livestock11 Hunting, Fishing & Outdoors12 IT and Professional Services13 Fuel14 Rural Women15 Forestry16 Education17 Real Estate

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Feather in cap for Poultry traineeDahook Azzam regards her job at an Inghams Enterprises meat chicken breeder farm as an ideal opportunity to combine theoretical knowledge with practical experience.

Her enthusiasm for her new career in a new country has played a key role in her recent win of the Poultry Trainee of the Year Award for 2015. The award is given each year to the top-performing trainee in all of the training courses run by the poultry industry in co-operation with the Primary Industry Training Organisation.

Dahook is currently an assistant farm manager whose role includes daily feeding, watering and environmental checks of the birds as well as farm and staff management and data entry.

“It is a very good combination,” she says. “I have the hands-on experience of being a worker with some responsibilities as a manager, so it is a very useful and practical thing for my career.”

Originally from Jordan, where she gained a Master’s degree in animal science and then worked as a science teacher, Dahook immigrated to New Zealand two years ago with her husband and three children. After she began work at a privately-owned meat chicken farm her work ethic and determination caught the eye of Inghams and led to the offer of her current role. Dahook

says Inghams’ good reputation in the breeding and rearing area of the chicken supply chain was a definite drawcard.

Dahook’s decision to undertake a Level three National Certificate course in Poultry Husbandry was the next step. The one-year course is aimed at personnel currently in or progressing towards supervisory or management roles and comprises a mix of on-the-job training, written assessments and attendance at a block course.

Dahook says the study and training experience boosted her professional knowledge and confidence and encouraged her commitment to achieving high standards. She is now looking to study at Level Four.

As part of her award, Dahook travelled to Auckland to meet the PIANZ Board and attend a lunch at which she was the guest of honour.

“The Poultry Trainee of the Year Award reflects the industry’s strong commitment to training and education,” says executive director of the Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand Michael Brooks.

Dahook Azzam, 2015 Poultry Trainee of the Year on right,receives her award from PIANZ Chairman, Adrian Revell

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Attracted by the opportunity to own their own land, like many immigrants to New Zealand,

and seeing the Waikato as being very similar to their homeland, they bought a 10 acre property in Cambridge.

The land consisted of ‘oligotrophic’ peat and was covered in gorse, blackberry and ti-tree scrub.

By 1987 the de Groot’s house was completed and blueberries were planted along with feijoas and boysenberries. The blueberries flourished and eventually

the other crops were phased out. Paul and Mieke purchased a neighbouring 10 acre block in 1989, and slowly began to develop this land into a viable orchard block. In 1991, they purchased a further 10 acres.

Their son Marco and his wife Kath bought a neighbouring 10 acre block and when they were ready, planted this property in blueberries as well, trading under the name Monavale Estate.

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neighbouring 10 acre block and began trading under Irresistible Blueberries — Irresistiblue.

By 2002 the three properties were combined and so Monavale Blueberries was born. The men became full-time employees working with Paul and the women left their jobs to start families and look after the office duties working with Mieke.

Marije says being able to play a part in growing the family business has been an amazing experience and one she has got a lot of satisfaction from especially “when I walk over the orchard and realise we started by planting only two acres of blueberries to now having more than 80 acres planted — and developing a range of organic blueberry products as well as opening Café Irresistiblue. I am also very proud of the fact that we grow organically. It is a lot of hard work, but we just love being able to offer healthy, organically grown blueberries and blueberry products to our customers,” she says.

From humble beginnings, Monavale Blueberries now employ over 150 seasonal employees, as well as 10 full-time staff and have grown to become the largest BioGro certified organic blueberry orchard in New Zealand with over 50 acres of fully certified crop and more than 42,000 blueberry bushes.

“We are currently expanding our orchard as we have recently purchased more land and are in the process of planting over 25,000 more plants. It takes around four years before a blueberry plant produces after planting. We grow 23 different varieties, and produce fruit from November till early April, depending on the weather,” says Marije.

