Northern Farming Lifestyles, December 2011

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December 2011 Edition

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Taratahi Rodney Celebrates Success

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A Kaitaia apiculture student, Jim Barron, is the inaugural recipient of the Telford Cup for Enterprise awarded by the South Island’s Telford Rural Polytechnic. Telford, now a division of Lincoln University began in Balclutha as an agricultural training farm in 1964 on land donated by the descendants of William Telford.

The cup and $1,000 prize were donated by Farmers of New Zealand who saw it as a fitting acknowledgment of the enterprising prowess of a young William Telford who made his way to New Zealand from Cumberland as a ship’s carpenter, 150 years ago. William Telford’s story is one of success — adding to the land bought in 1861, by 1869 William had purchased further land near Otanomomo, built his homestead at a cost of 3,000 pounds and by 1888 had increased his 1,708 flock of sheep to 18,000.

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Beekeeping is vital to New Zealand’s Primary sector which is dependent on bees for its survival.

Telford’s student recruitment officer Marilyn Sayers who was at the presentation in Kaitaia on December 2, said “Enterprising means showing initiative and a willingness to undertake new, and often risky, projects.”

She said for 30 years Mr Barron had been a sole trader cabinet maker.

In 2009 he sold his business and purchased a small lifestyle block.

“Since then he has begun transforming his piece of dirt into a high productive enterprise which will supplement his retirement income.

He has introduced cattle, sheep, pigs, hens, bees, and macadamia nuts in the last year.

He has plans for becoming more self sufficient with a vegetable patch, berries and avocados which he intends selling to local markets and at the farm gate,” said Ms Sayers.

Mr Barron also has a goal of having one hundred beehives from which he will extract and bottle honey. At the moment he has eight live hives and has already set up a workshop to make additional hives.

Ms Sayers gave Mr Barron due credit for his willingness to take on the study, saying while Mr Barron’s early life education experiences had not been successful. Nearing retirement age, he overcame his fear of re-entering the education system and had passed the level three apiculture certificate.

The financial prize is intended to kick start the recipient enterprise. It can be used to buy livestock equipment, or cover set up costs, purchase marketing or expert advice, further study or invested “until the right opportunity presents itself.”

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Taratahi Rodney Celebrates Success More than eighty families, farmers, members of the community and staff squeezed into the Taratahi Rodney Campus woolshed to celebrate the success of twenty-five graduating students

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hese young men and women have completed a full year of practical training and theoretical study earning themselves two nationally recognised certificates: the National Certificate in Fencing and the Certificate in General Farm Skills.

Guest of honour, at last week’s graduation (December 5) Doctor Lockwood Smith, Speaker of the House, presented the awards and mingled with those in attendance.

He was particularly pleased to hear how many young people have already gained employment as a direct result of the agricultural training programmes.

“This region is a key source of primary production and here is an organisation trying to match industry needs to the aspirations of young people,” said Dr Smith.

Taratahi Rodney, Educational Manager, Steve Hannam, was more than happy with the number and quality of students graduating. “Taratahi has

experienced overwhelming support for our training programmes from the Rodney community and we are looking forward to continuing these relationships over the years ahead.

Cups and prizes were awarded at the graduation ceremony for both effort and achievement. The ‘Top Student’ award went to Marley Manas.

Rt Hon Dr Lockwood Smith and Taratahi Rodney ‘s top student, Marley Manase

“I am looking forward to exploring the opportunities available to me now and I have really enjoyed learning new skills this year,” said Marley.

Agricultural training is delivered from the Innes family property at Kumeu — student’s use the woolshed and an adjacent small house has become a classroom. Practical training takes place on a number of farms around Rodney.

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Passion and Paradise

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A Northland family with a passion for the land, horses and the community have taken a hobby and turned it into a lifestyle

by Joanne Speechly

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Kath and Steve Nathan’s farm is an old dairy unit that runs into Lake Kahuparere. It has been in Steve’s family for four generations and these days, the 180 acres of rolling countryside is a fattening block for cattle.

Central to the lives of Kath and Steve Nathan and their children is horses and Steve’s father, Gus, was quite renowned for his skill and farriership in Pouto. Although Kath and Steve now work off the land, still manage Kahuparere horse treks on the picturesque peninsula and have recently started an annual event, Pouto Horse Sports.

Steve, who has worked as a welder, fencer, truck driver and honorary fishing inspector, started the horse trekking

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Northern Farming Lifestyles December 2011 Their children, Donny, Morgana and Patariki are all skilled riders, either on horseback or motorbikes. Morgana and Patariki ride the rodeo circuit in New Zealand and have done so for the last couple of years and oldest son Donny has left district and now serves in the Army.

At 15, Steve was selected to represent Northland in the Northland Colts Polocrosse team and still rides today. Kath says she’s happy to see her children excel in all types of riding disciplines — unlike herself who prefers leisure riding.

Pouto Horse Sports, held at Labour Weekend for the last two years, came about after Steve built a rodeo arena.

“Steve built an arena on the farm so Morgana and Patariki could practice for the rodeo circuit,” explains Kath. Then he thought, ‘Well since it’s here, we may as well do something with it.’

“More spectators attended this year and everyone was excited, so it went really, really well. We added two more winner-takes-all jackpots, adding to our two existing trophy jackpots, and we included a cross country, introduced ‘The Indian Game’, where contestants ride bare back and Buzkashi.

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at Tipene College, Saint Stevens, which has since closed. He worked in Australia and Auckland until the family moved North and Kath describes him as “a jack of all trades”.

Kath is from Auckland but her mother is from the Kaipara and her family used to camp at Pouto when she was growing up. Kath is a talented poet and has travelled overseas to perform her work, is studying Global Environment through the Open Polytechnic and is an ornithologist for a wind farm project — as well as participating in the family businesses.

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Gus Nathan is buried on the family farm overlooking the arena. At this year’s horse sports, Morgana won the memorial trophy in his name.

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Olives — a pleasurable but time consuming ‘hobby’

A love of the land is why Dairy Flat olive grower Adrienne Renton continues with an activity she calls a weekend hobby

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Olive variety adviser Mike Reilly approved this species and gave valuable advice on planting, staking and fertilising.

Mike was then employed by Adrienne to help set up the olive grove.

Mike, who has been an expert in growing olives since 1994, heatedly contests the opinion of some that the north is a challenging place to grow olives, saying the north’s low frost danger makes it an ideal place.

The J5 variety was brought into the country by Croatian settlers in about 1900 and he believes Adrienne’s are the right quality to gain her gold medal recognition. The property also grows two Italian varieties, Leccino and Pendolino trees.

For the first harvest a presser had to be found quickly and in 2000 Rodney pressers were thin on the ground.

Adrienne’s olives were pressed at a site owned by a family connection, north of Whangarei. At that time, the crop yielded a good 7.7 litres from 43kg.

Other pressers were found at Mangawhai and Wellsford where an Oliomio Italian centrifuge press was imported by the late Ian Mann. The Italian press was then bought by Greg Scopas, who continues to press for growers as well as running a small goods business of his own.

Rodney has around 10 commercial groves from Huapai to Matakana — Adrienne’s being one of the oldest established groves in this area.

Devastating storms in December 2005 during flowering time hit the crop hard, but the following year the first New Zealand Leccino and Pendolinos ripened and yielded three tonnes. This

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was enough to provide 600, 250ml bottles to sell for a Rotary fundraising project (Adrienne is a member).

She says Taruna Estate now has its full quota of olives because the pruning, mowing and spraying of 350 trees is ‘quite enough’ for one woman to manage.

“I want to go on doing olives for as long as I can because it’s satisfying to have something on your table that you’ve created and that is sloshed around the kitchens of celebrity chefs.

“The market is getting better as people realise the health benefits of these oils,” she says.

In addition to the olives, a more recent planting of 50 Tahitian limes are taking a long time to grow, but appear to like Taruna’s acidic soil.

Adrienne hopes to also market these limes in due course.

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In 2004 young entrepreneur Hayden Simon started a business repairing PCs. ‘Uber PC’ quickly morphed into Uber Networks and then into Uber Group, with Mr Simon spotting an undeveloped opportunity to provide wireless broadband to areas of rural Northland where dialup was the only alternative.

It was not long before his company came to the attention of US-based Martin Levy, now director of IPv6 strategy at Hurricane Electric Internet Services and an internationally recognised IT expert. Levy was staying at Hugh and Pauline Rose’s Tangowahine Farmstay and was as frustrated as they were with their dialup connection. He tracked down the then little-known Uber and assured the Roses the solution would work.

