Farmers Weekly NZ October 25 2021 by AgriHQ

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Focus on discerning consumers Neal Wallace and Colin Williscroft

N INCREASING number of meat and dairy exporters are targeting discerning consumers with products that meet their environmental and animal welfare expectations. First Light managing director Gerard Hickey says suppliers of its beef and venison have to meet certain provenance, welfare and market standards that consumers are prepared to pay a premium. Silver Fern Farms’ Plate to Pasture brand underpins its production values, but will this year launch net carbon zero beef into the US and is seeking suppliers to commit to regenerative agriculture, all of which will pay premium prices. Chief executive Simon Limmer says it has 3500 suppliers certified to NZ Farm Assurance Plan (NZFAP) programme, representing 94% of sheepmeat and 58% of beef supply. “We are targeting 600 suppliers into the new NZFAP Plus extension programme by the end of 2023,” Limmer said. Limmer sees a low-carbon economy as an opportunity to create new forms of value through being climate positive and hailing farmers as climate innovators.

Alliance is extending its range of branded premium cuts but is also looking at ways to capture the history and production values of its suppliers to underpin its product range. Hickey says the Government and NZ public expectations on environmental issues and climate change, reflect those of discerning global consumers. While it was established to supply venison and beef that met animal welfare standards, Hickey says environmental values and addressing climate change concerns is something his innovative suppliers will willingly take a lead. “Our farmers are typically attached to and interested in the market beyond the farm gate and have a particular mindset,” Hickey said. “They are attuned to what our target consumers require and will pay a premium for.” Hickey says NZ needs to tell our story, especially given a global food production trend he is observing. “Increasingly the world is moving in two directions,” he said. “One is big money investing in big science, which is developing new artificial proteins, and the other is specialist producers targeting consumers who want Continued page 3

AT THE FORE: Lake Hawea Station manager Jack Mansfield says consumers demand high animal welfare standards.

Opportunity in meeting demands Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz MEETING heightened animal welfare standards will become a requirement for livestock farmers, Lake Hawea Station manager Jack Mansfield says. This is an issue that concerns consumers and is influencing their buying patterns but Mansfield says it is also an opportunity.

By changing management, adopting technology and being transparent, he says Lake Hawea Station is earning premiums for its fine wool. It has adopted or trialled FECPAK G2 to monitor parasites, FarmIQ, Numnuts pain relief, Overseer, shearing score cards that reward quality over quantity, soft landing pads for sheep after being shorn, shade, shelter and water at all times and tonics, salt licks and supplements.

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8 New workforce drive needs refocus The food and fibre sector needs to change the way it is trying to attract young people to jobs within it, a new report says.

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11 Sector welcomes KMPG report 64 Demand driving meat prices New Zealand’s primary sector has been ranked first out of 32 nations in climate change readiness in a new report from global consultancy KPMG.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 25, 2021

NZ-UK trade deal ‘walks the talk’ Eric Frykberg FEDERATED Farmers says the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the United Kingdom and New Zealand is great news for consumers and farmers in both countries. “The United Kingdom is walking the talk when it comes to promising a truly global Britain,” Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard said. The deal has been agreed to in principle and gives butter and cheese tariff-free access in five years and other dairy goods access within three years. Beef and sheepmeat volumes increase and achieve tariff-free status in 15 years. Most horticultural products achieve free trade far sooner. “We congratulate the New Zealand team of negotiators, officials and politicians who have tenaciously pursued this deal. The result is impressive,” he said. “There has been a worrying trend of growing protectionism for agricultural products since the outbreak of covid-19. “This FTA shows trade liberalisation remains the way forward globally.” The Dairy Companies Association of NZ (DCANZ) is thrilled with the agreement. Continued from page 1 natural food that is naturally produced and which cares for the environment, the farmer and the animal. “If we don’t tell our story, we’re going to get pulled into competing with big money and big science.” Climate Change Minister James Shaw is not surprised companies like SFF are using commercial drivers to influence change among their suppliers. “The big processors like Silver Fern, Fonterra, Synlait and others

Chair Malcolm Bailey says the dairy industry is usually at the difficult end of the trade negotiation spectrum because of history and culture. He says it is really good news for dairy exporters that so much progress has been made in this deal. For the dairy industry, the UK FTA has an element of back to the future. Before 1973, most product went to the UK anyway, but Bailey says NZ now has to start again. He adds most dairy product in NZ are already tied up in contracts and none is available to be rushed off to Britain immediately. It will only go there if people from Britain agree to buy it. “With this agreement we have started to open the door, but we have not gone through that door yet,” Bailey said. Beef + Lamb NZ (B+LNZ) and the Meat Industry Association (MIA) are also thrilled with the deal. “It allows British consumers access to best in-season products all year around, particularly during busy periods such as Easter and Christmas, which fall during the United Kingdom’s off-season meat production window,” B+LNZ chief executive Sam McIvor said. Apiculture NZ also welcomes the deal.

are the ones who have to sell what it is that we produce,” Shaw said. “In many ways they are closest to the market signal and what they are saying is ‘If we don’t fix this, then we will find that there is restricted market access’. “At the very least that will come in the form of change to consumer behaviour or dropping off of consumer demand.” Shaw says some major multinationals that NZ supplies food and fibre product to expect to see reduced emissions from production.

Chief executive Karin Kos says the UK is one of the top three export markets for NZ honey and is worth $70 million annually. “We have strong ties with UK customers, with a long history of exporting high-quality honey products there,” Kos said. “However, the current in-quota tariff rate of 16% has been a significant barrier to trade. “ Onion growers were pleased with the agreement and Fonterra called it a “fantastic result”. Stephen Jacobi of the NZ International Business Forum (NZIBF) says the deal was welcome news amid the covid gloom. “This is clearly a substantial and comprehensive deal, with commercially meaningful market access across New Zealand’s key export sectors. including dairy, meat, horticulture and wine,” Jacobi said.

With this agreement we have started to open the door, but we have not gone through that door yet. Malcolm Bailey DCANZ

SWEET DEAL: Beef + Lamb NZ chief executive Sam McIvor says the UK FTA allows British consumers access to best in-season products all year around.

“And that if we don’t, then they will no longer buy our product – that’s the stick end of it,” he said. “The carrot end of it is that we also know, particularly in the US market but also in the EU and the UK markets, that product that can be demonstrated to be low or zero emissions, is regenerative and/or organic, has a brand provenance to it that consumers want and are willing to pay a premium for. “Conveniently, the things that you need to do to reduce your emissions will also help with the branding of your product and

actually increase the value that you get for that. “To me that’s very consistent with the strategy that the agricultural sector has had for some time, which is to shift away from volume as the primary measure to value as the primary measure.” Anzco is a founding member of the NZ Farm Assurance Plan (NZFAP) and Grant Bunting, its supply chain manager, says the voluntary scheme can provide evidence that product meets these thresholds. NZFAP provides independent

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verification of production standards and an assurance of product integrity, traceability, biosecurity, food safety, environmental sustainability and animal health and welfare. Bunting says up to now, the key market-requirements for NZ red meat has been antibiotic-free and grass-fed, but he says NZFAP will provide evidence farmers are meeting production standards. “There are not many at the moment that are a strong market access factor, but you would be foolish to think it won’t happen in the future,” Bunting said.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 25, 2021

Costs wave set to break over farming Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz A ONE-AND-A-HALF percent rise in interest rates over the next year will be a large component of rapidly rising on-farm inflation. After a decade of low interest rates, the forecast increase in the Official Cash Rate (OCR) from 0.5% to 2% looks set to increase the interest portion of debt servicing by as much as one-third. For individual farmers, the added interest cost will be dependent on total indebtedness and their mixture of fixed and floating rates.

Rising costs are a reason to not overly celebrate the generally positive selling prices NZ is experiencing. It is margins that matter more. Doug Steel BNZ The most recent Federated Farmers banking survey said the average farm mortgage rate was 3.8% and the average farm debt, across all types, was $4.3 million. When the standard interest rate climbs to 5%, interest-only debt servicing will increase by $50,000 annually. In the dairy industry, 1.5% higher interest across $40 billion

equates to 33c/kg milksolids, or $600m more on annual debt repayments. The Beef + Lamb New Zealand Economic Service New Season Outlook has not yet included a rise in interest rates in its farm accounts model, but it has forecast a $10,000 increase in fertiliser, lime and seeds. Sheep and beef farm expenditure is forecast to increase by 3% this financial year following a negative 1% inflation in the year to March 2021, mainly because of lower prices for interest and fuel. Chief economist Andrew Burtt thought debt servicing increases in farm profit and loss accounts would be delayed, especially for those on fixed rates. “Individual farmers will find ways of minimising cost increases, for example, in fertiliser by using less,” Burtt said. “Farm costs are certainly going up this year, but the rate of increase will be moderated by onfarm decisions.” Because they are a priority and non-discretionary expenditure item, rising interest costs would be compensated by savings elsewhere. He says farmers are also fortunate that product prices are at record levels and that inflation generally flows into higher commodity prices. BNZ senior economist Doug Steel highlighted a Consumer Price Index expectation of 5.6% early next year, well outside the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy target zone. The central bank would have

MODERATION: Beef + Lamb NZ chief economist Andrew Burtt says individual farmers will handle inflation with resourcefulness. to respond more quickly than previously expected and hike the OCR. Primary sector costs in Q2 this year went up by 3.4%, according to Statistics NZ. The Q3 figure will be released in mid-November, but Steel says costs are only going one way, and that is up. “Fortunately, producer returns are healthy, especially for dairy, sheepmeat and beef, so the focus now shifts to margins and how much can be retained after rising costs,” Steel said. “Rising costs are a reason to not overly celebrate the generally positive selling prices NZ is experiencing. It is margins that matter more.” Concerning the costs of debt servicing, Steel says the OCR passes quickly through into floating rates, but the term of the loan impacts fixed rates. ANZ agri-economist Susan Kilsby says costs of operating a farm are expected to continue to lift, particularly as the impact of environmental costs start to be priced in. “The upside to inflation is that the price of our export

commodities are also rising,” Kilsby said. “The question really is whether commodity prices, and therefore incomes, will rise more quickly than costs.” ANZ economists predict the OCR will be 2% by next August and that inflation will peak at 5.8% in the March quarter. “Administrative costs are going up, like council rates and compliance, and these do not add to income,” she said. ANZ southern regional manager of commercial and agri Mark Grenside says higher interest rates will take some time to pass through to farmers. Asset classes like farms have appreciated in value and the Reserve Bank needs to try and keep inflation within the 1-3% band, using only OCR hikes. “I have a great deal of faith in the adaptability and resourcefulness of NZ farmers to balance their needs and expenditures and we are here to help,” Grenside said. NZAB director Andrew Laming says many more dairy farm loans were on floating rates now, compared with five or 10 years ago.

Fixed rates currently around 4% reflect where the market thinks interest rates will go and they have probably moved already. What could be a 50c/kg increase in debt servicing for those on floating rates would take 15% out of net profit, before including the cost increases in fertiliser, chemicals and contractors. Laming says the biggest concern in expenses right now was labour, following the increase in the minimum wage rate, visa restrictions and competition to keep skilled employees. Federated Farmers national president Andrew Hoggard agreed that labour shortages and wage inflation are the biggest cost issue. “If inflation goes up the Reserve Bank will try to hammer it with OCR increases,” Hoggard said. “Interest rate increases will feed through to farm loans, but thankfully many of these have been paid down over the past two years. “Fortunately, our product prices are very good right now but with inflationary pressures, so it becomes a matter of trying to hold on to margins.”

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 25, 2021

Fonterra navigates covid restrictions Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz FONTERRA is facing its second consecutive season where peak milk collection is affected by covid-19. The co-operative is expecting to process 80 million litres a day over the next few months, while at the same time keeping its 12,000 staff nationwide safe from the virus. Fonterra chief operating officer Fraser Whineray says the co-operative had been working through a lot of management and business continuity plans to deal with covid while ensuring it was able to process the volumes coming through the factory. “They are dynamic and they change because the environment changes,” Whineray said. In the North Island, for example, Fonterra’s plants had tighter rules than those in the South Island. Whineray says precautions have been brought in, regardless of where covid is in the community. “It’s been a very significant focus for us with business continuity and I’m really pleased with the efforts that have gone into preparation,” he said.

I would really like next season to not have so much risk management around it, either because of the background vaccinations around it or the immunity of the population, because it will be the fourth season of covid. Fraser Whineray Fonterra

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TECH AID: The high degree of automation within Fonterra’s processing plants has helped staff maintain social distancing during peak milk.

The company has also put in place policies for what to do if a staff member in the factory tests positive for covid. Those plans needed to be put in place very quickly so as not to interrupt the peak milk flow. These included keeping workers on the different shifts separated and the factories’ high sanitation requirements mean these workers did not change into their coveralls at the same time. “There are a lot of procedural elements at the front line, which requires a huge amount of effort from them because it’s not always comfortable wearing a mask for eight to 12 hours, depending on the shift length,” he said. It was also less social, with workers kept separated at tables in break rooms and carpooling

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was no longer allowed. The large amount of automation within processing plants helped enormously with maintaining social distancing. But in some areas, it was harder and the company had put in place measures to keep workers separated. Each factory had to be looked at uniquely. “In other instances, the entire product coming off a production line is automatically palletised by a robot and automatically put into a rack by another robot, in that case, there’s only a couple of people there and it’s easy to maintain social distancing,” he said. Fonterra was maintaining its policy of encouraging vaccinations, but not making them compulsory for staff.

Whineray says they were also watching the Government’s policy on this to wait and see after it earlier announced vaccinations were to be compulsory for teachers and border workers. The co-operative had done a lot of work to make getting vaccinations as easy as possible for its staff, with 17 locations set up throughout the country where staff could get vaccinated. He says the Dairy Workers Union had been very supportive of that process. “We have rolled out more than 7500 vaccines for our staff through that process,” he said. Whether these precautions were a new normal for Fonterra, Whineray says it depended on the location. Its staff in the

Philippines had not been to their offices for 600 days. “I would really like next season to not have so much risk management around it, either because of the background vaccinations around it or the immunity of the population, because it will be the fourth season of covid,” he said. If there were still high cases heading into next season, Fonterra would respond to that depending on the circumstances. Production-wise, the August milk collection had been down but Whineray was pleased with recent volumes thanks to good rain and the recent higher temperatures. More information on its production figures will be available at its next Global Dairy Update.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 25, 2021

SWAG defends ‘lack of transparency’ Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz WOOLGROWERS and industry stakeholders will have to wait a few weeks yet to hear how their strong wool sector will emerge from the doldrums. The Strong Wool Action Group (SWAG) established late last year and tasked to identify opportunities that will increase the demand and value of New Zealand-produced strong wool is close to the end of its tenure to deliver by the end of this year. Working with a $3.5 million joint industry and government-funded budget and a comprehensive plan of attack, SWAG is confident it will deliver its vision as the catalyst for change in the sector. But farmers and industry stakeholders are not sharing the same confidence. Chief executive Andy Caughey says as SWAG prepares to transition its work into new industry models, it remains dedicated to leaving a legacy of a more connected, coordinated and forward-looking wool sector.

If we share all these commercial insights, it will dilute and diminish the value of the quality IDEO has put together. Andy Caughey SWAG “We are excited to see the sector capitalise on new market opportunities and respond to consumer preference for sustainable products by embracing wool’s place within the natural world,” Caughey said. On the other hand, those waiting for the lift in their industry

SHORT SUPPLY: National Council of New Zealand Wool Interests chair Craig Smith says lack of transparency has industry in the dark.

say they have been kept in the dark and don’t believe SWAG will deliver. National Council of New Zealand Wool Interests chair Craig Smith says the lack of transparency has industry in the dark. “We as an industry and funders have been kept in the dark, we don’t know anything because of the lack of transparency and the IDEO report certainly tells us nothing,” Smith said. “Time is fast running out and as funders that’s (being in the dark) is really disappointing. “Short and sweet, but sums up industry confidence.” San Francisco-based design

thinking company IDEO has completed its research, providing compelling reasons to invest in the US market. Caughey says as an integral part of the work in SWAG’s overall strategy it is critically important to get the rollout of the IDEO report “dead right”. “We are very conscious of who and how we target our approach,” Caughey said. “We want to engage with industry but execute strategy in the best way possible to ensure we are successful in establishing enduring industry structures.” IDEO was briefed to produce business cases that have global

potential and are able to shift volumes of strong wool and increase returns to growers. The net result from IDEO’s research is a growing desire to invest in sustainable materials to create a warm, safe and functional environment. Using consumer and market insights, Caughey says IDEO has created some novel business cases with supporting pitch decks to help inform organisations that can and want to go direct to consumers. He defended claims regarding a lack of transparency. “The risk we have is if we share all these commercial insights,

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it will dilute and diminish the value of the quality IDEO has put together,” he said. The insights have provided clear demand signals on what consumers are looking for and influenced the business cases that SWAG has embedded into commercial projects and identified with commercial partners. “What we have given these companies is a platform to give them confidence and they will now resource on their own timelines,” he said. “We can’t say what the projects are and we can’t say who the companies are, they are all working at different speeds but once these projects gain traction, we will see a very different way wool is transacted. “Wait and see until November.” Meanwhile, Primary Purpose – First Steps is nearing completion of their action plan to get the strong wool industry match fit. Scott Champion and Kelvin Whall will complete the First Steps report by the end of this month. The areas being examined in First Steps include innovation, research and development; carbon and environment; quality assurance; people and capability; market access; industry data and coordinated industry messaging. Actions are already occurring against some of the areas identified as Primary Purpose ensures their work supports and links to other SWAG initiatives, including the work undertaken by IDEO. SWAG is supportive of the proposed Wools of NZ and Primary Wool Co-operative merge, suggesting it closely resonates with the IDEO strategy. “This is not an offshoot, their desire as a company is to build brands and get closer to consumers and this is very complementary to our (SWAG) consumer-focused, demanddriven approach,” Caughey said.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 25, 2021

New workforce drive needs refocus Colin Williscroft colin.williscroft@globalhq.co.nz THE food and fibre sector needs to change the way it is trying to attract young people to jobs within it, a new report says. Madison Pannett was a member of the 2021 Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme course and submitted the “Generation Z and the environment: How can we use their passion to attract them into food and fibre sector careers?” research report she wrote as part of that, to Parliament’s Primary Production Select Committee’s current inquiry into primary industries’ future workforce needs.

The sector has an opportunity to strengthen this narrative by being open, transparent and authentic around the changes in environmental practice. Madison Pannett Kellogg scholar In her report, Pannett says the sector has long struggled with attracting and retaining talent, with one of the barriers the perception around what a career in it could look like. She says Gen Z, who are loosely defined as those born between 1995 and 2010, are quickly entering the workforce and are quite different to the generations before them. Not only are they the first truly digital generation, having been exposed to the internet and social media throughout their lives, they are driven by truth, social and environmental goals. Pannett says it is important that the food and fibre sector does not ignore those traits. “They are more likely than other generations to join with others,

RETHINK: Madison Pannett says the food and fibre sector needs to reframe its story to better align with the values of Generation Z if it wants to attract more young people to careers in the sector. (who) have differing opinions to them, for a common good. The search for truth is the foundation of a large proportion of Gen Z characteristics,” Pannett said. She says the majority of people in that generation do not have strongly negative views of the sector, in general recognising its impact on the environment but, for the most part, understanding that it is looking to make change. However, she says messaging around change already happening and anticipated future change needs to be authentic for it to have any impact. “There is no one-size-fits-all approach to appealing to Gen Z, but a large part of this generation is ready to take on exciting opportunities that will align with their values and benefit wider society,” she said. Pannett recommends focusing on three key areas to help young people from that generation. Firstly, there needs to be a strengthened pan-sector approach, supported by the Government, to enticing Gen Z people to careers in the sector.

“Attracting Gen Z into the food and fibre sector as a whole will allow this generation to see the wide variety of careers available,” she said. She says in general members of this generation will stay in jobs for less time than previous generations, so it’s to the wider sector’s advantage to make sure those young people are aware of the full range of opportunities in it, increasing the possibilities of them changing jobs but still staying in the sector. Secondly, she recommends reframing the sector’s story to appeal to Gen Z values, as at the moment those values do not align with its public perception. “The narrative around the sector is often anchored in its economic performance globally and contribution to the New Zealand economy. Gen Z does not place as much value on this concept,” she said. She says the sector has good stories to tell about its environmental performance, which need to be capitalised on. “Going forward, the sector has

an opportunity to strengthen this narrative by being open, transparent and authentic around the changes in environmental practice,” she said. “The sector can use this idea as a powerful narrative to attract Gen Z.” Thirdly, Pannett says there needs to be Gen Z-focused communication strategies, with the narrative presented in a way that appeals to people of that generation. She says the sector already has a lot of useful resources that should be adapted to focus on attracting Gen Z as a first step. “This could be taken further in terms of incorporating an influencer model. For example, supporting those with careers in the sector to advocate and explain careers in the sector on social media platforms,” she said. She says that will require reconsidering current platforms and resources aimed at attracting new people and the sector will need to adapt as platforms such as TikTok and Instagram develop and replace others.

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Pannett, who now works for MPI, comes from a farming background but never thought the primary sector was an option for her. “I grew up on a farm but I never considered a career in agriculture to be my thing. “However, after graduating from Otago University with a degree in history, French and politics, she found herself in a temp job with a sheep and beef genetics company,” she said. “I found it really rewarding working there and discovered that I could work for rural communities without having to actually always be on-farm. “I saw there was lots of cool stuff I could do, so I just followed that path.” Although her own journey into the agriculture sector happened almost by accident, Pannent wants to ensure that does not have to be the case for others. “I’m really passionate about working to bring people into the primary sector because I’ve found it so personally rewarding,” she said.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 25, 2021

Milk price forecast firmly in $8 range Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz THE latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) results indicate pricing momentum well into the latter half of the season, with a flat forward curve of contract prices. ASB economist Nat Keall says this has prompted the bank to add 55c to its farm gate milk price forecast, now up to a record $8.75/kg milksolids.

GDT events over the first half of spring have shown no sign of demand softening and, with supply continuing to look tight, we’re comfortable making a sizable upward revision. ASB

All dairy analysts are now predicting milk prices in the $8 range, with ASB having become the highest. Keall says it looked increasingly likely that New Zealand milk production would undershoot the expectations held earlier in the season. High milk prices are not going to produce greater volume and ASB now predicts 0.5 to 1% fall for the season. “GDT events over the first half of spring have shown no sign of demand softening and, with supply continuing to look tight, we’re comfortable making a sizable upward revision,” ASB said. Fonterra should be 80% hedged for currency transactions at an exchange rate around US69c, which is a healthy position in a high commodity price environment. The second GDT auction in October produced an increase of 2.2% in the overall price index, across all product types and contract periods.

