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Threat to rural life Neal Wallace

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ARMING leader Chris Lewis fears rural communities could disappear as regional councils increase the number of previously permitted farming activities now requiring resource consent. New nitrogen limits in places like Lake Rotorua make livestock farming uneconomic and mean trees are the only land use option, Lewis, a Federated Farmers board member, says. Regional councils propose or require resource consent for cultivating some hill country, intensive winter grazing, converting land to dairying or increasing herd size. Farm environment plans and best practice management guidelines are increasingly becoming mandatory. And those requirements will only increase, Local Government NZ regional sector chairman Doug Leeder said. “That is the general direction of travel.” While councils such as Waikato, Bay of Plenty, ManawatuWanganui, Canterbury and Southland are leading the tougher regulations other regions that do not have the same water quality issues will follow.

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It’s not going to be an easy transition for some but a transition we’re all going to have to make. Doug Leeder Local Government NZ “I think it is going to be the norm rather than the exception and it is essentially being driven by water reform.” Councils and farming groups need to find ways to reduce the number of consents and so reduce charges and site inspections, he said. The increase in regulation is driven by the Government and community concerns water management has been too lax. Environment Minister David Parker has signalled changes to the Resource Management Act to help councils improve water quality management, which all points to changes in the way farms are managed, Leeder said. “It’s not going to be an easy transition for some but a transition we’re all going to have to make.” Lewis said Waikato Regional Council’s Healthy Rivers is on hold because of iwi-initiated court action with hearings likely

FULL REPORT: P8 BULL BEEF REPORT: P64 SUE and Stu Thomson were among farmers who put lambs up for a series of on-farm sales in Canterbury last week. They offered 5500 lambs at Manahune, Glenmark, in North Canterbury. It was damp start but that didn’t deter buyers and prices were up despite increased numbers on offer. to resume early next year but when it is implemented its good management practice provisions will force changes in farm management. It could curb land use change, limit stocking rates and nutrient losses and require all farmers to fence all waterways. Another contentious provision will restrict sheep and cattle grazing on slopes in areas with poor water quality without a grazing management environment plan, which farmers label as akin to requiring resource consent. Nearly half of Canterbury’s 8800 farmers will require land use consent to continue farming under new laws rolled out by Environment Canterbury to

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protect and improve water quality. ECan chief operating officer Nadeine Dommisse believes more councils will require consent for farming activities previously exempt though those activities will differ as councils tackle specific environmental issues. Environment Southland’s proposed Land and Water Plan, under appeal before the Environment Court, will require consent for activities including cultivation of some hill country, new or expanded dairy farms or intensive winter grazing if conditions cannot be met. Further regulation is likely given Parker’s intention to strengthen the National Policy Statement on Freshwater, Environment Southland policy, planning and

regulatory services director Vin Smith said. “It may mean further regulation is needed to go faster to improve water quality or further regulation and control to meet central Government’s requirement for the policy statement.” Councils are trying to manage activities that lead to adverse effects. “There is a raft of provisions that you can do as of right but if you cannot do it within those provisions you may need consent.” Lewis called for a more practical approach to regulation and environmental management, saying humans have an impact on

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November is ending on a wet note and now December is set to kick off with another large low pressure system and more pockets of rain and dry. This forecast might be disappointing for some of our urban friends but from a pasture or farming point of view the forecast ahead looks pretty healthy. For the most part the heaviest downpours over the next 10 to 14 days look mostly in regions that need it the most like Auckland, Hokianga, Hawke’s Bay, Wairarapa, Marlborough and northeastern Canterbury. Those who don’t need rain, like Otago, Southland and the West Coast actually have a drier-than-average week ahead. Most regions are also warmer-than-average over the next couple of weeks.

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These large lows make it hard to lock in wind flows over a week but generally speaking the North Island has more northerly quarter winds while the South Island has more easterly quarter winds. Nothing severe at this stage.

For further information on the NZX PGI visit www.agrihq.co.nz/pgi Warmer/milder air flows this week coupled with more rain/downpours bodes well for pasture growth – especially with another large low coming later this week/weekend. For many pasture growth looks positive nationwide for the rest of November and start of December. Soaking rains are forecast in some of the North Island’s driest regions while saturated regions in the South Island are now the highest contenders to miss the bulk of the rain this week. A good, healthy balance, hopefully.

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Water fears grow Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz FARMERS’ concern over water shortages in Hawke’s Bay is mounting as the regional council considers allocating more irrigation water in the parched catchment. In September a regional taskforce was assembled to determine the future of water allocation and use in Central Hawke’s Bay District (Farmers Weekly, September 27) now the Ruataniwha dam is not going ahead. But concern is concentrated on an even shorter timeframe this summer as the area experiences unusually dry late spring conditions. So far the Ruataniwha aquifer has 28 million cubic metres of water allocated for use under Tranche 1, of which dairy operations from four companies account for 9m. But a pending Tranche 2 allocation has a further 17m to be allocated, of which more than half is intended for Plantation Road Dairies and Te Awahohopu Forest Trust. But Hawke’s Bay Regional Council chairman Rex Graham is concerned the same applicants benefiting from the Tranche 1 consents also stand to benefit from Tranche 2. “This is a product of where we have got with water allocation in New Zealand and it is flawed. “We have this investment in irrigation infrastructure that ends up using twice the water used by Waipukurau.” Residents at Onga Onga and Tikokino have had issues since the existing large scale irrigation schemes started and face the prospect of having to put down deeper bores and use newer pumps to get water. Local farmer Alistair Setter said last year’s damper summer disguised how significant the

NEWS BRIEFS New-look sales READERS will notice a change in format to our sale yard section this week. We decided it was time for a re-vamp in a bid to provide readers with coverage from as many sale yards as possible in a consistent and clear format. Rest assured, the amount of information provided is still as high as has always been – it is just in a shorter format for ease of reading. It also allows us more space to include a greater number of sales, giving the biggest coverage of New Zealand sales found anywhere. For those looking for more in-depth information, some of the sale yards are covered by LivestockEye reports – a product available from our AgriHQ suite. It provides subscribers with up-to-the-minute sale results and independent analysis of cattle and sheep sold at a growing number of yards nationwide. The reports are emailed directly to subscribers within hours of a sale’s completion.

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DISGUISED: A damp last summer hid Central Hawke’s Bay’s water problems farmer Alistair Setter says. impact is but it is coming back to bite the district this year. “The Waipawa River is already dry and has been since midOctober. Normally it would be dry for only two months of the year at most.” Regional council environment and services chairman Tom Belford said it is very likely public hearings will be held for the Tranche 2 allocation but not until well into the New Year. “But where it stands the council must under resource management law consider every application.” The applicants are required to show evidence of the environmental consequences of taking the extra water. “Personally, there are clearly already signs of water stress in the region. “We have property owners petitioning us on not having enough water coming from wells that have functioned properly for decades.”

The Central Hawke’s Bay District Council is surveying residents on the levels of water shortages they are experiencing. “If you have the top 20 users taking 64% of the water, which they are, it is hard to argue that they do not bear some responsibility for the impact they are having,” Belford said. Six dairy operations alone account for 42% of the Ruataniwha aquifer allocation. “The community there has to look at that and ask if that is fair, even if it is legal.” Farmer Peter Todd said it is time the regional council started taking a broader, community-focused view on water use and said between the Ruataniwha Dam not going ahead and Plan Change 6 there are some big issues to deal with. Central Hawke’s Bay deer farmer George Williams said his greatest concern is what the continued water take and any

DAIRY Holdings has appointed Rod Hansen from Christchurch as observer director, replacing Dr John Roche. More than 60 aspiring directors applied and DHL chairman Greg Gent said the standard was very high. The level of interest reinforced the need to provide training opportunities for directors in the rural environment, Gent said. Hansen has a B Com (Ag) from Lincoln University and is an Institute of Primary Industry Management member. He has held senior agri banking roles and is employed by BDO Christchurch as a consultant accountant.

Dollar going down ANZ Bank is staying with its call for the New Zealand dollar to be sharply lower in the next 18 months to two years despite gains made since October lows. The bank says the economy has proved very resilient with signs of more recovery but headwinds remain with growth likely to remain at below average levels. Core inflation is expected to rise gradually but the medium-term outlook is not assured and the OCR will be on hold for the foreseeable future. The kiwi’s gains against the US and Aussie dollars have come despite NZ’s lower interest rates and the US Fed is expected to lift rates again next month. ANZ’s forecasts are for the kiwi to end the year at US$0.65 and slip to 0.62 by June next year and 0.61 to close 2019. For the same periods, it is calling a steadier trend initially against the Aussie but falling to $A0.87 in late 2019. The UK and Euro economies have their own issues but ANZ still sees a weaker kiwi next year, to ¤0.52 in June and 0.48 at year-end. On the sterling cross it expects £0.48 in March and 0.44 by December. – Alan Williams extra take might do to his stock water bore. Williams says farmers could be within their rights to take court action if the regional council allocates the water and other

users find their stock water supplies diminished. A meeting of ratepayers is planned in Central Hawke’s Bay on November 27 to discuss the water issue.

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New boss hears farmers Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz FARMERS delivered a stern message to new director-general of primary industries Ray Smith at a meeting in Ashburton on Wednesday – they want to be top of his list. He attended the meeting, facilitated by Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers in response to desperate calls for help from local farmers affected by the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovi, off his own bat. Farming leaders from across the country including national dairy chairman Chris Lewis and meat and wool chairman Miles Anderson also attended the closed session. “This meeting was organised so these national leaders could hear from affected farmers and get their stories straight from the horse’s mouth,” Mid Canterbury dairy chairman Chris Ford said. Representatives from Beef + Lamb New Zealand, DairyNZ, Fonterra, local MPs and Primary Industries

LISTENING: Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers dairy chairman Chris Ford, left, and Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon chat with Ashburton farmer Shane Moore, centre, about his nightmare journey with Mycoplasma bovis.

Ministry officials also showed up. Lewis said hearing the struggles of affected farmers first-hand was tough. “It was an emotional meeting – most powerful listening, these stories today were real tearjerkers. “Feds will be working with the new directorgeneral to do better for these farmers. Ashburton Mb infected property farmer Shane Moore said it was encouraging to feel the

support coming from the meeting. “I’d like to say it was a positive meeting. It was in the sense of having the support of all the people in the room but we need to see change. Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon said farmer welfare is meant to be the heart of the Mb response process. “The inference I have been hearing from the farmers I have been helping over the past 11 months and that I heard from

farmers here today clearly is evidence this hasn’t been the case. “MPI needs to pull up their socks and improve the process for everyone. “The director-general certainly made the right noises but again a lot of these farmers have heard it all before. “Everyone in this room wants to see more action from MPI. These farmers need to be number one priority,” Falloon said. Just 20 days into his role Smith said “Claims from these farmers are coming across my desk and as I try to speed up that process I thought let’s get our relationship going so I inquired about attending the meeting and here I am. “All the signals are we will beat this.” Farmers urged MPI to focus on a threestrand approach – communication, consistency of information and follow-through on what is promised. “I can’t fix it overnight. I can’t take the pain away but you can be there to ease the pathway.

Alliance makes $8m in profits Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz ALLIANCE has reported an operating profit of $8 million for the year ending September 30. The farmer-owned co-op increased revenue to $1.8 billion, from $1.5b a year earlier, and paid out $1.2b to shareholders for livestock supply. Operating earnings were lower than the $20.2m figure in 2017, partly because a greater share of revenue was paid to farmers, chairman Murray Taggart said. More than $14m in loyalty payments and $31.6m in advance payments were made to support farmers at times of low farm cashflow. Alliance increased its ovine processing capacity and added overtime to help farmers during the summer drought, meaning costs were higher than expected. When rain came capacity was maintained ahead of the expected second peak in processing volumes. The co-op won’t be making pool distribution payments, opting to make more investment into the business, but will be issuing 9.5m bonus shares in December. Lamb market prices eased late in the season but procurement pricing was slow to align with that, impacting late season profitability. It has struggled to be competitive in the beef sector and the latest year was also challenging as international prices weakened. Alliance is making changes to the business model to improve its capabilities. It has become more competitive overall through greater efficiencies and operating improvements but a lot of effort is still needed to improve profitability to levels that farmer-shareholders expect, he said.

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the environment wherever they are. He cites the large number of Auckland beaches closed by contamination from overflowing sewage systems as an example. He urges farmers to engage with councils early because land and water plans are proposed and there is much at stake. South Canterbury Federated Farmers president Jason Grant said while there is a general acceptance consents are needed, there is concern at the extra costs. Environment Canterbury says a resource consent application costs about $2000 but Grant says given the technical aspect of many consents, farmers are employing consultants. That pushes costs towards $5000 plus the extra charge of regular audits. Manawatu-Wanganui strategy and regulatory group manager Nic Peet says its One Plan is active though a part is being appealed to the Environment Court by Fish and Game and the Environmental Defence Society over monitoring of nitrogen leaching. Peet said his main take-home message from implementing the One Plan is that councils need to understand all its economic, social and environmental implications. “It is easy to focus on any one of those things.” Another difficulty has been adapting Overseer, designed to monitor long-term nutrient loss trends, as a regulatory tool. Peet says it is not accurate enough for granting consents but that is how it is being used. Farmers are collectively responding to concerns about water quality which Peet said is mixed in the region. Progress is being made managing nutrients but sediment run-off is an issue not just for Manawatu-Wanganui but also for many other parts of NZ. “With sediment we know what to do and we have a pretty successful land-use programme. The challenge is the scale with which that has got to occur.”

Councils are in charge Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz REGIONAL councils are following their own mandates and not Government directives to improve water quality by increasing the number of farming activities needing consent, Environment Minister David Parker says. Resource consent to convert sheep and beef farms to dairying is already required by some councils but he expects the measure to eventually be adopted by all councils. A more pressing issue is the impact on waterways of silt runoff from intensive winter grazing, which Environment Southland is addressing but other regional councils must still face. “It is not the National Policy Statement (NPS) on Freshwater causing that. “The regional council has

ACTION VARIES: Many farmers might experience no change from new environment rules but some might have to change substantially, Environment Minister David Parker says.

viewed it as a priority that needs addressing,” he said.

Environment Southland has imposed buffer zones on cultivated land next to waterways, limited the area of a farm that can be cropped for intensive winter grazing without needing consent and restricted cultivated to sloping land less than 20 degrees with consent. Parker said the NPS on freshwater will be amended but exactly to what extent is not clear until the Freshwater Leader’s Group reports back. But he and the public expect rivers should be swimmable over summer and it is clear water quality remains a problem in some areas even where 90% of farmers comply with council rules. That indicates existing standards are lacking and need to change but that does not mean new rules and guidelines will be overly burdensome, difficult

to follow or make farming unprofitable. Many farmers will experience no change from new rules and regulations but others might face substantial change if they cannot reduce their impact on waterways and the environment, he said. “There are a lot of good farmers but others that are not doing so well.” Farmers can reduce their environmental impact by adopting proven technology and management methods. Parker cited recent research that showed careful management of irrigation in spring and autumn to avoid wet, cool conditions can reduce nitrogen losses by 26%. The research, by Aqualinc and the Fertiliser Association, said farmers should not irrigate in September or April because nutrient losses outweighed the benefits of extra pasture growth.

Environment plans bring benefits Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz VIRTUALLY every farmer might need a farm environment plan under Government changes to fresh water management, Timaru environmental engineer Keri Johnston says. This likely requirement has been signalled by Environment Minister David Parker as part of a new National Policy Statement on Fresh Water and will go some way to address his concerns it is taking too long to improve water quality. Changes to the Resource Management Act will require changes to the way councils manage effects of resource consents they grant. Previously, councils have amended consents as they are renewed to take account of any plan changes but law changes could see the Government impose

a deadline by when all consents have to be updated. Johnston says farmers should not fear farm environment plans. Used correctly and as part of everyday decision-making they can save the business money. She has irrigator clients who, after introducing soil moisture probes as part of their plan, have reduced by a third the amount of water applied. An east Otago farmer has halved the amount of fertiliser applied without losing production by more carefully managing what he applies, when and how much. “It all starts to add up,” she says. A farm environment plan identifies environmental risks such as effluent discharge or irrigation run-off and establishes plans to mitigate those risks. Johnston, a farmer in her own right, says mitigation does not have to happen overnight.

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She has a large gully running through her farm that accumulates run-off so progressively fenced it over several years. “It’s about you looking at and identifying high-risk areas and prioritising those and then working through the rest.” A common misconception is about the cost and time needed to create farm plans. Most plans should cost hundreds rather than thousands of dollars and can be written in a morning using templates, though there could be extra costs such as Overseer. Farmers are increasingly accepting the need to address their environmental impact but it requires a change in mindset after which most find it rewarding and worthwhile, she said. “It has got to stop being treated as a tick-box process.

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Feds accuse MPI of extortion Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz ARABLE farmers generally believe they should join the Government Industry Biosecurity Agreement despite a Federated Farmers leader saying officials are using extortion tactics and putting a gun to farmers’ heads to get them to sign. Following a series of Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) consultation meetings across the country the general consensus is the industry needs a voice at the biosecurity table, FAR chief executive Alison Stewart said. “There has been much questioning and vigorous debate but growers and industry alike understand the principle behind it (GIA). “Overall the consensus is it’s better to be in than out,” Stewart said. The arable industry, being a very complicated web of stakeholders with 40 different crops, numerous end-users, importers and exporters, is taking longer than many sectors to make decisions. GIA will mean the industry has greater involvement in the entire biosecurity system and shares decision-making in relation to any response that affects it. “However, there is also an agreement to share both readiness and response costs to pre-agreed fiscal caps.” It has been the cost and whether farmers and industry should pay that have triggered much debate. The arable industry has committed to working with the Government and other sector groups to manage biosecurity and has formed Seed and Grain Readiness and Response (SGRR), an incorporated society that represents five organisations – Federated Farmers Arable, Flour Millers Association, FAR, NZ Grain and Seed Trade Association and United Wheatgrowers (UWG).

MPI is using overbearing extortion tactics to get these GIAs signed. Jeremy Talbot Federated Farmers

INVOLVEMENT: Canterbury cropping farmer David Clark says if farmers are going to be billed to mop up a biosecurity incursion then perhaps it’s appropriate they have a greater level of involvement on the risks taken at the border. Photo: Annette Scott

Each organisation will have one director on SGRR. Farmers and companies are debating whether SGRR should become the GIA signatory. “It’s not a done deal yet. This is a consultation round of meetings,” Stewart said. The meetings that started in Gore have been held in Ashburton, Timaru, Christchurch, Hamilton, Bulls, Masterton and Hawke’s Bay. Farmers’ general opinion was summed by up by several farmers at the Ashburton meeting. “I don’t think we have a choice,” one said. “We want to sit at the table and be part of any discussion,” another said. “We have got to be there,” a third said. But South Canterbury Federated

Farmers arable chairman Jeremy Talbot said the Ministry for Primary Industries has a lot to answer for. “MPI is using overbearing extortion tactics to get these GIAs signed. “Yes, we all need to be around the table but we should not have a gun to our head to sign a GIA to be there.” Talbot said while South Canterbury farmers agree on the need to be at the biosecurity table they are not happy with the payment system or the responsibility landed on them when MPI is responsible for what comes across the border. “What MPI should be doing is putting a biosecurity insurance levy on all imports coming into NZ and whatever the rate, it can be varied accordingly for grain,

seed, palm kernel, agricultural machinery.” Rated appropriately a levy could return $5 million a year and with a fiscal cap of $10m or $15m could be zero-rated until time of need. “It’s about putting the levy on where the risk is perceived to be,” Talbot said. Feds arable industry group seeds vice-chairman David Clark said given biosecurity is paramount to the industry farmers generally support the concept. “But there’s a reasonably common theme that if we are going to be sent a bill to mop up an incursion then is it appropriate or not that we have a greater level of involvement on the risks taken at the border. “And another is that if we are paying a fair chunk of the bill to clean up the incursion what is

appropriate to go back on the importer – we have been down that track a couple of times of recently.” Clark said the GIA will be high on the agenda when the Feds arable industry group meets next month. “We will give it very good discussion and hopefully get a group consensus at that meeting.” UWG chairman Brian Leadley said the organisation supports GIA. “Our view is we are no good sitting on the sideline. We believe hands-on being involved is the better option. “But we like to think we will be more involved with readiness and hopefully that will minimise or even negate the need for involvement in response,” Leadley said. Stewart said the arable industry has been an observer in a number of recent biosecurity incursions including pea weevil, black grass, velvet leaf, red clover casebearer moth and is aware the import and multiplication of seeds is a high biosecurity risk activity. “If the industry doesn’t become a GIA deed signatory it will have no formal say in any readiness or response activities undertaken on behalf of our industry and (the) Government would have no obligation to consult with or work with us.”

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 26, 2018

Lamb numbers and prices are up Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz THE lamb market is almost getting sexy again, North Canterbury farmer Stu Thomson says. His Manahune farm had the biggest yarding in the annual late November Glenmark Drive onfarm sales and topped the market. A line of his 93 best prime lambs fetched $197 a head in the rain, compared to a top of $186 last year. “It’s a real grass market with strong demand across all the weight ranges. “The works bought all the big boys and the bottom end of the store market was very good,” he said. Confidence levels in the sheep industry are strong. Manahune had 5500 lambs in the first of the sales last Tuesday. An exceptional lambing in excellent conditions this season with high percentages, including a lot of triplets and very good survival rates means a lot more lambs to sell this year. But that meant Manahune’s average fell to $120 a head from $146 last year. “We’re normally doing a lot more prime but with a lot more lambs we had a lot more stores this time,” he said. As well as the $197 top price, Thomson and wife Sue sold another 526 prime lambs at $175. Six farms were selling lambs on the day and all topped $170 for their top lines, a couple at better than $180 a head. That put the good prime lambs up round the high $7/kg to $8/kg, still very good money, Hazlett Rural general manager and auctioneer Ed Marfell said. Store lambs averaged $3.80/kg to $4/kg, a good gain on last year. Ian and Jess Knowles at Glenmark Springs had a top prime price of $185 and Phil and Sally Thomson at Glenview got $183. The six farms put 16,000 lambs up and all were sold in a very buoyant market, despite the rain that set in a couple of hours before the first of the auctions, Marfell said.

SELLING LIKE HOT CAKES: Wet weather failed to dampen the enthusiasm of buyers at Canterbury on-farm lamb sales last week.

Most people believe the lamb scene is very solid. Ed Marfell Hazlett Rural “We had a very good line-up of prime and store lambs and there’s good confidence about. Most people believe the lamb scene is very solid.” The sales momentum continued on Wednesday at Hazlett Rural’s two on-farm sales at Banks Peninsula – Putiki Farm at Port Levy and Te Pohue Farm at Camp Bay – with stores averaging close to $4/kg with the sun shining again. The big gallery of Glenmark Drive buyers had not been deterred by the rain. “The lambs never look as good

when their wool is wet but buyers see past that,” he said. “There were a lot of smiles, especially among the vendors, but this rain should set pasture up till Christmas at least and people are happy about that.” A lot of prime lambs, at just killable weights, sold in the $120 to $140 range. The best of the store lambs sold up to $120, with four to six weeks of finishing ahead of them. Lighter lambs sold in the $90 to $100 range, with six weeks or so of finishing to come. Buyers came from the wider central Canterbury area, Mid Canterbury, Southland and Otago. With the good lambing figures the 16,000-lamb total was up about 2000 on last year and prices were well ahead with an average overall about $3.80/kg and lighter lambs about $4/kg. Dovedale Farm had 2500 lambs to sell, Glenmark Springs 2000, Glenview 500, the Bethels

at Shellrock 3000 including 800 blackface and J R Wigley at Dalrachrie Downs 2500 on offer. The Banks Peninsula sales were very strong with top prime lambs selling between $175 and $153 a head. Most store lambs were $110 to $130 a head for the close to $4/kg average. Putiki had 3500 lambs for sale and Te Pohue kicked off the day with 900 lambs. “With all these sales we get a lot of annual buyers coming back because they know the lambs, they know the vendors are putting the money in the genetics and they know the store lambs do well for them,” Marfell said. With recent rain and plenty of grass around a couple of new buyers added some zing to the Putiki and Te Pohue sales. The programme started positively on Monday with prices mostly up on last year. About 3100 mixed-sex lambs

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were put up at Highfield Farm at Waiau by the Northcote family partnership and the top 65 creme de la creme fetched $171 a head. The other prime lambs were sold for $130 to $149. Stores went for $100 to $118 with a smaller cut of lambs at $93. The average was about $3.70/ kg, Marfell said. That worked out at an average $120 a head, a $9 gain over last year. It was on a lift of about 400 lambs over last year. Most of the lambs were bought for North Canterbury and Darfield farms with just one load heading to south Otago. Following tradition, the Highfield lambs were sold straight off the mother, making paddocks available for irrigation for pasture growth in time for lambs to come down from the higher part of the partnership, Whaleback Station, for finishing in January.

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10 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 26, 2018

Rain washes away farmers’ fears of drying out Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz FEARS of a water shortage for Canterbury irrigators have been washed away with four weeks of rain and unseasonal snow. “Certainly, we have done a 180 on where we were when we had water shortage direction orders in place at the end of September,” Opuha Water chief executive Andrew Mockford said. “The rain has done its job. The lake is sitting at 391.8 metres, 100% full is 391.2m. We have plenty of water. We are spilling water.”

Mockford said with more rain forecast Opuha is looking to raise the dam to 105%. “We will take maximum water while we can and if El Nino turns up, as it seems more likely now from predictions, then we expect we should have sufficient water for summer.” In Mid Canterbury, Federated Farmers water spokesman Chris Allen said the unseasonal deluge brought rivers flows up across the region, in particular in the Selwyn zone where the Selwyn River flow at State Highway 1 is the highest seen for several decades. “We’re in a much preferred

space than five weeks ago when right across Canterbury we were looking at a very early start to the irrigation season and, given the relatively dry winter, farmers were getting a little concerned. “The past four weeks of rain have allayed that concern, at least meantime, with river levels up, aquifers looking pretty damn good and even snow to melt now.” Allen’s property is the wettest it’s been in 25 years. “And in contrast, last November was our driest in 25 years so it’s certainly a complete turnaround in 12 months. “We’re looking really confident

at the moment, winter feed is growing, crops are well established but from here it’s anyone’s guess where it will go and we need to keep very mindful of good irrigation management techniques as we could dry out as quickly as we filled up.” Canterbury’s Central Plains Water is now fully operational after the opening of stage two last

month. The scheme can now irrigate 47,000 hectares between the Waimakariri and Rakaia Rivers.