The series of events that followed has become typical for Uber as they have rolled out their wireless network throughout Northland. The Roses invited all the locals to their home and delivered enough committed subscribers to Uber for it to be worthwhile installing a transmission site on a farm at the highest point in their valley. Locals stepped in to help, providing tractors and accommodation to get their site up and running.

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“Our installation and setup fee is cheaper, as are our monthly package plans, and our maximum data cap is 100Gb compared to their 10Gb.” As well as this, Mr Simon says the enterprise-grade technology Uber Group uses means that in almost all cases, the company is aware of a customer fault before the customer notices it, and often has it resolved without the customer ever being aware of it. “As a result, customers rarely need to call us, which saves them time and means we can put our time and resources into constantly improving our service,” he says.

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Previously it has been indicated pasture could cost about 20–30 c/kg DM to grow, and the cost of harvesting, rolling, covering, sealing and weighting the covers could add about another 5 c/ kg DM. Loss of grass during transport and silage making should not significantly add to this cost, if done carefully.

A good inoculant plus enzyme product may cost about 0.3 c/kg fresh weight, which equates to about 1 c/kg DM for a crop ensiled at 30% DM. DM losses during ensiling can typically be around 10–15%, as the sugars in the grass are used as a food source by the bacteria to produce the acids which pickle the crop to produce stable silage. Therefore, 200 tonnes of grass put into a pit may only end up as 170–180 tonnes of silage.

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Protect your backyard from diseases and pests

by Bob Cathcart, Land Management Specialist, Northland Regional Council

The recent (fortunately) false alarm over a possible kiwifruit PSA infection in a Kerikeri orchard is a serious wakeup call.

What measures do you have in place to stop some plant or animal disease or even a pest plant itself finding its way onto your property?

If I arrive at your property to give advice on some land management problem, what protocols do you expect me to follow to keep your farm disease or pest free?

Think about the vectors for the spread of pest plants, formerly called noxious plants.

You will have to rely on neighbours to control weeds that produce wind-borne seed or to prevent weeds dropping seeds on floodplains. But there are other weeds over which you can have some control.

It used to be common practise to put the first three bales from the old small-bale balers (the ones in the baler when it first came into the paddock) back through the baler before it left your property.

This meant that all the bales left on your land were from your own property, reducing the risk of new weed species being imported onto your land. Dust, straw and other debris on the baler could also harbour weed seeds so it helped to know where it had been previously.

The same goes for earthmoving, cultivation and other machinery.

Manchurian wild rice and other aquatic weeds are spread on hydraulic diggers.

Gorse and broom are spread in road aggregate so check before you buy to see they are not growing around the quarry. And you are quite within your rights to ask a contractor to clean their machine before it comes onto your property.

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Major outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in various parts of the world have been traced back to contaminated meal, to wild animals and birds, and to poor hygiene.

PSA is our plant disease-equivalent to foot and mouth in orchards and we have kauri die-back in the bush.

Department of Conservation, council staff and other native bush managers are insisting you spray your boots before entering some Northland forests. What measures do you have in place to protect your farming, horticulture or forestry business?

And if you are a contractor, rural professional or some other person who regularly visits farms, what are you doing to avoid spreading diseases farm-tofarm?

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The grand daddy of the wool producers He’s inquisitive, enjoys a bit of a yarn, calls a spade a spade and thoroughly enjoys his vocation.

Bruce Worsnop has spent decades combining his skill and knowledge with science to select sheep with worm tolerance so that ‘dagginess’ is fast becoming history.

Bruce, along with son Patrick and partner Wendy, operate a ram stud and commercial flock of 2,000 pure bred Lincoln ewes and also breed Belgian Blue cattle. Their Makaroro Road property in the lee of the Ruahine Ranges covers some 1,900 acres of rolling and flat pasture.

“We’ve been selecting our Lincoln Ram stud sires and the females we put into the stud flock for their tolerance to worms for the last 33 years and have found this to be a very heritable trait,” said Bruce.

Bruce’s primary focus is wool production and, as a breeder, the last three decades have been successful because of the demand for lustrous

wool, mohair blends and the hand knotted rug market.

Lincoln sheep, the heaviest woolproducing breed, were the first English long wool breed to become established in New Zealand but more recently they have been used as a first crossing sire to lift wool production in a flock. One example is the Lincoln Perendale cross, which produces 23 percent more wool than a pure Perendale.

With his finger on the pulse when it comes to the wool industry, Bruce is hopeful the Campaign for Wool, launched by Prince Charles earlier this year, will promote the benefits of wool and see an increase in demand.

The campaign, which Bruce describes as ‘a breath of fresh air’ is a great opportunity for wool growers to consolidate, unite and support the project.

As for the future Bruce is still experimenting but is rather tight lipped about his work.

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Feeding the earth Fodda — Feeding the earth is a natural fertiliser with an NPK similar to a conventional fertiliser.

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We have designed a certified organic (Organic FarmNZ) Soil Enhancer and General Fertiliser out of valuable organic waste and marine products.

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Tuturu Products is also now able to supply natural ‘taylor made’ fertiliser for lifestyle blocks and orchards. We are able to analysis your soil, or alternatively you can send your soil analysis to us, from there we can source the natural ingredients needed to bring your soil back into balance and provide you with a ‘taylor made’ product, blended ready to apply.

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Entries now open for Enterprising Rural Women Award Attention rural business women — entries are now open for the Enterprising Rural Women Award 2012.

Winning the Supreme Award in the RWNZ Enterprising Rural Women Award 2011 gave Marlborough cheese maker extraordinaire, Lisa Harper, a real confidence boost. Lisa says she strongly recommends rural businesswomen enter the upcoming awards.

“The awards provide a great opportunity for women to raise their business and media profiles and promote their products and services,” she said.

National president for RWNZ, Liz Evans, said “We know women face extra hurdles operating a business from a rural location, but we also know that they are incredibly resourceful — especially in using social media and technology to lessen the distance barrier.

“That’s one reason we’ve introduced a new award category this year, the FlyBuys Online Business Award, for women who are largely carrying out their business via the internet,” she said.

The awards include a North and South Island business award. A supreme winner is chosen from the three category winners of both islands. The supreme GEA Farm Technologies NZ Ltd

winner will be announced during the RWNZ national conference, to be held in Hawera, Taranaki on May 21, 2012.

Winner of the 2011 North Island award, Maria-Fe Rohrlach, of merino baby products company Nestling Limited, says the business she runs with her sister, Bernadine Guilleux, has had a real boost as a result of their win this year. She too recommends women enter the 2012 Awards.

“Entering the RWNZ Enterprising Rural Women Award 2011 has given us more momentum in the marketplace, both in New Zealand and overseas. As a direct result we have had sales opportunities and doors open in Germany and the Netherlands.

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“Overall it has been a period of personal and professional growth and we would highly recommend that all rural women in business apply. It is worth it,” said Mrs Rohrlach.

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Honda motorcycles have been strong contenders year in and year out in the World Superbike and AMA Superbike competitions, devoting millions of dollars and countless hours to research and development to improve their stable of high-performance machines.

With a racing pedigree stretching back to the golden era of the sport, Honda have always been quick to bring racing advances to the motorcycling public, tuning and fettling their street bikes with the knowhow earned in oil and sweat on the world’s top tracks.

This year has proved no exception, with bold new design cues and blistering power the order of the day across Honda’s flagship CBR range — an acronym renowned among riders for power and precision handling. From the legendary CBR 750 of yesteryear which put the best of British to shame, through to the high-tech Fireblade, the CBR badge is the

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And he’s not alone in piling accolades on this muscularlooking, slick superbike. From its cast-aluminium core to its compact, centralised engine with larger bore and stroke, all the way down to a set of 4-piston calliper brakes, this is a machine which invites the rider to push the boundaries, while still providing thrills for every level of experience.

Seasoned motorcyclists will be rewarded with scalpel-sharp handling which enables a smooth line through the bends, and a torquey whack of power from the big 999cc mill on the straights.

For those who want a head-turner with slightly less muscle but oozing aggressive style, Honda also offer a re-upped CBR 600RR — cut from the same cloth as its MotoGP inspiration and with the most powerful 600cc engine in its class. Once again, a new design direction has gifted the CBR 600 with stunning looks to match its turn of speed.