Whole milk powder (WMP) was up 1.5% and now sits at 25% higher than this time last year. Lactose was up 5.9%, butter 4.7%, cheddar 2.9% and anhydrous milk fat and skim milk powder 2.5%. The index has recovered its position in the middle of June, at the start of the dairy season, having gone down and then up 7% over the four months. Westpac senior agri economist Nathan Penny says NZ milk production was down 4% in August, year-on-year, and that anecdotally September and October have produced a similar result. The solid GDT results have reinforced the Westpac milk price forecast of $8.50. The NZX Dairy Derivatives market has also lifted, WMP futures at US$3900/tonne and milk price futures for the 2022 season at $8.62, a gain of 12c in a week, and for the 2023 season $8.20. The NZX milk price forecast has moved to $8.44, a gain of 15c, with

LOCKED IN: Westpac senior agri economist Nathan Penny says the solid GDT results have reinforced the Westpac milk price forecast of $8.50. a range of $8.32 to $8.75. The lower end of the range assumes a 1.5c increase in the NZD/USD exchange rate over the remainder of the season and the upper end assumes 5% gain in product prices.

Analyst Stu Davison says it’s silly season for milk price forecasts; enough product has been sold to support some optimism, but there is also enough season left for things to turn quickly.

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RWNZ award winners announced Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz

SHOWCASE: RWNZ national president Gill Naylor says the awards have cemented their place as a means of showcasing the excellent and innovative businesses owned and operated by regional and rural women.

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THE 2021 Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) business awards have attracted a record number of entrants showcasing the innovative businesses of regional and rural women. RWNZ together with premier partner, NZI, have announced the winners across seven award categories in what RWNZ national president Gill Naylor says has been a challenging task. “This year’s awards attracted our highest ever number of entrants and the calibre and diversity of the entrants made deciding on our winners very challenging,” Naylor said. She says the awards have cemented their place as a means of showcasing the excellent and innovative businesses owned and operated by regional and rural women right across the country. “It was particularly pleasing that there was an even split between entrants from the North and South Islands,” she said. NZI executive manager commercial business underwriting Christina Chellew represented the key sponsor on the judges panel. “It is a real privilege to be a judge for these awards and incredibly inspiring to learn about our entrants’ businesses,” Chellew said. “It is always extremely difficult to select our category winners, but we were particularly impressed by the resilience of this year’s entrants and their commitment to the wellbeing of their rural communities.” The creative arts category winner is Janyne Fletcher Photography from Ranfurly in Central Otago. Fletcher has been photographing professionally since 2006 and specialises in high-quality fine art photography, which she prints, frames and sells from her Ranfurly workshop and gallery. Her work, recognised nationally and internationally, is a creative and contemporary interpretation of the landscape that surrounds her as she captures its beauty to create unique mementos for visitors to the Otago Central Rail Trail and the new Central Otago Touring Route. The emerging business section winner is Tammy Taylor with Fork and Spade. Based in Lumsden, Taylor’s business supplies and implements environmental planting plans for farms in Southland. Fork and Spade, once her “baby”, but now described as a robust toddler, has a dedicated client base throughout the region. Taylor and her all-women team are passionate about seeing their jobs through from the initial farm consult to an established, thriving and wellmaintained planting. Claire Edwards’ Tora Collective took out the innovation category. Based in south Wairarapa, Tora Collective’s mission is to keep kaimoana in Aotearoa and the goal is to supply the freshest and bestquality seafood, rather than it all being exported. Edwards was inspired by the lack of crayfish and paua on menus across the country, so she and her partner took matters into their own

hands and started Tora Collective to right this wrong and ensure that NZ’s iconic cuisine and culture were not lost to the export market. Love of the Land winner Lucinda Maunsell runs Rahui Coastal Loop, a boutique catered bike adventure in Wairarapa. The land that Maunsell lives and works on has been in her family for six generations, with her passion for the land and how much she values her heritage evident in the way she runs her business. She is hands-on in every sense from greeting her guests, cooking for them, meeting them at the end of the loop and sending them handwritten thank you cards and complimentary tea bags after their stay. Harriet Bremner with her business Gurt and Pops took out the rural champion category. Based in Te Anau, Bremner writes children’s books for NZ’s rural families and contributes to the Farmers Weekly AginED page.

It is a real privilege to be a judge for these awards and incredibly inspiring to learn about our entrants’ businesses. Christina Chellew NZI Her life was transformed after tragically losing her partner in a farming accident when she decided to follow her dreams of becoming an author and wrote her first book called Bob ‘n’ Pops in memory of her late partner. Bremner is a passionate advocate for changing conversations around health, safety, wellbeing, grief and trauma, and works with a wide range of organisations and groups promoting safety and wellbeing on farms and in rural communities. The bountiful table award winner is Sue Loder of Kaipaki with her Well and Truly artisan pantry that produces certified gluten-free gourmet granolas and pantry products. No corners are cut in the production of the handcrafted, small batch goods, which feature produce from local growers and suppliers, with the brand identity capturing the wellness in mind. Amber Forest of Wairoa leads the rural health and wellness excellence category, with her business Beauty Antix, the only full-time beauty therapy clinic in the region. Forrest has built an awardwinning business, which is immersed in the diversity of its clientele and community delivering a wide range of expert, professional treatments and providing a career path for young women, particularly Māori, through a nationally recognised beauty and wellness training facility. Presentation of the awards to the category winners and the announcement of the overall supreme award winner will take place later in the year.

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Ag sector welcomes KPMG climate report NEW Zealand’s primary sector has been ranked first out of 32 nations in climate change readiness in a new report from global consultancy KPMG. The firm’s Net Zero Readiness Index (NZRI) gave NZ the top ranking based on its high levels of forest biomass, low levels of food loss resulting from strong government action and a comparatively high number of agricultural clean tech companies. However, it noted there was still significant work to be done. KPMG manager of sustainable value Ronja Lidenhammar says the Government has said little about how agriculture will need to change to support climate change goals compared with energy and transport. “It’s a very precious sector for New Zealand, a politically sensitive area,” Lidenhammar said. Given agriculture makes up a large share of the economy and that NZ is the world’s biggest dairy exporter, the omission of methane emissions from livestock and landfill will become a significant barrier to the country hitting a true

net zero target unless it is addressed, the report said. It noted plans to reduce methane through low-emission feeds and in future breeding programmes. Methane vaccines could also utilise animal immune systems and the addition of seaweed to animal food.

With environmental NGOs and commentators regularly pointing the finger of blame at our farmers, it’s pleasing to see an independent and in-depth assessment tell a very different story. Andrew Hoggard Federated Farmers The report highlighted gene editing as a technology that could also allow for significant progress in cutting farm emissions, but its usage is opposed by governments. KPMG global head of agribusiness Ian Proudfoot says those views

are often based on older and less sophisticated genetic modification technologies. “Agriculture and food production are attracting high levels of research investment in areas including data and artificial intelligence, new growing systems, more extensive use of waste biomass and alternatives to animal products such as lab-grown meat,” Proudfoot said. “There are also ways to reduce emissions from livestock and reduce the land needed to grow animal feed, including seaweed supplements to cut methane from digestion and using insects as a protein source.” Overall, NZ was ranked ninth, with Norway, the UK and Sweden taking out the top three places. “With environmental NGOs and commentators regularly pointing the finger of blame at our farmers, it’s pleasing to see an independent and in-depth assessment tell a very different story,” Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard said. NZ was ranked lower in four other sectors measured by the index. For electricity and heat NZ was ranked sixth out of 32, for transport it placed 30th, for buildings 19th and for industry, 15th.

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Council scores Fonterra on intentions Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz FONTERRA achieved 75-80% of its statement of intentions for the 2021 financial year in the categories of healthy business and healthy environment, but fell much shorter in the healthy people category. The targets and achievements were summarised in the Fonterra Co-operative Council’s October report to shareholders, ahead of its annual report due out later this month. The business targets met were the milk price of $7.54/kg, about $1 ahead of the intention, return of capital of 6.6%, debt ratio down to 2.7, gearing ratio of 35.5% and 34c earnings per share at the top of the guidance range. The one target not met concerned a further drop in Fonterra’s market share of milk collection from 80% down to 79%. The environmental targets achieved included farm environment plans on 53% of supply farms and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing and solid waste to landfill.

Fonterra has fallen behind its targets for reduction in water use at company sites, along with work injuries, female representation in senior leadership and employee engagement. Overall, nine of 14 targets were met. The council will make more comments on this scorecard in its annual report.

Members are very supportive of the transformation in culture they have perceived. Fonterra Co-operative Council It has already commended the board for the recent progress by the co-operative and said that recent independent research indicated that 82% of members are more comfortable with the direction of the co-op than they were two or three years ago.

“Complementing that data, we have accumulated considerable feedback that members are very supportive of the transformation in culture they have perceived within Fonterra,” the council said. Chair James Barron has published the first annual letter of expectations sent to the board of directors by the council after consulting with members. The subject areas are culture, performance, investment and pride in the co-operative. Under culture, the shareholders expect openness, honesty and transparency; genuine consultation on matters that affect their interests; and a culture where mistakes are acknowledged and lessons learned are shared. Under performance, farmers expect the highest possible milk price; a respect for capital that is allocated and managed effectively; and for investment into innovation. While happy with the new focus on New Zealand milk, farmers want as much transparency as possible on investment decisions. Under the heading of pride, the council emphasised generational sustainability; good corporate

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Online bidders boost Wellsford cattle sale Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz

CAPPED: What would have been a full house at Wellsford Saleyards was limited to 48 attendees under Level 3 lockdown restrictions.

ONLINE demand for store cattle greatly increased the buying power at the first Wellsford cattle sale to have livestreaming along with a restricted Level 3 bench of buyers. Northland livestock manager Bernie McGahan, based in Wellsford, says 20 registered bidr buyers were successful with 28 of the 173 lots and were probably underbidders on at least twice that number. “Under Level 3 we can have up to 48 people seated in the gallery and on that day we had 36 farmers attending,” McGahan said. “Without the online bidders from Waikato, Auckland and the

rest of Northland interested in the better lines, we would have struggled to clear the lots, to be frank.” The big yarding of 1056 cattle on October 18 was only the fourth Wellsford sale under Level 3 conditions after a long shut down and it was the first to be livestreamed. McGahan says permanent live streaming would be introduced when fibre reached the saleyard and that was not far away. The bidr team set up at Wellsford on Sunday and loaded lots and built the catalogue as cattle were drafted and penned on Monday morning. He says cattle condition was good but not exceptional for this time of the year and the additional

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Carbon price set to rise before settling Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz DESPITE the onward march of carbon prices, values may have to press onwards over $100 a unit before they start to have an impact upon emission behaviour in New Zealand. Jarden head of commodities trading Nigel Brunel says while prices were likely to continue to move upwards in the near term, if the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) market did what was intended that price rise would be finite. “There is debate there around the country, but as you get prices go a lot higher then people will stop polluting and prices would ease,” Brunel said. He says he agrees with the Climate Change Commission, that if New Zealand wanted to decarbonise by 2050, then by 2030 the carbon price would need to be in the vicinity of $140 a tonne. This week NZ carbon units are trading at $64.50 a unit with future

contracts committed at $73.70 a unit. This week’s carbon price is about double what it was only 14 months ago. The ETS scheme attracted some criticism after the last auction on grounds the strong demand for the 4.75 million units offered required the Government to add its 7m cost containment reserve (CCR) units, which were also purchased in the auction and did little to cool the price surge. Brunel also agrees with Climate Change Minister James Shaw who defended the surge in carbon prices, saying the ETS was operating as it should. “When you look at the CCR, it was there to be used if required. If you think about 80 million tonnes of emissions a year, over 30 years you are talking over two billion tonnes. So a few million tonnes here and there to smooth the price, that is not a huge amount,” he said. “I think often critics lose sight of the big picture on this, which is to decarbonise the economy.” Government recently sought

submissions on improving the market system for the ETS, including the possibility of a single exchange and limiting auctions to emitters only, removing the ability of financial institutions to trade in auctions. But Brunel says if the market was not broken, it did not need fixing. Multiple entities have been trading carbon credits successfully for several years. He also questioned whether any proposal to stop financial institutions trading ETS units was wise. At the last auction about a third of the units sold were bought by a single financial institution, who provided a service to smaller businesses wanting to purchase credits. With global fuel prices already rocketing, the addition of emission costs has hastened changes in emitting behaviour at an industrial level now. “Coal is probably the most expensive example where for every tonne there is two tonnes of carbon with that cost, also coming

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Shipping woes hamper Alliance Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz ALLIANCE Group Ltd is expecting an improved financial result for the coming year, but warns shipping issues have hit cashflow and generated higher than planned debt and inventory. Speaking at a virtual roadshow this week, chief executive David Surveyor says the co-operative has been trading profitably due to more value being captured from the market, expanding its branded product programme and improved plant efficiency. “Our issue all year has not been one of sales, but one of shipping,” Surveyor said. Chair Murray Taggart says disrupted shipping logistics is expected to continue for another 12 to 18 months. At the peak season Alliance can load 550 containers a week, but a shortage meant on occasion last season they could only access 220/week. Taggart says part of the problem is the one million empty containers sitting in Asian ports while exporters in South America, southern Africa and Oceania face a one million container deficit. Surveyor says disrupted supply

chains are the norm and last season Alliance struggled to find cold storage at times. He praised staff for the way they have managed the issue and for continuing to deliver product to customers. “A consequence of the global supply chain disruption has been significant cost and freight increases,” Surveyor said. “The spot rate cost of reefer boxes has increased fourfold. “As shipping companies impose surcharges on containers, we are passing these cost increases on to the market where we can, in particular through the price we are selling our products. “In real terms, the increased supply chain costs is the equivalent of a 45c/kg weight on the livestock schedule.” Increased volumes of red meat are being sold through premium branded programmes Handpicked Lamb, Handpicked Beef, Silere and Te Mana, as these markets grow. Alliance has recently signed new distribution contracts for it branded product. This includes Tesco, where Te Mana will be stocked in 300 stores, Premium Butchery in China and with Marks and Spencer, into which branded

sheep meat and beef will be stocked in 11 stores in Singapore. Surveyor says the aim is to leverage the co-operative’s accumulated history from its supplier’s farms through differentiated brands. In response to shareholder requirements, Alliance has increased by 33% the number of beef cattle processed in three years, with new facilities at Pukeuri and Levin. The venison facilities at Lorneville have been reconfigured to also handle cull cows, freeing up the Mataura plant to process prime cattle. Surveyor says Alliance has launched a branded Angus beef programme and will next year announce a new Wagyu-branded range. Labour shortage remains a significant challenge and Surveyor says the Government must allow the industry to access more foreign workers. Alliance continues to seek NZ workers and is also addressing the wants and needs of its existing workforce, with more than 3300 staff finished or enrolled in various training and development programmes. Manufacturing manager Willie Wiese says Alliance has partnered

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App to help train, mentor staff Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz RURAL Contractors have been thrown a lifeline to help ease their dire shortage of staff. A proposed initiative to help train and mentor workers to the industry has been backed by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and now swung into action. MPI has joined the recruitment drive with $140,000 funding support for the HanzonJobs initiative. The Rural Contractors NZ (RCNZ) board has also joined forces with funding to support its beleaguered members, desperately short of staff as the season unfolds. RCNZ chief executive Andrew Olsen said there’s a critical shortage of skilled machinery operators in the industry due to covid-19 and HanzonJobs provides a very real solution. HanzonJobs has developed an app to train and mentor people working with contractors around the country. The app provides a web-based platform that will be used by both contractors and trainees. Training will be provided to rural contractors to help them to mentor their staff. Support will also be provided for 200 new industry trainees to access the app to record and document their work experience.

Trainees can easily log all the activities they have been involved in during a working day. Over the course of a season the trainee will build a detailed record of their learning and experience across various jobs involving differing terrain, conditions and machinery types. “Supporting rural contractors with mentoring training will help to boost their team’s capability,” he said. “The app will also enable their staff to keep an accurate record of their work and experience and help to identify any areas of development.” The HanzonJobs app is designed to increase employee retention by turning otherwise unrecorded on-the-job experience into a detailed, documented and verified record of industry skills. “This initiative really hits home the power of working together and what’s possible,” he said. MPI director investment, skills and performance Cheyne Gillooly says the ministry is proud to be supporting the initiative. “Providing mentoring for rural contractors will help them to train and retain their staff, while providing access to the HanzonJobs app makes it simpler to recall and present an employee’s experience,” Gillooly said. He says the initiative fits with the goals of MPI’s Fit for a Better World roadmap of which a key aim is to boost food and fibre sector workforce and jobs.

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VOICED: Silver Fern Farms chief executive Simon Limmer says the soaring carbon price is a concern that he has raised with Climate Change Minister James Shaw.

Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz FARMERS have been assured Silver Fern Farms (SFF) management are lobbying the Government on their behalf but are doing so behind the scenes. SFF chair Rob Hewett told shareholders in a virtual roadshow they understood and appreciate the pressure facing suppliers from new legislation and land-use change to forestry and they have voiced those concerns to ministers and department officials. “There are issues inside the farm gate, such as the number of legislative requirements, coming at us like a freight train,” Hewett said. He urged farmers to engage in projects like the primary industry’s climate change commitment, He Waka Eke Noa or know your carbon emission number, saying doing so gave farmers options and choices. Hewett says another response for processors was to deliver returns for meat that were competitive with options such as forestry. “If we are not competitive in the marketplace we can’t pay a competitive price to our supplies which makes land-use change a real alternative for landowners,” he said. Asked about the impact on livestock farming from a soaring carbon price, chief executive Simon Limmer says it is a concern, which he has raised with Climate Change Minister James Shaw. While policy settings have to be right, Limmer says to be credible the industry needs to have its house in order in meeting challenges such as greenhouse gas emission targets.

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RubyRed added to Zespri’s portfolio Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz THE long-awaited commercialisation of Zespri’s red kiwifruit has been crowned with a reworked brand name for the fruit, Zespri RubyRed. After almost a decade in development and a long wait by growers for commercial quantities of the fruit, 2022 marks the first full official commercial season for the crop following earlier trials over the past two seasons, locally and in Singapore outlets. Packing out as a smaller fruit than its SunGold counterpart, Zespri has downplayed the fruit’s launch until now, acknowledging short shelf-life characteristics mean its initial main markets are likely to be the shorter-haul Asian markets. The fruit also offers an

appealing option to growers who may be baulking at the soaring plant variety licence costs associated with growing the SunGold variety. In the past two years licence fees for SunGold have surged. The last tender round for 700ha of SunGold allocated at tender achieved a median cost of $550,000 a hectare, up from $400,000 the year before. RubyRed values for the initial 150ha offered in 2020 were $62,500 a hectare, with this year’s 350ha allocation increasing to $74,970 a hectare. Bidding interest had also jumped, with 152 successful bids out of 343 total bids and total demand outstripping allocated area by 2:1. Zespri chief growth officer Jiunn Shih says the appeal of the fruit to consumers lies in its colour and a

more berry-like taste that appeals to a younger consumer profile. He says the name alteration better reflects the fruit’s colour and had received good feedback from the market. “As we’ve moved towards establishing commercial volumes of our red kiwifruit, we’ve been exploring names that better embody the essence of the fruit and which we hope resonate with our consumers,” Shih said. The research and name had to also allow for the name to translate well across different languages within the broad Asian market and was in the process of being trademarked. The availability of another fruit variant to Zespri’s portfolio will help extend fruit supply at a time when demand for SunGold in particular has been increasing to the point it now accounts for

SEEING RED: Zespri says the RubyRed fruit has strong appeal among younger consumers.

over half the marketer’s total fruit sales, with almost 100 million trays of SunGold sold this season. Shih says Zespri was continuing with growing trials in its Northern Hemisphere orchard sites to determine the commercial potential of RubyRed in different growing climates. The fruit was developed

through Zespri’s partnership with Plant & Food Research, with the red flesh colour attributed to anthocyanin, a pigment linked to cardiovascular and cognitive health. RubyRed will be available to NZ, Singapore, Japan and China consumers between March and late May next year.

Shipping delays hit T&G profit expectation Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz

IMPACT: T&G Global directors say apples have been hit by shipping challenges and associated impacts on pricing and costs.

T&G Global has substantially downgraded its profit expectations for the current year to between $4 million and $10m, leaving a wide landing strip for the disappointing result next March. In 2020, as the calendar year is also the financial year, T&G made a net profit of $16.6m, up $10m compared with 2019. But the covid-19 headwinds for international shipping have hindered progress this year in apples, international trading and for the domestic produce section T&G Fresh. The directors said apples have been hit by shipping challenges

and associated impacts on pricing and costs. International trading was also suffering from shipping delays, market access challenges and supply shortages, particularly from the United States and Australia. Here at home, T&G Fresh has problems with labour shortages and costs, the pricing of seasonal produce, restrictions on opening for retailers and foodservice and shipping delays for imported produce. The revised forecast also includes the impact of some one-off items, including property disposal and plant writedowns, which directors hope will be largely neutral in the results. Chief executive Gareth

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Sustainability pig farm’s key focus Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz OVER the past few months New Zealand Pork has been encouraging Kiwis to support NZ’s pig farmers by only buying homegrown pork. Industry launched a social media campaign urging New Zealanders to back local farmers and choose NZ-raised pork over imported pork. “We’ve been reminding New Zealanders to check product labels to ensure the pork is 100% NZ pork or look for the Born and Raised in NZ PigCare label,” NZ Pork general manager David Baines said. “If it says ‘made in NZ from local and imported ingredients’, then chances are it’s imported. As part of the campaign, farmers behind their pork are sharing their stories about what makes NZ pork such a quality product. Patoa Farms may not be a familiar name to many Kiwis, but many will have enjoyed the pork from this family-owned farm in North Canterbury. More than 20 years ago, Steve Sterne, Jens Ravn and their families joined forces with a vision to farm pigs outdoors and as close to their natural habitat as possible. The farm on the south bank of the Hurunui River is now managed by Steve and his daughter Holly, who has always had an interest in primary industries. “I clearly remember as a little girl getting my own set of wet weather gear, it was bright red, and saying I am going farming,” Holly said. But that didn’t happen until much later. “I spent seven years in the banking industry and it wasn’t until I was in my late 20s, then realising the diverse skillsets needed in farming and how my skills could be absorbed into the family’s farming business,” she said. “So, I don’t necessarily see myself as a pig farmer but, with my skillset, as a businesswoman in the roles of finance, governance and environmental compliance. “We are a family-owned

HALLMARK: North Canterbury pig farmer Holly Sterne says care and good stockmanship, ensuring calm happy pigs in a good environment, is critical to producing quality pork. business, with an ongoing vision for growth and to be successful it’s about utilising specialist skills right across the business.” On Patoa Farms the sows roam free, with small straw-based shelters in large paddocks for farrowing. The pigs being finished for bacon are in large eco-barns, with deep-litter straw, which Holly says is the perfect blend for producing pork in the most eco-friendly sustainable way possible.

