Waikato Farming Lifestyles, September 2016

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FARMING Lifestyles

September 2016 Edition

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Federated Farmers meat and fibre industry group chairperson Rick Powdrell says rural New Zealand has been through a challenging climate in recent years, with many farmers still enduring the ‘fallout’ and adjusting their farm policies going forward, as they look to return to normal.

“Whether you have been through severe drought or destocked as a result of last season’s perceived strong El Nino, you will be looking to restock to more normal numbers,” he said.

“Severe drought areas will be affected longer as pastures need to be reestablished, which will start as soon as farmers feel confident in the weather patterns. For many this is not evident yet and short-term crops will continue to be the Rick Powdrell — Federated Farmers backbone of feed supplies.” meat and fibre industry group chairperson Destocking was also “The question to meat processors compounded by many dairy farmers choosing to remove their animals from would be, are they supplying pregrazing with sheep and beef operations. committed contracts or purely Many farmers were looking at filling throughput?

“To see breeding capable cows, restocking in late winter, due to excellent autumn growth and a mild start to winter heifers, ewes and hoggets heading to in the North Island and pasture growth slaughter at a time farmers are looking improvement in some areas of the at all avenues to restock is for them very disheartening.

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“Farmers understand meat seasons, they are competing with meat companies who are aggressively companies face seasonality, climatic events, staffing issues and market sourcing stock. factors, but it’s important as industry players we all look at the big picture for the benefit of us all.

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The first litres of Waikato-farmed milk are flowing through Fonterra’s newest high-efficiency milk powder plant, as the world’s joint-largest dryer comes online in the South Waikato.

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The new 30-tonne-an-hour dryer at the co-operative’s Lichfield site will be capable of processing an additional 4.4 million litres of milk each day — equivalent to almost two Olympic swimming pools — into high quality milk powder for global markets.

Large scale dryers such as this play a key role in driving value for the business, says Fonterra’s Chief Operating Officer Robert Spurway.

“Premium milk powder is a valuable product for Fonterra in its own right, but people often underestimate the strategic importance of powder production to the co-operative’s overall asset mix,” he said.

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BY ANN MORGAN

Graham Hunkin grew up in the city but always was an outdoors person.

His parents bought a block of land in Ramarama and he later purchased his own 18 acre property in Tuakau on the edge of the Waikato river.

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ome of it is hilly and some is flat. I didn’t have a lot of money when I first started and the property had a lot of gorse so my wife Melanie and I would come and cut the gorse down,” said Graham.

“We burnt it in piles and painted the stumps with a concentrated spray solution. We then electric fenced the property. Melanie was my right hand man. We weren’t married back then — this was my idea of a date, then we got married.

Graham initially started his lifestyle block with purchasing and growing dairy weaners, but with the soil being a clay loam it would pug in the wet, and with

hilly ground it was hard to run cattle on the steeper parts.

“At one stage we tried to run Suffolk sheep for the freezer, but I found all the hassles with fly strike, shearing and foot rot weren’t worth it,” said Graham.

“I saw an article on miniature Herefords and liked their white face and cute body and thought without so much weight there wouldn’t be so much pugging messing up the property, so we purchased some.”

Miniature Herefords are approximately 50 — 60 percent of the size of a regular Hereford.

“Mine are typically a little on the smaller size. I had a bull who

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weighed 380 kilograms live weight, the standard Herefords can easily reach 700 kilograms.

“I’d like to think I have them trained but they have me trained. I call them instead of having a dog and now they stand at the gate and moo at me. If I don’t shift them they walk my gateway to mud making a mess until I do.”

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Graham says if you are killing the stock for your freezer you end up with sufficient meat for a family and this size animal means the handling facilities don’t have to be so robust.

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the way they have been initially bred in the USA. They are really Herefords, just the smaller version without as much leg on them.”

The Hunkins are members of the New Zealand Miniature Hereford Breeders Group, which is a subgroup of the New Zealand Hereford Association.

Only registered miniature Hereford stock will give you the certainty they will breed true. When people are buying miniature Hereford stock they need to check for the NZMHBG stamp on the registration papers to know they are genuine. This prevents being sold a poor doer, or runt, which is claimed to be miniature.

“If you have purchased a non-genuine miniature it may have big genes. When you mate it with another animal you could end up with a whopping big animal and calving difficulties,” said Graham.

“You can run approximately three to four miniatures to two regular animals.

They are good for a lifestyle block and standard electric fencing is all that is required. They are a quiet breed and good feed converters, especially on the poorer feed.

