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Leadership challenge for growers The finalists in the inaugural Ahuwhenua Young Maori Grower Award 2020, have been told that one of the big challenges facing Maori, is increasing the number of young Maori into leadership roles in the horticultural sector.

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The three finalists, 24-year-old Brandon Cross, 26-year-old Maatutaera Akonga and 25-year-old Finnisha Tuhiwai, were taking part in an intensive three-day study tour designed to provide a range of insights, inspiration and experiences across the horticultural sector.

The Young Maori Farmer Award was inaugurated in 2012 and is designed to recognise up-and-coming young Maori in the farming and now horticulture sectors. This year the competition is for horticulture. It is built on the vision of the great leaders Sir Apirana Ngata and Lord Bledisloe who sought to inspire and encourage Maori to excel in the wider agri-sector.

One of this year’s competition judges, Matiu Julian of Primary ITO, says while Maori make up 28 per cent of the workforce in the sector, only four per cent are in leadership roles.

“All three finalists in this year’s competition are in leadership roles, but they are the exception rather than the rule. The study tour organised by New Zealand Apples and Pears was used as a platform for observing the finalists and selecting a winner to be announced in

November. It was designed to give the finalists an insight into the innovation taking place within horticulture, be inspired by Maori leaders and learn from key people who are involved across the horticulture value chain.”

The group visited the Ngati Pahauwera Development Trust Orchard in Napier and the Plant and Food Research facility in Hawke’s Bay. They were hosted by the Turners and Growers innovation team and Berries Farm NZ, and also participated in a presentation from Horticulture New Zealand.

They spent time with Ngahiwi Tomoana, the chair of Ngati Kahungunu, his wife Mere and Karl Wixon, a designer, educator, project manager, strategist and ‘kaupapaholic’.

Matiu Julian says the three-day study tour offered the finalists a sense of connection and celebration of Maori success as the next generation of young Maori looking to evolve and live up to the Ahuwhenua Trophy legacy in horticulture.

“The winner of the Ahuwhenua Young Maori Grower competition will be announced in Rotorua on Friday, November 20.”

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Drivers and locals can expect to see logging works and some traffic disruption around Tangoio and Tutira from November until April.

“Pan Pac Forest Products will be logging in Hawke’s Bay Regional Council managed forest on the Tangoio Soil Conservation Reserve. They will also be building roads and skid sites for next year’s logging in the Tutira Regional Park,” says Forest management adviser Ben Douglas.

“We are logging some land around Tangoio that’s close to the road. This means traffic will be affected, and there will be some delays for motorists between November and April. Please keep an eye on the Transport Agency website for updates.

“To manage the health and safety risk for walkers, Tangoio Walkway, including access to Te Ana waterfall, will be closed from November until May. Access to and camping at Lake Tutira will be as normal, but most of the Tutira Walkway will also be closed over the same period.

“We ask campers and walkers to follow our signage to keep everyone safe. There are lots of other tramping and walking options in the Tutira District, and we recommend people check the Department of Conservation website for options.”

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“Revenue from the Tutira logging will be used to offset Regional Council rates. The Tangoio logging revenue will be used to fund the management costs of the reserve.

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surrounding catchments in partnership with tangata whenua.” For any enquiries, contact Ben Douglas at the regional council on 027 706 7455.

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TUTIRA 50/50 SHAREMILKERS, ROB AND SHIRALEE SEERDEN UNEXPECTEDLY ACQUIRED TRIPLE THE NUMBER OF COWS UNDER THEIR CARE, AT SEERDEN HOLSTEINS.

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he couple were named Hawke’s Bay/Wairarapa Share Farmers of the Year in the NZ Dairy Industry Awards in 2017.

“We had a herd of 260 mainly Holstein Friesian cows, and have taken on a nearby 600-cow contract milking position. This is the second time in 10 years that we have run two dairy farms at once,” says Shiralee.

“It was a last-minute opportunity that we were offered in May, which meant it was hard finding additional experienced staff. The 325-hectare block is owned by the Poyntzfield Partnership and has a 50-bale rotary milking shed.

“The milking platform is 280-hectares and is 10 minutes from the 165-hectare farm which we have called home since June 2019. Our children Ashton, Jorden, Samuel, Suzannah, Peter, Daisy and Bob, all enjoy helping out when required. We employed two people who were already

working on the farm and produced 155,000 kilograms of milksolids in 2019-20, but production was down because of the drought.

