Northern Farming Lifestyles, January 2015

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Northlanders are being urged to attend to make their views known to those planning the blueprints addressing some of the region’s most pressing transport issues.

“Everyone has a vested interest in securing the best ‘fit for purpose’ transport system Northland can afford,” says Regional Transport Committee chair, John Bain.

The NRC is holding the discussions on the Draft Regional Land Transport Plan and the Draft Regional Public Transport Plan as part of a public consultation process which began late last year. The schedule includes Dargaville on Monday, January 12, at the Dargaville Town Hall, from 5–7pm; Kaitaia on Tuesday January 13, Te Ahu Centre, from 2–4pm; Kaikohe on Wednesday January 14, Far North District Council chambers, from 2–4pm; Opononi; Thursday January 15, Opononi Town Hall, 5–7pm, and in Whangarei, Monday January 19, Northland Regional Council chambers, from 5–7pm.

“I’d really like to urge as many people as possible to attend one of the public meetings to come along and share their thoughts,” said Cr Bain.

He says the RLTP will serve as a ‘blueprint’ for tens of millions of dollars spending on the region’s roading

infrastructure over the next three years.

“It attempts to address a raft of issues including things like regional route resilience and security.”

He said a lack of funding is the biggest issue facing Northland’s land transport and the draft plan represents a lot of hard work by people from a number of local authorities, government, and other agencies to get the best outcome from the money that is available.

The second plan — the RPTP — sets out how public passenger transport services and the assistance for the transport disadvantaged will be provided for over the next decade.

“Again, cost is an issue and a big challenge is how to continue to grow patronage while maintaining the affordability and quality of these services.”

The plan proposes investigating ways of improving user experience, including public transport information and ticketing options. Public consultation on both plans is running for a longerthan-usual six weeks given the recent Christmas/New Year break.

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Voting for a new member of the Northland Regional Council will open on January 17, with seven people having put their names forward to contest the Te Hiku seat left vacant by the death last October of Councillor Dennis Bowman.

Independent contractor Election Services, which is handling the byelection for the regional council, says the official nomination period for those wishing to stand closed on December 22 last year.

Electoral Officer Dale Ofsoske says those nominated are: • Bainbridge, Sheryl; Kaeo • Bassett, John Edward (independent); Herekino • Finlayson, Mike (independent); Kaitaia • King, Fiona; Awanui • King, Mike ; Coopers Beach • Knight, Monty (independent); Kaitaia • Tahana, JT (independent); Awanui.

Mr Ofsoske says all resident electors and non-resident ratepayer electors of the Te Hiku Constituency whose names are on the latest electoral roll are eligible to vote.

Postal voting documents will be mailed to all eligible voters from Tuesday January 27.

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council’s website via: www.nrc.govt.nz/ byelection and the successful candidate will be officially declared on Wednesday February 25.

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by Cynthia Matthews

A young Fijian agricultural graduate’s visit to New Zealand has opened up new horizons.

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raneel Chand and his wife Prashna gained residency four months ago and they are excited about building their future within the New Zealand dairy industry.

The couple say that obtaining residency has easily been the most challenging aspect of moving to live and work here. A work permit and an employment offer had to first be secured. JJ and JA Preekers started Praneel on their Waikato dairy operation milking 400 cows. From farm worker and quick learner he moved to second in charge. He stayed two and a half seasons and still maintains contact with the Preekers, who remain supportive of his career. “Good farmers and a good boss,” says Praneel.

An opportunity came up at Grant and Crawford Rear’s farm out of Kawakawa.

After a season Praneel became herd manager and he is now into his fourth year. “The chances are there — for those who want it. If you’re pretty keen you’ll be rewarded.”

He is enthusiastic about his work, which he describes as producing quality milk from the herd’s 550 cows, pasture management, managing the mating programme and overseeing the feed budget.

