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Federated Farmers sees Shanghai Maling‘s proposed investment in a joint venture with Silver Fern Farms as an overwhelming vote of confidence in the red meat industry, however they are encouraging Silver Fern Farms’ shareholders to carefully consider the offer.

President Dr William Rolleston says that, while the offer strengthens the business and offers potential for further growth in the Chinese market, there are some key issues for shareholders to work through ahead of the special general meeting on October 16.

“Silver Fern Farms buys and processes a considerable proportion of New Zealand’s beef and lamb, so we need it to be sustainable and successful. The proposed joint venture has the potential to create significant opportunity, but shareholders need to consider the offer in detail,” he said.

“There are a lot of factors that will ultimately determine whether this is the right deal for shareholders, and not all of them are clear from what has been announced today. Key questions include what value has been placed on Silver Fern Farms’ significant body of intellectual property and whether a strong emphasis on the Chinese market will prove restrictive if that market weakens.”

Shanghai Maling Aquarius, a unit of China’s state-owned Bright Foods, will take a 50 per cent stake in the country’s biggest meat processor, Silver Fern Farms, in a deal that will see it invest $261 million into New Zealand’s biggest meat exporter. Silver Fern’s farmer shareholders will be paid 30 cents a share as a special dividend as part of the deal, the Dunedin-based company said.

“The deal is subject to shareholder approval at the special general meeting scheduled for October 16 in Dunedin. It is also subject to approval from New Zealand’s Overseas Investment Commission and from Chinese regulatory approvals, a process that is expected to take six to nine months,” said Silver Fern chairman Rob Hewett.

Shareholders and suppliers are invited to attend meetings being held

across the country to discuss the partnership opportunity with Shanghai Maling. Silver Fern Farms Chairman Rob Hewett, members of the Board and Chief Executive Dean Hamilton, will be available to discuss the partnership, and the opportunity to accelerate our global Plate to Pasture Strategy.

These meetings are for Silver Fern Farms shareholders and suppliers only and for the Waikato district will be held at the Hamilton Airport Hotel on Monday October 5 from 5.00-7.00pm with light refreshments from 6.15pm and in Taumarunui Golf Club on Wednesday October 7 from 4.00-6.00pm with light refreshments from 5.15pm.

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The pair decided to create pies for something a bit different and as another way to sell their meat.

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Lake Farm Beef have reached the final 20 four times in the last six years. Although not always farmers, Colin and his wife Keryn have always had some land, and Keryn loves horses.

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“Done well, pasture renewal will decrease c/kgMS costs, and improve farm profitability at a payout of $3.85/kg milksolids. So it remains a key tool in ensuring the sustainability of your farm business but done wrongly, pasture renewal is a waste of money,” advises pasture expert Graham Kerr, Agriseeds. New pastures typically grow 3–5 tonnes more DM/ha/year than old, poor producing grass, clover and weeds.

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Ms Kay discovered that the total milk solids response to supplementary feed is on average much lower than previously thought.

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Spring is always a busy time on the farm, with numerous tasks needed to power into the season. For many farmers, the support of a contracting firm is vital, as these professionals bring heavy machinery to the field, cutting big jobs down to size.

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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.

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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.

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“The sole wears thin and when there is pressure applied to the herd little stones will work their way into the hoof and cause infections.” This article again shows me how there are still people out there with a wrong understanding of what causes white line disease and most lameness issues in New Zealand. For one, this theory has no evidence to back it up, two, it doesn’t make sense if you think about it and thirdly there is evidence to show this theory to be incorrect. In a previous article I asked people to show me some indisputable evidence to prove the possibility of this theory. I received some responses but no real evidence was presented. I won’t go into that now but I will on the other two points.

One, the theory explained above doesn’t make sense. When cows walk long distances their hooves will wear

faster — that is logical, natural, and if the live tissue in the hoof didn’t respond to that faster wear then the cow would end up with major problems. As a matter of fact, the whole herd would end up with worn out hooves and you would not be able to milk cows on big farms. You would need to keep the cows in their paddock because any unnatural wear on a track will cause a problem with worn out hooves.

