Taranaki Farming Lifestyles, October 2014

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Forty-nine gardens, including seven new additions will feature during this year’s Powerco Taranaki Garden Spectacular.

Twelve of these gardens have been ranked Gardens of Significance to National Significance, including one of International Significance.

The seven new gardens include Kairau Lodge and Vineyard in Waitara, Tropica and Pendarves House in New Plymouth, Korurata in Oakura, Greenhills in Stratford, and two South Taranaki gardens — Oughton Farm Garden in Okaiawa, and The Hidden Dell in Hawera.

“With these new gardens among an impressive array of diverse gardens and inspiring events, this year’s festival is set to awaken the senses,” said festival manager Lisa Ekdahl.

“We have events for Frocks on Bikes - part of the the fun-loving to gardening Powerco Taranaki Garden Spectacular aficionados. Our gardening “Most of my installations are seminars and guided walks by experts always fill up with gardening enthusiasts reflecting what’s happening in nature, and bookings are essential for our fun by looking at plant patterns or observing events like the Frocks on Bikes and the way something grows,” said Ms Law. “Then I imagine these themes in real Spring Fashion parades.”

Also in the event line-up are two life and times that by a thousand so that speaking events by Jo McCarroll on it becomes fantasy.”

Over the past few years Ms Law has Garden Trends, cooking seminars with worked in numerous public spaces, Masterchef 2014 winners Karena & Kasey Bird, tai chi in the garden, a museums and galleries, and has been garden speaker series of events, a commissioned by brands like Hermes, house and garden tour, and a Chapman- Cartier and Gucci.

Ms Ekdahl said the festival’s garden Taylor tour.

The International Landscape Design line-up, events, landscape design Project, being installed within the TSB project, house and garden tours will Showplace, is a free attraction open offer a tasteful experience for most.

“Our programme for 2014 is an each day of the festival. Project creator, Rebecca Louise Law, is an installation enjoyable synthesis of some idyllic artist from London, known for her pleasures in life.

“Wow that was wonderful is the transformation of spaces using hundreds sentiment that we would like all our or thousands of suspended flowers. visitors to this year’s festival to go home with.”

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0800 428 453 From left: Beef + Lamb Farmer Council chair Martin Coup, Mitchel Hoare and Katey Craig in France

Nineteen-year-old Mitchel Hoare, a senior cadet at Waipaoa Station in the Poverty Bay district won first place in the under-22 age group. Hunterville-based Katey Craig (21), a junior shepherd at Otiwhiti Station, was ranked best female competitor overall.

The two-day challenge was held in Auvergne in south, central France. The pair competed against shepherds from 15 other countries in this international test of sheep farming skills.

Mitchell grew up on a 400ha drystock farm in the King Country and is a member of the Te Kuiti Young Farmers Club. He takes home a 1,500 Euro cheque in prize-money from the competition.

A change of career plans saw Katey take up training as a shepherd at Otiwhiti Station. She initially thought working as a veterinarian would be her ideal career choice.

Katey’s family own a sheep and beef farm in the backblocks of Taranaki, where she grew up. Her family also own and lease a few blocks round Taranaki, running an overall total of close to 14,400 stock units. Katey worked as a wool handler in Western Australia before taking up a cadetship at Otiwhiti.

It was after much encouragement from her employer Charlie Duncan that Katey decided to take part in the preliminary round of the World Young Shepherds Challenge. This competition was held at Lincoln University in July.

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BY DENISE GUNN Growing up on a north Taranaki farm amongst animals, and native flora and fauna, fostered an interest and curiosity in nature for natural therapist Shirley Olsen.

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t wasn’t until Shirley left high school and began work in a garden centre that her interest in herbs developed.

Taking care of the herb section was part of her job, and she found these plants particularly intriguing and enchanting.

“A seed had been planted and I was on a journey, with a desire to discover more,” said Shirley.

Initially it was the herbs with highly unusual names that caught Shirley’s attention.

“Fascinating names like mugwort, wormwood, horsetail, and soapwort sparked my interest and I wanted to know more.”

“However when I delved into books about these weird, wacky herbs, it was also interesting to note that even those herbs relegated to be common, also held some pretty interesting history.” Shirley said although common

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herbs were sprinkled onto all manner of foods, these plants also had other beneficial properties.

