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Markets in danger Annette Scott annettescott@xtra.co.nz

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EW Zealand is at risk of causing global market jitters if its biosecurity doesn’t stand up to international scrutiny, Anzco livestock and agribusiness general manager Grant Bunting says.

Lack of accountability, farmer confusion, inadequate animal traceability and too many pushing their own agendas were key factors contributing to a situation with potential to end in disaster for the meat industry.

Bunting called for accountability and was not alone.

“There are wider industry stakeholders and other processing facilities that share the same concern.”

While Mycoplasma bovis and the Ministry for Primary Industries response was clearly the topic of the moment, the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) programme had much to answer.

“It seems to be very silent and this is possibly concerning as we are constantly hearing it has not really worked and worse, that has come as no surprise to many.”

Responsibility and leadership were needed now.

“Those who are dealing with it (NAIT) on a day-to-day basis don’t share the same confidence as those who are administering it.

“From an industry perspective, where’s the leadership?”

Bunting said some parts of NAIT were preforming relatively efficiently such as farm-to-

processor and farm-to-saleyards movements but farm-to-farm movements were not being recorded.

“For the good of the industry and the country this can’t be glossed over.

“Everyone needs to know a lot more and we all need to know it now so we can get on with business with some confidence and not risk losing international market confidence over a failing biosecurity programme – M bovis has highlighted this.

The perception of (NZ’s) biosecurity is critical to market access.

Tim Ritchie Meat Industry Assn “It’s the absolute lack of leadership that concerns us.

No one is stepping up to take responsibility.

“At some point we have to concede defeat.

“The question of the matter is not about the focus on M bovis – it’s on NZ biosecurity for NZ’s reputation that in the extreme of an event we can manage it.

“If we could see evidence less concerned with the political implications and more concerned with the ramifications that some of us have to live with, we would be a lot happier – that’s the undertone.

“We are more than happy to

be a part of the solution but right now it’s more about when and where we can engage.”

Sir Graeme Harrison said “Biosecurity is number one and market access is number two.

“If you have not got biosecurity sorted then you have not got market access – it’s as simple as that,” Harrison said.

The M bovis response had been a wake-up call for all and while it was not an extreme event because many countries had it, there were shortcomings where corrective action has to be taken.

“The point is something more extreme could be the next case.”

Harrison said a lot of market access was also dependent on animal health.

He cited blood products and animal tissue for human application such as heart valves and skin ailments.

“These are all dependent on animal health and there would be serious implications if NZ’s animal health status is not standing up.

“This particular M bovis incident is not going to make that difference but we can’t afford another even slight blip in the udder.”

Meat Industry Association chief executive Tim Ritchie said very clearly there was need to address NAIT shortcomings in readiness for an extreme event such as FMD. “There’s no point in tracing if we are not producing the outcomes we need to handle an extreme such as FMD. “The ability to track animals is very, very critical in nailing it down and the sooner we can do that the

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TAG TEAM: Farmer Christopher O’Malley checks the tagging of one of his cows as the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) programme comes under fire.

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WEATHER OVERVIEW The storm last week was a disruptor to the atmosphere and has churned up a new weather pattern in the New Zealand area for the next 14 days. Another colder change today in the lower South Island will be the end of the cold snaps though and this week steadily warms up. In the North Island, mostly unaffected by the recent cooler changes, the humidity returns as the tropics continue to create lows with another coming our way at the end of this week. At the same time that this tropical low drops south towards northern NZ a large high will be over the South Island. The tropics might well produce a number of lows and storms north of NZ in the coming weeks.

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As Cantabrians battled fires and high winds toppled trees causing widespread power outages, cropping farmers were parking up their harvesters in the wake of the tropical cyclone that passed through on Thursday.

Rain this week is a bit tricky to lock in but basically a new tropical low (not a storm at this stage) is likely to drift into northern NZ producing rain.

Heavy falls possible. Dry or just a few showers elsewhere.

A colder wind around the lower South Island today but it will start to fade on Tuesday and Wednesday as high pressure returns to the South Island. However, low pressure north of NZ means humid easterly quarter winds return there.

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THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – February 5, 2018

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Rain timely with more to come Neal Wallace neal.wallace@nzx.com THE summer of extremes reached new levels this week with what some are calling drought-breaking rain in Otago and Southland at the same time as Canterbury sweltered in extreme heat and coastlines were battered by massive waves and wind.

Just days after Southland and most of Otago were declared drought zones, on Thursday the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Fehi battered the South Island and the lower North Island, delivering up to 70mm of rain to parched areas of Otago and Southland and light snow to some Fiordland mountains.

On Thursday while Canterbury firefighters were battling a blaze in 35C heat west of Christchurch, the storm brought coastline-eroding wind and waves, trapped tourists on the West Coast and disrupted milk collection and processing.

Westland Milk Products said electricity disruption meant it could not process milk at its Hokitika plant on Friday while some farms were without electricity and storm damage prevented the processor collecting milk from a number of areas.

Farmers were advised to dump milk while Westland was sending collected milk to other processors.

Weather Watch head analyst Philip Duncan believes the storm broke the pattern of hot dry weather, with more unsettled conditions expected for much of February.

“This could be a drought ender because there looks like follow-up rain. The pattern is different,” he said.

Duncan said the long range forecast indicated more southerly fronts reaching the country than has been the case for a number of months, bringing rain and cooler temperatures.

Sea temperatures remained 7C warmer than normal, which could

BEFORE THE DELUGE: Hamish Wilson from Clydevale in South Otago said the 63mm of rain that fell on Thursday has given him some options after three months of hot dry weather.

This could be a drought ender because there looks like followup rain. The pattern is different.

Philip Duncan Weather Watch also bring more tropical storms to the north of the country.

Southern South Island farmers relished Thursday’s rain that came 12 hours after the region baked in 35C temperatures and after three months of hot, dry weather, which some labelled the driest period since 1972-73.

On Thursday night Canterbury enjoyed up to 21mm of rain while dry areas in the lower North Island received token amounts

of up to 4mm according to Land, Air, Water Aotearoa. Most of those areas received more than 100mm last month.

Tuapeka West farmer Graham Hunter labelled the 63mm to fall on his South Otago farm a game-changer, with the moisture soaking 30cm into the soil.

But regular rain was needed before the drought could be consigned to history.

The last substantial rain on Hunter’s farm was 40mm on November 8 and he has since sold 1800 of his lambs as store and for the first time in 35 years was unable to make winter supplements.

Following the rain he decided to plant some forage crops for grazing in autumn, winter and spring.

Clydevale farmer Hamish Wilson emptied 63mm out of his rain gauge and described it as “a get out of jail free card”.

He was also planning to sow some late crops of oats, barley or green feed to be either turned in to baleage or fed directly to stock.

Most of his lambs were sold as store and he has been feeding supplements to his ewes since the New Year.

In Southland the rain has alleviated stock water issues for some farmers and been a timely boost to winter crops, Southland Federated Farmers drought spokeswoman Bernadette Hunt said.

DairyNZ Southland and south Otago regional leader Richard Kyte said the rain should set up farmers for autumn, provided the deluge was followed by regular falls.

The rain was timely in that it would boost grass and crop growth and might allow some late harvesting of supplements for winter, he said.

The federation’s Southland dairy section deputy chairman Hadleigh Germann had 25% of his Otautau farm herd on oncea-day milking and he was preparing to increase that if it didn’t rain.

Falling river flows affected Alliance Group, which reduced water use at its Mataura and Lorneville plants in Southland.

But company secretary Danny Hailes said they were operating as normal.

“However, Lorneville has been affected by the dry conditions and this is limiting our ability to discharge treated wastewater to the Makarewa River, in accordance with our resource consent conditions.

“As an interim measure, we have obtained temporary additional consents from Environment Southland to allow additional irrigation of treated wastewater onto land we own.”

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THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – February 5, 2018

Show bombshell leaves a big hole Annette Scott annettescott@xtra.co.nz THE best young cow in country was banned from defending her 2017 national championship title in the North Island last week, leaving her owners tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket with little hope of compensation.

The Gilbert family from Ashburton learned only days out from the Feilding event that because of the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis all South Island entries for the prestigious New Zealand Dairy Event (NZDE) had been cancelled.

We are trying to not to go there but it’s very hard not to when you are dealt a blow like this.

Michael Gilbert Farmer

Because of the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) disease response the last-minute call was made that no South Island cattle would be allowed to attend.

With no choice, the Gilbert family were forced to cancel all plans for their 11-strong team of breeding cattle set for the journey north to take part in the dairy industry’s pinnacle event.

This included their prize cow,

Glenalla Hired Lorna, who won the supreme Jersey and then went on to be crowned champion all breeds at the 2017 NZDE. As a two-year-old she was the first of her age to take out a supreme breed championship, traditionally won by an older cow.

Lorna is also reigning all breeds champion from the Canterbury A&P show, the next biggest cattle show in the country.

“It surely has been like the Olympics, you do all the hard work, spend all the money, you have the best performances, then you can’t compete at the pinnacle.

“We were gutted. One week from the show it was just devastating to get the phone call – it was shock and disbelief,” Nick and Michael Gilbert said.

The fifth generation dairy farming brothers work with their parents Peter and Anne milking 1100 cows across two Mid Canterbury farms, Glenalla and Snowfed.

Younger brother Luke, while working off-farm as a dairy sales technician, is very much a part of the family show team.

The Glenalla Jersey stud has been carefully bred over five generations of the farming family and the exclusion of the Glenalla Jerseys from the NZDE would impact on more than a century of breeding.

“Getting our breeding cows to this standard doesn’t happen overnight and we do plan years, decades out so this leaves a huge hole, not only in lost opportunity

TOUGH BLOW: Nick (left) and Michael Gilbert were very happy with the show preparation of the family’s NZ champion Jersey Glenalla Hired Lorna and her 10 showcase team mates, but they were less than impressed with the NZ Dairy Event staged in Feilding.

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to showcase to the rest of the world but we also had a couple of breeding stock in the sale.

“This is the pinnacle for us, the highlight of every year that we work towards and now with one phone call we have lost all that opportunity and all the money that goes with it.

“The show preparation expenses alone are costly and already would be north of $10k,” Michael said.

Adding to that lost sales and potentially ongoing sales, the overall loss of not being allowed to attend the NZDE 2018 was realistically likely to be tens of thousands of dollars.

“We are trying to not to go there but it’s very hard not to when you are dealt a blow like this.

“What we have spent in preparation of the stock, ferry crossings, travel and accommodation most definitely is only the tip of the iceberg.”

This included for Lorna alone, being out of the milking herd for individual special care, treatment

and an exclusive diet since November.

Her calving was planned early, ahead of the herd, to ensure it worked for her ongoing breeding programme that included embryo orders to Canada, which were all lost now, at least for another year.

The Gilberts also prepared stock for five local clients who had entries in the show.

“It was tough phoning them to tell them their stock, some we have had here for 12 months, weren’t going, so it’s cost them a lot too.”

As for compensation, the Gilberts were not holding out much hope.

“We talked to the organisers and they are putting it to DairyNZ and MPI but we are not holding out any hope.

“This is the biggest sale and show for breeding stock so pretty much nothing can compensate for not being there.”

The Gilberts expressed concern that even though the South Island entries were banned the

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event continued to be marketed internationally as a whole of NZ dairy event.

“We didn’t voluntarily withdraw, we were told we were not allowed to go and if we did the whole event would be cancelled.

“We were told you are not going,” Nick said.

