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Top performers on dairy scene Ashburton District has been one of the leading dairy farming regions in the country for at least a decade.

We have the highest average production per herd in the country and are in the top three for milksolids per cow.

According to DairyNZ stats for the last season, the district is home to 357,381 cows and is the second biggest dairying region, after Southland.

The average herd has 872 cows and there are 410 herds.

More than half the herds (243) belong to owner-operators, with sharemilkers (104) and contract milkers (63) making up the rest.

More than 100,000 hectares provides the dairy platform, with the average farm 248ha.

Our district herds produced an average

365,312kgMS, with each cow producing an average 419kgMS. Dairy farmers collect plenty of information about their herds and individual cows using on-farm technology and milk sample testing, which looks at milk volume, milkfat, protein yields and other things.

Milk is collected from dairy farms and processed at factories around the region into mostly milk powder.

The sector is a big contributor to the district’s economy and provides jobs for several thousand people.

Most herds have now been dried off and cows are at their winter grazing destinations, pending the arrival of the calving season in spring.

Planning and preparation is vital as the arrival of newborns is a stressful time for

farmers with their time divided by many jobs at the start of the season.

As calving approaches, the mob will be checked regularly, at least twice every 24 hours, preferably every six hours. Staff are looking for signs of labour and for cows needing care.

This year Complaince Partners and RuralCo have joined forces to host a series of Calving Survival 101 workshops over the next two months.

The free workshops, aimed at rural folk, are about sharing some good information about mental wellbeing and resilience, with Pup Chamberlain on hand to help.

The workshops will also cover the importance of sleep and nutrition and how to look after bodies while lifting and moving calves.

Each short talk will be followed by an

opportunity to catch up with neighbours and have blood pressure and cholesterol checked.

Last season Laura Bagrie left her office job in sales in Ashburton to become a calf rearer at James and Kerri Lemon’s 950-cow farm at Lauriston.

Bagrie had no regrets about the country move and was at ease with her daily attire of gumboots and overalls.

“I love animals and the opportunity because my father does quite a bit of work on this farm and they needed a calf rearer so I jumped on board.

“I’ve got no regrets whatsoever – I could never go back to a nine-to-five office job.’’

She wasn’t entirely a newbie to country life as she has lived on lifestyle blocks and her parent’s dairy farm which is leased out.

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Cow-less farmer rises to the top Ruwan Wijayasena is at ease knowing that he will forever be a cow-less farmer.

The Hororata contract milker walks up to the crossbred herd he manages and before long they surround him, curiously nosing in his direction.

He stretches out his arm and they crane their necks to get closer to him, contentedly grazing on the ryegrass and clover mix in between bouts of curiosity.

There almost seems to be a state of calmness between man and animal.

That’s perfectly understandable because as a follower of the Therawada Buddhism faith, Ruwan believes that animals and fellow humans should be treated as he would want to be treated.

His religious beliefs prevent him from owning cows or making terminal decisions about them going on a one-way trip to the meatworks.

The city-born Sri Lankan is contract milking 1840 cows for Theland Farm Group on two farms over 537 hectares near Hororata and his wife Niranjala runs a motel business in Christchurch.

In his 14th year in dairy farming, Ruwan has worked up to owning his own contract business, running a team of eight staff across two properties.

“My wife and I are Buddhists and the Buddhist philosophy we believe in means we don’t like to do anything to any other person or animals that we don’t like to receive ourselves. That’s the simple answer.

We don’t want to get hurt so we don’t like to hurt anybody or animals. This is the way we look at it, but not every Buddhist sees it the same way because there are some Buddhist farmers that own cows and take the normal traditional path that other farmers do in New Zealand.’’

The nature of dairying means that there comes a time when ageing and underperforming cows must be removed from the herd to make way for betterproducing animals.

Ruwan and Niranjala understand this dynamic and that life and death is part of dairying.

His interpretation of his faith means that he is not prepared to make life and death decisions for his own animals. Hence, he doesn’t own them and has dismissed ever running a sharemilking business and owning a dairy farm.