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by Andy Bryenton

John Deere been given the world tractor of the year award at the world’s biggest agri-machinery show in Germany. A big coup for the Yankees to win over all the euro manufacturers when all the judges were German and French!

Every year in Hanover, Germany, the big names in agricultural technology come together under one roof to compare and compete at the annual Agritechnica event.

and yellow which goes back decades. But with the backing of such a prestigious accolade, expect to see more of the big John Deere R series machines getting to work in Northland soon.

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And what a roof it is — Agritechnica is the world’s largest indoor farm equipment show, with acres of high tech machinery showcasing the best the farming world has to offer.

The competition is fierce for the big awards — judge’s decisions here can echo around the world, making or breaking entire product lines. A machine highly praised by the exacting Agritechnica adjudicators gains a cast-iron seal of approval, and perhaps the most coveted title of all at the event is that of ‘Tractor of the Year’.

This November the Agritechnica judges were a tough crowd — the editors of more than 20 farming publications across Europe. But when their expert assessments were tallied, one machine came out ahead of the rest. John Deere’s 7280R has been recognised as the world’s best for the coming year of 2012 — a great all-round machine with 310 horsepower under the hood thanks to its advanced stage III diesel engine.

The 7280R was also singled out due to its practical and comfortable cabin, with wide commanding views afforded by large areas of glass, and the intelligent setup of its controls, clustered together on the arm of the driver’s seat for ease of access.

The Agritechnica panel felt that John Deere’s machine was a good all-rounder — a tractor for all farming environments.

ActiveCommand Steering (a John Deere innovation) means that despite its large size, the big green machine is easy to control, both in the field and on the road between jobs. It’s also eminently versatile, able to hook up to a wide range of machinery for everything from silage making to harrowing, feeding livestock and tilling.

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by Andy Bryenton

Kevin Black has been farming at Pouto for the last twenty years, running a herd of 240 dairy cows and 200 other cattle at a picturesque spot on the peninsula with views of the mighty Wairoa, as it flows down to the Kaipara Harbour. But in earlier years he was engaged in a very different trade — as a military marine engineer, and it was his job to keep the powerful turbines and boilers of an ocean-going warship at full steam.

Knowledge of thermal energy was a big part of this job — crucial to keeping the big engines running. And this provided a surprising crossover when it came to one of the big expenses every dairy farmer knows all too well — providing hot water for his milking sheds.

With tests and inspections becoming ever more stringent, and digital checks for bacteria, impurities and contamination now an integral part of providing top-quality milk, farmers need vast quantities of water at around 80 degrees Celsius — the right temperature to work with chemical detergents, and make sure that all the plant and infrastructure of milking are hygienically clean.

So, at a time when it was still considered an ‘alternative’ or emerging technology, Kevin Black adopted solar power to help heat his 350-litre cylinder.

“Turbines and boilers were my bread

and butter,” he says “And I knew it took a lot more energy to get water from cold up to forty degrees, than it does to go from forty to eighty.”

The heat of the Northland sun beating down on the roof of Kevin’s shed proved to be more than enough to give his water heater the boost it needed, and with the fitment of three sturdy solar panels by local experts Plumbing and Heating in Dargaville, Kevin’s experiment in solar hot water was underway.

“The power bill for my shed was in excess of $1,000 per month — anything that would cut that back was worthwhile. The reality is that the technology isn’t new. New Zealand hasn’t embraced solar power in Solar panels on top of Kevin Black’s milking shed the same way Europe has, perhaps because power (from hydro electric fully recouped, Kevin Black is certain that sources) used to be so cheap.” he made the right decision in talking to It’s been over six years since the solar Plumbing and Heating all those years ago. panels went up at Tin Hau farms, and “Like all decisions in farming, it’s a long the savings from their installation have term investment. been right in line with what the EECA (the Now that the solar panels have paid Government’s Energy Efficiency Authority) for themselves, future power savings are have found across the country on a number money in the bank. of test farms. The reduction in power costs has been timely, with prices for electricity rising even as the solar panels began to PLUMBERS, DRAINS, pay for themselves.

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Following a move from the UK, Gary Baker established Agmech at Hornby, Christchurch in 1999.

With the wealth of knowledge gained from the European agricultural scene, the company soon forged its way into the New Zealand industry, specialising in tipping trailers and feed-out equipment.

“We aimed at the “top-end” of the market,” said Gary. “We have found that by talking directly with the farmers and contractors it has ensured we have been able to meet specific requirements.”

For 2012, Agmech is pleased to introduce its new revolutionary ‘Forage feed-out wagons’ to its extensive range of farm machinery. The heavy duty wagons have been designed for functionality, robustness and capacity, with some new unique features that will be sure to impress farmers locally.

The Loadmaster tip trailer is for general farm use, ranging from 3 to 12 tonnes. The standard features include a fast tipping body that goes to 60°, tandem axles or single axle models on request, removable hinged sides and tailgate, swivel tow eyes and non rust Corten steel deck.

The Contractors tip trailers, for ‘super’ heavy duty conditions ranging from 8 to 25 tonnes, is a new breed of trailer.

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The huge range of bale feeding equipment starts with the Linkage feeders, a simple cost effective solution to either feeding out on very hilly country or there are only have a few bales to feed, with four models to choose from. Two bale trailing feeders have sold throughout Northland, and the range continues to be well received due to the robust design and ease of use. Multi feeders for feed rounds, squares and pit silage will give farmers who buy in feed peace of mind.

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“They are such lovely time wasters,” Margaret Belcher says fondly as she hand feeds her “boys”.

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I particularly like the pure black one, although the Gordie, the bossy white one also stands out, especially when he shows me his teeth in what could be a smile, and then there is Kezzie. He’s got blue eyes and Margaret’s favourite — he was born deaf through a genetically incorrect mating. I’m told he has a nice nature and beautiful fleece and his impairment makes little difference to him or his paddock mates. b a r n s s h e d s g a r a g e s 0 9

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Margaret and Gordon retired from Auckland to the 10 acre, rolling, lifestyle block at Tangowahine, near Dargaville, about five years ago, having bought the bare block a year earlier.

Margaret had been a sample machinist and Gordon a division manager with the Auckland City Council.

As a young child, Gordon had lived on a farm in the South Island, but Margaret was a city girl — so neither had any real farming experience when they headed north.

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Northern Farming Lifestyles December 2011 began researching what we could do with them, and as our interest grew, we went to a few open days, and talked to breeders,” said Gordon.

Alpaca, a native of Peru are camelids with three stomachs. They are a smaller version of the llama which is a pack animal rather than a fleece animal. They are shorn once a year, in New Zealand usually in November, have their toe nails trimmed when needed and in some cases their teeth trimmed or fighting teeth removed. There are two breeds, Suri, which has a dreadlock, but silky fleece and Huacaya (pronounced wiakia). The stocking ratio is usually about six per acre.

Alpaca fleece has a hollow fibre making it light and warm — it has no lanolin or oil, making it ideal for allergenic people. They Margaret describes her boys as ‘lovely time wasters’ are shorn by rolling them onto a table.

Margaret has also experimented with felting with very good “It usually needs about four people to hold the head and secure the legs,” says Gordon. The fleece is sorted at shearing results — it’s something she wants to develop. Long term they with the best fleece coming from the saddle area. He laughs are hoping to produce and sell felted waistcoats, hats, table saying the animals can be bit of a handful on their first shear, covers and mats and knitted garments. While the income will known to spit when upset or annoyed Gordon assures me it is be welcomed, the real satisfaction is being able to follow the true — relating his first shearing experience as being “green process all the way through. from head to foot with horrible, smelly spit.”

Other possibilities could lie in meat processing. Currently For the first couple of years they stored their fleece while a meat works in Hawke’s Bay is the only processing plant they decided their options. able to process alpaca meat in the North Island, but alpaca “In 2009, we sent it to a mill in Otorohanga to be carded groups are looking elsewhere for more options. and spun,” said Margaret. They were delighted with the results The meat is said to taste like a cross between venison and and Margaret has knitted a number of garments from the veal and is reported to have little fat. Meanwhile the Belchers natural coloured fibres.” It’s easy to knit even in the summer are content with their lot. because the lack of lanolin means it doesn’t get hot,” she “Its been a big learning curve all round — in more ways than said. one — but it’s been great fun,” says Gordon. They’re enjoying She hopes to learn to spin herself and has already the physical side of working on the land, the neighbours and purchased a spinning wheel as well as a carding machine so the community. “We wouldn’t go back to Auckland — it’s too the couple will soon be washing and carding their own wool. impersonal,” they laugh “Tangowahine’s a good place, only 10 “We don’t intend to dye the wool, but blend the colours minutes to Dargaville and half an hour to Whangarei — it’s for different effects,” she said. used to takes us longer getting to work.”