Graham says when they are born they are super cute and weigh around 24 kilograms, about the size of a big cattle dog but more solid, and they have an absolutely pristine white face until they learn to rub it in the mud.

“Dairy farmers have taken an interest in the larger of the miniature bulls for first year calving. You can take a heifer and put them to a miniature Hereford bull a year earlier, which results in a slightly

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“You get a white faced calf (always a premium at the sale yards) and a milking cow a little earlier than if you had to wait the extra months until your heifer was large enough to drop a regular sized animal.

“Some people on a lifestyle block can’t kill their pets but we eat our non — registered animals like steers. We don’t shoot them for the fun. Killing for food and killing for fun are two different things.

“There are approximately 27 miniature Hereford members in the group across the country, and around 198 registered breeding females.

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THE VAN SCHIE FAMILY FARM HAS GROWN INTO A BIG BUSINESS OVER THE YEARS TO NOW SUPPLY MUCH OF THE NORTH ISLAND MARKET WITH BUTTON MUSHROOMS.

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he Quality Mushroom company started in 1988 with just just four sheds located in Ranby Road in Ohaupo. It has since doubled in size and now houses over eight sheds as well as mycelium growing houses.

General manager Daniel van Schie says his parents Frans and Hilda van Schie were able to purchase the farm after a series of events combined in their favour.

“The opportunity came up when my father was a refrigeration engineer to manage the operation and buy some shares. He was there for 10 years when an option arose for him to buy it outright.”

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Daniel says his parents however are still hands-on with the business.

“Mum manages the accounts and dad just comes and checks up on me and my brothers and hands out advice — they’re finding it hard to let go.”

The three brothers work year round at Quality Mushrooms and as Daniel says there is no such thing as a mushroom season where they work.

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zero waste. “We don’t really have much waste whatsoever and we use everything we can.”

For instance on the farm, mushroom stalks get spread on paddocks for the dairy farmer next door to be used as fertiliser and the family even recycle water.”

“All the water in our compost yard gets recycled and reused.

“This is important to my Dad who was raised on an organic farm in Holland by my granddad who cared deeply about the environment and this was passed down to my father.”

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climate control.” Daniel, like his father an engineer by trade, says he started off working on the farm when he was just a youngster.

“We all started off folding boxes when we were five years old and I worked as just a farm hand for quite a while when I was studying engineering and then when my older brother went on an OE, it was put on my shoulders to take on the position of general manager.”

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from a combination of chicken manure, straw and water. One of the things Daniel says he enjoys the most about working on the family farm is that no two days are the same.

“It changes all the time. depending on which day it is — so each day is different. There is a big variety from office work to sorting out staff to unloading and loading trucks, fixing things in the engineering room — just every day is different.”

It’s half art but also half science. I guess i’m a bit stubborn and i like a challenge — you don’t get bored put it that way. “ Fur thermore Daniel says he gets a buzz when they make new production records.

“I think the best week production wise — was 12.5 tonne in a week so that was pretty awesome.

So what is the secret of their success?

“We all work as a team and have weekly meetings to ensure we’re all reaching for a common goal,” says Daniel.

So will Quality Mushrooms continue to grow in other directions?

“We’ve done portobellos in the past and I grow oyster mushrooms for personal consumption, but no I want to stick to what we know — quality mushrooms that’s what we’re known for, ours are the freshest and the best.”

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by Rose Stirling Tony Armstrong likes to look out his lounge room window and across the Waipa River to admire a view of Karakariki, a region described by some as ‘the dark side’.

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happen on the dark side? I like people and community and I sucked myself into it, and my motivation was knowing that I was stepping where no man had stepped before.” It has taken him 25 years, and plenty of research, but Tony has finally managed to scratch that itch, culminating in a book titled ‘Karakariki 1850–1950’ — an otherwise forgotten era. “I didn’t mean to spend that long writing it. I only took the book to the

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There have been plenty of highlights. I call them wow moments.”

Tony discusses two of those wow moments or epiphanies — one involving an unexplained long journey by a priest to the region from Raglan, and the other the complete disappearance of a family of seven who farmed in the area.

“One of those wow moments was the story of a minister, Mr Schneckenburger, and how he walked all the way over from Raglan to Karakariki three days prior to Christmas. I thought this was really weird, I thought why would you leave your family just before Christmas.

“Then five years later we employed a weed sprayer on our farm and we were chatting when he said ‘well, our family used to live out here, well back in the early 1800s’.

“I sat down with him and went through his Maori background, then he talked about his grandmother getting married in Karakariki just before Christmas and I thought: ‘oh wow so that is why the minister walked all the way over here.”

