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Long road to inhibitor approval Richard Rennie

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ROGRESS on getting regulations in place to allow the use of methane inhibitors on New Zealand farms remains painstakingly slow as products become available for commercial use in other countries, including Chile and Brazil.

Late last year Farmers Weekly revealed the current Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (ACVM) regulations required an overhaul to enable farmers to have the approval of meat and dairy processors before using inhibitors.

The most high-profile inhibitor to date is Bovaer, produced

by Dutch company DSM and now approved for use in South American countries.

European dairy co-operative Arla Foods and DSM are also set to start a large-scale on-farm pilot trial with Bovaer on 10,000 dairy cows across three European countries.

The regulation of inhibitors has been on officials’ desks for over two years now, with a discussion paper tabled in February 2020 and prospects are it could be at least another two years before fully registered products are sold here.

Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium head Mark Aspin acknowledged the work done by MPI staff to date, but said the process had appeared to have grown more complicated.

Initially an “order in council” had been sought to enable inhibitors to be absorbed into the regulations.

“But it has been signalled that

the ACVM Act will need to be updated to include inhibitors.

This requires efficacy guidelines and it is not as straightforward,” Aspin said.

MPI confirmed it was working to establish methane inhibitors to be covered under the ACVM regulations via an order in council.

This would give the inhibitors a two-year window to obtain registration, after which time they can only be marketed with formal registration.

But full registration would require submitting data on the product’s efficacy.

Aspin said any inhibitor offered to livestock in NZ would likely be as a supplement, and unless it could stay active in the rumen for 24 hours it was unlikely to deliver the 30% reduction achieved in overseas feedlot systems.

“We need to know what the efficacy claims are, to make it count in the national inventory of greenhouse gas emissions. They require you to show the impact of the activity. For example, we know putting ewes on brassica rape for six weeks results in a 2% reduction in their total year’s emissions, small but important,” he said.

Julia McNab, director of regulatory consultants Intuit, said a call has been put out for experts to help draft efficacy guidelines on inhibitors.

“That is basically determining what data do you, as a manufacturer, need to provide to ACVM to get approval for its use.

That is an important part and farmers need to know a product is going to do what it says on the label, and researchers need to know what the data requirements are to generate that data in field studies,” McNab said.

She said none of these

PAINSTAKING: Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium head Mark Aspin acknowledged the work done by MPI staff to date, but said the process had appeared to have grown more complicated.

requirements can be achieved quickly and at least a season’s trial data would be required on products used in a NZ pastoral context.

Realistically, however, she suspected it could be two to four years before full commercial sales were in place for fully validated products.

Approval overseas has so far only been granted to farmers using the product in a total mixed ration (TMR) feedlot type system.

Reductions in emissions of up to 30% have been reported.

Urgency to determine their effectiveness and place in NZ

farm systems is ramping up as NZ farmers are required to double down on their efforts to reduce methane emissions within the He Waka Eke Noa framework.

McNab said technically an inhibitor could be sold now, but it was unlikely processors would be happy to endorse their use by farmers until solid data sat behind any label claims and safety was demonstrated.

Despite the delays, Aspin doubted any products were being stalled right now from release.

“But from an industry point of view we really want to understand what is required,” he said.

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That is an important part, and farmers need to know a product is going to do what it says on the label, and researchers need to know what the data requirements are to generate that data in field studies.

Julia McNab Intuit Consultancy

Future Farming The future of animal care We know you care about your animals, you provide for them each day to ensure they are healthy. Healthy animals are productive animals. As science and technology allows us further insight into what is an optimal healthy animal – physically and behaviourly – what does this mean for how we farm? We have spoken to experts in their field to understand what advancements are being made to help farmers optimise animal care.

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When not running his 500-cow dairy farm in Southland, Tangaroa is using his own experience to teach others about the farming industry.

His mission to redefine New Zealand farming led him to BallanceEx, where he’s able to share his enthusiasm for innovation with like-minded farmers.

Paul Sharp founded Nutrition Services Ltd, a ruminant nutrition consultancy business. He then joined AgResearch in 2001 and is currently a Consultant Nutritionist for Seales Winslow. Having previously run his own farm in the Far North, today his focus is on developing industry expertise.

Dr Cheryl O’Connor is the Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science Team Leader at AgResearch, Ruakura. She has been an animal behaviour scientist for 30 years, and previously assisted and advised the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee.

“There’s nothing better than showing the world how it’s done, from one of the most challenging parts of the world.”

“I’m looking forward to the next decade. More automation, more technology, and less angst for the animals.”

“It’s about the individual animal, so you can target your care and attention to the animal that needs it.”

A closer look at animal wellbeing What is best practise?

The Five Domains Model of Animal Wellbeing was developed In New Zealand and supersedes the more globally recognised Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare.

Why is animal wellbeing important?

Besides the obvious, that we care about our animals and want them to thrive, animals are a vital part of a farming business.

As we look for optimisation and efficiencies in all our farm systems, the same can be done in our animal management systems.

There is no denying healthy animals are more productive animals and are good for the bottom line.

But animal wellbeing also plays a part in public perception and the wider New Zealand food story, and as such, consumers are increasingly looking for evidence of what they perceive to be well cared for animals. For example, some UK supermarket chains now require suppliers to meet animal wellbeing criteria before being allowed on the shelves.

The new model has a greater focus on positive experiences for the animal, rather than avoidance of negative experiences.

The Five Domains are: 1. Nutrition – Providing enough feed and fresh water is essential.

The right feed matters too – pasture may need to be supplemented with trace elements and minerals to address deficiencies.

2. Environment – A clean, comfortable environment to live in, and shelter from the elements. This starts with the design of the farm itself but is also about how the farm is maintained and operated.

3. Health – Animals need to be provided with medical care when sick or injured. Lately the focus has been on preventative sciences and technologies. Rather than treating illness, the right nutrients and data can prevent the illness in the first place.

4. Behaviour – Animals should be able to express their normal behaviour, feel freedom of movement as well as social interaction with herd mates. For dairy cows, this may mean having well designed milking sheds as well as yards to minimise blind spots and stress.

5. Mental State – This is the most difficult to monitor – animals can’t tell us that they’re scared or distressed. Technology can help, but your intuition as a farmer is also essential here.

What technologies are available?

Wearable tech and real-time monitoring are already here – sensors, tags, and collars that let us track a herd’s movements, temperature, stress levels, and other biological activity. A practical example of this is a farmer who realises their herd clusters around the farm gate when they finish feeding. Using tracking technology and a map on their phone, the farmer can maximise efficiency based on their herd’s behaviour.

Prediction technologies, such as reliable weather forecasting tools, help us know when to move animals to sheltered paddocks to beat a southerly gale, or stock up on feed ahead of an adverse weather event.

Beyond digital technology, advances in feed and medicine offer even more tools for a farmer. Stock feed provides essential nutrients and trace elements not available in pasture, which can help strengthen hoof integrity to prevent lameness or reduce the risk of mastitis, among many other ailments that affect an animal’s wellbeing.

Developed in the 1950s, there are now several lab tests used to identify nutrition and metabolic disorders of stock. They are useful in helping identify unseen or difficult to diagnose nutritional problems, long before they’re visible to a farmer.

How can farmers make use of these technologies?

New technologies, systems, and breeding techniques are here and becoming increasingly accessible and more widely used, which give us a better understanding of animal wellbeing.

But these are all just additional tools at our disposal. The farmer is still at the centre of ensuring animal wellbeing, and still needs to know what normal looks like for their animals in order to spot the abnormal. This can only be done by spending as much time as practical with their animals.

Animal wellbeing can’t solely be managed from a computer or phone. But the data acquired through these exciting new technologies goes a long way to enhancing animal wellbeing, which ultimately enhances farming businesses.

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Govt backs capital restructure Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz THE Government will amend the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA) to facilitate Fonterra’s move to a new capital structure, but legislation may not be passed until later this year.

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has made a pragmatic announcement of proposed amendments to the DIRA, followed by industry consultation during May. The presently capped Fonterra Shareholders’ Fund will become permanent, the milk price-setting process will be made more transparent and independent, and a dividends and retention policy introduced to ensure access to capital in future.

The DIRA amendments will also support liquidity and transparency in the trade of Fonterra shares in its restricted farmer-only market.

O’Connor said the amendments would be aimed at striking a balance between recognising the shareholders’ mandate for change and enabling the successful

function of the wider dairy sector.

“Because of Fonterra’s size and influence, the Government needed to take into account any potential risks to the longterm performance, innovation, sustainability, and value creation in the wider dairy industry,” O’Connor said.

The Government wants to increase its nominees to the Milk Price Panel from one to two and have ministerial approval of the chair.

It will also require Fonterra to contract out the day-to-day administration of the base milk price calculation to an external party and replace that party every four to six years.

A market maker will be introduced to the farmeronly supply share market with suppressed prices to maintain a viable level of bidding and offering.

Fonterra will also need to source and publish research and analysis of its performance.

One of the most informed, Jarden head of research Arie Dekker said enough noise has

ACTION: Jarden head of research Arie Dekker says enough noise has been made by the dairy industry for the Government to take further scrutiny of the milk price setting mechanism.

been made by the dairy industry for the government to take further scrutiny of the milk price setting mechanism.

“The Commerce Commission will be given power to make its review findings binding on

Fonterra’s inputs, assumptions and processes in the base milk price manual and calculation,” Dekker said.

But Fonterra will retain the right to set the farm gate milk price, informed by market prices

for its reference products, and that might be different from the calculated base milk price.

Fonterra chair Peter McBride told farmer-shareholders in an email last week that implementation of the Flexible Shareholding structure would be done as soon as possible.

“Share compliance obligations will remain on hold until at least six months after the effective date for the new structure,” McBride said.

Fonterra Communications was asked for a timetable concerning those aspects of the restructuring not covered by proposed amendments to the DIRA. When would the new reduced one-for-three share standard be introduced and would the existing standard apply in the 2022-23 season?

“We are continuing to prepare for the implementation of the new structure, which includes the new minimum shareholding for supplying farmers of 33% of milk supply, as soon as possible and will continue to keep our farmer shareholders updated,” was the response,” he said.

B+LNZ welcomes winter grazing changes Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz INDUSTRY is welcoming most of the Government’s changes to intensive winter grazing rules but still harbours concerns about several aspects of the legislation.

Gone are rules about livestock pugging and resowing dates, replaced by a requirement to resow grazed winter crop paddocks as conditions allow and for farmers to take all reasonably practicable steps to minimise the effects of pugging on freshwater.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) North Island manager

Corina Jordan said industry also welcomes the deferment of the new rules until November 1 next year, which will give farmers time and resources to implement the new standards.

The original rules were ridiculed as impractical, especially for farmers in Otago and Southland.

These changes follow feedback last year from farmers, industry representatives, iwi, regional councils and environmental groups.

They place an emphasis on selecting the most appropriate paddock for wintering stock on crops.

The changes introduce a new condition where critical source areas in winter cropped paddocks need to be identified and not cultivated or grazed.

Jordan said industry has concerns that rules to intensively winter grazing paddocks with slopes over 10 degrees are too strict. Industry had asked for a limit of 15 degrees.

Farmers wanting to graze paddocks 10 degrees or steeper will either have to apply for resource consent or create a certified freshwater farm plan.

She said certified freshwater farm plans are in the very early

stages of development and such plans will apply to a property not a single activity such as intensive winter grazing.

Industry had suggested requiring an intensive winter grazing plan instead.

A report by the Winter Grazing Action Group made up of industry leaders and government officials gave credit to farmers for being receptive to advice and proactive improving wintering systems.

It noted the future of winter grazing would be confined to paddocks suited to land and stock class.

“Landowners who cannot

achieve good welfare outcomes will have to adapt and find new solutions, whether they be on or off-paddock, or consider alternative land-use strategies,” the report said.

It lists seven outcomes farmers should strive to achieve for winter grazing.

They should ensure animals give birth in the right environment; are prepared for all weather conditions; have access to acceptable drinking water; plan for successful winter feeding; have a comfortable lying area; animals are cared for; and farmers look for opportunities to improve.

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Demand drives up cattle prices Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz DAIRY cows and in-calf heifers have sold very strongly during the past month in what one livestock agent called a frenzy among buyers to purchase.

Crossbred commercial cows are making up to $3000 and in-calf heifers with good breeding are making $2500.

Carrfields agent John Price in Waikato said demand for dairy cows is stronger than he has seen before and the whole market has risen by $500 to $1000 since late last year.

Veteran dairy stud stock agent Brian Robinson said buyers from around the country were competing for registered and commercial cattle in a crowded schedule of clearing sales in Waikato.

“The high milk payout is certainly helping farmers who want to invest in good genetics,” Robinson said.

“Catalogues and sale participation are more readily available across the country through the bidr system, which has seen numerous registrations and purchases.”

A three-day dispersal sale of 350 very well-bred Jerseys for the Post family at Tauwhare, near Hamilton, set the pace for prices of registered cattle.

Top price in the heifers was $55,000 for an A2A2 R3yo called Posterity Man Susie which carries an ET calf with an LIC contract.

As a two-year-old she milked 404kg MS in 253 days and has a BW of 250.

A rising six-year-old cow, which has averaged 437kg MS over four seasons, sold for $23,100 and

GATHER ROUND: The Singh family and their farm and sale staff with Lawwal Lambda Loana, bought by Tony and Serena Jenkins for $27,500.

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The high milk payout is certainly helping farmers who want to invest in good genetics.

Brian Robinson Stock agent she is carrying a LIC contracted calf and is LIC contracted for the spring 2022 mating.

On the third day an in-calf heifer made $23,400, which was slightly more than her mother had made the day before.

Robinson said the LIC contracts

certainly boosted the prices, but the purchaser of the $55,000 cow and one of the $23,000 ones was aiming to improve genetics in the herd and take his chances with bull progeny wanted by LIC. The Denson Dale Jersey Elite Dispersal sale saw 150 cows average $4682, with a top of $21,000 and in-calf heifers average $3416.

In total 230 cattle sold for an average price just over $4000, which was a superb result, he said.

The Singh family’s Lawwal Holsteins sale achieved an average of $7207 and a top price of $27,500 from a catalogue of 53 cows.

Promoted as a legacy sale to honour the late Aman Singh,

it drew about 800 visitors and $34,500 will be distributed to chosen charities.

Lodore Ayrshires at Okaihau, Northland, sold 20 in-calf heifers and 10 yearling heifers using bidr online and Link Livestock.

In a complete clearance in 40 minutes, Lodore averaged $3265 for the in-calf heifers and $2380 for the yearling heifers.

Top price was $7100 paid

by Stuart Honeyfield, Te Matai Ayrshires, Waitara, for lot 20, the last of the in-calf heifers, called Lodore Sonic Kio. Earlier in April Jersey breeder Herb Wuest, Matamata, offered 96 younger mixed age cows and 26 R2yo heifers with a big majority of all cattle certified A2A2.

Average price for the cows was

$3125 and the top cow, with BW 345, realised $8500.

The 7 of Us Gaskell family clearing sale, featured several cows at $5000 or better among 300 crossbred cows and 80 yearling heifers sold off the property at Hineura, Matamata, which has been sold.

Top price paid at the Bushview Holstein dispersal, Stratford, was $10,000 for Dornview Fireup Molly S3F, a rising five-year-old cow with herd leading figures.

There was a sale at $8600 and another at $7800 and the average for the 136 lots sold was $3750.

Penoak Farms “End of an Era” dispersal of Friesians and Ayrshires at Matamata averaged $2450 for cows and $2200 for incalf heifers.

Push to include rural in new health structure Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz A PRIVATE Members Bill to be considered by Parliament seeks the inclusion of rural health as a priority within the new health structure.

National Party Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti tried to have the sector identified as a health priority when the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill was before the Select Committee earlier this year, but was voted down by Labour and the Greens.

The Bill establishes Health NZ, which amalgamates the country’s District Health Boards (DHBs) into a centralised body.

Subsequently, Reti’s Private Members Bill has been drawn from the ballot and he will once again push to have rural included alongside the health of Māori, women and people with disabilities as a priority focus.

He expects it to be discussed when Parliament’s Committee of the House considers the Pae Ora Bill in the next month or so but isn’t confident it will pass.

THINKING: National Party Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says any government policy or decision needs to take account of the specific health needs of more than 700,000 rural people.

“I defy the Government to talk it down in front of the House and in front of the public because they can no longer hide behind the Select Committee,” Reti said.

“When it is put on the table I want them to explain why rural health is not to be included as a special group.”

He said its inclusion will require any government policy or decision to take account of the specific

health needs of more than 700,000 rural people.

“It anchors the future-proofing of policy so that rural health needs must be taken into account,” he said.

The Rural General Practitioners Network agrees, saying that unless ‘rural people’ is included as an identified priority population, then health inequities and the rural health staffing crisis will continue.

Health Minister Andrew Little disagrees, telling the Farmers Weekly last week that the reforms will address issues facing rural communities.

A new locality planning process will enable rural communities to prioritise health services of their community, while the reforms aim to channel more funding into primary and community care.

Reti has little faith that will happen, given the Government’s record and a discussion document mistakenly released to him before last year’s budget which stated the DHBs could save costs by reducing specialist services at rural hospitals.

A former medical professional who has worked in rural Northland communities, Reti said distance means there will always be inequities for rural people, but access and services can be improved.

One solution is to establish a third medical school designed to educate health professionals for rural communities.

The proposal is based on schemes in Canada and Australia in which students live and work at rural practices, with study mixed between visits by lecturers and students returning to the campus.

Reti said this will allow students to establish roots and connections in rural communities, making it more likely they will stay when they graduate.

Rural hubs offered by existing medical schools at Otago and Auckland universities are still too metropolitan-focused.

Where it will be located will be decided by a contestable process.

Providing more specialist medical equipment to provincial hospitals would lower demand at our major hospitals, but also make

life easier for patients and their families.

In 2018, 30 cancer patients a day travelled from Northland to Auckland hospitals for a 90 second radiotherapy treatment with a linear accelerator, for which the Northland DHB paid $3 million.

If those machines were available in districts like Northland, it would save money and be less intrusive on people’s lives.

Similarly, Reti is seeking a law change to require DHBs to administer privately funded drugs for illnesses such as cancer.

Legally drugs not funded by Pharmac cannot be administered by a DHB run hospital, meaning rural patients often drive past a public hospital to get a private hospital to administer them, usually via drip while sitting in a chair.

Other rural health policies he is considering are improving access to ambulance and after hours care, the ratio of people to general practitioners, simplifying rural health funding and a wider look at primary care which will include rural communities.

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Draft code threatens pork industry Staff reporter A NEW draft welfare code for pigs released by the Government for public consultation could wipe out the New Zealand pork industry, NZPork chief executive Brent Kleiss says.

He said it will result in the deaths of up to 60,000 additional piglets every year, require almost every indoor and outdoor pig farm to be partly or totally rebuilt and force Kiwis to rely on imported pork produced using standards illegal in NZ. The draft code, which goes beyond the welfare requirements in other countries, includes considerable changes to the minimum space allowance required for grower pigs, a ban or significant limitation on the traditional use of farrowing systems (farrowing crates), an effective ban on mating stalls and sets a minimum weaning age of 28 days for piglets.

He said the sector welcomes and encourages positive change where there are proven and well-researched animal welfare outcomes for all pigs, however, the draft code lacks scientific credibility and justification.

“It imposes unachievable minimum standards on farmers and will effectively wipe out New Zealand’s pig industry,” Kleiss said.

“Furthermore, an independent economic analysis commissioned by the Government concludes the draft code is bad news for consumers, with a predicted 18.2% increase in the price of all New Zealand produced pork and a tsunami of imported pork undercutting local farmers and reducing sales of born and raised New Zealand pork.”

He said farrowing crates are the maternity ward for sows and are specifically designed and proven to significantly reduce the main causes of piglet deaths, such as starvation, hypothermia and being accidentally crushed by the sow.

“Our calculations estimate that up to 60,000 additional piglets would die every year, depending on which of the two farrowing options is finally adopted,” he said.

He said piglet deaths are a serious welfare issue and the Animal Welfare Act requires that the welfare outcomes for all animals affected by changes to the code must be considered.

“We believe that temporary confinement of the sow at a time when piglets are their most vulnerable is a reasonable compromise when the alternative is the death of 1-2 piglets in every litter in a free-farrowing situation,” he said.

“No country has completely banned the use of farrowing crates in recognition that enabling a period of temporary confinement is still necessary during the highly vulnerable stage of newborn piglets’ lives.”

He said NZPork is particularly concerned at the increase in the minimum space allowance for growing pigs proposed in both options within the new code.

“We acknowledge that there is scientific evidence supporting an increase in the current minimum space requirements for growing pigs, however, the proposed increases are unaffordable and unjustifiable,” he said.

He said the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee’s (NAWAC) focus on space as the priority indicator of good

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welfare rather than overall welfare outcomes for all pigs and their physical, health and behavioural requirements does not make sense.

Is it the Government’s intention to wipe out New Zealand’s pig industry by imposing minimum standards that will be impossible for many farmers to meet?

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in the rest of the world – even countries that have subsidies, government funding and protected markets,” he said.

“We are committed to improving welfare outcomes across the board in the pig industry and accept that there are some areas in the code that need to change in keeping with good practice informed by the latest science.

“However, the proposed changes are prescriptive rather than outcome-based and will effectively mean almost every commercial farm, both indoors and outdoors, will have to be partially or fully rebuilt. Some farmers will choose to exit the industry.”

NZPork is also disappointed that NAWAC accepted very limited input from farmers and the industry’s technical advisers, including NZPork’s animal welfare scientist, when NAWAC itself has no experience of pig farming.

“We believe the draft code is clear evidence of this. An independent report by Australian animal welfare and animal science experts agrees and has highlighted significant flaws in NAWAC’s methodology and conclusions,” he said.

“We’re puzzled why NAWAC and the Government believes it is a good idea to impose welfare standards further removed from those in most of the world, while allowing pork to be imported and consumed here that is produced to standards that are currently illegal in New Zealand.”

“Some parts of the world, such as California and potentially the European Union, are waking up to this contradiction and demanding imported pork products are produced to equivalent standards.

“Is it the Government’s intention to wipe out New Zealand’s pig industry by imposing minimum standards that will be impossible for many farmers to meet?”

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Farm worker salaries trend up Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz SALARIES in the primary sector have risen by a weighted average of 14% over the past two years, according to a remuneration survey conducted by Rabobank and Federated Farmers.

The survey was conducted in late 2021 and early 2022 and comparisons were made against the previous survey in 2020.

The mean salary for farm employees is now $64,000, with little variation between the three industries – dairy, sheep and beef and arable.

The total package value averaged $67,000 across the details of 2200 employees included in the survey and that was up $10,000 over the past two years.

Many farm employees have accommodation provided and while they do pay rent, it is generally a smaller proportion of their weekly salary than workers in other industries in urban centres.

The report found accommodation was being provided for 75% of dairy employees, 61% of sheep and beef employees and 41% of arable workers.

The total package value factors

POSITIVE: Todd Charteris says it’s encouraging to see remuneration for on-farm roles growing strongly, given the huge contribution the sector had made to the country’s broader economy in recent years.

in other employment benefits such as food and vehicle use, workers’ length of service, accommodation costs and weekly hours worked.

The arable industry pays a little more than the other two, with a total package value of $68,600, but the increase was 7% from 2020.

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executive Todd Charteris said the most senior dairy role, that of dairy operations manager, had the largest salary increase, up 27% to $107,593.

“That reflects the significant responsibility that comes with this role, which includes managing the farm’s physical performance and budget, as well as negotiating with

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Within dairying, higher salaries are paid in Canterbury and total packages are more when herd sizes are over 1000 cows.

The most senior arable role was also up 20% and there were aboveaverage increases for some entry level positions.

Close to 70% of surveyed farmers now find it harder to source skilled employees than 12 months ago and the covid-19 border restrictions have restricted access to overseas workers.

Low unemployment rates domestically have also hindered efforts to get more local workers to take on new jobs in rural areas.

Requirements to pay international workers an hourly rate above the median wage to be eligible for some lengths of visa, rising inflation and healthy farm businesses have contributed to the salary increases.

The average working week in dairy is 45.5 hours, in sheep and beef 42.5 and in arable 43.2.

The average length of service of current employees is between three and 3.5 years and the dairy industry is unique in having 25% of its farm workers who are not NZ citizens or permanent residents.

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Competitive remuneration is a key ingredient that will help to entice school-leavers and other workers into on-farm roles.

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Charteris said it was encouraging to see remuneration for on-farm roles growing strongly, given the huge contribution the sector had made to the country’s broader economy in recent years.

“It has been the shining light of the NZ economy since the onset of the covid-19 pandemic, and it’s promising to see those working in the sector are now receiving significantly higher salaries than they were two years ago,” he said.

“For the sector to continue to flourish, it’s essential it is viewed as an attractive place to work.

“Competitive remuneration is a key ingredient that will help to entice school-leavers and other workers into on-farm roles.”