However, he is prepared to follow the instructions of other herd owners.

If that means ageing or underperforming cows have to go on the truck at the end of their fruitful life then he will ensure this is carried out.

During their active milking lives he will do his best to ensure they have a happy and productive life.

The no-cow ownership philosophy hasn’t stopped him from getting ahead in dairying or being named the Canterbury/ North Otago Share Farmer of the Year. He went on to win the business performance award at the national level of the competition.

He says their religious beliefs haven’t stopped them from getting ahead because the New Zealand dairying model offers different ways of building wealth.

“It does mean we had to find a way to grow our business rather than stay in the traditional path.’’

Ruwan was born far from rural surrounds in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, a densely populated city of about four million people.

He studied agricultural science at the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka and specialised in livestock production.

The couple met at the university as Niranjala was also studying for an agribusiness management degree.

After completing his degree, he worked on a dairy farm and managed a laboratory testing for aquaculture disease and providing disease prevention advice.

He soon tired of working on the congested island and they began looking at other countries to make a new start.

Ruwan Wijayasena is happily married to his wife, his cows and his faith.

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National plan to eradicate M. bovis

Ashburton continues to be the district most affected by the cattle disease mycoplasma bovis.

As at June 5, there were six actively infected farms with another 17 under notice of direction restrictions and a further 73 under surveillance. Nineteen properties have been cleared of the disease and 67 notices of direction have been revoked.

The disease causes serious health problems for all cattle, including mastitis that doesn’t respond to treatment and arthritis. MPI is trying to eradicate it through a programme that involves culling infected herds; New Zealand will be the first country in the world to eradicate the disease if they succeed.

Farmers and their families dealing with the disease or suspected of having it are under huge stress and district mayor Donna Favel announced last month that a group of representatives from the local agricultural and health industries had been formed to help address potential and ongoing concerns around the disease.

The group’s objective is to help facilitate discussions between MPI and relevant organisations to ensure information is consistently shared in a timely and targeted manner with the district’s farming community.

In the group, mayor Favel is joined

by representatives from MPI, Federated Farmers, Dairy NZ, Beef & Lamb NZ, Rural Support Trust Mid Canterbury, Vet Ent, and the Ashburton Hospital.

“M. bovis has inflicted a great deal of stress and uncertainty for our people, and we each recognised that something more needed to be done to help support our

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facilitate a united front among our respective organisations as efforts to eradicate M. bovis continue,” she said.

Around the country as at May 29, some 171 properties had been confirmed as having the disease, with 43 still active. The number of animals culled was 101,097 with MPI having paid out $73.4 million in

Only a few hundred of New Zealand’s 24,000 farms have been directly affected, but for some of them it has caused major interruption and hardship, and all farmers are sharing the cost.

Government, industry and rural communities need to do everything we can to help these farmers and their families through these challenging times

farmers during this time of need,” Favel said at the time. She said those around the table realised that Ashburton District was the largest singularly affected territorial authority of M. bovis.

“It is planned that the group will help to

compensation so far to farmers.

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has visited the district to talk with farmers about the eradication and says it is one of the biggest challenges the farming sector has faced.

“Only a few hundred of New Zealand’s 24,000 farms have been directly affected, but for some of them it has caused major interruption and hardship, and all farmers are sharing the cost. Government, industry and rural communities need to do everything we can to help these farmers and their families through these challenging times.

“We are also working to make sure that changes happen to prevent a similar outbreak again.”

In the national eradication plan DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel said the alternative to eradicating – to let the disease spread throughout stock – would have been a serious challenge to the way New Zealand farmers farmed and the ongoing costs would have been significantly higher.

MPI says eradication will not be a simple process and the national plan also aimed to reduce the impact of that process on the people and businesses involved and to leave the system stronger than previously.

