Waikato Farming Lifestyles, May 2014

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Managing Waikato water quality is under close focus with the appointment of a group of experts to help provide crucial information on the way forward for the Waikato and Waipa river catchments.

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“It’s fantastic that the project has been able to secure a commitment from such a well-informed and competent group of experts,” said Waikato Regional Council chief executive Vaughan Payne.

The experts will be known as the Technical Leaders Group and will make recommendations to the council and its iwi partners.

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Members of the TLG are: Dr Bryce Cooper, General Manager — Strategy, NIWA Dr Liz Wedderburn, Portfolio Leader Agriculture Policy and Maori Agribusiness Principal Scientist, AgResearch Mr Antoine Coffin, Principal, Boffa Miskell Limited Dr Graeme Doole, Associate Professor, University of Waikato Dr Mike Scarsbrook, Environment Policy Manager, DairyNZ Dr John Quinn, Principal Scientist Freshwater Ecology; Programme Leader Aquatic Rehabilitation, NIWA Dr Tony Petch, Group Manager, Resource Information, Waikato Regional Council The TLG will be chaired by Dr Cooper.

Under the Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora project, the Technical Alliance, an impartial advisory group of specialists with a range of areas of expertise, will provide information to decision makers on a proposed plan change for the Waikato and Waipa river catchments.

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The ‘competitive advantage’ Demand for exhibitor space at this year’s Fieldays, the Southern Hemisphere’s largest agribusiness event, has been incredibly strong with sites booked out since December and 28 new outdoor agribusiness sites developed this year.

“We’ve been working with the university over the past 18 months to look at new opportunities to create solutions and outputs that will help advance New Zealand agriculture. Our goal has been to find new ways to showcase each other’s strengths and create a year round relationship rather than just coming together for four days in June.”

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“Being a part of such an agriculturally rich region we are delighted to once again support an event which is at the forefront of agricultural innovation. The university has a shared interest with Fieldays in the agricultural sector, from our research which we will be showcasing, to our students who undertake internships with the many agricultural organisations

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Mr Calder added that the relationship between the university and Fieldays has grown and evolved over the past eight years “to the point where we now have a true partnership.”

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The event will provide a compelling showcase for solutions and technologies available to the agricultural industry, says New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays CEO Jon Calder.

“New Zealand is a great producing nation, known all around the world for the quality of our produce, our innovative systems and our great people. We can continue to maximise our productivity if we work collaboratively across industry and sector. Together with our Joint Premier Feature Partners, PGG Wrightson Ltd and Xero Ltd, we are looking forward to this exciting and thought provoking feature at Fieldays 2014.”

Mr Calder said the strategic partnerships with ANZ and the University of Waikato are incredibly important to Fieldays.

“ANZ has been Fieldays’ financial provider since the inception of the event, and our recently renewed partnership with the University of Waikato will focus on growing and finding new ways to showcase each other’s strengths; creating true year-round relationships.”

Waikato University Vice-Chancellor Professor Roy Crawford says the partnership ‘makes sense’ as both organisations have always shared a mutual interest in contributing to, and growing, the agricultural sector.

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Settler’s dreams founded D L O ON G

BY ANDY BRYENTON

TODAY, THE WAIKATO IS THE ENGINE ROOM OF NEW ZEALAND’S RURAL ECONOMY — A THRIVING DAIRYLAND WHICH GENERATES MASSIVE EXPORT EARNINGS AND IS A SEED-BED FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

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ndeed, this is the image of the region which foreigners often conjure up just from hearing the name ‘Waikato’ — if they have heard of the North Island’s heartland, it is likely in conjunction with either green pastures or cinematic Hobbits.

But the roots of this region’s growth are in an entirely different endeavour.

Settlers were already moving into the Waikato in the 1860s, but in small numbers — Hamilton was, at that time, two separate riverside towns connected by a punt ferry and home to less than 1000 people. Bitter warfare had ravaged the region as the British colonial army tried to wrest control from local Maori, defending their homeland.

Settlement of a disputed land did not look like a tantalising prospect for those half a world away in England and Scotland.

But all this changed with the discovery of gold. The Thames goldfields were discovered in 1867, leading to a boom which brought hundreds of prospectors and their families to the region, some coming from the fields of Otago, others from Australia, and still more from Europe itself to try their luck. In 1875 more rich veins of gold were found in the rugged country south of modern day Paeroa — in the Karangahake Gorge.

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What was once a thriving pioneer settlement, with steam-powered industry, is now a tranquil tourist spot, with walking tracks and cycleways following the path of the old railroad

region, settling down and adjusting to colonial farming life.

The gold rush of the 1800s brought fresh and hopeful colonists to the

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was less of a concern at the time than sheer profit and throughput, and many perished underground. In the 1890s a process to improve the extraction of gold from quartz was developed — it used cyanide as a main ingredient. Despite the risks, the three great stamping mills (the Woodstock, the Talisman and the Crown) were well staffed, and by the turn of the century over half of New Zealand’s gold was coming from the KarangahakeWaihi claims.

To move this tonnage, a railway was established between the main North Island line and the mining railway from Waihi to Paeroa. With its dramatic twists and turns, narrow tunnels and other features dictated by the harsh terrain, this section of track was fearsome to out-of-district engineers. But the growth it brought by linking the Waikato and Bay of Plenty was valuable indeed.

While gold is still mined in Waihi, the Karangahake Gorge boom times soon faded. Now the area’s tramways have been converted to walking and cycling tracks, and the huge battery mills rust among wildflowers. Tourists walk where miners once worked. And the remaining six kilometres of railway, from Waikino to Waihi, have been restored as a historic

relic of times passed, with trains taking sightseers into the heart of the valley to appreciate the scale of that centuryold industry.

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SWEETER THAN HONEY B Y J O A N N E S P E E C H LY

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY HIVES GENERATE A SWEET SECOND INCOME STREAM FOR BOUTIQUE WAIKATO APIARISTS MARTIN AND STEPHANIE LYNCH OF SWEETREE HONEY.

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pon shifting to their Horsham Downs lifestyle block in 2002, the couple decided that instead of grazing cattle, they would graze a few extra bees and just over a decade on, a lifelong hobby for Martin has grown into a thriving business.

The small-scale operation gave rise to Martin leaving his full-time corporate role to start his own energy management consulting business and gave Stephanie the opportunity to be a stay-at-home Mum for Daniel, 11 and Matthew, 9 while enjoying the challenge and satisfaction of running a small business.

