Dairy Road Show 2011

THE DAIRY EVENT OF THE YEAR

Ashburton: Friday 20 May 9am - 3:15pm

Hotel Ashburton 11-35, Racecourse Road, Ashburton

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Introduction | dairy road show 2011 Ashburton Guardian Advertisting Feature In the last decade, the face of New Zealand dairying has changed significantly. Farmers have increased stocking rates to maintain their profitability and the use of supplements has increased. Many farmers are now

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To provide the latest leading technical information for farmers and rural

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Please find enclosed details of this year’s Road Show including dates and

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Guest Speaker: Dr Mike Hutjens Dairy Extension Specialist, University of Illinois, USA Ashburton Guardian Advertisting Feature Dr Mike Hutjens was raised on a 313 acre, 70 cow Holstein farm near Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1971, he earned his joint doctorate degree in dairy science and nutritional science with a minor in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Since 1979, Mike has been a member of the University of Illinois Dairy and Animal Sciences Departments as Dairy Extension Specialist. He is the editor of the National Dairy Database and Illinois Dairy Report.

Annually, he speaks at 90 to 100 meetings in Illinois and midwest states.

He has spoken at conferences in 46 US states, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, France, Argentina, Czech Republic, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Dr Mike Hutjens Puerto Rico, Spain, China, Zimbabwe, and nine Canadian provinces.

Mike also writes feed columns for Hoard’s Dairyman, Dairy Today, Dairy Japan, Western Canadian Dairy Magazine, Wisconsin Agri-View, and Dairy Herd Management.

Throughout his career he has received numerous awards. In 2008, he was named “Service Person of the Year” by World Dairy Expo for his contributions to the industry and was recognised as a Fellow by the American Dairy Science Association.

Mike is a world renowned dairy expert. His presentation will focus on ways that farmers can economically increase per cow production. He will discuss the fundamentals of dairy cow nutrition and provide guidelines on how to build diets that will deliver high milk yields using pasture and locally available supplements.

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Guest Speaker: Dr Bill Mahanna

Nutritional Sciences Manager, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. U.S.A. Ashburton Guardian Advertisting Feature Dr Bill Mahanna was raised on a Holstein dairy farm in the small, upstate farming community of Westmoreland, New York.

Dr Bill Mahanna He holds a Ph.D. degree in Dairy Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bill is currently the Pioneer Nutritional Sciences Manager and also co-leads a group of Pioneer nutritionists from North

America, Germany, Italy and France.

He and his team are responsible for providing technical leadership for onfarm nutritional troubleshooting as well as how Pioneer nutritionally profiles and develops maize, lucerne and forage and grain additive products to meet the needs of the livestock industry. Bill also works closely with breeders and agronomy researchers at Pioneer in all management aspects of growing, harvesting and feeding quality forage and grain crops.

Bill joined Pioneer in July 1987 as a Dairy Nutrition and Forage Specialist.

Previously, he was a tenured Associate

Professor of Animal Science at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, where he taught courses in dairy management and nutrition and coached several nationally ranked dairy judging teams.

Bill was honoured for his teaching ability while at River Falls by being selected by students as the University’s “Distinguished Teacher of the Year” in 1985 and by fellow faculty members as the “Outstanding Faculty Member in the College of Agriculture” in 1987. Bill continues his academic roots by currently serving as a collaborative faculty member in the Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University.

Bill has worked with dairy producers across the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. He has been a featured speaker at numerous dairy nutrition and management seminars. His articles and production advice appear frequently in various dairy publications such as Hoard’s Dairyman, Dairy Today, Dairy Herd Management, Dairy-L, Silage-L and Pioneer GrowingPoint® magazine. Bill will tell us why maize plays such an important role in feeding cows and explain how maize genetics and management affect feed quality and why it will have a place in future dairy systems.

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Guest Speaker: Nicola Shadbolt Associate Professor, Farm & Agribusiness Management, Massey University Ashburton Guardian Advertisting Feature Nicola Shadbolt is an Associate Professor in farm and agribusiness management at Massey University and co-author of the textbook â&#x20AC;&#x153;Farm Nicola Shadbolt Management in New Zealandâ&#x20AC;?.

Nicola practices what she preaches.