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A little bit of country “Wai Worri” Muster is a must for country music fans The “Wai Worri” Woolshed Country Muster is on again this New Year. The dates are Saturday and Sunday the 31st December and 1st January, and there is plenty of suitable flat ground for Motor Homes, Campervans and tents.

Wai Worri is located 40km north of Dargaville on State Highway 12, next to the Aranga School, and provides a lovely rural outlook, where concerts will be held within the Woolshed or on the outdoor stage.The country muster starts around 11am 31st December 2011, but you are more than welcome to arrive and park up the previous day.

New Zealand’s pioneering country recording artists Rex and Noelene Franklin will be making a return to Aranga this year, along with NZ’s latest country recording teenage rising star, Abby from Hawera.

Another of New Zealand’s top traditional artists, Joy Sloane, will be attending this year for the first time along with many more artists from Northland and elsewhere. Urban Country and Raw Country bands will be on stage over both days and as usual there will be entertainment in the shed each evening.

The venue has toilets and cold water showers, a very modest charge of $20 per person for the 2-day stay, and visitors $10 per person per day.

Phone Phil on 09 439 5083 or Ted and Cushla on 09 434 0857 for further details.

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land surfaces by blading, contouring, ripping, moving and removing soil, spoil or earth. The definition with Bill Guest (Operations director, Farmers of New Zealand) is inappropriately broad, and would include Farm debt causing great concern commissions by the banks to lend the environmentally benign National farm debt is $46 billion. A number of farmers are money out. One banking official told me land modification activities facing the prospect of forced sales and cashflows are tight that as a result of his lending, he was associated with normal farm and not helped by Fonterra’s reduction of payout projections able to invest in a beach bach and buy operations and rural property of 46 cents/kg milk solids, which equates to $46,000 less a new boat. Now the banks are paying maintenance, particularly on income for the average dairy farmer for the 2011/2012 commissions in an endeavour to get their land affected by an Overlay money out of these poor investments, provision. season. back into their coffers. It is ironical that This could lead into Some banks have been irresponsible in their lending the major banks have all posted large croppers such as kumara Bill Guest practices over the last five year period. The old Rural Bank profits for the last 12 month period. growers and other farmers, having to apply for a Resource guidelines of debt servicing being no more than 25% of Consents to crop their land. Contouring and ripping could be gross income, 25% to cover drawings and labour and 50% Resource consents to farm caused by moulders attached to rotary hoes and aeration for operating expenses have been thrown out the window, Many district councils are reviewing implements that are used to rip and aerate the soil. Some by over zealous banking officials, who are paid substantial their district plans. The Northland argue that certain soils should not be cultivated as they Regional Council are reviewing their believe this causes deterioration of the soil particles.

Regional Policy Statement. The Kaipara The Variation 1 chapter which relates to the erection and District Council Proposed District alterations of buildings and structures within an Outstanding Plan changes have attracted appeals Landscape Area or Outstanding Natural Feature, is badly from Fonterra Co-operative, Federated Farmers, Farmers of New Zealand, worded and will cause major problems in the rural community NZ Transport Agency, Transpower NZ by over-zealous council planners and Auckland consultants.

To fully understand the meaning of the rule, you must first Limited, Meridian Energy and others. understand the definition of Structure, which is the same as The Kaipara District Council Proposed that included in the Resource Management Act being: District Plan, should be withdrawn and “Any building, equipment, device or other facility made by re-written. It is full of rules that make no This landmark sense, e.g. Excavation and fill, is now people and which is fixed to land; and includes any raft.” In commemorative book

by Paul Campbell defined in the plan as Modification of using this definition then, a large number of items could be tells the story of the included within this definition, including Albertlanders’ arrival and troughs, water tanks, duck shooting Can’t read the paper online settling of the Kaipara maimais, meal feeders — the list because your broadband is area, and features goes on. slow and unreliable? many of Harold Marsh’s photographs that have Due to several technicalities which Uber Group can fix that for you with their mind-blowingly fast, been painstakingly Ultra priced, Ultra reliable, wireless broadband. have been included unnecessarily in the restored. rule, such structures as troughs, tanks www.ubergroup.co.nz | 09 438 5472 (0508 BROADBAND) etc now require resource consent if A rare opportunity your property is located in an OLA or to purchase a signed, numbered and recorded, n r Outstanding Natural Feature. e North collectors’ edition of an outstanding New Zealand publication The KDC’s Plan, we believe is being Order now on our website or by phone, email or by post used by Auckland consultants as the Phone 09 439 6933 — Postal address: P.O. Box 474 Dargaville thin edge of the wedge to implement Email info@echopublishing.co.nz • www.echopublishing.co.nz www.farminglifestyles.co.nz their idealistic plans.

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The temperature is rising, Santa is coming and farms are getting new owners With no small amount of satisfaction, the introduction to this column is written in the knowledge that this past spring has seen dairy farms sell at good levels, Tony Grindle enquiry numbers vastly improve on previous seasons and all financiers and banking institutions reiterated the long term view that agriculture In New Zealand has a steady long term outlook.

On matters of real estate. Our country team have experienced a strong past few months. Sales have been achieved on dairy farms, dry stock properties, dairy support, horticultural and lifestyle properties. After the past few trying years, our agents are being rewarded for their dedication and professionalism.

Interestingly, enquiry for dairy farms is predominantly originating from the core farmer. All farm buyers for the year to date have been existing or remerging farmers. We have ensured that our vendor’s properties have been bought to the attention of our Auckland investor and overseas databases, however at present the best buyers appear to be the ones that are all ready established within the industry.

Northland has been receiving good levels of enquiry from farmers further

afield. In the past few weeks, we have been showing properties to farmers from Taranaki, Marlborough, Bay of Plenty, Southland and Wellington.

As summer nears, it’s a good time to take stock of what Northland is all about and what we have to offer. It appears that our country cousins from further afield are appreciating what some times we take for granted.

The Northland area offers balmy summer weather, ideal for family days at the beach and long barbeques into the evening, miles of unspoilt and uninhabited beaches and more often than not good all round rainfall along with land prices that are not prohibitive. Why wouldn’t you have a piece of paradise?

However let me temper the positive thoughts with some sound advice, although the forecast looks steady, the volatile off shore economics and shifting commodity prices combine to ensure that there is no indication of a future lift in dairy farm prices.

There is no reason to sit and wait for a future spike in land values, doing so may mean you miss the best buyer for your property.

Enjoy your family this Christmas, eat plenty, drink and be merry, I’m going to.

Call Tony on 021 432 208 for a no obligation assessment of your property.

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Notes from the shed with Mark With the payout McKewen high and interest low, it’s a really good time to

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Summer is most definitely here; Low to medium Before you upgrade to new Milfos cup removers or a Milfos Temperatures are climbing and target amperage draw.

Variable Drive Vacuum System it would be sensible to evaluate Bulk Milk temperatures are getting Some off peak things that could impact your proposed upgrade. harder to maintain.

The on main reason tariff use. inSparkies a conventional is that generally system do a great job, the however, we regularly come across wiring of all temperatures theinstalled water used to cool Direct Online Glycol Chilling System. sorts that has of been incorrectly.

Average $58,000 the milk .We have heard of water up For30instance weand see 22-23 the right cable used a milk pump controller, stillinto to degrees degrees is on say, In line secondary chillingbut milk bundled with everything else so it creates interference controller and not uncommon. the silo atwith 7 tothe 9 degrees bingo, a slightly crazy controller.

Unless you know what to look for it can be a painful A vat wrap will help, however the Use glycol to chill milk silos process to findare as itthat looks a faulty fundamentals thelike chiller isn’tcontroller. (multiple vat chilling) up toisitimportant or the vatfor won’t allow This all sorts of enough systems from Large pulsation controllers to cup removers amperage draw chilling to cope . and the more sophisticated the system the more careful you have to be. We No off peak use. recommend data cables as far away from power aspower possible.

It is often keeping asked what types of Medium water heat chilling doabout what,stray so Ivoltage, have yes it does We havesystems all heard exist grade and canhot cause all sorts recovery 60 degrees some fundamentals of common of issues, we have found a major source is the cable and terminations between systems, their capabilities and typical Thermal Energy Storage System Variable drives and Motors. comparative pricing (all systems are iCONVERTER $65,000 There isso a lot of documentation supplied with variable drives with regard to the custom pricing is only indicative).

