Country Life | 7 June 2019

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JUNE 2019

Persimmon orchardist still growing strong Every single persimmon that goes to market literally comes under the microscope at Holyoak Orchard.

It’s this attention to detail that has kept Matangi orchardists Geoff and Leigh Peach at the forefront of the persimmon industry for over 30 years. “As an industry, fruit for export must be residue-free and we aim to be insect-free for export to get into top markets,” says Geoff.

Holyoak Orchard has established markets offshore, exporting to a number of Asian countries where persimmons are sought during their local off-season. The fruit that reaches these shores has gone through a meticulous process before reaching its destination. Even the fruit picking staff have many years of experience.

Every year Geoff prunes and thins the trees so they produce specific yields. The fruit is carefully picked using gloves to maintain its integrity and avoid bruising. Picking season typically runs from April 1 to June 20. There’s lots of trees to harvest, with 1000 under bird netting and 600 under plastic cover.

Each persimmon is graded for size and checked for insects. The fruit undergoes quality control

by Geoff, assisted by daughter Sally, before being sent for export. Each tray weighs 4kg despite the size of the fruit. Larger persimmons are wrapped in socks. Eighty percent of the orchard’s markets are established pre-season.

The aim is to consistently produce premium persimmons that look and taste good. “I believe that if you do a job, you do it properly,” says Geoff, a member of the NZ Persimmon Industry Council. “Persimmons are easy to grow but hard to grow well.”

The Peaches sourced seed from Japan over 30 years ago, and grafted from some early established trees. Geoff knows every tree and still has a great passion for the industry three decades on.

Geoff Peak Holyoak Orchard, local persimmon exporter.

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FIELDAYS ROUNDUP

Fieldays Rural Catch

Eight single catches will be laying on the charm and showing off their skills at this year’s Fieldays. The finalists come from around the country, including two from the South Island and six from the North Island. Amongst them are two wildcards.

In an even balance of gender, four guys and four women will compete for an impressive prize pool, plus the coveted Golden Gumboot and the

kudos of winning grand title of Fieldays Rural Catch of the Year. They have the opportunity to mingle and charm fans, both at Fieldays and at various evening functions during the week. Each day they’ll compete in challenges designed to test their skills both on and off the farm. Their fencing, innovation, chainsaw, health and wellbeing, finance, ATV and media abilities will be put to the test.

Eight celebrity chefs, with some well-tested and delicious recipes under their belt, and plenty of tips to inspire, will entertain and educate from the Fieldays Kitchen Theatre.

The line-up includes Peter Gordon, Claire Turnbull, Ray McVinnie, Brett McGregor, Simon Gault, Megan May, Marc Soper and Yvonne Lorkin.

Fieldays event manager Nicky Garland says the celebrity chefs play in important role in the Kitchen Theatre showing the food journey, connecting with the primary industries, showcasing the country’s best produce and encouraging health and wellness.

Visitors will be treated to a variety of demonstration topics covering everyday recipes using the best of New Zealand produce, building a perfectly balanced meal, fad-free and fantastic eating, utilising all ingredients and becoming a wine connoisseur.

Agriculture plays a vital role in the life of an economy, and is the backbone of New Zealand’s economic system. Modern innovations in agriculture are essential for the advancement of the industry.

Fieldays provides a launch pad for backyard inventors and start-up companies, through to established manufacturers and distributors, to connect with the primary industries.

It connects agri innovators with corporate decision makers, media and investors and provides a platform to test innovation with a highly targeted audience. The goal is to facilitate face-to-face connections and drive innovation together for the advancement of agriculture in New Zealand.

The innovations cover all facets of the country’s primary industry.

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Fencing – an essential element in farming

Fencing may be an Olympic sport but at Fieldays fencing competition requires a different skill set and tools. Interactive demonstrations by three top professional fencers and fencing instructors will run throughout the event. As well as providing live demonstrations, the fencers will offer free and interactive fencing advice. The demonstrations include fence building using tractor-driven post drivers.