He is encouraged that milk solids have risen during his tenure due to improved resource management and increased cow numbers. The farm’s 1,200 hectares include a leased block and a runoff and alongside the dairying there is buying in and rearing calves and beef fattening. Grant and Crawford undertake these aspects of the operation.

The Chands have already run the farm for three months with relief staff.

Raymond, newly on to the farm, works with them. Prashna’s first job in New Zealand was indoors and she is enjoying the change of occupation.

“I was a city girl, “she smiles, “but my grandparents came from a rural area, so it’s not that unfamiliar.” She has a Diploma in Electrical Engineering (electronics) and has been on several computer courses to manage new farm related programmes. The couple are united in working hard towards their goal — a fifty-fifty sharemilking position.

Praneel is building up his own herd to take with him and is now keeping 40 cows, with the aim of increasing to 200.

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Praneel squeezes in giving his father a hand on the family’s sugarcane farm.

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January 2015

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COUNTRY COMMUNITY REMEMBERS WW1

by Cynthia Matthews

This year marks a hundred years since the start of World War One — the ‘war to end all wars’. Town and district memorials throughout New Zealand commemorate those who served. In the Mid North at Okaihau, the Memorial Gates hold 45 soldiers’ names, the left pillar with those who returned, while the right remembers those killed.

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t the outbreak of war it was generally thought it would be a short campaign and men were keen to sign up. In 1911 Okaihau’s male population was only 500 and as the war continued every telegram with bad news was felt by the whole community.

Thomas (TF) Flood is a local man noted on the Okaihau memorial. Tom’s father Robert was a teacher who bought a farm in the Utakura Valley. Robert taught away at Te AhuAhu while Tom, the eldest of the family, ran the farm and managed their small shop on the Horeke — Okaihau road.

The young farmer enlisted in 1916.

He trained at Trentham before leaving Wellington in early 1917 on the troopship Navua with James (Jim) Flood, a cousin, Thomas Russell, Charles Weston Thomas and Charlie’s brother Leslie

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The four friends enlisted, commenced service and trained together in England and left for France the same day. They were posted to ‘C’ Company 3rd NZ Rifle Brigade.

The NZ Division became involved in the Third Ypres offensive. On October 12, 1917, under General Haig, the attack on Passchendaele began at 5.25am in driving rain. By mid-morning 840 New Zealand soldiers had been killed — six per cent of those killed in the war. 138 died from wounds the following week.

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At least six men were required to carry each stretcher. The main road leading back was submerged, with the water up to the knee level. Many wounded lying around the pill-boxes perished either from exposure to the elements or from almost uninterrupted shell-fire.

The only possible tracks were harried by the enemy’s artillery, and it is more than probable that many men, whose bodies were found unburied months afterwards, had been drowned in the liquid mud, which in places acted like a quick-sand’.

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Tom was killed at Passchendaele that day. His name is recorded at Okaihau and at Tyne Cot Memorial, Ypres, Belgium, where 35,000 soldiers are remembered including the 1,179 New Zealanders buried where they fell.

Thomas Russell was killed 1918 at Bapaume. Charlie and Les Thomas were wounded at the same time. Charlie recovered in England from trench foot and came back to establish a blacksmiths and wheelwrights business with Acky Anderson.

Les returned to farming. Jim Flood’s father and Tom’s were brothers. At Passchendaele Jim endured severe trench foot and following hospitalisation he recovered in Ireland with his grandmother whom he had never met. (His parents had emigrated as newlyweds.)

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The rugged hill country around Okaihau in the north was a far cry from the mud and barbed wire of the Great War’s trenches. But young men from this remote part of what was then the British Empire signed up to serve their country proudly, in theatres of war such as the bloody and terrifying Ypres front. Many did not return home.

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January 2015

Waitangi River KIWI’S CALL FOR PROTECTION

by Cynthia Matthews

It’s June and a cold fog lies in around the Waitangi River headwaters. The misty silence is broken by a high pitched kee wee! kee wee! A few seconds later the two kiwi monitors listening up on the ridge hear the female’s guttural call answering.