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Risk sharing a factor in draft impact plan BusinessDesk THE Government is warning the public and businesses that it might take a new approach to property rights, as well as current models of insurance and risksharing when it comes to adapting society to climate change.

The release of the draft national adaptation plan by Climate Change Minister James Shaw marks another step in dealing with increased flooding and other impacts of climate change.

It is a stocktake of current policy work and proposes new policy areas for consideration in thorny issues such as: Should councils and government take a larger role in stopping building in areas at risk from extreme weather events?

Who should cover the cost of repairing housing and infrastructure already in areas of risk and for how long?

If it is decided to retreat from those areas, who should cover the

costs and what happens if people don’t want to move?

What should the government do if the insurance sector either makes premiums too expensive or retreats entirely from covering some risks or extreme weather events?

Shaw made clear in his comments that no decisions had been made on these difficult issues.

“Central government will not bear every risk and cost of climate change, including climate change adaptation. Risk and cost will fall across different parts of society, including asset or property owners, their insurance companies, their banks, local government and central government,” he said.

“The Government has choices about the role it plays and how it influences the way these costs and risks fall. Care will need to be taken to manage any perverse or unintended outcomes such as moral hazard (that is,

inappropriate incentives to continue developing in at-risk areas).”

The document itself says: “We may need to think differently about property and land rights if areas become too risky to live in.”

It would be impossible to assess with total accuracy what will happen as climate change continues and what areas would be impacted until it happens.

Despite this people, businesses, councils and central government had to acknowledge and prepare for potentially catastrophic change in some areas.

Among the problems, sea-level rise is believed to be continuing at a rate of 2.4 millimetres each year.

“This poses a distinctive and severe adaptation challenge as we must deal with slow onset changes alongside increased frequency and magnitude of extreme sealevel events” which could destroy homes and infrastructure. In particular drinking water supplies were at risk in several areas.

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Recent extreme flooding events would become more frequent and intense, putting entire communities in ongoing danger or need of relocation.

The plan suggests gathering and providing more information on risks and different ways of using this. For instance, requiring councils to stop building in at-risk areas, as well as making warnings clearer in district planning and land information memoranda.

Reform of resource management law could include “clear signalling or initiation of adaptation responses, including retreat through regional spatial strategies that identify risk zones and areas where adaptation may be necessary.”

This could also include “powers and processes to address ownership of property that is retreated”.

Much of the framework for this would be included in the climate adaptation bill proposed to be introduced by the end of 2023.

By the end of 2024, as system reforms are completed and New Zealanders have better information about how to manage their climate risks, the Government said it will consider the need for further tools or guidance.

A major issue is who will pay for the costs.

About 675,000 (or one in seven) people across NZ live in areas that are prone to flooding, which amounts to nearly $100 billion worth of residential buildings.

A further 72,065 people live in areas that are projected to be subject to extreme sea-level rise.

The number of people exposed to these hazards will increase as the climate changes.

Also, many of these areas include vital infrastructure including energy, transport, water, telecommunication and social facilities.

Local authorities own much of the infrastructure that communities rely on and are closest to the problems and how to deal with them.

“This may require tough conversations. Options that will reduce long-run costs to communities may be unpopular among some residents in the short term. For example, a council might need to turn down requests for bigger and stronger protection structures, when rising sea levels make these increasingly expensive and ineffective,” the plan said.

NZ would have to face up to the

prospect of some assets becoming uninsurable (creating further risks if they are used as collateral).

“Insurance retreat would likely reduce private and public asset values, making households and firms or public entities less able to invest in adaptation. There are likely to be more insurance claims, greater damage repairs and higher premiums. Claims for extreme weather events hit a record $321.6 million in 2021, breaking the record last set in 2020 at $274m,” it said.

The plan said work is under way to better understand the scale and timing of insurance market changes.

“The Government intends to develop options to ensure home flood insurance continues to play an appropriate role in supporting community resilience. This work has important links with other adaptation initiatives, such as improved land-use planning, that reduce climate-related risk and support the insurability of assets,” it said.

The Government’s primary focus is on flood insurance for residential buildings. The choices include potentially supporting a national flood insurance scheme for residential buildings.

“Another result of insurance retreat will be that private insurance plays a smaller role than at present in preventing or responding to damage caused by floods. In addition, loss of insurance or higher premiums are likely to provide incentives for asset owners to manage their risk in other ways, including potentially by taking measures to adapt to the risks (such as seeking the development of public flood defences or moving assets).”

The draft plan says the Government will have to weigh up the benefits and risks in managing flood risk and/or supporting flood insurance.

These included: Who should bear these risks and how they are shared across society, including considering to what extent these risks are different to other risks.

Who is best placed to manage and make decisions about managing these risks (eg, homeowners, local government, central government).

The risk of unintended consequences. This includes reducing incentives and masking market signals that could otherwise promote actions to reduce underlying flood risk.

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Supply chain disruptions continue Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz AN ANTICIPATED return to normal global supply chains looks unlikely in the near-term due to port congestion in Europe from uncleared containers caught up in trade sanctions against Russia.

New Zealand Council of Cargo Owners chair Simon Beale said access to containers is tightening as they become stranded in Russia or are unable to be delivered because of sanctions.

I don’t see a pathway to an end to supply chain disruption for the next two and a half to three years.

Shane Kingston Alliance “There are issues with getting containers now,” Beale said.

This logistical challenge adds to existing shipping disruption from a shortage of staff to work the ports in the United States and city-wide lockdowns in China as the Government tries to eradicate covid.

Beale said shipping delivery times have improved in the past year, especially for perishable products, but that could change as container supplies tightens or other large Chinese cities are shut down to contain covid.

An issue for NZ schedules are continued delays from the

ongoing implementation of automation systems at the Ports of Auckland, which has forced ships to wait at sea for access to ports around the country.

Alliance Group sales manager Shane Kingston said supply chain logistics have improved in the last year, but he fears a return to more reliable schedules and access to containers could be delayed by up to three years due to existing disruption and the growing congestion in Europe.

“That will be significant when there is already a distressed network,” Kingston said.

“I don’t see a pathway to an end to supply chain disruption for the next two and a half to three years.

“It is one step forward and a half a step back.”

Kingston makes his assessment after senior Alliance management met customers in the United States last month, the first market visit in two years.

He saw first-hand the labour shortage issues facing the Los Angeles port of Long Beach, which is struggling to clear imported consumer products from China and Asia, where despite the demand, not all cranes were operating.

A spokesperson for Kotahi, the country’s largest supply chain logistics company, said there have been minor improvements in reliability and waiting times for ships.

Global industry data up to February reported a decline in average delays for late vessels from eight to seven days, still almost double historic averages.

The number of vessels queued outside US West Coast ports,

DELAYS: An issue for NZ schedules are continued delays from the ongoing implementation of automation systems at the Ports of Auckland, which has forced ships to wait at sea for access to ports around the country.

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particularly Long Beach, has also reduced.

Schedule reliability has improved from 30% to 35% globally, again well back on historical averages of 80-85%.

Kotahi reports that despite these improvements, at any given time about 12% of the world’s vessel capacity is effectively laid up waiting to berth.

The price of bunker fuel for ships increased 33% between January and early March due

to the Russian-Ukrainian war, potentially adding an extra $US100 per 20-foot container in the coming quarter.

The ongoing lockdown of Shanghai is considered by Kotahi as an emerging global supply chain risk.

Carriers are advising port operations in Shanghai are slow and plug utilisation for reefer containers are at unsustainable levels due to the slow gate movements.

“As a result, a number of carriers have implemented a suspension on reefer and dangerous good bookings into Shanghai Port and encourage product to be sent to alternate destinations, until further notice,” the spokesperson said.

It anticipates further capacity restrictions for NZ exporters through the peak export season and says access to refrigerated containers remains tight but supply should be consistent.

Agricultural machinery sales up 25% Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz SHIPPING and staffing issues have not detracted from a 25% increase in New Zealand tractor and machinery sales for the year to date.

Industry group Tractor and Machinery Association (TAMA) report tractor sales are up 25% in the year-to-date compared to the same period a year earlier, which was in turn 19% higher than the previous year.

TAMA president Kyle Baxter said demand is across all horsepower models and strongest in dairy regions, Northland, Waikato, Taranaki and Southland, and those focused on horticulture.

There has been a 20% increase in the sub 40HP sector, a 27% increase in tractors 40HP to 100Hp and more than a 30% increase in the 100-150HP-plus sector.

“The strong commodity prices are driving and providing buyer confidence,” Baxter said.

He said demand has continued into 2022 but with the addition of increased imports of agricultural equipment.

“Many of our members are also turning their eyes to beyond

2022, as they look to confirm production slots of equipment that is expected to arrive in NZ around early to mid-2023, thus ensuring that supply continues to meet demand, whichever way it trends.”

He warns that the price of

raw materials, labour, fuel, and shipping are rising globally, with the additional risk of shipping disruption potentially delaying deliveries.

“Global manufacturing constraints are still very much a reality, as plants continue to

work through covid restrictions in their respective countries, and that coupled with constraints in component supply, all contribute to disruption to the smooth flow of equipment into NZ,” he said.

Equally border restrictions have left TAMA members short staffed, but he said there are indications this could ease later in the year.

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Keep an eye out for plant pest Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz BIOSECURITY New Zealand and primary sector partners are urging maize and corn growers to keep a close eye out for a crop-killing moth pest with potential to cost cropping farmers millions of dollars.

Fall armyworm (FAW) caterpillars were first found in Tauranga last month and now also identified on sweet corn and maize volunteers at two properties in Waikato.

Sweet corn and maize growers across the North Island are being asked to keep a watch out for caterpillars and report any signs of the moth pest.

Waikato Federated Farmers arable chair Keith Holmes said the new infestations are not just about risk to crops, but a huge part of the food chain for the dairy industry.

“We are talking potentially millions of dollars to NZ famers,” Holmes said.

“There is a massive amount of maize grown for dairy feed, this puts the maize industry under a huge amount of both financial and uncertainty pressure.”

Generally once FAW is detected the crops are past spraying by wheeled vehicles, leaving helispraying the only option.

“That is really, really scary, at $1600-plus a hectare that is a huge cost,” he said.

Holmes said the current feed situation post covid and with the Ukraine war, is pushing prices up.

“We know that maize is going to be very expensive to grow next season and we also know that without this FAW there’s likely going to be at least a 30% increase in price to dairy farmers,” he said.

“Growers nor dairy farmers need the added cost to spray for FAW.” While Biosecurity NZ’s risk analysis is predicting FAW will die

ALERT: Sweet corn and maize growers across the North Island are being asked to keep a watch out for fall armyworm caterpillars and report any signs of the moth pest.

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We are talking potentially millions of dollars to NZ farmers.

Keith Holmes Waikato Feds off over the winter, Holmes is not convinced.

“We do know that FAW thrives in warm climates and it is thought that it is unlikely to successfully hibernate in colder climates such as NZ, other than in the far North where it has not yet been found, it is in Tauranga and Bay of Plenty does have a warmer climate,” she said.

“I’m sceptical; all we need is a mild winter and it’s fully outlines established in NZ.

“Biosecurity in NZ does worry me – this is yet another straw on the camel’s back.”

Feds arable chair Colin Hurst believes FAW poses a serious risk to the industry.

“I’m concerned, where FAW has popped up in other countries it’s been bloody serious,” Hurst said.

“It’s a moving target, we still need to understand the issue and how the life cycle will work in NZ conditions.”

Feds is planning to meet with the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) to work through the implications.

The FAW moth is a plant pest that can feed on more than 350 plant species, but prefer grasses and cereals.

Meanwhile, Federated Farmers, MPI and the Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) are stressing the importance for growers to check their sweet corn

and maize crops for the pest.

FAW adults and larvae are highly mobile, with a strong ability to fly and disperse during summer.

Adults can migrate up to 500 kilometres before laying their eggs and are also known to travel long distances on stormfronts.

Once in the armyworm stage and in large numbers they consume nearly all vegetation in their path.

Last month, a single confirmed egg mass belonging to the moth was found in Tauranga.

There has been a further find of caterpillars on corn and maize regrowth at two properties on the outskirts of Hamilton in the past two weeks.

“This moth has been on our radar for some time as it has been spreading around the world and we have been working closely with our sector partners on keeping it

out,” BiosecurityNZ said.

It is present in the Americas, Africa and Asia, and is established in parts of Australia.

It is thought the pest moth arrived from Australia via strong winds.

Fall armyworm adults are nocturnal and most active during warm, humid evenings.

Caterpillars on maize and corn crops or volunteer maize and corn in other crops will be the most likely easily identifiable sign of this pest.

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If you believe you have seen a fall armyworm, either an adult, larvae or egg masses – take a photo, preferably top down, and call the Exotic Pest and Disease hotline on 0800 80 99 66 or report through the online report form at www.report. mpi.govt.nz/pest or via https://www. findapest.nz/ (download the app).

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Opportunity for NZ wool in US Staff reporter NEW research has found that Americans have different ideas about wool compared to New Zealanders – one that offers growers a huge opportunity.

The research commissioned by the Campaign for Wool New Zealand (CFWNZ) found a large education gap in how US consumers think about wool, CFWNZ chair Tom O’Sullivan said.

“For example, 53% think of cashmere when they hear the word wool. Although they are aware of wool, it sits quite a bit lower down in their consciousness when compared to New Zealand consumers,” he said.

The research by Fresh Perspective Insight canvassed 3000 consumers across three markets – NZ, the United Kingdom and the United States in November last year.

It also detected a second issue.

“It showed Americans harbour misconceptions that wool is rough, itchy and hard to care for, whereas New Zealanders have

much higher awareness of the positive attributes of wool like biodegradability, fire resistance and insulating properties,” he said.

The tide is turning in our war on synthetics.

We can leverage consumers’ appetite for a cleaner, greener shift by ensuring we’re telling the right stories about New Zealand wool.

Tom O’Sullivan CFWNZ While NZ consumers are generally well-versed on wool and its benefits, O’Sullivan said the CFWNZ was pleased to have identified a number of gaps in consumer understanding in the US.

Most of those surveyed view wool as a super fibre when it comes to resilience and sustainability.

“One thing we saw in the research is that those in the US see wool as ‘owning’ the superior quality and durability space,” he said.

The research also found that 66% of respondents positioned wool as long-lasting when compared with petroleum-based synthetics and plant fibres.

“The tide is turning in our war on synthetics. We can leverage consumers’ appetite for a cleaner, greener shift by ensuring we’re telling the right stories about New Zealand wool, increasing demand for our growers. With strong quality measures, this data will also support our commercial partners to justify higher prices in the US,” he said.

It is well known that the United States has been a difficult market to crack, but O’Sullivan said the team at CFWNZ is confident.

“When it comes to the US, it’s all about target and focus. Although

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we now have a clearer picture of the US wool consumer, we need to narrow our geographic focus to ensure the messaging is strong and loud,” he said.

“We’ve identified Texas,

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Lamb meat sales up in US Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz

INCREASE: Demand for lamb is growing in the US, increasing in value by 30% in the two years to March.

TWO years of covid has altered consumer buying patterns in the United States and red meat appears to be a beneficiary.

That is the assessment of Alliance Group sales manager Shane Kingston who was part of a visit by senior management to the market earlier this month.

He said the US market has changed markedly after two years of covid, with consumers noticeably more conscious about their diet, lifestyle, nutrient intake and quality of food they eat. This creates a challenge for exporters to promote the red meat attributes of iron, vitamins and minerals.

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“As we observed with various visits with clients, this is certainly something we need to promote front and centre because consumers are looking for it,” Kingston said.

While red meat sales remain strong, he said distributors and retailers are looking to create more interest at the point of sale.

He said meat cabinets in supermarkets tend to be bland compared to fruit and vegetable displays, but meat offerings could be made more interesting and informative through improved packaging, signage or digital screens.

Demand for lamb is growing in the US, increasing in value by 30% in the two years to March.

“People are looking for diversity of choice and lamb fits that space,” he said.

Venison is becoming more prevalent and Alliance is introducing customers to it through 1lb mince packs, which is proving effective, and cuts are appearing on foodservices sector menus.

Introducing the product to US consumers is steady but has some way to go.

He said version one of plant-based protein “has had its moment,” with reduced space and visibility in retail outlets and, in many cases, prices are heavily discounted to drive sales.

As we observed with various visits with clients, this is certainly something we need to promote front and centre because consumers are looking for it.

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He believes the red meat sector should not relax as alternative protein manufacturers have the money to generate new versions and products.

“We don’t want to get complacent or take these producers on,” he said.

But they have a challenge trying to unseat red meat consumption in the US. Total sales of alternative protein in the US in the year to March were $US472m, compared to meat sales of $US6.3b.

Sales in March were $US33m, with lamb sales alone for the month at $38m.

One other noticeable change in the market in the last two years, has been the growth of pet food and launch of new brands.

Fish, chicken and turkey are being preferred in dry pet food product to beef, lamb and venison formulations due to price and availability.

He said pricing pressure is being felt by US consumers, where inflation is running at 8.5%.

Studies show 61% of consumers are implementing cost saving measures, with a noticeable increase in beef mince sales and shifts from some red meat protein to white meat such as chicken.

He said this is not reflected in the buying patterns of high net worth consumers who seem to be insulated from those economic pressures.

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Utilising trails to help tell food stories NORTHLAND’S economic development agency is growing a food and beverage strategy with optional visitor trails before international visitors come flooding back.

Northland Inc’s food and beverage ambassador Justine Stuart is learning the special aspects of the province and co-ordinating the industry’s efforts.

Without mass manufacturing plants, artisan producers tend to add value through kitchens on farms or orchards.

The vineyards are small and experimental, growing grape varieties not common elsewhere in New Zealand, like tempranillo, chambourcin, pinotage, merlot, vigot syrah and viognier.

Coincidentally, the largest contract wine making business in the north, Marsden Estate at Kerikeri, is presently for sale as founders Rod and Cindy McIvor move on after nearly 20 years bottling for up to 30 vineyards a season.

Last year Wellingtonbased consultancy Food + Drink New Zealand was commissioned by Northland Inc with central government funding to use the covid-19 shut down to reset and recalibrate the region’s tourism offering.

They interviewed

producers and suppliers, hospitality providers and tourism operators.

A previous Northland Food Network is inoperative because of lack of funding.

Stuart, a boutique accommodation provider and marketing professional, also heads the Savour Northland brand to coordinate trade fairs and food shows and publicise new products.

These trails will connect people with where their food is coming from in Northland.

Justine Stuart Northland Inc Previously she had founded, operated and closed after 18 months a Whangārei eatery and delicatessen specialising in Northland foods and beverages.

The visiting consultancy made these observations about Northland’s position: A strong and rich history of trading, food sourcing and production dating back to well before European arrival.

Sub-tropical climate allows for fruits like bananas and pineapples.

Food and beverage projects already exist, such as Kaipara Kai.

Better engagement with iwi, hāpu and Māori is essential for local stories to be told by those who have the right to tell them.

Significant institutional knowledge and connections by key staff in Northland Inc. A key objective of the food and beverage strategy is to weave the stories into Northland’s tourism offerings and make the province a premium destination, Stuart said.

Four food and beverage trails of one to four days’ duration are planned before the end of 2022 – the lower north from Kaiwaka to Tutukaka, the Bay of Islands, the Far North, and the Kaipara, west coast.

“These will connect people with where their food is coming from in Northland,” Stuart said.

Food producers say it has been hard to plan during the past two years of disruption and lower visitor numbers.

“Food producers in other regions may have closed, but here we have taken a step back and reimagined the offerings, to discover what really works.”

They may have narrowed the business pathway or extended into new areas.

Stuart said food producers are keen to connect with others for the common good.

“Perhaps that will be an annual food and beverage festival for the region,” she said.

DESTINATION: Food and beverage ambassador Justine Stuart is weaving the stories of Northland into trails for domestic and international tourists.

Northland Inc and Savour Northland regularly connect with about 120 smaller growers and food producers and about 180 hospitality and retail businesses.

While the proliferation of small businesses may be seen as a negative, she prefers to look on the positive side.

“When you see and taste the products you realise that a lot of love goes into them,” she said.

“Many of our growers follow organic and biodynamic principles and their produce is available seasonally fresh at the farmers’ and growers’ markets in the region.”

A&P rewards 50 years’ service FIFTY years of service by Walter Scott of Morrinsville to the Royal Agricultural Society has been publicly recognised.

He was presented by Morrinsville A&P Society president Bruce McRobbie with a plaque, a bottle of whiskey and a bouquet of flowers for Walter’s wife Tui. Scott is a former president of the Morrinsville A&P Society and the Mid-Northern council of the RAS, then vice-president and president of the national body.

His association with the Morrinsville show goes back 76 years when, aged 16, his father as society secretary suggested he help get the grounds ready for the first post-war event.

He has been a steward in at least one section in every show since.

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RECOGNITION: Morrinsville A&P Society president Bruce McRobbie, left, with Tui and Walter Scott.

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Milk exemption ‘deeply flawed’ BusinessDesk SMALL drinks companies say carving out dairy milk products from a new container return scheme is “unfair and inequitable”.

The scheme proposed by the Ministry for the Environment gives fresh dairy products such as milk and cream a free pass from imposing a 20 cents refundable deposit on their retail price that all other beverages in single-use metal, glass, paperboard and plastic materials will have to adopt.

Almighty Drinks director Ben Lenart said he was concerned the scheme will hit small companies like his, which make canned and bottled beverages using organic produce, while major dairy companies such as Fonterra and Goodman Fielder were exempt.

“We’re on board with the scheme and are all for it, but the exclusion of fresh milk containers is deeply flawed,” Lenart said.

“For the life of me, I just don’t understand how fresh dairy – one of the biggest contributors to New Zealand’s waste problem – was excluded.”

He said he was worried about

the “inflationary impact” of the scheme’s proposed 20c deposit and how it would flow through Almighty’s products.

He had calculated that the proposed 20c would result in a 1522% price increase on Almighty’s beverages.

“The reality is that it’s going to hit consumers hard in the pocket,” he said.

For the life of me, I just don’t understand how fresh dairy – one of the biggest contributors to New Zealand’s waste problem – was excluded.

Ben Lenart Almighty Drinks Government data showed fresh milk prices rose at an annual pace of 7.6% in March, outpacing the 2.5% rise in soft drinks, waters and juices.

Plant milk producers such as Otis Milk and All Good question why they’re included in the

proposed scheme when dairy is exempt.

Otis Milk head of market Hayley Pardoe said the dairy carve-out was “hugely disappointing and demoralising”.

“If we’re wanting to do what’s right for the environment, then we can’t be treating plant-based products differently from dairy,” Pardoe said.

She said the scheme created a “barrier” for small NZ businesses that were “just trying to do the right thing” and gave large dairy companies an unfair advantage.

“As a small company trying to make genuine change, we shouldn’t be the only ones paying the price,” she said.

Chris Morrison, the co-founder of All Good, which produces a range of oat milk and stocks almost 1000 cafés nationwide, was also concerned about the unfair advantage large companies get from the exclusion.

“To be honest, we don’t really feel like it’s an even playing field when bigger corporations aren’t going to be included in the scheme,” Morrison said.

“We’re disappointed as it does feel like the scheme is going to be a disadvantage to smaller brands like us,” general manager

Consecutive wins for Auckland artist AUCKLAND artist Gina Ferguson and West Coast artist Dale Cotton have taken out the top prize in the Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award with their work It Never Rains But It Pours.

The annual competition, hosted by Waikato Museum, and supported by the New Zealand National Fieldays Society (NZNFS), has entered its 26th year of challenging artists to turn iconic Kiwi farming products into art to win a share of $8500 in prize money.

The Rotorua-based sculptor, multi-disciplinary artist and this year’s judge Eugene Kara adhered strictly to the blind-judging process, which keeps entrant identities confidential from the judge.

With this bias removed, Ferguson also took second place with her artwork Cluster Buster Bath Bomb.

The artists’ statement for the winning work drew inspiration from the poem Rain by Hone Tuwhare, and said that the piece relates to how “our relationship to our environment informs our past, present and future”.

Kara said the winning artwork was both beautiful and stunning and he had to return to the work several times to admire it.

“The ihi, the wehi and the

EFFORTS REWARDED: Award winners Gina Ferguson, Dale Cotton and Heather Olesen.

mana put into that piece of work made it a full explosion of sensory experience for me,” Kara said.

Ferguson, who also won the top award in 2021, was surprised and overjoyed to have been recognised this year for both of her creations.

Ferguson and Cotton have been collaborating for the past 18 months, most recently having their sculpture on display in the Auckland Botanic Gardens over the summer.

Kara also praised the finalists for the profound themes behind the works of art and the sensory experience evoked by the innovative use of material

and process.

“I’ve loved the journey of viewing these works, feeling the tensions and the challenges, but also the hope and the optimism that we have as a people of Aotearoa,” he said.

“A big mihi to all of the artists for your vulnerability, your bravery and your mahi.”

Auckland-based artist Alexandra Ryan was placed third for Giggle!

The event also featured the NZNFS President’s Choice Award, selected by NZNFS president James Allen.

