Waikato Farming Lifestyles, August 2016

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Federated Farmers’ Local Government spokesperson, Katie Milne, said it was vitally important that they got good candidates to put themselves forward.

“Being a councillor is a challenging role but farmers can make a real difference on councils as they can inform and educate their colleagues and staff about what happens on-farm. This is crucial for getting sensible, workable outcomes,” said Ms Milne.

The way local government is funded through property value based rates, has a big impact on farms’ financial viability.

“The average farm now pays well over $10,000 per year in rates which are often in the top ten farm expenses,” she says. “As a fixed cost there is no way for farms to cut back, short of selling up, during downturns like the current one in the dairy industry.

“One of the most important council functions is to manage natural resources, including water, land and air.

The development and implementation of regional plans and policies can and does have huge impacts on the way farms are run.”

Farmers are also exposed to other council regulations like building and dog control — and bylaws for things like stock crossings and stock movement across and along roads. “Councils also provide infrastructure and services of

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In August there was a change to how Body Condition Score records are treated before they enter the Animal Evaluation system.

The new process introduced more stringent limits on BCS data that flows into the AE system and will also allow multiple BCS records for an individual cow, rather than just one record per season.

New Zealand Animal Evaluation Ltd manager Jeremy Bryant says the changes will mean a bull’s breeding value will more closely reflect the BCS genetics he is passing on to his daughters.

The need for this change was uncovered during the AE Transition, an industry-led project which transfers the operation of the AE system from LIC’s Animal Evaluation Unit to DairyNZsubsidiary NZAEL. “This has created the chance to intensively review all aspects of data processing, looking for causes of any discrepancies between NZAEL and AEU’s evaluation results,” said Jeremy.

“In this case NZAEL, in conjunction with LIC, identified an opportunity to enhance BCS data processing.

“By implementing this as a part of the August AE run (released August 20 2016), farmers can make immediate use of improved breeding values.”

The initial phases of the transition involved rewriting data processing methods to produce results very closely aligned to those currently produced

by AEU. NZAEL’s animal evaluation system has now been tested for many months, running in parallel with AEU so the results can be directly compared. In a similar scenario, a revision to fertility

data processing was implemented in February this year.

“The impact of this change will be small, with 95 per cent of dairy sires moving up or down less than $4 for breeding worth.”

BCS breeding values are calculated using the BCS records of two-year-old cows in progeny test herds.

Two-year-olds often receive more than one BCS record over the season — scored when they are inspected for ‘traits other than production’ and again when weighed for a live weight measure.

The current pre-processing of BCS data only allows one record into the system. If a cow has multiple BCS records collected over the season, these are not included in AE. Some of the BCS records collected on-farm are very low or high (2.5 and lower, or 7.5 and greater) which may be indicative of ill health, data entry errors or special management of an animal. The current system does not exclude these outlier scores and so they are allowed to flow into the model.

Dairy sires often have only small numbers of daughters scored for BCS and so one outlier (high or low BCS) can have a large impact on their overall evaluation.

The new pre-processing method will utilise multiple records by producing an average of all the BCS data that is collected over the season. In addition to this, the validation of BCS records has been increased, so that very low and very high records will not enter the AE model.

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FORWARD FARMING

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Tim and Kelly Brittain are leading the way in the future of farming by embracing technology and the latest breeding programmes.

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heir farm, Storth Oaks, is a 386 hectare hill country Angus stud just East of Otorohanga, calving 310 registered females every year for their bull sale held on the farm.

“We sell 65 to 70 two-year-old Angus bulls. Our breeding programme aims to breed bulls which are going to make money for our commercial customers by putting the right genetics in their herd and are going to grow into premium beef carcasses.”

Tim has been farming since 1980 and stud breeding for 25 years after

being involved by accident. “Part of the farm we had developed out of scrub and I was looking for more commercial cows to help with the tidying up of that new farmland. I went to a dispersal sale, bought 37 cattle and ended up carrying on their registration, starting a stud.