Further knowledge was gathered through chatting to older people about their childhood and the remedies their mothers used.

“Experiences with remedies like onions and honey for a sore throat, or soap and sugar poultices on a boil were shared.”

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“I found herbs and healing with plants fascinating,” said Shirley.

“Not only were there the common herbs like parsley and chives, but there were the weeds around us, as well as trees and shrubs.”

Shirley recalls asking an older nurseryman who grew all types of herbs, if he had some chickweed.

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my shampoo soap.” Shirley’s shampoo soap contains castor oil, olive oil, lavender and rosemary.

I wash my hair with it, then rinse with a blend of cider vinegar and herbs, sometimes infused with lemon peel, lemon juice, chamomile flowers, rosemary leaves, lavender flowers or southernwood.”

A cream with calendula and lavender is used to heal an assortment of minor skin irritations, and a healing blend of bush plants helps heal stubborn skin conditions.

“I still make lots of things, depending on what is needed,” said Shirley.

“Some people might make a batch of scones — I might make an ointment from weeds.”

Shirley has combined her love of nature, reading and photography into producing desktop everyday calendars

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“It is to inspire us to take a closer look at the little things in life and in nature, to remind us in a positive way

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pops up around the garden uninvited, but it is also good in salads and is great infused in oil to soothe itchy skin.”

Shirley went on to grow a wide variety of herbs from seeds, cuttings, and division, then went onto sell them at local car boot sales and craft fairs.

Close to 30 years ago, Shirley began making soap and since then has made many types of products.

“I think brewing things up is well and truly in my blood,” said Shirley.

“I would rather make a batch of soap or a healing oil than prepare a threecourse meal.”

Several of Shirley’s concoctions, suitable for everyday use and found in the Olsen household include soap, lip balm, sleep balm, and teething oil.

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The service, recently established through Taihape Veterinary Services staff, acts as a go-between for current and prospective owners. Service administrators, veterinarian Becky Waghorn and veterinary nurse Laiken Ronowicz, have found the feedback very positive.

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“Unfortunately, there is a relatively short time frame for this sort of hill country work — often only to about seven or eight years.”

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“Ultimately it is the owner who knows the dog best and can therefore make the best decisions in this regard,” said Laiken.

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Dogs are successfully rehomed th rough the Taihape Vets Working Dog Rehomi ng Service hill country anymore but are perfectly capable of light work on flatter ground.

“We also have had a younger dog that has been very successfully rehomed to a family with young children — not working but on a lifestyle block.”

“One new owner just wanted a companion when out and about checking stock and missed having a working dog,” she said.

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real bond with their ‘workmates’, so having an alternative for them has been greatly appreciated.”

Laiken said to see these dogs go to a new home is fantastic.

“Clients often feel bad leaving the older dogs that are still keen, in the kennel.”

“So it is great for them to see these dogs leading more enriched lives with new owners,” she said.

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by John K Morris, CEO of Agrissentials

Like the Berlin Wall, the chemical wall is crumbling. The move away from the chemical age has begun as new rules, regulations and compliance kicks in, bringing us all into line with the new consumer call for safe, certified, nutritiously dense food produced in an eco-friendly and sustainable manner.

Fortunately, Agrissentials best on earth fertilisers are multi-mineral, microbial rich fertilisers designed to remineralise the soil and increase soil biota; ultimately bringing health and vitality back to the soil for better quality production.

Recently Rodale Institute launched a global campaign to generate public awareness of the soil’s ability to reverse climate change by increasing the health of the soil through regenerative agriculture.

The campaign is calling for the restructure of our global food system with the goal of reversing climate change through photosynthesis and biology.

The campaign was penned by Rodal Institute an independent, non-profit agricultural research station recognised as the birthplace of organics in the USA (rodaleinstitute.org/reversing-climate-

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Mark Smallwood, executive director of Rodale Institute said that founder J.I Rodale had a vision so ambitious that many people wrote him off at the time. Almost 75 years later the organic movement is exploding with growth and fierce determination and the stakes are a lot higher in 2014. Rodale saw that agriculture was heading in a dangerous direction through the widespread adoption of synthetic chemicals and the industrialisation of farming. He attempted to prevent that transition.

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Agrissentials CEO, John Morris is excited about the future possibilities away from chemical fertiliser dependancy.

