Hawke's Bay Farming Lifestyles, June 2021

June 2021 edition

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Shepherding to management

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Rural health assistance underway

by Paul Campbell

Rural mental health has often been raised as a community concern in what is often a high-stress environment, especially in the current era of changing rules and regulations affecting the industry — SNAs and water being two to mention.

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Now the government has stepped in to offer some help in an initiative funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries.

New Zealand Young Farmers has been allocated $40,000 to organise events in regional areas featuring guest speakers, activities and skill-building sessions for young people in rural industries.

“The mental and physical wellbeing of young people is a big focus of our organisation and essential for the ongoing viability of many rural communities,” says NZ Young Farmers chief executive Lynda Coppersmith.

“This programme will increase awareness of the wellbeing support and resources available and give young people the confidence to access them.”

Provisional figures released by the Chief Coroner show 654 people died in New Zealand from suicide in 2019–20, and almost one-third (205 people) were under the age of 30.

The events will harness the resources and expertise of existing wellbeing support providers, such as Farmstrong, Rural Support Trusts and the awardwinning Good Yarn workshops.

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services for three years to complement those provided by Rural Support Trusts “It’s important we continue our efforts to give people the skills to look after their wellbeing, manage stress and to recognise and openly talk about mental health,” says MPI’s director of rural communities and farming support Nick Story.

Young Farmers has a network of 70 clubs, which provide an opportunity for young people to make friends, network, upskill and socialise.

One of the wellbeing events underway at present is a six-week boot camp at Longburn in Manawatu, which runs until mid-July, while Waikato and Bay of Plenty have activities associated with the National Field Days.

“Winter is a great time for a boot camp to help build farmers’ fitness ahead of calving and lambing, which is a busy time on-farm. It also gives us an opportunity to share wellbeing tips, such as nutritional advice, to help our rural community get through,” said Young Farmers member Kate Stewart.

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Avocados hit record values

by Paul Campbell

Despite some troubles in getting horticulture industry crops to market, with a shortage of pickers plaguing some sections of the industry in Hawke’s Bay, the outlook for the avocado growing sector has recently got a whole lot brighter with record prices mainly driven by exports.

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Demand was strong in Australia, Thailand and Taiwan. A combination of a short Australian domestic avocado supply and good New Zealand export pack-outs contributed to the increase.

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Avocados are a growth industry locally. Growers can take heart in the news that avocado value’s hit $227 million in the 2020–21 season, with $167 million delivered by exports and $60 million in local sales, the Covid pandemic notwithstanding.

“This is an extraordinary result for the avocado industry,” says NZ Avocado CEO Jen Scoular. “Facing the season with Covid lockdowns, significant freight disruption, an inability to meet face to face with customers and a small fruit profile, it is a credit to the entire value chain to achieve this record result.”

Last season produced a record export volume and total crop volume. Forty-four thousand tonnes of avocados were harvested, with 5.1 million trays sent to 11 export markets, an increase of 10% on the previous season.

NZ Avocado Growers’ Association chair Linda Flegg says: “Returns to growers for export and domestic avocados were very pleasing given the uncertainty at the beginning of the season around the impacts of Covid on our markets, and the disruption to global freight and logistics.

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Shepherding to management

by Ann van Engelen

East Coast Young Farmers Club chairperson Emma Lewin has been in the sheep farming industry for 10 years and is enjoying working her way up to management.

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grew up in Bulls with my parents owning the corner dairy. Being a small country town meant I was able to milk cows in the school holidays for people,” says Emma.

“I was at Fielding High School and went on a taster course with Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre and fell in love with farming. I started the course full-time when I was 17 years old.“ Emma’s first shepherding job was in the South Island up the Rakaia Gorge.

“I have always enjoyed learning about soil, pasture and seeing animals grow. I am now a block manager at Takapau on an intensive lamb finishing operation.

“We will have 12,500 lambs next month along with 60 bulls that we are finishing. This year we purchased the bulls early as they were inexpensive to buy. We source the lambs at 30– 32kg live weight. We split them out in September and October with the males at 50kg and the ewe lambs at 46kg for ewe lambs.

“It takes up to five months depending on the size of the sheep and how fast they grow. We start sending lambs to the works in August, with the majority going in October.

“I started here as a shepherd and now manage two blocks. I coordinate

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and animal preparation for the works.