UNDER WATER: Flood water inundates paddocks near Berwick on the Taieri Plains in Otago.

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PHILIP Wilson spent part of Tuesday looking for a stock water leak on his sodden Taieri dairy farm, which in the previous 24 hours had been inundated with more than 60mm of rain. The confused spring hit new extremes in Otago and Southland with snow early in the week blanketing Te Anau and parts of northern Southland, Queenstown and the Southern Alps. It was followed by a rain deluge that inundated much of Otago on Tuesday with between 30mm and 60mm falling, flooding rivers and further saturating soils. That added to an extremely wet month with 150.8mm of rain recorded at Dunedin Airport up to Tuesday night. The mean rainfall for the month is 57mm. The Otago Regional Council reports the Clutha River peaked at 2700 cumecs, the highest flow since 1999 before falling late on Wednesday. It was contained in the flood scheme banks. The Taieri River peaked at 980 cumecs but was contained in the flood protection scheme, which reached 74% of capacity. Wilson says while his farm had some ponding, farmers with land on the Taieri River flood spill plain were under water. It was proving a very costly month for many Otago farmers with wet weather delaying the sowing of winter feed crops and silage and balage ready for harvesting now collapsed on top of saturated soils. Wilson said with a further 25mm to 30mm of rain was forecast to Thursday morning so it was a guess when the crops will be harvested but the quality is likely to be poor. “It’s the opportunity cost. “If you get silage and balage off it helps the quality and gives you fresh feed for the cows. “Now it is the unknown quality of product that we are going to make.”

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 26, 2018

Tornado rips through farm Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz A FREAK tornado was a rude Sunday afternoon shock that left Randal Hanrahan with irrigators twisted and mangled, covers ripped off silage stacks and tyres flung high into the air, topped off by an upended trailing mower and a damaged tractor. It all happened as the Mid Canterbury farmer worked on his property, close to State Highway 1 just north of Ashburton on Sunday November 18 as Canterbury’s long anniversary weekend travellers were returning home from holiday. “It was lucky really it was Sunday as I was the only one on the farm at the time,” Hanrahan said. “It was also very lucky that it stopped just short of the main road as landing a centre pivot in the middle of State Highway 1 on a busy holiday weekend would have been a huge disaster.” Hanrahan was working on his farm when shortly before 4pm the wind changed. “There was a southerly arriving in one end of the paddock and a northeasterly at the other end. They met in a barley paddock and moved into the potato paddock

MOWER MOVED: A tornado that hit Randal Hanrahan’s farm lifted this big mower off the ground and flung it into the tractor before depositing it wrong way up. Photos: Randal Hanrahan

It started right beside me, like a whirlwind – it just grew bigger and bigger. Randal Hanrahan Farmer and that’s what set the dust twister up. “It started right beside me, like a whirlwind – it just grew bigger and

bigger. I’m not sure what I was thinking at the time. I just thought I need to video this.” Hanrahan was about 100 metres away. “I saw it come across the yard, skirt the farmhouse and head on across the paddocks. It must have trekked about 2.5km across the farm. “Wrap was ripped off a silage stack, tyres were flying through the air, it was unreal, like a huge plume of dust rising and twisting up and up as it moved along the farm and into the neighbour

GOING NOWHERE: This centre pivot on Randal Hanrahan’s farm is out of action after a tornado lifted it off the ground and dropped it back down with its wheels in the air.

before breaking up just short of the main road – thank goodness for that.” Five spans of an irrigator were upended from its centre point and left twisted and mangled while a second irrigator was bent in half. A trailing mower attached the tractor was picked up and turned 90 degrees before being dropped and left on its end. The tractor windows were smashed. “I guess these disaster events happen at the weekend for a reason.

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Brexit deal crucial for continued NZ exports Nigel Stirling nigel.g.stirling@gmail.com

THAT SOON: Britain and Europe can be expected to begin quota splitting immediately after Brexit if there is no deal for the British withdrawal, agricultural trade envoy Mike Petersen says.

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during the Uruguay round of global trade talks two decades later. That gave NZ an annual quota of 228,000 tonnes to sell free of tariffs in the European Union. However, during Brexit talks last year the EU and the UK agreed to split all EU quotas. In NZ’s case half its quota would be allocated to the British market and the other half to the remaining 27 countries of the EU, based on a three-year reference period chosen by the EU and the UK, which showed roughly half of NZ’s sheep meat exports heading to the UK and half to the continent between 2013 and 2015. NZ and other EU quota-holders have vehemently opposed the quota-splitting proposal, arguing it would severely curtail the flexibility of exporters to divert their products to either the UK or the continent as market conditions dictate and probably flouts international trade law too. Just when the quotas will be split could come down to a vote in the British parliament early next month. British Prime Minister Theresa May will take to the House of Commons an agreement negotiated between the UK government and the EU for a transition period under which existing trade arrangements between the UK and the EU continue for another nearly two years following Britain’s formal departure from the EU in March 2019. Beef + Lamb NZ international trade manager Esther Guy-Meakin said the agreement guarantees existing quota access for NZ exporters and other quota-holders till at least December 2020. “That will be really important for our exporters because it will give us an opportunity to work through any changes to customs requirements but also more time to talk about the quotas.” But should May fail to get a parliamentary majority to pass the withdrawal agreement the transition period will be scrapped and with insufficient time to negotiate a new trade deal the EU and the UK would be forced to trade with each other on World Trade Organisation terms from March next year. Overnight British sheep farmers would be hit with trade-stopping tariffs of 20%. That would see NZ sheep meat exports forced to compete with a flood of British sheep meat previously destined for the continent but now trapped in the UK market. While NZ could divert some of its exports to the EU it would face restrictions there too as it ran up against new, lower quota limits. The Government’s agricultural trade envoy Mike Petersen said that is because the EU and the UK can be expected to implement their quotasplitting proposal immediately in the event of a no-deal Brexit with arguments from NZ and other quota-holders to be sorted out at the WTO at a later date. Petersen said a meeting of EU leaders over the weekend would be crucial to May’s chances. Former trade minister Lockwood Smith agreed May needs a better deal from her EU counterparts if she is to stand any chance of getting the agreement through the Commons. In particular, she is struggling to quell concerns the agreement could end up tying Northern Ireland to the EU after the transition period ends in December 2020. That upset Tory MPs concerned the UK would be unable to disentangle itself from the EU after Brexit and also May’s unionist backers who see it as creating a permanent division between Northern Ireland and the rest of Britain. Also at risk are the UK’s ambitious plans for free-trade deals with the rest of the world. Smith said while the UK will be free to begin trade talks after its formal departure in March 2019 other countries will remain wary if they do not know the full extent to which the UK will remain tied into EU rules and regulations.

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14 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 26, 2018

Milk flush is depressing prices Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz RECORD milk collection in New Zealand over the October peak has continued to depress Global Dairy Trade prices, which, in turn, threaten a reduction in the farmgate milk price closer to $6/ kg. The GDT index fell 3.5% after the auction on November 21, the twelfth consecutive fall or sideways movement since midMay. World prices are now 20% below their 2018 peak and 12% lower than this time last year. Season-to-date milk production has been 6% more than 2017 and that growth might return NZ to its previous seasonal record output of 2014-15, four years ago. The Dairy Companies Association said 271 million kilograms of milksolids were produced in October, 6.5% more than last October and fractionally more than October 2014. October provided 15% of the season’s total and pasture growth prospects for November and December remain favourable for milk output. ASB senior rural economist Nathan Penny said September to

DILEMMA: New Zealand’s big share of the whole milk powder market means the production flush is pushing prices down.

December accounts for half of the season’s production. Therefore, an El Nino summer and dry weather will not be enough to derail the season’s expected record production. The ASB production growth forecast was revised from 4% to 5% and the farmgate milk price forecast cut by 25c to $6/kg MS. “NZ production strength is proving too much for global markets to absorb but, fortunately, production is relatively soft in

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Europe, the United States and Australia. “But NZ’s large share of global dairy exports, particularly of whole milk powder and butter, means the mini glut is leading prices lower. “As a result we have trimmed our milk price forecast to $6. “In net income terms the higher production is not enough to offset the lower milk price. “We estimate that farmer incomes will be $370m lower as

a result of the forecast changes,” Penny said. That is a $30,000 impact on the average-sized farm. The GDT results were a mixed bag with prices for butter and anhydrous milk fat falling 9.6% and 9.4% respectively, while whole milk powder fell only 1.8%. The futures market had expected GDT price rises and quickly adjusted its levels after the auction. NZX analyst Amy Castleton

NZ’s large share of global dairy exports, particularly of whole milk powder and butter, means the mini glut is leading prices lower. Nathan Penny ASB said WMP futures have declined between US$15 and $50/tonne but there is still a rising curve on next year’s price expectations. WMP for June 2019 is at US$2890, about $290 above the GDT average of $2599. The WMP price average is the lowest on GDT it has been since August 2016. Because WMP forms such a large portion of NZ export products analysts think Fonterra will have to pick a forecast number below its $6.25-$6.50 range for the farmgate price. Fonterra is required by the dairy industry regulations to make a single figure forecast in December, expected to be released after the board meeting, along with the second quarter trading figures.

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16 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 26, 2018

IMPROVE IT: The aim of trade talks with central Amerian countries is to get a better deal with Mexico, former trade minister Todd McClay says.

Latin American trade talks still on the table Nigel Stirling nigel.g.stirling@gmail.com THE Government has brought out its big guns as it fights to keep dairy and beef access on the table in Latin American free-trade talks. New Zealand was the first of four countries last year to be invited to join trade talks with the Pacific Alliance of Mexico, Peru, Chile and Colombia. Dubbed the Pacific Pumas their combined

economies are equal in size to the world’s sixth largest and have won plaudits for their goal of free trade by 2020. NZ has put considerable effort into getting the green light to join the talks, which it had participated in over a number of years as an observer. Given the group’s free-trade ambitions NZ was confident of elimination of tariffs on all major agricultural exports to the quartet’s consumer markets. As with all of NZ’s trade negotiations it had been prepared to haggle over the exact timeline to get a deal done. It had also emphasised the diversified nature of NZ’s primary exports meant it is unlikely to flood the Latin American countries’ markets even if tariffs are cut to zero. But those assurances counted for little for Colombia, which, before the most recent negotiating round in Mexico City last month revealed it is not prepared to open its market further to dairy and beef from its negotiating partners. The new negotiating position followed a noshow by Colombian negotiators at the previous round of talks in Auckland in September. Dairy Companies Association executive director Kimberly Crewther said the negotiating position raises fresh doubts about Colombia’s free-trade credentials and suitability to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade agreement due to come into force for its first 11 participants later this year. NZ, by virtue of its being a founding member, has the right to veto any new application to join the CPTPP. Trade Minister David Parker said Colombia is the only country to have so far formally applied to join the CPTPP. “NZ has always been clear that accession to CPTPP is open to all who can meet the high standards of the agreement. “Unfortunately Colombia’s most recent offer in the Pacific Alliance negotiations, effectively excluding beef and dairy, is not one we can or will accept. “Nor could it be acceptable for CPTPP accession.” National’s trade spokesman Todd McClay said as well as making it clear CPTPP is off the table for Colombia the Government should seek assurances from the rest of the Pacific Alliance countries that they won’t follow in its footsteps and seek to exclude beef and dairy from the deal. McClay, who kicked off the talks with the Alliance last June while he was still trade minister, said while improved access to the Colombian market was not to be sniffed at the main prize for NZ in the talks had always been improvement on the deal it had been able to get from Mexico on dairy market access in the CPTPP. In those talks Mexico had agreed to limited increases in tariff-free quota for dairy imports. “David Parker needs to put all the effort he can into this to ensure NZ farmers have a level playing field around dairy and other products in the Mexico market. McClay said rather than leaving that job to his officials Parker needed to do it personally. “That is the type of trade diplomacy that will solve this problem.” The other countries in the talks with the Pacific Alliance are Singapore, Australia and Canada.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 26, 2018

A2 Milk is making waves in US Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz

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A2 Milk is rattling the United States’ big, traditional dairy players with its fresh milk market momentum, managing director Jayne Hrdlicka says. In its third year actively in the market it now has 9000 sales outlets in the target areas, up from 6000 at the end of June, a 50% growth rate. “We’re shaking up the categories and taking market share in all categories and we’re looking to be playing a big role there,” she said in a presentation ahead of Tuesday’s annual meeting in Melbourne. In her address to the meeting Hrdlicka said the US research data looks a lot like the firm’s experience with fresh milk in Australia. That was where A2 became established as a major industry player, using cashflow to expand into China and beyond. It now has a 10%-share in the Australian fresh milk market. A2 has come under pressure from the big US dairy lobby but Hrdlicka said the business is dogged and a disruptor and is confident of its future there. It worked through a similar response from major Australian players in the early days there. “Consumers and regulators in the US like our business and the US industry is nervous. “We have always had a longterm focus and every month we see the benefit of that.” The rate of sales velocity is growing steadily. New stores are showing a greater initial velocity than the earlier stores. A2 is very much a growth business with a lot of reinvestment of cashflow but returns are flowing through into earnings with a six to 12-month time lag, she said. Sales and earnings growth continue at very strong levels

across the business, shareholders were told. In the first four months of the financial year to October 31 revenue was $368.4 million, a rise of 40% over last year, operating earnings (Ebitda) rose 58% to $124.2m, pre-tax profits went up 60% to $124.9m and aftertax profit was up 64% to $86m, Hrdlicka said. That is an excellent result but timing was a factor in the operating earnings and margins are expected to come back to 2018-year levels as costs come through. A2 is making significant investment in China and the US on top of the ongoing market spend, she said.

Consumers and regulators in the US like our business and the US industry is nervous. Jayne Hrdlicka A2 Milk The quarterly result followed big gains in last year’s full result, in which bottom-line profits and operating cashflow increased by more than 100% and revenue by nearly 70%. A2’s fresh milk business continued to gain market share in the core Australia market. As well as fresh milk reaching 10% of the total fresh milk category, A2 Platinum infant formula is the market leader with a 33% share. Momentum continues to build in China with store numbers up by 2000 to 12,000 on top of e-commerce sales. Total sales were up by 75% over the four months. A2 has also launched its A2 fresh milk offering in New Zealand

DISRUPTOR: A2 Milk is under pressure from the big United States dairy lobby but it has increased its outlets there from 6000 to 9000 since July, chief executive Jayne Hrdlicka says.

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18 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 26, 2018

LIC wants herd data status quo Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz LIC wants the herd improvement model retained mostly as it is now, it says in a submission to a Ministry for Primary Industries review. The model supports and incentivises investment though minor adjustments could be made to improve the regulatory framework. LIC opposes to two options suggested by MPI in a discussion paper for the stakeholders. They are to expand the regulated dataset to include extra fields needed to calculate breeding values and animal evaluation indices and to provide a more broadly focused mechanism that allows the regulated fields to be updated without requiring amendment to the Act or the Regulations. The MPI review covers the herd improvement industry governed by subpart 4 of the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA)

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unnecessary extra regulation or effective deregulation. The changes will reduce the value of LIC built up by dairy farmers over 100 years and introduce uncertainty to commercialisation of the outputs of investments made by the cooperative. New technologies like genomics

of animal evaluation and the breeding value indices. MPI said genomic data is not covered by the regulations but will have an increasingly important input to animal evaluation. “Ideally, the regulatory wwregime pertaining to core data should be made sufficiently flexible to accommodate the contribution of genomic data for the future.” Submissions have now closed and MPI is considering whether to recommend policy proposals that could be included in the DIRA amendment bill.

will require greater investment in research in excess of what industry-good funding can afford. In the discussion paper MPI said animal evaluation is worth an estimated $300 million annually to the industry. The act and regulations obligate herd testers, of which LIC is one, to provide inputs to 46 data fields in the Dairy Industry Good Animal Database (DIGAD), from 70% of dairy herds. Management of the core database in DIGAD passed from LIC to DairyNZ in late 2014. The data forms the basis

Money to help Pacific nations’ horticulture crops A DONATION of $13 million to help boost South Pacific horticultural exports has been welcomed by Horticulture New Zealand. As one outcome of the largely low key APEC conference in Papua New Guinea, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said the $13.5m, spread over four years, is for the Pacific

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“This was a programme that started some time ago and helping these countries get up to standard to send their products to the likes of NZ and Australia is a good thing to do. It is some serious money that has been put into it,” Horticulture NZ chief executive Mike Chapman said. NZ ministers also agreed to

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Top scientist urges GE revisit Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz ONE of the country’s leading scientists is urging agricultural leaders to step up and restart a national discussion about the value and use of genetic engineering. Sir Peter Gluckman, the recently departed prime minister’s chief science adviser, welcomed efforts by the Royal Society to lift the profile of genetic engineering in its recent round of studies on the technology’s use. But he remains concerned there is a national conversation not being had over a technology that created intense debate almost 20 years ago, with an election outcome swinging strongly on political views held at the time. “While there will still be people with objections, the positioning of the technology now is somewhat different to the way it was 25 years ago, as is the way with all technology as we come to understand it better.” He maintains New Zealand, as is the case in other societies, bears the legacies of the technology’s downsides that existed almost a generation ago. At that time the technology was based more around transgenics that involved combining genetic material from one species with another. That almost inevitably gave birth to the Frankenfood description and some emotional campaigns from groups including Mothers Against Genetic Engineering (MAdGE). “But transgenics was the only technology of the moment. New technology moves on and in many ways the latest technology is closer to nature itself and is more specific. It is just as the telephone today is so different from the one invented 150 years ago.” But he urges the industry and the Government to be less concerned about legislation that focuses on the processes and

technology types and instead looks more at the outcomes they deliver. NZ’s legislation defines any new gene techniques developed post July 1998 as genetic modification and subjects them to rigorous controls. “We have seen with other technologies like IVF, the technology just moves too quickly and outstrips the legislation. There is a growing view globally in technology law circles not to try and define the technology in law. It is the use you put it to that should be regulated.”

GO FOR IT: Primary sector leaders must get into a national debate about the benefits of using genetic editing technology, Sir Peter Gluckman says.

As a biological economy we have to have access to this. Sir Peter Gluckman Scientist He sees the low hanging fruit for genetic editing technology in NZ being with the high producing, low methane drought tolerant ryegrasses AgResearch is trialling in the United States because NZ regulations won’t permit the trials here. Pine trees are another species with their long growth cycle well suited to its application. “But the first areas, ironically, we will see its wide application is in human health. “It’s already being looked at to cure rare eye conditions and some cancers, which is logical given they result from genetic damage.” Some vaccines and insulin products are already produced using the technology. Pest control using genetic editing is still many years away but other uses likely to hold popular appeal include controlling diseases like kauri dieback.

Gluckman cautions NZ cannot be sanguine about this country’s position in the world without applying genetic engineering. “As a biological economy we have to have access to this. “While we are attempting to diversify our economy you would have to say we are a long way from having an economy without a viable pastoral sector. “There is no free lunch for NZ with the need to balance between a productive pastoral economy and protect our environment in a way that also allows sustainable economic growth, all in a time frame that makes sense.” He points to the rapid rise of non-dairy milks, some using genetically engineered

ingredients and with taste profiles almost indistinguishable from dairy milk. “There could be the ability to stratify milk products based on consumer profiles, such as lactose intolerance – to assume that in 20 years from now the market for cows’ milk is the same, given the environmental footprint now, it may not be so.” Earlier this year NZ scientists said they can remove an allergen from cow’s milk using gene editing. But Gluckman is not completely bereft of hope for NZ’s opportunity to pick up on the technology. It has advanced at a rate that has taken many by surprise and there remain some major

legislative hurdles in several large markets. They include the European Union, which is being hypocritical in banning the use of the technology while allowing the importation of GE feed for livestock, he said. “South Africa and Argentina have recognised they do not need high level regulations for it.” So he urges primary sector leaders not to hold back in also taking up the call with scientists including himself and Massey University’s Professor Barry Scott to open up the conversation on GE again. “Twenty years ago it was not well explained. I think things have moved on and NZ is capable of such a difficult discussion.”

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Farm fatalities still falling Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz TWO years of declining farm fatalities have officials cautiously optimistic but not ready to trumpet a permanent trend. An average of 19 people died on farms each year from 2010 to 2016, Worksafe agriculture sector leader Al McCone said. Last year that fell to 10 and to late November this year the number of deaths is 11. Farm injury statistics are also falling marginally, with injuries requiring a week off work down slightly from an average of about 20,000. Injuries in livestock farming a falling while those in horticulture are rising and viticulture remain low. Quad bikes remain a significant killer but deaths involving other farm vehicles fell. Typically, incidents involving quad bikes and tractors account for half of farm fatalities with those deaths evenly split between the two vehicle types. Last year quads accounted for four deaths and tractors two. So far this year quad bikes are responsible for two deaths and tractors three. Dry weather for much of last

year might have reduced tractor use. “It looks like if we maintain over the next month this current rate of fatality that we traditionally get, it will be a great sign,” McCone said. Farmers are taking health and safety more seriously and quad bikes are increasingly being replaced by side-by-side machines.

The first roll will hurt you. The second roll will kill you. Al McCone Worksafe But McCone warned there is little difference if drivers fail to pay attention and operate side-bysides outside their safety limits. “Side-by-sides are no better than quads if you use them the same was as a quad.” McCone urged farmers to wear safety belts where supplied in utilities, side-by-sides and tractors to avoid drivers and passengers being smashed about or thrown free should a vehicle roll. “The first roll will hurt you. The

second roll will kill you.” Managing health and safety is about acknowledging people make mistakes and working out ways to protect them. They include preventing work fatigue by limiting hours and using vehicles appropriately. A proven method is to involve workers and family in identifying farm risks. Recently, a Northland dairy farmer was fined $70,000 and ordered to pay reparation of $130,000 following the 2016 death of a farm worker. Scott Alexander McRae was sentenced in the North Shore District Court last month after a worker on his Wellsford farm was killed in a tractor incident in December 2016. It was a case WorkSafe says is a reminder to farmers of their legal requirement to have an effective way of identifying and managing the risks involved in their work on farms. “That includes risks involved in the use of vehicles.” A WorkSafe report said the 43-year-old worker was driving a tractor towing a trailer carrying two bales of balage when he lost traction on sloping land. That caused the tractor and trailer to jackknife then roll on top of him, inflicting fatal injuries.

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Telling tales of farming folk Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz RECORDING the heritage of farming and high country activities is something Dave Asher says needs urgent attention. So he and fellow Southlander Dave McCarlie set up South Coast Productions to pursue their passion to tell stories of the early days on the land. Working together over the past 10 years the two Daves have recorded and produced unique stories of the landscapes and people of Southland, the early days of the deer industry and now moved on to what Asher says is a more demanding project – recording farming heritage. They have produced several documentaries and have plans for many more but need help. They have a call out for the older folk of the land to come forward and share their stories. “Without outside funding several unique stories have been told and captured before they are lost forever. “We are keen for the older folk of the land to help us with more. If we don’t get them now they are gone forever,” Asher said. The great New Zealand Deer Story, a series of three DVDs is the only complete story of the industry. Good Keen Men is the story of the deer cullers, iconic Kiwis who blazed trails across unexplored back country controlling exploding deer numbers. The Venison Hunters documents the beginning of the venison industry by a bunch of ingenious Kiwis then The Last Great Adventure captures the techniques that enabled the establishment of deer farms. “These three historic films capture the Kiwi spirit and an

era that has gone forever,” Asher said. South Coast Productions moved onto farming heritage, documenting the story of the pioneering Nolan Family who farmed for more than 100 years in the Arawhata Valley in south Westland. “They have overcome the hardships of isolation and flooded rivers to become part of the folklore of Westland.” More recently, The Snowline was Their Boundary documents why for 150 years the high country has attracted a special breed of men and women captivated by the mysterious attraction that no one quite understands.

Doors were never locked, honesty was part of their culture. Dave Asher South Coast Productions “This is the story of earlier times in the high country, a story of pack horses, cooks, musterers and the dogs that made it all possible. “It’s a story of time when the rivers and the snowline was their boundary.” The newest, From Forest to Farm is the story of early pioneers arriving in a land covered in forest or tussock, a challenge only the hardy could survive. Asher said it highlights how women were often the key to farming ventures. “They worked like galley slaves carrying water, cooking, initially living in tents until a

suitable cabin was found. “Doors were never locked, honesty was part of their culture, as was pride in working the land”. From Forest to Farm follows land development from manpower to horsepower and the arrival of tractors and modern farming. “Where to now for the sons and daughter of those pioneers, what future will farming hold for them, if they can get a start,” Asher asks. “Although the pioneering life was one of hard toil it was a life of achievement and working together, perhaps a lot simpler and happier than for the people of today.” Asher said the stories of hunters, farmers, musterers and fishermen are building a library of documentaries that South Coast Productions wants to grow. “We want to do more and we need to do these stories with some urgency. “None of us is getting younger but we all have stories that are part of NZ’s farming and rural heritage. “We want people to tell us their stories. We’ll interview, listen, record and tell these stories so they are not lost to future generations.” Asher said he would especially like to hear from more women. “I don’t think the importance of their work in the early days of farming has been highlighted nearly enough.”

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Farmland loss to trees uncosted Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz BECOMING a net zero carbon economy by 2050 could result in a 16% drop in production from sheep and beef farms as livestock is replaced by trees to sequester carbon. The Productivity Commission’s report, Low Emissions Economy, said up to 17% of sheep and beef farmland Otago, Canterbury and Manawatu-Wanganui will convert to forestry as part of plans to plant the 2.8 million hectares of new forestry needed for New Zealand to be carbon neutral. A shift to horticulture and forestry could reduce the dairy area in Taranaki by between 35% and 57% and Waikato by 8% and 22%. Commission chairman Murray Sherwin acknowledged such a change will affect rural communities. Modelling of a range of greenhouse gas reduction targets variously showed a 7% to 16% drop in production from sheep and beef farms and a range from an 11% decline to a 25% increase in dairy. The dairy variation is attributed to some models forecasting an increase in dairy land from 2.1m ha to 2.3m hectares and others a decline to 1.6m hectares. The commission calculates the bulk of the 2.8m hectares of new forestry will occur on sheep and beef farms, where poorer quality and less productive land tends to be. But planting will not end there with further afforestation required to offset emissions growth beyond 2050. Sherwin said that degree of land use change up to 2050 is comparable to the shift to

CREDIT: Farmers will plant more trees if the sequestering value of riparian planting, shelter belts and native bush is counted, National agriculture spokesman Nathan Guy says.

dairying since the 1990s and the Government will have to manage the social and financial fallout. “It is a shift in land use, a shift in the nature of rural communities and a shift in the workforce.” The report is designed to shape thought on the issue rather than be a prescriptive tool. “It is in a form to shape your thinking rather than anything you could say was a highly accurate, predictive tool.” That aside, he acknowledged such a reduction in sheep and beef productivity is not to be sneezed at but, as has previously occurred, productivity improvements could temper any decline and returns can be improved by better marketing. Under the various scenarios the report predicts between 11% and 17% of sheep and beef land in Otago, Canterbury and ManawatuWanganui will shift to forestry while forestry in Gisborne could expand 20%, Wellington 18% and Nelson by 17%.

