Waikato Farming Lifestyles, November 2016

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FARMING Lifestyles

November 2016 Edition

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Waikato-born man Craig Robertson has landed his dream job as South island Field Officer just two years after being awarded the inaugural Holstein Friesian New Zealand scholarship by the same organisation.

Craig was the ideal candidate for the role within the not-for-profit organisation having spent many years involved with HFNZ’s youth arm, Black and White Youth, and displaying a passion and working knowledge of the dairy industry.

“Craig has stood out since becoming a member of HFNZ,” says Cherilyn Watson, HFNZ General Manager and World Holstein Friesian Federation council member.

“Being the first recipient of our scholarship, participating in youth camps, exchanges and in championships, as well as winning HFNZ awards, Craig’s progression to becoming a part of the HFNZ staff was natural.

“We’re very excited to have Craig on board and we’re looking forward to seeing him develop further within HFNZ.” Craig says the job is like a dream come true. “I’m excited to get out and work with some of the most progressive farmers in the country.

“I’m also looking forward to coordinating and encouraging youth, providing new and interesting initiatives to encourage membership and involvement.

“I’ve always known I wanted to work in the dairy industry — I worked throughout primary and secondary school on the farm, relief milking and calving. When I was 17, a medical diagnosis cut short my on-farm career, and I had to start looking at alternative options in the industry.

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WorkSafe’s data from 2015 shows that experienced farmers carrying out routine jobs with vehicles are getting caught out. In 2015, there were 19 fatalities on farms — 16 of those involved vehicles. In more than 50 per cent of the incidents, farmers were aged over 55 and driving vehicles on sloping or uneven ground.

“These were mature and experienced people doing jobs they would have done many times before,” said Al McCone, WorkSafe’s Agriculture Programme manager.

“Examining vehicle fatalities from the last three years, we find that often the driver/rider had set out to do a fairly routine task like spraying or stock work.”

The incidents had some common factors like operators or others being hit by the vehicle, or being killed during a rollover.

“To keep yourself safe make sure the vehicle won’t move when you get out, and wear seatbelts when in the cab or roll frame. Extra care is needed when working on or near slopes, especially on tracks with steep drop-offs.”

The quads involved in the fatalities ranged in age and size, and were often in sound mechanical condition, however, low tyre tread depth and under-inflated or uneven tyre pressure was noted as a possible contributing factor in some cases. Often the vehicle had slid on a slope and a number of incidents involved quad bikes overturning into drains, ditches or waterways.

“Good practice like keeping at least one metre from a stream or culvert

edges, stopping and dismounting to spray, and working out ‘no go’ areas on farm in advance could all help prevent incidents,” said Mr McCone.

“Any vehicle is only as good as the way it is maintained and used. Make sure tyres and brakes, especially the handbrake on tractors, are in good condition. It is essential operators know how to use the vehicles properly.”

Farmers, both employers and employees, are also more likely to be working alone at busy times, so having a plan in place for lone workers means that if anything goes wrong, the alarm could be raised.

“Like most risk management processes, it doesn’t need to be complicated,” said Mr McCone.

“There are a number of solutions that send out ‘man down’ or just location signals. If you can’t afford these, then get a simple system in place where people check in at agreed times. If they don’t, then check on them.”

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by Ann Morgan Originally from Liverpool in the United Kingdom, Michele Capper lives on 11 acres in Waiuku, shows Jerseys and Ayrshire cattle and is a judge for both Jersey New Zealand and Holstein NZ.

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Whilst in the United Kingdom, Michele started working with horses in her teenage years.

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“My daughter Bridget had calf club for a couple of years and then I decided that we would show cattle.

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and it’s great because cows don’t bite and kick like horses can,” says Michele.

She started showing Jersey cattle, borrowing calves from a friend and then they were given a heifer calf.

“We picked a Jersey which we called Poppy and we love her to bits. She is now our matriarch and my 11-year-old son Gregory has continued to show that line. We have four generations from Poppy.”

Michele says showing cattle takes a lot of commitment and requires a lot of travel.

