Manawatu Farming Lifestyles, March 2015

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MANAWATU FARMING LIFESTYLES

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More than 300 entries have been received from farmers, retailers, wholesalers and foodservice suppliers across the country for this year’s Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Steak of Origin competition. And all will be vying for the title of the nation’s most tender and tasty steak.

Entries will now go on to be scientifically tested at Carne Technologies in Cambridge for initial analysis.

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Finalists will be judged at the grand final in Palmerston North on May 11.

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Young farmers across the region are putting in the hard yards as they prepare for the Taranaki/Manawatu regional final of the ANZ Young Farmer Contest on March 28.

Three district events were held recently in Manawatu and Taranaki to find the top eight contestants to compete in the regional final.

Mar ton Young Farmers Club dominated the district competitions with four members qualifying for the regionals — Peter Fitz-Herbert, a sheep and beef farmer near Hunterville; Nigel Will, a beef and dairy farmer from Rongotea; Beef + Lamb New Zealand environment extension manager Eric van Reenan; and Taihape sheep and beef farmer James Roger. Both Peter and Nigel have previously represented the Taranaki-Manawatu region at the national finals in the past.

Sharemilker Jayden Harvey from the Central Taranaki Young Farmers Club; veterinary science student and Opiki Young Farmers Club member Samantha Edgar; Taranaki sharemilker Kane Hughes of the Alton Young Farmers Club; and agribusiness banker Cameron Black, representing the Massey Young Farmers Club, also secured spots at the regional final.

The regional competition will be held in two sections — a practical day followed by an evening show with dinner, speeches and a quiz round.

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TARATAHI TRAINEE HAMUERA (HAMU) TREANOR IS TAKING UP THE JOB OF A LIFETIME THIS MONTH AS HE HEADS TO IRELAND TO WORK ON A DAIRY FARM.

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amu is currently in the final stages of completing work experience on a Manawatu dairy farm — the final component for the National Certificate in Farm Skills (Work Ready) (Level 3). This qualification has been made available in Palmerston North through Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre working in partnership with the Universal College of Learning. With his work experience drawing to a close, Hamu asked Taratahi tutor Barry Don about the availability of full-time positions.

Around the same time, Irish dairy farmer David Deasy had made an enquiry through Taratahi’s website as he was looking for a New Zealand dairy farm worker to fill a position on his

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“I will be taking every chance to climb the ladder to set myself up to return to New Zealand to buy my own dairy farm.”

Barry has played a particularly supportive role in Hamu’s life over the past year and has shared many stories of his own OE in his early 20s.

“I jumped on a plane back in the 70s and my ‘can do’ attitude helped me secure roles managing dairy farms,” he said.

Barry said the experience broadened his horizons and changed his life. He believes a similar opportunity would do the same for Hamu.

“My advice to him was not to come back for at least three years. He’s such a diligent, capable and likeable young man.

“He has all the things us Kiwis are respected for over in the United Kingdom and will no doubt be highly sought after.

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“I’ve been told the farming practices over in Ireland are years behind what we have in New Zealand, so it will be great to learn some of the traditional farming ways,” said Hamu.

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“I’m mentally preparing myself, not knowing anyone and especially not having family regularly dropping by will be a challenge,” said Hamu.

However one familiar face will be accompanying Hamu — his partner Sheridan Hokianga.

“It will be an opportunity of a lifetime for both of us,” said Hamu.

“Sheridan has worked with me in all my dairying jobs, so she will be working alongside me in Ireland too.”

With overwhelming encouragement from Sheridan, both their families and all the Taratahi tutors, it didn’t take Hamu long to work out this was an opportunity that would change his life. And he hasn’t

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MANAWATU FARMING LIFESTYLES

1930–2015

AGRICULTURAL CLUB CELEBRATES

85 YEARS

by Denise Gunn

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rnest Lange from the Wanganui Education Board is credited with setting up the garden competition which included a mangold growing contest. Mr Lange travelled to garden plots to pull up and weigh the mangolds.

