Taranaki Farming Lifestyles, September 2016

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September 2016

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A group of Hawera High School students recently undertook a riparian planting exercise to protect and enhance water quality as part of their studies.

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After a demonstration of the correct planting method by the school’s head of depar tment Malcolm McKercher, the 45 students worked side-byside along the streambanks on Phil Nixon’s property near Manaia. Students were assessed on their Hawera High School’s head of department ability to consistently Malcolm McKercher explains the correct planting method repeat the correct skills as of kilometres of fencing and planting they planted.

The group is in the school’s Primary done by farmers on Taranaki ring plain Industries Academy Programme which streams and riverbanks. This equates has 100 students across years 11 to 84.4 per cent now protected by fencing and 69.5 per cent protected and 12.

“We cover farming, horticulture and by vegetation.

“This programme is significant,” forestry,” said Mr McKercher.

“The idea is to complete a NCEA Level said Miss Day. “It’s transforming the 2 certificate — Introduction to Primary landscape in Taranaki. If you think of all Industries. It also counts towards a the rivers that are protected by riparian New Zealand Certificate in Horticulture planting from the mountain to the sea, or Agriculture.” it’s a lot.”

With more than 150 students in years Miss Day said she was impressed 10 to 13 studying primary industries with how much the students achieved at Hawera High School, the emphasis over the three-hour planting period. is on exploring and getting started on “They were quick, courteous, vocational pathways in this industry. enthusiastic and hard-working.”

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Awards provide worthwhile challenge Opunake dairy farmers Kenneth and Rachel Short found entering the Taranaki Ballance Farm Environment Awards a great challenge.

The equity partners and sharemilkers milk 443 cows on 180ha and are in the process of converting to a fully organic operation.

Kenneth and Rachel first entered the awards in 2014, winning a category award. They entered the awards again this year and won three categories, including the CB Norwood Ltd AgriBusiness Management Award. This award recognises the approach that farmers take to accomplish the important management practices of operating a successful farm business.

Awards judges praised the couple’s excellent use of agri-business professionals and their in-depth knowledge of business management and strategy.

Rachel said good business management is very important to them.

“We are always trying to fine-tune our system and with the payout at the current level, it’s even more crucial to constantly review what is happening inside the farm gate.”

She said being involved in the Ballance Farm Environment Awards was an important part of the planning process.

“It made us sit down together and take a good, hard look at what we had done and what we are trying to achieve.”

The judging panel offered a broad range of experience and expertise, and the judging process was conducted in a relaxed and friendly manner.

“I used to get very nervous about these things, but the judges are just

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“It was definitely worthwhile having those judges come onto the farm and provide us with an outside perspective of our business.

“Some of their ideas were very useful and we enjoyed their feedback.”

The couple plan to re-enter the awards again in future.

“I’d recommend it to anyone,” said Rachel. “The awards are a really good way to challenge yourself and learn more about how to improve your operation.”

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James, a former rugby representative player for Taranaki, initially became involved in the honey industry during a five-year stint playing the sport in Hong Kong.

“I was playing rugby in Hong Kong and was approached by a large company,” he said. “I developed a passion for the industry pretty quick. Bees are fascinating.”It was around this time that James gifted a beehive to his father for Christmas. Toby found working with bees so enjoyable that a short time later bought 100 hives in partnership with James.

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As Egmont Honey’s managing director, James takes care of the export and trading aspect of the business.

In April, the company exported the first 10-tonne shipment of manuka honey to China.

“The brand, Egmont Honey, is doing really well in the New Zealand market,” said James. “We also export to Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan.”

Egmont Honey currently has 1,500 hives on the ground and that number is growing. Many of these hives are located in remote areas in south Taranaki and helicopters are required to lift them into manuka sites for the summer.

“We try to work with three to four farmers in a row,” said James.

“That way we don’t have competing beekeepers overstocking boundaries and the farmers benefit.” James said Egmont Honey will soon be cropping in Wairarapa and East Cape, followed

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As the last flowering crop of the year, Taranaki is two months later than other parts of the country. The hives are wintered on a farm with 2,000 acres of bush.

