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Secretary Nat Lynch, says the concept of a Gumboot Ball was simple — “put on your glad rags and gumboots and dance the night away.”

The club partnered with the Northland Field Days Society to hold the the event at Tokatoka Tavern with musical entertainment provided by local band, Fired Up. “The event was well attended with people from all over the north coming to the Northern Wairoa for a great night out.”

Catherine Stewart of Bayleys Real Estate sponsored prizes for the Prince and Princess of the Gumboot Ball Awards which went to Thomas Macdonald and Jo Bower. Spot prizes were also up for grabs, for everything from ‘blinging boots’ to ‘best use of a kilt’.

The event was held in the Northern Wairoa because the Northern Region Young Farmers are hoping to start a Dargaville based club in the immediate future and Nat encourages prospective members to get in touch.

“A big part of belonging to a club is that it’s about being social and getting off the farm and having the chance to

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Leeann Morgan the Northern Region Field Officer for young farmers says setting up a club in Dargaville is a great idea.

“Being a former Dargaville resident myself — I grew up there so the idea of having a club locally would be fantastic.

Leeann says the club will allow for social as well as personal development opportunities.

“So in some cases it’s just a night off the farm to talk about issues everyone is facing. In other cases it’s about leadership and competitions and it allows them to take part in the FMG young farmer of the year grand final.

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By Ann Morgan The Kidd family from Tatarariki in the Kaipara have received a New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award in recognition of owning the family dairy farm for more than 100 years.

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spell at the Thames goldfields and the Gisborne area, he shifted to the Northern Wairoa where his sisters were living.

“He became involved in farming and contract building bridges and making roads. On May 3 1882 he married Ann Bassett in Auckland and they lived at Pah Hill, across the river from Te Kopuru and Tatarariki. In 1886, he purchased land at Tatarariki and built a house on the property. He shifted there with his family in 1893.”

He called the house Clanrye after the river that runs through his hometown in Newry. The 320-acre farm was flat, very wet and more than half of the land was covered with bush.

“The first job was to dig drains. The house was built on the highest and driest place. The story is told that James would walk some distance out from the house, stand amongst the flax and raupo, jump up and down and as far as the eye could see the tops would shake. He would then sit down and cry,” said Roger.

“With his two older sons Tom and Hugh, they drained, fenced and cleared enough land to milk some cows and when the Northern Wairoa Dairy Company was opened in 1902 he was among the first suppliers.

“The first cowshed was steam driven with the boiler being fired by wood chopped and sawn from the farm bush. In the early days James continued to do contract work on road forming and was the first to open the Green Hill metal quarry at Tatarariki.”

He later purchased another piece of land. This was eventually taken over by his eldest son Tom who established a dairy farm. On the death of James in 1933, the home block was taken over by his other sons Hugh and Edward. They farmed together until the death of Hugh in 1967, at which stage his half of the property was sold.

“Edward died in 1969 and his half of the original farm, which included the homestead, was taken over by his elder son Graham and his wife Mary, my parents, who continued to dairy farm on it until selling it to Rachel and me in the year 2000.

“After the QE2 National Trust was formed around 1980, my parents

covenanted a remnant of native bush, with two other remnants being added later. They are some of the few examples of native lowland bush left remaining in the Pouto Peninsula area.

“We have since grown it to 800 acres, which includes re-purchasing the original half of the land which was sold. The family have had the farm for 130 years and we are the fourth generation to care for the property. It is great to celebrate our connection with the land, and New Zealand and Kaipara’s rich heritage of farming history,” said Roger.

Because of the increased size of the farm, Roger and Rachel have built a 50 bale rotary shed and milk 850 cows. For the Century programme they collect narratives of family farm history, photographs and documents.

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very interested in where our food comes “I get my animal manure from our from and how it is produced. horses and put it into the compost and The Ecuyers lifestyle block is a I supplement with a little liquid fertiliser completely organic operation, a decision made from locally sourced seaweed.” they say they are pleased to have made.

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For the family it was The family have also important to work enjoyed their lifestyle I THINK THERE sustainably, a lifestyle so much they wanted to IS A GROWING choice that uses as few share their experience TREND TO LIVE A LOT resources as possible online and so they SIMPLER WITH and causes the least have created their own A LOT LESS amount of damage Facebook page called for future generations Living Small where to deal with, as they post about their looking after and protecting the local experiences living off the land on a environment is an important part of the small scale.

Ecuyer families ethos.

“I think there is a growing trend to live “We are careful about what we put a lot simpler with a lot less, for instance into the soil and what we take out — having a smaller home, we kind of felt we keep a closed system where you there were a lot of people starting to recycle everything on the property. So promote that side, so we decided oh we cut our willows back for the goats, well we’ll have a Facebook page and the goats produce a bit of fertiliser and show people how you can enjoy a small they produce our milk for us. piece of land and get a lot out of it.”

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by Ayla Miller The Powell family have had a long history in the Kaipara as butchers and descendants still live on in the area approximately 130 years later.

