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Although last year was a challenging season for the rural sector due to Mycoplasma bovis, farmers still managed to raise $650,000 through calf donations to the scheme. IHC national manager fundraising Greg Millar said despite falling short of the IHC’s one million dollars target; it was great to see the rural community continue to support the cause. “The Calf and Rural Scheme will continue, with this year more important than ever.

“While the process of the scheme has changed, its purpose has not; to make a real difference to the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, particularly those living in rural communities. Now, more than ever, we need your support,” said Mr Millar.

Since its launch in 1984, the IHC New Zealand Calf Scheme fast gained the support of the dairy industry. The scheme is off to a good start this year with pledges of calves already received.

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Mr Millar said farmers are now asked to arrange transport of their IHC calves, along with their own calves, to the sales.

“Many farmers have told us they prefer this system, as it is more convenient to send the calf or calves at a time that suits them.”

The sale of that particular tagged calf will be donated to IHC from any saleyard in New Zealand. “If you aren’t able to send your calf or calves to sale with your own lot, IHC can pay to get it there,” Millar said.

“You just need to organise this with your local transporter and let us know.”

IHC acknowledges the ongoing support of PGG Wrightson Livestock, which has been involved with the scheme for more than 30 years.

For those who wish to donate in lieu of a calf, the IHC Virtual Calf Scheme option is still available via the IHC website ihc.org.nz/calf or phone 0800 442 500.

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The government’s recent delivery of landmark action on climate change has drawn a mixed response from Federated Farmers.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the introduction of the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment bill to parliament would address the longterm challenge of climate change.

“We’ve built a practical consensus across government that creates a plan for the next 30 years, which provides the certainty industries need to get ahead.

“Carbon is the most important thing we need to tackle — that’s why we’ve taken a net zero carbon approach,” she said.

“Agriculture is incredibly important to New Zealand, but it also needs to be part of the solution. That is why we have listened to the science and also heard the industry and created a specific target for biogenic methane.”

Federated Farmers New Zealand is on board with the purpose and framework of the Zero Carbon bill; however, the rural advocacy organisation believes the methane target has no grounding in science or economic sense.

Federated Farmers vice president Andrew Hoggard is the spokesperson on climate change.

“Criticism from New Zealand First that Feds are being unreasonable with our comments on the flaws in the Zero Carbon bill’s targets are of concern,” he said. He said Federated Farmers supported the Labour/NZ First/Green proposals to establish a framework to tackle global warming and they are grateful for New Zealand First’s continued efforts to get a fair deal for the agricultural sector on a number of fronts.

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The McKenzies have since provided transport services, rescue missions and a variety of services for people in rural situations.

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of our brand,” says Robyn. “For Keith one of the most memorable missions was helping a police officer capture a mass murderer in hilly mountainous terrain, which he knew like the back of his hand.

“They both were aware of the unpredictable mental state of the person but armed with intense local knowledge, helicopter skills learnt through mustering cattle around trees in Australia, plus the power of the Hughes 500D helicopter, they captured the offender before more tragedy occurred.”

Keith was awarded a QSM for his assistance to police and community.

They have completed many other missions including going to a young boy who had a fatal horse accident. Robyn says such memories highlight the perils of remote living.

Keith has more than 23,000 hours rural flying experience and was an instructor on planes and helicopters.

“His has amazing stories from all over New Zealand. He has helped build the ski lifts on Ruapehu and the Remarkables. He is used to different weather conditions and going from tarmac to grass landing strips. He had retired but has returned to teach the younger pilots.“ Flying to Great Barrier Island is also a regular service, and takes 30 minutes from Auckland.

“People on Great Barrier Island have been attending Rural Women’s Network for some 70 years and participate in

things like educational programmes for children and knitting beanies for babies.

They have speakers from all over the world visit, and it is awesome to fly to the island daily and hear encouraging stories. The barrier is like going overseas, and the beautiful beaches are very invigorating with clear water.

“It is a nice place for farmers to have a retreat — they go fishing and walk the beaches or up Mt Hobson.

The landscape is always changing, and you can book a boat tour. The wildlife is wonderful including the brown duck, which is endangered.

“Sixty-five per cent of the island is conservation estate, and they are regenerating the kauri trees as the original were cut down to make boats in the 1920s.