This includes weighing lambs.

“A lot of my job is attention to detail and ensuring the animals are shifted before they get hungry. When the lambs arrive on-farm in May or June, they go on to crop or the hills.

“Once we are fully stocked, they come on to the feed platform in July. We grow annual or two-year grasses. Looking after the pasture growth is important to the job. The most common variety of annual in New Zealand is Italian ryegrass. It produces a lot more grass each year but doesn’t live as long as perennials.

“I keep my soil maintained with four small applications of nitrogen fertiliser, a nitrogen and superphosphate and an annual application of lime.

“Each block is beside the meat works, so I walk all my lambs there.

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Emma manages two blocks on the finishing farm she works on and has a big interest in soil condition, pasture management and animal growth

Nothing gets trucked, and that makes us a bit special.”

Emma has been involved in Young Farmers for 10 years.

“I have four Huntaway dogs that I trained up and borrow others if I need the extra help. I advocate for every second weekend off-farm so staff can have a decent break. I feel if you are always on-farm, your attitude and enthusiasm breaks down a bit.

“When I moved to the South Island, I didn’t know anyone, and other shepherds encouraged me along to a club they were starting as I lived in an isolated location, and the rest is history.

“As a social organisation for farmers and non-farmers, the clubs are great

for getting together monthly to have a yarn, a feed and make friends. I have made lifelong friends through the club, and a lot of people find jobs from knowing people.

“We go to events and Young Farmer competitions as a way to test our ability amongst our peers. We do clay bird shooting, fencing, stock judging and debating. We encourage everyone to have a go and learn.

“The clubs fundraise all year so we can subsidise things. People can go to the East Coast NZ Young Farmers Facebook page to find a club near them.

“I love farming. It is awesome as a lifestyle and career. I have never struggled being a female in a male-

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With 60 finishing bulls and 12,500 lambs in her care at peak season, Emma focusses on good pasture rotation for her stock

dominated industry. As long as you work hard, you are accepted.

“I started here nearly three years ago as a shepherd, and I am continuing to grow with my employer giving me more responsibility.

“The next step will be farm management. This is a female-

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The Good Baby returns

by Ann van Engelen

At nine years old, Pipiwai farm girl and Northland Rescue Helicopter ambassador Madison Macmillan has released her third book in the Good Baby children’s series called the Good Baby and the Unicorn.

Madison published her first book in 2018 at seven years old called The Good Baby and The Bad Hippo, which she wrote on her way home from school one day. She released The Good Baby and the Hairy Monster in 2019 and has, so far, donated $1,000 of book sales to the Northland Rescue Helicopter Service.

“When I was in year two, my teacher read a book about a Bad Baby and a Good Hippo, and it inspired me,” says Madison.

“I liked the way the author wrote and how my teacher expressed it. I came up with the Good Baby idea on the way home from school. The Bad Hippo story is about being honest and the Hairy Monster in the second book is my cat, Boris.

“My friend and I came up with the unicorn idea as we go on adventures together on my family farm. The Good Baby and the Unicorn is about the unicorn not having many friends because he looks different with a horn on his head.

“They become friends and rescue a tadpole in a storm and put it back into its home. The tadpole is also different.

I hope the book helps people take care of others who may be different.

“I donate money from my book sales to the Northland Rescue Chopper so

Madison Macmillan has launched her third book in the Good Baby series, The Good Baby and the Unicorn

they can buy things they need to rescue people. Over the years, the rescue chopper has helped people all over the country.”

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“I come up with ideas from things around me. My next book is the Good Baby and the Naughty Grandma, and the fifth book will be the Good Baby and the Kauri Snail. Adam, my dad’s friend, does the artwork. He is a fireman, and having him help is really nice.

“I also like taking care of the sheep and chickens, playing hockey and doing gymnastics.

“I love living on the farm and helping my grandad move the cows, feed out the

hay, and going around the property on my go-kart to do my chores.

“I hope other young people will try writing as well, even if they don’t publish their books.

“I think as I grow older, I will write a chapter book but am not sure I will publish it.”

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New Zealand’s first shelter dedicated to providing a temporary safe haven for pets while their owners escape abuse is due to open in the near future.

Pet Refuge is the brainchild of Julie and tortured.

