Taranaki Farming Lifestyles, December 2016

Taranaki

FARMING Lifestyles

December 2016 Edition

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TARANAKI FARMING LIFESTYLES

December 2016

Growth in horticulture earnings

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The report, commissioned by the New Zealand Horticulture Export Authority (HEA) and Horticulture New Zealand is released every two years. It is used extensively by industry and government agencies as a reference point for negotiators to improve market access and helping exporters to develop new market opportunities.

Funding support for the report is provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the New Zealand Fruitgrowers Charitable Trust.

Close to 60 per cent of New Zealand’s total horticultural production of fruit and vegetables is exported, valued at just over $3.4 billion.

Mr Guy said horticulture is a star performer of New Zealand’s economy, making it one of our most important industries.

The report showed horticultural produce exporters paid an estimated $190 million in tariffs — a reduction of 22 per cent on 2012’s figure of $241 million.

“Horticulture has a goal of being a $10 billion industry by 2020 and they are well on the way,” said Mr Guy.

“They are now New Zealand’s fourth largest export industry and employ 60,000 people in New Zealand.”

Horticulture Export Authority chief executive Simon Hegarty said the nine free-trade agreements (China, Australia, AANZFTA, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, P4 and Korea) now in effect are delivering benefits as overall trade value increases while the relative tariff cost falls.

“This report confirms the real value benefits from our trade agreements, and our need to sustain efforts developing new agreements to maintain our international competitiveness.”

Horticulture New Zealand chief executive Mike Chapman said it’s important that exporters and government jointly recognise the risks posed by non-tariff barriers, and take appropriate steps to maintain horticulture’s goal of being a $10 billion industry by 2020.

Mr Guy said it was very fitting for the report to be released on the day when Horticulture New Zealand celebrated 100 years of representing growers, starting as the New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation in 1916.

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With summer on the way, hill country farmers are encouraged to get retirement and reversion fencing projects underway, with funding assistance available from the Taranaki Regional Council.

The council’s land management officers provide soil conservation advice and free personalised plans to help match land use to land capability.

Those plans give access to South Taranaki and Regional Erosion Support Scheme (STRESS) funding.

The programme, which has been running for five years, received approval earlier this year for another $1.2 million from the Ministry of Primary Industries.

The STRESS programme will continue for another four years.

Taranaki Regional Council’s land services manager, Don Shearman said STRESS funding, which covers reversion and retirement, gives hill country farmers a unique opportunity to implement soil conservation measures as guardians of the land.

This will also help farmers to futureproof their farms against storms and associated soil loss, as experienced in 2015. In June last year, a storm dumped up to 302mm of rain across the region in a 24-hour period, leaving hill country farms with soil erosion, extensive slipping and damage to fencing.

“Retiring or rever ting highmaintenance and low-production marginal land can increase farm profitability and sustainability because

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HOOKED ON EQUINE DENTISTRY

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EQUINE DENTAL TECHNICIAN SHELLEY CHURCHILL HAS EXTENDED HER SKILLS TO INCLUDE TRAINING AS A BOWEN PRACTITIONER FOR HUMANS AND HORSES.

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helley’s long and varied involvement with horses began when she started riding at the age of four, attending Okato Pony Club where her mother was an instructor. On leaving school, she took up an apprenticeship as a jockey in the Waikato, followed by work on a thoroughbred stud farm.

“I got involved with young horses and breaking them in,” said Shelley.

A move to work for Arabian horse breeders Sandy and Phil Duncan on their farm in the King Country, introduced Shelley to preparing horses

for endurance riding and polocrosse, as well as working on the farm. She also worked with horses on polocrosse player Robin Cave’s Taumarunui sheep and beef farm for a couple of years.

After a stint travelling overseas, she returned to join the New Zealand Army, then resettled in Taranaki where she picked up the reins and returned to endurance riding.

Shelley’s initial interest in equine dentistry was sparked when equine dental technician, Kyla Johnson, worked on her horse’s teeth.

From her Urenui base, Shelley covers mainly the Taranaki region to tend to horses dental requirements

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Unlike human teeth, equine teeth are continually growing or erupting. These teeth, due to the grinding action, develop sharp points on the outside of the top molars and the inside of the bottom molars. Enamel points can lacerate the cheeks and tongue, causing very painful ulcers which inhibit chewing and affect the horse while being ridden. The horse will lose weight, evade the bit, and could fail to stop or turn.

