Northern Farming Lifestyles, July 2012

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Birth of a legacy — Lothlorien Winery

A day in the life of a country vet

Breakthrough for quad safety

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Timbeerr! Woodlot logging with Rob Leslie Page 6

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Carnival draws near

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The upcoming Kauri Coast Skydiving Carnival is receiving international as well as local interest

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“We have around 30 sport jumpers coming to the carnival including jumpers from England, Dubai and two from Australia who are dead keen to jump on the Kauri Coast and see the Kaipara as well as lots of local interest,” says Skydive Ballistic Blondes managing director, Kelly Cullen.

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by Paul Campbell

The cost of farmland pollution has been underlined in a court case involving the discharge of dairy effluent from a pond and storage tank on a Kaipara farm, with the farmer fined $24,000 The charges were laid two years ago by the Northland Regional Council and were admitted, with the result delivered recently in a reserved decision

by Judge Greg Davis in the Whangarei District Court.

The charge involved intermittently discharging effluent from an effluent storage tank to land “in circumstances that may have resulted in the contaminant entering an unnamed contributory of the Waima River� between 11 and 14 September 2010.

In his sentencing notes, Judge Davis noted that Graham Owen Fox “was on holiday at the time these events occurred or had returned that day.That then poses the question as to whether the onus falls upon the farm owner to ensure that there are adequate management systems in place and adequate farm coverage or labour coverage to ensure these events simply did not occur.�

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However, in the judge’s view the offending was serious and agreeing to such a discharge “would send the wrong message to others in the industry�.

“The onus must be on all users of the environment to ensure that the environment is appropriately protected and that the standards in an industry that relies upon the environment for its very existence are raised gently but progressively over time.�

The judge accepted the industry was one requiring long hours and that holidays “are no doubt rare and to be cherished�.

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The Lothlorien pool where Dale and family regularly swim

by Cliff Taylor

The humble feijoa may be a staple of many a back garden, but one family has been making a sparkling living from the fruit for two decades

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he Demeulemeester family from Lothlorien Winery in Ahuroa have celebrated two milestones in recent months. It’s 40 years since Dale Demeulemeester bought

the former dairy farm north of Auckland.

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American-born Dale fell in love with the 172-acre property in its secluded valley and bought it for $25,000, which even in the 70s must have been a bargain. He then had to figure out what to do with it.

Sitting in the sun at Lothlorien, surrounded by the heady scent of feijoa and grapefruit, Dale recalls how he asked his friends at the time if there was a New Zealand fruit, something unusual, which he could grow. They handed him a kiwi fruit, a grapefruit and a feijoa, a small South American fruit little known in the rest of the world.

“I thought the feijoa was such a fantastic flavour and so unique and different from everything else. I thought it would take off – and I still do. It’s a flavour that New Zealand could export to the world.” Then he chuckles under his beard. “We were very naïve. We were city kids. I thought people would beat a path to our door. I didn’t know everyone had a tree in their back yard.”

He and his then partner planted 400 feijoa trees, 800 grapefruit and 700 peach and nectarine and went on to farm the property, in their own handson style, for the next few years, milking a small dairy herd, growing fruit and veges and raising a family.

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started with horses instead of tractors,” Dale smiles.

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They tried drying feijoas, bottling them and making wine – all of which worked fine and gave them plenty of produce to give away to friends. Then the sparkling wine was featured on TV, and it became evident a market existed for this unique taste. They acquired a second-hand winery from Huapai and Lothlorien was in business.

Today, the family (sons Cy and Eli are involved in the business) and wine maker Logan Petley produce Dale labelling bottles in the cellar 50,000 – 60,000 bottles a year uch a and the bubbles are available e and throughout New Zealand. Lothlorien also produces hought 12,000 bottles of organic juice each year and is . It’s a famed for its music festivals which have boasted the likes of Herbs, export Kora and Lady6 on stage. under e were Dale says the sparkling tipple has proved very popular, beat aeven amongst “serious wine connoisseurs”, and when a cork eryoneis popped the aroma reminds people of their childhood playing under the feijoa trees.