A seed company supplied the seeds to plant and there were strict rules covering the day seeds could be planted.

Club secretary Raewyn Hills said town schools also got on board and provided space for students to grow their vegetables if they didn’t have room

The Manawatu Oroua Boys and Girls Agricultural Club celebrates its 85th anniversary this year. Originally founded by local farmers, the club worked closely with schools in conjunction with the Wanganui Education Board.

When the Ministry of Education was established, the Manawatu/Oroua division began to run independently.

at home. Initially the competitions were limited to gardens but calves and lambs were soon integrated.

“In the early days a child could take their yearlings, two-year-old in-milk, and a cow in-milk, as long as they had been school calves themselves at some point,” said Raewyn.

“This was always a big journey for many as all the animals would have been walked to their events.”

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Kairanga School won the Craig Cup in 2014 of the schools involved on a rotational basis. As the event grew larger it moved to Timona Park in Feilding, then onto the Feilding racecourse.

However as motor racing began at the adjoining Manfeild racetrack, it became difficult to continue holding the event on the grounds and the competition headed to the Te Kawau Memorial grounds in Rongotea.

Club secretary Raewyn Hills said the main objective of the competition was to encourage children to not only rear but show their animals with justifiable pride.

“Schools made these days part of their charter with not just animals, but gardens, floral and craftwork as part of the day’s festivities.”

In 1949, Taikorea farmer Roy Craig donated the Craig Cup to the Manawatu Oroua Boys and Girls Agricultural Club.

Currently pupils from 20 schools take part

He originally won this trophy for showing his team of Clydesdale horses.

Mr Craig specified that this trophy be presented to the school which acquired the most points through their school agricultural day and participation in the regional championship day.

“Those same rules still apply today,” said Raewyn.

Two other trophies are also awarded annually.

The B & A Cup is presented to the school winning the most points at the regional championship day.

The runner-up receives the Thomas Borthwick Rose bowl. Currently 20 schools take part in the annual

competition with the option for others to also join up. Close to 40 judges are listed on the club’s database. Each year a couple of new judges will train under those more experienced.

The secretary and committee construct a table of all school dates and allocate judges, depending on entry numbers, at school pet days. All the judges are volunteers.

“We have to fit in with their busy schedules as it is always a busy time of year,” said Mrs Hills.

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After two years of intensive work, 2015 has been declared The International Year of Soils by the 68th United Nations General Assembly.

Soil and water are the two most important ingredients for all life on our planet and without them life would not exist. As a soil fanatic, it is gratifying that soil is recognised, as it has spent many years below the scene, as dirt, with very little recognition of its powerful ability to look after and support all life on our planet. Farming would not exist without it.

As a commercial grower I used to think that dirt was just a medium to stand the plant in.

The supposedly real deal was the synthetic NPK fertiliser to boost plant growth, and it did. However the synthetic nature and solubility of these types of fertiliser has over the years demineralised our soils down to dirt, taking the essential life out of the soil.

The perpetrator of the NPK balance sheet theory, Justus Von Liebig made the observation that plant

growth yields were in exact proportions to the minerals removed from the soil. Incorrect, if this was accepted as fact, how can we explain nature’s ability to achieve growth when chemical fertilisers are not added; such as the planets natural forests, jungles, savannahs and the likes of the Serengeti plains, the oldest self sustaining farm on the planet.

If this NPK theory is relevant, the problem of soil degradation would not be an issue today.

Von Liebig’s theory has no foundation in nature fertility as it leaves out the biological cycle of life in the soil. In the United States Department of Agriculture, year book 1957, Von Liebig’s NPK theory was discounted as having no basis in the overall picture of soil fertility or management.

Liebig, himself denounced the balance sheet theory before his death. Amazingly, this unscientific theory

has dominated and degraded soils on the planet for the past 175 years. How does that impact on present NPK soil science doctorates? Why have science and the agricultural research centres held so tight to this false principal in its recommendations to the farming fraternity? Could it be possible that this false theory sits well with industrial farming and the manufacture of chemicals?

