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ONE PERSON describes eradicating M.bovis as like “trying to build an aeroplane while it is still flying” and there is some truth in that.

The tracing procedures are difficult, the tests complex and prevention at this stage is not easy.

Neither the Prime Minister, the Minister of Agriculture, nor any MPI official or industry representative, at last week’s announcement of the eradication campaign, would put their hand

on their heart and say the plan will succeed.

Their line was, “we think we have discovered it early in the piece so we need to have a shot at eradication” – rather than effectively doing nothing and just managing it as most countries do.

Eradication will see at least 150,000 animals slaughtered – possibly more – over two years and at least 192 properties will have their animals slaughtered with still no guarantee of success.

The $886 million cost will be shared between the Government and the

industry, namely DairyNZ and Beef + Lamb NZ who support the plan.

The Government will meet 68 % of the cost, and DNZ and BLNZ 32%.

Money from these two industry organisations will come from a special biosecurity levy linked to their Government Industry Arrangement (GIA) on biosecurity.

Money from standard commodity levies that are used to fund DairyNZ and BLNZ cannot be used to fund biosecurity, so a special levy will be made, as approved by farmers in the GIA consultation process.

Rural News understands that the details of how this special levy will be collected and which organisation will pay what amount is still being worked out. However, it’s believed that in general the dairy industry will pay more by virtue of the fact that it has more cows than the beef sector.

It’s also believed that, in the first instance, the Government will pay the up-front cost of eradication. DairyNZ and B+LNZ will repay this over time on the basis that the levy collected from farmers will not be too big in the first two years of the eradication.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor and DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel addressing the media conference at Federated Farmers headquarters in Wellington last week that outlined the joint industry-government decision to go for a phased eradication of the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis. The plan will see at least 150,000 animals slaughtered – possibly more – over two years and at least 192 properties will have their animals slaughtered with still no guarantee of success. The cost – $886 million – will be shared between the Government and the industry, namely DairyNZ and BLNZ. The Government will meet 68% of the cost, the industry good organisations 32%. – See more comprehensive coverage pages 4-7

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NEW ZEALAND is keeping pressure on the EU as formal talks to set an agenda for negotiating a free trade agreement are a few weeks away.

Trade Minister David Parker has been to France for an OECD meeting, for WTO talks and for discussions in France and Germany on the pending EU/NZ FTA. Meanwhile, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström will visit NZ on June 20 to formally launch the negotiations with Parker. And officials from the EU and NZ will meet to set the agenda for a formal detailed meeting in Brussels in July.

Agriculture, in particular reduced tariffs on dairy products, will be a high priority for the NZ negotiators.

Parker says NZ and the EU are close and natural partners on almost every global issue.

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Also in Europe now is NZ’s agricultural trade envoy Mike Petersen on a two-week trip building relationships between NZ, the EU and the UK ahead of the trade talks.

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A POPULAR venison sandwich promotion by an American fast-food restaurant chain is partly why the New Zealand deer industry is in good heart.

The Deer Industry New Zealand (DINZ) annual report says the Arby’s restaurant chain created a social media storm with the promotion, so successful in 2016 that it was repeated last year.

American media reported at the time that some hunting groups were unhappy that game animals were being sold for food; but the meat being used was NZ farmed venison.

DINZ chief executive Dan Coup, speaking after the sector’s recent national conference, says the deer industry was very positive.

“It was a really good conference.

Probably the most enthusiastic and positive one we’ve had in a long time.”

The venison price at the moment is “fantastic,” he told Rural News.

“Eleven bucks. I think that’s an alltime high. Anyone with deer to kill is pretty happy. And velvet prices are very solid as well.”

Coup says the high prices were partly because of a fall in the kill fol-

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lowing a period of low confidence with a lot of capital stock liquidation.

“Those cull animals have stopped going through the works, and we’ve dropped over two or three years from a kill that sat around 400,000 for a long time to around 300,000 now.”

But venison marketers had also been working hard, he says.

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“The North American stuff is a combination of solid growth in our traditional white tablecloth-type middle cuts, but also excitement about gourmet and exotic burgers, with a lean and very natural product.”

There is also growth in protein

snacks “associated with people’s paleo enthusiasm,” he adds.

Even petfood had pushed up the schedule, because of enthusiasm for low fat, hypo allergenic and natural food for dogs and cats.

Coup says this year’s conference theme was ‘Staying ahead of the game’.

“The feeling in the camp is that we’re in good shape, but have to keep working hard.”

He says coming challenges for the industry include environmental, climate change and biodiversity legislation.

Coup believes deer farming tends to fly under the radar because the industry is already a good performer and a proactive manager of environmental challenges.

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the Eucolait Conference,” he told Rural News. “This is a grouping of European dairy traders with about 500 members and associate members from other countries. I will also go to Germany for talks.”

Petersen says his visit, like others, is designed to protect NZ’s trading position with the EU and UK. NZ is not looking to make gains because of Brexit, rather just to protect our existing trading position.

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Petersen says while NZ is well known in Europe as a friendly country that has stood by many EU countries for years, it is still up against stiff competition.

“These visits are very important but that’s not really understood in NZ. “We need to remember that about 200 countries are travelling to Europe to try to protect their position and look for opportunities out of Brexit. We need to work hard to

protect our current position and then new build on that with the EU and the UK.” Petersen applauds Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s visit to France and Germany earlier this year as instrumental in getting the FTA negotiations underway.

“But we can’t just leave it all to our negotiators or politicians. We need to be working right across the spectrum and build good relations at every level in every country,” he says.

LIC CHIEF executive Wayne McNee says it hasn’t found any sign of the disease Mycoplasma bovis in its bulls or semen.

He says the farmer-owned co-op is continuing to “fully comply” with all instructions from Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI).

“Protecting our bulls and their semen from Mycoplasma bovis is critical to us and critical to the dairy industry,” McNee says.

He was responding to social media chatter about LIC bulls and M.bovis.

On a Facebook page discussion, some farmers questioned why LIC bulls weren’t culled, given that some of them were bought from “infected farms”.

But McNee says all LIC bulls commercially available for AI were tested for M.bovis in September last year and were clear.

“As a precautionary approach we continue to routinely test semen and test any new bulls for M.bovis in isolation before they enter the main LIC bull farm.”

McNee confirmed that a specific bull purchased in January 2017 has been involved in an MPI trace. He says the bull was moved to LIC six months prior to when the herd in question received infected stock.

“Subsequent testing of this bull and all contacts by MPI and LIC have been clear,” he says.

McNee also debunked claims that M.bovis is less likely to spread through frozen semen.

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Will eradication fly?

That’s the $886 million dollar question being asked about plans to try to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis. Reporter Peter Burke, who attended the media conference at Federated Farmers’ office in Wellington, has been talking to politicians, officials and farmers about the decision.

OPINION IS divided on the M.bovis decision in favour of phased eradication.

However, overall the feeling seems to be that New Zealand has right now the best-ever -- and only -- opportunity to eradicate the disease.

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor obviously supports the decision. He has had a tough few weeks with endless meetings all weighing the pros and cons of eradication.

“With all the support we have had from the farming sector, I think we can beat this disease and have a far better farming system into the future,” he told Rural News.

O’Connor says within the farming sector there is now a better appreciation of the need for NAIT and tracking and tracing. He believes farmers will be far more reluctant to buy an animal from somewhere they don’t know and they will do their own track-

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor with PM Jacinda Ardern at the M.bovis announcement in Wellington last week.

ing and tracing.

In regards to NAIT, O’Connor says the review of it was comprehensive and the process of implementing 23 of 33 recommendations is well underway.

“We are having a look at structure and making sure it’s fit-forpurpose,” he said.

He says M.bovis won’t be the end of sharemilking, but he believes people will be more careful when buying stock.

National’s agriculture spokesperson Nathan Guy also supports the Government plan to attempt to eradicate M.bovis.

He says it is going to be very hard on farming families seeing their livestock culled, but agrees there is a narrow time window to try to eradicate the disease.

“I want to work constructively now on solutions going forward,” Guy says. “This is big for the cattle industries, but the fact that the industry and Government have come together on cost sharing is

a good one. We need to get on and eradicate M.bovis.”

Guy says he also feels for sharemilkers and believes that many 50/50 sharemilkers will stay a bit longer on farms until the disease is sorted out.

Federated Farmers vice-president Andrew Hoggard -- a dairy farmer in Manawatu -- also supports the plan to try to eradicate M.bovis.

“We should always take that opportunity; to live with disease would mean big changes and big risks as well.

“I heard about an English farmer who battled away against M.bovis for two years and it cost him over a million pounds and in the end he had to cull all his stock and depopulate,” he says.

Both the DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel and BLNZ chair Andrew Morrison have voiced their support for the Government decision.

Van der Poel says the organisa-

tion is working on ways to make sure M.bovis is eradicated and is also promoting the use of NAIT. “It’ll be really important now that collectively people follow through on NAIT. Farmers now certainly understand it’s very important,” he says.

“Where people transact stock between themselves is where the NAIT records are not good, but in terms of official supply chains the NAIT records are very good.”

Morrison says it’s important that government and industry are working together. He says the challenge now is the action on the ground to deal with the disease.

He says as a Southland farmer he’s well aware of the impact of the disease on farmers and their families.

“It is a stressful time for farmers, especially those whose farms are infected or under movement control. However, there is only a limited window in which to attempt eradication.”

RURAL SUPPORT TRUST GEARS UP THE RURAL Support Trust will be gearing up as the M.bovis eradication plan moves into action, says Neil Bateup, chairman of the Rural Support Trust national council.

“We have been dealing with it up until now,” he told Rural News. “We have been in touch with all affected properties where they are on NODs (notice of direction), RPNs (restricted place notice) or infected properties since the very early stages.

“We are keeping in contact with those people and supporting them and they have a contact person within Rural Support who they talk to.

“Obviously as time goes on there will potentially be more people. We will have to upgrade and we have the resources to be able to do that.”

Government is funding that support, Bateup says.

“They are really on board. We are making sure there is support available for all the affected farmers and we will gear up as we need to.”

The $886 million set aside for the M.bovis plan includes funding for ‘acute farmer support’ for those infected, funding for a rural mental wellness programme and Rural Support Trust funding, a spokesman for Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor says.

Bateup says gearing up may mean bringing more people in. “The trusts have a number of people who are dealing with general day-to-day issues. So within their teams most of them should be able to provide the extra support needed.”

There may be some upskilling on what the disease is and the effects of the process.

“But generally it is supporting people. Our people have a history of supporting people through all sorts of adverse events and troubled times they have experienced. So this is another adverse event where people will need support and our people are skilled and trained to provide that support.”

The farmers he has spoken to are bearing up.

“I have been working in Waikato with small numbers. Obviously in Southland and Canterbury the numbers are much larger.

“Every individual handles it differently so there is no one-size-fits-all. It is just helping them through the process and how things are going for them. Just having a place for them to go for constant support is pretty important.”

The Rural Support Trust can be contacted on 0800 787 254. – Pam Tipa

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Traceability the key – stock agents NIGEL MALTHUS

TRACEABILITY IS the big question for stock traders as the campaign to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis gears up, says PGG Wrightson general manager livestock, Peter Moore.

“It’s in early days, as far as the impact on trading is concerned, but I think we will see quite a change in New Zealand agriculture,” he says.

“One of the things we’ve seen already is buyers of stock asking a lot of questions about where stock have come from, what their history is.”

He says saleyards are already practising good hygiene, but the industry as a whole is still working though the controls to be put in place.

Moore says there had been no great change in the numbers of animals going though the saleyards, noting that infected herds under movement control go nowhere except straight to the works.

“But we’ve also continued to see spread of the disease around the country, or have done to date, so we can only rely on the information provided by our sellers that the farms are clear and the animals are clear.”

Moore says a change for PGG Wrightson is

that all staff who go onto farms are being issued with hygiene kits to carry in their cars and are expected to clean their boots going on and off every farm.

“This is not a stock and station problem, this is an industry problem and we all need to work very closely together to eradicate this disease.”

Moore believes the whole industry supports eradication.

“We should have a real crack at doing it. New Zealand has been clear of all these diseases virtually forever so it’s important that we try to eradicate it and give it our best shot.

“One thing we have to be mindful of is the farmers who are affected and are losing their herds.

“We need to have empathy with those people; it is going to be a very tough time. As a community we have to look after those people,” said Moore.

Stock agent Peter Walsh, of Peter Walsh Associates, Timaru, says his agents are waiting to hear from MPI what protocols might now be put in place.

“We need to have clear direction on what is accepted for shifting cattle around properties, from one property to another, into saleyards, into freezing works,” he told Rural News.

“What is the accepted process now to do that?

If we’re going to eradicate it... we’ve all got to be on board with it.”

Saleyards already practise good hygiene by washing out the pens between sales, Walsh says. At MPI’s suggestion the Temuka yards have also been putting bactericide in the water troughs since March.

“But of course, we’re

not absolutely sure of the wider picture and what we should and shouldn’t be doing, so we were just doing that ourselves.

“With the latest announcement, one needs to wait and see what the process is for selling and moving cattle.

That must come from MPI saying ‘these are the rules’.”

Walsh says MPI had been good to deal with,

but is in a difficult position in not knowing what the end result will be.

“Now they’ve got a clear direction, so everyone associated in New Zealand – farmer or stock agent or truck driver or whoever – must now become familiar with whatever is the accepted process for moving stock.” @rural_news facebook.com/ruralnews

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6 NEWS - M.BOVIS FOCUS

NAIT’s a ‘pain in the arse’ PETER BURKE peterb@ruralnews.co.nz

FEDERATED FARMERS vice president Andrew Hoggard says the NAIT system has worried him for a long time and he doubts whether it would cope with an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) He says some of these problems relate to the interface between NAIT, Ospri and MPI and says this needs to be improved and changes made.

Criticism of NAIT is rife in the light of the M.bovis outbreak, chiefly that it is not user friendly and hard for farmers to use. And there is the issue of many farmers not having access to fast broadband.

Hoggard says the NAIT system is “clunky” compared with all the other IT systems he uses on his farm.

“It’s non-intuitive and one can get lost in the system real easy,” he told Rural News.

“We came back from Australia recently and my wife opened up NAIT to transfer some calves we were about to sell. Then suddenly she found some sort of changes to the system and she was asking ‘what

Fed Farmers’ dairy chair Andrew Hoggard.

the hell is this and that?’ ” Hoggard says.

“It took her a while to work out what had happened. Before we left everything was fine.

“From my point of view it should not actually be a case of making NAIT less digital; rather it’s a case of making it smarter digital-wise. If

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Hoggard also complains that NAIT doesn’t interface with his own system of recording data about his cows and farm. NAIT forces dairy farmers to painstakingly reenter data from their own record-

ing system into the NAIT database.

“I can tell you everything under the sun you want to know about my cows, and this is available, but there is no simple way for me to press a button and transfer that over to NAIT. I have to do that separately and individually and it’s a pain in arse.”

BIOSECURITY A BIG ISSUE HOGGARD SAYS the recent M.bovis problem highlights the overall issue of biosecurity on farms nationwide.

He says while the spotlight is on M.bovis for good reason, other diseases need to be monitored equally closely, one of which is theileria.

Hoggard believes NZ needs a system that also tracks this disease because of the harmful effects it can have.

“For example, farmers in Northland bought calves in Waikato on the assumption that having been in Waikato they’d have been exposed to theileria and they’d be able to cope with it.

“But when they showed up some started dropping dead with theileria, and it turned out the calves had only been in Waikato for one week and had come up from Southland so they had no immunity to the disease.”

Hoggard believes that when a farmer buys animals he should have the right to know where that animal has been and that all farms need to have some sort of biosecurity rating.

He says a farmer with pretty much a closed herd would be seen as a low biosecurity risk, whereas a farmer who regularly trades stock would have a higher rating.

While this may raise all sorts of privacy issues, these should be waived to ensure a much safer farming system.

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M.BOVIS FOCUS - NEWS 7

Putting decision into practice PETER BURKE peterb@ruralnews.co.nz

WITH THE M.bovis decision there comes some certainty and the need to make the eradication programme work.

A key focus will be ensuring that the disease does not spread any further. DairyNZ, in particular, is leading this charge.

DairyNZ’s technical veterinary advisor Dr Nita Harding suggests farmers see their farm as an island and their boundary as its border. She urges farmers to think about what they can do to reduce the risk of anything unwanted -- not just M bovis -- coming onto the farm.

Harding says farmers need to be proactive, to think about biosecurity as risk management to protect their business

interests, and not wait for others to do this on their behalf. DairyNZ’s website has a lot of information for farmers, she says.

“Securing a good boundary fence is critical. Neighbours should cooperate to ensure their animals are not grazing alongside each other in paddocks,” she explains.

“A two metre gap is ideal and this can be done with just a hot wire, although some farmers are talking about a riparian strip along the boundary to prevent any risk of animals from one farm making contact with animals from another.”