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From there they left for the goldfields of Australia and sailed to Melbourne on the ‘Landsborough,’ arriving in 1863.

Australia wasn’t the utopia they had dreamed of and the next year Richard took up the call for recruitment for the Waikato Military Campaign and moved his wife and four children to Hamilton, New Zealand aboard the ‘Swiftsure’ in 1864. When Richard had finished his three years of service he was granted

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They had 11 offspring born over the course of their marriage, although some did not survive to adulthood.

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The butchery business is said to have done well and even expanded into two shops, one located in Dargaville and one at Te Kopuru.

In the early days the butchery supplied meat to the sailing ships which lined the Northern Wairoa River banks transporting timber all over the world and the gumfields that dotted the area around the turn of the century.

These sailing ships stocked up for their journeys, mostly with corned beef, but usually some live sheep and pigs were brought along so the crew could enjoy fresh meat occasionally during their voyage.

The Powell sons and cousins were employed as the deliverers on horseback and the meat was carried in baskets slung on the sides of the horse.

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Richard and Emma Powell outside their butchery business at Aratapu

married Edward Rope. Other families who married into the original Powell family were Higham/Adams, McIsaac and Armiger.

Great-great-granddaughter of the first Richard and Emma, Karen Weber, visited York with her husband Ralph and daughter Louise and said it was a surreal experience to see places they would have visited and to stand in the street they used to live on. “I definitely

felt a connection with the place,” she says.

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Aoroa dairy farmer Penny Smart is putting her name forward as a candidate for the Northland Regional Council in the upcoming local body elections in October this year.

Ms Smart and her husband Hal Harding own a dairy farm in Aoroa which has now converted from biological to organic. She has experience as a farmers’ representative on the Fonterra Shareholders Council, is chair of the Northland Dairy Development Trust, a trustee on the Kaipara Hospice Trust and is involved in Toastmasters International. She is also a member of the Institute of Directors and the Governance New Zealand group. A highlight for her this year has been participating in the Kellogg’s Rural Leadership programme — her project was on organic dairy conversion.

“It feels like a natural step to put my name forward for the NRC. To me the regional council is about making sure that Northland is moving forward sustainably, both environmentally and economically. It’s important to make sure that the core business of council is achieved. Consultation, engagement and collaboration are all important as are implementing practical solutions with a good mix of flexibility and innovation,” says Ms Smart.

“I have got a good understanding of the differences between governance, management and representation. I am well practiced in listening first, asking questions and making decisions. Being

a NRC councillor would be about looking at the big picture for the whole region as well as representing the Kaipara Ward.”

Ms Smart says being a dairy farmer and a female is a good mix.

“Females will often have the soft skills and add diversity on any governance board. Diversity can bring balance to a board, different perspectives, and produce good debate which can result in good decisions being made.

“Here in Northland the timing is good to really move ahead both environmentally and economically, especially now that we have some central government attention and resources coming our way.

“Compliance will be an ongoing issue and we need to make it a positive for all involved as well as avoid any unnecessary duplication. Within the confines of the Resource Management Act there is room for tailored solutions that meet the needs of both urban and rural communities.

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On the bright side It was expected that beef prices were to remain high, but in fact they seemed to have caught a second wind.

This is how Nathan Penny ASBs Rural Economist puts it. Based on the speed of this increase, we expect prices can rise further from here. Feasibly, prices could lift another 5–10 per cent and thus wouldn’t rule out prices surpassing the record levels set back in spring last year.

For now, it seems that the longawaited rebound in US beef production is still in its infancy. Add in Chinese growing demand and it is unlikely that prices are to come off the boil in 2016. Nonetheless, all good things do come to an end, however, on the basis of the above, that seems to be next year’s story.

Fonterra played it safe with its opening season milk price forecast of $4.25 per kilogram. The forecast appears to be based on recent dairy prices, with no future price increases built-in. Westland set its price 50 cents higher. This weaker than expected forecast keeps the squeeze on farm cash flows and is likely to lead to a greater production decline over the new season.

Lower production could translate into an extra boost for prices, so in a way, a lower milk price now may result in a higher milk price later. On that brighter note, we continue to expect a milk price of $6 per kilogram by the end of the season.

In the real estate world it’s business as usual. We had a busy few days at Mystery Creek Field Days promoting the farming opportunities that Northland can offer, and as a result we are talking to a good number of potential buyers from outside our region. In particular, we have buyers wanting larger scale dairy farms and larger scale drystock farms.

As there are currently not so many farms on the market, this demand seems to be holding prices steady (helped by favourable interest rates and strong beef prices) — so now is a good time to be selling.

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These furry creatures quickly developed a taste for New Zealand native wildlife as well as being carriers of bovine tuberculosis which is a risk to meat and dairy exports.

They can spread it to other wild animals and controlling the population is the only way to limit the spread of the disease. Current control methods include traps, shooting and poison.

