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Dromore livestock farmer Mark Copland with his dogs Skip (left) and Zoe. PHOTO TETSURO MITOMO 300913-TM-020

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he competitors in next month’s trans-Tasman Tux dog trial test will be approaching it like any battle between the All Blacks and the Wallabies.

With passion, determination and fight.

The test is the main attraction at the Ashburton A&P Show, on November 1 and 2, and a good ole arm wrestle is expected.

Linda Clarke RURAL REPORTER

The eight dog trialists will be working their superbly trained dogs on a mob of Romney hoggets provided by Dromore livestock farmer Mark Copland, who knows a thing or two about trialling himself.

Copland has represented New Zealand in dog trial tests eight times, both here and in Australia. He is a reserve for next month’s test at the Ashburton show. He would love a chance to battle the Aussies, but his champion dog, Skip, was injured by a cattlebeast last month and would only just be back to health if called upon at the last minute.

The New Zealand team has plenty of firepower anyway, he says. The team includes Stuart Millar (captain), from the Rakaia Gorge, with his dog Rose; Graeme Dickie from Lawrence with Tweed, Murray Child from Whangarei with Dice and Steve Murphy from Taranaki with Kahu.

The four were at Copland’s Somerton Road farm a fortnight ago, training as a group and going over subtle rule changes or interpretations that could affect their performances. Sometimes there is a change in the rules, just like a netball or rugby game.

He said the training session exposed a few areas the triallists needed to work on.

“It also gives us a month to get the sheep in order.”

From about 800 hoggets on farm at the moment, he will pick a mob of 150 that could end up in the Tux arena. He and son Todd will work them a bit, “to weed out the rogues”, and whittle numbers down to around 70 for the tests.

The New Zealand team will be back at Copland’s farm the day before the show for more practice and then head up to Stuart Miller’s Peak Hill station with the

Australian trialists for some sightseeing.

Copland has been dog trialling for 30 years after giving up rugby. He has accumulated 35 island and national placings in championships, and captained the New Zealand team five times.

“My father had pretty good working dogs and it was a natural transition.”

His desire to compete well and win has never dropped off, that competitiveness is seen in he and Robyn’s sons, Hugh, Todd, and Kent, who have played top level hockey – Hugh for New Zealand.

Over the years, he says three or four dogs have stood out for him, having the closeto-perfect mix of ability to work hard and ability to be trained.

“The good ones you remember . . . and some of the bad ones. Some dogs don’t take ‘no’ for an answer very well.

“You see it early on in the pup pen when you are feeding them but it is in the first six to eight months that you know which ones might be good.”

Copland breeds a few of his own dogs and has a pound with at least eight dogs of varying ages. Past champ Mary, now graying around the muzzle, has her own peace and quiet in a separate kennel.

His dogs are bred to work on the farm and they do, every day. He selects two for extra work at trials. These dogs are pleased to work hard, do as they are told and be rewarded with a pat or kind words.

There is plenty of work to do on the farm. Copland has 670ha of irrigated and dryland paddocks. He runs 3000 commercial ewes and 200 Border Leicester stud ewes. From July to October the property finishes 600-700 bullocks for Silver Fern Farms.

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ABOVE: Mark Copland with his dog Mary (second from right) and fellow Kiwi team-mates after winning the trans-Tasman test at the Ashburton A&P Show in 2007.

grows winter feed and cereals.

The sheep stud is one of just 37 Border Leicester flocks in the country and Copland says dwindling numbers means fewer opportunities to source stock. It is a good dual-purpose breed, for both meat and wool, and Westmere usually competes successfully at the Ashburton and Christchurch A&P shows, and others around the region.

“Showing is a great way to gauge ourselves against our peers,” he said.

He takes the same competitive nature into growing his winter feed – his crops have won competitions and he relishes the chance to learn more and improve what he is growing.

“When we first started entering the A&P winter feed competition, we were growing swedes at 14.5 tonne per hectare. With trial and experiment, we are now growing upwards of 23 tonne per hectare.”

He grows swede and fodder beet and

says he has learned to make good use of science to grow better crops.

Westmere has been in the care of both his father and grandfather and despite being surrounded by dairy farmers, he has no desire to milk cows.

Never is a long time though, he says, not dismissing the possibility that his sons might see it differently in the future. He sees more of a future in growing other crops.

Right now the focus on farm is tidying up after the windstorm and working the test hoggets. He says Ashburton people should see the trans-Tasman test as it is an honour for the A&P association to host it.