We need consumer support to be resilient in both production and consumption and not be reliant on global trade. Holly Sterne Patoa Farms

Patoa Farms pork carries an SPCA Blue Tick and is accredited under NZ Pork’s PigCare certification programme. It is a popular product at Countdown, Harris Meats in nearby Cheviot and from wholesalers who supply independent butchers. The focus at Patoa Farms is to farm pigs in a natural and sustainable way, creating a circular economy of inputs and outputs, in terms of the cycle of nutrients through its ecosystem, all supported by the latest technology. Holly strongly believes that while 80% of pork quality can be attributed to genetics and high-quality feed, care and good stockmanship is critical. “Good stockmanship and good welfare all through the life of the pigs is a significant factor in the quality of the product,” she said. “Calm, happy pigs in a good environment, cared for

by understanding staff, is so important to us at Patoa Farms. “I also love the resilience of pigs, they are incredibly intelligent animals. The free-farming system producing about 100,000 pigs a year, employs 55 people, contributing $2 million in wages to the local economy. Patoa is an approved provider of the Primary ITO NZ certificate in pork production qualification for levels three and four. “We can offer that on-farm due to our economy of scale and means staff don’t have to go offsite to do block courses and it makes it much easier for them to work around families, children and other commitments,” she said. “In our industry, a lot of training happens on the job too. The family has a strong focus on community. When the local Hawarden Hotel was faced with closure,

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Fonterra tailoring its insight reports Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz

GOOD DATA: The insights report given to every Fonterra farmer will enable them to benchmark themselves on a range of environmental, animal welfare and milk quality measures.

FONTERRA for the first time has issued its suppliers with an individual insights report, giving them a comprehensive picture of their farm from an environmental performance and animal health perspective. The reports are gathered from data collected from its Co-operative Difference programme. It is intended that these reports will be issued on a yearly basis, Fonterra acting director of

on-farm excellence Michael Hide says. Most of the data came from the records farmers are required to submit to Fonterra and the cooperative uses it to answer claims it makes in the market for access or for regulatory purposes, as well as the data collected by tanker drivers milk collection. “We are trying to move to a position where we support farmers and tell farmers as early as we can about issues that are coming their way and help them prepare for things before they become regulations,” Hide said. “It’s taking data that we already collect from farms and that we already have through our milk quality and whatever else … and using that in a way that’s helpful to the farmers and helping them improve.” Hide says the reports are more than just a report card for the farmer. It was an attempt to use science to provide farmers with useful information that they can use to benchmark their environmental and milk quality performance. He says Fonterra could also help the farmer make changes to improve their performance using the co-operative’s own resources or those of the wider industry. “It’s about going, this is the problem, this is the potential prize, and this is what you need to do to address it,” he said. The data is also used by Fonterra when it gets audited by its customers wanting evidence of the claims around its products. The report includes information on the farm’s somatic cell count, milking efficiency, heat stress, lameness and mastitis, as well as information on the farm’s performance under the co-operative difference programme, a GHG report and a nitrogen risk scorecard.

It’s taking data that we already collect from farms and that we already have through our milk quality and whatever else … and using that in a way that’s helpful to the farmers and helping them improve. Michael Hide Fonterra “Throughout the year we’re collecting information from our farmers that is used to meet regulatory and market access requirements, but it’s increasingly providing proof points to our customers of the care our farmers take for the environment and their herds,” he said. “Farmers put a lot of time and effort into recording data that provides really great evidence they’re producing milk in a way our customers want. Through the reports the co-op is able to deliver some of that opportunity back to farmers.” Estimates using Insights data and DairyNZ calculators have found that around 90% of farms have an opportunity to shorten milking times and 44% of farms could save one hour a day. In addition to labour savings, reducing time spent in the shed can also lead to better welfare outcomes for cows as extended milking periods are a known contributor to mastitis. “Mastitis has a significant impact on animals and cost to farmers’ businesses through lost production and treatment. The insights show there is significant opportunity for farmers just by making some incremental changes to herd management,” he said. “The insights highlight opportunities for improvement and our field teams are able to use the data and work alongside farmers, to suggest tweaks and changes to support animal health and potentially save on time and cost.”

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STRETCH YOURSELF: 1 The station runs 4200 Merino ewes which were clipping an average of 17.3 micron wool when purchased. Plans are to strengthen their fleece to average 18.5 micron. What is a micron of wool? How do they plan to strengthen the fleece of the flock? 2 After purchasing the station in 2019 the Ross family employed David to oversee a traditional development programme. During an initial period of clearing, resowing, fencing, adding stock yards and installing a water scheme they became aware of others following regenerative farming practices and realised that the underlying value of improvement fitted with their property’s brand and values. What are these values?

Have a go:

3 What are regenerative crops?

1 Watch the OnFarmStory of David O’Sullivan “There’s actually a better way” and read the accompanying article “A rule of thirds”. 2 Where in New Zealand is Lake Hawea Station located? ow big is Lake Hawea Station? 3 How ow many Angus cattle do they run? 4 How

4 What size trial block did they start out with for their regenerative crops? This led them to their “Rule of thirds”, what is this? 5 How many hectares do they currently have in regenerative crops? What are some of the plant species they have in these crops? 6 What international benefit does David believe that New Zealand farmers could have by being recognised as a carbon-zero farm?

Have a go: 1 How does the latest value compare to year-ago levels? 2 When have prices been at the highest level? 3 When have prices been at the lowest level?

STRETCH YOURSELF: 1 What do you think are the driving factors behind the strong values currently? 2 On the other hand, what factors were at play a year-ago when values were much weaker? 3 If the average weight of a 2-year steer was 450kg, how much extra $/head would a farmer be making compared to the same time last year? 4 Let's say a farmer bought a 2-year 450kg steer for $3.20/kg or $1440/head at the beginning of October and finished it around January at around 570kgLW (liveweight) or 300kgCW (carcass weight). The prime schedule is expected to be around $5.90/kgCW in January which would make that steer worth around $1770 at the processors. Ignoring extra costs for simplicity’s sake, how much profit would the farmer have made from that steer?

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while only 5-12% of non-haem iron (found in mostly plant and to a small degree animal foods) is absorbed. Hence the importance of eating a range of iron foods. • See red if you’re a meat eater – red meats are richer in haem iron than white meat, poultry and fish – generally the redder the meat, the higher the iron, so a variety of meats are beneficial. • Make sure you get plenty of vitamin C (fruits and veges)– to help the body absorb up to three times more non-haem iron from a meal. • The tannins in tea, and to a lesser extent coffee, reduces the amount of iron we can use from food. So, drink your tea and coffee between, not during main meals. • Eat red meat and vegetables together – eating meat with plant

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• Know if you’re at risk – infants, teen and adult females, sports people, vegetarians, vegans and elderly are most at risk of being iron deficient. • Supplement with care – if you think you’re low in iron, seek the advice of a doctor. A blood test will determine if you need iron supplements. • Beware of dieting – studies show that girls and women on low calorie or restricted diets generally miss out on getting enough of their iron requirements. • Have your iron levels checked regularly and ensure your diet is balanced and varied. For more information and resources head to ironweek.co.nz.

1 Why are high shipping costs an issue? 2 How long are shipping challenges expected to last? 3 How many containers has this processor been able to access/use compared to last year?

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A career built on trust and loyalty

IMPERATIVE: Trust is everything when it comes to the relationship between a farmer and stock agent, Rod Harper says.

After 42 years as a livestock agent, Rod Harper says being trustworthy is a trait that stands the test of time. He spoke to Gerald Piddock about his time at the sale yards.

T REQUIRES trust and honesty to be a good livestock agent. Farmers must be able to trust that the animals they see in the paddock are exactly what they have been told by the agent, without any sugar coating, veteran agent Rod Harper says. “If you can’t trust an agent, forget it,” Harper said. “Trust is everything. If you’re not (trustworthy), you’ll shoot yourself in the foot so quick it won’t matter.” Farmer clients have to be told what they are going to see when inspecting stock. Too many agents take the client out to a farm to look at the stock and hope they’ll make a sale. If you’re dishonest they’ll remember and farmers, he says, have extremely long memories. It’s an ethos Harper has carried with him for 42 years as a livestock agent. Today, he is selling a line of South Devon cattle at the Frankton Saleyards. It’s a buoyant market and the 572kg animals sell for $3.30/kg liveweight and he’s happy with the result. The client’s relationship with Harper goes back for years after he and the client’s uncle played rugby together. Harper turns 90 in November and is thought to be the country’s oldest working stock agent. He says it’s the people in the

livestock industry that make it so enjoyable. “I’m a rural person, I grew up in the farming industry and those are the people who have the same ethics that I have,” he said. Harper was a child of the depression and the fourth of six children. It bankrupted his father, who was farming land in Taumarunui that he had cut from the bush. It took his father 20 years to get back onto the land. He and Rod sharemilked together at Ohinewai before eventually getting a ballot farm at Reporoa. While in his teens, Harper started breeding pedigree pigs and remembers buying his first pig in 1948 for 50 guineas. “I took the pig to the Waikato A&P Show in 1948 and won the supreme pig of the show. That was my start,” he said. He kept breeding pigs and later, Border Leicester sheep, winning the national porker championship in 1957, beating 2000 other entries, as well as being a judge at the Royal Show in Christchurch. He went on to judge sheep and beef cattle at the show and for years, kept a close involvement with the Waikato and Rotorua shows and was honoured with a Waikato A&P Society life membership for his years of service. While farming, he got married to Barbara and had three sons and

a daughter who all went to the local high school in Reporoa. Then one day he was offered a job as a stud stock agent for Allied Farmers in 1979. He was showing sheep in Hamilton and was having dinner with some stock agent reps when the job offer was made. The timing of the job offer was fortuitous, he says, as farm subsidies were about to be removed in a few years’ time when the Lange government swept to power.

Ninety seems like a good mark, but I’ll go bloody nuts if I stopped. Rod Harper Livestock agent He believes if the job offer hadn’t come, and if his children had taken over the farm, they could have borrowed themselves into bankruptcy. They sold the farm and bought a 50-acre block near Whatawhata, west of Hamilton. His territory as an agent spanned from Awakino in the south to the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Later all of Northland was added and for eight years on a

daily basis he covered the top half of the North Island from the 1980s and into the 1990s. The key to covering such a vast area was 5am starts and he says his background as a farmer made that easy. He dealt with mostly established stud stock farmers who were in farming for the long-term, financially sound and able to ride out the fall in prices. “For a number of years, I was the top earning agent in Waikato,” he said. He was also one of the first to facilitate yearling beef bull sales among the beef stud farmers and sell them to dairy farmers in the early 1980s. Prior to that, those farmers only sold those bulls to beef farmers. The stock agent industry also changed as companies were bought, merged and fell away and Allied Farmers became Elders, which then became John F Jones. He too had quit after an argument with his boss and went overseas travelling with his wife for several months in the early 2000s. He had just come back to New Zealand and was looking at being a rural real estate agent when he received a call asking him to come back and work for Taranaki Farmers as its Waikato stud stock agent, which was looking to shift into the region.

That company became NZ Farmers Livestock. “I came back as a parttime stud stock agent and a commercial agent working south of Ōhaupō to the west for the new company,” he said. He was also working in a smaller geographical area and worked on a commission rather than on a contract. He says his experience as a breeder and judge also helped immensely. This is because stud farmers, whether it be bulls or rams, sell their stock using anyone. If they are impressed with your service, they may ask you to sell more of their stock at a future sale. It is one of those jobs that when you call in half the time you don’t do any business. Sooner or later, the agent from the competition may make a mistake or do something they do not like and that farmer gives you more of their business. Becoming a nonagenarian is the right time to ease back and devote more time to his “wonderful” wife Barbara and Rod is slowly giving more of his clients to other agents. Working as a commissioned agent rather than a salaried agent for the past 17 years also allows him to work on his own terms and slowly ease away from it. “Ninety seems like a good mark, but I’ll go bloody nuts if I stopped,” he said.

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Bird’s-eye view of grass growth Despite how critical it is to know how much grass a dairy farm is growing, the means of assessing that have changed little over the past generation. But with farms getting larger, and time shorter, Richard Barton believed there had to be a better way. He spoke to Richard Rennie about Farmote Systems.

F ALL the dairy farm jobs that need to be done over springtime, dry matter measurement takes the most time on a big dairy farm and is critical to ensure cows are fed well and genuine surpluses identified for harvesting. Mechanical engineer Richard Barton returned to his native Canterbury in 2016 after a long stint overseas, with that seasonal challenge playing on his mind. An earlier visit home and conversation with a farming family had him thinking about applying his medical engineering experience to watching the grass grow. “It struck me that farmers had invested millions in buying farms, yet had only a pretty average idea about how much grass that investment was growing and it was their most important feed source,” Barton said. He decided to apply his experience with accurate remote sensors used in pharmaceutical engineering to measuring grass growth 24/7 remotely. It required him to combine five areas of cutting-edge technology, including the sensors, solar power, batteries and stock-proof design to create an automated, in-paddock pasture monitoring system. The system is a blend of terrestrial and extraterrestrial vision. It couples ground-based grass growth sensors with a network of low-orbit satellites capable of taking pastoral images every few days as they pass overhead.

Those images are integrated with data collected from the paddock by the remote meters, which effectively calibrate detected pasture to a data figure. “There are systems that will only use satellite images to determine grass cover,” he said. “However, they are vulnerable to variation in light levels and cloud cover. Having ground-based remote monitoring ensures the images are related back to what is happening in the paddock; the satellite can rank the paddocks because they can ‘see’ the entire paddock, but the monitors mean a dry matter value can be assigned to what it is seeing.” Rather than requiring an individual remote monitor in every paddock, the system will typically rely upon five monitors or “motes” per farm. The more motes there are in any one area across several farms, the greater the reference monitoring base for comparing against the satellite images. One of the toughest challenges in developing the system lay firmly in the paddock. He says trying to design a mote that was cow-proof proved to be tough and took two years. Bored cows had plenty of time between milkings to rub, scratch, stomp and ultimately break the monitors if they were not built tough enough. The poles contain solar-powered electronics and sensors found in cellphones, with prongs anchoring them to the ground that measure soil moisture and temperature. The other challenge was to

ensure the electronics would work regardless of conditions. This was an area he had experience in, having designed and fine-tuned lifesaving technology, including tiny platinum coils to treat brain aneurysms. Once calibrated with satellite images, the data feeds back to farmers’ smartphones or PCs, presenting a feed wedge profile of the farm, ranking paddocks in terms of cover, and providing pasture growth rate data. “We can see the potential to add more management features and for integration into other feed management systems,” he said. The system was extensively trialled in commercial conditions, with Lincoln University contributing to trial work, while backing has come from commercial and private investors in New Zealand and overseas. Covid put paid to Chinese manufacture and has since seen many of the components and assembly carried out in NZ. With its commercial launch focusing on Canterbury dairy units to begin with, Barton says interest has been particularly strong around Mid Canterbury, with several farms in the Hinds district already online. The satellite imagery coupled with the ground-based motes provide “pixels” of pasture data covering nine square metres. “So, it is quite possible to identify not only what paddocks have more feed in them, but what part of what paddocks have the greater feed level, possibly

ACCURATE: The Farmote system validates satellite images against ground-based measurements, ensuring a high level of accuracy, founder Richard Barton says.

influenced by fertility, irrigation or where cows have been standing,” he said. Ultimately, he can see the potential for the data to provide “big picture” imagery of a region’s grass growth, helping identify impending seasonal shortages and possibly as an early warning for issues like drought. The system is based on a subscription rate that includes all the hardware, installation and software for interpreting it at a farm level. The next step will be to get his developers looking at how the tech can be adapted to more extensive sheep and beef farms that have more challenging monitoring landscapes. “But the need is just as great. On those bigger farms it can be hard

Keep an eye out The latest issue of Dairy Farmer will hit letterboxes on November 1. Our OnFarmStory this month features the Taranaki farmer who made history by becoming the first person to win all three categories in the Dairy Industry Awards. We also catch up with a Southland farmer who suffered severe burnout early in his farming career and in a special report, we take a look at live cattle exports ahead of the Government’s ban on the practice.

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to know exactly what sort of feed cover you have at the very back of the farm unless you go there,” he said. He is also excited about the potential to integrate his remote tech with the equally groundbreaking technology used in remote cow management systems like Halter, where farmers can set virtual feed breaks without needing fences to define grazing areas. While a long way from lifesaving human medical tech, Barton says as with that technology it is satisfying to be making a difference to farmers’ lives, making a vital task simpler. “I get a lot of satisfaction in creating something that will help make growing food more efficient,” he said.

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EDITORIAL Platform for future farming

NEW report from KPMG says New Zealand farmers are top of the pile when it comes to climate change readiness. We have a plan to tackle farming emissions that’s being driven by the industry itself and our fantastic natural environments are the envy of other countries. That’s pleasing news, especially with all of the vitriol aimed at farmers in recent years about their supposed inability to move the dial more quickly towards environmental sustainability. The sector can be proud of what it has achieved. The work that’s been done to protect waterways and manage nutrients and the research that’s going into emissions reductions is laying a wonderful platform for the future of farming here. We have a fantastic brand to build upon. But time doesn’t stand still and as we report this week, it’s not regulators who are demanding progress, it’s our customers as well. There is increasing commercial pressure coming on food producers to meet the expectations of consumers and the businesses that buy on their behalf. Many NZ processors and marketers, who have in-depth knowledge of the places they sell into, have seen this coming. They’re now implementing programmes that can capitalise on this movement that will drive positive change and should boost farmer returns. The KPMG report tells us what we’ve been saying ourselves for a while – that we’re the best in the business and have a head start on other food-producing nations. But that’s all it is, a head start, and the starter’s gun has sounded. Already, though, many of the major food processing powerhouses of the world are embracing things like regenerative agriculture, not because they’re being forced to but because it’s an astute play that will increase value. Let’s make sure we don’t squander the advantage.

Bryan Gibson

LETTERS

Respect the value of so-called pests IN THE October 18 issue of Farmers Weekly, Steve WynHarris complained about so-called pests, even blaming them for his broken collarbone when he was distracted by them. Perhaps he shouldn’t let himself be distracted, as it’s a cardinal rule of safe driving to not be distracted. As far as the hares and rabbits go, I suggest he use rabbit fencing to exclude the small mammals from the young plantings. Once the trees have grown out of the animals’ reach, then recycle the fencing to the next new tree plantings. The hares and rabbits should be seen as a resource, harvestable for pet food or, even better, human consumption. I’m sure some keen capable hunters would be more than happy to utilise them. Rabbits

hate long, wet grass, so if his native plantings are enclosed by rabbit fencing, allowing the grass to grow, that would further deter them. Steve’s attitude to the wild animals terming fallow deer as “pricks” and “bastards” is typical of the ingrained disrespect New Zealanders generally show wild animals. If the several species of moas hadn’t been exterminated by Polynesian migrants before European migrants arrived, he might well be confronted by a mob of 250kg Giant Moa browsing his trees to a height of three metres. So Steve be thankful, it’s only hares, rabbits and fallow deer. Incidentally, Steve’s reference to fallow deer on his farm being “a long way from

proper bush”, presumably the Ruahine Ranges, is irrelevant. Fallow deer have not been in the Ruahines, if so until very recently, as only red deer inhabit the Ruahines, with a few sika deer in the extreme north. He should cull and harvest fallow; the meat is even better than red venison, delicious and totally organic. So far as possums go, they are easy to deal with and at $130/kg I received for their fur, is way better than wool at less than $3/kg for crossbred. The few possums I caught around home and my worksite (sawmill) netted me $738 without undue effort. All these termed “pests” mentioned should be treated not as a “pest” but as a resource to be managed and

harvested, as Laurie Collins’ excellent letter (October 11) recommended. Some others, for example mustelids, are less desirable. But the reality is they are here to stay. Just deal with them by trapping them as you do ants or cockroaches around the home. L Hore Oamaru

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 25, 2021

Release the brakes on biotechology Murray Lane

N 1996, the global biotech crop area was less than two million hectares. Five years later it was 50m ha. Ten years after introduction biotech crops were being grown on more than 100m ha. By 2016, the global biotech crop area was 185m ha. Incredible adoption rate, bringing real benefits to farming. If it wasn’t, why has it seen such rapid adoption? Europe stands out as the only significant world area to reject the technology. Their position is justified by “the precautionary principle”, whatever that is. I think we all know what it is. It is a mechanism to prevent technological change, used by the same people who stand against pesticides, fertilisers, hydraulic fracturing, no-tillage systems and the like. Where are the politicians that will demand that New Zealand farmers deserve the best tools if they are to continue to provide the lion’s share of our nation’s income? Yes, it is the farmers that enable us to buy the flat screen TVs, computers, smartphones, petrol for our cars, and the cars, from overseas. If I could make it happen I would modify our largest crop, ryegrass, so that it was resistant to the pasture pests that cost farmers way too much. Namely, the African black beetle, Argentine stem weevil, Tasmanian grass grub, NZ grass grub, porina, springtails – this list goes on. Make ryegrass more palatable, more fertiliser efficient. While we are at it, why not address white clover? Clover root weevil has been decimating clover nitrogen fixation since its introduction in 1996 (the year that biotech cropping began). Both clover and ryegrass are fed to humans via the herbivore rumen. There is no risk. Thinking further, we grow 300,000 ha of forage brassicas. Weed control is difficult. Pest control is difficult. The biotech solutions are available “off the shelf” to breeders in the US, but not in NZ. How about making

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that amazing summer lamb super feed called chicory, resistant to Roundup so that thistles, for example, cease to be a problem? Again both forage brassica and chicory are filtered through the rumen. Once these hurdles are sorted, it would be time to move on to direct human foods. Potatoes – let’s put the “no more potato blight” gene in so that the Irish can stay at home (selfish reason here, I love watching the Irish play the All Blacks).

Where are the politicians that will demand that New Zealand farmers deserve the best tools if they are to continue to provide the lion’s share of our nation’s income? The technology has continued to get better. Plant breeding in NZ moved from basic plant crossing in the 1940s and 50s, to generating random mutations using gamma rays and selecting for improved traits in the 60s to 80s. Many of the foods we take for

OPPORTUNITY: Murray Lane says introducing biocrop technology in New Zealand would provide an opportunity to produce pasture that’s resistant to pests.

granted were generated using this technique. The “random” should be a worry but no selection processes are robust. In the mid-70s progress was made with identifying specific genes that represented specific traits and the insertion of those genes into the genome, to be expressed as beneficial traits. One of those is the BT gene offering resistance to chewing insects in maize and cotton, reducing spray application on the cotton you are wearing from 13 times per season to perhaps one or two. Think of that. Think of the reduced risk to the grower. What about the papaya in Hawaii? It only exists now because it has been modified to resist a virulent fungus that would have made it uneconomic. From a human health point of

view, if you are a diabetic, you are surviving on insulin made by fermenting a bacterium that has been genetically modified with a human gene to make that insulin. You didn’t know that? Suggests that there is little known about this amazing technology. The technology is now so developed that the process of gene insertion is called gene editing. Using very precise cut and paste techniques, beneficial traits can be placed exactly where required to optimise expression. With this technology there will be no way to tell that the plant has been modified, except that it will be easier to grow, that it will be drought-tolerant, use less fertiliser, be redder, taste better, be insect-resistant and fungi and bacteria-resistant. It will cost less.

Less land will be used to produce it, meaning more land will be left as reserve land. The brakes applied to this amazing technology need to be released in NZ as it is around the world (Europeans excluded).

Who am I? As well as being a long-time kiwifruit grower, Murray Lane has an extensive career in product development and extension in the fields of pesticides, seeds and fertilisers.