Over the last 30 years she and her husband have been involved in a variety

of agribusiness ventures, including share farming on the Port Hills in Canterbury until the mid- 1980s, two equity partnerships in forestry, one in dairy and farm ownership (with equity partners) in the Pohangina Valley in the Manawatu, in a 1,300 hectare farm producing milk, beef, sheep meat, wool, venison, velvet and timber. The farm business in 2006 won the Ballance Supreme Farm Environment Award for the Horizons region. Her agribusiness research specialties include Strategic Management, Investment and Risk Analysis, Ownership structures (including cooperatives) and Business Analysis. She has been the invited NZ representative on the International

Farm Comparison Network (IFCN) since 2001. The IFCN meets annually to share information on the cost of production of milk in up to 45 countries worldwide and discuss how farmers are responding to the challenges that they face. Nicola is deeply committed to the success of New Zealand agribusinesses and has held key positions in a number of major bodies. She works closely with the industry and has played a key role in the success of the Food & Agribusiness Market Experience (FAME) and the ICEHOUSE Agribusiness courses in recent years. She has also been a judge in numerous Farmer of the Year competitions!

Nicola was elected to Fonterraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Board

in November 2009. She is a member of five farmer co-operatives and, before joining Massey University, worked for MAF, Wrightson and Agriculture New Zealand.

She has recently been made a Fellow of the NZ Institute of Primary Industry Management.

Nicolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presentation will focus on what the challenges are for the NZ dairy industry to be globally competitive. She will present world milk supply and demand trends and discuss drivers of competitiveness, e.g. productivity, environmental footprint and risk management.

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Dates and Venues Dairy Road Show 2011 Ashburton Guardian Advertisting Feature

Ashburton: Friday 20 May, 9am - 3:15pm Hotel Ashburton, 11-35 Racecourse Road, Ashburton

Whangarei Friday 13 May 9am 3:15pm Forum North Centre, Rust Avenue, Whangarei

Palmerston North Monday 16 May, 9am - 3:15pm Awapuni Racecourse, Racecourse Road, Palmerston North

Hawera: Tuesday 17 May, 9am - 3:15pm TSB Hub, Camberwell Road, Hawera Free return buses will be provided between New Plymouth and Hawera.

Hamilton: Thursday 19 May, 9am - 3:15pm Claudelands Events Centre, Gate 3, Brooklyn Road, Hamilton Free return buses will be provided between the Bay of Plenty and Hamilton.

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Maintaining Global Competitiveness Ashburton Guardian Advertisting Feature

9:00am 9.45am

Registration & morning tea What it will take to be globally competitive Nicola Shadbolt, Associate Professor, Farm & Agribusiness Management, Massey University 10.30am Why maize has a place in future dairy systems Dr Bill Mahanna, Pioneer Nutritional Sciences Manager, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. U.S.A. 11.30am Choosing the most profitable hybrid Barry McCarter, Maize Products Manager, Genetic Technologies Limited

12:10pm Lunch 1:25pm Reducing the environmental footprint of dairying Ian Williams, Forage Specialist, Genetic Technologies Limited 1.55pm Producing cost-competitive milk Dr Mike Hutjens, Dairy Extension Specialist, University of Illinois, Urbana, U.S.A. 2:55pm Closing comments 3:15pm Dairy Road Show concludes

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Benefits of attending By attending the Dairy Road Show 2011 you will: • Learn how you can improve the efficiency of your herd’s milk production.

• Enhance your understanding of global milk supply and demand trends and how it will impact dairy farms into the future.

• Fine tune your maize silage management to increase yields, improve silage quality and milksolids returns.

• Learn how to reduce the environmental footprint of dairying whilst still maintaining production and profit.

• Make contact and interact with key farmers throughout your region.

• Accredited by NZIPIM.

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An emergency source of power is essential for any farm to function effectively from the necessities of running stock water systems, and house water, through to the provision of power to dairy sheds, automated feeding systems, or facilities requiring constant and consistent heat or refrigÂŹeration, and not to mention the freezer full of meat!

Over the last few years we have all experienced circumstances that are out of our control and have caused loss of power. Laser Electrical have been pro active in offering their clients a cost effective and efficient power generation option including a safe and legal generator change over switch system complete with a Code of Compliance Certification. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our aim is to take the hassle and uncertainty out of purchasing a generator and to provide you with a complete solution that includes design, supply, and most of all safe installation, and commissioning. By offering a free on-site consultation, we are able to understand your specific situation as each farm and dairy shed has a different power requirement. The optimal result is that when the power fails, your business will continue to operate as normal. Laser will ensure your back up generator is cost effective, but able to handle

