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by Denise Gunn Dairy farmers in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty have an opportunity to enter their best dairy pasture in a competition organised by the DairyNZ-led Pasture Renewal Leadership Group.

The Pasture Renewal Persistence Competition is a Pasture Renewal Leadership Group initiative.

The DairyNZ-led industry group, which includes researchers, seed industry Competition organiser and DairyNZ farm systems specialist representatives, farmers Chris Glassey speaks to farmers at one of the last year’s and agricultural contractors, winning properties was formed to develop “The winners from the last two seasons better tools, resources and advice have shared their stories and highlighted for farmers.

Now into its third year, the Pasture that their good pastures are far from a Renewal Persistence Competition offers fluke but instead the result of hard work two categories: Best Waikato/Bay of Plenty and planning,” said Mr Glassey.

“There have been contacts made and first year pasture sown this year and Best Waikato/Bay of Plenty pasture sown more good learnings about the best practices to follow.” than three years ago.

Judging will involve a short interview Competition organiser and DairyNZ farm systems specialist Chris Glassey said about the soil fertility and the paddock’s the contest aims to promote the Pasture history prior to and since re-sowing.

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“When we started the competition in weed control, and nitrogen usage will be 2010 the messages circulating in the discussed.

“We will also be looking for any other industry based on farmer experience were fairly negative, but we knew there were information that will help build a picture of the best management practice required for success stories out there.”

Mr Glassey said the success persistence of renewed pastures in this stories were used to reinforce the best environment,” said Mr Glassey.

Prizes, which include two pasture seed management practice for persistent and herbicide packages to the value of renewed pastures in this environment.

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Following the launch of the inaugural Equidays in 2011, the three-day equine spectacular is set to return to the Mystery Creek Events Centre next month and planned to become an annual event Equidays provides access to a wide range of equestrian disciplines, recreational horse-riding, equine industries and businesses, with exhibitions, competitions, demonstrations, clinics and other activities covering the 113ha venue.

Mystery Creek events manager Vanessa Richmond said the organising team had an overwhelmingly positive response from the inaugural event and are looking forward to bringing another remarkable equine showcase to the region this year.

“Our team is focussed on continuous improvement and the valuable feedback we’ve received from visitors and industry has helped us develop an even better Equidays for 2012.”

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Last year’s Equidays surpassed organiser’s expectations with a crowd of 12,619 attending the exhibition. Up to 18,000 visitors are expected to go through the gates this year.

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Nelson and Elaine have found they can run two Miniature Herefords to the acre compared From left: Elaine Retter, Sharon O’brien and Helen Russell to one regular Hereford. at a Miniature Hereford Breeds Group farm field day “They don’t chop up the paddocks as much Hereford bulls over dairy heifers instead of the as their large cousins in the wet weather,” said Nelson. traditional Jersey.

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“A good operator made all the difference between an easy night and a lot of waiting around,” says Allan, now 82 and happily retired from a lifetime of work as a stock agent. “We were on a party line, and if I tied it up for too long…”

But it was far from easy going. Without the aid of modern power machinery Allan tackled a mountain of gorse, and then came a terrible slump in wool prices, almost breaking the back of the wool industry.

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— his cigarette packets. But more often than not these went in the rubbish, and the accountants hated it.”

But Allan feels he would be out of place in the modern world of stock agency, despite (or perhaps because of) the personal skills he spent a lifetime developing.

“The way the industry has changed, I wouldn’t want a bar of it,” he says, more with resignation than anger. “It’s all facts and figures and weights now.” There is, he thinks, far less room for the astute eye and sharp mind which were the tools of a stock agent back at the height of his career.

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“Good farmers didn’t go to sales — they stayed at home, on the land, doing what they did best. There was competition, of course, but most of the time they (the other four or five stock companies in the King Country) were fair and there was no animosity. It was the cut and thrust of the game!”

As well as worthy adversaries in business, Jill and Allan Allan forged many friendships with those in the trade. Long time comrade and neighbour Des Murphy was one such — in fact, he was the one who would walk through the night to Allan’s house if that aforementioned party line was tied up for too long!