Little change is expected in the West Coast, Bay of Plenty and Auckland. Sherwin acknowledged the predictions will engender nervousness in rural communities but in some areas trees could help by addressing issues such as erosion. “It will have impacts and the Government will need to work through those.” Statistics NZ figures for 2016 show 8.5m hectares were dedicated to sheep and beef farming, 31.9% of NZ’s land area, 2.6m hectares to dairying (9.8%). Cropping was about 2% and horticulture 1%. Forestry covered 8m hectares or 29% of NZ’s land area, of which indigenous forests accounted for 6.3m hectares and production forests 1.7m hectares. In addition, 1.4m hectares of regenerating native forest and 180,000ha of plantation forest is on sheep and beef farms. Should 2.8m hectares be

converted to trees the area of sheep and beef production could fall to about 6m hectares. The financial impact of such a decline is not discussed in the report. Sherwin says extending the area of forestry is essential for NZ to become carbon neutral. The commission’s inquiry was done at the request of the Government and Sherwin says it is now up to the soon to be installed Climate Change Commission what happens to it. Beef + Lamb NZ’s chief insight officer Jeremy Baker says farmers are rightly questioning the commission’s tree planting proposal. “A lot has been done already and I don’t know if there is much of this so-called unproductive land left. “I’m not sure how they came up with that figure. It’s a lot of land.” Baker said farmers feet they are not given credit for reductions in greenhouse gases, which have declined much quicker than other sectors. Methane emissions are 30% below 1990 levels, achieved while growing production and returns. They also own 1.4m hectares of regenerating native bush and 180,000ha of plantation forest. “The sheep and beef sector has done its bit and will play its part again but it has to be economically rational and environmentally sensible and everyone else has to come along too.” National’s agricultural spokesman Nathan Guy says rural people have been forgotten in the commission’s report and the NZ First billion-tree policy, which risks gutting rural communities of people, jobs and services. He described maps he has seen of proposed tree planting in

A lot has been done already and I don’t know if there is much of this so-called unproductive land left. Jeremy Baker B+LNZ Rangitikei District as bloody scary. “Effectively there would be a whole lot of sheep and beef production gone. “The Government seems hell bent on being carbon neutral by 2050 at all costs and I am concerned at the on-farm production losses and losing our competition edge.” Guy said farmers will plant more trees if the sequestering value of riparian planting, shelter belts and native bush is counted. He is confident the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium will discover a methane reducing bolus but that is only part of the solution to reduce greenhouse gases.

Milk plant cuts coal use emissions by 2400 tonnes a year FONTERRA’S Brightwater milk processing plant in Nelson is now co-firing on wood after the site’s newly converted boiler was switched on by Energy and Resources Minister Dr Megan Woods. The conversion slashes the amount of coal used and cuts carbon emissions at the site by about 2400 tonnes a year – roughly the same as taking 530 cars off the road.

With support from the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority Fonterra has achieved a significant step in the Road Map to Transition to a Low Emissions Future developed with the Ministry for the Environment last year. Fonterra global operations chief operating officer Robert Spurway said the Brightwater boiler conversion is part of Fonterra’s plan to reduce

emissions across all sites. “We’ll take what we learn from this conversion and apply it to our longer-term co-firing strategy for other boilers across the country. “Brightwater shows what’s possible when it comes to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. “We’re serious about meeting our targets to reduce carbon emissions by 30% by 2030 and

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LIC selling Kiwi semen to Europe Colin Ley BRITISH dairy herds will be able to access sexed semen from LIC for the first time next spring following the launch of a new service at the AgriScot winter farm show. The farmer-owned co-operative will start collecting semen in New Zealand in January, after which straws will go into quarantine and storage while various tests are done before they can be shipped to the United Kingdom. The aim is to have supplies ready for UK herds by the beginning of March. The potential to make rapid herd improvements by using sexed semen from five top LIC bulls was the company’s big selling point at AgriScot alongside the appeal of helping British

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JUST DO IT: LIC is expanding into Britain, France and Poland despite turmoil surrounding Brexit and free-trade deals its Europe head Mark Ryder says.

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More money for ag science work Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz THE primary sector is one of the key recipients of $420 million of new science funding allocated by the Government. The second tranche of National Science Challenge funding means allocations now total $680m with 11 areas earmarked for funding. The focus for the primary sector is Our Land and Water, launched in January 2016. Our Land and Water gets the second-highest allocation, $97m over 10 years, just below the $106m allocated to development of technological innovation. Research into high-value nutrition foods has been allocated $83.8m. Hosted by AgResearch, the Our Land and Water challenge aims to address the twin challenges of maintaining a productive, world-leading primary sector while maintaining and improving the quality of the country’s water systems. The challenge has been focused on increasing collaboration between groups in research and taking a multi-disciplinary approach to dealing with water quality issues. Challenge director Ken Taylor

confirmed the project has received its full funding allocation for its second work phase extending from July next year to June 2024. After two and a half years of operation the challenge has made good progress.

Thirty one research projects are either completed or under way, delivering 43 journal publications. Ken Taylor National Science Challenge “Thirty one research projects are either completed or under way, delivering 43 journal publications,” he said. Research has also fed into initiatives like Beef + Lamb NZ’s Taste Pure Nature campaign and is starting to influence national and regional policies. In its assessment of progress to date the Business, Innovation and Employment Ministry identified some practices already in play as a result of the challenge’s work.

CHALLENGE: The Government is fundamentally changing the way science is being done, Research, Science and Information Minister Megan Wood says.

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Sheep needed on hill country Waikato farmer Alastair Reeves has taken umbrage at the Productivity Commission’s suggestion sheep should be cast aside to make way for trees. He reckons sheep have a great future if they are not threatened by people making decisions in isolation and ignoring the ramifications of being wrong. He’s even got a plan for wool involving the Duchess of Sussex, aka Meghan Markle. the ramifications of getting it wrong,” Reeves said. The commission has spoken of a decline in sheep and beef HEEP should be production of up to 16% under the at the forefront of long-term tree-planting scenarios sustainable farming but Reeves said that will be an on hill country rather average figure. than being tossed “In some areas it won’t be aside for massive tree-planting near that but in others it will programmes, Waikato hill farmer be a lot more so how will those Alastair Reeves says. communities be able to cope with It is a disgrace for the that?” Productivity Commission to Sheep farming has not been suggest up to 2.8 million hectares given the credit it deserves for of new forestry be planted as a productivity gains over the last 30 means of achieving a low carbonyears. emissions economy. From having about 70m ewes That is a threat to the sheep in the early 1980s and no adverse industry and could be devastating publicity about environmental for rural areas as people are issues New Zealand now has taken from houses, schools and about 27m. communities because of the loss Productivity gains over that of jobs and population decline. time had reduced greenhouse gas The plan was poorly conceived emissions by 30% and produced and thought out. about the same volume of sheep “There’s too much making decisions in isolation and ignoring meat for export. That was an exceptional result and the credit belongs to breeders and farmers. There aren’t issues with the AWDT Future Focus impact of nitrogen Future Focus brings sheep and beef farming partners fertilisers or together for two full days to achieve their business erosion and there goals and aspirations – using a team approach to isn’t the pugging business planning, thanks to RMPP. problem in pasture Registrations for 2019 are now open, visit the website that comes with for more information and to register. cattle in wet winter Locations and dates (module 1 & 2): conditions. Ranfurly: 12 Feb & 12 Mar Reeves said Balclutha: 19 Feb & 19 Mar sheep are the only Whangarei: 26 Feb & 26 Mar animal that can be Mangaweka: 5 Mar & 2 Apr Gisborne: 7 Mar & 4 Apr sustainably farmed Blenheim: 30 Apr & 28 May on hill country and Fairlie: 6 Jun & 4 Jul around sensitive Waipukurau: 25 Jun & 23 Jul waterways and Invercargill: 2 Jul & 30 Jul could enhance Taumarunui: 25 Jul & 22 Aug the reputation of Website: www.awdt.org.nz/futurefocus/ farming among Contact: keri@awdt.org.nz or 06 375 8180 urban people. Other farm uses AWDT Understanding Your Farming Business & are suffering in Wahine Maia, Wahine Whenua the public mind 3 full day workshops and an evening graduation because of the ceremony run over four months. environmental Registrations for 2019 programmes are now open. Visit concerns around the website for dates, locations and to register. dairying. Website: To register visit www.awdt.org.nz/programmes However, for all Contact: anna@awdt.org.nz or 06 375 8180 for more that to happen the information. sheep sector will have to become RMPP Action Network – Facilitator training courses sustainably For rural professionals or farmers looking to run an Action Group under RMPP Action Network. No course profitable. The fees. latest year was Register at www.actionnetwork.co.nz/training very good for Lead Facilitator workshops earnings but the • Wellington 4 & 5 December industry will have to work to make Action Network Fundamentals & Extension Design workshops sure it wasn’t a • Christchurch 12 & 13 December one-year wonder. For more info contact info@actionnetwork.co.nz Exporters had done well to push increasingly bigger Should your important event be listed here? lamb and mutton Phone 0800 85 25 80 or email adcopy@globalhq.co.nz export volumes

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into the Middle East and Asia rather than relying on European markets. Asian countries are typically exporters themselves and so consumers have a focus on quality and are not worried about price. “We need sheep farming to regain its position as NZ’s preeminent livestock industry.” “This isn’t to slight dairy because we have to pay the bills and dairy was seen as the only farming system to do that but we have become like a onehorse town over the last 20 years. “Horticulture is doing well now and good on them and now we need sheep and beef and deer to come forward as alternatives.” Sheep farming also needs higher wool prices to remain sustainable. “It is ironic that the Government has stopped oil and gas exploration but then they’ve ordered that thousands and thousands of houses be insulated with what will be synthetic products. Why aren’t they pushing for wool produced in NZ to be a big part of that? Where’s the leadership on that?” Wool is a sustainable product and just trying to do anything to grow demand will help lift prices. “We need to get Meghan Markle wearing wool rather than Prince Charles. That would give it a boost.’’ Farming needs lambs sustainably fetching between $7kg and $8kg and crossbred wool worth $5/kg rather than under $3/ kg. There are other exciting

developments such as sheep milking as an alternative to dairy cows. “You’ve got a swag of dairy farms on the market and maybe some of them might be converted back to sheep and that’s not a bad thing. “We shouldn’t be stopping dairying. We just need good alternatives.’’

We need sheep farming to regain its position as NZ’s preeminent livestock industry. Alastair Reeves Farmer Most NZ hill farms are a mix of sheep and beef because they work well together. Traditionally, the mix was 70% sheep and 30% cattle but Reeves said it has moved closer to 50/50 because of the better beef returns in recent years. He’d like to see a recovery in the sheep ratio back to 70% as a more balanced land use. “We just want recovering profitability and growth and it doesn’t matter what the numbers get up to. We just don’t want a continuing decline.” Reeves farms 800ha including of180ha of leased land on challenging hill country near

Raglan in eastern Waikato with wet winters and very dry late summer and autumn. Despite that, three generations of the family have developed one of the best Romney flocks, specialising in producing and selling rams with top-of-class facial eczema and worm-parasite resistance. The farm has native bush and he’s also planted pines on land not suitable for livestock. He expects the planted area to make up 8% of the land area when planting finishes. Reeves accepts farming will end up in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and when that happens farmers should be given back the carbon sequestration credits for about 1.4m hectares of native forests on their land. “That was claimed by the Government in the 1990s as a carbon sink in what was an erosion of property rights. “We own the land, we pay rates and insurance on it, we’ve fenced off the native areas but we don’t get the carbon credits. There’s no recognition of the role farmers are playing in that. “The Government needs to stop making decisions in isolation and acknowledge that a profitable sheep industry is not only great for rural communities but great for the environment and great for our 3.5m tourists that turn up every year. “Last time I checked, tourists liked taking photos of sheep on hill country, not photos of pine trees.”

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THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 19, 2018

NO MONEY HERE: RoboticsPlus founders Alistair Scarfe, left, and Steve Saunders find overseas farmers much more willing than Kiwis to invest in new technology.

Kiwi robots can rule the world Many farmers are familiar with the Yamaha Ag 100 farm bike. The sturdy two-stroke has reliably and cheaply propelled generations of them over their land. Now the Japanese company is underwriting a new workhorse likely to also become a common sight in the near future. Yamaha has injected US$8 million into Tauranga company RoboticsPlus. Richard Rennie spoke to RoboticsPlus chief executive Steve Saunders.

HE huge surge in kiwifruit production in Bay of Plenty has brought the sector more than a few headaches, not relieved by the popularity of the high-value SunGold variety rocketing post Psa. Kiwifruit needs a timely harvest to ensure it hits the market with perfect firmness and taste. But labour shortages have made harvesting on time a challenge and are likely to continue to do so as the crop pushes towards Green’s 80 million-plus tray volumes. The potential for automating harvesting has preoccupied the robotics graduates and designers at Tauranga’s RoboticsPlus base, nestled among the rows of vines their machines are tasked with harvesting unmanned and unguided. “The input from Yamaha is not only a huge validation of the work we have already done here in New Zealand with our robotics, it reflects that company’s similar views to ours on wanting to help solve global agricultural problems,” RoboticsPlus chief executive Steve Saunders says.

“We are a young, early-stage company with smart young designers but we do not have a large capacity in terms of manufacturing to scale up and that is what we also saw in Yamaha.” RoboticsPlus began its development focusing strongly on developing a machine specifically for harvesting and pollinating kiwifruit. The idea germinated in Saunders’ own lengthy and successful experience with his founding orchard management company GroPlus. But in the past 18 months the company has pivoted away from developing a machine for a specific task in kiwifruit orchards to one that is more of an autonomous platform capable of accepting a range of implements for a variety of tasks across a variety of crops. That pivot has included recognition of the value in collaborating with companies that develop the tools that can be hooked onto the machine, whether they be a mower, sprayer, pruning tool or pollinator. “We learnt just focusing on

kiwifruit was not scalable and was taking a lot of resources and time. “We swung our focus back towards the platform, the processes and design behind it, then looking at what we can clip onto it. “From a return on investment perspective a multi-use platform starts to make a lot of sense to an orchardist.” With a shared drive system, engine and some super smart black box technology to make it autonomous, the company is now looking at variants that go beyond kiwifruit to be suitable for apple and grape crops. “But every crop, of course, is different, requiring new algorithms to be developed for each application within them.” Opening up options beyond NZ kiwifruit harvesting coupled with investment horsepower from Yamaha to scale up has Saunders and his team excited about the offshore uses for the machine. “We don’t always appreciate here the sheer scale of operations in places like the United States that bring opportunities. “On a recent trip I met a grape grower who ran 20,000ha of table

grape vineyards. That is a large portion of NZ’s entire crop with one grower.” Saunders sees RoboticsPlus offering at least a partial answer to the dilemma facing the world’s agriculturalists – having to feed 10 billion people but facing a shortage of people inclined to want to make a living harvesting the food. In NZ alone a 2016 Ministry for Primary Industries report estimated the booming horticultural sector needed nearly 8000 more skilled workers by 2025 to cope with predicted rises in production. The company has just commissioned its robotic Aporo apple packers capable of handling up to 120 fruit a minute, operating in pack houses in NZ and the US. A highly confidential project is also due for an unveiling before Christmas. Saunders said it was a proud moment for his colleague Dr Alistair Scarfe to have his autonomous platform scrutinised and admired by Yamaha’s leading robotics engineers. “They were not able to believe some of what he had done. That

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was a huge endorsement.” Saunders can now point to a robotics hub in Bay of Plenty that has developed around RoboticsPlus, with his 30 staff including some rising talent from Waikato University’s robotics department. With the university opening a formal campus in Tauranga next year he is looking forward to developing a robotics academy on it. The potential is also underwritten by a highly favourable angel investor sector now established in Tauranga. But Saunders is also keen to see greater industry engagement over such projects as it embraces further production growth. “It takes many years to create this technology and industry is not investing in it, despite already looking at labour shortages. “If the industry wants to support picking technology we can put a team onto it. We have the talent here. “Otherwise we have to focus on where our customers are. “The US has a lot more willingness to fund these projects to solve the problems they also face.”

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EDITORIAL

It’s the putting right that counts

EW primary industries director-general Ray Smith is 20 days into the job but is already making a good first impression on farmers. Smith heard about a meeting of farmers affected by Mycoplasma bovis in Ashburton and decided he should go. By all accounts those farmers, who’ve been doing it tough for quite some time, liked what they heard in a closed session with him. The Ministry for Primary Industries reckons it’s still on track to rid New Zealand of M bovis with the latest round of testing showing encouraging signs. But for some farmers who’ve got it or had it, the medicine has seemed worse that the cure. Smith offered them a spoonful of sugar in Ashburton last week, acknowledging shortcomings in the compensation process and promising to keep up communication and learn from mistakes. Federated Farmers dairy chairman Chris Lewis said farmers appreciate that honesty and will work with Smith to make sure the welfare of those affected families is better supported. Whatever you think of MPI’s work on this response to date, most would view taking the top job there as a bit of a hospital pass. But Smith has front-footed it. He’s faced the music early and pledged to work with farmers to get rid of the disease and make that journey as tolerable as possible. That has to be applauded. As we’ve reported, some of these farmers have really been through the ringer and think they’ve been unfairly treated, left behind and not listened to throughout this response. Officials have been doing the best they can but have admitted there have been problems. Smith has put a stake in the ground here, vowing a more unified front in this battle. That’s a great start but it will be the follow-up on which he’s judged.

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Office work is not productive IS PAPERWORK or the computerised version of it becoming the bugbear of modern farming? Too much time is wasted on unnecessary administration and the unnecessary portion seems to be increasing rapidly. We were recently sent some forms we were asked to fill in and return to continue as a client of a company we have dealt with since its formation. Included was a request for a direct debit form which had to be completed to continue trading with it. Its sudden need to know the full list and value of our assets, our debts and other financial information is definitely a step too far.

Is knowing the value of our assets or our asset/debt ratio really going to add value to its business? We were told it is company policy as it updates its client information base. Further questioning around compulsory direct debits reveals it brought in the policy because of a few bad debtors. Really? Has it thought of singling out those few bad debtors and putting extra conditions on them? And perhaps (gasp, horror) even doing some basic credit checks or references on new clients before signing them up? My other concern is for the privacy and use of the information I am supposed to freely provide.

My financial details will not remain private if I have to make them available to all and sundry in the industry before I can buy 20 litres of chemical. Already we receive calls touting for business on mobiles that are not listed in a directory so who has passed supposedly confidential information to other firms? Farming involves juggling many tasks and personally, I can think of a lot more productive ways to use my time than filling in needless paperwork. Come on businesses, value your clients and don’t add to their office hours. Wendy Rowe Waikato

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Don’t fear climate change response Andrew Luddington

TRILLION dollars. Three words that receive immediate attention. That’s the blithe assumption economist Phil Journeaux reckons a zero-carbon economy will cost us by 2050. Well, perhaps. So, if Journeaux is correct, are we heading for financial armageddon? No, not at all. Quite the reverse in fact. I travel 25km into the centre of Christchurch once a month on a Friday to catch up with mates at 5pm. If I do this journey by car it takes one hour 10 minutes in and 50 minutes back. If I do it by bicycle, which I do frequently, it is 50 minutes in and 45 back. If I were to commute to the city daily by car for the working week I would be travelling 250km each week at a cost of say a dollar a kilometre. That is $10,000 a year. The running costs of my bicycle are next to nothing – no petrol, no insurance, no tax, just the odd tyre. So, if Journeaux were to reverse his perspective and look at the cost of binning the bike for the car in the future he would see a huge blow to my personnel budget. Times this figure by the number of people including school kids and uni students making a similar daily journey. Just how many years would have gone by until that vast figure of a trillion dollars is unnecessarily spent? I would hazard a guess at long before 2050. But it does not stop there. By car I arrive at my destination rattled, angry and disappointed. I am not good company, having spent half an hour stationary in traffic. On the bike I am euphoric. I

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Going carbon zero is of financial, environmental and mental benefit in every respect.

My emissions are negligible and my demand for tarmac about one tenth that of a car. So, as far as a commute is concerned, going carbon zero is of financial, environmental and mental benefit in every respect. Last Saturday I rode the bike race K2 on the Coromandel Peninsula. It describes itself as the hardest one-day bike race in the southern hemisphere. At 192km long with 2300 metres of

vertical elevation climbed, I am not surprised. I was overtaken by a man I vaguely know. He was doing K4. This means he was doing the race twice in one sitting. The figures are stunning: distance 384km, elevation 4600m, time 17 hours. I had his age down at between 65 and 70. Give him a battery and he would have found the ride a doddle. I read the delightful story of a New South Wales resident towing a boat behind his mobility scooter because his driving licence was suspended. When oil becomes too expensive or too polluting for ordinary use we will find another way. Times are changing very fast. And they have to. There have been Boris bikes in London for a decade. Lime scooters have appeared in Christchurch just now. The latter half of the twentieth century saw us asking uncomfortable questions about our existence within our environment. In the first few years of the 21st we realise we are simply an overactive flea on a benign and sleeping dog, which only need roll over and scratch. Perhaps Journeaux would like to calculate the cost of that? Anthropomorphic climate change is now accepted by governments everywhere – even Trump’s. This year 2018 saw the debate over. We have to get with this change now and not be frightened of it. As farmers it would be better not to be dragged kicking and screaming by it but to lead it.

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30 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 26, 2018

Landcorp: It is a waste of rations Alternative View

Alan Emerson

I USED to be a real supporter of Landcorp. That was back in the days when it had a large genetic base and provided good livestock to farmers. It was also part of the farming community, mixing with them and coming up with helpful suggestions and solutions. It was also profitable. My position now on Landcorp, using military terminology, is that they’re a waste of rations. I’ve just had an Official Information Act response from Landcorp on two topics. The first was a presentation from chief executive Steven Carden to agricultural journalists, which I was told about but had difficulty believing. Having had the presentation sent to me I can understand some of my colleagues’ horror. I found it pretty emotive stuff talking as it did about the melting of the polar icecap, the shrinking Arctic sea ice and the impact of climate change on agricultural yields. That was among other tales of woe. That’s all very well. We’ve heard the stories before but if New

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Zealand ceases all farming and converts all vehicles to electricity we’d save the world just 0.17% of global emissions. It means nothing, except feeling good, like having a pee in a wetsuit. Further, I didn’t like his critical approach to our agricultural practices. We can always do things better but showing slides of cows with mud to their udders and rolled quads is emotive rather than typical. Then we had the proud announcement of Marnie Pricket as chairwoman of Landcorp’s Environmental Reference Group. While I realise she is or was an extramural Massey University student, studying agricultural science, I’d like a few more facts on her abilities and a look at some of her peer reviewed writings. I was told she has a degree in English literature. Pricket’s claim to fame was as the spokeswoman for the highly political Choose Clean Water campaign, which, in my view, was just another random agriculturebashing effort, in this instance funded by the tourist industry. Having waded through clippings and media coverage I could find little on all the problems with sewerage on Auckland beaches, the issues at Porirua Harbour or those in urban Christchurch rivers. It was agriculture-specific so my take on her position at Landcorp is to give a two-fingered salute to mainstream farmers, those

spending a fortune cleaning up waterways. It seems to me if you want a job with Landcorp you should start a campaign slagging farmers. Finally, there was the Landcorp submission to the Tax Working Group, which really wound me up. Simply speaking, it wants taxes on nitrogen fertiliser and water and it’s not opposed to a capital gains tax. That’s all well and good from Landcorp on two counts. First it’s not talking about its money as ordinary farmers are and its staff wouldn’t be personally liable for any capital gains. Mind you, the rest of the farming community would but that obviously isn’t their concern. Back in May Landcorp’s Alison Dewes was advocating a tax on nitrogen in Farmers Weekly. She likened it to a tobacco tax. She said it was a proxy tax on intensive farming. As I wrote at the time, I can intensively farm by feeding palm kernel or using chicken litter fertiliser. Neither will get hit by a nitrogen tax. Further, it’s not nitrogen fertiliser causing problems but cows’ urine. Maybe someone should tell Landcorp. Then we have nitrogen fertiliser applied to crops, vegetables and fruit. Not intensive farming practices but they’d be liable for a nitrogen tax. I’m also sure Landcorp realises urea or nitrogen fertiliser has increased in price from $485/ tonne to $650 over the last six

months because of international markets and currency factors. That’s a 34% increase. Is a punitive tax going to make a difference? Logic would suggest not. Landcorp has a supporter for its anti-nitrogen position in Greenpeace, no less. Its rhetoric is nauseating and not corrupted by factual argument. It has launched a petition to have nitrogen fertiliser banned. It describes industrial dairying as NZ’s biggest climate polluter, which is pure bollocks considering the pollution coming from cars, trucks, cruise ships and air travel. Maybe it has only organised the petition so its members can try to get future employment with Landcorp. Landcorp also wants a water

levy. That’s despite over 90% of our water running out to sea. As Sir Bill English said when he was finance minister, Landcorp isn’t a good investment for the taxpayers. From an asset of $2 billion taxpayers receive peanuts in dividends. I’d sooner Landcorp increased the return to the Government by farming profitably and not by suggesting punitive taxes on all ordinary farmers, those who do make a good return. I find its position precious, out of touch and arrogant. It needs to concentrate on farming.