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Rob says there is a good industry around this sort of harvesting. It keeps people in the rural areas, and provides a return for farmers. Most of the trees are unsuitable for domestic sawmills, however the export market is providing a major outlet. An average of one hundred and forty-four thousand cubic metres of wood is exported through Marsden Point every month, going to China, India, Korea and Japan.

Working in an export industry means working with the risks of international markets. So Rob usually only works on woodlots during our summer, as in the winter months, Russia and America start supplying China, and the price of logs drop. In addition, the international price of wood has dropped thirty per cent in the last year, as the American economic situation has reduced their domestic demand.

The amount a farmer can get for a small lot of trees is something Rob tries hard to

maximise. “I have a spreadsheet, and I load my estimated hours of work of what I think it will take to do the job, the grade of timber I’m going to get, and it spits out what the margins are. It varies from ten dollars a tonne to the farmer, up to fifty dollars, depending on the age of the trees, how easy it is to get them out, and the quality of the wood.”

“I don’t have a middle man. My brother, the one with the degree, now works for a log exporting company, so I supply direct to them. If I get more for a job than I expected, I pay the farmer a bit more and I give my workers a bit of a bonus, so everybody gets to make a better profit.”

Rob and his wife live in Kaiwaka, and he works from Warkworth in the South, to Matakohe in the West, and Waipu in the North. As a mechanic, he does all his own routine maintenance on the million dollars worth of machines used for the work. He likes to ensure that they are not only well looked after, but they look good. Therefore one of his winter jobs is repainting gear. “It just looks tidier when you come on to a farmer’s job and you don’t have rubbish looking gear.

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A A day day in in the the life life of of a a

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by Cliff Taylor

They are the health professionals who help make rural communities tick but, as Cliff Taylor found out, there is no such thing as a typical day in the life of a country vet

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ednesday was looking like a quiet one for Maungaturoto vet Meredith Love, until a call came through at 10am from a farm near Pahi. A cow had sliced its belly open on the steel spike of a silage feeder.

En route to the job Meredith, originally from Manawatu: “I came up north for the warmer weather, I didn’t want to be up to my armpits in snow” — explains how the job is dictated by the seasonal activities on farms.

“We’re just coming up to calving. There’s also mating, pregnancy testing, vaccination and farmer consults. Then there are the random call outs like this one. Freak accidents. Something like this can come up and throw your whole day out of whack.”

By the time we get to Pahi, farm manager Dennis Martin has the injured cow in the yards. A 25-centimetre gash is clearly visible in the animal’s flank.

Once the cow is secured in the crush, Meredith administers a sedative and sets up her surgery ‘table’ on a 44-gallon drum. The bleeding wound, down to the bone, has to be shaved, thoroughly cleaned and local anaesthetic applied.

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Farm manager Dennis Martin admires Meredith’s handiwork

“It’s interesting running a routine practice with a medical practice side by side,” says Meredith. “I’ve done a few critical surgeries. I once took a lump the size of a watermelon off a cow’s neck.

The strangest job I’ve had to do was walking through someone’s Christmas lunch to treat a dying pet lamb. I had

all my gear and my overalls on and everything. They didn’t want to put the lamb down on Christmas Day.”

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Meredith starts to stitch up the cow’s torn muscle. It’s not a job for the squeamish. “Quite a few people fainted at vet school,” she says.

The job has become more technical as farming methods have modernised.

Using computer records for herd reporting is an important way to improve stock health and productivity. “It’s more about prevention,” says Meredith. “We’re no longer the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. One of our vets is a trained farm advisor.”

The stitching moves to the cow’s tough hide. “My mum taught me how to

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The practice employs a dozen vets in four branches covering from Tomarata in the south up to Mangapai in the north. They treat both domestic and farm animals. One minute they can be spaying a cat or treating a dog hit by a car, the next doing a caesarean on an alpaca, treating a cow with a prolapsed uterus or sewing up a horse which has gone through a fence.

Northern Farming Lifestyles July 2012 sew,” Meredith laughs. Dennis holds up the sleepy cow while I act as nurse and provide extra sutures. Meredith’s mobile phone rings. There’s another cow down, somewhere near Tinopai.