“Because we are a lifestyle company we sold the helicopter and now have four planes. Winning the rural women award was really encouraging and validating for what we do. I have met some amazing people, and it is exciting to be a part of the organisation. I am so busy at work it is a challenge to get out, and it is the same for women in farming — you can become isolated, and I firmly believe rural women has an amazing support network.

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MANAWATU FARMING LIFESTYLES

BY DENISE GUNN Stock manager Alex Field’s dairy farming background, along with a varied range of practical experience, paid dividends when he began studying towards a diploma in rural business.

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of finishing farms. It was there that he was introduced to Young Farmers.

“A work colleague dragged me along to a meeting. I’ve been a member ever since.”

When Alex’s work on the finishing farms ended, he moved to the Waikato.

Due to remoteness his involvement with Young Farmers, was smaller.

After spending a year working with genetics and service bulls in the Waikato, he moved to his current position as stock manager on Tunnel Hill at Turakina.

The 1,000ha property runs 3,200 Romney breeding ewes and 310 Angus breeding cows, grows 150ha of maize grain and has 220ha in production forestry.

“We lamb in June and process the first lambs in October. The aim is to have the first spring lamb on supermarket shelves. Lamb is also exported yearround to 12 countries.”

As a sole-charge stock manager, Alex is tasked with the day-to-day farm operations to keep the place running smoothly and efficiently.

“Tunnel Hill is an intensive farm. Ewes are heavily shepherded at lambing and calves are tagged at birth. This means winter, yes winter, is very busy. Given its unique coastal attributes, lambing starts in June. Lambs are weaned in October. They are sold under the brand Coastal Spring Lamb, which is another unique aspect of this job.”

Alex is currently vice-chairman of the local Marton Young Farmers. He said it’s the people who make Young Farmers enjoyable.

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A competitive nature has seen Alex compete in three district Young Farmers contests. This year, he won the Taranaki/ Manawatu FMG Young Farmer of the Year. His win has secured him a spot in the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final to be held in Hawke’s Bay in July.

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“If I wasn’t into competing, I was hungry,” he said. Alex and his partner, Ashleigh, are working towards getting

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“I dream of what every little boy dreams of — having your name on a bit of land. The farm that you can call your own. It’s not going to be easy but when is anything good easy.”

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MANY HIGHLIGHTS FOR RURAL FESTIVAL

by Denise Gunn A Viking’s head, a bull tahr and a six-metre tall dandelion were among the winning entries at this year’s Kimbolton Sculpture Festival.

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ow into its second year, the festival drew a crowd of more than 3,600 people, including rural sculptors from as far as Ashburton to Napier. Kimbolton Arts and Sculpture Trust chairman Tony Waugh said the festival is an opportunity for rural people to have a go.

“Many issues face farmers in New Zealand; this is a way of bringing people together and doing something more practical than just talking about the challenges we face.”

A wide range of materials was carefully crafted into sculptures to reflect farming and outdoor life. Ashburton butcher Stuart Mitchell won the top prize with his

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“The idea came from not being able to shoot one, so I made one. Being from the South Island, Ashburton, they are a popular hunt,” said Stuart.

“The whole sculpture took about six months, just adding bits now and then after work and weekends.”

Stuar t’s sculpture impressed the judges.

“The spirit and form of this wild animal are captured wonderfully with a complex integration of scrap metal elements,” they said.

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Last year, Stuart won the Best Small Sculpture.

The People’s Choice Award went to the winner of the Creative Cocky Award, Massey University student Sophie Coleman. Sophie sculptured a sixmetre tall dandelion, Big Wishes, from corrugated iron, pipe and wire.

It was Sophie’s first year entering the festival and also the only sculpture she had ever created. It took her hundreds of hours for five months to create; the 19-year-old used 390 metres of wire, 43 metres of pipe from gates, 15 sheets of corrugated iron and a ballcock.

Sophie liked the idea of supersizing something that was very small in nature and decided on a giant 200:1 dandelion.

“The scale factor 200:1came from working out just how much the wire could handle when creating the 92 dandelion parachutes. I then catered to that maximum to make it as big as I possibly could.

“Seeing as it was so large, I had to make sure it was easily disassembled but still with a base strong enough, through careful planning, to hold the weight of the seed head.”

Sophie said her sculpture aimed to symbolise happiness and the simple joys of life.

