CountryLife | 27 April 2018

CountryLife Friday April 27, 2018

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APRIL 2018

Jan and Steve Dolan’s award-winning Bellefield Butters are popular at both the Cambridge and Hamilton farmers’ markets. Full story page 2

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A golden success story

Friday April 27, 2018

By Viv Posselt Tucked away in the curl of a Leamington culde-sac is a shipping container in which awardwinning magic happens every day.

This is where Jan and Steve Dolan produce their cultured, artisan Bellefield Butter in a range of flavours. Two products within that range recently won recognition in the 2018 Outstanding New Zealand Food Producer Awards. Their chilli and lime butter won a silver award, and their sea salt scored a highly recommended.

Being less than six months into production, it was the first time the Dolans had entered anything at all. Emboldened by such early success, they’re going to test more of their range by entering the upcoming Cuisine Artisan Awards.

The win in the Outstanding New Zealand Food Producer Awards provided a real fillip.

“We’ve been going since October last year, so we weren’t expecting it,” said Steve. “But we have a great mentor, someone within the industry itself. It was suggested we enter some of the product in the awards to see how it went.

We were absolutely thrilled to hear both the samples we sent in did well.”

The British-born Dolans started Bellefield Butter on the back of a change of circumstances.

They came to New Zealand about 11 years ago, keen to leave an England with their two children in search of a better life. Jan, who works in adult education, landed a job in this area and Steve quickly found employment in his field as a telecommunications engineer. But a turn of events in 2016 saw them face redundancy within a week of one another.

“We had already been thinking about the butter business,” said Jan. Steve had read about a producer making flavoured butters in Yorkshire and thought it might be something they could turn their hands to in the future. Back even further was a family history rich with Steve’s childhood memories of watching his aunt hand-churn butter on the family farm in Ireland.

“We children used to go outside and milk the cows and dig up the potatoes, then we’d watch her church it into butter. It was always in the back of my mind that if I hadn’t gone into telecommunications, I might like to have worked on the land. It’s been there in the background, but with the timing around our jobs, we decided to go for it.”

Liverpool was where they were raised, met and married, and there that Jan remembers the story of one of her young aunts bringing home

Little over five months after starting Bellefield Butter in a shipping container, Jan and Steve Dolan’s products won recognition at the 2018 New Zealand’s Outstanding Food Producer Awards. her date – the then unknown Paul McCartney of Beatles fame. “Her mother was unimpressed by his long hair … he was told to leave and never darken their doorstep again!”

Decades later and half a world away, the Dolans have woven that history into their fledgling butter-making business. Jan – a practised academic – helped structure almost two years of intensive research they conducted into a 22,000-word food plan, and together they navigated their way through the intensive compliance regulations required before they could start operating.

Now, the gleaming commercial kitchen set up in a shipping container in their garden is where they work together almost seamlessly, fitting each part of the production cycle together like cogs in a wheel.

The butter they make starts with a cream purchased from a supplier in northern Waikato.

Once the starter culture is added – one that is imported from Europe and used in France – the cream sits for 24 hours and is then left to ripen in

the fridge for more than a week. Once churned, the butter is hand washed and strained, the buttermilk removed and the flavours added.

There are six in all – sea salt, chilli and lime, smoked pōhutukawa, roasted garlic, manuka honey, and maple. They add a seasonal butter to the range – currently roasted capsicum.

“We put all the goodness back into the butter,” Jan explained. “The culture enriches the product. It makes it better and gives it greater flavour.”

The products are finding favour among buyers at the weekly farmers’ markets in both Cambridge and Hamilton, with the chilli and lime the most popular.

Steve said they now had regular clients, people who come by knowing exactly what they want. “There is also interest being shown by restaurants and we supply to one Auckland shop at the moment. We’re really limited as to how much we can produce from our current premises. There just isn’t the refrigeration space for us to build on that right now.”

The buttermilk, thick with flecks of butter and probiotics, is also finding a ready market, particularly with restaurants.

