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Fonterra seeks DIRA mandate Hugh Stringleman

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HE Government does not at this stage support amendments to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA) to facilitate the proposed changes to Fonterra’s share and capital structure. Fonterra chair Peter McBride wants farmer-shareholders to vote at or before the special general meeting on December 9, to clearly show the Government they favour more flexible, sustainable shareholding. He says the Government was not prepared to entertain DIRA changes before knowing the majority view of Fonterra farmers. In a letter on November 3, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor raised a risk of changes that weaken performance incentives on the company. “I am particularly concerned that the current proposals would create a higher risk of diverging shareholder interests inside the co-operative, between farmers with minimum shareholdings for supply only and those with larger shareholdings held for investment purposes,” O’Connor said. O’Connor said he was prepared

to consider an “alternative, more balanced proposal” from Fonterra. He would also continue to work towards a “mutually acceptable outcome to this process”. McBride says the Government is looking for further assurance that the proposal supports contestability, drives performance and innovation and protects alignment of shareholder interests. “I am confident we can provide the Government with the necessary assurances and work together to find a framework that supports the flexible shareholding structure,” McBride said. He subsequently met the minister and found “philosophical alignment” and the willingness to keep talking. “He wants a successful, New Zealand-owned farmer cooperative – that’s the starting point we are all agreed on, in the interests of the country and the dairy industry,” he said. Fonterra will push ahead with the special meeting of shareholders on December 9, seeking the required 75% approval from farmers, to strengthen its case to government. “We need a successful vote first before they will consider DIRA changes,” he said. “The minister’s letter doesn’t

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Soil health key for trailblazers ANGUS and Elise Aitken, here with son George have been named the supreme winners of the 2021 Zimmatic Trailblazer Sustainable Irrigation awards. They say that while technology plays a large

put me off going for the vote. “It would be irresponsible to proceed any further without a mandate from shareholders.” The Notice of Meeting is more than 80 pages, containing 60 pages of the constitution, and half of those pages have required amendments. However, many of the amendments concern the change in name, form and functions for the Co-operative Council, formerly the Shareholders’ Council. The far-reaching capital structural changes would result in what Fonterra is calling a flexible shareholding, including a minimum share requirement of one share for every three kilograms of milksolids produced,

part in sustainably managing their irrigation system, they are also focused on managing their soils and soil structure through methods like no till farming. Read their story on P12.

not one-for-one as presently. A maximum shareholding limit of four times production would also be set. Only farmers would be able to buy and sell supply shares and the Fonterra Shareholders’ Fund would be capped, removing the mechanism of swapping shares for fund units. More types of farmers could hold shares, such as sharemilkers, contract milkers and farm lessors. New farmers would have up to six seasons to share up to the minimum and exiting shareholders would have a decade or more to sell their shares. The potential for a wide spread of shareholders, from one-third of milksolids through to four times, and for retiring farmers to

keep their shares for long periods, clearly concerns O’Connor. The Co-operative Council has taken advice on consolidation risk and Fonterra will make that work available to government officials. McBride believes options for shareholding rather than compulsion will strengthen the relationship between the cooperative and its farmers. The Government’s lack of enthusiasm so far should not endanger the special meeting outcome. “Farmers are making their decision to support the proposal on principles – farmer ownership and control, financial sustainability and offering flexibility,” he said.

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Fonterra researchers have moved out of the lab and onto the farm for the next stage of trials on the company’s in-house Kowbucha project, aimed at offering a solution to livestock methane emissions.

The covid vaccination mandate has left few rural schools untouched by staff losses, with most losing at least one member and left struggling to source relief teachers as the school year end approaches.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

Farmers urged to reduce covid risk Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz COMMUNITY leaders fear a surge of covid infection in rural communities as holidaymakers disperse around the country over summer, stretching health services and leaving farms and businesses without staff. Mid Canterbury general practitioner Sue Fowlie says the spread of the Delta strain into rural areas was inevitable and makes it even more crucial rural people get vaccinated. She says being too busy will pale into insignificance compared to the impact of contracting the virus. “People should not think it is not coming to rural areas, because it is,” Fowlie said. “If farmers come down with covid, how are they going to run their farms?” Federated Farmers board member Wayne Langford agrees and urges farmers to plan to reduce infection risk. That could include insisting visitors such as contractors are double vaccinated and kept at a safe distance, using hand sanitisers and using mapping technology to direct contractors to paddocks instead of accompanying them. “These seem like small things, but they could have a big impact in keeping the virus from getting into the community,” Langford said. Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa NZ clinical director Dr Jeremy Webber says rural communities are already vulnerable due to limited health resources and that would be accentuated should a doctor or nurse become infected or required to stand down following exposure. Volunteer first responders would potentially be exposed when transporting a rural covid patient to hospital. Discussions are under way

between rural health providers and the Ministry of Health (MoH) to address some of these concerns, but officials are currently focused on the growing covid numbers in north Waikato and Auckland. “We are mindful the virus will pop up and if we are not careful in how we manage resources, we will be up against it,” Webber said. The best form of defence is to get vaccinated and if people are unwell, they should stay at home and be tested. “It is very clear rural communities think they are isolated, but they do not want to be holed up in the backblocks struggling to breathe when they are supposed to be making hay,” he said.

People should not think it (covid) is not coming to rural areas, because it is. Dr Sue Fowlie Mid Canterbury GP

Fire and Emergency NZ (FENZ) national commander Kerry Gregory says a government order requires any FENZ member who works within two metres of a health practitioner providing services to the public for more than 15 minutes, or where their work requires contact with children or students, to be vaccinated. They are required to have their first vaccination before or on November 29 and their second dose before or on January 14. Gregory says FENZ has protocols and procedures to follow.

“They wear protective gear, which can include masks, medical gowns, gloves and glasses, and socially distance where possible,” Gregory said. MoH vaccination rates between urban and rural centres are closing, but data shows many rural communities are still to reach 90% for receiving their first shot. The data is categorised according to rural population in each District Health Board and shows parts of Bay of Plenty, Canterbury, Capital Coast, Southern and Wairarapa have areas with 90% first vaccination. All rural areas have achieved 75% or better. Figures for the second shot are much lower, with just 48% in parts of the Bay of Plenty, 61% in Taranaki, 66% in Tairawhiti and 68% in Northland, but parts of rural Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Canterbury, Capital Coast, South Canterbury, Southern and Wairarapa have all reached 80% or better. A Ministry spokesperson says a flexible approach has been adopted for rural areas, such as offering vaccinations to everyone aged 12 and over and holding mobile clinics and permanent and pop-up sites close to where people live and work. Walk-in clinics were held in local halls in Taranaki from the end of September to coincide with the end of calving and at convenient times for farmers. The Southern DHB is working with more than 110 providers to ensure its rural population is no more than an hour away from a clinic and they are visiting workplaces and providing evening and weekend clinics. In Northland four mobile campervans have been mobilised to complement mobile clinics operated by the Māori health providers.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

Contractor safety a growing concern Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz RURAL contractors are warning that the lack of experienced staff and the massive volume of work being pushed on them this spring could have fatal consequences. Demand for their services was stretching the industry beyond breaking point and there are fears it may lead to injury or death to themselves or a member of the public. Several rural contractors and MPs held an emergency meeting at Te Poi in Waikato to find solutions for an industry facing a worker crisis. One of the outcomes from the meeting was to be able to meet with Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi as soon as possible, Rural Contractors NZ chief executive Andrew Olsen said “We warned this would come to a head unless more skilled workers could come in and now Mr Faafoi needs to hear directly about the emerging consequences for farm production and workers increasingly at risk,” Olsen said. The contractors also feared if there was an accident, the subsequent WorkSafe investigation would have negative consequences for their industry. Waikato Federated Farmers arable chair Keith Holmes says the shortages meant the industry was skating on thin ice. “Someone’s going to get killed and what we don’t want is the industry closed down by overt compliance requirements,” Holmes said. Prior to the covid-19 border closures, the industry relied on experienced machinery operators from the Northern Hemisphere to work tractors, harvesters and other farm machinery to make silage and sow and then harvest summer crops. Former Waikato Federated Farmers dairy chair Ben Moore feared the pressure being put on contractors could lead to them

BREAKING POINT: Staff shortages among rural contractors are so dire that many in the industry fear it could result in serious accidents.

Is it going to take someone getting killed – and it might be one of us or a staff member – is it going to take that before something is done? Brook Nettleton BlueGrass Contracting unwittingly cutting corners around health and safety causing harm to themselves or a member of the public. “It concerns me the pressures it’s putting on you guys, the pressures it’s putting on the fulltime staff and the community as well,” Ben Moore. He says the assistance the industry provided to droughtstricken farmers showed the important role contractors played in New Zealand. BlueGrass Contracting’s Brook Nettleton says he raised the safety issue with Immigration NZ (INZ)

when he inquired recently about getting overseas staff into NZ. He says he was told the rural contracting industry was not a time-critical business. “I said to them, ‘Is it going to take someone getting killed – and it might be one of us or a staff member – is it going to take that before something is done?’” Nettleton said. Compounding the issue was the wet weather over the past few weeks had caused further delays. Nettleton says he was also struggling to maintain the servicing of his vehicles during this peak period because his engineering staff had been called in to help drive the machines. Many of the New Zealanders being trained to work the machinery who had been hired were often quitting after a few days. Those wanting to keep working are too inexperienced to be left unsupervised. It took at least three years to properly train a contractor to use their machinery. Industry training initiatives such as Ag Drive were great ideas, but he says they did

not address the staffing shortages the industry was facing. “It doesn’t fix the problem now and we can’t have 10 newbies,” he said. Contractors could only employ about three inexperienced staff because the job required people to work independently. Te Awamutu contractor John Austin says training contractors was similar to training dairy farming staff – both industries needed people who loved the lifestyle and saw it as more than just a job. “The industry has worked tirelessly in training people and the training ideas are great and I think we should continue with that, but our priority at the moment is to try and crack open the door and let people in now,” Austin said. “From where I sit, that’s the only chance to stop a major issue like a bad accident.” Rural Contractors NZ president Helen Slattery says the industry had to prove to the Government there was a skills gap to get more workers into the country.

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Contractors could show that by using the Hanzon app, which records and documents their staff’s work and the hours they work. “That’s going to show there is a massive skill gap between the learners and the skilled operators,” Slattery said. The industry had to find the best strategy from INZ to get more drivers into NZ. This had been an incredibly frustrating process because INZ kept on changing the goalposts, she said. Holmes says farmers, in the meantime, can help the industry by cutting out dumb behaviour. They needed to be upfront with how many paddocks they wanted to work on for a particular job. Too often farmers were booking a job involving an agreed number of paddocks, only to then ask the contractor to do extra while they were on the farm. The difficulty of availability of contractors was also seeing some book multiple contractors for the same job and picking the first one that turned up, wasting the time of the others who had turned up.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

Ram sales begin strongly in north Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz

RANK: This cow, a two-year-old with a BW of 370/67 and a production worth of 381/49, sold for $10,600.

Cow in elite dairy herd sells for $10.6k Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz THE sale of an elite Waikato dairy herd attracted strong interest from across the country from farmers seeking better genetics for their cattle. The sale saw 115 cows go under the hammer at Stony Creek Farm’s on-farm sale at Walton, near Matamata for an average price of $2952, about $1000 above than the current market price for a good quality dairy cow. The herd is the highest ranked crossbred herd for breeding worth (BW) in the country, according to LIC Animal Evaluation data. The sale included 16 in-milk cows contract-mated to LIC, one of which sold for $10,600 to a West Coast dairy breeder. That cow was a two-year-

old with a BW of 370/67 and a production worth of 381/49. NZ Farmers Livestock agent Ollie Carruthers says that of the 77 lots sold, 54 were sold online. The sale drew a modest crowd with many more watching it online. The bulk of the buyers were dairy breeders and there was a small number of commercial dairy farmers also purchasing the cows. “The cows went as far away as Taranaki, Northland and about 75 of them went to the South Island,” Ollie Carruthers said. “It was a very high index herd and opportunities like that don’t pop up all that often.” Vendor Ben Watson says he was really pleased with the result. “We have never had a sale like that,” he said.

PRICES paid for rams have gone as high as $10,000 during the early part of the ram selling season, mostly northern Romney, Coopworth and Perendale vendors. Raupuha Perendales, Russell and Mavis Proffit, Mahoenui, King Country, got $10,000 for two-tooth ram #201296, paid by Andrew Savage, St Ledger stud, at Matawai, Gisborne. They also had sales at $7000, at $5100, two at $4200, plus several at $3000. The offering was 200 rams, 60 of them Perendales, 45 Romdales, 40 Suftex, 30 Beltex and 25 Suffolk and 164 sold. The average price for the Perendales was $1920 and the sale clearance was 160. The Proffits donated $4000 paid for a Suftex ram to Gumboot Friday, the mental health appeal. Waimai Romneys, Te Akau, northern Waikato had a top price of $8700, paid by Mana Romneys, Gladstone and an average price paid for 120 Romneys of $2848. Vendor Alastair Reeves also had a full clearance of 40 CharaBlack terminal sires, Hampshire and Charollais crosses, averaging $1313. Among the Romneys, about 10 made more than $3500 and Reeves says he was very happy with the demand and prices, which reflected very high schedule prices for sheepmeat. “It was the first private ram sale under Level 3 restrictions, so we didn’t have any precedents, but the safety, sanitation and documentation went very well,” Reeves said. “Online bidders bought 23 rams,

showing confidence in our rams and in the selling platform. “Commercial sheep farmers are willing to invest in good genetics, which are still relatively cheap for the benefits they bring.” Lot 60 sold for $5800 and the proceeds donated to Rural Support. Ashgrove Genetics, Tangowahine, Northland, offered 101 rams of Coopworth, Romworth and Suftex breeding and 90 were sold. Vendor James Parsons said he was pleased with the results of a good, strong sale considering the travel restrictions in and out of Northland. Top price was $3300 paid by Dan and Nicky Berger of Warkworth and nearly 20 rams made $2400 or better. The average for the Coopworths was $2067 and for the Suftex $1031. The North Island Perendale ram sale consisted of 66 rams offered

from 10 breeders and the top price was $1700 made by Hautere 321/20, from the Henrickson family, Dannevirke.

Commercial sheep farmers are willing to invest in good genetics, which are still relatively cheap for the benefits they bring. Alastair Reeves Vendor The same price was made by Karere Vale 56/20 sold by D’Ath family, Longburn. Three rams were sold at $1500, from Karere Vale, Glenochy at Stratford and Rua Peka Peka at Urenui.

CLEARANCE: Vendor Alastair Reeves had a full clearance of 40 CharaBlack terminal sires, Hampshire and Charollais crosses, averaging $1313.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

Next step in Fonterra gas solution Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz FONTERRA researchers have moved out of the lab and onto the farm for the next stage of trials on the company’s in-house Kowbucha project, aimed at offering a solution to livestock methane emissions. The project has centred on developing a culture-based solution to emissions, sourced from the co-operative’s extensive library of culture strains that encompass almost 80 years of assorted cultured product strains used in cheeses and yoghurts. Fonterra head of strategy and innovation Mark Piper says after sorting through thousands of culture strains some had been identified as having potential for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cows. A lab-based replication of a cow’s rumen that had the Kowbucha culture strain added

COWABUNGA: Fonterra’s Kowbucha may hold one of the answers to lowering livestock methane emissions, its head of strategy and innovation Mark Piper says.

to it has demonstrated a 50% reduction in methane production, prompting researchers to move it to real animals. A group of calves will now

receive Kowbucha as part of their diet and researchers are confident the product will have a similar positive effect to probiotics on the youngstock.

At a media innovation gathering earlier this year, Fonterra head of science Dr Jeremy Hill said it was most likely farmers would be offered a suite of solutions to deal with methane reductions over coming years. While many in the industry are confident the initial methane reduction goal of 10% by 2030 can be achieved, much of it with changes in management techniques, the 24-47% reduction by 2050 was a bigger ask. “The solution must tick all the criteria we apply to any potential GHG reduction technology. It must be good for the cow, good for the milk, good for the environment and good for the farmer,” Piper said. It is expected it will be up to six months before researchers know if the trial has been successful and the calves will be followed for a full season to determine if the Kowbucha additive has resulted in a longer-

term reduction in methane emissions. NZ dairy emissions per litre of milk are less than a third of the world dairy emissions average, and the sector has already achieved a 20% reduction per litre of milk over the past three decades. The early research work at Fonterra indicated the use of Kowbucha-type cultures as methane inhibitors may also boost cow protein output. Other methane reduction work at Fonterra includes working with Royal DSM on their high profile additive Bovaer, which has proven to reduce methane emissions by 30% in non-pastoral feed systems. Trials on undisclosed farms are studying how it can be integrated into NZ’s grass-based dairy systems. Work also includes including plantain in cow diets to reduce nitrogen losses and studying the incorporation of seaweed into cows’ feed.

Scientists’ research efforts rewarded Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz THREE leading research lights in soil and nutrient research have picked up top awards at this year’s Research Honours Aotearoa for their contributions to soils, water and nutrient technology. Longtime Lincoln University professor Dr Keith Cameron and his colleague Professor Hong Di were awarded the Pickering Medal by the Royal Society Te Apārangi for their work in inventing new technology for treating dairy farm effluent to recycle water and reduce phosphate and E.coli losses. The Pickering Medal is awarded to researchers or research teams who have through design or invention performed innovative technological work significant in

its influence and recognition, or which could lead to significant commercial success. The innovative effluent technology developed by the researchers was recently unveiled at Lincoln University dairy farm. The EcoPond system, developed in conjunction with Ravensdown, is proven to reduce dairy effluent pond methane emissions by 99.9%. E.coli and phosphate are also reduced by 99% in effluent systems through a 100% natural biological process. Methane losses from farm effluent ponds are the secondlargest source of on-farm methane emissions after cows. At the EcoPond launch the researchers were hailed by Ravensdown chair John Henderson for creating a

“masterful” piece of tech that met all the needs of farmers in terms of being easy, simple and costeffective. He also signalled it was the first of several other initiatives in the pipeline with Lincoln researchers. Professor Rich McDowell of AgResearch and chief scientist of the National Science Challenge was a recipient of the Hutton Medal for outstanding contributions to nutrient flow knowledge in water and soil. The medal recognises outstanding work by a researcher in New Zealand in the fields of earth, plant and animal sciences. His work has demonstrated how contaminants move across land into water and options for mitigating losses of those contaminants to waterways. His work has been used as a

CONTRIBUTIONS: Professors Keith Cameron and Hong Di were awarded the esteemed Pickering Medal for the commercial and scientific contribution their technology offers for dealing with one of dairying’s biggest problems.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

Rural schools grappling with ban Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz THE covid vaccination mandate has left few rural schools untouched by staff losses, with most losing at least one member and left struggling to source relief teachers as the school year end approaches. School principals were continuing to negotiate with vaccine-hesitant staff members right up to the November 15 first jab deadline and many remain in discussions on staff members’ futures after the date. A NZ Principals Federation survey that covered nine regions nationally found close to 1% of school teachers, or about 700, have refused the vaccine. But King Country Principals Association president Maria Gillard says staff losses are more likely to range from between 15-100% across 15 schools in her region. “That is a problem for rural communities. It is not as if we have more people outside the door waiting to take their place,” Gillard said. She says for the region’s high schools the issue was manageable, but for smaller primary schools it was far more challenging. Matiere School north-west of Taumarunui has been the most extreme case, where none of its six staff nor its board of trustees were vaccinated and there were fears it would have to close. After closing this Tuesday, it was due to reopen with reduced staffing while an exemption from the mandate was applied for. But Gillard says any possible loopholes for exemptions were getting increasingly smaller as the

Ministry of Education clamped down. Rural principals had raised the issue of a mandate’s impact with Ministry of Education staff before it came to media attention, but it had taken a major effort to get the Ministry to recognise the problems the mandate may raise for rural schools. “We don’t have the skills in these communities to fill the gap. In this district there is only one reliever to cover all the schools,” she said. One Te Kuiti school faced the possibility of 64% of its staff, including teacher aides and support staff, leaving. She suggested an option may be to offer a regular covid test to staff choosing not to vaccinate. But the rural school principals’ frustration appears to run deepest over the timing of the mandate, coming as the year approaches its end and school reports and activities remain unfinished. A Bay of Plenty rural school principal told Farmers Weekly he had no issue with schools’ responsibility to protect children from the virus by staff being vaccinated. “But certainly, the timing was abysmal, other people cannot write reports for the students,” he said. He says it was also difficult in small rural communities to not be completely upfront with parents about what staffs’ vaccination status was. Western Bay of Plenty Principal’s Association president Suzanne Billington says a survey in the region indicates about 15-20% of staff across schools are choosing not to be vaccinated. The Bay of Plenty District Health Board area is among the bottom five boards nationally for

STRUGGLE: Suzanne Billington says rural schools will find it hard to source relieving teachers to fill gaps left by unvaccinated staff stepping down.