The soil is a living entity containing such diverse microorganism, that today, the study of these organisms is one of the most complicated (and misunderstood) sciences. Of all microorganisms bacteria make up the greatest number in the society of the soil. They are diverse in species and perform many different functions in the fertility cycle. Some are involved in fixation of nitrogen, both from the air and from the breakdown of organic matter. They control the nitrogen, carbon, sulphur and iron cycles in the soil. Bacteria are predominant in the creation of enzymes and the breakdown of mineral elements into available plant nutrients.

These little creatures are designed and programmed to manage the soil. Agrissentials fertilisers contain bacteria, algae, fungi (especially mycorrhizal, the number one micro organism) protozoa and actinonmycetes. These microorganisms are the first to dine at the mineral table converting all minerals to a plant available form. Agrissentials multi– mineral, microbial rich fertilisers can introduce you to this superb natural system. Agrissentials fertilisers contain both minerals and micro-organisms to remineralise and bring life back to soils.

Another added benefit with Agrissentials best on earth fertilisers is that they can be applied at anytime (so you don’t have to wait for rain) whatever the weather. Don’t get caught in the fertiliser queue – get your fertiliser on now. There is a better way. Give us a call today and make a change for good. Freephone 0800 THE KEY that’s 0800 843 539 today for a FREE INFO PACK or you can contact your friendly representative Ben Tippins (North Manawatu) 021 738 601 or Lyn Woodcock (South Manawatu/Wairarapa) 021 0204 3028 to find out how we can make your farm more successful.

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Kiwi Fertiliser has completed its stable of quality fertiliser products Kiwi Fertiliser Company Limited was formed as a result of declining results, particularly with pastures, kiwifruit and avocado’s.

However the work we do is not limited to these crops as our programme works with all crops, trees and vines. We work exclusively with Kinsey Agricultural Services (KAS) of Missouri USA with soil audits conducted by Perry Agricultural Laboratory (PAL) also of Missouri USA.

At Kiwi Fertiliser we have no generic fertiliser blends. We soil audit each individual property or part thereof and we make up a recommendation based on the deficiencies or excesses found and offer a prioritised custom blend to suit each soil’s needs. Over the past sixty years as NPK has been promoted, we often find that calcium and

On a PAL test we need to see sulphur at 50 ppm on high producing dairy farms and at least 20 ppm or higher on sheep and beef farms. As sulphur is an anion and easily leached owing to rainfall we need to top sulphur up annually.

Sulphur has been highly underrated in NZ.

We have five years of solid results behind us based on the teachings Dr William Albrecht.

William A. Albrecht (1888-1974) was the foremost authority on the relation of soil fertility to human health and earned four degrees from the University of Illinois. He went on to be emeritus Professor of Soils at the University of Missouri. Dr Albrecht saw a direct link between soil quality and food quality; a link which necessarily lent itself to human health.

His work made clear that health stems from the soil. He drew direct connections between poor quality forage crops, and ill health in livestock.

He developed base-level requirements for soil nutrients which are still successfully being used today. Dr Albrecht’s work has been diligently continued, taught and improved by Neal Kinsey.

The programme works exceedingly well here in NZ, as it does in 70 other countries. The industrial age of big acid plants producing copious amounts of superphosphate and dumping it on farmland whether it needs phosphate or not is well and truly over. It is our opinion that the acid plants at the various ports around NZ are relics of a past industry, nevertheless an industry that did the country proud until the mid-eighties.

From the mid-eighties on it has been a race to the bottom for farmer shareholders. Amalgamations and takeovers in the fertiliser industry and various shut downs of inefficient acid plants has left two major Co-op’s in NZ that act more like corporates than Co-op’s; they seem more concerned about volume sales that are focussed on individual market share, big ego’s and power.

They appear to be involved in price collusion and to be focussed on lowest cost rather than providing quality products. They are not serving clients well by focussing on offering solutions for their respective shareholders that will add to a potentially vast improvement in animal health, pasture and crop health, and client profit.

Typical pasture produced by our fertiliser.