There are a few ways to tell if you have a problem. Defoliation or dead trees, especially of the northern rata variety are one of the first significant signs.

Other signs include fruit trees being raided at night and possum dung around trees with fruits or flowers.

Possums are nocturnal and can be quite loud at night, so if you hear them running across the roof, or find TB infected possums during the day, it might be time to put some processes in place to get on top of the problem.

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If you decide to go down the firearms path ensure all licencing and legal requirements are met. There are many traps on the market. Make sure you get some that are humane and do not pose a threat to any other animals or people who may come across them. Jaw traps if used should be fixed on a tree well off the ground.

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Shelters help animals Shelter and protection from the extremes of weather including the wind, rain and the sun is a primary need for animals and plants and shelter helps them to survive and grow.

Dairy feed pads and shelters allow farmers to allocate feed more accurately to each cow resulting in faster growth of yearling animals in the winter. Often dairy production increases of 20 percent are a result of increased pasture growth and cow contentment and efficiency.

A large shed where stock can be housed and fed is an ideal building to protect them for the weather changes.

In winter and spring these sheds or feed pads allow cows to be removed from pasture for part of each day if necessary.

This helps reduce overgrazing and ‘pugging’ of the land which can interrupt grass growth. In summer these shelters help to reduce heat stress in animals.

Animals find comfort when they are able to get into a shaded area to escape the heat.

There are many designs of practical and stylish farm sheds and shelters available. They can often be multipurpose and can be used for hay, wool or equipment, and housing calves or stock.

A lean-to is also a convenient style shelter to provide shade for animals.

Sheep shearing sheds include an area to keep sheep dry overnight before shearing, an open area to sort the fleeces and a storage area for wool bales.

Cows were originally handmilked in simple sheds and over time sheds have changed to include running water and concrete floors. Now we have the herringbone or rotary sheds available.

Farming practices have changed over the years and the farm building designs have altered to accommodate these changes.

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Many companies have developed an extensive range of farm shed plans which can often be customised to your requirements. Building companies can also assist with the council consent application to complete the project.

Farm sheds can be used in many different situations such as housing calves, storage of farm equipment, or simply as a hay shed. There are endless designs of sheds including open or

closed bays which you can often add divider walls, roller doors or windows to. They are often available in timber or steel materials.

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They are ideal for anyone needing reliable all-weather shelters and make a great reduction in effluent run-off.

The roof cover diverts rainfall from the feed pad, resulting in less effluent to be managed. It provides shade and shelter for stock, protecting them from cold weather in winter, and reducing heat stress in summer.

A covered feed pad allows your herd to be held off the pasture for extended periods, reducing damage from pugging in poor weather and paddock nutrient density compliance issues.

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Sheds from trees Orang Otang Tree Services offer a variety of tree services, custom built rustic furniture and sheds. Based in Mangawhai, they cover all areas across the Northland and North Auckland region.

Regan and Rochelle Davies have owned their sawmill for two years and have been involved in tree work for more than 15 years.

“There’s nowhere we won’t go for the right job. We offer all arborist services and we custom make our sheds. They can range in size from 2.3 x 2.3 metres to 3.7 x 2.4 metres or whatever the client needs.” said Rochelle. “Most of our experienced team have been with

us for years, ranging from our qualified arborists, highly skilled grounds men, highly experienced digger operators and we have our own builders.

“We believe in using all of our resources and for our sheds we use our own pine and macrocarpa wood which is milled on site at Orang Otang Saw Mill from trees we have cut down. Buildings come with a mono or gable pitch. They are robust and solid.”

The garden sheds can be made with single or double doors. They come with ply flooring and they can be wired, insulated, lined or unlined.

“They are not a lightweight kitset, they are solid and built to last. We transport them to sites and put them on a concrete base or skids.

They are transportable so if you need it moved it can be. We have also designed a macrocarpa shed with corrugated iron exterior.

“People are getting sheds made into mancave with windows and aluminium joinery for that quiet space. We use coloursteel iron for the roofing which is a good quality product.”

Orang Otang can quote for and build any ideas farmers may have including calf shelters, chicken coops and cabins.

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President breaks tradition Alison Gibb has become the first female president of Jersey New Zealand in its 114 year history.

Ms Gibb finished her 25 year career as a maths teacher at Fraser High School in Hamilton in 2008.

“In some respects I’ve been there before. In the early 1980s I was the only full-time female maths teacher in a department of 10 plus,” said Ms Gibbs, a partner with her husband Russell in Zenith Jerseys at Taupiri in the Waikato.

“As to being the first woman president I believe the membership will be watching with keen interest and, while that brings a challenge in itself, I’m not afraid of it.

“The reality is that it is a sign of the times. Farming businesses are predominantly family businesses where husband and wife are in partnership and the women play a huge role in the decision making process. Male or female we have a job to do, gender shouldn’t enter into it.”