“The season has started and we have shows most weekends. Hopefully I will get to judge a couple.

“I enjoy showing — there are trials that come with it but you work with it. I don’t do this for me so much anymore — I started doing this for Bridget but she is off doing her own now so I do it for Gregory. He has mild autism and it is good for him as it means he has to talk and interact with people.

“I don’t use expensive semen, all my heifer calves are homebred and I still show at the top end of the scale. It does cost a lot of money but you just do what you have to for the stock.

“To me if it is good on the inside, it is good on the out. I feed them all sorts of things including oil, salt, silage, meal and I ensure they are drenched.”

Michele says people viewing the stock at the shows often don’t realise how much work is involved to prepare the cattle.

“They see animals with lovely shiny coats and big eyelashes but this has

Michele says it is important to get good advice on choosing a calf to show

taken hours of work before the journey.

“There is washing, clipping and grooming and it takes up to two hours to pack the truck ensuring you have everything for the trip. It can get stressful but once you are there it’s great.

“We are not only representing ourselves and our stud but also Jersey and Holstein, Purebred and Ayrshire New Zealand. As I judge and breed I need to represent those societies and myself to the best I can.

It takes a lot of work every day for a long time to get a new animal ready to show. “You need to get them leading, especially the big ones. You need to be

Michele believes if and animal is good on the inside, it is good on the out

able to keep the head up as this helps control the animal. Once that head is down you are in trouble,” she says.

“It is good when you have children interested in showing. :I offer to help people to choose a calf at a sale because I find it hard to see children with pretty calves that because of some bad fault they will never do particularly well.

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“The children have to talk to the judges and answer questions, and this boosts their confidence and helps with their social skills — when they get a ribbon their faces just light up.

“For Gregory, it gives him a real sense of confidence and he knows he can do his best and often get a ribbon and that boosts his confidence every time.”

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“I am lucky coming from a farming family as I was able to slot back into farming after doing my OE. In my youth I got an adrenaline rush whenever I saw helicopters catching deer on the farm.

It was so exciting and getting into deer farming later in life was natural for me.”

They run 1,400 hinds and finish their progeny, targeting the premium spring chilled venison contracts each year. They also have a herd of 180 velveting stags.

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“Our deer are much more productive, our farms are more efficient and we are steadily moving our venison and velvet exports into added value products and markets. We have also been pioneers in environmental management. We were the first pastoral industry to develop a Landcare Manual and an awards programme for good environmental management.” The Olivers, who have been farming for 20 years, farm 1,300 effective hectares of pasture and

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The Olivers run 1,400 hinds and finish their progeny, targeting the premium spring chilled venison contracts each year

and an abundance of cheap feed around the world.

“These challenges are making the niche value-add branded products that are being developed by the deer industry more important for us, as is the ability to be flexible with our on-farm policies.

“I am on the board of Deer Industry New Zealand and we are excited about deer farming and its future. Like all industries, deer farming has always had its challenges with good times and hard.

“Hard is never exciting, but it has encouraged the deer industry to be proactive, forging the discipline and strategies needed to add value to

venison and velvet. We are being rewarded for that right now through good strong niche marketing programmes.”

William says deer are an intelligent animal, with great personalities.

“They are easy to handle now that they are no longer the fresh-out-of-thewild animal of yesteryear. Still, you have to think about how to move and work with them. Karen often helps while we are in the shed. We find having women doing tasks like drenching and tagging works best.”

The annual cycle of the deer farm begins in mid-February when the stags are joined with the hinds for the roar

(mating). By late April the stags have done their job and are removed from their mating mobs. This is followed by the weaning of fawns in early May. Hinds are traditionally fed on crops during the winter when the pasture is reserved for the weaned fawns which also enjoy supplements like maize to maximise their growth rates.

“Good weight gains mean we can sell our weaner stags for chilled venison in late September and October when the market traditionally peaks. Good weight gains in the weaner hinds means they are more likely to take the stag as yearlings,” William says.

