Hawke's Bay Farming Lifestyles, October 2017

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“The wins are testament to the substantial investment in innovation by the programme partners,” says Justine Gilliland, Ministry for Primary Industries director Investment Programmes.

“The Innovation Awards are fitting recognition of the significant amount of time, expertise, effort and money invested into SPATnz and The Omega Lamb Project to date.

“We are very proud of SPATnz’s and The Omega Lamb Project’s achievements and excited at what they will mean for our seafood and red meat industries in the future.

“These programmes are developing value-added products for consumers, delivering returns for our seafood and red meat industries, helping to lift environmental knowledge, practices and tools, and could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars to New Zealand’s economy.”

SPATnz, a collaboration between MPI and Sanford, is tackling the ageold challenge of a reliance on growing Greenshell mussels from wild mussel spat washed up on 90 Mile Beach or caught on lines in Golden Bay. “SPATnz is well on the way to breeding Greenshell mussels in captivity at commercial scale with the characteristics demanded by consumers, as well as providing a consistent supply of spat. This will literally transform our Greenshell mussel industry,” says Ms Gilliland.

The Omega Lamb Project is a collaboration between MPI, food company Alliance Group and a group of innovative farmers known as Headwaters. It is targeting premium markets with a new type of lamb with higher levels of polyunsaturated (good) fats and Omega-3 fatty acids.

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“The Omega Lamb Project is taking a new approach to naturally breeding, raising, processing and marketing premium New Zealand lamb. It is producing healthier, more resilient sheep, along with healthy, tasty, and succulent meat.”

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Dairy Women’s Network’s upcoming conference will celebrate the primary reason the Network was established in 1998 — to develop and educate women to add value to the business of dairy and bring women in the dairy industry together.

Registrations are now open for DWN18 — ‘Our Land, Our People’ which takes place March 22-23 at the Energy Events Centre in Rotorua, and anyone working in the dairy industry is being encouraged to attend — women, men, rural professionals, all farm workers, and organisations that support the industry.

“The conference will focus on the two key elements at the heart of the dairy industry, land and people, and celebrate the Network’s grass roots community and ability to bring people together,” says DWN ceo Zelda de Villiers.

“It is very clear to us why our members are drawn to farming — they are proud to be part of a close-knit, supportive community, it is a great lifestyle for their families, and they enjoy working in the outdoors and with animals.”

The conference will host three motivational speakers, including TEDx speaker Cam Calkoen, more than 30 exhibition stands, and nine practical workshops covering topics including finance, animal health, sustainability, and wellness.

“Next year’s delegates will walk away having built knowledge and gained new skills, and feel inspired and motivated for

the year ahead,” says Jodie Goudswaard conference committee chair.

“We want to continue to offer workshops that are relevant and timely to what is happening in the industry. We have put more of a practical spin on this conference because we want everyone to come away with solutions and plans to put in place once they get home, and we are offering more workshops and learning options than we have before.”

A new addition to the programme is the pre-conference farm tour, where attendees can visit farms in the area to see new farming technology in action.

Founding general manager Lynda Clark has seen her fair share of conferences and says over the years they have evolved to meet the changing needs of DWN’s members.

“Technical workshops addressing the key areas women are involved in on-farm, and ones focussed on management and leadership are all topics which continue to be of interest to women in the dairy industry.

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The family are shifting to Jersey/Dexter cross cattle and are using the genetics of their Dexters to encourage hardiness

females are different colours. They were bred around the Second World War and are a cross of the heritage breeds Brown Leghorn and Plymouth Barred Rock — they have been a stable breed for about 70 years and are excellent layers with a good sized breast for eating.”

Taiamai’s parents started breeding Dexter cattle some 30 years ago in Kaiwaka — Northland.

“They were the second Dexter breeders in the country. The cattle are quite small and have a better constitution than the more industrialised breeds, converting pasture to high quality creamy milk and meat very efficiently. They are lighter on the soil so there is less pugging and good stocking rates.

“They originate from Ireland and were dual purpose for milk and meat. They are

good birthers but some cattle no longer have a good udder or milk production so we are working to bring their original genetics back. The bull I have is from semen imported from Britain from an excellent milking line.

“The meat is fantastic and I am also a butcher so we are setting up a home kill at the village to service the local area — Village Home Kill.”

