Manawatu Farming Lifestyles, October 2016

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MANAWATU FARMING LIFESTYLES

Farmers warned against spread of velvetleaf

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The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is cautioning farmers not to plant left-over seed from any of the six lines of fodder beet seed imported last year and known to be contaminated with velvetleaf.

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Earlier this year, Horizons Regional Council biosecurity staff confirmed findings of velvetleaf in fodder crops in the Whanganui, Ruapehu and Horowhenua districts. Staff worked closely with MPI to assist in containing the spread of the weed.

Response incident controller David Yard said there are hundreds of properties around New Zealand that have velvetleaf on them.

“MPI has banned the importation of any of the affected lines, but we believe there are likely to be farmers out there who bought contaminated seed lines last year and could have left-over seed in their sheds.”

“Our advice is quite simply — don’t plant it this year,” said Mr Yard.

Under the Biosecurity Act 1993, it is an offence to knowingly plant and grow velvetleaf.

Individual velvetleaf plants produce up to 17,000 seeds. Undetected plants that grew last season could result in a major infestation.

“If left unmanaged, those plants will be a significant farm and biosecurity issue.”

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“If velvetleaf plants are found, our advice, if they are not yet flowering, is to note and mark the location (for checking in future years), pull them out immediately and dispose of by deep burial — eg in the farm offal pit,” said Mr Yard.

Any plants found that are flowering or seeding should have a large bag tied over the flower-head and the plant bent in half to capture any seeds. The plant’s location should also be marked.

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With the overall purpose of the Nga Puna Rau Rangitikei project to preserve and enhance the mauri of the Rangitikei River and its catchment, work is well underway to achieve those goals.

Led by a group of members of Nga Pae o Rangitikei, the project is supported by the Ministry for the Environment, Horizons Regional Council, Rangitikei District Council, local landowners, and community members. The project seeks to engage communities within the Rangitikei catchment and undertake waterway restoration works in a number of areas. A community planting day held at Pourewa Stream last month focused on removing stock from waterways, eradicating willows, and planting native trees. Hunterville School pupils, Rangitikei MP Ian McKelvie and Horizons councillor Gordon McKellar lent a hand to plant 1,200 native trees as part of a total of 6,100 planted along the stream.

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Following in their great-grandfather’s footsteps, Daniel and Matthew Mason took up beekeeping when they just 12 and 14 years old.

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ith three hives in 2010, the boys read books and attended the Manawatu Beekeepers Club meetings to learn the basics. Older, more experienced beekeepers at the club also shared their knowledge with the boys.

“Gavin Lambert helped us in every aspect of beekeeping,” said Daniel.

Daniel and Matthew now have 150 beehives in different sites around the Manawatu — an average of 10–20 hives per site.

“We do this in order to not overcrowd an area with bees and also to allow us to produce different honey varieties, most farmers ask us to put hives on their land as it’s hugely beneficial for

the pasture pollination.” said Daniel.

Daniel said a huge amount of quality food sources are very important for a bee’s healthy diet.

“Well planted-up farms, urban areas and riverbanks often provide good food.

“Disease and pest control is obviously very important as well and a quality queen in every hive goes a long way too.

He said maintaining good morale within the colony is also helpful and this generally comes easy if everything else is in order.

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Daniel said dry, clean homes/hives that are well-sited to allow air movement and sunlight is important.

Beekeeping involves a range of seasonal tasks with spring and summer being the busiest months. The bees begin to build-up in spring and honey is collected in summer. In autumn the bees begin to wind down and winter is fairly quiet.

Daniel and Matthew generally check their hives every three weeks over spring, summer and autumn.

“I really enjoy getting outdoors,” said Daniel.

“We get to see some great places and farms each day.”

Daniel said they’ve managed to get their two-wheel drive ute stuck in some very remote places.

“A midday run while wearing gumboots is sometimes required to go find help.”