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deemed friends. The early European settlers subdivided the land and gave some of it back to the Maori as a result.

“The settlers left them 230,000 acres. That goes from the Raglan coast right through to the Waipa, it is a huge block.

“I was at the Maori Land Court and I discovered these really expensive houses that they had built along the Waipa had been abandoned. Everyone disappeared including a family of seven — in fact what happened was they all died from the flu.” It is evident when talking to Tony that he is passionate about his region and not just Karakariki, but all of the Waikato, and in particular

farming which is not surprising when you consider the many hats he has worn over the years. He has been the Federated Farmers’ chair for the Hamilton group and he helped form the rates control team for the Waikato Regional Council nine-years-ago. Now 69, Tony has been happily married to his wife Janice for 53 years. He is currently still working on the farm and trading.

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When it comes down to rugby, Ireland have always been a strong competitor, however their wins against the All Blacks, although memorable, are minimal.

But don’t worry about that. Over the past ten years, Bora Bia, the Irish food board have introduced a new marketing brand, “Origin Green”. This brand is described as a verifiable commitment to sustainability throughout the entire supply chain, involving farmers, processes and suppliers, aimed at reducing the environmental footprint. So it looks like Ireland, have not only stolen a march on New Zealand, but also the rest of the world.

New Zealand has always put forward our Clean, Green image brand, but that has been heavily tarnished over the years by overuse of chemicals, such as antibiotics, herbicides, insecticides,

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Having been on the organic track for the past 30 years, there is a myriad of books and journals, written by PHD’s and Professors expounding the science of the natural system.

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Farming is a natural system, not a chemical system. The natural system works together with mother nature, who provides all the free natural capital needed for farming, such as topsoil, micro organisms, sunlight, rain, atmospheric minerals, carbon as carbon dioxide, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, making up 97.5 % of the plants mineral uptake, all for free ! Plus bees and other pollinators, worms and manure recycled by animals, the list goes on. Current Agro chemical production is eroding this natural capital.

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“Arriving in Johannesburg I took a Soweto Tour which incorporated visiting Nelson Mandela’s house,” said Anna.

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Anna said they drove the panoramic route with its sweeping vistas and views as they headed towards Kruger National Park.

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per cent from nitrogen fertiliser use, and the last five percent from supplements.

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

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

It measured the increase in per-cow and per-hectare milk solids production when total feed supply is increased by bought-in supplements and/or nitrogen fertiliser. A range of combinations were used to increase pasture growth with N supplements bought in and an increased stocking rate to use the extra feed.

The results indicated it was uneconomic to add extra feed to a system with good pasture utilisation, unless the stocking rate was increased and cheap feed available. DairyNZ research and development general manager Dr David McCall says the

pasture/supplementary debate has been polarising and confusing for some farmers.

“The pasture first concept is about managing pastures regardless of farming system. Modelling has shown that getting pasture management right is worth over $300/ha, even at today’s milk prices.”

In the 1.75t MS/ha trial, the control farmlet (no N applied) was producing 1000kg MS/ha. Using N fertiliser allowed an additional 200kg MS/ha to be produced and supplement use (maize silage) with increased stocking rate added another 400kg MS/ha.

Dr McCall has re-analysed the trial results with today’s costs and milk prices. When comparing these differing farm systems at $7.00/kg MS, 85 percent of the operating profit came from pasture, 10 per cent from N fertiliser use and five percent from supplements.

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Once the guests have gone it’s time to enjoy your space with your nearest and dearest. A home should be a place you can enjoy and relax in so you can make the most of those special moments.

Everything from home theatre, to beds, playsets and pools will be available here so you can have the home you’ve always dreamt about.

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Equidays is thrilled to announce cutting horse demonstrations will be returning to New Zealand’s premier equine event after a threeyear hiatus.

Come October 14, Equidays visitors will be able to enjoy this highly-skilled sport at Mystery Creek Events Centre.

Dating back to Wild West cowboys working on the range, cutting demonstrates the ability of horse and rider to handle cattle, cutting those from the herd that require attention.

“We’re delighted. Western is a huge crowd pleaser and the level of technique and horse-and-rider partnership required in cutting is really something to see,” said Equidays Event manager Ammie Hardie. “There’s a lot that goes into preparation to be able to accommodate this form of western — it’s not just a horse, a rider and an arena. With cattle involved, it becomes a whole other logistical effort and we’re excited it’s all coming together this year.”

International cutting champion Bryan Lowcay will be at Equidays to give demonstrations over all three days.