Harding says some things farmers can do now are inexpensive and simple, while other actions may require changing the farm system and so take a bit longer.

should think about animals that will come onto the farm, and question the senders of those animals before they arrive.

Farmers need to know the health status of these animals to understand

the risk they may pose to the rest of the herd.

“Once the animals are onfarm, keep them apart from the herd for at least seven days, if not longer, to check they are not showing any signs of any-

thing you don’t want.”

Harding says farmers need to pay close attention to the service bulls they bring on farm – again checking their health status, where they have been before and

what other animals they may have mixed with.

She says farmers sourcing calf milk from other farms should do good checks because M.bovis and other diseases can be spread via milk.

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The aim should be to manage risk.

“Think about a ‘clean on – clean off’ policy for visitors and machinery.

Make sure visitors can scrub boots and maybe supply disinfectant and a place to clean to make it easy for them,” she says.

“Also talk to contractors in advance to make sure they are aware of the situation and arrive with clean machinery, and then clean it before they leave.”

Harding says farmers

MPI HAS allocated more trained staff to the M.bovis crisis.

An extra 50 staff have been trained to help farmers facing movement controls deal with the paperwork and other matters. They will act as ‘case managers’.

Extra staff are also being assigned to help farmers deal with issues on compensation.

Newly appointed science adviser Dr John Roche (ex DairyNZ) has the task of researching new tools for the fight against M.bovis.

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor says Roche, a PhD in ruminant nutrition from the National University of Ireland, will provide stra-

tegic science advice at MPI. His first task will be to head a new M.bovis science strategic advisory group.

“With his background in Ireland, where Mycoplasma bovis is widespread, Dr Roche will be ideally placed to lead this work,” O’Connor says.

O’Connor says little money has been spent internationally on researching M.bovis. The new group will look into testing developments to detect M.bovis in individual cows, grow understanding of the disease and identify opportunities to support the New Zealand eradication.

The battle against M.bovis is now entering a new and critical phase.

It could be called ‘agricultural lotto’ because there is no certainty of a prize; it’s a case of being in to win.

It’s likely that more infected farms will come to light as winter and spring arrive and possibly the pessimists will be right and the problem will be too big for eradication.

According to Rabobank, milk production will not immediately be greatly affected although Canterbury and Southland may see production falls. But the cow cull could in the longer term affect production growth.

One thing for certain is that farming under M.bovis, or the threat of it, will be greatly different from how things are now.

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RURAL NEWS // JUNE 5, 2018

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Rural broadband fast-track welcomed PAM TIPA pamelat@ruralnews.co.nz

THE ACCELERATION of two rural communications initiatives announced by Government last week is good news, but more is needed, says the Telecommunications Users Association of NZ (TUANZ).

Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media Minister Clare Curran announced last week that the completion schedules for the Rural Broadband Initiative Phase Two (RBI2) and the Mobile Black Spot Fund (MBSF) have been brought forward one year to the end of 2021.

TUANZ welcomes any moves that bring forward

initiatives to help fix the gaps in rural connectivity, the organisation’s chief executive Craig Young told Rural News.

“While a year earlier is a positive move it still leaves a number of New Zealanders without quality access for the next few years,” he says.

“We await with real interest the announcement of more concrete plans from the Government and the Rural Connectivity Group (RCG) on the next steps in the roll-out.”

Young says both the Minister for Communications and The RCG will be speaking as part of the 2018 TUANZ Rural Connectivity Symposium on Tuesday

People in rural areas want clarity when their connectivity will improve.

June 26 in Wellington.

“We look forward to hearing more from them,” he says.

Curran says the gaps between the digital ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ need to be closed to

ensure people and communities benefit from the jobs, access and participation that a digital future brings.

“We are listening to feedback from businesses and from people who live in and travel to our most rural and remote areas, and they want more clarity on when their connectivity will improve. I want people to know they don’t have to wait until the end of 2022.”

The deployment schedule and coverage information for RBI2 is now available on the National Broadband Map www.broadbandmap.nz.

“An address checker is available on the map where you can type in your address to see if and

when you will receive RBI2 broadband coverage.

This will show planned and actual coverage and give an indication of the timing for planned coverage,” Curran says.

“The company providing service in your area is listed on the availability report when you search your address.

“Funding for the RBI2/ MBSF programme comes mainly from the Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL), a levy paid by telcos, with some of the programme funded privately by the three mobile operators Spark, Vodafone and 2degrees.

“Funding for a $105 million RBI2/MBSF expansion comes from Crown Infrastructure

Partners’ funds and announcements will be made in the coming months on the outcome of the RBI2/MBSF expansion process now underway.

“There will be additional resources for rural communities not covered by these programmes to apply for under the $1 billion Provincial Growth Fund.

“Four regions – Tairāwhiti/East Coast, Tai Tokerau/Northland, the West Coast, and Manawatū-Whanganui – were targeted for increased investment through a Provincial Growth Fund ‘surge’ effort and they also overlap with work on delivering faster broadband.

PROFIT PLUNGE ANZCO FOODS Ltd has reported a pre-tax profit of $1.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2017.

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Fonterra farmers happy, unit holders not PAM TIPA pamelat@ruralnews.co.nz

FONTERRA IS “very comfortable” with its $7/ kgMS farmgate milk price forecast for the 2018-19 season, says chairman John Wilson.

It will have a big impact on the co-op’s farmers and on the rural economy, he says.

“While it is clearly a 15 months forecast, from what we’ve seen in the global marketplace – and also exchange rates are a key consideration – we

have the confidence to announce $7/kgMS at this stage.

“The market is fundamentally in balance; we expect you will see demand and supply move around a little bit – that is the reality.”

Wilson says demand is expected to remain strong, especially from China and for butter and AMF (anhydrous milk fat).

“We are expecting the global dairy market’s current prices, especially for fats, to continue through-

out the new season.

“We are also forecasting our New Zealand 2018-19 milk collections to be 1525 million kgMS -- a 1.5% increase on our current forecast for this season -- and we expect to see a lift in supply from the EU, US, Australia and Argentina.”

Fonterra lifted its milk price this year from $6.55/kgMS to $6.75/kgMS “because of this continuing strengthening,” says Wilson.

Previously they thought there could be

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Commenting on what the higher forecast farmgate milk price means for the business, Wilson says the higher milk price is good news for farmers still recovering after the two years of lower milk prices in 2015 and 2016.

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No longer a ‘nice to have’ DAVID ANDERSON

FARMERS NEED to understand that good environmental stewardship is no longer just nice to have but is essential in today’s world.

This was the crux of a message to deer farmers attending the sector’s annual conference in Timaru last month.

Guy Salmon, chief executive of Ecologic Foundation, told the conference its new industry code of practice was “detailed, looked good and will drive learnings”.

However, he warned that any voluntary code of practice has major limitations.

Salmon says getting everyone in the industry up to standard will be a challenge and a major risk for an industry, such as the deer sector with a premium product.

“The fat tail of bad practice can damage your entire industry’s image, its reputation. The best way to deal with this fat tail is regulation, and you should welcome it.”

Salmon says farmers must understand that accountability – espe-

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cially regarding the environment — is needed and expected to meet community-agreed objectives.

“Communities are setting contaminant limits in every catchment in New Zealand and industry codes of practices need transparent linkages to these limits.”

Salmon says community expectations needed more than just “good practice”.

“They need to challenge and implement transformational change of accepted practices.”

He cited intensive winter grazing as an example of current practice that would need to change.

Salmon warns that unless real change is made, NZ’s farming sector grassfed marketing story is at risk from a “ticking timebomb” in relation to market perception issues on water,

soil, animal health and aesthetic issues.

And NZ’s special agricultural trade envoy Mike Petersen had a similar message.

He said there is a lot of discussion in agricultural and government sectors about environmental credentials and what this subject actually means.

Petersen says the farming leaders’ group of which the deer industry is a part of is an excellent example of cross-sector work in environmental matters.

“For too long, I have seen different parts of the sector arguing their own corner on an environmental front. In my view, it is far better to be a joinedup, clear voice for the sector,” he says.

“The farming leaders’ groups allow us to have robust discussions behind closed doors and then speak with one voice to the Government and regulators to get the best outcome for the industry as a whole.”

Petersen told conference-goers the direction is clear regarding the environment and emissions, and “the farming sector needs to get on board and get on board in a big way”.

He concedes it will be “really tough”

for the agricultural sector to reach net zero emissions.

“But the government has pledged to work with farmers and has given long transition times for us to meet this goal.”

Petersen also believes that the direction of travel is clear.

“I don’t think even if there was a change of government that a new National government would not reverse any of this work. So, we need to get on the bus… every farm needs an environmental plan.”

Petersen believes that in time such plans will also address animal welfare, traceability and environmental procedures. “I believe we will need this type of plan as evidence of the integrity of what we do for the story that NZ needs to promote. We cannot have a story without the evidence and the background to support the claims we make.”

Petersen says this will allow NZ farmers to differentiate their products and face down the challenges the industry faces in the future – such as alternative proteins and consumer demands for ethical products.

RURAL NEWS // JUNE 5, 2018

14 NEWS Feds poach YFC boss FEDERATED FARMERS has poached its new chief executive from feeder organisation NZ Young Farmers.

The role was vacated earlier this year by Graham Smith after four years service.

Copeland, head of NZ Young Farmers since 2013, is credited with leading its transformation and is now looking forward to leading Feds.

“I feel the time is right to take the step up to Federated Farmers

during a period when the wider industry needs renewed leadership.”

Federated Farmers president Katie Milne describes Copeland as a strategic thinker who understands young people.

“Terry’s done an amazing job lifting the profile of NZ Young Farmers, building its membership base and increasing member participation.

“We need to get more young farmers engaged in the important

work our organisation does. We’re confident Terry can help do that.”

At Young Farmers Copeland led projects designed to get more people into the primary industries.

Before joining YFC he had spent 20 years in the wine industry and as an international wine judge.

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THE NEW Zealand diet is safe and contaminants are very low, with most naturally occurring, says Agcarm in a new report.

The Ministry for Primary Industries released results of the 2016 New Zealand Total Diet Study which tests residues from commonly used agrichemicals -- insecticides, fungicides and herbicides.

This report was on tests of 301 agricultural chemicals -- more than in previous years. All the exposures in the diet were very low and far below levels that would be a food safety risk.

Agcarm chief executive Mark Ross says the levels of agricultural chemicals and contaminants in our diets remain low and most of the latter occur naturally in the environment.

“So the fact they are showing up in our foods is unavoidable,” he says.

MPI sets very conservative limits for residues in food, many times below levels that would be a risk to consumers.

The national study, every five years, covers common foods consumed in a typical diet. It’s used to assess our overall exposure to chemicals and identifies potential food safety risks.

“These results are unsurprising,” says Ross. “Agcarm members work hard to sat-

AgCarm chief executive Mark Ross.

isfy the stringent requirements set by regulators. They also work with food chain partners to achieve the lowest possible residues in food.

“NZ can uphold its reputation as a producer of healthy and safe food. We must also continue to follow good agricultural practice to meet the ever-increasing consumer demands for safe food.”

The national survey includes common foods consumed in a typical diet. It’s used to assess our overall exposure to chemicals such as agricultural compounds, environmental contaminants and nutrients, and to identify potential food safety risks. It is also used to monitor trends and changes in levels over time.

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FOR AGRICULTURAL chemicals, MPI tested three types commonly used in agriculture: insecticides, fungicides and herbicides.

And for the first time they tested two chemicals commonly found in disinfectants used in the food production industry and in homes.

“We tested more agricultural chemicals than in any previous TDS and although about 40% of the samples had a detected level of agricultural chemical residue, all the exposures in the diet were very low, and far below the levels

that would be a food safety risk,” said MPI specialist advisor for toxicology and environmental chemistry Dr Andrew Pearson.

“All in all, the results from the 2016 TDS are very reassuring, and show the NZ diet is safe and wholesome.

“The levels of agricultural chemicals and contaminants in our diets remain low and most of the latter are naturally occurring in the environment, so the fact they are showing up in our foods is unavoidable.”

The next TDS will likely be in 2021.

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NZ apples pick of the bunch PAM TIPA pamelat@ruralnews.co.nz

THE NEW Zealand apple industry – for the fourth year running – has been named the most competitive on the global stage among 33 apple producing countries.

Innovations emerging from NZ’s apple industry will increasingly impact production and market-

people and the best apples for the world.

The World Apple Review says given NZ’s relatively small size, export orientation and distance from major markets, it had long relied heavily on innovation to provide it with a competitive edge.

It had been the leader in popularising Gala and Fuji, pioneered the first

NZ had been forced to continually upgrade production systems to meet growing demands from the northern hemisphere.

The report stated that probably the single, most significant measure of

innovation in a country’s orchards is the percentage of new varieties in production. It specifically highlighted how NZ was still searching for newer apple varieties to remain ahead of the field.

NZ apple industry has been named the most competitive in the world.

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NZ’s high productivity gains helped deliver the outstanding performance, ahead of its closest rivals Chile and the US. NZ Apples & Pears chief executive Alan Pollard says being named the best in the world is a huge honour.

He says the world leading ranking comes as a huge reward to NZ’s $850 million apple industry which is celebrating one of its best seasons this year. This also recognises the efforts of the thousands of Kiwis working in the sector.

“To earn and then retain this world leading title year on year is an outstanding achievement, and rewards everyone who is part of NZ’s exciting and dynamic apple industry.

“This is an incredibly exciting time for our apple industry, together we are growing great

true club variety JazzR, developed and produced a stream of new varieties Pacific RoseR, EnvyR, SmittenR and KoruR. Pollard says not only has the industry benefited from this varietal innovation, but the NZ Government via its crown research institute Plant & Food Research has benefited significantly through royalty streams on these successful varieties.

In ranking the 33 countries, the World Apple Review compares production efficiency, infrastructure and inputs, and financial and market data.

NZ was the best performer when all three rankings were combined.

According to the review, over the past two seasons, NZ’s top performance was earned by exploiting new growing strategies and technologies that had produced 2.5 times the average yield per hectare of the rest of world’s apple growing countries.

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Kiwifruit returns humming PAM TIPA pamelat@ruralnews.co.nz

GREEN AND organic green kiwifruit growers were better off per tray this year than last, according to figures released by kiwifruit marketer Zespri.

It says while SunGold returns were lower per tray, the average return per hectare was up 16% with orchard production increases.

The total fruit and service payment to growers increased by 6% to $1.47 billion.

Zespri’s global kiwifruit sales for the year were also up 6%, at $2.39b.

Total revenue, which includes license income, was $2.51b.

Zespri chairman Peter McBride says Zespri delivered a good sales result for Green. The average per-tray return for Green

Zespri chair Peter McBride.

was considerably stronger at $6.71 (2016-17: $4.36).

“This was supported by good quality and low rates of onshore fruit loss.

The average per-hectare return for Green across the industry was $59,981, a new record for the category, and the result was achieved in spite of a 27% decline in average yields.”

McBride claims the result for SunGold gives confidence in Zespri’s long-term outlook.

“Zespri achieved a strong increase in returns at the same time as continued growth in volumes. Sales volume for the total Gold category rose by 9% to 52.1 million trays and the average

return per hectare across the industry was up 16% at $114,345.”

The average return per tray was $10.06 (2016-17: $8.64).

The Organic Green return per tray was $8.93 (2016-17: $6.86), reflecting increasing demand in Europe and other major markets and an improved market mix. The return per hectare fell 4% to $52,375 (2016-17: $54,427), impacted by a 26% decrease in average yields.

Zespri sold just over 1.2m trays of Sweet Green.

The average per-tray return was $5.61 (2016-17: $5.79) and the average perhectare return was $38,937 (2016-17: $45,853).

The per tray result was affected by a smaller crop and early season quality issues.

The focus for the category remains on it being an early, high-taste offer-

ing to get the Green season off to a strong start.

McBride notes the uplift in value reflects strong consumer demand and excellent market performance.

“We sold a record volume of SunGold while growing returns at both per-tray and per-hectare levels,” he says.

“Supply of Green and Organic Green reduced considerably from the exceptionally high volume of the previous year, but very strong consumer demand more than offset the impact on per-hectare returns for Green and mitigated the impact on Organic Green per-hectare returns.

“The industry’s performance during the last season reinforces our confidence in our strategy and potential for strong and sustainable growth.”

PROFIT UP ZESPRI’S NET profit -- after tax -- for 2017-18 increased by 38% to $101.8 million.

It says the result was primarily driven by revenues from the release of 400ha of SunGold licence in 2017, as part of Zespri’s continuing programme to fulfil consumer demand.

The total dividend returned to shareholders was 76 cents per share, versus 25c/share in the previous season. The payout included an additional interim dividend of 50c/share to distribute most of the funds generated through the 2017 SunGold licence round.

Sales volumes through the non-New Zealand supply segment, that enables Zespri to supply consumers with kiwifruit 12 months of the year, fell by 8%.

Supply of Green was reduced because of a damaging frost in Italy. However, SunGold sales in Italy increased to offset the fall, with the Zespri Global Supply business recording total sales revenue of $264m, up from $217m in 2016-17.