The NZDE was a big deal in the dairy world, the international showcase and shop window for overseas judges, buyers and breeders from all over the world to see what NZ had to offer.

“But the international people don’t even know we exist because they understand what they are seeing is the whole of NZ – just minus the South Island.”

Michael said what hurt more was this year’s team was by far the best team the family had ever prepared.

But it was no point crying over spilt milk, so to speak, and the Gilberts were resigned to putting it behind them.

“We will plan to carry on and go back next year – if we are allowed.”

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Dry weather dream run for crops Annette Scott annettescott@xtra.co.nz AS CANTABRIANS battled fires and high winds toppled trees causing widespread power outages, cropping farmers were parking up their harvesters in the wake of the tropical cyclone that passed through on Thursday.

While Friday brought more rain to the region cropping farmers were enjoying the break from the two weeks that had provided a “dream run” for harvest to date.

With cereals well chomped through in the unprecedented hot extremes of late January, this season’s harvest was well ahead of its time.

“It’s pretty much been a dream run this season, we have been very lucky with the weather and day after day we could just get on with the job of harvesting,” Mid Canterbury cropper Jim Sim said.

Grass and peas were all done, and the last of the cereal crops was finished on January 31, leaving just clover and fresh corn to do when they came ready.

“I’m never into cereal before February but I’m all done at the end of January,” Sim said.

Despite yields being down on what he anticipated, he was happy.

“The crops did look brilliant, they had no shortage of water and I did expect to get a higher yield than what came off but look, that’s the way it goes and I’m not complaining.”

Sim put the lower yield down to the heat.

“We have had exceptional heat, it was just too hot this year.”

He welcomed the rain as he now prepared the crop paddocks for pasture and winter feed.

Further south in Waimate, Federated Farmers arable industry chairman Guy Wigley was also very happy with the season so far.

“I think it was six days on the

JUST IN TIME: Husband and wife cropping team Jim and Sandy Sim get the last of their wheat off the paddock just before the tropical cyclone trailed through Mid Canterbury.

Photo: Annette Scott

I did get the header out to see if I could save it but with the high winds it just wasn’t a safe exercise.

Brian Leadley Cropper trot before rain stopped me at about 2am on Thursday, then at 5am I left for Wellington for a Feds meeting.”

Ironically he was still in the city on Friday morning with all planes grounded because of the high winds and rain.

“Yes I’m itching to get home but it won’t be for the harvest in the next few days.”

But he was not grumbling.

“We have had good dry harvesting conditions in late January and that has put harvest two weeks ahead and we have had some huge tonnages.

“There are a lot of farmers very pleased to have a lot of crop in their bins dry.”

However, Wigley cautioned hot grain would need to be cooled for storage.

“The bulk of crops harvested over the past couple of weeks in Canterbury has been done in 30C temperatures and that will sweat in the silo.”

Wigley said cold grains

harvested at 17% moisture would store safely but hot grain harvested at 15% or below in the extreme temperatures of last week would need cooling.

“I was harvesting wheat at 12%, which is extraordinary for South Canterbury, so farmers just need to be aware and keep an eye on what’s happening in the silo.”

Arable industry grains chairman Brian Leadley was also “pretty happy” with how the harvest was shaping up.

“Though the gale force winds on Thursday blew the red beet around a bit. I did get the header out to see if I could save it but with the high winds it just wasn’t a safe exercise.

“There is a bit around the fence lines but it’s not going to be a total loss.”

As for the harvest season in general, despite the battles to keep irrigation up to crops during the heat of November and into December, it’s been a good run for the harvest.

“Yields are back even on irrigated crops given the struggle to keep water up to them, which has done a little more damage than we anticipated and there is obviously disappointment in that respect but we are not hearing talk of disaster crops.

“Humidity has been up and the baling guys have battled with that but on the whole it’s pretty bloody positive,” Leadley said.

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THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – February 5, 2018

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HEAVY TRAFFIC: Westland Milk PRoducts tankers will be transporting another 4 million kg milksolids next season.

Southern Pastures boost Westland Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@nzx.com WESTLAND Milk Products will gain a new large milk supplier next season — the nine central Canterbury farms of Southern Pastures, an agricultural fund manager.

It will add in excess of 4 million kg milksolids to Westland’s annual intake, surpassing the supply from farms owned by Westland’s chairman Pete Morrison and making a statement about the co-operative’s turnaround and returning farmer confidence.

Westland is New Zealand’s second-largest co-operative dairy company, processing 65m kg annually, led by the production from Landcorp Buller district farms.

About 20% of Westland’s intake comes from Canterbury, where farmer dissatisfaction with very low payouts led to a handful of notices to cease supply effective at the end of this season.

Last year Morrison said he hoped Westland’s much-improved outlook would make those

Canterbury farmers reconsider and now the Southern Pastures decision to move the other way would be a strong signal.

In the same announcement the Westland directors reviewed the current payout forecast and trimmed the range from $6.40$6.80/kg MSto $6.20-$6.50/kg MS. This move reflected market conditions but the Westland payout was still competitive compared with other predictions, he said.

Southern Pastures and Westland also signed an agreement to investigate manufacture of specialised dairy products from free-range, grass-fed cows on farms that meet high values covering animal welfare, human health, sustainability, the environment and human rights.

A key facilitator was Westland’s ability to segregate milk flows and process to order, Morrison said.

If proven and implemented, supply of milk for the new product range would be open to all Westland farmers who met the higher standards, for a payout premium.

Continued from page 1 sooner we get the doors open and get back on track trading again.

“Certainly the learnings in the M bovis response have shown we wouldn’t have that ability right now.”

Ritchie likened the NAIT system to a three-legged stool.

“The processing leg appears to be working well as is the saleyards leg but the third leg, the farm-to-farm transactions, is wanting. We need that third leg running.”

He hopes the steering committee reviewing NAIT is addressing the third leg.

The committee, chaired by Sir Henry van der Heyden, includes representatives from Beef + Lamb NZ, DairyNZ, DeerNZ, Federated Farmers, meat and dairy companies and technical experts.

The MIA was involved with the review but not privy to its findings.

“But certainly we will be ensuring that lessons learned are addressed and effectively taken on board without

As a recent 25% shareholder in the Bay of Plenty dairy product company Lewis Road Creamery, Southern Pastures would effectively add a new customer to Westland, Morrison said.

Nothing would delight us more than to prove the concept and then see the industry follow us, so all NZ gets to benefit from selling premium rather than commodity products.

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Southern Pastures Limited Partnership came to prominence in 2013 when it organised the purchase of eight Carter Holt Harvey dairy farms in South

compromising the outcome,” Ritchie said.

“The perception of (NZ’s) biosecurity is critical to market access and it’s absolutely essential this is right.

“The opportunity is now to get our house in order,” Ritchie said.

Ospri chairman Jeff Grant said a review scheduled when NAIT was set up was now complete and would be released in a month or so.

It made a range of recommendations to enhance NAIT. While compliance of properties to slaughter was sitting at 98% and to saleyards at 94%, Grant acknowledged the area of concern was lack of recording for farm-to-farm movements.

“Effectively that creates the lack of compliance that gives the unknown figure of how many of those transactions are happening between farms and not getting recorded.

“That showed up again in the M bovis response and the review will tackle that now.”

Grant said the non-compliance was

Waikato by an unnamed Swedish institutional investor.

The management company was at that time headed by former Taranaki dairy farmer and All Blacks captain Graham Mourie, now living near Wellington.

He remains one of four executive directors of Southern Pastures, the others being executive chairman Prem Maan, of Auckland, Taurangabased director Taari Nicholas, who is also a director and shareholder of Parininihi-kiWaitotara, and Phillip Wight, also of Auckland.

Maan is a former investment banker, rural economist and rural banker.

He said the Westland commitment was an opportunity to put into practice what he had been promoting — premium dairy products made sustainably.

“We believe discerning consumers will pay a premium for high-quality, healthy, traceable products.

“Nothing would delight us more than to prove the concept and then see the industry follow us, so

not a reflection of NAIT but more how the industry and farmers chose to use it.

“This is a debate we do need to have and the review looked at much better ways to achieving 100% compliance.”

The review report would have wide industry consultation with MPI ultimately responsible for identifying the flaws and improving the programme.

Where there were enhancements required of NAIT Grant expected Ospri could make that happen “reasonable quickly” within six months.

If regulation was required then that would mean a much a longer timeframe as that was the responsibility of the Crown.

Grant said the end result will be a much more farmer-friendly programme.

He believes NZ’s tracing system is as advanced as anywhere in the world.

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all NZ gets to benefit from selling premium rather than commodity products.”

Maan said Southern Pastures had been impressed by Westland’s recent turnaround, board restructure and its new focus on “nourishment” as opposed to simply marketing a suite of traditional commodity products.

He said the Southern Pastures fund had expanded to $300m and was now closed to concentrate on increasing the value for its institutional investors, hence the Westland supply move.

It was about 95% overseassourced capital, mainly European pension funds and the like.

In Waikato it had 10 dairy farms and one support farm and supplied Fonterra, with whom Maan was quite satisfied, including the dividend paid on share capital.

“We are not unhappy with Fonterra, but we have looked analytically at this Westland opportunity and the prospect of bringing a higher value to our milk, while establishing the tie-up with Lewis Road.”

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THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – February 5, 2018

Late change for honey standard Richard Rennie richard.rennie@nzx.com THE manuka honey industry has welcomed the Government’s last-minute revision of honey standards that, left unchanged, would have sliced millions off the value of the country’s premium honey type.

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has made a significant change to the level of a chemical marker that defined manuka honey from multifloral honey only days before the standards are to be formally enforced on honey producers.

Hopefully, this will be developed through any collaborative process from here on in.

John Rawcliffe UMF Honey Association February 5 marks the official launch of the new standards.

The MPI standards were released just before Christmas to an industry outcry at their failure to adequately define manuka honey and the impact they were likely to have on multi-floral honey’s ability to be defined as manuka.

Some processors had experienced issues around the standards causing honey they knew was of a high unique manuka factor (UMF) standard to fail the test while some of lower UMF standard passed.

Tests by beekeepers also found adding kanuka honey to blends would get a non manuka honey over the standards’ parameters to be classed as manuka.

Apiculture New Zealand chief executive Karin Kos said

the change involved lowering the level of a chemical marker 2-methoxyacephenone (2’-MAP) after testing of 7000 samples found two-thirds of the samples of manuka honey would have been downgraded, resulting in significant loss of value for producers.

The change has come as honey producers threatened court action against MPI, such was the industry’s dissatisfaction with the consultation process and resulting lack of changes recommended by the industry that MPI had adopted.

In a statement MPI’s deputydirector general Bryan Wilson acknowledged its initial level of 2-map required had been too conservative and would exclude legitimate multi-floral manuka honey.

“We hope the industry will see this as a signal of MPI’s ongoing commitment to a collaborative science programme focused on continuous improvement to the science that supports the definition of manuka honey.”

Kos said the new standard was a stake in the ground, giving processors certainty for the coming season.

“And out of all this we also have a commitment to work collaboratively with Government on the science programme going forward.”

MPI had originally insisted on doing an independent review of manuka honey standards but that took three years to develop.

Kos welcomed a greater level of collaboration between the government and private sectors in future.

“We certainly do not want this to happen again.”

UMF Honey Association spokesman John Rawcliffe said while a “stick has been put in the ground” it is important to install a “change-control programme” to formalise any future changes to standards as the science of honey understanding evolves.