He chose Morrinsville-based Heather Olesen’s creation Rising Tensions for the award.

EXEMPTION: The scheme proposed by the Ministry for the Environment gives fresh dairy products a free pass from imposing a 20 cents refundable deposit on their retail price.

Faye MacGregor said.

“This scheme damages entrepreneurship in the plant milk industry by excluding large brands like Fonterra and Goodman Fielder and their dairy milks.”

A spokesperson for the Ministry said it was aware people had “strong views” on the dairy exemption, but that was “consistent with many overseas schemes”.

“The rationale for exempting fresh milk is because fresh milk is often considered a household staple,” they said.

“Where milk is consumed at home, the containers are already mostly captured through kerbside recycling.”

They said if the scheme goes

ahead it won’t start until 2025, meaning small firms wouldn’t feel the impact for another three years.

Not every small drinks company was down on the scheme. Little Island Creamery co-founder James Crow said “it’s a fantastic thing and we totally welcome being part of it”.

He thought the success of container return schemes overseas was a “good sign” that it would work in New Zealand “Small brands like us have to be brave and face challenges like recycling because we don’t benefit by avoiding them,” he said.

Fonterra and Goodman Fielder did not reply to requests for comment before the time of publication.

NZ King Salmon clears the decks Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz NZ KING Salmon will move towards cooler waters and seek $60 million with a pro rata rights offer to pay down debt and strengthen the balance sheet.

Sustained warmer waters exacerbated fish mortality, which cost the company $20m in the financial year to January 31.

Operating earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) fell by 40% to $6m and net loss after tax was a massive $73m.

Revenue was up $18m to $174m and rose 20% in sales volumes when FY21 frozen whole-fish stocks were sold that had built up because of the covid-19 effects on food services markets.

The issues pushed up net debt by $44m and have created the need for the recapitalisation proposal.

Property, plant and equipment assets have been written down, along with some goodwill, and net assets in the balance sheet have fallen by a large 42% to $111m.

NZ King Salmon will change its production model to minimise summer mortality by increasing the production focus on the cooler Tory Channel site during

the summer months.

Records show that water temperatures last summer at Tory stayed in the range of 14 to 16 degrees, compared with 18 degrees-plus in Pelorus Sound.

Three farms in that sound will be fallowed and may be used in future as nurseries for the proposed open ocean site in Cook Strait the company is calling Blue Endeavour.

The mortality biomass for the company as a whole was 28% in FY22, versus 12% to 22% in the five years previously.

But the Queen Charlotte Sound site recorded 57%, versus a previous maximum of 34%.

“Our efforts to identify and counter the factors that aggravate the climate effect on our King salmon have been intensified,” chief executive Grant Rosewarne said.

The renounceable rights offer is 2.85 shares for one at an issue price of 15c a share.

The share price dropped from 86c before the results announcement and rights offer to 51c currently and is down 78% or 66c over the past 12 months.

The theoretical ex-rights issue share price is 55c and the offer closes on May 6.

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Optimism as venison rebounds Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz VENISON companies are reporting a recovery for the US and China retail markets as they predict a spring peak schedule of $9 a kilogram.

Foodservice in North America and Europe have also contributed to the higher prices and the optimistic outlook for spring.

But it is not an exact science Andy Duncan of Duncan New Zealand cautioned.

In the first month more than 400 packs were sold which is very good for a protein that not many people in China eat.

Ethel Wong Alliance – Asia “Uncertainty of currency and cost inflation means we can’t be 100% sure of where it will go,” Duncan said.

Underlying the guidance is more evidence the market recovery is under way.

Late April farm gate prices for venison animals at $7.95-$8.05/ kg were 50% above the April 2021 average national published

schedule and on par with the fiveyear national average of $7.96/kg.

It is a fine balancing act and venison companies are wary of putting additional price pressure on their customers and stress the need for a steady build to sustainable prices.

“We are wary of creating a nonsustainable boom-bust cycle with restaurant menu placement being a critical stability factor,” Silver Fern Farms’ (SFF) Dave Courtney said.

Work is under way by the companies on market diversification, including growing the US and Chinese retail programmes.

This is supported directly by Deer Industry NZ (DINZ) through the Market Innovation Fund and Passion2Profit Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) and DINZ staff working alongside venison companies to boost demand with the key accounts.

Venison companies are also working hard to get product to market amidst global shipping, logistics and covid-19 disruption, along with uncertainty created by the war in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, more than 6000 retail packs of Alliance Group’s NZ venison have been sold in China since the start of the year, results that Alliance and its in-market partner Grand Farm are “very pleased about,” Alliance Group marketing manager for Asia Ethel Wong said.

The first two retail items,

venison rolls and brisket cubes, were added to the Grand Farm range on jd.com, China’s secondlargest ecommerce retailer, at the end of December 2021, in activity supported by the DINZ Market Innovation Fund.

“In the first month more than 400 packs were sold, which is very good for a protein that not many people in China eat and for the relatively high retail price compared to beef and lamb,” Wong said.

The 300g pack venison rolls are retailing at the equivalent of $11.20 and 500g packs of brisket cubes at $15.70.

The meat roll is a familiar format for Chinese consumers and is used in traditional hot pot cuisine where the rolls are dipped in boiling stock with other ingredients.

It uses venison extracted from the flaps and brisket that is compacted in a labour-intensive process in China by Alliance Group’s further processing partner.

It is then sliced thinly to a one-millimetre thickness, with seasonings added during the processing for additional flavour.

The Alliance and Grand Farm team has been hard at work to find new products that will resonate with Chinese consumers, Wong said.

Supporting the launch was a page on the jd.com ecommerce website, which emphasised the

WARY: Silver Fern Farms chief customer officer Dave Courtney says they’re wary of creating a non-sustainable boom-bust cycle, with restaurant menu placement being a critical stability factor.

NZ venison origin, top-quality deer breeds and NZ’s grass-fed production practices.

Another two packs, venison leg meat that can be sliced and diced at home by the consumer and leg cubes, were introduced to the range last month.

These are the first four of nine new products planned by the cooperative.

The four products have since expanded into two independent retailers stores in five cities: Harbin in Heilongjiang province, Dalian in Liaoning province, Nanning City in Guangxi province, Luzhou in Sichuan and Sanya in Hainan.

A further five new Pure South venison products are also planned for launch.

DINZ seeks viable GHG pricing options Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz THE deer farming community is getting primed to speak up again to ensure it gets a fair deal on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Industry has made it clear it will not settle for any deal that will put the viability of deer farming at risk.

Deer Industry NZ (DINZ) chair Ian Walker says the battle to get a GHG pricing system that is fair to deer farmers is far from over.

The big concern is for those deer farmers who have little or no opportunity to plant trees to offset their emissions.

Aside from planting trees to sequester carbon, there are currently no GHG reduction technologies that deer farmers can apply on their farms, short of cutting their stock numbers.

More than 100 deer farmers provided DINZ with feedback on the options and many also provided their views direct to He Waka Eke Noa. “To everyone who made their voices heard, thank you,” Walker said.

“DINZ and the NZ Deer Farmers Association (NZDFA) have made their submissions to HWEN, but nothing beats feedback from an affected farming family.”

He said he has no doubt he will be asking farmers before the year

ONGOING: Deer Industry NZ chair Ian Walker says the battle to get a GHG pricing system that is fair to deer farmers is far from over.

is out to again make their voices heard.

“If agriculture enters the NZ ETS, or if the worst case HWEN scenarios come to pass, the impact on deer farm viability will be disastrous,” he said.

“We have made it clear to everyone who will listen that ways must be found to reduce

agricultural GHG emissions that do not affect the viability of deer farming.

“But listening does not mean agreeing, let alone making the changes we seek, so we will be closely analysing HWEN’s final proposals after they are presented to the government on May 31, as well as the Government’s policy

proposals when they emerge.

“If we don’t like what we see, the deer farming community will once again need to speak up.”

Formal consultation on two pricing options developed by HWEN closed in late March.

Farming groups will next get a chance to have a say when government is expected to release HWEN’s final policy proposal in early June.

Walker is expecting a heated public debate when the Government consults the wider public about its proposals but, in the heat of the debate, he cautions deer farmers to remember the big picture – the need for agriculture to play its part in reducing GHG emissions.

“It’s the right thing to do, it’s what other New Zealanders expect of us,” he said.

“It’s what our markets expect of us, but the reduction targets adopted by government must be fair and farmers must have practical tools they can use to achieve those targets.”

DINZ has remained part of the HWEN process because it figures that it gets a better hearing than it would have if it had stepped outside the tent.

“Sure, the options HWEN put out for comment took little account of the interests or concerns of deer farmers, but by staying in the tent we have got

If agriculture enters the NZ ETS, or if the worst-case HWEN scenarios come to pass, the impact on deer farm viability will be disastrous.

Ian Walker DINZ HWEN to review the formula for calculating deer emissions, which unduly penalise deer,” he said.

“It will also assist us to get deer farm emission charges to be balanced fairly between venison and velvet.”

The key GHG policy goals for DINZ include deer farmers being provided with the tools they need to reduce GHG emissions without affecting the viability of venison and velvet production, with reductions in emissions to be calculated and rewarded via a cost effective farm level system and the burden of emission levies to be shared fairly across all land-use industries.

He said DINZ will continue to work to help government find solutions that achieve GHG reductions while ensuring that deer farms remain viable.

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Cloud putting links into food chain Agritech has undergone a monumental shift to cloud computing in the past five years, in part thanks to the sheer digital horsepower of the 200-plus services from the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Elizabeth Fastiggi is AWS’ head of global business development for agriculture, and will visit New Zealand for the 2035 Oceania agritech summit in October. She spoke with Richard Rennie.

WITH the enormous data flows agriculture and farming operations generate, a move to cloud computing services has meant startups and corporates alike have been able to focus more closely on what they set out to do, leaving the heavy lifting of managing servers and data centres to the likes of AWS, Elizabeth Fastiggi says.

AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering, across 84 availability zones in 26 geographic regions around the world, offering AI, machine learning, server capacity and data programmes to clients.

“Really, operators of any size have to consider several key benefits that a move to the cloud can bring,” Fastiggi said.

“The first comes down to agility.

Companies can access servers in minutes, with significant capacity, which is critical for agritech when it is collecting and processing vast data streams demanding instant interpretation. This allows agritech companies to experiment more frequently and at a faster rate.

“The next two – elasticity and cost savings – have a particular role to play in agritech. Given the seasonal nature of agriculture, we have a lot of peak data loads that occur when it’s planting or harvesting season. The elastic nature of the cloud allows customers the ability to scale up and down, using just what they need. This scalability allows them to trade a fixed capital expense for a variable one investing in cloud computing infrastructure and only using it to its full potential at certain times of the year,” she said.

Fastiggi said it also enables

those customers to focus on developing applications and solutions that differentiate their business, instead of spending that time maintaining data centres and servers.

Access to hard-to-find talent can also accompany cloud offerings, and she said accessing talent at present is one of the key constraints upon new businesses wanting to expand.

Connectivity is also ensured with the geographic spread of server capacity AWS has developed.

Particularly given how much food is wasted each year, about a third of what is produced, and a third of that is lost through failures in the transport system and inefficiencies in the cold chain supply.

Elizabeth Fastiggi AWS This includes the proposal to spend $7.5 billion building a cluster of major data centres in Auckland, due to be opened in 2024 and claimed to contribute $10.8b to NZ’s GDP over the following 15 years.

This global presence allows AWS customers to rapidly deploy their services and solutions globally.

Despite NZ’s pastoral food system focus, she said the country

has rapidly gained a reputation for its innovative, leading-edge agritech offerings in the past few years.

She cites the likes of remote cow collar company Halter as a poster company for that innovation, with a product that incorporates multiple techtypes, including GPS and solar charging innovations and remote monitoring capability.

“But it is also the ability to capture so much data that can be fed into machine learning models to provide animal health and behaviour information. It is a great example of a product that takes that pain point for farmers, and can contribute so much more to management,” she said.

Greater incorporation of data flow across the entire food system is an area Fastiggi is optimistic about, and she welcomes that as the globe grapples with significant food supply issues.

“Particularly given how much food is wasted each year, about a third of what is produced, and a third of that is lost through failures in the transport system and inefficiencies in the cold chain supply,” she said.

With NZ’s high portion of protein products, this is of particular concern.

AWS has worked with cold chain logistics company Carrier, to develop Lynx, a digital platform to enhance the intelligence of cold chain distribution systems.

Combining IoT analytics and machine learning, the company is able to better manage the temperature-controlled transport and storage of perishables.

“So, using predictive tools they are able to determine things like traffic congestion, impact on

SUPPORT: Elizabeth Fastiggi of Amazon Web Services says remote servers can do the heavy lifting for agriculture’s vast and seasonal data flows.

arrival time and spoilage risk, and what alternative routes can be taken to avoid that,” she said.

The ability to integrate previously siloed aspects of food chain data together and combine with real-time information on things like weather or traffic will be increasingly vital as global supply chains, and now food sources themselves, come under pressure.

At a farm level she points to CropX, a company that started in NZ, moved to Israel and is now back in NZ, as a major player in crop analytics coupled to AWS services, providing significant savings in water use and crop yields.

“I think one of the most exciting things we are seeing is how the

agritech sector is responding to this need for a more sustainable food system. Customers are increasingly wanting to invest in the part of the chain they are engaged in, but also up and downstream from their operations. This is fostering a type of collaboration that we haven’t seen before and will help us address the biggest challenges at scale,” she said.

Fastiggi is one of several worldleading speakers addressing delegates at this year’s 2035 Oceania Summit, being held in Auckland, October 10-11.

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Alternative water plan sent to Govt Staff reporter MAYORS and chief executives representing the 32 member councils of Communities 4 Local Democracy He hapori mō te Manapori (C4LD) have presented politicians and government officials with their alternative plan for three waters reform.

The local government leaders recently travelled to Wellington to present their 10 point plan for reform to Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta and Department of Internal Affairs officials, as well as Green Party co-leaders Marama Davidson and James Shaw, and Green MP Eugenie Sage.

The group had already presented its models to the National Party and ACT representatives.

Manawatū District Mayor and C4LD chair Helen Worboys says

the group is keen to work with all parties to ensure any reforms have the broad base of support needed for major long-term infrastructure investment.

“The proposals we’ve brought to the table enable the Government to deliver on all its aims, create opportunities for strong and lasting partnerships and deliver safe, sustainable and affordable water services for all New Zealand,” she said.

“We’re confident that we’re in line with the majority of New Zealanders. We’ve presented a reform framework that is directly supported by nearly half of councils in New Zealand and is aligned with the views of the majority of other councils, most notably Auckland representing 1.7 million people.”

Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown says people in his district have given a clear message that they

do not support the Government’s reform model and want the process stopped.

“We’ve spent a lot of money over the years to make sure our three waters infrastructure is maintained to a high standard. This council has a long-held policy to renew pipes and other infrastructure before they break, and to plan ahead for growth.”

He says while other councils needed assistance with three waters services, the current model proposed by Government was not fit for purpose and he hoped that ministers would listen carefully to feedback.

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Ahuwhenua competition back on track Staff reporter THE 2022 Ahuwhenua Trophy competition for Māori sheep and beef farming is back on track after being postponed earlier in the year.

Ahuwhenua Trophy chair Nukuhia Hadfield said with covid restrictions now being progressively lifted, it was decided that it is safe to resume the judging process.

She said entrants and sponsors have all been consulted and they are happy with this decision.

She said the only change to the programme now is the cancellation of the announcement of finalists at a function at Parliament.

“We will be announcing the finalists once the first-round judging process is complete.

People will have a chance to meet this year’s finalists at their respective field days in August and September.

These events have always proved popular and are an excellent way of showcasing the achievements of our finalists,” Hadfield said.

The new amended dates for the field days are: Field Day 1, August 25; Field Day 2,

CHANGES: Beef + Lamb New Zealand chair Andrew Morrison and Ahuwhenua Trophy chair Nukuhia Hadfield. Hadfield said with covid restrictions now being lifted, they’ve decided to resume the judging process.

September 1; and Field Day 3, September 8.

The awards dinner will be held on October 21 at the Pettigrew Green Arena in Hawke’s Bay. Hadfield said 2022 has been a very challenging year for many Māori sheep and beef farmers, especially those on the East Coast of the North Island.

“The heavy rains in March had a catastrophic effect on some Māori farms – akin to the devastating

Cyclone Bola in 1988.

“The torrential rain caused massive slips on many farms destroying fences, tracks and other infrastructure. Stock has also been lost or affected by the storms.

It will take considerable time and effort to restore these farms to their former state,” she said.

But she said despite the setbacks, the prospects are good for another excellent Ahuwhenua Trophy competition.

CAREFUL CONSIDERATION: Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown hopes Government Ministers will listen carefully to feedback on proposed three waters reform.

NZ farmers feeding NZ families Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz THE Meat the Need national charity is celebrating two years in business with key partner Silver Fern Farms joining the party.

Born out of the 2020 covid lockdown, co-founders Siobhan O’Malley and Wayne Langford designed Meat the Need to supply much needed meat to city missions and food banks.

The meat was donated by farmers and processed, packed and delivered to those in most need.

Two years on, farmers have donated 3000 animals to the charity with 700,000 meals donated to foodbanks and city missions throughout the country.

From the outset, Silver Fern Farms (SFF) partnered with Meat the Need enabling its farmers to donate locally

in the charity’s drive.

Now the processer has extended its partnership in the lead up to the anniversary and included an on-pack donation for its new range of PURE Burgers giving customers the opportunity to directly contribute to those in need, with $1 from every pack sold being donated to Meat the Need.

They’ve also made it easier for Kiwis to learn more about Meat the Need by including an on-pack QR code so that consumers can learn more about the charity’s journey to date.

“With the two-year anniversary of Meat the Need approaching we wanted to give our customers the chance to be part of the meaningful work that the team is doing,” SFF marketing manager Brenda Galbraith said.

“Adding a per-pack donation was the logical

next step for our partnership and we hope that it will give customers even more reason to enjoy the new range knowing that every time they buy PURE Burgers, they’re helping provide red meat nutrition to those who might not otherwise be able to eat red meat.

By scanning the QR code on the back of the packet customers can learn more about Meat the Need, the charity’s partnership with SFF and where donations will be spent.

Shoppers can look out for the burgers in the freezer isle of “all good supermarkets” nationwide.

“The name says it all really; our PURE Burgers are 97-99% meat, a sprinkle of salt and pepper, there are no fillers, no artificial ingredients – just pure deliciousness, gluten free and keto friendly,” Galbraith said.

LOCKDOWN PLAN: Meat the Need cofounders Siobhan O’Malley and Wayne Langford.

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New initiative to boost wool exports Staff reporter GOVERNMENT funding is helping agribusinesses decarbonise some of their operations.

A multi-million-dollar decarbonisation initiative at carpet manufacturer Bremworth’s Napier operation is set to boost New Zealand wool exports.

The sustainability initiative is part of a programme to reduce production related carbon emissions and improve Bremworth’s operating efficiency as one of the country’s largest wool product manufacturers.

The decarbonisation initiative is set to reduce emissions by up to 30% and help boost wool product exports, Bremworth chief executive Greg Smith said.

The first stage is a $2.1 million project for the Napier wool yarn spinning plant to transition from natural gas process heat to electric heat pump technology.

The initiative is designed to improve the energy efficiency of manufacturing processes by detailed process heating measurement, minimising waste heat and optimising the heating system configurations and technology to meet future production volumes.

The project will reduce emissions at the facility saving up to 1500 tonnes of CO2 per annum.

“The increased efficiency of the new technology will help lower operating overheads, as well as boosting production and exports,” Smith said.

“While wool is already an inherently natural, renewable and biodegradable manufacturing material, we have a longer-term strategic programme in place to further lower our carbon footprint, with the minimisation of gas-powered process heating being one of the key projects for the company.

Improving the sustainability of New Zealand’s wool carpet industry is a critical differentiator from flooring alternatives for international markets.

“We know that our recent move away from synthetics to natural wool fibres has been well-received by our export network in Australia and the US,” he said.

IMPROVE: Bremworth chief executive Greg Smith says each new sustainability initiative the company undertakes is helping to position their carpet further away from competitors across a growing international market niche.

“However, to support the brand’s ongoing evolution we are researching a number of ways to further improve the products’ circularity and reduce our environmental impact at all stages of production.

“With each new sustainability initiative we undertake we are helping to position our carpet further away from competitors across a growing international market niche.”

The company’s decarbonisation project will be co-funded by 38% (almost $800,000) under the $69 million Government Investment in Decarbonising Industry (GIDI) Fund, which is administered by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA).

Wool scourer WoolWorks will replace its gas fired boiler at its Awatoto plant near Napier with a modern efficient hot water heat pump, significantly reducing the site’s carbon emissions by almost a quarter.

The new hot water pump at Awatoto, which will be one of the most sophisticated and largest in New Zealand, will replace the

CLEANER: Ravensdown will install a biomass combustor at its Dipton lime quarry.

PARTNERSHIP: WoolWorks chief executive Nigel Hales with Tanarra Capital Partners investment director Maja Sliwinski, Neil Vinson of Tanarra Capital Partners and Wools NZ chief executive Rosstan Mazey.

site’s natural gas-based hot water generation system, including a hot water boiler and steam heat exchangers.

WoolWorks will invest $2 million in the project with EECA

contributing $455,000 through GIDI fund.

The project will reduce carbon dioxide emissions from scouring operations at the plant by 1700 net tonnes per year, 24% of the total energy-related emissions from the site.

WoolWorks is also switching from coal to an electrode boiler at its Washdyke site near Timaru in a separate project also co-funded by a previous GIDI round.

“WoolWorks is determined to demonstrate leadership in helping to address climate change,” WoolWorks chief executive Nigel Hales says.

“This investment represents another material step in our goal to improve WoolWorks’ environmental footprint and reduce our carbon emissions.

The fund is also helping Ravensdown install a biomass combustor at its Dipton lime quarry.

Locally supplied wood fuel will replace coal in the lime-drying process – an important part of preparing the naturally occurring soil conditioner for use by

Southland farmers and growers.

The co-operative’s commitment is being matched by funding through the GIDI Fund.

The funding agreement with EECA commits Ravensdown to savings of at least 1107 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per annum, reducing Ravensdown’s direct carbon footprint by almost 10%.

Ravensdown chief executive Garry Diack thanked Energy Minister Megan Woods for the Government’s support.

“The intense interest in GIDI from all parts of the manufacturing economy shows how important the fund has been in driving the climate change response. Ravensdown is thrilled to receive this support in order to greatly advance progress on our plan to phase out coal across the business,” Diack said.

Ravensdown lime is used on-farm to improve fertility by reducing acidity. Along with reducing transport emissions, drying the lime helps it to be spread more evenly as a powder over grazing areas.

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Plant & Food Research is embarking on a feasibility study to see if almonds can be grown sustainably in Hawke’s Bay, with invested support from MPI’s Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures Fund.

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The wool market entered an interesting phase at the start of April. Hot and humid weather conditions around Christmas caused an increase in yellowcoloured fleeces.

Why is there a need to see if almonds can be produced with a low carbon footprint? What do almonds need that increases their carbon footprint?

2 How could almonds provide diversification opportunities for farmers?

3 MPI is investing through the Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures fund (SFF Futures). What is this?

4 Ministry for Primary Industries director of investment programmes Steve Penno said that developing high-value sustainable products is central to the Government’s Fit for a Better World roadmap for the food and fibre sector. What is this “roadmap”?

4a - Do you think that “Fit for a Better World” is working along the right track for NZ food and fibre? Explain why you think this?

4b - Do you think there is something that could be changed, done better or added to this initiative?

Outline what this is and how it could be improved.

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2 What are their study groupings? Why do they have three groupings rather than just two?

3 How many years has this study been conducted? Why do they need to carry the study on for this long?

4 What are the variables that they measure each year?

5 At what age are the ewes retained from hoggets mated?

6 What was the main difference found between the ewes retained from hoggets (particularly twins) compared to the control group. Why do you think this is?

7 Why is hogget mating more widespread these days compared to historically?

8 Are there any issues with excessive mature ewe weights longer term?

Shrekapo is a merino that managed to avoid shearing over his four years of life. He got his first shear on Easter Monday at Lake Tekapo’s market.

To read the full article head to: https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/ news/128388439/shrekapo-the-elusivemerino-186kg-lighter-after-being-shornfor-the-first-time?fbclid=IwAR2cIsoAAm19ib56h19aYppum8jhlNe5e-wkvQNWS2r2E5DIXJ36Va3Y8

Shrekapo

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3 Tony Dobbs was called in to shear Shrekapo. This wasn’t the biggest trim that Dobbs had done. What was the largest single shear that he has done? Where and what did he shear then?

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Why is it an issue to have yellow coloured fleece?

2 What do you think this does to values?

3 Do some research, how does weather conditions affect wool colour?

4 China has gone into lockdown after the arrival of Omicron. How do you think this is impacting factors such as demand and shipping?