“We know that some of the most important things we can do for farmer welfare is to get their compensation paid and help them get back to farming. We are committed to doing things better, getting money paid as soon as possible and supporting farmers to t back to business,” said director general Ray Smith.

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Not being a dick pays dividends Ashburton dairy farmer Craig Hickman has quite a following on Twitter, with thousands of rural and city people taking an interest in his life on the farm. He has a golden rule for social media interactions.

There’s a picture doing the rounds on the internet of an English nutrition company by the name of Huel.

Like a lot of companies, they have their mission statement written large upon a wall at headquarters, but where Huel differs from most is the message placed above.

It dwarfs their mission statement, emblazoned in bold type: Don’t be a dick.

It’s a pretty good goal for individuals and companies alike: Don’t do silly things to unnecessarily upset other people and good things will follow.

The flipside, of course, is that being a dick can do you needless harm.

Earlier this year an ex-rugby official and aspiring politician contacted me via Twitter to ask my advice on how to be successful on the micro-blogging platform.

“Don’t be a dick!” I replied.

Of course he ignored me and now not only is he largely mocked online, but even the party famous for tolerating dicks, the Conservative Party, doesn’t want a bar of him anymore.

Fonterra isn’t immune to being a dick either.

Back in 2016 and in the face of plummeting milk prices, they changed the

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terms of payment for thousands of trade suppliers; instead of getting paid within 30 days now they would have to wait 90.

Nobody liked it; not the Government, not the opposition, the suppliers or the press.

It was an indefensible move and, even though the appointment of new CFO Marc Rivers in 2018 saw the policy gone by lunchtime, the sour taste still lingers.

The damage done will take years to repair, the new government doesn’t think too kindly of the co-op and a lot of energy has to be expended rebuilding trust that was needlessly flushed away with a single dick move.

That’s why it’s heartening to see Fonterra being pragmatic when it comes to the Government’s recently-released emissions targets and Mike Cronin, Fonterra’s managing director of co-operative affairs, had the perfect response: “… we anticipate the Government will support the significant investment in research and innovation that is needed to develop solutions to help farmers reduce their

emissions.

“Our focus now is on supporting our 10,000 farming families…”

It’s a response that sees Fonterra support the Government’s ambitions but leaves no doubt that they don’t intend to shoulder the entire burden.

That the Climate Change Bill has been attacked by Greenpeace for having no teeth, by Federated Farmers for unrealistic methane reduction targets, by Forest & Bird for offering “special favours to the agricultural lobby” and by Beef & Lamb for just about everything, should signal that the Government has probably got it just about right.

Upsetting all the lobby groups at once requires some level of skill.

We need to choose our battles and I don’t believe arbitrary targets set for 30 years in the future with no means of enforcement and no penalty for not achieving them is a battle worth fighting.

Let’s save that energy for something meaningful and immediate, like DIRA, and in the meantime let’s try not to be dicks.

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Raising a glass ... to milk New Zealand dairy products help to support an improved quality of life for many, and, in some instances, to support life it very self. In other places our dairy products are more about pleasing palates, discerning ones at that.

With World Milk Day (June 1) just passed DairyNZ’s chief executive Dr Tim Mackle reflects on where the delicious milk that New Zealand dairy cows produce is consumed.

It’s something of a dairy travel adventure, he says. What begins with Kiwi cows and farmers ends up being consumed in more than 140 countries globally – as well as here at home in communities from North Cape to Bluff.

“New Zealand is the eighth largest producer of dairy in the world, and one of the most environmentally sustainable too,” he said.

“This is because our farmers continually look for ways to care for the environment, and because our cows are fed grass which is grown on-farm, unlike many of the dairy countries around the world where feed needs to be brought in.”

He says the New Zealand way of dairy farming resonates well with consumers looking for the most sustainable food sources, and that many consumers also regard the milk from a grass fed cow to be superior.

“It all adds up to New Zealand dairy products being very sought-after internationally, and that’s something every Kiwi can be proud of.