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26 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 25, 2021

Reports worthy of discussion Alternative View

Alan Emerson

THERE’S been a lot happening on the climate change front, much of it contradictory. Climate Change Minister James Shaw recently released a consultation document on the Draft Emissions Reduction Plan. I had few issues with the plan. Although, I was pleased that it acknowledged that emissions needed to be reduced rather than offset. I think that’s vital, as continuing to pollute while planting pine trees to offset that pollution seemed to me like a road to nowhere. That came in the wake of the Climate Change Commission’s report that stated “exotic plantation forestry such as Radiata pine should be curtailed where possible”. I agree. I was also pleased it acknowledged the New Zealand food and fibre sector was the

world’s most efficient when it came to greenhouse gases. It also accepted that we need investment in research to develop technology such as methane inhibitors and a vaccine. It was a discussion document that encouraged feedback and I accept Shaw’s word that all views will be considered. Hopefully the Government has learned from the Three Waters debacle that consultation needs to be genuine and meaningful. The reaction to the paper was interesting with my old mate Greenpeace telling me that “the document was full of meaningless waffle”. They should know. Criticism of the paper centred around the lack of anything hard for our sector, which was countered by the statement that we’ll be consulted separately. That was positive. The agriculture sector is quite different from the rest of NZ in a variety of ways. For a start, we’re about food production, which is currently the most significant game NZ has. The second point that people tend to forget is that food production is specifically excluded from the Paris Accord for good reason. Agriculture has different opportunities and challenges than other sectors and it was good to

PLEASING: Alan Emerson says agriculture has different opportunities and challenges than other sectors and it was good to see the Government acknowledge that.

see the Government acknowledge that. That report was followed by the KPMG research document into emissions, which was most supportive of our sector. Amazingly, in my view, it received little media coverage. The report ranked NZ agriculture first among 32 countries in terms of its readiness to decarbonise. While agriculture was the world leader, NZ as a whole ranked ninth in KPMG’s first ever Net Zero Readiness Index. I wonder what that ranking would be if it wasn’t for our primary industries. Australia was 17th overall. The top three performers in the survey were Norway, the UK and Sweden. The KPMG report goes on to say that the work we were doing that included initiatives like the Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre and He Waka Eke Noa was positioning our industry to be a global leader in climate aligned food and fibre production. It is a really positive document for agriculture and KPMG is to be congratulated for that. The document is on their website and I commend it to you. The report is highly detailed,

examining 103 indicators of commitment and performance on decarbonising in 32 countries. Those countries are responsible for around 75% of global emissions. It tells us that “Agri-Food has the inherent possibility of being one of the few industries that can have a positive climate impact”. It adds that “rather than just minimising further damage, the industry can take a lead in shifting the conversation towards creating new opportunities for food producers while reversing the historic damage that has been done”. Just think of those conclusions. Agriculture is regularly pilloried for its greenhouse gas emissions, yet an international report has us as leaders in the journey to a more sustainable world. It also tells us that we are on the right track with our research priorities and our consultation mechanisms. That there is no agriculture sector in the world as good as NZ despite regular commentaries suggesting otherwise. We can create new opportunities while reversing historic damage. Despite the positive coverage created by both the Government and KPMG, we have the old anti-

agriculture regime getting regular media coverage. In Newsroom we have writer Rod Oram telling us that “NZ is massively on the back foot on methane”. The article goes on to interview British environmentalist Sir Jonathon Porritt who, like me, you’ve probably never heard of. Porritt is ex director of Friends of the Earth and a Green Party stalwart, so his counsel that NZ needs to get its act together on methane is irrelevant in my view. The problem I have is that we can have positive reports that are largely ignored by the media, but some titled British environmentalist appears to have ready access. We’re also told at length by the media that COP26 is going to be all about methane and NZ’s “lack of adequate response”. My response to that, in a word, is bollocks. Take a bow farmers – you’re doing great.

Your View Alan Emerson is a semi-retired Wairarapa farmer and businessman: dath.emerson@gmail.com

Space is now a rich boy’s playground From the Ridge

Steve Wyn-Harris

SPACE: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilisations. To boldly go where no man has gone before. Just writing that puts tingles down my spine. It is of course the opening title sequence spoken by the captain of the Enterprise, James Kirk, played by William Shatner, at the beginning of each Star Trek episode. I fervently watched original episodes in the early 1970s as a young teenager and that along with Doctor Who, The Goons and Monty Python helped shape me into the odd man who pens these pieces. Non-Trekkies, like my own family, mocked those of us who

immersed themselves in the culture, but now think nothing of their transponders they insist on calling cellphones, gazing lovingly at their handheld personal access data devices now known as iPads, yakking into their bluetooth headsets just like Lieutenant Uhura 50 years ago, or accessing their universal translator software, which was bloody handy chatting to alien races Kirk would bump into, but these days adapted to translate human languages as well. There is a slender New Zealand connection to this spoken opening sequence by Captain Kirk. Another captain, James Cook declared that he intended to go not only “farther than any man has been before me, but as far as I think it is possible for a man to go”. I did say it was a slender connection, but too good an opportunity not to link these two famous voyagers. Kirk’s little speech also offers up one of the best examples of a split infinitive when he inserts boldly between to and go. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book had fun with this, where it says that brave adventurers dared “to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before”.

Anyway, this stuff is on my mind as Kirk, or I should say Shatner, as I must stop mixing my characters up with real people, actually blasted off into space briefly a couple of weeks ago. Shatner at 90 becomes the oldest person to go into space, although at some point in the future, some older geezer will trump this record for no other reason than to hold the record. His space flight wasn’t a fiveyear epic voyage of discovery on a starship, but a mere 10-minute flight of fancy in a rocket. And that flight of fancy aspect is what makes me uncomfortable about this happening. A terrific advertisement for Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket and his hoped-for space tourist industry. But is a space tourist industry really something we need to be setting up in these troubled times? Bezos, Richard Branson and Elon Musk are all billionaires and are in a rich boy’s ego-fuelled competition to create this new industry. Shatner comes back to earth and immediately starts on about this is the only earth we have and how it’s precious and we need to do everything in our power to protect

it. Now that he’s seen it from a great height. I might admire the man but I’m shouting at the TV, “You hypocritical bastard. You’ve just consumed more of the earth’s resources than whole African villages will use in decades and blatted carbon dioxide and goodness knows what all through our atmosphere”. Jane had to inject me with one of those no needle syringes that Dr Bones McCoy used regularly when one of his patients on the Enterprise got a little carried away to calm me down. I did some research to see how much global warming Bezos had just inflicted upon us all with this crime against humanity. I was a little surprised to see that it wasn’t that much. In fact, none. The fuel used in this particular rocket is liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, which when combined produce a tremendous amount of heat and propulsive force and as you may have already guessed, the emission coming out the back end is water. Bezos claims his green hydrogen is squeaky clean, but the production of it fails to pass muster.

The other private tourist rockets do emit carbon though. It’s still a lot of money and resources to stoke egos and give rich people an expensive fairground experience. I probably don’t have to go and protest this folly. If or when one of these billionaires’ rockets blows up live on prime-time TV, killing its paying rich customers, the space tourism industry will come to a dramatic end.

Shatner at 90 becomes the oldest person to go into space, although at some point in the future, some older geezer will trump this record for no other reason than to hold the record. Your View Steve Wyn-Harris is a Central Hawke’s Bay sheep and beef farmer. swyn@xtra.co.nz

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 25, 2021

Wrestling with forestry decisions The Braided Trail

Keith Woodford

I HAD intended this week to move away from forestry to other topics. But once again, I have been drawn back to forestry because it is the biggest issue right now facing rural land use. For those who are farming sheep and beef there is the disconcerting reality, but also in some cases exciting reality, that carbon farming is now the most profitable land use. Somewhat ironically, this changing land use is also relevant to the dairy industry, which in combination with the other pastoral land uses is supposed by 2030 to reduce methane by 10%. It is looking as if much of this might now come from the decline in sheep and beef. When I started writing this series on carbon farming back in July of this year, I used a carbon price of $48 per tonne, but right now it is sitting at $65. I have been rerunning some spreadsheets in recent days and inevitably the economics of carbon farming now look even stronger. Given that the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is controlled by the Government, there is no certainty as to where prices will head long-term. But as I have said previously, the ETS lies at the core of New Zealand’s climate policy and the ETS cannot achieve its goals unless the carbon price climbs considerably higher. The only alternative is for the Government to ditch the ETS in its present form and shift to tax and command systems. The message I am getting from the field is that almost all sheep and beef farms currently coming on to the market are being snapped up by current and prospective foresters. This week I have been informed of a very steep North Island country, distant from a port, selling for $15,000 a plantable hectare,

with the investors coming from overseas. This must be close to double last year’s market value, perhaps more. These overseas investors are required to commit to eventually harvesting the timber so as to obtain OIO investment approval. However, it is not hard to predict that at some time the Government will agree to these overseasowned forests being reclassified as permanent forests. Logic says that should happen and investors will already be factoring that in. However, the whole notion that NZ needs overseas investors to facilitate the current headlong forestry investment is very strange. It really does sell the next generation’s birthright. These overseas investors, typically from Europe, have low capitalisation rates and hence can easily outbid the locals. Of course, it is great for the existing pastoral landholders. One of the reasons that pastoral land is so attractive for forestry is that it comes with no existing forestry encumbrances such as ‘residual carbon’. Accordingly, foresters can afford to pay around $10,000 more a hectare for pastoral land compared to post-1989 forest land that has just completed its first rotation and is ready for replanting. Every step of the carbon journey reinforces that overall message of complexity. In the past 10 days there has been new information added to the MPI website in relation to the rules for the new carbon averaging system to be introduced on January 1, 2023. One issue that is now explicit is that under this scheme no credits can come from second rotation forests, even if the first rotation was outside of the ETS. This means that as from 2023, a second rotation forest on newly ETS-registered land can only earn credits if it registers as a permanent forest. More important is that the amount of carbon that can be credited under the averaging scheme is no longer, as the MPI website previously stated, simply the carbon sequestered “from when it is registered up to its long-term average carbon stock”. Rather, it has become explicit that it has to be earned during the first

RELEVANT: Changing land use is also relevant to the dairy industry, which in combination with the other pastoral land uses is supposed by 2030 to reduce methane by 10%. 16 years of the forest’s growth. I admit to being surprised by this third statement. I had previously read the website many times and had taken it at apparent face value. To repeat, it said that a “first rotation forest using averaging accounting will earn units from when it is registered up to its long-term average carbon stock”. That would have meant, for example, that a forest first registered at 16 years of age could still have earned units in subsequent years up to its longterm multi-rotation “average age stock”. The key phrase was average age stock and there was no mention that for an existing forest it actually had to be earned within the first 16 years. Nothing in the ETS is as simple as it might seem. For example, there is a webinar from March 2021 on the MPI website, where MPI Te Uru Rākau director Oliver Hendrickson, who is in charge of forestry within the ETS, said that the Cabinet work programme for later this year would consider extending the averaging system more broadly across the post-1989 forestry estate. It is unclear as to whether this is still ‘on the table’, despite still being on the website, but at least some experienced foresters think it has gone. This all goes to the nub of the situation that foresters face. Foresters have to make decisions in the very near future but with regulations still to be fully developed. I regard early drafting and gazetting of the

regulations, which are central to current decisions, as being of particular importance. As MPI says on its website, MPI “cannot accept any liability for the accuracy or content of material on this website”, yet that is all that decision-makers have. In regard to the averaging scheme, I have asked MPI whether I can see the draft regulations. A key reason they can’t send them to me is that the regulations have not actually been drafted. It seems they will not be published for another year. However, MPI has indicated to me that Cabinet policy decisions on which the regulations will be based are likely to be released very soon. My current assessment is that for most owners of post-1989 forests it is still worth giving close consideration to joining the ETS and putting in claims for the current five-year ETS period of 2018-2022, initially under the stock accounting scheme. This is the best way to retain optionality. However, until all fog has dissipated from around the new regulations, it is much safer to then retain those units rather than sell them. For many of these forests, an important option will be to convert the forests to permanent forests, where credits will be claimable for 75 years and beyond as long as the trees are still growing. Also, for those who planted in 2003 or later, there are some credits that will be retainable under the averaging

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Farming’s tough? Try events Off the Cuff

Andrew Stewart

A NUMBER of years ago, I was very fortunate to join an Outward Bound course at the beautiful Anakiwa Bay in the Marlborough Sounds. As part of this eight-day adventure, I met some lifelong friends, pushed myself way out of my comfort zone and spent a lot of time analysing my life and what I deemed important. One of the ideas spawned out of this adventure was to organise some sort of event on our farm to make use of the natural obstacles such as springs, dams and hills. What started as a dream became a reality in the form of The Mudder, which we have run on the farm each spring since 2015. One thing that we have learned with event management is to expect the unexpected. In the first year, our farm was the epicentre of a one-in-100-year flooding event, which caused catastrophic damage. We also had a six-week-

old baby and toddler, no power and very limited access. My wife Kylie and I had to have a serious discussion about whether it was a wise idea to go ahead with an event in September when we had so much damage to try and fix. It was then, when the chips were well and truly down, that I made a comment based on my many years working in the farming industry: I don’t do easy. Little did I know that two years later the floods would pale in comparison to the devastation I would experience in the winter of 2017. My best mate of 30 years suddenly passed away after fighting kidney disease nearly all of his life. The shock and loss was like a nuclear bomb through his family and our group of friends who had been very close since school and uni days. Dan was a special guy, loved by many and mourned by all whose lives he had touched. He was the first to help out with organising The Mudder and loved being a part of the day. Needless to say, I found myself questioning whether organising an event was something I was capable of following such a loss. But I knew that he would have wanted us to soldier on, so that is exactly what we did. Again, we delivered an amazing event, which

was incredibly poignant with the award of a trophy in Dan’s honour. Roll forward to 2021, and the challenges are different but still very real. The Mudder was set for the middle of September when the lockdown hit, causing a postponement in the hopes covid would be stamped out. As we all know that was not the case and we made the decision to cancel the event for the first time in early October. For my wife and I, The Mudder is not about any financial rewards. Early on we realised the importance of the link between exercise and improved mental health and coined the phrase “Move your body, Shift your mind”. We have teamed up with Farmstrong and an amazing group of local businesses who sponsor the event because they believe in the concept we have created. Hearing the laughter, seeing the wacky costumes and wide smiling faces and getting the positive feedback that we are changing lives is our inspiration for running this event. It also provides a different perspective to the farm and buildings as we need to be ready and capable of welcoming hundreds of urban dwellers to our little corner of the Rangitikei. Our aim has always been for the entrants to have an amazing

DOWN BUT NOT OUT: This year’s The Mudder event was cancelled due to the covidinduced lockdown, as have many other events that would otherwise provide New Zealanders with an opportunity to get out into nature or socialise with friends and family. experience on a working farm and share that experience far and wide when they go home. So not being able to provide about 600 entrants, and hundreds of spectators, with that positive experience is incredibly disappointing. But we are also very lucky. We have a farming and tourism business as well as the event management of The Mudder. For the past 18 months, thousands of events around New Zealand have been cancelled and some iconic ones will never return. The financial hit to our event industry has been huge, but there is also an unseen and equally important negative effect. As Kiwis, events are in our DNA. We love to challenge ourselves physically, experience our great outdoors or get together with friends and

family to listen to some live music. Not being able to do these things can be mentally challenging and we all need to find ways to still have positive experiences until such time that events are allowed to return safely. So, if you get the chance to go to an event, think of it as an investment into your mental wellbeing and not just a cost of a ticket. Like us in the farming sector, those in event management are fighting for their survival. And remember The Mudder mantra, “Move your body, Shift your mind.”

Your View Andrew Stewart is the RangitikeiManawatu Federated Farmers meat and wool chairman and a sheep and beef farmer in Rangitikei.

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Maungatapere 162 Pukeatua Road

Tahuna 203 Waiti Road Deadline Sale

No rainbow chasing - the Gold has been found! • Extremely rare opportunity to invest in a market-leading horticulture business located in the beautiful surrounds of Whangarei • Approx 36.3 ha of land in seven titles this diverse orchard has been carefully and innovatively designed to produce sustainable fruit of the highest quality • 16.17 ha of covered and uncovered Kiwifruit Sun Gold and Hayward • 8.85 ha of covered hydroponic berry fruit including Raspberry, Blueberry, Blackberry and Solberry • The property includes three dwellings, substantial plant and infrastructure and a significant water supply from a storage lake

Auction

Ticks the boxes Deadline Sale closes Thursday 11th November, 2021 at 2.00pm, (unless sold prior), Property Brokers, 180 Bank Street, Whangarei View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/WHR95344

Kevin Billington M 027 433 9667 Ian Morgan M 027 492 5878

Putaruru 645 Overdale Road

This 114 ha dairy farm has plenty to offer. Flat to rolling contour with mainly ash soils, this property is well raced and fenced. An excellent 30 ASHB shed with meal feeding system, silo and small feed pad off shed. Good array of farm buildings. A new 85,000l sandtrap and ponds for effluent. Currently autumn calving, production average 110,000 kgMS last three years, supplying Open Country Dairy. Great bore water - 32mm loopline around farm. The main home is a lovely four bedroom brick home and the second dwelling is a three bedroom brick home with sleepout. This property is a must see!

Milk it or graze it

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Peter Lissington M 027 430 8770 Chelly Aitchison M 022 697 8779

Maihiihi 167 Paewhenua Road Tender

• 125 ha dairy unit in three titles, minutes from Tirau and Putaruru and close proximity to Matamata and Cambridge • Contour is rolling with steeper areas subdivided into approx 70 paddocks • 40 ASHB with in-shed meal feeder, Klip Tank, five bay calf shed, three bay tractor shed and 1/2 round hay barn • Four bedroom home in nice surrounds plus a two bedroom cottage • Great first farm opportunity or ideal for grazing replacement dairy stock or beef animals • This farm is genuinely on the market to be sold

Auction 12.00pm, Thu 28th Oct, 2021, (unless sold prior), Property Brokers, 78 Studholme Street, Morrinsville View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/MOR92471

Tender

Stoneycreek Tender closes 2.00pm, Wed 17th Nov, 2021 (unless sold prior), Farmlands, 9/13 Rolfe Way, Putaruru View Tue 26 Oct 11.00 - 12.00pm Tue 2 Nov 11.00 - 12.00pm Web pb.co.nz/MAR92584

Ian Morgan M 027 492 5878 Chelly Aitchison M 022 697 8779

• 127 ha dairy unit - milking platform 110 ha (approx.) • Four titles - farm split by Paewhenua Road. Stock tunnel • 26 ASHB, three dwellings - all compliant with Tenancy Act • 97,000 kgMS average from 310 cows • Good fertility, clean pastures, three water supplies • Mixed contour - flat, and easy, to steeper - 15/20 C/O's on nondairy land • 26 km southeast of Te Awamutu • A good "working" dairy farm in a great community • Titles can be purchased separately for 123 ha dairy (see HMR96461) and 4.2 ha lifestyle (see HML96462)

Tender closes 4.00pm, Fri 12th Nov, 2021 (unless sold prior), Property Brokers, 138 Arawata Street, Te Awamutu View Tue 26 Oct 12.00 - 1.00pm Tue 2 Nov 12.00 - 1.00pm Web pb.co.nz/HMR95892

John Sisley M 027 475 9808

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Otorohanga 451 Tahaia Road Tender

Premium dairy opportunity • 132 ha of rolling dairy country in two blocks with underpass situated just 12 km from Otorohanga • Milking about 350 cows and producing between 120,000 and 130,000 kgMS • Great infrastructure with a 36 ASHB with ACR's, auto teat sprayer, feed pad and bunkers • Ample shedding including good calf rearing sheds and implement sheds • Substantial main home with four bedrooms and two levels. The second dwelling is perfect for staff • Purchase as a whole, buy the 40 ha block or buy the 92 ha dairy farm • This is an outstanding opportunity to secure a first class farm in some of the best dairy country in New Zealand

Tender closes 4.00pm, Wed 1st Dec, 2021 (unless sold prior), Property Brokers, 138 Arawata Street, Te Awamutu View Wed 27 Oct 11.00 - 12.30pm Wed 3 Nov 11.00 - 12.30pm Web pb.co.nz/CBR93183

David McGuire M 027 472 2572

E david.mcguire@pb.co.nz

Atiamuri 491 A-C State Highway 30 Open Day

Young dairy - 333 ha This young dairy farm has only been cleared from pine forest for 11-12 years. Situated midway between Rotorua and Tokoroa (20 minute drive time) and across the road from the Upper Atiamuri primary school, with three modern homes making it an attractive work place for young families.

Deadline Sale closes Monday 15th November, 2021 at 4.00pm, (unless sold prior) View Thu 28 Oct 11.00 - 12.15pm Thu 4 Nov 11.00 - 12.15pm Web pb.co.nz/TOR96295

A self contained property, milks 550 cows, and carries 210 replacement heifers. Available as a going concern. Paul O'Sullivan M 027 496 4417 Property Brokers Ltd Licensed REAA 2008 | pb.co.nz

E paulo@pb.co.nz Proud to be here

Pahiatua 108 Pukewhai Road Final Notice

Quality soils & infrastructure - 130 ha Located under 10 minutes drive from Pahiatua and under 40 minutes from Palmerston North, Pukewhai Road is an 87 ha dairy unit and 43 ha support property which features some of the Tararua Districts most sought after soil types. Regularly producing between 120,000 to 130,000 kgMS, the property features modern pasture species, superior farm infrastructure and a comfortable family home. Improvements include a 2015 built 20 ASHB shed, 280 cow feed pad plus concrete feed storage, excellent shedding and a composting wintering barn. The dwelling features four bedrooms and extensive decking, all set in mature well kept grounds. These properties will suit a range of agricultural sectors with purchase options to suit the most discerning buyers.

Tender closes 2.00pm, Thu 4th Nov, 2021, to be submitted to Property Brokers, 129 Main Street, Pahiatua View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/PR96059

Jared Brock M 027 449 5496

E jared@pb.co.nz

John Arends M 027 444 7380

E johna@pb.co.nz

Pahiatua 57 Hinemoa Valley Road Tender

Township - 71 ha Located in the Hinemoa Valley which is under 10 minutes drive from Pahiatua, Township is a 71 ha dairy farm that caters to all sectors of the agricultural market. Regularly producing 75,000 kgMS, milking 160 -170 cows, the property boasts superior soils, modern pasture species, quality farm infrastructure and a comfortable family home. Township is well apportioned with farming infrastructure including a 16 ASHB cowshed complete with modern plant and 200 cow round yard. Further infrastructure includes a three bay lockable shed and four bay implement/hayshed. A three bedroom home which is set in mature grounds provides ample accommodation or future sell down opportunities. Currently being run as a grass only operation, the property is well suited to continue as an entry level dairy operation, support or finishing property in an ideal location with the bonus of multiple titles providing options.