SWEET RESULT: Revised honey standards have made the manuka honey industry happy.

“Hopefully, this will be developed through any collaborative process from here on in.”

He hoped the industry could get on with other issues like protecting the term manuka from overseas use, including the latest bid by Australian producers to use the term.

“From here on our job is about consumer assurance, quality control and protection of the manuka honey brand.”

In Parliament this week National MP David Bennett asked Food Safety Minister Damien O’Connor why the definition of manuka honey had been changed.

“The change is a result of new information from industry that showed the definition for identifying multi-floral manuka honey was initially set too conservatively and would exclude legitimate multi-floral honey from meeting the definition. The definition for mono-floral manuka honey remains unchanged,” he said.

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Comvita gets a good start Alan Williams a.dubu@xtra.co.nz SUNNY conditions in December and January have given manuka specialist Comvita a positive start to the honey harvest.

A big improvement from last year’s poor results is expected to contribute to a turnaround in annual profitability for the group, chairman Neil Craig says.

After last year’s half-year loss, honey product sales are also much improved and the six-month result to December 31 is expected to be better than the record $3 million after-tax profit in 2016.

Comvita had achieved strong sales growth in most of its export markets and had a solid recovery in the “grey channel” market from New Zealand and Australia into China, he said.

The apiary business earnings are included in the June 30

full-year figures, and added to the market growth, directors were confident that the aftertax profit would be better than $17.1m. The financial result was “tracking well”.

Overall, the Northland region, and to a lesser degree the upper-Waikato region harvest, were negatively impacted by the wet, cool September to November period, slowing manuka flower production at a critical stage of the season.

Comvita expects the central North Island region to have an average honey yield, but if the high summer temperatures continue the Wairarapa, Whanganui, East Coast, and Hawkes Bay regions are expected to yield more honey than in an average season.

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10 THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – February 5, 2018

Riparian fencing poses challenges Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@nzx.com NORTHLAND dairy farmers Richard and Bev Dampney, farming at Otaua, west of Kaikohe, must urgently complete 10 to 11km of riparian fencing to continue supplying milk to Fonterra.

Within only a few farms nationwide still to comply, the Dampneys had argued riparian fencing was impractical on local rivers that flooded an average of six times a year.

Furthermore, cows had reticulated water in troughs and were effectively excluded from the water courses by steep, overgrown banks.

Hot tapes were used to break feed, and where cows might venture down to the waterways.

Richard Dampney said the Northland Regional Council acknowledged that impracticability by basing its new regional plan on effective livestock exclusion, not prescriptive waterway fencing.

That meant Fonterra was

imposing a higher standard than the local authority, he said.

The confluence of four meandering rivers, and about 12km of banks on two dairy farms, makes the Dampney’s Ngamaia Rua Lands location in the Hokianga Harbour flood plain a challenging environment.

Banks were historically planted with willows, which had now fallen and spread, playing host to other problems like tobacco weed and gorse.

The Dampneys’ neighbours are mainly beef cattle farms and lifestyle blocks, which are not required to fence waterways or try to eradicate the profusion of woody weeds.

The inaugural Fonterra Sustainability Report published in December said collection of milk was suspended from 78 farms last season because of the noncompletion of fencing to exclude livestock from waterways.

The report said 98.4% of all permanent waterways on Fonterra supply farms had been fenced at the end of May 2017.

The Sustainable Dairying: Water

Accord (SDWA) target was 100%.

Bridges or culverts had been installed for 99.8% of all waterway crossings.

It would have riparian management documents in place for all farms by the end of the 2019-20 season, although only 4% had them currently.

During 2016-17, 9821 supply farms were checked by independent assessors and 318 (3.2%) were referred to Fonterra’s own sustainable dairying advisers (SDAs) because of major or critical hazards.

These were where actual environmental damage was occurring or there was a significant risk of that happening.

The three most common faults were ponding and run-off from effluent irrigation, improper cleaning of sand traps, and effluent not being captured properly in to the management system.

SDAs worked with the farmers to develop action plans with target dates for completion.

Fonterra said during 2018 it would finalise the collaborative

WILLOWS: Overgrown riverbanks swept by regular floods are impractical to fence off, Northland dairy farmer Richard Dampney says.

action plans for 50 catchments throughout the country, deliver 1000 farm environment plans (FEPs), and introduce pilot climate action plans on 100 farms.

By 2025 it would ensure all supply farms had FEPs and by 2030 all growth in dairy farming would be climate-neutral and Fonterra’s manufacturing operations would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30%.

FEPs would help farmers implement water quality limits now being drafted by regional councils.

Nutrient budgets now covered 95% of supply farms, and were used to generate estimates of farm nitrogen losses and efficiency, nitrous oxide emissions and farm performance in relation

to other local farmers.

Water meters had been installed on 51% of significant water intakes, against a target of 85% by 2020.

A Fonterra spokesman said the Dampneys were among a few farmers nationwide who had applied for dispensations from the fencing requirements because of special circumstances.

Fonterra SDAs had worked with those farmers to achieve the requirements of the SDWA but that extension of time had now expired.

Dampney said he would erect one-wire power fences and have to repeatedly repair them after floods, at considerable initial and ongoing expense for no practical benefit.

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Rural crime goes unreported Neal Wallace neal.wallace@nzx.com AT A recent meeting of 50 Horowhenua farmers, all had experienced stock theft or stock being killed in the previous few years but police reported that over that period they had dealt with only one complaint.

That lack of reporting, according to Greg Canty, the national rural crime prevention co-ordinator with Community Patrols of New Zealand, meant police had no reason to allocate extra resources to battle rural crime.

He was at that Horowhenua meeting where the low reporting statistics were revealed, which he said was typical of much of rural NZ. When pressed on why they never notified police, many felt their complaint would not be acted on and they questioned what police could do about it.

Canty said that simply led to fewer police resources being allocated because of the perception the rural crime rate was low.

“Police are not going to resource anything with such low numbers,” he said.

Senior Sergeant Alasdair Macmillan, the co-ordinator of community policing with the Police, said reporting of rural crime was improving.

Surveys by Federated Farmers regularly noted much rural crime went unreported and Macmillan said that sent alarm bells through police.

Not many years ago incidents such as slashed tyres on irrigators would not be reported but while the rural community was more inclined to do so now, it did not reflect an upsurge in rural crime.

Macmillan said common criminal acts in rural areas were drink-driving and theft and burglary of where chainsaws, quad bikes, trailers, fuel and machinery were regularly taken.

Several criminal acts in recent months have captured the attention of the public including the shooting earlier this month of cattle and sheep on farms south of Dunedin.

Police say they have identified

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• Keep vehicles in secure sheds and keys in a secure location.

• Mark or engrave tools, vehicles and other farm property with an identifying feature such as your farm name.

SPEAK UP: Fifty Horowhenua farmers said all had been victims of crime but police said only one had made a complaint.

Police are not going to resource anything with such low numbers.

Greg Canty Community Patrols suspects in the shootings that took place in three rural areas.

FMG client propositions and risk services manager Pete Frizzell said the insurer dealt with 28 burglary and theft claims a week, which for the five years from 20122016 cost $23 million.

Burglary and theft claims fell slightly last year with 1274 claims for the year or 106 a month. FMG paid out $4.8 million.

Frizzell said theft and burglary claims peaked in January and with the changeover of farms in autumn.

stolen and Frizzell said that could The most common claims for relate to a more casual attitude to stolen farm items are for stolen security because of a machine’s quad and farm bikes. which typically occur at night from sheds age.

Tools such as chainsaws were or buildings, with locked buildings also popular but resale could be not proving an insurmountable deterred by engraving a name on obstacle. them.

“The farm buildings’ isolation He urged farmers to report give thieves the time and freedom crimes to police, speak up about to circumvent basic locks,” he crime and improve security. said.

A crime prevention partnership Frizzell suggested that given the has been established between value of bikes and tools farmers should install security lighting, alarms and upgrade to advanced locks such as siren padlocks and padlock shackles on doors to be a greater deterrent or obstacle.

“Thieves are not May/June 2018 opportunistic. Rather, rural crime is a deliberate supply-chain process with criminals on the lookout for quads that they can easily sell.”

Older, lower-value quads were most likely to be

New law will deter rustlers A LAW to deter livestock theft has been introduced to Parliament by National MP Ian McKelvie.

McKelvie says his bill intends to introduce stricter measures for sentencing judges to use when sentencing thieves caught stock rustling.

“The current law offers no deterrent and the penalties don’t reflect the gravity of the crime or the likely suffering of an animal being slaughtered by a rank amateur.

“These crimes are often committed at night in the

more remote parts of New Zealand.

“Small-scale, opportunistic grabs of half a dozen sheep or cows are relatively common but police and the Ministry for Primary Industries say sophisticated gangs with links to organised crime are increasingly mounting wellplanned raids on farms.

“This bill will give more confidence to victims of livestock rustling that there is an additional deterrent in place to discourage this type of crime.

“It also aims to give the

police a more vigorous tool to take more action.

“Stock rustling is a big issue for farmers. Federated Farmers estimates rustling costs farmers more than $120 million a year.

“A survey of more than 1000 farmers showed 26% had stock stolen in the past five years but almost 60% of thefts had not been reported to police.

“In one case in 2016 one Whanganui farmer lost 1400 lambs worth about $120,000 between October 25 and November 7,” McKelvie says.

police, Federated Farmers, Young Farmers, Rural Women, Community Patrols and FMG. Canty, who was appointed in last December, said he has three goals: to encourage rural people to be more vigilant in their communities including reporting all crimes, to reduce rural road trauma, especially the speed at which cars passed school buses and to help those in the most remote rural areas to be prepared for any extreme civil defence emergency.

An extension of rural community patrols could be a longer term project because they had worked well in Norsewood where the theft of quad bikes in particular had reduced through better vigilance and preventive measures.

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PGP review casts funding doubts Annette Scott annettescott@xtra.co.nz MILLIONS of dollars of primary sector research and development funding lie at risk under the review of the Primary Growth Partnership programme.

The first phase of the Government’s review that could spell the end of the Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) programme is due to wrap up by the end of January.

The R&D programme, set up in 2010, invests in long-term innovation projects in partnership with industry to increase the market success of primary industries.

Over the past seven years, government and industry have invested $759 million in 22 programmes, 16 of which are still ongoing.

In November last year new Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor called for a review of the PGP, citing a need to prioritise the Government’s spending.

“I wasn’t necessarily convinced it was a good spend, but we do have some obligations to meet meantime,” O’Connor said.

“But the programme will be scaled back and we will be scrutinising very carefully to make

sure we do deliver benefit for the taxpayer and the farmers that are funding them [PGPs].”

O’Connor said he was not questioning the integrity of current programmes.

“But we do need a more strategic approach taken to the whole programme to ensure the intellectual property and benefits gained remain in the hands of the New Zealand farmer and NZ agribusiness.

“The question of the review is: can money intended for these programmes be better spent in other areas of government and agribusiness?”

O’Connor suggested the money could be put to better use through increased spending on Sustainable Farming Fund projects.

“These are smaller, better focused programmes.”

He said funding was also needed for the establishment of the Primary Sector Council, and both biosecurity and science were screaming out for money.

The review was being done by Ministry for Primary Industries staff. The first phase involved evaluating existing documentation, including progress review and programme completion reports, evaluations and audits.

UNDER REVIEW: Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor wants to know if money intended for PGP programmes can be better spent in other areas of government and agribusiness.

It would also identify any improvements MPI could make to its processes and systems in areas such as governance and management of the programme.