That is a problem for rural communities. It is not as if we have more people outside the door waiting to take their place. Maria Gillard King Country Principals Association first vaccination shots at 86%. “And if you are a small school, you often reflect your community and some are quite anti-vax,” Billington Said. As principal of Tauriko School on the outskirts of Tauranga she was dealing with a teacher and teacher aide among her 27 staff who were choosing not to be vaccinated.

She anticipated demand on relief teaching staff across rural schools would become significantly tougher in coming days. However, she was also optimistic that the gaps may decline as reluctant staff reflect over the Christmas break and decide to opt in for the new year. “It could get better. We know at this point it will not get much worse,” she said. Further south in North Canterbury, principal of Hurunui Area School Steven Beck says as president of the NZ Area Schools Association he had more queries about how school pools would be managed over summer than about the covid mandate for teachers. “Overall, there does not seem to be a sense of dread or concern. There are specific cases within schools that may present challenges, say a senior teacher

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

Rural bus routes secure for now Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz RURAL school bus routes around the country appear reasonably secure despite the loss of drivers due to the covid vaccination mandate becoming effective from November 15. GoBus national chief operations manager Nigel Piper says the company’s resources have been stretched by the mandate which has resulted in the loss of about 40 drivers from the company which operates 300 school bus routes nationally.

What it has done is tap out all our spare capacity on some routes. We will have to go out and recruit more drivers. Nigel Piper GoBus The mandate requires all staff in the education system to be vaccinated, including not only teachers but also administration, contractors, and bus drivers. “Some for whatever reason have chosen to resign and we are also working through the implications

of it with others in terms of their employment contracts,” Piper said. He estimated the loss amounted to 8% of the company’s drivers. “What it has done is tap out all our spare capacity on some routes. We will have to go out and recruit more drivers,” he said. The pressure came as the company was already poised to ramp up its staff numbers, having secured preferred supplier status for many more school bus routes next year. This will take its route number to 679 nationally and add three new regions, including Manawatū, Wairarapa and Marlborough. This will require an additional 379 buses operating from the new school term in 2022. Piper says the company has been going out of its way to ensure staff had every opportunity to be vaccinated, including time off work and getting them to vaccination stations. He thought it was unlikely the staff being negotiated with at present would change their minds. “If they have not done it by now, I think they are unlikely to change,” he said. It had proven somewhat surprising what areas were and were not problematic for staff vaccinations.

IMPACT: GoBus operations manager Nigel Piper says his company has lost 40 drivers who did not wish to be vaccinated.

“Our drivers in Gisborne have a very high vaccination rate; the health board came out early and identified drivers for

an early vaccination.” King Country, central North Island and Hawke’s Bay drivers were also now 100% vaccinated.

King Country has been identified as an area where teacher vaccination rates are highly variable.

Tatua director resigns after backlash ROSS Townshend has quit as a director of Waikato dairy company Tatua over an “inappropriate” social media post. Tatua chair Stephen Allen said Townshend had stood down from the board with immediate effect. “On Monday evening, it was brought to my attention that Townshend had posted highly

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me with no other course of action than to accept his resignation on behalf of the Tatua board of directors,” he said. Allen also confirmed that he will be contacting the minister’s office to provide an explanation and personal apology. “Over the 25 years that I have been involved as a director of Tatua, including 18 years as

chairman, the company has had mutually respectful and warm relationships with ministers and government officials of all parties,” he said. “We also have incredibly good and long-standing relationships with our community, including local iwi. An incident of such offensive disrespect is simply not who we are.”

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10 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

Tussle over Nait compliance Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz THE Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has rejected a claim by a Northland dairy farmer that he was made a scapegoat for non-compliance with the National Animal Identification and Tracing (Nait) Act . Ross Freidrich, of Dargaville, says MPI had ample time to withdraw prosecutions against him and avoid strong criticism of the way Nait was being administered by District Court Judge Gene Tomlinson. The judge’s main criticism was that Nait, Ospri and MPI do not have a process for following up hundreds, if not thousands, of RFID tags sold to farmers but not subsequently registered after implanting.

I find that there has been an abject failure by Nait and by extension the MPI to protect and ensure the integrity of the legislation, by telling farmers in this circumstance ‘no further action required’. Judge Gene Tomlinson Dargaville District Court These are called “unused” tags. Tomlinson says no farmer would buy expensive RFID tags to have them sit on a shelf and it is in the knowledge and power of the authorities to follow up with calls or visits to farmers with unused tags to ensure compliance. “It (is) within their knowledge who (is) buying them and who (is) not registering and a direct personal contact, not an automated notification (is) in my

view a simple and easy answer,” Tomlinson said. “Farmers have many regulatory tasks to perform – Nait has just one. “Hundreds if not thousands of unused tags are a sure-fire indication that something has gone wrong and action by Nait is required.” Tomlinson says systemic failures by Nait and related authorities contributed significantly to the occurrence and ongoing nature of offending. “It is now at odds with reality for Nait and MPI to seek to place all the blame and risk of unregistered animals and their movements on Freidrich and those like him when the data and all the information to ensure easy compliance was within Nait power,” he said. “(It was within Nait control) at a much earlier stage where swift and importantly direct action could have immediately corrected the situation, avoided prosecutions and most importantly of all, met the section 3 purposes of the legislation.” Section 3 of the Nait Act 2012 says the purposes of the legislation include biosecurity and prevention of risks to human health. The judge also criticised the use of the phrase “no further action required”, which is sent to farmers after they consign animals to the freezing works. “I find that there has been an abject failure by Nait and by extension the MPI to protect and ensure the integrity of the legislation, by telling farmers in this circumstance ‘no further action required’,” he said. This point was particularly relevant to the third charge against Freidrich, when he sent 78 animals in four movements to Affco’s plant at Moerewa. His counsel argued the use of this phrase created confusion for Freidrich and contributed to his inadvertent offending.

RECOGNISED: Ospri head of traceability Kevin Forward acknowledged the criticism and accepted that there had been challenges with Nait.

The fines imposed on Freidrich were reduced by 50% because of Nait’s failures and contributions to offending, especially in view of the recent tenfold increases in the penalties under the Act. The judge also discounted the fines by 40% because of the guilty plea, prior good character and remorse and for Freidrich’s efforts at educating others. Ospri head of traceability Kevin Forward acknowledged the criticism and accepted that there had been challenges with Nait. Ospri was working with MPI to review their processes in light of this decision. Regional offices were being strengthened for more faceto-face contact with farmers, strengthening the customer

support team, and investing in new technology to make it easier for farmers to comply. It has also been increasing targeted education on compliance, with a focus on tag and register since 2019. MPI regional manager animal welfare and Nait compliance Brendon Mikkelsen says the court fined Freidrich $8550 and MPI made no apology for taking action where required to protect biosecurity. “Our ability to track and trace cattle and deer through the system is a critical factor in managing threats, which could have a devastating impact on the agricultural sector,” Mikkelsen said. “As the judge noted in his

summary, Freidrich was convicted for offending, which could lead to untraceable chains of infection and irreparable damage. “MPI does not accept Freidrich’s claim that he was a scapegoat. “Most people in charge of animals support the Nait scheme and understand the importance of registration, which has been a requirement for the past eight years.” When he found out about the prosecution, Freidrich was able “in short order” to find out what was required and take action to comply. “The fact that he did not choose to educate himself and operated for some time in breach however counts significantly against him in my assessment,” he said.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

Industry pays tribute to John Luxton Staff reporter FARMING industry leaders have paid tribute to former Minister of Agriculture and dairy industry leader John Luxton who passed away this week, aged 75. Luxton succeeded his father Jack as the Member of Parliament for Matamata in 1987 for the National Party. He held the seat until 1996, before holding the reconstituted seat of Karāpiro until his retirement from politics in 2002. Luxton was appointed to Cabinet when National won the 1990 election and served in the Jim Bolger and Jenny Shipley governments. He held ministerial responsibilities for Energy, Housing, Māori Affairs, Police, Commerce, Industry, Fisheries, Lands, Customs and Agriculture. He was also an Associate Minister

of Education and of Overseas Trade. Federated Farmers national president Andrew Hoggard says the dairy sector would not be the same if it weren’t for John’s work towards forming DairyNZ and then chairing the organisation between 2008 and 2015. “He spearheaded the formation of several dairy companies, including Open Country Cheese and Kaimai Cheese company,” Hoggard said. He was also a director of Tatua Co-op Dairy Company. Hoggard says he was always extremely approachable and immensely knowledgeable. “It was humbling to have him praise me when introducing me to speak to his Rotary club earlier this year, given that his list of accomplishments far exceeds anything I have done. DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel says Luxton had a major role in

CONTRIBUTION: John Luxton has played a huge role in the success of the dairy industry, farming leaders say.

He led by values, had enormous integrity, and always put the best interests of those in the rural sector first. We will miss him. Tim Mackle DairyNZ the success of New Zealand’s dairy industry. “John has always demonstrated strong leadership and longstanding commitment to the sector,” Van der Poel said. “John was instrumental in a number of significant policy

and legislative changes in New Zealand, including the foundation policy work that led to the formation of Fonterra and the deregulation of producer boards. “One of his major achievements was shaping the development of DairyNZ – the first industry good body of its kind and the largest in Australasia.” Van der Poel says Luxton played a major role in helping guide the dairy industry through a significant period of change, which would soon become NZ’s number one export industry. DairyNZ chief executive Tim Mackle says he will remember Luxton for always being very supportive and being a statesman and diplomat who could bring people together. “John was an influential leader

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12 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

Soil key to sustainable irrigation Staff reporter CANTERBURY farmer Angus Aitken believes understanding soil types and managing soil biodiversity is key to sustainable irrigation and a successful farming operation. Aitken and wife Elise, who have been named the Supreme Winners of the 2021 Zimmatic® Trailblazer Sustainable Irrigation awards, farm a 550ha mixed cropping property in Waiau that grows a variety of produce, from sweet corn to red clover for lamb finishing. The Aitkens have a consent to draw water from a nearby Waiau River tributary to irrigate the property and they use a small storage dam and a two-pump shed system. While technology plays a large part in sustainably managing their irrigation system, Aitken says they are also focused on managing their soils and soil structure through methods like no till farming. “I think for a long time the focus has been on what’s above ground and what you can see on the surface of your paddocks. But we are learning that understanding your soil characteristics and protecting the biodiversity in your soils can also help with water infiltration, crop performance and sustainable water use,” Aitken said. He says they are keen to use their win to generate discussion among farmers about sustainable water use. “We support the national policy on protecting our waterways. While we don’t own the water, we have a right to use it responsibly. It’s for everyone’s benefit that we use it sustainably to produce food,” he said. The Aitkens’ operation has variable water requirements across crops. They use FieldNET’s variable rate irrigation feature, which allows them to vary application depths by one-degree

sectors. This ensures they direct water where it’s needed most, depending on their soil types, runoff and drainage areas, and crop growth stages. In the future they plan to invest in Zimmatic Precision VRI technology for individual sprinkler control and EM survey the property to map soil variability. They use soil moisture sensors and Lindsay’s FieldNET remote irrigation management system to measure and understand the constantly changing conditions and variability on their land. “It’s one of the reasons I see a bright future for farming. The technology is continuing to improve all the time and it’s only helping us be more efficient and more sustainable,” he said. The technology allows quick, on-farm decisions to be made, such as altering the Aitkens water application depth or shutting down irrigation pivots straight away to avoid a fault. “We can prioritise crops such as corn that need more water,and pull back on watering crops such as red clover, which can handle dryer conditions. Our farming model and soil type allow us to extract the most out of our limited water resource and make strategic decisions on where to direct the water,” he said. The Aitkens employ two full-time staff members and the technology allows everyone involved in the farm to be a part of managing the water resource by using apps available on their phones. These apps provide realtime data about where the water is going and how much is being used. Their operation is part of an irrigation collective in the Waiau area. The collective is audited by independent assessors every year to ensure they have current farm environment plans and are employing good management practices. “We are certainly not perfect.

BALANCE: While technology plays a large part in sustainably managing their irrigation system, Angus Aitken says they are also focused on managing their soils.

We are only at the beginning of our journey and have a lot more to learn. We’re not the only farmers trying to change things, but together over time I’m confident we can demonstrate that it is possible to run profitable and productive farming operations, while protecting our waterways,” he said. Joining the Aitkens as finalists this year were Simon and Lou White, Hawke’s Bay, and Richard and Annabelle Subtil, North Otago. Head judge and Irrigation NZ chair Keri Johnston commended all three couples saying their calibre was outstanding and each of them had different strengths. “We are so fortunate to have such high-quality entrants again this year,” Johnston said. “It was an incredibly close competition and they should all be congratulated. As judges, it is great to have such amazing finalists, but it did make our job that much more challenging.” Johnston says the Aitkens’

approach to irrigation was refreshing. “It was well thought out and they have a willingness to try new things, learn and grow as food producers. They are also motivated to be a part of the greater conversations that need to happen around the future of irrigation in New Zealand and its role in ensuring that we have thriving and resilient communities,” she said. “They are not afraid of the regulatory challenges that the sector faces, but rather see them as opportunities that are just part of farming. In their view, it’s all about how you look at it. “While the Aikens are still early on in their journey, they have a sound plan and a vision. As a family, they have a proactive approach and a positive attitude. I am confident they will be great role models for the irrigation sector. Our sincere congratulations to them both.” The judges were impressed with the Aitkens’ use and adoption of technology to manage and

schedule irrigation, which is why they were also awarded the Irricon Resource Solutions – Sustainable Irrigation Management award. “They have a great understanding of the science of irrigation and are always open to doing things better,” she said. “They are also about to trial an area of sub-surface irrigation and it will be really exciting to see the results of this.” The 2021 category winners are: Irricon Resource Solutions – Sustainable Irrigation Management award: Angus and Elise Aitken; Farmers Weekly – Environmental Stewardship and Community award: Richard and Annabelle Subtil; and Vantage NZ – Opportunities & Diversification award: Simon and Lou White. Together, Zimmatic and its awards partners are offering the 2021 finalists a total prize package of more than $22,000.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

MyFarm seeks more forestry

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Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz MYFARM has opened the second half of a fundraising for planting medium to hard hill country in Pinus radiata, after $7.5 million was committed by wholesale investors in the first stage. The CQuest Carbon and Forestation Fund is targeting $15.2m in total to buy land and plant 1500ha over three years. With additional bank debt of 31%, the fund is projected to have $22m to invest. The first stage involves planting next winter 356ha of seedlings on Puketawa station, near Tiraumea in Wairarapa hill country, followed by about 300ha of a second property in Central Hawke’s Bay. The purchase and subdividing of these farms, including on-selling buildings and good flatter land for continued farming, is under way. The minimum investment amount for CQuest is $50,000, with $10,000 increments thereafter. The projected dual income streams are the sale of carbon credits from sequestration between years five and 17 and the wood harvest about 10 years later. Using a carbon sales price between $50 and $60/ tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent, modelling says the fund will generate a lifetime internal rate of return (IRR) between 6% and 9% annually. Every rise of $10 in the carbon price would produce a 2% rise in the IRR. It is forecast to generate 10-13% free cash flow annually during the carbon sales years. The sequestration rate is modelled on 480t/ha at a cost of $20-$25/tonne. The $1 units in the fund will be tradable on the Syndex platform. MyFarm head of sales Grant Payton says Afforestation Partners was bringing the forestry expertise and management, secured seedling orders for two years and the registration process for the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). It had planted 1500ha in the lower North Island over the past three years and was managing 3000ha for investors. “MyFarm is looking for further properties to apply the funds from CQuest, but the real estate market is tightening up with demand from overseas,” Payton said. “Stage 2 is open until December 10 and it will depend on what size properties we find if there is a stage 3.” Conscious of the anti-forestry sentiment among sheep and beef farmers, MyFarm wanted to emphasise that harder hill country only was being planted and the better quality subdivided to remain in livestock production. The CQuest information memorandum says the fees and expenses will be: an establishment fee of 4% of land purchase and development costs; annual administration and supervision fee of 0.3% of assets under management; a one-off underwriter’s fee of $96,000 for securing the Puketawa property; one-off third-party establishment costs of $75,000 for Puketawa; and performance fees as profit shares of 3.5% of any carbon revenue and 5% of any capital distributions after sales of properties and forests or cutting rights. MyFarm’s partner in this venture is Afforestation Partners Management, two of four directors and part-owners being MyFarm chief executive Andrew Watters, Feilding, and David Marshall, an accountant and farmer of Tutu Totara, Marton. MyFarm also has a 12.5% stake in Afforestation Partners.

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Rural police training in spotlight Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz CONCERN some rural police officer appointments are not an ideal fit with their communities has led to 41 recommendations after a review by the Independent Police Conduct Authority. It found that Police as an organisation lack an adequate national strategy for the allocation of resources and delivery of services to these small and remote communities. “The role of officers is not always clearly defined and they do not always receive sufficient induction, supervision, training and support,” authority chair Judge Colin Doherty said.