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Tender closes 2.00pm, Wed 10th Nov, 2021, Property Brokers, 129 Main Street, Pahiatua View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/PR95276

Jared Brock M 027 449 5496

E jared@pb.co.nz

John Arends M 027 444 7380

E johna@pb.co.nz Proud to be here

Matemateaonga 2560 Rawhitiroa Road Tender

Gleniti - 652 ha Located in the Mangamingi farming district 25 km from Eltham and 80 km from New Plymouth. Gleniti has had recent investment in fertility and fencing, coupled with a cropping/regrassing program on the flats. Infrastructure is very good including a five stand woolshed and covered yards (1000 np), large cattle yards and two sets of satellite sheep yards. Subdivided into over 50 main paddocks with good natural water throughout, Gleniti is renowned for producing high quality progeny as a sheep & beef breeding & semi-finishing operation. The main dwelling is a 1970's three bedroom plus office home with modern kitchen and open plan living. Gleniti provides well developed flats and cultivatable area totaling 70 ha currently in superior pastures or forage crops, the remaining effective area (590 ha total) is a mix of medium to steeper hill. A well apportioned hill country farm located in a sought after location with reliable rainfall.

Tender closes 2.00pm, Fri 19th Nov, 2021, to be submitted to Property Brokers, 51 Taupo Quay, Whanganui View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/PR96857

Jared Brock M 027 449 5496

E jared@pb.co.nz

Greg O'Byrne M 027 598 3000

E greg.obyrne@pb.co.nz

Dannevirke 569 Maunga Road Tender

Environmental award-winning dairy farm Te Maunga Farm has been over 20 years in the making with our visionary and hardworking vendors turning it from a traditional average performing dairy unit to an environmentally award-winning farm that not only shows good financial returns but sound environmental practices with a relatively low-cost structure. Te Maunga Farm is 427 ha with a 250 ha milking platform, 80 ha of support land within the boundary and the balance is in riparian plantings and cut over pine plantation land (will be replanted this autumn) and recently included 4 ha of QEII covenanted land. This property is run as a level two input system with a strong focus on sound environmental management. The "once a day" level two input system the current owners operate not only results in sound animal welfare but also a staff friendly environment. There are three houses for management and staff, and attracting staff shouldn't be a problem given you are just 15 mins to Dannevirke and under OAD regime.

Property Brokers Pahiatua Ltd Licensed REAA 2008 | pb.co.nz

Tender closes 4.00pm, Wed 10th Nov, 2021, Property Brokers Ltd, 2 Thackeray Street, Napier View Wed 27 Oct 1.00 - 3.00pm Wed 3 Nov 1.00 - 3.00pm Web pb.co.nz/HVR96597 Paul Evans M 027 533 3314

E paul.evans@pb.co.nz

Chris Heenan M 027 599 3527

E chrish@pb.co.nz Proud to be here

Linton 312 Hewitts Road Deadline Sale

220 ha dairy farm Minutes from Palmerston North this 220 ha dairy farm is in three titles with the opportunity to purchase as one unit or in separate parcels. Possible purchase options include a smaller dairy unit, an easy contoured support property or a hill block. The 150 ha of flat to gentle rolling contour has versatile soil types, very good pastures and fertility levels. Improvements include a 54 rotary cowshed with significant additional features and an extensive array of support buildings and an immaculately presented four bedroom home and three bedroom cottage. The contour, soil type, location and multiple titles also affords the cropping, finishing and lifestyle markets the opportunity to consider the potential of this property as an attractive prospect for alternative land use.

Deadline Sale closes Wednesday 24th November, 2021 at 11.00am, (unless sold prior), Property Brokers, 54 Kimbolton Road, Feilding View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/FR96726 Blair Cottrill M 027 354 5419

E blair@pb.co.nz

Stuart Sutherland M 027 452 1155 E stuarts@pb.co.nz

Tinui 4552 Masterton Castlepoint Road Tender

Forbrae - 1,391 ha Forbrae is located in the heart of the Tinui farming district 35 minutes from Masterton & 15 minutes from Castlepoint Beach. Forbrae has been through a development program over the last six years with investment in fertility, fencing, an extensive laneway system & pasture renewal. Infrastructure is very good including a four stand woolshed (550 np), large cattle yards and three sets of main sheep yards, airstrip with 200t fertiliser bin & all weather access. Subdivided into over 100 main paddocks with reticulated water throughout, Forbrae is a turn-key sheep & beef breeding & semi-finishing operation. Three dwellings with two on separate titles provide multiple sale options or ample accommodation for a larger family farming operation. Forbrae provides well developed silt flats totalling 100 ha currently in superior pastures, the remaining effective area (800 ha total) a mix of medium to steeper hill, the ineffective area is a mix of silvicultured pines, manuka scrub & native bush.

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Tender closes 2.00pm, Thu 11th Nov, 2021, to be submitted to Property Brokers, 203 Chapel Street, Masterton View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/MR96742

Jared Brock M 027 449 5496

E jared@pb.co.nz

Tony McKenna M 027 901 0246

E tonym@pb.co.nz Proud to be here

Hororata 1108 Te Pirita Road Tender

First Class Canterbury Dairy and Dairy Support Farming Portfolio Property Brokers is privileged to offer to the market this large scale fully selfcontained dairy operation consisting of two well developed dairy farms plus dairy support unit based in the highly regarded Central Canterbury region. Providing an outstanding opportunity for both owner/operators or investors seeking to acquire individual assets or the complete portfolio. Highly desired location, first class infrastructure backed up by reliable and efficient scheme irrigation water, these properties offer the complete package.

Te Pirita dairy support Well established 259 ha dairy support property located in close proximity to both milking platforms. Currently providing full support requirements for two dairy platforms including winter grazing, young stock grazing and some silage production. Irrigated via Central Plains Water Scheme and applied via three centre pivot irrigators. Well laid out property with reticulated stock water scheme with Dosatron combined with central lane providing ease of management. Tidy three bedroom brick homestead set in established grounds complemented by a full range of outbuildings and cattle yards. A strategic asset of any dairy farm business, providing assured access to grazing and biosecurity.

Tender closes 3.00pm, Mon 15th Nov, 2021 (unless sold prior), Property Brokers office, 217 West Street, Ashburton 7700 View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/AR97321

Chris Murdoch M 027 434 2545 Gareth Cox M 021 250 9714

Hororata 791/699 Te Pirita Road

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Annanbrae Dairy Farm – 729 Terrace Road, Bankside – 164ha

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Te Pirita Dairy Farm – 699-791 Te Pirita Road, Te Pirita – 191ha

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Te Pirita Dairy Support – 1108 Te Pirita Road, Te Pirita – 259ha

Properties are available individually or in any combination, including options for going concern with livestock, plant and machinery available at valuation. For more information about these properties please contact:

Chris Murdoch Rural Sales Consultant M 027 434 2545

Bankside 729 Terrace Road Tender

Te Pirita dairy farm Modern 191 ha dairy platform converted in 2013 to the highest of standards. Milking 700 cows with average production over the past three seasons of 323,241 kgMS. Farming improvements include a high spec 54 bail rotary dairy shed with 700 cow capacity yard, in shed meal feeding system, automatic cup removers and protrack automatic drafting system. Irrigation water supplied by Central Plains Water Scheme and applied via centre pivots. Good standard of housing including modern four bedroom brick homestead plus two additional three bedroom staff houses. Well laid out modern dairy platform with proven performance. Property Brokers Ltd Licensed REAA 2008 | pb.co.nz

Gareth Cox Rural Sales Consultant M 021 250 9714

Tender

Annanbrae dairy farm Tender closes 3.00pm, Mon 15th Nov, 2021 (unless sold prior), Property Brokers office, 217 Ward Street, Ashburton 7700 View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/AR97326

Chris Murdoch M 027 434 2545 Gareth Cox M 021 250 9714

Well established 164 ha dairy platform milking 630 cows with average production for the past three seasons of 292,760 kgMS. Excellent infrastructure featuring 50 bail rotary dairy shed with meal feeding system and protrack automatic drafting plus full range of shedding. Irrigation water supplied by Central Plains Water Scheme and applied via two centre pivots. Executive homestead set on elevated site plus three additional staff houses in sheltered grounds. This farm ticks all the boxes - location, scale, quality soils, infrastructure and proven performance.

Tender closes 3.00pm, Mon 15th Nov, 2021 (unless sold prior), Property Brokers office, 217 West Street, Ashburton 7700 View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/AR97184

Chris Murdoch M 027 434 2545 Gareth Cox M 021 250 9714

Proud to be here

Ross, Westland 68 Gows Creek Road

Hinds 662 Isleworth Road Tender

Coastal dairy with scale 505 ha dairy farm located 15 minutes south of Hokitika within a favoured coastal climate. Currently milking 800 cows through a modern 44 ASHB dairy shed with meal feeding system. Complemented by a full range of implement/haysheds and covered fertiliser bin. Two x three bedroom Lockwood homes plus a tidy three bedroom Summerhill stone homestead offers a great range of accommodation options. Property is well serviced by large network of all-weather gravel laneways to most paddocks with gravity fed stock water scheme. This large scale dairy farm is available as a total 505 ha going concern or alternatively as a separate 295 ha milking platform and/or 210 ha support block.

Tender

Well located dairy unit- 210 ha Tender closes 3.00pm, Wed 24th Nov, 2021 (unless sold prior), at Property Brokers Hokitika, 22 Weld Street, Hokitika. View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/HKR92409

Gareth Cox M 021 250 9714

Pleasant Point 87 Monument Road

Located in the favoured Hinds District approximately 6.5 km south of Hinds, 20 minutes to Ashburton and 40 minutes to Timaru. This Mid Plains property has a lot to boast about. Milking 800 cows each year for the past four years with production figures from 364,249 to 393,975 kgMS. Pivot irrigation, one rotorainer doing four day return and some K-line in the corners. The irrigation is sourced from ground water. A 21 year old rotary dairy shed with Waikato plant, ACRs, meal feeders with new snap chiller, plate cooler and platform ware strip in past two seasons. 750-800 circular yard. Improvements include excellent farm buildings, the magnificent 400 m2 four bedroom home.

Monument Road Farm - 397.42 ha

Auction

Oaks Dairy - North Otago Deadline Sale closes Thursday 11th November, 2021 at 2.00pm, (unless sold prior) View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/TMR97305

Michael Richardson M 027 228 7027 Property Brokers Ltd Licensed REAA 2008 | pb.co.nz

Chris Murdoch M 027 434 2545

Maheno Kakanui Valley Road and Whartons Road Deadline Sale

A fantastic opportunity to buy an irrigated dairy farm with a difference. The vendors are currently milking 660 cows and running all younger stock on farm, but with current environmental rules there are now very good options with forestry and carbon. This will give very good returns both financially and environmentally. With two homes, plus a tiny home, a 60-bail dairy shed well set up, De Laval plant with automatic cup removers and All pro System. Don't delay, enquire today. Price plus GST (if any)

Tender closes 3.00pm, Wed 3rd Nov, 2021 (unless sold prior), Property Brokers, 217 West Street, Ashburton View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/AR96127

A large scale 412 ha dairy farm and a 78 ha runoff. Comprising of 353 ha effective area with dairy platform of 327 ha irrigated (Oceania Supply) with 26 ha flat to easy dryland plus a 78 ha irrigated adjoining block. 54 bail rotary. 10 centre pivots and a large 1.3 million m3 storage dam. Production is reliable at 450,000 kgMS from 1,100 cows. Plenty of accommodation. Potential to increase the milking platform with the use of the run-off area and provide for a possible 2nd dairy unit (subject to conditions). The large dam with reliable low cost irrigation is a unique asset. "Offers over $33,000/ha + GST will be considered."

Auction 2.00pm, Thu 11th Nov, 2021, Brydone Hotel, Oamaru. View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/OMR94252

Merv Dalziel M 027 439 5823 Ross Robertson M 021 023 27220

Proud to be here

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Real Estate

FARMERS WEEKLY – October 25, 2021

Waikouro 15 Allan Road North Deadline Sale

A real change in real estate.

Smaller doesn't mean less

The Property Brokers and Farmlands partnership means great things for provincial real estate Together our combined strengths complement each other to create bigger networks, more buyers and better results. For more information call 0800 367 5263 or visit pb.co.nz/together

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This is a very efficient and productive farm, that has undergone a redevelopment over the last four to five years. The dairy shed is a completely rebuilt 32 ASHB with ACR's and in shed feeding. The shed is centrally located which allows for short walks for the cows to all corners of the farm. There is a warm and sunny family home that consists of four bedrooms and open plan kitchen and living, a great home to bring up a young family. With the closest township being only four minutes away. Otautau provides all the schooling, sporting and family services that you require. Deadline Sale closing 4pm on the 30th November 2021. Prior offers considered.

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Accelerating success.

Deadline Sale closes Tuesday 30th November, 2021 at 4.00pm, (unless sold prior) View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/IR90021

Wayne Clarke M 027 432 5768 John Hay M 027 435 0138

Whakamaru 342 Kaahu Road

The next step to ownership

The main home overlooks the farm across the Mangakino basin on this 211ha (more or less) dairy farm. In three titles the farm provides loads of character rolling in nature, fertile soils, and well maintained races. The target this year is 130,000 milk solids from 330 cows. Young stock plus a few extras grazed on farm, the previous owners had milked up to 500 cows. A good 36 bale milking shed sits centre of farm with in-shed feed system and lined effluent pond this well appointed dairy farm requires little capital expenditure. Considering a sheep milking operation? There is an operating two stand wool shed with night pens close to the milking shed. Other improvements include a half round haybarn, a four bay calf shed and a second home. This is a great sized farm for as a first farm with potential. Centrally located Whakamaru is well serviced by main highways.

Auction (unless sold prior) 2pm, Tue 9 Nov 2021 The Monarch Room, 1133 Hinemaru Street, Rotorua View 12-1pm Wed 27 Oct or by appointment Ben Hickson 021 433 283 ben.hickson@bayleys.co.nz

SUCCESS REALTY LIMITED, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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NEW LISTING

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Wairoa 89 McDonald Road, Tuai

629 hectare summer safe farming Located 41km west of Wairoa township, next to Te Urewera is Rosskeen Station, an extremely well developed 629ha breeding and finishing property which boasts excellent contour and fertility to fully maximise the return in this summer safe farming environment. The current owner has completed 15km of new fencing since purchased in 2015. With an excellent four stand woolshed, covered yards, implement sheds, on farm airstrip and 75 tonne fertiliser bin this is a turnkey operation, and a genuine 6,000 quality stock units. A real feature of the property is the elevated homestead with magnificent views up and down the valley. A must view for those wanting a reliable and productive property with scale, and the added benefit of all the hunting and fishing Te Urewera and Lake Waikaremoana have to offer. View by appointment.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Mon 15 Nov 2021 17 Napier Road, Havelock North Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz Stephen Thomson 027 450 6531 stephen.thomson@bayleys.co.nz

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Mahia 1637 Mahia East Coast Road

A masterclass of sustainability and performance

At the home of Rocket Lab, the renown Mahia Peninsula and years ahead of its class in environmental sustainability is Taharoa - a leader in farming for sustainability and productivity. 377ha, including circa 150ha of flat to easy contoured land, intensely driven through cell farming and high producing fodder crops. The intensification of the farm is enhanced by an extensive reticulated water system and favourable rainfall. The residual land a mix of sheltered hill country and approximately 65ha of strategically planted native illustrating a desire to maintain or improve cultural, ecological, recreational and economical values of the Whangawehi Catchment. The four bedroom homestead takes in vast views of the Pacific Ocean and further replicates the farms focus on quality and preservation. A high performing farm and pioneer of sustainability.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Tue 16 Nov 2021 10 Reads Quay, Gisborne View by appointment Simon Bousfield 027 665 8778 simon.bousfield@bayleys.co.nz Stephen Thomson 027 450 6531 stephen.thomson@bayleys.co.nz

bayleys.co.nz/2752302

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Maraekakaho 324 Whakapirau Road

Magnificent views, magnificent investment

If you're looking for a property with options in a premium location then this is it. This 269ha immaculately presented property offers a well-appointed deer unit, an exquisite Homestead with pool and flood-lit tennis court and captivating views West to the Kaweka ranges and East to Te Mata Peak. The contour is a mix of easy to medium Limestone hill and boasts reliable spring water. The farm is a well set up deer unit with deer facilities. The purchaser has the unique opportunity to acquire the entire property or any of the three freehold titles being 138.1191ha with Homestead and Deer facilities, 86.1712ha bare land or 45.4775ha with a 2014 built Three bedroom cottage with commanding vistas. Nestled on the doorstep of Maraekakaho with primary schooling, close proximity to a range of wineries and only 25km to Hastings. This is an unparalleled opportunity.

Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 12pm, Wed 17 Nov 2021 26 Takapau Road, Waipukurau View by appointment Andy Hunter 027 449 5827 andy.hunter@bayleys.co.nz

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Tauwhare 130 Scotsman Valley Road The golden triangle

Te Awamutu 893 Otorohanga Road 4

Seldom does the opportunity arise for a quality 76ha dairy farm within two titles. The predominantly flat farm is well appointed with a 30ASHB, large covered feed pad and extensive shedding. Average production is 135,134kgMS from the 350 well indexed jersey herd. Grass silage is made on with water sourced from a reliable bore. The modern effluent system pumps underground covering 39ha. The healthy pastures reflect regular fertilizer applications with premium loam soils ensuring steady production. Two dwellings complete this outstanding package with the character homestead positioned on an elevated site. Located 12 minutes to Cambridge, 15 to Morrinsville and 25 to Hamilton. This is a rare opportunity to purchase a quality land holding

Auction (unless sold prior) 11am, Thu 18 Nov 2021 96 Ulster Street, Hamilton Phone for viewing times Peter Kelly 027 432 4278 peter.kelly@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LIMITED, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Central location with options This well presented dairy farm is perfectly suited for a family operation and comprises 79.78ha (more or less). Supplying Fonterra with a production of 90,955kgMS from 200 cows. Complementing the 18ASHB and 300 cow capacity yard is excellent implement and calf shedding. Soils comprise Punui silt loam and Maeroa ash with flat to rolling contour. Water is sourced from a bore plus consented irrigation from Waikato Regional Council. Privately set down a long tree lined drive the main homestead offers spacious and sun filled living areas that flow seamlessly to the outdoor living space and pool. Situated in a highly regarded farming area less than 15 minutes to Otorohanga and Te Awamutu, 34km to Cambridge and 45km to Hamilton.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Tue 16 Nov 2021 96 Ulster Street, Hamilton Phone for viewing times Peter Kelly 027 432 4278 peter.kelly@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LIMITED, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

bayleys.co.nz/2312630

NEW LISTING

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Galatea 1035 Troutbeck Road Turnkey investment with strong bottom line Bayleys are privileged to bring this business opportunity to the market, comprising a portfolio of three dairy properties with a total of 503ha (more or less) of flat fertile land producing 745,000 kilograms of milk solids from an average of 1,750 cows. Two of the three dairies are autumn calving and taking advantage of the winter milk premium. The properties have excellent infrastructure, including three herringbone dairies. In addition, partial irrigation of the milking platform reduces climatic challenges in the advent of dry weather, coupled together with a proven feed management plan, further reducing the variability in production.

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Wairoa Tironui Station, 1041 Waireka Road, Putere Price by Negotiation View by appointment Phil Badger 027 357 5704 phil.badger@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LIMITED, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Free draining soils, contour and scale Located in the Putere district approximately 100 kilometres north of Napier Airport and 50 kilometres to Wairoa township, Tironui Station is a 655 hectare breeding and finishing property of free draining ash soils with large portions of easy/medium and some flat contour, which has historically wintered approximately 6,000 stock units. The Putere district generally experiences a good rainfall and temperate climate leading to very profitable farming operations. Improvements include two three bedroom dwellings, two four stand woolsheds, and two sets of sheep and cattle yards. Hunting and fishing opportunities are right on the doorstep.

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Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 11 Nov 2021 17 Napier Road, Havelock North View by appointment Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Real Estate

FARMERS WEEKLY – October 25, 2021

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NEW LISTING

Oxford 939 Thongcaster Road

Martinborough 1300 White Rock Road Turn key operation

Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 4pm, Tue 23 Nov 2021 186 Chapel Street, Masterton View by appointment Lindsay Watts 027 246 2542 lindsay.watts@bayleys.co.nz Andrew Smith 027 760 8208 a.smith@bayleys.co.nz

With its proximity to Wellington and location within one of New Zealand's premier wine growing area, Birch Hill Station offers an exciting range of options including tourism and wine. The 1579ha property only 10 minutes from Martinborough offers a balance of flat rolling and medium hill country. All fences are conventional and permanent. Management is simplified by exceptional paddock layout, holding paddocks complemented by the laneway system. Six stand woolshed, 2,000 head covered yard, three sets of cattleyards and four sets of sheep yards. Character homestead, three bedroom house, shearers quarters renovated to a high standard suitable for a tourist operation. Opportunities to purchase properties of this calibre are rare.

EASTERN REALTY (WAIRARAPA) LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Terracedale dairy farm

Terracedale is a near self supporting dairy property of 367.0049ha within an hour of Christchurch. Budgeted production 307,000kgms 2021/22, 60 bail rotary shed, versatile mix of soils supporting quality pastures, four centre pivots and two travelling guns. Waimakariri Irrigation Limited water plus consented takes from a separate gallery with storage lake. Emphasis on low cost production, herd performance, well maintained farm assets plus controlled nutrient management and fertilizer inputs. Two large modern homes, with outstanding views over farm and lake plus attractive third home. Short drive to Oxford with its community clubs, retail and cafes, and outdoor recreation. A desirable investment and lifestyle.

Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 1pm, Thu 25 Nov 2021 251-253 High Street, Rangiora View by appointment Dean Pugh 027 335 6303 dean.pugh@bayleys.co.nz Brook Yates 027 807 8093 brook.yates@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Atiamuri 2037 State Highway 30 First farm opportunity Situated in the South Waikato district of Atiamuri you will find this attractive 132.3 hectare dairy unit containing three lots on one title. This property offers a great opportunity for those looking for a first farm or an addition to their current portfolio. The average annual production supplying Fonterra is approximately 100,000kgMS with the farm milking around 265 spring calving cows. There is a modern 30 aside Herringbone dairy complete with a recently installed in-shed feeding system, plus a good range of farm buildings catering for calf rearing and farm machinery. The contour is 25% flat, 60% rolling and 15% steeper. Infrastructure includes a tidy three bedroom, plus office main home and a tidy three bedroom cottage.

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Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 12pm, Thu 4 Nov 2021 1092 Fenton Street, Rotorua View 11am-12pm Thu 28 Oct Phil Badger 027 357 5704 SUCCESS REALTY LIMITED, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

212 hectare sheep and beef farm located in the heart of the Tararua. With a good standard of improvements and infrastructure, great water and a 3-bedroom home set in mature grounds, Linside would make an ideal first farm, addition to your current farm, or a sound investment. Situated 42km south-east of Dannevirke, the property is well fenced into 24 paddocks, has a 3-stand woolshed and is approximately 172 hectares effective with some pine, native bush and manuka making up the balance of land. This property is a must see.

www.forfarms.co.nz - ID FF3266

For Sale by Tender Closing 26 Nov 2021 (will not be sold prior) Call me today for more information.