The second phase, due for completion at the end of April, would assess the economic benefits to date of PGP programmes.

While initial feedback was

sought by January 14, O’Connor said programmes were being invited to provide input and ideas throughout the course of the review.

Feedback and ideas would be analysed as the review progressed.

Until the review was complete MPI wouldn’t be considering any new funding proposals, O’Connor said.

The review wouldn’t affect proposals under development that had already been approved.

Business cases were being prepared for nine new programmes that fell into this category, and they would progress through the application process as usual.

O’Connor said he didn’t expect any current PGP programmes would be affected by the review.

National Party primary industries spokesman Nathan Guy was critical of the review timing.

“Stakeholders have been given an impossibly small window of opportunity to provide feedback on the Government’s mindless proposals,” he said.

“The cynical timing of the review over the summer break illustrates the coalition government’s priorities do not lie with the growing primary sector.”

Guy said the review had put the brakes on R&D. “This all comes on the back of raiding $17m from the PGP to fund an unnecessary rebranding of MPI. “This review is blatantly timed to slip under the radar, and is a smokescreen for the Government to raid R&D funding from the primary sector,” he said.

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New grass grows well in winter Richard Rennie richard.rennie@nzx.com THE latest Forage Value Index (FVI) figures on pastoral grass performance have revealed a grass cultivar setting new standards for pasture performance over the challenging winter months.

Tabu+ from Agriseeds has been launched for sowing this autumn and company marketing manager Graham Kerr says the results surprised even his staff.

They have it ranking as the only ryegrass with five stars for the sixto eight-month winter feed period throughout New Zealand.

DairyNZ’s FVI is an independent region-specific,

profit-based indexed assessment providing farmers with a ranking of annual and perennial rye grass performance based on four geographic regions.

The FVI data has Tabu+ achieving FVI values for drymatter yield of $300-$386 a hectare of farm profit, significantly ahead of another type achieving $40 a hectare.

“And this is a huge difference in profit for seed which only costs about $25 a hectare more,” Kerr said.

While classed as an annual Italian ryegrass, Kerr said farmers in more southern regions could expect at least two to four years grazing from the cultivar while Northland

CONTRAST: Uncertified Italian ryegrass on the left with Tabu Plus on the right.

farmers would typically get just one season’s grazing from it.

“But we can see this becoming a grass that has a lot of uses for farmers, depending on their farm systems.

“Farmers down south may choose to take advantage of its excellent winter growth capacity for finishing high-value lambs on contract.

“In Northland it fits well with the farm system changes going on up there where more and more dairy herds are splitting calving into spring and autumn.”

The FVI trials showed the grass delivers very rapid early establishment growth.

With shifts in climate patterns

and increasingly hot summers, winter months were likely to become even more valuable for farmers seeking reliable, consistent pasture growth, he said.

Many farmers are reporting lower summer pasture grass growth this season as soil temperatures soar and air temperatures exceeding 28C bring ryegrass growth to a halt.

“Work has shown that trying to boost summer grass growth involves using tropical grasses and there is often a trade-off there with lower feed values. Kikuyu is a good example of that.

“The use of more crops over summer like chicory or plantain can fill that feed gap while a grass like Tabu+ will deliver quality ryegrass feed once those crops have done their job over summer.”

The grass also offered farmers the capacity to mop up and

reduce their winter nitrogen losses.

“Typically winter is the period of highest nitrogen leaching, particularly over May, June and July. But if you have a grass that is growing well, it will be absorbing that nitrogen that would otherwise be leached.”

Kerr said there had been a degree of luck in hitting on a grass cultivar with exceptional winter growth and Tabu+’s ability seemed to stem from a good genetic combination rather than any single, specific plant feature.

“But we have also thrown out 500 different crosses before we arrived at this one. This is 14 years on from the original Tabu cultivar so it does not happen quickly.

“It can be quite hard to predict in biologic systems what grasses will stand out and then, occasionally, you get one like this that just makes a really big jump in performance.”

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The value of dairy exports jumped by 30% or $445 million to $1.9 billion in December, compared to the same month a year earlier. In the wider grouping, milk powder exports rose by $233m and butter by $137m.

That helped lift total exports for December to $5.6b, Statistics NZ said. That was $1.1b higher than December 2016.

Meat sales also rose strongly, up $229m or 47% to $721m for the month. Lamb exports rose 50% by value on volumes just 23% higher. Beef rose 44% in value on volumes 35% up.

Exports of logs, wood,and wood articles increased in value by $94m or 27% to $439m for December.

Increased values were highlighted by the butter figures, up 88% by value but only 18% by volume.

Milk powder exports increased by $223m to $1.1b,

the value up 27% and volumes only 12% up. Milk powder shipments to China increased by 32% or $146m to $604m.

Total dairy exports in 2017 rose $2.8b or 25% to $14b. Milk powder made up just over half of the total at $7.2b, up 24% by value on volumes down 2%.

Total meat exports rose by $706m or 12% for the year, to $6.6b.

Log and wood exports rose $546m to $4.7b.

China widened the gap on Australia as NZ’s biggest market, with exports up $2.5b or 27% to $12b. Exports to Australia rose $542m, or 6.5% to $8.8b.

Total NZ exports for the year were $53.7b, up $5.2b on a year earlier.

Before last year, the highest year for both dairy and total exports covered the 2013-14 dairy export season, when dairy prices were high, he said.

Total imports for the year were higher, at $56.5b, led by mechanical machinery and equipment, and vehicles.

That was a trade deficit of $2.8b for the year. However, December alone had a trade surplus of $640m.

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Positive prospects for profit Stephen Bell stephen.bell@nzx.com AN UNUSUALLY broad base of agricultural sectors will be profitable this year, Rabobank New Zealand country banking general manager Hayley Gourley says.

“As the second consecutive good year after a run of tougher years, 2018 looks set to generate a sense of sustained recovery in NZ agriculture.

“This is important for long-term confidence and attracting investment into the sector,” she said.

However, in the bank’s Agribusiness Outlook she cautions where the industry chooses to direct its improved cashflow and focus during this sustained positive run will have important ramifications for many years to come.

But global market settings are firmly in the favour of Kiwi farmers.

“The world economy is enjoying a broad-based recovery and the prices of the key commodities produced in NZ are generally high while prices for key farm inputs, especially fertiliser, are generally low,” she said.

“The bank retains a bearish outlook for the NZ dollar over the next 12 months, which further plays into the hands of the country’s export-focused agricultural producers and we anticipate a strong performance from NZ’s key agricultural sectors in 2018.”

Another positive was the settled nature of NZ agriculture’s downstream processing and marketing industry.

As the second consecutive good year after a run of tougher years, 2018 looks set to generate a sense of sustained recovery in NZ agriculture.

it wants to be at the moment and there is ongoing discussion as to where the industry should place itself on the spectrum between low-cost, nimble producer and the niche, high-value, sustainabilityled positioning which is being encouraged by the new Government.

“The direction of Government policy will become clearer as the year progresses and we will learn a lot more about the how far the Government is willing to push policy on wages, foreign direct investment, carbon emissions and water.

“To sustain the sense of momentum in NZ agriculture, a sensible regulatory approach will be required, which has the buy-in of both farmers and consumers.”

Important considerations include:

• Balancing the need for the industry to get its house in order at home while positioning for market access and growth offshore; • Appropriate debt levels; • Avoiding channelling all improved cashflow into land purchases, thus fuelling inflation in land values unless achieving strategic goals and; • Exercising caution in moving too quickly beyond core competencies.

Gourley said periods of sustained growth are hard-earned in agriculture and the decisions made during these times often determine whether the next cycle will be as good.

“At the very least, profitable conditions and strong industry confidence make 2018 a good year to make tough decisions.”

NOW: It’s a good year to make tough decisions, Rabobank manager Hayley Gourley says.

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Hayley Gourley Rabobank “Fonterra is making money in its offshore businesses and has cleared overhanging litigation, while other dairy processors are performing well.

“In the meat sector recent ownership changes have now been bedded down which have contributed towards increased profitability and reduced debt levels and there now appears to be far greater surety of industry structure and strategy than evident in recent years.

“The horticulture industry has also made great strides in its processing capability of late and the recent investment in post-harvest processing, storage and infrastructure looks set to continue this year.

But while the agriculture outlook is positive there will be curve balls to be dealt with in 2018 and, unusually for NZ, they are likely to come from local developments.

“Dry conditions across the country at the back end of 2017 and in early 2018 will have flow-on impacts on production and costs across many of the key agricultural sectors and will constrain NZ’s capacity to capitalise on improved market conditions,” Gourley said.

“Considerable uncertainty also remains about how policy decisions made by the new coalition Government will impact the rural sector ,while the outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis is a further local industry development which must be addressed.”

And the positive backdrop to 2018 should not distract from the importance of decisions that need to be made during the year about where the industry should focus and where improved capital availability should be directed.

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Info access an issue Richard Rennie richard.rennie@nzx.com

MURKY: New Zealand’s weather data is difficult to obtain, some comes too late to be useful and is expensive, Weather Watch director Philip Duncan says.

Weather data cloudy and dear Richard Rennie richard.rennie@nzx.com ACCESS to New Zealand weather data is among the most expensive and restricted of any developed country, a new report says.

The two-part PWC-Experian report examines the availability to individuals and private companies of data collected by MetService and NIWA. It explores what potential might exist to offer broader services and what the barriers to achieving that are.

It put NZ at the far end of the limited data and restricted commercial use spectrum.

Comparisons were made between NZ, Norway, Australia, the United States, Canada and France. Perhaps surprisingly, the US sat at the opposite end of the spectrum, with its data classed as freely available, with a strong research focus.

Most of the other countries, some with a commercial directive applied to their weather agencies, still make significant amounts of data freely available.

The report said NIWA and MetService generally provide a high standard of data but accessing it is costly and the commercial terms around its use are generally very restrictive.

Some parties interviewed in the report maintained MetService and NIWA were taking a duopoly position on the data they collected to stifle potential competition developing in the form of new weather services.

Six areas were highlighted as having data access classed as limited or questionable.

They included a lack of transparency over pricing for observed data collected, delays in data provision for free data and difficulties accessing data supposed to be available free.

Weather Watch director and Farmers Weekly weather forecaster Philip Duncan has been pushing hard to have the report released for the past year.

He said the report vindicates an ongoing battle he has had with the forecasting agencies for many years as he tried to source raw data for up-to-date interpretation and communication.

“But for information like rain radar data it would be provided three hours after being recorded from MetService and some other data was even longer from NIWA. “Getting that sort of data three hours old is like getting a report on traffic three hours after you have got home from work. It’s just no longer any use to you.”

Duncan agreed with the report’s findings over price transparency concerns and cited examples where he had received different quotes for the same data at various times in recent years.

“There does not appear to be any rate card or set amount and it appears to really depend on who you are and what you are going to be using the data for.”

He had also been asked what he intended to use the data for.

“Really, if that data is to be available, it is none of the business of the data provider what the likes of myself intend to do with it.”

Duncan said he felt the level of information farmers could have available to them was compromised by MetService’s controls over data availability.

Getting that sort of data three hours old is like getting a report on traffic three hours after you have got home from work.

Philip Duncan Weather Watch Classed as a state-owned enterprise, MetService is required to deliver a profit and dividend to the Government.

Over the past 25 years it earned more than $50 million in dividends and $25m in tax.

For the 2016-17 year MetService returned a profit of $4.4m of gross income off turnover of $55m, with profit up 21% on the year before.