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ENJOYING • BY DENISE GUNN • With a long and varied career in the agricultural industry, Kevin Bensemann is enjoying his retirement and keeping up with developments in the rural sector.

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aised in a farming area on the Kaikoura coast, Kevin could often be found as a youngster helping out on local farms. His first mustering job, in his teenage years, set the course for his career in the livestock industry.

“The manager of Bluff Station was short of somebody to take the shorn ewes back 50 miles to their home block,” said Kevin. “He approached my parents and asked if I could help drove the sheep.”

On Kevin’s return, he continued mustering and shepherding around the district, along with work as a high country musterer in the Awatere Valley.

Following his marriage to Lynette, the couple moved to north Canterbury to work on a cropping farm for three years.

A position as herd shepherd on Raumati Station followed and Kevin managed the 5,000-hectare property while the owner recovered from a heart attack. When the owner’s son returned from his OE, Kevin was rewarded for his hard work with a recommendation to Pyne Gould Guinness as stock agent material.

“I got the job and was sent up to Blenheim and then I went to Seddon for quite some time. There were five different stock and station agents in Seddon, it was very competitive,” he said.

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Kevin was often on the job up to seven days a week.

“Sometimes I was on the phone up to 10pm, then at 5am off to sales. I enjoyed stock and always worked to achieve,” he said. Kevin was appointed head auctioneer in Blenheim in 1970, holding that post for 10 years.

“I stood up alongside some of the best auctioneers in the country.”

By 1980 vineyards started to appear in the Marlborough region and farm clearance sales became a regular occurrence as the land was sold for viticulture.

Kevin and Lynette moved their family to Waverley where Kevin took up work as a livestock manager for Farmers Cooperative Organisation Society (FCOS).

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As head shepherd on Raumati Station, Kevin also managed the 5,000-hectare property for a while in 1986, Kevin was approached to be an area manager and start a branch in Taranaki.

“I got five or six agents together and started Elders in Hawera.”

In 1989, John Buxton, the CEO of Huttons, offered Kevin a position as the North Island livestock manager. Kevin took up the offer, working for the Huttons plant in Eltham. Huttons later became Riverlands and Kevin worked for the company for 20 years, the last nine of those as executive. He retired in 2008 but continued in an advisory role for Riverlands and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

“I saw a lot of changes in the meat industry over the years, with companies closing down and takeovers,” he said.

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was involvement with stud sheep and selecting animals for live shipments to New Guinea, South America and Australia. He was also involved in procurement of live heifers to Korea and Angus cattle to Japan.

Kevin and Lynette’s three sons all followed their father’s footsteps to work in the livestock industry for a time: Lindsay now has his own livestock business; former livestock auctioneer Phillip runs his own company, All About Auctions, in Auckland; and Chris is the Wellington central police area commander. Their daughter, Hayley, and son-in-law, Brendon, won this year’s Steak of Origin competition.

“I keep an interest in the rural sector and guys I worked with often call in,” said Kevin.

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Past and current grazing experiments inform how best to manage pasture — and shows in a high milk price year that the first 85 per cent of the operating profit comes from the base pasture, 10 per cent from nitrogen fertiliser use, and the last five per cent from supplements.

Past grazing experiments by Dr Arnold Bryant and the Ruakura team revolutionised the way pasture was managed through winter and spring.

Following a series of ground-breaking trials in 1999, Mr Bryant and his colleague John Penno set up the 1.75t MS/ha trial, aimed at achieving 1750 kilograms MS/ha and investigating the costs.

It measured the increase in per-cow and per-hectare milk solids production when total feed supply is increased by bought-in supplements and/or nitrogen fertiliser.

A range of combinations were used to increase pasture growth with N supplements bought in and an increased stocking rate to use the extra feed.

The results indicated it was uneconomic to add extra feed to a system with good pasture utilisation, unless the stocking rate was increased and cheap feed available.