Zespri chief executive Dan Mathieson says they anticipate record production of NZ and non-NZ kiwifruit this year driven by increasing supply of SunGold and a recovery in supply of Green.

“Our challenge is to continue to lift our performance by staying focused on improving the execution of our brand-led, consumer-focused strategy, supported by excellence in marketing and strong, connected partnerships with growers, suppliers, distributors and retail partners.”

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RURAL NEWS // JUNE 5, 2018

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Beef + Lamb’s new environmental strategy earns high praise PETER BURKE peterb@ruralnews.co.nz

MINISTER FOR the Environment David Parker has lavish praise for Beef + LambNZ’s new environmental strategy.

Parker applauds BLNZ’s leadership and welcomes its focus on stopping things getting worse and then improving them gradually.

That’s just what the public want, he says.

“They want to know you’ve got the environmental issues under control [then] there will be the social licence to work the settings over time,” Parker told Rural News.

“They just don’t want things to be getting worse over time.”

BLNZ recently

BLNZ’s environmental strategy manager Julia Beijeman.

unveiled its new ‘blueprint to lift the environmental performance of NZ’s sheep and beef sector’ in Wellington. The strategy lays out a pro-

gressive long-term vision for four priority areas: healthy productive soils, thriving biodiversity, reducing carbon emissions and cleaner water.

BLNZ has two key goals: every sheep and beef farm having a tailored and active environment plan by the end of 2021; and the sheep and beef sector as a whole moving towards net carbon neutrality by 2050.

Over the next three years, BLNZ will roll out environmental initiatives to support sheep and beef farmers including Collaborative Catchment Communities – a programme to help communities work together to target water quality, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity and soil health issues.

Julia Beijeman, BLNZ’s environmental strategy manager, says the strategy addresses the huge change happening for

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sheep and beef farmers, who are under a lot of pressure in all sorts of areas.

“There is unprecedented concern about the natural environment, there are disruptive technologies, increasing legislation and all sorts of different things,” she told Rural News.

“But also farming is intergenerational and

farmers want to ensure that what they doing today will mean they’re farming in perpetuity. So the environment strategy has been developed to turn all the pressures we are experiencing today into opportunities for the future and to retake an intergenerational approach to what we are doing and how we are looking after the land.”

Beijeman says BLNZ will play several roles, notably in providing tools to support farmers in putting together the plans.

She says from her experience, sheep and beef farmers deeply care about the environment and they understand they can’t have a sustainable business if they don’t care about the environment.

WORLD LEADING CHANCE BLNZ CHIEF executive Sam McIvor reckons NZ sheep and beef farmers, as a sector, have an opportunity to be worldleading stewards of the natural environment and sustainable communities.

He says sheep and beef farmers have made meaningful improvements to their environmental performance and lowering emissions and they deserve credit for these gains.

“However, farmers know there is more to be done – not just extending the good work already underway but also taking new and different approaches,” he told Rural News.

“This includes adopting new management techniques that better connect actions to environmental outcomes, and

more onfarm monitoring and measuring that gives farmers confidence their actions are reaping benefits. We also need to inform the wider commuBLNZ chief executive Sam McIvor. nity to better understand the contributions farmers are making.”

McIvor says the strategy was developed in partnership with sheep and beef farmers who had significant input into the final document and are determined to be part of the solution.

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NEWS 19

New boss for Beingmate PAM TIPA pamelat@ruralnews.co.nz

BEINGMATE IS very close to appointing a chief executive officer, says Fonterra’s chief executive Theo Spierings.

Fonterra views this as the biggest step required at present, he says.

According to Spierings there is a mandate to execute a transformation plan and Beingmate returned a very small profit -which includes a government grant.

“There was pressure on turnover because the market is coming out of new regulations; there is turnover pressure but a small profit,” he says.

All recommended directors were appointed at the annual meeting, “so a very calm and stable reappointment process of directors”.

Fonterra’s formula product Anmum had strong development in pilots in two cities in the first three years of the partnership. Anmum is an important pillar of the Beingmate business right now, Spierings says.

They are clearly on a pathway to a $100 million target in consumer products in year three. But cashflow and liquidity had an impact over the last couple of the months.

Fonterra chief executive Theo Speirings.

Spierings says it is “important that there is cash to the people buying and growing the Anmum business”.

Fonterra has written down $405 million in its Beingmate business.

“Clearly this outcome is unacceptable to our shareholders,” the co-op says in the report.

“The recovery of the value of this investment is the number-one immediate priority for the chief executive and management team.

“As an 18.8% shareholder, we do not

have direct control over the company.

But we are working to influence its direction and continue to call for an urgent business transformation through our relationship with Beingmate’s founder and majority shareholder.

“The board (Fonterra’s) has a working group – that includes independent directors Simon Israel and Clinton Dines – who both have significant China experience and expertise – to provide guidance and oversight to management as they work to recover the investment.”

WEBSITES JUST DON’T CUT IT A DECISION by Stuff (formerly Fairfax) to close its farming publications is bad news for this country’s primary industries and the public, says Elaine Fisher, president of the New Zealand Guild of Agricultural Journalists and Communicators.

She says the closure of NZ Farmer and its four associated titles affects the jobs of 12 agricultural journalists.

“It is concerning to read that Stuff considers its website news platforms to be more important than print media for the rural sector. Rural connectivity is so bad in some places people can’t even call 111 let alone read an online newspaper.

“I know farming publications are retained in households for days if not weeks and read and discussed by several family and staff members,” Fisher adds.

“Farmers and growers need to be well-informed and they need journalists who know their industries to ask the hard ques-

tions of government and industry on their behalf, especially right now with the issue of the disease Mycoplasma bovis in dairy cows and the threat of an invasion of the brown marmorated stink bugs hovering over horticulturalists.

“Farmers and growers also need journalists who can tell the good news stories of what’s happening on the land, presenting a more balanced picture of our primary industries to the urban public.”

Meanwhile, locally owned Rural News Group says its newspapers will continue to serve the primary sector.

The company is not part of the closures and sell-offs announced this week by Stuff (formerly Fairfax) and NZX. Rural News Group publishes the leading national publications Rural News, Dairy News and NZ Winegrower; it also provides daily news updates on www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz.

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The global beef complex is looking strong. Production is up, consumption is up, and prices are favourable. But is this just the tip of the iceberg? And does the unknown that lies beneath have the potential to cause major disruption?

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The reduced export of dation pressures and saw Q1 exports are 20% Figure 4: Australian cattle prices (Eastern Young Cattle Figure 5: Brazilian beef exports, Jan 2015-Mar 2018 RabobankJan expects cattle prices rise. HowIndicator), 2015-May 2018higher in 2018 than in Brazilian beef exports, Jan 2015-Mar 2018 Figure Braziliandry retail protein prices, May 2017-May 2018 cattle prices are now at ever, 3: ongoing con2017. As was the case in 7.50 160 11 more sustainable levels ditions through other 2017, Hong Kong was the 6.50 120 for processors – and this parts of the country have main destination, buying 9 5.50 should help stabilise the increased sales of breedaround 110,000 tonnes 7 80 market. ing cattle and forced ear– an increase of almost 4.50Without a large liquidation of cattle, lier5 sales of lighter young 70% – compared to Q1 40 3.50 3 prices should remain cattle.

Despite these 2017. During the same steady2.50 over the coming increased volumes, cattle period, China and Egypt 0 1 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec months. prices have stabilised in were the second- and 2016 2017 2018 Five-year average recent weeks, indicating third-largest buyers of Beef Poultry Source: MLA,Pork Rabobank 2018 Source: Brazilian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services; prices have moved from Brazilian beef, increasing Brazil Rabobank 2018 Source: CEPEA, Rabobank 2018 a producer-driven priceby 32% and by more than BRAZILIAN BEEF AUD/kg

US weekly slaughter, Jan 2016-Apr 2018 2018 Figure 2: UScow weekly cow slaughter, Jan 2016-Apr

containing 34% of the US 7.50 While 100,000 head is a small volume in the context of National cattle slaughter numbers for YTD March cow herd.

(1.79m head) were up 6% YOY. The female proportion total Chinese beef production (7.1m tonnes), the 6.50 Cow slaughter is of slaughter hascattle increased from 45% to 49% over the potential flow-on effects of redirecting Australia already higher than pre5.50 three months, from other South-East Asian markets may set in reflecting motion a some destocking activities. vious years, and the likeIndicative numbers for April show numbers for the east shuffle of South-East Asian beef procurement.

4.50 lihood of some degree of coast rising again (up 19% YOY), as drier conditions in Indonesia’s announcement to import 100,000 tonnes of 3.50 southern areas force producers to offload stock forced liquidation during carabeef from India in 2018 would easily account for heading into winter. the coming grazing 100,000 cattle diverted to China. It 2.50 would also mean that Jan Feb Mar Apr May (88,179 Jun Jul tonnes Aug Sep Octwere Novup Dec beef exports in April swt) season is very high. a major marketTotal Indonesia becomes for India, potentially

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existent over the winter Production is up, The number of is states under some area, wheat production consumption up, that are currently measurable drought stress is 20. The percentage of beef sharply reducing winter and prices are favourcows in states with some degree of drought stress is grazing – forcing lightable.

Building pressures 70%. Eight states are currently rated Extreme or grow in some of Drought, the world’s Exceptional containingweight 34% of calves the US into cow herd. or directly into major beef markets have Cow slaughter is already higher yards than previous years, andthe degree offeed forced liquidation yard. the likelihood potential of tosome change during the coming grazing season isThere very high (see are currently 20 the course of the global Figure 2). states under some meamarket if they eventuate. surable drought stress.

Low domestic protein prices may force Brazilian The percentage of beef The US exports to rise cows inhas states with some DRY WEATHER con-market currently The Brazilian domestic a large degree of drought stress ditions have been aprotein. This availability of animal is a result of both the is 70%.inEight states major in the growthdisruption in beef supply, and the decline poultry and are porkcattle exports – due since to restrictions in the international currently rated Extreme US market

first load of cattle (some 1,600 cattle) left northern The Eastern CattleAustralian Indicator cattle fell through was down 9%.Young Like other prices,March live Australia in January. Some of theexport challenges with live 20% and April, outsince at just below pricesbefore havealevelling fallen the beginning of cattle supply chain – particularlythe inAUD cases in which 5.00/kg cwt (see Figure Although conditions year, with Indonesian light4). steers out of Darwin port protocols require cattle must bequoted slaughtered within remainatdry and availability ofthe fodder for purchase is AUD 2.80/kg lwt at beginning of May. 14 days of arrival – where supply islimited, variable appear to be cattle prices are now at more Rabobank expects overcome by utilising e-commercesustainable as a selling platform. levels for processors – and this should help Figure 4: Australian cattle pricesaYoung (Eastern Young Cattle Australian cattle prices Cattle Indicator), Jan With falling cattle prices in Australia, the economics of(Eastern stabilise the market.

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2015-May 2018 the trade also look more favourable. prices should remain steady

pidly eroding has basis levels following downward trend witnessed in 2017 (down 0.6% YOY). buffered the pricethe erosion to date.

China’s beef market continues to perform strongly, and poor feedlot margins, cattle herds in several forcing fed cattle to be conjunction with a seasonal increase in domestic cow kill, Rabobank now maintained the number-one position, with nearly 30% regions,Beef CME April live cattle contract, and consumption varies within the EU – Germany is despite some seasonal movement. While beef retail 2018 prices feeder import volumes sent toexperienced slaughter at lower weights. Production continues exerted downward pressure onIndonesia’s domestic cattle Without a measureable increase in feeder cattle share.

This is followed by Uruguay, which s of cattle on feed could be a signal of experiencing dynamic demand, while in other countries, prices are softening from the peak of February, they approximately 400,000 head, compared t to increase, with volumes for Q1 up 2.6%, increasing by from early April onwards. In early May, the North Island to the US, feeder cattle prices are expected to slower growth than other South American countries. ressure for theshipments summer market. retailers are required to stimulate demand with stand firmly above CNY 64/kg: 3% higher than the same 498,511 head 12,000 tonnes cwe (in line with Rabobank projections), bull price averaged NZD 5.15/kg cwt, and theachieved South in 2017. come under increasing pressure (see Figure 6). Moisture Argentina continues the strongest-growth momentum, promotions. period last year (see Figure 7). This contrasts with the from Canada to the US have been downare viewed compared toyear. the same period last year. Beef production Island bull price averaged NZDIndonesia’s 4.95/kg (down 3%2018 is expecte conditions across Canada as good to doubling its shipments in Q1, compared to last //beef RURAL NEWScwt JUNE 5, Rabobank supports consumption obal agribusiness sluggish pork prices, which are 36% lower than year-ago clients from cattle shippedexceptional from Canada to the USofisthe grazing season, providing Currently, prices are very disparate across therespectively, EU, has the potential tothe increase further if drought and 2%, on February 2018).toPrices forofprime earch analysts Imports from Australia have rebounded strongly after start farm to at forkthe in in 2018, a total 832,500 tonnes cwt, aring market outlooks levels. These movements now mean that the price ear-ago levels.forage Fed cattle shipments COUNTRIES depending on market access and cattle categories. conditions persist and cattle are sent to slaughter earlier cattle held relatively stable overconsumption the last quarter. slip in 2017, due to the improvement in Australian beef for feeder cattleare for the summer. US supplies of increasing 2% this year, to difference between the two meats has reached the hter cows down 33%, and breeding Relatively firm in the first quarter, prices should than expected. supply. Belarus will soon join the list of supplying cattle outside feed yards are expected to tighten through (including Providing the recent stabilisation of the USoffal). imported beef widest gap in the past decade. Rabobank expects the The decline inthe exports is aand result of fallContent supplied

by Rabobank with the transporting bank founded by farmers farmers experience seasonal pressure in the coming months. meat by train (afor 15-day journey) summer early – likely increasing demand for – Growcountries, Mexican cattle exports to the US declined by 8.7% price holds, Rabobank expects the depreciation of the lower pork prices to have more impact on poultry than es of Canadian cattle,exports following several to China. feeder from Canada later this year.

(38,000 head) in the first four months of 2018, compared New Zealand dollar against the US dollar, along with on beef prices. umbers. to the same period last year (see Figure 10).beef Given the continued lower domestic cattle supplies, to limit beef any prices, Jan 2016-Ap Figure 8:production EU production and consumption, 2010-2018 Figure 9: Indonesian The upstream sector has seen an even stronger Alberta fed steer prices, Jan 2016-Apr 2018 EU beef and consumption, 2010-2018 Figure 6: Alberta fed steer prices, Jan 2016-Apr 2018 Figure 7: Chinese retail meat prices, Jan 2016-Apr 2018 der cattle are the exception – up 33% previous years.

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8,400 in the US are supporting increased volume exported, the average number of heifers as a further, it is likely New Zealand beef prices would farmers for abattoirs. European estimates are thatfollow.

New This suggests that the limited cattle supply of locallyaccordproduced 28 65 117,000 although, at these175 levels, shipments of percent of total cattle exports currently stands at 18%, vs. cattle remains unchanged.

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24 AGRIBUSINESS

Rotorua farm wins Ahuwhenua WINNERS SET A HIGH STANDARD – CHAIR THE CHAIR of the Ahuwhenua Trophy management committee, Kingi Smiler, says both finalists set high standards in their farming and governance.

But there had to be a winner and the judges believed that on this occasion Onuku was the top performer, he said.

“I congratulate Onuku and commend them for their great farming operation and their commitment to the values of Sir Apirana Ngata and Lord Bledisloe.

“Every year we attract an amazing cohort of farmers, who showcase the success of Māori achievement in the agri business sector; long may this continue.”

Smiler applauded the event and acknowledged the positive feedback about how the awards were run.

“It’s all authentic and real, and people are appreciating it for the fact that these ordinary people are achieving such great things and honouring the legacy of the past. People are envious about the way this competition is run and wish they could duplicate it.”

Smiler noted the camaraderie of the finalists. He says while they both wanted to win, they were supportive of each other

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A ROTORUA Maori dairy farm of Onuku Māori Lands Trust has won this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy award for the top Maori dairy farm.

Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy named the farm at an awards function in Christchurch late last month. More than 650 people including Government ministers and people from central and local government and Maori agribusiness attended.

The big night of celebrated New Zealand’s longest-running farming competition.

The winning farm is Onuku’s Boundary Road property, one of several owned and operated by the trust.

The 72ha block near Lake Rotomahana, about 30km south of Rotorua, runs 220 cows that produce about 90,000kgMS. About 70 whanau from Rotorua travelled to Christchurch for the awards, held at the Airforce Museum at Wigram.

The other finalists were the proprietors of Mawhera Incorporation whose dairy farm is near Hokitika on the West Coast.

The Ahuwhenua Trophy was inaugurated 85 years ago by the great Māori Leader Sir Apirana Ngata and

Governor-General Lord Bledisloe to encourage Māori farmers to improve their land and overall farming position with an emphasis on sustainability.