They now export blueberries all around the world, including Australia, USA and Asia and say keeping their produce and farm organic was a strategic decision by Paul as he had experienced what chemicals can do to land and a person’s health in previous work.“All of our bushes are hand weeded,

scrub cut between the bushes and then mown between the rows. We are certified organic by BioGro New Zealand. We do not use any chemical fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides or insecticides,” Marije says.

Growing organically is more time consuming and labour intensive with extra costs for the certification process, organic fertilisers and maintaining the property organically, however the de Groot family believe these extra costs are worth it for the positive environmental impact and benefits that growing organically generates.

Monavale Blueberries also have a cafe on site which focusses on the organic blueberry products, and has views towards Pirongia, Kakepuku and Maungatautari mountains.

“We opened Café Irresistiblue in December 2009, so that our customers could experience a delicious meal and drink and enjoy amazing views over the orchard,” Marije says.Future plans include expanding their

blueberry products, particularly their 100 percent pure organic blueberry juice — Monavale Pressed Organic Blueberries, organic blueberry and apple juice, and organic blueberry powder.

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Despite growing up in the urban part of Taupo, she has always been around animals, and

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“Dad drove me up to Rangitaiki for an interview when I was 16 years old and that’s how I got started in dairy farming,” she says.

After that she worked for a number of different farms around the area for

the Crafar’s, trying to help as best she could under the circumstances, until the opportunity came up to spend two months working on a dairy farm in Missouri in the United States. Before her 21st birthday, Helen moved back to Taupo after having enough wild life experiences to last a lifetime.

“I don’t do critters,” she says. “Every morning there would be something new when you turn on the lights in the milking shed, from a snake, to a frog, to a coyote. We are pretty lucky not to have that over here.”

She didn’t want to look at another cow for a while after that so she went to help her mother run a strip club in

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Taupo whilst also working for a security company away from the city. After a year trying to save the drowning business she had enough, packed up her truck, and moved to Ruawai to stay with a friend. After a while she got the job in Matakohe and settled into Northland life but says after working non stop for a good portion of her youth she now feels like she should be enjoying life a bit more.

“I’ve worked pretty hard the last 10 years of my life and I’ve sort of hit a wall now.”

She says she still enjoys milking cows and would one day like to own a farm of her own although admits she isn’t holding her breath.

“If the market picks up I eventually want to have my own farm, but for the next 5–10 years, it doesn’t look very good.” When she isn’t working, or playing Call of Duty and Modern Warfare, she

transfers her first-person shooter skills to real life and goes hunting with mates.

“We go fishing, shooting possums or eeling, just normal stuff.”

She would recommend farming to other young people as a career but only if it isn’t their only choice.

“If they are doing it to progress in life I’d definitely recommend it. It’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle. You can’t just take it on like a 9–5 job.”

The best part about the lifestyle is that her working dogs, Gambit and Chaos, have a better life, her horse Max gets a paddock and she doesn’t have to pay grazing she jokes.

She has considered breaking in horses as being her next challenge. “I’ve been watching Keeping up with the Kaimanawas a lot. That interested me and I’ve been sorting out friends’ horses.” Max is testament to Helen’s skills.

“He hated people at first but we are friends now. I’m all for the natural horsemanship. He went from being a mongrel to now I can ride him around the paddock with no saddle. There has only ever been one horse I couldn’t sort and that horse I took down to my mother’s family in Opotiki. He couldn’t be used in eventing but he’s fine to be ridden around with a bit of rope.”She doesn’t want to make any set plans for the future. “In my life, if I plan something it never works out, so I just go with the flow.”

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“I didn’t grow up on a farm, I grew up in Whangaparaoa in North Auckland but my grandparents

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“My grandfather had purchased a few acres with Simmental cows, pigs and ducks in Wairoa, and I really enjoyed helping him. He taught me about farming and how to safely ride the quad bike. He built up my confidence as he has quite steep paddocks on his property and taught me other things such as how to

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Gemma started training with Ag ITO which is now Primary ITO, studying for level two general skills, and then moved on to milk quality stage one.