The honey, which comprises bush, manuka and clover varieties is sold weekly at Palmerston North’s Albert Street market and at the Massey University market each month. Daniel and Matthew also produce propolis and beeswax. Queen bees as cells or live queens are sold to North Island beekeepers too.

The pair find bees fascinating, particularly their selfless devotion to the hive. Daniel would like to work overseas for another beekeeper in the off-season to gain more experience.

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Although Daniel and Matthew used to share the workload, Matthew recently graduated from Massey University with a Bachelor in Agricultural Science and is currently in Katikati, working in the kiwifruit industry.

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With a long and varied career in the agricultural industry, Kevin Bensemann is enjoying his retirement and keeping up with developments in the rural sector.

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aised in a farming area on the Kaikoura coast, Kevin could often be found as a youngster helping out on local farms. His first mustering job, in his teenage years, set the course for his career in the livestock industry.

“The manager of Bluff Station was short of somebody to take the shorn ewes back 50 miles to their home block,” said Kevin. “He approached my parents and asked if I could help

drove the sheep.” On Kevin’s return, he continued mustering and shepherding around the district, along with work as a high country musterer in the Awatere Valley. Following his marriage to Lynette, the couple moved to north Canterbury to work on a cropping farm for three years.

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As head shepherd on Raumati Station, Kevin also managed the 5,000-hectare property for a while When the owner’s son returned from his OE, Kevin was rewarded for his hard work with a recommendation to Pyne Gould Guinness as stock agent material.

“I got the job and was sent up to Blenheim and then I went to Seddon for quite some time. There were five different stock and station agents in Seddon, it was very competitive,” he

said. Kevin was often on the job up to seven days a week.

“Sometimes I was on the phone up to 10pm, then at 5am off to sales. I enjoyed stock and always worked to achieve,” he said.

Kevin was appointed head auctioneer in Blenheim in 1970, holding that post for 10 years.

“I stood up alongside some of the best auctioneers in the country.” By 1980 vineyards started to appear in the Marlborough region and farm clearance sales became a regular occurrence as the land was sold for viticulture.

Kevin and Lynette moved their family to Waverley where Kevin took up work as a livestock manager for Farmers Cooperative Organisation Society (FCOS).

In 1983 he formed the deer division and was appointed company manager.

When Australian company Elders came to New Zealand in 1986, Kevin was approached to be an area manager and start a branch in Taranaki.

“I got five or six agents together and started Elders in Hawera.”

In 1989, John Buxton, the CEO of Huttons, offered Kevin a position as the North Island livestock manager.

Kevin took up the offer, working for the Huttons plant in Eltham.

Huttons later became Riverlands and Kevin worked for the company for 20 years, the last nine of those as executive. He retired in 2008 but continued in an advisory role for Riverlands and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

“I saw a lot of changes in the meat industry over the years, with companies closing down and takeovers,” he said.

Kevin said one of his career highlights was involvement with stud sheep and selecting animals for live shipments to New Guinea, South America and Australia.

He was also involved in procurement of live heifers to Korea and Angus cattle to Japan. Kevin and Lynette’s

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three sons all followed their father’s footsteps to work in the livestock industry for a time: Lindsay now has his own livestock business; former livestock auctioneer Phillip runs his own company, All About Auctions, in Auckland; and Chris is the Wellington central police area commander.

Their daughter, Hayley, and son-inlaw, Brendon, won this year’s Steak of Origin competition.

“I keep an interest in the rural sector and guys I worked with often call in,” said Kevin.

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Now, rural New Zealanders are realising that electric bikes have uses on their properties as well.

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Wellington Fish and Game reports that many anglers experienced the best fishing they’ve had in years last season with excellent numbers of trout in superb condition.

‘There’s no reason why this season should be any different,’ a spokesman says.

‘A lack of significant floods, good spawning conditions and recent snow on the tops has our stunning network of rivers and fisheries in great shape — the trout will be fighting fit.

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‘Around 25 rivers are sampled each year, encompassing more than 60 dives and taking in 80km total length.