Judges said Big Wishes was on an Alice in Wonderland scale, making creative use of simple materials. An anonymous purchaser bought Sophie’s sculpture and donated it to the

organising trust to put on public display in the Kimbolton village.

Local garage owner and last year’s overall winner, Terry Hawkins, took out the Local Yokel award with his Wally the Viking sculpture. Terry owns and runs the Kimbolton Garage, working on his sculptures in the evenings or weekends.

Judges described Terry’s sculpture as a stunning work that masterfully integrates an impressive variety of metal components.

The runner-up award went to Pam Corpe from Beaconsfield with her copper figure based on herself in firefighting kit.

Pam’s sculpture was made from three copper hot water cylinders subjected to “a lot of bashing with hammers”.

First-time entrant Paul Andersen won the Small Sculpture Award with his Singer Tractor, which was expertly crafted from an old Singer sewing machine.

Paul used parts from a fridge, cutlery, pushbike and car to create several different models including a steam roller, tractor, racing car and motorcycle.

He estimates spending close to 20 hours creating his winning model but twice as many thinking about and planning it. Youth awards were won by students from new entrants to secondary school ages, with Kimbolton School’s Pukeko Room taking the preschool and primary group awards.

The 2020 Kimbolton Sculpture Festival is shaping up to be even larger.

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Promises and shortfalls

by Ian McKelvie, MP for Rangitikei

For all the government’s talk of wellbeing and fairness, its deliveries to date have been bad for New Zealand families and have hit the poor harder than most.

What is fair about the median rent going up by $50 a week under this government?

How has well-being improved for the extra 13,000 New Zealanders now on a benefit? What stories of heartbreak are behind a more-than-tripling of emergency housing grants?

Five months into 2019, it is worth reflecting on the things that the government vowed to deliver and the ones that can already be called a fail. It’s a long list, so we’re giving a representative cross-section.

The government said it would boost the number of sworn frontline police by 1,800 by November 2020, but it‘s already clear it won’t deliver.

Many New Zealanders would assume housing, and in particular social housing, would have been a priority for the government. The prime minister cited KiwiBuild when she debuted her ‘year of delivery’ slogan.

KiwiBuild has been allocated $2 billion, and all it has delivered is a few dozen houses. That’s despite the government talking big on housing and hiring public relations consultants. A failure to deliver and a shambles.

Annual economic growth has slowed from about four per cent to just above

two per cent. Growth for each person stalled in the most recent two quarters, which means the only driver of economic growth is a bigger population.

The finance minister also talked about jobs growth back in December 2017 but fast-forward to 2019, and we’re going backwards. The number of New Zealanders with jobs fell by 4,000 in the past three months. Under National, new jobs created at a rate of 10,000 a month.

Budget 2019 has $95 million for four years for 3,280 extra teachers. The package falls well short of the ministry’s estimate that more than 8,000 extra teachers will be needed in classrooms over the next five years. Rounding out the short-list of non-deliveries is the Provincial Growth Fund, a $3 billion payback to NZ First for allowing Labour to win the Treasury benches.

The Minister for Regional Economic Development boasted that 10,000 jobs could be created by the PGF but on closer inspection could only find 562. National could only find 54, and the minister has now become coy about the numbers. The likely verdict? Another failure to deliver. The prime minister’s declaration that 2019 is the ‘year of delivery’ will come back to haunt her.

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Who are you going to call?

Praising the mobile workshop

by Andy Bryenton

The concept of calling in the professionals is not a new one, and there are plenty of records from ancient times of folks needing that extra bit of help, which was delivered by horse and cart.

Some of our oldest written language comes from a clay slab dug up from the Iraqi Desert, dated to the Sumerian people of 5,000 years ago before Egypt was much more than a collection of huts next to the Nile. It’s a complaint about a bill for fixing a leaky roof.

From the days of the old draught horse, when the great guilds of tradespeople were established (the most famous of which went on to become the modern charitable society, the Freemasons) through to colonial times, when farmers called in traction engines to shuttle plough their fields and process hay into bales, it’s been the same story.

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on our side, and we don’t have the specialist tools and expertise to go it alone. What all of these people have needed, from the horse rider looking for a mobile farrier through to the medieval king sending out for engineers to make his castle impregnable to Vikings, is a mobile workshop. These days there’s not much call for massive fortifications, as Vikings are fairly thin on the ground.