Dame Patsy acknowledged that the finalists’ years of hard work had paid off and that they deserved to have the spotlight on their achievements. She said their expertise, leadership and innovation had earned them the accolades they were receiving.

Dame Patsy expressed delight at the emphasis on the environment in the awards criteria, especially given public awareness of environmental degradation.

Ahuwhenua Trophy management committee chair Kingi Smiler.

and keen to celebrate whoever won.

He said that in 2020 horticulture will be introduced into the Ahuwhenua competition, starting a three-year rotation between sheep and beef, dairy and horticulture. This natural progression will reflect Maori’s heavy involvement in horticulture.

Politicians and the industry are hugely supportive and a new cup will be made for this competition.

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AGRIBUSINESS 25 TWO WONDERFUL 85-YEAR-OLDS

Harepaora Ngaheu performs a stirring haka after his win.

Young winner up to the challenge

Moyra Bramley with the Ahuwhenua Trophy.

the trust given the volatile nature of the dairy industry.

While Bramley is delighted at winning the Ahuwhenua Trophy, she is also mindful of the other finalist, Mawhera from the West Coast.

“There are no winners and no

losers. In my mind, we are all striving to achieve the same results and Mawherea are striving just as hard as we are to maintain incomes. While we are getting all the publicity I feel we share this trophy with Mawhera,” she says.

encourage young Māori to choose farming as a career and to show prospective employers the Maori talent pool.

Lead judge Peter Little said that once again there was a good response of entrants for the awards. He said selecting a winner is never easy given the pool of young Māori, who in a short time are making great progress in their careers in agriculture.

Little said Harepaora Ngaheu exemplifies all that is good about young Māori who are making successful careers in the primary sector.

Ngaheu has shown great commitment to his work and family and to excellent leadership in the community.

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THE WINNER of this year’s Ahuwhenua Young Māori Farmer Award is Harepaora Ngaheu (26) from Te Teko in eastern Bay of Plenty.

Ngaheu was named by the Māori trustee and chief executive of Te Tumu Paeroa, Jamie Tuuta, at the awards function in Christchurch, run as part of the Ahuwhenua Trophy for the top Māori dairy farm.

Ngaheu manages a dairy farm near Te Teko but plans to go contract milking for the same farmer in the new season. He was also a finalist in the 2016 competition.

The Young Māori Farmer Award was first held in 2012 to recognise talented upand-coming young Māori farmers and to

THE CHAIR of the Onuku Maori Lands Trust, Moyra Bramley, shares something in common with the Ahuwhenua trophy she received on behalf of her organization.

They are both 85 years old.

Bramley was born in the year the cup was inaugurated.

She told Rural News that winning the trophy was unbelievable and very exciting, the culmination of her 36 years work on the trust and a dream come true.

Bramley said she had a lot of helpers, especially during the formative years. “I’m just one who has outlasted all of them.”

She said the highlight of her time on the Onuku Trust was when they first paid their shareholders a dividend, which they still do, and make grants for education and their kaumatua.

She believes this says a lot about

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Decision made THE JOINT decision by the Government and industry to implement a $886 million plan to try to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis is a brave one, as there is no guarantee of success.

Opinion is divided about the decision on phased eradication. However, overall there seems to be general agreement that this is the only chance to wipe out M.bovis because there will never be another opportunity to eradicate it.

While government agencies and industry have been at pains to emphasise that this plan will see some 150,000 animals culled over two years, with around 192 properties having their animals slaughtered, this represents only a small percentage of New Zealand’s farms and cattle.

This will be cold comfort for the unfortunate farmers whose herds and farms are impacted.

They will be – as Fed’s Katie Milne succinctly put it – taking one for the team, so they must be looked after, treated with respect, supported and compensated for their losses quickly and fairly.

Those responsible for enacting the plan must have as their number-one priority the processing of affected farmers’ claims for compensation and rapid payment. That is the least these farmers deserve for ‘taking one for the team’.

Equally important will be wrap-around support of these farmers and their families during this terrible time.

It is good to see that the Rural Support Trust – already doing marvellous work with impacted farmers – will be gearing up as the M.bovis eradication plan moves into action. Rural Support Trust national council chairman Neil Bateup says it will be keeping in contact with these farmers, supporting each one and ensuring their continuing contact with a trust person skilled in providing all necessary support.

It is pleasing to note that the $886 million set aside for the M.bovis plan includes funding for Acute Farmer Support to those affected, funding for a Rural Mental Wellness programme and Rural Support Trust funding.

In the meantime, any finger-pointing and blame-gaming about how and when the disease got here – especially by politicians – needs to stop.

This does nothing to help implement the plan.

Now the decision has been made, it is time for all of us to get behind the plan and ensure it has the best-possible chance of succeeding.

There will be time for a proper review of how M.bovis arrived in NZ and what led to its spread.

Once we have all the facts, then those at fault can be properly dealt with, lessons learned and, hopefully, the necessary steps put in place to prevent New Zealanders ever having to endure such a problem again.

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YOUR OLD mate hears that with this year’s National Fieldays just around the corner, the organisation’s big boss Peter Nation has recently returned from a fact-finding mission to Disneyland – to find out how things work at the wonderful world of Disney. An unkind associate of the Hound reckons it is totally appropriate for the Fieldays head honcho to be looking at the home of Goofy, Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge for ideas on how to run things at Mystery Creek. He told yours truly that, despite 50 years in business, the Green Jacket Brigade often come up with some real Mickey Mouse ideas and rules for running the event. While your old mutt’s mate may very well say this, your canine crusader couldn’t possibly comment.

THE HOUND has always believed the multinational, former taxdodging, eco-terrorist group Greenpeace to be suspect in the way it behaves – especially towards the farming sector. And now it’s also been caught out in the way it tries to elicit money from people. A recent media report disclosed that pushy and unprofessional Greenpeace telemarketers are turning off some aspiring philanthropists wishing to donate to the group. It discovered that pressuring, guilt-tripping and – in some cases – withdrawing more money than originally agreed upon, were some of the criticisms levelled against the New Zealand branch of the well-known environmental conservation organisation. Your old mate now understands why Greenpiece NZ was declined charity status – and the tax-free benefits that go with that – earlier this year.

YOUR CANINE crusader has been intrigued by the very poor mainstream media coverage of the M.bovis issue. It seems the reef fish in the general media have only picked up in the last few weeks or so just how serious this is for the farming sector and New Zealand in general, despite the disease being discovered (and covered extensively in the rural media) since July last year. And what the Hound has found most disconcerting about the general media coverage is the so-called ‘experts’ used by the TV luvvies to comment on the issue. The worst example is TV3’s breakfast show, which recently called on little more than a glorified snake oil salesman as an M.bovis authority. A quick Google search of the supposed ‘expert’ by the show’s producers would have disclosed that he is no more qualified to comment on the subject than is Donald Trump.

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Thankfully, the powers-that-be at Rural News Group are committed to publishing papers and a website focussed on the rural sector, so the Hound will be occupying his kennel for many years yet. Meantime, your old mate suggests the decision by Stuff and its bean-counters to can its rural papers and journos can rightly be described as an absolute stuff-up.

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OPINION 27

The danger of long hours IT WAS a headline that should remind all of us about the risks of asking our staff or ourselves to work very long hours.

It read: Tractor driver had worked almost 200 hours in the fortnight leading up to his death and followed a WorkSafe prosecution.

Let’s be honest. Our businesses are built around getting a lot of work done in what is sometimes a short window of time. We and our staff often work literally from dawn to dusk.

Available time windows are often shortened by weather.

As rural contractors, we do our best. Look at our efforts to recruit overseas operators to fill some of the gaps. But there has to be a limit to what we ask staff to do or take on ourselves.

Back to that headline.

A court had heard that In October 2016, a worker for a Waikato contracting company had been assisting with harvesting

operations on a farm in Pukekawa. The man had logged a 16.75 hour day before leaving the farm, taking a tractor home in preparation for the next day’s work. At 2.45am he crashed the tractor and died as a result of injuries sustained during the accident.

WorkSafe found the worker had worked 197.25 hours in the fortnight leading up to his death.

Fatigue was identified as the most likely cause of the accident.

The company had a health and safety document prepared earlier that year, identifying fatigue as a high rating hazard and outlined man-

Rural contractors need to ensure they and their workers are not working ridiculous hours.

agement steps including monitoring work hours and break times. As too often happens, it was not implemented.

As WorkSafe said: “Seasonal work and tasks like harvest can put a huge amount of pressure on everyone involved.

Managing the risks is essential. The life, health and wellbeing of your workers must be your number-one priority.”

None of us wants to face up to a grieving family or leave our own facing such a loss. We all know that there is a limit to how many hours we can work and keep performing at a high level.

Inevitably, after 8, 10 or 12 hours, none of us is functioning at our best, no matter how much coffee or food we’ve had.

As responsible rural contractors, part of what we need to do is set realistic expectations. Tell the farmer that you can do a set number of hours but then it’s not worth the risk to them, you or

your staff to push well past that.

While the financial risks should pale into insignificance alongside the potential human cost, these also need to be considered.

In the Waikato fatality, the court indicated that

a fine of $325,000 could have been appropriate.

Reparation of $80,000 was ordered along with a $10,000 fine.

For failing to stop workers being exposed to serious injury or death arising from fatigue, the maximum penalty is a

fine of $1.5m.

The Waikato death was the first sentencing for fatigue-related failings since the introduction of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. Sadly, it may not be the last but let’s work to make sure we as RCNZ members

protect our staff – and ourselves.

• Steve Levet is a Northland-based agricultural contractor and president of Rural Contractors of New Zealand @rural_news facebook.com/ruralnews

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28 OPINION

Nothing new in ‘regenerative’ IT CAME as no surprise in the news this month that farmers following the regenerative path use photosynthesis to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and replace it with lifegiving oxygen.

Photosynthesis is what all farmers use; it is what plants do when temperatures, moisture and nutrient availability allow. Photosynthesis is the fundamental process for life on earth and is also responsible for the stored energy we refer to as fossil fuel.

Far more newsworthy would have been if photosynthesis hadn’t been involved -- if some process for creating energy and protein had been discovered where land and sunlight were not needed.

Other factors in the statements about regenerative agriculture were that it supports a robust soil microbiome, regenerates topsoil, enhances the nutrient density of food, restores water balance to the landscape and increases the profitability of agriculture.

Photosynthesis is wonderful.

Whether all those factors are possible depends on the management of the system, and the balance between

the carbon coming into the plant through photosynthesis and leaving through harvest of the plant, milk or meat. In turn, that depends on the temperature, moisture and nutrient availability.

The process being described for the soil microbiome and regeneration of topsoil is the availability of plant material through litter and dying roots to feed micro-organisms and allow the build-up of organic matter in the soil.

Our Land 2018 reported that 95% of sites are within the target range for soil carbon. This would tend to suggest that conventional farmers have been doing a good job in managing photosynthesis and the balance between carbon in and carbon out.

Nutrient density of food is also an interesting issue, having received increasing media coverage over recent years. The concept is maximum nutri-

locations cultivated intenent concentration per unit of Far more newsworthy would food. The theory is that over sively with various fertiliser the years, the nutrient concen- have been if photosynthesis treatments. tation has declined. This over- hadn’t been involved – if some Analyses of modern versus looks the basic point that most old crop varieties grown sidefood we consume has a biologi- process for creating energy and by-side, and archived samcal function. Lettuce leaves are protein had been discovered ples, did show lower mineral for photosynthesis; raspberries concentrations in some variwhere land and sunlight were attract birds so that seed diseties bred for higher yields, persal occurs; peas contain not needed. but apparent declines repthe nutrients for germination; resented small absolute meat is muscle and moves changes. The author connutrient content. limbs; milk is a perfect food cluded that the benefits of The authors stressed the impor- increased yield to supply food for for babies and changes in nutritional profile with stage in lactation thereby tance of measuring the nutrient con- expanding populations outweigh small meeting the needs of the growing off- tents of both old and new cultivars nutrient dilution effects addressed by simultaneously by the same, modern eating the recommended daily servings spring.

The argument that modern day methods. of vegetables, fruits and whole grains.

A review of literature, precipitated farming methods have changed the As for water balance and profitabilnutritional profile is supported by by the same concerns about nutrient ity, the last two factors, the answer is only limited evidence. The US Depart- density was published last year in the it depends on how good the farmer is, ment of Agriculture examined changes Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences. not on whether the system is regenerin nutritional profile in 43 different The author, from the Bureau of Nutri- ative or conventional: both depend on garden crops between 1950 and 1999 tional Sciences, Health Canada, also photosynthesis. and concluded that there were small made the point that measurements • Dr Jacqueline Rowarth is a PhD changes in protein, Ca, P, Fe, riboflavin must be made at the same time using in soil science (nutrient cycling) and and ascorbic acid. The explanation was the same methods and equipment. He has been analysing agri-environment changes in cultivated varieties between reported that comparisons with match- interaction for several decades. @rural_news 1950 and 1999, in which there may have ing archived soil samples showed soil facebook.com/ruralnews been trade-offs between yield and mineral content has not declined in

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OPINION 29

Farmers deserve answers STEVE CRANSTON

MOST FARMERS would be surprised to learn there is no evidence that New Zealand agriculture is warming the planet.

All that farmers have heard from scientists, the Government and at times their own companies is that agriculture is a major contributor to NZ’s emissions.

However, what everyone forgot to tell the farmers is that no direct correlation exists between methane emissions and global warming. The problem is that the accounting method used fails to acknowledge the fact methane is constantly degrading back to CO2, and it is only when emissions exceed degradation that warming will occur.

This is not to say that climate change is not a global problem or that farmers can’t be part of the solution, it’s just to point out that the science does not support the urgency the Government apparently feels about agricultural emissions.

Given that the ETS was created to stop global warming, I went on a mission to find out if NZ agriculture had a warming problem. I contacted every climate change research organisation in the country, I asked universities, DairyNZ, NIWA, MfE – in desperation I even reached out to the NZ Green Party for help.

The only ‘evidence’ provided was a flimsy graph sent by Andy Reisinger from the NZAGRC; it came with no peer review, no supporting research and no references. It appears the entire case for methane being included in the ETS is resting on a drawing.

The only real way to know if NZ agriculture is actually warming the planet is to model how much CO2 is sequestered by trees on agricultural land and balance this against N20 emissions and any net increase in atmospheric methane. The final result may indeed show some slight warming – or even a cooling trend – but without this modelling we will never know.

Another major over-

sight by the Government, which will eventually turn out to be rather embarrassing, is the fact that methane emissions – which form 85% of agriculture’s total emissions – may not even meet the UN definition of climate change. For this to happen, atmospheric methane concentrations must be increasing and with national stock numbers dropping this may no longer be the case. I’m no lawyer, but I would think any ETS policy should be consistent with the UN definition if using climate change as a justification for the tax.

As if all this wasn’t enough, methane emitters will be treated quite differently from CO2 emitters in the ETS. You see, Air New Zealand could in theory achieve net zero CO2 emissions by planting lots of trees to offset the CO2 spewed out of their planes’ exhausts.

The company would be warming neutral and pay no ETS and would likely be hailed as an environmental hero.

A farmer, on the other hand, who has had stable stock numbers for the last 12 years would have net zero methane emissions – which would also be warming neutral. However, he will still pay an ETS on the methane he emits each year. The Government owes farmers an explanation for this discrepancy.

Given that David Parker has generously offered to ‘subsidise’ 95% of all agricultural emissions, it leaves the general public with a distinct impression that farmers are being protected, when in fact the Government has no idea if they are even adding to the problem.

All other industries and NZ are simply targeting net zero emissions, i.e. no further change to the atmospheric CO2 concentration. For reasons known only to the Government agriculture has been singled out to reduce its atmospheric methane concentration below today’s level.

If historical emissions are the reason agriculture is being included in the ETS then James Shaw should just say so.

He should also explain his plan to include other industries’ historical emissions. Air NZ’s emissions from 1996 are still warming the planet today, what is the Government’s plan to make them pay?

What is most disappointing in the climate change discussion is the complete lack of vision

shown by the industry. We are probably the only major agricultural exporter that can achieve net zero emissions and be warming neutral, yet we continue to follow the Government lead and talk in the flawed GWP accounting language.

Maybe it will become more obvious in a few

years; when synthetic protein makers are using our own industry emissions data against us we will realise the opportunity we missed. Let’s hope it doesn’t take that long.

• Steven Cranston is an agricultural and environmental consultant for Cranston Consulting in Waikato.

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30 MANAGEMENT

Would you happily eat that?

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FARMERS NEED to ask themselves how often they have loaded onto a truck an animal they would not be happy eating, says Nuffield scholar David Kidd.

“I will put my hand up and say ‘I have done it, I have thought I just want you gone’,” Kidd told a Puhoi Beef + Lamb NZ field day.

Are we finishing animals properly?

Kidd asked, in a challenging address on the need to create value in our product.