Velvet from the stags is harvested during spring and this is followed by fawning in December.

William says changes in regional council environmental plans pose the biggest challenges for deer and other drystock farmers. For his family the proposed rule changes under

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Environment Waikato’s Healthy Rivers Initiative are extremely concerning.

“We all want the same result — healthy communities and environment, but the journey to the end goal needs to be sustainable for all land owners. There also needs to be a gradual move from allocating discharge rights on the basis of existing land uses, to one based on the risks inherent in farming a particular class of land.

“Perpetually locking in existing discharge rights, rather than the capability of the land — will not result in the best environmental outcomes.”

William believes there is a great future in deer farming.

“We are really proud of what the deer industry has done in terms of productivity, sustainable land use, and in improving the marketing of venison and velvet overseas. Deer farming has an important role to play economically, socially and environmentally.”

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it for its own sake.” Matthew says the Sanctuary often get farmers contacting them and asking for advice about restoring their land.

“What Maungatautari has proven is that it has taken 15 years of very hard work to get ahead of the game.”

He says the first clear signs that the conservation efforts were working began to show after 2008 when rats and possum numbers were drastically reduced.

“Species like rata, tawa, alpine species like totara and some of the lower species like titoki and ribbon wood began to regenerate. The programme began in 2001. The main fence was finished in 2006 and it wasn’t until three or four years after that that real regeneration started.

“Now 10 years after that fence was put in place, the forest regeneration is very significant. Even vulnerable species that wouldn’t have survived with possums around are coping.”

Matthew would also advise farmers who want to restore a patch of their land to first discover what exactly they are protecting.

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“There are a number of ecological consultancies who can help you to survey and there are people that can help you find out what you have got.

This is the very first step.”

He also says that the restoration of ecologies has a definite positive impact on both the New Zealand economy and individual farms in the long term.

“Often farms have areas of undeveloped land that may contain vital water sources, streams or blocks of land which need to be restored for soil purposes. If you do this 20–30 hectares at a time, it will undoubtedly improve the ecological sources your farm gathers, for example soil conservation, soil retention, substrate retention and geological soundness. It will also help to improve crops and seed dispersal.”

Matthew says farmers need to think about the economic benefits for future generations A sanctuary staff member holds a Tuatara during a and not be put off by volunteer day to celebrate all the hard work completed over the previous year immediate challenges or slow progression.

“It’ll be between 30–50 years that becoming more popular. Farms are land preservation will accrue. There are producing native bush and allowing wider economic benefits and aesthetic native and introduced species to thrive, benefits. The idea of producing land and many farmers find an aesthetic that is no longer just weed farms is pleasure in that.”

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After a recent visit to the United Kingdom and Europe, B+LNZ director Andrew Morrison says it wouldn’t take much of a shift in consumer behaviour to make a significant difference to the global lamb market, and ultimately grower returns.

“The visit highlighted just how much we, as international lamb producers, have in common,” says Mr Morrison.

“All of us want to produce the best eating experience for our consumer and be rewarded for it but the challenge is growing the number of consumers who choose lamb over other proteins.”

Across the EU, per head lamb consumption sits at just 1.9kg/head while beef is 10.9kg/head.

“It wouldn’t take much of a shift in consumer behaviour to make a significant difference to the global lamb market and ultimately grower returns.

EU producers can only produce 87 percent of what is consumed within those countries. France, for example, only produces 46 percent of its total lamb requirements so there is certainly plenty of opportunity for future growth.”

He says as lamb producers, it is in all of our best interests to work together to promote lamb and lift overall consumption.

“As ‘Team Lamb’ we need to work out how we are going to do that rather than try and shut each other out of any one market.

“The most obvious opportunity for New Zealand is our counter-seasonal production which offers consumers the best-of-season lamb eating experience. I like to draw an analogy with strawberries

or asparagus. We all love that fresh seasonal produce rather than something that has been sitting in a chiller for months on end and New Zealand can offer consumers in the Northern Hemisphere prime, seasonal spring lamb.”