Woolly Wonders

A short documentary has been produced for The Campaign for Wool engaging leading academic experts to examine the positive pastoral contribution that the grazing of ruminants makes to the continued wellbeing of the planet.

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This documentary is obviously produced in the UK, do you think it is relevant to NZ? If so why, if not why not?

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2 Do you think it is important to get this type of video out to a large audience?

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3 What are some of the misconceptions that people have currently about farming and the environment?

The 4-year old sheep was found on Mt Edward

How much did Shrekapo’s fleece weigh?

2 Do some research, what is the weight of an average merino fleece?

3 Do some research. What is 37 micron wool commonly used for?

5 Shrek the sheep was found in a cave in Otago in 2004. When he was shorn? What did his fleece weigh? How much more or less was this then Shrekapo’s?

6 Did the original Shrek’s fleece outweigh Tony Dobbs largest single shear? What was the weight difference between their fleece?

4 Shrekapo’s owners have jokingly renamed him spaceman.

Why is this?

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Blackface sheep. Most 1 Sheep regularly crossed with common prime lamb sires Romney/ Corriedale and Merino in NZ for crossbred commercial ewe 5 Exceptionally muscled sheep production 7 Strong wool, top fleece 2 High growth rate, well muscled, weights. Highest micron wool, low fat sheep. Fine white wool Across great tensile wool strength 10. Sheep mainly found infrom 1182 2.by High growth rate, well 4 Sheep bred Upstanding muscled, 8 High producing dairy sheep. the South Island. crossing Merino and Lincoln low fat sheep. Fi 3. Blackface sheep. Most Fast growth rates.

Longwool sheep with good frame and white wool common prime lamb sires in mainly found in the barrel 6 Medium to large easycare hill 4. Sheep bred from 1182 b NZ 10 Sheep South Island. Upstanding country sheep speciality crossing 5. Exceptionally sheep withmuscled good frame and 11. Sheep with 9 Prolific breed through NZ as Merino and Lincol fibre wool for carpets Longwool adapts well to a variety of sheep barrel 11. Sheep with speciality fibre 13. High qualityterrains and climates fine wool 6. Medium to large easyca 7. Strong wool, top fleece wool for carpets 12 Self shedding meat breed, 12-24 microns sheep hill country sheep weights.

Highest micron wool, 13 High quality fine wool 12-24 capable of lambing 3 times in Down 9. Prolific breed through N great tensile wool strength microns sheep

8. High producing dairy sheep. Fast growth rates.

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Down - 1.Border Leicester 2.Poll Dorset 4.Corriedale 6.Perendale 9.Romney 12.Dorper

Beef + Lamb NZ and Massey University have undertaken a study looking at the feasibility of growing twins born to ewe hoggets out to heavy weights and retaining them as replacements and mating as ewe lambs. Head to: https://beeflambnz.com/news-views/ study-examines-feasibility-retaining-lambshoggets-replacements?fbclid=IwAR10gjWk8 TOb14o0egsP7qBVBWcaGwT5zLXetwkxuFrDk Va3pklu3iTweUI to read more.

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When have values for 37 micron been at the highest level on this graph?

as adapts well to a variety terrains and climates 12. Self shedding meat breed, capable of lambing times in two years

Across - 3.Suffolk 5.Texel 7.Lincoln 8.East Friesian 10.Polwarth 11.Drysdale 13.Merino

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Newsmaker

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Farm worker with a mean off spin Otago cricketer, farm worker and veterinary nurse student Eden Carson is making a few waves. Neal Wallace meets the sports enthused.

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T’S a long way from a Central Otago dairy farm to a cricket wicket in the United States city of Houston.

But that is the contrast experienced by Otago cricketer Eden Carson earlier this year, when the part-time farm worker and veterinary nurse student at Otago Polytechnic spread the gospel of cricket in the US. When not studying or playing cricket, Carson is helping out on a 900-cow dairy farm at Patearoa in Maniototo.

But in April she hung up her apron, put away her gumboots and books to join fellow SBS Bank Otago Spark Kate Ebrahim to play in a cricket tournament at Houston, Texas.

They were invited to play in the Houston Open 2022, a cricket tournament organised by the International Cricketers Association designed to grow the game of cricket internationally.

The quality of cricket was lower than she is used to in New Zealand, but Carson describes the experience as memorable.

They were the first two NZ women to play in the tournament, joining the Samp Army side in the two-day competition, alongside local players and others from all over world to play three Twenty20 fixtures.

She said the tournament attracted players from America, including the national women’s and women’s Under 19 sides, as well as expats from cricketing nations and invited players from all over the world.

Her teammates were a mix of club players, current and former internationals and enthusiasts.

The enjoyment was enhanced when Carson’s team beat the

WICKET-TAKER: Otago dairy farm worker and cricketer Eden Carson.

Houston Women’s Cricket Club in the final.

This success followed an impressive 2021-22 season for Carson and her Otago Sparks team, which won the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield, the premier women’s domestic one-day competition.

The victory was in no small measure due to a dominant display by Carson in February’s final played in Queenstown, when her off spin proved unplayable for the Wellington Blaze.

Having found her line, length and variable pace, the 20-year-old took a career best five for 17 to lead the Otago side to an upset 138-run win over the heavily fancied Wellington side.

“Beating Wellington was great.

They are a tough team and it was

brilliant to get one up over them,” Carson said.

The result and Carson’s form is even more remarkable when the side had lost 23 successive games leading up to last season.

She attributed the turn around to the maturing of a young side, having a clear, understandable team tactic and playing to their strengths.

“We stuck to what we knew we could do,” she said.

It was the same for her dominance with the ball. She found a wicket-taking, runrestricting rhythm and stuck to it.

Raised on a Maniototo sheep and beef farm, she said her parents encouraged her to play sport from the age of five.

It saw her involved in cricket, rugby and hockey, even though

Photo: Jan MacKenzie

she was the only girl in her local club’s cricket team.

“The boys were quite nice to me because they were scared they didn’t want to hurt my feelings,” she said.

“They don’t hold back now.”

As a boarder at Dunedin’s St Hilda’s Collegiate, she was fortunate to have in Neil Rosenberg a teacher who was especially passionate about cricket.

Between them they helped St Hilda’s win two national secondary school titles.

She was in Year 12 when she earned selection to the Otago Sparks in 2018-19.

Her first game for Otago was against Wellington and made memorable when she took a diving catch at mid-wicket to

dismiss former White Fern Rachel Priest.

Carson started out as a medium-pace bowler, but realised her lack of height limited the pace she could generate so switched to off-spin.

In 2020 she took 5-18 against the Central Hinds in a Twenty20 match and also that year received one of eight NZ Cricket development contracts.

But there have less memorable games, such as conceding 20 runs off one over against Northern Districts.

Cricket is a commitment.

While she plays hockey in winter, cricket training starts in mid-winter and they play virtually every weekend over summer.

“It’s difficult being 20 and all your friends are going out to socialise and I can’t because I’m off playing cricket,” she said.

The camaraderie and socialising with her team-mates is some compensation for the commitment, as is her constant striving to improve.

“It is the main reason I have stuck around,” she said.

Otago coach and former Black Cap Craig Cummings has been especially influential in finetuning her skills and creating a team environment in which the Otago Sparks went from cellar dwellers to champions.

She said the quality of the NZ women’s game is improving as more young women play the game and learn from the older hands.

This year Carson says she intends focusing on improving her batting skills to heighten her chances of further advancement.

She is now in her last year of study at Otago Polytechnic and said farm managers, Gerard Eketone and partner Megan Linton have been accommodating of her studies and cricket commitments.

Once she graduates, she intends working in a rural vet practice, naturally in a centre with a cricket club close by.

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SUCCESS: Researcher Laura Keenan wants farmers to learn that failure is a learning experience that will contribute to future success when it comes to new pasture systems.

No F in pastoral systems’ success Climate change, gas emission reductions and lower nutrient losses are all putting pressure on traditional hill country pastoral systems. Postdoctoral researcher Laura Keenan is leading an effort to develop viable alternative pastoral models. She spoke to Richard Rennie.

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AURA Keenan maintains the $8.1 million Hill Country Futures Partnership programme represents an opportunity to harvest some of the low hanging fruit that exists in the expansive sector.

The futures fund is co-funded

by Beef + Lamb NZ, PGG Wrightson, Seedforce NZ and Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), focusing on the profitability, sustainability and wellbeing of the hill country sector, from the pasture through to communities.

For Keenan, as a PhD student, her focus is on the impacts of satellite farming with improved forages in the sector, with her work being strongly influenced by the earlier groundbreaking work of Lincoln professor Derrick Moot.

Moot’s work leading the dryland pastures researcher programme is revealing how systems can become more resilient under climate change, while also improving water and nitrogen use efficiency.

It was Moot who coined the term satellite farming, to describe the practice of establishing an alternative pasture crop on a hill country farm’s more suitable land,

to enhance the ability of the entire property to withstand a tougher climate.

His work on lucerne establishment and harvesting has proven seminal over the past three decades and contributed much to greater drought resistance among many hill country, dry land operators.

Keenan’s research aims to take a range of pasture options, including red and white clovers, plantain and lucerne, to hill country farmers and will assess the opportunities of increasing and improving forage growth on unimproved land.

Her estimates based across the country’s approximately eight million hectares of dry stock country are that if an extra 7.15 tonnes of dry matter can be grown on 5% of it, it has the potential to add over $300m to the economy.

Her study will include overlaying Niwa data with known growth data for the assorted pastures, to have a predictive indicator of what could be grown where in years to come.

She also appreciates shifts in pasture composition that have to be balanced against increased expectations about farms’ environmental footprints.

“It can be a tricky conundrum

to be placed with. The size of the farm’s footprint and trying to grow more feed means more feed is eaten and more methane released. You do have to balance that. However, improvements in pasture production would also improve the productivity of good land, putting the poorer land aside,” Keenan said.

I hope that through this work we can also turn the word ‘failure’ into a learning word, understanding why something failed and what can be done to avoid it in future.

Laura Keenan PhD researcher An example could be allocating the best 20ha on a 150ha hill country property to be sown into plantain or lucerne, satellite fashion.

Such a move can also help ameliorate the greatest risk in farmers taking up a new pasture

regime, that of failure.

“It is the ‘f’ word,” she said.

“By breaking the use down into bite-sized chunks, if you do fail the first time, that will not contribute to a failure of your entire system for the season.

I hope that through this work we can also turn the word ‘failure’ into a learning word, understanding why something failed and what can be done to avoid it in future.”

She attributes farmers’ reluctance to try again after a failure more to their extremely busy calendars than any character flaws, having little time to relearn amid tight seasonal windows.

She hopes to be able to better communicate processes and methods well ahead of any planned changes.

Plantain is one crop flat land lamb finishers are well familiar with, that passed on relatively easily to dairy farm systems.

Its use in the hill country is a significant opportunity but a tricky one, given the lower levels of control over establishment and grazing management.

“But there are good examples out there of people who are using it successfully,” she said.

Part of her remit is to stage a series of field days starting

the second half of this year, communicating options and opportunities to farmers for alternate feed systems.

Ultimately, she would like to devise a pasture forage matrix along the lines of DairyNZ’s Forage Value Index. The index provides a guide to pasture productivity by cultivar across NZ’s farming latitudes.

“It may not be quite as detailed to start with, possibly just on a species basis rather than cultivar, highlighting key traits like dormancy periods with lucerne, for example,” she said.

Her hope is that such a matrix could be developed within five years.

Keenan views the role as a dream opportunity, returning to academia while still working with her partner on the family’s mixed cropping and lambing operation in Manawatū, and doing environmental farm consultancy work.

“As an extrovert, the written work is tough. I enjoy talking to farmers and am finding they are extremely interested in what we are doing – they are all in the business of growing grass for food and if you can show them a better way, they want to know about it,” she said.

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EDITORIAL

Inflation in the right place

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NFLATION is the word on many people’s lips right now, with the overall economy struggling to boost wages to keep pace with rising prices.

It’s not a problem unique to New Zealand, our latest inflation rate of 5.9% is in line with many other countries like ours.

Australia’s dealing with a 5.1% rise, in the United Kingdom it’s 7% and in the United States it’s 8.54%.

Those numbers are far higher than anyone wants them to be but there are a lot of factors – the Ukraine war and covid-19-induced supply chain problems – fueling the rise.

What’s important is that incomes rise along with outgoings.

For businesses, that can be a difficult thing to manage as they deal with rising costs for raw materials, transport and processing as well.

But it’s vital that workers aren’t left forgotten and disillusioned as they’re priced out of a good life.

So it’s good news that the latest data on the agricultural workforce shows a decent boost in remuneration for those working the land.

A lot of that wage growth is down to similar reductions in supply that are pushing up prices across NZ. A shortage of experienced workers is creating competition among employers who need wise heads and sure hands on the ground.

This is as it should be.

If farming is the backbone of the economy, then everyone who contributes to that wealth should be rewarded.

The issue is a big one for our sector.

Export returns have grown consistently over the past few years, but it’s still not a place people want to work.

Well, now the market’s spoken and employers are listening.

Immigration is still a key issue for this Government, which is keen to prioritise local workers.

This new data should help paint a pleasing picture of farming life.

Bryan Gibson

LETTERS

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Clarity needed on small schemes BRIAN Hanna’s Pulpit piece is interesting, but misses out my situation completely. I am sure I am not the only one in my position.

I have had no information about the proposals from anybody official.

I am on a small shared scheme.

My neighbours are on a bigger shared scheme.

Other people must also be on shared schemes.

In my case the sharing is historic.

The water supply originally supplied one farm and the farm house.

Now the farm is separate, the water source is now in a carbon farm, the farm is much smaller and the farm house, and the new farm house and an owner’s weekend crib are

separate titles.

The water supply still serves all. There is no formal arrangement for the supply.

My neighbour’s supply seems to supply two farms, a lifestyle block and a dozen houses. It was a shared effort to install and all done on a gentleman’s handshake 50 years ago.

Another neighbour has half a dozen houses on his station, others have cottages now rented out. The rules about who must do what are not clear.

Suddenly these schemes must be registered with a central body. However, we still do not know about mandated testing regimes, treatment plants, or if ownership may be taken by one of the new bodies.

Hanna carefully avoids mentioning schemes like these and there must be many in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

While safe drinking water is a must, bureaucratic top-down control can cause heavy and unnecessary expenses without improving the water quality.

Leyland Benson North Canterbury

The effects of the 80s revolution GIVEN that food production is of primary importance to the New Zealand economy and likely to remain so into the distant future, it is not the job of private enterprise, farmers/ratepayers to foot the bill for building “national infrastructure” that make such endeavours possible.

Let me explain.

Both the Amuri and tiny Glenmark schemes were the last to be vetted by the Ministry of Works engineers and financed via the Treasury (i.e. printed money) all NZ citizens who are direct beneficiaries.

I remember going to YFC ploughing matches near Culverden only to find the ground frozen till after lunch in the then desolate, cold landscape.

Look at it now, pouring billions into the national economy to pay for all the “wish list” consumable imports, many of which used to be made/produced here, made possible by irrigation.

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Opinion

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High milk payouts tow bank lending Andrew Laming

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Pulpit RELATIONSHIP: The LIC data series shows agri debt versus dairy land sale prices.

of agri debt in the sector and land value change.

The more debt in the system, the higher the price of land.

The period from 2001 to 2008 is most notable for this, and also 2012 to 2015, before the dairy downturn hit.

From 2015, the trend is less obvious but still there; this time heading down and somewhat lagged.

In 2015 to 2017, agri debt was still rising rapidly as a byproduct of funding cash losses, before the agri debt started to come down and with it, the land value, from 2018 to 2021.

This is despite the very good and growing profitability through this period.

Incidentally, for the whole of the decade from 2010 to 2020 land

would appear to have been not a very good asset, but it was a game of two halves.

From 2010 to 2015 there were great returns, but the second half was decidedly average.

However, take a closer look at the most recent data from 2022 – farmland prices have stepped up but at a time when agri debt is falling, not growing, which is counter to historical movements.

Before now, the historical pattern has been high payouts driving investor confidence, more expansion and investment at higher input prices, with the banks supporting the rush.

From 2018 onwards the spread between rising payout and falling

PERSPECTIVE: History shows that high payouts are followed by increases in agri debt, not decreases.

debt repeated what happened between 2010 and 2012, post the GFC. That was followed by a period of sustained increase in land values between 2010 and 2015.

The spread is wider than we have ever seen before.

At other times in this data series high product prices, like the milk powder boom in 2007-8 resulted in more debt and fed into rising land values.

The GFC proved to be shortlived and land prices resumed their upward trend.

The ultra-low payouts in 20142016 didn’t really bite on land prices until 2019.

It has taken five years of sustained good payouts, plus the prospect of this season’s record $9-plus, to finally lift land prices again.

Every player in the market and observer of this data needs to form their own view on the trends for the future.

Historical performance is not always the best proxy for future expectations, particularly in a much different world than what was back then.

Capital availability for agri is much freer than it was even 12 months ago.

Combined with farmers having ongoing good cash performance, banks are also opening up their door further.

Both are supportive of further capital in the sector.

Finally, payout and availability of agri debt are only two of many drivers on land value, albeit very large ones.

Historical performance is not always the best proxy for future expectations, particularly in a much different world than what was back then.

There are many other impacts not discussed here including the changing capital requirements in banks, environmental considerations, scarcity of suitable management and large global events.

All these need to be factored into your thinking.

However, the data above is interesting and we hope it leads to greater understanding of some of the forces at play in land value and how banks may react in the future.

We would also welcome your own thoughts and interpretation of the data presented here.

Who am I? Andrew Laming is based in Timaru and is a director of NZAB, the NZ wide agricultural loan broker.

Formerly he was an agribusiness banker for 17 years.

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HE spread between the high farm gate milk price and the pace of reduction in dairy farm debt has never been wider and perhaps somewhat surprisingly, this is actually counter to historical movements.

When we last saw this, land sale price increases followed.

At NZAB we like to look at movements in capital in the agriculture sector because it helps farmers and business owners understand how their bank ticks, which is essential when approaching the credit process or negotiating a new loan.

Recent sale prices for farmland have moved positively and we think it is worthwhile to look back at the drivers of land values, to pick up any clues as to what might happen next.

I came across a really good data set from LIC showing dairy land sales prices and milk payouts going back to 1978.

The LIC sources its data from REINZ figures which is the median sale price per hectare for that year.

Some care needs to be taken, for example in times of low liquidity, lower tier quality assets can make up a larger part of the pool, dragging down the median.

But the trends are still instructive and obviously the figures for 2022 cover only part of the year.

Firstly, going back over the past 30 years, there is a very strong correlation between the amount

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Opinion

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – May 2, 2022

Acknowledge the sector’s contribution Alternative View

Alan Emerson

FARMERS won’t be surprised to see that inflation has reached 6.9%, with many expecting it to be much higher. The price of inputs, including fertiliser and fuel, have been well above the magical 6.9% figure.

The political reaction has been predictable, with the cry of cutting taxes becoming a cacophony.

I don’t like paying more taxes than you do, but if you cut income you must cut expenditure, and I don’t want politicians just to tell me they’re cutting taxes. I want to know what services will be reduced. Currently all we’re getting from National are debating points, not substance.

I did think Act’s David Seymour’s policy of wanting the civil service cut back to 2017 levels was both sane and sensible.

Those of us past the age of playing competitive sport will well remember the 15%-plus inflation figures of the 1970s and ‘80s, until then Finance Minister David Caygill introduced legislation that required the Reserve Bank to manage the problem.

It’s worked well until now.

Covid has been a massive complication and, for the record, I support the Government’s

initiatives and its borrowing.

Without both there would have been carnage.

That’s all in the past and we’re about to face a whole new world, which will be quite different from the past.

My issues going forward can be summarised with two Ps: productivity and population.

Dealing with productivity first, if it wasn’t for the primary sector the country would have been well and truly in the gun.

Between 1978 and 2013 agricultural productivity increased by 2.3% a year. Since 2008 it has increased by 3.7% on an annual basis.

What that means is that our sector is the only real show in town and should be supported and not hamstrung by what are in many cases badly thought-out rules and regulations.

The productivity of the rest of the economy increased by a meagre .2 % over that time, which means the non-primary sector effectively went backward.

What is even more amazing is that between 1990 and 2019 while our dairy cow numbers increased, beef cattle numbers came back slightly, with sheep numbers showing an amazing 41% drop,

which makes the increase in productivity an even more spectacular achievement.

A current example is that to February this year exports increased 22% from a year earlier. The year prior to that they increased 13%, which means that during the covid pandemic our country survived on the primary sector.

What that means is that our sector is the only real show in town and should be supported and not hamstrung by what are in many cases badly thought-out rules and regulations.

For example, we’re now going on a crusade to save our flora and fauna from extinction, which is fine. My issue is that life changes, animals and birds become extinct, as happened with the huia and moa.

Climate change will exacerbate that and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it.

We need sane, rational and sustainable pathways going forward and we’re not getting them. What we are getting is a pile of pointless regulations worked out by an army of city-centric bureaucrats in Wellington and supported by compliant ministers.

We have one sector of the economy that is working well, is productive and sustainable and should be given considerably more support than it is getting.

The mantra going forward should be ‘how can we support agriculture, not how we can restrict the productive food producing sector?’ – and there are many ways the Government can do that.

KEY: Alan Emerson says the primary sector was instrumental in ensuring the country remained afloat during the pandemic and will continue to be as it recovers from it.

Higher productivity means more income, which can be spent on health, education and training.

Lower productivity puts pressure on all three.

The more productive we are the better for everyone, it is vital for our future wellbeing.

With population increases I have several issues.

For a start, our population has increased more than our income, meaning there is less to go round.

The second is that if we’re talking climate change, then every extra person brings in a CO2 liability of 17 tonnes a year.

As our population increased by a million over the last 15 years that’s given us an increased liability of 17 million tonnes each and every year.

Some predictions are giving us an increase of almost half a million in the next three years, giving us an additional liability of 850 million tonnes annually. It is crazy.

In the last year of the previous National government we had a net increase of 72,300 immigrants, with the majority settling in Auckland. As well as the GHG liability, they needed houses, schools and motorways.

They weren’t supplied, which meant a decrease in productivity.

There are further predictions saying our population could be eight million by 2073 and my view is that’s idiotic and makes a mockery of taxing cow burps.

So in summary we have some serious decisions to make going forward, which should involve considerable support for the primary sector and a massive rethink of our immigration policy.

That’s if we want to stay a firstworld country.

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

Businesses need credit access to grow Straight Talking

Cameron Bagrie

WHERE are the champions for the business sector or the farming community when it comes to access to credit? These are sectors that define the income generating capacity of the economy, yet difficulty accessing credit receives little attention.

The issue is irking me more and more because of the huge reaction from mortgage brokers, borrowers and commentators as banks applied extra scrutiny to home lending, with the finger pointed at the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act (CCCFA).

As the brakes on credit were applied, we saw an uproar.

There were good reasons for an uproar on some levels. A piece of well-intended legislation initially aimed at loan sharks

had ridiculous consequences as bankers and mortgage brokers trawled through bank statements eyeing spending patterns, the coffee count, subscriptions, eating out patterns, all in the interest of responsible lending and providing an evidentiary trail.

Some tightening around the edges was warranted, but the legislation and application of it went too far. Banks are not in the business of irresponsible lending.

But the whole reaction just served to reinforce an unfair playing field and the fixation across society with anything to do with housing.

It is not normal or sustainable for home lending to rise at more than 11% a year, or roughly double the rate of income growth, just like business loan growth cannot exceed business income for a sustained period.

The CCCFA got the attention but there are many things acting to constrain home lending growth, including loan-to-value ratio restrictions, higher interest rates, a softer property market, increases in bank test serviceability rates and changes in banks’ risk

tolerance as house prices start to fall.

Home loan commitments in February were $5.7 billion, down from $7.6 billion in February 2021, a huge fall on the face of it. However, lending levels in February 2022 were above other February’s between 2014 and 2020. Talk of a credit crunch is a long way off the mark. It is simply a more normal lending market.

The path to prosperity is not paved with selling more expensive houses to each other.

Home lending has grown to 62.4% of total bank lending, steadily rising from 56.2% in 2016.

Over the same period, business and agriculture lending’s share of total lending has shrunk, hardly the credit mix to drive a more productive and dynamic economy.

Businesses across the general economy and rural community have been reporting it as more difficult to get credit since 2016, according to ANZ’s Business Outlook Survey.

There is no new information in this.

The past three months, including the reaction to the CCCFA and modestly slower home lending growth, has simply reinforced the ridiculousness of the playing field. Welcome to the environment the business sector has been dealing with for six years.

There are many issues that need tabled, including: Regulatory Capital Risk Weightings that far too excessively favour home lending over business lending.

Underdeveloped capital and credit markets in New Zealand.

Dominance of the major banks and ways to stimulate more competition.

The constant cost cutting by banks removing critical credit skills. The cost to income ratio across three of the big four is below 40%.