Kidd, a former Young Farmer of the Year, visited six countries in the Global Focus Programme as part of his Nuffield Scholarship.

He visited 16-farm dairy operation in Brazil owned by NZ interests where they produce UHT milk on an all-grass system. In a year they can turn wasteland -- scrub, not forest -- to productive pasture running 10 cows/ha on a 24-day round.

In Japan he saw an industrial beef finishing farm with Friesian steers coming out of the dairy industry. Like

SHOCKING TRACEABILITY IS one of the lessons from the M.bovis scenario, David Kidd said.

“NAIT was introduced partly to give confidence to our overseas markets that we knew where our animals had been and where they were farmed throughout their lifetime. That was our entrance into some of these markets.

“We have had a major scare; hopefully we can get on top of it. But at least it’s not a disease that is absolutely life threatening like foot and mouth or BSC. “[Our inability] to find where all those animals have gone and which farms they have been through is shocking.”

many industrial systems they knew the cost of feeding each animal down to the last cent.

“The greatest story we have in NZ is being able to tell exactly what happened out there,” says Kidd, who manages a sheep and beef farm at Shelly Beach, on the Kaipara Harbour west of Auckland.

“Water and sunlight from the sky, beautiful fertile soils and the most you do is put on a bit of NPK.” A big value-add opportunity NZ has is to improve its traceability and be able to show the history of the animal.

The impact of farming on the environment is becoming hugely important particularly to big-business consumers of our product.

“Because the McDonalds, the Nestles, don’t want to hear a [negative] story that can be linked to them from earlier in the supply chain.”

Packaging is a key factor he noted during his world travels. He showed an example of veal packaging making claims such as antibiotic free, hormone free, humanely harvested and vegetarian fed. Most of our animals meet those claims. “But to make those claims at a retail level you must have traceability and assurance all the way back to the start.”

The US company Wholefoods has adopted ‘global animal practice’ which rates how the animal has been treated in its life and the way it has been grown. It runs from systems one to

Nuffield scholar David Kidd.

five with five the highest.

Most of our systems would make the four grade as a pasture-centric model, he says. There is not a lot of four in their markets because most of their animals are grain-fed.

He met with McDonalds, which has set up a global roundtable for sustainable beef. He was told by a McDonalds representatives that Brazil, Paraguay, Canada, US and Australia have all signed the accord. It sets a level of standards that generally in NZ we

would meet comfortably. But we are only now getting involved.

“Too often we are a fast follower not a leader. It is important to recognise how it is for major companies like McDonalds, Burger King -- the companies that take our product -- that we sign up to these global accords.”

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MANAGEMENT 31

Deer industry launches new code DAVID ANDERSON

DEER FARMERS recently joined their peers in the sheep and beef sector in launching an environmental strategy.

The new Deer Industry Environmental Management Code of Practice – the first for a New Zealand pastoral industry – was launched at the deer industry conference in Timaru last month.

“It is intended to keep the deer industry at the forefront of efforts to improve water quality and we strongly encourage farmers to adopt it,” said Ian Walker, chair of Deer Industry NZ (DINZ).

Walker believes most deer farmers are already highly motivated to have a great environment on their farms.

“To keep waterways clean, deer farmers are

fencing their deer out of streams and taking measures to keep valuable soil where it belongs – on the farm, growing grass.”

Walker claims the deer sector has always been a leader in environmental management, with the NZ Deer Farmers Association first publishing its Landcare Manual in 2004 that was updated in 2012. He says the new code builds on this work.

“Over the past couple of decades, the deer industry has done plenty to stay ahead of the pack,” he said. “The launch of the Deer Industry Environment awards by the late Sir Peter Elworthy was an important landmark.

“These awards are more relevant than ever today; they showcase our efforts to the public and our markets, and more

where the new code comes in. It provides deer farmers drafting a plan with practical answers to the environmental challenges they face.”

The outgoing chair of the NZ Deer Farmers’ Association, David Morgan, says the new code is a “fantastic resource” that’s practical and easy to follow.

“Good environmental management goes together with good animal husbandry. Deer that are healthy, well-fed, not stressed and given the room to act like deer are a lot easier on the environment than a poorly managed herd,” he said.

importantly they showcase good management practices to other deer farmers. As we all know, farmers learn best from other farmers.”

Walker says examples of this are the deer industry’s focus farms and advance parties that concentrate on environmental management, where farmers can pick up good ideas first hand.

“While many farmers have fenced off their waterways and retired erosion-prone areas, regional councils, customers, visitors and our fellow NZers want proof that we take our environmental obligations seriously,” he says.

“That means having farm environment plans that show we are doing our best to protect soil and water, and ensuring streams, rivers and lakes stay clean. That’s

“I’ve noticed on farms that are actively making changes to improve the environment that they don’t have to wait long before they start seeing results.”

Meanwhile, Walker says while deer farm-

ers can be proud of what they’ve achieved so far, there is more work to do.

“Are we ahead of the game on environmental matters? I couldn’t say for sure, but I do know that the deer industry now has to work harder than ever to keep up let alone keep ahead.”

He says regional councils are now working to put the amended National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management into effect.

“And it would be fair to say that with the

change of government last year, that policy direction isn’t going to change any time soon,” Walker adds.

“It’s no longer good enough to just go out and change a few things on your place in the hope that you’ll be complying with any new restrictions on things like nutrient or sediment loss. It takes good planning, good advice and good documentation. You need to show you’re doing the right thing.”

Walker says the Deer Industry Environmental Management Code of Practice will do two things.

The deer sector has an ambitious goal of seeing a third of all deer farmers using the code of practice to put together a Farm Environment Plan by 2019, and all deer farms by 2020.

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32 MANAGEMENT

Green doesn’t necessarily mean more greenbacks STEPHEN COOKE

DAIRY FARMERS running pasturebased systems on the coast of California have adapted their practice to produce organic milk.

However, the rise in farmers making the transition over the past few years has caused a fall in organic prices.

The Bordessa family – Gary and Sandra and sons Jarrid and Gino – use the grass-based system for their organic endeavour at Valley Ford, north of San Francisco.

They milk 700 cows on two farms and carry an additional 110 dry cows.

The average herd size in the Bay area is 500 head.

About 100 dairy farms operate in the Bay area. The neighbouring Central Valley is where larger farms use total mixed ration (TMR) systems.

The Bordessas have been organic since 2003 and supply the US national Organic Valley dairy co-operative.

They were the third dairy farm in the area to make the transition to organic.

More farms have transitioned over the last few years to take advantage of higher prices. However, this has caused organic prices to fall.

About two years ago Jarrid said organic farms were particularly profitable while conventional farms were breaking even.

Since then more farmers have transitioned and Gary believes there is probably about 15% too much organic milk being produced. This and a reduction in demand from consumers has led to a drop in prices at the farmgate.

It has also limited the Bordessas’ production as they aren’t able to sell any

Gary and Jarrid Bordessa on their Californian dairy farm.

more than what their co-op dictates.

When they first started producing organic milk they received $19 per 100 pounds of milk, and prices rose to as high as $38. It is now $28, which is almost twice the price of conventional milk. This is the base price and they receive premiums for lower somatic cell count and better components.

When they look like meeting their milk limit, they sell heifers or feed cheaper alfalfa to reduce production.

“Organic has been really good for us. We’ve learned a lot going organic,” Gary says.

“We initially went organic because we thought the money is there. Our idea was to go organic and milk first lactation cows. We thought it wouldn’t work, because we were used to the old way, but it did.”

Under the organic system, cows

must be on pasture for at least 120 days and receive 30% of DM year round from pasture. Farmers also can’t use anti-biotics and pesticides.

Cows at Bordessa Dairy are fed a mixed ration comprising silage made from their ryegrass pastures, almond hulls, roasted soy beans, soy hull pellets, dried distillers grain, corn, alfalfa, and minerals.

For five months of the year they receive half this ration while they are able to graze. They retain access to pasture all year round and rest in a barn at night.

The family farms on 1000ha and grows silage on 160ha. They have paddocks of 10-12ha and a 23 day rotation.

They plant annual ryegrass every year and buy whatever seed is cheapest as it is effectively supplementing the mixed ration.

The Central Valley is underpinned by an extensive irrigation scheme, but those in the Bay area rely on rainfall.

“Water is a limiting factor in this area,” Jarrid says. “We basically have enough to water our cows.”

The average rainfall is 720mm, although it can get as high as 1440mm or as low as 360mm, which falls within 3 months. Their last two years have been wet, but before that it was dry for five years.

With the advent of sexed semen and genomics they have started using beef semen in the bottom 25% of their herd.

“With the advent of sexed semen, replacement animals are not worth anything,” Jarrid explains.

When the beef market was soaring, dairy calves at a day old were selling for $550 each. That’s now fallen to $30

each. Farmers are now receiving $100 for an Angus calf and up to $250 for a Wagyu calf.

Cows with mastitis receive Banamine (a liquid pain relief) to aid swelling and are left to recover. Gary says around half get better and the other half are culled.

“With mastitis, in our experience, cows clean up or they’re not going to.

If they don’t clean up there’re gone.”

They are also utilising an organic product from Alltech called Select GH A+, which reduces issues caused by mycotoxins and aids gut recovery.

It solved a fall in milk production and loose manure caused by toxin in the silage. Bordessa Farms also uses BioMos to reduce diarrhoea problems in the calves. It has helped them reduce the mortality rate in their calves.

Gary says they have gained production in their pastures since turning organic, which he attributes to learning more about their soil and pasture seeds.

It currently costs more to produce organic milk as their organic feed costs have risen. Organic corn used to be $200/tonne but is now $600/t. Gary says their cost of production is about twice that of a conventional farm.

However, their income is also twice that of a conventional farm.

“We’re still better off,” he adds.

“Even if we went back to producing conventional milk, we still wouldn’t use dry treatment, mastitis treatment, or hormones.”

• Stephen Cooke visited California courtesy of Alltech with a group of New Zealand dairy farmers as part of the Alltech Dairy Tour, which coincided with its annual One Conference.

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Park your car, hop on a bus TICKET PRICE HIKE

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SUSTAINABILITY REMAINS a key focus for the National Fieldays, says NZ Fieldays Society chief executive Peter Nation.

The Fieldays has a sustainability policy; about 47% of waste from last year’s event went into recycling, edging closer to its target of 55%.

Nation says Fieldays is also trying to reduce its environmental footprint by getting more people to bus to Mystery Creek.

Fieldays last year moved 11,000 people by buses, and more bus services are in place this year. It applied for funding from the Waipa District Council for extra buses but was turned down.

Nation says under the regional council charter, Waipa Council cannot support an event people have to pay to attend. “Unfortunately we got turned down; it’s a shame.”

So Fieldays will pay to run extra buses. “By getting more people travelling to the event by bus we are helping reduce carbon emission,” Nation says.

“Our research shows that only 2.3

THE TICKET price will be higher for the 2018 Fieldays.

Anyone aged over 15 will pay a new adult rate of $30/day, versus $25/day last year. Youngsters 5-14 years will pay still $15. Children under five get in free.

Fieldays chief executive Peter Nation says the ticket price hike has been “fairly accepted so far. It’s still a cheap day out.”

He says even with support of sponsors the NZ Fieldays Society has to fund site infrastructure development and the education and health centres, and run buses.

Peter Nation

people travel per car to Fieldays so our car pooling is not great. We are committed to getting more people to travel by buses -- reducing impact on roads and educating them about using public transport.”

As usual, sites for the Fieldays were sold out well in advance to at least 1100 exhibitors. Some companies are spending a lot to enlarge their sites.

“Companies come to Fieldays to promote their brand, release new tech-

nology, sell products and re-invest in existing customers,” Nation says.

“A lot of companies come here and spend money; they don’t sell much but it’s all about getting connections and getting brands in front of 130,000 people.”

When Nation took up the chief executive’s post three years ago, he famously said Fieldays wasn’t about ferris wheels and candy floss.

“We are a technology and innovation show and we have to keep growing to stay relevant; we leave the ferris wheels and candy floss to the A&P shows.”

Highlights year will include international exhibitors including a team of the Czech Republic taking part for the first time; Ireland, South Korea, Australia, the US and UK are also coming.

One notable absentee is China; a delegation attended last year.

The careers and education hub launched two years ago continues to attract interest; about 1000 students are pre-booked to attend Fieldays.

This year, the growing health and wellbeing hub has been moved into the education centre; more exhibitors have registered.

The Fieldays kitchen has moved to a new location; 13 celebrity chefs will be in action over the four days.

Kitchen sponsor Greenlea Meats will have its master butcher on hand to teach people on prime meat cuts and cooking.

In the Central Village a special wall will feature Fieldays history. Nation hopes this area will become a popular place for selfies.

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It looks like meat...

MASSEY UNIVERSITY is living the ‘future of farming’ theme at National Fieldays this year with robots, future foods artificially intelligent farm assistants, and a focus on health and wellbeing.

This is the university’s first year as a partner of the Fieldays event overall, and its second year partnering in the health and wellbeing programme.

Massey’s stand in the main pavilion will display an artificially intelligent farm assistant.

The screen-based prototype will allow people visiting the stand to ask farm-related questions of an avatar. Voice recognition technology and pre-loaded farm data

BEDFORD TRUCK MASSEY’S FIRST exhibit was brought up on a Bedford truck by a young Ralph Sims, now a Massey professor at the forefront of climate change issues.

In that truck, Professor Sims had farm machinery teaching equipment and a tent.

In 1975, Sims also started the tractor pull competition as a way to educate drivers about good driving to save fuel.

will enable the avatar to quickly analyse the question and put forward answers and solutions.

The stand will also have plant-based proteins, including soy patties that look and taste like meat, and bread made from nut and cricket flour.

Massey’s College of Health will have a stand in the Health Hub, where they will be asking

crowds to play a spin-thewheel style health promotion game designed to engage people in conversations about health and wellbeing.

It will cover different health topics including nutrition, exercise and social life, to expand people’s knowledge so they can better look after themselves and others.

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students will run a ‘sugary drink’ activity, where people can try different drinks, like flavoured waters, to find out more about sugar in drinks and the alternatives.

Massey knowhow will also feature on other sites.

The C-Dax stand (site F25) will show the C-Dax pasture meter robot developed with graduates from Massey University and representing the future of smart farming.

The robot uses pasture meter technology to measure pasture, autonomously allowing for its optimum use while saving labour costs.

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graduates Mitchell Hampton and Tim Sutcliffe, now working with C-Dax on the next stage of field trials, will front the display.

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entered in the Fieldays Innovation Awards.

On the Massey Agritech Research Centre stand the professor of robotics, Johan Potgieter, will talk about the future of

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Honey idea got him buzzing five years ago A LAD from a dairy farm in Wairarapa has commercialised bee-keeping technology after a prototype invention won him the 2013 Fieldays Innovation Awards in the Launch NZ category.

Grant Engel is the brains behind Revolutionary Beekeeping, a mobile stainless steel harvester

latest developments likely to shape the future of farming and primary industries. Categories include grassroots ideas through to small-tomedium business product launches and international agribusiness innovations.

“A lot of the innovations I had been seeing

“Being able to launch the product at Fieldays put us on a platform.” that enables beekeepers to extract honey straight from the hive, instead of transporting frames from hives to an off-site processor.

As a child visiting Fieldays, Engel was inspired by the inventions and new technology on show.

He decided that one day he would return with an invention of his own.

Years later, after moving from Wairarapa to a dairy farm in Kerikeri, Northland, Engel saw the region’s focus on bees and honey and he started dabbling in beekeeping.

“I realised that taking honey away from the hive and processing it was much like getting a dairy cow and driving it to a shared facility where it was milked and then taking it back to a site; it didn’t make a lot of sense.

I thought I could come up with something different.”

Engel invented a device to enable beekeepers to harvest honey by putting each hive frame through a machine quickly to extract honey, right next to the hive.

Harvesting honey onsite also removes the risk of spreading disease between hives, long a risk for honey harvesters.

Says Engel, “The Fieldays Innovations Centre was always my first stop at Fieldays. I wanted to enter something so I could be on stage alongside all the other innovations that had inspired me -- my childhood dream.”

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were generally focused on traditional agriculture, so I thought something to do with beekeeping would be a bit left-field and new,” Engel said.

“Very little really looked at time-saving technology or innovation in beekeeping and honey.”

Engel’s innovation went on to win the Launch NZ category.

“Being able to launch the product at Fieldays put us on a platform. It allowed a lot of people to see our product, and ultimately winning the award took the business to the next level.”

Engel reckons the key to success with innovation is being passionate about what you do.

“I wanted to find a solution to a common problem; I knew we couldn’t keep doing things the way they had always been done.

“Even in the last 10 years much has changed in the honey industry.

Our hives have just about doubled and biosecurity is much more an issue.

“The industry needs to be constantly re-visiting and re-evaluating what we’re doing to make sure we’re protecting our food producers and the sustainability of our products.”

Since 2015, Revolutionary Beekeeping has taken off. The business has hives and beekeepers from Northland to Canterbury; its supporters include Landcorp and the sustainable dairy farming fund Southern Pastures.

