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Notice of Election 2013 Board of Directors Election of TWO (2) Directors Invitation for Candidate Nominations In October two member elected Directors retire from the Board of DairyNZ Incorporated. DairyNZ therefore invites registered members to nominate candidates to fill the two vacancies. All members of DairyNZ (farmers paying a levy on milksolids to DairyNZ) are eligible to stand for election. An information pack outlining Director attributes and nomination requirements can be obtained from the Returning Officer. Nominations must be received by the Returning Officer by 12 noon on Friday 30 August 2013.
Elections If more than two nominations are received an election will be carried out by postal, fax and internet voting using the STV (Single Transferable Vote) voting method. Votes will be weighted by annual milksolids production. Voter Packs will be posted on 17 September 2013 to all registered levy payers. Voting closes at 12 noon on Wednesday 16 October 2013. The DairyNZ Annual Meeting will be held in Taranaki on Thursday 17 October 2013 at 1.30pm. The AGM venue details will be confirmed in the voter pack to be sent to all members. Election results will be announced at the meeting. For further details contact the Returning Officer as below. Anthony Morton Returning Officer – DairyNZ Inc 0508 666 556 elections@electionz.com
Rural News // august 6, 2013
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Science excluded from land farming debate peter burke peterb@ruralnews.co.nz
SCIENCE IS being excluded from the debate over land farming in Taranaki. That’s the claim of Taranaki Regional Council’s director of environment quality, Gary Bedford. Land farming is a practice where biodegradable waste including small quantities of hydrocarbons adhering to mud and rock cuttings Before... from oil drilling is integrated back into the soil on farms to naturally degrade and co-incidentally to improve fertility. It has been done mostly on dairy farms in Taranaki. But,under pressure from enviNotice of Election ronmentalists, Fonterra says it Board won’t collect milk 2013 from any new of Directors farms that adopt this practice. The Election of TWO (2) Directors co-op confirmed to Rural News that Invitation for Candidate Nominations it is certain there is no food safety In October two member elected Directors retire from the Board of DairyNZ issue in respect of land farming. But Incorporated. DairyNZ therefore invites registered members to nominate Fonterra says to thefillhigh testcandidates thecost twoofvacancies. All members of DairyNZ (farmers ingpaying the land underlies its decision. a levy on milksolids to DairyNZ) are eligible to stand for election. An information pack outlining Director Bedford says land farming has attributes and nomination requirements candone be obtained from for the 12 Returning been in Taranaki years Officer. Nominations must be received by the Returning Officer by 12 noon on Friday 30 August 2013. and the process is a “robust and sci- waste land paddocks, usually cov- 10,000 oil wells per year in Alberta, Elections entifically environmental sound” ered in blackberry or very sandy whereas we have had about 600 and lacking fertility. the scrub way of handling waste from drilling. If more than two nominations are received an election willOnce be carried out by wells in Taranaki in 150 years. postal, fax and votinghave using the STV (Single Transferable Vote) voting “And conditions in Canada are has been cleared away, the land is “All sorts ofinternet allegations method. will the be weighted annual milksolids production. Voter much harsher than in Taranaki. the topsoil is removed been madeVotes about practice by flattened, Packs will be posted on 17 September 2013 to all registered levy payers. which are not consistent with the and waste is applied, usually in the They have very thin soils which Voting 12that noon on Wednesday 16a October 2013. The DairyNZ are frozen for up to six months as form of de-watered slurry. facts. As closes a resultat of pressure Annual Meeting willabe held in TaranakiStrict on Thursday October apply 2013 at opposed to our rich volcanic soils consent17 conditions Fonterra has made ‘marketing’ 1.30pm. The AGM venue details will be confirmed in the voter pack to be and temperate climate, which make and degradation of waste is closely decision not to pick up milk from sent to all members. Election results will be announced at the meeting. it much easier for the hydrocarbons monitored by the council. any new land farm sites.” For details contact Returning Once Officerthe as all below. clear is given, nor- to degrade.” Hefurther says this now raisesthe quesAnthony Morton Bedford says the Canadian scitions about land farms because mally in about 18 months, the top Returning DairyNZ they are onOfficer dairy –farms andIncthe soil is replaced and grass seed and ence is very robust, but the coun0508 666 556 farmers concerned have been get- fertiliser are applied to re-establish cil has been, and is doing, further elections@electionz.com research to ensure the ecological ting much better production. “The pasture. Bedford says good science state of soils on land farms is safe. way I see it, Fonterra has been put into a position where this decision underlies this process, including He says a Crown research institute Farmers Weekly 13x3 has nothing to do with science or excellent research from Alberta, is now doing more research for the Canada, where this work is exten- council and an agricultural scienenvironmental performance.” Bedford says typically a farmer sive – “far greater than we’ve seen tist, Dr Doug Edmeades, is doing has made available his scrubby in Taranaki. They deal with up to work on the productivity gains
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made on land farms. He says the only negative effect found so far is compaction of the land by tractors used to prepare the ground for the waste material. Bedford says farmers are unhappy about Fonterra’s decision because they have lost a tool to improve their pasture. Farmers are also unhappy about the ill-informed comments made in the media. The problem how is what to do with the waste, Bedford says. “There are only two options: bury it deeper, safe but silly because you are not solving the problem; or look at going to a landfill, which is a waste of expensive landfill space. “Land farming means you are solving the problem and [enhancing things for] the farmer.”
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