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New regulations aimed at improving the standard of care for bobby calves have now been in effect since last month, with the Ministry of Primary Industry recording that during the peak of the calving season for dairy farmers, improvements in calf welfare have been noted across the supply chain.

The regulations which took effect on August 1 were part of an accelerated programme focussed on further improving the standard of care for bobby calves, a programme which was highlighted by media exposure earlier this year, which showed abuses in the industry both at a farm pickup point and in a slaughter yard.

“Everyone across the supply chain has a role to play when it comes to the welfare of bobby calves. What we have seen and heard so far is promising and a majority of people are following the rules, but we have also noticed some people still need to change their practices to ensure all regulations are met,” said MPI’s director of Verification Services, Chris Kebbell.

“We’d like to acknowledge the majority of farmers, transporters and processors who have always cared for young calves and are meeting the regulations with ease, but we remind the minority that they have an obligation to care for calves and they face infringement

fines or prosecutions if they don’t.”

The four regulations introduced this season include fitness for transport requirements, a maximum transport duration of 12 hours, the prohibition on killing calves by blunt force to the head and the prohibition of transporting calves by sea across the Cook Strait.

These regulations provide MPI with additional tools to respond to those who are not meeting their obligations for the welfare of calves. “The key area we have noted that could be improved by the minority is ensuring calves are fit for transport. Farmers should not rely on transporters to make the decision on fitness for transport, as farmers are in the best position to know the animals.”

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Posture of the hind legs There is a connection between the posture of the hind legs in rear view and the condition of the claws.

Normally the hind legs are more or less parallel. It is hardly surprising that in the course of a few years the difficult task of the outer hind claws may affect the posture of the hind legs. When a cow stands and walks properly, there is less chance of the hooves being overloaded.

The ideal cow makes optimum use of her legs and hooves; her body weight is distributed evenly over her legs and hooves.

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This decreases the height of the heel, makes the angle of the front wall more shallow and causes the cow to walk with her hocks closer together.

Such an adjustment of posture is frequently observed. Thus the posture of the hind legs of our dairy cattle is only partly inborn and to a great extent adopted.

The latter is due partly to the unfavourable loading on the outer hind claw and to domestication, but probably for the greater part to the claw diseases that can afflict the claws. As a matter of fact, the effect of this adjustment of

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Mostly this claw remains more heavily loaded than the inner claw, albeit less than before. This must be ascribed to the difference in height.

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Helping with arthritis I could fill a book with the testimonies of clients that are experiencing significant improvements in joints affected by osteoarthritis (OA).

As an example I have been working with someone with OA in her ankles and back. Through diet we wanted to reduce inflammation but also help lose a few kilos to take more pressure from the affected joints.

Back arthritis is generally the least responsive to diet and supplements. Because of this we started with much higher doses of supplements. We added high levels of anti-inflammatory omega-3 with higher doses of broad spectrum antioxidants and minerals. We added a temporary antioxidant booster and a double dose of my joint formula.

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Blue for you Mark Hadlow is a Blue September ambassador and has a special message for our rural men.

“I’m a firm believer that prevention is better than cure and I am amazed at the number of men who seem to think you don’t need the ‘blue glove check’ post 50 or even younger,” said Mark.

“Yes sure the PSA blood test is a good start but why not go the whole hog and face your fear and get a check.”

Mark says this is not scaremongering.

“Too many rural men are diagnosed too late and when that happens, the outcomes are not good. Ask your doctor to do the check — it’s no big deal and can be a lifesaver. The relief and the joy of the knowledge of a normal prostate is outstanding and such a great feeling.”

Mark says you owe it to yourself, your family and your stress levels.

“My doctor and I joke about it — how to start your day with a surprise, a blue glove surprise. It’s not a laughing matter at all, however some men are too scared or anxious to do it and we need to help them. So really it’s up to the ‘blue glovers’ of Blue September to challenge a mate and say ‘face your fear’ and get relief.