“The move was character-building.

A lack of feed compounded by the drought forced the herd to be dried off in late March, and there were animal health issues. We knew we would face a few challenges in our first season, but certainly not that many. Within months of our arrival, we were fighting to save cows with theileriosis.”

The disease is caused by a bloodborne parasite, primarily transmitted by ticks.

“It is widespread in half of the North Island. Our stock became infected by grazing on the same property as a mob of cattle from up north. It causes anaemia and cows can go downhill quickly. It stays in their system and comes out in times of stress. The grass

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shortage made it worse. We bought-in molasses, a high-energy feed, to try and keep as many animals alive as we could, but we lost 15 cows.”

The farm produced almost 100,000kgMS in the 2019–20 season.

That was 20,000kgMS behind the Seerdon’s target, but the result still eclipsed the farm’s previous production record by 20,000kgMS. “We ensured we came into our second season with plenty of feed.

About 150 tonnes of maize silage was contracted just as the drought started.

That helped us through the summer and autumn, and we were still feeding it in the winter,” said Rob. “In mid-June, the herd had an average body condition score of 4.9, a month out from calving. We are really looking forward to having a good season. We have regrassed about 80 per cent of the milking platform with hybrid Italian ryegrasses, and our average pasture cover is 2,400kg/DM/ha.

“The herd started calving in midJuly. That is our first spring milking heifers born following an overhaul of mating practices. Previously, cows were mated using sires from a single genetics company. In 2017, we had our herd scored by approved aAa analyser Tracey Zimmerman.” aAa is a dairy cattle breeding guide created by a Vermont Holstein Friesian breeder in 1950.

“Analysers study all the parts of each cow and determine the causes of functional problems, such as a narrow pelvis. They teach breeders how to prevent the same problems in the next

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generation of animals. We looked into it after talking to another dairy farmer.

Under our previous system, we were becoming frustrated with the quality of the feet and udders in our herd.

“For the past three years, the herd’s two-year-old heifers have been inspected and scored by Tracey’s partner Jurjen Groenveld prior to mating. They receive an individual lifetime score, a six-digit code, which is used to find a bull to correct the animal’s weaknesses.

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“The herd was DNA profiled five years ago to identify animals producing milk free from the A1 protein.

“Three-quarters of the herd is now A2A2.”

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Wool to the fore

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Barbie Cassidy describes herself as a sheep person, brought up in the country at the foothills of the Wakarara Ranges.

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was a war child, and my father had sheep and raised racehorses. He believed I should work hard and from five years old it was my job to get rid of the rabbits on the farm,” says Barbie.

“I had a cocker spaniel, called Sue, a knife, a little spade and one of mum’s stockings. I would walk around the farm, and Sue would find the rabbit holes. I

would pull the babies out, dispatch them and cut off the tails. Dad gave me a threepence per tail and Sue ate the meat.

“My other jobs included collecting the tufts of wool off the fences and plucking any dead sheep I found. The wool I gathered was so valuable a bale would buy a cow or nearly a car.

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shape from round to oval and found a friend to sew the covers. We filled those first two with bags of gifted wool knops.

“The wool knops are made with a machine that blows strong wool with force to make shapes. A man called Phil Collins was using it to insulate houses.

I rang him to congratulate him on his efforts. He came and gave me two big plastic bags of knops. We made the dog beds with it, and my soapbox thing is now to get strong wool in the light.“ Barbie says a hobby was born, the dogs approved and the word spread like a chain letter.

“Nearly 30 years later, the beds are still made on a daily basis with many

more uses for knopped wool arising.

The knop wool doesn’t flatten and is therapeutic. One day I started putting the wool into sacks, and a labrador sat comfortably on the sack. Now I make a sack bed for farm dogs, with four kilograms of long fleece wool.

“Each dog needs its own, never pass a bed on to other dogs because if a bitch has been on heat, another dog will rip it up.

“I use a finer, sanitised small ball in pillows for people. The small version is for very important passengers, in hospital, for children in car seats and they are great between legs following a hip transplant.