“I was really captured by the interesting aspects of stud breeding.

It’s quite a rewarding type of farming.

You can see the improvement in the animals and you can make sure customers are getting good results from the bulls.”

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Over the years he has witnessed a number of changes to how New Zealanders are farming.

“New technologies are changing the way we farm. If we keep on doing what we have always done we will go backwards.

We have to be moving forward to be able to keep up with the rest of the world.”

Tim is careful with his selections, concentrating on quality carcass characteristics such as marbling, easy calving and fast growth.

“Consumers consistently say they want juiciness, tenderness and flavour in the best beef, and marbling is a key criteria in being able to do that.

“On the farm we really try to use the latest technology to measure and record everything.”

Tim uses a mating planning tool called Total Genetics Resource Management which allows him to restrict inbreeding and to pair the best cows with the best bulls to create the best carcasses.

He also uses Genomics which is new technology in the cattle breeding industry and is taking off in the United States.

“It is a new paradigm for beef. In the past there have been key things that have been milestones which have taken the industry forward, such as estimated breeding values, and when the industry moved from selling whole carcasses to boxed beef.

Artificial insemination and embryo transfer was another.

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“Back then there were forum sites where geeky characters were hanging out and experimenting with the technology.

“As soon as I saw that proto type, there was a light bulb moment, so I started following what was happening and became one of those geeky characters myself.”

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“Things were falling out of the sky all the time at the start. They would only fly for a maximum of four to five minutes carrying a tiny little point and shoot camera.”

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“I’ve always played with model airplanes and I had a model helicopter that I needed to buy some parts for.

Linda and I went into an out of the way little model and hobby shop and it was there we saw a very crude version of what was to be the beginnings of a commercial/consumer aerial robot,” he said.

The first aerial robot prototypes were made up of aluminium curtain rods screwed together to form a cross with and a camera wrapped in foam and cable tied to the underneath. There was a very crude PCB board with some sensors and that was it. “This was the very very beginnings of what is now

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However Rob says he couldn’t do that.

“I couldn’t be a part of a company that makes plastic things that will last a short while and end up in landfills. I am inspired by creating quality and beauty and things that are useful and add value so we chose to go down this path and focus on professional, specialised markets who use the technology as a tool — meaning we weren’t instantly going to grow big and get rich and famous, but it is much easier for me to sleep at night.

“Farmers are using them more and more. There is the immediate opportunity for situational awareness, monitoring operations without actually leaving your front porch. For a lot of farmers to check on fences, stock, water

troughs and leaks takes up a lot of time and this is a time saving device, and it also eliminates the need to take risks on quad bikes — utilising the technology to reduce injury and even deaths due to quad bike accidents.”

Farmers can also use multi spectral cameras on these aerial robots which scan crops and gather information about the level of nutrients in the plants and the ground around them.

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Aerial robots are becoming popular in the agricultural industry as a way to save time and reduce injuries

sell them commercially. That was a change in direction for us and soon we launched the business Droidworx online. Within three months we had about 60 distributors — mostly start-up companies — from around the world.”

At this stage the company was operating out of a house in New South Wales so Rob and Linda decided to move to New Zealand in 2010, choosing Raglan for the lifestyle, to launch their business Aeronavics Ltd before they got too big. Rob says he is constantly motivated by the vast possibilities of what these aerial robots

can do, and how they can contribute to a safer, more sustainable and more prosperous environment “What started off as hobby machines for aerial photographers are now being used for search and rescue, mapping and other critical commercial applications such as precision agriculture and infrastructure inspection.”

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CLIFF AND MAUREEN BAYLISS HAVE FARMED IN TE UKU FOR 35 YEARS. THE 240-HECTARE PROPERTY IS NOW RUN THE BIOLOGICAL AWAY AND IS HOME TO THEIR DAUGHTER TRACEY’S COMPANY GRANDAD’S BEEF.