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The story of New Zealand farming and its farmers will be at the heart of Beef and Lamb New Zealand’s new market development strategy targeting new and emerging markets.

Beef and Lamb New Zealand chairman James Parsons says development of a red meat sector story which captures the culture, values and integrity that’s long been associated with New Zealand sheep and beef farmers, will be an angle they aim to exploit in differentiating this country from its competitors in the international marketplace.

“The story, building on New Zealand’s farming systems with free-range, grassfed livestock — farmed to the highest standards of animal welfare — will be authenticated through a national quality assurance programme, developed through the Red Meat Profit Partnership.

This programme harmonises existing meat company QA programmes,” says Mr Parsons.

“The New Zealand red meat story and national assurance programme will support meat companies’ own individual marketing strategies and will be a valuable resource for other partners like meat importers, distributors, retailers and food service operators, and government agencies.”

This marketing strategy marks a change in direction for BLNZ’s market development programme.

The farmer-funded organisation has worked collaboratively with the red meat sector to develop a long-term sector strategy with clearly defined roles for BLNZ, meat exporters and marketers and industry stakeholders.

“BLNZ will transition out of a market maintenance role in mature markets to focus on developing future growth opportunities, while meat companies will continue their efforts to maintain existing markets,” says Mr Parsons.

Under the new direction BLNZ will be closing permanent offices in the United Kingdom, South Korea and Japan in favour of more flexible resources based in New Zealand. They will continue to have a base in China and the organisation will still maintain its own strong, international network and continue to work internationally with partner organisations including meat companies, Meat Industry Association, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise.

“This strategy does not affect the BLNZ office in Brussels where the focus on maintaining trade access arrangements and international relationships with our counterpart organisations in Europe

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“We consulted widely over 12 months, running numerous focus groups and workshops and the result is quite a fundamental shift in approach, strongly supported by meat exporters and farmers. We are confident the new approach will drive greater impact for farmers on every levy dollar invested.

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“We have been saying for years that farmers are getting eight to 10 years in our battery conditioning program.

However, most shows we do these days we meet people using our program with 12 and 14 year-old batteries often still going.”

“In fact our record battery life is 18 years old and still starting a tractor and after 18 years on the market in New Zealand and 13 years in Australia I think we may do better yet.”

The recharge treatment will dissolve the lead sulphate build-up turning those sulphur ions back into sulphuric acid holding electrons.

“We are chemically reversing the sulphate build-up. Once treated a battery is is essentially running at full capacity, provided the lead plates are still in good condition. Prevention is the key — treat them early, repeat

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To tender or not?

Rural contracting often starts at home — on the farm. Agriculture equipment standing idle is not going to help the bottom line and many farmers take the opportunity to undertake contract work to boost income.

The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment has some advice on how to proceed in tendering for contracts. It says tendering for work can be time consuming but it can also lead to substantial rewards.

‘You should think carefully before, during and after the process. Finding the right opportunities, doing the prep work and being vigorous during the tendering process will increase your chances of winning contracts,’ it says.

‘Tendering is the process involved in responding to an Rfx, a catch-all term meaning Request for information, a quote, a proposal, or tender.

‘An RFx can come in many shapes and forms. If it’s for a small amount of work, it will be fairly straight forward.

But applying for larger and/or longterm contracts will require a significant amount of time, thinking and resources to complete. You’ll need to be strategic when you decide which tenders to respond to. Going for every RFx you come across is a waste of time and energy. Your probability of success will increase if you only respond to ones in the area of your existing services and expertise.

Even if the contract is relevant to your business, you should first consider how much preparation will need to go into the application process, and whether your business is able to sustain that effort — especially as winning the contract isn’t guaranteed.

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Auditing stock crucial The recent theft of 500 dairy cows has been another harsh wake up call for the industry as farmers consider if they are taking the right precautions in protecting their second largest asset.

Michael Lee, an agribusiness audit specialist at Crowe Horwath advises how the introduction of simple systems can mitigate potential theft.