“It is a national test. You have one man working with two different types of mammals, dog and sheep. You put it all together and get it right, it is a big achievement.”

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ogs are a main feature at this year’s Ashburton A&P Show. The official theme is Farming Friends: Family, Community and Business, but man’s best friend, the dog, has pride of place.

The Trans-Tasman test between New Zealand and Australian dog triallists will be held in a special arena at the western end of the showgrounds, near

Drummond and Etheridge.

The dogs in the test must herd a small group of sheep around obstacles and into a pen, against the clock, and in response to commands and whistles from their owners.

Elsewhere in the showgrounds, a team of dogs from the Ashburton dog obedience club will be showing visitors their skills.

Show president David Bennett, himself a sheep farmer with dogs, said the working dog was definitely man’s best friend and deserved special status at the 136th show.

Mr Bennett hoped plenty of visitors would get in behind the Kiwi test team as they took on the Aussies for two tests over the course of the twoday show.

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f the winds of September 10 and living in Canterbury has taught us anything, it is the necessity to expect the unexpected.

Along with earthquakes and snow events, the frequency of interruptions to power supplies, normal routines and production comes around at least once every 20 years.

Now that the winds are yesterday’s news, and damage control and repair programmes have fully kicked in to the credit of the irrigation service industry, where to from here?

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are options to protect against damage.

IrrigationNZ has received a number of queries asking if putting water in tyres of pivots and laterals is a good solution.

The jury seems to be split over this action.

The extra weight makes a difference holding the irrigator down but there are cases of irrigators with water-filled tyres tipping over. Adding water also contributes to the overall weight of the irrigator potentially amplifying rutting issues.

If during a severe event, a pivot or lateral does collapse, they tend to do more damage as the fall is harder and once upside down the structure may not be able to hold the extra weight.

Another consideration is that it is not the towers that need stabilising but the spans. Like an albatross an irrigator has a large wingspan compared to its weight. The spans catch the wind and move in a backwards

and forwards motion (they vibrate).

If the towers are more secure the damage can change from impact damage, when the irrigator hits the ground after being “blown over”

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anchor is the spans; even though it may be easiest to anchor the towers.

There does not appear to be many “off the shelf” kits to use for securing irrigators, but with this event some innovative solutions will be found.

As a risk management tool a series of concrete blocks or

piles set in the ground in a line and some strops could be a cheap option.

Some of the questions we need to ask are does the solution need to be portable?

For example, a series of weights (concrete blocks or the like) engineered and calculated to cope with the

expected loads that can be carted to wherever the irrigator is positioned.

Would that be suitable for a cropping situation with damage to crops while accessing? What loads would the anchor have to cope with and what does an anchor look like?

Permanent anchor points could pose problems if the irrigator is some hours away from being in that particular position and power outages are likely.

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The Isobar maps for August 1,1975, and for September 10, 2013, were very similar. In 1975 there were few if any pivots or laterals.

So there needs to be some questions answered in terms of quantifying what strength of wind gusts or conditions actually cause damage?

Is it gusts up to 150 kilometres an hour, or 100km/hr?

Where and how should a weather warning be placed and what timeframes are necessary to enable action?

In the absence of more sophisticated anchoring, the simple action of positioning an irrigator in a sheltered place or pointing into or away from the direction of the wind is the first step.

Always be mindful that if parking a travelling irrigator next to a shelterbelt that windblown limbs could be

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There is a considerable amount of talk for dairy farmers in particular to have generators to protect against power outages.

The necessity of keeping milk flowing and then cooled and having pumping capacity for the basics of drinking and cleaning water is a risk that many farmers are not prepared to carry.

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Like the All Blacks who regularly practice with 14 men, a backup system needs to be regularly practised and operated so all players know how it will work.

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Allowing professionals sufficient time to look at the issues and risks will increase the quality of the advice.

Preparation becomes even more crucial in joint purchase/ equity partnerships scenarios, where several parties may need to enter into binding arrangements before submitting an offer for the property.

Rather going to the cost and hassle of the above steps before submitting a bid that may not be successful, a purchaser can always circumvent this by including a “due diligence condition” in its offer. Such a condition can cover one or a range of specific inquiries, or be general in nature. If the conditional offer is accepted, this will allow the purchaser time to fully consider the property and all related aspects. The downside is that a purchaser putting in a conditional offer is unlikely to be successful against an

unconditional offer at a similar price.