As president Ms Gibb will help the 1902 founded organisation promote the efficiency of New Zealand Jersey cattle to the national dairy industry. She will also help Jersey cow farmers add value to their herd by promoting Jersey New Zealand resources to them.

She is one of two appointed directors on the six-strong Jersey New Zealand board and was asked to fill the role after an appointments committee was set up to find the right person for the job.

Her 24 years’ experience in governance of various organisations made her a good choice. She has served on a school board, served as a trustee, then acting chief executive of Arts Waikato, and is a Dairy Women’s Network trustee which she also served as North Waikato convenor.

“As a trustee of Dairy Women’s Network I have rubbed shoulders with many successful women and the key message always is that women need to back themselves more, to ‘lean in’ and contribute to the decision making process. Women offer a different dynamic around the board table — it’s not that we are better, we think differently

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and hence add diversity of thought in the decision making process.”

Ms Gibb said Jersey New Zealand had been through a tough time and needed to develop a sustainable business model through strong governance.

“Our members strongly believe in the advantages of the Jersey cow, but we need to promote that message to the wider dairy industry and thus build our organisation. There is a growing demand for Jersey genetics worldwide.

Sustainability and efficiency being the key driver.”

She said the Jersey cow had a number of advantages, including higher fertility and ease of calving. Its lighter frame means less pugging of pasture.

Jersey milk contains more nutrition per litre than any other dairy breed.

“The higher fat component of the milk had been seen as a disadvantage when public perception was that fat was bad for you but now that the public have realised that fat provides flavour and is a naturally healthy choice.

“The biggest advantage is the Jersey cow’s efficiency in terms of the milk produced per kilogram of feed and live weight, with many Jerseys producing in excess of their own live weight in milk solids.

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Cost effective production Just recently we have been asked by a number of farmers what they can do with a limited budget to help get production off to a flying start this season.

It brings backs memories of what we did on a farm in the Bay of Plenty 10 years ago. A farmer had bought a farm and paid too much for it, so it was critical we lifted farm production by 30–40 per cent, increasing the value of the property to give him options if he needed to sell.

So what did we do? Collected all the farm data we could. Previous production

figures, supplements on hand, which were none, pasture cover and the feed budget at the time. We had an average cover of 1,500kgDM/ha and the desired cover was 2,000kgDM/ha and cow condition 4.5.

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I remember leaving the bank and thinking ‘well we have the money but what we have just proposed won’t work’.

As we walked passed the waste paper bin I threw the urea proposal away much to the dismay of the owner.

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The next question was: “So what the hell are we going to do?”

At the time I remember a conversation I had with a South African vet about how minerally deficient New Zealand cows were.

So we decided to do some anionic pasture mineral spraying. With American milking and dry cow feeding data from Brookside Laboratories, we formulated a foliar spray programme for the cows.

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Soon it was time for calving. We adjusted our spray programme for lactating cows and continued on. As a result we ended up putting the cows on three times a day milking, soon after we had the local dairy discussion group there along with three of the local bankers from Te Puke and the dairy board consulting officer.

The local farm consultant admitted after the farm walk, “you know you actually might pull this off.”

The final result was a 38 per cent increase in production over and above the best this farm had achieved along with a 17 per cent increase in the second year making a total of 55 per cent.

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What is the cause?

We have had a lot of response to my last article. Most people seem to agree that we do have laminitis, however it appears that the perception is that the main cause of laminitis is related to feeding issues yet there are many other ways for cows to get laminitis.

Last month I named stress as a major cause, but you could put other things on that list like mastitis, retained afterbirth, calving etc. When you suddenly get many lame cows and you can’t relate it to an obvious incident, you could think back 6 or 8 weeks and see what had changed in the diet. Things like taking silage out of the diet, running out of grass, starting to feed meal or the like, and these are certainly good possible reasons why your cows are lame.

I also mentioned that resting time is a very important contributing factor for lameness. This seems to be overlooked and grossly underestimated as a cause of lameness. I would class it as at least as important as diet. Particularly, in our pasture-based farming systems, it pays to put a lot of thinking into the time budget. You should work on a time allocation of 12–14 hours of resting time, 8 hours of eating time, half hour drinking and 1 hour of socialising per 24 hours. So that leaves you about 2.5 hours per day to walk your cows to the cowshed, milk them and walk them back again. This allows just 1 hour and 15min per milking twice a day. Most cows in NZ don’t get that. The first cows in might but the last ones certainly don’t, so over time the cows become very run down and this is why they don’t want to

walk anymore towards the end of the season. They hang around the cowshed depriving themselves of needed rest which makes them even more run down so they are harder to move again, and so the spiral goes on. Therefore, when cows are being starved of resting time, they are under stress and just to prove a point. Try the following: start depriving yourself of a couple of hours sleep every night — how long are you able to keep that up for before your productivity, your health and your general well-being begins to suffer?

It is no different for cows. Cows only sleep for about 20 min per day but they do need a lot of rest. They are very happy with a lot of rest and I have never seen a bored cow. I have no idea what a bored cow looks like.