The Federated Farmers’ dairy industry chairperson, Andrew Hoggard points out if a bank was robbed there would be uproar, but police don’t tend to see stock as cold, hard cash.

Mr Lee agrees saying, “Stock theft is extremely important for farmers as not only do they lose their capital when stock is stolen, which for a dairy cow can be up to $2,000, they also suffer the loss of revenue from that stock.

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He says this is one way to mitigate stock losses.

“EID can be used to reconcile back to the farm’s records. Keeping track of the records regularly also means high death rates are identified in a timely manner.

On top of that he suggests farmers scan their animals four times a year.

“Incorporating a basic schedule of scanning allows for reconciliation of numbers to ensure there are no irregularities in stock numbers.”

Mr Lee suggests a possible stock reconciliation schedule for farmers could look like the following: March — to establish the opening number for the

Michael Lee — agribusiness audit specialist at Crowe Horwath

season, May — prior to winter grazing, August — upon returning from winter grazing and prior to calving and October/ November — post calving.

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Wool Perspective

From Rob Cochrane GM, Procurement, PGG Wrightson Wool

Mixed fortunes for wool growers An unfortunate combination of reduced Chinese buyer interest and a reluctance by a number of wool growers to meet the market means that recent wool auctions suffered rather high passin rates.

With a significant reliance on China as a major export destination for New Zealand wool, the lack of competition from that country in recent months has impacted heavily on the market, lowering returns in comparison to last year’s price levels for many growers of fine crossbred and medium to strong mid-micron wool types.

The two September wool auctions conducted in Christchurch drew widespread support from growers across the South Island and bale numbers catalogued exceeded the “roster” in both cases, with approximately 23,000 bales catalogued in total comprised of a good mix of all wool types. Apart from the well-reported and well-known dry conditions affecting several areas within Canterbury, weather patterns over the past couple of months have assisted shearers to get the job done with very few, if any, interruptions to the wool harvesting programme.

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Wool broker stores have been likened to a bee-hive with trucks laden with wool bales lined up each day waiting to be unloaded before returning to farm wool sheds to be re-loaded and the trip repeated.

Crossbred full-length fleece types although cheaper than earlier in the season remained in reasonable demand throughout September with buyers focused on well grown, good character wools containing low vegetable matter contamination. Second-shear types were examined critically by exporters and once again the shorter wools took the brunt of the downturn. Longer secondshear types were in a slightly better space with a few more competitors bidding on those.

With the crossbred hogget wool season upon us all eyes normally turn to China to buy crossbred hoggets in the approximately 29 to 34 micron ranges.

However with few buyers representing

China appearing interested, prices for those types were at similar levels to coarser short wools with no premiums evident.

Some magnificent Halfbred and Corriedale wools were on offer during September but buyers were very selective according to style and micron and many of the medium and coarse types returned disappointing levels to growers who were hoping for levels similar to last year.

The finer edge however drew good support with many fleece types around 25 microns reaching well in excess of 1,000 cents per clean kilogram, and 24 micron from 1,100 to 1,200 clean.

Once again a very good standard of wool preparation was evident from the wool samples displayed prior to sale.

With the Merino wool season in fullswing the quantity of those types offered

during September increased significantly on August. The Christchurch auction enjoyed a renewed rally of grower support compared to recent years and a large number of clips contained in the PGG Wrightson catalogue were of an exceptional standard.

If there was any negative comment at all from buyers it was that a few wools were slightly over-long for their processor customers.

Key focus from exporters was towards wools which were very sound for fibre strength, measuring better 38nkt or better, well skirted and even for length, but not over-classed.

With the lower levels for crossbred wools likely to continue into the near future growers are urged to ensure their wools are prepared well. Growers must maximize their returns by skirting well and keeping similar lengths and strengths together.

A reminder that readers should visit the Campaign for Wool website and in particular encourage children and grandchildren to visit www.woolinschools.nz to appreciate why we should all specify wool! That’s my view.