In order to be effective, they must become part of the community and develop both strong professional and personal relationships, but this can cause conflicts of interest that must be carefully managed. Judge Colin Doherty Independent Police Conduct Authority “Conflicts of interest sometimes arise that officers are not sufficiently trained and equipped to handle.” The review looked at policing at communities with one or

two person stations and was prompted after several people complained about the way their local officers dealt with them. Federated Farmers board member Colin Hurst welcomed the report and noted that for some rural police, living in a small community can resemble living in a fishbowl with everyone watching. The review interviewed the local officers and residents in 12 communities and looked at what works well, where improvements to police services are needed and whether officers need further training and support. Doherty says policing in small communities can be difficult and challenging, with officers required to deal with a wide range of issues, expected to be available at all times, where they often work alone in demanding circumstances without any immediate backup. “In order to be effective, they must become part of the community and develop both strong professional and personal relationships, but this can cause conflicts of interest that must be carefully managed,” he said. Recommendations include better definition of an officer’s role, clearer guidance on how to manage conflicts of interest, regular welfare support for officers and their families, building more permanent relieving capacity and developing more systematic induction processes. It also recommends limiting small community roles to five years, with the possibility of an extension, enhanced training and a support network, better

COMPLAINTS: The review was prompted after several people complained about the way their local officers dealt with them.

supervision, more community feedback and more guidance on how officers should engage with their communities. Hurst says defining the role of a rural police officer is important and noted anecdotal evidence that where they have an interest in specific rural crimes such as poaching and stock theft, they generally fitted better into the community. Hurst says not having permanent relief is tough on rural officers, so introducing a permanent relief system would be beneficial. He was less supportive of

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Reports explore regen costs, benefits Staff reporter TRADITIONAL ways of measuring the economics of farming need to be expanded to better understand the costs and benefits of regenerative agriculture practices in New Zealand, a new report says. The Determining the Economic and Market Potential of Regenerative Agriculture report highlights the need to improve the way environmental stewardship is valued, which would provide a more balanced economic understanding of all farms in NZ. One of the report’s authors, Lincoln University’s Agricultural Economics Research Unit director Distinguished Professor Caroline Saunders, says the way food production systems are valued needs to be broadened. She says economics can help assess a wider range of value from agriculture to include its effect on society, culture and the environment. The report says accounting for environmental impacts, both negative and positive, could provide a useful approach for fully measuring the impact of the adoption of regenerative agriculture for NZ. The report was one of three released last week by the Our Land and Water National Science

RETHINK REQUIRED: Distinguished Professor Caroline Saunders says the way food production systems are valued needs to be broadened.

Challenge that provide an overview of how to assess the impact of regenerative agriculture on NZ farm businesses. They look at how NZ agribusinesses could determine whether the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices might increase the quality or quantity of their produce, or the profitability of their business.

The second of the three reports, Quantifying Productivity of Regenerative Farming Systems, identifies priority measurements for assessing productivity on regenerative farms. Production on NZ pastoral farms is measured as the amount of plant material grown, using tools benchmarked for typical pastures of ryegrass and clover.

However, the report says these tools may not be accurate for the multispecies pastures seen as the hallmark of ‘regenerative’ pastoral farming, due to different plant heights and traits, and uneven changes from season to season. The impact of diverse pastures on animal production is also unknown. The report says increased plant diversity can improve plant yields and may increase pasture production through drier periods, but this does not necessarily equate to increased milk production, weight gain or improved food quality. The reports’ authors point out that other ways to view farm productivity might be more important to regenerative farmers. These include nutrient use efficiency, water use efficiency and greenhouse gas mitigation. Policy changes may also make these increasingly important productivity measurements. The third report, Determining Food Quality in the Context of Regenerative Agriculture, explores the connection between regenerative agriculture and food quality. Report author and Plant & Food Research principal scientist and science team leader Dr Carolyn Lister says although

Numerous factors affect the nutritional quality of crops and some factors – such as soil health and fertiliser application – may be particularly relevant to regenerative agriculture.

direct evidence is limited, there are strong suggestions from broader scientific literature that there are likely to be effects from regenerative agriculture on food ‘nutrient density’, although the extent of that remains to be determined in NZ. Lister says a variety of nutrient profiling systems have been developed to quantify the healthiness of foods and it will be important to consider what may be best to use for regenerative agriculture. “Numerous factors affect the nutritional quality of crops and some factors – such as soil health and fertiliser application – may be particularly relevant to regenerative agriculture,” Lister said.

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18 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

Weed invasion threatens natives Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz PARLIAMENTARY Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton says the Government must lift its game to better protect native ecosystems from the thousands of exotic plants spreading throughout New Zealand. If not, forests risk being overrun in a silent invasion by weeds such as wild ginger, old man’s beard and climbing asparagus, Upton says in a new report on how NZ manages pest plants that threaten native ecosystems. Russell lupins are carpeting braided rivers and wilding conifers are covering hillsides. “If left to their own devices, these weeds will transform our ecosystems beyond recognition,” Upton said. The report explained that protecting native ecosystems from being overrun by weeds not only helps native plants, but also saves crucial habitat the fauna needed to survive. Māori brought about a dozen new plants with them to Aotearoa. But since European colonisation, more than 25,000 plant species have been introduced. Over 1800 of these exotic plants now survive in the wild without human help and are joined by about 20 new ones each year. Most are escapees from gardens. The risks they pose will only rise as climate change increases the area over which many of them can spread and conquer. “We cannot rid New Zealand of every single weed. There are simply too many. But we can be smart about which ones we choose to tackle, have a clear outcome in mind and make sure we coordinate our actions,” he said. “Weed management programmes need to be achievable and sustainable over time – potentially a very long time. “There is no point removing one

TAKING OVER: Weeds such as Russell lupins are picturesque and are favoured by some landowners for their ability to fix nitrogen, but are also an invasive weed, a new report says.

species and creating an expensive ‘weed-shaped hole’ waiting to be reinvaded. Knowing what comes next is critical.” The report detailed how landuse change continued to be a major driver of weed invasions. Clearing land, whether for planting or harvesting exotic plants or expanding built environments, provided ample opportunities for weeds to invade and spread. The disturbances that land-use change brings create a never-ending supply of ‘weedshaped holes’, the report said. It also called out cultivation as a major source of risk for new plant naturalisations in NZ. It examined the impact of afforestation could have on weed invasions, saying this will depend on the type of new forests being created and how they are established and managed.

“Simply removing livestock from marginal pastoral land in the hope that it will revert to permanent native forest will bring its own weed management challenges – but so too will planting new exotic plantation forests,” he said. The commissioner made several recommendations to improve weed management, including better leadership from the MPI, DoC and the Ministers of Biosecurity and Conservation, to help coordinate action on which plants to manage, where and how they are to be managed and by whom. “Our biosecurity system is very good at protecting our borders from exotic plants and looking out for farming and forestry interests,” he said. “But protecting native ecosystems from plants already

established here does not get the same attention.” He also recommended better monitoring and surveillance of exotic plants, including establishing an emerging risks team to scan for new escapees that could harm native ecosystems. A single, publicly accessible database of all exotic plants in NZ should also be developed and maintained so everyone has a better idea of which plants are in the country and where they are, the report said. Upton says the report’s recommendations would back up existing community-based efforts. “A better focused and coordinated system would give these groups the support they need to make progress and hold onto it,” he said. “With massive land use and

Keep an eye out The latest issue of Dairy Farmer will hit letterboxes on November 29. Our OnFarmStory this month features the Bay of Plenty region’s top sharemilkers and we meet a Canterbury farmer who came to NZ as a student and is now a farm owner. We also continue our special report coverage of live exports and delve into mental health and wellbeing.

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Simply removing livestock from marginal pastoral land in the hope that it will revert to permanent native forest will bring its own weed management challenges – but so too will planting new exotic plantation forests. Simon Upton Commissioner for the Environment climatic change in the offing, that will be harder than ever to achieve. We need to lift our game.”

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No doubt you are all hearing, seeing, or reading so many different opinions regarding the covid vaccination situation. To vaccinate or not to vaccinate can leave some people feeling overwhelmed, stressed, pushed, confused and more. It is ok to be feeling these things as we are living in such a strange uncertain world at the moment. There are so many views to this conversation, and it may have left your head spinning. I made my personal decision to get vaccinated based on medical facts and to protect not only myself but my family and the community around me. I felt that there are plenty of vulnerable people who aren’t able to get the vaccination and how scary that must be for them. The thing that scares me the most is the influence that social media is having on people’s decision making, especially for our younger generations like you guys. If you are unsure what to do and the whole thing is causing you to feel worried or anxious or scared, then please go and see your local doctor or nurse for

some professional advice. Facebook and Instagram are NOT platforms we should be basing a potentially lifechanging decision off! If you are feeling pressured by friends to sway one way, then you are in your right to remind them that it is your decision and go and seek independent advice from a professional. We should not be losing friendships over this conversation, and you are allowed to make the best decision for yourself and your family alone. If you are not coping with the things happening around you in the world at the moment, please remember to talk to an adult who you trust, go to your doctor for a chat or simply contact any one of the following rural organisations:

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Cows prefer temperatures under 20degC and as we know in New Zealand our temperatures are often well in excess of this. Consequently, cows can suffer from heat stress, where like humans your body basically begins to shut down and not operate correctly. A collective called Tropical Dairy Group (TDG) has successfully bred a cow that is naturally heat-tolerant and produces good milk. After more than a decade of natural breeding they have a herd of 500, that are polled, are a2 milkers and are tolerant to heat. Follow the link to your right to read the full article and then see if you can answer the following questions. 1

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3 It has been found that slick cows drink less but still produce at least as much, if not more, milk than the average cow. How would this be of benefit to farmers on an emissions basis?

4 What is A2 milk? Why do some people have a preference for this type of milk? 5 Which countries currently provide key markets for TDG? What countries are they looking to distribute semen straws and embryos in the future? To read the full article head to: https://farmersweekly.co.nz/s/fw-article/cool-cows-producemore-milk-MCWGJ4HP3BIRHYDN65INWXHN2WWU?utm _ term=Read%20more%205&utm _ id=e6a05abf-08e5-4589-93b9-3f2db32b4ec7&sfmc _ activityid=c7a0a052-b415-43dd-9405a7dbe85168ef&utm _ medium=email&utm _ source=sfmc&utm _ content=19063

1 What volume of beef was exported from Australia in October? 2 How does this compare to year-ago and the five-yearaverage? 3 In what month and year on this graph have exports been at the highest level? 4 In what month and year on this graph have exports been at the lowest level?

STRETCH YOURSELF: 1 Overall, how do exports this year compare to the previous year and the five-year-average? 2 By looking at the five-year-average, what would Australian beef export volumes do for the remainder of 2021? Would they start increasing or decreasing? 3 Low export volumes are being caused by low supply of cattle at processors, in fact Meat and Lamb Australia expect slaughter forecasts to reach the lowest level in 36 years. Is this a good or bad thing for NZ beef exporters? Why or why not?

4 This has supported record highs for farmgate beef prices in Australia in the last month of AUS$7.21/kg at the time of writing for a 300-400kg CWT steer. What is the percentage increase compared to the same time last year when values were AUS$6.22/kg?

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20 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

TOP OF THE CLASS: Hope Mauchline has proved you don’t need to always be on campus to be the best.

Distance no barrier for top student

Massey University agribusiness student Hope Mauchline has topped her year for the third time running – and what’s more, she’s achieved the feat as a full-time distance student. Colin Williscroft reports.

OPE Mauchline recently won the Ravensdown award for overall top thirdyear undergraduate student across agricultural, horticultural and agribusiness degrees at Massey. The latest award comes on the back of receiving the Lord Bledisloe prize earlier this year for being the top student during her first two years of study. Much of that has been achieved without spending much time at all on campus, as Mauchline studies from home on a sheep and beef farm near Whanganui. Having completed most of her secondary schooling by correspondence, she is quite used to studying from home. “I learned how to study when I was at correspondence school, so it just went from there,” Mauchline said. “It (studying from home) gives you a lot more flexibility, to be able to go and work in places where you want to and not be stuck having to go into class. “I’ve quite enjoyed it.” She says it was also helped by the distance learning framework in place at Massey. “You can still go on field trips, go into class to do labs and if you feel like it, go into a lecture with the internal students,” she said. “It’s up to you what you want to do. “In my last semester I was actually on campus for a lot of it, until covid.” She says studying from home can also be more efficient, as it provides more time for either downtime or study, instead of

having to travel to university and then go between classes. On top of that, it had the benefit of being business as usual when covid caused the university to go into lockdown, forcing her fellow students into their own distance learning, even if it was only for a while. Mauchline first moved to a farm with her family about seven years ago, although at the property where they currently live, about 7km out of Whanganui, they just rent the house. That does not stop her lending a hand when she can.

With covid coming in, the primary sector here is pretty well set up to keep chugging along through all that, so I’m pretty thrilled that’s the direction I’ve chosen to take. “Every so often we’ll go and help the neighbour out with things like docking,” she said. “We get a bit of a look into farming life and we quite enjoy that.” She says living a rural lifestyle helped her get interested in farming, although she also studied agriculture through correspondence school. “It was good to be able to see and understand the things that were happening on the farm when I was going through my schooling,” she said. “It was a subject that I could

identify with and see that this is actually real life and really interesting at the same time.” As well as receiving the Ravensdown award, Mauchline’s dedication, discipline and obvious ability also won her the AgFirst award for the best practicum two report in this year’s awards. She likes the practical side of her Bachelor of Agribusiness, majoring in farm management. “I enjoy being out on the farm working with the animals, it’s the sort of major that gives an on-the-ground understanding of how the farm systems work, rather than something like international agribusiness, which is not so much on-the-ground learning about how the farm actually runs,” she said. “We get to go out with case study farmers and spend the year working with them on interesting and valuable things like feed budgeting, or financial budgeting. “I found that really useful.” As for the future, Mauchline has no long-term plans but initially will return to Elco Direct Wool Buyers in Whanganui, where she worked during her last practical work placement. That will only be during the upcoming shearing season, when the business will be busy. After that, she hopes to find a job on a dairy farm near Whanganui. She spent her first summer work placement a couple of years ago on a dairy farm but because she did not get a whole season’s worth of experience, would like to build on what she has already learned. “I think it will be really valuable, if I was to go into a

more professional role, to have a good practical understanding (of dairying) to support my theoretical knowledge,” she said. Mauchline has no doubt about the importance of the primary sector to NZ and she wants to have a role in it. “It’s the nuts and bolts of our whole economy,” she said. “And I like being out there doing it. Just really enjoying nature and the animals and being able to be a part of all that.” She sees a positive future for the rural sector in NZ.

“With covid coming in, the primary sector here is pretty well set up to keep chugging along through all that, so I’m pretty thrilled that’s the direction I’ve chosen to take,” she said. She is also thrilled by her awards, although that does not mean she has plans for more study. “I think I’ve had enough of that for the moment. People keep asking me if I’m going to do a Masters or do honours, and I’m like ‘no, too much study’,” she said.

Massey undergraduate award winners of ag and hort prizes 2021: • • • • • • • • •

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YFC Sally Hobson award: Emma Ractliffe AgFirst practicum 1 award: Michelle Crawford AgFirst practicum 2 award: Hope Mauchline Massey equine student of the year: Joel Croucher LIC award for excellence in 2nd year animal science: Alexandra Pearson LIC award for excellence in 3rd year animal science: Kate Donald Zespri award for excellence in horticulture: Bram Paans NZIAHS leading agricultural science student: Troy Bosher Southern Cross horticulture awards for most proficient first-year students: 1st equal: Yeun An and Sarah Ridsdale 3rd: Fabiana Paludo de Souza Ballance Agri-Nutrients awards for most proficient second-year students: 1st: Erika Lilley 2nd: Katie Ervine 3rd: Danielle Brown Ravensdown awards for most proficient third-year students: 1st: Hope Mauchline 2nd: Chelsea Hopkins 3rd: Troy Bosher William Gerrish memorial awards (for excellence in farm management): Chelsea Hopkins and Bruce Donald Bayer Massey agriculture student of the year (chosen by fellow students for contribution to student wellbeing and reputation): Benjamin Crane

New thinking

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

Forestry logs felling project The impact of forest felling on waterway sediment levels will be better understood in coming years, thanks to Tasman district forestry company OneFortyOne securing funding that turns one of its forest sites into a sevenyear large-scale experiment. Richard Rennie reports.

CLEARED: The Donald Creek site in Tasman district provides a realtime, and scale, view on sediment impact from forestry.

LARGE-SCALE trial to help foresters and councils better understand the best approaches to felling timber and managing sediment loss has been given a shot in the arm through a recent 50:50 funding agreement between the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and company OneFortyOne. Each is providing $1.37 million to a trial now in its second year that will deliver long-term monitoring and assessment on two different approaches to felling management, with the ability to compare the outcomes to each other and to a non-felled “control” site, all within the same forest area. Located on the company’s Donald Creek Forest near Tadmor in the Tasman district, the project’s study area comprises a significant 600ha chunk of the company’s 2200ha block and provides researchers with a rare opportunity to study how land responds to second rotation forest felling. “The three treatment sites are all very similar within the forest, and the timing of felling works well too, with the first treatment site due for felling now, with the second treatment site coming up in year seven, with the control are harvested two years after that,” OneFortyOne environmental officer Jo Field said. It is a country she describes

as “nothing like Gisborne, but steeper than Hawke’s Bay”, comprising small pockets of granite country that is highly erodible, which she likens to Wairoa area soils. With the industry sometimes on the receiving end of claims about invoking high sediment losses in some catchments, Field says the trial is a chance to determine with more scientific analysis just how great those losses are and whether they would have occurred with or without forestry activity. “Sediment loss is a natural process in any water system. When you get a flood event you will get waterways running black or brown as a natural part of water flushing through systems and often that includes sediment already present along the sides of those waterways,” she said. “The challenge is what is actually going through streams naturally, versus what is being picked up due to forestry erosion losses.”

The first treatment site takes a ‘business as usual’ approach to felling and will measure erosion losses against OneFortyOne methods, which Field says will sit a level above industry best practice. Such practices include sediment traps and weirs placed around sites to reduce runoff. The second treatment site involves the construction of a large sediment retention pond on the felling site, designed along lines similar to those seen on large road work projects and in civil building subdivision work. “No one really knows if this technique will deliver a better outcome, so we can study it. But it is one of those ideas that are taken from civil engineering, to see if it could apply effectively out here,” she said. Given it is a real-world harvesting site, the researchers are able to incorporate and calculate the cost of the different approach into final felling economics.

Base line sediment levels have been calculated by scientists from supporting partners the Cawthron Institute, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research and Envirolink. Further analysis and drone tracking after rainfall events will help with comparisons between sites. MPI director of investment programmes Steve Penno says this was the first project to focus specifically on forest sedimentation controls. He says the project will determine how well a range of techniques perform in order to help foresters meet national freshwater standards. In a case of being careful what one wishes for, Field says researchers are guardedly praying for some high rainfall events to provide the desired flushing effect and put momentum behind any potentially erosion-prone events on the sites. Field says the Tasman District

Council has proven to be highly supportive of the project, working alongside the sector to gain a better understanding of runoff to aid in framing standards and regulations within the catchment. The industry will not have to wait the full seven years for full results, with an interim report due out after the first zone has been harvested. Field says the ability to study similar catchments is not a new one. The industry’s seminal study is the Pakuratahi land use study, a 12-year paired catchment study comparing pine plantation to pastoral farming on coastal Hawke’s Bay north of Napier. “This study will do much to build on that one, but that one was a study on two different land uses. This one will bring a lot of information for the industry about methods and approaches to harvesting, most of which can be applied across a number of catchments,” she said.