The basic job of an equine dentist is to file the points so that they are smooth. Horses should have their teeth checked at least annually.

In 2003, Shelley completed a sixweek American School of Equine Dentistry course held in the Bay of Plenty. Dr Ray Hyde, who established the American School of Equine Dentistry in 1994, travelled to New Zealand to hold the course. Along with Dr Hyde as head instructor, Shirley Calder, Warwick Burns, Gerald Tracy and Bruce Neil were assistant teachers. The course covered equine anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, business training, ethics, practical equine dentistry, horse-handling, occupational safety and bitting.

“Ray was very holistic and taught the use of hand and power tools, the emphasis was on being able to use hand tools without the horse being sedated.” said Shelley.

New graduates of the course usually team up with an experienced equine dentist for further work experience.

Shelley teamed up Shirley whenever possible to gain further knowledge.

“It’s a very hands-on numbers game to get a feel for it.”

From her Urenui base, Shelley regularly travelled through the west coast and northern regions of the South Island, as well as the King Country, Auckland and around Taranaki to attend to horses teeth. “I would travel to wherever there was a group of horses.”

Shelley now covers mainly the Taranaki region to tend to horses dental requirements.

“I like to be able to help horses and that’s my motivation.”

To continually upgrade her skills, Shelley attends workshops and training days.

She also works part-time as an AB technician for Livestock Improvement, covering the Stratford area.

In addition to equine dentistry, Shelley travels regularly to Australia to the Equus College of Learning and Research to train under Alli Goward in Equine Muscle Release Therapy (EMRT), the official Bowen therapy for horses.

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Spending time on relatives’ and friends’ farms in the Taranaki during school holidays gave Sam Hughson a taste for farming from a young age.

s a Year 12 student at Hamilton Boys’ High School, Sam was able to get a foot in the door to work in the dairy industry through Primary ITO’s Gateway programme.

He also took up weekend work as a relief milker.

The opportunity to go a step further came in 2014 when Sam was offered a farm assistant position on Steve and Maria Poole’s dairy farm at Kapuni.

On his first day of work, Sam put goals in place to aim towards owning

his own herd and to eventually be in a position to go 50 per cent sharemilking.

Since then Sam has worked his way up to work as assistant farm manager and now, at just 20 years of age, farm manager. The farm’s previous manager, Jarrico Murray, moved onto a variable order sharemilking position at Ohangi.

As a young farm manager with two new staff members, Sam aims to provide a good example.

“I like training staff and seeing them progress, and also enjoy the challenge of a hands-on job,” he said.

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Steve and Maria operate a high input, split-calving system and currently there are around 806 cows milked through a fully-automated 60-bail rotary cowshed.

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Sam feeding the calves industry ladder as soon as possible, Sam entered the Taranaki Dairy Industry Awards.

“The first year, I went in to see what it was like and won the Most Promising Entrant Award,” said Sam. “The second year, I knew what I was going into and made the top five.”

He said plenty of reading and studying helped him to prepare for the contest.

“My boss also dedicated a lot of his time to help me succeed and learn.”

All this preparation paid off as Sam won the 2016 Taranaki Dairy Trainee of the Year category. Sam has worked hard, saving his earnings to purchase a rental property in Hawera as an investment.

He aims to eventually sell this property to enable him to buy a herd.

“My five year plan is to be in a position to purchase a herd when I’m 25,” he said.

“Then I want to go 50/50 sharemilking.”

Sam said he looks up to his employer Steve, and would like to eventually be where he is.

“I would like to be a farm owner and if that happens when I’m just over 30, then that would be good as well.”

In his time away from the farm, Sam often travels back to Hamilton to catch up with family and friends. He also enjoys trail riding on his dirt bike, playing cricket for a local club and casual rugby.

Sam plans to enter the 2017 Taranaki Farm Manager of the Year competition.

“Feedback from the judges will help improve my farm management skills,” he said.

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Irrigation Matters with Clem Powell The mystery of irrigation Irrigation is the black art of replacing water which has been removed from the ground by evapotranspiration (ET) through plants. This is part of how plants ingest their nutrients.