A purchaser must weigh up the cost of going through a full due diligence exercise before bidding, against the opportunity cost of putting in a conditional offer that is unlikely to succeed.

The same applies to changes to the vendor’s prescribed sale terms. In a hot market, any attempt to alter the balance of risk or benefit away from the vendor must be carefully considered against the possibility that competing comparable offers may be “clean”.

All of this comes down to the purchaser’s assessment of opportunity, risk, and economics of the property, and the terms upon which it is being sold.

Price

This can be the most difficult part of the process. I have seen countless purchasers agonise over where they should pitch their offer in a competitive environment. Unlike public auctions, the purchaser has no visibility of the purchase

price that other buyers may be prepared to pay.

Only the vendor will have this information and then only when the offers are opened.

For this reason purchasers are shooting blind and can only rely on sentiment and historic sales data to establish “the market”.

What the market was on historic sales, and what the market will be for the target property on closing date can be two different things, as a rising market sets new benchmarks with each comparable sale.

Lawyers will often be asked to advise on price.

This is difficult, as different purchasers will be prepared to pay different amounts for a property depending on their own circumstances. For example, one purchaser may look at a particular property as a stand-alone economic unit carrying out a particular type of farming. Because of perceived greater economies of scale, a neighbouring farmer may be prepared to pay more.

Taking this into account, I think the best advice a lawyer can give in terms of price is

to consider the economics of the property for the particular intended (and permitted) use, and pitch accordingly.

When considering the economics of the property, sensitivity analysis on the key variables is useful. Will a particular property remain attractive under a combination of the following adverse variables?

• Low production.

• Low production prices.

offers. Aside of that, I have rarely seen a referential offer secure a property.

To summarise, the price pitch is often the hardest part. It all comes down to what a particular property is worth for a particular purchaser, and how much that purchaser is prepared to pay. This analysis is within the purchaser’s control.

Whether the resulting offer is high enough relies entirely on the decisions of others!

Conclusion

• High interest rates.

• High production costs.

While sounding pessimistic, this reflects that slight changes in one or a number of the above variables could have a significant impact on the economics of a particular property. A good farm accountant or consultant can easily model these variables.

Every year, we will see a number of “referential offers”. A referential offer is a purchase price stated as being “$50,000.00 higher than the next highest bidder”. Often the sale documentation will expressly prohibit referential

Securing a farm property in a competitive seller’s market can be frustrating for a purchaser.

Even when the purchaser has done everything right, there is always the possibility that a competing bidder is prepared to pay more.

That said, the odds of success, and more importantly purchasing the right property at the right price, can be increased through a comprehensive pre-purchase due diligence exercise.

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ost conservation effort in New Zealand is directed at the conspicuous wildlife such as our native birds, and rare plants.

But how many people know about our native lizards?

Not many. Few people realise that many lizard species are threatened by the same factors that affect our native birds – predators such as cats and stoats, and loss of habitat.

Fortunately, by preserving and restoring areas to protect plants we can also protect the lizards. The kanuka reserve near Tinwald is a good example – it preserves plants that were once characteristic of the Canterbury Plains and is also home to many lizards, and the traps around

Lake Heron that catch predators of the grebes also benefit the local skinks which love living among the tussocks and rocks.

We can do a lot for lizards in our own farms and gardens.

Lizards need warm dry shelter such as piles of stones.

Originally the Canterbury Plains had lots of areas of dry stony habitat but development for farming has cleared many of these natural sites and some stony riverbeds are now covered with weeds.

Fortunately the stones farmers piled up in the paddocks or along fencelines provide perfect warm, dry shelter, and they attract insects and other invertebrates which are food for the lizards.

The more intensive farming practices such as irrigation and the change to cattle rather than sheep have reduced available habitat for lizards: many of the piles of stones have gone and irrigation means the habitat is

no longer hot and dry. Some farmers have piled stones in the corners of paddocks where the centre pivots do not reach and this provides great habitat for lizards.

We can also do a similar thing in our gardens – place piles of stones in a warm dry area, making sure there are gaps of about 5mm to 20 mm for the lizards to escape into.

Old concrete, roofing iron, dead wood and bricks are also perfect places for them to live (in other words, don’t be too tidy). Reducing predator pressure will benefit both birds and lizards – trapping predators and putting bells on cats.

Lizards also like the fruits of native plants such as coprosmas, and the fewer chemicals used the better so that there are invertebrates (such as spiders, beetles and slaters) for them to eat.