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22 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

EDITORIAL

Outrage and conflict won’t bring solutions

AST week will not be remembered fondly by the farming sector. It was a week that showed the worst of us, where the frustration and anger that’s been simmering boiled over into online hatred that shocked farmers and non-farmers alike. It’s such a challenging time for food producers at the moment and it’s understandable to want someone or something to direct that frustration towards. Many people feel farming leaders aren’t representing the sector well enough. They reckon the conversation hasn’t borne fruit, so the time has come for outrage and conflict. But that’s only led to farming communities becoming more fragmented. Yesterday, the Groundswell movement voiced its concerns again. The group has valid concerns that need thorough debate, but it’s unfortunate that their message has been muddied by others who are looking for a legitimate vehicle to hitch their fringe ideas to. The truth is that real change is achieved not by just giving voice to the problem, but by putting forward a solution. Meaningful change happens when a group arms its leaders with a mandate that’s achievable and innovative. It’s not enough to call for a halt to progress. It’s not good enough to abuse those calling for that change. This industry is blessed with vast talent – people who know what matters on the farm, others who understand what’s expected of us globally and those that know how to negotiate a way forward. What the nation is seeing at the moment is an industry questioning its own leadership, pointing fingers at those who represent it and ridiculing the people who were voted in to run the country. It’s not a recipe for success. Our challenge now is to look within ourselves and decide what New Zealand food producers stand for. It’s time to seek out the leaders who will advance that platform and back them. Change is coming to farming as it is coming for every corner of society. Will we face that change with purpose or petulance?

Bryan Gibson

LETTERS

A good time to start regen farming I WONDER if the recent increase in fertiliser costs has induced farmers to have a second look at regenerative farming as outlined in David Montgomery’s book Growing a Revolution. Regenerative farming gets much of its nitrogen from the air in a slow release, nonpolluting form. It releases locked up nutrients, especially phosphorus, in soils, making them available to plants. It holds whatever rain falls, in the growing level of the soil rather than having it evaporate, disappear below the root zone or flow across the land to the nearest water way. It reduces the amount of diesel used and the amount of glyphosate needed. With the reduced inputs,

not only does the bottom line of the farmer improve, but his resilience to vagaries in weather and market prices as well. Perhaps best of all, it is a much more fun way to farm. William Hughes-Games Waipara

Classing wild animals as pests unhealthy ANNA Jones wrote of deer as a farm pest (Farmers Weekly, November 8). In it she referred to deer “modify plant balances”. Of course any browser such as deer will modify plant balances by browsing palatable vegetation species and not browsing unpalatable species. It is no different to moa, which eminent New Zealand

ecologist Dr Graeme Caughley estimated there were several million. At a Moas, Mammals and Climate Change in the Ecological History of NZ seminar in 1986, several scientists likened browsing by moa to wild animals such as deer. Here is the difference in numerical terms. Landcare Research estimated in 2000 there were 250,000 wild deer in NZ. Even if that has since doubled, it is insignificant alongside the browsing of six or seven million moa. In a sentence, NZ’s vegetation evolved over millions of years under strong browsing. I wonder whether moas would be seen as “rapacious” browsers? The ‘pest’ syndrome is unfortunately ingrained

into the Department of Conservation and extreme green groups like Forest and Bird. Stereotyping wild animals as pests to be eradicated is an unhealthy attitude to teach children. What is needed is an ecological approach based on management. It was good to see Jones managing the situation with blood and bone and shiny discs around plantings. Is it science that deer spread kauri dieback or is it fanciful theory like possums spread bovine TB while authorities continue with a stock skin test with a 25-30% error rate, allowing infected stock to slip through undetected? L. Hore Oamaru

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Opinion

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

NZ should cap pine estates Ewan McGregor

EW Zealand has the most enlightened timber industry in the world. Virtually all its prodigious needs for wood are met by homegrown plantation timber, with more besides to export, while our native forests are legally protected. For this we can thank one species – radiata pine. This seems like a most satisfactory situation, but there’s a limit to which we should extend our pine estate and we’re in danger of overriding what may be considered appropriate, if we are not already doing so. A pine forest is a crop and a very profitable one if you have the patience. The problem is, how do we go about regulating the crops that the rural landowner grows? And should we? Farmers have rightly, jealously guarded the freedom to choose their crops. However, with annual crops there’s a seasonal dynamic, dictated by immediate market prospects rather than with environmental considerations. Such is not the case with a threedecade rotation with forestry. Further, if an ownership change is involved, as it usually is with whole-farm conversion, then it is likely to be an enduring land use. It is all the more controversial if ownership transfer is to overseas interests, which is something that can be effectively controlled, but isn’t, at least to the satisfaction of many Kiwis. Now a new motive has entered forestry. That being establishing blanket areas of exotics, likely pine, for the reason of harvesting carbon credits alone. This may mean an

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overseas industrial enterprise using such a mechanism to politically neutralise its pollution. The thought of driving through extended areas of countryside on roads hemmed in by unmanaged, and eventually old, pine trees is a most disheartening prospect. Should the public have a say, via elected government, in the general preservation of our picturesque and unique rural landscape? That

The thought of driving through extended areas of countryside on roads hemmed in by unmanaged, and eventually old, pine trees is a most disheartening prospect.

BALANCE: Ewan McGregor says the Government needs to find the balance between environmental and commercial forestry uses before NZ’s picturesque landscape is forever changed.

does not mean ‘you must’ but that which ‘you cannot do’. The rewarding of carbon credits is an acceptable initiative to encourage the establishment of more permanent forests globally as a mitigation of climate change, for there is no doubt that the massive degree of forestry clearance over the last two centuries has had an impact on climate destabilisation. However, we run the risk of unleashing a land-use change that will not just engulf the residential owner-managed pastoral and cropping landscape for which NZ is renowned, but which will have a very negative impact on the social infrastructure of many rural areas and offer few employment

opportunities up and down the economic stream. So, the rewarding of tree establishment through the payment of carbon credits is not a commercial arrangement, but an environmental one, driven by the fear of climate change that may have possible catastrophic implications for life on this planet. It, therefore, is a political measure, and, accordingly, can be politically managed – or, perhaps, guided would be a better word. I think it should be. Concern at the advance of the forestry frontier has motivated the formation and activities of the Fifty Shades of Green movement and its mantra “the right tree in the right place”. This is a worthy

objective, though not to be taken quite literally as, like beauty, the right tree in any place is very much in the eye of the beholder. I’d settle on the avoidance of the wrong tree in the wrong place. Of that there are likely to be few arguments.

Who am I? Ewan McGregor is a farm forester in Waipawa.

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24 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

Stick with rational science Alternative View

Alan Emerson

I STILL remember my first vaccination. I was in high school when the polio vaccine was made available. We all queued up to have the drink and everyone at Greymouth Technical High School was vaccinated. There was no debate and no protest. Polio attacked the central nervous system. We had youngsters at school with withered arms and built-up shoes. Thankfully New Zealand is now polio-free. Polio came on the heels of smallpox, which at its height killed 40,000 people a year. It caused blindness and a heavily scarred face. Fortunately smallpox is now history. The world was vaccinated. I can’t remember how many times I was vaccinated while in the army. If you were going into a country, you were told the vaccines you needed and had them. I’m unaware of any debate. As you may have gathered, I’m pro-vaccine. I had both my covid shots some months ago. Unsurprisingly, nothing’s fallen off and everything still works. More importantly, I’m less likely to spread covid-19 and if I catch it,

I will be less likely to suffer severe symptoms, less likely to go to hospital and less likely to die than a person who isn’t vaccinated. It’s a compelling argument. I’ve been surprised by the vehemence of the anti-vaccine brigade. I’m also unaware of any scientific basis for their arguments. To suggest their debate is irrational is a conservative way of describing it. To deal with some of their specific points. For a start, they claim vaccines aren’t safe, which I find ridiculous. Vaccines have been around in China since the 17th century and in the West from 1798. It’s not new science. To then suggest the Pfizer vaccine isn’t safe is crazy. There have been 7.46 billion doses of the Pfizer vaccine worldwide. We then hear the plaintive cry that “it’s my body, I can do what I like”. The other alternative is “I’m not going to be told what to do”. If you’re determined not to do as you’re told, try driving from Masterton to Tinui on the righthand side of the road. If you left Masterton at about 10am you’d meet the laden log trucks. Best of luck. If that fails you could try running red lights because the Government tells you not to. I totally support the Government’s insistence that anyone dealing with the public is covid vaccinated. To do otherwise is irresponsible. If an employee doesn’t want to be vaccinated, my view is to

UNFOUNDED: Alan Emerson says despite the surprising vehemence of the antivaccine brigade, there isn’t really a scientific basis for their arguments.

I’m sticking with rational science and getting the jab. After all, it’s just a little prick. wish them farewell. Further I find the actions of anti-vax teachers reprehensible and would ask the question: do you really care for the wellbeing of your class? That the Government vaccine mandate has fuelled the fires of the lunatic fringe was obvious by the recent Wellington march. The original lead was the Freedom and Rights Coalition founded by Destiny Church. I have difficulty taking Brian Tamaki seriously at any level and was pleased to see

his iwi telling him his actions were putting Māori lives at risk and that Tamaki should stick with science. The rest of the protesters were a real ragtag. Q Anon, the American group that believe a group of satanic worshipping elite pedophiles was running both the country and the media, were there, as was a pro-Trump group, white supremacists and the gangs. A couple interviewed on television told me they were protesting against 1080. There were anti-1080 posters in the crowd. One person covered in tattoos “didn’t like needles”. With the protest I was surprised at police inaction. Their message to youth is if you want to be above the law, join a gang. Another lady told me Psalm 91 would protect her. The Psalm

told me that God would save me from pestilence by covering me with his feathers. I’m not holding my breath. God was in America too where you had the ‘I don’t need a vaccine because God will protect me’ banner. One could respectfully counter with the question: why do you need a gun then? In NZ you’ve had expensive advertisements from previous Youth for Christ and Family First advocate Bob McCroskrie running a ‘don’t divide us’ petition. He’s opposed to the Government’s ‘no jab, no job’ policy. I totally support it. On the saner side, Kiss frontman Gene Simmons described antivaxxers as “the enemy” and “delusional”. He has a way with words. I recently did a tweet suggesting those without vaccinations should pay for their own hospital care. I still hold that view and notice that Austria and Singapore are doing just that My position, simply put, is that there is a mass of rational material telling you why you should be vaccinated. There are considerable emotive, unscientific and irrational arguments as to why you shouldn’t. I’m sticking with rational science and getting the jab. After all, it’s just a little prick.

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

One hundred and not out From the Ridge

Steve Wyn-Harris

HELLO My Dearie by Cicely Debenham and Bertram Wallis was the first song to be broadcast over radio, or the wireless as it was known for a long time here in New Zealand. I’ve listened to it and although it isn’t going onto my Spotify list, it was a song for its time. The DJ was Professor Robert Jack who did NZ’s first radio broadcast out of Otago University 100 years ago last week. He was a physics professor at the university and constructed the first radio transmitter in this country and did that historic broadcast on November 17, 1921. For almost everyone, this momentous event passed unnoticed, but there were a few people listening in. They were early amateur enthusiasts who had been listening to morse code broadcasts which were transmitted as radio waves, so they heard that first broadcast. Someone up in Auckland tuned

in, so it must have been a decent signal and closer to home were siblings Frank and Brenda Bell who farmed near Palmerston on a farm called Shag Station. Brenda became NZ’s first female amateur radio operator and later worked in professional radio as a writer and broadcaster for Dunedin station 4YA. Jack continued his broadcasts and set up the country’s first radio station, Radio Dunedin, which still exists today. It’s the fiftholdest station in the world, the oldest outside of the US and beat the BBC by five weeks. Last week I interviewed on my own radio show Toitū Otago Settlers Museum curator Peter Read. The museum houses that first transmitter that Jack used for his broadcast. If it were cranked up again, the radios we have now would still be able to pick up its am signal without any difficulty. Read described the apparatus to my listeners, which is housed in a glass case in the museum. We take radio for granted now but its ability to inform, entertain and connect communities meant it took off as a medium and by the 1930s; many households would boast a wireless that people would sit around to hear what was happening in the big wide world in real-time. Despite the advent of the

internet and social media, which has disrupted all forms of media, radio continues to hold its place as an important part of the media landscape. It has many advantages and remains relevant. Its immediacy means it can transmit information in a disaster when other forms of communication cannot. This has happened in recent earthquakes, power cuts and will become important in the months ahead as the pandemic finally catches up with us and local communities will want to be informed in realtime about what is happening around them. It has shown its adaptability to innovative technologies and now with apps like iHeart radio, radio stations can be listened to on any device connected to the internet anywhere in the world. It is local, interactive, trusted and runs 24 hours a day for seven days a week. I’ve always loved radio. There isn’t a day I don’t listen to it. Jane and I wake up to it and fall asleep listening in. I was approached over 20 years ago by the owners of the local station Central FM to do a rural radio show because I was a rural columnist. I pointed out that didn’t make me a journalist or a broadcaster, but they reckoned

HISTORY: The radio equipment University of Otago Professor Robert Jack used to transmit New Zealand’s first radio broadcast a century ago, on November 17, 1921. Photo: Toitū Otago Settlers Museum

I was the only person they could think of. They wanted to call the show Let’s talk Farming, which I thought was a bit dodgy so suggested The Cockies Hour, which it has been ever since. Those early shows driven by some fear and ineptitude were average, but performance has improved over time hopefully. Early last year, my now business partner and I bought the radio station business and ran straight into covid-19, with half the business being the retailers having to stop their advertising as they weren’t operating. However, the other half were rural and continued on as they

needed to tell their customers that they were still operating, but under these new conditions which we are now all accustomed to. We are now back in a good position and able to service the communities of Central Hawke’s Bay and the Tararua District with up-to-date and relevant information as we head into these uncertain times. All thanks to Professor Jack and those early pioneers of radio.

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

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GATEKEEPER: Keith Woodford says when it comes to the ETS, the Government both plays the game and sets the rules, with the ability to change the rules as the game proceeds.

New twists to carbon farming The Braided Trail

Keith Woodford

EACH time I write about carbon farming, I think it will be the last time I do so for quite some time. But then something new comes up and there is a new twist to be explored. Right now, there are two new twists, potentially pulling in different directions. First, just prior to the COP26 talk-fest in Glasgow, Climate Change Minister James Shaw and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern issued a joint press release stating that New Zealand will increase the carbon targets to be achieved by 2030. The specifics are more than a little obscure, but the increase is going to be considerable. The changes are made more complex by changes in the accounting methods. Here, I am talking about carbon accounting, not dollar accounting. Sometimes the Government talks about gross emissions that do not include forestry offsets. Sometimes the Government talks about net emissions after allowing for offsets. And sometimes the Government compares different time periods using what is called ‘gross-net’, which gets even more confusing. For example, when we compare the present and future to the past, using 1990 and 2005 baselines, we use net (after forestry offsets) for the present and future, compared to gross emissions (with no offsets) for the past. It might seem challenging to add even more accounting complexity, but the Government is now achieving this, albeit with good reason, by shifting from

end-point emissions, for example as at 2030, to now looking at average emissions over a carbonbudgeting period, for example 2026-2030. On a like-for-like basis, the new targets for 2030 appear to be a 41% reduction in net emissions relative to the gross emissions in 2005, whereas previously the headline figure was 30%. That is a big step up. The targets are just the start. The specifics of how we are going to get first to the end of the 20222025 budgeting period and then, from 2026 through to 2030, still have to be worked through. That is a task for the Government and its officials between now and sometime in 2022. One thing that Shaw has made explicit is that the new targets are sufficiently demanding that we will have to buy credits from overseas. Prior to 2015, it belonged to an international carbontrading system linked to the Kyoto Protocol, but that turned into an international rort and eventually we stepped away. Based on outcomes from the COP26 conference, there will need to be lots more ‘blah blah blah’ and international head-banging to get to a new international system. Shaw says that we will have to buy about 100 million credits by 2030. These will not come cheap. It doesn’t matter what it actually costs an overseas country to make the savings, they will sell those credits at whatever they can get on the international market. If carbon credits rise to $100 on international markets, which many see as likely, then that would be $10 billion for 100m credits. One of the big questions to be debated in NZ is if we are going to use overseas funds to buy the credits, then would it not be better to get them through forestry offsets? Does this mean that we need even more forestry offsets than previously? The second twist is that the

Ministry for the Environment (MfE) currently has a discussion paper out for comment that includes the statement that we may end up with more forestry offsets than the Government considers to be desirable. The Government wants a major contribution to the targets to come from emissions reductions and not just from offsets. Without being explicit, the MfE paper is acknowledging that the carbon price needed to drive forestry offsets is much less than the carbon price needed to reduce emission behaviours. For example, and as I have previously pointed out in various articles, a carbon price of $100 could totally blow away sheep and beef farming, whereas the same price only puts about 24 cents per litre onto the price of petrol.

MfE is smart enough to know that whatever they do there are likely to be unintended consequences. That is part of the reason why they are seeking submissions from anyone who wishes to do so.

It is a great pity that a government official did not work this out way back in about 2008 when the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) was first introduced, or even as recently as two years ago when I and others started looking again at land-use change from sheep and beef to carbon forestry. The MfE discussion document was published on October 13, but I missed its publication at

the time. It is 130 pages and only a small proportion relates to forestry. But there is a real kick within it. The questions asked by the MfE include how can the ETS be modified to lessen the desirability of forestry offsets being the main way that we meet our targets, rather than through emission reductions. They come up with several alternatives, drawing on advice from the Climate Change Commission. MfE says the options include: • reducing demand by limiting how many forestry units non-forestry participants can surrender; • requiring emitters to pay an additional fee when surrendering forestry units; • reducing the rate at which units can be earned by exotic forest; and • limiting the overall area of forest that can be registered in the NZ ETS each year, or otherwise amending the eligibility criteria. MfE then asks “what are your views on the options presented above to constrain forestry inside the NZ ETS? What does the Government need to consider when assessing options? What unintended consequences do we need to consider to ensure we do not unnecessarily restrict forest planting?” All of this illustrates a point I have made many times. When it comes to the ETS, the Government both plays the game and sets the rules, with the ability to change the rules as the game proceeds. But before throwing away one’s bat in total frustration, it is important to remember that the ETS is the key game in town once we get through covid and can focus on other things. Also, a lot more carbon forestry is going to be needed. And the Government cannot afford to destroy the economics of carbon farming if it is to have a functioning ETS.

MfE is smart enough to know that whatever they do there are likely to be unintended consequences. That is part of the reason why they are seeking submissions from anyone who wishes to do so. Alas, the closing date for formal submissions is November 24. Most of the submissions will be from groups who have their own barrow to push and are already well organised. I would not expect much dispassionate analysis of unintended consequences. One particular group that has clearly enunciated its position is Beef + Lamb NZ (B+LNZ), representing the beef and sheep industries. B+LNZ argues that carbon forestry needs to be brought to heel right now, given the risk it poses to the beef and sheep industries. However, this particular perspective does not necessarily align with the thoughts of many B+LNZ members. Sheep and beef farmers are increasingly aware that their farms have had massive increases in value this year driven by demand from people who want to convert the land into forests. So, farmers are increasingly torn between, on the one-hand, wanting to protect sheep and beef farming, but also seeking the dollar gold from carbon farming on at least part of their land, or simply from land-asset capital gain. This simply illustrates that almost nothing is simple when it comes to climate change, the ETS and forestry. It is going to be quite some journey.