As she finishes the stitching she explains what she loves about the job. “I really enjoy the variety. You get to be indoors and outdoors.

I’m from a beef and sheep farm, so maybe you stick to what you know. But I enjoy the cats and dogs as well. It’s as much about working with people as animals.”

So, I tease her — is there a doctor inside every vet, trying to get out?

“A vet is a doctor,” she counters.

“We just treat more species. Mammals are mammals.”

With that Meredith ties off her last suture and gives the cow a wake up jab.

Fifteen minutes later she’s off to her next job. After that, anything could happen.

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If your dog is “ out of your land,

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There have been a few dog attacks in my town of Kerikeri recently. I also had the pleasure of being chased up the road by a dog when out on my bike. This got me thinking — what is the liability of a farmer if his or her dog breaks free of the farm, and attacks somebody, or something?

The Dog Control Act 1996 (‘the Act’) regulates rights and obligations for dog owners.

Section 52 of the Act says that an owner of a dog must keep his or her dog ‘under control’ at all times. If the dog is found ‘at large’ on any land without the consent of the occupier or person in charge of the land, it will be not be under control.

Even if the dog is on its owner’s land, the dog must either be under the direct control of the owner, or confined in such a way it cannot freely leave the land. If a farmer fences the land to stop the dog escaping, and the dog still manages to escape, it will not be good enough to argue it was fenced; clearly the fence was not sufficient to control the dog, and the Act will have been breached.

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Graham Day is a lawyer at Law North Limited in Kerikeri. He can be contacted on 09 407 7099 or gad@lawnorth.co.nz.

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Combining years of experience as stock agents with many years farming has been the catalyst for a new face on the rural scene in the form of Ruralco, a progressive and innovative stock agency that’s brainchild of Matakohe farmer, Allan Swindlehurst, together with Tangowahine’s Rob Stevenson from a similar background “Ruralco has been set up to specialise in on farm stock valuations, finance and trading,” said Allan, who farms both at Matakohe and in the Hawke’s Bay hinterland adjacent to the Ureweras.

Rob raises calves on his Tangowahine Valley property and grazes dairy herds.

“Allan formed Ruralco and we decided to work together to establish ourselves as agents in Northland — with the beauty of it being that we are both in the Northland farming sector already,” said Rod. “It’s our aim to get well established and we have a specialised knowledge of the agency side of things.”

Allan and Rob have worked for many years for major New Zealand stock agencies and certainly ‘know the ropes’. Rob can also add a number of years across the ditch, as a slightly younger man, aerial mustering stock with fixed wing aircraft in the vast and remote stretches of the Australian outback.

He thus brings a certain flair to the company, and it’s his voice that co-ordinates the bidding at rural saleyards.

The company is shortly to introduce on-farm auctions, with an innovative trailer pen, being custom designed by engineer Gary Crosby from Mangawhai.

“We will bring the saleyards to you,” says Allan.

The Ruralco philosophy is all about getting the farmers the best deal going.

“To be effective in the commercial side of the

farming business, you have to target when to buy and when to sell stock,” he says. “At Ruralco we are able to do this effectively and strategically, with the experience we have built up over the years.”

Allan and Rob combining years of experience

Dargaville born and bred, Rob’s father is well-known horse trainer and retired farmer, Dick Stevenson from Waipu. Rob married Marie whom he met in Australia and they have a daughter, Jessica, 18 and son Tom, whose 14.

“The family enjoys getting away camping and skiing, and following rugby,” adds Rob, “But more and more I’m finding the new firm is keeping me busy.”

Allan is married to Jenny, and they have sons, Scott, Craig and Brad.

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Farming Lifestyles – Farm Wheels

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Northern Farming Lifestyles July 2012

Animal Health

Grandpa’s feeders has just completed it’s 14th consecutive fieldays at Mystery Creek With the hard times that are upon us at present we have been amazed at our increase in sales every year. It goes to show how popular it is to keep some chooks in the back yard these days. We heard recently that keeping chooks is the number one fastest growing hobby in the UK. Well we believe NZ is right up there as well. Doing the shows gives you an opportunity to talk to the many and varied chook owners out there. We had four chooks at the show to demonstrate our feeders and I think we could have sold them hundreds of times over.