New Zealand has about 80 species of lizards. There are

A skink sunbathing on a rock.

many different types of lizard in the world but New Zealand only has skinks and geckos.

Skinks are the shiny brown ones, and geckos have loose baggy skin and large eyes that cannot blink. Skinks are active during the day; green geckos are active during the day but the brown geckos are nocturnal.

Lizards deserve our attention: they are an important part of our native fauna, like fantails,

grebes and kanuka. By retaining piles of stones in our paddocks or along fencelines we can help the lizards.

Sheep grazing doesn’t affect the stones or the lizards but if the paddocks are to be grazed by cattle, a hot wire along the edge can help keep them off the stones and the piles intact.

Even a small pile of stones or wood in a warm place can make a difference – this sounds like a good spring project.

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Rethinking your waste T

Sheryl Stivens

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Judith Edgar was the winner of last year’s wearable waste competition.

Locally the Wearable Waste Competition is running again this year. This is the third year and entries just get better.

Creating wearable waste is a fun project for a family, household, school class or workplace. Have a look and see what is lying round the workshop or shed, visit your recycling depot to find some more materials and get creating. Entries close October 22. Be in to win a share of the $500 prize money. For more information contact ashburtonshow@gmail.com or www.ashburtonshow.co.nz

Imagine a mobile phone that runs on urine power powered by a smart toilet

Scientists working at the University of Bristol have developed a novel way of charging mobile phones using urine as a power source to generate electricity.

Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos is an expert at harnessing power from unusual sources using microbial fuel cells (MFCs). He says “we are very excited as this is a world first. Using the ultimate waste product as a source of power is about as eco as it gets.”

One product that we can be sure of is an unending supply is our own urine. By harnessing this power as urine passes through a cascade of microbial fuel cells we have managed to charge a mobile phone.

The beauty of this fuel source is that we are not replying on

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Funding is now being sought to develop smart toilets to separate urine for energy.

You can use microbes for bokashi composting and healthy gardens Do you know about bokashi bucket composting?

It is an easy way to compost food scraps right in your kitchen. All you need is a bokashi bucket system and some bokashi zing.

Put your food scraps into the bucket, sprinkle with bokashi zing and put the lid on. The zing will ferment your food scraps, including meat, so there is no smell or flies and your food scraps will soon be teaming with microbial life.

Once the bucket is full you can bury it in your vegetable garden. As I found out when I planted out some broccoli

seedlings recently, after a few weeks the trench you buried the contents of your bucket in will be teaming with tiger worms and full of fertility all ready for planting your summer vegetable garden.

For help with composting food scraps with bokashi call 0800627824 or email bholley@mastagard.co.nz or sherylstivens@gmail.com

Composting demo October 23 At the Eco Education centre alongside the Mastagard Recycling Shed: To learn about food waste composting with bokashi or worms come along to the Eco Education Centre Wednesday October 23, 1pm2.30pm or contact us for free advice.

Happy spring gardening to all – Hope to see you at the Ashburton A&P Show.

Sheryl Stivens is the Eco efficiency Co-ordinator for Mastagard Education

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September - a beggar of a month

John Leadley

F

or many New Zealanders, September 2013 will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.

From a national perspective, the lack of success of the America’s Cup challenge was seen by many as a disaster.

From my own perspective the ongoing effects of the North Island drought and the as yet unknown cost to the productive sector of the windstorms of September and associated damage provides a more serious concern.

Firstly to the America’s Cup. Remember, it’s only a sport. Yeah!

I, for one, am glad the cup was won on the water and not in the courtroom – despite many lawyers feathering their considerable nests along the way.

Yes, we lost the final 9–8 to an American entry, skippered by an Australian, but funded by the man described as one of the richest

in the world. Oracle was built at Warkworth, New Zealand, the team “boss” was kiwi Sir Russell Coutts, and the majority of the crew New Zealanders.

To claim we will lose $100 million in the boat building industry is drawing a very long bow.

With Oracle and Emirates Team New Zealand the fastest catamarans in the world, historically right at the forefront of mono-hull design and construction, and a worldwide reputation in super yacht building, clearly we are far from a spent force.

World titles even in the last week in yachting and Olympic medals at most recent Games, entrenches New Zealand as a top yachting nation.

Pride in our sporting achievements for such a small nation is inevitable, but I struggle to believe that professionalism in any sport is more about sport than money.

It certainly defies my logic that any wind-powered vessel can travel at twice the speed of its power source? Amazing!

As for spending another $36 million tax payer dollars to repeat

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America’s Cup is a plaything for rich nations.