Your View Alan Emerson is a semi-retired Wairarapa farmer and businessman: dath-emerson@wizbiz.net.nz

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After they left for the day I snuck up there and cut the two ends and dragged what I could from under the fallen trees. Six weeks later the gang finished a successful forest harvest, finally allowing me to start rebuilding infrastructure so I could try to farm properly again. I bought 100 metres of 40mm pipe and unrolled it through the trash, connected it and could once again get water up into my hills. We now move to Labour weekend. I watched with interest a fellow burning his newly harvested forestry slash nearby. The wind got up unexpectedly and the next thing you know there were about eight fire engines, scores of firefighters and a helicopter flying buckets of water. I’d been poised to burn my own block but now became somewhat indecisive whether it was such a good idea. Two days later on Labour Monday, it was dead still, warm and not a hint of wind in the forecast with a huge high with wide isobars sitting over us. Son three who was visiting from Auckland and I went up into the

hills laden with matches to see how one of the little valleys would go. We started from the top, which had several metres of green grass before the brand new fence and green grass beyond. We lit the dry needles and worked our way down the hill. It was quite spectacular and a very good burn as the fires would move up the slope to the trash that was already burnt or burning. The stumps just singed and even the pine cones charred but didn’t completely burn out so is was more controlled than my wildest expectations. Heartened, we moved into the other two valleys but kept well away from the skid sites where there were mountains of slash heaps that would burn for weeks or months and going into the summer would not be a good idea. When we got to the pipe we had such good control and confidence in our fire lighting, instead of rolling it up, we left that area unburnt. We were at the house having a drink as it was hot work and a

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 26, 2018

Strength through community Craig Wiggins

SUICIDE affects communities and strong communities are needed to combat the problem of youth suicide rural New Zealand is still experiencing at alarming rates. Mainstream media have to be careful how they report suicide cases and suspected cases. Their hands are tied by the law. How often do you hear a report of a loss of life and police are not looking for anyone in connection with the death. Many other terms are allowed to be used in reporting but not the word suicide. However, these days with social media there is little control on what is posted and visible to everyone, sometimes at the expense of many a friend and family that lose someone. Our house knew three young people who lost their lives to suspected suicides before Christmas 2017. So, with best intentions, I got together three young men and put them in my hay shed, turned on a camera and asked them to speak openly about their loss of a close friend, farm worker and nationally awarded sportsman. The devastating loss and pain, the questions of why and what could have been done all came up, the friends didn’t hold back. The video is an insight on the damage done, it’s a realisation of how life has changed for young

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I reassured her all was under control and went so far as to ask if I could borrow some matches.

When we returned to the dying fires a very slight wind change had ensured that the new pipe was now a molten mess. Twelve days later I was on that slope again but the good news was that I needed only 50 metres of new pipe as we’d saved quite a bit by extracting the ends from the fire but now where there were once no couplings I was up to three. It was a hot, still day with

people and it gives suggestions of what needs doing to help those in trouble from men who were hurt by the loss, questioning themselves a little and not sure how to deal with the changed environment they and their friends now find themselves living in. When it’s released please take a look at their story, it will take you the time you drink a coffee. I urge you to think about people around you, ask if your community is still as connected as it was 20 years ago and if you think you know someone who might need a visit, share that coffee with them.

When it’s released please take a look at their story, it will take you the time you drink a coffee.

Does the local stock agent bring a lolly for the kids who sit on the rail while the lambs are drafted, are those kids allowed to sit on the rail these days? Is the bank manager engaged in clients’ lives, visiting them onfarm as often as they used to? When my father died early in my life my bank manager sat on my quad and went with me for a farm tour. By hell, that helped! Our accountant used to call in for a whiskey and check out the state of affairs on his way back to Wanganui. We docked neighbours’ stock and they did ours, we went out on Friday nights, played pool and shared a beer with young and old and we talked to each other. Many an older, wiser farmer might see a young person or

family struggling and just turn up one day for a look at the farm and while riding around together open a conversation. These days we don’t seem to have that time and now look for contact via a device in our hands. I suspect, as did the young men I videoed, this leads to further isolation and will increase the issues of depression, loneliness and despair. The rural support programmes are there to help, but if you do take the time to watch these young men talk you’ll see it’s mentors and community strength we need. We cannot lose any more activities or assets in our remote communities and social engagement needs to be accessible and affordable. A few years ago while commentating jet-sprinting at Griffith in Australia it was noted the local shire sent farmers struggling with drought tickets to the race meeting and accommodation prices were reduced. We know how to support our farmers during a natural disaster such as floods and earthquakes but do we do it as often as needed locally or on a day-to-day basis? With that in mind I approached the Ashburton Trotting Club to host a Farming Families day at the races in support of those under pressure from Mycoplasma bovis and the mid-winter grind.

absolutely no sign of smoke as the fire had burnt out within a day of our successful burn, making replanting a much easier affair next winter. That weekend we had a nasty windstorm and I was somewhat surprised to see a bit of smoke up in the hills. On closer inspection I discovered the only area on fire was the very same slope with the now burning again pipe. I salvaged what I could but was now losing my sense of humour. The fire quickly burnt out but it was a good lesson in how a hidden ember can lie dormant for nearly two weeks waiting for its chance. This time I had to buy 100 metres of pipe again but the good news is that I saved my three fittings and now needed only two. What is now my fourth section of pipe in this area is performing its duties as expected and unless a tree planter slices it with his spade should remain unmolested for 30 years until the next forest harvest.

Your View Steve Wyn-Harris is a Central Hawke’s Bay sheep and beef farmer. swyn@xtra. co.nz

ISOLATED: Modern devices mean we are less connected increasing the issues of depression, loneliness and despair.

It agreed and many rural support industries came to the party to ensure we had a good day of communication, entertainment and community spirit. It was amazing to see the support this event received and to watch farmers enjoy the company of like-minded people and a day off the farm.

Where to get help: Rural Support Trust: 0800 787 254 Lifeline: 0800 543 345 Suicide Crisis Helpline: 0508 828 865 Depression helpline: 0800 111 757

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PAIKEA: The marae on Whangara, home of Ngati Konohi, and two wharenui, Whitireia and Waho Te Rangi.

Photos: Hugh Stringleman

Farming by the numbers Maori Incorporations in farming represent a new wave of land development and export earnings. Whangara Farms is on the East Coast north of Gisborne, in Whale Rider (Paikea) country, and is a successful hapu partnership model for a sustainable future while honouring the place and the past. Hugh Stringleman visited Whangara, courtesy of its board of management.

HANGARA Farms general manager Richard Scholefield loves measuring things to make progress. Running the 8500ha, 75,000 stock unit beef and sheep farming business with 16 full-time staff members on five locations takes most of his waking hours but devising, recording and analysing the results of on-farm trials and projects really spins his wheels. The corporate structure of Maori-owned Whangara Farms lends itself to how Richard

runs things – the board of management consists of three owner-representatives and two independent members. Retired former Landcorp Farming chief executive Bernard Card and award-winning dairy farmer and Maori farming adviser Murray Jamieson are those two independents, providing encouragement for new ventures and a wealth of farming management history. Board chairwoman Ingrid Collins represents Whangara B5 Incorporation, the biggest of the partnership properties, Stan Pardoe represents Pakarae

A Incorporation and Jacqueline Blake represents Tapuwae Whitiwhiti. Well-known farm advisers are also used and their advice taken – Trevor Cook for animal health, Doug Edmeades for fertiliser and Tom Fraser on forages. More than 2500 shareholders belong to three hapu or families who agreed to pool their resources and share the annual distributions according to their input proportions. Part of the understanding is that improvement of farms and higher economic farm surpluses (EFS) benefit all members despite their

TEAMWORK: All hands to the docking station at Whangara in mid-Spring as 45,000 lambs are born and weaned each year.

different starting levels. When the land can never be sold and is the turangawaewae (place of domicile, standing) for the families, sustainability takes on extra meaning. Another important aspect of sustainability is encouraging young hapu shareholders to make farming their career through recognised training courses followed by employment with Whangara Farms. The three founding incorporations choose how they use their distributions from Whangara farms. They look after social and educational goals and make dividend payments to their shareholders while the Whangara Farms board, management and staff focus on running the farming business. It has not been easy to attract the best and brightest young people to stay around Whangara and make farm management their occupation but the various committees keep publicising the availability of their scholarships. Whangara’s scale and Scholefield’s enthusiasm have resulted in hosting programmes during the past decade such as using forages on uncultivable hill country, the Beef + Lamb Genetics Beef Progeny Test, the Silver Fern Farms Beef EQ (eating quality) programme (Whangara is also the largest Maori-owned supplier to Silver Fern Farms) and various FarmIQ programmes, MerinoNZ

lamb trials, the highest level of Land and Environment Plan (LEP) and, most recently, McDonald’s Sustainable Beef and Flagship Farmers accreditation (Farmers Weekly, October 8). There is a lot of extra work involved in running the trials and projects and all staff have embraced the challenge and do the extra work to ensure success. “The staff members are our most important asset,” Scholefield said. The farms’ development, the extra compliance effort, public exposure and progressive governance and management have become a package that now defines Whangara and a source of pride and mana for Ngati Konohi. Whangara hosts projects for B+LNZ, Silver Fern Farms, Gisborne District Council, MerinoNZ and McDonald’s NZ and is often asked to show overseas visitors the magnificent East Coast and welcome them onto the marae. The LEP process in 201516 covered all properties, at Whangara north of Gisborne

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and at Tongataha, inland from Wairoa. It went to the highest level possible and contained input from a number of specialists. The plan now dominates land use decisions for livestock grazing and has given rise to riparian fencing and livestock exclusion and slope stabilisation with willows and poplar poles, many sourced from Whangara’ s own nursery.

The use of genetics is one area that farmers can have 100% control and at the same time have an effect on productivity, profitability and efficiency. Richard Scholefield Whangara Farms The Gisborne District Council is working towards full livestock exclusion from major waterways by 2021 and Whangara will be spending over $300,000 on fencing for that purpose. The Whangara Farms board and Pakarae A Incorporation have decided to retire 400ha of erodible coastal land from grazing, take out the livestock and pests and plant native species. A most-recent example of the overall farm plan in action was a change in cattle policy to exclude 1200 trading cattle normally brought on because of the Mycoplasma bovis risk to animal health, welfare and the herd’s future. Whangara will now finish all its cattle progeny not required for the breeding herd and is changing from an 18-month finishing policy to 24 months. This will mean wintering heavier cattle in their second winter. Scholefield says that will cost the business in the short term but the risk of contracting M bovis in 6000 cattle is too great to ignore. As many crossbred males as possible will be kept entire and the target finishing weight will be 340kg carcase weight. Whangara has a bull finishing unit of 600ha that has a pumice base under the soil profile and will cope better with the heavier cattle weights in wet conditions. While the manufacturing beef objective won’t change, more Angus steers and heifers will be kept longer to express their genetics and EBVs as prime beef, Scholefield said. The financial impact of not bringing on the trading cattle, mostly Friesian bulls, will be about $500,000 over three years but that should lessen in subsequent years. The proportion of sheep stock units might also increase from 60% to nearer 65%. Scholefield is very keen on boosting beef genetics through artificial insemination (AI), believing carcase characteristics are improved and the genetic gain is faster by using the top 5% to 10% of sires from around the world. Why not use the money that would be paid for top commercial

bulls on AI instead and make progress even faster, he reasoned. AI costs are about $80 to $100 a cow, depending on the semen, with about half the expense being the drugs and insemination. The 2500-cow Angus herd is divided into the Progeny Test group of up to 800 and the elite group of 700 which get high-end Angus sires by AI and naturally mating. “The use of genetics is one area that farmers can have 100% control and at the same time have an effect on productivity, profitability and efficiency of your sheep and cattle for the next eight to 10 years from one breeding. The Beef Progeny test has demonstrated this. Why wouldn’t you take advantage of that?” Some initial concerns about the extra movements and handling of cows to facilitate the AI are not a problem in reality, he said. The Beef + Lamb Genetics Progeny Test established the breeding values are a reliable guide to the expression of carcase traits and maternal characteristics in a commercial farming environment. The use of selected semen through AI on Whangara has therefore been validated. The progeny test cows are DNA profiled and mated to a selection of sires with a range of BVs across the bulls used to fully represent the breeds in the test. In the Angus breeding cows the A herd of 1500 goes to Angus bulls and the B herd of 1000 to Simmental bulls used as terminal sires and the overall calving rate was 96% last financial year. Scholefield also mates 350 R1 heifers to low birth weight Angus bulls and last calving achieved 87% with them. Angus heifers are scanned for eye muscle area and intramuscular fat to determine which will join the A herd. Over the past decade cattle performance over Whangara Farms has risen from $48 a cattle stock unit to $85. Sheep performance has nearly doubled from $56/SSU to $107. Economic farm surplus has risen from $246/ha to $454 most recently, including a record $532 in 2010-11, and that measure has consistently been two or three times the East Coast Class 4 average as determined by the B+LZ Economic Service. Another contribution to farm income is the leasing of paddocks to cropping contractors for sweet corn and squash after being tile drained. Between 50ha and 60ha of flats are tile drained each year and put into plantain and clover after the crop, on which triplet ewes are lambed, then after weaning lambs are finished. “Plantain and clover really works for us,” Scholefield said. “We have tried everything and keep coming back to it.” Whangara Farms has a goal of finishing 75% of its own lambs to 18kg carcase weight though last season the average was only 16kg. “The challenge is as you increase performance you get more lambs. In 2007 we produced 19,000, this year it was 45,000 so a lot more lambs to finish,” Scholefield said. Lambing starts early and is

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MEASURED: Whangara Farms general manager Richard Scholefield uses data to make good decisions.

staggered through spring to enable lambs to be finished before the summer turns the hills brown. Hill country that cannot be cultivated has been the host to helicopter sowing of forages such as plantain and clover. The first objective of the B+LNZ programme was to recover the $500/ha cost of chemicals, seed and flying time. That was done in just the first year. The stocking rate for ewes and lambs was effectively doubled from 5.5 to 11/ha and the live weight gain also nearly doubled from 235kg/ha on the old pasture to 442kg on plantain and legumes. The result convinced Scholefield to double the developed area from 200ha to 400ha. Even a small area of forages can have a significant impact on the whole farm system, he said after the five-year trial ended (20122016). The summer growth rates of over 120kg/ha/day DM are outstanding for the dry East Coast hills, comparing very favourably with pasture at only 26kg/ha/day. Plantain’s lack of persistence beyond about four years is balanced by much higher clover content in pasture, which seems

to indicate plantain helps clover establishment. Whangara Farms has 37,500 Romney/Coopworth ewes, of which 22,000 go to Landcorp and Piquet Hill Romney rams and the rest to Paki-Iti Suffolk/Primera/ Charolais. Two sheep breeding trials are being done. The first is Merino genetics via AI and natural mating to produce fast growing Merino-Romney lambs with a finer wool bonus from shearing before slaughter. These genetics are bred for wool, worm resistance, foot rot and growth rate. The Merino lamb meat is then marketed through NZ Merino and the Silere branded lamb. Whangara’s relationship with NZ Merino also covers strong wool supply to various high-end wool retailers via contracts. One is with Danish footwear makers Glerup, for their indoor shoes. The second project is called Multiplier sheep with 500 top two- and four-tooth ewes AI-ed to selected elite Romney sires from Piquet Hills and ARDG, aimed at generating top ram hoggets by using 5K DNA tests. These ram hoggets will be used across the flock along with some older rams.

“If we can produce a good ram hogget that ticks the boxes genetically and structurally then we will carry on and if we can’t we will go back to buying all our rams.” Scholefield said. Whangara selects the ewe hoggets that are over 40kg on May 1 to be mated out of the 8500 replacements kept each year. This year 5500 were mated. “Our target is to mate 75% of our ewe hoggets but we don’t want to compromise on size and weight,” he said. Overall reproductive performance last season was 139% lambing from the ewes and 75% from the ewe hoggets. “This is a very true result as we are independently audited annually with all livestock accounted for,” Scholefield said.

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Pikowai 166 Airstrip Road

Award winning 452ha farm

Lovingly nurtured for 44 years, this rare and prestigious offering provides options for the discerning purchaser. 452ha (more or less) of mixed contoured land that includes approximately 100ha of forestry. A first class infrastructure with a secluded three bedroom home; plus two other great staff homes, woolshed, sheep yards and an excellent cattle facility. There are well-subdivided and fenced paddocks with a spring water supply. Prospects here include continuing one of the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest beef bull and sheep breeding blocks, a large support block for existing dairy operations or progressing your current farming business. Consistently inside the top 10% with regards to economic performance - recognised in 2010, winning The Ballance Farm Environment award. Handy to Whakatane and the Rotorua lakes, with Tauranga CBD a short 65km via the Eastern Link.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Tue 26 Feb 2019 247 Cameron Road, Tauranga Phone for viewing times Mark Spitz 027 442 1295 mark.spitz@bayleys.co.nz

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Maramarua 733 Kopuku Road

A dairy to own This 109.8ha (more or less) dairy unit comprises of three titles and is well laid out for functional use. The block is centrally raced to a three year old 36 ASHB cowshed which supplies Fonterra, with a three-year average of 95,803kgMS. Support to the dairy includes a large eight bay implement shed complete with power and an enclosed workshop, a good range of ancillary shedding, bore water and irrigation. The land is easy to rolling contour with a delightful north easterly aspect. Further improvements include two dwellings; the main is a sixbedroom home and the second a three-bedroom cottage, both refurbished in 2015. Centrally located, the property is close to SH 2 and 56km from Manukau, making Auckland an easy commuting distance. Hamilton central is a 74km drive south, plus Tauranga and the Coromandel Peninsula are similarly convenient.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 13 Dec 2018 96 Ulster Street, Hamilton View 1-2pm Mon 26 Nov & Mon 3 Dec Karl Davis 027 496 4633 karl.davis@bayleys.co.nz Lee Carter 027 696 5781

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Taupo 581 Otake Road, Marotiri

Versatile 229 hectares 581 Otake Road is known as Jacaroma and is situated in the renowned farming district of Marotiri. Comprising approximately of 203ha easy to rolling, 20ha hilly, making the effective area 223ha from the total of 229ha. There is approximately 10ha in the Taupo catchment. The Nitrogen Reference Report completed using overseer 6.2.3 gives a number of 85. Enabling the new owner to be in the best position going forward under the proposed Healthy Rivers plan one change. The current owners also have a policy for bio security and only source cattle within the current farming operation. Jacaroma is well supported with a three bedroom house, woolshed, and two sets of cattle yards. Located just 14km from Kinloch Village, with Taupo only 32km away.

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Tararua 121 Huia Road, Pongaroa

Farming, forestry, honey and hunting “Bowood” is a well presented 500 hectare hill country breeding property in the Pongaroa district 40 minutes drive from Pahiatua. Wintering around 3700su, this property has been well farmed, maintained, regularly fertilised and subdivided in 43 paddocks. Infrastructure includes a lovely three bedroom “Summit Stone” home with a great outlook in a sheltered and sunny setting. A new covered yard complex has recently been completed as well as new cattle yards alongside. 70 hectares of Manuka/bush is generating significant income from honey as well as providing great hunting of red deer and 26 hectares of mature pine plantings provide further income opportunity. If you are looking for a strong, well farmed breeding unit with good infrastructure and multiple income streams then “Bowood” is well worth viewing.

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Tararua Bridge Road, Pahiatua and Hornes Road, Ballance

Exceptional contour and location – multiple options “Beaufort” presents one of those rare opportunities to purchase flat and rolling finishing/cropping land only seven minutes from Pahiatua. Offered in two options, 45 hectares flat and fertile land with bore water, shedding and cattle yards and 161 hectares of flat and rolling contour (90% cultivated), a great four bedroom plus office family home with commanding views, good infrastructure, multiple titles and strong fertiliser history. Currently used as a breeding and fattening operation, there is huge potential to intensify this exceptional property further. A 72 hectare hill block runoff located on Hornes Road Ballance, is also being offered for sale. It is currently used as a beef grazing block. When location and contour count “Beaufort” stands out in the Tararua. These three blocks are being offered separately for sale or any combination thereof.

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Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 6 Dec 2018 125 Main Street, Pahiatua View by appointment Rob Deal 027 241 4775 robert.deal@bayleys.co.nz Lindsay Watts 027 246 2542 lindsay.watts@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Tararua 454 Parkville Road, Eketahuna

190,000kgMS “once a day” Located close to Eketahuna, Spring Grove is a farm reaping the rewards from years of farm and herd development. Milking 550 cows "once a day" on a milking platform of 180ha and a total area of 231ha. Infrastructure includes a 40 aside shed and 400 cow feed pad, two good homes and a sleepout. Considerable investment in races, fencing and regrassing along with the genetically selected herd, have resulted in a top production of 195,000kgMS and a five year average of 183,000kgMS. This property is well consented and in a reliable rainfall area (1,800mm pa). The herd and plant are also available for purchase. Worth consideration at under $28kgMS.

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Wellsford 295 Waiteitei Road, Tomarata First class grazing setup! Lasbyn Properties has long been recognised as one of the finest grazing farms in the region. Boasting an impressive 229 hectares (565 acres) of top-quality farmland, held in three titles, there’s a lot to impress. The predominately flat to undulating contour has been well subdivided to a high standard into 110 paddocks, which are linked by a far-reaching limestone race network. An extensive array of quality infrastructure includes a well appointed fourbedroom family home with a 300m2 implement shed and two large sets of cattle yards. Deceased Estate. The instructions are to "sell'! Take a virtual tour: www.umoview.co.nz/14759

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Te Awamutu 459 and 502 Te Kawa Road 4

Tender Closing 4pm, Thu 6 Dec 2018 41 Queen St, Warkworth View by appointment John Barnett 021 790 393 john.barnett@bayleys.co.nz MACKYS REAL ESTATE LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Appealing dairy with good facilities On offer are two neighbouring dairy farms with a combined land holding of 263ha (more or less) held in multiple titles, milking 820 cows through two sheds, with an average three year production of 264kgMS off the 234ha dairy platform. Currently farmed as separate units, they are available individually or combined. Each has multiple homes and very good support infrastructure. Contour is predominantly flat with minimal hill. Set midway between Te Awamutu and Otorohanga, this location is very well regarded. Come and explore the opportunity here!

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Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 29 Nov 2018 96 Ulster Street, Hamilton View by appointment Stuart Gudsell AREINZ 021 951 737 stuart.gudsell@bayleys.co.nz Sharon Evans AREINZ 027 235 4771 sharon.evans@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Te Awamutu 511 Otorohanga Road

Te Awamutu 594 Ngahape Road

Good scale dairy operation

Dairy farm with great scale

With great road appeal, this good scale dairy operation provides 127.3073ha (more or less) of well-developed dairy land. The farm improvements include a 40ASHB dairy shed, 280 cow feedpad, bunker, calf and other sheds. Water is bore supply and the contour is flat to gently rolling. Average production is 219,864kgMS derived from spring and winter milking. Homes include a four bedroom plus office homestead and two staff cottages. Situated a short drive from Te Awamutu this farm has ready access to weekly supplies plus is handy to both the coast and the mountains for the weekends.

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Auction (unless sold prior) 12pm, Thu 6 Dec 2018 96 Ulster Street, Hamilton View 11am-12pm Fri 30 Nov Stuart Gudsell AREINZ 021 951 737 stuart.gudsell@bayleys.co.nz Sharon Evans AREINZ 027 235 4771 sharon.evans@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Pukewhero Farm provides 132ha (more or less) of gently rolling downs. The property has an appealing layout and well constructed race system. Added improvements at the 36 ASHB dairy shed include a 350 cow capacity feed pad, two concrete silage bunkers and a PKE bunker. The effluent solid separator unit is another recent upgrade. Four year average production is 133,000kgMS. Two bores supply water to the two 5,000 gallon tanks before its further reticulated to the main sheds, troughs and dwellings via a separate line. Accommodation is provided by a three bedroom home, one bedroom unit and a two bedroom cottage.

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Gordonton 652 Woodlands Road Location and size This 140ha (more or less) dairy unit with an all flat contour and peaty loam soils is part of a larger operation but run as a separate unit. Currently 380 cows are milked with a three year production average of 155,870kgms. The 22ASHB sits near the front of the farm with an excellent race system to all 40 paddocks. The water system has been upgraded recently with a new Iron water filtration system providing plentiful quality water. A number of sheds provide for calf rearing and machinery storage plus a 30 tonne PK bin and 30 tonne fert bunker. The main dwelling has four bedrooms and office. The second home has three bedrooms plus a single personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unit with kitchenette. A simple dairy system in a great location providing a good buying option.

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Rotorua 290 Parsons Road 4

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 2pm, Wed 19 Dec 2018 96 Ulster Street, Hamilton View 12-1pm Mon 26 Nov & Mon 3 Dec Mike Fraser-Jones 027 475 9680 mike.fraserjones@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Ideal first farm A fantastic opportunity not to be missed. This 86 hectare more or less (subject to title) farm is well raced, fenced into 57 paddocks with high quality pastures, being centrally located having good contour and fertile soils. Buildings include an 18 A/S herringbone with in shed feed system and a "Big Dutchman" 19 tonne silo and new effluent pond. In addition, there is a five bay semi enclosed calf rearing shed/implement shed, two bay workshop, a one half round haybarn and fertiliser bin. Complimenting the property is the original three bedroom family home and sleepout, in excellent condition, with elevated views. This is a must view for a first farm buyer, being an easily managed one man unit with excellent infrastructure in a great location.

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Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 6 Dec 2018 1092 Fenton Street, Rotorua View 11am-12pm Wed 28 Nov Derek Enright 027 496 3974 derek.enright@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Pungarehu 579 Warea Road, Taranaki 156Ha self-contained unit with 40 bail rotary The opportunity to purchase a farm and carry on with a low cost system or crank it up by grazing off awaits. The 40 Bale rotary with cup removers is in just its 3rd season is a pleasure to milk in. This is a totally self-contained block as far as grazing goes. Calves born and raised on the property through to calving. 340 cows are milked. Two three bedroom homes are on the property. There are plenty of support buildings including a large workshop, various haybarns and calf sheds. Farm as it is currently farmed or go to a more conventional system and remove the young stock so as to up the numbers. Your call.

Pungarehu 99 Cape Road, Taranaki Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 1pm, Wed 23 Jan 2019 15 Courtenay Street, New Plymouth View 1-2pm Thu 29 Nov or by appointment John Blundell 027 240 2827 john.blundell@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY TARANAKI LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

124 Hectare coastal open country supply and low cost system This Pungarehu farm situated alongside Surf Highway 45 in places then down towards the coast runs on a low input system. Last season some PKE fed but other than that none fed previously or this season. Supplying â&#x20AC;&#x153;Open Countryâ&#x20AC;? the choice of factories to supply will appeal to some. The 28 bale rotary shed with cup removers flows well. Contour is a mix with plenty of flat land but some lahars thrown in. 300 cows are milked with heifers grazed off from 1st of May. Lots of titles, so potentially purchase options.