Jerome Pitt M: 027 242 2199 O: 06 374 4107 E: jeromep@forfarms.co.nz

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NGARURU - HIGH CALIBRE FINISHING UNIT - 410 HA 558 Ngaumu Road, Wainuioru, Masterton District

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Blair Stevens AREINZ 027 527 7007 | blair@nzr.nz Dave Hutchison 027 286 9034 | dave@nzr.nz NZR Real Estate Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

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Ngaruru presents a rare opportunity to purchase a top-quality finishing block close to Masterton. This property has an enviable mix of contour, with approx. 250 ha (60%) cultivatable of the 300ha total effective grazing and another 100ha in pines / natives. There is the opportunity for the purchaser to have a carbon income stream from the Post 89 forest. The current simple farming system is based around 2,100 ewes with lambs fattened to good weights on the fodder crops to meet Atkins Ranch minimum standards. Weaner calves are bought in October and sold in July. The water supply on Ngaruru is exceptional with quality dams providing reticulated stock water to much of the property and the soil fertility is generally optimised. Building improvements include a comfortable four-bedroom family home with sleep out and swimming pool set well back off the road, three stand woolshed with covered yards, implement shed and attached new sheep yards, cattle yards and numerous other storage sheds. Ngaruru comes to the market for the first time in almost 70 years and boasts fantastic finishing country, very good water supply and fertility and still with potential for the new owners to take this farm to the next level. These properties are scarce - don’t delay, call us now! Tender Closes 4pm, Wed 24 Nov 2021. Address for Tenders: NZR, Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810, or email by arrangement

410 hectares (STFS) Tender

RANGATEA - A FULLY INTEGRATED DAIRY BUSINESS OF SUPREME CLASS 1972 Lake Ferry Road, Pirinoa, South Wairarapa This fully self-contained, high-quality dairy unit really is one of a kind, situated just a 15 minute drive to Martinborough and featuring outstanding improvements, soils, fertility and balance. Rangatea consists of a 160ha dairy farm (148ha platform) with140ha´s of irrigation and a 176ha (150ha effective) runoff which sit either side of Lake Ferry Rd, joined via underpass. The dairy unit´s last three years production has averaged 215,000kgms from 500 cows at 430kgms/cow. Irrigation is provided via a robust river take and applied mainly through three well maintained centre pivots. All dairy young stock are grazed on the runoff and all supplements are made on farm. Improvements on the property are significant and include a fully renovated four-bedroom homestead and two very tidy three-bedroom homes. The dairy shed is a 40 aside herringbone with Protrack and heat detection booth. The effluent pond is fully lined and very recently consented. Both blocks have multiple calf / storage / implement sheds. The soils on both blocks are high quality - including deep alluvial silt loams with extensive drainage on the dairy unit and maize quality on the run off. Wairarapa dairy farms don´t come much better than this - if you are seeking a quality investment opportunity don´t delay. Tender Closes 4pm, Wed 17 Nov 2021. Address for Tenders: NZR, Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810, or email by arrangement.

336 hectares Tender

nzr.nz/RX2930905 Blair Stevens AREINZ 027 527 7007 | blair@nzr.nz Dave Hutchison 027 286 9034 | dave@nzr.nz NZR Real Estate Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

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OUTSTANDING TAMAIHU - THE ULTIMATE PACKAGE - 337HA Tamaihu, 317 Te Ore Ore Bideford Road, Te Ore Ore, Masterton

337 hectares Tender

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IN A CLASS OF ITS OWN 438 Omahina Road, Waverley This 664-ha trophy finishing farm could be regarded as a once in a life time opportunity. The balanced contour, scale, soils and climate are a recipe for success with approx. 336 ha of flat to undulating land giving suitability to a variety of cropping, horticultural and intensive farming systems. Quality conventional fencing plus 80 ha of deer fencing & excellent water scheme. Infrastructure includes 3 dwellings, two woolsheds, deer handling shed, cattle yards & airstrip. Carrying 2400+ breeding ewes and 260 MA cattle. 74 ha of fully tendered Pines, aged 6-28 years.

Dave Hutchison 027 286 9034 | dave@nzr.nz Blair Stevens AREINZ 027 527 7007 | blair@nzr.nz NZR Real Estate Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

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This standout 337ha (incl 27ha of lease) finishing and breeding unit is situated minutes from downtown Masterton. With over 80ha of cultivatable flats surrounded by fertile medium hill country this farm has real grunt, enabling a mix of farm systems to be run. An all weather central race provides for excellent access and stock movement. The stock water supply is resilient with reticulated and/or dam water in all paddocks along with an exclusive limestone spring supply. The Gold award winning, 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom homestead was built in 2017 and is perfectly sited in an elevated position with stunning views back across the valley to the East. Other improvements include a 3 stand woolshed and covered yards, multiple implement sheds, cattle yards, upmarket killing house with walk in chiller and the bonus of your own lime quarry. An outstanding Glamping Tent development adds an additional income source to this unique property. Further development/ subdivision options may also exist. Tamaihu is a very rare opportunity, literally on Masterton´s door step, offering buyers an enviable choice of land use options with outstanding improvements, great balance and further development potential. Call us now to view this exceptional property! Tender Closes 4pm, Thu 18 Nov 2021. Address for Tenders: NZR, Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810, or email by arrangement.

664 hectares Tender

nzr.nz/RX2558626 Tender closing 11am, Tue 23 Nov 2021 NZR, 1Goldfinch Street, Ohakune Jamie Proude AREINZ 027 448 5162 | jamie@nzr.nz Open Days 11am - Guided Tour 19&20th, 24th, 26&27th Oct 21 NZR Central Ltd | Licensed REAA 2008

TARADALE 313 Te Waitere Road, Taharoa, Te Kuiti Taradale presents the opportunity to secure a large scale sheep and beef breeding operation. This easy hill country is in an area that is renowned for it´s quality livestock production. A total of 653 ha with two family homes and two wool sheds. Farm is divided into 100 plus main paddocks traditional post and batten fencing, and some electric. A reticulated water system to majority of the farm. Taradale is 62 kms from Te Kuiti. Deadline Sale Closing 11am, Thu 11 Nov 2021, NZR, 1 Goldfinch St, Ohakune.

653 hectares Deadline Sale

nzr.nz/RX2734693 Alan Blackburn 06 385 4466 | 027 203 9112 alan@nzr.nz Gary Scott 06 385 4466 | 027 484 4933 gary@nzr.nz NZR Central Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

Real Estate

119 Brightwell Road, Bulls, Rangitikei A 60 bail rotary with Protrack, ACRs and ISF sits at the hub of 211ha with seven titles integrated surrounding, providing you the choice to scale up or run a more self-contained model. If 211 hectares is too big, there’s even the option to scale this down as well. With four homes, the main, set on a private, elevated spot, was extended and modernised in 2004. With our Vendor open-minded, this offering provides a unique opportunity to purchase a scale to suit your requirements.

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OPTIONS APLENTY - 211HA + 171HA

211.83ha + 171.95ha Video on website

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Tender Closes 11am, Thu 2 Dec 2021, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding. Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6831 | peter@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

Open Days 11am 26/10 & 02/11. Bring quad bike & helmet.

Parewanui Road, 6km from Bulls, Rangitikei These bounding blocks are ideal for livestock finishing, cropping or dairy support as currently part of a dairy platform. Block 1, 49.34ha (red) comprises dark silt loams, while Block 2, 45.02ha (sts) is similar plus areas of more sandy and gravel infused soils. Conventionally fenced on boundary, with gravelled lane in both. Block 1 has a stock water bore that currently supplies both blocks; (will be formalised via easement). Ensure you bring your spade when you inspect, to fully appreciate the potential. Open Days 2pm Wed 27/10 & 2pm Wed 3/11.

FAITHFULLY DEVELOPED OVER 32YRS 245 Penny Road, Rongotea, Manawatu Only 15km to Feilding, this property has been fastidiously developed with some of the best soil tests we’ve seen, a tidy 30ASHB with ACRs, with most paddocks having 4 troughs. The covered feed pad provides all sorts of options, irrespective of the system you want to run. Excellent sheds with a quality water system. The main home is spacious and well presented plus a tidy second home, with the property handy to a range of schooling options. Photos taken 2017. Open Days 11am 27/10 & 3/11. Bring quad bike & helmet.

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ALLUVIAL SOILS - B/LAND 49HA & 45HA

FARMERS WEEKLY – October 25, 2021

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49.34 & 45.02 hectares (sts) Video on website

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Auction 2pm, Tue 30 Nov 2021, The Rat Hole, 95 Bridge Street, Bulls. Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | peter@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

106.96 hectares Video on webiste

nzr.nz/RX3031792 Tender Closes 11am, Wed 1 Dec 2021, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding. Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | peter@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

Kevin Deane Real Estate

Morrinsville 1231 Morrinsville-Tahuna Road

Auction Thursday 18 Nov at 11.00am (unless sold prior) View Tues 26 Oct, 2, 9, 16 Nov at 11am-12pm harcourts.co.nz/ML4551

39.45ha

A Bounty of Options

Just shy of 40ha this well improved and well located Morrinsville unit offers the new owners a multitude of options. With 5,478m2 of plastic houses and a fully operational dairy you could look at goats, sheep, rearing calves and so much more. Graze or crop the land, shoot ducks in the pond, and enjoy any of the three homes, set for sale – this is an option not to be missed; see you at an open day soon.

Kevin Deane Real Estate

Gordonton 652 Woodlands Road 140.47ha

Put yourself in the picture Here it is, 140ha of totally useable land at the super popular locality of Gordonton. Currently dairying but equally would make for an awesome maize block or support unit for heifer grazing. A great range of infrastructure in place; your inspection is highly recommended as properties of this scale and in this location on the open market are a rare commodity.

Kevin Deane M 021 970 902 Kevin Parry M 021 244 4668 Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Kevin Deane Real Estate

Auction Thursday 11 November at 11:00am on site (unless sold prior) View Tues 26 Oct, Mon 1, 8 Nov at 11-12Noon www.harcourts.co.nz/ML4556

Kevin Deane M 021 907 902 Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Matamata 969 Piakonui Road Matamata Dairy Unit

With a superb range of dairy infrastructure in place plus two homes this well-tended 90ha (84.9ha FH plus 4.7ha LH) is a must see. Whilst all on an Autumn calve regime the options exist with regards to settlement date, purchasing cows and machinery, leasing the 22ha seller’s run-off just down the road etc. Call me today or pop out to an open day and let’s discuss your preferred option – There is a deal to be done here and with buyer demand strong it’s the early bird that gets the worm!

Deadline Thursday 25th November (unless sold prior) View Wed 27 Oct, 3, 10 Nov at 11-12Noon www.harcourts.co.nz/ML4558

Kevin Deane M 021 907 902 Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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FARMERS WEEKLY – October 25, 2021

TENDER

DEADLINE SALE

Ducks And Dry Stock

177.189 ha

contour.

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Deadline Sale Closes Thurs 4th Nov, 3pm (unless sold prior) ___________________________________ View By Appointment Only ___________________________________ Agent Rex Butterworth 021 348 276 Peter Begovich 027 476 5787 LJ Hooker Matamata 07 888 5677 Link Realty Ltd. Licensed Agent REAA 2008

The chicken growing industry has a history of consistency. In these uncertain times consistency is gold. Consumers are increasingly focused on ethically grown, traceable foods that favourably compare to their alternatives. Free range chicken has always stacked up well when bench marked against other meats. This turn-key property is particularly well set up and is showing good returns. The land and buildings will be sold with all the necessary resource consents in place including a renewable Growers contract with Tegal. The farm and house are on separate parcels of land each with their own title.

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85 ha Approx

will appeal to most that view so don't delay.

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View By Appointment Only ___________________________________ Agent Peter Begovich 027 476 5787 Rex Butterworth 021 348 276 LJ Hooker Matamata 07 888 5677 Link Realty Ltd. Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Multiple Income Streams

62 ha Approx

Wardville Rd, Matamata

661 Wardville Rd, Matamata This proposition defines both quality and choice. Purchase both these adjacent blocks or either one and lease the other to continue dairy farming on this outstanding piece of Wardville real estate. The 41 hectare block incorporates an extremely tidy, fully operational 22 ASHB with meal feeders, support buildings and compliant effluent system. The 44 hectares has a disused dairy shed and support buildings. Both properties are essentially all flat with almost no waste. Top shelf blocks of this nature in the middle of Waikato's dress circle rarely become available. We expect that these

For Sale by Tender Closes Thurs 4th Nov, 3pm (unless sold prior) ___________________________________

DEADLINE SALE

Two Outstanding 40 ha Blocks

4.328 ha

Matamata

Morrinsville Hedging your bets is possibly the safest way forward. Here you will be able to achieve that at scale. This impressive, versatile block is located partway between Morrinsville and Hamilton. The farm includes 2 first class, 6 year old Duck growing sheds that are consistently yielding good returns. The balance of the 177 hectares has been professionally developed as a heifer grazing property. It is extremely well subdivided, has an excellent water system, duck ponds, forestry (carbon credits), a great range of support buildings, three bedroom home and awesome cattle handling facilities. A very attractive block that incorporates a balanced mix of

Established Free Range Chicken Farm

Deadline Sale Closes Thurs 18th Nov, 1pm (unless sold prior) ___________________________________ View Fri 29th Oct, 5th Nov 11 - 12pm ___________________________________ Agent Rex Butterworth 021 348 276 Peter Begovich 027 476 5787 LJ Hooker Matamata 07 888 5677 Link Realty Ltd. Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Flexibility in your business provides security. This flat, 62 ha property is in two titles and is primarily set up for milking goats supplying NZDG Co-op. Holding 78,813 MSRs, averaging 79,500 kg/ms from around 680 goats through a 48-bail rotary. There is enough shed capacity (approx. 6,800 m2) to double stock numbers. The farm produces a large amount of surplus supplement which is sold off creating a sizable secondary income. Having three dwellings onsite raises the possibility of renting one out. The business will be offered as a going concern but does not need to be sold as so. Don't restrict your thinking to goats only.

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Deadline Sale Closes Fri 19th Nov, 1pm (unless sold prior) ___________________________________ View By Appointment Only ___________________________________ Agent Rex Butterworth 021 348 276 Peter Begovich 027 476 5787 LJ Hooker Matamata 07 888 5677 Link Realty Ltd. Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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FARMERS WEEKLY – October 25, 2021

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Farm Kairanga At Its Best - 224 hectares

Open Farm

928 Lockwood Road, Kairanga

Tender

A once in a lifetime opportunity to own this immaculate farm in the Heart of the Kairanga

To be sold by Tender closes 4.00pm Thursday 2nd December 2021 at 56 Stafford Street, Feilding.

• 142 Hectare Dairy Unit + 82 Hectare Beef Unit = Total 224 Hectares

Open Farm: Wednesday 3rd, 10th & 17th November 2021 10.30am – 12.30pm. Bring 4 Wheeler & Helmets.

• 36 aside Herringbone dairy shed • Very good water and support infrastructure

Richard Anderson 027 543 1610 richard@rals.co.nz

• 2 Houses • Consented for 600 cows Second House

Main House

Property ID RAL893

Robert Dabb 027 255 3992 robert@rals.co.nz Rural and Lifestyle Sales.com Ltd Licensed REAA 2008

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REREWHAKAAITU, ROTORUA, 318 Gavin Road

21 Grayden Road

81.0 ha approx

Morrinsville • • • • • • • • •

81 hectares flat to easy rolling contour 220 cows heifers on, calves on 77,000m/s 24 aside HB Protrac system 250 cow feed pad Can be purchased as a going concern Tidy 3 bedroom home and sleepout 6 km to Morrinsville Offers above GV $4,120,000 plus GST. By appointment only

For Sale

Sale by Deadline 2nd November 2021 (Unless sold prior)

___________________________________ View www.morrinsville.ljhooker.co. nz/ENBGEW ___________________________________ Agent Terry Court 021 754 233 LJ Hooker Morrinsville (07) 889 8015

First Farm Buyers/Investors

Dairy farm 113 hectares, best production to date 90,118kg ms milking 270 cows, rearing 70 calves on whole milk calving date 20th July. Contour flat to easy rolling, well laid out with two race systems leading to 50 paddocks with strong pastures, 90% of the farm has been re grassed with AR 37 grass seed in the last three years. Water supply from farm bore gravity fed. Farm buildings 2004 20 aside herringbone shed with room for additional cups, rectangular yard in excellent order. 6 bay implement shed, 3 bay calf shed, two pole barns, PK bunker.

113.39 ha

A 1960s newly renovated weatherboard home with aluminum joinery, three bedrooms, new kitchen, open plan lounge dining area plus a detached games room and double car garaging. The runoff, 29 hectares located 2km from the farm which can be purchased separately if required.

ALAN DUNCAN: M +64 27 478 6393 alan.duncan@wainzsir.com

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: Closes 4:00 p.m. Thursday 18 November 2021 (unless sold prior) VIEW: nzsothebysrealty.com/RORU00137 Open Home: Thursday 21 and 28 Oct, 4 and 11 Nov 2021 at 11:30am - 12:30pm

Farm management would stay on if required as sharemilkers. Location 40km from Rotorua, Rerewhakaaitu as a well known dairy farming area with primary school in the village, Lake Rerewhaaitu offers trout fishing and water sports plus native bush and forestry for keen hunters.

Licensed Agent REAA 2008 Central Waikato Realty Limited. Licensed Real Estate Agent REAA 2008. All information contained herein is gathered from sources we consider to be reliable. However, we cannot guarantee or give any warranty about the information provided. Interested parties must solely rely on their own enquiries.

Each office is independently owned and operated. NZSIR WAI Limited (licensed under the REAA 2008) MREINZ.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – October 25, 2021

Bay of Plenty mature Green Kiwifruit Orchard 90 Mystery Valley Road, Paengaroa

L L A C T S LA

It is hard to ﬁnd mature producing kiwifruit orchards available for purchase anywhere in the Bay of Plenty, let alone a title area of 7.253ha just on 20km from Te Puke and 8.5km from Paengaroa. This Orchard has been maintained under professional management to a no short cuts high standard that has been fully producing off 3.9 canopy hectares (more or less). The way that Kiwifruit in general has performed in recent times leaves little room for doubt about the investment opportunity on offer here. Mature shelter belts separate the kiwifruit into three blocks with a fully automatic frost fan placed in the center of the orchard. All are there to give absentee owners peace of mind. Included on the property is a tidy medium sized 3-bay implement shed with roller doors and land conveniently set aside for servicing and loadout. Run as an arms-length investment carrying on under the proven off site type management structure or manage using your own systems. Either way it is available now to be secured for next season. Viewing is by appointment only and it would be prudent to register your interest now in order that you can be kept fully informed.

Licensed Real Estate Agents (REAA 2008) Ted Peacocke 027 492 9190 Jennifer 027 485 6062 admin@peacockes.net

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Located in the central heart of the Taranaki, this chicken broiler farm offers a solid business income and may be the perfect opportunity to make the change and embrace a unique country lifestyle.

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Set on 5.0425ha (approx. 12.5 acres) and enjoying stunning open rural views the property is only a short drive to good schooling and community hubs and 15km (approx.) to New Plymouth with all that has to offer.

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The 3-bedroom family home is very comfortable and has recently been fully refurbished. A separate double garage has an adjoining rumpus/games room for the family to spread out. All of the 8 broiler units have been well maintained, fully upgraded and automated to a high standard. An array of support buildings including implement shed, office, feed silos, generators and other assets make this a very attractive property. Recent improvements to the operation include natural energy and water harvesting facilities that have received recognition and environmental awards. Currently operated as an investment with one full-time manager plus a further fulltime labour unit, the property and business includes all necessary equipment required day to day along with training and assistance for new operators.

Contact your agent to advertise today.

An extremely profitable business showing exceptional returns – don’t delay, enquire now.

www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/rural/listing/3210321089

0204 051 0527 ross@countrywiderealestatesales.co.nz Licensed REAA 2008

Geoff Pridham

027 232 1516 geoffp@abcbusiness.co.nz www.abcbusiness.co.nz

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Ross Christensen

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To be Auctioned in Te Puke Golf Club, Paengaroa, on 03 November at 11:00am unless sold prior.

60 YEARS combined service to farmers on the West Coast

WEST COAST DAIRY FARMS - "value for money"

MISTY HILL INANGAHUA 411HA

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Approx 196ha effective 36 aside Cow Shed New Milfos plant & ACR’s Fraemohs design homestead Subdivision from larger property

• $2.95M L & B + GST (if any)

HOKITIKA 300HA

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Self-contained 430 cows Approx 270ha effective 5-year ave 209,857kgs MS 3 houses, 40 aside shed, meal feeders Available Going Concern.

www.gregdalyrealestate.co.nz Real Estate Agent REAA 2008

60 YEARS

combined • $5.70 M L & service B + GST (if any) to farmers on the West Coast

Approx 364ha effective 800 cows with 200 winter milk 3-year ave 395,028kgs MS Cows wintered on 50 aside shed, meal feeders 2 houses. Available Going Concern

• $7.95M L & B + GST (if any)

HAUPIRI GREYMOUTH 522HA

The Greg Daly Rural Team

Approx 310ha effective 460 cows self-contained 180,000kgs MS, 50 aside shed, meal feeders 5 bedroom main homestead & 2 cottages Good shape & location

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• $5.2M L & B + GST (if any)

GREYMOUTH 354HA

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INLAND GREYMOUTH 502HA

INANGAHUA 133HA

Greg Daly 027 478 3594 Mike Curragh 027 959 1267 Office 03 762 6463

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Self-contained 420 cows Approx 300ha effective 36 aside shed ACR’s, meal feeders Last 2 years ave 155,839kgs MS 70 years current ownership Sharemilking options

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$4.375M L & B + GST (if any)

Approx 100ha effective, ex fertility Approx 220 cows, wintered on 26 bail rotary ACR’s, meal feeders 5 bedroom permanent material homestead Larger property being downsized

• $2M L & B + GST (if any)

WEST COAST DAIRY FARMS - "value for money"

256ha Freehold & 70ha DOC Lease 4-year ave 212,207kgs MS – 620 cows 50 aside shed ACR’s, meal feeders Main homestead & 3 cottages Winter 660 cows, Available Going Concern Exceptional Quality here.

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Approx 94ha effective 3-year ave 93,292kgs MS 225 cows 3-bedrom perm material home 22 aside shed, meal feeders Approx 80 cows wintered on Available Going Concern

• $2.35M L & B + GST (if any)

The Greg Daly Rural Team www.gregdalyrealestate.co.nz Real Estate Agent REAA 2008

INCHBONNIE 198HA

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Approx 184ha effective freehold Plus 36ha Lease 5-year ave 133,607kgs MS 400 cows 30 aside shed, meal feeders Approx 120 cows wintered on Ex fertility & pastures

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REEFTON 100HA

• $3.50M L & B + GST (if any)

Greg Daly 027 478 3594 Mike Curragh 027 959 1267 Office 03 762 6463

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CONEMARRA HOKITIKA

RURAL | LIFESTYLE | RESIDENTIAL

FINAL NOTICE

Cream of the crop!

Dairy Collection

TIRAU, SOUTH WAIKATO 295 SHWY 1 Karanama Farm The property consisting of 340.57 hectares (Subject to survey) of predominantly fertile Tirau ash soils. Contour is mixed with the majority being easy hill including tractor country with smaller balance of steeper sidling. A portion of the steeper sidling have been planted into mature pines, and other hard wetter areas have been fenced off. A feature of the land is the above average tracks, lanes and fencing and aesthetic tree and shrub planting throughout the property. A very appealing and well-presented landscape.