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Gemma had a bad car accident and had to stop working. As she recovered she worked on a farm up the road but decided it was time for a change and went for interviews in Taranaki and is now a dairy farm assistant in Mangorei, milking a 540 mixed cross herd.

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“When I first went farming I saw it as — you milk cows, you set up fences, and you go home. It wasn’t until I actually started that I realised there is a lot more in between and after milking, it wasn’t so simple. Once I realised this I enjoyed it a lot more.

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As the old saying goes ‘there’s no replacement for displacement’ — a term coined to justify big power and big engine blocks in muscle cars. While modern turbochargers and high compression systems may have given the lie to this old adage, over at Can-Am the boys in research and development certainly believe that there’s some truth to the catchphrase yet.

That’s why the incoming 2016 range of ATVs from the big North American marque is all about power. A trio of brand new, modern and horsepower-laden new Rotax engines is at the heart of this redesign, upping the ante for competitors in an arms race of power reminiscent of that fought by the big German automakers during the mid 2000s. At the top of the tree, the fully revamped 89 horse, 976cc liquid-cooled eight-valve Rotax V-twin engine in the Outlander 1000R gains a nine per cent power boost, putting it head and shoulders above anything else in its bracket.

Throwing down the gauntlet to the big names out of Japan and America, Rotax engineers have redesigned the pistons to wring more power out of the 80 degree mill, and have added a beefier 54mm throttle body and a whole new engine head from the successful Can-Am Maverick. It’s the first instance of reverse engineering tech from a side-by-side UTV down to a quad in the engine bay, and it shows how seriously this power surge is being taken over

at Can-Am. The same head-swap and massive 54mm throttle body have been ‘hot-rodded’ onto another mid-range favourite, the Outlander 850. Sitting in the ‘middleweight’ division, this machine may lack the raw fury of the 1,000cc which weighs in above it, but Can-Ams in this category have proven a willing and versatile choice on the farm. The 2016 model is powered by a 78 horsepower, liquid-cooled, 854cc power plant, delivering 10 per cent more grunt and 7 per cent more torque than last year.

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Back ta werk? Nah......Well readas, hear we are in 2016,

an’ orl back to werk. Me an’ Boss have bin with kontracters doing sum silage ona farm. Boss has also bin chortlin’ away about the front paddick wot he planted in maize. He reckins we got a millyin dollar rain so we shood have a grate crop.

“All in all, Dog,” he sed, “the New Yeer got off ta a good start.”

Mine you readas, ya shooda bin hear for New Yeers Eve!

Boss an’ Sharlene hada big nees up inna woollshed. They had their mates over for a barby an’ drinkies. Well, they was dancin’ an’ singin’ an’ than at midnite, that Gazza set offa firewerks. Not only did that skare tha helloutame, but he set fire to a hay bale. Boss hadda pour beer froma keg all over Gazza before he got burned too.

Then his mate Pete tripped over wile he was dancin’ wiv Plumbas gerlfrend, an’ knocked over tha drinks table. Broken bottils everwhere. But Bob tha golfer went to the clubhouse an’ got sum more.

Orl rite for Boss an’ them, but a borda colly needs his rest. I was up orl night eh?

Any way, as I sed, Boss was chortlin’ away about crops as Recks an’ Cracka, tha kontractors, were packin’ up an headin’for the pub when Sharlene called us in fer smoko. She hada papa froma kattil stop atta road gate, an’ tole Boss not ta get to ixited. “Look here deah,” she sed. “They reckin the stock markit in fer a but of a fall, ‘cos China mite be fudgin’ tha books. (I wasint sure wot that ment, but Boss sat down an’ pickt up the papa.)

“Bit of a wurry,” he sed. “Hear we are with a good crop of maize, plenty of feed stored away, hada darn good lambing last year, beef prices okay, an’ now we gotta wurry about stock markits.”

Well readas, I thort stock markits were held over atta Matakohe saleyards. But Boss sed it was orl about munny` goin’ round tha world. “Ya see Dog, if China sneezis, we mite getta cold, or even the floo.”