“Martin learnt about beekeeping from his Dad, who kept hives at their Ohinewai home, and he inherited the hives after his Dad passed away,” says Stephanie. “Martin continued to be a hobby beekeeper for years before we eventually moved to Horsham Downs.

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The unblended honeys reflect the five main apiary sites from which they are harvested and are based on the local area and season, rather than a single flower source. Stephanie says that people who try Sweetree honey often comment how it tastes like the honey they used to have when they were young.

Sweetree honey is a raw, unpasteurised honey with a HMF level typically less than 4mg/kg. This means that it is not damaged by heating during processing and retains the same goodness and natural enzymes present in freshly harvested honey. Samples of Sweetree honey are regularly tested by Hill Laboratories.

“People have become a lot more aware of where their food is coming from and how it’s processed and they are not afraid to ask questions,” adds Stephanie, who has a strong interest

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The Sweetree family: Martin, Stephanie and the hives

in food and nutrition. “These days, people are much more likely to seek out speciality products and shop in specialty stores.”

Looking ahead, Martin and Stephanie intend to to gradually build their hives up to about 250 but say that any more would be hard to manage as secondary income, alongside Martin’s consultancy business.

“Healthy hives and tight quality control are important to us and the big thing that spurs us on is our customers’ feedback — that’s the motivating factor.

When people tell us how yummy our honey is or how much better they feel since taking bee pollen, then we know we’re doing the right thing.”

Sweetree honey and bee pollen and other specialty goods are available from their website, selected retail stores and Collecting Ohui Manuka at the Ohui apiary site on the eastern side of the Coromandel Peninsula the Hamilton Farmers Market.

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Fears of Myrtle rust being blown over to New Zealand from Australia have been heightened by news that Australian butterflies have been sighted recently in the Bay of Plenty. It’s thought they may have been blown over

by Cyclone Ita. The Ministry for Primary Industries has warned this could indicate the prospect of more such sightings of potentially airborne Australian organisms, including fungal spores such as Myrtle rust. This fungus can damage pohutukawa, manuka and rata, as well as some commercially grown exotic species.

Myrtle rust has been in Australia since 2010 and is now established in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. New Zealand has strict measures controlling material that may carry myrtle rust into the country.

The identifying sign of the disease is powdery bright yellow or orange-yellow bumps on actively growing plants.

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“This disease is difficult to eradicate once established so the earlier we hear about it the better,” said Waikato Regional Council biosecurity group manager John Simmons.

“We ask the public to keep an eye out for any signs of this disease and to report it to the Ministry for Primary Industries as soon as possible.”

The Ministry’s pests and diseases hotline is 0800 80 99 66.

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The Jewels, a Harness Racing Success Story

by Matt Markham

With speed, high stakes and the best of the best — the Harness Jewels race meeting has a little bit of everything.

The annual event, which is split between Ashburton and Cambridge, has become a solid part of the harness racing industry’s landscape and continues to grow in stature despite already being in its seventh year.

This year all roads lead to Cambridge on Saturday, May 31 for the 2014 edition.

Nine races, all at racing’s ultimate level — Group One, with $1.5 million in stakes up for grabs, in short, the racing enthusiast’s dream. But the Jewels isn’t just a day for the ardent racing fan. The

hype surrounding the Jewels draws thousands of people in and Cambridge will be literally abuzz with excitement in the final days leading up to the meeting.

With trainers, owners, drivers, breeders and supporters all flooding into the area for the weekend economically the Jewels is also a huge success for the host district.

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the middle of May where the top 12 in each division are invited to take part in their respective age group categories.

Hype around the day within the industry, and outside it, has been building for months.

The leading stake earner in each of the nine divisions has been decked out in a special set of Harness Jewels colours which are a bright yellow — resembling the same idea as the Tour De France leader’s jersey.

It has allowed those keeping a close eye on proceedings to know who is currently the pick of the crop and the colours have a grand record of success on Jewels day itself.

This year though, in a Jewels first, there is a twist to the script.

Harness Racing New Zealand, the controlling body of the industry, elected to take the Jewels further afield and have this year introduced a new initiative which sees one Australian horse invited to compete in each category.

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Buying the best – is best!

In 1995 Ken Breckon attended the Australian Classic Yearling Sale at Karaka, and ended the day purchasing, from the Yarndley Farms draft, the outstandingly bred and presented filly Megaera.

The filly carried her looks and pedigree onto the racetrack to become a champion earning in excess of $250,000.

Over many years, Sandy and Jan Yarndley established Yarndley Farms as the industry yardstick in breeding, sale presentation and professionalism. So in 2007, continuing the formula that ‘buying the best invariably gets you the best’, Ken and Karen Breckon purchased Yarndley Farms.

As in the case of Megaera some 12 years earlier, success has followed buying quality.

At the end of the 2011/2012 season, the Breckons were named New Zealand Harness Racing Owners of the Year after their horses dominated the New Zealand harness racing scene in no uncertain terms.

In that dream season the eight horses they raced as a family and 11 they raced in syndicates won 34 races and more than a million dollars.

Their champion trotter I Can Doosit added another trophy to their cabinet when he was named North Island Trotter of the Year for the 2012/13 season.

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Breckon Farms formula for success has continued with their first foray into racing syndication through their The Good Sports Syndicate which comprised eight fillies, one of which is Linda Lovegrace who recently won the Group 1, $120,000 Woodlands Stud Caduceus Club 2YO Fillies Classic, to take her record to five starts for two wins and three placings, making her one of the leading hopes for Harness Jewels’ success this year.

Breckon Farms, a proven model of dealing with the best greatly increases the chances of success, and they encourage anyone wishing to become involved in harness racing to contact them for help and advice.

Landing among the stars Why is it that well over half of the harness racing classic winners come from the yearling sales every year?

Why is it that the yearling sales has produced an incredible 32 winners in the brief history of the Jewels?

Why are horses purchased through the sales ring so successful, when the harness yearling sales at Karaka and Christchurch only offer between 15 and 20 percent of the foals bred each year?

The auctioneers at PGG Wrightson believe it’s all just about ‘setting goals’.

Owners and trainers who buy at our sales set their purchases on a career path towards a set pattern of racing that leads them towards the two, three and four-year-old classic races.