A much better return to taxpayers would result if this level of funding was used to assist young families into their first home, upgrade roading in our productive rural hinterland, increase efficiency and capability of our rail corridor or release irrigation water sustainably to expand export production.

My real fear is that any further huge government incentive for world sporting events in Auckland will see further taxpayer largesse used to prop up transport issues in that city at the expense of greater New Zealand.

The much vaunted “trickle down” theory as an excuse for tax spending in one region, has proven time and again to be fallible.

Can anyone seriously quantify the South Island benefits of the World Rugby Cup – or for that matter the Christchurch 1974 Commonwealth Games to the greater South Island? Figures released certainly don’t withstand close scrutiny. How about

concentrating on farm production where we constantly shine on the world stage.

And what a challenge Canterbury Farmers have faced this winter. The heaviest snowfall for many years, 200 mls of rainfall in a week in coastal areas and gales close to those of 1975 intensity across the District, have all made for a challenging season.

Damage to an estimated 800 irrigators has the potential to cause significant loss of production not only in this season but well into 2014.

If a dry October eventuates, low pasture production coupled with a clean-out of last winter’s reserves due to snow and mud could lead not only to poorer mating percentages and lower spring production, but a deficit of silage and hay next year.

I believe irrigation companies are making huge endeavours to source manpower and parts to affect repairs as early as possible, but arable farmers, dairy and sheep enterprises may all face production losses of some significance.

Here’s hoping for a moist October and November.

Congratulations to EA Networks for their massive effort to restore power in such a short time frame to most consumers.

It was disappointing that some individual consumers with on farm damage, who quite correctly were last in the queue, were the same properties compromised in the 2006 snow event. Maybe, the ongoing call to keep trees clear of power lines will now be heeded?

On a similar issue the Rural Support Trust, (of which I am chairman) were disappointed at the number of dairy farmers who lacked back-up generators to maintain water supply and/or dairy shed operation.

Although the Trust was able to source – at considerable cost – a number of portable generators from as far away as Buller and Central Otago, again we were dismayed that some were the same enterprises caught short in the 2006 snow event.

Surely a $20-$40,000 investment in insurance on a multi-million dollar business is greater priority than expensive overseas annual holidays?

The Trust was pleased to again assist, but hope that some lessons

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That contaminated seed sent for multiplication ever crossed the border defies logic – that a specialist grain firm could be so irresponsible to allow its escape during transport plainly intolerable.

It’s hard to imagine a grain growing area in New Zealand where the potential for disaster is more real. Added irresponsibility was the delay in advising authorities of the spill, with roads along the route being used by herds of cattle and vehicles to all destinations.

Damage control will be ongoing, labour intensive and expensive and not necessarily successful.

Most farmers are prepared for and can cope with nature’s severest challenges, but when industry affiliates are careless to this degree; it’s a bitter pill to swallow.

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Organic grape growth strong F

ive years ago 600 hectares of New Zealand vineyards were certified as organic.

But last year that figure was pushed out to about 2500ha at the end of the 2012 vintage, and it is expected to grow.

At the forefront is Hawke’s Bay’s Mission Estate Winery. For the 2010-11 grape-growing season Mission joined up with Wither Hills in Marlborough and Gibbston Valley in Central Otago to pioneer a trial of organic grapes alongside conventional grapes.

The study, initiated by Organic Winegrowers of New Zealand, whose aim is to have a fifth of all vineyards accordingly certified by 2020, is now into its final year and the results so

far have been encouraging, says Mission viticulturist Caine Thompson.

“One of the real surprises for us has been that after only two years the berry quality is on a par with conventionally grown grapes.

“I think there’s a perception that it takes longer to transition to organic production, but the trial has shown that’s simply not the case.”

Mr Thompson says that although the 2011 vintage in Hawke’s Bay was one of the more challenging of his career the organic programme still produced “ very pleasing” results.

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Mr Thompson has been more than convinced by the results.

“If you can grow the same quantity at the same quality for the same cost by going organic, then why not go down that route?”

Mr Thompson is monitoring 16ha of Gimblett Gravels vines – half being grown in

the conventional style and half under strict organic controls.

He has long been interested in organics and says Mission was well placed to be part of the project as it has a tradition of nurturing the environment.

The results so far looked good. Harvest data and disease control were virtually identical for both growing systems, while the costs of organic production were lower.

Mr Thompson says the

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He says quality was high in the test merlot and syrah blocks for the recent harvest.