We are in the dire situation of needing a cure, a reversal.

The massive awakening itself is the catalyst to the cure, the future is underfoot. It’s all about the health of the soil.

Agrissentials have been a part of this new farming revolution for the past twenty years; helping farmers nationwide convert to a natural system whilst optimising production and continuing to fight the good fight by looking after the soil. Topsoil is, most probably, the most valuable resource on our planet as all life is dependent upon it for survival. Agrissentials’ focus is bringing life and minerals to the soil with our multi-mineral, microbial rich, live, living fertilisers. With good levels of microbes in your soil you will have good levels of worms, beautiful, marvellous worms.

Farmers using our fertilisers have abundant worm life, between the worms and the micro-organisms you have a recycling team that will keep increasing topsoil and improving the farm. Farmers tell us that within 14 to 20 days of the herd leaving the paddock all cow pats are recycled back into topsoil, increasing soil water retention quality, enhancement of mineral potency through worm castings improving phosphate levels by 700%, potassium by 1100%, nitrogen by 500%, increasing soil drainage capacity and mineral retention making the Regional Councils happy with the soil and the minerals holding their ground and looking after the environment.

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RURAL CONTRACTING Good practice boosts fertiliser response Livestock management and good old weather watching will ensure farmers get the best dry matter response and achieve the best in animal performance results from their fertiliser application, says science strategy manager at Ballance AgriNutrients Warwick Catto.

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“While fer tiliser programmes, and the nutrients that are applied, vary throughout the year, it is worth considering the influence of increased livestock feed demand and their metabolic stresses in spring.”

“During calving and lambing we advise farmers to adhere to best agricultural practice when applying fertiliser.

“During spring, livestock maternal instinct means that rather than normally avoiding pasture with fertiliser residue, they may consume this pasture which puts these animals at risk, particularly from fluorosis.

“It is good common sense to either spell stock from recently fertilised pasture or fertilise just before rainfall,” he said.

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• Apply dustier fertilisers late in the morning, once dew has dried off the grass, to avoid fertiliser sticking to the plant leaf • Watch the weather and apply fertiliser just before irrigation or light rainfall.

Mr Catto said now was the right time to soil and herbage test and develop a targeted fertiliser programme, including assessing the need for trace elements such as selenium, cobalt and copper.

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Shepherds gearing up for Shemozzle

by Denise Gunn

The annual Shepherds Shemozzle, held during the Hunterville Huntaway Festival, is no ordinary race and it’s certainly not for the faint-hearted.

Now into its 17th year, this unique festival developed from a concept discussed by a few of the locals. The event has grown to become a permanent fixture on the rural events calendar, attracting competitors and spectators from all over New Zealand.

Fitness levels are tested as shepherds and their Huntaway dogs race up and down hills and tackle obstacles over a 3km challenging course. Strong stomachs are also required for the compulsory delicacies on the menu which can include sheep eyeballs, huhu grubs and warm beer.

Last year’s winner of the Shepherds Shemozzle and the men’s section was Troy MacDonald and his dog Bruce, with Rangitikei shepherd Jamie Howie and her dog Phlex taking out the women’s section. The winner of the master’s section was Jonathan Smailes and his dog Bitter.

Festival secretary Claire Clare said there have been more entries received prior to the day for this year’s shemozzle.

Shepherds can still enter on the day although the shemozzle is limited to 100 competitors.

The Children’s Shemozzle is open to entrants aged between 9-13 years of age -the Inter-School Shemozzle caters to school teams, and the recently introduced Teen Shemozzle is designed for teenagers up to 18 years of age. No dogs are required for these events.

“We have one entrant coming all the way from Queenstown for the Children’s Shemozzle,” said Mrs Clare.

“Entries sold out within 18 days of opening this year due to now being online.”

New to the programme this year is a Super Family Mystery Event, and a Huntaway Dog Demonstration. The annual Shearing Contractors Challenge will run after the races.

A range of entertainment will be held during the day along with quality craft stalls. Official merchandise will be for sale at the Hunterville Huntaway Festival stall.

“Come along and see what is on offer for the viewers, children and competitors,” said Mrs Clare.

This year’s Hunterville Huntaway Festival is scheduled for Saturday, November 1 starting at noon.