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The costs are around $30,000 per year for the Landcare Group. Unbeknown to the kiwi their lives have just become much more precarious.

They live in an area owned by iwi trusts, farmers and country dwellers.

The opportunities for gaining funding for long-term pest control on private land are becoming scarcer, even if it holds the nationally significant kiwi.

very night, beyond Waimate North’s farmlands, a battle for survival is going on. The Waitangi River catchment is home to seven percent of New Zealand’s North Island Brown Kiwi population. With threats from dogs, possums, feral cats, rats, hedgehogs, stoats and ferrets the kiwis rely on the Waimate North Landcare Group to survive. And until there are other tools in the pest eradication ‘toolbox’ that

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To date, $250,000 has been received from Northern Regional and Far North District Councils and the government’s Biodiversity Condition fund, WWF and the Lotteries Commission, but long-term funding has never been available.

Daryl believes pest eradication costs have to be spread throughout the wider local community. Tourism has the potential to offset some of these. But right now the Landcare Group is radically re-evaluating.

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“Because local landowners have seen values in having native areas it has enabled this wildlife to continue here.”

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A better farm outlook emerges The economic outlook this year for New Zealand farming is largely fine, but with just a few clouds on the horizon.

Many regions like Northland have enjoyed good rainfall through December and generally there has been substantial grass growth throughout the region.

The beef boom is providing a huge economic bonus.

Despite the lowest milk payout forecast in six years, many dairy farmers have been able to capitalise on the current high beef prices by selling cull cows early, and beef stock that has been

raised on runoffs. The current trade conflict between Russia and America is quite interesting to follow. The American alliance keep telling us that their trade embargo against Russia is causing the Russian economy to decline.

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The government’s new legislation regarding water rights and the threat of agency bureaucrats using their power of right of entry onto farmers’ private property are just two of the issues of concern.

The recent action taken by WorkSafe New Zealand inspectors against a Marlborough farming couple, which resulted in them being fined $40,000 altogether between them in the Blenheim District Court for not wearing helmets while riding their quad bikes on their farm, raises some very serious issues in regard to the right of entry by government agencies onto a farmer’s property. Surveillance cameras were used in an ‘out to get them’ approach and that is abhorrent to right thinking people. When one looks at court fines that have been awarded in other cases, the award of $40,000 is extremely excessive and is out of kilter with how the rest of New Zealand society is treated.

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Coping with the sunshine Right across the country there’s more long lush grass than most cockies need.

Certainly at the moment, farms are looking a picture and farmers seem upbeat. Surprisingly, I have heard one or two farmers complain about the abundance of grass growth which is not a grumble I have noted before.

With plenty of grass the cows are doing well. Some good spells of January and February rain would help lengthen out the peak production season even more but if that doesn’t eventuate the extra silage and baleage will provide good back-up down the track. I would have thought there was limited room for complaint.

If there is anything to be wary about it will be having that lush grass go to waste once it’s been converted to milk and already in the vat.

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Mitsubishi Motors have been building light utility vehicles for over 30 years, catering to the vast rural and trades people’s market both here and around the world.

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In the years after the liberation of Korea, following the disastrous ruin of World War Two, the farming and agricultural infrastructure of the East Asian nation needed to be rebuilt quickly and efficiently.

As in the aftermath of the same war in Europe, one of the first industries re-started was the manufacture of tractors, offering a way to feed a hungry populous.

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The orange machines come fitted with big-brand features (including usb audio in the cab), as well as Perkins diesel engines, a big name used by other big badges in the tractor trade.

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Wool flow predictions for the remainder of December and throughout January could face further interruption, if some of the long range weather forecast experts are proved correct allowing perhaps some cautious optimism for prices to maintain similar levels to now, on a type for type basis, if supply is restricted. There is one thing for sure, which is that the sheep population is still in decline due to the intervention of alternative farming practices, and continued options created by water introduction, land subdivision and suchlike.