This paddock yields over 23tDM/yr and rising. magnesium have been grossly ignored, as have sulphur, boron and copper along with a number of other nutrients.

In soils that have a total exchange capacity (TEC) of 8.69 to 19.34 we aim to get Calcium to 68% and Magnesium to 12% of TEC; this is a very important aspect of the work we conduct. At Kiwi Fertiliser we treat calcium carbonate and Dolomite as true fertiliser inputs.

Applying Ag lime on its own generally leads to severe magnesium deficiencies; as calcium builds in soils there is generally a one to one reaction with magnesium. As calcium moves up by 1%, magnesium decreases by 1%. This is why we do not recommend a separate liming programme; we will recommend addressing magnesium and have it build to the correct level.

Some magnesium products will build in the soil: others will not.

On our test we like to see phosphate at 560 kg/ ha on a Bray II test. Below this we recommend Sechura RPR in order to build phosphate. 80% of the soils we audit have phosphate levels well above where they need to be.

Ray Shearer in his healthy crop of millet awaiting its first harvest.

We also want to see potassium at 919 kg/ha or between 2 to 5% base saturation. Potassium is a necessary input; another input that we find low on most soil audits. We invariably recommend potassium sulphate in our fertiliser mixes.

We want to maintain boron at 1.75 - 2.00 ppm, mostly we see B at 0.6 to 0.8, less than half of where this important element should be. Boron is another underrated fertiliser input in NZ. Copper needs to be 5 ppm; mostly we see copper at 0.6 - 0.9 ppm, certainly below 2ppm. In crops and vines we like to see copper 10 - 15 ppm.

We fully understand that nitrogen is an important element in a true fertiliser programme, to this end we invariably recommend ammonium sulphate as a nitrogen input; sulphur is a bonus. Many of our clients have changed from urea to ammonium sulphate and notice the difference. Among other positives, we find ammonium sulphate enhances phosphate efficiency.

Our clients invariably report markedly improved animal health as a result of changing from their NPK regime to the Albrecht/ Kinsey system of soil fertility, as animal health improves vet bills subside, condition score

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Reactive Phosphate Rock improves, somatic cell counts reduce and allround quality improves.

Average means mediocre. This is not in the mindset of our clients who are focussed on producing quality while remaining profitable, our clients are producing nutrient dense pastures and food by focussing and demanding quality inputs that affect positive change. The goal of lifting productivity and profit in agriculture is real; we are pleased to be in a position to effect positive change and work with positive clients who are “making it happen”. We invest in educating our soil fertility advisors with the knowledge of our soils programme; many of our people have attended Advanced 1 & 2 training with Neal Kinsey and other biological practitioners. Our role is also to reeducate farmers that there are permanent solutions to all of their issues relating to soil, pastures, pests and diseases, and animal health.

The race to the bottom is a lousy goal. We look forward to working with farmers and agribusiness people who want to join the journey to the top.

SECHURA RPR

Reactive Phosphate Rock Kiwi Fertiliser has completed filling its stable of quality fertiliser products by securing a shipment of Sechura RPR to arrive @ the Port of Tauranga mid-March.

Sechura RPR is an unadulterated naturally occurring reactive phosphate rock that is a well proven alternative to superphosphate and reverted super (dicalcic) in all situations.

We will recommend phosphate to those properties that are requiring capital dressings of P according to our soil audit, many properties we audit have excessive Phosphate.

Phosphate P % > 10 Sulphur S04-S % >2 Calcium Ca % > 27 As Calcium Carbonate >67 Total Neutralizing Power >70 In terms of CaCo3 Citric Solubility > 45%

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From Rob Cochrane GM, Procurement, PGG Wrightson Wool

Wool market rebounds

After a rather disappointing start to the 2015 calendar year with large volumes of crossbred fleece wool being passed in from the auctioneer’s rostrum at the first January auction, the wool market rebounded in late January with further improvement experienced in February, due to renewed interest from the exporting trade as new orders began to filter through from overseas mills.

During late January and through until time of writing in mid-February, a substantial volume of lamb’s wool was offered via the auction system with prices extremely buoyant compared to earlier predictions.