When the movie industry needs a model castle, or, more prosaically, when the average farmer needs tractor repairs, a new water heater or an electrical fix, they turn to the tradesman’s best friend, the white van. Note that the colour can change according to signwriting and

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branding, but the definition is as generic as ‘sticky tape’. There is a particular type of vehicle, which is purpose-built for western tradespeople to use as a combination office, tea break room, workshop and toolbox.

It all begins with the Ford Transit, the original tradesperson’s van from the 1950s. You’ll see them carrying BBC camera equipment in the background of shows like Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

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It was not until 1965 that the bulldognosed Transit we all know came into production, and it was initially a hit with crooks and cops rather than builders and plumbers.

Robbers from the ‘old firm’ days when the Kray brothers ruled the London underworld loved how much loot you could pack in the nondescript but lively Transit; the law loved how many constables you could ferry to a fracas in the back. One of these 1960s Transits holds the record for longest service.

It’s still on the road today after going all the way round the clock, a distance comparable to a moon mission, and it belongs to a plumbing firm in (appropriately) Bath, England.

Here in New Zealand, the Transit Van and its opposite number from the Holden and General Motors stable, the venerable Bedford J series, have been transformed into everything from farming flat decks to ambulances. You can still see Bedford ambulance camper vans at holiday hot spots each summer, next to another mobile workshop on wheels, the ice cream truck. The Japanese and Korean marques have made their mark in recent decades, with the Hiace, L300 and their ilk muscling into a territory where Ford still produces a dominant product.

Nowadays, the farmer or business owner in need of fast response can summon a mobile welder, tyre service, diesel mechanic, or builder with their mobile phone. The man in the van is less likely to get lost along the way thanks to GPS. There have been some big advances in miniaturising the gear,

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Electric tools come of age

by Andy Bryenton

No so long ago petrol was king when it came to handling outdoor power, and the average tradesperson would carry a can of two-stroke mix everywhere.

Times have changed, and there are now some serious tools which run exclusively off electricity, raising the possibility of charging up a whole array of batteries direct via inverter from the ute or van itself. These are no weak or retiring versions of their petrol counterparts either. Here are three of the best, which are beloved of modern trade professionals, and might be a good match around the farm as well.

Stihl invented the world’s first electric cut off saw specifically for those circumstances where it’s too far to run an extension cable.

Compact and lighter than its petrol opposite number, the TSA 230 can cut tiles to size, bricks for masonry projects, and even comes with an abrasive wheel to slice steel like a roast dinner.

Weighing in at 3.9 kilograms, the TSA 230 can cut to a depth of 70mm and keep going continually for up to 15 minutes on a single battery. That’s a quarter hour of powering through stone and steel, which is pretty impressive.

Makita has made cordless drills for years now, but they have upped the ante with the super powerful DHR 242Z. A hammer drill, which is as serious as those that run a cable or

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Rural New Zealand is a place, which tends to favour the multiskilled; after all, there’s so many things to do around the farm or even the rural home that it’s good to develop a wide range of abilities to fix, mend, renew and restore those things that fail due to wear and tear.

The big jobs sometimes require a professional approach, especially when it comes to those tasks that are a bit out of the ordinary. It is doubly true for those that take place off the ground, such as repairing roofing and guttering or taking care of overgrown trees.

According to ACC statistics, the most dangerous thing in the tool shed is not a saw or hammer, but a ladder, with $17 million in injury claims a year recorded from ladder accidents.

That statistic goes up as the age of the ladder user goes up, too; a fact accident analysts put down to the cando attitude of our older generation, who are used to tackling tasks themselves.

Relatively recent changes to the rules about working above a certain height have recognised the perils of falling and of poorly supported surfaces, leading to the requirement for professional tradespeople to erect scaffolding or use a secured harness in many aerial

applications. While prudent, this had also added to the time and cost of undertaking such projects, leading many people to try to go it alone.

This time of year is especially busy when it comes to getting off the ground, with gutters to clean, roof leaks to repair and dead tree limbs to cut down before storms drop them. The overwhelming message from health care providers is to be careful, assess the situation, and in any doubt as to your equipment and abilities, call the professionals.

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W H O A R E YO U G O I N G T O C A L L ?

The origins of a Kiwi tradition

by Andy Bryenton

As far back as most dairy farmers can remember, June 1 has been called Gypsy Day; the time of year when farms changed hands and sharemilkers took to the roads to move to their new pastures for the season.