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Champion horse trainer

Tina Fagan finds the process of training a Kaimanawa horse rewarding despite the many demands on her time. The full-time business woman and mother, with 20 years experience as a horse trainer, enjoys the change. She likes to share the journey with others, particularly through social media. “It keeps people involved and is a good thing to share with the public.”

Trainers approved to enter the Freedom to Friendship Challenge, formerly the Kaimanawa Stallion Challenge, all work with the horses, gaining their trust and respect.

As the horses have had no human interaction, they can’t be forced or rushed. While professional trainers can be riding them within four weeks, Fagan says gaining their trust can take longer. “They have all come out of the wild and have their own quirks.”

Mustering takes place in late autumn. Regular management has seen the number of horses in the Kaimanawa region aggressively drop. As a result, those left in the wild have adequate feed and their condition improves.

Experienced horse trainer Tina Fagan says the stallions are the hardest to re-home.

Fagan has been involved the Kaimanawa Stallion Challenge

since it began in 2014. The competition grew from a desire to showcase the beauty, versatility and trainability of Kaimanawa horses and to save the stallions from slaughter. Top New Zealand trainers take part in the challenge. Fagan won

the first two competitions and is now into her third season.

Rebranded, the Freedom to Friendship Challenge, the competition is part of Equidays, a three-day event held annually at Mystery Creek.

Tina Fagan with her Kaimanawa horse.

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The unique qualities of sheep milk

Sheep milk has a luxurious, clean and creamy taste with no strong aroma. It is naturally an A2type milk free from A1 beta-casein protein found in most cow milk, which has been associated with digestive discomfort such as painful cramps and bloating.

Sheep milk’s unique fat composition includes a high proportion of short and medium chain fatty acids. Medium chain fatty acids are easier to digest, are a better source of energy and may help decrease cholesterol.

Proteins in sheep milk are different to cow.

More farmers needed to meet sheep milk demand New Zealand’s emerging sheep-milking industry is going strong in Waikato’s dairying heartland and attracting huge interest. Growing demand sees The Spring Sheep Milk Company seeking more suppliers for the 2020 season.

Three to four more farmers are being sought to supply increasing demand from overseas customers.

The company is currently milking 4000 sheep, and looking to grow sheep numbers by bringing on new supplier farmers.

Local farmer interest remained strong. So far the company has had over 300 people through

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its Cambridge farm to learn more about the industry. The main players in Waikato are Spring Sheep and Maui Milk. Both are near Cambridge and are owned by Taupō-based Spring Sheep Milking Co, a joint venture between state-owned enterprise Pamu and marketing firm SLC Group.

Sheep-milking conversions are not classified as an intensification of land use and therefore do not need a resource consent. The region naturally lends itself to farming and has a rich dairy history. Pastoral farming practices and the core skill set of dairy farming found here are easily transferred to sheep milk.

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Sheep milk is lower in alpha-S1 Casein, which has been linked to allergies in children. Studies suggest sheep milk may be a very good alternative for those who struggle with cow milk. A higher solid content means sheep milk has over 60 per cent more protein and calcium compared to goat and

cow milk. It is also more vitamin and mineral rich.

The absorption of important nutrients like amino acids, the body’s building blocks, and calcium is significantly higher in sheep milk than cow milk. Known as a complete protein source, sheep milk contains all 10 essential amino acids.

Entrepreneurs have a great capacity to shape change. They choose action over inaction and are focused on the future. Scottie Chapman fits the mould perfectly. Drawing on his passion for designing and implementing international sales strategies, and his big picture outlook, Chapman saw a lucrative market for sheep’s milk and the opportunity to develop a world-leading business.

In 2015, his SLC Group formed a partnership with government-owned Pāmu, New Zealand’s largest farmer with over 1.6m stock units producing milk, beef, lamb, venison and wool for supply to global partners and customers. The launch of Spring Sheep New Zealand brought both organisations’ expertise together to create the best pastures, employ the best farm practices, as well as process and deliver top quality products to a global market.