In line secondary SNAP chilling cable to be used and metal glands for terminations etc, these are minimums andtoa 5 Direct Expansion Capabilities. degrees into the Silo good Sparky will follow manufacturer’s recommendations or better. If in doubt Average $17,000 Uses glycol to chill multiple silos get it checked.

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This 219ha dairy unit is a stand out on the Northland dairy market. Situated at West Coast Road, Dargaville, handy to Glinks Gully, and on the tar seal this imposing property boasts a superior 50 bale rotary, two good homes and a milking platform in the vicinity of 205ha. Being sold with 160,000 Fonterra shares, the property milks between 500 and 550 predominantly Friesian cows on a split calving basis. Featuring an outstanding range of sheds, farm improvements, Redhill and Te Kopuru soils, ample water and good fertility. An additional 10ha with a four bedroom home is situated on the boundary and is available. This property may be purchased as a full going concern.

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PROGRAMME SCHEDULE Monday 19 dec 06:00 Pro Bull 2010 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 The Week In Agri-Business 08:00 Farming Sunday 08:30 The Week In Agri-Business 09:00 Your Beautiful Garden 09:30 Gardening Australia 10:00 Smart Gardening 10:30 Garden Rambles 11:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 12:00 The Week In Agri-Business 12:30 Farming Sunday 13:00 Money Talks 13:30 The Week In Agri-Business 14:00 Straight Talk 14:30 Ag PhD 15:00 Farming Sunday 15:30 The Horse 16:30 Gardening Australia 17:00 Smart Gardening 17:30 HSBC FEI Classics 2011 18:30 Pro Bull 2010 19:30 America’s Heartland 20:00 Country99 TV News & Weather 20:30 Best Of Sector Report 2011 21:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 21:30 Hell On Hooves 22:00 Pro Bull 2010 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 Your Beautiful Garden 00:00 Gardening Australia 00:30 Smart Gardening 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 02:00 Pro Bull 2010 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 03:30 Your Beautiful Garden 04:00 Gardening Australia

04:30 Smart Gardening 05:00 Along For The Ride 05:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship

Tuesday 20 dec 06:00 Pro Bull 2010 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 08:00 Best Of Sector Report 2011 08:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 09:00 Cowboy Flavor 09:30 Barbecue University 10:00 NZ on a Plate 10:30 5 Ingredient Fix 11:00 Surfing the Menu 11:30 The Cowboys’ Kitchen 12:00 Country99 TV News & Weather 12:30 Best Of Sector Report 2011 13:00 Straight Talk 13:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 14:00 Best Of Sector Report 2011 14:30 The Stud Tour 15:00 America’s Heartland 15:30 Along For The Ride 16:00 Cowboy Flavor 16:30 Barbecue University 17:00 NZ on a Plate 17:30 The Cowboys’ Kitchen 18:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 18:30 Gucci Masters 2011 19:30 Hell On Hooves 20:00 Country99 TV News & Weather 20:30 America’s Heartland 21:00 Straight Talk 21:30 Along For The Ride 22:00 Pro Bull 2010 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 NZ on a Plate 00:00 Barbecue University 00:30 The Cowboys’ Kitchen

01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 02:00 Pro Bull 2010 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 03:30 NZ on a Plate 04:00 Barbecue University 04:30 FEI European Championships 05:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship

Wednesday 21 dec 06:00 Pro Bull 2010 07:00 Hell On Hooves 07:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 08:00 Straight Talk 08:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 09:00 Along For The Ride 09:30 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 10:00 Race Country 10:30 HSBC FEI Classics 2011 11:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 12:00 Country99 TV News & Weather 12:30 Straight Talk 13:00 Best Of Sector Report 2011 13:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 14:00 Ag PhD 14:30 Farming Sunday 15:00 The Cowboys’ Kitchen 15:30 Gucci Masters 2011 16:30 Animal S.O.S. 17:00 Garden Rambles 18:00 FEI Equestrian World 2011 18:30 Pro Bull 2010 19:30 TUX North Island & NZ Dog Trial Championship 20:00 Country99 TV News & Weather 20:30 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 21:00 World Sheep Dog Trials 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 Garden Rambles

00:30 America’s Heartland 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 02:00 Pro Bull 2010 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 03:30 Your Beautiful Garden 04:00 Garden Rambles 05:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 05:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship

Thursday 22 dec 06:00 Pro Bull 2010 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 08:00 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 08:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 09:00 Gardening Australia 09:30 Cowboy Flavor 10:00 Your Beautiful Garden 10:30 The Cowboys’ Kitchen 11:00 Garden Rambles 12:00 Country99 TV News & Weather 12:30 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 13:00 The Stud Tour 13:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 14:00 Landline 15:00 Barbecue University 15:30 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 16:00 Gardening Australia 16:30 NZ on a Plate 17:00 Your Beautiful Garden 17:30 The Fresh Life 18:00 At Home With Carl Hester 18:30 Pro Bull 2010 19:30 TUX North Island & NZ Dog Trial Championship 20:00 Country99 TV News & Weather 20:30 Landline 21:30 Classic Tractor Fever 22:00 Pro Bull 2010 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship

23:30 00:00 00:30 01:00 01:30 02:00 03:00 03:30 04:00 04:30 05:00 05:30

Mon 19 Dec - Mon 26 Dec

Gardening Australia NZ on a Plate Your Beautiful Garden National Tractor Pulling Championship Country99 TV News & Weather Pro Bull 2010 National Tractor Pulling Championship Gardening Australia NZ on a Plate Your Beautiful Garden FEI Equestrian World 2011 National Tractor Pulling Championship

Friday 23 dec 06:00 Pro Bull 2010 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 08:00 Ag PhD 08:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 09:00 FEI European Championships 10:00 Pro Bull 2010 11:00 Landline 12:00 Country99 TV News & Weather 12:30 Ag PhD 13:00 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 13:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 14:00 America’s Heartland 14:30 Hell On Hooves 15:00 FEI European Championships 16:00 Garden Rambles 17:00 Landline 18:00 Classic Tractor Fever 18:30 Pro Bull 2010 19:30 TUX North Island & NZ Dog Trial Championship 20:00 Country99 TV News & Weather 20:30 Best Of Straight Talk 2011 21:00 FEI European Championships 22:00 Pro Bull 2010 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 Classic Tractor Fever

00:00 America’s Heartland 00:30 Ag PhD 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Country99 TV News & Weather 02:00 Pro Bull 2010 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 03:30 Landline 04:30 Ag PhD 05:00 Farming Sunday 05:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship

23:30 00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 03:30 04:00

saTurday 24 dec

06:00 07:00 08:00 08:30 09:00 12:00

06:00 07:00 07:30 08:00 09:00 09:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 15:00 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18:00 18:30 19:00 19:30 20:00 20:30 21:00 21:30 22:00 22:30

Pro Bull 2010 FEI Equestrian World 2011 Along For The Ride FEI European Championships Parelli: Natural Horsemanship Country99 TV News & Weather Best Of Sector Report 2011 North Otago Rural Outlook Series Ag PhD Best Of Straight Talk 2011 America’s Heartland Outdoors With Geoff Thomas Parelli: Natural Horsemanship Along For The Ride FEI European Championships Gucci Masters 2011 Best Of Sector Report 2011 America’s Heartland Ag PhD Best Of Straight Talk 2011 Outdoors With Geoff Thomas Outdoors With Geoff Thomas Classic Tractor Fever The Week In Agri-Business Inside Music Row TruCountry The Marty Stuart Show Cumberland Highlanders America’s Heartland FEI European Championships

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Tuesday 27 dec 06:00 Pro Bull 2010 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Best Of Sector Report 2011 08:00 Best Of Sector Report 2011 08:30 Best Of Straight Talk 2011 09:00 Cowboy Flavor 09:30 Barbecue University

10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18:00 18:30 19:30 20:00 20:30 21:00 21:30 22:00 23:00 23:30 00:00 00:30 01:00 01:30 02:00 03:00 03:30 04:00 04:30 05:30