It has also expanded into collecting and bro-

kering honey directly from commercial beekeepers, enabling them to make profit from their honey.

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Nation says Engel’s story resonates with him.

“Many families and young children attend Fieldays every year, and you see them walking

wide-eyed through the Innovations Centre. It’s fantastic to think that Fieldays is inspiring the next generation of inventors.”

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6G with no phones in sight MARK DANIEL markd@ruralnews.co.nz

THERE’S NO denying the Series 6 tractors from German manufacturer

Deutz Fahr look sharp in the design department.

So the decision by importer Power Farming Wholesale to replace the outgoing M Series with

a new 6G Series makes sense, by building on the looks of its higher-spec brothers.

Offered in a power range from 135 to 205hp,

the 6135G, 6155G, 6185G and 6205G are offered in two wheelbases -- the 6135 and 6155 are the shorter -- and two specification levels, via the

already familiar Vista and Summit versions.

Power is provided by a Deutz TCD 2012, 2-valve, 6-cylinder engine of 6.1L that meets Tier 3A emission regulations without the need for any aftertreatment such as SCR. The base transmission, a ZF-sourced semipowershift unit, has 30 forward and 15 reverse speeds via 6 main speeds and 5 ranges, and has auto-powershift changes, and range changing on the two larger models.

For buyers looking for a greater number of choices, indent units can be optioned with 24+12, 48+24, 54+27 or 54+27 robotised change, while the Vista and Summit offer 40 or 50km/h maximum speed respectively.

Dependent on model, another option is cruise control with auto shifting to maintain the desired speed.

At the rear of the tractor, final drives have been reinforced to deal with

increased power and lift capacity, while an increase in the size of the oil immersed brake discs increases stopping power.

Ahead of those final drives Sense Clutch is fitted as standard, allowing 5-step adjustment of the aggressiveness of the clutch take-up, depending on the job in hand, while the indent option of Stop and Go allows the operator to bring the tractor to a stop using the brake pedal.

Up front, Carraro axles are equipped with LSD or full lock autosensing diffs dependent on model, with the Summit models using the latest Deutz Fahr suspension system with 120mm travel, and unique features like anti-dive and anti-rise for high transport speeds and safe stopping.

Returning to the rearend, base models

have an open-centre hydraulic system of 84L/ min, rising to 110L/min in the 6155G, while Summit versions have a closedcentre load-sensing system that delivers up to 125L/min on the 6205G. A 4-speed PTO system is fitted to all models, and includes Auto PTO as standard Lift capacities are rated to 6200kg and 9700kg on Vista and Summit versions respectively, and all machines are fitted with manually controlled rear remotes, with 2 ,3 or 4 sets depending on model.

The new Power Vision cab builds on the styling of the already released 6 Series models, with an improved ceilingmounted air conditioning system and reduced cab noise. This latter feature is achieved by better insulation and by an air gap between the engine hood and the front windscreen.

A range of options includes factory GPS in the shape of AgroSky, auto-steering options and tyres choice.

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Match for NZ’s tough paddocks MARK DANIEL markd@ruralnews.co.nz

HAILING FROM Brescia in Italy’s northeast, Moreni is a fourth-generation family company founded 90 years ago.

It specialises in soil-engaging equipment and appears to use steel in all the right places in a product offering in several ranges from 1 to 8m and able to handle up to 500hp.

As a company Moreni, in its own words, deals only in “vertical rotor technology” – meaning power harrows only. But along the way it has introduced clever technological solutions to problems encountered during use, no doubt helped by working only with one concept.

Heavy duty headstocks attach to the front and rear of the transmission trays, spreading dynamic loads through wide spaced supports.

Beds are filled with grease to

ensure immediate lubrication at start-up and allowing maintenance without needing to remove the top cover or draining.

The shafts are one-piece forged units that support the bearing assembly on the upper section and the blade holder below. The shaft assembly is easily removed for bearing replacement.

A unique feature of the harrow is the closer spacing of the rotors at 22.5cm (five rotors per metre) said to result in a finer tilth, and a lower power requirement per metre.

All NZ-spec machines are equipped with wide-spaced, triple ballrace sets for correct shaft orientation always, and dirt and debris are kept out of the workings of the machines by two double-labyrinth seals on each rotor shaft.

Rotors are timed on their shafts to ensure good overlap, and integral, circular stone-guards keep

stones away from the underside of the trough.

A choice of cage, packer or crusher roller is available for consolidation and moisture retention and to meet specific job requirements, and the option of three-bladed rotors can be specified by specialist growers wanting ultra-fine seedbeds.

The machines are marketed directly to end-users through Ag and Civil Direct, a division of Waikato Tractors, Hamilton.

Says sales manager Ben Peters, “the direct-sell model we’re using ensures these machines are very reasonably priced”.

“The fact that our family buisness has direct contact with the Moreni family business means we can tailor-make machines for specific tasks or upgrade machines already in the field.”

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The Irish are coming ANTICIPATING THE All Blacks heading to Dublin in November to reap their revenge, an even bigger Irish contingent will visit New Zealand in June for the 50th Fieldays.

NZ is a key market for Irish exporters, so the best of the Ireland’s agritech industry, supported by Enterprise Ireland, will show their latest research and innovative solutions, dubbed ‘The Irish Advantage’.

C&F Green Energy makes small and medium-size wind

turbines for farms on off the grid. The company offers models from 11 - 250kW -- high yield, low noise and able to be monitored remotely 24/7.

Equilume, a developer of light therapy devices for the health, growth and performance of horses, now also makes light masks for cows; these adjust the breeding cycle of the animal, allowing it to get ‘daylight’ while inside or at night, to increase lactations and so increase yields by up to 9% (in trials).

Other Irish exhibitors will include Dairymaster milking equipment, milking parlours and feeding systems; Keenan mixer and feed wagons; Malone Farm Machinery, HiSpec, Major Equipment and ProDig Attachments.

There will be balers from McHale, tankers from Abbey Machinery, spreaders from AgriSpread and wrappers from Tanco.

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INTELLIGENT SOLAR BATTERY CHARGER FASTER CHARGING of 12V auxiliary batteries for recreational and boating use, and in cars and light commercials, is among the features of the new IntelliCharge IDC45 model from Projecta.

It gives safe, reliable and faster charging and the versatility to charge 12V secondary/auxiliary deep cycle batteries on the go.

Like the IDC25 before it, the IDC45 can charge simultaneously from solar and alternator inputs and can automatically shift between either input without the need for manual switching.

The unit can be used as an MPPT (maximum power point tracking) solar controller with dualcharging modes for compatibility with conventional and ‘smart’ alternators, often found in modern vehicles.

Over/under voltage monitoring automatically shuts the unit down if an issue is detected, and an over-temperature protection function automatically adjusts output based on battery temperature, both functions reducing the risk of damage to the battery.

Anti-sparking and reverse connection protection systems are useful when charging in confined spaces or near flammable liquids.

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Hawke’s Bay out to get more business Carolyn Neville and David Todd.

HAWKE’S BAY will fly its flag at National Fieldays in June to raise the region’s profile.

Business Hawke’s Bay (BHB) chief executive Carolyn Neville says it aims to attract agribusi-

ness to the region.

BHB last year joined the Hastings and Napier councils on a fact-finding trip to Fieldays 2017, to promote Hawke’s Bay region as a good place for agribusiness.

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“Many Hawke’s Bay businesses already exhibit at Fieldays, but they’re doing so as individuals.

This year we’re taking a fresh approach and uniting under a regional business umbrella -- ‘Think Hawke’s Bay, Great Things Grow Here’.

‘Think Hawke’s Bay’ will have a stand in the main pavilion to promote the region and the opportunities and support available for agribusinesses.

It will run a ‘Win a weekend in Hawke’s Bay’ competition to raise awareness of the region and encourage Fieldays visitors to visit Hawke’s Bay exhibits and enter the prize draw.

Fieldays chief Peter Nation likes the idea.

“We are delighted to be hosting ‘Think Hawke’s Bay’ at the 2018 Fieldays and to see support from Hawke’s Bay -a very important region for horticulture, wine, cropping and sheep and beef. This region also has an efficient port handling

large log shipments and other key exports.

“For New Zealand to grow and continue to succeed we must collaborate, with all regions working toward a common goal of growth and prosperity for all NZers.”

A Hawke’s Bay ‘ambassador’ – David Todd from Toddy Talks -- will front on the Think Hawke’s Bay stand, a face familiar in the rural sector, says Carolyn Neville.

“Toddy is ideal for this role, given his experience in the sector, knowledge of the region and ability to communicate with people from all walks of life.”

Todd was on the Hawke’s Bay fact-finding team that visited Fieldays last year.

“Being able to represent Hawke’s Bay, with all that we have to offer, makes this year’s event something to look forward to. We have much to offer in Hawke’s Bay so this collective approach to promotion makes a lot of sense,” Todd says.

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The new insulators deliver much greater voltage than older units and more effective stock control.

While existing insulator designs were effective with the older lower-output energisers, higher currents can typically result in power loss, lack of fence efficiency and increased running costs.

Tests suggest that the Joule Shield insulators withstand 50% more voltage in a dry-conditions test and up to 100% more voltage in simulated rain.

Joule Shield insulators are designed with a low profile, heavy-duty jaws for extreme load endurance and multiple shield plates that increase the surface area and tracking distance, helping to prevent power leakage.

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Atilla the honey MARK DANIEL mark@ruralnews.co.nz

THE USE of sub-soilers to break subsurface pans helps moisture and air to permeate soil strata to promote healthy root growth.

So the new Maschio Attila distributed by Power Farming Wholesale will be useful in tackling this problem Centred on a heavy-duty frame comprising four bolted-up beams, the machine spans 3m working width, carries seven sub-soiler legs and suits tractors up to 200hp.

The legs can work down to 50cm, achieved by an angled design that pulls its way into the ground progressively. Each 30mm wide leg carries a quick-fit reversible point and works with 140mm wide side deflectors (these started life as rotary hoe blades) to lift and shatter the problem area but avoid soil inversion.

Each leg is protected by a traction-bolt safety system that works longitudinally through the leg, effectively ripping the head off when an obstacle is encountered. This system

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is said to prevent the wear normally seen in lateral shear-bolt systems in which the 14.9 grade bolt is harder than the surrounding metal, creating wear in the bolt hole that can lead to premature breakage. As an option, the Attila can be specified with an auto-reset hydraulic breakback safety system.

Under-beam clearance of 80cm and similar space between the tines allow the machine to deal with high

levels of plant residue without bulldozing or clogging.

Operating speed is up to 10km/h.

At the rear, twin 220mm diameter spike rollers break down clods and chop and mix residues for a uniform finish.

Manual adjustment of the rollers controls overall working depth; an optional hydraulic control system allows on-the move adjustment from the operator’s seat.

KUHN HAS added a new model to its Master plough range with the 4to 6-bodied Vari-Master L – an ideal fit with the new generation of short wheelbase tractors from 200 to 300hp.

Filling the gap between the Master 153 and the 183, the Master L has an onland format allowing the use of tractors equipped with broad tyres or tracks, protecting the soil from compaction.

The plough’s geometry uses special kinematics to cancel any drift associated with a change in offset or working width, ensuring the plough remains perfectly aligned with the direction of travel, helping to reduce wear and fuel

consumption. A patented furrow closing angle-of-attack adjustment system is said to improve residue flow and burial, in a single movement and without need for tools.

Maintenance-free, the VARI system offers increased work rates, and its linkage mechanism, integrated into the housing, provides excellent shock protection. A welded structure and forged wear parts help extend service life.

A new arched plough beam creates less wheel overrun, allowing operators to work close to the edges of the paddock and get a good finish.

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CATERPILLAR INC in New Zealand is to sell a range of rugged smartphones said to be tough, durable and purpose made for construction, agriculture or the tough outdoors.

Leading the range is the Cat S60, the world’s only smartphone with an integrated thermal camera that can detect heat and measure surface temperatures from a distance of 30m. The thermal imager can also detect heat loss around windows and doors, spot moisture and missing insulation, identify overheating electrical appliances and circuitry and see in complete darkness.

The Cat S60 is drop-proof to 1.8m and waterproof to 5m for one hour. It has a super-bright display that can be viewed in bright sunlight and the touchscreen can be controlled with wet fingers or while wearing gloves.

Cat’s confidence in the unit includes a market leading guarantee against screen damage: if a user manages to accidently damage or break the Gorilla Glass screen within the first 24 months of purchase the company will repair or replace the screen.

Then there’s the Cat S31 and Cat S41 models, also made to survive. Specifications include in IP68 water and dust proof and US Military SPEC 810G Certification.

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Farm IQ national dairy business manager Libby Wood is leading the project, called ‘Ask Libby’.

“Many dairy farmers have bits of software associated with parts of their farm, but they haven’t really thought about how it could drive their business forward,” says Wood.

“Increasingly the opportunities in farming arise from bringing more ‘smart’ to your business. We want to help dairy farmers understand what software can do for them -- to deal with their challenges and make the most of opportunities.”

Dairy farmers can join an online webinar with Libby on a Thursday evening, attend a hands-on session at a local venue or catch up with Farm IQ at the Mystery Creek Fieldays.

These webinars are being held every two weeks on a Thursday evening from 7 - 8pm.

“We’re inviting dairy farmers to join these free coaching sessions on key topics that are hugely relevant to every dairy farm today,” says Wood.

These are suitable for anyone with a role in a dairy farm business -- owners, managers, workers, the person who does the accounts and rural professionals.

They are being run through GoToWebinar and instructions on how to participate are sent to people who register.

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Spark of innovation MARK DANIEL markd@ruralnews.co.nz

IT’S A year for celebration as two Waikato agricultural icons pass key milestones.

Gallagher is this year celebrating its 80th anniversary, and in a moment of serendipity New Zealand Agricultural Fieldays is celebrating its 50th year.

Gallagher was founded in 1938 by the late Bill Gallagher senior who, wanting to prevent his horse Joe from rubbing against his Essex car, wired it for current. The rest, as they say, is history -- a family business designing and supplying electric fences.

Eighty years later

that 10-person business is a multinational with 1100 employees worldwide, pioneering not only in electric fencing and animal management, but also in security and fuel systems. Its offerings are technology-led.

Gallagher was among the original exhibitors at the first Fieldays at Te Rapa, Hamilton, in 1969.

Now it is ‘Celebrating the Spark’ -- shining a light on the importance of its innovative thinking and tech-led solutions that “spark possibilities” and solve farmers’ problems.

Sir William Gallagher re-invests in the company to spark new ideas, channeling 10% of annual revenue into the business.

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The new TWR-5 weigh scale and reader combines an EID reader and the award-winning Gallagher TW weigh scales into an all-in-one solution.

This enables tag reading and weighing by one person, and it has all the features of the existing TW scales, e.g. a daylightreadable touch screen and the ability to add up to nine traits.

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integrated solar energisers provide reliable power off the grid, giving farmers a portable means of controlling animals and

break feeding supplement crops. The tough, robust units have been well received at the three regional field days held

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MEASURES PASTURE COVER FROM SPACE LIC’S NEW satellite technology (called SPACE) that measures pasture cover will be a new feature on the Fieldays site.

It went on limited release last December and is now available in part of Canterbury and a large area in Waikato.

The co-op and its automation business, LIC Automation, will be side by side at E76 and E78.

LIC general manager NZ markets Malcolm Ellis says that as a farmer he always visits Fieldays “looking for ways to improve our

business”.

“At both the LIC and LIC Automation sites we’re going to be showcasing ways we can help farmers do this. There’s always room for improvement and will embrace this theme.

“Improvement is at the heart of LIC… doing the best we can for our farmers striving to improve their farm’s efficiency, productivity and prosperity.”

The main LIC stand will cover genetics, GeneMark, Minda and herd testing and LIC Automation

will show its integrated and innovative automation systems.

The LIC stand will as usual host a café for its farmers and their families, says Ellis.

“Fieldays is the time to talk with farmers and answer their questions… always a great opportunity and an event we are proud to be part of.”

This year marks two years since LIC launched Minda Live, the online herd management system that is gaining extra functionality.

“Farmers can see the improvements we’ve made and learn how they can use the system to make more informed herd management decisions,” Ellis says.

Also on show will be the new Protrack modular system. Farmers can now build a system to suit their farming operation, and existing customers can upgrade their current systems with more features and improved functionality via mobility from farm to office.

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THE LATEST offerings from Claas, Amazone, JCB and Trioliet will be on show at the Claas Harvest Centre display at National Field Days.

Making its debut, the Trioliet Triomaster S slices up to 45cm of silage from the face of a silage pit. Unlike conventional silage grabs or buckets that pull the silage from the pit, the Triomaster S has a fixed blade that

shears through silage without affecting the structure of the wall or the stack itself. With a capacity of 2 or 3cu.m, it can be fitted to any telehandler or frontloader with a lift capacity of more than 3.5 tonnes.