Well, I mite tell yer, this was soundin’ a bit sad after a beaut New Yeer party, anna good crop, an’ lots silage. But then Sharlene hada grate ideea.

“Its too soon ta wurry about all this,” she sed. “We still got a coupla months of beaut summer to go. I reckin we shud hitch the boat ona ute, pack up tha tent, an’ go to Poto. Lots peeple gone back ta werk now, so plenty of campin’ space. They got sum good fish ata Tinerpy fishin’ contest, so we shud git some good feeds of snappa. An’ Dog kin chase sticks an’ seegulls instead of lookin’afta kattil beests an’ sheep.”

Well I tell yer readas — yer neva saw me an Boss move so fast. “Yep Dog,” he sed. “Let tha blimmin werld go by

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That’s my Boss! Happy New Yeer readas!

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Preventative hoof trimmingWhat is preventative hoof trimming? I have been on farms where they had done their own preventative hoof trimming during the year.

When I started doing my trimming I had to explain what I was doing and it turned out to be quite different from the way that they did it.

This made me wonder how many people out there actually understand preventative hoof trimming and what its benefits are. Preventative hoof trimming is not cutting out white line cracks and

any other issues that you may find in a claw. If anything, you will probably make things worse for the cow if that is all you do. If all lameness issues are caused by physical damage then it would make sense to cut out any deformities, but the problem starts on the inside of the claw, in the live tissue, not the outside.

If the live tissue (corium) is unhealthy, then preventative hoof trimming will not heal it. But with preventative hoof trimming we can reduce the stresses on that corium enabling it to heal quicker. The ideal is to have both claws on the one foot carrying the same amount of weight. If one claw is bigger (usually the outer one) it will carry more weight.

This, in itself, is not necessarily a problem as most cows have a bigger outer claw than the inner one, but not all cows go lame. Most cows have laminitis as well but not all cows are lame because of that either, depending on how severe the laminitis is. A cow that has laminitis has all claws affected.

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If we trim a cow that has a white line issue and we open it up, exposing the corium without taking the sole down, then there is a good chance that the corium will prolapse because that claw is still carrying too much weight. This

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Keeping carbon in the ground, not in the airThe environmental debate around intensive pastoral farming and fresh water quality is gaining momentum, and people are rapidly taking positions, with the ‘don’t blame me’ lobby seemingly gathering popularity.

Two things worth bearing in mind are, that a supply of clean fresh drinking water for both humans and animals now and into the future is non-negotiable in this country. Nothing less is acceptable — and rightly so.

Secondly, everyone wins when we finally reach that situation. No-one is ultimately disadvantaged by a sustainable environment, although in the short term some may have to change their practises, which may involve extra initial cost. And it’s not just farming that is coming under the microscope. In our area ageing septic tanks, some of which were probably no more than an old steel container sunk in the ground, are no longer fully effective or acceptable, and the cost of alternatives is considerable.

A 30km direct pipeline to the urban treatment plant was found to be both expensive and culturally insensitive. After consultation, the communities here have agreed to take responsibility for their own waste via local treatment plants using bacterial processes — essentially sophisticated versions of the old septic tank.

When it comes to water nearly every drop of water in our lakes, rivers, and

aquifers has travelled through or over the land surface. Soil is the ultimate filter, and when water is able to permeate it and steadily percolate downwards, a cleansing process takes place.

And it’s carbon that has the lead role in this. As a country we’re a net carbon emitter, which no amount of cheap carbon credits will change. The solution, however, is simple as it’s under permanent grazed pasture that carbon is most rapidly sequestered.

Intensive pastoral farming, seen by most as the greatest emitter, is actually potentially the carbon saviour, with one proviso. The use of nitrogen fertiliser must be limited, as excess nitrogen limits the speed at which carbon stocks can be built.

At present 600,000 tonnes of urea per year are applied to our pastures, with conservatively 500,000 tonnes applied to intensive dairy land, which equates on average to 135kgN/ha. With an increasing number of farmers using less, there are obviously a significant number using more than that amount.

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