NZ on a Plate 5 Ingredient Fix Surfing the Menu The Cowboys’ Kitchen Best Of Straight Talk 2011 Best Of Sector Report 2011 Best Of Straight Talk 2011 Ag PhD Best Of Sector Report 2011 The Stud Tour America’s Heartland Along For The Ride Cowboy Flavor Barbecue University NZ on a Plate The Cowboys’ Kitchen Parelli: Natural Horsemanship Pro Bull 2010 Golden Shears Best Of Sector Report 2011 America’s Heartland Best Of Straight Talk 2011 Along For The Ride Pro Bull 2010 National Tractor Pulling Championship NZ on a Plate Barbecue University The Cowboys’ Kitchen National Tractor Pulling Championship Best Of Sector Report 2011 Pro Bull 2010 National Tractor Pulling Championship NZ on a Plate Barbecue University FEI European Championships National Tractor Pulling Championship

Wednesday 28 dec 06:00 Pro Bull 2010 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Best Of Sector Report 2011 08:00 Best Of Straight Talk 2011

08:30 09:00 09:30 10:00 10:30 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:30 16:30 17:00 18:00 18:30 19:30 20:00 20:30 21:00 22:00 23:00 23:30 00:30 01:00 01:30 02:00 03:00 03:30 04:00 05:00 05:30

Best Of Straight Talk 2011 Along For The Ride Parelli: Natural Horsemanship Race Country HSBC FEI Classics 2011 National Tractor Pulling Championship Best Of Straight Talk 2011 Best Of Straight Talk 2011 Best Of Sector Report 2011 Ag PhD Ag PhD Farming Sunday The Cowboys’ Kitchen Horse Of The Year 2011 Animal S.O.S. Garden Rambles Kihikihi International Horse Trials 2 Star Pro Bull 2010 National Tractor Pulling Championship Best Of Sector Report 2011 North Otago Rural Outlook Series World Sheep Dog Trials Pro Bull 2010 National Tractor Pulling Championship Garden Rambles America’s Heartland National Tractor Pulling Championship Best Of Sector Report 2011 Pro Bull 2010 National Tractor Pulling Championship Your Beautiful Garden Garden Rambles Parelli: Natural Horsemanship National Tractor Pulling Championship

Thursday 29 dec 06:00 Pro Bull 2010

07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Best Of Sector Report 2011 08:00 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 08:30 Best Of Straight Talk 2011 09:00 Gardening Australia 09:30 Cowboy Flavor 10:00 Your Beautiful Garden 10:30 The Cowboys’ Kitchen 11:00 Garden Rambles 12:00 Best Of Straight Talk 2011 12:30 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 13:00 The Stud Tour 13:30 Ag PhD 14:00 Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011 15:00 Barbecue University 15:30 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 16:00 Gardening Australia 16:30 NZ on a Plate 17:00 Your Beautiful Garden 17:30 The Fresh Life 18:00 At Home With Carl Hester 18:30 Pro Bull 2010 19:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 20:00 Best Of Sector Report 2011 20:30 Best Of Sector Report 2011 21:00 Best Of Straight Talk 2011 21:30 Classic Tractor Fever 22:00 Pro Bull 2010 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 Gardening Australia 00:00 NZ on a Plate 00:30 Your Beautiful Garden 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Best Of Sector Report 2011 02:00 Pro Bull 2010 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 03:30 Gardening Australia

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sunday 25 dec

18:00 19:00 19:30 20:30 21:00 21:30 22:00 22:30 23:00 00:00 01:00 01:30 02:30 03:00 04:00 04:30 05:00 05:30

Pro Bull 2011 FEI European Championships Parelli: Natural Horsemanship Along For The Ride Farming Sunday Dog-A-Thon: TUX North Island & NZ Dog Trial Championship Pro Bull 2011 The Week In Agri-Business TruCountry The Marty Stuart Show Inside Music Row TruCountry Parelli: Natural Horsemanship Along For The Ride FEI European Championships Pro Bull 2010 Along For The Ride Gucci Masters 2011 Along For The Ride FEI European Championships America’s Heartland Best Of Straight Talk 2011 Best Of Sector Report 2011 Ag PhD

Monday 26 dec 06:00 Pro Bull 2010 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Best Of Sector Report 2011 08:00 Farming Sunday 08:30 Best Of Straight Talk 2011 09:00 Your Beautiful Garden 09:30 Gardening Australia

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PROGRAMME SCHEDULE 10:00 Smart Gardening 10:30 Garden Rambles 11:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 12:00 Badminton 2011 Course Walk Preview 12:30 Badminton Horse Trials 2011 Dressage 13:30 Badminton Horse Trials 2011 Cross Country 17:30 Badminton Horse Trials 2011 Showjumping 18:00 Horse Of The Year 2011 19:30 America’s Heartland 20:00 Best Of Sector Report 2011 20:30 Best Of Sector Report 2011 21:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 21:30 Hell On Hooves 22:00 Pro Bull 2010 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 Your Beautiful Garden 00:00 Gardening Australia 00:30 Smart Gardening 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Best Of Sector Report 2011 02:00 Pro Bull 2010 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 03:30 Your Beautiful Garden 04:00 Gardening Australia 04:30 Smart Gardening 05:00 Along For The Ride 05:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship

Along For The Ride Pro Bull 2010 FEI European Championships Gucci Masters 2011 FEI Equestrian World 2011 Along For The Ride North Otago Rural Outlook Series 04:30 America’s Heartland 05:00 Ag PhD 05:30 Best Of Straight Talk 2011

04:00 04:30 05:00 05:30

Mon 26 Dec - Mon 2 Jan

NZ on a Plate Your Beautiful Garden FEI Equestrian World 2011 National Tractor Pulling Championship

03:30 04:30 05:00 05:30

Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011 Ag PhD Farming Sunday National Tractor Pulling Championship

Friday 30 dec

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06:00 Pro Bull 2010 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Best Of Sector Report 2011 08:00 Ag PhD 08:30 Best Of Straight Talk 2011 09:00 FEI European Championships 10:00 Pro Bull 2010 11:00 Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011 12:00 Best Of Straight Talk 2011 12:30 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 13:00 Ag PhD 13:30 Ag PhD 14:00 America’s Heartland 14:30 Golden Shears 15:00 FEI European Championships 16:00 Garden Rambles 17:00 Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011 18:00 Classic Tractor Fever 18:30 Pro Bull 2010 19:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 20:00 Best Of Sector Report 2011 20:30 Best Of Straight Talk 2011 21:00 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 22:00 Pro Bull 2010 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 Classic Tractor Fever 00:00 America’s Heartland 00:30 Ag PhD 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Best Of Sector Report 2011 02:00 Pro Bull 2010 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship

06:00 07:00 07:30 08:00 09:00 09:30 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 15:00 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18:00 18:30 19:00 20:00 20:30

Pro Bull 2010 FEI Equestrian World 2011 Along For The Ride FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011 Best Of Sector Report 2011 Ag PhD Best Of Straight Talk 2011 America’s Heartland Outdoors With Geoff Thomas Parelli: Natural Horsemanship Along For The Ride FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 Horse Of The Year 2011 Best Of Sector Report 2011 America’s Heartland Ag PhD Best Of Straight Talk 2011 Outdoors With Geoff Thomas Outdoors With Geoff Thomas 2011 Agribusiness Year In Review Weather 2011 - The Year In Review The Marty Stuart Show

sunday 1 Jan 06:00 Pro Bull 2011 07:00 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 08:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 08:30 Along For The Ride 09:00 Farming Sunday 09:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011 10:00 Best of Sector Report 2011

10:30 2011 Agribusiness Year In Review 11:30 Weather 2011 - The Year In Review 12:00 The Horse 13:00 Horse Of The Year 2011 14:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 14:30 Along For The Ride 15:00 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 16:00 2011 Agribusiness Year In Review 17:00 Weather 2011 - The Year In Review 17:30 America’s Heartland 18:00 Pro Bull 2011 19:00 Best of Sector Report 2011 19:30 Farming Sunday 20:00 Classic Tractor Fever 20:30 The Marty Stuart Show 21:00 Inside Music Row 21:30 TruCountry 22:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 22:30 Along For The Ride 23:00 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 00:00 Pro Bull 2010 01:00 Along For The Ride 01:30 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 02:30 Along For The Ride 03:00 Horse Of The Year 2011 04:00 2011 Agribusiness Year In Review 05:00 Weather 2011 - The Year In Review 05:30 Best of Sector Report 2011

Monday 2 Jan 06:00 Pro Bull 2011 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 2011 Agribusiness Year In Review 08:30 Weather 2011 - The Year In Review 09:00 Your Beautiful Garden 09:30 Gardening Australia 10:00 Smart Gardening