Bellefield Butter has taken off faster than anticipated, and while they’re content to carry on as they are – experimenting with flavours and perfecting their product – they would like to expand.

The Dolan’s heritage is never too far away.

Their workspace is filled with music – mostly British radio stations playing the 80s and 90s and, of course, the Beatles – while musicians at the regular Cambridge Farmers’ Market usually play at least a couple of Beatles numbers for them. And the name of their business – Bellefield Butter – is a nod to the training ground of their sporting heroes, Everton Football Club.

“We thought its name, Bellefield – which means beautiful field – worked well. There are plenty of beautiful fields around here, and it has something of a dairy sound to it as well,” said Steve.

Friday April 27, 2018

Dealing with climate change With experts agreeing that there is now no doubt that the Earth’s climate is warming, organisations such as Waikato Regional Council (WRC) are obliged to give serious consideration to how the various functions and services they provide will be impacted by climate change, and how they might go about dealing with the likely impacts. Particularly relevant are the likes of our flood protection assets, and how future development is managed in places along our coastlines and other places that will be directly impacted by rising sea levels and more intensive and regular flooding.

As part of dealing with these issues, the Integrated Catchment Management directorate Stu Kneebone of WRC has developed Climate Change Guidelines Councillor Waipa/King Country (CCG) to assist with how we plan and adapt for climate change. The CCG are focused on climate change adaptation actions, and it’s important to note the difference between adaptation and mitigation, with the later being all about mitigating the causes of climate change, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Adaptation is about managing the risks associated with climate change, and taking practical actions to manage risks, protect communities and strengthen resiliance.

The CCG are based on current science, and central government projections.

In terms of modelling and scenario testing, WRC has adopted national climate projections published by Ministry for the Environment (MFE) in June 2016, available from the MFE website.

The intent of this document is to help identify both the risks and opportunities that climate change poses for WRC. Potential impacts are likely to manifest themselves in terms of both flooding and drought, erosion and landslides, coastal inundation, along with impacts on our biosecurity. Things such as water quality are likely to be impacted as water flow is impacted during droughts, both from springs and existing rivers and lakes. In short, these guidelines are acknowledging climate change and its impacts, and that adaptation actions need to be part of business as usual for WRC. WRC has produced a coastal inundation tool which allows you to visualise the impact of different rates of sea level rise. It’s free to use and can be found on the WRC website. Its fascinating viewing for those interested in the impacts of sea level rise on our coastal communities.

Back in February, I talked about our catchment management work, and the zone committees which advise and recommend on WRC’s catchment and biosecurity work programmes. Committee members are appointed for a 3 year term, and with the current term at an end, we are looking for enthusiastic and interested individuals who feel they can make a positive contribution to WRCs decision making regarding our river management and soil erosion control programmes, riparian protection and planting work, biodiversity enhancement and weed and pest control programmes.

We are also looking for landowner representatives to sit on our drainage advisory subcommittees. In the past, drainage committee members have been selected by way of an election process, however this has now changed and we are seeking nominations for the four drainage subcommittees. Nominations are now open, with forms for both the catchment and drainage subcommittees available on the WRC website. Applications close 4pm, Friday, May 11. Please give me a call with any questions.

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Growing houses instead of food Supplied by Federated Farmers We are losing our most productive land to houses – that’s the most significant point Federated Farmers takes from the ‘Our Land 2018’ report released recently.

The Ministry for the Environment report shows the pressure New Zealand agriculture is under from the loss of highly productive and versatile land due to urbanisation.

There was a 10 per cent increase in urban areas from 2002 to 2012 and the loss would be even more now with the pressure on housing in the last few years.

Alarmingly, at the same time, there was a 7 per cent reduction in land used for agriculture. This means land and soil is lost to urban subdivisions, forestry and lifestyle blocks.

“We know soils are precious. Seeing them covered with tarseal and concrete is something we as significant custodians of land get frustrated by,” Federated Farmers

environment spokesperson Chris Allen said.