That journey heads then towards the Young Guns Series, the $1,000,000 Sires Stakes Series, the $1,000,000 Yearling Sales Race Series, the Nevele R Fillies Series. It includes Derbies and Oaks staged in both the North and South Islands and all culminates each Queens Birthday in the $1.3 million Harness Jewels at either Ashburton or Cambridge.

Many then cross the Tasman to contest the Australian $1.5 million Australasian Breeders Crown Series in Melbourne. The Kiwis have an incredible record at the Breeders Crown.

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takes a lot of thought, training and aiming horses at all the rich opportunities. “It’s all about setting yourself to be there and contesting.”

Always reach for the moon. If you miss, you will land among the stars.

At one point sales horses had won a remarkable 18 of the last 20, New Zealand or Great Northern Derbys.

A stellar cast of sales horses contest this years Jewels at Cambridge, the likes of Isaiah, Elios, Sky Major, Royal Aspiration, Ideal Belle, Say My Name, Joanne’s Delight, Chachingchaching and Prince Fearless. So the record results are sure to keep climbing.

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Wellington. Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.) Topsoil is the gut or stomach of the plant and it needs soil and the micro-organisms within to grow and proliferate. Most of the plants’ mineral requirements come directly out of the atmosphere for free. 45% carbon as CO2, 45% oxygen, 6% hydrogen and 1.5% nitrogen, that’s 97.5% of the plants mineral requirement for free — it has always been this way. Evidence exists that in the presence of artificial nitrogen (urea) the natural fixation of nitrogen from the atmosphere by soil micro-organisms stops and as a result it is increasingly difficult for the farmers to give up the use of the artificial product.

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It’s the real Radio Hauraki story

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It’s an old adage that fact often surpasses fantasy and it has been proven in a new account of the Radio Hauraki adventure that saw a bunch of young kiwis take on the establishment and win.

In 1970 I was on the news staff of the fledgling Radio Hauraki, when the newly licensed land-based station opened in Auckland’s Caltex House.

The Hauraki signal could be heard the length of the country at night, when atmospherics let the signal boom into rural areas from North Cape to the Bluff.

From Kaitaia to Taranaki, to the West Coast of the South Island, and points further afield, we heard from woolshed parties, wedding knees-ups in the local hall, or just family groups settled in by the homestead fire. Radio Hauraki’s rural audience equalled its urban listeners.

So when the movie 3-Mile Limit arrived recently, I was eager to see our story on film.

Unfortunately, the cinematic offering was a mish-mash “based on a true story” but to me, more the product of a script-writer’s hallucinations.

So I decided to wait for the television docu-drama on Radio Hauraki that I knew was scheduled for TVNZ’s Sunday Theatre this winter, on the grounds that

it was blessed by journalist and author, Adrian Blackburn.

But Blackburn was one step ahead of me. He was an integral part of the Hauraki story — the then New Zealand Herald reporter with ‘the inside story’.

Now his just released The Radio Pirates, How Hauraki Rocked The Boat, has arrived to truly document the story.

It is a testament to what can be achieved by belief, faith, hard work, and great courage. Some might add, just a little craziness.

The government had always dictated the airwaves, with classical dirges the standard listening fare on state radio.

But then came Radio Hauraki, a Heath Robinson studio and transmission conglomeration involving extensive Number 8 wire thinking, aboard the dilapidated coastal trader MV Tiri, broadcasting from a tiny segment of international water off Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf.

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Landcorp Farming North Island Annual Vehicle Disposal Auction.

Turners Auctions will put more than 75 items under the hammer next month in its annual clearance auction on behalf of State-Owned Enterprise, Landcorp Farming.

These annual Landcorp Auctions are hugely popular with commercial and lifestyle farmers wanting quality vehicles and equipment at a sharp price.

New Zealand’s largest rural equipment and vehicle auction will take place at Turners Auctions, 112 Avalon Drive in Hamilton on June 4th at 10.00am. The full catalogue of auction lots will be found at www.turners.co.nz prior to the auction and viewing of the items for sale is welcomed from June 3rd and prior to the auction commencing on June 4th. Online bidding will be available to those who have pre-registered on Turners Live.

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Last year the grandstand in the Kiwi’s Best Kitchen Theatre at Fieldays was packed with Josh Emett fans.

Returning this year, the celebrity Michelin star chef will be sharing tips on producing speedy gourmet style meals using New Zealand ingredients including many from the popular Kiwi’s Best Kitchen marquee. Raised on a Waikato farm, this is a big step up from the Lions Caravan grill where he used to help his father sell burgers at Fieldays, when Emett was a child.

Helen Jackson knows the importance of easy but appealing food. Aside from being a busy mum, the celebrity cook runs the www.foodlovers.co.nz website, hosts the Radio Live Kitchen and Garden show, writes for magazines and cooks on the TV One Good Morning show.

She will be demonstrating a Ploughman’s banana and white chocolate bread and butter pudding, the ultimate golden bagel burger, Ploughman’s Welsh rarebit and a gorgeous dip with toasted Burgen. Niki Bezzant is the editor of New Zealand’s

top-selling food magazine, Healthy Food Guide. She is a food writer and newspaper columnist with a passion for making healthy food delicious and easy.

“Fieldays is such fun because it’s a chance to talk to a group of really interesting and interested people, who are very down to earth but also very keen to hear new ideas. They’re very keen on healthy eating, too, which was a surprise the first time I came to Fieldays. I love the friendly energy of the Fieldays crowd,” said Bezzant.

Fieldays regular Gerard Perraut trained as a butcher in France before moving to New Caledonia where his business expanded to catering, developing a reputation for fine quality French cuisine.

Eighteen years ago, as part of a twinning relationship between Fieldays and the Bourail A&P Show in New Caledonia, Perraut started catering the Fieldays VIP lunch.

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The study involved 120 people, otherwise healthy people, with high cholesterol. They were divided into 2 groups. Group 1 was given a tangerine flavone extract combined with the palm fruit extract Tocomin® and the other group a placebo (sugar pill). After 12 weeks all groups were given a blood test. The results showed that on average, those receiving the active ingredients reduced total cholesterol by 27%. This was reflected in a reduction of potentially dangerous LDL cholesterol by 25% with a small increase of beneficial HDL cholesterol of 4%. Triglycerides are the transported fat from excess calories and can lead to heart disease and these reduced by 31%.

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The theme for Fieldays 2014 is ‘Managing Resources for a Competitive Advantage’ and once again exhibitors will vie for accolades in three categories.