It now said 20% of its commercial income is generated by offshore contracts supplying weather information.

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MetService corporate affairs manager Jacqui Bridges said it has acknowledged the findings in the report but is compelled to charge for data to generate a return and cover the infrastructural costs of operating a weather recording system.

“We accept that we are at the end of the spectrum in the report regarding accessibility and cost for data.

“But it is the income from the data and our services that mean instead of costing the Government a lot to provide, it is a more modest amount.

“We are in favour of open data, with the caveat someone has to pay for it.”

MetService appreciated its charges might seem higher to someone in a smaller business.

“And I think that is probably where some of this open data argument is coming from.

“But we have to pay for the capital expenditure to have the data provided so it is not just about the cost of providing the data but the investment in order to collect it in the first place.”

MetService was aware of several issues the report raised and was working on addressing aspects of accessibility and ease of use for data provided.

“This includes our application programming interface we are working on to make our data easier to download and has been part of our roadmap.”

GOVERNMENT officials have been accused of dodging the issues of weather data and costs raised in a recent report commissioned by the previous government (see accompanying article).

Despite the report finding New Zealand was among the most restrictive and costliest places in the developed world to access data for further manipulation and analysis, minister Megan Woods has confirmed it will be at least six months before officials look closely at matters raised in the review.

Weather Watch director Philip Duncan said he welcomed the findings of the report, but felt it was a case of “one step forward, one step backwards” to find it would only be kicked down the road for at least half the year.

Duncan has been in ongoing dispute with the two Crownowned weather companies — NIWA and MetService — for a number of years, trying to access more of their data for further interpretation and presentation.

“We started this process three elections ago and nothing has physically changed and by the looks of it another year with no change is ahead,” he said.

Duncan pointed to a Commerce Commission ruling that all tax-funded weather data should be open for all to use.

“So it’s weird that yet more people behind the scenes have to look further into this.

However, the Commerce Commission will not address why the government now owns the three largest commercial forecasters in NZ until a decision has been made by the minister on this review. So no changes continues as they can both point to each other for nothing happening.”

The independent review report cited an example of a climate-smart farmers project that integrated farmers’ observations with NIWA climate data. The project was aborted part-way through after NIWA data was no longer made available to the project, and NIWA later withdrew from it and developed its own standalone tool as a commercial project.

However the report also acknowledged NZ has a different model for weather data compared with most other countries, given its hybrid commercial structure that requires it to generate income and deliver government a dividend.

It noted MetService and NIWA were “following their mandates faithfully” and in order to make weather data more openly available funding of data collection would need to be considered.

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Pest moth in full flight Annette Scott annettescott@xtra.co.nz THE red clover pest casebearer moth has flown the coop and spread across New Zealand.

The red clover moth, first discovered in Auckland 15 months ago, sparked a nationwide monitoring campaign that initiated the importing of special pheromone traps.

These traps were distributed to growers up and down the county over this summer’s clover growing and flower period.

Foundation for Arable Research seed research manager Richard Chynoweth said the result of the trapping was not what growers wanted to hear.

“The results are not good news for red clover growers with moths being found on farms, roadsides and other areas everywhere from Wairarapa to Southland.

“As it was first identified in Auckland, we can assume they will be found across the North Island as well.”

Chynoweth said given the numbers and spread of the pest it now seemed likely that it had been in NZ for some time.

“My guess would be that it’s been around for at least a decade, and could have been affecting red clover seed yields for several years.”

Chynoweth said not a lot was known about red clover casebearer in NZ so researchers had a lot of work on their hands.

“We will continue to monitor its spread, but more importantly we need to understand its life cycle, and exactly how that links with the red clover growth cycle.

“Once we have a clearer idea of that we can start to consider control options so that arable farmers can continue to grow this specialist crop.”

Red clover casebearer is a small moth about 8mm long and very similar to two other species of clover casebearer moth that were already well-established in white clover in NZ. “However, in this case its principal host is red clover,” Chynoweth said.

Adult moths lay eggs on developing red clover flower heads, and once hatched the larvae tunnel into the florets to feed, destroying the growing seed.

As the larvae grow they adhere themselves to a chewed-off floret, using it like a cape or case for protection and camouflage.

Feeding damage to seeds can severely affect crop yields.

Farmers checking their crops for the presence of red clover casebearer should inspect flowers looking for millimetre-sized holes chewed into the base of individual florets and-or

distinctive black droppings, also at the base of the florets.

They may also be able to see the casebearing larvae, which look like small red-brown cigars on the flowers.

Chynoweth urged farmers finding evidence of the casebearer moth to discuss management with their crop agrichemical adviser.

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DAMAGE: Larval feeding damage.

PEST: The red clover casebearer moth is now present throughout most of New Zealand.

Photo: Tim Haye

NOT PRETTY: Casebearer larvae on a red clover flower.

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Farm developer wants justice Simon’s Pass is the terminal point for the advance of an ancient glacier: environmental groups want it to be the end of the road for dairy conversions in Mackenzie Basin. Tim Fulton reports.

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N A strong gale the “talcum powder” of Simon’s Pass topsoil blows straight into Lake Benmore.

Owner Murray Valentine pokes and prods, jabbing at hieracium and pointing out Pukaki boulders deposited over millenia.

Valentine, a Dunedin accountant and investor in Mainland Poultry and other South Island businesses, has been pushing for a dairy and drystock makeover on the property for about 15 years. He estimates the project could cost up to $150 million.

He’s been patient, despite having paid millions on consent, consulting and legal fees. There’s no one to blame for the protracted approvals process, he says.

But even as a stoic member of Otago’s tight, low-key business circle, Valentine twitches at the delays.

He jokes that if you guess he’s in his 50s, you’d be wrong. About 70, he packs a lot of imaginative energy in to a farm tour, deriding hieracium and brimming at the thought of a production surge under modern, intensive pasture and crop.

Valentine has cleared more than 80 consent applications since buying Simon’s Pass in the early 2000s. The scale, soil and power of irrigation to grow grass, silage and crops like lucerne appealed immediately. Without water and other additives, nothing grew for about four months in the frozen winter. Then, when the basin started to bake, there was no way to take advantage.

About half of the 9700ha station is set to be irrigated. His farm map for the Pukaki glacial outwash plain is ringed with future pivot circles. Now, even as parts of the project are still vulnerable to legal challenge, a transformation is underway with pipes and the

skeletal shape of dairy pads.

Consents allow up to 15,000 cows in seven dairy sheds, although Valentine had scaled that back to 5500 cows milked through three sheds. Thirty pivot irrigators will grow grass and crops, ensuring everything everything on the farm is grown or raised on-site.

It is, he says, probably the only dairy conversion in the Mackenzie district part of the basin. The dairying south of Twizel is in the upper Waitaki catchment, in Waitaki district.

The renovated Simon’s Pass would have about 10,000 other stock units on top of that: beef cattle, sheep (maybe not Merino) and possibly deer.

Valentine wants a model farm, though he hates talking about anything he hasn’t yet achieved.

“When you see the work that’s been done on the environment plans, on the water quality modelling, the animal welfare and all the issues that are important in farming ... I will have a high hurdle to jump.”

He says authorities know he’ll “keep gritting it out” to get the job done. “I’m not going to let anyone down.”

He says recent changes to the Resource Management Act should help the cause: it’s no longer possible to grant, say, a fiveyear irrigation consent and then arbitrarily refuse to renew it after investment in the property.

The RMA and an element of “natural justice” should prevail, he says, given even the most ardent opponents have known about his plans for years. Work is now underway and he can’t imagine it all being rolled back.

A major risk to the project is an Environment Court ruling declaring when new rules for development in the Mackenzie district will come into force.

Some groups, including the vocal

POTENTIAL: Murray Valentine believes the Simon’s Pass property could be productive while supporting environmental goals.

Photo: Tim Fulton

Environmental Defence Society, see it as a check on intensification at Simon’s Pass. Valentine is taking legal advice on a possible appeal.

Valentine knows the protest and appeals process as well as anyone — and knows he’s accused of sacrificing a glacial moraine to intensive farming.

In March 2014 the Mackenzie Guardians advocacy group wrote: “This application pits cows against critically endangered birds like the black stilt and the wrybill ... the proposed industrial-scale irrigation will add huge pressure to threatened birds and unique flora and fauna. If these native grasslands that have evolved to survive the area’s extreme climate, these unique ecosystems will be lost forever.”

The station is enclosed by the Pukaki and Tekapo Rivers and Lake Pukaki. Part is in Crown pastoral lease and subject to tenure review. Some of the that land, including prominent areas near Lake Pukaki, would be tagged

a no-go for development.

The conversion would be nothing like a complete removal of rare Mackenzie flora and fauna, he says. In a concession to opponents, he has set aside 1800ha for de-stocking and control of predators and wilding pines.

In all, about 3500ha of the station would not be farmed and would be freed from weeds and pests.

Because of natural land contour, it would be hard for anyone to recognise the proposed changes on the property from State Highway One, Valentine says.

As for the loss of tussock, for example, he challenged anyone to argue what could be worse than continuing to let hieracium outcompete every other plant and rabbits run amok.

Valentine’s ongoing bugbear on the project is the lack of a single, logical, approval process. He has routinely dealt with Environment

Canterbury, Mackenzie District Council and Land Information New Zealand. Some official bodies, like the defunct Waitaki Water Allocation Board, have slipped by the wayside over 15 years of official back and forth.

Sometimes he wins a tick from from one body, like ECan granting a water take, only to be headed off by another agency, like Mackenzie District ruling on the same matter. Broadly, the planning process seems open to endless challenge. Mackenzie District launched its Plan Change 13 for permitted and discretionary land use in 2007 and it is still being contested in court.

Valentine says whereas regulators like Ecan have staff, budget and expertise, it appears the tiny Mackenzie council is overwhelmed and perhaps relieved when its rulings are challenged in court. The whole thing means an authority like Mackenzie can absolve itself of responsibility, he says.

SPECTACULAR: Murray Valentine says the view of Simon’s Pass from State Highway One won’t change.

New thinking

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THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – February 5, 2018

Better breeding boost for bees Bees are generally regarded as wild insects but most rely on humans for survival and so are domesticated. Now an effort is being made to treat them like other stock and preserve and breed the best lines with selection of desirable traits. But first much more about bee biology must be learned. Neal Wallace reports on a project that could result in bees being bred for specific tasks like honey production or pollination. withstand disease, weather and environmental challenges while providing production gains.

Honeybees were introduced to NZ about 200 years ago but Fennessy said bees are under pressure and rely on humans to survive, making them a domesticated species.

The varroa mite has wiped out feral populations but much of the hive destruction came from the various viruses the mites carry and transmit to bee hosts.

The hive is a recording unit. It’s a different way of thinking.

Peter Fennessy AbacusBio University of Otago biochemist, geneticist and bee expert Professor Peter Dearden hopes tools used widely in livestock farming, such as artificial breeding and breeding for particular traits, can be developed for the bee industry.

Artificial breeding is possible already but is an expensive and skilled process so inseminated breeder queen bees sell for $2500.

Dearden said bees can be bred specifically for pollination or honey production with greater resistance to disease and

technology developed to allow the freezing of bee semen so specialist or exceptional bloodlines can be preserved.

“There are all kinds of opportunities but we have got to have the technology and we still need a better understanding of bee biology.”

Fennessy said a hive was in effect a single organism housing up to 80,000 bees, but just one queen bee lay all the eggs for the hive and produced all the worker bees which were sterile. This created a challenging research environment.