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Taranaki Fringe Garden Festival set to delight Garden gates across the region will open to reveal the sights, scents and sounds of spring during the Taranaki Fringe Garden Festival.

Now into its 12th year, the festival has 66 listings which include 50 gardens, 11 places of interest and five stops on a vintage machinery trail.

Thirteen new gardens have joined the festival and four are returning after a break.

Festival secretary Anne Clough said the committee has released the festival’s new motto ‘Real Gardens for Real People’ this year.

“It captures the ethos of who we are and what we are about.”

All gardens included in the festival are assessed by an independent committee team prior to the event. This ensures the gardens have reached the This year’s Taranaki Fringe Garden Festival required standard. The festival will be held from October 28 to November 6 now gets more than 32,800 garden visits to the gardens and other bus companies. Entry to each garden is places of interest each year. $2 per person.

“Visitors come from all over Taranaki, Some gardeners donate this fee to New Zealand, Australia and even further charity at the end of the festival.

“Many garden owners offer afield,” said Anne.

Programmes are available from complimentary tea and coffee, and information centres and most garden invite you to bring a picnic to enjoy their centres. The programmes are colour- peaceful surroundings,” said Anne.

The Taranaki Fringe Garden Festival coded to provide readers with will run from October 28 to November 6. information at a glance.

For further information phone With full addresses and contact details included in the programme, visitors can Anne on 021 450 770, email self-drive to the destinations. Organised taranakigardentrust@gmail.com or go to tours are also available through private the website www.taranakigardens.co.nz.

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Ex-veterinary nurse, Barbie Cassidy, is helped by three saddlers and local women making three kinds of beds for dogs and two varieties of pillows for people (or passengers).

What is extraordinary about these products is the process that the wool undergoes for her indoor dog bedding and pillows. Strong wool is blown through a centrifugal force to form bulky balls, which do not flatten and keep their shape and buoyancy for both dogs and people to enjoy.

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TARANAKI FARMING LIFESTYLES

FREE DELIVERY ORDERS OVER $750

Retailer of Rural Piping and Farm Supplies

0800 RURAL DIRECT

OCTOBER 2016

MAXI culvert Hot Deal .00 $

Twinwall Culvert Pipe

240

300mm ID x 6m 345mm OD

Mad

e in New Zeal and

LDPE water pipe

MDPE pressure pipe

ID nominal bore

Outside diameter

9 Bar Rural Pressure Pipe

Rural Nominal Bore Pipe Pressure rating (PSI)

$ per 100m

25mm 32mm 40mm 50mm 63mm

15mm 130 $ 76 20mm x 100m 20mm 116 $130 116PSI 25mm 94 $182 $ .00 32mm 72 $223 40mm 65 $264 50mm 50 $346 Anka & Hansen fittings available Available 200m coils

130

$ per 100m

$ per 200m

$127 $159 $216 $325 $495

$248 $310 $421 $634 $965

r the r u s F unt o c s Di r ove 0m 100

Other pressure ratings also available s Suits compression and electrofusion fittings

SILTRAPS

STEEL Y POSTS 1.65m 7 Hole

108

$

5.99

112

$

105

$

$

each

PVC Pipe 100mm DWV X 6m

600mm High Round Iron Grate

PLASTIC TROUGHS Bare

With ballcocks

$42.00

200L $128.00 $158.00

150mm Stormwater X 6m

600L $205.00 $235.00

$120.00

400L $155.00 $185.00

Black only

Made in New Zealand

TARANAKI / WHANGANUI

83 Wallscourt Place Normanby Phone (06) 272 8187 Email taranaki@ruraldirect.net.nz

800mm High Round Iron Grate

600mm High Square Iron Grate

HANSEN SUPERflo Piston Trough Valve 20mm 2 and 25mm

$26

MANAWATU / HAWKES BAY

77728 State Highway 2 Dannervirke Phone (06) 374 8971 Email manawatu@ruraldirect.net.nz

All items in this advertisement are while stocks last. Phone Rural Direct for conditions of delivery. ALL PRICES INCLUDE GST.