Taiamai says rare breed pigs do a lot better outside than their industrial cousins.

“They are hardier and thicker skinned and are much more suited to being truly free range. I purchased my pigs from Longbush Free Range Pork in Carterton and I feed them whole milk and grass and am concentrating on the breeding.

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Taiamai believes because rare breeds of pig are hardier and thicker skinned than their industrial cousins they are more suited to being truly free range

cover their face and are easy birthing.

The two sows I have are four years old and their first two litters had 10-11 piglets each and neither lost any.

“We have a forage paddock which is planted with heritage cider apples, walnuts, oaks and many other species for feeding pigs and poultry. The pigs I want to sell as breeders are running around there getting fat. The family have Muscovy ducks which they use for hatching chicken eggs.

“They are like incubators — we let one or two sit on duck eggs and the rest will sit on the Golden Legbar. We raise Muscovies for meat as well because they do well on grass and they live out on the farm amongst the cows and pigs.

Grain is expensive and we try to feed our animals from our own regenerative

resources. I can easily not feed them corn at all but the chooks need a bit.

“I don’t specifically register organic because there is a lot more to growing good healthy food rather than being just organic. It is about using good genetics and growing healthy soil producing a quality product — there is a difference.

“We left the family property in Kaiwaka nine years ago. My father and I were born there. His parents bought the farm after the war. We created the Koanga Institute, a Charitable trust saving our NZ heritage food plants and sold heritage seeds and fruit trees We have since started the Koanga Institute here and are still producing heritage seeds, trees and presenting workshops.

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BY ANN MORGAN Mini Ha Ha Horse Haven is a rescue and rehabilitation centre run by Jennifer and Lindsay Heperi for mini horses from across New Zealand, specialising in rehabilitating laminitis and grass-affected miniature horses.

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e care for minis, Shetlands and small ponies. We have two donkeys at present amongst our family of 21 fur kids,” says Jen. “We came about creating The Haven after being asked to help some wee minis that needed care. The owners didn’t realise that they are different to big horses and we learnt about laminitis when we took in a rescue mare with a one-day-old foal and it was a big learning curve.

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Horses get Equine Metabolic Syndrome if they are fed mostly grass. Warning signs include a big thick hard cresty neck and fat lump pads on their body.

“Signs of a grass affected horse include twitching and not standing nicely when you put the bridle and gear on.”

The couple built three ‘paradise tracks’, special yards with untreated post peelings so the animals walk on a soft surface, carpeted shelter huts, and they have macrocarpas to get shade.

“We have rehabilitated more than 30 laminitics in three years. They get their feet soaked in epsom salts and are given magnetic pulse blanket treatments. The nutritional programme involves adding salt, Grazezy, S.O.S and Premium Minerals, and hay is soaked and has no clover or rye in it.

“They start on the painkiller Bute, and then are weaned onto a natural pain remedy made specially by Jill Shires and it takes two to four days to see a slight improvement followed by more improvement each day.

Chronically affected horses take up to five weeks to become comfortable.

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Mini Ha Ha Horse Haven have rehabilitated more than 30 horses with laminitis in three years and grants.” The cost to care for one horse is more than $2,500 per year, or $20-25 a week to keep a mini in the lifestyle they deserve.

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person they met with. How long have you been a medical herbalist and would you be prepared to sit with Maori experts to work with herbs of our own country?

“We all hear about Chinese herbs and the European knowledge of herbs but it was the knowledge of New Zealand medicinal herbs that we wanted to integrate. Our herbs come from a perfect bush environment — grown in beautiful quality soil. We found a lady that has worked with herbs all her life and she said she would be honoured to sit with Maori herbal experts to learn from.” Jill and Keith then decided their Agrisea gardeners might appreciate the hand cream as it is not filled with chemicals and is moisturising and healing.

The family then created a healing salve that has also become very popular.

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people with eczema use it — it was like magic. In the early days I cleared a big bank of cleavers, and my forearms were absolutely on fire when I came in. I said to Keith I made a mistake and should have worn sleeves and gloves, so I used the salve on one arm as a test and it was an instant relief.

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and almond face cream was the very last product we made and is for our gardeners and Agrisea farmers’ wives — the men use it too. It is a truly nourishing face cream and is great if you are out in the elements. It has no chemicals in it, just herbs.