“One of the real surprises for us has been that after only two years the berry quality is on a par with conventionally grown grapes,” hesays.

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Millan, who has been working for Wright Farms since 2001, is still able to use his highly developed crop husbandry skills managing the remaining arable side of Methven farmer John Wright’s 500ha farming business, while growing the contracting business.

“John and Jane Wright are very supportive employers, they have encouraged Michelle and I to take up a couple of business opportunities with them over recent years and are being very understanding

as we grow Methven Contracting,” Millan said.

And the new business is growing well, already the spreader has been replaced with a new Bredal spreader from EuroAgri and the tractor set up with auto steer for drilling (GPS was already being used for spreading). Plans to purchase an additional tractor are being fast-tracked due to growth, and business plans are currently being finalised to purchase a combine harvester (in partnership with Woods Contracting) to add contract harvest to the range of agricultural services Methven Contracting provides.

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The Canterbury A&P Show, hosted by the Canterbury A&P Association, is the largest Agricultural and Pastoral Show in the country and the largest single event in the South Island. The award was in recognition of the association’s 150th anniversary which was celebrated at last year’s show.

“The win isn’t the outcome of one governance or management group performing well. It is the contribution of a wide diversity of people, all contributing in a co-ordinated and integrated manner to provide

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Running over three days in November, the show generates close to $17 million in direct spending plus a further $26 million in estimated trade exhibitor revenue. Visitors from outside of Christchurch make up more than 53 per cent of the spending generated from the event. The show brings nearly 8700 tourists to Christchurch annually, from other parts of New Zealand.

“The history of the Canterbury A&P Show is very much linked to the survival and growth of the region, with the show acting as an event to promote developments in farming and animal welfare, generating new pastoral and agricultural initiatives. Showing, like any competitive element, is an ideal performance indicator, giving farmers the opportunity to distinguish themselves and promote their success, which has a direct impact on the bottom line come sale day.”

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Information from “key performance indicators” can then be used to improve results in areas such as energy use, nitrogen loss, carbon footprint and maintenance of biodiversity. Data from the dashboard can also be used to fulfill requirements of local and international regulators.

“Farmers are under pressure to meet reporting requirements from all sorts of regulators – regional councils, GlobalGap, Marks and Spencers etc. This system will be a one-stop shop: data can be entered once and different reports generated.

Administration will be reduced,” said Professor Caroline Saunders of Lincoln University’s Agribusiness and Economic Research Unit. “Types of data to be entered will be similar to farm accounts and spray diaries – electricity use, water, fertiliser.”

The dashboard is designed not just for compliance and accreditation but also as a learning tool. Growers can see what works and make decisions based on the outcomes of the indicators, said Professor Henrik Moller, from the Centre for Sustainability at the University of Otago. “The indicators are mostly quick to do and can be scored by the farmers themselves, and they are scientifically defensible so farmers, regulators and consumers trust them.”

Sustainability Dashboard project team leader Jon Manhire says the dashboard framework has the potential to improve environmental and economic performance in the New Zealand primary sector by providing feedback to growers so they can lift farm performance. Feedback to government could also aid policy development.

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The logic for water storage

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Whatever one’s views on the causes of climate change, climate change is a constant on our living dynamic planet.

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Aside from being a net food exporter in a world of increasing food shortage, New Zealanders can be proud that our farmers are among the most carbon efficient in the world.

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This efficiency saw the Daily Mail last year write, Buy New Zealand lamb to save the planet. In May, Britain’s Observer on Sunday ran a feature entitled, Why worrying about food miles is missing

the point. In it, our carbon efficiency was lauded.

Victoria University of Wellington’s Dr James Renwick, who is an IPCC lead chapter author, said on One News, “We’ll see more high temperature extremes, so higher frequency of hot days and less cold days”.

Newspapers are reporting that New Zealand can expect a climate on average 0.9 degrees Celsius warmer by 2040 and 2.1 degrees warmer by 2090.

We have two options for adaption. First, is researching new crops and pasture varietals in the knowledge that farms will face greater environmental stress. This demands an ongoing and bipartisan ramp up in both our agricultural research and development spend and science capability.

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South Canterbury’s Opuha dam, the most recent dedicated water storage facility which started operating in the late 1990s, has proven itself by insulating South Canterbury from drought.

It is schemes like Opuha, such as Ruataniwha now being proposed in the Hawke’s Bay, which New Zealand needs to build resilience into our economy and society.

The constant for water remains irrespective of what current land uses are or what they could be in the future.