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Utilising your staff In last month’s article I mentioned that according to Dairy NZ the average cost per lame cow is around $500, including lost production and treatment costs, and that on average 35% of your herd will be lame in a season.

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So with dairy farmers needing to look very carefully at every dollar of expenditure right now, what is the best way to control your hoof trimming costs?

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If for example you had 100 lame cows and it takes your staff about one hour to trim five cows, then it would take them 20 hours to trim those cows. And if you were paying them $15 an hour then it would cost you about $300 to trim those cows.

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So what could your staff do with that 20 hours that could be more profitable for you?

For a start they would need to concentrate on activities that reduce lameness. So, what should those activities be? One major cause of lameness is the lack of resting time.

It’s well known that a lack of resting time leads to stress which means more lameness, along with other problems.

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you around $500. In other words, if you make a few changes in your farm management and use the same staff member to implement those changes, you might reduce the number of lame cows in our example by up to 50% — saving yourself $25,000. Another thing you could do is to have smaller herds. But, I hear you say, smaller herds means more herds which require more staff time.

Remember however, that you now have more labour hours available if your staff member is not trimming cows anymore.

So to summarise — it’s well worthwhile considering these options in your management plan because of the huge potential returns that they bring.

I would be happy for you to email me at fred@veehof.co.nz if you would like to discuss your situation with me or call on 0800 833 463.

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Soil sulphur can be in organic or inorganic form.

Organic makes up 90% to 95% of total sulphur in most New Zealand soils.

Sulphur can be added as the most concentrated of all fertilisers, elemental sulphur (90 to 98% S). In most other fertilisers, sulphur is present in the sulphate form, the main form that is taken up by plants.

Elemental sulphur can be mined from natural volcanic areas or is produced during refining of petroleum products.

Natural sulphate deposits are also common with calcium sulphate (gypsum), potassium sulphate, magnesium sulphate (Epsom salts and kieserite), and potassium magnesium sulphates (e.g. langbeinite) being available.

A major form of synthetic fertiliser sulphur is in superphosphate in which sulphuric acid has been used to digest phosphate rock and synthetic potassium sulphate and ammonium sulphate is also common.

Sulphur is required for the formation of key amino acids, cysteine and methionine, and thus is a component of many proteins. The role of sulphur in plants also extends into the structure and function of cell membranes with sulpholipids and crucial antioxidant activity.

High levels of sulphur compounds are found in the membranes and fluid around the sites of photosynthesis

where oxidative stress can be high.

Sulphur is also required for the synthesis of chlorophyll and is a key component of the protein ferredoxin required for photosynthesis.

Not surprisingly a symptom of sulphur deficiency in plants is often yellowing of the leaves (light green initially). Since sulphur is not easily mobilised from older leaves to young shoots, sulphur deficiency shows more in the younger leaves (although if nitrogen status is low, sulphur deficiency can be seen in older leaves). In brassicas, sulphur deficiency can be seen as reddening of the undersides of leaves and inward leaf cupping, followed by a general reddening of the leaves.

In pasture, it is typically the legume component that is most limited by a shortage of sulphur. Grasses tend to be more efficient at nutrient uptake from the soil so are less likely to be affected by deficiency.

Brassica crops can have a high requirement because much sulphur is directed into secondary compounds such as glucosinolates which act as insect deterrents and generally improve plant stress tolerance.

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as carbon and nitrogen can be largely lost to the atmosphere. Unlike most minerals, sulphur is also lost to the atmosphere in burning.

Sulfur dioxide gas is a by-product of coal burning and until recent years, air pollution caused by unmitigated sulfur dioxide emissions from power plants etc was sufficient to provide much of the requirement for sulphur nutrition in many Northern Hemisphere areas.

Plants could take up their sulphur requirements partly through direct uptake of sulphur dioxide from the air and from the deposition of sulphur from acid rain (sulphuric acid from the reaction of SO2 and water).