Digging deeper to find out why this is the case reveals a couple of interesting points. The first of which, of course, is that this day has nothing at all to do with the Roma people of Europe, the original Gypsies, who, along with the Irish Travellers, make up the largest nomadic culture remaining in the developed world. The name is a nod to the way these folk would travel the roadways in ancient times, with all their possessions and their livestock in tow.

It’s a romanticised notion of life on the road, but one that resonated with our colonial forebears, who, once a year would see cows and wagons lining the rural roads as farms changed hands.

Nevertheless, why June 1? The day seems arbitrary, but the effects are real.

Schools see enrolments jump around this time, those tradespeople who renovate homes are busy in the rural heartland, and hundreds of millions of dollars change hands as properties are

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However, the oldest records point to the date set not by farmers but by clerks, at the State Advances Corporation in the 1890s. This body was set up to lend money to settlers for creating new farms, and the powers that be expected

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June 1 was set as a date different from the end of the corporate year, but also to enable physical messages to reach London, still the hub of commerce, by ship, before the end of the British business year. In those days of manual transactions, paper deeds and no radio or internet, setting a single day for major farming transactions made it easy to get everyone on the same page. That’s why June 1 is still a busy time to this day, and why it carries such an interesting name.

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do not deny human-induced climate change nor our responsibility to mitigate. The pastoral sector is willing to target net zero global warming impact from agricultural gasses, but the targets for methane announced by the government go beyond net zero global warming impact. DINZ cannot support these targets.

“The rationale for methane to be reduced by anything between 24 per cent and 47 per cent by 2050 has not been made clear to us. We can only assume that the government expects agriculture to make ‘headroom’ for other sectors to continue emitting.”

Dr Walker says this is unfair for the sector, but also a bad choice for New Zealand because in the absence of new mitigation technology.

A 47 per cent reduction in agricultural methane emissions will require a 47 per cent reduction in pastoral farming outputs. That could reduce rural employment and export revenues from

meat, milk and fibre by half, or about $12 billion a year.

“The government has expressed no plan for how this employment and export revenue could be replaced and New Zealanders’ living standards maintained. Reducing agricultural methane emissions is a temporary solution; it buys time but does not address the fundamental cause of climate change, which is the release of fossil carbon into the atmosphere.

“The deer industry alongside other pastoral industries supports the pastoral sector reducing nitrous oxide to net zero and gradually reducing and stabilising emissions of methane so that its levels in the atmosphere do not increase.

“Accepted atmospheric science suggests that current annual reductions of 0.3 per cent in agricultural methane will result in a 10 per cent reduction by 2050 and ensure that the gas causes no additional atmospheric warming.

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“It is unfortunate that there is currently a backlog of farmers that need to be contacted, and possibly placed under movement restrictions, especially at this time of the farming calendar.

This situation is disappointing, and we understand the pressure that this puts on affected farmers. Our priority now is to get the high-risk properties contacted as soon as possible. Unfortunately, disease eradication impacts on many farms even when the likelihood of disease is extremely low.

“We recognise the significant financial and emotional impact surveillance or restrictions has on the lives of many farmers but remain confident that eradication is viable and worth the effort. We agreed on a plan to strengthen, update and better resource the M bovis programme. We want to share this plan with you as changes are rolled out during the coming weeks.”

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There will also be an increased focus on working with industry partners and key groups, including Federated Farmers.

“The day-to-day oversight of the programme requires significant capacity — we have all committed to stepping up to this challenge. We have commissioned an independent industry expert, alongside MPI’s chief science adviser, to deliver a report into the cause and effects of the current surge and identify additional immediate improvements.

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The Technical Advisory Group will be reconvened ahead of its planned midyear review to review the programme, particularly in light of the current surge, and reassure us that the programme

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“We have appointed Kelvan Smith as an independent chair of the governance group to improve oversight and decision making, and will be reviewing whether any further changes to the governance are required. “Senior epidemiological staff are central to effective eradication and must be positioned to provide independent advice and input into the programme. Changes will be made to strengthen their input and their connections with MPI’s chief science adviser and the dairy and beef industry’s technical experts. “Eradicating M bovis is a complex, challenging and confronting undertaking. Collectively we have already invested heavily in the

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