Your View Keith Woodford was Professor of Farm Management and Agribusiness at Lincoln University for 15 years through to 2015. He is now Principal Consultant at AgriFood Systems Ltd. He can be contacted at kbwoodford@ gmail.com Previous articles can be found at https://keithwoodford. wordpress.com

Lower Kaimai 2731 State Highway 29 Auction

Large self-contained dairy An exciting opportunity presents itself with this large Bay of Plenty dairy farm of 363 ha property in five titles. This property has a mix of gentle rolling to rolling contour with some steeper contour of which 12 ha has been retired and planted in natives and a further 24 ha of Pine. The dairy platform is approximately 230 ha, milking 575 cows with a six year production average of 198,083 kgMS with all young stock on farm. Farm building structures are very good and include a 50 bail rotary cowshed, in-shed meal and molasses system, two herd homes, seven bay implement shed, eight bay calf shed, two bay round calf shed, old converted woolshed with covered calf pens attached, a separate chemical shed and two 220 tonne concrete bunkers. This dairy farm is well developed and is a great investment proposition in a generally summer safe rainfall area, with quality farm infrastructure future capital expenses are minimal.

Putaruru 29 Spains Road

Auction 1.00pm, Thu 9th Dec, 2021, (unless sold prior), Morrinsville Property Brokers, 78 Studholme Street, Morrinsville 3300 View Wed 24 Nov 11.00 - 12.00pm Wed 1 Dec 11.00 - 12.00pm Web pb.co.nz/MAR93444 Ian Morgan M 027 492 5878

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Taumarunui 331 Burnand Road Tender

Location, water and quality dairy soils 131 ha dairy unit located minutes from Putaruru in two titles. This property is currently farmed as a 168 ha dairy farm with a 36 ha lease block, milking 420 cows producing 210,000 kgMS year on year. 80 paddocks reticulated with an abundance of excellent water and a consistent fertiliser history and strong healthy pastures. 28 ASHB with in-shed meal feeders and great supporting infrastructure. This property has two homes providing excellent accommodation.

Burnand beauty Tender closes 2.00pm, Wed 8th Dec, 2021 (unless sold prior), Farmlands, 9/13 Rolfe Way, Putaruru View Fri 26 Nov 11.00 - 12.00pm Fri 3 Dec 11.00 - 12.00pm Web pb.co.nz/MAR96877

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

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This is an immaculately presented 40 ha farm with fantastic contour. The property stretches from flats to easy rolling hills with some medium hill and steeper areas. The property is good enough to be used for maize and silage production, or fattening cattle as it is now. It is all clean country with minimal weeds. The current owners fatten cattle and winter lambs, but the options could be endless. It could be a particularly nice equine property with its free draining soils. The property is well supported with spring water that is reticulated, a solid fertiliser history and great shade and shelter offered by established trees. The four bedroom G.J Gardener home was built in 2012.

For Sale From $1,750,000 + GST (if any) View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/TUR82219

Katie Walker M 027 757 7477

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Waitara 92 Ngatimaru Road

Ongaonga 927 Blackburn Road Tender

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Premium Tikorangi dairy farm - 119 ha A great opportunity to purchase an outstanding farm in the renowned and sought-after Tikorangi district, only 18 km from central New Plymouth and 2 km from Waitara. Excellent pasture harvest delivering the five year average of 272,000 kgMS from 420 cows. The superior infrastructure includes a 400-cow 'Cowhouse' and silage bunkers, a 44 bail automated shed including in-shed feed system and a modern four bedroom A1 home, built in 2012. This property, of flat to slightly undulating contour, is held in six titles.

A beauty on Blackburn Tender closes 4.00pm, Thu 9th Dec, 2021 (unless sold prior), at Property Brokers, 227 Devon Street East, New Plymouth View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/NPR99097

This 182 ha property has it all. Currently set up as a beef and dairy support unit. Includes 40 ha of high performing flats, the balance easy to medium hill country. 30 ha in superb remnant bush and pine trees. Excellent infrastructure with a spring fed dam with troughs to all paddocks. Woolshed, sheep and cattle yards and two good sized hay barns and all-weather road access. Also includes a four bedroom dwelling. Located in a traditionally higher rainfall area this property is worth a visit. Call Chris or Paul for a viewing or come to one of our open days.

Greg O'Byrne M 027 598 3000

Tender closes 4.00pm, Thu 16th Dec, 2021, Property Brokers, 2 Thackeray Street, Napier View Thu 25 Nov 1.00 - 3.00pm Thu 2 Dec 1.00 - 3.00pm Web pb.co.nz/HVR99601

Paul Evans M 027 533 3314 Chris Heenan M 027 599 3527

Central Hawke's Bay 71 Pukeora Scenic Road Tender

Islington 260 ha (STS) finishing property virtually on the town boundary of Waipukurau. An easy 40 min commute north to Hastings. Flat - easy contour with some steeper limestone hills overlooking the township that provide for some outstanding house sites. Excellent water from permanent limestone springs. English specimen trees along a central lane through the property provide for a park like setting. The character three bedroom homestead that can be purchased separately is set in a mature country garden. The property is presently being utilized as a cattle finishing unit. Islington is being offered to the market for the first time in three generations. Purchasing options include:260 ha (STS) Entire property 258 ha (STS) Bareland 2 ha (STS) Homestead Property Brokers Ltd Licensed REAA 2008 | pb.co.nz

Tender closes 2.00pm, Thu 9th Dec, 2021, Property Brokers, 98 Ruataniwha Street, Waipukurau View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/WR88370

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Papatawa 805 Valley Road Tender

Nakura, Rosedale and Victoria - 311.85 ha Located in the Papatawa farming district being 12 km from the Woodville township, under 25 km to Pahiatua and Dannevirke and 40 km to Palmerston North. All three properties share common boundaries and feature favourable contour with large portions of flats to cultivatable hill with some small areas of medium hill and steeper sidlings. A good level of improvements with multiple implements shed, numerous storage sheds, two woolsheds with yards cattle yards and reticulated water throughout. Nakura features a larger three bedroom brick and tile home with Rosedale complemented by a four bedroom weatherboard home providing ample accommodation options. Available individually or a combination of any, these properties in this ideal location are sure to cater to sheep, beef, dairy grazing or a summersafe add-on to an existing business. Nakura - 95.55 ha House and Woolshed, Victoria -117.61 ha, Rosedale - 98.69 ha House and Woolshed.

Tender closes 2.00pm, Thu 9th Dec, 2021, to be submitted to Property Brokers, 129 Main Street, Pahiatua View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/PR96061

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Hakataramea 860 McHenrys Road

Karamea 4112 Karamea Highway

Foveran Station

Dairy opportunity in stunning location

Foveran Station is situated in the Hakataramea Valley, South Canterbury, New Zealand. Expansive and unique best describes Foveran and its sister "The Brothers" with 2,645 ha ranging from the valley floor to the upper foothills. The property is currently run as a renowned deer breeding, stud property and game park. It is also complimented with merino fine wool and beef production providing enviable scope and balance. Tailored with over 290 ha of spray irrigation with the ability to store over 500,000m3, this property is set to provide the discerning buyer security in production and performance with multiple income streams.

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For Sale By Negotiation + GST (if any) View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/OMR90908

Ross Robertson M 021 023 27220 Barry Meikle M 027 436 5131 John McCone M 027 221 9133

For Sale $3,100,000 Wedged between the Tasman Sea and the forested mountain View By appointment peaks of the Kahurangi National Park, this mid-scale dairy farm is located near Karamea in the Buller District. The farm features a mix Web pb.co.nz/WER94364 of soil types ranging from free draining sand country, river silts through to heavier low-lying hump and hollowed land. Fully selfcontained dairying operation milking approximately 320 cows with all young stock grazed on the farm. Improvements include a modern 40 ASHB dairy shed with an in-shed meal feeding system Gareth Cox and a 400-cow circular yard. Two implement/calf sheds and a M 021 250 9714 fertiliser bin are adjacent to the dairy shed. Other farm Paul Murray improvements include a large workshop and a standoff pad. M 027 256 9967

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Te Kopuru 455 West Coast Road

Consistency, profitability and production

Located just south west of Dargaville, this very attractive 184.55 hectare (more or less) property is proven with its consistent production averaging 283,744kgMS over the past four years from 500 mixed age herd. Top production for the farm from 504 cows split calving is 293,507kgMS. Excellent infrastructure includes an immaculate 33ASHB cowshed, limestone packed feed storage area, a great array of support buildings and concrete feed pad with capacity for 300 cows. The farm is subdivided into 62 paddocks containing 176 hectares effective with predominantly good strong clean pasture. Complementing this property are the two homes, a three bedroom main homestead with established gardens and a second newly renovated, three bedroom home. It's now time for the new owners to capitalise on their holding with options to purchase as a going concern.

Auction (unless sold prior) 12.30pm, Wed 1 Dec 2021 84 Walton Street, Whangarei View by appointment Catherine Stewart 027 356 5031 catherine.stewart@bayleys.co.nz

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Paengaroa 47 Penderel Road

Potential plus on Penderel

Established kiwifruit orchards are in hot demand in the current market and this property gives the new owner flexibility with a total of 9.9599ha (more or less) over two titles. The orchard itself consists of a total of 6.47can/ha of established well sheltered Hayward kiwifruit on AgBeam structures with 6m x 4m spacings, a good loadout area and water supply. Sitting amongst well established grounds is a sizeable four bedroom home waiting for a new family to realise the potential and add their own mark. Added infrastructure give this property plenty of scope for a home business or for when the teenagers need their own space with the four bay shedding with the bonus of a sleepout. Location with access to staff is becoming ever important in the current climate and this property is well positioned at just 17km to Paengaroa and arterial routes. To be sold plus GST (if any).

Auction (unless sold prior) 1pm, Wed 8 Dec 2021 247 Cameron Road, Tauranga View 2-3pm Thu 25 Nov & Thu 2 Dec or by appointment Snow Williams 027 275 5500 snow.williams@bayleys.co.nz

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Tauwhareparae Arakihi Road (Part Arakihi Station)

223 hectares of hill country at Tolaga Bay Located approximately 20km inland of Tolaga Bay, and 72km north of Gisborne, is 223ha (subject to survey), of medium to steep largely easterly facing East Coast hill country. Being subdivided from a larger station, the property is accessible off the Arakihi Road, approximately 9.5km from Tauwhareparae Road. The land is mostly clear grazing land, with pockets of regenerating native in the gully areas. ATV tracking provides access throughout the property, with dams and streams providing water options. The land largely lends itself to development, with high yielding options such as carbon, better suited to steeper classes of land such as this. An opportunity to benefit from a lucrative scheme, or purchase and continue with one's own preference of land use.

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Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Tue 14 Dec 2021 10 Reads Quay, Gisborne View by appointment Simon Bousfield 027 665 8778 simon.bousfield@bayleys.co.nz Stephen Thomson 027 450 6531 stephen.thomson@bayleys.co.nz BOUSFIELD MACPHERSON LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Pungarehu 152A Pungarehu Road

124 Hectare coastal dairy farm This 124.0954ha (more or less) dairy unit is made up of four titles to include the benefit of a 25 a-side herringbone dairy shed, two relatively large utility sheds which flank the dairy shed and provide storage and calf rearing facilities, double concrete silage bunker with central race access to paddocks either side. A new bridge on the farm was constructed in 2015. The farm is further benefited from two dwellings. The main accommodation contains four bedrooms and the second dwelling consists of a three bedroom cottage. The contour of land is a mixture of flat with a smattering of lahars and the pasture is in good heart. Fertility is outstanding with Olsen P levels ranging from 38 to 57, plenty in the bank on this aspect. Milking 320 cows the property had a 12.9 hectare block added to it this season. The three year average production from the original 111 hectares is 106,650kgMS.

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Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 1pm, Tue 14 Dec 2021 15 Courtenay Street, New Plymouth View by appointment John Blundell 027 240 2827 john.blundell@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY TARANAKI LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Waiotira 169 Neville Road

Wairoa 1637 Ruakituri Road, Ruakituri

Productive and irrigated dairy unit This 219.15ha (more or less) dairy farm is not to be overlooked, with good location, productive pasture and size combined to offer a myriad of options only 35km south west of Whangarei. The farm for the past two seasons has been operating on a OAD system, split calving and milking 520 cows producing a three-year average of 167,396kgMS and 174,280kgMS from the 2018/2019 season. The farm is subdivided into 110 paddocks which are accessed by an upgraded central race system, making farm management a breeze. The farm is supported by an array of wellappointed farm buildings and accommodation is well catered for with three dwellings. Seldom do dairy farms with immaculate infrastructure and good land management come to the market.

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Auction (unless sold prior) 10.30am, Wed 1 Dec 2021 84 Walton Street, Whangarei View by appointment Catherine Stewart 027 356 5031 catherine.stewart@bayleys.co.nz Todd Skudder 027 439 1235 todd.skudder@bayleys.co.nz MACKYS REAL ESTATE LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

420 hectares of strong hill country Located only 85 kilometres west of Gisborne, a subdivision of approximately 411 hectares (subject to survey) of Crosshills Station, up the renowned Ruakituri valley, is the opportunity to purchase strong hill country in a good rainfall environment. Carrying approximately 10 stock units per hectare these ash and mudstone soils provide the foundation for excellent growth rates. As a sheep and beef breeding block, this property has the climate, scope, and fertility to grow your business. Vendors have purchased elsewhere, so our instructions are clear. Call now to view.

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Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 4pm, Wed 15 Dec 2021 17 Napier Road, Havelock North View 9-10am Tue 23 Nov or by appointment Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz Stephen Thomson 027 450 6531 stephen.thomson@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 BOUSFIELD MACPHERSON LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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HIKAWERA - GREAT LOCATION, POTENTIAL AND OPTIONS- 588HA 7 Hikawera Road, Hinakura, South Wairarapa Hikawera comes to the market after being tightly held in the vendors family for three generations and over 100 years. 588ha (STFS) is available for sale in four titles, giving buyers/buying groups, a number of purchase options. The land straddles both Hikawera Rd and Hinakura Rd and is very handily located, just 15minutes east of Martinborough. The contour is mainly medium hill country, parts steeper with the added bonus of around 40ha of cultivatable land close to Hinakura Rd and 24ha of well managed mature forest and 14ha of Post -89 ETS registered areas adding another dimension to the asset. Improvements include a four bedroom character homestead, three bedroom cottage and a single bedroom whare, two 4 stand woolsheds (one with covered yards), cattle yards, airstrip and good sized implement shed/workshop/stables complex. A resilient water supply (dam reticulated), regular fertiliser programme, good baseline of improvements, forest assets and potential to further develop the property are key attributes of Hikawera. Add it to your existing business, buy stand alone and develop, rent / sell off the houses, purchase in a group/syndicate for split up later, the options are many and varied on Historic Hikawera. Settlement 1st June 2022, detailed property report available. Tender Closes 4pm, Thu 2 Dec 2021. Address for Tenders: NZR, Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810, or email by arrangement.

ENTRY LEVEL DAIRY FARM 180 Smiths Road, RD1, Ohakune There are only a few dairy units in the reliable farming district of Ruapehu and this fully self-contained 103 Ha (STS) farm is a great example. Running 230 cows, largely grass based grazing, wintered on policy, aided by supplements through the in-shed feeding system along with nitrogen usage and a strong fertiliser history. 3-year production average of 79,000 kgMS off the highly regarded, quality Ohakune silt loam. Infrastructure includes a 20 AS HB shed, 6 Bay implement shed, 250 cow feed pad, calf rearing facility, 1 million litre bladder effluent storage along with a comfortable 4- bedroom home.

103.80 hectares Viewing by Appointment

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MANUITI-GENUINE EASY HILL COUNTRY 314 Pipiriki Raetihi Road, Raetihi This extremely attractive medium hill country farm has a wellbalanced contour with ample north facing medium hills, large pockets of easy sheltered basins and an abundance of quality natural water. Infrastructure consists of a character 3-bedroom Villa next to a running stream full of fresh water koura and trout, 3 bay barn with workshop, near new 3 bay versatile garage, 4 stand woolshed with covered yards (1000NP), cattle yards with all-weather loadout. 4 sets of satellite sheep yards strategically placed around the farm and an extensive network of tracking helps with ease of management.

432.31 hectares By Appointment

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ROBUST MANAWATU HILL COUNTRY WITH DIVERSITY- 335 HECTARES 793 Peep O’Day Road, Kimbolton Situated 22km North of Kimbolton Village and only 50km from the Feilding, this property is considered a safe bet. Very medium hills in the main, with around 30 hectares classed as of a cultivatable nature, the owners run it as a two tooth block, as part of a larger business. Currently used for breeding with a weaning draft, tweaking the system could see it finishing more lambs. Well fenced with predominately conventional fences, stock movement is simplified with a lane to the middle of the property and well maintained tracks. The regular fertiliser history has been of predominately Di-Calcic blends. The reliability of the water has been a hallmark, with plentiful well maintained dams and a spring fed stream running through the property. A fully tended 19.5 hectare stand of a close to profit pine plantation will add diversity to your investment. Infrastructure includes a 4 std woolshed with 1400NP, implement shed, air strip with a 70t bin and the large, older home enjoying a wide outlook over the property.

335.91 hectares Video on website

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Tender Closes 11am, Wed 8 Dec 2021, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding.

240A & B Strange Rd

121 hectares

Te Aroha • • • • • • • • • • • •

121 hectares in 2 titles - + 35 ha lease Milking 360 cows carrying all young stock Producing 131,442 ms 20/21 32 ASHB - In line feeding system 77 paddocks well raced Reid slide pulsators - 2 x 12 tonne silos 2 implement sheds - 2 calf sheds 90 tonne manure bin plus storage sheds Making 5 ha of maize silage 14-15 ha of grass silage/wrapped baleage 1200 equivalent bales of hay 5 homes

For Sale Sale By Deadline 30th November 4pm ___________________________________ View Open Day 24th Nov 11am ___________________________________ Agent Dave Young 0274 579 060 LJ Hooker Morrinsville (07) 889 8015 Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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63 Harbottle Road

104.9 ha

Morrinsville Here's What You're Waiting For 105 ha more or less dairy farm approximately 8kms Hamilton side of Morrinsville up a short no exit road. Milking 330 cows for 114,000 m/s through 24 aside HB in shed PK & Molasses feeder. 50mm main and 32mm around the farm service the troughs. Very well raced and fenced with hot wire and Barberry hedges. Heaps of shedding complement the property. Three bedroom brick home with single mans sleep out. Possible 26 ha lease available for 3 years. Walk in and carry on farming. This farm has eye appeal. The Vendors are ready for an auction on 17th December (Unless sold prior).