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Why older cows become lame I once was asked why older, high-producing cows become lame more often than younger ones.

That is a good question, but not always accurate.

Some farmers get a lot of lame heifers as well. This has a lot to do with the different stresses on the different animal age groups.

Let’s look at the older, high-producing cows. What is going on for those animals? Well, to start off with, they are older and high-producing. A highproducing cow is under a lot more stress than a low-producing cow. You may have heard of the comparison between a cow and an athlete — the better the athlete is performing the more accurately their diet and lifestyle needs to be balanced.

If not, it will show in the end results.

This is the same for a cow. A highproducing cow will need a more accurate and balanced diet than a low-producing cow. The big difference between a cow and an athlete is that the athlete can choose to go back to a normal, mediumactive lifestyle.

A cow can’t. A cow is genetically programmed to produce milk. She does that for her offspring. We may think she does it for us but the cow doesn’t know what happens with the milk after she has been in the cowshed.

We have tricked her into producing the milk as she believes that it is for her calf, but in reality we use it for totally different purposes.

So if we have managed to breed a cow that is programmed to produce a

lot more milk for ‘her calf’ then that is what she wants to do because her offspring is important to keep the species alive. So, if her diet is not of a standard that she needs then she will suffer from that in other ways than just a lower milk production as the production of milk is so important to her.

Another issue with older cows is that they have had more opportunity to get laminitis because they have been alive for longer.

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Our delicate dairy economy A drop in dairy prices of 48% from February this year is now impacting on the New Zealand economy, with economists now predicting Fonterra’s $5.30 payout prediction will drop again to $4.80 if there is not a lift in product values by March of next year.

The Northland regional economy, with a drop of $3.70 per kilogram of milk solids would face a disastrous shortfall of in excess of $370 million.

It has been said that for every dollar a dairy farmer receives, it adds three times more value by the time it goes through the community. How the experts work that out, I don’t know, but if it is true there would be an impact in the Northland region of $1 billion.

I attended a Fonterra farmer meeting held in Northland this week and the big surprise to me was the small number of suppliers who attended the meeting, in light of the decline of dairy farmer fortunes. It was a pity because in spite of all the bad news caused by the

volatility in the world markets, I believe Fonterra is doing a lot of positive things to increase its market share throughout the world, avoiding a major reliance solely on the Chinese market.

Joint ventures in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia are turning Fonterra, since its formation from being an $11 billion earner to a $22 billion earner, making it, I believe, the cornerstone of the New Zealand economy.

Some farmers at the meeting expressed their extreme concern at Fonterra continuing to undertake huge costly development programmes overseas when dairy farmer payouts are now suffering a serious decline.

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He explained that the current market volatility was caused by the European and the United States’ ban on exports to Russia and this was a great concern because Russia is the European community’s biggest purchaser of dairy products.

Now this European product can be diverted to other world markets, putting pressure on Fonterra’s market

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Dairy Women’s Network has appointed three women with a wealth of experience to their growing team of professionals.

Justine Kidd, winner of Dairy Woman of the Year 2013, is the incoming chair, Kym Gibson joins the events management team and Megan Edmeades is the organisation’s newest regional convener co-ordinator.

Incumbent network chair Michelle Wilson said it is a comfort knowing that DWN will continue to go from strength to strength under Justine’s strong leadership.

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“It is a credit to the board to have a person with Justine’s knowledge of agriculture and governance experience at the helm.”

Justine says she is excited about her new role.

“This is my first chair opportunity and I’m really looking forward to the challenge. The network has come through a significant development stage under Michelle’s leadership and it is poised to move into its next phase of growth and organisational development.”

Kym Gibson is looking forward to learning more about the ‘diverse and dynamic’ organisation that is DWN. “When I saw the role advertised it really appealed to me as good fit. I have come from eight years working for Life Trust so I really understand

the joys and complexities of working for a non-profit organisation. It’s what I know and love.”

Kym aims to offer high quality and high impact events for DWN and she is a big believer that ‘love is in the details’.

Megan Edmeades, who has stepped up from her volunteer role as East Waikato regional coconvener, says she is looking forward to being a part of the positive changes that are taking place for DWN. “The co-ordinator role is really about supporting our regional conveners and making sure they have access to quality resources and people. We are starting to do things in a different way, which is a real positive.”

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