“These include statements such Chapman, Founder and CEO of children’s charity KidsCan. The initiative comes as as he strangled my cats almost on a research from Women’s Refuge reveals daily basis. He took my two young sons and shot the pups dead while the boys harrowing stories of animal abuse.

“For many people, pets are family. watched, and he threatened to slit the For victims of domestic violence, they dogs’ throats if I left.

“Pet Refuge is modelled on the provide real solace. Leaving them behind with an abusive partner just isn’t RSPCA New South Wales’ successful domestic violence programme. We will an option,” says Julie.

Both of Julie’s parents died in the last transport small animals from around five years, and she has used the money New Zealand to the shelter, and we have from the sale of their home to purchase 60 people volunteer their land for safe land to create Pet Refuge. With further farms to pull together a foster network. private donations, construction is now “We are now working to make the almost complete thanks to further grounds of the shelter a tranquil private funding and build partner, environment for pets who may come to Signature Homes, which has also the shelter in a distressed state. designed the shelter.

“We have a fundraiser underway “We hope that if victims know their to purchase native plants to provide pets will be well looked after while they a shaded, protected environment escape, it will remove a barrier to them to provide the animals in our care leaving. Women’s Refuge surveyed the privacy they need to heal and women whose partners had abused recover until they can be reunited with or threatened their pets. Twenty-three their owners.” per cent said their partner had killed Pet Refuge has partnered with an animal, while 53 per cent said they Women’s Refuge, Shine and Shakti to delayed leaving the relationship out of assist pets via referrals. fear for an animal’s safety.

“Essentially, the pet becomes yet “New Zealand has the highest rate another mechanism for the abuser to of reported family violence in the OECD use, and pets are frequently harmed and the second-highest rate of pet or even killed in order to assert power, ownership globally. When the two co- and further traumatise victims,” says CONFIRMED exist, animals can pay a large price. Women’s Refuge CEO Dr Ang Jury.

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“I decided to take up the challenge and try my hand at putting the principals that I use at Tori Lee Equestrian with domesticated horses to the wild horses,” says Tori. “We have six months to help the Recon adjust to a domesticated life the best he can. It will be interesting to see how far we get in that time frame.

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unsure of the end result. At the end of the six months, we plan to attend the Equifest Stallion challenge in Taupo in October so he needs to be happy and able to travel.”

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and I am super happy with how they are both progressing.

“Recon is definitely more confident than Mana. He already allows me to halter him in the paddock, rub and touch his body and pick up his feet.

I have also added obstacles into the round pen including a narrow track of cones for them to work with.” Tori is now introducing jackets, tarpaulins and items that make noise to help the horses get used to different noises.

“I will eventually add a cover and begin to get Recon used to having a person on his back. This includes moving him in a horse float and I am not sure if six months is enough time for him to gain confidence. He needs to be safe and confident to be handled.”

Mana is also gaining confidence and allowing Tori to touch his head and shoulders and follows her around at liberty.

“I have other horses on the property but as Recon and Mana are stallions, only the geldings get to be close to them. I am planning to introduce another horse to their paddock soon.

We are keeping the mares away as we don’t want to breed. Both horses will be gelded as that is a requirement when you adopt a stallion/colt from the Kaimanawa muster.

“Horse socialising isn’t normally an issue as they live in a family band. It is humans they are not used to. Their personalities are coming out now and Recon lives up to his name. If he isn’t sure about something he hangs back and hides behind Mana watching and observing.

“He is very thoughtful with his processes and when he has thought about it he will make a move to come and see the new thing or try what you are asking him to do.

“Mana looks like the more confident one as he throws himself in boots and all but doesn’t think first. At times he gets himself in a pickle and gets scared and regrets his decision. He then takes time to regain confidence so I am working on helping him to think about his decisions.

“Recon is slightly resistant to pressure with me picking up his feet but he hasn’t been a problem.

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“They have come a long way with just under five months to go for the training and I am confident with how Recon is tracking.

“My husband Pat was laughing at me the first day they arrived as instead of getting one horse I got two and wasn’t sure what I was going to do. There hasn’t been anything that I have come across yet that I don’t know where to go to.

“Everything I do with domestic horses is working with the Kaimanawa, I simply use the same principles in different ways.

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Numeracy versus mathematics For the last 20 odd years, teachers have been using the numeracy approach from the Ministry of Education to teach primary children about using numbers.

“Let’s differentiate between numeracy and mathematics,” says Central Hawkes’ Bay in2learning director Shelley Harrison.