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In addition there are four innovation awards: • Fieldays Young Inventor of the Year Award (25 years and under) • Vodafone ICT Award of the Year • Locus Research Innovation Award • James and Wells Intellectual Property Service Award The innovation theme continues at the Fieldays Innovation Den powered by SODA Inc, which is a Dragon’s Den style platform which connects inventors and

entrepreneurs with global opportunities.

The live event takes place during Fieldays and sees inventors pitching to a panel of investors and business leaders, convincing them to back their product with investment and advice. The Innovation Den creates exposure and pathways for inventors and helps take great Kiwi ideas into global markets.

As always — food takes centre stage and Kiwi’s Best Kitchen is an area designed to showcase quality New Zealand food and beverages, providing visitors with a unique experience. There will be 45 exclusive exhibitor sites with Josh Emett returning as celebrity chef.

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Also happening will be the New Zealand Fencing Championships including speed fencing and demonstrations.

Other features include an International focus with a large number of international visitors and delegations.

In the Rural Bachelor of the Year event eight finalists are taking part in activities and events competing for a prize pool valued at $23,000.

There will be a National Excavator competition and chainsaw and logging events.

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is on the inside or outside of your home". "I am very proud of it and the results it has a ahieved. "With Cooper's having been used on well over 70,000 homes", Simon says,"anyone can easily strip anything covered in paint or varnish, even weatherboards and windows baked by the sun for over 100 years, for that matter. "I asked Simon about the current problems related to safe lead removal. "Because there is no dust or heat vapour generated". He said, "lead poisoning is not a concern".

"Simon Cooper and his family will be at the Mystery Creek Fieldays, demonstrating just how easy DIY stripping can be."

Coopers was started by Simon Cooper in the early eighties.

At that time, Simon was a cabinet maker with a boutique shop in Wellington making and restoring fine furniture. Disillusioned with the standard of current paint strippers and with a flair for chemistry, Simon set about making something that was easy to use and actually worked.

I asked him, what on earth possessed to try and change the norm?

"I was sick of not only how difficult it was to use the current strippers, but I thought it was a complete waste of time to have to sand" Simon said, "Why sand when the person who made the item sanded it in the first place. I was determined to make a system that was easy and made sanding obsolete, saving my valuable time". Simon is kiwi born and bred as a dairy farmer's son he was taught at a young age to work things out rather

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than to accept things as they are. At high School he developed a passion for working with wood and his love of fine furniture began. Once Simon developed his own brew and methods the word got out and he started to get a demand for his amazing stripper. Today, over 30 years later, Simon's 'brew' has become the 'Cooper's Strip Club', a complete DIY restoration system, family owned, available throughout New Zealand and Australia. "Cooper's is different to conventional strippers in so many ways," Simon says, "the main one being that it will strip any finish from any surface, whether the finish

Simon with his Wife Dorri and sons Lance and George will be at the Mystery Creek Fieldays showing the public just how easy stripping can be.

He says "if you have a project in mind you owe it to yourselfto check out just how easy it can be".

I asked "What about stripping all the other stuff out there?" Simon simply says, "Any paint or varnish, from any surface, such as enamel, acrylic, two pack and powder coat paints as well as polyurethane, lacquer, varnish, shellac, oils and stains from timber, veneers, ply, composite boards, metals, concrete, brick, plaster and glass". "So it does it all then!" I said, Simon smiles at me and says, "I wouldn't have made it if it didn't".

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When you are one of the country’s largest agricultural training providers, having a presence at Fieldays is almost a no-brainer. “We always go to Fieldays,� says Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre marketing and communications manager Yvonne Way. “Our mission is agricultural

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The farms are run commercially and a number are linked into farm training programmes.

Ms Way says Fieldays is an important event on Taratahi’s calendar. A large number of head office staff make the trip to Hamilton to take part and they will be supplemented by staff from the Waikato campus. Taratahi’s display will include videos, photos of alumni and current students and photos of its farms. That will be supplemented by course brochures and information, with staff available to answer questions.

Preparing for and being at Fieldays is resource intensive. But Ms Way says it is definitely worth it. She sees Taratahi’s presence as a chance to not only promote its courses but also agriculture in general. “Agriculture is an exciting and vibrant industry. There’s much more to it than shearing sheep and milking cows. There are so many career choices. You can be a vet or a scientist.�

She says Taratahi’s stand at Fieldays always generates lots of interest and 2014 will be no different. “Last year was really busy with lots of people wanting information. We always had two people on the stand because it was so busy.�

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says Paul. “We were a little bit nervous.

But we got it pretty well sorted. In our second year we’ll be even better.”

Last year there were lots of enquiries and Paul expects a similar response in 2014. Their stand will include one display tank and literature and photos of all their products.

Fieldays is not just for the big boys.

Most importantly, Paul and Brett will be there to answer questions and — hopefully — take orders from interested visitors.

It’s a big ask for two key staff in a small business to take four days away.

But Paul says it is definitely worth it.

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While there are national and multinational businesses among the 900 who exhibit at Mystery Creek, there are also small local companies who also offer products and services to the rural sector. One such business is the Matamata-based Tanks and Silos NZ Ltd, owned and operated by Paul Lowe and Brett Clow.

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AgriSea is the family owned and operated Paeroa based company produce soil conditioner, foliar spray and animal health tonics using sustainably harvested New Zealand kelp. Its list of users throughout the country is growing, across the fields of conventional and organic agriculture, viticulture and horticulture.

Johnny and Robyn Frater farm at Netherton, Hauraki Plains, in partnership with owners Keven and Christine Caddy.

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“We wanted to look outside conventional fertilisers and towards better soil and pasture quality and ultimately animal health,” Johnny says.

“In spring 2010 we tried AgriSea Soil and Pasture Conditioner on half the farm for the first season. We had great results and decided we’d put AgriSea over the entire farm.”

Ange Nicholls, local AgriSea field consultant, carries out annual Visual Soil Assessments on-farm. “We have deeper root depth, the brix is increasing and the

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Johnny is pleased with stock condition too. “We have had less bloat.

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The health costs have diminished, empty rates are lower, and more cows are in calf early.” Animal health tonic is added daily to troughs as well as the calfateria.

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When Marilyn Smethurst and Brod Ford started farming alpacas in 2005 they had little idea what they were getting themselves into.

However, the couple threw themselves into learning as much as they could, attending workshops and conferences and meeting people in the alpaca world.