The joint venture between Chapman’s company and Pāmu turned the usual New Zealand business model on its head by working on a demand and supply strategy.

The collaboration blends the stability and authenticity of Landcorp with the entrepreneurial ability to make change and take risk.

Spring Sheep New Zealand markets on three benefits - environmental, nutritional and social benefits. Sheep cause 30-50 per cent less environmental damage than dairy and

have a lower nitrogen footprint. Their milk is more readily digestible to humans, and the industry, being new, is creating employment opportunities.

From the get go Chapman knew he had to go big. “New Zealand is a long way from its customer base. We had to get the business on a scale large enough to dry and export the milk, and create markets and products at the same time as supply.”

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Poisoning in ruminants

Peter Briston’s little spoodle bitch Penny recently broke into his emergency chocolate ration box and gorged herself. Luckily his kids saw her as she was finishing it off so they were able to make her vomit it up before she absorbed enough theobromine to poison herself. “It must have been the week of poisonings because we also saw a dairy herd experience the tragedy of nitrate poisoning in their cows,” says the Cambridge vet.

Nitrate levels build up in young grass when they cannot photosynthesise quickly enough to convert the nitrates into protein. The classic case, advises Briston, is fast-growing, newly sown annual ryegrass, potentially fertilized recently, after some foggy and cloudy days with little sun. The nitrate is converted into nitrite in the rumen and normally this is turned into ammonia.

However, if there is too much nitrite, it displaces oxygen off the haemoglobin in the blood so there is no oxygen available to the animal. “This has logical consequences; multiple cows suddenly dead and other cows recumbent and gasping.

The tell-tale sign is the mucous membranes in

the eyes and mouth look brown/grey.”

This is an emergency requiring the cows to be moved off the paddock immediately and an urgent call to the vet. Although there is an antidote, it needs to be administered in the vein as soon as possible. Survivors may subsequently abort.

Cambridge vet Peter Briston says nitrate levels in new lush paddocks can be monitored with a simple test. This is recommended especially in a risky climate. A grass sample is mixed with a reagent and a colour change measured on a test stick to assess the level of nitrate. High levels should not be grazed, but should be rechecked after some sunlight exposure. Medium levels can be managed by break-feeding for a short time after the cows have had a good feed on safe pasture.

“Nitrate poisoning is a pretty terrible thing to see, and it is an example of a toxicity you only get

in ruminants such as cows, sheep and goats.

Goats, in particular, being such rambunctious, get-everywhere creatures, will often eat poisonous plants such as oleander, yew and lilies.

Calves can also be killed by curiosity. Old lead paint on ancient barns can get chewed and cause neurological signs such as seizures or headpressing.

Acorns, especially green ones, if eaten in excess can cause stomach pain, bloody diarrhoea and kidney failure.

“With any potential poisoning, early intervention is the key,” says Briston. “Call a vet.”

Peter Briston and Penny.

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Fed Farmers Think ‘machinery hygiene’ welcome border biosecurity

It’s been long-awaited by the primary sector, but it’s finally here.

Airlines will now play their part in our national biosecurity border system. The Ministry for Primary Industries has launched an in-flight video to educate people travelling into the country by plane about biosecurity.

Federated Farmers congratulate MPI for battling away on this for years and finally getting all airlines with screen capacity to agree to do it. “The whole idea of ‘Ko Tatou This is Us’ is to start visitors to New Zealand thinking about why our country is so special and what they can do to help us keep it that way,” says Feds biosecurity spokesperson Karen Williams. “People respond to the ‘why’, and that is critical for behaviour change.”

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Waikato Regional Council biosecurity pest plants team leader, Darion Embling says farmers and contractors have an important role to play in preventing the spread of pest plants and weeds through good on farm biosecurity practices. “Unclean machinery is a confirmed pathway for the spread of infestations, such as velvetleaf and alligator weed, between some farms in our region.