The fixation with regulators on

compliance is dragging banks’ resources away from focusing on delivering solutions to both new and existing clients The financial nous of many businesses; the finger cannot just be pointed at lenders or regulators.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment investigation into problems with the application of the CCCFA should be the appetiser for the main course. Let’s have an extensive look at an array of factors influencing credit facilitation into the business and farming sectors. The path to prosperity is not paved with selling more expensive houses to each other.

The business sector needs champions highlighting issues just like the housing market does.

Your View Cameron Bagrie is the managing director of Bagrie Economics and a shareholder and director of Chaperon – helping businesses navigate banking. His views do not constitute advice.

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‘Tis the season of pesky critters From the Ridge

Steve Wyn-Harris

THE annual invasion of nature is under way.

Those of you with double glazed, hermetically sealed modern homes will have no idea, but others living in old homesteads will know exactly what I’m talking about.

What is to follow should ensure we are likely to never have visitors again.

An earlier and minor irritant are the mason bees who arrive in the summer. They are persistent little fellows, carting their morsels of mud into our curtains, my winter work jackets hanging up on the back step and various cracks where they deposit a series of paralysed insects and lay an egg so that their young have something to consume as they grow.

But autumn starts with mice.

We haven’t had a cat since the kids left home and with the departure of the cat, my hay fever improved significantly.

However, not only do cats help keep the vermin at bay, but I think their mere presence acts as a deterrent.

I used to see the evidence of mice such as their droppings in my cereal bowl or chewed packets before acting, but I quickly lifted

my game and set the traps now before they turn up. Ahead of the curve.

A couple of years ago, in a drought autumn, I methodically caught and disposed of a record 60 or so mice who had found our kitchen and thought this would be an excellent warm spot, with breakfast in bed, to spend the winter months. Not so fast buster.

This year is a more normal trickle, but I’ve still caught about 20 and every few nights from the bed, I hear a trap go off.

The mice are the least of our problems.

Cluster flies haven’t been around in the drought years, but this season has been a shocker.

They got into the country in Auckland in the 1980s and have spread everywhere since.

Their larvae predate the industrious earthworm and as autumn approaches they seek somewhere warm to overwinter.

They exude a smell that attracts others and that smell can linger for years, so the next crop is attracted to the same places.

They squeeze through the window and door frames and under the eaves in their thousands.

Then they just die, whether I’ve sprayed pyrethrum at their entry point or not.

Jane is spending half her life vacuuming the horrible things and they end up wrecking your vacuum cleaner with the oil they exude.

However, the plague is coming to a much-anticipated end.

But there is worse.

BATTLE OF THE SPECIES: Steve Wyn-Harris got creative during a showdown with a rat who took up residence in his roof.

I used to see the evidence of mice such as their droppings in my cereal bowl or chewed packets before acting, but I quickly lifted my game and set the traps now before they turn up.

The old saying that there is on average a rat within a couple of metres of every human being has been debunked, but they are out there all the same.

Like the mice, I try to trap or use bait stations before they get into

the house, but they are devious, festy beggars.

Almost every year we end up with one deciding to take up residence in exactly the same place.

Unfortunately, that is in the pinex ceiling directly above our bed.

It’s in part of the roof I can’t get at and I’ve spent decades trying to find their point of entry with no success.

The other night one announced its arrival with the familiar scuffling.

I stood on the bed and pounded the ceiling but to no effect.

Jane left for another bedroom.

I turned up the radio and put a pillow on my head.

I set the traps in the usual place

LETTERS Continued from page 28 storage scheme set up the growth of the now world recognised Waipara valley wine industry, which has created hundreds of jobs over its 1300-odd ha of vineyards and wineries.

That 1300ha of wine production gets hit by an excise tax raking in over $20 million paid to the Treasury, plus GST a year.

Not a bad return for taxpayer investment of $5.7m (1985) when it was truncated by the Treasury because of engineering mistakes/ ignorance causing cost overruns.

Then came the “Rogernomics” experiment and such investment across hundreds of infrastructure projects were consigned to the waste bin and those with experience were sidelined as redundant to be replaced by theory-driven bureaucrats who probably have never had their hands in the soil, much less understand that irrigation technology is thousands of years in the making and well understood.

The fact that “pumped hydro” is even considered at this stage of NZ development while billions of cubic metres (m3 = 1 tonne) of potential megawatts of hydropower pours out to sea 24/7/365 via Canterbury’s six main mountain-fed rivers, including the

in the roof cavity and put some poison around.

But our mate wouldn’t take the bait and spent the next few nights tormenting us with Jane departing at first scuffle. I was now using a shoe to pound the roof, which must have been physically bouncing the rodent around, but he didn’t seem to mind.

A previous determined rat led me to buying a high frequency rat and mice deterrent, but I’d concluded it was useless.

I googled up the science given our current desperation in case there was something in it but there is little evidence they work.

However, I did come across a YouTube clip of a rat distress call. It was truly horrible and unnerving.

Jane was away for the day and I was on the farm working, so I set up the house speaker system to play this clip continuously at full volume and for good measure, I stuck my phone with drawing pins to the bedroom ceiling right under his own bed, also playing the distress call on repeat. Have a bit of your own medicine mate and try to sleep through this.

That night we had no expectation of success, but he appeared to have gone and to date hasn’t returned.

That distress call would work for any other unwelcome visitors as well, I imagine.

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

More letters P28 Rakaia Lake Coleridge hydro and the unharnessed Lake Sumner at the head of the Hurunui at approximately 530m asl – 70km from Amberley at 70m asl (town-domestic/stock water) is ludicrous.

Add gravity to 1t of water and the force is enormous, but can be controlled by “inline” turbines (Portland city water/ power supply) and even on slow running water races spilled though a side channel will drive an “Archimedes” screw attached to a generator.

Think a Mississippi steam boat floating on a river, its paddles driving a governed generator moored to the river banks, especially where there is volume flow but little fall.

Sorry Nelson, you/we are the victims of the effects of the 1980s revolution. How we fix it is going to take another revolution way in the future. In the meantime, think about it every time you pay the power bill to fatten overpaid CEOs and their investor scams – blame National’s “Mad Max”.

John McCaskey Waipara

Politics can aid or end an industry IN 2012 my wife and I went on a very enjoyable farm-to-farm

tour in Chile and Argentina. Of particular interest to me was the Argentine section of the tour. I recall our tour guide in Buenos Aires saying you could point a plough toward the Andes and plough for 2000km without hitting a stone. How could such a vast fertile food production area end in such an impoverished modern Argentina? The evidence in Buenos Aires of a past in one prosperous era was all around us – magnificent stone buildings and large avenues made Buenos Aires the Paris of the south. What went wrong?

Politics is what went wrong and sad to say New Zealand is heading in the same direction.

From feeding Europe at the beginning of the 20th century and in particular through World War 1, Argentina’s exporters became rich. The temptation to tax these exporters was too much for successive Argentine governments. Confronted with the population upheaval resulting from mechanism and the flight of farm workers to Buenos Aires, taxes were imposed on exports of farm production.

Today in NZ, global warming is a convenient pretext for our present government to propose a tax on farm exports under the guise of the Emissions Trading Scheme. Farmers and their

sycophantic industry good organisations are supposed to acquiesce to the imposition on this tax by agreement under the He Waka Eke Noa. This is going to happen whether farmers like it or not because the votes are in Auckland – NZ’s Buenos Aires. The end result will be the same as in Argentina – a gradual decline into genteel impoverishment for the more fortunate and for many a life working for government agencies in regulatory enforcement and for the poor up to 50% unemployment and 50% inflation as is current in Argentina.

The capacity of NZ farmers and exporters and their support people on the farms, in the freezing works, in the dairy factories, in transport and on the wharves, to support the rest of the population is stretched to breaking point. The endless proliferation of regulations under past and present governments with about 13,800 bureaucrats added in the last four years is not the way to increase productivity or societal wellbeing.

To quote Milton Freedman, “If you want more of something, subsidise it, if you want less, tax it.”

While it may appear on the surface to be a tax that will only affect farmers, putting agriculture

into the ETS will affect urban NZ as well, in that it will inflate the price of food and lessen the amount of export income available to buy imports such as the electric cars, which could actually make a dent in our carbon emissions.

NZ agricultural exports have the lowest carbon footprint of any country in the world. Taxing those exports will shift food production to countries where the carbon emissions will be much higher.

The denigration of farming in the news media and in our schools has harmed our country badly. Young people don’t want to work in agriculture, which for me personally has been a wonderful career.

NZ needs to get behind its farmers, not put them down.

Ron Frew Ohakune

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Walking the talk After deciding that he wouldn’t sit on the fence when it comes to plastic waste, Future Post founder Jerome Wenzlick took what was destined for the landfill and turned it into an upright business venture that’s gone from strength to strength. He spoke to Gerald Piddock.

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CTIONS speak louder than words for Future Post founder Jerome Wenzlick when it comes to environmental sustainability.

While some pay lip service to green credentials, he and Future Post’s core purpose speaks for itself.

That purpose is turning a small part of the thousands of tonnes of plastic that is no longer used into fence posts for the primary industry.

“We’re not full of hot air. We’re actually doing it. We’ve rolled up our sleeves, worked our butts off and are doing it,” Wenzlick said.

Plastic waste is at its heart, a problem that society has to find a way to fix.

In July, the Waiuku-based business will be four years old and over that time it has expanded, opening a second production line in mid-April, which has enabled the business to double its existing capacity to process 240 tonnes of plastic waste into product every month.

While there is a lot of plastic being repurposed, it is still just a drop in the ocean in terms of what gets disposed of and what Future Post turns away because they are at full capacity.

Their plastic is sourced from Fonterra, local government collections and a handful of private businesses. It arrives at the factory separated into its respective grades and types.

More recently, the business started collecting and repurposing disposable face masks.

“We did a whole bunch of R&D at the plant and we were able to take them. They’re made from polypropylene plastic, which is part of our mix,” he said.

Outside its plant in Waiuku, South Auckland, are large piles of bound up plastic waiting to be processed with trucks constantly coming in to drop off more loads.

It has also enabled them to employ five more staff. It creates the same product as the original line, but with upgraded technology, allowing them to take a wider range of plastics than previously.

“We can put even more plastic through that machine, which is bloody awesome,” he said.

The past 12 months have been a challenging time. Like many businesses, Future Post has had to battle its way through the disruptions of lockdown and delays because of covid-19.

At the same time, demand for their posts has not diminished as the primary industry carried on, outstripping supply and their core market – livestock and horticulture farmers and retailers – continues to grow.

“It took a long time to build up the brand but now that we have, our issue is supplying into the market and we’re dealing with that by expanding,” he said.

That expansion centres around establishing plants in the South Island. The company is in the very early stages of working out details, but ideally, it would like to build a plant in the top of the South Island and another in the southern tip.

“The expansion has been driven by demand – and that’s great,” he said.

“There’s a need. We turn orders away because we can’t produce them. We want to make them where the market is and a big part of that market is the South Island.”

The South Island is their largest market with a large portion of

what is manufactured heading here. The posts have proven very popular in the viticulture industry because it was an industry based around long-term decisionmaking with its grape varieties.

Planting a hectare of vines is a 25-year decision for the business and as a result, he’d had large orders, he said.

The industry likes the plastic posts because there are no disposal costs, they do not break like wooden posts, especially with mechanical harvesters and they do not leach chemicals into the soil, which a treated timber post might.

“We already know everything we make in the South Island we can sell,” he said.

“People want to use the product and not having the ability to up the manufacturing capacity because the delays basically delayed the growth of the company.”

Wenzlick sees the business as a full circular economy.

“Not only are we doing it because we want to make posts, but we are doing it to resolve waste and recycling issues,” he said.

“To make sure we don’t create our own issues, we are a full product stewardship business and anything we sell we can take back – there is no disposal of the product at the end of its life, it can come back to our business and we reprocess it.”

IN THE FIELD: Wenzlick doing some fencing replacement work with some of his own product.

Future Post has also ventured into the export market, sending posts by the container-load about 18 months ago to Australia, the UK and Fiji and are eyeing opportunities in the US and Canada.

It took a long time to build up the brand but now that we have, our issue is supplying into the market and we’re dealing with that by expanding.

Jerome Wenzlick Future Post Growth in the business is dictated by key structures, one being that sale volumes dictate

QUALITY CONTROL: Wenzlick checks a post inside the factory.

factory expansion and they do not take sales of the product until long-term agreements are in place to take large volumes of plastic.

“We grow at a pace that suits both. Everything that we manufacture on the second line is pre-sold and every piece of plastic we need for the second line is already in place in a form of agreement,” he said.

He has also fielded calls from overseas companies interested in purchasing the technology. The machines used to create the posts are unique to the world, but for now is concentrating on growing the New Zealand business.

As well as being suitable for organic farming, for Wenzlick the biggest advantage of the posts are their durability.

“You put these in the ground and that’s it. They’re not going to rot in the ground,” he said.

The origins of Future Post began in late 2017 when Wenzlick was installing a wooden post on a

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SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS: Future Post founder Jerome Wenzlick says the company is doing its bit to repurpose plastic waste while at the same time producing a quality product.

RAW MATERIALS: Around 320 milk bottles and 1200 plastic bags go into making the average 125mm round pointed post at Future Post.

paddock near a rubbish heap.

The post would not go in because the ground was filled with plastic waste.

It then occurred to him that why couldn’t fence posts be created from all of this plastic waste that was filling up refuse dumps.

“I went away and thought about it and thought about it some more and convinced myself maybe it could work and try and make it happen, which we did,” he said.

He travelled to the US after learning that a company in that country was making plastic fence posts. At the time he thought he could buy one of their machines to make the posts, but those machines proved to be unsuitable for what he wanted to accomplish.

“That’s when we decided if we’re going to still do this, we have to think of some other way to make posts and make it happen,” he said.

That meant constructing their own machinery and process to create fence posts tailor-made for NZ farming conditions.

A big early challenge was that no one in NZ had ever made such a machine and he got Tokoroabased South Waikato Precision Engineers to build the machine.

Once that process was completed, there was a lot of trial and error to make a fence post that was suitable for the job.

“You can’t really build a small trial line. We had to think about it and use our brains a bit to decide what we needed. It wasn’t one of those things where you can build a mini one to test it,” he said.

“It was a year of fixing one problem and creating two more.”

Being a farmer and fencing contractor also proved invaluable in developing the posts.

He has a 200ha dairy farm near Thames that is run in conjunction with wider family members. It is run separately to Future Post.

To make sure we don’t create our own issues, we are a full product stewardship business and anything we sell we can take back – there is no disposal of the product at the end of its life – it can come back to our business and we reprocess it.

Jerome Wenzlick Future Post He still remembers when he finally cracked it in late 2018, and the mould produced a post he was happy with.

“I still have that first post,” he said.

The following year, he won the

CONSTANT SUPPLY: Outside its plant in Waiuku, South Auckland, are large piles of bound up plastic waiting to be processed with trucks constantly coming in to drop off more loads.

Launch NZ Innovation Award at the Fieldays. Winning that award gave the then fledgling business a huge shot in the arm and greatly increased its profile.

Wenzlick describes the fence post-making process as akin to following a recipe.

“What we have worked out is that you need a percentage of this and you need a percentage of that to make it work,” he said.

The plastic is cut into fine chips and mixed together and fed into an extruder and then into the mould machine that makes the posts.

“It’s basically like if you can imagine a big meat mincer with a big screw in the middle and the plastic gets fed into that. As it goes through the screw it gets melted, it gets mixed together and it binds together and pressurised into a mould,” he said.

That mould can change depending on the type of post being made. Currently, Future

Post can make four different kinds of posts.

About 320 milk bottles and 1200 plastic bags go into making the average 125mm round pointed post.

“That’s a bloody big pile of plastic,” he said Depending on the kinds of posts being created, the factory can process 500kg of plastic per hour ranging from numbers 2, 4, 5, 6, and some types of 7.

On a typical 20-hour running time, which the factory was operating at prior to the lockdown, the mould machine can convert almost 10 tonnes of plastic into the posts.

“It’s a lot of plastic but the thing is, we’re not even touching the sides of what’s out there, of how much plastic waste is out there,” he said. >> Video link: bit.ly/OFSWenzlick

GROWTH: A second production line that was opened in mid-April has enabled the business to double its capacity to process 240 tonnes of plastic waste into product every month.

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Kelly Fraser M 027 305 3900 Greg Kellick M 027 619 3051

Picnic Point provides an outstanding opportunity to purchase a quality sheep and beef property in the well respected farming district of Matiere, Taumarunui. Available as one farm of 827.99 ha, or as three different properties.

• Mt Mable - 198.99 ha • Picnic Point - 324.20 ha • Waikaka - 304.80 ha This property has been well managed by its owners and on further inspection you will appreciate the work that has gone into making this farm perform at the level it does. The infrastructure is evenly balanced over the three blocks, with woolsheds, yards, and houses on each.

Tender closes 4.00pm, Thu 19th May, 2022, 27 Hakiaha Street, Taumarunui View Thu 5 May 11.00 - 3.00pm Web pb.co.nz/TUR101097

Katie Walker M 027 757 7477

Proud to be here

Manaia 190 Inaha Road New Listing

Turn-key Waimate West grass factory Multiple tender/purchase options available. All stock available for purchase at valuation. Excellent BW and PW. Flexible takeover date.

Dairy Farm • 58 ha 100% Autumn calving dairy farm • Averaging 94,000 kgMS Support Block • 24.8 ha located 1.5 km from the dairy farm • Suitable for grazing and harvesting supplements

Tender closes 4.00pm, Mon 23rd May, 2022 (unless sold prior), 227 Devon Street East, New Plymouth View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/NPR101819

Greg O'Byrne M 027 598 3000

E greg.obyrne@pb.co.nz

Pahiatua 217 Hinemoa Valley Road Tender

Together Stronger

Our combined strengths complement each other, creating more opportunity for our customers and Farmlands shareholders across provincial New Zealand.

Hinemoa hill country - 122 ha Located in the Hinemoa Valley being 10 km from the Pahiatua township, and within commuting distance to Palmerston North, Dannevirke and Masterton. This property has been utilised for dairy support with the grazing of heifers and mixed age cows. Contour consists of 6 ha of flats, the balance in medium hill with some steeper sidlings and just over 6 ha in pine trees. The property features good access and is well subdivided into 26 main paddocks by a mix of conventional and electric fencing with good natural water throughout. The well apportioned 4 bedroom home with modern kitchen and fresh decor throughout is set in mature well kept grounds and is available as a stand alone option of 1.2 ha

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Tender closes 2.00pm, Tue 24th May, 2022, to be submitted to Property Brokers, 129 Main Street, Pahiatua View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/PR100921

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Wallingford Porangahau Road

Wallingford Station

771.4ha

A unique opportunity to acquire a 771ha (more or less) sheep and cattle station in a sought-after farming district.

Situated only 29km South of Waipukurau, Wallingford Station offers a diverse range of farming options with its mix of contour with approximately 150ha alluvial flats and balance easy rolling hill. A high-performance Romney ewe flock along with a flexible cattle policy mixed with cash cropping allows plenty of options. The property is well tracked, areas of scattered kanuka and 20ha of seven-year-old pines feature through the farm. Reticulated water systems supplemented with large dams. Infrastructure includes a comfortable three-bedroom 1950 built home, cattle and sheep yards and two stand woolshed. The property can be purchased in options so please call for further information.

Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 12pm, Tue 14 Jun 2022 26 Takapau Road, Waipukurau View by appointment Andy Hunter 027 449 5827 andy.hunter@bayleys.co.nz Andy Lee 027 354 8608 andy.lee@bayleys.co.nz

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Sheep/Beef Ngarakau – Strong Hill Country With Scale Tender closing Thurs 19 May 2022 at 2pm (unless sold prior) (plus GST) 278 Coonoor Road, Tararua, Wairarapa

Jason Waterman 027 376 8313 jason.waterman@colliers.com Rob Deal 027 241 4775 rob.deal@colliers.com

Land Area: Four bedroom 539.4898 ha home (more or less) plus office

20ha developed flats

Great community and location

Colliers are proud to present Ngarakau to the market for the first time in 114 years. This genuine hill country farm is currently wintering approximately 4000 stock units. 19 ha of QEII bush, plus some areas of quality Manuka offers income from honey production and potential income from the proposed Puketoi wind farm. Farm infrastructure includes a 4 bedroom plus office home, studio, 4-stand woolshed and covered yards, plus cattle yards and support buildings. colliers.co.nz/p-NZL67018725

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FOR SALE

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ELSTOW FREE RANGE POULTRY

Te Aroha, Waikato

LARGE-SCALE + STRONG CASHFLOW

+ Consistent monthly and inflation-

linked cashflows + Long-term grower contract with right of renewal + 8 free range, fully convertible, broiler sheds covering 16,460m²*

+ Freehold land: 22.56ha* of flat, free

draining, versatile land + Golden Triangle location, proximity to Inghams supply chain, competing poultry processors and large population centres

Deadline Offers:

Friday 20 May 2022 at 4pm (NZST)**

Chan Singh +64 27 767 7113 Wyatt Johnston +64 27 815 1303 Jeremy Keating +64 21 461 210

*Approximately **Unless sold prior

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BLOOMFIELD STATION

593 HECTARES

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Bloomfield Station Faithfully farmed by the same family for 135 years, now it is your turn to take over the mantle of Bloomfield Station, a 593 hectare (1,466 acre) sheep and beef farm located in the heart of the Tararua. Mainly effective, with 223ha (approx) easy to rolling-medium contour, Bloomfield Station is located 43km from Dannevirke and enjoys excellent infrastructure, a good fertiliser history and a solid production history. The stunning 4 bedroom + office homestead complemented by the inground pool, tennis court and sleepout are an added bonus. For sale by tender on the 20th May 2022, this is a property you do not want to miss out on. Contact me today for more information and to book your appointment to view.

www.forfarms.co.nz - ID FF3373

We welcome your inspection by appointment with Vendor’s agent.

FOR SALE BY TENDER

Tender closing 12.30pm, 20th May 2022

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

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Livestock Coordination Manager – Hawke’s Bay

FARMERS WEEKLY – May 2, 2022

Property Manager D’Urville Island Waitai Station, an exquisite natural gem in the heart of the

A BIT ABOUT PROGRESSIVE MEATS LTD…

FARM MANAGER WANTED

Marlborough Sounds, is a stunning privately owned 2011ha coastal

Progressive Meats Limited (PML) is a dynamic meat processing

property.

export business based on a single site in Hastings, including their own cool store. The company started in 1981 and, throughout the

The Property Manager will be responsible for nurturing the

years, have fine-tuned the way they work by listening to their

property as it reverts to natural bush, maintaining seven residential

suppliers, partners, customers and staff. By developing strong long-

buildings, several working facilities, gardens, roads, vehicles and

term relationships and being focused specialists, they concentrate

boundary fences. The Property Manager will collaborate with the

on what they know and who they associate with; farmers who grow

Owner to envision, research, explore and execute new business

the best lamb and beef around, and the meat brand partners who

opportunities that will enhance the property.

then deliver it to the world.

Seeking organised and tidy individuals who embrace a self-

The majority of meat processing is beef and lamb, however PML

sufficient lifestyle in a remote location, with computer skills and

also routinely process rams, mutton and goats. High quality meat

the ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing.

for human consumption is the significant proportion of the end

Must have extensive repair and maintenance skills; experience and

product, but they also provide animal by-products for medical, bio-

skills in operating a digger, tractor and boats; gardening, sustainable

tech and other related industries. PML are continually improving

weed and pest control, fencing and hunting.

their workplace culture and are proud to now have 450 dedicated

Offer includes a spacious, semi-furnished, four-bedroom, two-

staff working from the Hastings plant.

bathroom home overlooking Waitai Bay. The work can be completed

For more information on Progressive Meats Limited please follow

by one person or split between two people by negotiation with the

this link http://www.progressivemeats.co.nz/

Owner.

THE OPPORTUNITY…

For the full information on this role please visit https://bit.ly/386DJ0d

The Livestock Coordination Manager is a vital part of the process

or give the Rural Directions team a call on 06 871 0450 for a

chain to get reputable and reliable products to market. The

confidential chat (Ref# 879212).

primary position function of the Livestock Coordination Manager

Applications close Sunday 15th May 2022

An exciting opportunity to manage the farming operation of an iconic 170ha Cambridge farm has become available. Trelawney Stud is a welldeveloped picturesque farm ideally located in the heart of the Waikato.

The position is to manage the sheep, cattle, pasture, and overall maintenance of Trelawney Stud in a sole management capacity. This position is suited to a candidate that has a high standard of stockmanship, and management skills to oversee the farming operation of an historic thoroughbred breeding operation. The ability to work with a team is imperative.

On farm accommodation and a competitive salary is available.