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Claas Harvest Centre’s sales manager NZ, Luke Wheeler, says the use of a silage cutter maintains silage quality and consistency by helping to create a well-sealed silage face, which in turn results in a reduction in secondary fermentation.

Says Wheeler, “If you go the trouble of producing top quality silage it makes sense to use the best machinery to feed it out and get the best results”.

And first time on display at Mystery Creek will be the Claas Arion 600 and 400 series of tractors and the highspeed JCB Fastrac 8330.

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The new Arion 400 series, with six models from 90 to 140hp, boasts an array of features and technology normally only found on more powerful tractors: an optional continuous windscreen-

roof panel, front linkages, automatic differential locking, automatic fourwheel drive and PTO activation/deactivation, headland management systems and dynamic steering.

The JCB Fastrac 8330, the world’s only tractor with all-round selflevelling suspension, has continuously variable transmission, ABS disc brakes on four wheels and a top speed of

70km/h, helping the machine raise the bar in productivity, comfort, safety and versatility.

As usual, the site will show a complete line-up of forage harvesting technology from Claas.

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Genetic firm celebrates LIBERTY GENETICS, which specialises in elite young sires, will celebrate its 20th anniversary at Fieldays.

CRV Holdings BV has owned the company outright since 2012.

At Liberty’s formation, chairman Kevin Buckley said no other company was selling young sires outside of progeny testing.

“Now, about 20% of the industry is using the young sire model or hybrid teams that include similar ratios of proven sires.”

Buckley says an uncomplicated approach with relationships at its heart played a large part in Liberty’s success.

The company started in 1998, when nine farmers and breeders got together to discuss the state of artificial breed-

ing in New Zealand. They believed artificial breeding had got lost in a corporate world and that the rising cost of semen, then at twice the rate of inflation, was a cause for concern in the industry.

Searching for a solution, the nine farmers became foundation shareholders in Liberty Genetics to offer an effective and efficient breeding model for genetic gain in NZ dairy herds. Buckley has chaired the business since it began.

The business model was an elite young sires programme to achieve genetic gain as effectively as proven sires. (A proven sire has had its genetics established through progeny testing which records the production performances of its offspring.)

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130 FARMS LIBERTY GENETICS currently has 130 farms on its books in Northland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay, Manawatu, Wairarapa, Canterbury, Otago and Southland.

In 2012, Liberty Genetics was purchased by CRV Holdings BV, becoming its sole shareholder.

“CRV Ambreed is very supportive and we’re glad to have the relationship with them that we do,” says Buckley. “And because we target a different set of farmers than they do, our work complements theirs.

“It’s important that we’ve always understood we can’t be all things to everyone. Our intention has always been to be a price-conscious supplier of quality semen, a model that helps dairy farmers reap the benefits of quality semen at a lower cost.”

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Says Buckley, “Our main concern, and the reason we set up Liberty Genetics, was the big focus on the numbers of bulls being proven in the industry, with no more information passed on to the farmer than would normally be passed on through genomic testing.”

The original nine shareholders included Friesian breeders Lawrence Satherly, Mark Townshend, Derek Black, Gary Townshend and Simon Gibson; dairy farmers Grant Billington and Jon Holwerda; and consultant Wayne Stachurski. Each held $1000 of shares.

Business came primarily through word of mouth, with the nine shareholders picking up the phone and calling around their networks to establish a customer base.

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Says AHD founder Richard Kettle, “Sub-clinical milk fever affects a high proportion of NZ dairy herds (up to 70%) so we encourage farmers to take a preventative approach and administer the extra calcium the cows need using CalciTop.” Kettle says a key point of difference between CalciTop and oral supplements is that the farmer can be sure the cow is getting sufficient calcium because the bolus is in and working.

“Oral supplements can prove to be difficult to administer, leading to inconsistent dosing and animal intake.”

Recommended dose rates for CalciTop are one bolus 12-24 hours before calving, and another post calving if required. For

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cows with a known history of milk fever, Kettle recommends two CalciTops 12-24 hours pre calving.

AHD has commissioned trial work on its HighTrace six-month slow release mineral bolus which it expects to launch in September.

It will then launch DryTop, a bolus designed for the drying-off period. This provides cows with the necessary minerals and vitamins for 10 weeks.

This product is now with interested vets for monitoring over the 2018 dry-off period.

URBAN FOLKS WANT A PRETTIER PICTURE NEW ZEALAND’S dairy industry must catch up with world-best standards in respect of the environment and animal welfare, says Richard Kettle, of AHD. He believes public perception and the new generation of farmers emerging are driving necessary changes.

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Rides, hauls no worries ADAM FRICKER

RURAL NEWS covered the rear suspension upgrades to the Nissan Navara in a recent issue, having spent a day with the revised ute on Australian roads.

We’ve since spent a week driving it to see if our initial impressions held true during normal use on New Zealand roads.

At the launch, we drove it with weight in the tray and then with a decently heavy trailer.

Nissan wanted the focus

to be on the improved performance of the rear end under load. The general consensus was the Navara passed that test, no worries.

In any given week, the average ute does as many, if not more, miles with little or no weight on the tray or towbar than it does loaded to capacity, so unladen ride comfort and general liveability are important measures too.

Nissan’s claim that the new dual-rate rear springs actually improve ride comfort stands up. Expectations about

ride comfort in a ute have evolved with VW and Ford raising standards to new levels in recent years. The Navara doesn’t quite match those two, but the ride is still very good.

Allied with a quicker steering rack, the Nissan chassis also goes around the bends better and with less arm action.

It will hold its line when punted through a corner and is not thrown by mid corner bumps.

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Equipment levels in the ST-X version we drove have been enhanced with 360degree bird’s eye view displayed on a 7 inch monitor and satellite navigation built in. Two ISOFix child restraint mounting points have been added to the rear seat.

The 2.3L twin turbo diesel remains unchanged – no bad thing – and the 450Nm maximum torque available from just 1500rpm, delivered via a 7-speed automatic, makes for a smooth and capable power-train. A 6-speed

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$64,490. The suspension changes also apply across the double cab SL and ST

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Holden’s still here ADAM FRICKER

HOLDEN IS still spending up large on a marketing campaign to remind you of one thing – they’re still here.

It’s in response to the widely telegraphed end to the Australian developed and built Commodore, a move some assumed meant the end of the iconic brand.

However, as Holden’s managing director Kristian Aquilina says: “nothing could be further from the truth”.

Holden has just launched the all-new Commodore and Equinox SUV and the Americansourced Acadia SUV is waiting in the wings.

And in the crucial ute category, Holden has a strong contender – the vastly improved Colorado. Utes dominate the new car sales charts these days, with the Toyota Corolla the only passenger car making the top five this year.

The Colorado sits in a respectable fourth place

overall, and the Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux hold the two top spots.

We’ve reviewed the Colorado in Rural News before.

A refresher drive reminded us why we liked it so much and why it is holding its own in the sales charts.

It’s a well-sorted truck now, following extensive refinements to ride, noise and vibration levels and equipment and standard of finish.

The engine is still pretty gruff compared to some of the competition but it more than compensates with sheer grunt.

The ride and handling is excellent for a ute. And for those who insist on judging utes on how ‘carlike’ they are, it’ll do fine as an SUV-substitute as well, especially in the fullfruit Z71 we drove, which adds a level of luxury not needed in a truck, but nice to have all the same.

For traditional largecar buyers not ready to migrate to a ute or SUV, the new Commo-

KAI TIME KIWI TOYOTA hospitality is set to get your juices running at Fieldays.

A ‘Puha and Pakeha’ food truck will dispense modern Maori fusion kai, with hangi sandwiches and seafood chowder on the menu.

Toyota says special displays with something for everyone will complement a wide range of vehicles on display.

“We’ve had a lot happen in the last 12 months and our stand this year aims to deliver interactive fun for our guests,” says Andrew Davis, Toyota New Zealand’s general manager of marketing.

“Emirates Team New Zealand, one of our key brand partnerships, will be at Fieldays on Friday and Saturday with some of the crew.”

The Wattbikes, resembling the team’s cyclors used during training, will be used in a “start your impossible” challenge relating to Toyota’s sponsorship of the Olympics. Toyota is supporting the Olympics and Para-Olympics organisations locally and worldwide until 2024.

Meanwhile, the FT-1 concept car, the inspiration for the latest Supra sports car arriving here next year, will be on display. This will set a benchmark in performance and design for Toyota.

“The FT-1 has travelled the world, and now it’s our turn to show... a car with stunning design and performance,” says Neeraj Lala, Toyota New Zealand’s general manager of new vehicle sales.

“The Supra will re-ignite the passion for exciting performance cars that was started by the 86 Coupe.”

Petrol-heads will also be able to show their skills in a tyre changing competition as part of the Toyota Racing Series display.

And a scavenger hunt for kids will promote the Toyota Kiwi Guardians project running with the Department of Conservation.

dore in sedan or wagon form should be considered, given it has been extensively tuned in Australia to suit the rough Aussie and Kiwi roads.

Rural News will review the Calais-V in an upcoming issue.

Meanwhile, another development Holden plan to roll out over the next

two years is Onstar technology that will connect every new Holden to the internet (benefits include emergency, security, navigation, connections and vehicle management services).

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Controlled chaos for petrol-heads MARK DANIEL markd@ruralnews.co.nz

THE LAST two years have seen record vehicle sales in New Zealand, with prospective purchasers spending many hours picking the right vehicle, right model, right colour and chewing over the price.

One part of the new vehicle buying equation often overlooked but largely taken as a given is after sales support, par-

ticularly in respect of spare parts. It is often assumed that a plentiful supply of parts is always on hand, but the geographical constraints of NZ or the enthusiasm of the distributor might tell a different story.

A recent visit to European Motor Distributors Ltd parts operation near Auckland Airport gave the impression that this business intends extensive support of the brands it sells, which must surely

lead to customer loyalty.

Twenty years ago the EMD parts operation was in the heart of the city with 2000sq.m of space and, in those days, largely focussed on the VW brand. The volume of parts amounted to one 20ft container arriving monthly in NZ. Fast forward to 2013 when the Giltrap family, owners of EMD Ltd, realised that to support the success of their brands VW passenger and

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The company bought a site near the airport, erected a building and switched out of the central city, in a 6000sq.m building given over to supporting those brands.

The building has a high roof space, a covered canopy for unloading in inclement weather and a one-way drive-through system.

Obviously, the volume of parts being handled has changed: nowadays 20 to 30 40ft containers arrive monthly from the VW-Audi Group global parts distribution hub in Singapore.

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Douglas Blair, general manager parts and distribution, explains “we operate a chaos system that is not as bad as it actually sounds. It means that parts for storage do not have fixed locations, rather the computer system picks the

best available space when the part arrives to make the best use of the available space, and generally places parts of similar sizes in similar zones”.

Retrieval of parts for despatch to dealers is also controlled extensively by the computer system that directs warehouse operatives to item locations; these are scanned into a bin and ticked off the packing list.

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Sure to blaze a UK trail MARK DANIEL markd@ruralnews.co.nz

RURAL NEWS noted last year that the price of the Land Rover Discovery 6 was right up there, perhaps too high to get the vehicle out onto farms.

But the Discovery is as good as it gets in an SUV, with great performance and predictable handling and off-road capability. So when JLR New Zealand introduced a new Pioneer version we put our hands up for a closer look.

Externally, the Pioneer doesn’t look much different from its much pricier cousins, still using the underpinnings of the Range Rover, including 4WD and long-travel air suspension, mounted to the monocoque, aluminium-based floor pan.

Inside, there’s plenty of room for up to seven adults, and with the secondand third-row seats lowered there’s a cavernous 2500L of space available, and 45 litres more in numerous storage boxes, door pockets and cubbyholes.

The driveline starts with the maker’s silky-smooth, 3L V6 twin-turbo diesel that pumps out 190kW at 3750rpm and 600Nm torque between 2250 and 1750rpm.

The 8-speed transmission remains the same as in the rest of the range, as does the dynamic stability control, cornering brake control, electronically assisted power steering and electronic air suspension.

Off-road it has electronic traction control, front axle open differential, gradient acceleration control, hill descent, off-road ABS and the industry-leading terrain response control offering set-ups for all types of surfaces.

So what’s different, given that the Pioneer is about $15k cheaper than the entry-spec SE variant?

That puts the Pioneer into the price bracket of a high-spec Toyota Prado.

A move from leather-clad to cloth seats is easy to live with, as are fixed heated door mirrors. The removal of inter-

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nal ambient lighting and externally a switch to halogen from LED headlights is no great shakes; neither are the tweaks to internal trim such as a standard rear-view mirror and the loss of a 12v socket; this is still a great SUV. Out on the road, the smooth, quiet power makes cross-country travel composed and relaxed, as seen during a fast hustle across the Kopu-Hikuai road at the bottom of the Coroman-

del Peninsula. A front-seat passenger remarked how ‘planted the Discovery felt, with little or no indication of any body-roll. Pushing hard, this driver felt always in control, and the several driver aids and traction controls kept the vehicle in check on Coromandel’s poor road surfaces and adverse cambers.

What’s not to like? Not an awful lot.

Older drivers shy of too much tech-

nology might find the simpler layout refreshing, compared to many vehicles that continue packing too much in. The cloth seats trim might not be to everyone’s taste but can always be uprated to leather if the buyer wishes.

One thing’s for sure, this revised Discovery will get rural types taking a closer look, so expect to see more of this British icon on a rural road near you soon.

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Lely says observation of cow-machine interaction and feedback from many farmers has led to a system that combines proven automated milking principles with unmatched reliability, ease of use and cost efficiency.

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Eradication choice ‘sensible’ – expert NIGEL MALTHUS

GOING FOR eradication of the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis is “absolutely” the sensible choice, says Professor Frank Griffin, founder of the Otago veterinary dis-

eases laboratory Disease Research Ltd. “It looks like it’s a single-source infection and it looks like there’s a direct link between all the affected properties.

Good animal control and good diagnostics should

allow them to establish within a couple of years if it’s really feasible to eradicate the disease,” Griffin told Rural News.

“It gives you the two options really: try eradication and then if it doesn’t work move to a

control.”

Griffin says DRL had been involved in early discussions with MPI, which will need outside diagnostic laboratory support in any long-term management programme.

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“The problem, really, is that the scientific basis for controlling the infection is not really well described. The diagnostic tests are not good, which means you don’t have a high level of confidence that when an animal [tests] positive it is truly positive or when it is negative it is truly negative.”

Griffin explains that antibody tests are not specific because there are other mycoplasmas that cross-react.

“Normally we use the cell wall proteins as markers for the bug, but because [Mycoplasma bovis] doesn’t have a cell wall and just has a membrane around it, that means the only markers you have are things

inside the cell that we call the cytoplasmic antigens.

They tend to be more cross-reactive between different species of organisms.

“Equally if you look at a molecular technique like a pcr technique that looks at the genes of the bug, it’s very good if you happen to get the right tissue. But they’re not quite sure which tissue to sample. They think possibly tonsillar tissue is best.”

Griffin says it’s very difficult to sample tonsils.

“The eradication approach will allow them to find out a lot more about the testing, then if they are forced into a control programme long term they at least will have better technologies to manage the infection.”

He says the basic technology exists but will need research and refinement.

“We live in a world of constant improvement.

You don’t just want to get something to work, you want to find out how to make it work better or cheaper or faster or whatever else. It’s a constant learning platform where you’re trying to refine and improve things all the time.”

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NOW IN its third incarnation, DRL started of closing the lab down, or “rebooting” it life as Otago University’s deer research elsewhere. With the help of Otago Innolaboratory at a time when deer farming vation Ltd (OIL), the commercial arm of was establishing itself by capturing wild the university, it then became Disease animals.

Research Ltd, based at the Invermay Tuberculosis was widespread in the campus. wild and Griffin says there were fears TB ‘We’re not very imaginative, right? So would prevent the industry from ever we’ve kept the moniker DRL all the way developing along,” he properly. says.

The only “We’ve available test had a long for TB at the association time was a with Invermay skin reaction and we’ve test which enjoyed the produced facilities here. false posiThey’re exceltives lent and we’re because of now living reactions to very happily other enviat Invermay.” ronmental Griffin bacteria, says the goal and false of a good The DRL team (from left): Emeritus Professor Frank Griffin, negatives diagnostic director; Dr Rory O’Brien, senior researcher; and Simon Liggett, technical manager. Copyright Graham Warman. because or research some activity was TB-infected animals failed to develop any “essentially to make yourself redundant”. reaction.