Three years ago the University of Otago, with AbacusBio, Taylor Pass Honey and Betta Bees, initiated a project to develop tools to genetically improve honey bees.

Fennessy said while similar to tools were used to record performance in individual cattle or sheep, because of the peculiarities of bees it had to be done at a hive scale which meant a hive was considered one animal or one piece of data.

“The hive is a recording unit. It’s a different way of thinking.”

Getting close to the queen for recording was not possible, but researchers achieved a major breakthrough using DNA technology.

They were able to take samples from larvae in the hive and determine the relationship between various queen bees, and relate that to the performance of the hive.

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BUZZING: AbacusBio researcher Gertje Petersen is working on a research project that should lead to a more resilient and robust bee population.

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Fennessy said that was the next stage of the project, which has funding and support from the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment, Plant and Food Research, AbacusBio, the Cawthron Institute, AgResearch, Betta Bees, Taylors Pass, Tai Tokerau Honey, Miere Partnership and Midland Seeds.

Another goal of the project was to assess the bee population’s genetic diversity.

In-breeding was believed to be a major problem with honey bees but to what extent was not known. Equally, Fennessy said it was important to maintain genetic diversity.

“We know maintaining genetic diversity in practical breeding programmes is important, we know that in the breeding programme in other species, and we expect the same in honey bees but we don’t know how important it is.”

Access to DNA would also show scientists whether in-breeding was looming as a problem.

Petersen said the key to a controlled breeding programme was to know the parents or, in this case, the pedigree of the hive.

While a queen can be readily identified and linked to a hive, mating patterns meant it was impossible to know the sire.

A queen mated with between six and 25 drones in a drone cloud about 1km above the ground, which she said made tracing parentage virtually impossible.

The ability to use DNA enabled researchers to sample the worker bees and then match the DNA to the various possible sources of drones.

“The DNA information also enables us to look at the relationship between our hives and when we combine that with production data, we hope to find the best genetics for our environment.”

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While it might sound simple enough, AbacusBio scientist Peter Fennessy says that’s far from the case but the project will help develop tools for the genetic improvement in bees and lead to a more resilient and robust bee population.

The investment for the programme has come from the Government, with a research grant to the University of Otago through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Endeavour programme. It follows many years developing the basic methods needed for the project, funded by the University of Otago, the Taylor Pass Honey Company, Betta Bees (a queen bee breeding company) and AbacusBio. The new five-year investment will include genetic evaluation where queens will be compared through progeny testing in different environments. It will also help to understand the genetic diversity of the New Zealand bee population, which Fennessy says is important because inbreeding can be a real problem in honeybees.

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EDITORIAL Everyone is responsible

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YCOPLASMA bovis has highlighted problems with our biosecurity system.

Ironically, many countries in the world have the disease so it is not that causing concern.

It is the perception of how we have handled it and the shortcomings of the National Animal Identification and Tracing system that are worrying industry people here and buyers overseas.

It doesn’t matter that we might not get a serious disease outbreak or that we might handle it well. If people buying our food don’t have confidence in us and what we are doing then they won’t buy it. If people see us bumbling incompetently with one thing they will wonder how good we are at other things.

Honesty and good communication, both among ourselves and with overseas customers, are essential. One of the problems with the M bovis outbreak has been the lack of good information. A Primary Industries Ministry report on the outbreak was due out well before Christmas. There’s still no sign of it. Getting information from the ministry has been a painful experience for reporters. The result is much misinformation and rumour has circulated.

The NAIT system is being addressed. A scheduled review of it has been completed and the report is due out soon. Now MPI needs to review its communication and publicity system and get it working. It learned nothing from the Fonterra botulism scare and things haven’t improved this time.

Vigilance has to be the watchword of everyone in the industry. There has been much talk about biosecurity for several years and much touting of the wonderful benefits of the Government-Industry Agreements but little said about how they actually work and how those paying the bills get value for money.

Biosecurity has to be active throughtout the industry. Farmers themselves must practice biosecurity as they do health and safety. It should be seen as an investment in and insurance for their future, and not as a bureaucratic requirement. It’s part of the great stewardship of the land farmers rightly pride themselves on.

No one should think biosecurity is someone else’s responsibility. It’s not. It’s yours.

Stephen Bell

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If you are a townie, donate to the Rural Support Trust who do so much in the way of moral support to farmers at times like these and hope that it rains, like now.

IT IS not until something is experienced that conditions can be fully understood.

This is so in the drought conditions many farmers are experiencing right now.

I have come to live on Stewart Island/Rakiura for a while, where the population is dependent on tank water for its water supply.

We are experiencing the long dry and the subsequent lowering of tank water levels.

As the water levels lower, the stress levels heighten.

Rain is forecast but never comes.

Rain clouds gather and threaten rain. The rain can be felt but apart from a scattering, no rain falls.

This has made me realise more about what drought truly means for the farmers, each with hundreds of animals to

Margaret Feringa Stewart Island/Rakiura

Gross omission RE: ETS, great.

Great letter, Mr Clements.

Unfortunately, there is a rather large barrier to you ever receiving a return as shown in your calculations.

Currently, our legislation deals with gross emissions, not net.

This is a huge anomaly and needs urgent attention.

I understand the only political champion to address this was Russell Norman.

One would hope Federated

Farmers et al would be campaigning Parliament long and hard over this issue but are they?

Rita Batley Taihape

Science not politics YOUR leading article of January 22 reveals how farmers will initially have to pay only $44 million a year by joining the ETS, to assist the Government to make New Zealand a net zero emitting economy by 2050.

The article should be read carefully.

Note the words “initially” and “net”.

An interim Climate Change Commission will be “appointed” comprised of scientists and economists (no industry representatives because they are not experts and would be biased) who will

decide whether agriculture joins the ETS. Green Party leader James Shaw says while the commission will make this decision, it was always intended that agriculture will be included. So this is all simply dishonest as the members of the commission will be carefully chosen to deliver the already decided result.

Shaw goes on to state “any revenue generated by the 5% would be ploughed back into agriculture to aid the transition”. Really! This raises the question, where is the $44 million going to and what for?

The sharemarket perhaps?

What is the projected rate of return?

I am not going in to the debate regarding global warming except to say that the

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Protecting trade is the goal Bryan Wilson

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AST week’s Ministry for Primary Industries test stuns the honey sector article in the Farmers Weekly criticises the work to develop a definition for manuka honey.

I’d like to take the opportunity to give people a little more context about the work.

First of all, MPI’s definition for manuka honey is a robust, scientific definition that has been peer reviewed by numerous experts, both here and internationally.

We have not taken this work lightly.

It took a comprehensive, world-leading, three-year science programme to develop the definition.

This was important because the purpose of the definition is to ensure that overseas markets and consumers can be confident that the manuka honey they buy is authentic.

Before finalising our definition, we also consulted extensively.

We consulted with industry on all aspects of the new requirements and, in response to industry feedback, we extended the lead-in time for meeting our new requirements.

It’s also important to remember

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why we embarked on developing a scientific definition in the first place.

There was an increasing amount of concern from our overseas markets that some honey sold overseas is not authentic New Zealand manuka honey, such as The Great Manuka Honey Swindle in the United Kingdom.

At the time, there was no definition for manuka honey.

Instead there were various approaches industry used to grade manuka honey and no single agreed approach.

More importantly, these were

not developed to authenticate manuka honey so we had to step in to do that work, which is a task that has never been attempted before by any other regulator in the world.

We needed a definition that our trading partners could be confident in.

This work has always been about protecting trade and having a standard that allows us to authenticate manuka honey.

It is not about supporting grading systems such as the Unique Manuka Factor Honey Association’s grading system, which are not about authenticity.

We delayed our decision to consider an alternative definition proposed by some industry groups, which included leptosperin.

MPI’s scientists and an independent expert reviewed that information but there was no robust scientific evidence to support it.

We know that the definition won’t be popular with everyone but we have to make decisions based on solid, scientific evidence in the interest of our national reputation and assuring our trading partners and consumers that the honey they buy is genuine.

We hope that the recent decision to adjust the definition

EXPERT: Bryan Wilson is deputy directorgeneral of regulation and assurance at the Ministry for Primary Industries.

illustrates MPI’s ongoing commitment to a collaborative technical programme with industry focused on continuous improvement to the science that supports the regulatory definition for manuka honey.

We were presented with new information about the impact of the definition on multifloral manuka honey and a summary of new analysed test results from industry.

LETTERS Continued from page 20 figures and amounts used to justify bringing agriculture in NZ into the ETS, such as farmers emit 40 million tons of CO2 equivalent per annum are assumptions and are certainly not a net amount, which we are told will be the basis used to arrive at a net zero emitting economy by 2050.

The commonly used figure by the mainstream media of 48% of NZ’s greenhouse gas emissions coming from ruminant animals is simply wrong.

First, it is not a net amount. It is accounting for only one side of the equation. There is no offset

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More letters P20 given for the sequestration of carbon in the soil which occurs in varying amounts in every pasture under pastoral grazing by sheep and cattle. While the amounts sequestered may be small per hectare, there are hundreds of thousands of hectares involved.

High-producing pasture especially under irrigation or where there is adequate rainfall, creates added soil biomass while sequestering carbon. There are also significant when added together, areas of scrub, regenerating native bush, 180,000 hectares (so far) covenanted with QE2 Trust mainly bush, plus small woodlots, shelter breaks, hundreds of thousands of

ornamentals and weeds, especially gorse and broom, all of which are excluded from any offset or credit for the carbon being sequestered.

Second, all the carbon emitted by sheep and cattle as CO2 and methane is not adding to the atmospheric carbon, it is just returning to where it came from in the first place. This is a part of the carbon cycle which has been happening for millions of years.

These animals are carbon neutral.

Third, there has been a huge reduction in the area of pastoral farming since 1990. Horticulture, forestry, land retired under tenure review, urban sprawl and lifestyle blocks have reduced the area for

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grazing to around 40% of NZ, down from around 60%. This is ongoing.

Fourth, since the 1980s the sheep industry has more than halved the numbers of breeding ewes. In doing so the industry carbon emissions have declined in the same proportion.

The whole question of bringing agriculture into the ETS needs to be based on scientific facts, not on political agendas. A tax in itself will not result in any carbon emission reductions but note the word “initially”. The fact the sheep industry has already made huge reductions is apparently not enough. It could well be that if

the factors listed above are taken into account, many in the pastoral farming sector will be eligible for carbon credits or perhaps annual cheques.

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Welcome to the Son of the TPP Alternative View

Alan Emerson

I’M PLEASED the son of TPP — the CPTPP — is a runner. I far prefer the CPTPP to the original TPP, albeit without the United States.

Effectively new agreements with Japan, Canada, Mexico and Peru have got to be good for us and we no longer have the onerous intellectual property restrictions the US had insisted on.

It is also a credit to the politically bipartisan nature of trade negotiations shown by our political parties. It happened in the past with Labour then National over the Chinese FTA and it’s good to see it happening again with the CPTPP. We have another trade agreement in the wings that will continue as if we hadn’t had an election and subsequent change of government, and that is the Chinese-driven Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the RCEP. I believe the RCEP is where our future lies.

The agreement includes

the nine member states of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). These include Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

The additional countries are Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand.

Going to our Foreign Affairs and Trade website you can read ‘RCEP builds on NZ’s already strong relationships in Asia and will open up more opportunities for NZ businesses in these fast-growing economies’.

I agree.