Please apply by forwarding your C.V. and written references to: Trelawney Stud RD 2, Cambridge Email: robyn@trelawneystud.nz

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is to effectively coordinate all livestock, to maximise productivity and ensure a sustainable and efficient service is provided to all RECRUITMENT & HR

companies. Key responsibilities are: • Exporter Relationships • Stockyard Management • Plant Processing

Management Cadet

• Compliance • Exporter Events / Meetings

Johnsonville

A BIT ABOUT YOU… At least two years’ previous experience in a related role, with livestock and/or production planning experience will be required to

Be part of New Zealand's biggest export industry!

excel in this role, along with the following:

Get on the path to future management with this exciting graduate opportunity!

• Planning skills and experience, particularly in processing environment. understanding

and

capability

Wharekiri Station

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• Livestock Coordination in conjunction with Plant Management

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finance

• Dynamic Industry, exporting New Zealand to the world • Progressive and profitable company • Close to Wellington CBD

and/or

procurement, inventory systems and reconciliation.

• Well-developed business acumen and financial literacy.

We are Taylor Preston. Taylor Preston Ltd is a meat processor and exporter of lamb, mutton, goat, beef and associated by-products. Established in 1991 the Company is privately owned and located in the Ngauranga Gorge, 10 minutes from Wellington CBD.

• Excellent computer skills with advanced proficiency in MS Word and Excel.

• Effective decision making, judgement, problem solving and conflict resolution skills, with the ability to set priorities, targets

We currently have an awesome opportunity to join our Management Cadet Internship programme.

and follow through on corrective actions and outcomes.

This role will provide you with a clear career path to a management position within the Company or its subsidiaries and joint ventures. Reporting to the Plant Manager, you will cover the next three years work in all the business and operational departments of Taylor Preston to learn the critical functions within each department and develop operational and management skills.

This role forms part of Taylor Preston's ongoing succession planning and building internal capability for the future.

The ideal appointee will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, high attention to detail and accuracy, with excellent time management and organisational skills.

ON OFFER… The appointee to this position will step into a structured, organised

If required you will be offered the opportunity to complete a meat processing qualification at a minimum Diploma level to ensure you gain a thorough understanding of the meat industry and its compliance requirements.

system that is proven to work. Reporting directly to the General Manager, the Livestock Coordination Manager will have full exposure to the business and be given the autonomy for decision making. There is an attractive remuneration package offered,

You will need: • A desire to build a career in the red meat sector • To be a team player that can build strong and positive relationships with our suppliers, service providers, management, staff and customers.

• Strong attention to detail and computer skills • Excellent planning skills • The ability and willingness to learn new skills

including all the tools to complete the role. You’ll be based in the desirable Hawke’s Bay where there are wineries, beaches and activities available.

Don’t miss the opportunity to work with and learn from some well-established people within the industry offering excellent professional and personal growth.

In addition to your outstanding communication skills, you will display the energy and drive to make a career within this challenging and demanding industry.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Wharekiri Station is a 1080ha effective property situated in Benneydale, 35 minutes from Te Kuiti and part of the Tiroa E and Te Hape B group of farms covering 7500ha effective. Wharekiri Station winters 12,000 stock units made up of a high performing breeding ewe flock and beef finishing system.

SHEPHERD

The successful applicant would require 2-3 good working dogs, have a broad skill base and have had experience with finishing both lambs and cattle. You will need to have excellent stockmanship, clear written and oral communication, be able to take responsibility, have a ‘can do’ attitude, be able to adhere to farm Health & Safety policies, and be able to work both independently and in a team environment.

This position comes with competitive remuneration, a great work environment and good housing.

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa and will be required to have a clear pre-employment drug test.

For further information please contact Jason Taitoko 07 878 4834, or email your CV to: camilla@tiroatehape.maori.nz Applications close Friday 20th May 2022

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Farm Manager General Fencer General Manager Livestock Co-Ordination Manager Management Cadet Production Manager Property Manager Senior Farm Assistant Shepherd

If you are seeking a challenge, we would like to speak to you!

Stock Manager

or give the Rural Directions team a call on 06 871 0450 for a

To apply for this job go to: taylorpreston.recruitmenthub.co.nz Applications close 13 May 2022.

Tractor/Truck/Machinery Operator

confidential chat (Ref# 869575).

Applications will be reviewed as they are received

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Waka Dairies is committed to a leadership pathway that includes formal training as well as solid on-job experience. In year one you’ll effectively be working at junior farm manager level, cementing your skills and knowledge.

Over the 3 years you will be studying at Level 5 on the NZQA framework via PITO and Massey University.

CRAIGCO SHEEP JETTERS. Sensor Jet. Deal to fly and Lice now. Guaranteed performance.

Unbeatable pricing.

Phone 06 835 6863. www.craigcojetters.com

A starting hourly rate of $31 per hour moving to $37 per hour by year three and being paid for every hour you work. This is a career that rewards Mahi and Tekohanga.

So, what is the role?

This is a full time, permanent position with varied hours throughout the year.

The successful applicant will be involved in all types of fencing repair and construction ranging from permanent 9-wire post and batten fences through to temporary 3-wire steel fences used for subdividing larger paddocks. The role also includes the repair, maintenance, plus installation (as required) of the extensive water system, plus helping with stock and machinery.

ANIMAL HEALTH

This pathway is for people who lead, who are responsible, someone who is interested and invested. Someone who…

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

• Preferably knows grass.

• Someone who is ready to start NZQA L5 qualifications.

CONTRACTORS

• Someone who already has the leadership qualities to run a focused and professional team.

GORSE AND THISTLE SPRAY. We also scrub cut. Four men with all gear in your area. Phone Dave 06 375 8032.

As you can tell, Waka Dairies are an innovative employer and they’re passionate about creating careers for their team, keeping a talent pipeline alive for the industry and creating opportunities for a new crop of dairy sector participants to experience and thrive with dairying and ag-sector opportunities.

They’ve just employed an apprentice herd manager to prove their point.

What skills do you need to join the team?

• Complete day-to-day jobs without direct supervision • Experience in fencing • Mechanically minded • Knowledge of water systems • Current Class 1 driving licence • A willingness to learn and adapt to new challenges • You enjoy working as part of a team • Good attitude to safety, following procedures

DOGS FOR SALE

This is a serious, business-focused farming environment. High performance and highly informed: 650 cows, 54 bale rotary with adjoining feed-pad, smart tech in the shed, a complete meal mixing system, two compost cow shelters and modern machinery. There’s a lot going on, there’s a lot to learn and there’s a lot of up-side!

For more information and to apply, go to www.no8hr.co.nz (Ref# 8HR32103)

WORD ONLY ADVERTISING. Phone Debbie on 0800 85 25 80.

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So, if you’re ready for farm management, want to round out your experience in a smart business with complexity and opportunity, then take a look at this role today…you can’t afford to miss this one!

12-MONTH HEADING dog and bitch. Fast, strong, good stop, pulling sides.

Station and trial potential.

Nolan Timmins. Phone 027 932 8839.

www.no8hr.co.nz | ph: 07-870-4901

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HEADING PUPS, 12 weeks old. By G Denize’s, ‘Spring11’ Out of proven brood bitches. Previous litters through NZ and Australia. One vaccine, video available. $625.

Phone 027 32 88 678.

HUGE SELECTION WORKING dogs. Deliver NZ wide, trial, guaranteed! www.youtube.com/user/ mikehughesworkingdog/ videos 07 315 5553.

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Combi Clamp Stock Handling Equipment has been designed with the principles of simplicity and efficiency in the forefront of our minds. We provide safe and effective stock handling solutions for every farm.

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CONTROL FLYSTRIKE & LICE Includes • Jetter unit • Pump & hose kit • Delivery to nearest main centre

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12 MONTHS TO 5½-yearold Heading dogs and Huntaways wanted. Phone 022 698 8195.

BUYING ALL LEVELS of working dogs NZ wide since 2012. mikehughesworkingdogs@ farmside.co.nz 07 315 5553.

FORESTRY

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4-YEAR-OLD broken-in Huntaway dog. GRIZZLY Huntaway bitch, 12 months, good bark, very energetic.

10-MONTH old Huntaway dog, big bark,working.

11-MONTH-OLD Heading dog, suits a small property.

GRIZZLY yard and mob dog. Phone 027 243 8541.

0800 901 902 sales@pppindustries.co.nz www.pppindustries.co.nz

NATIVE FOREST FOR MILLING also Macrocarpa and Red Gum, New Zealand wide.

We can arrange permits and plans. Also after milled timber to purchase.

NEW ZEALAND NATIVE TIMBER SUPPLIERS (WGTN) LIMITED 04 293 2097 Richard.

ELITE REFRIGERATION LTD • Kit set chiller / freezer rooms • Mono-block refrigeration units

GOATS. 40 YEARS experience mustering feral cattle and feral goats anywhere in NZ. 50% owner (no costs).

50% musterer (all costs).

Phone Kerry Coulter 027 494 4194.

HORTICULTURE NZ KELP. FRESH, wild ocean harvested giant kelp.

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

LAND TO LEASE FARMLAND APPROX 360 acres, mostly deer fenced into 10 paddocks with yards. Kapiti area. 021 476 806.

LEASE AVAILABLE SHEEP FARMING LEASE. 210 Hectares, (1-3 Year Lease from 1st July) 2.53k SU. Hawke’s Bay, good facilities, summer safe.

Mobile 021 327 637.

LEASE LAND WANTED

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RELIEF MILKER. 5-mins from Rangiora. 200 cows 24 ASHB – 2 person shed.

Drive in position. from midJuly.Phone/text 021 185 6691.

WANTED TO BUY HOUSES FOR REMOVAL. North Island. Phone 021 455 787.

WHAT’S SITTING IN your barn? Don’t leave it to rust away! We pay cash for tractors, excavators, small crawler tractors and surplus farm machinery.

Ford – Ferguson – Hitachi – Komatsu – John Deere and more. Tell us what you have no matter where it is in NZ. You never know.. what’s resting in your barn could be fattening up your wallet!

Email admin@ loaderparts.co.nz or phone Colin on 0274 426 936 (No texts please)

WANTED TO RENT

OLD FARM HOUSE with garage. Manawatu. Phone 027 672 6435.

WINTER GRAZING WANTED

FOR 46 IN CALF R2’s Mid/ North Canterbury. Contact Wayne 021 185 6691.

WORK WANTED MARRIED STOCKMAN SEEKING position on sheep and cattle station in North Island. Experienced in all aspects of farm work.

Contact Bruce on 07 384 2539 or 027 200 1686.

DOLOMITE NZ’s finest BioGro certified Mg fertiliser For a delivered price call ....

0800 436 566

YOUNG FARMER looking for sheep and beef lease or grazing. Gisborne area but would consider anywhere.

Remote places welcome.

Phone 022 574 1426.

LIVESTOCK FOR SALE BELTED GALLOWAY HEIFERS. Two raising 2-year-olds. $650+gst each. Phone 027 474 2754.

Taupō

LOG BUYER HAULER CREW available for harvesting. Wairarapa area. Phone 027 489 7036.

PERSONAL

Introducing Kate

HEALEY AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT Looking For & Selling All Farm Machinery Market Gardening Valuations Cropping Dairy Orchard Contracting Machinery Brokers Pukekohe Contact Ph Brian Healey 027 231 5913 healag@xtra.co.nz Plenty of driveshafts available

Alone & Seeking Love. A country girl who is loving & down to earth.

CHILLERS & FREEZERS

See TradeME #2251190054 [For farmers and hunters]

She has grown up on the land and enjoys the farming lifestyle.

Kate has blonde hair & green eyes. She enjoys cooking, camping, fishing and spending her time with a special man.

Become self-sufficient

RAMS FOR SALE

• Repairs – service – installations

www.asaer.co.nz

GOATS WANTED. All weights. All breeds.

Prompt service. Payment on pick up. My on farm prices will not be beaten.

Phone David Hutchings 07 895 8845 or 0274 519 249. Feral goats mustered on a 50/50 share basis.

0800 446 332

• Trailer mounted rooms

Email: chris@asaer.co.nz • Mobile 021 230 6904

GOATS WANTED

Seniors welcome.

• Ice machines

Especially now, where workers may be required to stay home, or socially distance, the one-man operation and range of tasks that Combi Clamp Equipment can complete, is invaluable.

PROMOTES QUICK PASTURE growth. Only $6.50+gst per hectare delivered. 0508-GIBBGRO [0508 442 247] www. gibbgro.co.nz. “The Proven One.”

Call now for more details.

• Freezer / chiller rooms Built to order

SITUATIONS VACANT

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Yep, you’re reading this right….our client is looking for a promising, enthusiastic and leadership ready team member to commit to a three-year Farm Manager apprenticeship arrangement that will see you leave with not only the qualifications but the experience to take on an advanced farm management role.

Located 10 minutes from Bulls is Waitatapia Station, a long-standing family-owned business run by the Dalrymple brothers. It is dynamic and diverse business including lamb and cattle finishing, cash cropping through to forestry production. We are looking for an experienced general fencer with water systems knowledge to join our team due to the retirement of a valued team member after 15 years.

How to apply Apply by email to office@waitatapia.co.nz or text Roger on 027 453 2400 References to be provided.

FLY OR LICE problem?

Electrodip – the magic eye sheepjetter since 1989 with unique self adjusting sides.

Incredible chemical and time savings with proven effectiveness.

Phone 07 573 8512 w w w. e l e c t r o d i p . c o m

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FARMERS WEEKLY – May 2, 2022

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With increased stress on NZ farmers this year, farm accidents are more likely.

If you operate a quad bike, consider installing a TRAX LifeGuard to protect what matters most – you and your family.

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SALE TALK

500 Mt Linton Station MA Angus Cows Capital Stock 3-12 year olds TB C8 IMF data available

AUTUMN DAIRY HERD & HEIFERS + MACHINERY AUCTION A/c BRETT & GAYLE FARRELL Friday 6th May 2022

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HIGH PRODUCING IN-MILK

Genuine capital stock line for sale from one of New Zealand’s Angus herds.

202 Drinnon Rd, Whangarei D/N 13313

Four men are in the hospital waiting room because their wives are having babies. A nurse goes up to the first guy and says, “Congratulations! You’re the father of twins.”

“That’s odd,” answers the man. “I work for the Minnesota Twins!”

A nurse says to the second guy, “Congratulations! You’re the father of triplets!”

“That’s weird,” answers the second man. “I work for the 3M company!”

A nurse tells the third man, “Congratulations! You’re the father of quadruplets!”

“That’s strange,” he answers. “I work for the Four Seasons hotel!”

The last man is groaning and banging his head against the wall.

“What’s wrong?” the others ask.

“I work for 7 Up!”

For expressions of interest please contact George Hazlett 0272 541 603 george.hazlett@rll.co.nz

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Winners of the Steak of Origin 2018

In-milk Cows & 2yr Heifers 1447 Hereheretau Rd, RD 6, WAIROA 4196

25 x Close to Profit Cows 49 x In-Milk Empty Cows

www.kerrahsimmentals.co.nz

PROFIT-A-BULL EXCELLENCE

160 x 2022 born heifer calves (sold in 20’s) online bidding will be available for

NATIONWIDE DAIRY SPECIALISTS

Key Machinery & Cows

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COMPRISING:

Tangiwai Station, Wairoa • 1PM, Tuesday, 24th May 2022

information on our upcoming

• 383 In-Milk Frsn/FrsnX Aut Calved Cows

SEVENTH ANNUAL ON-FARM AUCTION

Dairy Herd Auctions, visit:

BW122 PW192 R/a 98%

WANTED

BW199 PW241 R/a 99%

Herds/Cows & In-Calf Heifers

• 49 x In-Milk Empty Cows

Due to high demand, we are seeking listings

BW138 PW243 R/a 98%

for all classes of dairy stock

• 160 x Autumn 2022 born heifers 2-7wks

“Where Performance Meats Phenotype”

THIS WEEKS AUCTIONS:

old (sold in 20’s)

will be available at these auctions

• Machinery & Various sundries

for online bidding

DETAILS:

Wednesday 4th May

• The Autumn content of a split calving herd.

CONTACT: for catalogue

• RICHVIEW/RALPH & OTHER VENDORS:

A 55/45 Autumn/Spring split since 1998.

200 Frsn/FrsnX I/C cows + surplus lines,

Closed herd since 1997. BW’s up to 282 &

Jon Knauf 06 838 6793 E: jsknauf@gisborne.net.nz

Phil Transom 0274 420 060 PGG Wrightson

Call: Matt Hancock 027 601 3787 or

• Calved from 22/3 for 9 weeks, mated to AB

Kelly Higgins 027 600 2374

only (the last 11 years)

NZ’s Virtual Saleyard

Wednesday 4th May

• The original herd used 6yrs of sire proving

• THE PARKS:

Frsn and used LIC PSS since. For the

400 Frsn/FrsnX 2-7yr in-milk cows,

2019 and 2020 mating season kiwicross kiwicross heifers entered the herd in August 2021

1pm Farfield Angus Dispersal Sale 6.30pm Trilogy Genetics Dispersal Sale - Day 3

Call: David Harworth 027 450 4133 Friday 6th May • AUTUMN IN-MILK COWS & MACHINERY

• System 5 feeding. Diet consists of Kikuyu

WEDNESDAY 4 MAY

AUCTION: B & G FARRELL:

(Hills) Tetraploids (Flats) Maize & Grass.

Silage made on the farm. Barley straw, PKE, SBH & DDG all fed in herd homes

7pm

500 high producing In-Milk Autumn Cows,

11am

Call: Reuben Wright 027 284 6384

• Rotary shed, 493-512 MS/Cow for the last

Friday 6th May

14yrs

120 Xbred I/C cows, 60 Xbred I/C heifers, 51 Xbred R1yr heifers. Taranaki

AUCTIONEERS NOTE:

Call: Tim Hurley 027 414 6756 or

The farm has been sold. This high producing

Daniel Crowley 027 215 3609

herd has outstanding dairy type and excellent

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CALF/WEANER SALES

• WASHER & CO:

• 25%+ replacements introduced each

Te Kiripi Milking Shorthorn Sale

FRIDAY 6 MAY

2022 born Autumn calves, Machinery, Whangarei

• TB10, Lepto vaccinated

10am Canterbury Park High Country Calf Sale 11.30am Feilding Weaner Fair

Contact your local Agent or call:

udders. Totally recommended – sold in-milk

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on auction day. All cows and heifers in great

(National Dairy & Live Export Coordinator)

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All profiles will be updated with calved dates and latest herd test results prior to the auction.

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UPCOMING AUCTIONS

TUESDAY 3 MAY

On-Farm at Bulls

was used. All other times, Friesian. The

VENDORS:

Ross Mitchell 0274 048 965 Fergus Rural

Cambridge Saleyards

PW’s up to 844 (indices at 19/3)

reuben.wright@carrfields.co.nz

80+

POLLED PERF BULLS FO ORMANCE R AUCTIO N

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• 80 x In-Milk 2yr Frsn/FrsnX Heifers

Reuben Wright 027 284 6384 or

Jon Knauf

www.carrfieldslivestock.co.nz

Contact Javier:

0800 85 25 80

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Hinewaka Sale

Sale 8th June, 3.00pm 06 372 7615 - David

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Dunblane

Kumara 26th May, Bidr Sale 027 379 8167 - Chris

Waikari Private Sales 027 233 3678 - Chris

Glenbrook Station

Carriganes Cattle

Omarama Private Sales 021 285 9303 - Simon

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Tuatapere Private Sales 03 226 6713 - Anita

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Friday 20 May 2022 – 1pm

Glenview

Te Kohanui

Glenfern

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Roscliff

Waitara Private Sales 06 754 6699 - Roger Whangamomona Private Sales 06 762 3520 - Aaron

Hybrid Livestreamed Auctions

Te Awamutu Private Sales 027 211 1112 - Ross

Bullock Creek

Mill Valley

ANNUAL ON-FARM AUCTION

Morton

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Raupuha

Further enquiries, phone Erik & Lyn Van Der Velden 06 374 1575 or NZFL agents Clint Worthington 021 209 2236 John Watson 027 494 1975

Vaughan Vujcich 027 496 8706

Whangarei Heads Sale 1st July, 1pm 09 434 0987 - David 09 434 0718 -Will

Carnegie

Taupiri Sale 18th May, 3.00pm 027 484 4672 - Kelvin

Food and drink refreshments provided

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OPEN DAY: MONDAY, MAY 9TH from 10am to 2pm At their yards, 111 Rakaiatai Road, Norsewood, Dannevirke

12 NOON

0800 85 25 80

Ross Dyer 0274 333 381

Invite interested parties to view Limousin cattle for sale.

THURSDAY 5TH MAY 2022

Contact Javier:

www.dyerlivestock.co.nz

Mangatara Limousin Dannevirke

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Heriot Sale 24th May, 11am 027 497 8104 - Fraser

Rough Ridge

Ranfurly Sale 20th May, 11am 03 444 9277 - Malcolm

Using a n bull in Shorthor eeding ss-br your cro l increase wil program ne up to bottom li 20%

Renowned for great marbling producing top quality meat

Tuesday 31st of May 18 Ahiweka Rd, Dannevirke

Bull Walk – Tuesday 17th of May 12 – 2.00pm, or by appointment Simon Collin: 027 636 3243

George Collin: 027 782 5237

SELLING 20 R2 CHAROLAIS BULLS

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"MAXIMISING YOUR RETURN THROUGH PERSONAL LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT"

Key: Dairy

STOCK WANTED 140 x 160kg+ Well marked Here/Frs Steers 300-400kg Friesian Bulls Richard Seavill, Ph: 021 169 8276

STOCK O SA E

28 x Speckled Park Hfrs & Cows In-calf to SP or Hereford. Beautiful, quiet stock 104 x 426kg ave. Well marked Here/Frs Steers Richard Seavill, Ph: 021 169 8276

0800 827 455 admin@byl.co.nz www.byllivestock.co.nz

TE KUITI LIVESTOCK CENTRE Friday 6th April 2022 – 12 noon start 220 Heifers 71 R3Ang & Ang x 36 R3 Angus 40 R3 Hfd/Frsn x 27 R2 Hfd 19 R2 Angus

BW 107 – PW 172 R/A 85% Calving from 25th July to 30th September.

Consistently producing 400kg/ms.

AUCTIONEERS NOTE Computer split of a 1000 cow herd that is reducing spring cows to increase autumn numbers. Clean Friesian and Friesian X herd that is performing well on sand country and milked in a large herd environment.

To be sold In Milk for immediate delivery.

Prior inspection welcomed by contacting vendors agents.

Further entries to: David Haworth (CL) 027 450 4133 Richard Trembath (NZFLL) 027 499 3992 Jamie Cunninghame (PGW) 027 502 8585

• 282 Angus Steer Calves • 233 Angus & Angus Hereford X Steer Calves • 35 Hereford Steer Calves • 129 Angus Heifer Calves • 103 Angus & Angus Hereford X Heifer Calves • 65 Hereford Heifer Calves Enquiries to: Peter Barnes 027 591 8415

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Auctioneers Note.

These Ang & Ang x cows represent a great opportunity to purchase an outstanding line of capital stock cows bred on very steep Te Anga hill country.

Top Ang bulls sourced from Hingaia Ang stud.

Enquiries to: Andy Transom 0275 965 142

OUTSTANDING XBRED HERD & REPLACEMENT HEIFERS Thursday 12th May 11.00am On Farm: Rice Road, Te Awamutu A/C Krippner Properties • 260 XBred Incalf Cows BW 184 PW 236 RA 99% • 75 XBred Incalf Heifers BW 226 PW 277 • 60 Rising 1yr XBred Heifers BW 252 PW 286 Due to change in farming direction the herd including heifers has come up for auction (Haven’t been offered for sale in paddock).

An outstanding xbred herd calving 15th July LIC bulls for 6 weeks, tailed off Hereford bulls.

Bulls out 28th December. Cows consistently produce around (approx.) 440 m/s, SCC ave (approx.) 180, (Cows still in milk.)

BWs up to 299 PWs 477.

Incalf Heifers calving 15th July to Jsy bulls, bull out 25th December.

Heifer BWs up to 290 PW 350.

Herd TB C10, EBL Free, BVD neg, lepto vacc.

Payment 14 days from sale date.

Delivery immediate unless prior arrangement made.

Catalogues available Agonline.

Contact: Dean Evans 027 223 1092 John Elworthy 027 227 8902

• 95 VIC R3 Horned Hereford Heifers, calving 11th Sept- 28th Nov • 250 MA Horned Hereford cows, calving 25th Oct- 20th Dec This capital stock herd is in calf to Waiau stud bulls (Kings in Southland).

They are farmed on steep hill country and become available due to farm sale, (not trees) An opportunity to purchase quality cows with over 40 years of breeding.

Annual draft of 2yr strs are highly sought after by regular buyers.

Enquiries: Warren Caskey 027 432 1384

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HIGH BW HERD & INCALF HEIFER DISPERSAL Monday 9th May 11.00am On Farm: 282 Roto O Rangi Road, Cambridge.