There is also opportunity to work with our British and European colleagues to supply product for both internal and export markets and processors need to be part of that conversation.

“Certainly, there is real interest in grass-fed lamb, so coupled with the best in-season production, we all have a fantastic product to take to the international market place,” says Mr Morrison.

“I was travelling with B+LNZ chairman James Parson on what for him is an annual visit. Along with politicians and trade officials, we met with a number of farmer lobby groups in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France. It highlighted to me the value of building and maintaining long-term relationships with these groups and full credit needs to be given to previous chairmen and CEOs for their work in this area.

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The value of effluent management Clean waterways are an ongoing rural concern highlighted by the fact that, tens of thousands of shoreline plantings have begun to make a big difference in water quality.

But the real key to quality long term lies with the farmer. On the agricultural front the value of animal effluent is a fact of life and has consequences for the bottom line. Effluent disposal also means effluent utilisation.

The by product, particularly of dairying, is a great fertiliser. It contains nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), magnesium (Mg), sulphur (S) and trace elements that you’d normally pay for to have applied to pasture.

The average dairy herd of 250 animals produces the same amount of effluent as a medium sized rural town.

When spread over land and applied correctly the effluent of 100 cows can save thousands of dollars. While it might be ‘liquid gold’ water troughs need to be protected from spray sources as well as waterways, where the rule is to keep the distribution 50 metres away.

Soil can only filter so much effluent and therefore application depths should be adjusted accordingly to reflect soil and weather conditions.

Too much effluent can kill pasture — especially where effluent has ‘ponded’ on the soil surface as well as polluting nearby streams and rivers as it runs off paddocks into waterways. Then

there is ground water itself that must be protected, and that’s where local knowledge comes into play. Getting a certified assessor can be good practice, particularly when effluent systems have been upgraded.

You may not be aware of all the rules that must be complied with.

Dairy industry advice is that when buying or selling a farm, it’s advisable to get an independent person to prepare a comprehensive report.

The assessor checks over the entire farm where there are areas that effluent collects and the corresponding infrastructure, including feed pads, underpasses, storage ponds and the irrigation network as well as a lot more.

It is a thorough assessment and also diagnostic. It takes between three and four hours to complete. A report is then prepared for the farm owner or manager.

Accredited designers should be called in when you are upgrading your system or installing a new system.

The assessors are not designers, as they are trained to assess the current system on farm in a consistent way. However, over time there will be accredited designers that are also certified ‘WoF’ assessors. All the

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“The average kilograms of milk solids produced per cow has gradually increased over the last 15 years and enables our industry to maintain high production year-on-year,” said Matthew Newman, DairyNZ senior economist.

“On average, each cow produced 373kgMS last season — very near the 2014–15 record of 377kgMS and still above the 2013–14 production of 371kgMS. On average last season, each cow produced 4,185 litres of milk.”

Overall herd numbers fell for the first time since 2007–08, now totalling 11,918. North Island herd numbers declined 122 to 8,696, while South Island herds increased 70 herds to 3,222.

Farm ownership structures are also changing, with 30 per cent of New Zealand dairy herds operating under a sharemilking agreement in 2015–16, compared with 32.4 per cent in 2014– 15.

Owner-operator herds increased 256 to 8,315 herds in 2015–16, reflecting variable order sharemilkers moving to contract milking agreements after financial challenges with low milk prices in recent seasons.

“The number of cows milked in 2015–16 declined 0.4 per cent to 4.998 million, despite a very high number of culled cows during the last two seasons. This reflects a high number of replacement heifers entering the milking herd in 2015–16, plus some carry over cows being culled.

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Mr Ellis says this is a result of 2014–15.

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Putting out fires I’ve just spent 7 days putting out a fire. I thought it could never happen to me, but my computer was hacked.

I clicked on an email which said ‘Invoice’ in the subject heading and it was all over. Despite virus protection, ransomware had locked me out, encrypted all my files and demanded a ransom to recover them. This had to be paid within five days (or the sum would increase).