“This report is the first of its kind, and it’s a good first attempt at putting together some analysis of our land use.

“But it is obviously lacking in significant data – the report admits this multiple times,” Chris added.

Federated Farmers is extremely disappointed most of the data used in this report has not been updated since the Environment Aotearoa report of 2015, which used 2012 data.

“If we are serious about monitoring land use and its quality, we need to get our act together and fund the science appropriately.

“Most of the data in this report is six years out of date.

That’s not acceptable or helpful,” Chris said.

“We know scientists are struggling to get successful bids for this research funding over the line as agricultural science is just not sexy enough.”

Volunteers needed for 50th Celebrating 50 years, Fieldays has put out a call for volunteers to help at this year’s event.

Every year hundreds of people donate their time and talent to help run the biggest agricultural event in the southern hemisphere. The volunteer team is made up of members of the New Zealand Fieldays Society – the

Fieldays 2017.

not-for-profit organisation that runs Fieldays – and volunteers who come on board specifically during the event.

They help in a number of areas, from hosting, parking, manning information booths, driving courier vehicles, site services, tractor-pull and event set up and breakdown.

This year’s event at Mystery Creek

will run from June 13 – 16, with the Future of Farming as the theme, with visitors and exhibitors being encouraged to start discussions around what the future of farming means to them.

If you think you’d be interested in taking part, visit www.fieldays.co.nz to find out more.

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Friday April 27, 2018

New hope for freshwater fish

Waikato Regional Council is optimistic new national fish friendly guidelines announced last week will be accompanied by Government and research institute investment into solutions to this increasingly challenging issue.

The council is seeking partnerships nationwide to undertake its own significant research and development project to trial different approaches to improving fish passage currently impacted by flood protection infrastructure.

New Zealand’s first ‘fish friendly’ pumps at Te Kauwhata, in north Waikato, were officially

opened last week in a ceremony to coincide with World Fish Migration Day, April 21.

At the opening, regional council chair Alan Livingston acknowledged that many of the region’s flood pumps date back to the 1960s and were installed when there wasn’t the understanding there is today of the impact on aquatic ecology and native fish migration.

“This issue is not unique to the Waikato, so it does require a consistent national approach. But we do have the largest number of flood pumps in New Zealand and so it seems only fitting that

we are leading the way by installing the country’s first, imported, fish friendly pump.

“The design, construction and science that has gone into the Orchard Rd pump station forms a significant part of a wider, three-year research project being considered in our 10-year plan.

Waikato Regional Council scientists formed part of the New Zealand Fish Passage Advisory Group, which worked with the Department of Conservation (DOC) and NIWA to develop the national fish passage guidelines announced last Wednesday.

The Minister of Conservation, Eugenie Sage, launched the document to over 100 ecologists,

engineers and others from 50 organisations representing regional councils, Fish and Game, DOC, the Ministry for the Environment and others involved in fish passage management in New Zealand.

The national fish passage guidelines will inform the planning, design, construction, management and monitoring of structures up to 4 metres high in waterways.

“We should all benefit from a consistent national approach to fish passage and instream structure management in New Zealand to achieve better outcomes for our native fish,” Cr Livingston said.

Survey shows tax opposition Supplied by Federated Farmers

The country’s first ‘fish-friendly’ pumps opened last week, part of a drive to improve fish passage through infrastructure.

Any move to introduce a capital gains, land or environment tax will meet stiff opposition from farmers, a Federated Farmers survey shows.

The Federation asked its members for their views last month, to help inform the farmer group’s submission to the Tax Working Group.

The nearly 1,400 responses indicated strong opposition to some of the new taxes that have been suggested.

Just on 81 per cent opposed a capital gains tax (CGT) excluding the family home, with 11 per cent in support. However, 47 per cent would support a CGT on property sold within a five year ‘bright line’ test. There is currently a two-year threshold, and the measure is seen by some as a way of discouraging speculators.

"Farmer opposition is even more entrenched on the idea of a land tax, excluding under the

family home, with 91 percent against and only 2 percent in favour," Federated Farmers Economics and Commerce spokesperson Andrew Hoggard said.