That makes machinery hygiene especially important during Gypsy Day or any time a machine is moved between properties.”

WRC warns that any form of plant or soil contamination has a real potential of harbouring pests or weeds. Machinery should be cleaned so no visible soil or plant matter remains which might spread pests or weeds.

Ideally, machinery wash-down should occur on the property prior to movement, containing any problems at the source.

Alternatively, machinery may be cleaned in a built-for-purpose wash-down facility, but care should be taken to ensure there is not a risk of pest spread during transport to that facility.

“Pest plants can have a massive impact on the productivity and profitability of farm businesses, so farmers and contractors need to Machinery hygiene is important any time a machine is be extra vigilant when moving between properties,” said Embling. moved between properties.

Weed moth plant targeted by beetles The Waikato Regional Council’s application to introduce the moth plant beetle into New Zealand has been approved. The rootfeeding beetle is being used to control the noxious weed moth plant.

The council has acted on behalf of a consortium of regional councils and the Department of Conservation, known as the National Biocontrol Collective.

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2014 POLARIS 570 UTE: One dry stock owner, 10,748kms, power steering, water cooled 570 EFI engine, tip deck, tow hitch, fully serviced

2011 SUZUKI LTA500: Solid bike from drystock farm, 39169kms, 3842hrs, good tyres, CVT Trans, Hi/Lo ratio & difflocks, 2WD/4WD with downhill engine brakes, fuel inj, ind rear susp, bullbars, recently serviced by us

$9,995

$31,495

2016 POLARIS RANGER 570: Tidy, 1 owner op from drystock farm, only, 23,580kms, roof, front/rear screens, good tyres, CVT Belt drive, Hi/Lo Ratio, Turf Mode/2WD/AWD/ADC Mode, 570cc Pro-Star engine, dumpbox, tilt tray

2017 POLARIS RZR XP TURBO EPS: gen 1 owner, only 58.9hrs, 1301kms, 168HP, 3500lb synthetic rope winch, rear LED lights, rear storage box, roof, convex rear mirror, loaded with gen accessories

$9.995

$6,500

2006 YAMAHA R1: Very tidy superbike, WOF & Rego, 45,000kms, 2 brothers slip on mufflers, integrated tail light, power commander, crash knobs, rear seat with footpegs

$15,995

2006 SUZUKI GSF1200: Very tidy & reliable Bandit, 41,718kms, Yoshi Tri Oval exhaust system, Givi Pannier bags, ready to tour NZ

$2,750

2014 HONDA PIONEER 700: Tidy 3 seater, 8688kms, 1086hrs, 700cc single, fuel inj, windscreen & wiper, roof, tip deck, Swamp Witch tyres, 3speed fluid drive, auto trans, 2WD/4WD & difflock, fully serviced by us

2012 KTM 65: Tidy cond, 125hrs with recent top end build, 6 sp with hydraulic clutch, gripper seat cover, Renthal bars & new grips, Moto SR Susp, new fork seals, new rear tyre, good chain & sprockets, full graphics kit

$6,495

$7,495

2014 YAMAHA GRIZZLY 700: Good cond, Ltd Edition, ex drystock farm, 30119kms, EFI 700cc 4 stroke & CVT, mag wheels & near new tyres, auto Hi/Lo trans, 2WD/4WD & difflock, pwr steering, 2222hrs

YAMAHA RAPTOR 700: Very tidy special ed, 700cc water cooled engine, fuel inj, Artrax bars, good tyres, manual 5 speed with reverse, electric start, fully serviced, 999kms

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Buy with confidence from a LMVD. All our used bikes are fully workshop serviced 4 Maniapoto St Otorohanga // T: 07 873 8196 // www.biketorque.co.nz E: btsales@biketorque.co.nz Joel 027 279 5425 Jette Josiah 027 446 4849 // Russell 0274 775 771