As we saw on the West Coast when it suffered a rare drought, sections of rivers do dry up.

The IPCC report indicates that as temperatures increase and weather patterns change, such outcomes may become a more regular occurrence.

Stored rain water provides the means to maintain minimum flows. Water storage is as much environmental infrastructure as it is economic. Every region should be looking at storing rain water and many currently are. This report should hasten that work.

While I do not know a lot about trout fishing, what I do know is this; trout live in water and not in dry river beds.

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“While the, thankfully, benign winter and spring has seen a most remarkable come back in terms of pasture, North Island sheep farmers in particular lost capital stock and quality genetics,” says Katie Milne, Federated Farmers adverse events spokeswoman. “Not to mention their wool crop too. The shame being that it came at a time when wool seemed to be finding its feet.”

Federated Farmers says there could be upwards of three million fewer lambs this year. “Replacements will naturally cost more so it could take five years for farms to fully recover and that assumes there are no further climatic or market shocks,” Mrs Milne said.

“Yet the drought of 2013 should make us wake up to two realities. First, rainwater storage is sorely needed in key farming areas and second, there is no such thing as ‘farmer welfare’.

“Having been interviewed during the drought, it amazed me to encounter people who believed every farmer was getting a cheque from the government.

There was some harsh things said about farmers.

“Despite the worst drought in 70 years, covering the South Island’s west coast and the entire North Island, only 146 applications for Rural Assistance Payments were granted. There are, after all, tens of thousands of farms in New Zealand.”

However, Mrs Milne acknowledged funding also for the Rural Support Trusts. “They provided counselling and advisory services to help farmers and their families to get through the most trying of times. The $320,000 in funding that the Rural Support Trusts received from the MPI was not only cost effective, it worked.

“Set against the billions of dollars that the primary industries generate for New Zealand, the drought has cost taxpayers just over $1.13 million in assistance,” Mrs Milne said.

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Petting a gentle animal of any kind seems to appeal to young, old and in between.

Daycare centres, schools, churches and even nursing homes rent mobile zoos that will bring animals and handlers to them or organise trips to petting zoos.

“You can see the absolute joy as they are sitting there stroking some animal, particularly if it’s the first time in their life they have touched one,” said

Jacqueline Solis, two, from Burbank, California, plays with the sheep at the Fairview Farms petting zoo at the Los Angeles County Fair.

Sky Shivers, superintendent of Fairview Farms at the Los Angeles County Fair.

“There is tranquility, an exchange of emotion that’s amazing to watch.”

Ms Shivers, 63, of Prague, Oklahoma, said a good zoo is as educational as it is entertaining, reeling off several fun facts: baseballs have wool in their cores; doctors use the intestinal lining from some animals to graft serious burns; female goats have beards like males; and while sheep prefer grass to weeds, goats want it the other way around.

Sheep and goats are popular because they only have bottom teeth and are safer around children.

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People often like to see babies, so Brendon Kline features baby chicks, ducks and bunnies,

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“A lot of the older people enjoy it as much as the children do,” Mr Kline said. “A lot of them grew up on farms and these are animals they don’t see every day anymore.”

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Owner Lori Bayour takes the animals on the road to hospices, city neighbourhoods, parties and a rodeo.

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Not everyone thinks petting zoos are a good thing. “We think they’re a bad idea,” said Meredith Turner, spokeswoman for the national advocacy group Farm Sanctuary.

“Animals are often not in good health, they’re kept in an unnatural environment, and they teach kids that animals exist for our entertainment, when in actuality, they exist for their own reasons.”

Animals need to be clean, healthy, gentle and insured.

Handlers should provide feed for the animals and clean up after them. Another must is a sanitising station so those who pet the animals can wash their hands.

A bad experience for a child can last a lifetime.

“You can’t leave them alone,” Ms Shivers said. “They will get knocked down and scream and cry and be afraid of animals for the rest of their lives.”

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We’re playing with a loaded gun Chris Murdoch

H

ow many countries in the Western world play Russian roulette and hope for a misfire? For this is the way I feel New Zealand and the Ministry of Primary Industries is treating our county.

If we continue to import products that carry a form of disease to our livestock or infestation of weeds to our farmland, sooner or later it will happen.

We as a country need to wake up to the threats we put ourselves under. To me, threats we don’t have to face.

The honourable Nathan Guy, Minister of Primary Industries’ statement and responsibilities says: “New Zealand is a

biologically based economy.