So, when a cow is not laying down she is not resting and this causes lameness — not because the hooves can’t handle the pressure for long periods, there is no evidence for that argument, but because the cow is under stress with lots of stress hormones floating around

through the body. Some of you may think this to be a bit farfetched but science has shown a strong correlation between standing time and lameness.

A thought — if you look at any herd that is being milked every 16 hours, you will find that most of those cows are happier to walk again with the change of routine. Why is that? Would cows change their behaviour that dramatically if all their basic needs were already provided for? I don’t have space to further expand on this now, but if you have any comments or questions just send me an email to fred@veehof.co.nz.

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Northland leptospirosis increase There have been six cases of leptospirosis notified to the Northland District Health Board so far this year.

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“The health board are concerned about the increase in these notifications from the farming community, which may reflect a greater number of leptospirosis bacteria being present in the environment,” said medical officer of health Dr Virginia McLaughlin.

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wide range of symptoms, including: high fever, headache, chills, muscle aches, nausea and/or vomiting, sensitivity to light, jaundice, conjunctivitis, feeling tired, abdominal pain, diarrhoea or a rash.

“Animals are the primary hosts, including cattle, sheep, deer, dogs, rats, and possums. They excrete leptospires in their urine.

“It enters humans through mucous membranes (eyes, nose, mouth) and skin, especially when there is a cut or scratch. Person to person transmission is rare.”

Common ways people are exposed are from the urine or bodily fluids of infected animals, contact with water such as by swimming or hosing down the dairy shed, or assisting with calving/ lambing.

For protection use personal protective equipment such as aprons, gloves, don’t smoke or eat in the dairy shed, wash your hands, cover cuts and scratches, avoid contact with animal urine, follow a recommended vaccination programme for your animals, practise rodent control, be careful when handling animal feed such as hay, pellets that may have been contaminated with rodent urine.

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corresponding impact on individual, their family and business, and others working in the industry such as veterinarians and meat workers.”

There is also potential contamination of waterways by infected animals, providing a route of exposure to wider community members using water for drinking or recreational purposes.

“There are reports that some Northland herds are not being vaccinated — not only does this put individual farms, farm workers and families at risk, but also the wider community. Prevention is the best action. We urge all those involved in the farming industry to review this matter and take appropriate measures.

“Personal hygiene and protective measures are important. Leptospirosis can be a serious disease. Symptoms range from a mild flu-like illness to severe symptoms requiring hospitalisation.

Recovery, in some cases, can take from months to at least a year.

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Six years’ worth of exceptional dairy progeny will remain the legacy of top CRV Ambreed Jersey bull Okura Lika Murmur as he retires this month and leaves his sons to pave the way in the dairy industry.

While saddened to say goodbye to Murmur, CRV Ambreed’s breeding programme manager Aaron Parker says he has made an outstanding contribution to the progression of the national dairy herd.

“That comes in the form of nearly half a million doses of semen produced, 22,464 daughters herd testing in New Zealand, and a long list of sons that are legends in their own right.”

He has also been credited with expanding CRV Ambreed’s exporting market with his genetics particularly popular in South Africa, North America and Australia.

“He has bred outstanding sons and daughters with super production, udder and capacity traits,” said Mr Parker.

“Hundreds of his cows have been contract mated in New Zealand and as a sire of sons he has produced some of the country’s best Jersey bulls.”

This season six Murmur sons were released to market as ‘daughter proven sires’ and are among New Zealand’s highest ranking bulls. These sons include standouts Roma Murmur Kingpin, Kaitaka Murmur Lazarus and Ashvale OLM Highlite.

“Kingpin is CRV Ambreed’s highest selling Jersey sire this season. He is an absolute superstar in production because he is Murmur’s son.”

Other sons and grandsons are coming through CRV Ambreed’s breeding programme, including up and coming star bull and Kingpin’s son, Puketawa King Connacht JG. “Connacht is an elite young sire that we selected to be part of our Jersey team this year based on his parental information and scientific data. With his daughters coming into milk this season, we expect to see big things from him,” Mr Parker says.

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“The Okura Stud has contributed immensely to New Zealand’s dairy industry over the years by breeding some of the best bulls the industry has ever seen, including Okura Manhatten who was a game changer for the industry.

Parker said after Manhatten, Murmur is the next most influential Jersey sire to have been bred in New Zealand.

“Manhatten sold more semen and bred

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“I suspect we will be hearing Murmur’s name in the dairy industry for many years to come.

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“Each year we process around 18 billion litres of milk, with the bulk of this carried out in the spring months. The work we are doing now will help us get match-fit for that peak period.”

Mr Leslie says the goal for manufacturing teams in this year’s winter shut has been finding more effective and efficient ways to maintain sites for the coming season.

“Together, Fonterra and industry are focussed on ensuring we can produce quality product for our customers and support farmers under a constrained milk price.