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racey grew up on the farm until moving to the city and then travelling overseas eventually returning to the farm two and a half years ago. Tracey’s love of all things natural led her to build a straw bale home on the farm, living with a smaller footprint on the environment and being more sustainable. She is a beauty therapist by trade and specialises in skin health.

“I discuss healthy diet choices with my clients and they often ask where to buy their meat. Of course I am lucky, I know where my meat comes from,” said Tracey.

“Dad and I discussed the option of making our beef available to others and the idea of Grandad’s Beef was born — grown grandad’s way, like it used to be.

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system and was taught grass would not grow unless you add these three things to it — nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. He now farms biologically.

“They didn’t wake up 35 years ago and say gosh we need to farm biologically. In those days it was 25– 27 per cent interest rates and it was literally, do I put fertiliser on the farm or pay the mortgage.

“Dad paid the bank and learnt that actually, grass does still grow without NPK.” He started his own trials with natural fertilisers and came to the conclusion that you can’t self prescribe and get the correct results, that it is best to take advantage of the science available and have things tested.

“Now he uses the Kinsey/Albrecht system and the soil is tested to see what it needs.

“There are 72 naturally occurring elements plus an additional 10 or so other elements including carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and microbes. We can’t get a healthy balanced soil by adding just three elements — NPK.” Samples are sent to the US for testing of what is missing or bound up. Natural fertiliser is then applied according to the results and recommendations given.

“We have been doing this for three years and can see what is being influenced by what’s coming out of the soil. We are getting more nutrients and have really healthy animals.

Everyone and everything, including the environment, benefits from this style of farming.” Tracey started Grandad’s Beef

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in October last year and says she has learnt a lot over a short period of time.

“We know there is a demand for the conscious consumer. People want confidence that the animals have been treated humanely and with kindness and that the environment is being looked after. We provide quality over quantity.

Converting to a biological, sustainable style farming practice, using natural fertilisers has made this possible.

We know our stock have the best feed available.”

The meat goes to a local butcher who ages it the old style way for two weeks.

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“In the unlikely event that an animal needs attention we call the vet. Animal

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health is a priority and they get the fastest possible relief if they need it. We do not sell or process this stock through Grandad’s Beef.

“With our story, people can feel closer to what’s going on. Everything is from our farm — the silage and the hay is made here.

“We are all involved in the process, although it is mum and dad who do the hard yards on the farm.

“We are taking everything back to how it used to be.

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Celebrating rural consultants Three winners have been named in the 2016 Farmax Consultant of the Year Awards in Rotorua earlier this month.

Three winners of Farmax Consultant of the Year: Trevor Cook, Ellie Cranswick and Brent Boyce

They are Trevor Cook from Totally Vets Ltd in Feilding who won the Beef and Lamb New Zealand Sheep and Beef Rural Professional of the Year title, Brent Boyce from LIC’s FarmWise Consultancy Group in Wakefield who is the Dairy NZ Dairy Rural Professional of the Year and BakerAg sheep, and beef consultant Ellie Cranswick from Masterton who was named New Zealand Institute of Primary Industry Management’s Emerging Rural Professional of the Year.

The Farmax Consultant of the Year Awards were open to agricultural consultants from around New Zealand.

Organisers broadened the criteria this year to include all rural professionals and this year’s finalists included a polytechnic agricultural tutor and a rural banker.

Sixteen finalists competed for the three titles and the prize package included a Windows tablet and professional development funding for each of the three category winners.

Farmax CEO Gavin McEwen said he was

impressed with the excellent standard of nominees in all categories. “The judges had a tough job as the finalists were all impressive.

The winners have gone above and beyond to make a difference to their clients and the industry. These rural professionals demonstrate commitment, innovative thinking, passion for farming, and are all working hard to advance the industry and better their communities.