A/C L Reeve Comprising: • 180 Frsn Frsn X & Aryshire Cows BW 175/55 PW 241/56 RA 100% • 43 Frsn Frsn X Incalf Heifers BW 212 PW 262 • 3 Digit herd code • 3 Contract mated cows, #16 #19 #95 • BWs up to 451/65 PWs up to 710/57 • Production averages 1400ms/ha & 400ms/cow • Low SCC ave of 130,000 Cows mated to nominated sires, calving from 17th July - 20th August then tailed with XBred & Aryshire bulls. Our vendors have sold the farm & are ready for a new challenge. The cows have been dried off & will be in great order on sale day. One of the last chances to buy genuine cows this season that tick the boxes for type, temperament, & production.

Heifers calving to Jersey bulls from 16th July - 24th September.

Bidr will be available for online bidding.

Payment 14 days from sale date.

Delivery immediate unless prior arrangement made.

Catalogues available on Agonline.

Contact: Andrew Reyland 027 223 7092 Watch and Bid from anywhere. For more info visit www.bidr.co.nz

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Sheep

Feilding Saleyards 12th May

Friday 6th May starts 12noon A/C Taradale Farm - Farm Sold C/o Alan & Sue Smith Te Anga Complete Dispersal Sale of Capital Stock Hill Country Ang & Ang x cows.

• 70 R 3yr Hfrs • 40 R 4yr Cows • 35 R 5yr Cows • 50 R 6yr to R 8yr cows • All age groups TBD

Kevin Mortensen (PGW) 027 473 5858 Brett Wallbank (NZ Farmers) 027 488 1299 Andrew Jardine (Carrfields) 027 397 7005

A/C – The Parks 386 Santoft Road Bulls Comprising of: • 420-2yr to 7yr Friesian and FriesianX Cows

Acc B & M Forstyth Tahora Easten Taranaki

TE KUITI RWB HEIFER & COW FAIR

Te Kuiti RWB Heifer & Cow Fair

Wednesday 4th May, 11.00am

Wednesday 4 May , 11am Blenheim Saleyards Comprising:

100 x 180kg ave. Friesian Weaner Bulls $3.60/kg Richard Seavill, Ph: 021 169 8276 or Chris Kyle, Ph: 027 496 7412

CONJUNCTION CLEARING SALE

HERD CLEARANCE

th

35 x Well presented Hereford Cows, VIC to Hereford Bull, $1,575 Chris Kyle, Ph: 027 496 7412

600 Cows 41 R4yr Ang & Ang x 14 R4yr Angus x 35 R5yr Ang & Ang x 62 R3/5yr Hfd 200 MA Ang + Ang x 50 MA Sth Devon 130 MA Angus 30 MA Hfd/Frsn x Various Bulls and Bull dates

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MARKET SNAPSHOT

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Market Snapshot brought to you by the AgriHQ analysts.

Mel Croad

Suz Bremner

Reece Brick

Fiona Quarrie

Hayley O’Driscoll

Caitlin Pemberton

Deer

Sheep

Cattle BEEF

SHEEP MEAT

VENISON

Last week

Prior week

Last year

NI Steer (300kg)

5.95

5.95

5.25

NI lamb (17kg)

8.30

8.30

6.95

NI Stag (60kg)

7.95

7.95

5.35

NI Bull (300kg)

5.90

5.90

5.15

NI mutton (20kg)

5.75

5.75

5.40

SI Stag (60kg)

8.00

8.00

5.35

NI Cow (200kg)

3.85

3.90

3.50

SI lamb (17kg)

8.15

8.10

6.60

SI Steer (300kg)

5.80

5.80

4.65

SI mutton (20kg)

5.50

5.50

5.20

SI Bull (300kg)

5.65

5.65

4.60

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

SI Cow (200kg)

3.55

3.65

3.15

UK CKT lamb leg

12.67

13.51

11.25

US imported 95CL bull

10.09

9.87

8.13

10.0

US domestic 90CL cow

9.12

8.98

7.40

9.0

6.0

8.0

5.0

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

$/kg CW

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

North Island steer slaughter price

7.0 6.5

9.0 8.0 7.0

10.0 South Island lamb slaughter price

9.0 8.0

4.5

9.0

6.0

8.0

5.0

$/kg CW

10.0

7.0

5.0

Oct

Dec 5-yr ave

5.5 5.0

WOOL

4.5

(NZ$/kg) Dec

Feb

Apr

5-yr ave

Jun

2020-21

Dairy

2021-22

Apr 2020-21

Jun

Aug 2021-22

Prior week

Last year

Apr

2.51

2.51

2.38

37 micron ewe

-

2.40

30 micron lamb

-

-

600

9.50

550 $/tonne

9.00 8.50 8.00 7.50

Last year

Urea

1205

1205

672

2.08

Super

373

373

319

2.33

DAP

1420

1420

990

500 450

350

Dec-21 Feb-22 Apr-22 Sept. 2022

Apr-21

Jun-21

NZ average (NZ$/t)

Top 10 by Market Cap

400

DAIRY FUTURES (US$/T)

Aug-21

Oct-21

Dec-21

Feb-22

Apr-22

Company

Close

YTD High

YTD Low

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Ltd

21.39

21.65

33.4

Meridian Energy Limited (NS)

4.7

5.36

4.33

Auckland International Airport Limited

7.75

7.95

6.88

Spark New Zealand Limited

4.9

4.975

4.3

Mercury NZ Limited (NS)

5.84

6.36

5.45

Ebos Group Limited

42.7

44.3

36.11

Mainfreight Limited

78.85

94.4

75.11

Contact Energy Limited

8.17

8.42

7.55

Infratil Limited

8.28

8.395

7.5

Fletcher Building Limited

6.05

7.44

6.04

Listed Agri Shares

vs 4 weeks ago

WMP

4000

4160

4660

SMP

4290

4515

4750

AMF

6550

6600

6850

Butter

6450

6650

6800

Milk Price

9.42

9.45

9.66

$/tonne

Prior week

YTD High

YTD Low

0.24

0.27

0.215

The a2 Milk Company Limited

4.81

6.39

4.71

600

Comvita Limited

3.3

3.78

3.22

550

Delegat Group Limited

12.56

14.45

12.18

Fonterra Shareholders' Fund (NS)

3.05

3.78

3.05

500

Foley Wines Limited

1.57

1.57

1.4

Greenfern Industries Limited

0.112

0.25

0.108

450

Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd (NS)

1.66

1.73

1.3

Marlborough Wine Estates Group Limited

0.235

0.26

0.21

New Zealand King Salmon Investments Ltd

0.29

1.38

0.255

PGG Wrightson Limited

4.14

5.76

4.1

Rua Bioscience Limited

0.395

0.53

0.385

Sanford Limited (NS)

4.46

5.07

4.38

Scales Corporation Limited

4.71

5.59

4.71

Seeka Limited

5.19

5.36

4.99

550

Synlait Milk Limited (NS)

3.35

3.54

3.12

T&G Global Limited

2.95

3.01

2.77

500

S&P/NZX Primary Sector Equity Index

12702

14293

12702

450

S&P/NZX 50 Index

11726

13150

11726

S&P/NZX 10 Index

11338

12725

11311

350

Apr-21

WMP FUTURES - VS FOUR WEEKS AGO

Jun-21

Aug-21

Oct-21

Dec-21

Feb-22

Apr-22

WAIKATO PALM KERNEL

5000 4500

$/tonne

US$/t

Close

400

* price as at close of business on Thursday

4000

400 350

Jun Jul Latest price

Aug

Sep 4 weeks ago

Oct

5pm, close of market, Wednesday

ArborGen Holdings Limited

CANTERBURY FEED BARLEY

Last price*

3500 May

Aug 2021-22

Fertiliser

Company

Nearby contract

Jun

2020-21

Prior week

CANTERBURY FEED WHEAT

Aug-21 Oct-21 Sept. 2021

Feb

Last week

Grain

Data provided by

Jun-21

Dec

FERTILISER Two weeks ago

10.00

Apr-21

Feb

Coarse xbred ind.

Aug

MILK PRICE FUTURES

7.00

Oct

5-yr ave

6.0

Oct

7.0

6.0

6.5

4.0

South Island stag slaughter price

11.0

5.0

South Island steer slaughter price

Last year

10.0

7.0

5.5

7.0

Last week Prior week

North Island stag slaughter price

11.0

$/kg CW

$/kg CW

North Island lamb slaughter price

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

5.0

4.0

$/kg CW

Last year

6.0

6.0

$/kg MS

Last week Prior week

$/kg CW

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Sara Hilhorst

Ingrid Usherwood

300

Apr-21

S&P/FW PRIMARY SECTOR EQUITY

Jun-21

Aug-21

Oct-21

Dec-21

Feb-22

Apr-22

12702

S&P/NZX 50 INDEX

11726

S&P/NZX 10 INDEX

11338

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – May 2, 2022

Analyst intel

WEATHER

Overview Settled conditions look to reign supreme at the moment, not to be confused with a lack of rain, which is how it’s shaping up. An anticyclone parks itself out to the east in the Pacific for most of this week, casting a ridge back over New Zealand, through till at least Thursday, a front may lurk about the lower South Island too. On Friday the anticyclone gains some strength and the front to the south gets pushed away. The weekend is mainly settled but on Sunday the high does start to lose some strength, as a front approaches from the southwest in the Tasman Sea and a low appears to the northeast.

14-day outlook Largely settled this week, thanks to a ridge of high pressure lying over New Zealand being cast out from a high to the east. Conditions are mainly dry apart from a few showers for northeastern parts of the North Island and southwestern parts of the South Island.

Where skies are clear, watch for areas of fog overnight, especially inland away from the coast. Winds are looking to be mostly light. Early next week we finally see some movement with a cold front looking to push over the country, this southerly quarter airflow starts to ease mid next week, then another anticyclone lurks in the Tasman Sea ready to move in.

Mel Croad mel.croad@globalhq.co.nz

Highlights

27/04/2022

Wind

Winds are mainly looking to be light this week for most, southeasterlies could be a little breezy about coastal parts from East Cape through to eastern Northland and in the South Island, north to northeasterly winds may be breezy about coastal Fiordland.

Source: NIWA Data

Temperature

7-day rainfall forecast

Temperatures in the late teens or early 20s this week. The West Coast may stick around the mid to late teen arena though. Also during the nights temperatures will be a bit cool, there may be light frosts for some inland spots.

Until Thursday we see a few showers at times from East Cape up to eastern Northland in a southeasterly airflow. Also expect the odd shower for the West Coast, Fiordland has a higher chance of rain or showers.

Friday is dry for most apart from East Cape through to eastern Northland, which may see further showers – this repeats over the weekend. Sunday may see showers appear again for South Westland.

5

10

Highlights/ Extremes

20

30

40

50

60

80

100

200

400

Rainfall accumulation over seven days, from May 1 to May 8. Forecast generated on April 28.

The main feature over the next seven days will be how settled the weather is looking for most. Warm temperatures in the afternoons should be welcome, the eastern South Island should see a few consecutive days with highs in the early 20s.

Weather brought to you in partnership with WeatherWatch.co.nz

A LITTLE over two years ago Brazilian beef was granted access to re-enter the US market. There was little fanfare at the time and New Zealand exporters didn’t appear overly concerned at the arrival of the largest beef exporter into this crucial market.

AgriHQ’s Livestock Outlook reported at the time that Brazil’s return to the US market could pose a possible threat to NZ and Australian beef imports, but that would only eventuate if China’s demand slowed to a point where it made economic sense to swing large volumes to the US. Through 2020, as China recovered from their first wave of covid-19, demand for beef surged and Brazil was in the box seat to supply this market.

This left little room for this exporting powerhouse to diversify into the US market, where their product was considered inferior to the likes of NZ or Australian beef. In many cases, few endusers were set up to use Brazilian beef.

Therefore the threat of Brazilian beef disrupting US imported beef dynamics remained very low.

Since 2020, despite less-than-ideal expansion conditions, the Brazilian beef herd is estimated to have lifted by 32 million head, or 13%, taking their total herd to 276 million head.

Brazil relies on a mix of domestic and export demand to absorb the sheer volume of beef they produce annually. Therefore, certainty in export trade is important.

Brazil now appears more comfortable to look beyond China, purely based on needing greater market access to distribute their larger export volumes.

By 2021 global trading dynamics were changing. This was a combination of covid’s influence on markets and economies, but also tightening beef supplies from key exporting countries.

Through the haze of the last year, Brazil has emerged as a significant player in the US market.

Much of this came on the heels of

their export suspension to China in September 2021. When China finally lifted this suspension in December, Brazil had already made significant inroads into the US market and subsequently export volumes were rising rapidly. Brazil beef exports to the US in 2021 increased by 130%.

While this sounds dramatic, it was coming off a very low base as they looked to re-establish trade with the US as a measure to spread risk.

Unlike NZ or Australia, Brazilian beef must enter the US under a shared quota, limited to 65,000 tonnes.

Neither NZ or Australia have the volume to challenge US imported prices and have to settle for softer prices influenced by Brazil.

Once this is exhausted, a tariff of 26.5% is applied to the value of each shipment of Brazilian beef.

This quota was filled earlier this month as Brazilian beef exports to the US surged.

It was expected supply would reduce with the focus returning to China.

However, the unsettled trading environment within China, including some recent plant delistings, means Brazil continues to ship beef to the US and simply absorb the tariff.

This is now starting to impact US imported beef prices, especially when combined with the inability to seamlessly export to China.

Neither NZ or Australia have the volume to challenge US imported prices and have to settle for softer prices influenced by Brazil.

While US imported beef prices are still extremely good for this time of the year, the absence of lower-priced Brazilian beef would have meant a firmer market for NZ beef heading into the US.

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Last hammer on Temuka calf sales After a busy month of sales, the last hammer fell on calves at Temuka. That drew the calf-selling season there to a close after 7300 had traipsed through the rostrum. Data collated and analysed by AgriHQ show some clear preferences and of note was the strength of the exotic steer market. Typically, traditional steers would make a premium on a per kilogram basis over the exotic breeds, but this season the average per kilogram levels have been very similar. For the calf sales that posted similar average weights, traditional steers recorded average per kilogram values of $3.55-$3.79/kg, while the exotic lines averaged $3.49-$3.74/kg. Per head buying for heifers meant that the later-born calves sold towards the end of the season enjoyed higher per kilogram averages of $3.26-$3.30/kg, but on a per head basis the outlay was smaller at $610-$615, compared to $640-$680 earlier in the season.

COUNTIES Tuakau sheep and prime cattle • Prime Angus-Friesian steers, 709kg, made $2.92/kg • Hereford-Friesian bull calves realised $215-$305 • Heavy prime lambs earned $166 About 400 prime cattle were offered at TUAKAU last Wednesday and the market held, Carrfields Livestock agent Karl Chitham reported. The yarding was dominated by boner cows, with 500-600kg making $1.49/kg to $1.72/kg and 400-500kg, $1.33-$1.48/kg. Lighter Jersey and crossbred cows, 280-350kg, earned $0.80/kg to $1.31/kg. Prime steers and heifers were in short supply. Steers, 600-700kg, returned $2.84-$2.93/kg, while 480-600kg heifers managed $2.83-$2.89/kg and 400-460kg, $2.68-$2.75/kg. HerefordFriesian heifer calves fetched $85-$200, and Friesian bulls, $50-$145. Due to the public holiday on Monday, the sheep sale was held on Tuesday. Light-medium prime lambs traded at $133-$148. Forward stores earned $118-$129 and light-medium, $89-$107. Medium-heavy ewes managed $153-$181 and light, $70-$105.

WAIKATO Frankton cattle 26.4 • Weaner steers, 201-264kg, fetched $700-$820 • Weaner Friesian bulls, 155kg, lifted to $500 Tallies lifted to more typical levels last Tuesday at FRANKTON for PGG Wrightson with 341 store cattle penned. R2 steers lifted to an average of $2.90/kg and better types, 350-390kg, reached $2.93/kg to $3.11/kg. Quality R2 Hereford-Friesian and Charolais-cross heifers sold well at $2.71-$2.83/kg and the next cut $2.57-$2.63/kg. Prime cattle numbered 116-head and the bulk of heifers, 409485kg, earned $2.65-$2.76/kg. Boner Friesian cows above 516kg returned $1.42-$1.56/kg with lighter types typically $1.20-$1.30/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye. Frankton cattle 27.4 • Top R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 380kg, held at $2.83/kg • A pen of R2 Friesian bulls, 371kg, were a highlight at $3.18/kg A modest yarding of 264 store cattle was penned by New Zealand Farmers Livestock at FRANKTON last Wednesday.

R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 311-330kg, softened to $2.56$2.57/kg. Red Hereford-Friesian, 365kg, topped the heifers at $2.33/kg. Quality weaner Hereford-Friesian and red Hereford-Friesian steers, 154-164kg, fetched $565-$590 while tops at 170kg managed $680, $4.00/kg. HerefordFriesian and Friesian bulls, 163-190kg, earned $400-$450.

Boner cows filled most of the prime pens and top Friesian, 558-666kg, sold at steady to improved levels of $1.69/kg to $1.88/kg. The balance of Friesian and Friesian-cross, 431540kg, mainly eased at $1.21/kg to $1.49/kg. Better prime Hereford-Friesian steers and heifers, 460-471kg, held at $2.89-$2.90/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye. PGG Wrightson Frankton feeder calf • Charolais-Friesian bulls firmed to $290-$380 Just under 400 feeder calves were presented at FRANKTON last Tuesday. A few new buyers were present, and the average price firmed to $160. Friesian bulls softened with good types back to $120-$150 and medium, $80-$110. Good Hereford-Friesian eased to $270-$290 with small to medium mainly steady at $130-$255. In the heifer pens Hereford-Friesian held with medium to good calves at $150-$250. Charolais-Friesian were hot property and medium to good types firmed to $175-$280.

Reporoa feeder calf sale 14.4, 21.4 • Top Hereford-Friesian bulls reached $310 Volume lifted to 185-head at the REPOROA feeder calf sale last Thursday and the market was strong. Fewer Friesian bulls were penned and sold for $50-$80 but black Hereford-Friesian lifted to $247-$280 and the balance, $115-$180. Those with red factor and Angus-cross were discounted to $50-$170. The top heifer price lifted $5 for

Hereford-Friesian as better types made $165-$190. Second and third cuts returned $50-$120, which also covered the red Hereford-Friesian.

KING COUNTRY Te Kuiti cattle and sheep 20.4, 22.4 • Heavy prime lambs made $169-$201 • Top store lambs earned $138-$141, medium $120-$128 and lighter types $80-$90 • R3 steers, 550-598kg, typically made $2.86/kg and 406kg Angus heifers $2.24/kg There was another small sheep sale at TE KUITI on Wednesday 20th April. Heavy prime lambs made $176 and the next cut $150-$160. Four-tooth Romney-cross ewes that had been run with a ram fetched $172. There was a big yarding of cows in the pens on Friday 22nd April. Hereford cows, run-with an Angus bull, made $1190, Murray Grey cows $1030 and better Angus cows $1220. The best of the R2 steers traded at $3.02-$3.11/kg and lighter types $2.95/kg.

BAY OF PLENTY Rangiuru cattle and sheep • Top R2 Angus-cross and Hereford-cross heifers fetched $2.83$2.89/kg • Friesian steers, 642kg, returned $2.85/kg • Friesian and Friesian-cross cows, 565kg, collected $1.72/kg Store cattle had a stronger sale at RANGIURU last Tuesday and R2 Hereford-Friesian and Hereford-cross steers traded at $2.89-$2.94/kg and better Hereford-Jersey were 10c/kg behind. Dairy-beef heifers, 330-382kg, made $2.04-$2.06/kg. Prime beef bulls, 616-650kg, collected $3.09-$3.13/kg and boner cows, 452-521kg, earned $1.33$1.43/kg on a steady market. The best store lambs returned $110-$116 and top prime lambs $171. The heaviest ewes made $165. Read more in your LivestockEye.

POVERTY BAY Matawhero sheep • Heavy store cryptorchid lambs fetched $150-$157 • Romney 2-tooth and mixed-age ewes, run-with-ram, made $200$220 • Prime lambs mostly earned $153-$173 • Prime ewes sold at $170-$197 Store lamb throughput lifted to more than 6200 head at MATAWHERO on Friday, April 22 and heavier weights helped the average value lift almost $10 to $135. Top male lambs made $134-$147 and the balance, $116-$130.

Medium cryptorchid sold for $138-$145.50. Ewe lambs mostly traded at $126-$137 and lighter types, $86-$121.

Read more in your LivestockEye.

TARANAKI Taranaki cattle • Quality R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 435-448kg, reached $2.92$3.03/kg • R2 heifers mostly earned $2.20/kg to $2.40/kg • Weaner heifers, 190-285kg, fetched $555-$620 • Prime steers sold at $2.91-$3.04/kg Store cattle throughput eased to around 340 head at TARANAKI last Wednesday and the market was solid for good-quality types. R2 steers sold on a more consistent market and heavier weights helped pushed the average up 13c/kg to $2.83/kg. Better weaner steers typically traded at $600-$670, though 280kg Hereford-Friesian achieved $800.

Boner Friesian and Friesian-cross cows mostly made $1.35$1.46/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

HAWKE’S BAY Stortford Lodge store cattle and sheep • Hereford cows, 444-501kg and vetted-in-calf to Hereford, made $820-$930

• R3 Hereford heifers, 429-449kg and vetted-in-calf to Hereford, traded at $1050-$1150 • R2 Simmental-cross steers, 372-427kg, sold well at $3.28-$3.35/ kg • Top cryptorchid lambs were steady to firm at $140-$160 • Good to heavy ewe lambs sold from $129 to $160 Hereford cows and heifers made up a large portion of a small store cattle sale at STORTFORD LODGE last Wednesday. Only a few other feature lines were penned and included a line of R3 Angus steers at $1430, $3.11/kg and R2 Angus-Hereford, 345kg, $3.21/kg. The lamb market eased for a 6800-head yarding though type and quality were more mixed. Medium cryptorchid ranged from $115 to $143 and wether lambs sold for $131-$146. Medium ewe lambs returned $109-$129. Read more in your LivestockEye.

MANAWATŪ Feilding store sale • R2 traditional steers, 400-500kg, made $3.15-$3.25/kg • R2 Friesian bulls, 405-445kg, sold for $3.05-$3.15/kg • Weaner Friesian bulls, 230kg, returned $780, $3.35/kg • Store male lambs averaged $141 • Store ewe lambs averaged $125 Nearly 900 cattle were yarded at FEILDING on Friday, April 22. Good numbers of R3 Angus steers mainly made $3.00-$3.10/kg at 510-665kg. Both Hereford-Friesian and Angus-Friesian R2 steers, 445-490kg, were $2.90-$3.05/kg.

R2 dairy-beef heifers were soft selling at $2.45-$2.60/kg for 325-355kg. Weaner Friesian and Angus-Friesian bulls, 165215kg, went for $3.00-$3.10/kg. A little more than 15,000 store lambs sold. Forward store males traded at $155-$165, good lines $140-$150, medium $125-$140 and light, $110$125. Forward store ewe lambs fetched $145-$155, good lines $130-$140, medium $120-$130 and light, $100-$115.

Read more in your LivestockEye. Feilding prime cattle and sheep • Boner Friesian cows, 524-613kg, realised $1.28-$1.35/kg • Heaviest lambs made $193 After getting off to a late start, cattle sold to regular buyers at FEILDING last Tuesday. Hereford-Friesian and

North Island weaner fairs The market performed above expectations at the TARANAKI 2nd run weaner fair on Thursday, April 21.

Traditional steers met solid interest and the average improved $81, 31c/kg to $820, $3.41/kg. Heavy steers above 300kg reached $1015-$1060 and 230-290kg mostly $740-$900. Traditional heifers, 200-230kg, typically achieved $600-$700 and 250-270kg, $710$755. Weaner Shorthorn-cross heifers, 292kg, sold well at $830. Traditional bulls, 260kg, made $830-$970 and the next cut $690-$790. A little over 1600 weaner steers and bulls were offered at FEILDING last Wednesday.

The vast majority were traditionally-bred steers, and of these 200-250kg made $800-$1030, $3.70-$4.10/kg.

Heavier cuts were more varied, usually $3.75-$3.95/ kg, but some lines were specifically targeted at $1200$1280, $4.20-$4.50/kg. Charolais-cross steers returned $750-$1150, $3.75-$3.90/kg at 200-260kg while polled purebred Hereford bulls, 240-295kg, sold for $950$1090, $3.70-$3.95/kg. Nearly 1000 heifers followed last Thursday. The exotic calves were mainly Charolaiscross which sold for $3.05-$3.15/kg at 235-310kg while lighter pens were more varied, usually $600-$670 at 180-225kg. Traditional pens mainly made $3.10-$3.30/ kg for 195-270kg, though a subset at the upper-end of the weight range were below $3/kg. Four good-sized 185-190kg pens reached $640-$650, $3.40-$3.50/kg but the bulk of the sub-195kg cuts made $3.00-$3.30/kg.

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South Island calf sales

WINDING UP: The calf-selling season is drawing to a close and Coalgate finished with two sales dedicated to high country calves.