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PROGRAMME SCHEDULE 10:30 Garden Rambles 11:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 12:00 2011 Agribusiness Year In Review 13:00 Weather 2011 - The Year In Review 13:30 Ag PhD 14:00 Farming Sunday 14:30 2011 Agribusiness Year In Review 15:30 The Horse 16:30 Gardening Australia 17:00 Smart Gardening 17:30 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 18:30 Pro Bull 2011 19:30 America’s Heartland 20:00 2011 Agribusiness Year In Review 21:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 21:30 Weather 2011 - The Year In Review 22:00 Pro Bull 2011 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 Your Beautiful Garden 00:00 Gardening Australia 00:30 Smart Gardening 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Weather 2011 - The Year In Review 02:00 Pro Bull 2011 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 03:30 Your Beautiful Garden 04:00 Gardening Australia 04:30 Smart Gardening 05:00 Along For The Ride 05:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship

Tuesday 3 Jan 06:00 Pro Bull 2011 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Best of Sector Report 2011

08:00 08:30 09:00 09:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18:00 18:30 19:30 20:00 20:30 21:00 21:30 22:00 23:00 23:30 00:00 00:30 01:00 01:30 02:00 03:00 03:30 04:00 04:30 05:30

Best of Sector Report 2011 Best of Straight Talk 2011 Cowboy Flavor Barbecue University NZ on a Plate 5 Ingredient Fix Surfing the Menu The Cowboys’ Kitchen Best of Straight Talk 2011 Best of Sector Report 2011 Best of Straight Talk 2011 Ag PhD Best of Sector Report 2011 The Stud Tour America’s Heartland Along For The Ride Cowboy Flavor Barbecue University NZ on a Plate The Cowboys’ Kitchen Parelli: Natural Horsemanship Pro Bull 2011 Golden Shears ASB Rural Innovation Week America’s Heartland Best of Straight Talk 2011 Along For The Ride Pro Bull 2011 National Tractor Pulling Championship NZ on a Plate Barbecue University The Cowboys’ Kitchen National Tractor Pulling Championship Best of Sector Report 2011 Pro Bull 2011 National Tractor Pulling Championship NZ on a Plate Barbecue University FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 National Tractor Pulling Championship

Wednesday 4 Jan 06:00 Pro Bull 2011

07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Best of Sector Report 2011 08:00 Best of Straight Talk 2011 08:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011 09:00 Along For The Ride 09:30 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 10:00 Race Country 10:30 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 11:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 12:00 Best of Straight Talk 2011 12:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011 13:00 Best of Sector Report 2011 13:30 2011 Agribusiness Year In Review 14:30 Weather 2011 - The Year In Review 15:00 The Cowboys’ Kitchen 15:30 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 16:30 Animal S.O.S. 17:00 Garden Rambles 18:00 Race Country 18:30 Pro Bull 2011 19:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 20:00 ASB Rural Innovation Week 20:30 North Otago Rural Outlook 21:00 Ag PhD 21:30 America’s Heartland 22:00 Pro Bull 2011 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 Garden Rambles 00:30 America’s Heartland 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Best of Sector Report 2011 02:00 Pro Bull 2011 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 03:30 Your Beautiful Garden 04:00 Garden Rambles 05:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship

05:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship

Thursday 5 Jan 06:00 Pro Bull 2011 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Best of Sector Report 2011 08:00 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 08:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011 09:00 Gardening Australia 09:30 Cowboy Flavor 10:00 Your Beautiful Garden 10:30 The Cowboys’ Kitchen 11:00 Garden Rambles 12:00 Best of Straight Talk 2011 12:30 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 13:00 The Stud Tour 13:30 Ag PhD 14:00 Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011 15:00 Barbecue University 15:30 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 16:00 Gardening Australia 16:30 NZ on a Plate 17:00 Your Beautiful Garden 17:30 The Fresh Life 18:00 At Home With Carl Hester 18:30 Pro Bull 2011 19:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 20:00 ASB Rural Innovation Week 20:30 Best of Sector Report 2011 21:00 Best of Straight Talk 2011 21:30 Classic Tractor Fever 22:00 Pro Bull 2011 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 Gardening Australia 00:00 NZ on a Plate 00:30 Your Beautiful Garden 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Best of Sector Report 2011 02:00 Pro Bull 2011 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship

03:30 04:00 04:30 05:00 05:30

Mon 2 Jan - Sun 8 Jan

Gardening Australia NZ on a Plate Your Beautiful Garden FEI Equestrian World 2011 National Tractor Pulling Championship

Friday 6 Jan 06:00 Pro Bull 2011 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Best of Sector Report 2011 08:00 Ag PhD 08:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011 09:00 The Horse 10:00 Pro Bull 2011 11:00 Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011 12:00 Best of Straight Talk 2011 12:30 Ag PhD 13:00 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 13:30 Ag PhD 14:00 America’s Heartland 14:30 Golden Shears 15:00 The Horse 16:00 Garden Rambles 17:00 Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011 18:00 Classic Tractor Fever 18:30 Pro Bull 2011 19:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 20:00 ASB Rural Innovation Week 20:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011 21:00 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 22:00 Pro Bull 2011 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 Classic Tractor Fever 00:00 America’s Heartland 00:30 Ag PhD 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Best of Sector Report 2011 02:00 Pro Bull 2011 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 03:30 Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011 04:30 Ag PhD

05:00 Farming Sunday 05:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship

saTurday 7 Jan 06:00 06:30 07:00 07:30 08:00 09:00 09:30 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 15:00 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18:00 18:30 19:00 20:00 20:30 21:00 21:30 22:00 22:30 23:30 00:00 01:00 02:00 02:30 03:30 04:00 04:30 05:00

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Tues 10 Jan

06:00 Pro Bull 2011 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011 08:00 Farming Sunday 08:30 Ag PhD 09:00 Your Beautiful Garden 09:30 Gardening Australia 10:00 Smart Gardening 10:30 Garden Rambles 11:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 12:00 Ag PhD 12:30 Farming Sunday 13:00 Ag PhD 13:30 Best of Sector Report 2011 14:00 Best of Straight Talk 2011 14:30 Ag PhD 15:00 Farming Sunday 15:30 The Horse 16:30 Gardening Australia 17:00 Smart Gardening 17:30 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 18:30 Pro Bull 2011 19:30 America’s Heartland 20:00 Ag PhD 20:30 Best of Sector Report 2011 21:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 21:30 World Sheep Dog Trials 23:30 Your Beautiful Garden 00:00 Gardening Australia 00:30 Smart Gardening 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Ag PhD 02:00 Pro Bull 2011 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 03:30 Your Beautiful Garden 04:00 Gardening Australia 04:30 Smart Gardening 05:00 Along For The Ride 05:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship

06:00 Pro Bull 2011 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Ag PhD 08:00 Best of Sector Report 2011 08:30 Ag PhD 09:00 Cowboy Flavor 09:30 Barbecue University 10:00 NZ on a Plate 10:30 5 Ingredient Fix 11:00 Surfing the Menu 11:30 The Cowboys’ Kitchen 12:00 Ag PhD 12:30 Best of Sector Report 2011 13:00 Best of Straight Talk 2011 13:30 Ag PhD 14:00 Best of Sector Report 2011 14:30 The Stud Tour 15:00 America’s Heartland 15:30 Along For The Ride 16:00 Cowboy Flavor 16:30 Barbecue University 17:00 NZ on a Plate 17:30 The Cowboys’ Kitchen 18:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 18:30 Pro Bull 2011 19:30 Golden Shears 20:00 Ag PhD 20:30 America’s Heartland 21:00 Best of Straight Talk 2011 21:30 Along For The Ride 22:00 Pro Bull 2011 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 NZ on a Plate 00:00 Barbecue University 00:30 The Cowboys’ Kitchen 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Ag PhD 02:00 Pro Bull 2011 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 03:30 NZ on a Plate 04:00 Barbecue University 04:30 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012

05:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship

Wednesday 11 Jan 06:00 Pro Bull 2011 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Ag PhD 08:00 Best of Straight Talk 2011 08:30 Ag PhD 09:00 Along For The Ride 09:30 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 10:00 Race Country 10:30 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 11:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 12:00 Ag PhD 12:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011 13:00 Best of Sector Report 2011 13:30 Ag PhD 14:00 Ag PhD 14:30 Farming Sunday 15:00 The Cowboys’ Kitchen 15:30 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 16:30 Animal S.O.S. 17:00 Garden Rambles 18:00 Race Country 18:30 Pro Bull 2011 19:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 20:00 Ag PhD 20:30 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 21:00 Spruce Meadows 2011 22:00 Pro Bull 2011 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 Garden Rambles 00:30 America’s Heartland 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Ag PhD 02:00 Pro Bull 2011 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 03:30 Your Beautiful Garden 04:00 Garden Rambles

05:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 05:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship

Thursday 12 Jan 06:00 Pro Bull 2011 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Ag PhD 08:00 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 08:30 Ag PhD 09:00 Gardening Australia 09:30 Cowboy Flavor 10:00 Your Beautiful Garden 10:30 The Cowboys’ Kitchen 11:00 Garden Rambles 12:00 Ag PhD 12:30 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 13:00 The Stud Tour 13:30 Ag PhD 14:00 Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011 15:00 Barbecue University 15:30 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 16:00 Gardening Australia 16:30 NZ on a Plate 17:00 Your Beautiful Garden 17:30 The Fresh Life 18:00 At Home With Carl Hester 18:30 Pro Bull 2011 19:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 20:00 Ag PhD 20:30 Best of Sector Report 2011 21:00 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 21:30 Classic Tractor Fever 22:00 Pro Bull 2011 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 Gardening Australia 00:00 NZ on a Plate 00:30 Your Beautiful Garden 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Ag PhD 02:00 Pro Bull 2011

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Best of Sector Report 2011 Ag PhD FEI Equestrian World 2011 Along For The Ride FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011 Best of Sector Report 2011 Ag PhD Best of Straight Talk 2011 America’s Heartland Outdoors With Geoff Thomas Parelli: Natural Horsemanship Along For The Ride FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 The Horse Best of Sector Report 2011 America’s Heartland Ag PhD Best of Straight Talk 2011 Outdoors With Geoff Thomas Outdoors With Geoff Thomas Landline Inside Music Row TruCountry The Marty Stuart Show Cumberland Highlanders America’s Heartland FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 Along For The Ride Pro Bull 2011 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 Along For The Ride HSBC FEI Classics 2011 FEI Equestrian World 2011 Best of Sector Report 2011 America’s Heartland Ag PhD

05:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011

sunday 8 Jan 06:00 Pro Bull 2011 07:00 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 08:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 08:30 Along For The Ride 09:00 Farming Sunday 09:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011 10:00 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 10:30 Best of Sector Report 2011 11:00 2011 Agribusiness Year In Review 12:00 The Horse 13:00 Gucci Masters 2011 14:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 14:30 Along For The Ride 15:00 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 16:00 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 16:30 2011 Agribusiness Year In Review 17:30 Weather 2011 - The Year In Review 18:00 Pro Bull 2011 19:00 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 19:30 Farming Sunday 20:00 Classic Tractor Fever 20:30 The Marty Stuart Show 21:00 Inside Music Row 21:30 TruCountry 22:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 22:30 Along For The Ride 23:00 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 00:00 Pro Bull 2011 01:00 Along For The Ride 01:30 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 02:30 FEI Equestrian World 2011 03:00 HSBC FEI Classics 2011 04:00 America’s Heartland 04:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011 05:00 Best of Sector Report 2011 05:30 Ag PhD

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Mon 9 Jan - Sun 15 Jan

03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 03:30 Gardening Australia 04:00 NZ on a Plate 04:30 Your Beautiful Garden 05:00 FEI Equestrian World 2011 05:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship

Friday 13 Jan 06:00 Pro Bull 2011 07:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 07:30 Ag PhD 08:00 Ag PhD 08:30 Ag PhD 09:00 Spruce Meadows 2011 10:00 Pro Bull 2011 11:00 Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011 12:00 Ag PhD 12:30 Ag PhD 13:00 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 13:30 Ag PhD 14:00 America’s Heartland 14:30 Golden Shears 15:00 Spruce Meadows 2011 16:00 Garden Rambles 17:00 Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011 18:00 Classic Tractor Fever 18:30 Pro Bull 2011 19:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship 20:00 Ag PhD 20:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011 21:00 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 22:00 Pro Bull 2011 23:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 23:30 Classic Tractor Fever 00:00 America’s Heartland 00:30 Ag PhD 01:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 01:30 Ag PhD 02:00 Pro Bull 2011 03:00 National Tractor Pulling Championship 03:30 Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011

04:30 Ag PhD 05:00 Farming Sunday 05:30 National Tractor Pulling Championship

saTurday 14 Jan 06:00 06:30 07:00 07:30 08:00 09:00 09:30 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 15:00 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18:00 18:30 19:00 19:30 20:00 20:30 21:00 21:30 22:00 22:30 23:30 00:00 01:00 02:00 02:30 03:30 04:00 04:30

Best of Sector Report 2011 Ag PhD FEI Equestrian World 2011 Along For The Ride FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship Tux Yard and Handy Dog 2011 Best of Sector Report 2011 Ag PhD Best of Straight Talk 2011 America’s Heartland Outdoors With Geoff Thomas Parelli: Natural Horsemanship Along For The Ride FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 Spruce Meadows 2011 Best of Sector Report 2011 America’s Heartland Ag PhD Best of Straight Talk 2011 Outdoors With Geoff Thomas Outdoors With Geoff Thomas Classic Tractor Fever Best of Sector Report 2011 Inside Music Row TruCountry The Marty Stuart Show Cumberland Highlanders America’s Heartland FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 Along For The Ride Pro Bull 2011 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 Along For The Ride Spruce Meadows 2011 FEI Equestrian World 2011 Best of Sector Report 2011 America’s Heartland

05:00 Ag PhD 05:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011

sunday 15 Jan 06:00 Best of Straight Talk 2011 06:30 America’s Heartland 07:00 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 08:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 08:30 Along For The Ride 09:00 Farming Sunday 09:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011 10:00 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 10:30 Best of Sector Report 2011 11:00 Best of Sector Report 2011 11:30 America’s Heartland 12:00 The Horse 13:00 Spruce Meadows 2011 14:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 14:30 Along For The Ride 15:00 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 16:00 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 16:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011 17:00 Farming Sunday 17:30 Best of Sector Report 2011 18:00 Pro Bull 2011 19:00 North Otago Rural Outlook Series 19:30 Farming Sunday 20:00 Classic Tractor Fever 20:30 The Marty Stuart Show 21:00 Inside Music Row 21:30 TruCountry 22:00 Parelli: Natural Horsemanship 22:30 Along For The Ride 23:00 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 00:00 Pro Bull 2011 01:00 Along For The Ride 01:30 FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 02:30 FEI Equestrian World 2011 03:00 Spruce Meadows 2011 04:00 America’s Heartland 04:30 Best of Straight Talk 2011 05:00 Best of Sector Report 2011 05:30 Ag PhD

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December 2011 Northern

Farming Lifestyles

DARE TO COMPARE. FREE SAFETY GEAR • Approved Youth Helmet (Goggles not included) • Safety Orange Whip Flag • Polaris Rider-Training Instructional DVD

OUTLAW 50

OUTLAW 90

Unique adjustable footwell height for years more riding as you grow.

Unlike most competitors it has reverse gear so you can reverse out of a corner!

$2,995*

CONSIDER THE VALUE

$3,995*

POLARIS OUTLAW 50

SUZUKI LT-Z50 NO

Engine Capacity

89cc

YES

NO

Free Helmet

YES

YES

✓

NO

Free Safety Whip Flag Free Rider’s Safety Lanyard

YES

Free Safety Whip Flag Free Rider’s Safety Lanyard

Price

✓ NO ✓ NO YES ✓ YES ✓ YES ✓ NO YES $2,995 ✓ $3,150

RESULT

WINNER!

YES

Adjustable Footwell Electric Start Horn

POLARIS OUTLAW 90

✓ ✓

Free Helmet

Taillights

CONSIDER THE VALUE

SUZUKI LT-Z90LO

YAMAHA YFM90R

HONDA TRX90E

88cc

86cc

NO

NO

NO

89cc

YES

✓ ✓ ✓

NO

NO

NO

YES

✓

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO / NO

NO / NO

NO

NO

$4,079

$4,590

Price

✓ NO YES / YES ✓ NO / NO ✓ NO YES $3,995 ✓ $4,500

RESULT

WINNER!

YES

Reverse Gear Headlights / Taillights Horn

✓

Check with your Polaris dealer and other manufacturer dealers for latest pricing and specifications. All details correct at September 2011.

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