Tender (unless sold prior) 15 Courtenay Street New Plymouth View 11am-12pm Thu 29 Nov John Blundell 027 240 2827 john.blundell@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY TARANAKI LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Tender closing 23 Jan 1pm (Unless sold prior)

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Tararua 413 Rimu Road, Tiraumea

Tararua 166 Taylors Road, Eketahuna

Te Rimu Station - two options

Dairy, beef or both

Te Rimu Station is a well balanced property with a total area of 1296ha wintering around 12,500su. A massive investment in new fencing, infrastructure and cropping and fertiliser is reflected in the performance of this property. Historically made up of three separate farms with multiple titles, our Vendors are prepared to offer the property as one farm or two separate farms of 611ha and 684ha. Both blocks are well balanced with excellent infrastructure and homes and estimated to run around 6000su on each block. The hard work has been done. Viewing the entire farm or the options offered here will confirm the exciting opportunity available.

Price by Negotiation View by appointment Rob Deal 027 241 4775 robert.deal@bayleys.co.nz Lindsay Watts 027 246 2542 lindsay.watts@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

This 306ha property is utilising a milking platform of 148ha milking 350 cows with the balance of the 262ha home block utilised for dairy support and drystock. Platform contour consists of 104ha flat and 48ha rolling hill with the balance easy/medium hill. 38 aside HB shed with in-shed feed system, 19 bay specialist calf sheds, two good homes, both three bedroom and a separate selfcontained sleepout. A five year average of 121,708kgMS with a best of 144,488kgMS and consented for 500 cows. The handy 44ha runoff provides further options for dairy, beef or both.

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Tokomaru 869 Scotts Road and Williams Road

Canterbury 74 Riverview Road, Domett

Moturimu Station - 1189 hectares

Good soils, great water

Located only 15 minutes drive from Palmerston North, this well balanced scale property is currently used for beef finishing but traditionally ran around 7000su. It is being offered as two options, 134 hectares on Williams Road, flat/rolling with strong silt loam soils, four bedroom two storey family home, good farm infrastructure and 35 hectares in new grass. 1054 hectares on both sides of Scotts Road has around 250 hectares of cultivable land, balance medium to steep hill. 4 stand woolshed and large covered yard, three bedroom relocated villa with exceptional views, 25 hectares pines and native bush for hunting. Scale, location, contour and options. Call to discuss this exciting opportunity.

For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty (unless sold prior)

4pm, Wed 12 Dec 2018 View by appointment Rob Deal 027 241 4775 robert.deal@bayleys.co.nz Andrew Bonnor 027 941 7630 andrew.bonnor@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008 MID WEST REALTY LTD, LICENSED REAA 2008

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This 180ha effective dairy unit is located in the less well known area of Inchbonnie on hour inland of Greymouth and less than two hours from Darfield. With a 40 aside herringbone shed at the heart of things you have all necessary out buildings and a three bedroom home plus self-contained sleepout and a three bedroom cottage to accommodate all. Maximum cows milked have been 480 but the current owners have dropped to 370 cows for ease of management. Top production 180,932kgms now consistently 138,000kgms. New effluent system installed this winter, a versatile unit that gives you options. Vendors would prefer a going concern sale as they are retiring. Land, buildings and shares are included.

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Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 4pm, Wed 12 Dec 2018 3 Deans Ave, Chch View by appointment Ben Turner 027 530 1400 ben.turner@bayleys.co.nz Peter Foley 021 754 737 peter.foley@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

bayleys.co.nz/558852

Inchbonnie 2489 Kumara-Inchbonnie Road 180ha developed dairy unit

A 301.6ha finishing farm boasting versatile soils, easy contour, approximately 144ha under irrigation with room for expansion, two generous water consents and the ability to convert to dairy. These are key to the multi-faceted upside this property presents. Currently run as a support and fattening unit, the irrigated terraces may also suit crop or vegetable production, as the property enjoys a mild, coastal climate. The spacious family homestead has wonderful views and is set in mature gardens with a tennis court and pool. There is a very good second four-bedroom home, and supporting farm sheds and yards. Multiple soil types provides adaptability and the possibility of several farming options. Trees could be planted on steeper sidings. There is massive upside here.

Seddonville 141 Mokihinui Road 1

Asking Price $3,400,000 + GST (if any) View by appointment Shari Ferguson 027 266 6850 shari.ferguson@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Dairy unit and support block combination Here is the unique situation of having a first step dairy unit and support block combination to allow you the full set up. The property comprises of approximately 129.28ha main milking platform, 34.5ha that can be milked off or used as a support block and a further 44ha effective runoff. With a modern 36 aside herringbone shed with additional concrete feed pad, large barns and good cattle yards. Two older three bedroom houses and a two bedroom cottage are also located on the property.

bayleys.co.nz/558448

For Sale $2,950,000 + GST (if any) View by appointment Shari Ferguson 027 266 6850 shari.ferguson@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Canterbury 114 Derretts Road, Hororata

Maruia 1991 State Highway 65 Versatile 208ha effective dairy unit This 208ha effective dairy unit has been run as a dairy farm for 20 years. It was historically run by the family, it has been leased for the last three seasons and had a sharemilker for the previous three. So the options are yours, run the property yourself or view this as a great investment. With the various management options the farm has milked 470 – 540 cows and been run as a OAD and TAD system as well as being a self-contained unit. You also have the option of supplying Westland Milk Products or Fonterra. A full array of barns and calf sheds are on site as well as a separate set of cattle yards. The original homestead has three bedrooms and there are two other cottages.

Asking Price $3,950,000 + GST (if any) View by appointment Shari Ferguson 027 266 6850 shari.ferguson@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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'Bridge Farm' Location, established trees, healthy soils and a large, modern residence are a taste of the numerous attributes that underpin the value of this picturesque 71ha small farm. The five-bedroom home, built in 2015, fits perfectly with the established grounds and sweeping lawns, creating a park-like environment, which includes a heated in-ground swimming pool. A large sunny deck on the front of the home provides a wonderful outdoor living area to enjoy the surrounding gardens. The property is well-subdivided with good lane access and a wetland area with a large duck pond and mai mai. An easy-care, low-cost farm with good healthy soils that hold on well in the summer. A full complement of farm buildings completes this very attractive package.

St Andrews 251 Esk Bank Road

Cattle fattening or dairy farming

Committed to sell

bayleys.co.nz/558830

Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 4pm, Thu 13 Dec 2018 3 Deans Ave, Chch View by appointment Ben Turner 027 530 1400 ben.turner@bayleys.co.nz Mike Adamson 027 221 1909 WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Canterbury 145 Aitkens Road, Hororata • 324ha run in conjunction with a neighbouring leased block of approximately 147ha • Irrigated by a pivot and K-line covering around 112ha, plus 45ha of the leased block • Two houses plus staff accommodation • 54-bail rotary dairy, very large feed pad, good calf sheds, deer shed and yards • Improving pastures and fertility • Good access, lanes, contour, rainfall and soils • Approximately 50ha fenced for deer • Currently dairy farming, but an ideal block for cattle fattening

Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 4pm, Wed 12 Dec 2018 Offers over $25,000 per/ha + GST (if any) 3 Deans Ave, Chch Ben Turner 027 530 1400 ben.turner@bayleys.co.nz Mike Adamson 027 221 1909 Craig Blackburn 027 489 7225 craig.blackburn@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Motivated vendors have instructed us to present all offers. This is a real opportunity for you to own a truly versatile property with scale, within easy commute of Timaru. This 447 hectare property currently utilised as dairy support is partially irrigated by centre pivot and k-line with further potential to utilise this resource. A range of versatile soils, the majority being well suited to cropping plus an area of lighter soils add to the farming options. Two houses set in nicely established grounds. A good range of sheds including one large steel framed suited to grain storage. Cattle yards with double load out ramp for movement of large numbers of stock, plus a woolshed and yards. Established pine woodlots shelter the property.

Deadline Sale (will not be sold prior) 1pm, Wed 12 Dec 2018 339 Stafford St, Timaru View by appointment Kurt Snook 027 256 0449 kurt.snook@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Te Kauwhata 102a Travers Road

Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 13 Dec 2018 96 Ulster Street, Hamilton View by appointment Nigel White 022 121 0700 Mark Fourie 021 349 530 Boundary lines are indicative only

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With the bank calling "time" this bare block comes to market via a mortgagee sale with pressure mounting to sell at the earliest opportunity. Set on 6.5ha (more or less) of mixed flat and gently rolling contour, the block has a scheme plan for subdivision into 49 sections all advantaged by a sunny northerly aspect with easy accessibility. A timely opportunity to ride a new wave of development in the Waikato's newest boomtown.

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Reefton

43 Garvey Creek Mine Road 4

Queenstown Dalefield

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Asking Price $4,550,000 + GST (if any) View by appointment Shari Ferguson 027 266 6850 shari.ferguson@bayleys.co.nz

Malaghan's Farm Malaghan's Farm is nestled in the hills between Queenstown and Arrowtown, at the base of Coronet Peak . It is probably the most significant large parcel of farming land available in the Queenstown Basin. The farm features cattle yards, an implement shed and a large natural pond with sweeping well fenced paddocks. The current owners have moved and it's time for the rural block to go. Forget about any previous price expectations as they want it sold. The farm features two fantastic building platforms with amazing elevated views looking directly North to Coronet Peak, while still being very sheltered and secluded from the views of other houses. This property fits a lot of buyers needs and is a very rare commodity in the Queenstown area.

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For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty (unless sold prior)

4pm, Thu 6 Dec 2018 311 Hawthorne Drive, Queenstown View by appointment Jimmy Allen 021 676 013 jimmy.allen@bayleys.co.nz Greg Ross 027 432 0261 greg.ross@bayleys.co.nz QUEENSTOWN & SOUTHERN NZ REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008

480 Cow dairy unit Located five minutes drive inland of Reefton this 242 hectare milking platform has a five year production average of 174,000kgMS. A 50 bale herringbone shed is centrally located and you have a set of yards, 250 cow standoff pad and large multi-purpose barn. A four bedroom home and three bedroom cottage have both been well maintained . Water crossings are bridged and you have a underpass under the highway. Price includes 190.001 Westland Milk Products shares.

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Kilgaren 441 ha

Ohawe Trust 174 ha

AUCTION

TENDER

WEB ID WR64670 CENTRAL HAWKES BAY 896 Te Awa Road View By Appointment AUCTION 2.00pm, Tue 18th Dec, 2018, Waipukurau Club, • 28 km south east of Waipukurau Russell Street, Waipukurau • Easy / medium hill with some steeper faces • Four bedroom homestead plus second three bedroom cottage • Four stand woolshed, sheep & cattle yards, deer shed Pat Portas • 160 ha deer fenced 1.8m netting Mobile 027 447 0612 Office 06 928 0521 • Water reticulated to 55 paddocks from the Farm Rd Home 06 855 8330 Water Scheme patp@pb.co.nz • Presently breeding and finishing lams, finishing bulls, deer breeding and velveting Bevan Pickett • A genuine unit showing excellent returns Mobile 027 220 2766

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Office 06 928 0520 bevanp@pb.co.nz

Waimiro 561 ha

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TENDER View By Appointment TENDER closes Thursday 6th December, 2018 at 2.00pm, to be submitted to Property Brokers, 129 Main Street, Pahiatua

Jared Brock

Mobile 027 449 5496 Office 06 376 4823 Home 06 376 6341 jared@pb.co.nz

John Arends

Mobile 027 444 7380 Office 06 376 4364 johna@pb.co.nz

Modern dairy farm - 291 ha

DEADLINE SALE

WEB ID PR62092 PONGAROA 4317 Pahiatua Pongoroa Road Situated on Pahiatua Pongaroa Road. 6km west of the township of Pongaroa and under 40 minutes drive to Pahiatua. Waimiro is a sheep and beef breeding/finishing property running in excess of 3,100 su. 365 ha of effective pasture which is extensively subdivided into 40 paddocks with 83 ha suitable for cultivation. 15 ha has already being drained and in superior pasture. The ineffective area features 80 ha in established and regenerating Manuka providing further income for the property.

WEB ID PR63662 WOODVILLE 212 Bluff Road Ohawe is well located being 5km south of Woodville and under 30 minutes drive to Palmerston North. Compromising 125 ha of flat superior soil types has resulted in excellent production history of a three year average around 140,000 kgMS peak milking 340 cows. The 49 ha easy hill country support unit adds an excellent complement to the dairy business which is utilised as young stock grazing and wintering for MA cows. Infrastructure includes a 36 ASHB shed, numerous shedding, lined effluent pond and inshed feeding. Ohawe features three homes with the main homestead being of superior nature.

DEADLINE SALE

DEADLINE SALE View By Appointment DEADLINE SALE closes Tuesday 11th December, 2018 at 2.00pm, (unless sold prior), to be submitted to Property Brokers, 129 Main Street, Pahiatua

Jared Brock

Mobile 027 449 5496 Office 06 376 4823 Home 06 376 6341 jared@pb.co.nz

John Arends

Mobile 027 444 7380 Office 06 376 4364 johna@pb.co.nz

WEB ID AR64676 ASHBURTON 801 Boltons Road View By Appointment DEADLINE SALE closes Friday 14th December, 2018 at Located in one of New Zealand's prime dairy farming 3.00pm, (unless sold prior) locations this property has what all prospective dairy farm owners strive for, to create a business that generates excellent returns year in - year out. For this certain assets are required and this farm has the lot. Water is located within the favoured Mayfield Hinds irrigation scheme that is one of the cheapest within New Zealand and yet one of the most reliable. The property has scale so it's large enough to fully utilise all the Chris Murdoch improvements. Infrastructure that is suited for the size Mobile 0274 342 545 and scale of the farm. Office 03 307 9191

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Clover-Nook Farm

Melford Hills

DEADLINE SALE

WEB ID DFR65101 BANKSIDE 319 Mitchells Road View By Appointment DEADLINE SALE closes Thursday 13th December, 2018 at Clover-Nook dairy farm comprises of 216 ha and is 4.00pm, (unless sold prior) located in one of Canterbury’s most desired dairying locations. • Milking 720 cows with five-year average production of 311,615 kgMS from a low input system • 50 bail rotary cowshed with meal feeding system Gareth Cox • Irrigated by centre pivot and Rotorainer irrigation Mobile 021 250 9714 • Excellent standard of accommodation, including gareth@pb.co.nz spacious homestead set in park-like grounds plus well presented three bedroom home and two further staff accommodation units Matt Collier Secure this quality property that has been well farmed Mobile 027 205 6626 mattc@pb.co.nz by our vendors for the past 23 years.

DEADLINE SALE

WEB ID TMR64627 WAIMATE 958 Waihaorunga Back Road View By Appointment DEADLINE SALE closes Friday 7th December, 2018 at • 805 ha of farm that has extensive subdivision in to 4.00pm, (unless sold prior) approximately 120 paddocks, with well-formed laneways connecting to most paddocks. • Currently running approximately 2,800 ewes scanning at 195% and weaning 150% to 155% unmanned and 120 MA Beef cows • Two good farm homes with the main homestead built on an elevated site with large deck to enjoy. • Three stand shearing shed with large covered yards holding more than 1,000 ewes. Michael Richardson • Third generation farm, been in the family since 1912 Mobile 027 228 7027 but sadly it is time to move on to new things and Office 03 687 7145 michael@pb.co.nz complete that bucket list.

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Scarborough Road Dairy 117 ha

TENDER PAHIATUA 493 Scarborough Road This picturesque dairy unit certainly presents options; being located only 5km from Pahiatua and under 30 minutes drive to Palmerston North. Extremely well catered for with a centrally located 2002 built 50 bail rotary featuring cup removers which is serviced by a central concrete race. The low input farming system has milked 300 cows on the effective area of 116 ha of which 62 ha is flat and the remaining 54 ha being rolling to easy hill with an adjoining 80 ha lease as support.

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WEB ID PR64697 VIEW By Appointment A three bedroom plus office comfortable family home set in park like grounds completes an appealing and well TENDER closes Wednesday 12th December, 2018 at presented package. 2.00pm, to be submitted to Property Brokers, 129 Main Street Pahiatua Numerous titles and split options cater to all facets of the market either it being support, lifestyle or continue with the existing dairy operation and take this property to the next level.

TENDER Jared Brock

Mobile 027 449 5496 Office 06 376 4823 Home 06 376 6341 jared@pb.co.nz

John Arends

Mobile 027 444 7380 Office 06 376 4364 johna@pb.co.nz

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FOR SALE WAIHUE QUARRY MAMARANUI, KAIPARA

Boundary lines are indicative only

SMALL-SCALE OPERATIONAL QUARRY PLANT AND MACHINERY INCLUDED This small-scale operational blue and brown metal quarry located in the Kaipara district is offered for sale on a ‘walk in, walk out basis’, with significant plant and machinery included in the sale.

+ 15.1 ha* freehold land title + 1,000,000* cubic meters of resource remaining + Resource consent until 2026 + Plant and machinery included

A perfect opportunity for a passive investor, quarry operator or contractor to take control of this operational asset and continue to supply the current client base of local farmers, first rotation foresters and roading contractors. Contact CBRE today to obtain a detailed Information Memorandum and access to the Dataroom.

*Approximately DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Thursday 29 November 2018 at 4pm (unless sold prior) WYATT JOHNSTON 027 815 1303

JEREMY KEATING 021 461 210

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Dairy grazing or beef finishing block A well located cattle property in the Tahuna district, 30 kms north of Morrinsville and 45 kms north-east of Hamilton  644 Waiti Road, Tahuna  89.84 hectares (more or less)  easy undulating to medium hill contour with

some steeper sidlings  pockets of native bush in gullies add to the

aesthetic appeal  subdivided into 15 paddocks with good fencing  stream water electric pumped to reservoir and

gravity fed to troughs in all paddocks  approximately 12 ha mowable, harvesting 250

bales of silage and 80 big bales of hay annually  soil type predominantly mairoa ash over clay

Tenders close 4.00pm Thursday, 13 December 2018

Open Days: Tues, 27 Nov & 4 Dec 12noon to 2.00pm

Auction Wednesday, 5 December 2018

Open Day:

 good cattle yards and three bay gable hay barn  no dwelling but elevated building sites with

expansive views  a very tranquil block on a quiet road, only

105 kms to Auckland airport On Farm biosecurity protocols will apply vehicles and footwear to be clean prior to arrival

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Dave Peacocke 0274 732 382

Dairy with location Available for the first time in 25 years, this well presented dairy farm is located in the top farming and lifestyle district of Tauwhare, 17 kms to Cambridge, 16 km to Morrinsville, 25 km to Hamilton CBD  625 Scotsman Valley Road, Tauwhare  160.43 hectares  135 ha dairy platform plus 20 ha grazable sidlings  mainly Tauwhare silt loam with areas of clay loam  good fertiliser history & re-grassing programme  well fenced and raced to 60 paddocks  two water sources, reticulated with backup

storage

 126,610 kgms from 350 cows calved last season  34 aside farm dairy with auto cup removers, meal

feeding system and 25t silo  new effluent system and water chiller unit

Thurs, 29 November 11.00am to 1.00pm

 main dwelling 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom family

home plus 3 bedroom second home  extensive trees, hedges and native riparian

planting

An outstanding opportunity to secure a well located property with all the hard work completed On Farm biosecurity protocols will apply vehicles and footwear to be clean prior to arrival

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Malcolm Wallace 021 357 446 Dave Peacocke 0274 732 382

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"PUKEOKAHU" - HIGH QUALITY BREEDING & FINISHING IN A SPECTACULAR SETTING 1406 Pukeokahu Road, Taihape, Rangitikei

Jamie Proude AREINZ 027 448 5162 | jamie@nzr.nz Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | peter@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

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While the quality and productivity of this property will impress, its the majesty of the environment that may catch your eye when you first visit Pukeokahu. From its 4km boundary with the Rangitikei River, the property rises to the top of the iconic Pukeokahu Hill; between is circa 845ha of effective country, approx. 30% of which is cultivatable and 50% easy type hill, with the balance steeper. Much of the easy country is Ohakune Silt loam; an ash based soil highly regarded for its horticultural production. Around 400ha is deer fenced, with recent investment into tracks and lane ways providing excellent stock and vehicle access back to the main facilities. Close to half the property is trough watered from spring sources, with the balance natural, incl. the Okoeke and Ngutuwhero streams. A substantial 380mÂ˛ homestead, significantly renovated in the 1980â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enjoys expansive views; while other accommodation incl. two 3 bedroom homes, single quarters and the former shearers quarters. The 6 stand woolshed has recently had new yards added. The close proximity of River Valley Lodge has provided tourism based income as well adding vibrancy to the local community. With significant recent investment in infrastructure and pastures, Pukeokahu is well set up and ready to go. Tenders Close 11am, Thu 6 Dec 2018 NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding.

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FARM 4. WAIO - COASTAL BREEDING STATION - HUGE INVESTMENT MADE 77 Mataikona Road, Mataikona, Wairarapa Coast Waio is a very well presented property following substantial investment in fencing and buildings including a homestead renovation, new managers dwelling, new woolshed and covered yards and a capital fertiliser program. There are around 440ha of effective grazing land, including 59ha of gully flats, wintering between 3,7004,000su with a 135-140% lambing & 95% calving in recent years. The rest of the property is in; scattered scrub 45ha, forestry right pines 60ha, bush (manuka/kanuka/ native) 270ha (including QE2 63ha), gully planted pines & bush 60ha, and buildings 3ha. Waio has excellent permanent post & batten fencing with most being either replaced or repaired in the last 5 years to subdivide the farm into around 75 main paddocks. The fertility levels have also be targeted with the latest soil test averaging 5.86 pH and 24 Olsen P. The renovated homestead is sited within mature manicured grounds and enjoys stunning coastal views including the iconic Castlepoint lighthouse. All four bedrooms have a shower and toilet. The managers house is a three bedroom Lockwood home built in 2014 and has a double garage with office and sleepout. The 4 stand woolshed and covered yards (NP 900) are in a near new condition. A 5 bay implement shed & workshop is closeby. There are two sets of cattle yards, and a good set of satellite sheep yards close to the airstrip on the all weather access road to the Vodafone tower.

878 hectares Video on website nzr.nz/RX1681253 Tender Closes 4pm, Thu 29 Nov 2018, NZR, Level 1, 16 Perry St, Masterton. Blair Stevens AREINZ 027 527 7007 | 06 370 9199 blair@nzr.nz NZR Real Estate Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

"MT HUIA" 906 Ruahine Road, Mangaweka We are privileged to present a well located 309 ha medium hill country sheep and cattle property, 9 km from SH 1 at Mangaweka. The tastefully renovated 5-bedroom Homestead is set in beautiful gardens with a native bush back drop, along with a second dwelling "Hodd Cottage", a well established Farmstay Business, plus quality infrastructure throughout the whole property. Regarded as a top performer from its 1300 Romney ewes, 80 Angus breeding cows plus replacements. Held in two titles giving purchasing options.

WELL LOCATED IRRIGATED SILTS 320 Riverside Rd, Martinborough, Wairarapa An aesthetically pleasing property with fertile alluvial soils currently used as a dairy support block and before that as an intensive cropping and livestock finishing block. Crops grown have been; peas, barley, sorghum, green feed oats, kale and brassicaÂ´s. An 8.5ha lease gives a total area of 84ha. Around 40ha of Greytown Silt Loam soil is protected from flooding and 60ha is irrigated via 40l/s bore. There is a hayshed, combination sheep & cattle yards with load out and a concrete silage bunker. This is a quality, well located and versatile property with great infrastructure that isnÂ´t overcapitalized.

309 hectares Deadline Sale nzr.nz/RX1722948 Deadline Sale Closes 4pm, Fri 14 Dec 2018, 1 Goldfinch Street, Ohakune (unless sold prior). Jamie Proude AREINZ 027 448 5162 | jamie@nzr.nz NZR Central Ltd | Licensed REAA 2008

JUST 2KM FROM THE EDGE OF FEILDING 234 Sandon Road, Feilding This 64 ha farm will be perfect if you want to be handy to the saleyards, your home in Feilding or if you want to build a new home with exceptional views and privacy but still be close to the shops. Outstanding stock handling facilities include the combo sheep/cattle yards and a 3 stand woolshed, with an adjoining hayshed. Trough water is reticulated throughout from a high-point tank filled from reliable sources. In four titles, our vendor is non-GST registered. A quality address. Open Wed 28 Nov 1:00-2:00pm.

75 hectares Video on website nzr.nz/RX1412132 Offers Close 4pm, Wed 12 Dec 2018, NZR, Lvl 1, 16 Perry St, Masterton. (unless sold prior) Blair Stevens AREINZ 027 527 7007 | blair@nzr.nz NZR Real Estate Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

64 hectares Video on website nzr.nz/RX1722631 Tender Closes 11am, Wed 12 Dec 2018, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding. Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | peter@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

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06 323 3363 Farm & Lifestyle Sales

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70 MOODY ROAD, WHAKATANE

WHAKATANE DAIRY FARM - 155 HA Rangitaiki Plains, Moody Rd. Vendor seeks offers, expecting interest over $7.5M. Farm held in four titles, total land area, 155.1956 Hectare. Combined with two neighbouring leases, 8 Ha and 7 Ha respectively, to create a 155 Ha milking platform. Land 90% flat, 10% rolling. Well fenced, pumice races maintained using on farm quarry. An extensive irrigation system with three pivot irrigators and sprinkler network ensures summer safe production. Three water supplies to the property including artesian bore. Currently operated by a 50/50 sharemilker, with management input from Farm Consultant and Trustees on behalf of Family Trusts. Approx. 570 F/Fx cows calved, average production of 200,000 kg ms. through a 40 aside Herring Bone Dairy. Accommodation includes three good homes, self contained cabin and an excellent range of farm buildings. The farm as a whole is very well maintained and offered for sale in excellent order. Detailed Farm Information Memorandum available from the Agents or can be downloaded from the Professionals Website.

2736 Ridge Road, Apiti An excellent opportunity to own a prime deer, sheep and beef farm:       

Situated 6km from Apiti and 44km from Feilding 292.3094 hectares (282ha effective); 215 hectares is deer fenced 4-stand woolshed built in 2006 3,000 stock units wintered Very well tracked with good access to all parts of the property Water supply is from springs and pumped to a tank, troughs in most paddocks Three bedroom family home with expansive decking and a tennis court

Contact Richard or Robert for more information.