“Agrisea is the family’s main business and Ocean Organics is the sideline company that is just as important, and we plan it to always be here for our customers. We refuse to have the products mass produced — I think you would lose something.

Keeping it made in small batches regularly is the best thing. Even the base cream took us ages to find as it needed to be special.

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Someone’s horse had an ulcer and the salve healed it. It sounds like a miracle but it really is that we have a phenomenal array of truly healing herbs, put together by a woman who knows her stuff.

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(Part 2) A recent client had been affected by osteoarthritis in his hips and shoulders. We created a personalised joint health programme that included supplements that can help promote healing in arthritic joints. After speaking with him today he said that he is mostly symptom free.

The real hero however is not so much the dietary changes and supplements but his body’s own healing processes. All disease starts with changes to cell functions. If this is left unchecked it can lead to tissue damage and eventually to disease.

Our bodies have incredible healing properties that can become overwhelmed by a disease process.

While physical damage to joints can cause arthritis it is important to see it as a real disease and not just wear and tear.

Joint cartilage appears as tough lifeless tissue. A closer look reveals something quite different. Cartilage matrix is secreted by specialised living cells called chondrocytes.

These cells maintain small pieces of cartilage. Anything that negatively affects chondrocytes will eventually damage cartilage. Lose enough cartilage and you have osteoarthritis.

Chondrocytes can become damaged

by several processes. Firstly free radicals can damage them to the point that they cannot function properly.

If left unprotected by antioxidants the chondrocytes will die and the piece of cartilage it maintained will eventually be lost. Secondly, corrosive enzymes called matrix metalloproteinases (MMP’s) attack the collagen matrix of cartilage, and thirdly unwanted inflammation can damage chondrocytes.

What we need to do is to protect chondrocytes, reduce inflammation, reduce free radical activity and reduce MMP activity. What this does is to allow our natural cartilage healing processes to spring to life. The result is less pain and improved mobility.

The answer is an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant dense diet. We then add anti-inflammatory supplements that can help restore joint healing processes. Please contact me for personalised advice.

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Time for change Win tickets to Big Boys Toys in wood industry The NZ Wood Processors and Manufacturers’ Association believe The New Zealand Labour Party, New Zealand First and The Green Party joining together to form the new government is a positive move for the industry.

The always exciting, action packed expo for boys of all ages is coming to Auckland this November, with hot new supercars, motorbikes, hotrods, food, stunt shows, diggers and must-have tech for the modern man. If you’d like to win tickets to this extravaganza of horsepower and chrome, take a closer look at this months Hawke’s Bay Farming Lifestyles. Among the pages you’ll find FIVE icons representing Big Boys Toys — discover them, and email us the page numbers and the adverts they appear next to before October 20 to be in the draw. Send your entries to comp@nsmm.co.nz — THREE lucky

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“As I have said on many occasions, the 30 years or so since privatisation of the NZ forestry sector and our exposure to (so-called) global free markets has, in fact, resulted in sector decline, high losses of jobs and contributed to regional economic deterioration.”

WPMA contends that current markets are not working because NZ wood processors and manufacturers face unfair competition from overseas rivals who get government subsidies.

Mr Stanley says that he is heartened by the coalition’s desire to see the NZ wood industry thrive by remedying these grossly unfair trading conditions.

“We must stop NZ logs being siphoned off overseas to manufacturer’s receiving government handouts at the cost of jobs in our regions and our ability to add value. We look forward to working closely with the new government to urgently bring about these much needed changes.”

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Because soil fertility is so specialised these companies have been getting away with focussing on sales rather than honest advice and honest science.

Evidence of this is the propaganda which has led to the acceptance that superphosphate and urea grow grass.

This is so entrenched in farmers’ minds that a lot of fertiliser applied is carried

acceptance that pH should be 5.8 to 6.0. A scientific table showing the availability of nutrients at differing pH levels illustrate that phosphate is twice as available at pH 6.3 compared to the availability of phosphate at 5.8pH. This is real scientific evidence that farmers have been taken for a ride.

So to increase your current phosphate levels just move your pH from 5.8 to 6.3. Your soil phosphates will actually increase without applying any phosphate.

There are two points to this picture I have painted.

1. Superphosphate, DAP and urea are all water soluble. If these products are applied in excess where do you think they will end up?

2. To stop the cause of the pollution, not only will these water soluble products need to be stopped but the NPK trained specialists will need reprogramming.