“That means you’ve done the job and “If they had killed to kill all the animals you move to a new job. So at this stage, that reacted they would have been we have worked with the deer industry to wasting a lot of animals and still be almost eradicate TB as a disease. There missing some of the diseased animals. may now be two or three infected herds “They said ‘we’ve got to do better than in the country, so that means there isn’t a this’ so we developed some lab-based need for much diagnostics on TB.” tests that allowed them to more accurately “We then transitioned to look at diagnose TB and that’s where we started para-TB (Johne’s disease) which is a in 1985,” Griffin told Rural News. related organism to TB. We’ve been In the mid 1990s, the lab’s work working on Johne’s in deer for the last expanded into other species including 20 years. It’s now decreasing as a signifisheep, cattle and even African wildlife, cant disease so recently we’ve moved into and it recognised that change in focus by dairy.” changing its name to Disease Research Because the deer industry is small and Laboratory. agile it had been able to move quickly to On Frank Griffin’s retirement from the TO PAGE 62 university in 2016 he faced the choice

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Vet head’s challenge of change The attraction of heading a world-rated veterinary school, a love of New Zealand and disillusionment with Brexit persuaded Professor Jon Huxley to apply to lead the School of Veterinary Science at Massey University. Reporter Peter Burke spoke with him about the challenges the veterinary profession faces in NZ and worldwide.

JON HUXLEY is no stranger to New Zealand. This keen outdoors man fell in love with NZ 25 years ago during a seven-week tour. He has since spoken at several conferences here, the last in 2011.

Huxley was born on a dairy farm near the north Wales border and retain an interest in the dairy sector, his special areas of expertise being endemic diseases in cows, especially mastitis and lameness.

He is regarded as a top UK academic vet and prior to his Massey University appointment was at the University of Nottingham.

He says a challenge facing vet schools worlwide is that young people entering the profession are more interested in small companion animals than in large production animals. Huxley says he’ll be interested to know if the problem is as widespread in NZ as in

the UK, but suspects the balance is better here.

“Attracting early 20-yearolds into rural comJon Huxley munities, where they haven’t got a city or a base, is always going to be a challenge,” he told Rural News.

“They come out of a university environment where there are centralised amenities. They are used to a lifestyle and then we are asking them to look for roles in remote small communities that are possibly not very attractive to them.”

Huxley says we have to acknowl-

edge that things have changed over the last 30 years and that generations Y and Z are different from the baby boomers. Young people’s expectations of work life balance and many other things are very different.

“We have to accommodate them because they are not going to change.

We are going to have create new business models that meet their requirements.”

Huxley believes the rural urban divide is also a factor, with teachers in secondary schools not understanding the career opportunities in the rural sector.

“A challenge in veterinary medicine is to attract a very talented cohort from each generation who are aspirational and who have their opinions of what the vet profession is; these are set at a very early age,” he explains.

“So they come to us thinking that

the vet [conforms to] the classic James Heriot model, without really thinking about the strengths of the broader education that a veterinary medicine degree gives them.”

He adds that in the modern era, with complex rules and regulations, vets are taking on a wider role in the rural sector – that of the farm consultant. But Huxley says this has brought

with it a new set of issues.

He points out that the main veterinary business model has the cost of the time vets spend in the field effectively being ‘subsidised’ by the sale of veterinary medicines. And the practices that don’t make large sales struggle to charge the true cost of their time because farmers are unwilling to pay for this.

FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY JON HUXLEY makes no secret of his being a fan of NZ and that he was stopped in his tracks when he saw advertising for the position of Massey University vet school head.

“When I saw the advert it made me think for the rest of the day about the opportunity,” he told Rural News.

“Secondly, my wife grew up as an ex-pat in the Middle East so we’d been looking for a move abroad for some years. Her speciality English language narrowed it down to NZ, Australia and the US. The US isn’t for me, Canada would have been too cold so it was a great opportunity in the right country,” he says.

Huxley has been in his new job only a matter of weeks and says initially he’ll be looking to get a feel for the needs of the veterinary profession in NZ. The challenge for him is meeting the needs of the profession for the next 30 years, he says.

However, ironically considering the M.bovis issue, Huxley is impressed with how NZ’s biosecurity at its border.

“NZ has done a great job over the years of maintaining its island status,” he says. “Every time I come into NZ I am blown away by the quality of immigration and checks you have. Nowhere is there a place as thorough as NZ.”

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Feedlot lamb research

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UNIVERSITY OF Adelaide honours student Leesa Flanagan has been named Alltech Young Scientist of the Year from an international field of peers for her work on dietary requirements of feedlot lambs.

Flannagan presented her research findings at One, the Alltech Ideas Conference, and her win has earned her a fullyfunded PhD position at the university of her choice and US$5000 in cash.

She said her win would lead to further opportunities.

“Without the scholarship and funding I probably wouldn’t have had a chance to do my PhD,” she said. “It has definitely opened a lot of doors.”

Flannagan’s study has been well received by farmers and experienced scientists and she said she would like to pursue the research opportunities that have come from it.

“What’s next is the exciting part.”

Flannagan conducted a lamb feedlot trial in 2017, looking at the effect of UDPs and RDPs on lamb production parameters.

Feed makes up about 70% of the total input costs associated with lamb production and protein contributes the most to this cost.

“Sheep have unique dietary requirements to satisfy the rumen microbes and the needs of the animal itself,” Flannagan said.

“Well formulated diets will contain both rumen degradable protein (RDP) to satisfy the need of the microbes and undegradable dietary protein for the direct benefit of the animal.

“RDP is relatively cheap compared to UDP.” The study was designed to discover two things: how important is the ratio of RDP: UDP and what is the economic impact of the dietary protein source in feedlot diets “From our understanding of protein digestion we wanted to look at different sources of UDPs and whether one is better than another based on their amino acid

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composition,” Flannagan said.

Over 27 days, 120 lambs were fed three diets, each with different sources of protein.

Diet A contained barley and oats, 1kg of urea and 1.3kg of biuret; diet B contained of 29.8kg of lupins and diet C contained 43.7kg of peas.

“By keeping the crude protein consistent between the treatment groups we could see the effect of each protein source,” she said.

“We could also compare the economic effect of each protein source.”

Flannagan concluded that it doesn’t matter what source is used, just the ration, and that producers can use whatever UDP source is available to them.

“We determined the source of UDP to be not significant in lamb production “It would be worth looking at specific amino acid metabolism and the absorption of each and their effects on lamb production and developing rumen metabolisable resistant amino acids as a mix.

“Common plant proteins used for stock feed are relatively low in amino acids.

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DRL is now working on Johne’s in dairy cattle and goats, and other viral diseases including bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) in dairy cattle and caprine arthritis encephalitis (CAE) in goats, said Griffin.

“So we keep evolving to embrace new species and new diseases.”

Griffin said that when working with a new disease or species it is easy just to apply tests and assume they have benefits, but DRL has done a lot of cost-benefit analysis and shown “quite conclusively” that intervention does in fact save money by reducing losses in animals and production.

“There is a good economic basis for proceeding with control programmes, either to prove you don’t have the disease or to eliminate the disease if you do have it. It’s just a matter of applying the appropriate level of intervention for the level of problem.”

He says diseases such as Johnes present a chronic process that take a long time to cause disease and only affect a relatively small proportion of a herd.

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Aussie quad safety stoush tors are all subject to strict safety standards while quads are unregulated.

The FCAI said it would not oppose a star rating system for quads if it were like the Australasian New Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP) and based on “proper science and known history”.

It said a similar discussion in the 1980s and 90s in the US -- the largest market for quads -- had failed to remedy the problem of crashes.

But measures adopted there had resulted in a 50% lower death toll: 47 states had banned children from riding adult machines, banned passengers on single-seat machines and enforced the wearing of suitable safety helmets.

FCAI has accused the ACCC of bias because it part-funded work by the University of NSW’s transport and road safety unit that led to the star-rating proposals.

Weber says the FCAI will keep working with the government in a flexible and open way on proposed manufacturing changes but not as part of the advisory group. – Mark Daniel

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GILTRAP ENGINEERING, a family business in Otorohanga, has bought the Timaru company Clough Agriculture, best known as Duncan Ag. Giltrap employs 80 staff in New Zealand and Australia.

Both companies have a history of developing and innovating in agricultural manufacturing, and their consolidation will benefit farmers and the wider community, says Giltrap Engineering managing director Craig Mulgrew.

“We have proven we can compete successfully on the world stage in developing products that suit a global market. This move positions us really well for the future by guaranteeing jobs in Otorohanga and potentially providing further jobs and growth in the future.”

Giltrap has also bought the Duncan Ag land and buildings in Timaru and is guaranteeing job security for Duncan Ag employees.

Mulgrew says the current eco-

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nomic climate offers opportunities for consolidation in agricultural machinery, and Giltrap is keen to grow its footprint in NZ and Australia and elsewhere.

“You’d be hard pressed to find two companies that could mesh together better, with a similar growth trajectory and sharing a common dealer network,” Mulgrew said.

“A big part of the deal was to undertake to keep the Duncan Ag business based in Timaru. This gives us service centres for the business in the North and South Islands and a greater ability to service the market.”

Clough Agriculture chairman Don McFarlane says the two business are a great fit, both bringing strong brands and product lines that complement each other perfectly.

“This is an ideal marriage of companies strongly involved in exports, with very good growth opportunities in bringing the two together and achieving the synergies this delivers.”

McFarlane says the most important thing, from the board’s perspective, was that current employment continue.

“When regional companies merge or are purchased, often there are losses to the region. In this case, it’s very positive.

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Sixteen Australians are killed annually in quad crashes, prompting the ACCC to propose compulsory fitting of crush protection devices, minimum performance standards and a guarantee that all wheels can spin at different speeds.

But two representative bodies on the safety panel -- the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) and a US industry expert, Scott Kebschull -- have quit the group set up to improve safety.

FCAI chief executive Tony Weber says he has no confidence in the process suggested by the ACCC, which he claims is “promoting untested manufacturing changes”.

In a statement, the ACCC argued that the industry had long sought to hold off regulatory intervention and had not changed quad design in the last decade.

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NH combine raises the bar – again MARK DANIEL markd@ruralnews.co.nz

NEW HOLLAND is planning to improve the performance and raise the power of its world record-holding CR Revelation combine harvester.

This will make the machine the world’s most powerful and give it record capacity.

A redesigned residue management system, improved crop flow and even more power will raise output by a further 10% and guarantee grain quality, NH says.

Optional on the four 22-inch models at the top of the range will be cab-controlled remote adjustable rotor vanes with steplessly variable positions between slow and fast, resulting in improved crop flow control and power efficiency gains.

And the in-cab concave reset system is said to increase the combine’s productivity by reducing downtime in the case of a concave breakaway.

This enables the operator to empty the rotors, stop the combine, re-arm the concaves automatically and then resume harvesting, saving the 20-30 minutes this would otherwise take if

done manually.

The three the top-of-the-range models also have the maker’s Twin Pitch Plus rotors with 3-inch raspbars that increase power efficiency -- by 20kW in the CR8.90 and 28kW in the top CR10.90 model. These and higher rotor covers on the two smaller 17-inch models, the deep cut DFR and the power upgrade contribute to the claimed increases.

The CR10.90 -- the world’s most powerful combine that holds the world record for wheat harvested in eight hours -- has had a 50hp power upgrade to now develop 700hp at maximum output.

The CR8.80, largest of the two 17-inch CR models, also has more power (maximum 517hp) within its narrow frame format.

Improvements to the straw chopper include a reinforced rotor, longer counter knives and increased chopper speed, resulting in a finer sample, a 50% reduction of long straw, wider spread and better distribution.

A new chaff spreader design has a patented air crop flow system replacing the traditional impact-based design.

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Lamb reviver a trusty companion AILING LAMBS and kids can be revived with a new device called Trusti Tuber – kinder to the animal and easier and faster for the stockman, says the maker, Antahi.

The company already makes calf tube feeders, designed to get colostrums into small tummies.

A one-handed vial design with a larger capacity allows one person to easily feed an animal without help or a need to refill.

A ewe or nanny can be milked directly into the vial because of its open top design, and a tube clip prevents fluids from being lost.

New-borns can be fed immediately the colostrum is collected, or the unit can be put down

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A LARGE-SCALE east-of-England farming and logistics operation, G.W.Topham & Son, has been fined $785,000 plus costs of $125,000 for a breach of health and safety rules that led to the death of an employee.

Harry Christian-Allan (19) was driving a tractor and trailer from one company site to another in 2014 when the brakes failed and the rig hit a bridge. The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) told Cambridge Crown Court the rig failed to negotiate a roundabout then hit the bridge, leaving the driver with serious injuries that proved fatal.

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The tube’s design prevents milk from running back towards the airway, has a safety tip to prevent accidental insertion into the airway and has safety markings along its length to let users know when it is

safe to start feeding.

The flexible tube makes swallowing safe and keeps the animal comfortable .

The assembly is easily cleaned for hygienic re-use.

Made in New Zealand, the Trusti Tuber is sold by vet clinics for $21.

found that the drum brakes fitted to the trailer were improperly adjusted and ineffective.

The company was found to have breached the Health and Safety at Work ACT 1974 by failing to ensure the health, safety and welfare of its employee. And it was found guilty of breaching the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 on the maintenance of equipment.

The teenager’s family has launched a safety campaign that urges farmers to service trailers regularly to prevent similar accidents, and they are lobbying MPs to look at changing laws on routine maintenance.

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The 1981 Doe Triple D sold at auction in the Uk for $NZ84,000 last month.

A STANDOUT classic British tractor sold at auction in the UK in mid May for NZ$84,500 to a buyer from Scotland.

The sale had 38 machines, all Ford or Ford-derived.

The standout -- likely the most recognisable of all the myriad Fordbased conversions -- was a 1961 Doe Triple D, serial

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Mainstream manufacturers eventually launched larger tractors, but not before the Triple D was fitted with twin Ford 5000 engines to morph into the Triple D-130 (130hp) and a final offering -- a Triple D-150 based on two Ford Force 5000 engines that pushed out 150hp.

Most of the 300 machines have found homes in the UK but there are interest and sales as far afield as Europe, Israel, the Americas, Africa and Russia.

The machine for sale is finished in Doe’s own colours -- blue, with orange engine hoods and wheels -- and fitted with a three-point linkage and swinging drawbar, and 13.6/12-38 tyres.

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An Essex farmer, George Pryor, designed the Triple D and local dealer Ernest Doe and Sons of Ulting, Essex, made it in 1959. Doe made at least 300 such machines. The company had made the Doe Dual Power in 1958 then improved it in 1959, calling it the Doe Dual Drive, hence the Triple D nickname.

In 1960 the company changed to Fordson Super Major skid units with improved layout and engine and gearbox synchronisation. Number 161 is a tractor of this specification.

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Listings are free: create a profile and start listing, say the founding Knudsen brothers, of Denmark.

“The FarmBackup marketplace is a fantastic tool for contractors and farmers as clearly seen in Denmark and the UK. “However, to become the ‘go-to’ place for agricultural contracting we need a lot of people to join.

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SAFARI SIDE GRAPHICS • BLACK FRONT BEZELS SIDE BODY MOULDINGS • SMOKED BONNET PROTECTOR REAR CARGO TRAY • ROOF RACKS WITH SKI OR BIKE ATTACHMENT

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JLX FROM $28,490+ORC TURBO FROM $34,490+ORC

GO BEYOND ALLOY NUDGEBAR • STAINLESS STEEL SIDE STEPS DEEP CARGO TRAY • SAFARI GRAPHICS

3DR JLX FROM $32,990+ORC 5DR SE FROM $38,500+ORC

FINANCE FROM JUST

144

$

PER WEEK *

NO DEPOSIT 140

S-CROSS PRESTIGE

$

PER WEEK! *

SAVE $2,000

SWIFT FROM ONLY $89 P/W* BALENO LTD AUTO $106 P/W*

3.9% FINANCE AVAILABLE ACROSS A RANGE OF NEW CARS AND SUVS TERMS AND CONDITIONS: SAFARI EDITION $93.14/week based on Jimny JX manual, $20,990+ORC, total amount payable $24,309.54. $105.80/week for Jimny Sierra manual (shown), $23,990+ORC, total amount payable $27,613.80. $124.78/week based on Vitara JLX 2WD manual $28,490+ORC, total amount payable $32,567.58. $150.10/week for Vitara Turbo 2WD auto (shown) $34,490+ORC, total amount payable $39,176.10. $143.77/week based on Grand Vitara JLX 3Dr manual, $32,990+ORC, total amount payable $37,523.97. NO DEPOSIT OFFER: 139.55/week based on S-Cross Prestige Auto – Save $2,000 now $31,990+ORC, total amount payable $36,422.55. $105.80/week based on Baleno Ltd Auto – Save $1,000 now $23,990+ORC, total amount payable $27,613.80. $88.92/week based on Swift GL Manual, $19,990+ORC, total amount payable $23,208.12.

Weekly payments based on nil deposit, 3.9% p.a. interest rate and 5-year term. Offer available from 1 May - 30 June 2018. Payments include on-road costs, a $369 documentation fee and $10.35 PPSR fee. Excludes Swift SR, 2018 Swift Sport, fleet purchases, demo vehicles and all other promotions. Normal lending and credit criteria apply.

SUZUKI NEW ZEALAND LIMITED 1 HEADS ROAD, WANGANUI. SZM0360 JUNE 2018

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