OPEN FARMS - Thursday 29 November and 6 December from 1.00pm to 3.00pm

For sale as Land, buildings and farm chattels. Price will be PLUS GST (if any). Viewing by appointment with the agents. Bio-Security protocols will be followed for on farm visits.

For sale by TENDER closing 4.00pm on Tuesday 18 December 2018

Maurice Butler AREINZ

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0274 514 395 07 307 0165 maurice@professionalswhakatane.co.nz

Richard Anderson 027 543 1610 Robert Dabb 027 255 3992

Web ID: RAL627

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1,001 HA

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Otorohanga/Te Kuiti 1467 Rangitoto Rd Low Input - High Profit

River Road, Akitio 1,001 hectares (2,475 acres) Huiarau Station, situated on River Road in Akitio is a 1,001ha (2,475ac) farm with approximately 200 hectares of quality flats. There is a 30+ year fertiliser history and, coupled with strong soil types, the farm is ready for the next generation. With a 5-stand woolshed, laneway with metal track and 50 paddocks you will find this one of the best farms in the district.

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

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Profitable Dairy Unit of 236ha (more or less) on with a modern 54 Bale Rotary with milk meters, auto draughting and in-shed feeding system.The farm is well sub-divided with good races and fencing. Estimated 210,000kg/ms and still improving. Plenty of housing on the farm with 3 in total.

Jack Van Lierop 0274 455 099‘ LJ Hooker - Matamata 07 888 5677

Adjacent to the farm is 112ha (more or less) runoff, 70ha in grass, for all your young stock, makes this a self contained unit. A safer option with Bio Security.

Link Realty Limited

(If not sold prior) Tender closing 4pm Friday 14th December 2018

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Set Date of Sale By 2pm, Wed 12th Dec 2018 (unless sold prior) View Tues 27th November, 11-12pm www.ljhooker.co.nz/F1GHR1 ljhooker.co.nz/F1GHR1

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FARMERS WEEKLY – November 26, 2018

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For Sale 24.22 Hectares

37.74 Hectares

40.25 Hectares

61.73 Hectares

Boundary indicative only

Wardville | 1291 Alexandra Road

Tender

164.11Hectares Supporting All Options • Four titles • Irrigation resource consent for 366,000m3 of water intake • Two dwellings • All flat vegetable production block • Waitoaf sandy loam soil and Puningaf deep loam soil An opportunity to secure an irrigation consented production block for a range of commercial farming systems. | Property ID MT1069

Closing 2pm, Wednesday 13 February 2019 (unless sold prior)

Inspection By appointment

Contact Ian Morgan 027 492 5878 Glen Murray 027 488 6138

Maungaturoto | 37 Batley Road 155 Hectares Dry Stock Grazing - Maungaturoto. Handily located to Maungaturoto this well-developed beef grazing unit comprising 155 hectare/143 hectare effective, with majority easy rolling hay country. Subdivided and raced to some 69 paddocks, effective dam sourced water and sound fertiliser history. Buildings include a 1950’s style three bedroom home that has been totally renovated, large wrap around deck and detached double garage built in 2017. Disused 40 bail rotary cowshed, 3 bay implement shed, 9 bay poly calf shed, storage shed and cattle yards. | Property ID WF1010

AUCTION

Often admired, this impeccably presented 70.8ha dairy unit has been highly regarding for many reasons. A great level of infrastructure throughout including shedding, farm races, exceptional pastures and production to match with a best of just over 111,000kgMS. Add in the tidy home in a beautiful setting, the gorgeous specimen trees and groomed hedges, the scene is set – are you ready to put yourself in the picture? With our long serving sharemilkers hanging up their aprons and the owner family ready to move on to new directions I highly recommend inspection at your earliest convenience.

Inspection By appointment

Contact Tom Hackett 027 498 2908 Tim Holdgate 021 475 465

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Orini 10 Rye Road The Jewel of Orini

Tender Closing 3pm, Thursday 13 December 2018 (unless sold by private treaty)

TENDER

Auction Thursday 20 December 2018 11am on site (unless sold prior) View: Thursday 30 November & 7 and 14 December 11am-12nooon harcourts.co.nz/ML4157

Rangiriri 821a Te Ohaki Road Get in on the Golden Mile The sandy silt soils of Te Ohaki Road have often been regarded as some of the finest in the Waikato and evidence of that is in play with the market gardening right next door to this “healthy as a horse” 128ha FH with 19ha LH dairy farm. With production averaging a good 120,000kgMS over the past 5 years this is a seriously affordable opportunity to get into some real scale of economy without blowing the bank account. Jump on the web to check out the images then jump in the ute and pop out for a look at the farm. It looks fantastic due to our great sharemilkers (who are hanging up their milking aprons), supportive owners (check out the fertility records). The orders from my owners are very clear and concise – “Kevin get us a result”

Tender Friday 14 December 2018 4:00pm(unless sold prior) View: Wednesday 28 November & 5 and 12 December 12noon-1pm harcourts.co.nz/ML4147

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FARMERS WEEKLY – November 26, 2018

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Waikerikeri Run

Central Otago

627 Waikerikeri Valley Road • 916.3040 hectares freehold land with 250ha QEII Covenant • Ranges from heavy paddock country to strong low hill and mid altitude tussock hill running 1000 sheep and 150 cattle • Combination of excellent pastoral and conservation values • Deserving of closer inspection - view our video on-line pggwre.co.nz/ALE29413

TENDER Plus GST (if any) Closes 4.00pm Wednesday 19 December

Mike Direen B 03 440 2382 M 027 434 0087

mdireen@pggwrightson.co.nz

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Te Mara Farm 393.65 hectares

Blackmount

• Situated at Blackmount, on the Southern Scenic Route, with close proximity to Te Anau and Manapouri, this property has been the cornerstone of the Slee family’s farming business and is being offered to the market for the first time in 54 years • Comprising flat, gentle rolling to steeper contour, with sunny faces, excellent balance of soils, contour and shelter throughout • Good range of farm buildings include a recent implement/workshop, a four stand woolshed, covered yards and numerous support buildings • Normally running 3500 MA ewes, 850 hoggets, plus fattening cattle as feed dictates, Te Mara has proven to be consistently profitable • Spacious and comfortable, four bedroom homestead and a modern, three bedroom managers house provide outstanding accommodation

Tender closing Thursday 6th December at 2pm

Ref: CC20154

Philip Ryan 0274 325 770 philip@countryandco.nz

Alana Tait 0275 420 256 alana@countryandco.nz

Shay Moseby 0272 686 879 shay@countryandco.nz

Paula Laughton 0275 331 268 paula@countryandco.nz

Matt Harrington 0274 980 474 matt@countryandco.nz

03 218 8959 office@countryandco.nz

FOR SALE

PROPERTY WITH OPTIONS

3872A Mountain Road, Cardiff Having been owned by the same family for the past 30 years, this property has seen extensive development. Properties of this size and caliber, this close to town rarely come to the local market. This amazing flat fertile 17.04 Ha (42.11 acres) grazing block has been set up to offer easy grazing management. Built on the farm, is a large Homestead that in recent times has been fully redecorated including new bathrooms and kitchen. A large salt water swimming pool and BBQ area compliment the overall setting with established gardens. Locals will well remember the vintage machinery museum that was a large part of this lands history. To accommodate this, extensive sheds have been built which now offer fantastic storage to those valuable toys you may own! This property comes with multiple purchasing options so please take the time to come along and view it.

OPEN DAY WEDNESDAY

TENDER

DAIRY FARM/RUNOFF WITH ON FARM HUNTING

320 Makino Road, Hurleyville Located approx. 15 minutes south of Hawera on the Makino Road, is this very good dairy farm with runoff/supplement block attached. Having approx 146 hectares (366 acres) in grass with an effective milking platform of 85ha (210 acres) meaning the remaining area is used for grazing young stock, wintering cows and making supplements.

Brent Dodunski 027 498 4346

OPEN DAY FRIDAY

TENDER

AWESOME AUROA ROAD

525 Auroa Road, Auroa Tender Closes 4pm, Wednesday 5 December 2018 at McDonald Real Estate Ltd 274 High Street, Hawera Open Day Wed 28 November 11:00-11:30am

Currently milking 283 cows through a tidy 24 aside herringbone cowshed plus grazing 80 yearlings and 80 calves with production around 105000kg milksolids.

Located just below the Skeet Road on the Auroa Road is this excellent 127.0459 hectares (313.9304 acres) dairy farm/runoff. Currently milking 250 cows plus grazing 100 calves this property is on both sides of the Auroa Road allowing for a smaller dairy farm purchase or a sought after runoff purchase.

Tender Closes 4pm, Friday 7 December 2018 at McDonald Real Estate Ltd 274 High Street, Hawera Open Day Friday 30 November 1:00-1:30pm

Featuring a very good 28 bail rotary cowshed, 3 bedroom brick main home plus two other good homes, flat in contour with excellent race system, Waimate West Water Scheme, large calf rearing shed and excellent loading ramp and yards. The options are endless here from a 350-380 cow dairy farm to a 250-280 cow dairy farm or a very attractive 28 hectare (70 acres) runoff.

This is a very well set up dairy farm with an excellent race system and ample farm buildings. A complete dairy unit with runoff and with the bonus of on farm hunting, particularly fallow deer!!

This is a rare opportunity to purchase a quality property in a sought after dairying location. Phone today for more details.

The property has it all and is waiting for its new owners to continue to receive the benefits.

Rodney Perrett 027 241 3979

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Port Waikato, Waikato

Coastal Lifetime Opportunity 764 Port Waikato-Waikaretu Road If 2-3km of sandy private beaches, access to low water mussel beds, exceptional fishing, various hunting opportunities including deer, together with a network of undeveloped limestone caves sounds good to you, then this 540ha once in a lifetime opportunity is not to be missed. Puriri Heights has been loved by the same family for 60 years and currently runs as a sheep and beef breeding operation. Contour is a mixed. Water is supplied to the property by a limestone artesian water network. The property boasts two residences with the main homestead well set up for entertaining. The fully fenced orchard and vegetable garden is supported by a glass house so will cater for those with an eye towards self-sufficiency. Close enough to Auckland and other amenities as well as being far enough away to provide a sense of peace and tranquility. It is ready for someone new who may have the vision to further develop with an eye toward tourism. www.puririwiltshire.com pggwre.co.nz/PUK28529

NEW LISTING

TENDER Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 4.00pm, Wednesday 5 December

Adrian van Mil B 09 237 2041 | M 027 473 3632 avanmil@pggwrightson.co.nz

TENDER

Pukekohe, Franklin

Time To Move

Glen Murray, Franklin

895 Wairamarama Onewhero Road 617ha located in the farming district of Onewhero. The Orton Family has been the faithful stewards of this land for the past 65 years. As a sheep and beef finishing unit, it is known locally for its ability to produce quality stock. Positioned only 15km from the local Tuakau Sale Yards for ease of stock movements is another key to this farm. It is not often that a farm with this location and size comes onto the market. Offering the opportunity for another generation of farmers to take over the mantle.

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PRICE BY NEGOTIATION

Mark Needham B 09 237 0644 M 027 704 6833

mneedham@pggwrightson.co.nz

Adrian van Mil B 09 237 2041 M 027 473 3632

avanmil@pggwrightson.co.nz

PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008

You Choose

187 Goodwin Road

There are choices galore with this 88ha dairy farm 1. 88ha Dairy farm with a 75ha lease 2. 28ha with 29 ASHB dairy shed, threebedroom weatherboard home, six-bay implement shed and workshop 3. 36ha with three hay barns, seven-bay shed and three-bedroom character bungalow 4. 22ha mainly flat grazing block with great building sites 5. 1ha section Why wait? Make your choice today. pggwre.co.nz/PUK29231

TENDER Closes 4.00pm, Friday 7 December VIEW 10am-11am, Tuesday 27 November

Peter Kelly B 07 834 9575 M 027 432 4278 Success Realty Limited, Bayleys, Licensed under the REAA 2008.

Adrian van Mil B 09 237 2041 M 027 473 3632 PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, Licensed under the REAA 2008.

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Large Scale Grazing, Impressive Views This historic family farm has it all... • 318.5ha (approx) in 11 titles • Easy rolling to medium contour • Northerly harbour and easterly sea views • Five bedroom main home, three bedroom cottage • Very good fencing and central road access • Excellent fertiliser history, reliable water system Located less than 20km from the heart of Whangarei and only 4km from State Highway 1. This ideally located large scale grazing/finishing block has impressive outlooks, from the distant Hen and Chicken Islands to the Whangarei Harbour. pggwre.co.nz/WEL28580

Springfield, Northland DEADLINE SALE Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 3.00pm, Thursday 13 December

Picturesque & Productive Cruickshank Road • 177ha. Good mix of contour - excellent infrastructure • High production per cow and per hectare • Five homes all compliant with current requirements - multiple titles • 36 ASHB in good order, Millfos SCR Technology • Very good 24 ASHB for colostrum cows etc • The herd and earlier settlement are both possible options

Te Awamutu, Waikato DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 4.00pm, Wednesday 12 December VIEW 11.00-12.00pm, Tuesday 27 November, Monday 3 & 10 December

Scott Tapp B 09 423 9717 M 021 418 161

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John Sisley M 027 475 9808

Galatea, Whakatane District

Premium Golden Bay Dairy

Rockville, Golden Bay

scott.tapp@pggwrightson.co.nz

jsisley@pggwrightson.co.nz

OPEN DAY

Above Average Returns Dairy - 71.8823 Ha 4768 Galatea Road • All flat, 50ha irrigated - remaining area on river flats assuring summer production • Best production 89,000kgMS, milking 195 cows • Very good standard of improvements over property • 20 ASHB dairy with in-shed feeding system • Well maintained four bedroom, two lounge home • Additional self-contained sleep-out and garage • Easy management with a central race and own pumice pit for raceway maintenance • Galatea area - NZ Dairy study shows comparative high return on investment pggwre.co.nz/WHK29316

TENDER Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold By Private Treaty) Closes 4.00pm Thursday 13 December VIEW 12.00-1.00pm, Thursdays 29 November & 6 December

Phil Goldsmith B 07 307 1620 M 027 494 1844

pgoldsmith@pggwrightson.co.nz

PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008

Blue chip dairy with scale and potential. Platform area approximately 232ha. Production, three year average 259,891kg MS from 650 cows. Centrally located 60 bail, near new one man operation rotary shed with cup removers, protrack and in shed feeding. Four dwellings and a range of ancillary buildings, flat contour with wide laneways and quality pastures. Abundant rainfall, 3000mm, plus a water right for irrigation over 230ha. Low cost production with improvements in place to elevate production. Stunning Location, situated in Paradise between the Aorere River and the North West Nelson Forest. pggwre.co.nz/NEL29275

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 4pm, Thurs 6 December

Douglas Smith M 027 543 2280

douglasjcsmith@pggwrightson.co.nz

Joe Blakiston M 027 434 4069

jblakiston@pggwrightson.co.nz

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• 2019 Trainee Programme - Livestock Representative Agribusiness • Agribusiness • Agronomy Agronomy • Analyst • Dairy Contract Milker • General Maintenance • Livestock Specialist Dairy • Manager • Pasture and Grazing Specialist Farm Manager • Sharemilker • Shepherd Livestock Specialist • Shepherd/General

Apply early to be considered for 1st June 2019 Ngatira Group is a Waikato based family owned company. Ngatira is growing each year and we are on the hunt for an ambitious equity manager to take the challenge and help us optimize profitability across this project by adding real value: controlling farm working expenses, increasing production and lifting cow quality. Why choose us? • We are passionate about dairy farming • We are a genuinely growing business, being able to offer growth in capital while enjoying working on farm. This is based on a strong support system on and off farm. • Attractive package and Scale with 650 cows on 400ha lease.

Employers: Advertise your vacancy in the Regional Manager employment section of the Farmers Weekly and as added value it will be uploaded to Shepherd farmersweeklyjobs.co.nz for one month or close of application.

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Key Skills • Superior relationship building and communication. • You will be showcasing your impressive pasture based business acumen and knowledge of the dairy industry while working in an autonomous manner. • You will be accountable for meeting long term goals and driving the efficiency and profitability of the business through your effective management strategies, in order to help the business achieve top performance. • To work within budget parameters and effectively lead staff, ensuring compliance with environment, animal, safety and employment legislation. • Minimum investment 100k

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Please contact Andrew & Christiane at ngatiragrouprecruit@gmail.com with a cover letter and CV. We will be in touch discuss further details.

Farm Manager Shannon Station, located in the Wairoa district, start date mid-Feb 19, go to www.seek.co.nz or www.trademe.co.nz/jobs – Key words ‘Martin Pastoral’. Closing date for applications 5th December 2018

Group Dry Stock Manager South Canterbury based

WHL Group is a dairy, dairy grazing and crop farming business with operations in Mid and South Canterbury. We are seeking a highly motivated individual to manage the dry stock division within our business. This is a newly created role as we seek to control our entire dry stock function. Currently we have owned/ leased land available for dry stock of 1400 hectares on two farms. This enables grazing of 60% of the Groups 2500 heifers with the intention in short time to procure land to support 100% of Group dry stock. Our ideal applicant will be a hands on leader with the ability to co-ordinate overall dry stock outcomes across multiple farms. Applicants must have; • Strong work ethic and be self-motivated • Ability to manage a team of staff • Proven stockmanship • Highly organised, forward planner • Honest, team player • Ideally tertiary qualified but not necessary • Have high level analytical and interpersonal skills • Motivated by stock and farm presentation • A full NZ drivers licence

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Applicants for the role must have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa. To apply please email: pete.williams@whlgroup.co.nz

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AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY

THE COMPANY Dairy Holdings Limited is a New Zealand owned, growing dairy business that provides the highest quality food from 100% pasture. Dairy Holdings Limited wishes to advise that a number of contract milking and variable/lower order sharemilking positions will be available for next season.

Parengarenga Station is a 5900 hectare station situated in the Far North specialising in the farming of high quality beef and lamb. The Incorporation also has commercial interests in Forestry and Apiculture. The Station has initiated a significant development that will grow the effective farming area and expand stock numbers well beyond the current level of 40,000 stock units. A Permanent Position for a Shepherd is now available for an immediate start.

NZ Farmers Livestock are currently seeking experience Livestock Specialists in order to extend our livestock business throughout New Zealand. • Competitive remuneration package • Supportive team environment • Immediate start • Unique opportunity for a change of career direction

→ Career progression systems allowing high performers to grow themselves and assets. → 100% pasture based, profitable farming systems ensuring progression in the dairy industry is possible for the high performers and hard workers. → Extensive South Island based operations that include heifer and winter support farms. → Dairy farming operations include 59 farms, producing 17M milk solids under various operating structures. → Strong support systems both on-farm, and from the Ashburton office ensuring physical, financial, and people management skills are continually developed. → Agreements are farm specific. LK0095404©

Key skills and attributes the successful candidate should have are • Energy and vitality • Sales experience • Extensive dairy/beef/sheep knowledge • Superior relationship building and communication skills • Ability to work in an autonomous manner • High levels of drive and self-motivation • Computer literate

All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence. Applications close 5.00pm Friday 14th December 2018. Malcolm Coombe Regional Manager - Manawatu 027 432 6104 • malcolm.coombe@nzfll.co.nz or mail to: Malcolm Coombe NZ Farmers Livestock Ltd PO Box 14, Rongotea 4865

The person most suitable for this role will have experience in beef and lamb farming and will be acclimatised to either working in Northland or a coastal farming operation in New Zealand. Ideally this person will have good stock knowledge and knowledge of rotational grazing, general animal well-being and be a team player. The role requires that the person appointed have their own dogs, be experienced in the use of a quad bike or side-by-side and be able to work unsupervised. Health & Safety is a major focus of our farming operation and this person will be up to date with good practice and the requirements of a robust health and safety system. Endorsements in training in the use of a quad bike, general farm equipment and first aid are a distinct advantage. AD0095543©

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Applications close Friday, 7th December 2018

Permanent Position

This is your opportunity to join an experienced 100% NZ owned and operated Livestock company, NZ Farmers Livestock are leaders in their industry operating across New Zealand. We define ourselves on the strength of our expertise and commitment to working with farmers for farmers. We are continually making grounds in the industry and positioning ourselves as the leader in the online space of livestock trading with the successful and ever growing MyLiveStock website and MyLiveStock app.

Apply early to be considered for 1 June 2019

HOW TO APPLY: Applications can be sent to: info@dairyholdings.co.nz or Farm Vacancies Dairy Holdings Ltd PO Box 224, Ashburton 7740 Further information regarding Dairy Holdings Limited can be accessed on the website: www.dairyholdings.co.nz

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Although not central to this role, an understanding of pasture management and water reticulation would be an advantage. A Position Description is available upon request. We are offering a very competitive salary, relocation expenses, complimentary accommodation, a meat allowance and the opportunities for training and involvement in a substantial development plan. If you are this special person we would welcome your application to: The General Manager Parengarenga Incorporation 6636 Far North Rd, RD 4, Kaitaia 0484 Email: info@parengarenga.co.nz Please include at least two references. Applications close 5 pm, Friday 14th December 2018

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REACH EVERY FARMER IN NZ FROM MONDAY Advertise in the NZ Farmers Weekly $2.10 + GST per word - Please print clearly Name: Phone: Address: Email: Heading: Advert to read:

GOATS WANTED

CONTRACTORS GORSE SPRAYING SCRUB CUTTING. 30 years experience. Blowers, gun and hose. No job too big. Camp out teams. Travel anywhere if job big enough. Phone Dave 06 375 8032.

GOATS WANTED. All weights. All breeds. Prompt service. Payment on pick up. My on farm prices will not be beaten. Phone David Hutchings 07 895 8845 or 0274 519 249. Feral goats mustered on a 50/50 share basis.

DOGS FOR SALE

GOATS. 40 YEARS experience mustering feral cattle and feral goats anywhere in NZ. 50% owner (no costs). 50% musterer (all costs). Phone Kerry Coulter 027 494 4194.

12-MONTH HEADING dog for sale. Good strong type station dog. Well bred. Phone: 06 374 5510. NZ BIGGEST SELECTION working dogs since 2012. Deliver NZ wide, trial, guaranteed! www. youtube.com/user/ mikehughesworkingdog/ videos 07 315 5553. TWO-AND-A-HALF yearold male heading dog. Working well. Basic left, right and stop. $2000. TeKauwhata. Phone 027 221 1988.

PROPERTY WANTED

STOCK FEED MOISTURE METERS Hay, Silage dry matter, grain. www.moisturemeters.co.nz 0800 213 343.

HORTICULTURE NZ KELP. FRESH, wild ocean harvested giant kelp. The world’s richest source of natural iodine. Dried and milled for use in agriculture and horticulture. Growth promotant / stock health food. As seen on Country Calendar. Orders to: 03 322 6115 or info@nzkelp.co.nz

Return this form either by fax to 06 323 7101 attention Debbie Brown Post to Farmers Weekly Classifieds, PO Box 529, Feilding 4740 - by 12pm Wednesday or Freephone 0800 85 25 80

www.aotearoastockman.com

Ph: 027 959 4166 johnnyanderin2017@gmail.com maiexperiencejohnnygray

Working alongside Crusader Meats

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11.5HP Briggs & Stratton Motor. WOOD SPLITTER Industrial. Electric start.

FARM MAPPING

FERAL GOATS WANTED. All head counted, payment on pick-up, pick-up within 24 hours. Prices based on works schedule. Experienced musterers available. Phone Bill and Vicky Le Feuvre 07 893 8916.

GIFT WINE without leaving the farm! Our famous Christmas cases and gift boxes are available now. Delivered everywhere in NZ. www.winefriend.co.nz

SOLID – PRACTICAL

FOR SALE

FOOTWEAR LTD

NZ MADE BOOTS CLASSIFIEDS ADVERTISING

Suppliers of Fuelcon Stainless Steel Farm Tanks • Above Ground & On Ground options • Split tank options - incl. DEF • Fitted with both Vent Filter & Product Filter • Meter, hose & nozzle (standard) • Above Ground is fitted with ladder & standing platform • On Ground tanks have a top pump box fully enclosed & lockable

ian@petrotecni.co.nz

0800 383 5266

Do you have something to sell?

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$3910 + GST

FLY OR LICE problem? Electrodip - The magic eye sheepjetter since 1989 with unique self adjusting sides. Incredible chemical and time savings with proven effectiveness. Phone 07 573 8512 w w w. e l e c t r o d i p . c o m

ATTENTION FARMERS

NEW HOMES

TOWABLE FLAIL MOWER

LIVESTOCK FOR SALE

ANIMAL SUPPLEMENTS

TH IN K P R EB UILT

13.5HP. Briggs & Stratton Motor. Electric start. 1.2m cut

DOGS WANTED

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

For more information from genuine interest only please contact our office by email: richard@qbsl.net.nz

No worries as we’ll do all the hard work for you around health and safety, resource consent application and management. Harvesting and trucking.

ANIMAL HANDLING

ANIMAL HEALTH

The investment amount will be circa $350,000.

We can purchase standing trees, land and trees or harvest and market on your behalf.

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Contact Debbie Brown DDI: 06 323 0765 0800 85 25 80 classifieds@globalhq.co.nz

FARMERS WEEKLY – November 26, 2018

Call Debbie

0800 85 25 80 classifieds@globalhq.co.nz

Visit www.lastrite.co.nz for more quality products Gusset Casual Boot – The tough, flexible, cleated, fully repairable sole, ensures durability and the ability to handle the kids playing fields. A turned out, one piece full grain leather upper, with elastic side panel construction, ensures comfort and sleek appearance. Being fully leather lined with a leather in-sole adds to the comfort. Heavy Duty Yardmate Boot – Great heavy duty boot, perfect for farmers, heavy industrial workers, builders, fencers etc. With an upper constructed from thick full grain leather, an insole and mid-sole which are brass screwed and stitched.

10 HALL ROAD, RD 5, WHANGAREI PHONE 09 438 8907 EMAIL: lastrite@xtra.co.nz

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DE HORNER

Phone: +64 6 357 2454 LK0095307©

electro-tek@xtra.co.nz

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P.O. Box 30, Palmerston North 4440, NZ

Employment

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BREEDING EWES ROMNEY PERE X EWE HOGGETS

Eczema testing for over 15 yrs

Genuine Autumn Calving Jersey Herd

Ewes, rams, ewe hoggets. No shearing, crutching, docking. Minimal dagging. Scanned 164% ewes, 103% hoggets.

