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Volume 107 I May 30th, 2022 I email: agined@globalHQ.co.nz I www.farmersweekly.co.nz/agined Are you a parent or teacher and want to receive AginED every week directly to your email inbox? Send us an email to sign up at agined@globalhq.co.nz This graph shows the values of traditional weaners in $/kg at the Feilding beef weaner fair.
Embracing Change to Achieve Sustainable Profitability
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What kind of graph is this?
2 What do the green dots represent? 3 What do the purple dots represent? Head to https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=yBj8AylZ5KI and watch the OnFarm Story on Matthew Tayler from Lorne Peak Station. Matthew is not afraid of failure and giving something a go. He credits his education at University of Otago for teaching him how to research and learn skills he now applies to his business.
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Where is Lorne Peak Station?
2 How big is the station and what does Matthew do with it?
STRETCH YOURSELF: 1
When did Matthew’s grandad start farming this land?
2 What is fodder beet?
This sale included the highest price for a weaner steer at a beef weaner fair this year. What did the heaviest steer make? What did the lightest steer make?
2 What did the heaviest and lightest heifers make? 3 This graph shows values in $/kg. Estimate what the heaviest steer and heifer made per head. 4 Looking at this graph did steers or heifers sell for more? Why do you think this is? 5 The best of the Charolais-cross steers were 326kg which sold well at $1350. What is this in $/kg?
3 What did Matthew study at university? How do you think that has helped his farming business? 4 What options has irrigation offered this farming business?
Posterity Man Susie recently made the top recorded price for a Jersey cow in New Zealand history. A South Otago dairy farmer paid $55,000 for the 3-year Jersey cow from a dispersal sale of retiring breeders Dick and Faye Post from Tauwhare, Waikato. The herd that was offered had been established in 1960 and consistently averaged more than 400kg per annum of milk solids, equating to more than 1900kg of milk solids per hectare. PGG Wrightson national dairy genetics coordinator Andrew Reyland said the herd “was one of the most productive in the country” and this was achieved because “Dick and Faye have always been deeply committed, using nominated sires to breed big capacity Jerseys with functional udders as well as good structure and fertility”. 1
What is the average per kg amount of milk solids per annum for a New Zealand Jersey dairy herd?
2 What were the previous record/s held by dairy cow purchases in NZ prior to this sale?
FILL YA BOOTS: Head to https://www. farmersweekly.co.nz/high-arablereturns-yet-to-be-banked/ and read the article on arable farming and how unfavourable weather has impacted this season’s harvest yields. 1 Head to https://www. beeflambnz.co.nz/nationallamb-day to watch a brief history of New Zealand lamb 1
What year did the first sheep arrive in New Zealand?
2 When did the first shipment of frozen lamb leave NZ? 3 What was the ship called and what country was it destined for?
On average what % were cereal grain crop yields below last season?
2 How much is Canterbury mill wheat on average, and how does this compare with the same time last year? 3 What are some factors that have hit grower margins?