To change the direction of such an entrenched system won’t be easy for these chemical NPK companies or the farmers who follow them.

For real science with integrity which will save money and grow more grass, ring me. David Law, Forward Farming, 027 490 9896.

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One of our major fertiliser companies has stepped up to the plate to offer a helping hand to save our rivers and streams from future pollution.

Of course this would be like putting the handbrake on a fully laden logging truck on a downward slope. With the unquestionable evidence that these NPK fertiliser companies are largely to blame for this mess, they are running out of road. To keep their foot on the accelerator is not a viable alternative.

I applaud the CEO for joining the team. Although there is an utterance from this committed team to stop the pollution, the answers of how to do it will need to be found.

The current science is failing the environmental futures test and the two

on the back of superphosphate. If you need K and S a likely brew could be potassic sulphur super.

If you needed Mg a likely product would be surpentine super or if your budget is tight Super 10 would do the job. A modern change lately is the use of DAP which is a brilliant product to deliver soluble phosphate which is particularly efficient for cropping.

Research has proven that it will not lift phosphate reserves in the soil unless applied in heavy applications.

Where soil phosphate levels are already adequate, (30+ Olsen P), to use super phosphate as a carrier is wasting farmers’ money and only helping fertiliser companies increase their sales and profits, and the excess is polluting our rivers and streams.

A soil nutrient which is being used up with every tanker load of milk leaving the farm is calcium. Research has shown that an average dairy farm would need 300kg of lime per hectare per year to keep up with what is leaving the farm as milk.

Lime would therefore be a much more cost effective carrier for elements which are essential like potassium, magnesium, sulphur and trace elements. Another fallacy is the

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QTS are able to fit new forks and hand loaders, repair axles and replace clutches, and service your machinery ensuring your equipment is well cared for.

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If it is doors you require, Dream Doors have solutions for completely new kitchens or a kitchen renovation.

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Kelvin and Kelly Hall are no strangers to the industry. Kelvin spent 12 years making and installing kitchens in Taranaki before moving to the Bay four years ago.

Dream Doors offers New Zealand made cabinet doors, new drawers and a huge range of bench tops. Everything comes with a 10-year warranty.

If you need more than fresh doors and handles, Dream Doors also provides cabinetry and can make a space for a new dishwasher or other appliances if needed.

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Appreciating Hastings and surrounds Hastings is one of the two major urban areas in Hawke’s Bay and the district takes in a large and diverse area with a vast majority of productive land that is important to the regional economy.

Cape Kidnappers and Te Mata Peak are included in the local geographical hero list of must visits.

Hastings City is a busy supply town to the surrounding farms, orchards, and vineyards and is home to the regional hospital.

The district is the centre for all things wine and food, and covers a vast and scenic area boasting some of New Zealand’s finest wineries with some 65 wineries established across the district.

Fine examples of Spanish Mission architecture built after the 1931 earthquake can be appreciated, including the Hawke’s Bay Opera House, and the cycle trails are well-used for exploration and have fast become a reason to visit the area.

Heretaunga Street has an evolving enclave of cafes, restaurants and bars, and an old lady of Heretaunga Street - the Focal Point Cinema - was given a makeover not so long ago and is well worth visiting and taking a break to watch a movie.

The Hastings Night Market is held every Thursday from 5-9pm during the daylight saving season and a new vibrancy has developed in the inner city with its fresh produce, artisans and

ethnic street food, local artists and performers in attendance.

Placed throughout its central business area an impressive display of public artworks is on show. Of special significance is Nga Pou o Heretaunga – a collection of maori carvings (pou) that sits permanently in Civic Square. Each piece represents an important maori ancestor from the Heretaunga district.

Follow the Art Trail and have an ice cream at Rush Munro’s old fashion ice cream garden and to cool off in the summer sun, visit Splash Planet waterpark located in more than 6.5 hectares of subtropical gardens. This theme park offers many rides and attractions to keep the whole family happy.