Almost a decade later, Mareca Alpacas is a 10acre block with about 30 alpacas — and also a few chooks, steers and ewes.

Brod is a mechanic by trade and is hands on in his automotive business in Cambridge but he is also Marilyn’s gofer around the farm. Marilyn, a midwife for most of her working life, tries to be present for all the alpaca birthings.

“Our breeding goals are Mareca Alpacas — Marilyn Smethurst and Brod Ford to produce healthy, well conformed alpacas, with fine fibre and a few suri alpaca. We sell the alpaca dense coverage,” says Marilyn. “We fibre washed and carded, as either achieve this by using top quality, proven spun yarn or raw fleece and we have a genetics in both our male and female selection of alpaca products for sale on alpacas and we have their own stud the farm.”

Each year, Marilyn and Brod showcase males and at times host males from the alpaca breed at the NZ National other breeders in New Zealand.

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Ron McPhail from Palmerston North has spent the last two decades facilitating this form of tourism. His company CR McPhail Ltd arranges tours abroad for kiwis and also brings foreign farmers to New Zealand to see our agriculture in action.

Mr McPhail got into farm tourism after working for the Ministry of Agriculture.

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He says tours to China are becoming increasingly popular, while other favourite destinations are Canada, United States, central and eastern Europe, South America and South Africa.

Although New Zealand farmers are known to be the most efficient food

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Visitors to Romania see a mode of transport that has remained unchanged for centuries

He says European dairy farmers like to see our outdoor dairying, as most European dairy farms are indoors.

In 2011 he was leading a group of Dutch farmers. “We were in Christchurch on February 22. “We had been in Christchurch Cathedral in the morning and were down by the Arts Centre when the quake struck. I changed hotel bookings from the CDB to Papanui Rd a few weeks earlier because a kitchen refurbishment wasn’t ready.”

Fortunately, everyone got out of Christchurch safely, although it as an experience none of them will ever forget. “The airport was closed and we ended up flying to Auckland

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His company will be at Fieldays at Hamilton’s Mystery Creek next month for the fifth time to promote its tours to potential customers. He says Fieldays is a chance to talk to past customers and to grab a few new ones. “We talk to them about what we have and they talk to us about where they would like to go.

It’s really a meeting point” He says Fieldays is a useful flag-flying exercise, although it does not produce much extra business. “People come and look and take away itineraries and study them later. Not many book on the spot.”

But Mr McPhail won’t be there in person. He’ll be leading a tour group in China, leaving his experienced staff in charge.

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McPhail says 2014 has been slower than expected. “Farmers are spending their money on tractors and new cars, not travel.”

But if there has been a slowdown in outbound tourism, that has not been the case with foreign farmers coming here.

Later this year he will host a group of Swiss farmers looking at dairying and then some German farmers who want to see farming generally.

Other the years Mr McPhail has brought farmers from USA, Germany, the Czech Republic, South America, China and South Africa to New Zealand. The farms they visit run the length of the country from Northland to Southland, although they are mostly in Waikato, Hawke’s Bay, Manawatu and Canterbury.

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Owner Selwyn Garton and sons are passionate about every aspect of their business. They manufacture maize based livestock feed mixes that deliver SUPA results across the board for livestock — poultry, equine, dairy, beef, pig and more under the SUPA feeds brand.

The company’s products are derived from a range of New Zealand grown crops. Nutritionists helped develop the feed mixes which contain no palm kernel and are not genetically modified.

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“With our great team and professional knowledge, we have developed a SUPA range of products that shape and lead the market in which they choose to compete,” says Jacob Garton, distribution manager. “Our new catalogue about to be distributed gives clients ease of use and displays the range of products that are recipes for livestock health and vitality,” North Country Grains also has a useful website with livestock feeding recommendations.

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A background growing up on a 280ha hilly, high country sheep and beef farm near Apiti provided Brooke McIntyre with an ideal stepping stone to global wildlife and conservation work.

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Following university she completed a six-month Conservation Corps course with the intention of working for the Department of Conservation (DOC).

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Seek, explore, discover’ is the motto I live by.

After eight months teaching English in Japan as a key money earner, Brooke travelled to Costa Rica to work for Global Vision International. Her work there involved leading groups of volunteers and conducting daily field surveys.

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Volunteers went on nightly beach patrols to prevent poachers from digging up the eggs and eating them, or selling on the black market.

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With a long-standing goal to travel to Africa, Brooke applied for a two-month ranger course that qualified her as a field guide in South Africa.

Based at the 10,000ha Mabula Private Game Reserve, north of Johannesburg, Brooke and nine others ventured out each day on two, two-hour game drives to learn everything possible about the African bush.

Broke said the course covered wildlife, animal behaviour, identifying tracks and signs, African trees, geology, astronomy, and conservation.

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guests on two-hour game viewing safaris proved to be a demanding, challenging and exhausting job.

“A lot of people come to Africa with the notion of seeing ‘the big five — elephant, rhino, buffalo, leopard and lion’ right away and to get the best shots with their cameras.

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“The silly thing is the horn is composed of keratin which is the same material as our fingernails.

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Atiamuri dairy farmer Karen Forlong has been appointed North Island convener co-ordinator for the Dairy Women’s Network (DWN), which will see her supporting the 18 volunteers who run the Network’s regional groups.

“Karen brings a wealth of farming and leadership experience to the Network,” said DWN chief executive Zelda de Villiers.

“Alongside her farming responsibilities she is on the board of Rotorua District Vets and is about to complete the Agri-Women Development Trust’s Escalator Programme.

“She has also contributed a significant amount of her own time to the DWN over the past 12 years, playing a key role in organising three of our annual conferences.”

Ms Forlong first joined the Network in 2002 as a member of the Rotorua regional group. She has farmed in Matamata, Ngarua, Tatuanui, Kiwitahi, Arohena and Tokoroa and understands what it is like to be new in a farming community.

“This is why DWN is such a brilliant network. It’s a great way to meet women in your community who are on your level — women you can really connect with, who have similar drives and are often facing the same challenges.

“The network is very inclusive and that support can’t be underestimated during

stressful and difficult times.”Ms Forlong will to continue to be hands-on at home, where she farms alongside husband Maurice, milking 360 cows, but said her new role will be the priority.

“Dairying women who put their hands up to run the DWN’s regional groups are farmers themselves, with busy workloads that include juggling farming and family responsibilities.