Allan remembers their road trips around the yards and paddock sales, stopping off at country pubs covered in mud, and even trying to roll-start their car after it broke down in the ‘back of beyond’. Another big name in the industry was transport magnate Jim Barker, who founded Freightline.

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Great fun to visit It is always great fun visiting Kereru Gardens in Tauranga especially in the spring when it is full to the brim with thousands of plants!

Kereru Gardens is run by Richard and Caroline Knight who have owned garden centres since 1980, and really know who, what and where to plant!

They can advise you on your landscaping plans or ideas for your farm, garden or re-vege areas. They grow hundreds of thousands of exotic and native plants for all sorts of environments, and sell them for an amazing price of only $3.50 each including GST! Caroline says that it allows her customers to do much braver plantings of threes, and fives of varieties for a really economical price. Richard propagates and grows all the plants ready for sale, “It cuts out a lot of middle men,” he says, “And the customers get to meet the real growers.”

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“The name ‘Haulfryn’ is actually Welsh and it means ‘house on the hill in the sun’ and it’s also a family name of Chris’ that’s been used for many generations,” says Sally.

After the pair married in New Zealand they returned to England and bought their own 53 foot yacht to host and entertain guests on chartered sailing trips around the Caribbean.

Sally and Chris sit on an elegant foot bridge in their landscaped gardens at Haulfryn House

“Together we sailed many oceans, explored the Caribbean and North America and met many interesting people,” says Sally.

After five years of operating a motel, Sally and Chris did what many Aucklanders stuck in the rat race only dream of, they packed up and sailed around the South Pacific.

Six years and many nautical miles later the couple returned to New Zealand and

The couple returned to reality and were pulled back to the land and to farming.

Amongst an elite group of people there is not much that Ecoworld’s technician Ron Walker does not know about the quality of water and its filtration. People trust him and his long standing customer base describe him as a likeable down to earth guy who is passionate about water and how to fix it. So how did Ron get to where he is today?

Ron worked on such iconic treatment systems as the concrete based sand-filter with its corrugated aerator, which was a real eye opener. He later, progressed towards more modern and in some cases more alternative technologies like the vast range of specialised removal media’s and resins. He also investigated the use of chemical treatments on a wide range of waters and even got heavily involved in the technical and interesting side of “Biological Iron Removal”.

Ron’s history with Ecoworld started in “98” after a long building career and a 6 year stint in the dairy industry. He quickly learnt from his peers the importance of water and water quality, and how poor water quality can have a negative effect on just about every domestic, rural and industrial situation imaginable.

Over the years the many successes and failures, are priceless experiences or Ron and the company. This has been a huge step forward for Ron in building confidence, knowledge and experience not only in the removal of ground water iron and manganese, but with all water concerns and problems. With a vested interest Ron continues to work for Ecoworld providing product testing and consulting while continuing with services and products to his customers for all sorts of water problems, and he hopes to continue doing so for many years to come.

This drove Ron to learn more and hopefully better fill this market hole. Firstly he researched as much written theory as possible, understanding the nature of these elements and how best to remove them was important. Not only was Ecoworld getting more involved in big iron removal jobs, including a filter plant for Dairy NZ Research Farms, Ron followed these theories through with countless hours of practical experience using small and full scale pilot plants on many different ground waters around the country. Learning that theory and practice do not always meet he was discovering the truth about iron and manganese, and how it could be removed.

The ocean and their sons’ tertiary education led the family to move to Auckland.

Sally grew up in Auckland and spent long hours sailing at Herne Bay beach. Her love of the ocean led her to Europe to be a crew member on a super yacht and that is where she met Chris, “a charming Englishman”, who had just finished his boat building apprenticeship.

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Ron soon found a hole in the market, a hole containing some pretty big problems. The discovery of how common, and nationwide-spread ground water “Iron and Manganese” was, interested him. Its difficult nature and removal, he saw as a challenge, and the fact that there was a real lack of knowledge and experience explained the noticeable edginess amongst existing professionals when it came to its treatment.

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can have many impurities, and chemical reactions happening, affecting its characteristics and how it can be treated.