Crossbred fleece prices (both full length and early-shorn types) regained most of their lost ground to reach levels around 520 cents per clean kilogram

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with prices for these wools reaching levels just off the pace of full length fleece at around 495 to 500 cents per clean kilogram.

Crossbred lamb’s wool was, as usual at this time of the year, a feature at each auction during February and buyers were keen to bid on all lamb’s wool but with particular interest in those measuring finer than 30 microns.

Those measuring 27.5 microns reached levels just above the 700 cents per clean kilogram mark, whilst 28.5 to 29 micron types received approximately 690 cents, and 29.5 micron approximately 680 cents.

Coarser crossbred lamb’s wool in the 30 to 31 micron ranges also sold extremely well reaching 655 and 630 cents per clean kilogram respectively. Halbred and Corriedale wool types continued

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to draw very good support from the exporting trade and were keenly bid for.

Any lines of similarly bred lamb’s wool were extremely well sought after.

Limited Merino wool types were offered during the early February period however those offered generally sold at levels equal to those received in Australian brokers’ catalogues, where large volumes were catalogued and with noticeable market improvement predominantly for the best wool types.

Buyer comment in Australia at time of writing was that the poorer tender wools catalogued recently, but held over from earlier sales this season, remained difficult to place.

Sheep numbers have been decreasing at a rather rapid rate over the past ten years and, along with that, the obvious decrease in wool volume has perhaps offered an optimistic outlook for those growers who have stuck with a traditional dual purpose sheep breed, however we have witnessed a roller-coaster wool market soaring to extremely good highs but dipping, often very quickly, to unexplainable lows before travelling

along more modest humps and hollows prior to the surge beginning again.

Whilst there appear to be some very good orders on exporters’ books at present with processors in places like China, United Kingdom, Europe, India, as well as Australia and local mills, there are manufacturers using wool who are loathe to commit too far ahead and some who have already indicated that they have larger than desirable quantities of stock on hand at present and therefore will only commit to buy again once those stocks have reduced.

PGG Wrightson have secured some very good forward orders, via its subsidiary Bloch and Behrens, for a variety of wool types including crossbred, mid-micron and merino types, many of which are being forward contracted with wool growers currently.

Whilst forward contracts offer certainty some maybe limited for quantity therefore growers should be in contact with their PGG Wrightson wool representative early with expressions of interest. That’s my view.

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Even behind a double cab, the back deck is the size you’d find on some

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That means a ton on the back, four passengers, two and half tons towing capacity — and the ability to take that load anywhere.

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How many is too many?

I still get asked the question: “How many lame cows is it acceptable to have on a farm?” For many this seems to be an issue.

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Maybe you need those numbers to gain confidence that what you are doing is good enough. Maybe you need some guidance when you have discussions with your staff, your boss or with the owner. Whatever the reason for that question, I don’t think that anyone can actually answer it, for any attempt to answer it would be based on opinion rather than anything else.

In New Zealand the fast majority of lameness originates from laminitis. I know that many people still disagree with me on that one. A much more common belief is that lameness is mainly caused by the physical forces that come on the hooves when the cows are being pushed over rough tracks and in the yard. If that is the case, then the question of how many lame cows is acceptable is easy to answer. It should be ‘none’ because a lame cow would be the result of animal abuse and animal abuse should not be acceptable at any level. The problem is, however, that there is no evidence to back up the stone bruise theory

or whiteline separation from twisting and pushing on concrete. As I asked in a previous article, if you have some evidence, please let me know.

So, when I say that most lameness in New Zealand is laminitis-related what do I mean? Even though the terminology is technically not correct, when I talk about laminitis I am talking about unhealthy or damaged live tissue in the claw. As I said before, there is no evidence that a stone makes this live tissue unhealthy.

It is much more diet and stress-related.