“We have always been efficient in our maintenance projects, so the challenge this year was to come up with new and innovative ways to do things better, faster and smarter.”

Hundreds of Fonterra manufacturing site staff are taking part in the annual winter work, with more than 500 projects currently underway around the country, ranging from major capital works to minor overhauls.

Winter Shutdown Manager at Te Rapa, Blair Bond, puts the improvements down to an ongoing ‘owner’s mindset’ across the manufacturing teams.

“Every person on our team is on the same page. We treat the assets as if we were their owners — putting ourselves in our farmers’ shoes and thinking about how we can do things more effectively and drop our bottom line.”

This work during the winter shut has also led to innovative thinking that will change the way we process milk during the milking season.

Mr Bond gives the example of the D4 evaporator — which evaporates water out of the milk to then be turned into powder. The Blair Bond, Fonterra winter shutdown manager team came up with an innovative way of splitting the process into stages, He explains the team has adopted which will allow the evaporator to run six a year-round asset care approach per cent longer meaning more milk can for the maintenance and servicing be processed each day. of equipment.

“It’s year-round for us. Throughout “Constant monitoring of our the entire year we’re talking to other equipment to ensure it’s always in top sites about what worked for them and nick means we’re saving time and money leveraging our collective strength to help during our winter shut — something our our co-operative deliver,” said Mr Bond. farmers will appreciate.”

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The key to delivering better results for our primary industries lies in ensuring that New Zealand products retain their reputation for supreme quality.

Despite the vicissitudes of the global dairy market, this means a commitment to an ongoing programme of oversight at the ‘grass roots’ level. That’s the message from the Ministry of Primary Industries, which is committed to the rollout of new guidelines for best practice in cooling milk on farms.

With a deadline of full compliance set for June 1 2018, this means an aggressive campaign of upgrades across the sector. Under the Ministry’s New Zealand Code of Practice for the Design and Operation of Farm Dairies, milk must be cooled to a minimum of 10°C within four hours of the start of milking, and to a maximum of 6°C by either six hours from the commencement of milking or two hours from the end of milking, whichever comes soonest.

This is not just intended to provide a nationwide standard to promote a healthier, higher quality product to flowon to processing facilities and eventually to the consumer here and overseas. It’s also intended to provide an incentive for farmers to invest in more energyefficient, modern methods of cooling — a cost which can account for up to 30 per cent of the energy expenditure in the dairy shed.

Dairy NZ advise that plate heat exchangers remain the single best means to ensure compliance with the incoming guidelines.

Using similar principles to a modern heat pump air conditioner, these arrays of thin metal plates circulate cold water in close proximity to the warm milk, leaching away heat into the water itself. Even with such systems in place, maintenance to ensure peak performance is the key to both rapid cooling and energy efficiency — clean plates and a rapid flow of cool water ensure a fast drop to the 6 degree threshold. The alternative — direct expansion refrigeration of a ‘dimple layer’ inside the bulk milk tank — has the disadvantage of using on-peak power, but regardless of the system used, secondary additions such as ice banks and thermal stores can bolster performance and help meet requirements.

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Clean water is essential for growing crops, cultivating orchards and even producing timber. But it’s importance is never more vividly displayed than in the dairy industry, where both the input and output of farms are under keen scrutiny, both by corporate interests, environmental watchdog groups and the public.

Significant gains have been made since the revelation just a year ago that many of Fonterra’s affiliated farmers had been given notice by their parent company to improve the quality of water used in their dairy sheds.

Since that time, compliant farms have been moved off of what is known as temporary water exclusion, using simple solutions to the issue of water quality.

The importance of keeping contaminant bacteria like E coli out of water used in the production of one of our most important consumer products is undeniable, but the programme laid out in guidelines for farmers also checks a list of other potential waterborne issues.

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A variety of technologies have been developed to assist with this process, from automated dosing systems, which administer small but effective amounts of chlorine, through to heavy-duty ultraviolet filters and micro-fine cartridges.

However, it’s noteworthy that simply removing sediment which has built-up in water holding tanks can provide a massive boost to tested water quality alone.

At the other end of the process, the public eye is very much on the downstream effect of dairying. Ever tightening restrictions on effluent handling and disposal, and an initiative to keep waterways clear of livestock have combined to create a demand for infrastructural change in this aspect of the trade as well. This all comes at a time when some sectors of the country are afflicted by a lack of water due to drought, and farmers contend, in some cases, with water export operations for human consumption. Like the incoming 2018 standards for milk chilling, this

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DAIRY Until 2002, when I decided to put some other ideas to the test.

I challenged the belief that good production was determined by a high David Law, Managing Director of Forward Farming Consultancy usage of nitrogen.