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The mystery of pipelines Pipelines are those expensive things you have to have to convey water or other fluids (or gases) and best bought at cheapest possible price — correct? Wrong! If you consider it, they are often difficult to alter if the system is incorrect.

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the shape or direction of the vessel.

Temperature of the liquid also has a bearing, but let’s keep it to the most basic issue of pressure loss. Also some things which can be done to cut down on the turbulence including long radius bends instead of tight bends, welded fittings in place of threaded sockets, etc.

One of the biggest mysteries for amateurs is the relationship between pipe sizes and friction loss/flow rate.

In a nutshell, the friction loss multiplies as the pipe size reduces — they are not proportional! Often a bargain price

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for next-size-smaller pipe has a major negative impact on the efficiency of the system.

As a scenario: Consider a small block irrigation scheme of 4ha. The well and shared pump are 200m into neighbouring property and the most distant hydrant on the block is a further 300m, making maximum delivery length of 500m.

The flow required is 300L/min. At this point it doesn’t matter what type of irrigator is used, seeing as we’re only considering the pressure loss in the main pipeline. Sizes discussed will all be internal to avoid confusion between PVC, LDPE and MDOD pipe options (never mind aluminium).

If 3" pipe were used the friction/ pressure loss could be 9psi for the full distance, if 2½" used could be 22psi loss, 2¼" could be 50psi loss, and good ole 2" alkathene could be 87psi loss!

This is without the pressure required to run the irrigator or allowing for rising ground, etc.

If 2" alkathene were selected for this job then the pump would quite possibly need to be 7.5hp larger than if 3" pipe were used. Rather a sober consideration for a small system and a great energy waste which could easily be avoided.

Next time — The mystery of pumps!

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Uncommon sense

David Law, Managing Director of Forward Farming Consultancy

Rivers plan leads to change The passing of the Waikato Healthy Rivers Plan will instil new impetus for farmers across the country to change the way they manage their farms in the future.

Farmers of course, will be angry that the bureaucracy of regional councils will soon lead to another round of reasons to whip the living daylights out of them, as if they haven’t endured enough already.

Federated Farmers will continue to do its political best to soften the blow and the public perception of farmers may drop a notch or two.

This has caused me to climb to the top of the hill and look out at the big picture.

Several pivotal questions come to light over this dilemma.

• Do we really have a problem with our streams, rivers and lakes?

Yes, we do.

• Is there an excess of phosphates and nitrates leaching through our soils and into our waterways?

Yes, there is.

• Is it fair and just to blame the farmer for this mess?

No, I do not believe that we should blame the farmer entirely.

There are two factors contributing to the pollution of our waterways;

• Effluent management and cattle having access • Phosphate and nitrogen application compromising the plant’s ability to hold on to those nutrients.

I do believe the industry has the first question under control and this does require direct input from the farmer.

Compliance on rules and regulations under general circumstances should be the responsibility of the farmer.

However, I believe the second question is another story! Fertiliser application and soil nutrient needs for pasture and cropping is generally a practice which farmers leave to a specialist. These specialists are called on by farmers to advise them on what they need to grow their grass and crops. Possibly 95 percent of fertiliser in New Zealand is sold by two large companies, Ballance and Ravensdown. Interestingly, it is rumoured that these two large companies have influence on the education of soil and fertiliser scientists in New Zealand. I was impressed upon reading Ballance’s website to find that most of

the specialists who are employed by them to advise and guide farmers what to buy, are very well educated indeed.

While I was pouring another mug of coffee I got to thinking, what do these big companies make? Now I know why those environmentalists are so mad.

Those companies have turned their well — educated scientists into salesmen!

Farmers have been brainwashed and swear allegiance to these specialists who are now leaving them holding the can. It appears that this great science that has been taught needs an overhaul.

Maybe it’s someone else’s turn. I hear a leading scientist is rambling on about some new science which he doesn’t understand.

Maybe if he stopped communicating and listened, he might learn something!

So just a gentle suggestion to councils: turn around and throw the stones the other way and give the farmers a break!

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