NZ Dairy
DAIRY SERVICES » Grant Allen
Whanganui 1/4, 1/4 WanganuiVeterinary Vet Services Services • Consistently top results • Veterinary monitoring • Regular reporting • Animal health insurance • Long-term clients • Top graziers on very good land Over 20 Years of Grazing Excellence. For Peace of mind Grazing, or inquiring about becoming a Grazier Call 0800 Heifer (0800 434 337) Conditions apply.
Jamie Anderson Mob 027 245 2567 ARE Y YOU THINKING ABOUT CONVERTING YOUR Y F FARM TO A HIGH PERFORMANCE DAIRY RY SYSTEM? R Y
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Vetcare Grazing a better way Back in 1993 John Pickering, of Whanganui Veterinary Services, was often called on to resolve disputes between dairy farmers and graziers to do with grazing standards. He was determined to find a better way, hence the creation of Vetcare Grazing, which has grown and operated successfully since then. From small beginnings – a couple of hundred heifers on one block – numbers grew to more than 2500 within four years. The grazing business was taking too much of John’s time away from being a vet, so ex-dairy farmer Jamie Anderson joined the business. The aims have always been simple: • Grow the heifers to their genetic potential. • Regular monitoring and reporting, thereby removing the need for owners to travel and check their heifers. • Set a performance based fee. • Continue to offer a high standard of grazing. Vetcare Grazing offers the total grazing package; weaners from late November, May to May heifers, May to June winter grazing for heifers, carry over grazing and bull hire. With the business expanding, another ex-dairy farmer, Kay McGillivray, joined the team in 2006. After 21 years at the helm, John Pickering has taken a step back and moved from Whanganui to Napier. He still has a part time role organising mating programmes, bull hire and being the business mentor when required. Vetcare Grazing now has a new Team Leader, John Guiniven. John also has a dairy farming background. For the last 14 years he and his family were farming in the South Island finishing on an equity partnership farm near Culverden. John brings with him plenty of practical experience, knowledge and enthusiasm to take the business on to the next decade. Twenty-three years on, Vetcare Grazing continues to grow, maintaining the same high standards set in the beginning. However the growth in the dairy industry has created new challenges in recent years, namely the availability of quality grazing. With dairy support land being converted to dairy farms, quality
grazing is becoming more difficult to source. Our grazing farms are now further afield, from Waverley to Highway 50 in Hawke’s Bay. Heifers are sourced from Taranaki, Whanganui, Rangitikei, Manawatu, Wairarapa and the Waikato. Due to interest from sheep and beef farmers, Vetcare Grazing now offers grazing for beef animals. Grazing with Vetcare Grazing offers a sound and competitive income to any other enterprise on the farm. If you are interested in grazing or would like to learn more, call Jamie on 027 245 2567. SMART SOFTWARE Do you want the Best Software for your Grazing Business ? New Grass is a software package which offers the ability to upload weights, analyse weighing data, send reports to the different parties, and much more. Clients can have confidence in the integrity of the programme. It has been tried and proven with a large commercial grazing operation, Vetcare Grazing of Whanganui Veterinary Services, over the last 3 years. • Animal management: Weights, Overall weight gain, Average Daily Gain, health notes: drench, vaccinations and vet visits all recorded. • Versatile: Can be adapted to any animal production system. New contracts created in minutes, simply click ‘Create new Contract’ and follow the easy steps. • Analysis: Easy to set up data base. Has the ability to generate a range of reports through Excel; Stats that provide up to date over-all gains which highlight the performers and non-performers. • Billing: Generates billing information for month to month charging. Automatically adjusts finances around deaths, varying start dates etc. Automated Financial Reports easily generated, ie Buyer created invoices for Graziers • Cloud based/Smart phones: Can be accessed anywhere where there is Internet coverage. Can add relevant notes to any specific animal while out in the field. Can access client information ie phone numbers, address etc . For further information contact John Guiniven 027 535 7211.
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This system complies with the 5 Freedoms of Animals and centres around the best interest of the Dairy Cow This system recognises that nutrients captured and reused is money in the bank This system recognises that N leaching limits can be met This system recognises that Land is a land based activity which needs to be returning a ROI and ROE as a stand alone activity with a potential for capital gain This system recognises that production of Milk is a stand alone production activity which delivers An ROI and ROE
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cost effective all the way. Ecobag(tm Nutrient Capture effluent storage systems offer new possibilities of effluent storage and management all across NZ With lower payouts and pressure on farmers to improve environmental durability it’s not easy to decide what to do when it comes to upgrading or renovating older ponds. It’s in every one’s interest to ensure dollars spent are spent effectively and where possible create a return on investment made. Many farms still have oxidation ponds which gradually will need to be phased out , where more cows have entered the herd or where a feedpad has been added increased storage is often needed , many farms with just 3 day storage need to move to 90 days storage or more, the question arises what to do ? Some farmers and providers think solutions are in massive concrete basins and open storage, but often these do nothing more than waste a lot of money and collect more rainwater, which then turns into effluent... exuberating the issues. When building new, consider the following: Rain water, freeboard and sludge in the bottom of the pond or tank make up almost 50% of most ponds storage capacity... that means you spent 100% of your money for only 50% of the result... that almost sounds like a con... Maybe at an $8.- payout no one cares, but at $4.- ? and if we call storage a depreciating asset there is absolutely no sense in spending that sort of money for so little result .
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And what about old ponds? Most older ponds are structurally sound but not environmentally sound (they often leak)
but with then right technology they could be remodeled and used to be both compliant and offer more storage on the same footprint. Lining these ponds with a conventional HDPE or MDPE liner is almost impossible as often these older ponds do not meet engineering standards. However with ECOBAG™ Nutrient Capture Effluent storage systems that is not an issue. ECOBAG™ does not require expensive engineering or an engineered structure, just an embankment and what’s more this embankment can hold effluent up to 75-100 cm over and above the highest level of the embankment this means more storage at no extra cost. In addition ECOBAG™ does not need freeboard nor sludge residual in the bottom, this means an additional 600 mm storage, over a 20 by 20 meter pond that is 240.000 liters extra storage or 240 Cube. This together with ECOBAG™ not storing rainwater means an other of at least 1000 mm is freed up for actual storage, for the same 20 by 20 meter pond that is an additional 160.000 liters. Or 1600 Cube . Combine the 2 and we have an almost 100% increase of storage capacity on the same footprint. Old ponds are often “too close” to the dairy which means when the pond is enlarged or replaced it needs to move however in some cases trough the use of ECOBAG™ we maybe able to meet compliance without shifting the pond location. ECOBAG™ is fully certified by international standards, and offers farmers a real cost effective future proof storage system. Brought to you by TechniPharm, “we make farming ezy” Want to know more 0800 80 90 98 www.technipharm.co.nz visit us at all regional and national shows 2016