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• It is not only good practice, but important to always small-scale test the water to insure results before making any final decisions.

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“It is a dairy support farm where we graze young heifers and we also buy in two-yearold beef cattle to finish. They seem to really enjoy the lush green grass,” says Sally.

“It was our oldest son Mathew, who twisted our arm and suggested that we try organic farming, so we did and it works.

He’s passionate about it, and he’s trying to save our country and make it a better place,” says Chris.

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We don’t use chemicals in the fertiliser or chemical drenches because it all goes back to the soil — and if you grow grass with very little goodness in it then you have sick animals and your vet bill becomes quite high. My overheads are much less than when I was using chemicals

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As well as it being a sustainable way to live, Chris says that it makes sense economically to farm without using chemicals.

“We don’t use chemicals in the fertiliser or chemical drenches because it all goes back to the soil — and if you grow grass with very little goodness in it then you have sick animals and your vet bill becomes quite high. My overheads are much less than when I was using chemicals.”

and Chris shows them around the farm and explains the fundamentals of organic farming.

“They have a chance to get right up close and personal with fat and happy cows, and also they see many native birds that are attracted to the property.”

While Chris and Sally are happy on dry land at present, they are still involved with a yacht in Europe and escape as often as they can.

“We have two passions one is the sea and the other is the land, and now that we have a small farm we are trying to combine the two,” says Sally.

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Every health problem creates its own nutritional requirements. For example, people with inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis have a lower level of vitamin and mineral absorption because their digestive system has been compromised by the disease. This is especially true of some B vitamins, notably B12 and folic acid, vitamin D, calcium and zinc. These can be obtained from a good multi-nutritional supplement.

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Forestry Market Report Allan Laurie MNZIF Laurie Forestry Ltd

Despite other commodities softening in price and demand in recent months, log and lumber prices have continued to hold or firm slightly with demand also holding at reasonable levels in our key markets The key player continues to be China.

Consumption levels for Pacific Rim softwoods are continuing at a reasonable pace. One good example is Lanshan Port in Shandong province north of Shanghai where Laurie Forestry exports logs to amongst other places. Current inventory levels are around 450,000 cubic metres with consumption running at 12,000 cubic metres per day.

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just under two month’s supply of logs, a good comfort level is maintained and should ensure prices remain stable to very slight firming which is exactly what is needed at the moment. Across the total China market for September and October, we are expecting a small lift of US$2 – 3 per JAS. This should see the steady supply situation continue.

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In terms of pricing at the wharf gate, shipping is the big unknown. All indicators are suggesting shipping costs should be softening but if anything we are seeing a small firming (US$1 – 2 per JAS). Shipping companies are preferring to hang closer to the more lucrative northern hemisphere routes thus sending a ‘sorry, not today’ message to their southern customers.

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One can only hope it will be much more controlled and civilised than that.

Despite those of a more gloomy ilk, the demand does appear to be picking up albeit modestly and I have noted inventories in lumber yards do not thus far appear to be anything akin to a mountain.

I have noted the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the US$/NZ$ exchange rate has lifted in intensity over the last month no doubt exacerbated by commodities coming under selling price pressure. A shift downward of 1c over the last month is hardly likely to win the Reserve Bank Governor any gongs but there is a few of us who would nominate him for national hero status if he could just encourage the exchange rate back below 0.70c.

Overall we are continuing to say this year will remain stable in price and demand terms internationally. However overall wood fibre demand remains good and prices are holding at a time when other commodities are softening.

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Waikato ploughman takes 14th place at World Ploughing Contest

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Waikato ploughman Malcolm Taylor has finished in 14th place at the 59th World Ploughing Contest in Biograd na Moru, Croatia Competing in the reversible section, the Putaruru farmer came 15th in the stubble section and eighth in the grass, taking him into 14th place overall with 312.5 points.

Practise areas for the ploughmen were made available on a 1200ha livestock and cropping farm close to the contest site. The farm employs around 1000 staff and the produce is sold to local retailers and transported to other parts of Europe.

The ploughing area was a reclaimed lake, drained in 1945.