Brent Christie, Managing Director, and Phillip Moore, Rural & Dairy Division Manager your operation is crucial as the need the demanding capacity during peak generated power at multiple sites, as it for an alternative power source is production times.â&#x20AC;? uses power from a tractor. It is mounted eliminated. The manual switch over Phillip Moore, Rural and Dairy Division by the tractor three point linkage for easy option means there are no problems Manager at Laser Electrical Ashburton transportation, and is generally a more during milking, saving you time and leads a team of experienced electricians cost effective option, given that they do money on lost production. who are currently installing these systems not have the same engine component as When you purchase a generator ensuring their clients are prepared before a diesel operated generator. This allows from Laser Electrical, you can be rest a disaster strikes! you to use the generator in any location. assured that you have purchased a Laser Electrical are able to provide If you require a more permanent quality, reliable generator that will be generators ranging from 6kw residential solution, then our diesel operated generator is a great choice. Connected cost effective, durable, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;totally models through to 800kw heavy to the dairy shed, it means that instant dependableâ&#x20AC;?. Backed by our exclusive industrial models. Single phase and power is available at the flick of a maintenance programme we will make three phase options are available as switch, from mains power to generator. sure your generator will be ready to go in well as diesel and PTO (Power take off) This option is ideal when power for times of need. this option is fantastic if you require

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Finally the wait is over Ashburton Guardian Advertisting Feature

Neil Pluck and the EPS Pond Stirrer Plucks have created a fully inclusive effluent system that will manage your effluent from storage to spread, keeping the entire process clean, efficient, cost effective and environmentally sound.

The process starts with the revolutionary Enviro Saucer from Plucks. The Enviro Saucer can be made in a huge range of sizes, from 50,000 litres up to and beyond 700,000 litres. Due to the tested construction method of the Enviro Saucer, when used with an effluent stirrer and pump system from Plucks, the effluent is blended into a smooth mixture, meaning

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that it is sent to the screening plant as a constant texture, with no large lumps to clog the system. The constant blending effect significantly reduces smell and hard build up of the effluent, and leaves less residue sticking to the outer sides of the catchment area, keeping everything cleaner and easier to manage.

The pump sends this blended effluent into the screening plant, where Plucks revolutionary Rotary Screen sifts the rubbish out, allowing only pure effluent to pass to the catchment pond ready for irrigation.

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The Rotary Screen is the completed version of 3 years testing and development. The screen will extract fibre, hair and leftover feed from the effluent wash that has been sent from the dairy shed into the Enviro Saucer. It is strong enough to cope with any manner of items that come out of dairy sheds – syringes, hoofs, rubber gloves, tail etc. It screens down to slightly less than 1mm, ensuring that only pure effluent passes through, with no nasty surprises to clog the irrigation system further down the track. The important feature is that it has

been developed with the farmer in mind, running off a tiny 0.40kw of power, and it is maintenance free and self cleaning.

Every 2 hours it washes itself for 3 minutes with fresh water. It is close to impossible to block, even with heavy trash moving through effluent, yet continues to run at a staggering low rate of power consumption.

Once the effluent has been screened, it flows into the catchment pond, from which it is extracted to be irrigated. This pond will have installed a further effluent stirrer to keep the effluent biologically in good order.

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Finally the wait is over Ashburton Guardian Advertisting Feature Through continuous research, development and testing, Plucks have now developed the market leading design in effluent pond stirrers. This design gently and continuously stirs the effluent, making sure that a crust doesn’t form on the top of the pond, and there isn’t a thick layer of sludge settling at the bottom.

Adequate stirring or mixing, to keep the ponds content in suspension, is an important element. The constant aeration and sunshine exposed to the effluent keeps it in good biological order, meaning when it is spread via irrigator, a high quality product is being spread, leaving no dark sludge on the ground. Plucks have learnt how to keep the effluent pond continuously moving, but at a very low horsepower. It would have been easy to create a powerful machine to do the job, but this would create a massive power bill.

Making it as cost effective as possible for the farmer, was top priority in this design.

This complete system has now been patented as the Processing, Screening & Filtering Dairy Effluent Twin Pond System,

by Plucks Engineering.

This system is complete when used in conjunction with the Plucks patented LP35E Effluent Irrigator, the most accurate and even spreading effluent irrigator available in New Zealand. Plucks have achieved an effluent irrigator that has a flat

rain curve right across the wetted width of 30 meters and can apply as little as 5mm of coverage if required over the ground.

What this does for the Dairy farmer, is it doesn’t leave dark strips up and down the paddock, because it doesn’t have the standard travelling irrigator design fault of putting most of the water on at the outside edges of the wetted width, and very little in the middle area of every run. Also it will not create a doughnut like mark because of the evenness of the rain coming from the new boom design. Not to mention there is no ponding left behind after each run because the rain rate is too light and even. Most times it is very hard to see where the irrigator has been after each run, keeping the farmer in line with current environmental expectations.

The complete system now available from Plucks will keep your effluent cleaner and more organised, your pond will stay clean and crust free, looking fantastic when the environmental officer calls around for a check up. You will not have sludge in your ponds meaning no more contractor cost for sucking the sludge from the bottom of the pond, and it is all very efficient and cost effective to run.

Please call us at Plucks for more information, and to find out how we can improve the effluent system on your farm, not just for today, but for the future

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