"The strong opposition to it in last month’s survey mirrors its utter rejection by rural New Zealand the last time our tax system was reviewed, in 2010," Andrew said.

Some 82 per cent of respondents opposed environmental taxation but there was minority support if such taxes were used to fund on-farm environmental initiatives.

Tax incentives for those who invested in environment-related on-farm investments drew 84 per cent support.

"Federated Farmers will be sending in a comprehensive submission to the Tax Working Group, which will pick up on the concerns and comments raised in our member survey,” Andrew said.

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Friday April 27, 2018

Plan Change 1 deadline extended

By Steph Bell-Jenkins

Waikato Regional Council is intending to give farmers more time to submit information required under its Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora Proposed Plan Change 1.

But AgFirst Waikato’s managing director James Allen is advising farmers not to capitalise on the deadline extension, urging them to collate and store the required data without delay.

“Plan Change 1 affects those in the Waipa and Waikato River catchments, so it impacts virtually all of the Cambridge area, the Te Awamutu area and up through Hamilton,” Mr Allen said.

“There are three things most farmers in these areas need to do: register their farm with the council, submit a nitrogen reference point and develop a Farm Environment Plan.”

The original deadline for registering farms and providing a nitrogen reference point was 31 March 2019, but the council was proposing to push it out into 2020, Mr Allen said.

“So, it’s taken the pressure off farmers in one way to submit information to the council, but there is a bit of catch here,” he said.

“The nitrogen reference point tries to estimate the nitrogen leaching on each farm based on the 14/15 and 15/16 seasons, and to do that you need to provide an accurate Overseer file for each season.

“Even though the council’s pushed out the timelines on when information has to be submitted, it’s still based on those two seasons.

If you delay it further, it’s another year down the track. It’s hard enough to remember what we did last week, let alone right back to the 14/15 season.”

Mr Allen recommends farmers collect and safely store the relevant information as soon as possible.

“They can work with rural professionals like ourselves or the fertiliser companies, or the milk companies in some cases, to help collect the data they need,” he said.

“There’s quite a long list of information necessary to prepare an accurate Overseer file and it’s based around things like stock numbers, production and fertiliser use. So, you can see the challenges of time dragging out and people

forgetting about that information.”

Another concern was data being lost when farms were sold, or when sharemilkers and managers moved on, he said.

“We’ve seen firsthand the challenges that happen when people are buying or moving onto properties where they don’t understand what the reference point numbers are likely to be...it can lead to quite a serious problem.

“If you can’t prove to the council what your nitrogen leaching was for those two seasons, you’ll be provided with a figure which will be

lower than the average. The potential is you’re moving onto a property with a low reference point number, which doesn’t match your farming system, and that could constrain you from improving or managing the farm in the way you want to.

“It has quite significant management and capital value implications.

“So, it’s really important for anyone who’s buying or selling farms that they have or are providing the necessary information to prepare these reference points.”

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Friday April 27, 2018

Wintering important for economics and environment

By Bala Tikkisetty The weather already this year has been a mixed bag of wet and dry. The winter season is now around the corner and who knows what that will bring!

Soil health damage during winter has been recognised as a significant issue for the farming community. It coincides with high stock densities and high soil moisture conditions.

It’s general practice during winter to graze stock intensively on winter forage crops supplying large quantities of feed in a relatively small area.

But wet soils, heavy grazing and the resulting compaction/pugging can reduce future pasture growth and impact negatively on farm productivity. So now is the right time for farmers

to consider the impact of stock wintering practices on soil health and water quality.

These practices can impact surface and ground water quality, as well as soil quality due to heavy concentrations of dung and urine, the creation of bare ground and the risk of run off in wet weather. Many studies have shown that water quality guidelines and standards have been exceeded as a result of intensive agricultural activities.

Livestock density is not the only factor affecting water quality – site selection and management of wintering systems are also important considerations.