“Collectively our regional coordinators have an incredibly broad range of valuable skills and my role will be to support and help them develop, share and deliver resources, information and training that is tailored to what the members in their area want.

“Each group has a different agenda but I would like to build on our inclusive ethos, aid the planning process and encourage the sharing of ideas between groups about training and events that have worked really well.”

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Concerns about the lack of cooking skills amongst young dairy farm workers, and knowing they eat too much takeaway food, has led Northland dairy farmer Louise Giltrap to find a solution.

Louise would like to see women open their kitchens, or hire the local community hall, to teach simple cooking skills to young people in their district.

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All change in the cowshed

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Under the shadow of drought conditions, with many herds dried off early, the seasonal change in the dairy industry may be a little less busy this year.

To the forefront at this time are local councils, as stock take to the road in trucks, or in local cases, to the road on the hoof. Stock transports are being reminded to keep the highways and byways clear of effluent discharge or spillage.

As well as animals, hundreds of households may be on the move as well, as being a sharemilker taking up a new contract means having all of your household possessions in a truck with your stock not far behind.

Federated Farmers has issued tips to smooth the way over Gypsy Week — these can be found online at fedfarm.org.nz

Nevertheless, change will take place as the annual migration of the New Zealand dairy industry comes round once again, heralding a busy few weeks at the start of the new dairy season, with farms changing hands and share milkers moving on to new contracts.

Dairy herds will also be moving on to new pastures, but in all likelihood, movement will be somewhat restricted after the prolonged drought, which has yet to see any real recovery of feed stocks as winter closes in.

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Most people would not be concerned about this tumultuous area if it wasn’t for its valuable oil resource.

During the next 100 years with the world population expanding out of control, the fight for access to fresh water supplies could cause water wars. It is predicted that Egypt, whose population is 68 million could reach 97 million by 2025.

It gets no significant rainfall and relies on irrigated and seasonal floods from the Nile River and water stored behind the Aswan High Dam. Any interference of its water source

by Sudan or Ethiopia could starve Egypt.

Egypt is military-powerful but vulnerable because of a lack of water.

The World Bank has suggested that water wars are not far off. The United States Intelligence Community Assessment of Global Water Security predicts that by 2030 humanity’s ‘annual global water requirements’ will exceed ‘current sustainable water

supplies’ by forty percent, and says that without intervention water insecurity will generate widespread social and political insecurity and could contribute to state failure in regions important to US national security.

In China with 1.26 billion, the water table is dropping one metre per year due to over-pumping and the Chinese admit that 300 cities are running short of water.

They are diverting water from agriculture and farmers causing them to go out of business. Some rivers are so polluted with heavy metals they can’t be used for agriculture. It is predicted that as farmers go out of business China will have to import more food.

In India, with 1 billion people, key aquifers are being over-pumped, and while Israel has invented many technologies such as desalination plants to convert sea water to fresh water, overpumping of its aquifers is allowing sea water to pollute drinking water.

In New Zealand we believe we are water-rich. The last thing we can imagine is that our fresh water supply could be in the future under threat through manmade pollution of our waterways, and that over-pumping will cause our water tables to drop significantly.

We New Zealanders should take a strong interest in the government’s policy decision to promote water storage throughout New Zealand and monitoring the use of our valuable fresh water resource.

Regional Councils have already initiated moves to quantify the fresh water resource in their regions and how the resource needs to be planned for and managed so everyone gets a fair share.

This includes councils working with catchment groups to discuss the freshwater resource and how best to manage it.

New Zealand farmers by law have an inherent right to take water supplies for their animals and to assist them in their farming practices, but many ask, if in fact farmers have the right to use unlimited water resources.

In many parts of the country now, water bores are being monitored by the placement of water meters and investigative studies are being undertaken to quantify the size of underground water aquifers.

We all need to be involved in the future water management discussions that are going to take place.

New Zealand, a small country, is seen by many throughout the world as the land of milk and honey. I believe that as people in other parts of the world come under pressure through the shortage of food and fresh water, New Zealand will come under increased pressure to accept more immigration. New Zealand’s economic wealth is through our ability to produce above our national consumption requirements and export our food and water products to the rest of the world and we must protect this.

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Country Matters with Rob Cope-Williams

Cut and carry or grazing It would seem that we are fast approaching the crossroads with respect to dairying in sheds, barns or whatever you want to call them, and whether it is still viable for our dairy farmers to continue grazing as the main method of feeding stock.

There are more and more feed pads being put into place and now there’s a sizeable increase in covered sheds with all the cows being snuggly indoors with their constant supply of feed, fresh water, padded beds and back scratchers.

Those who have already taken the plunge and are using such facilities are reporting a very sizeable increase in production, contented cows and happy workers. The diet is able to include such things as potatoes and other ‘goodies’ that the cows really enjoy and respond very well too.

So the question now is just how far will the swing go and who will be able to afford to climb onto the wave. There are a lot of opportunities for other farmers to become growers of dairying feed, literally becoming a total support system

growing a variety of food ranging from lucerne through to beet and everything in between. A case of intensive farming without the animals, early morning starts and if it is raining, staying warm inside the tractor cab. With the advent of very sophisticated irrigation units and some very clever cultivars the support industry is there ready and waiting.

I am assured that the costs of importing feed onto a dairy unit are well covered by the increase in production.

So will it become a case of the majority of new conversations being small holdings with very large sheds, or will the industry stay with the all grass system that many are now suggesting is outdated.

Perhaps the hardest point to consider is how much it would cost to convert the

current all grass system into a housed unit and whether the present debt loading could be increased to take the second huge step.

I suspect that there are many farmers who would love to keep up with the trend

and enjoy the advantages of the covered style of farming, but wouldn’t be able to service the extra debt, especially with the interest rates very likely to continue to rise. We certainly do live in interesting times!

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A dog’s tail …

About pigs an’ pollyticks

Ya gotta hand it to the Boss. He rilly knows about pollyticks an’ wots goin’ on. Eye no this ‘cos we was up ata killin’ shed, wear Boss does tha muttons for the house, an tha odd wild pig wot we get ova the back ofa farm, ona bush line.

Well, we wen’ up tha back at ferst lite ina mornin’ ana Boss bowled a pig wiv’ his old riffle an’ we got it back ta the proppitty ona back ofva big red quod bike he got atta Feel Daze. It was a bittofa bother rilly, cos I had ta run home steda ridin’. Well anyway readas, Boss was dressin tha porka, an he was

deelin’ to tha guts wen’ he sed: ”Juss like old Shane Jonses Dog. He gone an’ gutted tha Laber Pary wen he took a noo job with that Machavelly McCully.”