Despite the fact that there are other automatic chook feeders on the market now, Grandpa’s believe that their feeder is still the best. It costs a little more, but it is of excellent quality and we provide a full back up service and a money back guarantee.

We had one fellow visit us at the show who purchased one of our feeders two years ago, and couldn’t wait to tell us that his feeder paid for itself within six months on the food he saved by not feeding sparrows.

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GRANDPA’S FEEDERS developed and sold in New Zealand for over 15 years have become hugely popular and are now considered standard equipment for keeping poultry.

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Fuel to burn for hunting dogs City dogs don’t know how easy they have it. In the country, dogs are a vital working part of many farms — not just man’s best friend but also his hardest working colleague! Even harder work is in order for hunting dogs, who are expected not only to track the scent of prey, but also to jump in if a boar looks like making a break toward their master…

There are numerous ‘superior’ brands of dog food out there which promise great taste and scientific formulation. And while many a fine working dog has lived well on dry biscuits and the odd table scrap, many farmers and hunters are now turning to carefully formulated tucker to keep their dogs in top condition.

Here’s what a really top-notch dog food should provide to keep your ‘best mate’ full of energy and life for a long day’s work or hunting.

A lot of the science behind feeding your dog comes down to calories. Humans always seem to be trying to avoid these, but in terms of a hard-working dog, more calories in a smaller, denser amount of food are definitely better. Providing calories in a balanced way is the key… calorific foods are the fuel for stamina and alertness in the field.

But calories do not simply equal fat.

Fatty acids (one of the body’s building blocks) are important in a premium dog food, primarily as they boost the immune system, working at a cellular level. You may have heard about omega 3 and omega 6 in terms of human health supplements… well, a nutritious, high-calorie dog food

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Well balanced, they promote muscle tone and athletic performance. And if your dog is injured, the omega 3 and omega 6 combo will speed the healing process — omega 6 especially is associated with countering excessive inflammatory response.

Many dog foods contain rice as a carbohydrate, but corn is equally acceptable. Both boost blood sugar for more energy, which is just what a hard working dog needs!

Protein is important for dogs and humans alike, but unlike us dogs are carnivorous animals, designed to hunt for their food. Proteins from animals contain just the right balance of amino acids for dogs, and these acids (thought to be the most basic constituents of life) are all important for a body that operates at peak strength. Amino acids help produce

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So, when decoding the side of that big bag of dog chow, look for the important signs — animal based proteins. Lots of calories stored as fats. Amino acids and omega 3 and 6. And of course, it helps if your dog likes the taste!

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Animals know instinctively that they need to top up their bodies with salt and minerals. Humans, on the other hand, insist on having scientific data to back up what is literally a ‘gut instinct’. It’s no surprise that mammals (like us, and like cows, horses and sheep) need salt… after all, if we believe Charles Darwin we all evolved from the primordial soup of the sea — an environment saturated with life-giving salt.

Today, farmers supplement the sodium and minerals available from forage with salt tubs and salt licks formulated scientifically. While they’re not likely to attract many elephants or giraffes (at least not in New Zealand), the principle remains the same. Animals with access to salt and the other trace elements associated with it are healthier, with more robust immune

systems and greater resistance to disease and the assault of winter weather.

Salt is, of course, sodium chloride, which explains a little of how it benefits living tissue. Chloride is especially important in cattle as it is necessary for the production of gastric acid — the fuel for digestion that turns grass into muscle mass and milk! Sodium, along with chloride, helps maintain the acid to alkaline balance inside the body. It’s a delicate balance indeed, and must be maintained for cellular health, growth, and healing.

Calcium is famous for building strong bones, but think of where we get our calcium from. Now consider how much calcium a milk producing cow should need to pass on that goodness to hundreds of humans! Zinc, another vital element found in salt licks, is essential for the body to produce insulin, as well as for growth and for healing.