I discovered that it’s not, and took the farm from growing 14 ton dm/ha/ yr using 150 units of nitrogen/ha/yr to 19 ton dm/ha/yr by only using 30 units of nitrogen. ”The earth is flat. How do I know? Because everyone around Here’s some other ‘round earth’ here believes it.” things I discovered: Farming practices Three hundred years ago, a statement at 2800kg/ha to maintain quality. At 2.5 that work with the soil’s biology grows like that wouldn’t have raised a single leaf growth stage grass begins to die significantly longer root systems. The eyebrow. Back then, belief in a flat earth and should be grazed by then for best roots on my farm measured 800mm. was so entrenched, it was preposterous quality and production. Grass roots grow That in itself mitigated leaching and to think otherwise, and if you did, you to 75mm, overseer measures leaching grew better grass.

Biologically correct soil nutrition were labelled a mad man. below the root zone, weeds are bad grows nutrient-dense That’s how widely held convictions and should be sprayed, feed that has far more work. The sheer number of ’believers’ ryegrass is superior Back in 2002, some palatability. This type of creates a pressure that makes it easy and is the feed of farmers regarded me grass can be allowed to conform and very difficult to entertain choice on a dairy farm, to grow longer and as a ‘round earther’ soil biology doesn’t another idea. can be grazed clean by Back in 2002, some farmers regarded affect grass growth, as because I began to cows at 3300kg/ha. me as a ‘round earther’ because I began well as nitrate leaching seriously look at With a longer grazing to seriously look at running my farm on mainly comes from running my farm on period more grass is biological principles. It doesn’t work, urine patches. biological principles. grown, meaning less These things are they told me. It’s airy-fairy, they laughed. dependance on boughttrue. How do I know?

That’s not how we do it, they said. in feed.

How do we do it? What are the Because ever yone When all 16 soil nutrients are in their widespread beliefs that farmers hold to around here believes it. That includes so deeply it seems to them ludicrous to the farm consultants who are are right percentages, the biological activity trained to believe in and preach these in the soil increases significantly. This think otherwise?

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Also, the transfer of good biological activity from the soil-grass-gut-effluent means that the pond contains a higher ratio of fibre-eating bacteria. These microbes liquefy the pond.

The higher ratio of good soil organisms suppresses the activity of soil pathogens. This causes a drop in animal sickness — mastitis, facial eczema, foot rot, and the need for remedial measures.

Higher biological activity creates better soil physiology. This increases drainage which reduces pugging. It also raises the soil temperature which shrinks your winter season length and reduces dry periods because of the extended root systems.

That’s what I discovered from 10 years of biological farming.

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The king is back in the building

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Racing legend Ken Block loves his Fords — but he has a strange way of showing it.

Some collectors pamper their prized possessions, keeping them in glazed-in polished isolation. Not so the twisted genius from Hoonigan Racing, who lets his stable of blue oval racers loose on some of the wildest courses ever imagined, howling around them sideways in a thunderstorm of tyre smoke. Now the man who has created souped-upbeyond-sanity versions of both the Mk 2 Escort, the Fiesta ST and the 1965 Mustang has been asked to weigh in on creating a brand new Ford for all of us. Oh — and they’ve invited the lads at Cosworth to contribute their two cents worth as well. The result could only be planet-smashingly fast, as blindingly blue. Welcome to the 2016 Ford Focus RS. While fans of extreme motorsport will definitely know about Ken Block, younger readers might have missed the days when the word Cosworth was breathed in the same sentence as the true name of God — and quite often featured on speeding tickets. The Sierra Cosworth and the subsequent Escort Cosworth were Ford’s foray into the frayed zone at the edge of automotive sanity, and they quickly became legends with both petrol heads — and the local

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The new RS embodies that same spirit of precisely engineered lunacy — even while standing still. Input from Cosworth and Mr Block has given the Focus — which, one must remind oneself, was aggressively polymorphed from a sensible family hatch — no less than 345 horsepower and a snarling 324 foot-pounds of torque, all from a turbocharged four cylinder engine. The party piece of this machine is the way it delivers that power to the ground, through a clever four wheel drive system. Subaru and Mitsubishi may have eclipsed the Cosworth Fords of old with their rally-bred all wheel grip, but this modern Focus RS aims to beat them at their own game, shifting power to the back wheels and judiciously vectoring it forward in greater amounts when necessary.

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The original was no slouch, delivering over 420 Newton metres of torque from a two litre mill. This new incarnation throws the rulebook in a wood chipper, delivering a stump-pulling 550 Nm, and over 220 horsepower. Taming all this might is left to a beefed-up braking system, sophisticated computer control, and, of course, a far more comfortable driver thanks to improvements in the cabin appointments as well.

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John Frear, head of Commercial Vehicles for Volkswagen New Zealand had this to say about the brand’s new flagship ute.

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The call of the open road

by Andy Bryenton

Winter would seem like the last time to consider gearing up to hit the road on two wheels. But Yamaha know all too well that even now, at the cold and dark end of the year, summer is just around the corner.