I wasn’t prepared. I wasn’t backing up automatically, my ‘restore’ wasn’t on and my manual backup was weeks old. I was upset and angry with myself.

Although I didn’t pay the ransom, in the end I spent a sizeable sum paying a computer technician to clean out my computer, reload programs and recover as much as he could in order to keep my business going. Seven days putting out a fire that should never have started.

That got me thinking about the fire risk on farms.

There are plenty of places that came to mind: • The farm dairy where the switchboard often goes unchecked year after year.

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by Ayla Miller Hamilton based business Coolsense NZ Ltd have been awarded the Westpac Waikato Business Innovation Award for their state-of-the-art snap chilling system Vari-COOL.

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oolsense NZ Ltd is a Refrigeration and Thermal Energy Storage Systems manufacturing company specialising in the on-farm and agri-tech markets, primarily supplying chilling equipment to the dairy farm market.

Director-shareholder and innovator of the Vari-COOL system Allan Steele has been working on different products for a while and says being recognised by his peers as having contributed something of value to the dairy industry by the Waikato business community is ‘humbling’.

“I have put my heart and soul into the development of snap chilling technology

and the Vari-COOL is the one I’m the most proud of. I feel like I’ve finally got the product that I want and we are certainly seeing that with the traction we are getting in the marketplace now.

“I am part of a close team made up of my business partners Tim and Kate Stace without whom I wouldn’t have been able to do this. We also have a dealer network around New Zealand that contributes to the company’s success.”

Vari-COOL snap chills milk and puts it into the vat at under six degrees while the farmer is milking.

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Here Allan stands beside one of the Vari-COOL machines installed on a dairy farm. This is the most popular model which suits dairy farm sizes from 600 to 1,100 cows

degrees for up to 500 litres per hour.

“It takes the heat from the milk and converts it to hot water for the farmers’ wash down.”

The system also has an extremely high energy efficiency rating and Allan says it can save farmers anywhere between $4,000 and $12,000 in electrical consumption depending on the scale of the farm.

It is also connected to the internet and works as a supervisory system by recording when milking starts, when it stops, what the milk chilling temperature is and how long it took. ”The Vari-COOL monitors and logs their

Allan with another example of an installed Vari-COOL system

own performance and savings. You can access your machine on your Iphone, Ipad, tablet, laptop or desktop computer.

“You can be sitting in the pub and be able to check what temperature your milk is.

“If there are any issues on-farm the machines will text you to tell you what the problem is.”

Snap chilling is said to halve the bacterial content of the milk which in turn increases the value of the commodity.

“Milk bacteria spreads asexually so one cell splits into two and so on.

The snap chilling system captures what is called the bacterial lag phase

of the milk which is the short period of time before the bacteria multiplies.

Getting the milk from the udder to the milk tank takes about 60 seconds.

“For processors like Fonterra it adds value to the milk because bacteria are the greatest cause of food deterioration and temperature is the greatest single factor affecting bacteria growth.

Snap chilling allows them to produce better quality products from the milk allowing them to create higher value products and thus better financial returns.”

Allan says he was motivated to create a system like the Vari-COOL when he saw

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Possible tough year

A range of factors including currency fluctuations, a weak and volatile outlook for lamb and wool, plus the impact of drought and facial eczema, which was widespread in the North Island where half New Zealand’s sheep are farmed, will impact on sheep and beef farmer profitability this season.

“The Beef + Lamb New Zealand New Season Outlook 2016-17 predicts beef prices to remain favourable and limited availability should ensure good returns for breeders, however competition for store stock is likely to reduce the margins for those finishing farmers,” says Beef + Lamb New Zealand chief operating officer Cros Spooner. While sheepmeat prices are uncertain, farmer

reports indicate that it has been a very favourable lambing with high survival.

The Outlook predicts that the average farm profit before tax on sheep and beef farms in New Zealand will fall 13 per cent to $67,000 this season.

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“With the completion of lambing and calving, the season is essentially set for farmers. Depending on their location, farmers will be implementing strategies to maximise returns. Facial eczema was widespread and farmers will be looking closely at climatic trends that might provide early warnings this season.”