Fortunately, cows are created with the ability to adapt just like other creatures. Just look at your own hands. If you do more physical work with your hands your body responds to that by growing more calluses. In the same way, the corium (live tissue in the claw) will respond to more wear by growing more hoof — especially when they have been walking on the tracks for months. However, sometimes we go to farms and all the hooves are soft and thin. This is true, and the question needs to be asked why

is that? Why does the corium sometimes not respond in a sustainable manner?

The only explanation I can come up with is that the corium is not functioning properly due to being unhealthy or maybe the thinner soles are not a problem to the cow. To answer the question on what makes the corium unhealthy is a whole article or articles on its own.

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We did a trimming trial a few years ago where we showed that if you trim the outer claw to the same height as the inner claw you end up with less lameness. So, by trimming the outer claw you make it thinner and yet you end up with less lameness. This goes against the theory that was described in the article that I was referring to. I realise that there is a lot more to the white line disease issue than I can cover in this article. I intend to cover a bit more of that in my next article and you can always contact me if you have questions on this subject.

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It’s been a damp winter to say the least followed up by a rainy spring in the North. While for many people this means full water tanks and irrigated gardens, for others it means acres and acres of mud.

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Built around a powerful 48 horsepower Rotax 570 engine, the MR in the new Outlander’s name stands for ‘mud ready’, and boy, is it ever. From it’s appropriately named Mudzilla tyres to the remounted radiator sitting high atop a burly roll bar front, the Outlander’s messy ‘cousin’ is built to plunge into terrain where even big off road buggies fear to tread. While the big, reworked single overhead cam, fuel injected mill pumps out the power, the rider sits high and dry, with raised footpegs providing a perch as the Outlander wades through deep boggy puddles and churned up trails.

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With a very specific focus, the Outlander L’XMR is obviously an exercise in that kind of design-focused engineering.

But lessons learned from creating such a machine which is primarily aimed at the competitive sports market are all carried through to the working family of Outlander stablemates. That means more confidence for all Can Am riders in the wet and mud a real godsend when farming in boggy Spring conditions. Certainly, the same mantra holds true from the world of performance cars innovations made to eke out seconds on the track inevitably improve your daily driver. Here, the ability to plunge axles-deep into swamps and keep rolling have been passed along into the DNA of the whole 2016 Can Am Outlander range.

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The original iteration of Subaru’s go-anywhere Forester somewhat defied description. Neither a conventional sports utility, nor a standard station wagon of its day, the boxy and voluminous vehicle became a favourite for two markets.

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The Ford Focus is the world’s top selling car — with one sold every 90 seconds, its popularity even gives the blue oval’s big F150 truck a run for its money.

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$1049.00

per 6m

SIZE 6MNOMINAL ID PRICE

100mm $ 30.00150mm $ 65.00225mm $ 150.00300mm $ 275.00375mm $ 367.00450mm $ 525.00600mm $ 788.00750mm $1049.00

Incorporating thestrength of corrugatedouter shell with the smoothinner wall to optimise hydraulicsFull range of fittings availableRubber ring seals available for water tight joins

Smaller

coils also

available

Now Available63mm x 75m$290.00

DRAG hoseLDPE IRRIGATOR DRAG HOSE

Black only

PLASTIC TROUGHSBare With

ballcocks

200L $128.00 $158.00

400L $155.00 $185.00

600L $205.00 $235.00

100mm DWV X 6m

$42.00150mm Stormwater X 6m

$120.00

PVC Pipe

Made in New Zealand

ENVIRO CULVERT pipe

Diameter OD 6m Price

200mm $ 95.00250mm $135.00315mm $240.00Joiners and custom fittings available

Recycled HDPE Culvert Pipe

Hard-wearing LDPEsuits AG camlocks

Manufactured in New Zealand

Thru Post Gudgeon20mm x 275mm

$9.50

Lock Thru PostGudgeon20mm x 275mm

$13.50

Screw Gudgeon20mm x 200mm

$6.50

Spring Latch & Staple $6.50

waikato farming lifestyles, september 2015

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