Auction 17th Dec 1pm (Unless sold prior) ___________________________________ View Wed 24th Nov 11am ___________________________________ Agent Terry Court 021 754 233

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OPEN DAY

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Open Day: Thursday, 25 November - 11.00am - 1.00pm

A very well located versatile property, being part of an existing dairy unit, situated on the fringe of Ohaupo township, in the sought-after region of Central Waikato. • • • • •

75 Ryburn Road, Ohaupo 44.60 hectares - flat to gentle rolling contour soil types include a mix of clay & silt loam plus peat loam ease of management and access assisted by a central race and good subdivision currently being farmed as a dairy unit but ideally suited also for maize growing, dairy support, beef finishing or large scale calf-rearing

• 19 a/s farm dairy with in-shed feed system; effluent ponds drop tested and approved for current land use • good water supply from 2 bores on the property • 2 x good 4-bay implement sheds, 1 with workshop incorporated • 1 x 4 brm brick dwelling with separate double garage • 9 km from Hamilton Airport

An opportunity to acquire a multi-use property in a location with great options for schooling, nearby services, shops & an event centre in the adjoining village of Ohaupo.

Ph Brian Peacocke 021 373 113 / TradeMe search # R1401

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Shannon 0A Pretoria Road 27.1387 ha This ready to harvest, or wait a few years, block of trees is located only a short drive from Shannon. With several mills within 120km, Wellington Port and Palmerston North rail-hub close by this makes great first time buying. Viewing is strictly by appointment so call today to arrange a viewing and to get further information. For Sale Price by Negotiation View by Appointment harcourts.co.nz/FG7173 Andrew Whitely M 027 272 1535 Team Manawatu Realty Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Otorohanga 156 Owaikura Road Location is key with this 120 hectare (subject to survey) grazing block located North of Otorohanga, while still being handy to both Te Awamutu and Pirongia. Currently wintering 250 dairy grazers, and 200 ewes this extremely well set up farm is a “must view” this spring. Fenced into 50 paddocks with a central metaled race to the back of the farm. Good balance of contours with ample hay or cropping country. Excellent fertiliser history. Reticulated water to all paddocks. Comfortable, North facing three bedroom home with incredible views.

For Sale Tender 8th December 2021 at 1pm (Unless sold prior) View 24 November and 1 December, 11am sharp. harcourts.co.nz/OH9323 Kerry Harty M 027 294 6215 P 07 873 8700 E kjharty@harcourts.co.nz Blue Ribbon Realty Limited Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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CHEVIOT, NORTH CANTERBURY One Tree Hill One Tree Hill is an outstanding 985.6139ha North Canterbury sheep, beef, deer and finishing farm, with the added bonus of future irrigation. The property is well-subdivided with a good balance of contour, and is easily accessible throughout. With existing established forestry, future potential also exists for more expansion of ETS registered forest. Farm infrastructure is impressive including a full range of farm buildings. There are three homes including the homestead. Several purchasing options exist. Opportunities such as this are rare so we recommend your early attention.

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 2.00pm, Thursday 9 December

VIEW By Appointment Only

Peter Crean M 027 434 4002 E pcrean@pggwrightson.co.nz

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‘Karetu’ – Forestry/Carbon Opportunity ‘Karetu’ has long been regarded an outstanding large scale sheep, breeding,and finishing property, located in the outer Broomfield area of North Canterbury. The proposed sale of the ‘Karetu’ hill block, comprising approximately 874 hectares, subject to final survey, provides an out of the ordinary option to purchase a large parcel of land which is understood to have enormous potential for forestry and carbon farming. The block is expansive in nature with rolling to medium hill to steeper areas. With its handy location, good rainfall and accessibility this is indeed a rare opportunity.

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 2.00pm, 30 November

VIEW By Appointment Only

Peter Crean M 027 434 4002 E pcrean@pggwrightson.co.nz Mark Clyne M 027 531 2964 E mark.clyne@pggwrightson.co.nz

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OTAIO, SOUTH CANTERBURY Sodwall Rd Perfect Size, Have Your Cake and Eat It Too Whether you are looking for farm ownership or investment this 171ha farm represents the ideal, both in consistent performance and simplicity. With a good standard of infrastructure and a consistent regrassing and fertiliser history there should be no capital costs for the foreseeable future. This flat to easy rolling property is located near the foot of the Hunter Hills which is renowned for its reliable rainfall. Solid consistent performance along with a four year average annual production of 175,000kg MS and farm working expenses of $3.90 this farm could only be described as profitable.

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 1.00pm Wednesday 8 December

VIEW By Appointment Only

Simon Richards M 027 457 0990 E simon.richards@pggwrightson.co.nz

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DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY

Exceptional and Rare Opportunity – 577ha This intensive cropping, fattening and breeding property is the amalgamation of three farms and located in a renowned farming district. ‘Wellwood’ is comprised of 121ha with a four bedroom home, fourstand raised board woolshed with large covered yards, cattle yards and implement sheds. ‘Broadfield’ is 233ha with a four bedroom homestead set amongst oak trees and a three bedroom wooden cottage. ‘Highfield’ is 223ha and acts as the hub with a large implement shed and grain storage facilities. Soils are mainly Claremont and Darnley silt loams. Four purchase options available.

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 1.00pm Tuesday 14 December

VIEW By Appointment Only

Simon Richards M 027 457 0990 E simon.richards@pggwrightson.co.nz

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EXCLUSIVE

AUCTION

TE PUKE, BAY OF PLENTY

TAKAPAU, CENTRAL HAWKE'S BAY

PRICE BY NEGOTIATION Plus GST (if any)

Horticulture Development Lots Buy either one or both adjoining titles.

VIEW By Appointment Only

Lot One is 11.880 hectares (more or less) of gentle land with resource consent in place. The consent allows for both frost protection and irrigation water and will cover both titles. Underground main lines are in place. A computer-controlled pump is housed in a lockable container at the water source.

Graham Beaufill M 027 474 8073 E graham.beaufill@pggwrightson.co.nz

Lot Two is 7.8 hectares (more or less) of the same land type and will benefit from the same water management and delivery system via an easement.

Phil Goldsmith M 027 494 1844 E pgoldsmith@pggwrightson.co.nz

Cropping / Irrigation / Intensive Finishing

Plus GST (if any) 12.00pm, Thursday 9 December

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VIEW By Appointment Only

338.8543ha (837.30 acres) in two titles with a comfortable four-bedroom family home Resource consents to irrigate 138 hectares with two Valley pivots in place 110ha of heavy silt flats for dry land cropping Consents to store 350,000 cubes of water. A 200,000 cube capacity dam in place Well laned and fenced wintering 300 cattle plus a significant number of trade sheep Well watered for stock purposes with a full range of farming infrastructure. Size, water, versatility and production all in one

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AUCTION

Paul Harper M 027 494 4854 E paul.harper@pggwrightson.co.nz Wills Buchanan M 027 462 9716 E wills.buchanan@pggwrightson.co.nz

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

Call Richard or Robert for more information or to arrange a time to view.

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

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

• 2 Houses • Consented for 600 cows Second House

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WILTSHIRE RAMS and ewes, full shedding, meat breed. Simon 022 134 1009. Levin.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – November 22, 2021

Pinnacles Wiltshire 2-Tooth Rams for sale

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Phone 06 346 6230 or 027 416 8188

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ADELONG 17th Annual On Farm Ram Sale A/c Neville & Dianne Greenwood 2pm Wednesday 1st December 2021

2 & 3YR ANG & ANG X STEERS >480kg Contact Ella:

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Ross Dyer 0274 333 381 A Financing Solution For Your Farm E info@rdlfinance.co.nz

Inspection available from 11am on Sale Day

20 Beltex cross two tooth Rams

Our office will be closed from 5pm December 20 and will reopen January 10 for our first publication of 2022

120 Poll Dorset, 40 Suffolk & Texel/Poll Dorset Rams 50 Poll Dorset Rams in catalogue With foot scores from 1.1 to 1.3

The future of weight gains is here! Beltex were only released into New Zealand in 2018. Beltex is a double muscled sheep, built for muscle and

on January 17. Contact Ella on 027 602 4925 or email

Catalogues available from: PGG Wrightson Simon Eddington 027 590 8612 Stu Uren 027 591 0446

high yield percentages. These boys will not disappoint you!

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Carrfields Livestock Callum Dunnett 027 587 0131 Neville Greenwood 027 431 1431 or 03 329 5799

Contact: Amanda Kittow 06 856 5596 027 825 4406 Central Hawke’s Bay

Tim Coombs NZ Wide Studstock Local & Inter-island transportation of your stud rams

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Glendhu Coopworth/Dorset Downs; Ashaig Farm Coopworth 2nd Ram Sale

Monday 29th November 2021 On farm – 147 Kempthorne Road, Heriot Inspection from 12.30pm Sale starts at 3pm The South Island’s largest Coopworth Ram Sale

Your Studstock Specialist E: coombs@vetta.net.nz

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Fraser Fletcher 0274 978 104

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George Fletcher 0276 947 772

• Open Headed, Upstanding sheep • High Fertility – 5 year average 170% • Fine Wool Corriedales – 26.4 micron ram hogget average • Footrot Resistant – ALL rams tested • SIL recorded • Drought Resistant, Long Living and Fence Friendly • Proven Genetics and Quality Assured

WILFIELD CORRIEDALES

1213 West Coast Road, West Melton, Christchurch Contact Robin Wilson • robin.wilfield@xtra.co.nz • 021 158 3866 www.wilfieldsheepstud.co.nz • www.facebook.com/Wilfield sheep stud

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Approximately 65 Coopworth & 40 Dorset Down Rams For Sale

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FARMERS WEEKLY – November 22, 2021

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¼ Beltex / ¾ Suftex 90 2T Rams Tuesday 30th November 2021 1pm, viewing from 11am 68 Pareora Ford Road, Taiko

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LIMOUSIN CATTLE ANNUAL DRAFT a/c Mangatara Limousins, c/- Ag Farming Ltd, Dannevirke at Rongotea Selling Arena, Manawatu Tuesday November 30th 2021 from midday

Contact: NZFL agent Clint Worthington 021 209 2236 Or vendors: Erik & Lyn van der Velden 06 374 1575

Rams selected on hind quarters, eye muscle and high yielding traits

GRANT BLACK 0275477616

Sale will be Livestreamed for viewing and buying. Pre-register on www.mylivestock.co.nz

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Comprising: 40 MA Limo Cows (calves at foot) RWB 15 x 2-year Limo heifers, RWB 10 x 2-year LimoX heifers, RWB 20 x 1-year Limo steers 30 x R2 Limousin Bulls

JONTY HYSLOP (PGW) 027 595 6450

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55TH ANNUAL SALE Glengarry Poll Dorset Rams 2021

Monday, December 6th, 2021 – 1pm Feilding Saleyards, Manchester Street, Feilding

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

130 Rams up for Auction

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

Live streamed on ✓ No shearing ✓ No dipping ✓ No dagging

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Full Shed 2T Rams

Why you should buy a Glengarry ram: • 45 years performance recording • Major emphasis on growth, survival and muscling • All sires DNA tested for footrot and muscling genes • No. 1 ranked Terminal Sire 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010 & 2017 (SIL ACE list) • 550 stud ewes means only the best rams are sold • Four rams in Top 20 2021 SIL Terminal Lamb Growth • 1st Ranked Ram 2019, 2020/21 SIL Terminal Sire Lamb Growth

For ram and semen enquiries contact Ross & Ben Pratt today: Ross 06 323 3827 • RD 5, Feilding Ben 027 2356 577 • RD 2, Kimbolton • benpratt@xtra.co.nz

Waterfields Wiltshires Livestock Advertising? Call Ella: 0800 85 25 80

Callum Stewart 0272 802 688 Maurice Stewart 0272 469 255 Ryan Shannon 027 565 0979

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Anna Martyn • 021 247 2278 • akmartyn@yahoo.com.au

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5th On Farm Lamb Sale

SOUTHDOWNS

Anerley Station Tinui Valley Road Masterton

– Ready when U R

Mataro Wiltshire’s have been breeding for eczema tolerance since 1989.

On the eczema prone hills of Taranaki these Rams are breed tough and ready for any climate.

Wanted to buy – Friesian Beef Cross Heifers

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www.southdownsheep.org.nz

For more information contact: Curtis Lockley 022 412 0660, 06 752 3084

All Ram Breeders are the same... Yeah right!

Paying top prices Spring born 2020 Must have been on property for 6 months and meet Chinese

Ram Sales - ARVIDSON WILTSHIRES Advanced Performance since 1995

No.1 for Facial Eczema since 2006 (Ramguard™ Test at 0.53)

(approx 20km from Tinui Village)

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FARMERS WEEKLY – November 22, 2021

Tuesday 7th December 11.30am start Comprising approx 6000 lambs: • 2000 White face Romney C/O Lambs • 2000 Black face M/S Lambs • 2000 White face Romney Ewe lambs - Capital Stock • (Meldrum Romney stud) breeding All lambs undrafted and antibiotic free. Craig Nelson 021 457 127 Vendor: Hamish Johnson 06 372 6879

Auctions at: Te Kuiti Saleyards Wednesday,1st December, 2021 – 1pm Stortford Lodge Wednesday, 8th December, 2021 – 2pm Online bidding with www.bidr.co.nz register early (see catalogue for details)

• High Fertility Meat Breed Flock • High Meat Yield (low input trial) • Parasite Testing Since 2011 (CarlaTM Saliva Test) • Hoof Scoring All Ewes and Rams (roll over crate visual score) eBook: https://www.pivotdesign.co.nz/ebooks/2021/arvidson/ Pdf: https://www.pivotdesign.co.nz/ebooks/2021/arvidson/files/downloads/ Arvidson Wiltshires Ram catalogue eBook.pdf Ram numbers 1-200 go to Stortford Lodge.

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Phone David 027 277 1556 or 09 296 0597 Or your stock agent

Export Protocols.

Minimum mated weight 260kg+ Delivery date

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Contact: Sharon Browne

Give Ella a bell: 0800 85 25 80

Ph: 07 843 7577 or 027 490 6146

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To see these top breeders, visit www.fegold.co.nz

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December/January

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2020 Born’s Dec/January Delivery The strategy of drenching to control parasites is failing. Incorporate WormFEC Gold genetics for long term solution and higher performance.

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Beef and Lamb Low Input Progeny Test proves the worth of WormFEC Gold rams. Top rams have high performance, less dags and less need for drenching.

14TH ANNUAL

ON FARM RAM SALE 110 South Suffolks 40 Poll Dorsets up for Auction

Romani Coopworths • Eye muscle scanned • SIL Recorded • All Sires are DNA foot scored

• Selected for top growth and muscling, less dags, parasite tolerance, minimal drench. Not dipped since 2013. • Romani commercial hoggets winner of 2017 NZ Ewe Hogget Competition Large Flock Award. 2018 winner Coopworth section

• Romani flock finalist for 2017 NZ Sheep Industry Awards Maternal Trait Leader Parasite Resistance

Friday 3rd December 2021 Time: 1pm. Viewing from 10am onwards 1529 Ngapaeruru Road, RD3 Dannevirke

• Romani rams are top performers in B+LNZ Genetics Low Input Progeny Test.

Ross Richards, Taumarunui • Phone 07 895 7144 • romani@farmside.co.nz

94568

• Fully SIL recorded under true commercial conditions

Simon Prouting 027 8058501 | prouting@inspire.net.nz Tom Suttor 027 616 4504 Neville Clark 027 595 6537 Callum Dunnet 027 587 0131

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FARMERS WEEKLY – November 22, 2021

Market your dairy herd sales to an audience that counts today.

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FEILDING ELITE RAM & EWE SALES MANFEILD PARK, FEILDING

TUESDAY DECEMBER 14, 2021 - Start time 10.30am BOOK HARDY MEAT BRED 2 TOOTH RAMS NOW!

11 27 10 6 4 2 8

HARDY low input EASY CARE MEAT SHEEP NO FLY STRIKE, NO DAGGING, NO SHEARING, NO VACCINES, NO DIPPING

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NO DRENCHING SINCE 1989

Sharing shed used for festival

Reduced work, high fertility, hardy, fast growing lambs. Stud established 1987 Certified BioGro (215) Organic since 1989. Deliver all over NZ

Phone Tim & Helen Gow 03 225 5283 www.organic-rams.co.nz • Email: tim@organic-rams.co.nz 3th annual

Festival 2021

Tuesday 15 February, 1pm

2-4 January 2022

Waiareka Saleyards

PGG Wrightson in conjunction with Hazlett Livestock will offer the following: Approx: • 150 Suffolk Ewes • 400 Suff/tex Ewes

www.revitalize.nz Tickets at https://www.humanitix.com/

2576 Clifden Blackmount Rd, between Manapouri and Tuatapere

Tuesday 22 February, 1pm

https://southlandnz.com/event/revitalize

This is the complete ewe dispersal for Punchbowl Genetics, a top selection of SIL recorded sheep. A genuine opportunity to purchase stud sheep with a long history in the sheep industry. For more information contact: Callum McDonald (PGW) 027 433 6443 Geoff Wright (Hazlett) 027 462 0131 Doug Brown (Vendor) 027 222 3809

Helping grow the country

MANU POLL DORSET

Tuesday 23rd November 2021 12.00pm Goldstream Poll Dorset & Suffolk Ram Sale 2.00pm Omagh Suffolk Stud Annual Ram Sale Wednesday 24th November 2021 1.30pm Hermiston Annual Ram Sale Thursday 25th November 2021 1.00pm Rolling Rock Annual Ram Sale 2.00pm Ipurua Wiltshire & Waterfields Wiltshire Ram Friday 26th November 2021 12.30pm Canterbury A&P Elite Ram and Ewe Sale Monday 29th November 2021 1.00pm Manu Poll Dorset Ram Sale 3.00pm Glendhu Coopworth/Dorset Downs, Ashaig Farm Coopworth 2nd Ram Sale Tuesday 30th November 2021 1.00pm BA&SC Robertson Merrydowns Romney and Southdown Ram Sale

Key: Dairy

SOUTHERN SHEEP SHEDDING - 1ST ANNUAL RAM SALE Regular Livestream coverage of five North Island Saleyards - head to bidr.co.nz to find out more.

Photos on FB @Manupolldorset Catalogue & photos on bidr®

Tuesday 25th January 2022 Gore Showgrounds, 1pm Sale will also be livestreamed via bidr® Willow Glen and Enfield Genetics will offer fully SIL recorded 2th rams. Approx: •2 Purebred Aussie White rams • 30 ½ Aussie White , ½ Wiltshire rams •40 Wiltshire rams •Aussie White semen These rams will offer potential purchasers the opportunity to purchase long term (10+ years) performance recorded shedding genetics. Open days will be held on farms for the two vendors on the 13th January, 2022 from 1-4pm. Come along and check out these two farming operations, and see what these sheep can offer. Barry Smith - Willowglen Farms Hillview 288 Ranfurly - Patearoa Road, Ranfurly, Central Otago Grant Keen - Enfield Genetics 243 Hishon Road, South Hillend, Winton, Southland

Monday 29th November 1pm start

Contact: Alex Clements 09 433 5871 clements@ubernet.co.nz

Auctioneers:

UPCOMING AUCTIONS

To be held on the property of Alex & Delwyn Clements 201 Drake Road, Purua, Whangarei

All Rams Ovine Brucellosis Accredited All Rams Eye Muscle Scanned

View catalogue online at www.pivotdesign.co.nz under catalogues 2021.