Mr Spooner says much of the outlook depends on the value of the New Zealand dollar, which is at 71 cents against the US dollar at the moment, up eight cents on this time last year.

“This particularly impacts on sheep and beef farms because around 90 per cent of production is exported, and domestic meat prices reflect the export price.”

The weakness of the sterling since the Brexit referendum in June also has a negative impact because the UK normally accounts for 20 per cent of New Zealand’s lamb exports.

Much of the profit decline is the result of a fall in wool, lamb and sheep revenue and dairy grazing revenue. Cattle revenue is expected to be similar to last year with production up slightly but a continuation of the USD at its current level would reduce cattle revenue.

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Mr Spooner says international demand is expected to remain reasonable for beef this year, while tight sheepmeat supplies in Australia and New Zealand have potential to support prices with the unknown factor firmly centred on the exchange rate trend for 2016-17.

“In this context, any improvement in export prices is primarily expected to come from a weaker New Zealand dollar, but there is considerable uncertainty whether that will happen.”

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Mating and lameness How is your preparation for mating going?

As this will be the focus for most farmers at the moment I thought it would be a good idea to talk a bit about lameness that is more specific to this time of the year — that is lameness in front feet as well as lameness in bulls. It is normal to get more lameness in front feet at this time of the year compared to other times.

Cows are bulling and when they come off the ridden cow they land on their front feet. This produces more traumas to deal with than normal walking. There is not really any suspension in the front feet just like there is no suspension in human feet.

People can create suspension by bending their knees, but a cow can’t do that with their front feet, which puts an enormous amount of pressure on the locomotion apparatus when they do land on their front feet.

Did you know that you could break your legs if you jump off the back of a truck and you keep your legs straight?

The amount of pressure that the average person puts on their feet by

jumping off the back of a truck is about 1,000kg. So it is no wonder that you do major damage if you keep your legs straight. In the same way there is a lot of force going on to the front feet of a cow when they ride another cow. A lot of the lameness in the front feet is ligament damage but we do get more hoof problems as well. This does not mean that this sort of lameness is purely caused by physical force. Again, the cow must have weakened claws from laminitis and then physical force will make the problem worse resulting in lameness.

If it was purely caused by physical force, we would see a lot more problems because most cows do come on heat but in comparison there are not many going lame on their front feet.

We can’t stop cows from riding each other and we actually don’t want to stop it so we have to look at minimising the stress levels on them and make sure that our tracks and holding yards are stone free. Lameness in bulls is slightly different.

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A few things are happening with bulls when they arrive on the farm and when they go with the cows. For one the environment is totally different — different food, different routines and different lifestyle. I don’t think the testosterone levels will have an effect on laminitis but all the other changes currently do.

We do have some physical problems as well.

The wear pattern in animals that only walk on pasture is different from animals that walk on hard surfaces. When bulls all of a sudden walk on hard surfaces their hooves wear faster, and it will take about six weeks for the bull to adjust the growth rate to the wearing rate so a lot of bulls end up with thin soles.

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There are some names in the world of internal combustion which evoke images of racing glory, grand-touring luxury or off-road grit. Just mention Rolls-Royce, Ferrari or Land Rover, and a whole history springs to mind.

But there are few, even in such lofty company, which call up such a tradition as that of the United States’ most famous two-wheeled icon — Harley Davidson. With a history spanning over a century, this is one badge embraced by racers, weekend cruisers and rebels alike. From the original ‘silent grey fellow’ through to the ‘knucklehead’ V-twin of World War Two, through to the big powerful V-rod of the present day, the story of the machines from Milwaukee would seem to describe an upward curve of displacement and power. But that’s a stereotype which, in true rebellious fashion, Harley Davidson is set to challenge with its Street 500 range.

Stripped back and pared down to the essentials of city riding, the Street 500 is a pure Harley down to the nuts and bolts, but it is no big highway cruiser.