We congratulate them for their drive, effort and vision,” said Mr McEwen.

Farmax initiated the Consultant of the Year Awards in 2013 as a way of recognising the expertise and value agricultural consultants and rural professionals provide to the pastoral farming industry in New Zealand. NZIPIM partnered with Farmax on the awards this year.

From 2017 NZIPIM will take over the running of the awards. Farmax will continue its involvement as a sponsor of the Emerging Rural Professional of the Year category.

For the first time in NZ Young Farmer history the four elected members of the Governance Board are not currently working on the land but instead are rural professionals — reflecting the wide variance of exciting careers on offer in the primary industry.

Social Media expert and owner of Grass Roots Media NZ, Chelsea Millar from the Taranaki/Manawatu Young Farmer region, and farm consultant Sam Waugh from the Tasman region, have both been elected to the board alongside chairman and marketing executive for Miraka, Jason Te Brake, and PGG Wrightson animal nutrition technical specialist, Nadine Huitema.

The four current Young Farmer members will join Independent director Jeff Grant, Strategic Partner Elaine Cook, and FMG Young Farmer of the Year contest management committee chairman, Dean Rabbidge.

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An unfortunate side effect of the new legislation is slick-talking salespeople, taking advantage of business owners who want to do the right thing, only to leave the purchaser scratching their head and wondering what they have just bought.

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Next generational game changer by our motoring specialist

Subaru’s dominance of the world rally scene in the 1990s began with the rise of the deep blue, four-wheel drive missile they called the WRX. A beast on and off the track — where a road-going variant became a favourite with tuners and fast-fours afficionados — the WRX started life lean and mean. As generations passed, however, it gained all the weight associated with driver comforts and modern safety features, while its arch rival the Mitsubishi Evo sailed over the edge of twitchy performance. When the WRX was king, one of the favourite models on offer was a four door station wagon, combining a

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little practicality with the turbocharged madness. New Zealand took to the WRX wagon with enthusiasm, matched by our love affair with other ‘estate’ Subarus — the ubiquitous silver Legacy enjoyed the dubious honour for some time of being our nation’s most stolen car. Then came our new automotive crush, the SUV, and wagons of every marque faded into the sunset. Today, in most showrooms, the crossover 4x4 rules the roost, with very few true station wagons to be found.

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A distinctive name for a car with big boots to fill. The WRX successor does it with style

That’s why the new Subaru Levorg is bucking all kinds of trends. It’s a wagon in a world of compact sedans and crossover SUVs. It picks up where the WRX of the past left off. With the new Legacy 3.6 turning heads but not available with all that extra boot space, it’s slotting into the Subaru stable with big boots to fill in both directions.

Setting aside the very distinctive name — which has been compared to that of a James Bond villain — it’s refreshingly easy to see what the Levorg is about.

The WRX wagon may have skipped a generation, but it’s back with an aggressive and angular new facelift and the requisite smooth boxer-configured 2 litres under the hood to offer up 197

kilowatts of power. All the precision and poise of the regular WRX is right here despite the different rear roofline — a small feat of engineering magic. The best accolade anyone could give is that it evokes the feeling of the old original WRX wagon, and it’s clear that great lengths have been gone to to achieve just that. But the final clue — and a bit of a surprise — is hidden in the name of the Levorg.

It stands for LEgacy eVOlution touRinG — meaning that this diminutive dynamo is in fact meant to replace not just the WRX but the faithful old Legacy as well, and that finally, unthinkably — Subaru have produced an Evo.

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Adventure ahead

by Andy Bryenton

Triumph motorcycles have always seemed a more refined choice when it comes to power and prestige on two wheels — with a pedigree stretching back to 1902 and a stable of names including the Thruxton, Bonneville and Trident, there’s a hint of true English heritage to the brand.