The village of Havelock North offers many shopping and dining experiences and also well worth a day excursion are Te Awanga, Haumoana and Clifton, as are the beautiful white sandy beaches of Waimarama and Ocean Beach. Walk to the top of Te Mata Peak and visit the dramatic Cape Kidnappers, home of the world’s largest mainland gannet colony, and one of the top 50 golf courses in

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A. Galvanised steel is coated in almost pure zinc while ZINCALUME® steel is coated in an alloy of approximately 55% aluminium, 43.5% zinc and 1.5% silicon. Although both products are produced as continuously hot dip coated products, they perform very differently, especially in construction industry applications such as roofing and walling. All coatings protect steel sheets from corrosive attack by acting as a barrier to exclude air, water and other corrosion causes from contact with the steel substrate.

The rate of corrosion of ZINCALUME® steel is initially very similar to that of galvanised steel. However, the longer life of Zincalume® steel is attributed to the rapid slowing down of this corrosion rate shortly after the initial exposure to the environment. This is due to the formation of aluminium-containing corrosion products that consequently add to the barrier protection of the coating.

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Irrigation Matters with Clem Powell The mystery of gravity driven pumps Everyone wants something for nothing and pumps working from their own water supply are often a great way of getting water delivered to higher levels. The concept has been around since invention in late 1700s.

Often referred to as ram pumps from their predecessors, Glockemann 320 Pumps are in fact gravity driven pumps.

Without getting too technical, water rams are powered by the water hammer effect of the ports opening and closing whereas Glockemann 320 are operated by high volume/ low pressure water on a large diaphragm working a smaller piston and cylinder to give the lift pressure required.

At end of stroke a valve opens and components return ready for next cycle.

Water for the pressure side can come from either submersion of the inlet port, suction hose off the inlet port or dry mounting the pump where the water is tapped from the drive tube.

This is common in Australia and other places where remoteness of installation and flash flooding are a risk.

Another difference between ram pumps and gravity driven pumps is that ram pumps need more velocity/ high drop as this is best for producing the water hammer to power them.

Gravity driven need much less velocity and drop, usually between 0.6m and 1.8m, giving lift to 150m–200m vertical, although the spec charts do show delivery to 20m from 0.3m drop. This large power to lift ratio is not usually available from a ram pump.

Glockemann 320 pumps are a robust cast iron construction and have proven to give years of reliable service before overhaul, which is an inexpensive and simple task if you are a do-ityourself person.

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by Andy Bryenton

With warmer weather here many people will be thinking about summer adventures off the beaten track.

For those with a love of excitement and power, motocross and off-road bikes exert a magnetic pull this time of year, while for others it’s the promise of dry, winding tarmac that gets the blood pumping. Then again, with initiatives afoot nationwide to get people out there on two wheels, perhaps it’s just ease of parking or fuel economy which appeal.

While there are plenty of motorcycles which push the envelope in each of these directions — road-going power, off-road agility and frugal commuter practicality — there’s one which brings them all together into a happy medium.

And it does so by approaching from a totally different direction.

Honda’s new CRF250L actually has the profile of a working agricultural bike under its sharp panel work — or at least a distillation of all the lessons learned

by Honda over decades of building machines that can fulfill multiple roles on the farm.

Make no mistake, this is no rural workhorse though. The long suspension travel and high ground clearance, narrow profile for agility and willing 250cc fuel injected single cylinder engine of the CRF250L and its sister bike the

CRF350L Rally may be informed by the all-round reliability of Honda’s farming range, but there’s plenty of spice thrown in from the trophy-winning CRF off-road and enduro lineage as well.

The Rally version of the CRF250L goes one better, drawing inspiration from some of Honda’s legendary endurance bikes of old. In the days when the Paris to Dakar rally cut clean through the wilds of Africa, big, high-riding motorcycles duked it out with the 4x4s and trucks of this gruelling race. From such sport bikes like Honda’s NX650 Dominator were born, and now the styling cues of bikes like this — and later adventure models — come together in the Rally spec of the new CRF. With twin headlights, a wind deflector and updated panel work, the Rally looks ready to go anywhere.

Which is no illusion. Both iterations of the CRF250 are made to be learneraccessible, ready for the trail and the highway with just the addition of number plates. It’s a great bike for those who live within equal reach of town and country — an inexpensive commuter that can park in spaces too small even for many road bikes, plus a fun trail riding machine on the weekends.

Honda’s CRF250L takes it from the streets to the trail effortlessly

Have Honda hit the nail on the head?

New riders seem convinced, with the fuel injected 250s meeting a great reception

over the ditch. And if anything, New Zealand has even more of the kind of terrain the CRF250L was made to tame.

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