2YR A/AX or XBRED STEERS 500-550kg

Farmed easy-care on steep hill country.

www.dyerlivestock.co.nz

Ross Dyer 0274 333 381

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l no shepherding l no drenching of ewes l no feet trimming l

Contact Colin Old: 027 870 4434

Brucellosis free In a very hot year, no clinical cases observed in flock

www.progressivelivestock.co.nz

Fraser 07 828 5755 or 0272 859 587 Malcolm 07 828 5709

colin.old@progressivelivestock.co.nz

Poll Dorset – 70 Rams Poll-Tex – 30 Rams • Vet tested • Brucellosis free • Early finishing • Hill bred

Wednesday 5th December 2018 4pm. Gore A&P Grounds. Gore

17th Annual on Farm Sale Friday 11th January 2019

Natural condition rams bred for constitution longevity, weight gain ‘Guaranteed’.

www.otago-coopworths.co.nz

On offer 260 Rams Made up of 200 Terminal Rams • Dorset Down X lambs growing 500 to 600 grams a day from birth to weaning • South Dorset Rams for quick maturity • SIL Recorded and Studfax • Autumn Scan

Enquiries to: Johnny Duncan 027 327 2372 or email: JDuncan.Craigneuk@xtra.co.nz

KILORAN Poll Dorsets

Otago Coopworth Breeders Annual Elite Flock Ram Sale

CRAIGNEUK

AUCTION

Stortford Lodge Saleyards Wednesday 5th December 2018, 3pm

Breeders: Ross & Ruth Mitchell 0274338613

6% Commission outside agents

George & Elaine Fletcher 0274334773

PGG WRIGHTSON: Don McGregor 027 445 7629 CARRFIELDS: Iain MacEwan 027 293 4866 VENDOR: John Frizzell 06 857 8783

Fraser Fletcher 0274978104

GRAZERS WANTED LK0095558©

Also 60 Halfbred Maternal Rams Merino Ram/Romney Ewe MILK • WOOL • MEAT Bred to fit the Smartwool Contract 20-25 micron Grown in the harsh Maniototo climate

Phone Stu 06 862 7534

WAGYU DAIRY CROSS WEANERS

• Steers and/or heifers at competitive per kg weight gain rates • Minimum 90kg start weight • From November 2018 start date • Short and long term options available • Simple no-fuss agreements

ATTENTION RAM BUYERS See ewe 2.00pm Friday, 30th at THE RAM SALE

OR Register your interest for future grazing of R1yr and R2yr from May 2019 For further information please contact: Tim or Erin O’Brien Phone: 06 857 8305 Email: tim@brownrigg.co.nz

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1st February 2019 Delivery

A Financing Solution For Your Farm E info@rdlfinance.co.nz

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Calving from 10 March – 10 May 2019

LAMBS 1YR FRIESIAN BULLS 300-350kg

280-320kg 1YR BEEF BRED HEIFERS

95 x 2-7yr Cows. Herd ranked 24th in NZ for BW. BW 145 PW 152. 350 ms, stocked at 4.1 p/ha

25-35kg STORE

40+ Stud and Commercial SUFFOLK RAMS for sale, Canterbury A&P Ram Sale, Friday 30th November

Meaty, early maturing and easy identifiable rams.

STAY OUT FRONT

OF THE MOB Have ewe heard the most successful place to advertise your livestock is in Farmers Weekly? To advertise Phone Nigel 0800 85 25 80 or email livestock@globalhq.co.nz

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For Sale !!!

Wiltshires for sale

STOCK REQUIRED

Bred on steep hills in the Matahuru Valley

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HILLCROFT ROMNEY AND ROMDALES

PROGRESSIVE LIVESTOCK LTD

livestock@globalhq.co.nz – 0800 85 25 80

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Livestock

FARMERS WEEKLY – November 26, 2018

WINNER ANNOUNCED OUR 2018 WINNERS WERE JAMES & LISA THOMSON Island Farm, Breed Ile De France.

The Canterbury A&P Association congratulates the finalists in the 2018 Mint Lamb Competition, judged on Overall Carcass Yield & Hook, Tender Tested and Taste Tested at the New Zealand Agricultural Show.

Other results can be viewed at www.theshow.co.nz/results

•

Livestock

Meadowslea Hill-Bred Rams

Northland Herds 153 In-Milk 2-6yr Very Fertile OAD Xbred Cows. BW82 PW101 RA95%. DTC 20/7. 100% in-calf rate last season! Young Herd, 2-6yr olds Low SCC with the certs to prove it. These cows are in top condition. Low input with PKE & soya in the shed. 327ms on once a day. $1900

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70 mainly 2 & 3yr old OAD xbred BW89 PW114 DTC 20/7 Small to medium stature. I/C Hereford. Suit a herd top up. Available in-milk as well $Offers Paul Kane: 027 286 9279 National Dairy Coordinator

All the enquiries to the auctioneers, Brian Robinson Enquiries to sole marketing agents:

“He can saw people in half.”

Livestock Ltd.

Phone Brian on 0272 410 051 Brian Robinson BRLL or 07 858 3132 410051 or 07 8583132

“That is clever, and tell PH: 0272 me do you have any brothers or sisters?”

Gary Falkner “Yes, one half brother, Jersey and two half sisters.” Marketing

AUTUMN & SPRING CALVING HERD CLEARING SALE

Service PH: 027 482 8771 or 07 846 4491

280 Top Quality Xbred Cows. BW63 PW86 RA 92%. DTC 25/7. This G3 herd ticks all the boxes. Excellent young Xbred herd producing 420ms on system 3 shed feeding. 7% empty rate, Low SCC. $1900.

250 Proven OAD Xbred Herd BW103 PW132 LW129 RA87%. DTC 19/7. Milked on very steep Northland country with long walks. Production & SCC speak for themselves. System1. This herd will shift anywhere! $1850

On offer will be approximately 180 autumn calving “And what does your Outstanding genetics to heifers. be one of Friesian, Ayrshire&andpotential Jersey cows and Daddy do?” the countries leading suppliers of Genetics to Fully recorded, 100% recorded ancestry, herd tested, “He’s a magician.” the dairy industry for years to come. Full details calving from early March 2019. Further details to “That must be exciting, available. follow. what tricks can he do?”

400 Split Calving F (70%) FX (30%) Herd. BW93 PW111 RA97%. DTC 30/3 & 15/7 Quality medium framed herd for 1st June delivery. Approximately 120 Autumn calvers. 375ms. $1850

300 June Calving OAD Mixed Breed Herd BW83 PW82 RA94% DTC 22/6. Young G3 Herd. Low SCC, culled on age & udders. 350ms on once a day. $1800

boy about his family.

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livestock@globalhq.co.nz – 0800 85 25 80

2nd On Farm Lamb Sale

300 rams across 7 breeds Thursday November 29th 12:30pm on-farm SH 8, Fairlie

• Romney • TexRom • Romdale • Perendale x Tex x Romney • kelso. x Romney • kelso. Terminal (Blk Face) • kelso. Maternal

Contact: David Giddings - Meadowslea – 027 229 9760 PGW – Callum McDonald 027 433 6443 Keith Willson 027 412 5766 Greg Uren 027 431 4051 RLL – Anthony Cox 027 208 3071 PWA – Hamish Zuppicich 027 403 3025

www.carrfieldslivestock.co.nz

Anerley Station Tinui Valley Road Masterton

Friday 7th December 2018 at 11am

(approx 20km from Tinui Village)

Tuesday 4th December 11.30am start Comprising : • 2500 mixed sex Black Face Romney X lambs • 2500 White Face C/O lambs All lambs undrafted. Craig Nelson 021 457 127 Vendor: Hamish Johnson 06 372 6879 On a/c Te Mai Iti

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Due to calve from 16-7-12, 6.5 weeks AB Jersey and Kiwi cross • Estimated to be 420– November cows after non FARMERS WEEKLY 19, 2018 pregnant, culls, older cows & 5% rejection • Production last season 347kgs ms/cow, 1000kgs ms/ha, on rolling to steeper SALE TALK LONGnoESTABLISHED WAIKATO contoured farm, meal, palm kernel or maize It was the first day of AUTUMN CALVING HERD AUCTION fed. school and the teacher was asking • theYoung little replacement stock available Thursday 21stalso February 2019

500 Romney X C/O lambs On a/c Rahui Livestock 500 Suff/Tex M/S lambs

www.facebook.com/meadowslea www.meadowslea.co.nz

Vendors: M/s Valendale 2017 Ltd 505 Driver Road, RD1, Taupiri 3791 Sale to be held on the vendors property will comprise: • 40 Holstein Friesian MA Autumn calving cows • 40 Ayrshire MA Autumn calving cows • 15 Holstein Friesian MA Spring calving cows • 10 Ayrshire MA Spring calving cows • 5 Jersey MA Spring calving cows • 20 Holstein Friesian Autumn calving heifers • 15 Ayrshire Autumn calving heifers • 10 Holstein Friesian and Ayrshire spring calving heifers • 25 Holstein Friesian, Ayrshire and Jersey 2018 born heifers • 1 Ayrshire yearling bull 180 head plus 2 Holstein Friesian embryo packages. TB C10, Lepto vaccinated, Calves inoculated with 7 in 1,

HIGH & JERSEY HerdINDEXING M Bovis milk testedJERSEY clear. CROSS Due to pending sale of theHERD property our vendor has

PR N O EW PE RT Y

decided to exit farming to pursue other business

Y W RT NE PE O PR

ROCKLEA

interests. These are genuine AutumnRA and Spring calving BW 143/50 PW 161/67 100% cows originally on Piako Road, Gordonton. (in top 10milked All Breeds for NZ ) The replacements are very well grown and all are in top

condition. one herd test over the Many cowsOnly contracted tohas LICbeen fordone 2011 matings two seasons the herd is averaging6.5 1.60kgs ms/ Duelast to calve butfrom 16-7-12, weeks SOUTH SUFFOLKS & POLL DORSETS AB cow with CC of 180 as cross of the 15th November. All cows Jersey and Kiwi will be in milk allowing purchasers to takenon • Estimated toon sale be day420 cows after On-Farm Ram Sale Friday 7th December 2018, 2.00pm, by Auction immediateculls, delivery and tocows dry off& as they No pregnant, older 5% wish. rejection expense has been in the mating genetics with • Production last spared season 347kgs ms/cow, Autumn calving due to commence from early and 1000kgs ms/ha, on rolling to March steeper Spring from early no July.meal, Purchasers please bringor your Nait contoured farm, palm kernel maize • Stud and Flock rams available • High growth and high yielding fed.and LIC herd and PTPT codes to the sale with you. rams • 117 South Suffolk rams • Young also Thesereplacement cattle are all fullystock recorded withavailable catalogues

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• •

11th Annual Ram Sale

• Eye muscle scanned

• FE COOPWORTH and ROMWORTH •

• SIL Recorded

•Over 50 Years Selling, SIL High Performance Easy Care Rams Into NZ Hill Country•

Ed Sherriff 06 3276591 or 021704778 Contact: Edward Sherriff

• Born and bred under challenging conditions

• All Sires DNA foot scored

Rams that will MEAT your requirements.

available on Iine at www. brianrobinsonlivestock.com or

Outstanding genetics &or www.ayrshire.org.nz potential to be orone www. nzholstein.org.nz by of the countries leading suppliers of Genetics to contacting the selling agents the dairy industry for years to come. Full details Brian Robinson Livestock Ltd Hamilton available. LK0095257©

• 39 Poll Dorset rams

Ph Brian Robinson on 07 858 3132 or 0272 410 051,

Enquiries toDonald the sole marketing agents: Selwyn Ph 0274 378 375, Neil McDonald Ph

0272 188 904, Kevin Hart Ph For further information or catalogues please contact: 027 791 5575 BRLL or our vendor Simon Prouting, 06 374 3661, 1529 Ngapaeruru Road, RD3, Te Uri, Brian Robinson Andrew Dreadon 599 708 Dannevirke • prouting@inspire.co.nz • www.rocklea.co.nz PH: 0272 410051 orPh070275 8583132

Gary Falkner Jersey Marketing Service PH: 027 482 8771 or 07 846 4491

06 3276591

WHAT DO YOU SEE? That’s right, guaranteed black face lambs sired by Suffolk rams.

PERFOR

IT’S TIME TO MEAT A MODERN DAY SUFFOLK FOR A SUFFOLK BREEDER NEAR YOU VISIT nzsheep.co.nz/suffolk

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SEA

Whether finishing or selling store, only a genuine black face Suffolk ram can give you this advantage.

FOL UF K

PROMOTE YOUR STAG SALE IN FARMERS WEEKLY

Contact Nigel 027 602 4925 | livestock@globalhq.co.nz

Livestock

FARMERS WEEKLY – November 26, 2018

livestock@globalhq.co.nz – 0800 85 25 80

Every drop means quite a lot when it’s from Peters Genetics

ADELONG

A/c Neville & Dianne Greenwood. Ellesmere

CALL THE

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14th ANNUAL ON FARM RAM SALE 2pm Wednesday 5th December 2018

TREVOR PETERS

Quality You Can See – Performance You Can Trust

03 446 6030 027 201 4490

PETERS GROUP

CLAYTON PETERS

03 204 8817 027 222 4421

MORGAN PETERS

03 204 8849 027 440 7411

SHANE CARTER

03 446 6064 027 364 1438

120 Poll Dorset 1 shear rams 38 Suffolk x Texel/Poll Dorset rams Foot Scores – 25 Poll Dorset rams in catalogue with foot scores from 1.1 to 1.3

Catalogues available from Simon Eddington, PGG Wrightson 0275 908 612 Stu Uren, PGG Wrightson 0275 910 446 Callum Dunnett, Carrfields Livestock 0275 870 131 Neville Greenwood 0274 311 431 or 03 329 5799

www.petersgenetics.co.nz

FEILDING ELITE RAM & EWE SALES

Key: Dairy

MANFEILD PARK, FEILDING

Beef

Sheep

10TH ANNUAL MERRYDOWNS ROMNEY AND SOUTHDOWN RAM SALE

TUESDAY DECEMBER 11, 2018 Sale starts: 10.30am 3 Perendale Rams 3 Cheviot Rams

OnFarm Sale 348 Kai Road RD 1, Gore Tues 4 Dec, 1 pm Offering approx: • 140 Romney 2th Rams • 80 Southdown 2th Rams

Followed by

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MEAT BREEDS Poll Dorset Rams + 2 Poll Dorset Ewes Southdown Rams + 2 Southdown Ewes Dorset Down Rams + 5 Dorset Down Ewes Texel Rams Suffolk Rams Dorper Rams

View catalogue online at www.pivotdesign.co.nz under catalogues 2018. Rams for the Feilding Sale have been selected on type and performance for typical North Island sheep breeding conditions.

Auctioneers: NZ FARMERS LIVESTOCK • PGG WRIGHTSON • CARRFIELDS LIVESTOCK

STAY OUT FRONT OF THE MOB Advertise your ram sales in Farmers Weekly

Phone Nigel 0800 85 25 80 or email livestock@globalhq.co.nz

ELITE CHAROLAIS RAM SALE Tuesday 27th November 12 noon Feilding Saleyard Complex 35 Purebred Charollais Rams 20 Charollais 88% Suffolk X 20 Charollais 75% Suffolk X 5 Charablack Rams

WOOL BREEDS

17 22 13 8 16 3

Other

Both breeds fully SIL recorded. All Rams eye muscle scanned as lambs. OB accredited. Using a combination of stockmanship and SIL data, Merrydowns have produced a quality even line of grunty Commercial Rams. Merrydowns are not solely focused on high index sheep, they are more interested in the commercial traits of: Lambing % to the Ram, ensuring that the ewes have the capacity to hold and rear their lambs, top quality wool, longevity, structural soundness, constitution, growth rate, early maturity and actual fertility. An Open Day will be held on Tues 27 Nov from 10am till 6pm. Catalogues available to view online at www.merrydowns.co.nz Further Inquiries If you would like an alternative time to view the Rams, please contact: Blair or Sally Robertson 03 207 6851 Callum McDonald PGG Wrightson Genetics 0274 336 443 Paul Pearce, PGG Wrightson 0274 785 761

High Growth, high yield, easy lambing, great carcass characteristics, & ideal for hogget mating. This sale will be livestreamed on Facebook. Contact Tony Gallen – 0275 901 711 Ryan Shannon – 0275 650 979

MCMILLAN SHEDDING SHEEP 2TH RAM SALE Thursday 29th November 2018 12pm Te Kuiti Saleyards Comprising 60 - 2th Wiltshire Rams These rams have been selected out of a large number of rams. They are all fully shedded. Grant and Sandy have been breeding and farming these sheep commercially on Ongarue hill country since 2004. They are bred for fully shedding ability,facial eczema tolerance and growth rates. Enquiries: Grant & Sandy 07 894 6136 Marty Cashin 027 4976 414 - PGG Wrightson

WNR FRSN/ FRSN X HEIFERS FOR SALE 173 Wnr Frsn/ Frsn X Heifers. Complete line. BW 146, PW 140, RA 98%. Well grown. $650 Contact Chris Ryan – 0272 431 078

Freephone 0800 10 22 76 | www.pggwrightson.co.nz

Helping grow the country

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Inspection: Rams available from 11am on sale day

MARKET SNAPSHOT

Market Snapshot brought to you by the AgriHQ analysts.

Suz Bremner

Rachel Agnew

Mel Croad

Cattle

Reece Brick

Sheep

BEEF

Deer

SHEEP MEAT

VENISON

Last week

Prior week

Last year

NI Steer (300kg)

5.60

5.70

NI lamb (17kg)

8.10

7.30

NI Stag (60kg)

10.90

11.00

10.55

NI Bull (300kg)

5.10

5.65

NI mutton (20kg)

5.00

SI Stag (60kg)

11.00

11.05

10.55

NI Cow (200kg)

4.00

4.45

SI lamb (17kg)

7.85

7.80

7.25

SI Steer (300kg)

5.40

5.55

SI mutton (20kg)

5.00

4.95

SI Bull (300kg)

4.80

4.85

5.30

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

SI Cow (200kg)

3.85

4.30

UK CKT lamb leg

8.96

9.14

9.56

US imported 95CL bull

6.32

6.30

7.27

US domestic 90CL cow

6.21

6.22

6.78

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

6.0

Last year

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

10 9 8 7 6

7.0 6.0

$/kg CW South Island steer slaughter price

$/kg CW

$/kg CW $/kg CW

South Island lamb slaughter price

9.0

6.0

Oct

Dec

Feb

Apr

Jun

Dairy

Aug 2018-19

Apr

Jun

2017-18

Prior week

Last year

Coarse xbred ind.

2.87

3.26

37 micron ewe

2.85

2.90

Last year

Urea

570

477

3.60

Super

304

297

DAP

755

702

$/tonne

6.5 6.0

Company

Jun-18

Aug-18 Sept. 2020

Oct-18

DAIRY FUTURES (US$/T) Nearby contract

Last price*

420 370 320

Nov-17

Jan-18

Mar-18

May-18

Jul-18

Sep-18

Nov-18

CANTERBURY FEED BARLEY Prior week

vs 4 weeks ago

NZ average (NZ$/t)

Top 10 by Market Cap

CANTERBURY FEED WHEAT

Apr-18 Sept. 2019

Aug 2018-19

Prior week

470

Feb-18

Jun

Last week

Grain

Data provided by

7.0

Dec-17

Apr 2017-18

Fertiliser

Aug 2018-19

Last week

30 micron lamb

MILK PRICE FUTURES

5.5

Feb

FERTILISER

(NZ$/kg)

2017-18

Dec 5-yr ave

WOOL

Feb

Oct

6.0 5.0

5.0

5-yr ave

7.0

5-yr ave

Dec

9 7

4.0

Oct

8.0

5.5

4.5

$/kg MS

4.0

4.5

South Island stag slaughter price

5.0

Last year

North Island stag slaughter price

8.0

5.5

Last week Prior week

North Island lamb slaughter price

9.0 $/kg CW

North Island steer slaughter price

Last week Prior week

$/kg CW

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Ingrid Usherwood

440

YTD High

Auckland International Airport Limited

7.10

7.49

YTD Low 6.11

Meridian Energy Limited (NS)

3.19

3.42

2.75

The a2 Milk Company Limited

10.50

14.62

7.66

Spark New Zealand Limited

4.14

4.22

3.28

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Ltd

12.95

16.44

11.92

Ryman Healthcare Limited

11.50

14.09

10.27

Mercury NZ Limited (NS)

3.41

3.47

3.08

Contact Energy Limited

5.79

5.96

5.15

Fletcher Building Limited

4.60

7.96

4.54

Port of Tauranga Limited (NS)

5.07

5.27

4.74

Listed Agri Shares

5pm, close of market, Thursday

Company

YTD High

YTD Low

The a2 Milk Company Limited

10.500

14.620

7.660

Comvita Limited

5.850

9.210

5.590

Delegat Group Limited

9.700

11.000

7.510

2620

2680

2650

420

SMP

2030

2035

2075

400

Foley Family Wines Limited

1.360

1.610

1.310

4.800

6.660

4.510

AMF

5330

5700

380

Fonterra Shareholders' Fund (NS) Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd (NS)

0.720

3.000

0.700

Butter

4270

4290

4650

New Zealand King Salmon Investments Ltd

2.600

2.990

1.840

PGG Wrightson Limited

0.580

0.720

0.560

Milk Price

6.10

6.19

6.16

Sanford Limited (NS)

6.840

8.500

6.840

Scales Corporation Limited

4.470

5.000

4.300

SeaDragon Limited

0.003

0.006

0.002

Seeka Limited

4.850

7.010

4.850

Synlait Milk Limited (NS)

8.550

13.530

6.260

$/tonne

WMP

340 320

Nov-17

* price as at close of business on Thursday

WMP FUTURES - VS FOUR WEEKS AGO

Mar-18

May-18

Jul-18

Sep-18

Nov-18

350

2800

300

$/tonne

US$/t

Jan-18

WAIKATO PALM KERNEL

2900

2700

T&G Global Limited

3.010

3.300

3.000

S&P/NZX Primary Sector Equity

15417

17682

14417

S&P/NZX 50 Index

8703

9376

8059

S&P/NZX 10 Index

8192

9212

7640

250

2600 2500

360

Dec

Jan Feb Latest price

Mar Apr 4 weeks ago

May

200

Nov-17

S&P/FW PRIMARY SECTOR EQUITY

Jan-18

Mar-18

May-18

Jul-18

Sep-18

Nov-18

15417

S&P/NZX 50 INDEX

8703

S&P/NZX 10 INDEX

8192

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 26, 2018 SI SLAUGHTER STAG

NI SLAUGHTER LAMB

NI SLAUGHTER MUTTON

11.00

5.40

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orthland warmed up as the week progressed. It has had a drop or two of rain – 30mm to 40mm in the west, less in the east. That nudged along sluggish grass growth, which, in turn, gave farmers confidence to buy cattle. Twoyear-old steers fetched $1200 to $1500 and yearlings $650 to $1000. Female cattle weren’t doing so well. Prices are down for younger cattle by 8%-12% compared with last year. Further south Pukekohe had 25mm of rain on Tuesday but missed out on the forecast hail and thunder. Kiwifruit and vegetables need protection from pests and diseases so the two days fine weather following the rain were ideal for getting work done. More rain is forecast so a lot of irrigation equipment has been turned off. Waikato had some fabulous rain and another dump was expected over the weekend. The region now looks safe for December. It has been a really good spring and while milk production is holding, it is not as good as expected. It is up 2%-3% on last year but last year was a shocker. Avocados are coming off trees thick and fast in Bay of Plenty. About half the crop has been picked. There has been oversupply in the Australian market but that has corrected. Asia has been buoyant. Some 30,000 trays have gone into China for the first time as exporters test the market there. Fruit size is slightly larger than last year. Avocados usually have an on-year and an off-year – last year should have been an on-year but spring was so wet the trees spat the dummy. This year it’s an in-between sort of season but the fruit-set for next year looks tremendous. Taranaki has been alternating between lovely and sunny and wet and cold though farmers in drier areas want more rain. The rain interrupted silage making. Grass has been growing well. Milk

production dropped away but it is still okay. Gisborne had hot weather in the day and rain at night. Grass growth is motoring. Sheep farmers are getting ready for the main shear. Croppers are going well because there is excellent moisture. The strawberries are sweet and delicious. Hawke’s Bay had hail on Thursday, which will have damaged some fruit crops. Apples and pipfruit are most at risk because they are crisp – stone fruit are a bit more rubbery. Cherries are under nets so they are okay and they are being harvested. Early nectarines and apricots are being picked. Rain last week brought the region’s rainfall for November to almost normal. There is more forecast so that’ll make the pastoral guys happy. Farmers in Tararua thought they might be heading into drought because the hills had started changing colour. They are relieved to have had good rain. They are busy castrating bull calves and putting ear tags in. Farmers in Manawatu are weaning early lambs. There’s enough grass. Our Wairarapa farmer was drenching ewes and lambs getting them set for weaning. The lambs are heavy but people have been disappointed with numbers following a deadly storm at lambing. There has been fantastic rain. Some areas had 40mm and others 100mm. It has been a game changer for December. Masterton had localised flooding in the streets. It is now warm and everything is growing. Horowhenua was putting the final touches to the marquee for Saturday’s Taste Horowhenua event. The champagne had just been dropped off. Some 2000 tickets had already been sold. Ten local producers showcased produce from the area and asparagusinspired cuisine will be on offer. It has been a cool week with quite a lot of rain and production across pastoral and horticultural land has been very good. Every mower in Horowhenua is busy cutting silage. SOUTH ISLAND The Nelson/Motueka region had some hail this week that tickled up some orchards. There have been reports of

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 26, 2018

Rain drives demand at on-farm lamb sales Rain and potential grass growth has been a big driver of prices at on-farm lamb sales on both islands. At Te Whanga in Wairarapa just under 6000 lambs lifted $10 on 2017 results, with bids free flowing from Manawatu, Southern Hawkes Bay, and local, as well as the South Island. The opportunity to buy big lines of lambs renowned for their growing ability meant a lot of buyers were returnees to the rails. NORTHLAND Wellsford store cattle • Two year beef-dairy steers, 420-508kg, traded at $2.81-$2.91/kg • Two year Hereford and Hereford-cross heifers, firmed to $2.72$2.85/kg • Angus-Friesian yearling steers, 228-337kg, lifted to $2.74-$2.82/ kg • All yearling bulls, 258-387kg, earned $2.53-$2.60/kg • Quality yearling Charolais-cross heifers, 308-359kg, traded at $2.80-$2.87/kg Throughput nearly doubled at WELLSFORD last Monday with heifers making up the lion’s share. There was some very good quality cattle and demand was strong, particularly for the two-year steers and yearling heifers. Yearling Angus & Angus-cross heifers, 297-351kg, fetched $2.83-$2.91/kg, and Angus & Angus-Hereford, 324-392kg, returned $2.79-$2.87/kg. Results were mixed in the yearling steers, with Hereford-Friesian, 289-392kg, easing to $2.79$2.96/kg. Autumn-born weaner steers, 129kg, managed $530, and Friesian bulls, 187kg, $570. Kaikohe cattle sale • Two-year beef and beef-dairy steers traded at $2.85-$2.90/kg • Plainer yearling steers sold for $2.80-$3.00/kg • Yearling beef-cross bulls made just $2.50-$2.80/kg • Mixed quality yearling heifers battled, and beef-cross sold for $2.20-$2.30/kg • Angus cows with calves-at-foot sold for $1300 per unit An acceptance of a lower level of pricing meant selling was easier at KAIKOHE last Wednesday. The sale had a more positive air for the 600 head yarding, PGG Wrightson agent Vaughan Vujcich reported. Older cattle supplies were low and Friesian steers made $2.60/kg, while Hereford bulls sold for breeding at $3.00/kg. Yearling prices were steady and a highlight was autumnborn Shorthorn-cross steers which sold up to $3.40/kg. Weaner Friesian bulls earned $450, and 100kg HerefordFriesian up to $600, with red Hereford-Friesian earning $460-$480. Heifers returned $350-$410. Most cows were Friesian and Friesian-cross and sold for $1.80-$1.90/kg.