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“Our new calf feeds target heifer replacement rearing in a New Zealand setting,” explains Ravensdown Nutrition Business Manager, Stephen Fink. “Rather than launching a high-protein product in isolation, we looked at the whole nutritional environment for these farmers and calves.”

“In heifer replacement situations, heifers are being fed colostrum then whole milk from the vat, which are both high-protein feeds. Then they go on to high-protein dairy pasture. So we’ve dropped the protein levels in these feeds to compensate for increased protein in the pasture in a dairy situation,” said Stephen.

“Calves can only absorb so much protein and, of course, unused protein will exit the body as nitrogen, which could unnecessarily lift nitrogen loading on dairy farms,” added Stephen.

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RAVCALF18 is designed as a supplement for heifer calves being fed a diet of milk and/or grass through to desired weaning weights of around 70kg. RAVCALF14 is designed as a supplement to grass for calves weaned off milk while transitioning to a grass diet. Both feeds contain rumensin as a coccidiostat.

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Dairying

Innovation award for stock measurement How do you measure more animals in a day, with complete ease, without compromising accuracy?

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fix the things that are causing some grief around the Dairy.

Fieldays 2012towas a resounding success.

Before you upgrade new Milfos cup removers or a Milfos Variable Drive Vacuum System it would be sensible to There were people from all over Newevaluate things that could impact on your proposed upgrade.

Zealand and do around the world, and come across wiring of all Sparkies generally a great job, however, we regularly sorts thatnumbers has been installed incorrectly. visitor were high.

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Thanks RFID is an integral part of herd Thisyour is important for all sorts of systems from pulsation controllers to cup removers for company and enthusiasm, management and is used in many the more sophisticated the system the more careful you have to be. We itand made our Fieldays special. around the milking parlour. recommend keeping data cables as far awayways from power as possible.

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The Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) eartags are the key to the system, with a range of around a metre, depending on tag brand and model.

The RFID ear tag technology does one thing and that is to individually identify an animal. In this respect it

mating or improvements in herd information such as weight or in bail data like yield, fat, protein, lactose, and mastitis detection. There are a lot of options to choose from.

All of these improvements and more are available through your local Milfos Service Partner or visit www.milfos.com for details.

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The answer appears to be the Tru-Test XRS EID stick reader, launched by Tru-Test Group late last year. Its success has been reflected in it receiving a supreme award for innovation in New Zealand agriculture — NZ Agribusiness Product award.

The reader is revolutionising farmers’ ability to measure large numbers of stock through the yards with a read-rate far greater than anything else in the market. It also takes the word vin class battery life and ergonomics.

In the United States, the New Zealand designed and manufactured XRS achieved 12 months sales in just 12 weeks.

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Stimulating soil biological activity — how and why?

Part 1

Dr Bert Quin, fertiliser and soil fertility consultant

The importance of soil biological activity is being realised by more and more farmers and farming organisations, and many companies are now promoting products that are claimed to stimulate it and by doing so increase production In the next article we will look at whether these products are possibly effective or basically fit into the ‘snakeoil’ category, but in this article let’s take a step back in history and look at what happens when we introduce the ryegrass/ clover grazed pasture system.

but it was soon discovered that to achieve this growth potential required ‘capital’ applications of fertiliser and subsequent annual ‘maintenance’ applications of several major and trace elements.

Under the pre-European natural forests, scrub and native grasses, soil organic matter levels were typically very low. This is because the input of new nutrients — almost solely from the weathering of soil minerals — was very slow. This greatly limited the rate of growth of vegetation, so plant species evolved that could cope with this by growing very slowly themselves.

Likewise, the soil organic matter had a slow rate of turnover, because the soil microbes that do this require nutrients also. Nutrient losses from this system were extremely low.

Then the ryegrass/clover pastures and many different crops were introduced.

These had far more growth potential, especially in our growth-friendly climate,

Under this system, pasture production typically reached its potential within 3-5 years, whereas soil organic matter levels tended to increase over a 10-15 year period before reaching a new plateau, typically 50% higher than the original level.