“Looking at the world map to see where our dairy is being consumed is like an A-Z travel adventure. China is our largest overseas market – probably no surprise for many Kiwis – buying

25 per cent of what we produce, with what they imported last year valued at $3.4 billion.

“What might not be so widely appreciated is some of the other countries that go for our dairy – take Algeria for example, how many know Algeria not only imports our milk powder, but also a lot of our butter and cheese?”

Dr Mackle says New Zealand milk powder is a lifeline in a number of countries where there are hungry populations to feed, but no significant dairy farming.

“Milk is the fifth largest provider of energy for humans, and the third largest provider of protein and fat. It has many of the key nutrients to support the development of healthy bodies, and helps our brains to function at higher levels too.”

As well as providing liquid sustenance, milk powder is also used in confectionery and baking, or to make ice cream, yoghurts, and the like.

New Zealand produced butter and cheese are popular internationally too, with cheese exports alone worth 10 times more than wine.

Again, China is a major buyer, including New Zealand made mozzarella which is a favoured pizza topping. Other countries importing large amounts of our cheese and butter are Australia and Japan, while significant quantities are also imported by places like Chile, Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, South Africa, and even Morocco.

New Zealand made infant formula is another New Zealand dairy food sought after in a number of countries.

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Mozzarella capital of the world Love pizza? You’re not alone. Milk from Mid Canterbury dairy farms and carloads of workers who travel from Ashburton are helping Fonterra’s Clandeboye factory become the mozzarella capital of the world.

Clandeboye fired up its third new mozzarella line in September last year and the cheese factory now produces enough cheese to top more than half a billion pizzas a year.

The company confirmed a couple of carpools of workers travelled from Ashburton work in the mozzarella plant, which was built over the past two years.

The cheese is made from one of Fonterra’s secret recipes and is made in hours rather than in months, the time traditional mozzarella takes. It is used in pizzas all over the world.

The co-operative’s cheese can be found on about 80 per cent of pizzas in China which is one of the fastest growing pizza markets in the world.

Fonterra global operations chief operating officer Robert Spurway said the new plant was a good example of the co-operative’s ambition to move more milk into value add products.

The new plant doubled the site’s production of mozzarella.

Fonterra sees growth in the pizza ingredient as more people globally dine out rather than eat at home. The global foodservice market is predicted to be

Mozzarella cheese production is on the rise at Clandeboye. worth $US3 trillion by 2021.

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Virtual field trip a fantastic tool Primary school students across New Zealand had the opportunity to learn more about the role of irrigation in food production through a virtual field trip which brought the farm to their classroom.

Over 128 primary school classes participated in a Virtual Field Trip through a number of locations in Selwyn, designed for students in Years 5-8 in March.

The field trip was organised by CORE Education and IrrigationNZ. The trip allowed classes to take part in three live web conferences where children could ask a range of experts questions and view 11 short online videos explaining more about water and irrigation.

On day one of the field trip the children had the opportunity to find out more about how the recently opened Central Plains Water scheme provides water to farms, and how decisions about who can use water and how much water can be taken are decided.

Day two of the trip involved a visit to Sheffield farmer Damon Summerfield’s property.

Summerfield grows a range of arable crops, and also finishes lambs on his farm.

He exports seeds worldwide and produces wheat for local mills which produce bread.

Summerfield demonstrated how his irrigation system worked and talked about how it enables him to farm differently.

“Having irrigation allows me to grow crops quicker, and to get contracts from

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Selwyn Mayor Sam Broughton discussed how water was important to Selwyn from an environmental perspective as well as for recreation and to the economy by supporting farming activity and jobs in places like IZONE. The day also included a visit to the

Selwyn River to hear about a planned project to recharge the river using alpine water from the Central Plains Water scheme so that it will have improved flows over summer in the future.

Irrigation New Zealand chief executive, Elizabeth Soal, said the virtual field trip was a fantastic educational tool.

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It can be difficult reaching people in urban areas located a long way from farms, but this concept allows us to bring the farm right into the classroom.

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