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Knops of wool are used in all of Barbie’s pillows and dog beds for their therapeutic qualities and natural warmth

“My website, vipbeds.co.nz has all the options available. The wool gives the dogs joints a bit of a massage.

Letters constantly arrive attesting to the therapeutic help from both forms of wool.

“We sold our property and moved to the beach to retire. Two days a week I go to my shed and post my beds and pillows. All our sofas were filled with wool. Our family does not have any synthetics at all.

“We just wear and live in wool, silk, cotton and linen and never ever get a cold.

“We only believe in natural fibres because synthetics are so bad for you.

I married an amazing man who did so much in this district. He got roads where there were no roads and started a marine reserve and RT radios in trucks.

“Every day has been exciting, with lots of fun, but the world is changing so much. It is time we get back to the good stuff, and bring wool to the forefront of New Zealand homes.

“We need to back our sheep farmers and realise the health benefits of wool products. It is a waste to have bales of wool stored in sheds because nylon is the most used product. We need to lead the world with woollen products.

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New improvements to the building code on November 5 this year are designed to make consenting easier and continue to keep pace with new materials and construction technology.

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Changes earlier in the year removed consent requirements for many simple structures. However, this latest round of changes, initially slated for September but delayed by Covid, addresses ways to tighten up the paperwork, remove ambiguity, and streamline the process of getting a project up to building code standard.

The proposed changes focus on acceptable solutions and verification methods across a range of aspects of the trades. For example, cladding requirements are being looked at in the context of preventing fire spread, and there are new acceptable solutions for stormwater to assist in surface water issue management. Drainage, gutters, downpipes and predators, internal wet areas, and even accessibility for light switches and plug sockets get some

attention. All in all, these changes add up to an easier road to compliance.

“Between February 17 and April 17 2020, MBIE consulted on proposals to issue two new Acceptable Solutions and amend twelve existing Acceptable Solutions and Verification Methods,” said ministry spokespeople.

“In total, there were 27 amendments proposed across 12 documents.

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Solar power is a technology that has been teetering on the edge of massive uptake for the past decade, with pros and cons relating to its payback time and cost to benefit ratio filling kilometres of columns like these. Now, it looks like a decisive point has come down in solar’s favour, with building consents removed from ground-based solar arrays.

It may have a much larger impact in rural areas than in urban environments, and not just due to space constraints.

The new amendments to building rules, which came into effect at the beginning of September, make it clear that there are no consents required for groundbased, ie not mounted on a roof, solar arrays up to 20 square metres, or double this if the design and build is undertaken by a qualified professional.

However, that sized restriction is struck off for those building solar in rural areas.

To be fair, that’s also where the open space is there for the taking, in areas, perhaps, too steep for livestock which conveniently face north. Not that a single gigantic solar array may be needed for some of the most popular rural applications we’ve discovered for free, plentiful sunlight. Helping boost water heating systems in a cowshed is one of those with a growing track record of success, while another is gathering photovoltaic energy to help refrigeration systems do their job. There’s a nice symmetry to this, as the hotter the sun gets, them or it helps cool the vats and ice banks.

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Summer is all but here, and that means the season for our nation’s buy water carriers to save the day, bringing life-giving H2O to rural properties. The water they deliver is as pure as possible for better health, but the system it gets poured into deserves some attention at this critical time of year.

An unsung hero of home cooking, sanitation and garden irrigation, the water tank, which supplies most rural Kiwi homes does its duty unthoughtof until trouble arises. A check of the system from top to bottom as water becomes a precious summertime commodity could save hassles and even illness further down the track. Experts

in the field suggest starting with the inputs. That usually means a trip to the roof, where rainwater is collected.

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Fencing Contractors NZ was started in February 2006. It aims to raise the profile and standards of the industry, growing the market for fencing contractors and associated trades, and ensuring good, timely advice. With more than 500 members, it’s a stronglymandated industry group.

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Users of the heavily restricted herbicide paraquat are being reminded that they must dispose of any remaining stocks of four specific products by December 12 2020.

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Paraquat is a broad-spectrum contact herbicide that has previously been used in the horticultural and agricultural sectors for clover seed, lucerne and kumara production.

In late 2019, in addition to banning the four products, an EPA Decisionmaking Committee placed greater controls on paraquat. This restricts its future use to agricultural or biosecurity purposes only.

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