AUCKLAND Pukekohe sale • Medium prime steers and good two-year steers made $2.78-$2.88/kg • Medium prime heifers returned $2.73-$2.79/kg • Light 15-month steers sold for $790-$915, $2.85-$3.04/kg Demand for finished cattle and good quality stores was strong at PUKEKOHE on Saturday 17th November, but a large quantity of lesser bred lines were hard to sell. Plain two-year heifers sold for $2.64-$2.68/kg, though 15-month heifers varied from $2.33/kg to $2.82/kg. Lesser bred Jerseycross were well below $2.00/kg, as were their brothers. The best of the weaner steers made $650, $4.33/kg with lighter types at $400-$480. Medium heifers returned $370$550. Boner cows ranged from $1.27/kg to $2.00/kg, and cows with calves made $570-$1250 per unit.

COUNTIES Tuakau sales • Store cattle prices lifted by 5c/kg. • Yearling steers made $945-$1100. • Good Hereford-Friesian yearling heifers, 320kg, sold for $1005. • Prime cattle market was steady, with heavy steers making $2.90-$3.00/kg. • Prime ewe prices were strong, averaging $140. Good rain and a big bench of buyers boosted the store cattle market last Thursday, Chris Elliott of PGG Wrightson reported. Most heavy beef steers, 480kg-plus, sold at $3.05$3.08/kg, with 300-350kg yearling steers, $2.84-$3.17/ kg, and weaners, 99-125kg, $515-$720. Yearling heifers, 260-320kg, made $2.74-$3.14/kg, and Hereford-Friesian

weaners, 190kg, $675. Wednesday’s prime cattle market was firm. Top steers sold to $3.00/kg, medium $2.82-$2.90/kg and light down to $2.65/kg. Heifer numbers were low, with heavy making $2.78-$2.86/ kg, medium $2.70-$2.78/kg and light beef $2.60-$2.70/kg. Beef cows fetched $2.35-$2.38/kg and heavy Friesian $1.90$2.19/kg. Lighter boners sold down to $1.50/kg.Top spring lambs made $150-$190 last Monday. Store lambs averaged $85 and prime ewes sold up to $227.

WAIKATO WAIKATO

Frankton dairy beef weaner fair • Angus-cross heifers, 90-107kg, earned $340-$440 • Hereford-Friesian heifers, 126-167kg, sold well at $460-$540 • Angus-cross bulls, 101-102kg, were firm at $460-$530 • Autumn-born bulls, 158-195kg, eased to $540-$560 More buyers present at FRANKTON last Tuesday for the Dairy Beef Weaner Fair meant good competition, and the sizeable yarding sold well for the majority. Heifers traded on a steady to lifting market for most and Friesian, 107-111kg, earned $460-$470. In the bull pens Hereford-Friesian results were mixed with 112-166kg softening to $440-$615, while 102-109kg were steady at $580-$600, and 94-98kg, $555-$595. Friesian bulls were steady for most though some lines improved. Those 95112kg maintained levels of $385-$475, as did 121-126kg at $490-$520, with 131-136kg lifting to $500-$580. Frankton prime and store cattle • Prime Hereford-Friesian steers, 545-570kg, firmed to $2.95$2.97/kg • All two-year heifers, 400-455kg, strengthened to $2.73-$2.87/kg • Yearling beef-cross steers, 335-345kg, were steady at $3.14$3.15/kg • Yearling Friesian bulls, 226-409kg, lifted to $2.62-$2.74/kg • Autumn-born yearling Hereford heifers, 395kg, managed $3.05/kg A sizeable crowd filled the rostrum at FRANKTON last Wednesday, and were treated to a quality line-up of cattle, with the market steady to lifting for most. The prime market was strong and Angus steers, 639kg, lifted to $2.98/kg, whilst two lines of South Devon and South Devon-cross, 540-555kg, reached $3.13-$3.17/kg. Hereford-Friesian heifers, 458-482kg, were steady at $2.82$2.83/kg. Two-year Angus-cross steers, 499-530kg, were stable at $2.83-$2.89/kg, as were Hereford-Friesian, 411-443kg, $3.02-$3.05/kg. Yearling Hereford-cross steers, 319-345kg, maintained levels of $3.05-$3.07/kg, though 302kg reached $3.25/kg. Hereford-Friesian lifted with 207-252kg at $3.35-$3.65/kg, and 301-333kg, $3.11-$3.23/kg. Heifers had steady results as Angus, 213-288kg returned $2.92-$2.98/kg, and Herefordcross, 223-345kg, $2.91-$3.01/kg.

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Rangiuru sale • Prime lambs sold for $136-$163.50, and medium and good stores, $100-$128 • Prime and forward Hereford-Friesian two-year steers, 533-606kg, firmed to $2.93-$2.99/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 321-342kg, firmed to $3.12$3.18/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 250-286kg, achieved $865-$915 • Yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 245-298kg, also firmed to $3.01-$3.09/kg It was a busy day at RANGIURU last Tuesday, with good entries of cattle and lambs. Bids flowed freely for both, with most cattle selling on a firm market. Store cattle numbers were moderate at 650 head and all bar the weaners improved. The top two-year steers nearly hit $3.00/kg, while 373-410kg earned $2.83-$2.92/kg. Per head budgets on yearling steers meant $/kg increased from $2.95/kg for 366-380kg, to $3.37-$3.46/kg for 250264kg. Angus-Friesian heifers, 257-326kg, were consistent at $2.75-$2.85/kg.

Weaners sold on a softer market and autumn-born beefFriesian heifers, 153-162kg, made $440-$490. HerefordFriesian bulls, 108-116kg, fetched $520-$550, while Friesian, 103-110kg, earned $400-$460.

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Taranaki prime and store cattle • All prime steers, 532-659kg, traded at $2.95-$3.07/kg regardless of breed • Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 471-506kg, were steady at $3.00-$3.10/kg. • Medium-good two-year Hereford-cross and Hereford-Friesian heifers made $2.81-$2.89/kg • Yearling exotic-cross steers, 322-358kg, sold well at $3.24-$3.31/ kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 264-300kg, eased to $2.90$2.98/kg Unpleasant selling conditions did not deter bids at TARANAKI last Tuesday, with a moderate yarding selling on a mainly steady market though yearling heifers eased, and the sale concluded with a lot of small lines of lesser bred cattle. Two-year steers were a highlight, with well-bred lines easily exceeding $3.00/kg and most selling in a $1230-$1550 range. One line of Angus-Hereford heifers, 381kg, managed $3.02/kg. Quality in the yearling pens was mixed and a wide range of prices were posted. Hereford-Friesian, 343kg, made $3.44/kg, but a number of lines traded below $3.00/ kg. Angus-cross heifers, 221-318kg, looked good shopping at $2.71-$2.80/kg. Taranaki dairy beef weaner fair • Friesian bull prices were steady to firm and 120-135kg made $500-$515 • Friesian bulls, 115-120kg, earned $450-$490 • Friesian bulls, 95-105kg, sold to $395-$450 • Hereford-Friesian bulls, 100-125kg, were also steady at $595-$630 • Hereford-Friesian heifers, 100-110kg, firmed to $455-$485 Round three of the dairy-beef weaner fairs at TARANAKI last Wednesday sold in a similar vein to two weeks prior. All classes were well-presented with 90% owner-bred, and sold to good buyer enquiry. The $500 mark was still hard to push past for Friesian bulls, though few sold below $400. Two lines of Angus-Friesian bulls topped the sale at $690-$705, though prices finished at $650 for other beef-Friesian after that. Heifer numbers were slightly up, with results mixed. Angus-Friesian. 100-110kg, sold at a discount to HerefordFriesian at $400-$425.

KING COUNTRY TAUPO Taupo cattle sale • Two-year Angus-Friesian steers, 449-480kg, returned $2.69$2.78/kg • A top line of 266kg Angus & Angus-Hereford heifers reached $905, $3.40/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian and Angus-Friesian heifers, 280292kg, lifted to $3.04-$3.12/kg • A line of 25 two-year Friesian bulls, 446kg, sold for $2.68/kg, and yearlings, 289kg, $2.77/kg • Autumn-born weaner Angus-Simmental steers and heifers, 267282kg, earned $900-$905 The rostrum at TAUPO last Thursday was full thanks to recent grass growth, with local buyers in action but support from Waikato and Hawke’s Bay. Just over 500 cattle were offered and quality lines sold to keen interest, though lesser lines proved to be harder work. The best quality yearling cattle were heifers and there was strong support for these. Steers were limited, with three lines of Hereford-Friesian variable at $680-$1050. POVERTY POVERTYBAY BAY

Matawhero sheep • Good store lambs were $110-$120 • Medium store lambs lifted t0 $90-$98.50 • Light and tail-end store lambs made $47.50-$82 • Medium Coopworth ewes with lambs were $93 The largest yarding of lambs at Matawhero attracted more than enough buyers. All classes of lambs were a step firmer than the week prior, helped by large lines of blackface lambs brought in from a single station. Whiteface male lambs found similar levels of interest.

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Stortford Lodge prime sale • Angus cows, 445-665kg, lifted to $2.21/kgLW • Ewe throughput increased to 5770 • Ewe hoggets sold well at $161 • Light-medium ewes strengthened to $111-$120.50 Record numbers of ewes were in last Monday following weaning, with a total yarding of just under 6,200 sheep. Prices eased for good through to very heavy types, trading

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 26, 2018

small entry of prime cattle firmed with Hereford-Friesian steers, 500-640kg, making $2.72-$2.90/kg, and heifers varying from $2.48/kg for local trade up to $2.78/kg for finished. Boner cows, 560-580kg, returned $1.86-$1.89/kg. The rest of the store cattle sale paled in comparison to the prices paid for the Limousin cattle, but relative to breed and type all sold very well. Two-year Hereford-Friesian heifers, 366-390kg, made $2.90-$2.95/kg, and bulls, 266346kg, $2.59-$2.63/kg. Yearling Friesian bulls, 263-313kg, held value at $2.56-$2.59/kg, while 290-330kg HerefordFriesian heifers lifted to $2.95-$3.03/kg. Hereford-Friesian heifer calves, 101-105kg, reached $465-$470, while two pens of steers, 111-131kg, sold for $520. Friesian bulls were good shopping at $380-$420 for 99-127kg.

SOUTH-CANTERBURY FULL HOUSE: Buyers eye the stock at last week’s Te Whanga onfarm sale.

at $128.50-$175, while medium and medium-good ewes were steady at $123-$135. Spring lambs softened for the majority as medium-good to very good earned $143-$178, while a small top end managed $202-$206. Angus cows and heifers dominated the cattle yarding and Angus heifers, 520-560kg, lifted to $2.94-$2.98/kg.’’ Stortford store sale • Medium blackface mixed sex lambs made $91-$109 • Light whiteface cryptorchid lambs sold for $49-$91 • Mixed age ewes and hoggets with lambs-at-foot made $86-$98 all counted • 20 Yearling Angus-Hereford heifers, 269kg, sold for $2.92/kg • Weaner Hereford-Friesian heifers, 120-162kg, returned $460-$545 Tallies were low last Wednesday relative to recent sales at STORTFORD LODGE. For the cattle that was typical following a big sale, but a decrease in lambs was unusual. The lamb market had a steady tone overall and cryptorchid lambs featured for the first time this season. Medium lines made $120.50, while light blackface mixed sex fetched $67-$88. Just 240 cattle were penned and was dominated by beef-cross and beef-dairy, which was reflected in the prices. Most were yearling heifers and Hereford-Friesian, 243318kg, sold for $2.83-$2.88/kg, with 13 Hereford-cross bulls, 361kg, made $2.84/kg. Weaner Hereford-Friesian bulls, 116148kg, varied from $500-$640.

MANAWATU MANAWATU Feilding prime sale • Friesian cows, 544-670kg, firmed to $2.06-$2.11/kgLW • Ewe numbers increased to nearly 4900 head • Top mixed age ewes sold for $155-$178 • Light-medium to medium ewes made $101-$137 • Most mixed sex lambs earned $127-$159 Cattle volume was low last Monday with Friesian cows making up the majority. Heavy cows firmed while 395400kg sold at steady levels of $1.85-$1.95/kg. Three Anguscross and one Devon heifer, 470-540kg, sold for $2.59$2.65/kg. Weaning drew in more ewes, which made up the lion’s share of the sale. Prices eased slightly, and a larger number of lighter lines sold down to $72-$95. The top line of lambs sold for $199, with the balance selling on a mainly steady market. Rongotea prime and store cattle sale • Two-year Hereford-Friesian and Friesian-cross steers, 482-490kg, made $2.61-$2.68/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 237-283kg, traded at $2.61-$2.86/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 242-390kg, varied from $2.13/ kg up to $2.98/kg • Weaner Friesian bulls, 95-176kg, returned $370-$490 • Weaner Hereford-Friesian heifers, 90-150kg, finished at $365-$540 Demand for store cattle stalled at RONGOTEA last Wednesday, with only bigger lines of weaners getting the attention of buyers, New Zealand Farmers Livestock agent Darryl Harwood reported. Two-year numbers were limited and beef-cross bulls, 372-408kg, traded at $2.47-$2.64/kg, while heavy Hereford-Friesian heifers made $2.32/kg. Yearling cattle were good shopping with most steers and bulls trading at $510-$760. Angus-cross heifers, 232-350kg, sold for $2.15-$3.02/kg. Weaner demand was steady and Hereford-Friesian bulls, 97-102kg made $400-$460, while good beef-cross steers sold up to $525-$530 and heifers, $410-$510. A reduction in feeder calf numbers meant a firm market and Friesian bulls made $140. Hereford-Friesian bulls sold for $180-$330 and heifers, $150-$220. Feilding store sale • Two-year traditional steers, 440-585kg, were $3.27-$3.34/kg • Two-year Friesian and beef-cross bulls, 380-565kg, rose to $2.85-$2.96/kg • One-year traditional and exotic-cross steers, 320-440kg, were $3.24-$3.40/kg

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• One-year Friesian bulls, 360-395kg, improved to $2.75-$2.81/kg • Medium store lambs lifted to $94.50-$112.50 Rain in the lower North Island was enough to give both the cattle and lamb sales a little boost. A good crowd showed for the cattle even with tallies only just above a thousand head. Bulls on all ages were the main benefactors, though other classes were at least steady. Quality was mainly very good, though the odd poorer type was mixed in. Bidders from out of town pushed the average store lamb price up by almost $10/hd on a steady sized yarding, most obviously through the mid-range weights.

WAIRARAPA WAIRARAPA

Masterton sheep sale, Te Whanga on-farm lamb sale • Top store lambs at Masterton sold for $108-$115 • Medium store lambs at Masterton made $90-$103 • Just under 6000 lambs were offered at Te Whanga • The top line of 867 blackface mixed sex made $130 at Te Whanga • The top line of 608 Romney cryptorchid earned $122 also at Te Whanga Rain was a game changer for MASTERTON lamb sales last Wednesday, and very timely for the annual Te Whanga on-farm sale, PGG Wrightson agent Steve Wilkinson reported. The day began with the weekly Masterton sale with prices firm across all types, including the first of the Romney cryptorchid. The market exceeded expectations and light lambs sold for $75-$90. The crowd then moved to Te Whanga where strong demand meant prices lifted $10 on 2017. Second cuts sold for $103-$110, and third, $83-$85, with success bids from Manawatu, Southern Hawkes Bay and local, while two unitloads also headed to the South Island.

CANTERBURY CANTERBURY Canterbury park sale • Medium to good mixed sex store lambs made $114-$124 • Most prime lambs traded at $130-$179, and up to $196 • Prime beef steers firmed with most trading at $2.85-$2.95/kg • Prime Hereford-cross heifers, 500-630kg, firmed to $2.86-$2.95/kg • Yearling Murray Grey-cross heifers, 278-321kg, made $3.14-$3.29/kg. A grass market emerged at CANTERBURY PARK last Tuesday, with cattle lifting to levels seen earlier in the season. New season lambs came forward in bigger numbers and met keen interest. Lambs made up most of the sheep section and all sold well. Prices were steady for just over 700 ewes as very heavy mixed age reached $219-$296 and light-medium to medium-good, $130-$180. Steers and heifers easily dominated the prime section and sold at firm levels. Forward store steers reached $3.00$3.10/kg, and Angus heifers, 468-558kg, $2.91-$2.98/kg. Two-year Angus steers, 456-505kg, made $3.19-$3.22/kg, and Hereford-cross and Murray Grey, 433-525kg, $2.89$3.05/kg. Good heifers exceeded $3.00/kg also. $1000 was exceeded on numerous occasions in the yearling steer pens as traditional, 346-358kg, reached $3.42-$3.44/kg, and Hereford-cross, 238-271kg, $3.62-$3.66/kg. Angus-cross and Angus-Hereford heifers, 273-324kg, sold for $2.97$3.09/kg. Coalgate all cattle and sheep sale • Prime mixed sex lambs firmed with most making $140-$169 • Good store mixed sex sold for $110-$121, and lighter, $85-$108 • Male lambs made $102-$110, and ewe lambs, $95-$109 • Purebred Limousin heifers, 322-381kg, traded at $1200-$1300 • Purebred Limousin bulls, 381-416kg, returned $1320-$1400 Demand was strong across all sections at COALGATE last Thursday, with grass growth bringing in the crowd. Lambs sold on a steady to firm market, while ewes with lambs-at-foot made $81-$98 all counted. A moderate yarding of ewes mainly sold for $130-$189. A

Temuka sale • Top line of 36 ewes and 56 good blackface lambs made $132 all counted • Prime ewes eased with light to medium making $120-$178. • Hereford-cross and Murray Grey steers, 525-765kg, eased to $2.75-$2.89/kg • Small offering of Angus heifers, 503-575kg, earned $2.86-$2.89/kg • Friesian bulls, 535-683kg, lifted 10c/kg to $2.60-$2.70/kg The sheep pens at Temuka last Monday offered up a wide variety of sheep in moderate numbers. Stores were mainly Merino hoggets and mixed sex made $117-$119, and ewes, $101-$119. Prime lambs sold for $120-$187, while ewes came off the high levels, though the top lines still reached $200-$255. Prime cattle prices reflected easing schedules, though a small entry of boner cows held value. Good Hereford-cross and Murray Grey heifers reached $2.80-$2.84/kg, though $2.62-$2.73/kg was more common for Hereford-cross. One line of 20 Jersey bulls, 526kg, sold for $2.49/kg, and Friesian cows, 570-760kg, returned $1.82-$1.94/kg, with 480-560kg earning $1.69-$1.75/kg. Temuka store cattle sale • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 287-339kg, lifted to $1065-$1150 • Yearling Angus steers, 303-321kg, also lifted to $3.83-$3.84/kg • Yearling Angus heifers, 205-286kg, lifted to $3.43-$3.60/kg • Yearling Angus-Friesian heifers, 223-316kg, returned $3.35-$3.36/ kg • Top yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 257-335kg, lifted to $3.23$3.29/kg, with second cuts making $3.08-$3.16/kg The TEMUKA store cattle market last Thursday did a U-turn, with grass driven demand pushing prices up on average 30c/kg across the mainly yearling yarding. There was a bigger crowd of buyers, with bigger orders, including some that had come off M.Bovis restrictions and were ready to re-stock. Special entries of Angus began both sections and the lighter steers, 234-271kg, hovered around the $4.00/kg mark. Few lines of Hereford-Friesian steers dropped below $1000, which meant that a line at 271kg sold up to $4.13/kg. In the heifer pens most 280kg plus were trading at $920$1190.

SOUTHLAND Lorneville sale • Prime ewes eased with heavy lines making $160-$186 • A small entry of prime spring lambs made $138-$174 • Yearling Hereford-cross steers, 350-405kg, sold well at $2.83$2.96/kg • Yearling Hereford-cross heifers, 336kg, returned $2.82/kg • Heavy dairy cows, 500kg plus, eased to $1.80-$1.90/kg The sale at LORNEVILLE last Tuesday was a small affair, with store cattle the main feature. Good grass growth meant solid demand despite wintry conditions, and all beef-cross yearling steers and heifers traded at $2.82-$2.96/kg. Friesian-cross bulls, 350kg, made $2.54/kg, and weaner Friesian, 125kg, $460. Friesian-cross, 90-110kg, earned $350-$380. Prime steers sold on a steady market at $2.60$2.75/kg and heifers, $2.70-$2.75/kg. Good dairy heifers traded at $2.40-$2.45/kg, while medium dairy cows sold on a steady market at $1.70-$1.80/kg.No store sheep were offered and prime volume was very low. Hoggets sold for $144-$160, and medium and light ewes, $100-$136. Charlton sheep sale • Heavy prime lambs firmed to $160-$164 • Heavy prime ewes sold for $190-$200 • Ewes with lambs-at-foot traded at $109 all counted Demand was strong for a small yarding of sheep at the CHARLTON sale yards last Thursday, PGG Wrightson agent Nicol Gray reported. Lamb prices firmed and medium lines made $148-$158, and lighter, $120-$130. Ewes of same type sold at higher levels as medium pens reached $175-$185, and light, $140-$158. Rams varied from $60 up to $120.

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TIRRING international and domestic storms have conspired to undercut bull beef prices. A combination of falling United States prices in the last two months, processors trying to maintain margins and farmers being careful with stock purchases because of Mycoplasma bovis have reduced demand and prices, AgriHQ market analyst Reece Brick says. At a recent Feilding calf sale those bred on the vendor’s property were $30 to $40 ahead of calves that weren’t. A price advantage for cattle bought in the paddock has also emerged as buyers want to know the vendor they are dealing with. The bull slaughter season has started and, apart from the Christmas shutdown, will average more than 25,000 a week from mid-November till late January. The absence of drought in recent years and better returns have seen greater numbers of South Island dairy farmers retain and rear calves but with the yearling price falling early buyers are reluctant to enter the market, Brick said. That has left an abundance of unsold cattle,

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OUT OF OUR CONTROL: Rising global beef supplies and the effect of the United States-China trade war could affect beef prices for another year, Rabobank animal proteins analyst Blake Holgate says.

including yearling bulls. Dry conditions have slowed North Island stock finishing so farmers are delaying re-entering the market. Yearling bulls that were selling for $3/kg earlier in the year are now closer to $2.50/kg. A Rabobank report on animal protein warns rising global beef supplies combined with soft United States demand could pressure prices for a further year but a favourable exchange rate could temper farmgate prices. However, sheep meat

prices are expected to remain strong. The bank’s animal protein analyst Blake Holgate said NZ beef exports to China have grown from 10% to 23% in the last five years and weak US demand will make China become an even more significant market. A lower beef and dairy cow cull could see NZ beef production fall 3% this season. China and US demand for sheep meat should underpin another year of strong prices but at 19 million it

will be the lowest lamb kill on record because of the sheep flock continuing to shrink. “Despite some consumer resistance to high prices and the potential for Brexit to disrupt NZ sheep meat exports into the United Kingdom and European Union market, continuing strong demand in NZ’s other key export markets, particularly China and the US, is expected to hold farmgate prices in a similar range to what was experienced last season.” Holgate said global production of animal protein is expected to grow through 2019, albeit slowly, with pork and wild-catch seafood declining but poultry and beef growing slowly. The impact on beef flows from the US-China trade war could be significant to NZ farmers as US exporters look for new markets. Global feed prices are expected to rise through 2019, supported by robust demand and tight supplies.

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Chinese are big eaters of NZ red meat protein IN THE space of six years China has transformed into one of the largest global importers of sheep meat and beef. A growing middle class is behind the jump in demand for red meat protein. New Zealand’s reliance on China has grown over this period to the point where the volume of red meat protein being shipped to China continues to break records. In 2012 China imported 99,000 tonnes of beef. In 2018 it is expected beef imports will top a million tonnes. And they look to be on track. In the nine months to September imports lifted to 740,000t, a jump of 240,000t on the same period in 2017. Brazil is the largest supplier of beef to China, providing over 30% of this year’s volume. Not to be outdone NZ supplied 12% for the nine months. In the recently completed 2017-18 processing season, NZ exports of beef to China topped 100,000t for the first time. That came at the expense of softer export volumes to Japan and Korea. NZ is also enjoying success with chilled beef exports into China. On the sheep meat front, China’s insatiable demand for lamb means it is now the largest market for NZ lamb. It comfortably absorbed our increased export volumes in the 2017-18 season taking just under 110,000t of lamb. That compares with 55,000t of lamb into Britain over the same period. While the Chinese are still targeting the lower-value flap market compared to our higher-value cuts in our traditional markets, average prices continue to rise annually. China also hasn’t shied away from importing significant volumes of mutton in the last year. The reliance on China as a key market for our red meat exports is significant. Immediate demand is centred on securing the remaining supplies needed for the Chinese New Year celebrations in mid February. As they return to the marketplace following those celebrations, exporters will be looking for demand and prices to be at current levels. mel.croad@globalhq.co.nz

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