Their latest offerings in the learnerapproved sport bike category may have arrived when there’s a chill in the air, but that just gives prospective riders a chance to appraise their options and make a tough choice between two very capable models which promise to make getting into motorcycling both easier and more attractive. Not so long ago, the rules which governed learner bikes constrained novice riders to 250cc machines or smaller. Initially this may have been intended to curb the amount of power available to those getting to grips with the intricacies and nuances of riding, but an ‘arms race’ at this low end of the displacement curve led to some seriously mad firepower hitting the streets, with high-revving four cylinder 250s like the Suzuki GSX-R and Yamaha’s own Zeal 250 offering a quick way to go from zero to several demerit points, all with the sound of a demonically possessed sewing machine.

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by Andy Bryenton

Quad bikes have become a vital working tool on farms all across the globe but never more so than here in New Zealand. We’ve taken to the little terrain-conquering machines in the way that early warrior tribes took to the horse — making it a part of rural culture.

But this massive uptake of technology has not been without its challenges.

Despite ongoing and substantial advances in safety such as hell descent assists, extra grip and antilock brakes, the rugged terrain in which quads are used coupled with incidences of rider error has led to several tragic accidents, many of which have made the news headlines.

A call for extra safety on quads has led to a robust debate about training, the possibility of licensing, and the need to gear up with helmets. But there is another way.

Polaris have devoted thousands of man-hours to the question of safety for their off-road fleet. When you produce some of the world’s most powerful snowmobiles, baja buggies, farm vehicles and quads, there’s no question that a large chunk of your research and development has to go toward ensuring the highest level of protection. That’s why the Polaris Ace was created — a

small footprint, powerful quad with controls akin to that of a car, and a full roll cage.

The recent National Fieldays has given farmers a chance to get acquainted with the peppy 570 version of the Ace, which boasts more horsepower — 45 in all, from a new ProStar mill — more nimble handling, more grip, and of course an expanded 680 kilo towing capacity, making it the equal of nearly any standard quad on the market.

The obvious bonus to the Ace layout is safety — that roll cage is designed to protect the rider no matter what happens, and doubles as a handy anchor point to lash accessories to the machine’s frame.

But the steering wheel, racing style seat and pedal layout is also an ergonomic change in itself, providing easier access and a more stable command position for those who find the ‘motorcycle’ riding stance a strain on back injuries or tired muscles.

The Ace 570 HD is built to take the hard knocks, so that riders stay safe

After a long day in the field, the Ace promises far less aches and pains.

Add in a low centre of gravity for both engine and driver, optimised through a clever suspension setup, and there’s a big reason the Ace was the talk of the town at Mystery Creek this year.

It’s well worth a look if you find a sideby-side UTV too large for really rough terrain, or if it’s time to take a hard look at safety on the farm.

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Conquering the red desert The Australian outback. A sun-baked wilderness of brutal temperatures, insidious red dust and hidden mineral wealth.

Digging this bounty from the earth and, indeed, undertaking any kind of endeavour other than sheer survival here — takes tough machines, and even tougher lubricants to keep them going.

The unique challenges of the red desert often proved too much for conventional engine oils made for the more civilised climes of Europe and America.

So, in 1975, a new company was formed to tackle the problem. They were called Anglomoil, and their solution was to blend high quality synthetic additives with base oil in a way which

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guaranteed full protection for engine parts, even under the dual hammer blows of searing heat and invasive dust. Sometimes cheaper oils may cite certain operating parameters on the bottle, but struggle to go the distance under demanding conditions.

Anglomoil’s product is designed to meet and exceed those parameters, long after the first turn of the ignition.

Needless to say, the successful Anglomoil formula was adopted very enthusiastically.

Industries from road freight to mining to agriculture and heavy industry saw a massive drop in repair downtime as the new lubricant out-lasted previous choices, protecting moving parts of expensive machinery.

Four decades and counting, and the Anglomoil company continues to innovate, creating specialist oils for many niche markets — but their core business is still creating the very best oils for demanding conditions.

To prove their point, their products have been tested and used in powerful motorsport challenges, from racing big rig trucks to offshore powerboats and more.

But the real testament to their success is from their working customers, who have come to rely on

Anglomoil in their tractors, diggers, trucks and implements. Now Anglomoil has come to New Zealand, facing different environmental challenges with the same kind of attitude which first saw them conquer the red desert.

From the heavy acidic peat dust of the Waikato to the black ironsands of the west coast, we have our own insidious particulates. Though we may not have blazing heat, we have extremes of cold and damp which the outback never did.

All of these conditions cry out for a superior oil, and Anglomoil have proven their worth to customers such as Gavins Agricultural Contractors on the Hauraki plains. How convinced are they?

With 150 pieces of plant machinery, they were spending $150,000 on repairs and maintenance to keep the fleet operating at harvest time.

In their own words: “Changing to Anglomoil means we can trust our fleet, we get more work done and a lot quicker, our customers are happier, we meet our deadlines, our operating costs have dropped considerably and we are in a position to take on more work.

We are now looking seriously at extending our service intervals for changing parts because of the big reduction in wear and the fact that we now have zero failure.”

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