With a proven track record in the world of Quarter Horse training, care and breeding, he has been in the game for more than 50 years.

“Bryan is an expert in his profession and we’re extremely lucky to have his

talent,” said Ms Hardie. From working for world champions in the cutting-horse industry in Texas, winning the Texas Year-End Hi-Point award and competing in the World Finals, to winning many NZ Cutting Horse Association National Championships here in New Zealand, Bryan has learnt from and competed against the very best cutting-horse competitors in the world.

He has also judged a myriad of western horse events throughout the country and is the first and longest serving judge for the NZCHA. He has also held the offices of vice president of the New Zealand Quarter Horse Association and president of the NZCHA several times (as well as being a founding council member). He has been a monumental influence in the New Zealand western riding industry.

Three-time Equidays clinician and 2014 KHH Stallion Challenge competitor Ben Longwell, of True West Horsemanship, will also be showcasing his style of cattle work and horsemanship during the three-day event.

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The ACC offers a 10 per cent discount on ACC work levies called the Workplace Safety Discount (WSD) for farmers that can demonstrate that they have an effective health and safety system and safe work practices at their workplace (some criteria apply).

There’s a good reason for this.

According to the ACC, in the 2014/15 financial year alone there were 16,634 new claims relating to a farming occupation. On average, over 11 workdays were lost to each claim. Let’s do the math. Based on these numbers, we are looking at approximately 182,974 work days lost in the farming community in one year. These numbers are astronomical and sometimes the personal cost is even higher. Lost limbs, lost lives.

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

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

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

This does not happen in reality, as dairy cows tend to put most of the load on their outside hind claws, so that is where most of the problems occur. Heavy loading and contusion of the quick in the outer hind claw will in the end cause sensitivity or pain. The cow will try to compensate for this by walking on her heels and by placing or turning the foot more outwards by adopting a base-wide or a cow-hocked posture, thus making the inner claw bear more weight and the outer less.

This decreases the height of the heel,

makes the angle of the front wall more shallow and causes the cow to walk with her hocks closer together.

Such an adjustment of posture is frequently observed.

Thus the posture of the hind legs of our dairy cattle is only partly inborn and to a great extent adopted. The latter is due partly to the unfavourable loading on the outer hind claw and to domestication, but probably for the greater part to the claw diseases that can afflict the claws.

As a matter of fact, the effect of this adjustment of posture is relative: measuring shows that in adopting a cow-hocked or base-wide posture, the cow relieves her sensitive outer claw of its overload, only to a certain extent.

Mostly this claw remains more heavily loaded than the inner claw, albeit less than before.

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Showing them how it’s done You know how it is. You hear what sounds like the familiar refrain of a favourite old rock song blasting from the tinny speakers of a young person’s iPhone.

For a moment, you think that all is right with the world and that someone of the schlock-pop generation has gained an appreciation for the classics.

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So it is with many concepts, which touch off a craze the second time around, only to leave old hands shaking their heads with disbelief. One such is the resurgence of the compact SUV — a hot ticket right now in motoring, but a design which has definitely been seen before. Turn back the clock far enough and one iconic brand has seen it come past twice, for very different reasons. So when they step in and show the upstarts how it’s done, the result is like Led Zep crashing a Miley Cyrus show. Right?

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Now, with small, compact SUVs ride height, tough skid plates, real offcoming in every flavour from serious road capabilities and plenty of torque and German to pop-retro Japanese, Jeep make this far more than an urban ‘faux have taken to the drawing board to lay wheel drive’.

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Shifting the game into high gear

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When Yamaha decide to compete in a motorsport competition, they’re more than a little focussed on winning.

Whether it’s crushing the record for power and speed with their racebred street bikes or innovating on the dirt track — this is the company which developed and deployed the first monoshock, for example, in 1973 — the big blue machine which is Yamaha’s research and development division take no prisoners.

Take a look at the stats. In 1955 Yamaha built their first ever bike, a copy of a German 125cc single-pot, constructed in a factory recovered from a bombed-flat Japanese infrastructure.

The next year they entered their first grand prix with it. Out of a huge field, they came 6th. Many would call this a success — but to Yamaha boss Genichi Kawakami it was still a loss and so he and his team put in the hard yards, upping their power to 250cc and barnstorming the 1963 Belgian GP. That’s a fearsome level of self confidence and a technological learning curve like the bad side of Everest.