But despite the fact that Triumph excel at producing beautifully crafted, classic inspired machines — take a look at the new T120 Bonneville for example — they’re dedicated to new technology. From the early days of Triumph’s ‘reboot’, the management have looked to the future while preserving the best aesthetic cues of the past, and the recipe has cooked up some modern classics.

Now it’s the turn of a Triumph icon to get a boost from some cutting-edge tech. The original Triumph Tiger was a speedy little single cylinder scrambler, built before world war two.

It evolved into Triumph’s ‘go anywhere’ model, but with the advent of this year’s new generation there may very well be no terrain the Tiger Explorer can’t tame.

This is thanks in part to a massive increase in power over the old ‘37 — a 12 valve, triple cylinder 1215cc engine generating biblical amounts of torque.

It’s the biggest engine in its class, and

it’s mated to a six speed box with a super high sixth gear for lazy revs and fuel economy on those long, openroad hauls.

The choice between road and wilderness is defined by the two models in the Tiger range — the XC for the rough stuff and the XR for the highway.

Don’t be fooled — the XR isn’t restricted to lovely fresh tarmac. But it’s the XC which can really get stuck in to the mud, sand, gravel and dirt of the wider world, thanks to some very clever thinking and design.

Both models of Tiger Explorer share the same computerised brain — an unthinkable luxury back in the 1930s.

As well as delivering confidence-inducing rider modes for different conditions — including one for rain and slippery roads which would prove a godsend right now in New Zealand — the ‘brain’ of the Tiger also deploys a so-called Triumph Semi Active Suspension System.

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It’s technology which you’d have found only in a cruise missile not so long ago, and it makes the Explorer — in both variants — as sure footed as a the proverbial mountain goat. With a crisp and angular new look, stuffed

with futuristic technology and ready to ride from here to Siberia if that’s what you’re planning for the day, the Tiger Explorer is positive proof that Triumph can take on the thoroughly modern adventure bike segment of the market and deliver the goods. With more and more riders opting for this style of machine to explore new horizons, it’s well worth a closer look.

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Delivering the goods Ford’s Transit van series has a been a favourite throughout its history With a distinguished track record as not only the van of choice for couriers, BBC film crews and countless tradespeople since its inception in the 1960s, but also holding the dubious honour of being the first choice of British bank robbers. Statistics can be strange things sometimes.

Still, the tradies and crims alike — along with touring bands, moving companies and florists — latched

on to the transit’s blend of space, handling and power in an era when most vans possessed the shape and relative velocity of toasters. Now, as Ford dominate the light commercial landscape with their Ranger utility, it’s a good time to look at its high-sided stablemate, which is racking up the honours in its own right.

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view. The first is that it does away with the fallacy that vans should be plain sheet metal boxes on wheels. A dash of the same design flair which has made the new Mustang a must-have can be seen from the front grille all the way down the deeply speed-creased sides.

In the cockpit it’s far less like the old traditional van’s three-seater ‘church pew’ and more like the front of a modern sedan, with controls — including Ford’s sublime Sync II digital suite — befitting a car rather than a cargo hauler.

An especially nice touch is the removal of the traditional van’s dog-leg shifter, replacing either an additional stalk off the ‘tree’ or an immensely attenuated stick with a sporty little short-throw knob on a plinth.

Get up and go is provided by a Duratorq diesel with stop-go technology, making this a perfect choice for those who grind through the urban jungle on jobs. Fuel savings are further improved by clever use of injection tech, paring back the fuel bill to 6.7 litres per 100 kilometres.

That’s not bad when you consider the big trick up the Transit Custom’s sleeve — the sheer amount of cargo which this van can carry.

With flip-open hatches under the seats from the rear cargo space, the

The Ford Transit Custom packs in more features as well as more cargo

Transit can transport pipes and timbers three metres long. It can swallow up three Euro-style pallets, with ample tie-down points and massive floor-toceiling doors, eliminating anything to snag or foul up the ingress or egress of heavy packages.