The primary sector is New Zealand’s most productive sector and earns the majority of our merchandise export earnings. The sector needs to be protected from pests and diseases, and the harm that they cause. A significant biological incursion could put the Government’s economic growth aspirations at risk. For this reason, biosecurity will continue to be my top priority for the primary industries portfolio.”

Fonterra’s issues point out how every other country in the world is looking for a reason to stop us exporting our primary products.

The episode with black grass, one of the worst invasive plants of arable farming systems in Europe, becoming established in Mid Canterbury is a prime example of poor regulation, or good regulations not being

carried out.

I ask – how did a grass seed crop that was supposed to be exported from Denmark to New Zealand manage to pass inspection in the field, and yet have such a high black grass count, not get pulled up?

When it was picked up at our port, why was sent back on the boat where it came from?

How did, or who decided it should be screened here and then the dressings destroyed?

Why wasn’t the container it came in sealed, not just put in a covered truck. No spillage should have happened covered or uncovered truck.

Now with the latest wind storm that seed could be anywhere from the known route to the coast. Heavy infestation of black grass in wheat crops in Europe has reduced yields by 25 per cent or more. The cost to Mid Cantabrians and the New

Zealand economy could be high. This cost should not land on the taxpayer but be paid by the seed importer.

The Fonterra problem may have come from MPI making a botch of its testing procedures.

The import of palm kernel coming to New Zealand, from what appeared to be a poorly operated factory, that allows sheep, goat or deer legs in it, from a country that has a history of foot and mouth is ridiculous. I understand MPI is sending a senior manager to Malaysia and then Indonesia to work with authorities there (not before time).

About 1.5 million tonnes of pork is imported from Canada, a country that has several serious diseases we don’s have and I wonder how controlled this procedure is.

How many other near misses have we had? I’m not saying stop importing goods but make

sure they are 100 per cent safe or don’t let them in the country.

Our lamb got stopped in China because of bad labelling.

Australia stopped our apple imports for decades because we had fire blight (despite it being proven not to be carried in the fruit). But New Zealand just opens its doors and says, come on in!

If we get one of these diseases New Zealand would end up a third world country overnight.

Do you want this? – I don’t!

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ederated Farmers North Canterbury has selected dryland sheep and beef farmer Lynda Murchison as its new provincial president.

Mrs Murchison thanked former president Neil Stott who has stood down since first holding the role in 2010.

Another change has seen grain and seed chairman Murray Rowlands opt to swap his Federated Farmers hat to focus on arable farming.

“Murray was inspirational during the 2010 Canterbury earthquake and worked tirelessly to help growers recover grain from toppled silos,” Mrs Murchison said.

“He is a talented and enthusiastic farmer who

will undoubtedly pursue his new interests with the same commitment and vigour. We hope to see Murray back at the Federated Farmers table in the future.

“I am also pleased to say we have a new team in place for North Canterbury.

“My senior vice-president is dairy spokesperson, Vaughan Beazer, while Oxford dairy farmer Grant Evans has been elected as the junior vicepresident.”

She said Federated Farmers ensured farmers’ interests were represented across myriad central and local government decision-making; as well as providing assistance to members on anything from

Lynda Murchison is the new North Canterbury Federated Farmers provincial president.

adverse events to employment law.

“I joined the executive of Federated Farmers to advocate for improved outcomes for farming; including opportunities for red meat and wool. My passion is sustainable agriculture.

“Farmers tend to hide their environmental lights under their bushels and tolerate, at

times, some unfair wraps.

“Now, more than ever, farmers need to be committed to sustainable farming practices and be brave enough to lead the management of land and water for the benefit of whole the community.

“As we are one community, the tremendous response we had from Christchurch folk after the recent windstorm clearly

demonstrates that people remembered the Farmy Army’s help from 2011.

“While we had to turn down many offers of help due to OSH requirements, especially where trees were concerned, their response showed how much they wanted to reciprocate,” she said.

Mrs Murchison farms in partnership with her husband Jock Murchison on a dryland sheep and beef farm in the Weka Pass, North Canterbury.

They have been in the area since 2005 and hail from Lake Coleridge, where the Murchison family has farmed since 1878.

She has also worked in resource management in Canterbury for 18 years, for both district councils the Regional Council, and Ngai Tahu. She now runs her own consultancy and lectures part-time at the University of Canterbury in resource and environmental management.

Mrs Murchison has also taken up the Roper Scholarship to study for a PhD looking at environmental ethics in New Zealand farming.

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