Speckle Park-Friesian steers, 496kg, made $2.78/kg and the better of two Friesian, 645kg, earned $2.72/kg. A selection of Friesian and Friesian-cross in-calf cows were offered as a result of a farm sale. Better Friesian ranged from $1100 to $1400 and most Friesian-cross traded below $1000. There were 95 feeder calves offered and good Friesian bulls made $180-$230 and Hereford-Friesian traded at $210-$260. A larger yarding of lambs sold on a steady market and half returned $163-$179. Ewes were mainly in larger pens and $130-$147 covered most. Read more in your LivestockEye. Rongotea cattle • Weaner Friesian bulls achieved $560 • Boner cows mostly earned $1.30-$1.35/kg Another short week meant low throughput at RONGOTEA last Tuesday, New Zealand Farmers Livestock agent Darryl Harwood reported. R2 Hereford-Friesian and Angus-cross heifers, 385-417kg, made $2.83-$2.94/kg.

Weaner steers, 125-180kg, earned $350-$400 while better heifers reached $400-$610. Top feeder calves were secured for $255-$290 and the next cut $95-$185.

CANTERBURY Canterbury Park cattle and sheep • R2 Belgian Blue-Friesian steers, 363kg, realised $2.79/kg • Heaviest prime lambs traded at $212 Most of the usual buyers gathered at CANTERBURY PARK last Wednesday and markets mostly held. Traditional steers, upwards of 550kg, collected $2.80-$2.88/kg and dairy-beef, 500-585kg, made $2.55-$2.64/kg. Traditional heifers, 425573kg, returned $2.69-$2.74/kg on a steady market while others softened and dairy-beef, 450-550kg, mostly made $2.40-$2.49/kg. Beef bulls, 590-610kg, collected $2.50$2.62/kg and cows, 535-590kg, earned $1.80-$1.88/kg. A premium was paid for larger pens of shorn and drafted store lambs in a small yarding of 870-head. Weights were consistent and most returned $124-$136. Prime lambs sold on a steady market and almost half realised $140-$176. The ewe market also held. Read more in your LivestockEye. Coalgate sheep 21.4 • Heaviest prime lambs returned $210 Store lambs continued to sell on a strong market at COALGATE on Thursday, April 21. Heavier Suffolk-cross fetched $144-$149 and the top cut of Corriedale cryptorchid

from Lake Coleridge collected $170 while others made $133-$148. Prime lambs maintained a similar level, and many earned $140-$159. Ewes also sold on a steady market and the heaviest realised $257. Read more in your LivestockEye.

SOUTH-CANTERBURY Temuka prime and boner cattle, all sheep • Boner heifers mostly fetched $1.64-$1.72/kg • Prime Angus cows sold well at $1.82-$1.94/kg • Top prime beef heifers firmed to $2.80-$2.83/kg • Good Corriedale wether and ewe lambs managed $122-$126 • Heavy prime ewes held at $187-$201, medium $126-$178 and light $90-$109 Good demand helped the boner cattle market at TEMUKA last Tuesday. The Friesian and crossbred averages lifted 11c/kg to $1.30-$1.33/kg and the top end could reach $1.34-$1.44/kg. The lion’s share of prime traditional steers weighed 500-660kg and earned $2.80-$2.90/kg while better dairy-beef shifted for $2.70-$2.80/kg. Over 4000 store lambs were yarded, and the market strengthened. Most medium types traded at $106-$127. Forward store lambs returned $130-$160. Prime lambs sold on a steady market with heavy types $180-$202, medium $136-$177 and light $119-$129.

Read more in your LivestockEye.

OTAGO Balclutha sheep • Prime lambs fetched $120-$170 • Prime wethers achieved $140 Store lambs sold by PGG Wrightson made $56 to $137 at BALCLUTHA last Wednesday. Prime ewes earned $50 to $150 and prime rams $50 to $106.

SOUTHLAND Lorneville cattle and sheep • Boner cows made $1.00/kg to $1.20/kg • Prime 2-tooth ewes fetched $120-$126 • Local trade rams sold at $60-$80 A small yarding of prime cattle sold on a sound market at LORNEVILLE last Tuesday. Heavier steers above 600kg made $2.76/kg and lighter steers and heifers, $2.40-$2.50/ kg. In the store pens, 265kg weaner steers earned $585 and

Annual lines of high-country calves sold to mostly repeat buyers at COALGATE on Thursday, April 21.

Angus steers typically traded from $3.80/kg to $4.00/ kg and lighter pens reached $4.15/kg, likewise for Angus-Hereford. Angus-Hereford steer calves from Rakaia Gorge, 160kg, fetched $760, $4.75/kg. Charolaiscross, 190-271kg, returned $750-$1050 and $590-$870 was made by their sisters at 175-264kg. Most Angus heifers earned $3.30-$3.40/kg on a stronger market.

CULVERDEN finished the calf-selling season on a strong note for steers on Friday, April 22, yet the heifer market was harder-going. A yarding of 1140 finished the season with almost an even split of steers and heifers. Angus steers, 230-290kg, sold for $885-$1080 with top lines able to reach $3.90-$4.10/kg and second cuts $3.80/kg. Lighter lines at 220kg and below made similar per kilogram prices for per head levels of $650$855. Hereford steers, 175-235kg, returned $790-$875 with feature lines up to $4.50/kg. Traditional heifers weighed up to 255-265kg and at that level $770-$820 was achieved. Most lines were lighter types though and made $560-$680 to vary from $2.90/kg to $3.10/kg.

One pen of 48 Hereford heifers, 183kg, returned $670, $3.68/kg. There were 746 calves yarded at TEMUKA last Wednesday and they were presented to a small gallery of repeat buyers. The first pen was autumnborn Angus from Woodbury which weighed 391kg and collected $1370 along with other 200kg-plus Angus steers which mostly made $3.46-$3.66/kg. Genuine station-bred Angus earned a premium at $3.70-$3.90/ kg and up to $4.02/kg for the lightest, $530-$660 at 132-174kg. Angus-Hereford were also mostly stationbred cattle and made $3.86-$3.99/kg. Top capital stock Angus-Hereford heifers from Rangitata Gorge, 226kg, fetched $800, $3.54/kg and Fairlie-bred Angus, 104156kg, returned $380-$580. Most other traditional types settled within $3.10-$3.30/kg. The final calves to go under the hammer at Temuka was 600 AngusPure calves from SHENLEY STATION last Thursday. Steers totalled 490 and were in mainly good condition. Top pens made $860-$965, medium $675-$790 and two younger pens, $510-$600. Three pens of heifers varied from $455 to $675.

140-145kg heifers $320-$400. Heavy prime lambs lifted to $159-$175, medium $134-$147 and light $116-$128. Heavy prime ewes firmed to $152-$198, medium $128-$141 and light $80-$116. Three-shear breeding ewes traded at $182, and Romney-Texel three to five shear ewes $166.

Charlton sheep • Heavy prime ewes made $160-$175, medium $140-$155 and light $120-$135 • Local trade rams fetched $60-$95 Prime lambs eased at CHARLTON last Thursday with heavy types back to $160-$173, medium $145-$150 and light $128-$138. Store lambs had good demand which strengthened the top end to $120-$130, medium earned $100-$115 and light $50-$80.

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OME of the most picturesque calf sales were held in the upper reaches of Central Otago last week as part of the Upper Clutha on-farm offering and included well-known station names such as Mount Aspiring and West Wanaka.

PGG Wrightson regional manager John Duffy said that it is a privilege to be involved in selling calves on such stations, and the weather really turned it on for the second year running.

“It looked and felt like paradise as, after a frosty start, the blue sky day warmed up and attendees really felt like they were part of

something unique. Central and North Otago have been fortunate to have had a good run this year, after a very dry season in 2021, and it feels like an Indian summer,” Duffy said.

The Upper Clutha on-farm calf sales are in their fifth year and seven vendors sold nearly 1200 calves at five locations stretching from Mount Aspiring to Cardrona.

The type of calves offered drew a big crowd of the 1100 sold, around 800 were the verysoughtafter Angus and Angus-Hereford.

“We knew we would have an audience due to the breed offered and regular buyers returning,” he said.

“The vendors buy good bulls on the circuit and so have a good reputation for producing calves that grow out well and

have a good temperament.

“A good spread of buyers was present, and the market was fully up to expectations and in some cases better.”

We knew we would have an audience due to the breed offered and regular buyers returning.

John Duffy PGG Wrightson Steers made up most of the numbers offered at the different properties and sold above expectations.

Last year dry conditions limited demand and top steers sold for $800-$900 and medium types $650-$750, but this year the top pens reached $850-$1000, medium $700-$825 and younger calves, $540-$670.

The best Hereford steers made $800-$825 and second and third cuts, $550-$740, though some buyers looking for steers still left empty-handed.

Heifers were in short supply as the top calves were kept on farm as replacements.

A line of 50 Hereford from Alpha Burn Station were suitable as capital stock replacements and topped the sales at $650 and the balance sold down to $350.

Angus and Angus-Hereford returned $380-$660.

Duffy reported that a reduction in demand from the dairy sector

for Hereford bulls was the most noted change at the sales this year and meant that those sold made steer values at $800-$950, compared to last year’s top level of $1100.

The sales offered a chance to visit these well-known stations and enjoy the hospitality, and plenty of calves stayed local but buyers from Maniototo, Omakau and South Canterbury were also active.

Southland buyers would usually play a big role, and though there was some interest, the dry conditions reduced the demand from that region.

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100 Head Sheep Yard

• Heavy duty steel, hot dip galvanised • Includes sheep draft module • Kitset delivered to main depot

11,500 .00

$

+GST

24,990.00

$

+GST

• Railed - 3m W x 1m H • Quick, easy pin together yard panel for a variety of uses • Use for sheep/calves/goats

• • • •

OR 4 FOR $699.00

179 3 0800 843 024 +GST

EACH

27,990.00 +GST

Sheep Shears

Sheep/Calf Panels

.00

+GST

• Heavy duty steel, hot dip galvanised • Includes sheep draft module • Kitset delivered to main depot

• Heavy duty steel, hot dip galvanised • Includes sheep draft module • Kitset delivered to main depot

$

13,990 .00

1,250 Head Sheep Yard

710 Head Sheep Yard

$

+GST

150 Head Sheep Yard

• Heavy duty steel, hot dip galvanised • Includes sheep draft module • Kitset delivered to main depot

$

7,990.00

Battery powered 180watt, 12 volt 2800 RPM Includes combs, cutters, charger, 2 x batteries and carry case.

AVAILABLE AT FARMLANDS NATIONWIDE

Promotional offers valid until 31st May 2022. All prices exclude freight unless specified.

3

HAY FEEDERS CATTLE HANDLING COST EFFECTIVE YARDS FOR LIFESTYLE TO LARGE FARMS Farmhand 5 Head Yard

Farmhand 10 Head Yard

• • • • •

• • • • •

7-rail multi-purpose for cattle and sheep Farmhand walkthrough headbail Farmhand sliding gate Hot dipped galvanised Kit set delivered to main depot

Farmhand 10 Head Yard

Farmhand 10 Head Yard

7-rail multi-purpose for cattle and sheep Farmhand walkthrough headbail Farmhand sliding gate Hot dipped galvanised Kit set delivered to main depot

(Approximately 5 head yard size, depending on animal size)

(Approximately 10 head yard size, depending on animal size)

$

$

5,290.00 +GST

+GST

Farmhand 25 Head Yard

• • • • •

7-rail multi-purpose for cattle and sheep Farmhand walkthrough headbail Farmhand sliding gate Hot dipped galvanised Kit set delivered to main depot

7 rail multi-purpose for cattle and sheep Farmhand walkthrough headbail Farmhand sliding race gate Hot dipped galvanised Kit set delivered to main depot

Excludes loading ramp. Add loading ramp for $3,595.00 + GST (Plus freight)

7,990.00

$

• • • • •

7-rail multi-purpose for cattle and sheep Farmhand walkthrough headbail Farmhand sliding gate Hot dipped galvanised Kit set delivered to main depot

9 Head

Farmhand

5 Head

20 Head

Loading ramp

THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DRAWING IS PROPRIETARY TO FARMQUIP AND SHALL NOT BE REPRODUCED OR DISCLOSED IN WHOLE OR IN PART OR USED FOR ANY DESIGN OR MANUFACTURE EXCEPT WHEN SUCH USER POSSESSES DIRECT WRITTEN AUTHORISATION FROM FARMQUIP.

DRAWN

M. Z

DATE

31-05-16

SCALE

FH - 32 R

SHEET NO.

SHEET SIZE

N.T.S.

A3

19,990 1 OF 1

Excludes loading ramp.

Farmhand Yard Farmhand .00 Curved .00Loading $Panels Farmhand Add loading ramp for $3,595.00 +GST Bundle of 10 Force Tub +GST + GST (Plus freight) Ramp Curved Farmhand Yard Panels Farmhand BLUE ---------- 1800 GREEN -------- 2100

7 rail multi-purpose for cattle and sheep Farmhand sliding race gate Hot dipped galvanised Kit set delivered to main depot

INCLUDES FARMHAND VETLESS CRUSH

THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DRAWING IS PROPRIETARY TO FARMQUIP AND SHALL NOT BE REPRODUCED OR DISCLOSED IN WHOLE OR IN PART OR USED FOR ANY DESIGN OR MANUFACTURE EXCEPT WHEN SUCH USER POSSESSES DIRECT WRITTEN AUTHORISATION FROM FARMQUIP.

• • • •

7-rail multi-purpose for cattle and sheep Farmhand sliding gate Hot dipped galvanised Kit set delivered to main depot

Colour Code

BLUE ---------- 1800 GREEN -------- 2100

Concrete Area Animal Capacity Full Yard=300m2 126 Head @ 1.8m2 Work Area=100m2 176 Head @ 1.4m2

+GST

31 Head

FH - 32 R

$

CATTLEYARD SYSTEMS PLAN No.

FH-126-L-STD

36,990.00

DRAWN

Sam R SHEET SIZE

DATE

29/08/19

SCALE SHEET NO.

1:100

A3

1 OF 1

(Approximately 150 head yard size, depending on animal size)

5 Head

20 Head

+GST

0800 843 024 Promotional offers valid until 31st May 2022. All prices exclude freight unless specified.

51 Head

26 Head

DRAWN

M. Z

DATE

31-05-16

SCALE

15 Head 21 Head 12 Head

INCLUDES FARMHAND VETLESS CRUSH

46 Head 15 Head

34,990.00

THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DRAWING IS PROPRIETARY TO FARMQUIP AND SHALL NOT BE REPRODUCED OR DISCLOSED IN WHOLE OR IN PART OR USED FOR ANY DESIGN OR MANUFACTURE EXCEPT WHEN SUCH USER POSSESSES DIRECT WRITTEN AUTHORISATION FROM FARMQUIP.

Bundle of 10 Force Tub 150 Head Farmhand Yard

2 Head

32 Head

(Approximately 126 head yard size, depending on animal size)

4

(Approximately 25 head yard size, depending on animal size)

20 Head

Farmhand 126 Head Yard

$

Loading ramp

30 Head

13,990

• • • •

7 rail multi-purpose for cattle and sheep Farmhand walkthrough headbail Farmhand sliding race gate Hot dipped galvanised Kit set delivered to main depot

33 Head BLUE ---------- 1800 GREEN -------- 2100

$

+GST

15 Head

Farmhand 12mtr Horse PenYard Farmhand 75 Head Yard Farmhand 32 Head

Farmhand Head Yard Farmhand 4232Head Yard • • • • •

10 Head

9,990.00

$

(Approximately 20 head yard size, depending on animal size)

+GST

Farmhand

Farmhand 25 Head20 Yard Farmhand Head Yard

Farmhand Head Yard Farmhand 2020Head Yard • • • • •

5,990.00

SHEET NO.

SHEET SIZE

N.T.S.

A3

1 OF 1

CATTLE HANDLING

FarmhandCattle Vetless Crush Crush Farmhand Vetless Farmhand Handler • • • • • • •

With walkthrough headbail • Great for lifestyle blocks or small farms needing an economical cattle handling area • Headbail and railed sides

$

3,990.00

Economical crush for weighing and handling Farmhand walkthrough headbail 50 x 50 One piece gates on both sides Hot dip galvanised Heavy duty steel floor Single sliding entry door

$

+GST

Add side gate for $400.00+ GST

Farmhand Loading Ramp • Adjustable height platform

3,795.00

• Weighs calves up to 120kg

Stockmaster Vet Crush

$

+GST +FREIGHT

Calf Weigh Crate hand 12mtr Horse Pen

+GST

• Economical crush for weighing and handling • Stockmaster walkthrough headbail • Extra heavy duty 75 x 50 base frame • Split gates on both sides • Hot dip galvanised • Heavy duty steel floor • Single sliding entry door • Vet access gates • Made in New Zealand

and 25 Head Yard

$

5,995.00

Calf Mate Auto Drafter

• Designed for fast efficient weighing and 3-way drafting for large herds • Auto weighing and drafting • Weighs up to 160kg

9,890.00 +GST

Calf/Sheep Panels

Sliding Yard Gate

• Railed - 3m W x 1m H • Quick, easy pin together yard panel for a variety of uses • Use for sheep/calves/goats

- Including mounting brackets

OR 4 FOR $699.00

$ 3,495 .00

nels Farmhand Loading RampStockman

FREIGHT +GST PLUS

Headbail

$

5

$

13,595 .00

Stockmaster Farmhand Headbail

Gates

$ 3,595 2,795 .00 0800 843 024 +GST PLUS FREIGHT

$

+GST

FREIGHT +GST PLUS

179.00

+GST

EACH

$

950 .00

+GST PLUS FREIGHT

Farmhand Farmhand Farmhand Slam Cattle Yard Walkthrough Swingbail Headbail Latches

$

1,595 .00

+GST

$ PLUS FREIGHT

Promotional offers valid until 31st May 2022. All prices exclude freight unless specified.

995.00

+GST

PLUS FREIGHT

m

THE RURAL BUTCHER • • • •

• • • •

Make mince from home Stainless steel body 750W motor Capacity 150kg/h

$

599.00 +GST

Rural Meat Slicer

BU08

• Slice meat to perfection every • Suitable for home, to semi-

time.

Make mince from home Stainless steel body 850W motor Capacity 250kg/h

$

• Make sausages at home

999.00

BU09

+GST

Rural Meat Mixer •

professional use.

Rural Sausage Filler 3L

Rural Sausage Filler 7L

Rural Mincer T22

Rural Mincer T12

$

344.00 +GST

• Make sausages at home

$

BU10

•

Double Burger Pattie Press

130mm diameter

•

130mm diameter

$ $ $ .00 .00 .00 .00 799 25 478 260 Farmhand Vetless Cattle Crush Farmhand Vet Crush

$

+GST

BU94

BU14

+GST

+GST

BU13

+GST

Burger Pattie Press

Easy mixing handle and pivoting cradle with lid.

257.00

BU132

BU131

+GST

SPEND OVER $300+GST ON BUTCHERY ITEMS & RECEIVE A FREE BUTCHERS APRON!* Medium Meat Saw

Small Meat Saw • Throat size 270mm H x 200mm W • 1.1kW motor • 210mm alloy pulley wheels • Table 500 x 600mm

• Throat size 380mm H x 250mm W • 1.5kW motor • 260mm alloy pulley wheels • Table 700 x 550mm

Large Meat Saw • Throat size 460mm H x 285mm W • 1.5kW motor • 300mm alloy pulley wheels • Table 700 x 550mm

Rural Meat Saw • The orginal farmers meatsaw • Throat size 320 x 250mm • 3/4HP enclosed motor • 250mm alloy pulleys • Cutting guides

Farmhand Headbail Farmhand Headbail Stockman Sliding Gate Stockman Headbail Walkthrough Swingbail

2,250.00

$

3,199 .00

1,090 Stainless Steel Corner Bench Unit Stainless Steel Workbench Farmhand Yard Panels

$

.00 +GST

BU91

$

+GST

BU92

+GST

BU93

• 1200 L x 600 D

- Bundle of 10

Farmhand Cattle Yard Farmhand Slam Latches Gates $

$ 551 459 6 0800 843 024 .00 +GST

BU82

.00 +GST

BU83

$

2,595 .00 +GST

BU01

Butchers Block Workbench

• 900 x 900

• 1200 L x 600 D

$

• 900 L x 600 D

Farmhand Yard Panels

373

- Bundle of 10

.00 +GST

BU80

$

629

.00 +GST

BU81

Promotional offers valid until 30 June 2021. Not to be used in conjunction with any other finance offers. See finance T&C’s for details. Finance terms facilitated by UDC and Heartland Bank. Many products shown are manufactured to order so standard Farmquip leadtimes and freight apply. Freight charged on all orders unless otherwise stipulated. Cattle yards pricing excludes concrete and site works. All products while stocks last and limited stock available.

WWW.RURALBUTCHER.COM

Promotional offers valid until 31st May 2022. All prices exclude freight unless specified. Limit 1 apron per customer. Available at advertised & online prices only.

Not available to trade customers. Not transferable to any other products.

THE RURAL BUTCHER 11 pc Butcher Knife Set 8 pc Butcher Knife Set • Ergonomic polpropylene antimicrobial handles

• Ergonomic polpropylene antimicrobial handles

$

199 .00

$

BU45

+GST

2 pc Filleting Knife Set

6 pc Butchery BBQ Knife Set

159

.00

• Ergonomic polpropylene antimicrobial handles

BU44

+GST

129

.00

• Ergonomic polpropylene antimicrobial handles

$

BU47

+GST

129

.00

+GST

BU97

• 6” steel • Leather sheath • Skinning knife

BU43

+GST

60 .00

Farmers Skinning Knife & Sheath Set

6 pc Chef Knife Set

• Ergonomic polpropylene antimicrobial handles

$

$

$

79 .00 +GST

BUKIT

SPEND OVER $300+GST ON BUTCHERY ITEMS & RECEIVE A FREE BUTCHERS APRON!*

500g

$

24

.00 $ +GST

Vacuum Sealer

Cool Chief 24L Portable Fridge

Stockinette • 500g/2.5kg option • 100% cotton

• Dual power mode for use at home, camping or on the boat • AC 240V & DC 12V plug

• 24 Litre Capacity Semiconductor Car Fridge • Easy to read LED digital display

2.5kg

85.00 +GST

BU137/138

$

329 .00 +GST

BU150

Sealer Bags

Sealer Bags

BU71

+GST

• 220V,900w • Heat-sealing Power:500w • Lowest Absolute Pressure:1.33Kpa • • Volume of Vacuum Case:470x435x70mm • Sealing Strip Size:500x10mm • Dimension:650x585x565mm Weight:52kg

• 200 x 3000mm

• 150 x 200mm

229 .00

Vacuum Sealer Pro

- 3 x rolls

- 50 packet

$

NEW

$

17 .00 +GST

BU73

Sealer Bags

$

23 .00 +GST

BU76

• 280 x 400mm

2,795 .00 +GST

Grill Chief Portable BBQ

• 280 x 5000mm

• Cooking area 460mm x 280mm • Premium 304 grade stainless

steel

construction

$ 47 .00 47 .50 7 0800 843 024 $

+GST

BU75

BU198

Sealer Bags - 3 x rolls

- 50 packet

$

+GST

BU77

$

240 .00 +GST

BU151

WWW.RURALBUTCHER.COM

Promotional offers valid until 31st May 2022. All prices exclude freight unless specified. Limit 1 apron per customer. Available at advertised & online prices only.

Not available to trade customers. Not transferable to any other products.

Bullmax One Man Auger

Bullmax Two Man Auger

• Powerful 2-stroke, 52cc engine / 1.45kw • Commercial quality • 100mm, 150mm, 200mm drill sizes • 450mm extension bar • Recoil spring • 12 month warranty

• Powerful 2-stroke 68cc engine / 1.9 kw • Commercial quality • 150mm, 250mm, 300mm drill sizes and replaceable cutting blades • 450mm extension bar • Recoil spring • 12 month warranty

$

849

.00 +GST

$

990 .00

Bullmax Post Driver • Powerful 6 x 35 Honda 4-stroke engine • Includes interchangable 45mm, 55mm, 73mm & 80mm sleeve heads • 12 month warranty • Comes with carry case designed to hold machine and all accessories

$

+GST

1,895 .00 +GST

Bullmax Electric Compressor

Bullmax Petrol Compressor

• FAD – 320L/Min AS-4637 approved 15.9 CFM • Weight: 105kg • WHILE STOCKS LAST!

• FAD – 385L/Min AS-4637 approved 20 CFM • Weight: 116kg • WHILE STOCKS LAST!

$

595 .00

+GST

HOT CE CLEARAEN PRIC $

895 .00

+GST

*Tabloid offers valid until 31st May 2022 . Many products shown are manufactured to order so standard Farmquip leadtimes and freight apply. Freight charged on all orders unless otherwise stipulated.

Cattle yards pricing excludes concrete and site works. All products while stocks last and limited stock available. Some products may be unavailable due to shipping delays. Aprons available while stock lasts.