In the lead-up to the competition, Mr Taylor and New Zealand’s other representative, Murray Redmond from

Methven, practised under the guidance of coaches Alan Wallace and Bruce Redmond. Mr Wallace, also from the Waikato, was New Zealand’s first World Ploughing Champion after winning the title in Ireland in 1981.

With very little rain in the months prior to the competition and the fire risk extreme, ground conditions were dry and dusty.

Although rain fell the day before the competition and showers along with a cold wind continued the next day, the stubble ploughed well.

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Scotsman Andrew Mitchell won the conventional section with 402.5 points and Yves Thievon of France took out the reversible plough on 401.5 points.

On the New Zealand Ploughing Association’s website, team manager Paul Murphy thanked the competitors and coaches for Photo: NZ Ploughing Association their untiring devotion to their Malcolm Taylor ploughing in hot and dry conditions work under extremely hot and changing dramatically through the field.” dry conditions.

Mr Taylor planned to travel to compete “Both Malcolm and Murray can be proud of their achievements with changing in Wales at the conclusion of the competition. ground conditions due to rain,” he said.

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Having already voiced their concern about total pasture production to the representative of their local fertiliser company, a soil test had been taken and the recommendation was to increase the level of all inputs particularly phosphorus and nitrogen.

That didn’t sit well with them, and they didn’t see it as an answer to the increasing damage by flea and weevil each year resulting in greater areas of pasture requiring renovation or renewal in autumn.

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Despite having received only positive responses there was still a reluctance to place the order. The reluctance to change eventually surfaced, ‘nitrogen grows more grass, doesn’t it?’

The answer is, in the short term yes, and in the longer term no, depending on quantity and frequency of application.

It has since been explained to me that some farmers have become conditioned to short term fixes, with a subsequent loss of long term perspective.

Increasingly local body authorities have been drawing lines on maps and stipulating the conditions under which farmers particularly intensive dairy operations may continue to operate.

One regulation that is being put in place throughout the country right now stipulates the quantity of nitrate nitrogen permitted to leak from farms and in some instances the time by which the standard must be met.

Farmers no longer have a privileged position when it comes to their environmental footprint and should they decide not to comply with regulations on nitrate nitrogen losses they are likely to have to relocate, and eventually the net will spread.

The effect that will have on current land values could be catastrophic. There are however nutrient programmes that include strategic use of nitrogen fertiliser which may well allow intensive pastoral farming to continue in even the most sensitive water catchment areas.

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A beautiful autumn and early winter took a horrible turn at end of the winter.

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Some farmers have told me that it washed the tracks clean!

We have been inundated with phone calls to book lame cows in for trimming.

Calving is the period when many farmers don’t have the staff resources available to trim cow’s feet over and above the extra work load they already have at this time.

So, what sort of problems are we seeing? Most of it is severe bruising — a sure sign of laminitis. What has happened is that all that rain has had an effect on the grass. The fibre in the grass breaks down and becomes less effective, whilst the protein becomes more rumen digestible. Severe changes in the weather substantially increase the stress the cows are experiencing, especially when coinciding with calving time when there are a lot of hormonal changes also going on in their bodies. Have a look at some of the cow’s hooves of cows that have only calved today — they will have bruising as well. This would not have come from any physical damage because these cows will have only had one or two days of walking on hard surfaces. The bruising would not have had enough time to grow out into the hoof as far as it has in just a couple of days.

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Soon after a wet period there will be more laminitis which obviously makes the cows’ feet more tender. It is particularly important not to push cows and be impatient with them at these times.

Laminitis needs to be managed. Some of you will say that the suggestions I make are not workable on your farm. My response to that is that if you really want something you can usually find a way to make it work.

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This is a tough ask for a lot of dairies with primary chilling water for some at over 23 deg C during summer. It is a reality, however, that the dairy companies are quickly toughening up around this Code of Practice. Dairy companies will now not pick your milk up if it is over 18 deg C after the morning milk or above 14 deg C after subsequent milkings.

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Stimulating soil biological activity — how and why?