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physical structure over wet periods. The feed pad is a dedicated concrete platform where supplementary feeds are brought to the stock.

It has higher feed efficiency as the wastage is reduced to about 5 per cent compared with 20 per cent or more when silage is fed in paddocks.

Stand-off pads are a dedicated loafing area for stock. These pads are constructed using a softer, free-draining surface utilising materials like wood chips. As stock can be withheld from pasture for longer periods of time, the area required per cow has to be bigger, say about 8m2. Capture of effluent is an important aspect of stand-off pads.

It requires the humped and hollowed base to be sealed underneath, either with compact clay or artificial liner or concrete, and the captured effluent directed to a treatment system.

Animal shelters are gaining popularity.

Herd homes are a combination of a feeding platform, stand-off facility and animal shelter.

Sheltered feeding for stock takes place over slatted concrete floors. As the cows stand on the reinforced slatted floors, their effluent drops through and into a concrete-lined bunker below.

Composting barns are another type of stock wintering option, with the composting occurring in-situ. The cows roam freely in the barn and lie on a mix of wood chips and straw. The beds must be kept dry by providing adequate ventilation and aeration.

As a last resort, sacrifice paddocks can be used when other options are not available to stand animals off when it is very wet, or as an area to feed animals hay and silage. However, there is a risk of soil structure damage and animal health problems, such as lameness and mastitis. If soil potassium levels become too great (potassium is excreted in urine) it may predispose the calving cow to metabolic problems. These come with

a very high risk of discharges of contaminants to water so must be sited well away from waterways, with an area of rank growth to trap any sediment or dung that washes off.

Build your wintering pad well away from waterways and allow for solid and liquid waste disposal into your effluent disposal system for the dairy shed. Don’t use supplementary feeds in areas where run off may reach any water body.

By planning now and implementing proper stock wintering management practices, you can play an important part in improving water quality and soil health.

Bala Tikkisetty is a sustainable agriculture advisor at Waikato Regional Council. For more information contact him on 0800 800 401.

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Friday April 27, 2018

Farmstrong comedy night a winner A sell-out crowd of 300 people has attended a comedy night to promote rural wellness in Cambridge.

Comedians Andre King, Nick Rado, Paul Ego and Tarun Mohanbhai had the crowd at the Sir Don Rowlands Centre “in stitches”.

“I think the show was just the ticket of what people need right now,” said Farmstrong’s Michelle Stevens after Saturday’s event.

It’s been a challenging 12 months for Waikato farmers, with many parts of the region receiving record-breaking

rainfall. “It was great to get off the farm and see a few faces I haven’t seen for a while,” said Parawera dairy farmer Robin Moss.

“You feel like you’re switching off and forgetting work for a few hours which is really important. It was a fantastic event.”

The comedy night was supported by the Rural Support Trust, alongside Farmstrong and NZ Young Farmers.

“The atmosphere was alive and there were lots of laugh-out-loud moments,” said NZ Young Farmers chief executive

Terry Copeland.

“It’s important for people to have balance in their lives. Taking time out to have a laugh is an easy way to achieve that.”

Research shows many farmers can neglect their own wellbeing.

“It was wonderful seeing so many people take an opportunity to down tools for a bit and have a break,” said Michelle. “The show was right in line with what Farmstrong aims to promote, which is taking opportunities to look after yourself.”

Nick Rado, Carolyn Bennett, Paul Ego, Casey Huffstutler, Andre King and Tarun Mohanbhai provided plenty of laughs for a good cause.

The sell-out success of the event will now see it rolled out in other regions.

“The idea is to stage a series of events, similar to this one, around the country. Taranaki and Southland would be obvious places to go next,” said Terry.

Southland and parts of coastal Taranaki were hit by a severe drought

in December, forcing farmers to dry cows off early.

“I think a nationwide rollout is a fantastic idea,” said Kent Weir who’s the chair of the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Region of NZ Young Farmers.

“It was a really good event. It’s important people have an excuse to get off farm and the comedy night provided that.”

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