NZ’s Virtual Saleyard

33rd Annual Ram Sale A/C AA & DJ Clements

54 One Shear Poll Dorset Rams

Sale can be viewed LIVE by going on to www.mylivestock.co.nz and click on Live Auction. Follow the instructions to either just watch, or register in advance if you intend to buy.

Rams for the Feilding Sale have been selected on type and performance for typical North Island sheep breeding conditions.

Waiareka Saleyards Approx: • 80 Poll Dorset Ewes • 500 Poll/Texel Ewes

Poll Dorset Rams Southdown Rams + Southdown Ewes Dorset Down Rams + Dorset Down Ewes Texel Rams Suffolk Rams

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Call Ella: 0800 85 25 80

PUNCHBOWL EWE DISPERSAL 2022 PRELIMINARY NOTICE

For more info or request a catalogue or an alternative day to view the sheep, contact:

Annual 2yr sire stag sale Wednesday 8 December 1:30pm at 37 Pukenaua Rd, Taihape • • • •

35 stags with 12mth BVs +26 to +33kg Highest average 12mth BV stag auction in NZ since 2011 Maternal reds selected on temperament and fully guaranteed Transport of two or more stags offered at vendor’s expense Gareth Williams 0275 264 613

• On-line Bidr® bidding system (PGW) available

For further information contact Paul Hughes: 027 446 6309 • www.deerstud.nz

Callum McDonald (PGW) 027 433 6443 Grant Keen (Enfield) 027 428 4450 Barry Smith (Willowglen) 027 432 3438

This sale will be hosted by bidr® www.bidr.co.nz Hybrid Livestreamed Auctions

RAM SALES

Cattle

Sheep

Other

ONGARUE WILTSHIRES RAM SALE Te Kuiti Sale Yards Friday 10th December, 1pm start (in conjunction with Te Kuiti lamb & cattle fair) •55 2th Wiltshire rams •Full shedders •Hill Country bred •Breeding for just over 10 years •Bred on eczema prone country •Ewe flock has good eczema tolerance •All rams brucellosis tested •Big emphasis on sound feet •Glenbrae and Morrison bred Auctioneer notes these rams are bred on the hills and are extremely well grown. All enquires to: Kevin New (OW) 07 878 4758 John Grainger (PGW) 0274 958 150 Nate Lamb (PGW) 0273 265 187

UNDRAFTED ON FARM LAMB SALE Friday 3 December, 1pm Maungawera Valley Partnership Maungawera Valley Road, Wanaka (signposted off the Maungawera corner Wanaka-Lake Hawea Hwy) •2500 Suffolk & Sufftex X MS Lambs (undrafted) •1500 Romney Crypt Lambs (undrafted) All lambs have been scratched, drenched on ewes and B12 at tailing. Male lambs are crypts. A very well bred line of undrafted lambs with a tremendous reputation for shifting and going on to good weights. Grant Ruddenklau 027 443 5093 Craig Knight 027 590 1331

Livestock Advertising? Call Ella: 0800 85 25 80

www.pggwrightson.co.nz/ramsales

John Duffy 027 240 3841

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

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MARKET SNAPSHOT

Market Snapshot brought to you by the AgriHQ analysts.

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Deer

Sheep

Cattle BEEF

SHEEP MEAT

VENISON

Last week

Prior week

Last year

NI Steer (300kg)

6.60

5.45

NI lamb (17kg)

9.50

7.10

NI Stag (60kg)

6.90

5.75

NI Bull (300kg)

6.60

5.40

NI mutton (20kg)

6.75

5.10

SI Stag (60kg)

6.95

5.75

NI Cow (200kg)

5.00

4.00

SI lamb (17kg)

9.20

7.00

SI Steer (300kg)

6.30

5.00

SI mutton (20kg)

6.70

5.15

SI Bull (300kg)

6.15

4.90

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

SI Cow (200kg)

4.90

4.80

3.60

UK CKT lamb leg

13.11

13.01

9.11

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Export markets (NZ$/kg) 9.92

9.54

7.45

US domestic 90CL cow

9.92

8.57

6.39

North Island steer slaughter price

7.0 5.0

5.0

9.0

5.5

9.0

South Island steer slaughter price

South Island lamb slaughter price

8.0 7.0 6.0 5.0

8.0

Oct

Dec

Feb

5-yr ave

7.0

Apr

Jun

2020-21

Aug 2021-22

6.0 5.0

6.0

Oct

Dec 5-yr ave

5.5 5.0

WOOL

4.5

(NZ$/kg)

4.0

$/kg CW

10.0

4.5

South Island stag slaughter price

11.0

6.0

6.5 $/kg CW

8.0

6.0

7.0

Feb

Dec

Feb

Apr

Jun

2020-21

Dairy

Aug 2021-22

Jun

Fertiliser

Aug 2021-22

FERTILISER Prior week

Last year

2.66

2.63

2.23

37 micron ewe

2.10

30 micron lamb

Last week

Prior week

Last year

Urea

955

602

2.15

Super

342

297

DAP

1135

768

Grain

Data provided by

MILK PRICE FUTURES

CANTERBURY FEED WHEAT

$/tonne Sept. 2022

DAIRY FUTURES (US$/T) Nearby contract

Prior week

vs 4 weeks ago

WMP

4135

4150

3885

SMP

3650

3305

5985

Butter

5050

4845

Milk Price

9.00

8.95

8.62

9.94

4.615

8.34

6.65 64.85

420 400

Spark New Zealand Limited

4.455

4.97

4.37

Mercury NZ Limited (NS)

5.94

7.6

5.79

Ryman Healthcare Limited

13.65

15.99

12.46

380

Contact Energy Limited

8.05

11.16

6.6

360

Ebos Group Limited

36.28

37.05

27.51

8.1

8.465

6.74

Infratil Limited

Dec-20

Feb-21

Apr-21

Jun-21

Aug-21

Oct-21

Listed Agri Shares Company

5pm, close of market, Thursday Close

YTD High

YTD Low

ArborGen Holdings Limited

0.27

0.335

0.161

The a2 Milk Company Limited

6.34

12.5

5.39

Comvita Limited

3.6

3.8

3.06

440

Delegat Group Limited

14.22

15.5

12.9

420

Fonterra Shareholders' Fund (NS)

3.72

5.15

3.61

Foley Wines Limited

1.63

2.07

1.45

Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd (NS)

1.22

1.35

0.81

400 380 360

Marlborough Wine Estates Group Limited

0.275

0.65

0.23

New Zealand King Salmon Investments Ltd

1.42

1.72

1.39

340

PGG Wrightson Limited

4.36

4.56

3.11

Rua Bioscience Limited

0.39

0.61

0.37

Sanford Limited (NS)

4.89

5.51

4.3

Scales Corporation Limited

5.5

5.76

4.22

Seeka Limited

5.27

5.68

4.66

Synlait Milk Limited (NS)

3.46

5.24

2.85

3.01

2.85

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

Analyst intel

WEATHER

Overview Some settled and dry weather is on the way this week. Starting with southerlies on Monday and some high pressure coming in from southwest of New Zealand, then showers in the east and for the North Island, although it mostly clears away by the end of the day. High pressure lingers until Thursday, bringing settled weather and while we do see the odd shower for the North Island during this time, these showers are fairly isolated and not widespread. Friday the pinch is on, with the high being pushed out to the east, then at the weekend a broad low moves in from the Tasman and this may bring showers to a few regions.

14-day outlook This week high pressure is mostly in control – we have the odd shower about in some spots, but by and large it will be mainly settled and dry. This weekend we have a broad area of low pressure moving in from the Tasman Sea, which may see some more widespread shower activity, maybe even the risk of something unstable for the North Island, especially Sunday afternoon. The week beyond looks to potentially be periods of lows or fronts intermixed with periods of calm and drier weather – a 50:50 mix and not something to lock down with huge certainty.

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Winds are mostly light for the week ahead due to high pressure hanging around, southeasterlies through the Cook Strait area will be strong for a time on Monday. Wednesday through to Friday sees breezy easterly winds for the upper North Island, East Cape through to Northland. Source: NIWA Data

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7-day rainfall forecast A few sparse showers on Monday for the South Island’s east coast, but they will promptly clear, although showers are more likely for the eastern North Island and showers out west will clear by morning. Conditions are mainly dry till Friday, although we’ll see the odd isolated shower about some inland parts late afternoon and a shower or two may pester the upper North Island, pushing in from the northeast. Friday sees rain for Fiordland too. Showers associated with a broad low moving in from the Tasman push in during the weekend. 0

Highs in the early to mid-20s through to Thursday, typically in the west and inland spots. Coastal areas especially in the east will be a little cooler due to onshore winds. Friday it becomes warm in the east, the weekend starts warm then cools down. Monday next week highs may jump back to the mid-20s.

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Tuesday through to Friday may see isolated showers crop up about some inland areas. By far and wide conditions will be dry, but these showers can be interesting when they form and if you are lucky and in the right spot, may deliver an isolated heavy shower. Saturday and Sunday could potentially see a few heavy showers for the North Island thanks to the incoming low.

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ARM gate milk price forecasts are close to $9/kg after Global Dairy Trade (GDT) prices rose by 1.9% in the second fortnightly November auction. Prices for all six traded dairy commodities rose between 1.3% and 3.5%, including whole milk powder (WMP) and the GDT price index, up 1.9%. The GDT index is a whisker away from its highest level since the madcap days of March 2014. Experienced dairy analyst and Westpac senior agri economist Nathan Penny lifted his prediction by 40c to $8.90 and ASB analyst Nat Keall says there is now serious upside risk to his already bullish $8.75 forecast. Dairy farmers wishing to lock in at these levels can sell milk price futures contracts for September 2022 delivery, currently trading at $9, minus the fees. If you don’t use futures, no need to worry. Keall commented that Fonterra will have hedged its exchange rates and sold forward at today’s high prices, thereby ensuring that it will pay out a milk price better than its previous best of $8.40. It is now four months since a GDT index negative movement as the market reacts to news of a New Zealand spring milk production lower than 2020. Since mid-August the GDT index, a composite measure of the price movements across all dairy commodities, has risen 14.5%. If fully reflected in the reference products used to set Fonterra’s milk price, the index increase has been enough to go from $8 up to $9. In mid-August the NZX milk price forecast, modelled on computer from the price levels on GDT and Dairy Derivatives, was $7.66. It is now $8.78, within a prediction range of $8.68-$9.06. The bottom of the range is calculated with an exchange rate rise of 1.5c and the top with a 5% increase in commodity prices over the rest of the season.

Both scenarios are realistic and certainly not injurious to farmers’ milk payouts. NZX dairy analyst Stuart Davison says cheddar and skim milk powder (SMP) prices, having risen 20% since August, are now at 2014 levels. China’s buyers attended the latest GDT auction in force and took around half of the volume sold. WMP prices on GDT have a gently rising curve through US$4000/tonne across the first four months of 2022, showing that buyers do not expect the market to fall any time soon. Penny says the key reason for his substantial milk price upgrade was a NZ production expectation for the season of minus 1.5% compared with last season.

Demand for dairy remains solid and growing as global milk supplies remain tight and buyers are willing to keep chasing prices. Stuart Davison NZX dairy analyst Winter and spring had been wet or cold, or both, in many parts of the country and milk production was now running 3% behind last season. “October has been weak and reportedly November hasn’t been much better, so it will be difficult for the latter part of the season to catch up, particularly relative to last season’s record level,” Penny said. Elsewhere, European production has been impacted by weather and the United States and China have been constrained by high feed costs and limited availability. None of the analysts can foresee a change in the supply and demand factors driving high milk prices. “Demand for dairy remains solid and growing as global milk supplies remain tight and buyers are willing to keep chasing prices,” Davison said.

SALE YARD WRAP

Store cattle prices hit peak Large volumes of store cattle have been changing farm addresses all over the countryside for the past few months and with some big sales and fairs under the belt it is not surprising to see prices have peaked. Recent sales have shown a plateau in the markets from some record levels set earlier in the spring fair season, though returns at most yards are still above year-ago and 5-year average levels. Supply has also peaked and the general trend towards the end of the year is a reduction in throughput, which will balance out the supply and demand equation again. October westerlies in November have not helped the markets over the past week, but Rural Weather’s Phil Duncan said that they should not create too many more issues going forward. NORTHLAND Wellsford store cattle • Two-year traditional steers, 398-503kg, sold well at $3.47-$3.52/kg • Yearling Angus steers, 359-391kg, firmed to $3.43/kg • Top yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 304kg, pushed to $3.29/kg • Four good Hereford-dairy cows with calves-at-foot realised $1200 per unit Just over 850 cattle were penned at WELLSFORD last Monday and yearlings provided 596 of that tally. Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 373-545kg, held at $3.17-$3.23/ kg. Hereford-Friesian heifers, 337-400kg, traded at a slightly softer $3.16-$3.18/kg. Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers were sought after and 325-346kg lines firmed to $3.36$3.47/kg with 232-306kg up to $3.50-$3.64/kg. Hereford heifers, 355kg, sold well at $3.10/kg. Hereford-Friesian, 203-275kg, realised $3.05-$3.20/kg. Autumn-born weaner steers, 153-198kg, sold to per head budgets at $550-$600 and bulls traded in a tight band of $705-$710. Read more in your LivestockEye. Kaikohe cattle • Good 2-year steers firmed to $3.30-$3.35/kg • A small volume of yearling bulls ranged from $2.85/kg to $3.10/ kg • Quality yearling heifers fetched $2.02/kg to $3.20/kg • Boner cows were on par to the previous sale at $2.10-$2.20/kg Throughput eased to 450 head at KAIKOHE last Wednesday with good pasture levels giving farmers options to hold on to cattle longer, PGG Wrightson agent Vaughan Vujcich reported. The market was strong and there was a good line up of heavy 2-year whiteface, Angus and AngusFriesian heifers which all improved to $3.15-$3.20/kg. Autumn-born yearling Angus-Friesian heifers realised $3.20-$3.30/kg.

AUCKLAND Pukekohe cattle • Weaner whiteface steers traded at $710-$725 • Medium weaner heifers earned $500-$590 • Boner cows achieved $2.12/kg to $2.35/kg, $1030-$1500 Despite a large yarding, the market was firm at PUKEKOHE on Saturday 13th. Prime steers made $3.07/ kg to $3.25/kg, $1750-$2450 and heifers $3.05/kg to $3.16/ kg, $1490-$1840. Medium 15-month steers fetched $3.06$3.16/kg, $960-$1439 and heifers ranged from $2.90/kg to $3.56/kg, $690-$745.

WAIKATO Frankton cattle sale 16.11 • Two-year dairy-beef heifers, 371-381kg, realised $3.11-$3.20/kg • Yearling dairy-beef steers, 290-322kg, fetched $3.32-$3.51/kg • Three prime red Hereford-Friesian bulls, 636kg, pushed to $3.62/ kg PGG Wrightson penned 700 store cattle at FRANKTON last Tuesday. Yearlings made up close to 70% of the offering and buyers were selective in this section. Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 528-579kg, returned $3.28-$3.36/ kg. Thirteen yearling Simmental-Friesian steers, 395kg, sold well at $3.46/kg. Exotic-cross heifers, 304-328kg, managed $3.16-$3.19/kg. Top Hereford-Friesian, 307-320kg, reached $3.22-$3.32/kg with the balance, 281-305kg, at $3.04-$3.18/ kg. Good Hereford bulls, 233-315kg, fetched $810-$990 and Friesian, 345-368kg, held at $2.85-$2.90/kg. Prime cattle numbered 175 head. Top red Hereford-Friesian steers, 645-688kg, firmed to $3.44-$3.46/kg and 475-583kg held at $3.18-$3.30/kg. Hereford-Friesian heifers, 474-565kg, managed $3.17-$3.27/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye. Frankton cattle sale 17.11 • Two-year Hereford-dairy steers, 454kg, held at $3.29/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 249-257kg, pushed to $3.46$3.51/kg • Prime heifers, 446-547kg, fetched $3.17-$3.27/kg Just over 700 cattle were yarded by New Zealand Farmers

Livestock at FRANKTON last Wednesday and store cattle accounted for 75% of that tally. Most 2-year dairy-beef steers, 410-461kg, eased to $3.00-$3.10/kg while HerefordFriesian heifers, 410-446kg, held at $3.00-$3.15/kg. Yearling dairy-beef steers, 292-381kg, held at $3.11-$3.29/ kg. Hereford-Friesian heifers, 270-303kg, firmed to $3.15$3.17/kg. Prime throughput increased to 167 head and steers, 495-679kg, earned $3.20-$3.35/kg. Boner Friesian and Friesian-cross cows, 514-712kg, reached $2.40-$2.59/ kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

KING COUNTRY Te Kuiti cattle • Top store lambs made $140 medium $109-$123 and smaller types $87-$110 • Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 504kg, earned $3.27/kg • Two-year Simmental-cross heifers, 374kg, traded at $3.44/kg • Cows with calves-at-foot achieved $1370 The prime sheep market was mostly steady at TE KUITI last Wednesday. Heavier prime lambs made $175-$200 and the next cut $157-$162 and lighter types $157-$162. Heavy prime ewes sold to $220-$244, medium$171-$187 and light $120. There was around 70 pens of cattle on Friday. Good 2-year Angus steers around 300-464kg made $3.25$3.35/kg. There was only a few pens of 2-year heifers and the best consisted of 377kg Angus at $3.00/kg. An annual consignment of yearling Angus steers realised $3.53/kg to $3.68/kg. Yearling Hereford heifers fetched $2.99-$3.00/kg and Speckle Park-cross, 241kg, $2.89/kg. Taupo cattle fair • Two-year Hereford-Friesian and Red Devon-cross heifers, 332418kg made $2.98-$3.09/kg • Top yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 274kg, achieved $3.73/kg, $1025 • Yearling heifers above $320kg realised $1140-$1200 and lighter types $830-$990 • Weaner Hereford-cross heifers, 122kg, traded at $400 Around 500 cattle were offered at the TAUPO cattle fair last Thursday. Good pasture growth for many encouraged both local and outside buyers and good-quality types met strong demand. Top quality 525kg Hereford-Friesian steers achieved $3.43-$3.44/kg, $1800-$1805. Yearling steers typically sold at $800-$900 with better types above $1000. Friesian weaner bulls, 110-116kg, made $420-$440 and 137156kg Hereford-cross $490-$550.

BAY OF PLENTY Rangiuru cattle and sheep • Yearling Charolais-Hereford steers, 235kg, traded at $3.32/kg • Top yearling Angus bulls, 300kg, collected $3.43/kg • Heavy ewes made $252-$258 The store cattle market held at RANGIURU last Tuesday, bucking the national trend. Most 2-year heifers were Hereford-Friesian, 413-460kg, and earned $2.99-$3.04/kg. Friesian bulls, 353-381kg, were similar and made $2.94$3.04/kg. Hereford-Friesian, 424kg, returned $3.30/kg to take out the top 2-year price. Yearlings continued to sell well. Hereford-Friesian steers, 251kg, fetched $3.71/kg. Top Friesian, 334kg, earned $3.02/kg. Hereford-Friesian heifers mostly traded at $3.26-$3.33/kg except a pen at 250kg which fetched $3.52/kg. Few pens of prime steers and heifers traded below $3.00/kg. Top Hereford-Friesian steers, 688kg, returned $3.52/kg and heifers mostly collected $3.23-$3.27/kg. Lambs sold well at $163-$184 and hoggets less so at $135-$148. Read more in your LivestockEye.