Essentially, the new plateau is reached when increasing soil microbial activity finally ‘catches up’ with the new higher rate of addition of organic matter — plant residues and excreta mainly — into the soil. These provide carbon, protein and energy for soil microbes to feed on.

So why does it reach a new plateau, instead of coming back down again? Simply because it would be counter-productive for the soil microbes for this to happen.

View it as a term bank deposit. It makes sense to grow this to a size big enough to live on the ‘interest’ — in this case the pool of mineralisable organic matter.

Once you have to live on the capital as well, it’s eventually going to be over Rover.

The 10-15 years it takes for the soil organic matter to reach a new plateau can be greatly reduced if, and it’s a big if on hill country properties, there are outside sources of soil organic matter such as chicken manure that can be brought in (as in a vege garden), or effluent irrigated.

Farmers are aware how much more soil organic matter there is in animal campsites, which receive high inputs of excreta.

Many farmers have noted that the best paddocks on their farm have twice the pasture production or crop yield of the poorest paddocks, even in some cases if total soil organic matter and nutrient levels are similar. When this is the case, and slope, aspect, drainage and soil types are the same, it is a safe bet that the difference is soil microbial activity. It always surprises me that the addition of earthworms at least isn’t given as much attention as fertiliser in pasture development, and in dairy farm conversions.

The most efficient earthworm species for pasture systems are not native to New Zealand. They were introduced widely but not exhaustively in the 1930s-1950s, and some modern farming practices — such as high N use and inadequate control of soil aluminium levels — can make life hard for them and other soil biology.

So, given a certain-sized pool of soil organic matter, is their any advantage — to production or sustainability — of increasing the rate of cycling of this organic matter; that is, in increasing soil microbial activity?

And what products or practices can do it?

Also, there is anecdotal evidence that both the amount and activity of soil organic matter is declining on intensive dairy farms. Why is this happening, and what are the implications? In the next article, we look at these questions

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Northern Farming Lifestyles

Cows for a cause

Frank Colthurst is a well-known name in the North as a livestock agent and rugby great, and in more recent times as a deer agent Although semi-retired, he is still involved with the farming community and his latest venture is encouraging farmers to donate a cow to a good cause.

Frank began his career in Kumeu where he met his wife Fay. After a number of years working in Paeroa and Kaikohe, they settled with their family in Whangarei where Frank took up the role of stock agent and auctioneer for Wrightson NMA. “I really enjoyed working with the people.

You built up close relationships based on trust, and that continued down through the generations. I have often dealt with not only

the original farmers, but also their sons and the grandsons,” says Frank.

In earlier times, agents were the main source of information for farmers. Not only did they advise on current market prices and valued livestock for sale or the meatworks, they also lent a listening ear and brought welcome news from the district, particularly in remote areas.

“Everybody helped each other in the community. When I was a member of the Kaikohe senior rugby team we would go along to the local dances to help the police.”

Frank is also well-known as a rugby player having represented North Auckland in the 60s and 70s.

“I had the pleasure of playing for North Auckland in 1971 when we took the Ranfurly Shield from Auckland. That was a good game.”

Frank was also in the All Blacks reserves for the 1965 game against South Africa.

Although semi-retired, he still works as a deer farmer agent and continues to stay involved with the farming sector. His recent undertaking has been working with Project Promise on the Cull a Cow initiative.

Project Promise is a fund set up by the Northland Community Foundation to build a new cancer treatment facility in Whangarei.

Frank Colthurst — still involved

“Farmers simply mention to their agent that they would like to donate stock and the meat works will ensure that the proceeds from the animal go directly to the fund.

Another option is to donate $1000 for a personalised brick on the ‘BNZ community wall’ in the reception area of the new oncology unit.”

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MAUNGATUROTO MOTORCYCLES LTD

MAUNGATUROTO. PH: (09) 431 8555.

*Check with your Polaris dealer and other manufacturer dealers for latest specifications. All towing/carrying capacities are ratings for level ground. Specifications as available November 2011. *Mule® is a registered trademark of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Inc. *Grizzly® is a registered trademark of Yamaha Motor Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha. *TRX680 is a registered trademark of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

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