So, when Yamaha decide to throw their hat in the ring when it comes to pure sport side-by-side off-roaders, people pay attention. Anyone who goes

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Aha, say the purists — Yamaha may be out of their depth creating a four wheeled racer. They only do bikes and boats, right? Well, no. The YXZ sits next to other Yamaha engineered favourites such as all the Toyota 4AGE cars, the Lexus LFA, the Celica GT4 and the Noble M600. Sure, the 3 cylinder 998cc mill in the YXZ1000 may not have the sheer horsepower of those engines, but it’s powering a lightweight off-roader which is all engine, suspension — by Fox — and aggressive, grippy tyres. Power comes on with a sound like a monstrous chainsaw, then gets shunted to the dirt via a manual sequential five speed box, with multiple clutches juggling the input like those in a supercar.

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Edge on the competition

by Andy Bryenton

As Ford continue to go from strength to strength with their ‘world car’ formula — which has produced not just the phenomenal new Mustang but also surprise barnstormers like the Fiesta ST and Focus RS — it’s come time for them to tidy up the middle of their SUV lineup.

Not wanting to be as confusing to customers as the array of choices confronting the would-be buyer of a Porsche 911 in one of its superfast variants, Ford in the antipodes have narrowed the field down to a tight four.

At the top — biggest, most comfortable (and with off-road capabilities in the vicinity of some light military vehicles) is the very competent seven-seat Everest.

At the other end of the scale sits the peppy little EcoSport. Step up from there and you’ll find the crossover Kuga — set for its own upgrade in the very near future.

Slotted in just below the Everest used to be the Territory, but it’s headed for the proverbial dusty trail, replaced by something new. That newcomer is the Ford Edge and it’s immediately apparent that this family-sized sports utility shares the design DNA of the Ranger and Everest.

That big trapezoidal grille, distinctive wheels and side creases all tie in to the rest of the Ford stable. Purist will stick with the big powder-silver mags provided, but one could be forgiven for

wanting to see the Edge kitted out with 22-inch carbon black rims.

Unlike Everest and Ranger, which share a common platform despite being as different as cats and dogs in the fine detail, the Edge is every-panel-new.

The Edge first debuted at the LA motor show in 2013 — geological eras ago in auto terms, one would think. But the addition of new tech like Ford’s Sync 3 infotainment touch screen system and, of course, the choice of everything up to a turbo-boosted v6 under the hood make the version which will come to Kiwi shores cutting, well, Edge.

Some have compared it to BMW’s big, imposing X5 — favourable — noting that it comes for X3 money. Here that means inevitably it will face off not against euro lux G-wagens, but against Toyotas, Mazdas of the CX variety and the plucky fan favourite Kia Sportage.

Kiwis are sure to want actual off-road ability to mix it up with towing power and kid-friendly long-haul seating comfort. It looks like a winning formula. Spacious, clever (it even has active noise cancelling speakers to deaden road noise) and

The new Ford Edge a family sized SUV

with power to spare, the Edge is a fine replacement for the Territory. Though bigger families or serious adventure campers may still want to step up to the Everest for that third row and additional

dog-room, the Edge looks set to satisfy that growing sector of the market who consider a traditional station wagon too small, but a big diesel powered SUV too large for their liking.

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HP New Zealand is asking rural students to share their vision of how they think they will learn in the future to be in the running to win a share of $26,000 worth of HP products and support.

The HP Rural Schools Competition, in its third year, gives rural New Zealand primary schools — and for the first time this year — secondary schools, the chance to win HP technology and support best suited to the school’s needs.

HP New Zealand has partnered with Rural Women New Zealand, offering rural primary and secondary schools the chance to win HP products, including Sprout, a fully integrated 3D scanner, 3D object capture and editing desktop. The winning schools will also receive support from HP NZ experts to help them get the most out of their technology.

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“We’ve opened up the competition to include secondary schools for the first time this year so we’re really excited to see the visions of education in the future from a range of ages and rural schools.

“All children in New Zealand need to be equipped to live, play and work in an online world. It’s not just about being engaged at school, but also preparing for the workforce of tomorrow.”

Rural Women New Zealand vice president Fiona Gower said: “This is such a great competition and we’ve seen first-hand the benefits it’s delivered

for previous winners. It’s a fantastic opportunity for rural schools to have the chance to tap into the expertise of a global technology company like HP.” From September 14 2016, rural primary and secondary schools throughout New Zealand, with less than 450 students, will be eligible to enter the HP New Zealand Rural Schools competition. To enter, schools simply need to submit an entry form at www. hp.co.nz/ruralcompetition. Entry criteria, full terms and conditions can also be found on the HP New Zealand website.

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