Must admit readas, I didint rilly unnerstand’ tha Boss, but Sharlene, his gerlfrend, was ina shed too, an’ she sed Boss was a ‘sick puppy.’

That further konfused me, an’ I decided it didint matter enyway ‘cos I not voitin’ in any lections eh?

Well, afta Boss an’ Sharlene bagged upa wild porka ina freeza, they hadacupatee an’ Boss carried on about

pollyticks. “Ya gotta hand it ta Mr Ki an’ his maytes,” he sed.

“There goes that David Cunningliff makin’ more lection promises. He was gunna say the Laber Party gonna stop that legal marijahooley stuff, but ole John Ki got ta heer about it, an tole that Peter Dumm ta ban the stuff first.”

That was about wen Sharlene wint an’ fired up her komputa. Sed she was chekin eemails. An then she yelled atta Boss: “That Mr Morris Willimsin has chucked in his ministas job.”

Eye thort she mint that new bloke ina dog colla like mine wot’s atta cherch ina village. But then Sharlene tole tha Boss it was a guvmint minista wot sent sum eemails ta the coppers about a mate wot was ina cactus (Boss has tole me that’s wot ya say win ya get in trubble).

“Yip,” sed Sharlene. “This lection is gunner be a bit like skittils eh? Bowl one ova on one side, an then bowl one over ona other.

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Bit of luck, there won’t be enuff pollys left win we go inta town ta vote.” “Nah,” seda Boss. “Long as we got troff ta feed out of, we got plinty of pollys ta choose from.” Yip readas. I’m bluddy glad I don’t gotta vote. Anyway, got sum wild pork for tea.

Cheers, Billy.

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Wool Perspective From Rob Cochrane GM, Procurement, PGG Wrightson Wool

Good demand holds firm Wool prices held on well during the past month or so despite a sky-rocketing Kiwi dollar driven mainly by a steadily weakening greenback, as well as limited demand from Chinese buying interests.

Auction sale catalogues were certainly not fully subscribed as some growers opted to accept farm gate prices amid the uncertainty of exchange rate influences. However the majority of all auction catalogues were cleared at better than anticipated prices.

Reasonably solid offerings of lamb’s wool were displayed throughout March with a fair number of the crossbreds testing a little coarser than the previous year.

This was mainly due to being shorn later than normal plus having had a very good start to life as the ewes were generally in very good condition and milked particularly well with good grass growth throughout the weaning period.

Staple length was also comparatively longer than normal as a result of the good feeding conditions experienced in general. Prices for crossbred lambs’ wool ranged from around 535 cents

per kilogram clean to around 495 cents per kilogram clean, but much depended upon micron and length. A few crossbred early-shorn hoggets (long lambs) measuring around the 32 to 33 micron range sold at levels around the 535 cent mark on a clean price basis.

Mid-micron lambs’ wool types were mostly well sought and, once again depending on micron and length, fetched around 825 cents per kilogram clean for the finer edge down to around 560 for the much coarser types. Crossbred fleece prices remained fairly steady.

However some of the more inferior types were erratic for price towards the end of March but gained significant ground during early April and, in some instances, sold at levels not too far shy of the better style wools.

Second-shear wool types probably enjoyed the best of the market provided they displayed good colour and character,

and staple length was around the 75mm or better mark.

Oddment types again sold well with the better washing colour bulky oddments receiving good support from the exporting trade.

From the beginning of April the South Island returned to a fortnightly auction schedule, after a rather hectic weekly roster between January and March, through until late June.

This reflected the diminished quantities of wool available during the autumn and winter months. When the pre-lamb shearers do begin in June it will be interesting to note just how much impact the continual change in land use has had since a similar time last year, when there was certainly less wool available compared to the previous season.

It’s anticipated there will be less wool available again this season.

The demand versus supply equation still remains relevant however, with seemingly more wool being sold outside of the auction system, on a percentage basis, direct to export and/ or first stage processors, it can become more difficult to gauge exactly what the demand is and from whom, and what level ‘market’ prices should be at, on a type-for-type basis.

Most ‘serious wool growers’ should have the ability to compare their wool type to a current market level in order to establish where their wools fit in the broader picture, and how fluctuations could affect their income stream.

If growers lose that ability, due to increased direct sales and a perhaps less transparent (than auction) selling mechanism, maximum return could be compromised.

This might see an even lesser (than present) emphasis placed on wool importance within the over-all sheep industry into the future.

We at PGG Wrightson place significant emphasis on wool quality and preparation standards due to the demand from our manufacturing customers around the world, many of whom buy their wool via our year round forward contracts available to grower suppliers. That’s my view.

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Kiwi legend pushes the boundaries

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Aussie racing legend Jack Brabham was so impressed by his performance that he asked Bruce to race for his team, ushering in an era of what can only be called total domination of motorsport by the young man from Auckland In 1959 he won the United States GP, at age 22 the youngest driver ever to do so. In 1962 he took the ultimate

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F1 crown on Monaco’s glittering Rivieraside circuit. But it was as a designer and engineer of race cars that he made an even greater mark, developing new aerodynamic techniques — sometimes literally in the pit lane with a pair of tin snips!

Bruce’s untimely death was foreshadowed by the words he wrote for another young racer who lost his life — team mate Timmy Mayer.

Bruce eulogized: ‘To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one’s ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone’.

Tragically, the same words rang true when Bruce’s car lost traction at Goodwood circuit, England, disintegrating on impact. He was only 32 years old.

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Putting winter auto worries on ice

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under the hood, its a good idea to book a pre winter service, giving your car a clean bill of health and making sure you don’t break down in the pouring rain!

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The world of side by side UTVs is a tough one to break into — even the big names in off road machinery have found that they need a unique selling point to entice buyers away from market-leading brands.

We’ve seen machines with six and eight wheels, amphibious crawlers, tip up trays, variable seating, all kinds of engines — it’s an arms race to create the ultimate in versatility for the hunters and farmers who buy these hardworking vehicles.

Now the team from Bad Boy Mowers have thrown their hat in the ring, and they’ve done so in a fashion which well suits their roots in rural Arkansas, USA. The company, born out of a working man’s toolshed to create tougher, more reliable, more powerful ride-on mowers, has created the Intimidator, a UTV built so tough it looks ready to withstand a major warzone.