Things like, not enough fibre, not enough to eat (controlled starvation), not enough water (especially at the cow shed), changing the diet too quickly, not enough resting time, slippery yards, dark, hot cow sheds and the list goes on. Pushing cows on the tracks and in the yard belong in that list as well, because you are stressing a cow when you do that. So, with these thoughts in mind, then the way we combat lameness will be different. We may add fibre to the diet, we may put water troughs near the

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cow shed, maybe even some sprinklers on the yard to minimise heat stress, have smaller herds, and have less cows and so on. This means that the original question is now much more relevant because there has to be a balance. It is easy to stop lameness from happening.

Just milk 100 cows and give them lots of hay. You won’t have lame cows but you will not make an income either.

So, in other words, there needs to be a balance between stress levels on the cows and profitability.

Because of that I would say that if you have no laminitis in your herd you are not pushing your farm hard enough.

I actually have not been on a farm where there is no laminitis, so that is not really the issue. Most farms have too much laminitis because the stress/profit levels are too far out (which reduces profit anyway). Because of all this my answer to the original question on how many lame cows is acceptable comes with a counter question: how much is lameness allowed to cost to you?

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Popular brands of Annuals such as: • Cutter Tetraploid Italian Ryegrass which is growing at a rate of 140kg per hectare per day as recorded south • Striker (Diploid Italian) which has proved lasting in the Northland area • Rage is popular after maize or kumara crops Perennials: • Alure (zero endophyte) are ideal for horses or lifestyle blocks along with main crops • Canterbury Ryegrass is persistent, tolerant and used extensively throughout NZ

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The potential of good pasture

The need to consider pasture quality as well as quantity in feeding livestock has increased exponentially in recent years with the economic growth of the industry, and this is particularly due to a move towards production to customer specification, particularly for carcass weight and timing of supply.

As stocking rates have dropped and per animal performance targets have become more important, pasture quality has become a critical constraint to achieving potential growth rates.

Findings from New Zealand and international research have been refined into The Beef and Lamb New Zealand Pasture Quality Workshop to provide a simple method of assessing pasture quality in the field for everyday use on-farm.

Visual assessments of dead matter, legume content, grass leaf and grass stem are turned into quantitative estimates of nutritive value by the computer package Q-Graze, which adds the effects of grazing to estimate the growth of young animals on that pasture.

Measuring the nutritive value of a pasture can be done by direct laboratory assessment or by indirect visual assessment. Laboratory measurements

include metabolisable energy (ME), digestibility, fibre and protein. How much do animals eat and why? What drives potential intake? The potential feed intake of animals is determined by physiological state (e.g. pregnancy, lactation, sex) and genetics. The animals’ health and the feed offered determine whether the potential is reached.

Intake is influenced by the amount of pasture offered to the animal, commonly estimated as pasture cover, pre — and post-grazing dry matter yield or height.

The more that is offered, the more that can potentially be eaten, up to a maximum where increased pasture dry matter yield has no more influence on intake and liveweight gain.

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Thinking about building or renovating? Then it’s time to start asking some questions: Am I allowed to do this? Do I need a resource and/or a building consent?

Who do I need to talk to? What are my obligations? How long will it take? How much will it cost? And what can I do if it goes wrong?

Firstly, a building consent is the formal approval granted by your local council that allows a person to carry out building work. Most projects will require consent and getting it is the owner’s responsibility.

Under the Building Act 2004, building work which requires consent may include, but is not limited to, alterations and additions, the demolition of existing buildings, sitework and installing communications aerials. The list is long, so it is important to get the correct information from the get-go. Usually, exempted works are those which will not impact on the structural integrity or safety components of the building.

However, no matter how minor the project is, all building work must be carried out in accordance with the Building Act, the Building Code and the local authority’s district plan.

Some projects may also require resource consent and this should be sorted at the time your plans are being drawn. For example, if you are adding a room and the foundations require major earthworks or if the new room will be closer to the boundary than allowed in the district plan, then you will need consent.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment website provides a step by step beginner’s guide to the resource and building consent processes and the Northland Regional Council website provides information specific to activities in this region. See www.dbh. govt.nz/rma-guide-index and www.nrc. govt.nz/consents for more information.

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