AUCTION

(Unless Sold Prior) 1.00pm, Friday 5 November PGGWRE, 87 Duke Street, Cambridge

VIEW 10.00-12.00pm, Tuesday 26 October & 2 November

Trevor Kenny M 021 791 643 E trevor.kenny@pggwrightson.co.nz

This spring we are bringing you our NEW dairy publication from PGG Wrightson Real Estate that showcases the latest dairy properties on the market.

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EXCLUSIVE

CANVASTOWN, TASMAN 52 Daltons Road Dalton Downs - Superior Dairy Property Dalton Downs is widely regarded as one of Marlborough's Premium Dairy Farms. Located in the heart of dairying in Marlborough, Canvastown and is just 12km from the service town of Havelock and 60km from Blenheim or Nelson is this 313ha (774 acres) dairy operation nestled in a sheltered valley adjacent to the Pelorus River. The farm is predominantly flat with gentle slopes on the valley and consists of four titles. Boasting three dwellings including a modern 286sqm permanent material main homestead. This should be at the top of your list of Dairy farms to view today. pggwre.co.nz/BLE34969 PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008

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DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 12.00pm, Thursday 25 November

VIEW By Appointment Only Greg Lyons M 027 579 1233 E greg.lyons@pggwrightson.co.nz Joe Blakiston M 027 434 4069 E jblakiston@pggwrightson.co.nz

THORPE, TASMAN 1517 Dovedale Road

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Plus GST (if any) Closing 2.00pm, Thursday 18th November 2021 (Unless Sold Prior)

Dovedale Dairy Dovedale Dairy is a 161ha mixed contour dairy farm centrally located between Richmond and Motueka for all services and to get the best out of the Nelson Lifestyle. The A2 herd of 380 cows is milked once a day, and supplies Fonterra and a local liquid milk processor for a premium return. A dam supplies irrigation water over the 50ha of flats, and the property could be utilised for Horticulture. The hub of the operation is a 54 bail high spec rotary cow shed centrally placed with the other farm improvements. There is one four bedroom bungalow.

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Otaha Station is a 1301 acre coastal, fully operational beef station situated at the northern end of Bay of Islands in Northland. The Station has native bush fenced off and a 200-acre pine forest that is externally managed. Carrying around 400/500 head of beef, the Station has very good cattle yards, numerous water sources and reticulation systems.

ANIMAL HEALTH www.drench.co.nz farmer owned, very competitive prices. Phone 0800 4 DRENCH (437 362).

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HAULER CREW available for summer harvest. Wairarapa area. Phone 027 489 7036.

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8-WEEK HEADING pups, one dog, one bitch. $150 each. Phone 021 172 9499. Warkworth. HUGE SELECTION of Huntaways and Headers. Deliver NZ Wide. www. youtube.com/user/ mikehughesworkingdog/ videos 07 315 5553. ONE 12-MONTH Heading bitch, needing work. ONE 5-MONTH Huntaway pup. Phone 027 243 8541. TOP HEADING BITCH 14 months. Fully trained by retired manager- musterer. R. Berkahn. B Bryson. B Arends Blood. Wairarapa 027 591 1501.

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EQUESTRIAN WANTED QUARTER HORSE gelding, 5-10yrs, 14hh. Quiet and sound. Phone 06 388 0644.

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As Station Manager your responsibilities will include: stock tallies, incidents and problems • General oversight of all affairs of the Station in accordance with direction from the owner, • Monitor and manage contractors on site including meetings at the Station and by • Manage 1 employee on site and recruit phone calls where necessary • Advance the ongoing development and • Liaising with the external Gold Kiwifruit operating plans of the Station, particularly in Management company relation to gorse management • Provide a monthly written report to the • Maintain the standards, protocols and owner operating systems for the property as a whole • General farm repairs including fencing, • Demonstrate experience in stock, feed and water reticulation systems and general pasture management and competency with maintenance planning machinery • Good animal husbandry and care of livestock, • Manage overall security of the station including maintaining daily livestock/farm • Caretaking of owner’s homes A Managers house is provided with the position along with landline, broadband and the usual farm perks. The location offers superb lifestyle opportunities including 5km of east coast sea frontage with a surf beach located on Otaha Station. The successful applicant will demonstrate a proven track record of farm, business and project management and have proven verbal and written communication skills. A generous market competitive package will be negotiated.

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CASTLEROCK 2ND SPRING CATTLE SALE

Peter & Caroline Foss 495 Potaka Road, Aria (07) 8777 881 • pcfossy@xtra.co.nz

SELLING APPROX. 65 FULL SHED 2T RAMS

SALE DAY THURSDAY 25TH NOVEMBER, 2PM ON FARM AT 495 POTAKA RD, ARIA

MATAWHERO CATTLE SALE Tuesday, 2nd November 2021 11am PGG Wrightson are offering several lines of quality home-bred yearling cattle. Enquiries to: Jamie Hayward 027 434 7586 Chris Hurlstone 027 598 6542

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• 160 clients purchased and leased Paki-iti rams last year

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40 Stud and Top Commercial Romney Rams to be sold at Auction

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FARMERS WEEKLY – October 25, 2021

Farmers Weekly 2021

Sales fair well despite restrictions

he spring bull selling season had a rocky start this year, with covid-19 rearing its ugly head just as the season began. Around seven of the earlier scheduled sales were forced to postpone and two cancelled, but despite this the season overall has been a positive one. The first sale to run was Northland stud Waimaire & Otengi Polled Hereford Stud, but due to Delta-induced Alert Level 3 restrictions being in place, the sale was run online-only on bidr®.

Studs have had to stay on their toes and be ready to quickly adapt their sale format at any point in time. For many, it was a sigh of relief when the sale was finally done and dusted for the year.

Buyers embraced the online format, which provided a competitive alternative bidding environment. The vendors were very pleased with their results considering the circumstances. Most studs with later-dated sales were more fortunate, with covid levels lowering, allowing on-farm auctions to be completed. However, the majority of sales still ran an online aspect to help buyers that were

unable or unwilling to attend in person. Masks, social distancing, livestreaming and limits on sale attendees quickly become the new norm this season. Studs have had to stay on their toes and be ready to quickly adapt their sale format at any point in time. For many, it was a sigh of relief when the sale was finally done and dusted for the year. This spring we recorded 3059 1yr and 2yr bulls offered, along with a handful of heifers; 2893 of those bulls sold for an overall clearance rate of 95%. The number of bulls offered is approximately 500 animals down on what we recorded in the previous season. A number of factors may have contributed to this, such as studs offering less bulls due to focusing on quality rather than quantity, changes in trading policies, or as a result of the dwindling calf rearing market. Interestingly, the overall clearance rate this year remains on-par with what we saw in spring 2020. A big concern for the season was that the restrictions on sale attendee numbers would negatively impact average prices as there would be less bidders in the rostrum. Although a few studs recorded averages back on last year, across the breeds the averages fared reasonably well. As depicted in the accompanying graph, the average prices (weighted) for Angus, Hereford, Jersey and “Other” (composite breeds) were up on last year, while the remaining breeds were slightly back. Multiple vendors

2021 spring bull results by region

commented that there was solid interest in top genetics, especially those bulls displaying strong calving ease traits. Highest prices for multiple breeds, including Speckle Park, Murray Grey and “Other”, were also up on the 2020 results. The highest priced bull across all breeds for the season came from

Cambridge stud, Premier Cattle Company. Their Lot 1 Speckle Park bull Premier N306 Magnus R4 sold for an impressive $24,000 to Australian stud Lagoon Speckle Park. This also happens to be the top-priced Speckle Park bull sold this year, beating the highest price recorded for a 2yr bull in autumn by $1500.

Highest average yearling prices: • Angus – Stokman Angus, $5361 • Speckle Park – Premier Cattle Company, $5150 • Other – McFadzean Cattle Company, $4800 • Red Devon – Waimouri Red Devon, $4500 • Hereford – Ezicalve Riverton Hereford, $3732 • Murray Grey – Torrisdale Murray Grey, $3305 • Simmental – BlackBridge Simmental, $3150 • Jersey – Mangaotea Farm, $1564

SALES

As a whole, the 2021 spring bull selling season has been a success – barely any bulls are left in the studs’ paddocks and prices were fairly strong. This season’s results are a real testament to the quality of the bulls offered and all the hard work studs have put in to make sure their sales run smoothly.

2021 Spring Bull Sale Highlights

SALES

NUMBER OF BULLS SOLD NORTH ISLAND Angus 990 Herefords 1126 Jersey 82 Murray Grey 7 Red Devon 1 Simmental 16 Speckle Park 19 Other 26 Total bulls sold 2267

MONEY MAKER: The top price of the 2021 spring bull selling season went to Premier Cattle Company’s Lot 1 bull Premier N306 Magnus R4, purchased by Lagoon Speckle Park, Australia.

Top yearling prices: • Speckle Park – Premier Cattle Company, $24,000 • Angus – Stern Angus, $18,000 • Other – McFadzean Cattle Company, $12,200 • Murray Grey – Torrisdale Murray Grey, $8100 • Hereford – Kokonga Herefords, $7000 • Simmental – BlackBridge Simmental, $4500

Highest average 2yr bull prices: • Angus – Glen R Angus, $5400 • Hereford – Ezicalve Riverton Hereford, $3785 • Murray Grey – Mangaotea Farm, $3466 • Jersey – Mangaotea Farm, $2460

SALES

Average weighted stud bull price by breed, $/hd

SALES

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3,000

SALES

NUMBER OF BULLS SOLD SOUTH ISLAND Angus 365 Herefords 199 Murray Grey 62 Total bulls sold 626

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Hereford

Jersey

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2021

Simmental Speckle Park

Other

spring bull sale results AGE of bull

NO. BULLS

NO. SOLD

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

AVE. PRICE ($)

TOP PRICE ($)

STUD

LOCATION

BUYER

Bexley Herefords & Angus

Awakino

1yr

$2,423

$3,500

Henderson Brothers

Black Ridge Angus Stud

Taumarunui

1yr

$5,095

$11,000

Turiroa Angus

Glanworth Angus

Pahiatua

1yr

$3,500

$6,800

Glen R Angus

Darfield

2yr

$5,400

$9,000

Heather Dell Angus

Rotorua

1yr

$2,343

$4,100

Hillcroft Angus & Hereford

Waiterimu

1yr

$2,504

Hillcroft Angus & Hereford

Waiterimu

2yr

$3,355

Kane Farms

Gore

1yr

$2,300

Kakahu Angus

Geraldine

1yr

$4,038

$11,200

Surrey Hills Station

Kay Jay Angus

Masterton

1yr

$3,830

$12,400

Turiroa Angus

Kay Jay Angus

Masterton

Heifer

$3,300

$4,500

Komako Angus

Pohangina

1yr

$5,165

$7,500

Mahuta Angus & Herefords

Tuakau

1yr

$2,800

$3,000

Mangaotea Farm

Inglewood

1yr

$3,400

$2,278

Mangaotea Farm

Inglewood

2yr

$3,076

$3,500

Matauri Angus

Dargaville

1yr

$4,780

$6,200

Meadowslea Angus Genetics

Fairlie

1yr

$2,580

$4,700

Meadowslea Angus Genetics

Fairlie

2yr

$3,500

$8,000

Merchiston Angus

Marton

1yr

$3,200

$6,800

Motere Angus

Waipawa

1yr

$3,143

$7,200

Mt Mable Angus

Kumeroa

1yr

$4,261

$7,000

Mt Mable Angus

Kumeroa

2yr

$4,466

Oranga Angus

Āpiti

1yr

$2,200

$3,000

Puke-Nui Angus

Taumarunui

1yr

$2,475

3x $3,000

Ranui Angus

Whanganui

1yr

$2,918

$4,000

Ranui Angus

Whanganui

Heifer

$1,306

Ratanui Angus

Tolaga Bay

1yr

$3,533

$7,200

Ruanui Station

Ratanui Angus

Tolaga Bay

Heifer

$1,515

$4,200

Ruanui Station

Resurgam Angus

Hicks Bay

1yr

$2,070

$3,500

Rockley Angus

Balfour

1yr

$4,530

3x $7000

Stern Angus

Pleasant Point

1yr

$5,200

$18,000

Kane Farms

Stokman Angus

Rotorua

1yr

$5,361

$17,000

Commercial

Stokman Angus

Rotorua

Heifer lines

$1,587/head

Sudeley Genetics

Irwell

1yr

$3,340

$6,000

Te Atarangi Angus

Te Kōpuru

1yr

114

106

$3,633

$8,800

Te Mania Angus

Cheviot

1yr

$4,142

2x $10,000

Te Whanga Angus

Masterton

1yr

$2,500

$4,000

Timperlea Angus

Oxford

1yr

$4,000

$7,000

Totaranui Angus

Pahiatua

1yr

$3,697

2x $7,200

Turihaua Angus

Gisborne

1yr

$4,047

Turihaua Angus

Gisborne

2yr

$5,278

Twin Oaks Angus

Ngāruawāhia

1yr

$5,210

$12,000

Waitangi Angus

Waitangi

1yr

$3,961

$6,800

Commercial

Waiterenui Angus

Hastings

1yr

$4,835

$17,000

Hallmark Angus

Woodbank Angus

Kaikōura

1yr

39 HEREFORD

$3,140

$5,500

Bexley Herefords

Awakino

1yr

$2,958

$5,200

Bexley Herefords

Awakino

1yr (unregistered)

$2,430

Bushy Downs Herefords

Te Awamutu

1yr

$2,790

$4,000

Bushy Downs Herefords

Te Awamutu

2yr

$3,574

$4,400

Ezicalve Morrison Farming

Marton

1yr

$3,560

$6,700

Ezicalve Morrison Farming

Marton

2yr

$3,300

$4,400

Ezicalve Morrison Farming

Marton

Heifer

$3,800

$4,400

Ezicalve Riverton Hereford

Fordell

1yr

102

$3,732

$6,000

Ezicalve Riverton Hereford

Fordell

2yr

$3,785

Herepuru Station Herefords

Whakatāne

1yr

$2,452

Hillcroft Angus & Hereford

Waiterimu

2yr

$2,891

Hukaroa Herefords

Te Kauwhata

1yr

$2,557

$4,300

Hukaroa Herefords

Te Kauwhata

2yr

$3,600

$5,000

Horizon Herefords

Tikorangi

1yr

$2,300

Hurstpier Polled Hereford

Tikorangi

2yr

$3,200

$4,750

Kaipara Herefords

Te Kōpuru

1yr

$2,310

$2,600

Kairaumati Polled Herefords

Colville

1yr

$2,447

$3,100

Kairaumati Polled Herefords

Colville

20mth

$2,892

$5,100

Kane Farms

Gore

1yr

$2,300

$3,000

Kokonga Herefords

Tuakau

1yr

$3,031

$7,000

Mahuta Herefords

Tuakau

1yr

$3,485

$5,600

Mangaotea Farm

Inglewood

2yr

$3,180

$3,600

Maranui Herefords

Waihi

1yr

$2,005

$3,000

Commercial

Matapouri Hereford

Marua

1yr

$2,134

Matapouri Hereford

Marua

2yr

$2,840

Riverlee Herefords

Kimbolton

1yr

$3,140

$3,700

Commercial

Shadow Downs Polled Hereford Stud

Waverley

1yr

$3,093

$3,800

Shadow Downs Polled Hereford Stud

Waverley

2yr

$2,814

$4,050

Shrimpton's Hill Herefords

Cave

1yr

166

165

$2,400

$3,400

Waimaire & Otengi Polled Hereford Stud

Kaeo

1yr

35 JERSEY

$3,007

$4,900

Mangaotea Farm

Inglewood

1yr

Mangaotea Farm

Inglewood

2yr

Mangaotea Farm

Inglewood

1yr

Mangaotea Farm

Inglewood

2yr

Silver Fern Murray Greys

Tuatapere

1yr

Silver Fern Murray Greys

Tuatapere

1yr (purebred,unregistered)

Torrisdale Murray Grey

Winton

Waimouri Red Devon

ANGUS

$4,000

Commercial

Wai-iti Dairy Farm Ltd

Merchiston Angus, Meadowslea Angus and Bannockburn Angus

Maranui Ranui Angus and Ridgewood, Alistair Gibson Dandaloo Angus Stud

Rockley Angus

No 8 Contracting

Commercial

$6,000

Peter Meyers

Commercial

$1,564

$2,460

$2,080

$2,350

$3,466

$4,000

$2,154

$3,000

Michael Malmo

$1,920

$2,200

Lawson Lea Dairies

$8,100

48 MURRAY GREY

$2,700

1yr

41 RED DEVON

$3,305

Feilding

10mth

1 SIMMENTAL

$4,500

BlackBridge Simmentals

Kaikohe

1yr

$3,150

$4,500

Premier Cattle Company

Cambridge

1yr

$5,150

$24,000

McFadzean Cattle Company

Carterton

1yr

$4,800

$12,200

McFadzean Cattle Company

Carterton

Heifer

4 heifer lines

4 lines

$1,339/head

$1,450/head

17 SPECKLE PARK 19 OTHER

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Prior week

Last year

NI Steer (300kg)

6.60

6.55

5.50

NI lamb (17kg)

9.65

9.55

7.20

NI Stag (60kg)

6.90

6.65

NI Bull (300kg)

6.50

6.40

5.45

NI mutton (20kg)

6.70

5.00

SI Stag (60kg)

7.05

7.00

6.65

NI Cow (200kg)

4.90

4.00

SI lamb (17kg)

9.35

7.00

SI Steer (300kg)

6.25

5.15

SI mutton (20kg)

6.75

4.90

SI Bull (300kg)

6.15

6.10

5.10

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

SI Cow (200kg)

4.90

4.80

3.90

UK CKT lamb leg

12.17

12.34

9.82

US imported 95CL bull

9.21

9.25

7.32

US domestic 90CL cow

9.21

8.69

6.40

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

$/kg CW

10.0

Oct

4.5

(NZ$/kg)

Dairy

Jun

Dec 5-yr ave

Apr 2020-21

2021-22

Jun

Prior week

Last year

2.63

2.17

37 micron ewe

2.10

30 micron lamb

$/tonne

DAIRY FUTURES (US$/T) Nearby contract

844

602

2.05

Super

342

297

DAP

1135

768

Nov-20

Prior week

vs 4 weeks ago

WMP

3875

3835

3705

SMP

3500

3305

3310

Company

Jan-21

Mar-21

May-21

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0.65

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1.72

1.39

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0.61

0.37

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 25, 2021

Analyst intel

WEATHER

Overview Welcome to a short week, although is it ever really a short week when you work in the rural sector? The forecast for the final week of October isn’t too bad, in fact the warmer than average run of weather looks to continue on for most places. Low pressure that hovered over the Tasman Sea across Labour Weekend is falling apart for Labour Day Monday and another low is behind it, but even lazier and also likely to fall apart. So what does that mean for NZ? It means no real ‘oomph’ in our weather pattern this week, with a few western downpours from that weak low. A more active low pressure system (more spring-like) is possible this Sunday.

Record start to new season

14-day outlook The last week of October is full of lazy lows, but a more powerful low pressure zone is likely this coming Sunday. November looks likely to kick off with a typical spring westerly; we tend to get more windy westerlies in November, but drier too due to high pressure hanging round more often. High pressure is forecast later next week from the central Tasman Sea area.

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Varying winds this week, due to a lazy weather pattern. Check your hyperlocal RuralWeather.co.nz forecast to drill down deeper, but basically a mild northerly flow continues this week, with westerlies returning by Sunday and early next week before lighter winds return. Source: NIWA Data

Temperature

7-day rainfall forecast

Warmer than average this week for most places, thanks to the northerly flow. Overnight lows should also be up, with minimal frost risks. Large parts of Southland may have doubledigit overnight lows this week, or very close to it.

Rain is quite patchy in the next week or two; many places may have normal to below normal rainfall. However, there are pockets of heavy downpours due to the weak low pressure zones drifting around. Keep an eye on your hyper-local rainfall totals and your rainfall chances at www.RuralWeather.co.nz

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GRIHQ data shows that farm gate lamb prices are averaging a record $9.40/kg and $9.65/kg in the South and North Island respectively. This compares with $7.00/kg and $7.20/kg this time last year. For beef, the upside in farm gate values is reflecting a similar tone. Prices are at record levels and are also 90c-$1.15/kg higher than this time last year. Despite the strong upside in prices, there has been little fanfare in getting there. This is partly due to timing. Most sheep and beef breeders are currently out of the game, focusing on on-farm jobs that need ticking off before the new season really gets under way. Winter finishers have enjoyed the heady heights prices have climbed to, but most lamb finishers needed to see these values materialise given the high store market since July. The real question lies with how the market navigates the next few months and what that means for farm gate prices. There is no clearer evidence to reflect the strength in farm gate prices than average export values. For lamb, August values pushed to $12.31/kg, an industry record. This shows a recovery for lamb in our global markets that is much stronger than many anticipated. Current farm gate prices are yet to show any downside because prices in overseas markets remain firm. The gradual lift in asking prices for New Zealand lamb since April is a far cry from the spike and subsequent crash witnessed back in November 2019. With that said, in-market prices for lamb are unlikely to push much higher but that shouldn’t be viewed as a bad outcome – it simply reduces the risk of a boom-bust cycle occurring again. Average export values for lamb typically peak in October. Slightly weaker November values reflect the increasing export production leaving NZ shores and the end of the Christmas chilled trade. While current demand remains firm for NZ lamb, shipping logistics are already tightening these lucrative buying windows, including

Chinese New Year buying that occurs now through to early December. It’s a similar scenario for cattle nearing finishing weights. Farm gate prices remain strong for this time of the year and have yet to feel the normal seasonal downside that can occur from early October. US imported beef prices are sitting comfortable at just below US$3/lb for 95CL bull meat, while renewed interest from China, as well as stable interest from Japan and Korea, points to favourable market conditions. NZ beef is also enjoying a relatively easier trading environment compared to some of the larger global beef producers. South American beef exporters continue to skirt a raft of trade disruptions, including Brazil’s lengthy absence from China. Australian beef export volumes remain tight, leaving plenty of room for NZ to enjoy solid returns into China and the US over the next few months.

Current farm gate prices are yet to show any downside because prices in overseas markets remain firm.

While it’s hard to envisage a sudden downturn in prices, markets are aware that NZ exports are set to lift. While stronger demand will absorb some of this increase, prices are expected to soften and this will be reflected in farm gate prices into the new year. Initially, any downside will be gradual to reflect the stronger market conditions. But a slow start to the spring processing season has the potential to speed up the usual downside in farm gate prices in December and January. This is based on a congested kill through these months. The strength of the market now and potential short-term supply constraints in other markets are working in our favour. There is still plenty of optimism of aboveaverage returns into 2022. Unfortunately, ongoing labour shortages, supply and shipping logistics and the potential for a covid outbreak in a processing plant will be ever-present challenges for the industry.