Elemental sulphur needs to be oxidised to plant available sulphate in the soil through the action of specific bacteria. That fact combined with chunky particle size may mean that sulphur release is delayed.

Some delayed release can indeed be helpful if the soil is prone to leaching as the sulphate form is mobile in soil water.

Loss of sulphate is mostly seen as a nutrient budget and expense problem as it is not considered to have a significant impact on water quality (unlike nitrogen and phosphorus).

The oxidation of elemental sulphur drops soil pH. Growers can make use of this in high pH over-limed soils or to drop the pH to meet the requirements of acid-loving plants. One hundred kg/ha of element sulphur drops the pH roughly as much as 300kg/ha of lime would lift

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A dog’s tail …

We’re ona roads agin

“Yah gotta wunder eh Dog.” Well, heck readas, hear we go again for twenny hundred an’ fifteen. Tha big New Yeer and Boss is getting ona hobby horse again, least that’s wot his gerlfren’ Sharlene calls it. Ya see we wen’ down ta Horks Bay fer a holiday, so Boss an’ Sharlene cood show off there dorter Sophy ter some cuzzins. An’ corse Boss wanted to go an catch sum crayfishes with one cuzzin wot lives ata beach. But gettin’ back ter his hobby horse.

On tha way, Boss was reelly getting upsit with sum other drivers.

“Yah see Dog,” he sed wile we were looking at all tha grass wot was growin’ wile we was away. (Boss reckons we gonna do pretty good ona dairy block this seesin because we got so much feed, an silage, and hey, that we shud have a long milk and lota produckshin.

So if we gotta lowa payout, we gonna have more milk. Bit comlikated fer me, but Boss an’ Sharlene pretty pleased atta prospek.) Sorry. Boss agin.

“That blimmin booze limit ona road, ana speedin’ crackdown by a cops is orl well an’ good,” he sed.

But lookit alla crashis. How meny of them crashes was becos sum tourists lost the plot?”

I give Boss tha ‘look’ witch meens I havint got a clue wot he meens.

“Okay Dog, wot I meen is that tha tourist get offa plane a few hours afta they drove ta the earport ona wrong site ofa road in China, or ‘Merica or sum other country, an’ then they go driving ona Kiwi roads witch is ona right side ofa road, witch is on the left.”

Heck! Right left, wotever Boss. Evin I’m confused, so wotabout tha tourists.

“Persakkerly Dog. Yah can’t ‘spect them ta suddenly drive ona road ona side they not used too. An then we got diffrint road rools for some of them. I reckin tourists gotta hava drivin’ test an’ git a lockil licence before they allowed ta drive, We got windy roads, Steep roads. Old gravil roads, motorways an’ bluddy goat tracks, an’ single lane one way bridgis.

An’ the powersthatbe jus’ let unsuspecting tourists drive aroun’ like they was on good safe roads back at home. Gawd gimme strength Dog.”

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Well, eye gotta say, this Eye Dog woodin’t like it iffa Boss give me a ‘right hand’ wissil, wen he ment a ‘leff hand’ wissil, ana ‘stop’ wen he mint ‘go” eh?

Or a ‘speek up’ wen’ he mint ‘give ‘em the eye’ Or ‘git ina front’, sted of ‘get in bluddy behind dog’.

If I wen’ leff wen I shooda gone right, we’d wind up wiv sheep all up tha booeye, eh?

“Yep Dog, we’d be up tha khyber shootin’ pukekos wiv a long handled shovel, eh”? seda Boss.

Gawd but tha Boss can get konfusing!

“Seriously tho Dog, an’ you deah,” he sed, as we sat down fer smoko wiv Sharlene, “Chuckin’ millions of dollas at breath-testin’ an people doin’ a cuppla miles ova tha limit, is just swatting flies wiv a cucumber.”

There he goes agin.

Makes a good point, then loses me. Roll ona good New Yeer. An’ safer roads. Eh? Cheers Billy

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