All of that before you consider the additional 2,750 kilos of towing capacity on call. Despite this, the Transit Custom is small enough to ease into covered carparks, and boasts a turning circle some big sedans would envy.

Ford have clearly talked to drivers across a number of trades to develop this machine — the winner of the International Van of the Year award in the year of its release.

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Described as ‘critically threatened’ under the Land Environments of New Zealand Threatened Environments Classification, peat lakes are globally rare ecosystems and the Waikato region is home to more than thirty of these lakes.

Living Water partners, Fonterra and the Department of Conservation have created some great looking and much needed ‘silt traps’ on two of the Waikato Peat Lakes they are working hard to restore — Lakes Ruatuna and Rotomanuka.

The Waikato Peat Lakes area is one of five key catchments where Fonterra and DOC work in their Living Water partnership programme. Living Water Fonterra North Island project manager Tim Brandenburg says the lakes are an integral part of New Zealand’s landscape, with silt traps a key contributor to restoring lake water quality.

“The majority of pollution comes from sediment and excess nutrients that drain off cleared lands surrounding the lakes. Silt traps are like a vital organ the ecosystem needs to recover — they act like a kidney. We’re artificially

creating what would normally happen in nature — when a stream meanders through a wetland and filters out silt coming downstream.”

These culturally and historically important peat lakes are a significant focus for Living Water as part of its mission to improve water quality and increase the abundance of native wildlife in five catchments where intensive dairying exists.

“We’ve given the lakes the equivalent of a kidney transplant,” said Mike Paviour, DOC Living Water Waikato site lead.

“On top of that, we are planting both the silt traps and lake edges with thousands of native wetland plants to provide habitat for native wildlife. We are excited to see the native species thrive as habitat becomes established and we will be working to improve

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Living Water works with farmers, iwi, hapu, community groups and key stakeholders to improve the abundance and variety of native wildlife and water quality. The Waikato Peat Lakes catchment includes three lakes where Living Water continues on its mission to help restore Waikato’s unique peat ecosystems.

The other catchments are Kaipara Harbour’s Hikurangi catchment, Tikapa Moana (Firth of Thames) Pukorokoro/ Miranda catchment, Waikato peat lakes focussing on Lakes Areare, Ruatuna and Rotomanuka, Te Waihora (Lake Ellesmere) in Canterbury focussing on the Ararira LII catchment and AwaruaWaituna in Southland focussing on Waituna catchment.

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90mm

Rural Nominal Bore Pipe

DRAG hose

EFFLUENT pipe 75mm

LDPE water pipe

Other pressure ratings also available Suits compression and electrofusion fittings s

e Joiners and custom fittings available

90mm

6 $ 8 per metre $11.68 per metre $

SEPTEMBER 2016

25mm 32mm 40mm 50mm 63mm

$ 95.00 $135.00 $240.00 $305.00 $425.00

200mm 250mm 315mm 375mm 450mm

FREE DELIVERY ORDERS OVER $1000

.87 per metre .90

$8.90 per metre

Suitable for above ground use.

Hard-wearing LDPE suits AG camlocks 63mm x 50m $199 63mm x 100m $389 $ 75mm x 50m 299

MAXI culvert Twinwall Culvert Pipe SIZE NOMINAL ID

100mm 150mm 225mm 300mm 375mm 450mm 525mm 600mm 750mm

6M PRICE

$ 30 $ 65 $ 150 $ 275 $ 367 $ 525 $ 585 $ 788 $1104

525mm x 6m

3M PRICE

$95 $165 $220 $315 $378 $473 $663

WAIKATO BRANCH

$

.00 5 58

Incorporating the strength of corrugated M outer shell with the smooth ade in N ew inner wall to optimise hydraulics Ze ala nd Full range of fittings available Rubber ring seals available for water tight joins

4813 State Highway 29, Hinuera Phone (07) 888 1593 Fax (07) 888 1594 Email matamata@ruraldirect.net.nz

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