SALE YARD WRAP

A week for setting records Records continued to be broken in many classes of stock around the country, driven by factors such as limited supply, increasing schedules and good past margins made. But there is also an element of age-old competitive spirit coming into the marketplace and a good example of that was one ewe at Canterbury Park, which reached $402, just bettering the $400 mark that was reached the previous week at Coalgate. However, last Thursday Coalgate again posted very high prices and a line of two prime wethers achieved $403, while a pen of ewes with lambs-atfoot made $164 all counted. Store cattle markets are also starting to fire and at Stortford Lodge, a record $3.72-$3.73/kg was achieved for steers over 450kg. The top two-year Angus heifers also sold up to $3.63-$3.78/kg at this sale. Not only are records being achieved, but both prime and store cattle are selling at some of the highest per kilogram prices recorded, relative to breed and type.

NORTHLAND Kaikohe cattle • Two-year beef-cross steers held at $3.00-$3.10/kg • Two-year heifers sold at $3.00/kg to $3.12/kg • Cows with calves-at-foot fetched $1400-$1500 per unit • A handful of boner cows achieved $2.00-$2.10/kg There was a big yarding of around 800 head at KAIKOHE last Wednesday, PGG Wrightson agent Vaughan Vujcich reported. Yearling cattle were the main focus and steers were strong at $3.30/kg to $3.60/kg. Yearling heifers were mainly whiteface and Angus-Friesian and heavier types earned $3.08-$3.15/kg with the balance typically $3.20$3.30/kg. Yearling beef-cross bulls sold in a range of $2.80/ kg to $3.10/kg. Wellsford store cattle • Two-year Angus-Friesian steers, 449kg, firmed to $3.30/kg • Autumn-born yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 298-380kg, were well-received at $3.43-$3.44/kg • Better yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 213-260kg, realised $3.44-$3.47/kg • Weaner Hereford-Friesian steers, 93-140kg, traded at $500-$555 Throughput swelled to 1055 head at WELLSFORD last Monday and the inclusion of the online bidding platform bidr was well-timed and some buyers made good use of it throughout the sale. Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 456-499kg, held at $3.13-$3.21/kg. Most Angus-Friesian and Hereford-Friesian heifers, 303-391kg, realised $2.91-$2.98/ kg. Yearling Angus-Friesian steers, 250-255kg, managed $3.24/kg. Beef-bred heifers were consistent at $3.01-$3.09/ kg. Angus-Friesian, 193-241kg, were solid at $2.99-$3.11/ kg. Autumn-born weaner Hereford-Friesian steers, 148kg, topped their section at $640 while same breed heifers, 117168kg, earned $485-$600. All weaner heifers, 110-120kg, fetched $400-$455. Read more in your LivestockEye.

AUCKLAND Pukekohe cattle • Best prime heifers earned $3.15/kg to $3.30/kg, $1430-$1935 • Small weaner steers made $470-$480 • Medium 15-month crossbred steers fetched $2.91/kg to $3.26/kg, $800-$1010 PUKEKOHE had the first sale for two months on Saturday 16th and the market was strong for a good number of quality stock. The top end of prime steers made $3.27$3.32/kg, $1780-$2580 and the next cut $3.05/kg to $3.25/ kg, $1400-$1510. Small yearling heifers traded from $3.58/ kg to $4.00/kg, $570-$625 and weaner heifers realised $450$530.

WAIKATO Frankton cattle 19.10 • Two-year Angus-Friesian steers, 398-485kg, realised $3.14-$3.28/ kg • Autumn-born yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 359-467kg, firmed to $3.30-$3.43/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 205-299kg, reached $3.44$3.54/kg PGG Wrightson penned 694 cattle last Tuesday at FRANKTON and with the help of online bidders the yarding was well-contested. Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 393-448kg, were consistent at $3.30-$3.35/kg. Yearling Angus-Friesian steers, 267-347kg, held at $3.11-$3.23/kg and Hereford-Friesian, 313-338kg, $3.22-$3.37/kg. Yearling Angus-Hereford heifers, 315kg, and Charolais-cross, 255kg, topped their section at $3.46/kg and $3.37/kg respectively. Better Angus-Friesian, 283-388kg, firmed to $3.02-$3.10/kg and Hereford-Friesian, 223-345kg, $3.00-$3.13/kg. Angus bulls, 391-420kg, realised $3.30-$3.31/kg. Autumn-born weaner Hereford-Friesian steers, 136-168kg, were mainly $550-$705. Prime cattle sold very well and steers above 600kg mainly earned $3.46-$3.55/kg. Most beef-dairy heifers, 406-488kg, managed $3.23-$3.36/kg. Angus and

Angus-Friesian bulls, 596-647kg, fetched $3.55-$3.62/kg. Boner Friesian and Friesian-cross cows, 505-622kg, sold well at $2.35-$2.44/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye. Frankton cattle 20.10 • Quality 2-year heifers, 434-440kg, achieved $3.20-$3.25/kg • Yearling beef-dairy heifers mostly earned $2.84/kg to $3.00/kg • Autumn-born yearling steers and heifers made $3.28-$3.37/kg There was a large yarding of 745 cattle at the New Zealand Farmers Livestock FRANKTON sale last Wednesday. Two-year steers firmed with the best able to achieve $3.30-$3.32/kg. Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers around 155-241kg sold well to reach $3.69/kg to $3.91/kg and heavier lines of beef-dairy and beef-cross, 265-339kg, traded from $3.20/kg to $3.36/kg. Weaner Hereford-Friesian heifers made $470-$495 and 90kg Friesian bulls $360. Prime steers and heifers firmed to $3.23-$3.35/kg and better boner Friesian cows returned $2.38-$2.48/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

KING COUNTRY Te Kuiti sheep • The first of the new season lambs sold at $150 • Prime hoggets made $172 • Store hoggets achieved $140-$145 A small yarding of sheep was penned at TE KUITI last Wednesday. The best of the prime two-tooth ewes earned $154-$186 and prime ewes $146-$154. Six pens of ewes with lambs-at-foot were offered and made $125-$130 allcounted. Store ewes were sought after and heavy, shorn ewes reached $180-$234, with medium at $160-$178 and lighter types realised $140-$162.

BAY OF PLENTY Rangiuru cattle and sheep • Two-year Hereford service bulls, 515-576kg, traded at $2000$2250, $3.88/kg to $4.03/kg • Two-year Simmental service bulls, 466kg, fetched $1550, $3.33/kg • Prime Red Devon steers, 626kg, made $3.56/kg • Ewes with lambs-at-foot earned $100-$114 There was something for everyone at RANGIURU last Tuesday. Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 443-463kg, were priced at $3.12-$3.22/kg while other beef-dairy pens above 400kg were mostly $3.02-$3.12/kg. Heifers sold along similar lines as $3.02-$3.11/kg was commonly achieved by beef-dairy pens over 350kg. Yearling Charolais-Simmental and Charolais-Hereford steers, 215kg and 266kg, were popular at $3.76/kg and $3.72/kg with a line of 24 Hereford-Friesian, 253kg, similarly priced at $3.74/kg. Around half of the prime cattle were high-yielding steers over 550kg that made $3.45-$3.56/kg while heifers fetched $3.31-$3.41/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

POVERTY BAY Matawhero sheep • Heavy prime ewes sold to $250-$290 with most $150-$217 • Shorn store Romney ewes made $170 with the balance $98-$155 • Better prime male sheep earned $155-$220 with lighter types $50-$100 Heavy prime hoggets firmed to $272 at MATAWHERO last Friday with medium $200-$248 and lighter types $100-$195. Better ewes with lambs-at-foot made $120-$121 with the balance $100-$109. Read more in your LivestockEye.

TARANAKI Taranaki cattle • The top end of in-milk dairy cows made $1500-$2050 and the next cut $1300-$1400. • The top end of yearling heifers, 272-320kg, held at $3.23-$3.31/kg • A quality line of special entry yearling Jersey bulls met good demand to reach $3.72/kg, $900

• Prime steers achieved $3.36-$3.42/kg and heifers $3.22-$3.24/kg Quality varied at TARANAKI last Wednesday, though the market was solid for good types. Yearling beef-dairy steers were on par with the previous week at an average of $3.22/ kg. The top end consisted of better Hereford-Friesian and Speckle Park-cross which made $3.31/kg to $3.44/kg. The best of the two-year steers held at $3.44-$3.50/kg and the next cut $3.14-$3.24/kg. Heifers were mixed and the top end sold for $3.04-$3.07/kg. Prime Hereford cows made up to $2.85/kg and boner Friesian cows mostly traded in a range of $2.29-$2.36/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

HAWKE’S BAY Stortford Lodge prime sheep • Heavy to very heavy mixed-age ewes traded at $206-$255 • Very good mixed-age ewes held at $185-$201 • Very heavy male and mixed-sex hoggets realised $218-$227 • Heavy ewe hoggets managed $201-$217 • The first prime spring mixed-sex lambs were offered and fetched $168 Throughput rose with 1832 sheep penned at STORTFORD LODGE last Monday. Ewes made up the majority and traded at steady to improved levels as good ewes returned $160-$181.50. Medium to medium-good types held at $140-$158 with the lighter end $111. Hoggets numbered 532 and heavy mixed-sex lines realised $182$205 with good types at $168-$171. Read more in your LivestockEye. Stortford Lodge store cattle and sheep • Three-year Angus and Angus-Hereford steers, 482-508kg, achieved a record $3.72-$3.73/kg • Two-year annual draft South Devon steers, 487-524kg, made $3.49/kg • Top two-year Angus heifers, 385-394kg, sold for $3.63-$3.78/kg • Yearling Angus steers, 311-341kg, reached $4.02-$4.07/kg • Yearling Hereford bulls, 304-358kg, returned $3.80-$3.88/kg Cattle volume grew to 1430 at STORTFORD LODGE last Wednesday. Three-year Hereford heifers, 469kg, sold well at $3.34/kg and second cuts of two-year Angus heifers achieved $3.42-$3.54/kg. Second cuts of the traditional steers made similar values as the heifers and a pen of 15-month Angus steers, 377kg, returned $3.68/kg. Two-year Stabilizer bulls were popular and at 493-543kg sold for $3.58/kg. Yearling traditional steers, 340kg and below, exceeded $4.00/kg and 353-368kg returned $3.86$3.88/kg. Similar weighted Hereford-Friesian trailed those levels by 46c/kg. Top yearling heifers sold for $900-$1240 and some lines were able to achieve $3.30/kg to $3.60/kg. Friesian bulls, 269-339kg, varied from $3.28/kg to $3.45/kg. The sheep section was very small at 700 head. Mixedage ewes with lambs-at-foot sold well at $137.50-$140 all counted. Read more in your LivestockEye.

MANAWATŪ Feilding prime cattle and sheep • Angus steers, 540kg, earned $3.17/kg • Angus cows, 553kg, returned $2.22/kg • Very good mixed-age ewes made $189-199 • Heavy ewe hoggets returned $202 There was a small yarding of cattle at FEILDING last Monday and two Angus steers earned good money as highlighted above. The best per kilogram price was made by five Jersey bulls, 564kg, $3.30/kg. Prime cows were all Angus, 470-553kg, and earned $2.02 to $2.22/kg as the market eased only slightly. Boner Friesian cows, 548-615kg, returned $2.10-2.20/kg. The best prime hogget money was fetched by very heavy males at $240-$249. Most were heavy mixed-sex and returned $201-$219. The heaviest mixed-age ewes earned $265 as the market eased but many were very good. The cheapest pen of ewes made $130. Read more in your LivestockEye.

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 25, 2021

made $3.28-$3.38/kg. A nice consignment of 199kg Angus steers and 184kg heifers were the main talking points of the store cattle section and they made $3.47/kg and $3.32/kg respectively. Read more in your LivestockEye.

SOUTH-CANTERBURY Temuka prime and boner cattle; all sheep • Top prime steers sold to $3.42-$3.50/kg • Prime beef-dairy heifers improved with the lion’s share $3.18$3.28/kg • Store Merino hoggets mostly made $140-$171 • Ewes with lambs-at-foot traded at $114-$152 all counted • Top prime ewes achieved $303-$351, medium $201-$290 and light $110-$187 Vendors were treated to another week of strong prime cattle prices at TEMUKA last Monday with values well above year-ago levels. The beef-dairy steer average jumped 12c/kg to $3.27/kg with the traditional average $3.35/kg. Traditional heifers sold in a wide range though better types were on par to the previous sale at $3.20-$3.30/kg. Boner Friesian cows were mostly steady at an average of $2.12/kg. Store hoggets included some very heavy Chatham Islands pens and the top end reached $213-$227, medium $161$171 and lighter types $106. Prime hogget numbers were low though there was a good number of buyers. The top end typically reached $240-$298 with medium $200-$239 and lighter types mostly $144-$198. Read more in your LivestockEye.

RECORD PRICE: These two prime wethers at Coalgate went $1 better than a ewe at Canterbury Park to make a record $403. Feilding store cattle and sheep • Two-year traditional steers, 415-545kg, were $3.40-$3.60/kg • Yearling straight-Charolais steers, 470kg, made $1730 • Good-sized lines of 245-290kg yearling Friesian bulls lifted to $3.40-$3.50/kg • Ewes with single lambs-at-foot made $138 all counted • New season store lambs averaged $141 The 1200 store cattle at FEILDING mainly found a strong market. Several lines of 380-530kg 2-year Hereford-Friesian steers sold for $3.35-$3.40/kg with 305-470kg 2-year heifers of the same breed circling $3.25/kg. Yearling HerefordFriesian steers, 255-330kg, were usually $3.30-$3.40/kg with 300-340kg Angus at $3.85-$4.00/kg. Yearling Hereford bulls, 300kg, were $1100, $3.80/kg. Yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 285-300kg, were $3.10-$3.25/kg. Only 500 new season lambs were yarded where top cuts made $145-$157, mediums $110.50-$121, and a light pen $90. Forward-store hoggets with lambs teeth were $168$175. Good dry ewes were $168-$172, down to $146-$158 for mediums. Ewes with lambs-at-foot were mainly $104$119 all counted. Read more in your LivestockEye. Rongotea cattle • Two-year Hereford bulls, 379kg, made $3.27/kg • Yearling Angus-cross steers, 276-337kg, earned $3.15/kg to $3.31/ kg • Yearling Friesian bulls sold to $2.34/kg to $3.14/kg • Weaner Hereford-Friesian steers, 162-182kg, achieved $480-$530 • Friesian boner cows, 440-571kg, traded from $2.47/kg to $2.70/kg Cattle pens were full at RONGOTEA last Tuesday, New Zealand Farmers Livestock agent Darryl Harwood reported. Better two-year steers earned $3.12/kg to $3.26/ kg. The top end of two-year heifers sold to $3.23/kg with the balance typically $2.87-$2.96/kg. Better yearling heifers made $3.11/kg to $3.36/kg. Run-with-bull Murray Grey cows, 590-805kg, realised $2.85/kg to $2.97/kg, and in-milk Friesian and crossbred cows $1050-$1330.

CANTERBURY Canterbury Park prime cattle and all sheep • One prime ewe made $402 and the best hoggets $378 • Two small lines of prime new season lambs were priced at $197 and $175 The sheep section at CANTERBURY PARK last Tuesday was low in numbers but there was still plenty to talk about as prime ewes and hoggets set new nationwide records $402 in the case of one ewe while the top hoggets reached $378. Other very heavy prime hoggets made $304-$341 followed by the bulk of the section at $200-$235. A few very heavy ewes earned $313-$402 while heavy ranged from $228 to $290 and most others $185-$218. Store hoggets were limited to just four main pens and most managed $149-$156 with a pen of Merino at $130. A small yarding of prime cattle turned out and nearly all steers over 450kg managed $3.35-$3.45/kg with one 425kg Angus a little higher at $3.47/kg. Nearly all heifers over 450kg achieved $3.34-$3.40/kg regardless of breed. Read more in your LivestockEye. Coalgate cattle and sheep • Four prime hoggets achieved $390 • Four prime ewes made $399 • A pair of prime wethers returned $403 • A line of 113 ewes and 183 lambs made $155 all counted Quality prime sheep continued their phenomenal run at COALGATE last Thursday. This was evident right from the very first pen on the ledger - the prime hoggets that made $390. Ten percent of the 2500 hoggets made $300-$390 while heavy pens fetched $200-$274. However, most of the section was centred around the $160-$198 level. The top ewes made $399 with the bulk of the category $186-$238. The small store hogget line-up mostly featured Merino that sold to good demand with the top lines $130$145. High yielding prime steers were largely limited to 688kg Hereford-Friesian that achieved $3.51/kg while most prime heifers were beef-dairy types, 471-660kg, that all

Temuka beef-only store cattle • Two-year Angus steers, 316kg and 371kg, topped their section at $3.50/kg and $3.51/kg • Two-year traditional heifers largely made $3.15/kg to $3.30/kg Just under 1350 cattle were offered at a beef-only store cattle sale at TEMUKA last Thursday. Two-year steers mostly consisted of Angus, Devon-Hereford and Speckle Park, 369-399kg, that consistently made $3.36-$3.44/kg. The top cut of the many yearling Angus and mixed Angus and Angus-Hereford lines, 200-350kg, achieved $3.82-$3.93/kg but the majority were consistently priced throughout the sale at $3.65-$3.75/kg. The best of over 600 heifers was Angus, 273kg, at $3.32/ kg followed by a big 298kg line at $3.30/kg. The next 200 managed $3.14-$3.23/kg before the first exotic pen, 257kg Charolais, appeared in the ledger at $3.11/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

OTAGO Balclutha sheep • Heavy prime ewes made $200-$240, medium $150-$180 and light $100-$120 • Prime rams earned $80 There was a good yarding of prime hoggets at BALCLUTHA last Wednesday. Heavy types sold to $200$240, medium $170-$190 and light $140-$160. Ewes with lambs-at-foot achieved $115-$128 all-counted.

SOUTHLAND Lorneville cattle and sheep • Lorneville cattle and sheep • Boner cows above 450kg firmed to $2.25/kg to $2.45/kg • Two-year Friesian bulls, 425kg, made $2.82/kg • Heavy prime ewes eased to $200-$262, medium $160-$192 and light $130-$152 • Local trade rams achieved $80-$92 • Ewes with lambs-at-foot traded at $110-$125 There was just a small yarding of prime cattle at LORNEVILLE last Tuesday. Prime beef steers, 500kg, sold to $3.00kg and 470kg heifers from $2.80/kg to $3.00/kg. Yearling Hereford-cross steers, 255-300kg, fetched $2.78$2.80/kg. Heavy prime lambs were mostly steady at $200$238 with medium at $184-$198 and light $160-$175. Store lambs held with the top end at $130 and medium types $112.

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Demand driving up export meat prices Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz

LOBAL demand has driven export prime meat prices to record levels, which are underpinning new season values. AgriHQ senior analyst Mel Croad says average export beef and lamb values are at or close to record levels, having risen slowly and gradually each month, which reflects the improvements are market-driven. “Exporters have done an excellent job to recover the downside in export values from last year over lockdown and in many cases they even managed to take prices to a stronger position,” Croad said. “It really is a good news story.” AgriHQ is forecasting some seasonal easing in prices in the coming months, but notes it will be coming off a higher level than recent years. The average export value for NZ beef hit $8.46/kg in August, up from $7.70/ kg in January and $1.03/kg higher than the five-year average for the month. Lamb hit $12.30/kg in August, the highest level ever. Croad says a combination of growing demand as countries return to normal after covid, and demand for domestic livestock exceeding supply, has driven up prices. There are reports stock condition is about two weeks later than usual, which Croad warns could result in higher than usual demand for processing space in December and January. “It’s not ideal close to Christmas, but it is a red flag to be aware of,” she said. Alliance’s livestock and shareholder services manager Danny Hailes says forecast prices in the next two quarters will be higher than at the same time

UP: AgriHQ senior analyst Mel Croad says a combination of growing demand as countries return to normal after covid, and demand for domestic livestock exceeding supply, has driven up prices.

last season, driven by demand from North America and China. “It is good news generally, better than last year,” Hailes said at a recent Alliance shareholder roadshow. For South Island lamb for the period October to December, Alliance is forecasting a price range from $9.70/ kg to $7.50; from January to March $8.30 to $7.10; and for mutton the range is $6.80/kg to $5.70 and $6.10 to $5.20. For 55-day aged beef the forecast price from October to December is $7.20/kg to $6.30 and January to March $7 to $6; for handpicked beef $7 to $6.10 and $6.80 to $5.80; prime beef $6.20 to $5.30 and $6 to $5; and bull $6.10 to $5.20 and $6.10 to $5.

Venison forecasts are $7.20 to $6.10 and $6.50 to $5.40. Asked how meat companies will stem the flow of livestock farms to forestry and carbon farming, Hailes told the roadshow it is incumbent on meat companies to be competitive throughout the season. Chief executive David Surveyor told the virtual meeting that the direction of Government policy is clear. “We are no supporter of an accelerated, artificial carbon price and see large tracts of farmland converted to pine plantations, but the Government should also accept and acknowledge the improvement of NZ farms, lower emission, water and fencing,” Surveyor said.

ACROSS THE RAILS SUZ BREMNER

Spring beef competition successful FOLLOWING the success of the event last year, the Coalgate Spring Beef Competition was back and supported by a growing number of competitors on October 14. Hazlett agent Phil Manera dubbed it a successful event. “A quality yarding of prime beef cattle sold extremely well at the Coalgate sale yards for the second annual prime beef competition. There was plenty of support and while the sale yards were the main sponsor, it was also sponsored by trucking companies GVT Landline, Canterbury Plains Transport, Rural Transport, Ryal Bush Transport, Frews Transport and Ellesmere Transport, as well as Farmquip and Leader product,” Manera said. Finding a winner of each class is a relatively simple process – the cattle are sold on a per kilogram basis as part of the regular auction and the pen that reaches the highest price is deemed the winner. The lift in the quality of the cattle penned, coupled with a bit of competitive spirit from regular buyers, resulted in a lift in the market by around 15c/kg, though there is not much that can hold the current prime cattle market back. The heaviest steer of the day was a HerefordFriesian called Wilbur, who was owned by 14-yearold Sophie Orchard from Loburn. Orchard had presented this steer beautifully and at 800kg, he sold for $3.26/kg to make just over $2600. Results: Class 1 – Pure Beef Steers: 1st, DC and LJ Redmond, Angus, 636kg, $3.52; 2nd, TG and AH Hobson, Charolais-cross, 582kg, $3.50; and 3rd, Timata Farming Co Ltd, Simmental-Angus, 599kg, $3.50. Class 2 – Pure Beef Heifers: 1st, B & R Lill, Charolais, 561kg, $3.52; 2nd, Hilvue Farm Partnership, S and D Lill, Charolais-Angus, 518kg, $3.50; and 3rd, Willowview Farm, Jason Banks, Charolais, 600kg, $3.50. Class 3 – Beef-dairy Steers: 1st, Ranui Partnership, B and B Begg, Hereford-Friesian, 609kg, $3.43; 2nd, GP and KH Bell, Hereford-Friesian, 580kg, $3.43; and 3rd, GP and AA Taylor, Angus-Friesian, 611kg, $3.42. Class 4 – Beef-dairy Heifers: 1st, Ashgrove Farm, Michael family, Angus-Friesian, 531kg, $3.39; 2nd, MJ Oakley, Charolais-Friesian, 528kg, $3.39; and 3rd, Willowbrook Produce, Nigel Greenwood, HerefordFriesian, 531kg, $3.37.

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