The Bad Boy/Intimidator folks aren’t messing around. Any company which goes from two men in a garage to a market leading position in John Deere’s back yard this fast, deserves a look.

The Intimidator, with its focus on strong, welded-steel components, seems a good fit for the way Kiwi farmers treat their UTVs as well.

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Twin-pot automotive style brakes round out a safety package that includes three point belts and full rollover protection.

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Big fun, small footprint

Remember the small SUV? The fun little Suzuki Escudo, the diminutive RAV 4 — heck, even the venerable Mac Gyver had his Jeep Wrangler.

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Once again, Ford have managed to squeeze a lot of power out of a small unit, and the good news keeps coming, because the EcoSport will indeed also be available with the stunning 1 litre turbo mill from that spicy hot Fiesta.

When it does, expect a petrol-sipping 5.7 litres per 100 kilometres.

The verdict is a simple one in this case. Competition in this segment of the market is set to heat up, with Holden bringing out the new Trax and Nissan’s quirky Juke already selling well. But with the EcoSport Ford have set the bar dauntingly high. It’s spacious enough

for the family, handles well, possesses enough power to surprise (if not to thrill V8 hungry petrolheads), and ticks the biggest box of all, coming in at less than $30,000. That’s a competent and cool package, especially when you consider the unique look of the little Ford — it will stand out in the crowd for all the right reasons.

While most sports utilities have become school run barges or armoured cars, the EcoSport goes back to the roots, with that ineffable ‘smile on your face’ factor to the fore. Think of it as the Fiesta’s big brother — with a lifetime gym membership and muscles to match.

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Then most successive models started piling on the bulk, until many were as large as the family sports utilities they replaced. Now Ford have reinvented this segment of small, go-anywhere fun machine with the new EcoSport, carrying on the winning formula of their worldbeating Fiesta hatchback. The recipe — more power from less displacement, and more enjoyment from less size.

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I am up on the North Island at the moment teaching hoof care. During the workshops we talk about what causes lameness.

When I ask the different groups what they think the main cause of lameness is ‘stone bruises, sole penetration and white line separation from twisting on concrete’ are the most common reasons given. The trainees are usually quite adamant about these causes, but when I ask them to give me some solid evidence to back up their claims, they usually goes quiet. There are some attempts with answers like ‘we find the stones in the hoof’ and — ‘if I walk over stones on bare feet, I get sore feet’.

This however is not conclusive evidence. I get stones stuck in the bottom of my gumboot but that doesn’t mean that those stones created the nice patterns in the sole of my gumboot, rather it is the case that the patterns

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already existing in the sole of the gumboot allow the stone to get stuck, and because you get sore feet when you walk with bare feet on stones doesn’t mean that the cow is experiencing stones in the same way.

Remember, cows don’t walk on bare feet — they have hooves (like if you were wearing gumboots). Also, you may be sore if you try walking over stones for just one day, but if you walk on stones every day for the next few weeks you will soon be able to run on them. Why then is it that so many people are convinced about stones being the main cause of lameness?

I have not yet seen any convincing evidence to support these claims.

I know that a number of you who are reading this article will think that I have no idea what I am talking about. I know this because the trainees tell me at the hoof trimming workshops.

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We are being told by advisors, veterinarians, colleges and ourselves that stones and twisting or pushing cows on concrete causes stone bruises, sole penetration and white line separation. I guess that if we say it often enough we really believe it, even to the point that we are not questioning our beliefs anymore.

I challenge anyone to show me some real evidence. Give me something indisputable with which to back up these claims and I will write in my next article that I am wrong. If you are not sure about the whole thing but somebody else is making those claims, I would like you to challenge that person to write to me. This is not about wanting to be right or wanting to be different.

This is about working out the truth.

The reason why it is so important to know the truth about the causes of lameness is because it will influence the way we combat it and the effectiveness of our efforts. I do strongly believe that the physical forces of stones and twisting on concrete have very little or no effect on bruises or white line separation. If it

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did then none of you would have a valid reason for having lame cows and there would not be any difference between making cows walk on stoney tracks and breaking cow’s tails.

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My point of view

Allen Cookson

Massive population growth has a downside A talkback host said that Christchurch should grow to over a million population ‘stretching from the coast to the Southern Alps’. Overwhelmingly, callers’ responses to this were supportive of the idea.

No consideration of the loss of export earnings resulting from loss of farmland sacrificed for housing! How would all these extra people be employed? Low wage manufacturing attempting to match Asian competitors? What about quality of life? A similar proposal for Auckland envisaged the city expanding to Helensville.

It has been reported that the Ministry of Immigration’s plan is to boost our population to 10 million.

The distinguished Chilean ecological economist Manfred Max-Neef developed the ‘threshold hypothesis’ that when an economic system grows beyond a certain size, the attendant costs exceed the benefits.

Already Auckland firms, recognising the principle, have started relocating to Hamilton. Some farmers understand the principle as it applies to their land. I doubt that Fonterra recognises it.

‘Biocapacity’ equals the area of land and water available per human/city/

country/planet to supply useful biological material to humans and absorb wastes sustainably. ‘Ecological footprint’ means the area of productive land and water needed to sustain a human/city/country/ planet at their current consumption level. Subtract ecological footprint from biocapacity.

A positive answer means the country is an ‘ecological creditor’. A negative answer means an ‘ecological debtor’.

New Zealand is one of the few ecological creditor countries (ecological credit 5.88 ha per person).

But this is not because of low per capita ecological footprint.

Our consumption of fossil fuels is very high, mainly because of our transport.

Were it not for our small population, we would be an ecological debtor country.

All ecological creditor countries have small populations for their areas. The worst ecological debtor ‘country’ I have spotted in research statistics is United Arab Emirates with an ecological deficit of 9.83 ha per person.

Clearly this is because of the low biocapacity of the desert and the high consumption of oil. Earth as a whole has an ecological deficit of 0.9 ha per person.

Present human activity is unsustainable.

What are New Zealand’s choices for our future economy? We could continue to supply ecological debtor countries with ‘virtual land’ in the form of food and timber, preferably adding value to these products by processing them here.

We could also develop and sell our skills in science, engineering, information

technology, etc. In return we would import materials unavailable to us, and cheap manufactures.

Or we could fill up our land with people who would consume most of the food we produce. To balance our international accounts we would have to lower wages in manufacturing and tourism and destroy our environment.

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