The website also tells us the RCEP countries have a population of more than three billion, a GDP of $US23 trillion and account for 27% of world trade, considerably more than the CPTPP. Just as importantly, they represent 55.4% of our current trade for a combined value of $NZ39 billion.

In addition, the RCEP doesn’t demand tough conditions on issues such as the protection of intellectual property.

It is important to consider how much the Chinese position on trade has changed in recent times.

In the past we’ve had fortress China, while the US was all for free trade and a global economy.

That position has now reversed.

China is leading the charge for globalisation, a position that

would have been unheard of even ten years ago, and its plans are massive.

As well as the RCEP China is developing the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’. It is a huge international infrastructure agreement aimed at increasing world trade.

It is massive and will change the face of trade, politics and relationships.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and 29 other heads of state met recently and committed to both building an open economy and ensuring “free and inclusive trade”.

The Chinese government has pledged $124b for a new Silk Road, which will be a major land route stretching from China to “Asia, Africa, Europe and beyond”.

There is an additional $57b for a trade route through Pakistan and Afghanistan to the Arabian Sea. There’s a further corridor to Singapore and another through Mongolia to Russia.

The Chinese are also developing ports and sea routes so the Belt and Road initiative is truly global.

In total more than $US1.1t has been committed by China for the initiative.

The original signatories to the Belt and Road initiative, of which we are one, embrace a considerable number of culturally and economically diverse countries.

For example Afghanistan, Lebanon, Israel, Iran and Iraq are

LEADING THE CHARGE: China is focused on globalisation, and is investing to make it happen.

all involved which is interesting and has the potential to change the political landscape.

Having those countries sitting around a table and even just talking is a massive step forward.

The 68 countries also include Singapore, South Africa, India, Indonesia, Malaysia South Korea, Russia and Saudi Arabia who are all valuable or potentially important trading partners for us.

The planned infrastructure will be built to facilitate trade that will be conducted under the RCEP and we are a strong player.

That’s all positive but the joker in the pack is the US and we’re going to have to tread carefully.

I believe a trade war between China and the United States is inevitable.

I remain convinced China doesn’t want one but the US does.

In the campaign President Trump promised a 45% tariff on Chinese imports.

The US is currently investigating

Chinese steel and aluminium exports as well as intellectual property, which could result in sanctions against China’s telecom and semiconductor products.

If that happens it’s been suggested China could retaliate against America’s agricultural sector.

My strong belief is our interests are with China and not the US. I realise the old sabre rattlers will talk about traditional allies but my position is to look forward and not back.

In the year to June 2016 our trade with China was worth 30% more than that with the US. Combine that with the fact any trade war could tip the US into recession, and would certainly reduce America’s global influence, and our choice becomes clear.

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

Sorting the wood from the trees From the Ridge

Steve Wyn-Harris

ONE billion trees. That’s a whole lot of trees.

I got an intriguing email last week.

It was from Crown Forestry, a business unit of MPI. They were asking me if I had any suitable land to plant for the new government’s One Billion Trees programme, which is the ten-year target. To achieve, it will require new forests on up to 500,000 hectares.

This programme with Crown Forestry is but one of several initiatives to help achieve the target.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t help them as I fell outside the criteria of a minimum 200 hectares, which is just over half of our farm area, but most of the other criteria like access within the block and to local roads, terrain, fertility and such applied as we are about to harvest 8 hectares of our own trees

that I planted 30 years ago.

I asked a few mates if they had got the email and some had but others hadn’t.

I later found out the initial approach was to those of us who have registered trees under the ETS. The word will get out to others shortly.

The proposal is for Crown Forestry to lease the land or enter into a forestry joint venture for one rotation or 30 years.

The Crown would pay for all establishment and management costs over the lifetime of the crop and pay a negotiated rent to the landowner. Rents will reflect the quality of the land, proximity to ports or wood processing plants, and the costs Crown Forestry expect to pay over the lifetime of the crop. The landowner would retain all rights to any carbon credits.

I thought about this for a few days and of the implications, potentially both good and bad, for our sector.

I contacted Crown Forestry and asked for further information.

I received a pleasant phone call directly from Warwick Foran, the general manager of Crown Forestry, and we discussed the proposal.

First, I needed to find out a bit more about Crown Forestry. I may

OPPORTUNITY: The One Billion Trees programme offers some significant benefits for land owners.

have been a member of the Farm Forestry Association and even a branch chairman 25 years ago but knew little about them.

Crown Forestry manages a commercial forestry business on behalf of the Crown and has only four employees, yet turns over $100 million.

A lot of its work in the last 25 years has been divesting the Crown of forests and forest land, but it still administers 14,000 hectares of forests. It’s both a lessee and a lessor and works closely with iwi and Maori land.

This proposal is the Crown gets into partnerships with landowners to establish forests

on a commercial basis through a forestry joint venture or lease model with the Crown as an equity partner (ie taking a financial stake in the tree crop; but not the land).

The Crown would cover all forestry establishment and management costs including rates and the ongoing costs of crop protection.

I pushed Warwick on what the rent might be, because this will obviously determine what sort of uptake the proposal will receive, but it depends on the variables mentioned earlier.

As an indication, some of the current leases are about 6% of unimproved land value.

The land owner will receive the benefits of the carbon options, and with carbon prices likely to keep rising this could be a significant incentive.

This scheme has merit and could offer an alternative for country that might well be more suited to trees than current land use.

For many, having a partner carry the costs of establishment and silviculture and providing an annual market lease could be attractive.

It could also affect the value and desirability of some classes of land. Expect to see an interest from syndicates and investors.

It will offer job prospects in regions like Northland desperately needing a boost.

But if whole districts are attracted to an offer like this, there could well be social implications.

And of course, depending on how big this portfolio becomes, it could be quite a drain on the Crown’s finances waiting, as many of us have, for that payback in a distant 30 years.

All something to keep an eye on.

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

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THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – February 5, 2018

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The fun of the A&P Show Allan Barber

ON THE Saturday of Auckland Anniversary Weekend the 151st Warkworth A&P Show was held, as most years, in hot and sunny conditions, but at least this year there were no strong nor ’easterlies or a major blockage of State Highway 1, apart from the normal holiday weekend traffic queues.

Not that this was of great concern as I drove to the Showgrounds at 6.15 to greet the gate officials who have the responsibility of admitting exhibitors and competitors early and taking money off the public who start to arrive any time after 8.30.

As chairman of the Warkworth A&P Society for the last few years – nobody else appears to be willing to put their hand up – I should be used to the frenetic lead-up to the Show, which involves last minute trade exhibitors, arranging someone to mark out the show grounds which for the rest of the year are the Mahurangi Rugby pitches, and making sure everything else is under control including money in the bank account to cover prizes. But this time was a bit different because Marjorie Blythen, our secretary of more than 30 years, had retired

after the 150th Show and, for all of us, it was a whole new challenge to remember critical things that previously appeared to happen automatically. Fortunately there is a good committee able to take responsibility for each section.

Equally fortunately, our new secretary is Penny Webster, previously president of Auckland Federated Farmers, ACT MP, mayor of Rodney and most recently Auckland councillor.

Her relationship with Auckland Council executives and local businesspeople has proved invaluable, but there are many moving parts to an A&P Show that depend entirely on careful planning and, in case of problems, urgent remedial action. Everything comes inexorably together on one day of the year and there is no second chance.

At 9.30 there was a phone call from the farmer supplying the sheep for the shearing competition, asking why the truck was an hour and a half late to collect the sheep. After several panic-stricken phone calls, the supplier borrowed a truck and trailer off his next door neighbour and drove them there himself.

All’s well that ends well, because in this case the Warkworth team that had won the previous week at Kaikohe performed well again, ably assisted by Jack Fagan who won the overall competition. This year ANZ Bank has sponsored a Northern Region shearing competition which has lifted the level of participation by providing meaningful prize money for the season.

In this technological world,

WINNERS: Jack Fagan (with microphone) helped the Warkworth team to another great performance while winning the overall competition.

especially in an increasingly urban area, less than an hour from Auckland under normal conditions, but still subject to major hold-ups and detours over the summer, the relevance of an A&P Show can be called into question. The land around Warkworth has gradually changed from pastoral and horticultural to lifestyle, subdivision and new motorway development, so we are no longer certain of a local community with any great sense of commitment to the traditions of the past. We have emphasised the lifestyle nature of the Show with ride-on mowers, dog demonstrations, Tai Chi and free children’s entertainment and waterslide, to attract the newer type of residents and younger families.

But it’s the traditional A&P activities like the wood chopping, sheep shearing, show jumping and cattle judging which still

attract the crowds. There remains an apparent desire to see what an A&P Show is all about. The disappearance of sheep farming from the North means it is hard enough to find sheep to shear, let alone run a sheep competition which hasn’t happened for over 20 years at Warkworth, but sheep racing continues to attract an enthusiastic crowd.

I’m sure every A&P Society has its own challenges putting on its annual Show, but equally many of the challenges will be the same across the country. Apart from increasing urbanisation, our biggest challenge is finding younger volunteers who are prepared to take over from an ageing committee and inject new ideas and energy into finding the recipe which will ensure the survival and success of an important, but evolving, part of New Zealand’s rural tradition.

The next big challenge, certainly

The joy of tweets … and snakes PERHAPS it’s a generational thing but as an aging Baby Boomer I’m not a huge fan of social media.

While acknowledging it’s the most powerful social network of all, the whole Facebook thing still leaves me a bit cold. Being asked to befriend people I hardly know or look at posts of what muffin someone’s having with their coffee is not my cup of tea.

Having said that I must confess to being an avid user of Twitter which I find to be the most immediate news source someone working in the media can use.

The beauty of Twitter is you can follow who you choose without them having to ‘friend’ you, as can be the case on Facebook. I largely follow news and sports organisations, interesting people and politicians.

The latter two, somewhat surprisingly, are not mutually exclusive.

For example, last week former Prime Minister Helen Clark tweeted: “Dramatic days in Cape Town, South Africa. The city is forecast to run out of water on 12 April after 3 years of severe drought. This has

devastating consequences for human health & services. All the world’s cities need to be resilient & sustainable.”

With parts of our country being gripped by drought (at the time of writing), this was good old fashioned United Nations common sense from the former Mother of the Nation, Helen. Agreeing with her wholeheartedly, I retweeted her tweet and couldn’t help but add my two cents worth, in the hope some of my friends in the Green Party might just get the message. My reply was simple: “How about a novel idea.

Let’s build some dams to store and harvest water #WTFhappenedtoRuataniwha?”

Then Helen ‘liked’ my tweet!

While it’s been the highlight of my very limited social media career, it just reinforced some sound thinking from a very sound mind (Helen’s not mine).

When I look around the world at some of the despots, dictators and dicks running countries far larger and more powerful than ours, some of whom are also particularly active on Twitter, I think we should be thankful for the stable government we’ve long

enjoyed. And that’s regardless of your political persuasion.

Not since Rob Muldoon lost the plot with his drunken snap election decree and subsequent sulk in 1984, have we suffered from any form of unstable leadership. We rounded out the millennium with David Lange, Geoffrey Palmer, Mike Moore, Jim Bolger, Jenny Shipley and Clark.

I’ve been in the privileged position of conducting a weekly radio interview with the Prime Minister of the day since 2000. History will judge Clark and John Key kindly. Bill English never got enough time in office to prove what a good PM he could have been and it’s too early to judge Jacinda Ardern, although she does join Lange and Key as the only members of the Celebrity PM Club.