Important points to know: NIWA have ET rates for your area, check their website. It will show rates as a graph through the year, summer obviously higher but ET is also determined by the atmosphere’s ability to absorb the moisture, so it is higher on windy days due to higher dispersal.

Every millimetre of rain you need to apply daily requires 10,000 litres/ha, so if ET hits 5mm you need at least 50,000 litres every hectare, every day. That’s if you want the plant to really grow, not just look green.

You need to match ET rate plus allowance for percolation through the soil (over irrigation) plus loss during irrigation, minus rainfall (if any).

ET rates follow quite closely to available moisture rates so it is important to begin irrigating early enough as the plant growth will have checked by the time you notice it.

Woody plants have a higher ET rate than leafy plants so kale ET will likely be more than chicory. Admittedly plants with deep roots will hang on longer,

mostly in heavy soils but in the end need still water replacement.

Irrigating methods are just that, management tools, don’t be fooled by the fancy promises, they can’t make your plant excel with less than ET rate — assuming you are trying to hold constant moisture in the ground. Beware of stories telling you that a system allows you to get away with less application.

They do exist but also require electronic monitoring and experience on the operator’s part.

Keep water droplets as large as practicable.

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It is pleasing to see that this problem, of inferior phosphate being dumped on the NZ market to farmers who put a lot of trust in these majority stakeholders, is being aired publicly at last.

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It is horrifying to expect farmers to now buy some second-grade fertiliser just because these guys haven’t got the real McCoy. I am pleased to see the NZ Fertiliser Council are there to keep the integrity and standards set for RPR, as this product is becoming the go-to phosphate source for our ever increasing forwardthinking farmers heading towards a more environmentally friendly future.

RPR is natural, and gradually releases in the soil at a near neutral pH which soil biology can handle, and is an alternative source of phosphate allowable for organic farmers. As it contains calcium, it does not have an acidifying effect on the soil. The standard set by the NZ Fertiliser Council for RPR requires no less than 10% phosphate and no

less than 30% solubility in citric acid.

Sechura RPR has always set the gold standard for RPR which is mined in Peru.

An example of a shipment of Sechura Reactive Phosphate Rock (RPR) procured by a North Island based fertiliser company in June 2016, tested 12.495% phosphate, 6.4pH, 71% calcium carbonate, citric solubility of 47% and includes a range of trace elements.

Where phosphate is required as an input into a fertiliser programme, there is arguably no other product on the market in NZ that can touch Sechura RPR for quality and proven results over a long period of time.

I applaud Fertmark for standing its ground and not compromising the standards and integrity of our fertiliser products in NZ. In these situations it can be an easy move to be persuaded to lower the bar. Smaller fertiliser companies who specialise in custom blends can get the best quality RPR. I would urge farmers to shop around for quality if they are to expect the best response for money spent.

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Down here in New Zealand and Australia, it’s always been a two-horse race in the world of big V8 four-door tourers. Folks nail their colours to the mast at an early age, declaring for Ford or Holden and often defending their choice loudly and with malicious use of Bathurst victory statistics in the nation’s bar-rooms.

But there’s a third big automaker in the US, and they’re poised to fill the niche left behind as the classic Commodore and the iconic Falcon leave the spotlight.

Sure, the likes of Mustang and Camaro stir the blood, but there is a special place in New Zealand motoring for a big, four-door, comfy, growling V8 touring car. One that’s not German, or indeed Japanese, considering options way back to the Lexus LS400.

So, presenting the Chrysler 300 SRT. A hyper-muscular version of the Ralph Gilles designed 300C, which caused such a stir in the early 2000s with its ‘Goodfellas’ good looks and its purring hemi eight, the SRT shares that trio of letters with muscle car royalty.

Think Viper, Hellcat and even the monumental Ram pickup truck — and you’re in the ballpark. Not to be outdone, this boosted version of the second generation letter car, packs in 350 kilowatts — that’s 460hp in the old money. Add in space, comfort and the fact that, seen from a certain angle, it has a bit of the Bentley about it, and this looks like a real contender for the vacancy at the top of the four-door V8 table.

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“Beef genetics research in New Zealand has been underfunded for 30 years. This partnership means research can progress and the results communicated out to breeders and commercial farmers many years earlier. For Australia, it means faster progress and an opportunity to advance projects that may not have otherwise gone ahead.”

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