With a 500cc Revolution X engine, finely balanced frame and frugal fuel economy, this is a bike meant to take on the competition in a sector usually dominated by the Japanese motorcycle

giants. It’s not the first Harley Davidson to go below the 883 Sportster in terms of displacement, but it is a new take on a classic design, reminiscent in many ways of classic British bikes from the golden age rather than the wicked custom Road Kings and Fat Boys which made the Harley name synonymous with two-wheeled power and style.

That may seem a touch blasphemous, but it’s a growing market niche in the crowded urban jungle. The Street 500 is, as you’d expect from a real HD, no slouch when the horizon beckons. Liquid cooling means the 500 never loses its cool in gridlock, but this lightest Harley of all still packs a wallop of torque when the lights turn green. In true form for a machine bearing the classic black and orange badge, there’s no part of the Street 500 which doesn’t look mean, lean and customisable.

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Racing refines vehicles — it subjects them to terrifying stresses, to endurance events under the baking hot sun and to flat-out sprints which test parts to their limits.

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Can-Am are also well aware of the fact that their tri-cylinder rocketship is likely to be deployed on some seriously gnarly terrain, so to avoid having drivers shaken to pieces they’ve bolted on some of the most serious Fox Podium shocks ever seen.

With a massive 2-foot travel, these monsters soak up withering amounts of punishment. Coupled with a trophytruck style chassis the whole setup glides over the badlands and sands like a bullet.

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Today, they rank in the same field as the Ariel Nomad and the ubiquitous Baja Bug. The Maverick X3 is the crossover point between fun and serious motorsport — a white knuckled portrait of excess not for the faint of heart, or those short of recreational cash.

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Council welcomes report Waikato Regional Council says a new report testing the implications of the Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora: Proposed Waikato Regional Plan Change 1 has provided useful data to inform the submission process.

The Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora: Onfarm Project saw 13 independent farms and 11 Fonterra farms led through the process of developing farm environment plans.

FEPs are a key part of the proposed plan change and designed to identify current contaminant losses and where those contaminants can leave properties. They also detail what action landowners will take to reduce those losses in a certain timeframe.

Regional council chief executive Vaughan Payne said the Federated Farmers-led project identified alignment issues between the schedules in the proposed plan, which are open to interpretation, leading to widely varying on-farm costs.

“This type of information is exactly why we are testing the implementation of Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora on farm.

This information is invaluable for the submission process. It will also assist with the council’s implementation planning once the new rules become operative,” said Mr Payne.

Report results suggest the average cost of preparing an FEP could be around $4692, while on farm management to implement Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora ranged from $0 to $785,687.

A dry stock farm on steep country allowed for a potential $479,138 in fencing costs to install an eight wire post and batten fence over 21.8km.

While Schedule 1 (development of FEPs) provides for alternative mitigations, where fencing land over 25 degrees is not practical, Schedule C (requirements for stock exclusion) does not.

In this example, under the proposed plan, the landowner would need to provide water supply for stock that currently drinks from waterways, at an estimated cost of $173,000. Other mitigation included three wire fencing, waterway crossings and planting for erosion control, taking the total cost to $306,549.

Depending on the plan’s interpretation, the costs to this farm could range between $306,549 and $785,687.

Mr Payne said the study also highlighted a need to determine the suite of minimum mitigations available to landowners to ensure they fully understand the flexibility and options they do have to tailor FEPs appropriately.

The report also identified costs for a number of dairy farms where effluent management needed work.

“This is work that needs to be carried

out to meet current requirements and it’s important to recognise that this is not a cost associated with implementing Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora,” Mr Payne said.

The project was jointly funded

by Waikato Regional Council, Federated Farmers Waikato, Fonterra, DairyNZ and the Foundation for Arable Research.

The proposed plan was publicly notified on October 22. It seeks to improve water quality in the Waipa and Waikato rivers by managing nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment and bacteria entering waterways.

The council has provided an extended period for submissions to allow people time to understand the proposed plan change and make informed submissions. Submissions close at 5pm on Wednesday March 8, 2017.

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Vaughan Payne Waikato Regional Council chief executive

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