POVERTY BAY Matawhero Sheep • Prime lambs earned $120-$221 • Prime hoggets made $139-$220 • Ewes with lambs-at-foot achieved $96-$116 New season lambs firmed at MATAWHERO last Friday with the best to $121-$131.50, medium $100-$113 and light

$70-$97. Heavy prime ewes sold at $231-$281, medium $192 and light $151-$172. Read more in your LivestockEye.

TARANAKI Taranaki cattle • Better yearling heifers earned $3.00/kg to $3.21/kg • Yearling Ayrshire bulls, 321kg, achieved $3.36/kg, $1080 • Prime steers made $3.29-$3.39/kg • Boner cows realised $2.30-$2.39/kg The market was solid at TARANAKI last Wednesday following a good amount of rain giving pasture levels a boost. Yearling steers made up a third of the yarding today and the dairy-beef average improved 12c/kg to $3.30/kg though good types, 250-334kg, met strong demand to reach $3.50/kg to $3.76/kg. The top end of 2-year steers consisted of lines above 617kg which traded at $3.30-$3.40/kg with the balance mostly $3.10-$3.20/kg. Good 2-year heifers returned $3.00-$3.09/kg and 475kg Charolais-cross, $3.24/ kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

HAWKE’S BAY Stortford Lodge prime sheep • Heavy to very heavy mixed-age ewes held at $190-$247.50 • Most good mixed-age ewes eased to $155-$167 • Light to light-medium mixed-age ewes maintained levels of $100-$140.50 • Two-tooth ewes in light-medium condition managed $120-$145 Ewes increased to 2579 head at STORTFORD LODGE last Monday. The bulk of the mixed-age ewe offering were in medium-good to very good condition. The top end of very good ewes held at $182-$187 though most softened to $174$179.50. Medium to medium-good ewes also eased to $145$154. Five pens of good to heavy spring lambs were offered and heavy ram lambs reached $230. Heavy mixed-sex realised $206 and good types $158-$172.50. Heavy mixedsex hoggets returned $180-$200 and good, $150-$151. Top ewe hoggets fetched $202-$220 with heavy types back to $185. Read more in your LivestockEye Stortford Lodge store cattle and sheep • Top 2-year traditional steers, 490-533kg, made $3.42-$3.45/kg • Two-year Angus and Angus-Hereford heifers, 412-437kg, held at $3.24-$3.35/kg • Yearling Angus and Angus-Hereford steers, 290-300kg, held at $3.85-$3.88/kg • Yearling Angus bulls, 328-340kg, eased to $3.53-$3.61/kg • Medium mixed-sex lambs held at $114-$128 Store cattle prices held or eased at STORTFORD LODGE last Wednesday. Two-year traditional steers eased to $3.37/ kg though dairy-beef firmed slightly to $3.32/kg. Two-year Angus-Friesian heifers, 415-470kg, sold for $3.14-$3.23/ kg. Yearlings softened and most Angus steers sold from $3.60/kg to $3.80/kg. Dairy-beef steers mainly traded at $3.22-$3.32/kg and Charolais-cross heifers reached $3.55/ kg to $3.75/kg. The store lamb market continued to move at a sedate pace. Just 1400 were offered, of which nearly half were a consignment of Romney-whiteface ram lambs which sold for $71-$124. Hoggets with lambs-at-foot returned to levels of $100-$112 all counted. Read more in your LivestockEye.

MANAWATŪ Feilding prime cattle and sheep • Top lambs returned $220 • Best mixed-age ewes made $240 • Three Simmental-cross heifers, 610kg, fetched $3.43/kg • An Angus bull, 580kg, collected $3.60/kg Lambs arrived in good numbers at FEILDING last Monday and were met by a strong market. Most pens traded at $171-$217. Quality hoggets made $216-$230 and one pen managed $245. Ewes were steady for condition and almost a quarter collected $181-$199. Most steers were Friesian-cross, 500-502kg, and traded at $3.09-$3.15/kg and one Murray Grey-Friesian, 520kg, earned $3.23/kg. Heifers

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021

of the same type and 420kg-600kg made $3.00-$3.06/kg. Hereford-Friesian, 487kg, returned $3.21/kg. Boner heifers all traded from $3.00/kg and $3.11/kg. Almost all bulls fetched $3.47-$3.54/kg on a steady market. Boner cows were diverse in returns and the top tier mostly earned $2.40-2.49/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye. Feilding store sale • Five-year and six-year Angus cows with calves-at-foot made $1760-$1770 • Two-year traditional steers, 500-610kg, eased to $3.35-$3.45/kg • Autumn-born weaner Belgian Blue-Simmental steers, 330kg, made $1170 • New season lambs average fell to $99 Around 2000 store cattle were yarded at FEILDING again last Friday. Two-year traditional steers, 400-500kg, came back to $3.25-$3.45/kg, while dairy-beef lines at the same weights were mainly $3.10-$3.30/kg. Two-year Angus heifers, 390-465kg, dropped back to $2.90-$3.10/ kg. Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 330-410kg, were frequently $3.20-$3.40/kg. Some 290-320kg Angus yearling steers were $3.75-$3.80/kg, but other beef lines were usually at the same money as the dairy-beef pens. No heifers had sold at the time of writing. The sheep sale was virtually limited to 4700 new season lambs. The market tracked down, but the lighter lambs, of which there were a lot more, were toughest selling. Heavier lambs were $135-$155, good lines $115-$130, mediums $90-$110, and light lines mainly $70-$85. Read more in your LivestockEye. Rongotea cattle • Three-year Shorthorn bulls, 655kg, earned $3.27/kg • Two-year Angus-cross heifers made up to $3.22/kg • Better yearling steers returned $3.22/kg to $3.35/kg • Top yearling heifers traded at $3.31-$3.37/kg • Better boner cows achieved $1.99-$2.11/kg There was a big yarding of cattle at RONGOTEA last Tuesday, New Zealand Farmers Livestock agent Darryl Harwood reported. Two-year Hereford-Friesian, 435-440kg, made $2.93-$3.00/kg and 380-446kg heifers varied from $2.74/kg to $3.14/kg. Two-year Friesian bulls, 335-425kg, fetched $2.69/kg to $2.82/kg and 435-455kg HerefordFriesian, $2.99-$3.10/kg. Weaner bulls, 108-151kg, realised $465-$590 and heifers $400-$560.

CANTERBURY Canterbury Park cattle and sheep • Two-year Angus steers, 363kg, collected $3.33/kg • Two-year Speckle Park-cross heifers, 313kg, made $3.07/kg • Top prime lambs fetched $195-$227 • Best ewes with lambs-at-foot traded at $142 all counted Prime sheep had a large yarding at CANTERBURY PARK last Tuesday and markets held. Medium lambs traded at $165-$189. Hoggets held and good types made $178$250 while the best collected $285. Heavy ewes returned $244-$290. Store numbers dropped and were purchased selectively. Lambs earned $103-$117 and hoggets $124$149. Better prime Hereford-Friesian steers, 555-753kg, traded at $3.21-$3.31/kg. Charolais-cross heifers, 521530kg, managed $3.31-$3.32/kg. Hereford-Friesian averaged 528-578kg and made $3.19-$3.25/kg. Stores were pushed to Wednesday and the market softened. Wellmarked 2-year Hereford-Friesian steers earned $2.87-$2.98/ kg. Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 240-259kg, returned $2.66-$2.67/kg, 30c/kg behind the last sale. Read more in your LivestockEye. Coalgate cattle and sheep • Prime Murray Grey-cross steers, 595-620kg, fetched $3.27/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 267-278kg, traded at $2.05$2.06/kg • Best store lambs made $134 • Six top prime ewes earned $344 Store cattle met a softer market at COALGATE last Thursday as most groups dropped in returns. All 2-year

Hereford-Friesian steers and heifers weighing 362-386kg traded at $2.95-$2.98/kg. Top Hereford-Friesian steers fetched $2.94-$3.02/kg and lesser types made $2.51-$2.55/ kg. Best prime dairy-beef steers, 548-619kg, returned $3.17-$3.25/kg. Store lamb numbers were low due to a clash with on-farm sales. Heavy pens sold well, and lighter types mostly traded at $80-$106. Top prime lambs largely collected $181-$213 on a steady market. Heavier hoggets held and mostly returned $220-$254. Lesser types softened and traded at $144-$178. A new buyer held the ewe market and good types collected $200-$258. Read more in your LivestockEye.

SOUTH-CANTERBURY Temuka prime and boner cattle, all sheep • Store hoggets earned $178 • Halfbred ewes with lambs-at-foot collected $126 all counted • Better prime dairy-beef steers earned $3.20-$3.30/kg • The best of the prime heifers reached $3.20-$3.26/kg • Better boner cows held at $2.30-$2.36/kg Store sheep numbers were well down at TEMUKA last Monday. Medium lambs returned $131-$138 and lighter types made $110. Medium Merino-cross hoggets made $152-$190 and heavy types $213. Top prime lambs fetched $200-$231 on a strong market and hoggets, at $240-$271, held. Ewes held their previous lift and the best returned $298-$350. Prime cattle throughput lifted to 462 head and the market mostly eased. Prime steers softened by an average of 5-7c/kg though the top end of good beef lines were resilient at $3.30-$3.36/kg. Prime bulls met good demand and 616-725kg Hereford and Angus achieved $3.40-$3.41/kg with the next cut $3.20-$3.30/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

YARDING UP: Stock agents and yard staff fill pens at the recent dairy-beef weaner fair in Taranaki.

LORNEVILLE last Tuesday. Steers and heifers above 440kg earned $3.30-$3.40/kg and 465kg bulls $3.00/kg. Yearling Angus and Angus-cross steers, 398-402kg, made $1420$1450 and 243-273kg $870-$960. Yearling beef-cross heifers managed $2.77/kg to $2.88/kg and 280kg bulls $2.98/kg. Heavy prime ewes sold at $226-$264, medium $180-$220 and light $132-$178. Local trade rams made $80-$84. Store lambs fetched $130-$140. Hoggets with lambs-at-foot traded at $115-$125 all-counted, and ewes with lambs-atfoot $130.

Temuka store cattle • Two-year Wagyu-cross steers from Oamaru, 370-398kg, traded at $2.95-$3.04/kg • Two-year Angus-Hereford heifers, 439kg, collected $3.13/kg • Yearling Charolais-Friesian heifers, 184-213kg, made the best return for their group at $3.13-$3.15/kg Two-year Red Devon-cross bulls from Pitt Island proved popular at TEMUKA last Thursday and 35 at 274kg fetched $3.32/kg. All dairy-beef steers, 422-509kg, earned $3.15$3.27/kg on a steady market. Advertised as suitable for breeding and reportedly sold as such, 2-year Angus heifers from Mayfield, 407-421kg, collected $3.23-$3.27/kg. Better Hereford-Friesian, 409-433kg, made $3.08-$3.14/kg on a 10c/kg lift. The market for better yearlings held and top dairy-beef steers largely traded at $3.04-$3.11/kg. Lesser types eased and 14 Hereford-Friesian, 253-271kg, returned $2.68-$2.69/kg. Top beef heifers, Angus-Hereford at 259kg, collected $3.00/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

OTAGO Balclutha sale • Prime lambs made $200-$230 and medium $150-$180 • Heavy prime ewes earned around $200, medium $160-$190 and light $100-$140 • Yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 300kg, traded at $2.90-$3.00/ kg There was a large yarding of store cattle at BALCLUTHA last Wednesday. Two-year Angus steers, 500kg, made $3.40/kg, and 450kg Hereford-Friesian $3.20/kg. Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 300kg, achieved $3.00/kg and 330kg beef, $3.40/kg.

SOUTHLAND Lorneville sale • Boner cows, 450-565kg, achieved $2.30/kg to $2.42/kg • Two-year beef-cross steers, 404-425kg, made $3.21-$3.29/kg • Yearling Charolais steers, 398-402kg, realised $1420-$1450 • Prime new-season lambs fetched $140-$165 • Prime two-tooth ewes sold to $160 There was a medium yarding of prime cattle at

Dairy-beef weaner fairs The market lifted at RANGIURU last Wednesday and quality dairy-beef were in demand. Hereford-Friesian steers, 88-143kg, earned $540-$570. Hereford-Jersey, 146kg, made $570. Top Hereford-Friesian heifers, 105kg, traded at $535 and lesser lines also sold well at $450-$485. Dairy-beef bulls, 92-114kg, mostly earned $510-$570 with Angus-Friesian, 114kg, higher at $620. Heavier Friesian bulls, 100-162kg, made $405-$580. Autumn-born Hereford bulls, 212kg, fetched $675. Thursday played host to dairy-beef weaner fairs at Taranaki, Frankton and Feilding. Throughput lifted to just over 1200 head at TARANAKI. A large portion of Friesian bulls were 110-130kg and made $420-$500 while those over 140kg sold for $590-$670. Better dairy-beef bulls held at $655-$700 and 134-140kg steers sold for $700-$710. Heifer throughput increased to 260 and better types achieved $590-$610 while the lion’s share traded at $450-$570. Another sizeable yarding of 1446 weaners were penned at FRANKTON. Most classes increased slightly with bulls the exception as tallies dropped 277 head in this section. Autumn-born dairy-beef heifers, 156-185kg, were mainly $630-$670. Quality spring Hereford-Friesian steers, 115-143kg, realised $690-$735 and same breed heifers, 103-158kg, $510-$600. Most Hereford-Friesian bulls above 100kg fetched $640-$690 with 86-100kg at $540-$605. Friesian, 111-147kg, were mainly $420-$525 and 93-102kg, $370$405. The market was mostly down on the more than 2000 calves yarded at FEILDING. Three-quarters were Friesian bulls where prices were variable for similarweight calves, but as a guide the 125-135kg range traded at $510-$540 and $430-$490 for 115-125kg, while 105110kg lines were $380-$420. The lighter-end, 95-105kg, were mainly $330-$390. Large lines of Hereford-Friesian bulls and steers sold well at $605-$630 for 105-120kg, with other dairy-beef lines at the same weight making $530-$580. Two big lines of Hereford-Friesian heifers, 105-120kg, returned $605-$615. Read more in your LivestockEye.

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48 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 22, 2021 NI STEER

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high $530-$590 Friesian bulls, lights Weaner 130-140kg, at Feilding

$910-$1170 Two-year Red Devon-cross bulls from Pitt Island, 274375kg, at Temuka

On-farm selling rejuvenated Suz Bremner suz.bremner@globalhq.co.nz

RETURN to on-farm selling is growing in popularity and new vendors joined annual sellers for a full week of sales in the South Island. By the end of Thursday, a total of 35,000 lambs and 2800 ewes had been sold under the shade of woolsheds in yards by 15 vendors through North Canterbury, Banks Peninsula and South Canterbury, a lamb tally which was much higher than the previous year’s 20,000. Buyers are attracted to these onfarm sales by the ability to source a large volume of a consistent type of lamb in just a few bids and the icing on the cake is the hospitality provided by farm owners – farmers who are proud to open the gates to show off their stock and properties. Stock agent company Hazlett was in charge at most of the sales and general manager Ed Marfell says it was a good week to tick off, though eating dust on Tuesday was not fun. “Tuesday was our biggest day and a howling nor’wester made conditions pretty intense,” Marfell said. “Everyone – animals and people – were sick of eating dust by the end of the day”. Marfell says that overall, the sentiment was good at the sales, though prices were realistic. “It was a good test for the market and showed consistency through the week. The price levels paid for those early lambs that started the season were not attainable, but prices were up on last year and all vendors were happy,” he said. “Southland buyers were a big part of the store market up

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until Tuesday and then local (Canterbury) buyers stepped up for the Wednesday and Thursday sales, once they knew where the market was at and that balanced the week out.” Lambs generally did show the effects of not enough heat and sun, and though markets were strong there was caution around feed levels and schedule prices heading towards the end of the year, which kept bidding restricted to a point. Overall, the sale prices were up $10-$40 on last year and averaged out at $115-$141 for lambs, which was estimated at $4.05-$4.10/kg liveweight. Ewes averaged $168$232. PGG Wrightson was host of the GD Gillanders and Sons on-farm sale in Darfield, and agent Sam Brown says the sale went better than expected. “This sale has been going a long time and is well-supported by regular buyers who return each year, though there was a new buyer as well,” Brown said. Lambs were sex-drafted but sold for very similar values as the market remained consistent throughout. Most sold for $121$183 at an estimated average of $4.10/kg liveweight. The one North Island event was at Te Whanga Station in Wairarapa, where 5000 lambs were offered by two vendors. The region is alarmingly dry for this time of year and PGG Wrightson regional manager Steve Wilkinson says vendors were pleased to have the lambs gone and that the sale met expectations. “Lambs sold consistently within budgets and expectations. Buyers we see each year were in attendance and the focus was clearly on the better weights and terminal-cross,” Wilkinson said. The lambs sold in just 11 pens and the sale was over in half an hour. The first cuts were estimated

SEA OF LAMBS: Lambs stretched out over pens at Putiki Farm, Port Levy.

Buyers are attracted to these on-farm sales by the ability to source a large volume of a consistent type of lamb in just a few bids.

to sell for higher per kilogram prices at $4.50-$4.60/kgLW than the longer-term lines at $4.10$4.20/kgLW, which is not always the case given that traditionally per head budgets push up the lighter weighted lambs. These followed the Masterton lamb sale, which offered up 2500 and values were slightly below those seen on-farm.

Results: Awapuni Partnership, Waikari: 1800 Romney-Suftex mixed-sex and Romney wethers, $98-$160. Northcote Farming, Highfield: 2850 Romney-halfbred Suffolkcross mixed-sex, $96-$199. Glenmark Drive sales, Manahune: 2350 Suffolk-cross mixed-sex, $84-$190. Dovedale Farm: 1950 Suftex and South Dorset Down mixed-sex, $102$179. Glenmark Farms: 900 blackface mixed-sex and Romney cryptorchid, $88-$153. Shellrock, HD Bethell: 2140 blackface mixedsex and Romney males, $83-$180. Red Oak Stud, Weka Pass: 2650 blackface-cross mixed-sex and Romney males, $80-$178. Blue Gum Trading, Waipara Flat: 2800 Suftex and Longdown-cross mixed-sex, $81-$190. Mt Cass Station, Waipara: 2100 Wiltshire wethers, Wiltshire Lamb

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Supreme-cross ewe lambs, $88$188. JJC Gardiner, Pinegrove: 1400 Suffolk and Suffolk-cross mixedsex and Romney rams, $116-$199. Putiki Farm, Port Levy: 2100 Down-cross mixed-sex and Romney males, 90-$192. Howden Farming, Port Levy: 2050 Suftex mixed-sex, $88-$177. GD Gillanders and Sons, Darfield: About 2000 SuffBorderdale mixed-sex cryptorchid $123-$200, ewe lambs $121-$183, 285 AD Borderdale ewes, $171$246. Te Whanga and Glendonald, Wairarapa: About 3600 blackface mixed-sex $95-$150, 1800 Romney cryptorchid $115-$118.

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