Part 3 — The Role of Nutrients Dr Bert Quin, fertiliser and soil fertility consultant

In Part 1 of this three-part series of articles, we looked at how organic matter levels have built up under agriculture, and asked the question ‘Are there benefits in getting this organic matter to turn over or cycle more rapidly?’

The answer to this was assumed economic benefit for New Zealand, we to be yes, because the best producing have to be fully aware of the potential paddocks on a farm always seem to have adverse impact on the environment. As the most active soil biology. we run out of suitable land to convert to In Part 2, we looked at the main types dairy farming, we have been increasing of soil microbes, their abundance and production on the land we have by using what their roles were, and what makes more nitrogen fertiliser, and by importing life difficult for them. We concluded that rapidly increasing amounts of feed, since microbes, unlike larger organisms especially PKE (palm kernel extract). like earthworms, are so easily distributed This enables more stock to be carried by weather, animals and machinery, per hectare, but increases the risk of simply applying cultures of microbes is soil drainage, aeration and nutrient rununlikely to be much help. We concluded off problems. Feeding out on pads or in that having good soil conditions — good cow homes helps avoid these problems, aeration and drainage particularly — is but is capital intensive, and is ultimately a key factor. limited by how much effluent loading the In this final part in the series, we land can cope with before soil microbial look at how nutrient efficiency can help activity and water quality are affected too optimise the entire soil-plant system, and severely. Once we start to damage the level of microbial activity with it, production. in the soil, we become Even with the best soil It is becoming dependent on increasing aeration and drainage, amounts of fertiliser just to soil biological activity ever more important maintain existing production and plant growth will not to find the most levels. reach full potential if one efficient forms of Sooner or later, region or more nutrients are individual nutrients, by region, catchment limiting. But to simply by catchment, limits on throw more fertiliser and the most on to try to ensure that fertiliser use and broughtefficient ways of nothing is limiting is both in feed will be (and in some expensive and harmful catchments already have applying them to the environment, been) set. Once these particularly to water quality and emissions limits are in place, further increases of greenhouse gases. Moreover, excess in production can only come from quantities of nutrients can induce improved plant and animal genetics, toxicities in plants and animals, and can better soil management, and increased suppress uptake and utilisation of other nutrient efficiency. The longer it takes nutrients. the dairy industry to demonstrate that So it is becoming ever more important it understands the significance of what to find the most efficient forms of is happening and start planning for the individual nutrients, and the most efficient future, the harsher will be the limitations ways of applying them. This is particularly that will eventually be imposed on their so given the massive intensification farmers’ suppliers. of dairy farming that has been taking It has already been scientifically place in New Zealand in the past 15 proven that the efficiency of urea — by years. While this has had enormous far the major source of fertiliser N in

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New evidence helps stamp out pugging Cattle are no lightweights, and when conditions are damp it’s inevitable that their hooves are going to cause damage to the foundations of good pasture — the effect known as pugging. It’s been a problem for as long as people have cultivated livestock, but with more intensive farming practises and increased herd sizes, it’s an issue which needs more attention than ever It’s not just an aesthetic consideration, either — pugging doesn’t just reduce drainage, leading to more runoff, it also harms the soil in other ways. Pugged soil is less aerated, meaning that soil temperatures remain low, and anerobic conditions can develop down at the root level, robbing grass of the good microbes and the oxygen it needs to flourish. Ryegrass is especially impacted by pugging — the ‘tillers’ which are the roots of ryegrass are delicate, and pugged pasture supports less than 45% of ground cover compared to healthy pasture.

Yield can be cut from between 20 to 80 percent by pugging, and the effects can last over half a year, seriously impacting the growth of all important dry mass and thus impacting your bottom line. Obviously, doing nothing about pugging isn’t even an option — but research conducted in New Zealand by the Taranaki Agricultural Research Station has produced some interesting facts.

The usual method for tackling pugging has involved the farmer’s old friend, the harrow and roller combination.

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Another option which works on many levels is to plant a ‘break crop’ after regrassing. Crops such as turnips are not on the menu for grass grubs and other pests, ruining their life cycle and killing them off naturally. And of course, a summer crop can provide feed at a better level than damaged pasture, helping lay in a stock of feed for the winter months.

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