“The numeracy approach gives students many strategies to calculate each of the basic four operations of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.”

Examples include: • 49 + 23 = 50 + 22 = 72 • 17 x 4 = ( 10 x 4 ) + ( 7 x 4 ) = 40 + 28 = 68 • 86 – 29 = 80 – 20 = 60, 6 – 9 = -3, 60 – 3 = 57 • 84 ÷ 6 = (60 ÷ 6) + (24 ÷ 6) = 10 + 4 = 14 “These numeracy strategies are all worked across. Children who are adept at number calculations will come up with their own strategies and use them.

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“If teachers are using the Developing Mathematical Inquiry Communities programme, children are not allowed to use the column method to solve the problem of the day.

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Shelley Harrison, Central Hawke’s Bay in2learning director

to calculate an answer. A recent Q + A television programme fronted by Jack Tame on mathematics showed a 20-year decline in our students’ abilities.

“The proof he presented was from the Trends in International Maths and Science Study. The TIMSS results for 13-year-old New Zealand students in 1996 was 501. In 2003 it was 494; in 2011, it was 488, and by 2019, New Zealand had dropped to 482.

Our place in the world has significantly declined as well. Singapore is highest at 616, Australia is 517, England 515 and we are only 482.

“To me, these results show that the Numeracy Project is not doing the majority of students a good service. I suggest we begin by teaching basic facts, times tables and place value.

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Your rights come first

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Choosing a professional tradesperson is all about peace of mind, and the law surrounding what a competent tradie should provide hinges on them being educated and qualified.

Here’s what the Consumer Guarantees Act (CGA) says about the levels of expertise and care a tradesperson should display when working on your project. You’re covered for these whether there’s a written contract or not. Remember, most of the time, you can spot ‘cowboys’ a mile away as they won’t be affiliated with the oversight body for their trade and might be cagey about sharing their qualifications. For example, they may not have a card identifying them as a proper plumber or a logo on their ute identifying them as a Licensed Building Practitioner if they’re not legitimate.

The CGA says that no matter who you hire, you’re entitled to expect five things.

The first is called reasonable skill. It means that the job must be at least as good as the work of a competent person with average skills and experience for that type of work. That average is determined by the standards set down

by each trade’s governing body or as defined in the apprenticeship course for learning the trade.

The second is called reasonable care. It means that care and attention to details have been used. An otherwise technically competent job might not pass the ‘reasonable care’ test if it’s been finished off in a sloppy, unsightly or messy fashion.

The third key part of the CGA says that a job must be fit for use — that it does what you need it to do. A plumber who installs a non-flushing toilet has not made it fit for use; neither has an electrician who installs an air conditioner that doesn’t heat or cool.

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A town is the sum of its skills

by Andy Bryenton

HAWKES BAY

A trawl through the advertising of yesteryear, especially in places where new settlements were being established, shows just how professional skills make a town.

In those days, mayors would often post classified advertisements in city newspapers, or even newspapers in foreign countries, advertising the opportunities available in their new municipalities. As settlers moved west in the US, for example, or gold mining towns sprung up near valuable mineral deposits, the call went out that a career could be had as anything from the local doctor, lawyer or smith through to trades like farrier, cooper or wheelwright.

People applied by letter, and the competition was sometimes fierce.

More than one application letter was said to have been sent back with some cash tucked inside as a bribe. A position as a professional in a flourishing new town could make your legacy.

You can see the conundrum those early civic leaders had. Starting with perhaps nothing but some arable land or a good water source, they needed to build a self-sufficient town fast. Things would fall apart quickly without public figures like a magistrate or a physician.

Families moving in wanted to know there was a good school teacher, the rule of law, and people to help with the hardships of self-sustaining rural life.

Fast-forward to the present day, and small civic centres are still defined by the services on offer in the main street.

It’s not for nothing that rural towns are often called service centres, as it’s the professionals who stand behind farmers and the primary industries that make them thrive. While it’s no longer the mayor’s job to personally write ads attracting new dentists, plumbers or vets to the district, you can bet that the concept of brain drain and the prospect of supporting the business community still weigh heavy on the mind of municipal councillors.

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“The team also won the gold award for Service Department of the Year, a silver award for Administrator of the Year, and a gold award for Parts Department of the Year,” says dealer principal Aaron White.

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