However, not everyone agrees about Jacinda’s celebrity status, let alone her marital status!

We get some weird social media and text traffic on our radio show. Criticism, sometimes harsh, is part and parcel of working in the public eye. Over the years you develop a thick skin and

it’s mostly water off a duck’s back. However, occasionally you do get one that surprises even the most hardened of campaigners.

Here’s a text I got from a bloke called Michael, in all its unedited glory, following on from what he deemed to be a soft interview with the PM. “U such a Slimy Socialist snake Jamie,,, why didn’t u didn’t ask your Leader why she Pregi and NOT married,,, a Sad exampl to all women and the World,,,”.

As one of my work colleagues so eloquently put it, did that text arrive via a mobile phone or carrier pigeon? Commentary like that belongs in the 19th century.

There’s an old saying in the media, that’s even more applicable for politics. You can’t please all of the people all of the time. The PM and I obviously displease Michael.

Call me a slimy socialist snake Michael, but I’m with Jacinda on this one.

Your View Jamie Mackay is the host of The Country that airs on Newstalk ZB and Radio Sport, 12-1pm, weekdays. jamie@thecountry. co.nz

not unique, is to generate enough money to operate. Takings from the Show don’t come anywhere near covering costs, so sponsorship from local businesses is essential.

The values evident at the annual Show demonstrate the best aspects of this rural tradition to an increasingly urban audience. It is critically important to counter the negative view of farming promoted by activist groups like SAFE and Greenpeace and vested interest organisations such as Forest and Bird and Fish and Game. A&P Shows have the capacity to do this in a low-key but inclusive way, which might encourage people to question the more stridently unjustifiable criticisms of these groups.

A&P Shows are a local microcosm of our national identity with the capacity to bring urban and rural together for one day each year. They cannot fight all the negative publicity on their own, because the best weapon of all would be total avoidance of any animal cruelty or environmental pollution, thus removing the basis for criticism. But an annual event that promotes rural tradition and an area’s local history, brought together by community engagement, hardworking volunteers and local business support, deserves to survive. Long may the crowds keep turning up.

Your View Allan Barber is a meat industry commentator: allan@barberstrategic. co.nz, http://allanbarber.wordpress. com

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Investors shy away from dairy Annette Scott annettescott@xtra.co.nz

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AIRY farm investment has had a good run over the past 15 years but it’s time for a breather, farm investment expert Andrew Watters says.

Sectors come and go in terms of attractiveness to investors and dairy wasn’t now heading the list, Watters, the chief executive of New Zealand’s largest farm investment syndicator MyFarm Investments chief executive, said.

The immediate future was in horticulture but in permanent crops such as kiwifruit, apples, other pipfruit and vineyards rather than lettuces and cabbages.

A dairy farmer himself, Watters said he remained passionate about the industry but in respect to investment it had lost attractiveness.

The uncertainty of dairy returns and capital growth were largely to blame for the industry’s investment drop-off but headwinds with debt and tighter requirements around animal welfare, environmental compliance and health and safety were also involved.

“But still I would say dairy is taking a breather rather than falling out of love,” Watters said.

MyFarm Investments was set up in 1990, initially investing in dairy farms syndicated to investors.

Over the years it had diversified into sheep and beef farms, mussel farming and horticulture to now have more than $500 million in rural assets under its management.

“We rode the dairy boom through the mid 2000s into about 2014 and while we still love dairy it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to make an investment case for dairy.

NOT SO HOT: MyFarm chief executive Andrew Watters is still a passionate dairy farmer but says the sector has lost its investor attraction.

But still I would say dairy is taking a breather rather than falling out of love.

Andrew Watters MyFarm “That’s not to say it won’t bounce back within the next five years. We still consider the dairy proposition.”

Watters said the investment target was 10% on return and dairy was getting 5-6%.

“Take the capital gain out of that and it’s hard to make a case to

invest in new dairy farms.”

Horticulture productivity had improved with new planting and management systems and primarily in leasehold arrangements, particularly in the case of vineyards, there was way less variability and much more stability for a 7% or better return as high as 15%.

“Industries are moving beyond commodity production, producing to customer demand with control over supply and marketing.”

That contributed to horticulture’s increasing stability and while relatively small it is growing sustainably.

Manuka honey was another area where the returns are stacking up competitively with future potential

eyed in the growth of several other new opportunities including avocados and cherries.

Watters said anything to do with food production is worth getting exciting about.

“Where we think there is sustainable, competitive advantage and there’s good cash returns we will look at it.”

Meantime, the firm was still buying sheep and beef farms in the North Island hill country but arable tended not to be on the investment radar.

“For us arable is generally better suited to the owner-operator situation.”

“But all said we see plenty of opportunity for investment in rural NZ.”

While there are record high numbers of dairy farms on the market in Canterbury, the region is still showing resilience in dairy farm sales, Collier International rural agribusiness director Ruth Hodges said.

Despite the increased number of listings the well-improved, well-located, high-performing operations with good nutrient management are selling strongly.

“That’s at the top of the range for really well improved properties,” she said.

There are fewer buyers for larger-scale dairy operations where sales are more complex, especially in terms of due diligence.

“They are taking a lot longer to sell.”

And buyers are being vey circumspect when it comes to the lesser developed properties.

Sheep and beef properties are selling strongly and there have been some very strong sales in arable, which are more dependent on the localised, neighbour adjoining type sales rather than buyers coming into the region from Waikato, Southland, Northland or the West Coast – where sales are also slowing, Hodges said.

Meanwhile, the sale of a Canterbury dairy farm for more than $17m to Ramsay Dairy Farm, wholly owned by Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board, has been confirmed.

The sale includes a farm of 335 hectares and a neighbouring 72ha dairy support block at Hororata.

The land was sold by Harry and Gail Schat and Jennifer, Neal and Mervyn Todd. Schat was a former North Canterbury Federated Farmers president.

Ramsay Dairy Farm has plans to convert some of the dairy support land and increase the herd to about 400 cows.

Farm sales see land reverting to beef Alan Williams a.dubu@xtra.co.nz AN EARLY trend towards dairy farmland in parts of Northland and the fringes of Waikato reverting to beef and dairy support activities is continuing, Real Estate Institute rural spokesman Brian Peacocke says.

These areas were not ideally suited to dairying but were converted during the peak dairy price period just a few years ago.

The land was bought at lower values than core dairy land and is now changing hands at about the same value, though the trend is still very early, Peacocke said.

Overall, there has been a slight easing in dairy farm values with the institute’s Dairy Farm Index 5.4% lower over the 2017 year.

Because there was not much inquiry for second and third tier units, the full effect of the easing was not being seen at this stage.

The dairy median for the December quarter was $40,484ha, compared to $44,154ha in November and $46,397ha in December 2016.

Overall, the number of farm sales nationally for the year fell by just over 10% to 1565 sales.

Most of that was a 28.3% fall in the number of grazing units because there are more of these farms than other categories and grazing farms still make up the highest sales tally.

Arable farm sales were also down, by nearly 37% year-onyear and they more than offset a rise in dairy farm sales, up 45.5%, and finishing farm sales, up 19.4%.

For the three months to the end of December there were 105 fewer sales than for the same period in 2016, a 21% fall.

The median price was higher, $29,266ha up from $27,774ha,

and quite a bit higher than the November 2017 three-month period.

The institute’s All Farm Index rose 3.3% in the December period compared to November and was up 8.1% year-on-year.

The index adjusts for differences in farm size, location and type, which the median price measure does not do.

Peacocke described the rural market over the three-month period as inconsistent and volatile, affected by the two biggest industry influences, the weather and prices.

“Extraordinary cold, wet early spring pitched straight into extremely dry conditions, which pushed some regions close to declarations of drought preChristmas.”

Several regions experienced what seemed to be record numbers of farms on the market, raising concerns about

values and supply outstripping demand. Good properties continued to sell well but lesser categories struggled to attract interest or sale unless vendors were strongly motivated and met the market.

Finishing farm sales for the December three months rose from the November level to 97 from 82 but were down on the 134 sales to December 2016. Year-on-year the median price per hectare rose 10% to $32,000ha.

Peacocke reported a reasonable increase in turnover of finishing farms and some strong prices in Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty, light volumes on the east coast of the North Island; strong activity in Canterbury and solid trading in Otago and Southland, though there was some impact from dry conditions.

For dairying there was low

activity north of Auckland, reduced activity in Waikato after a solid November, steady activity in Bay of Plenty/Rotorua, good increases in Taranaki and Manawatu and lighter activity through Canterbury and Southland.

Waikato, Gisborne, Taranaki and Otago had solid grazing property sales activity but other regions had reduced turnover.

The median sales price for the December period was $11,937ha, marginally higher than November and nearly 6% up on a year earlier.

For horticulture, Peacocke reported an easing of activity in the stellar kiwifruit area of Bay of Plenty but a surge of viticulture interest in Marlborough.

The December median price was $242,988ha, down from $321,582ha in November, but well up on the $187,185ha figure for December 2016.

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ONE OF THE MANAWATU’S FINEST 1674 Kimbolton Road, Cheltenham, Manawatu

284ha plus 96ha lease See video on website nzr.nz/RX1279694

FINISHING FARM WITH SIZE OPTIONS 1738 & 1808C State Highway 1, Marton, Rangitikei

Just north of Feilding sits this most admired dairy property.

Peter Barnett AREINZ Advantages start with high quality, versatile soil types 027 482 6835 | 06 323 4434 predominantly Kiwitea Loam; highly productive dairying and cropping soils, with a 9 year lease of 96ha alongside, that is fully peter@nzr.nz integrated into the dairy platform. The immaculate 80 bail NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008 rotary sits right in the middle of the property flanked by quality calf rearing facilities. Well laid out and developed with an excellent water system. Four dwellings include the impressive main homestead on its own 10ha title which is an optional purchase with the farm.

Located 7km north of Marton, this attractive property currently conservatively grows cereal, grass supplement and finishes sheep and cattle. Approx. 122ha is deemed flat, the balance medium hill and sidlings, with attractive pockets of native bush and duck ponds. Bounding blocks of 139ha and 48ha go together well or could be purchased separately; the larger block contains the main stock facilities and an old character home (rented), the other a small woolshed - both blocks offer building sites with big outlooks up the Rangitikei valley. Not over capitalised, five titles provide options for the future.

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245 Penny Road, Rongotea, Manawatu Fastidiously developed over 28 years by our retiring vendors, the presentation here will impress. Quality improvements include a 30ASHB shed with ACRs, numerous sheds and a large roof over the feedpad. A great water system, impressive soil tests and extensive drainage complete the on-farm package.

Historically operated under a higher input 300 Friesian cow spring calving/winter-on regime, it is well set up from any system. Accommodation includes a very comfortable main home plus a tidy 4 bedroom cottage. Handily located to both Feilding and Palmerston with numerous schooling options.

106.9 hectares See video on website nzr.nz/RX1332461 Tender Closes 3pm Tue 27 Feb 2018, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | peter@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

270 and 855 Okahuhura Saddle Road, Matiere

188ha, 140ha or 48ha TENDER nzr.nz/RX1360193 Tender Closes 3pm, Mon 5 Mar 2018, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | peter@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

947.31 hectares

By Negotiation www.nzr.nz Ref: RX1275468

Immaculately presented in all respects, this 947.31ha hill Jamie Proude country breeding/finishing farm represents an opportunity to secure a farm that is set up to just walk in and start doing the 06 385 4466 | 027 448 5162 job. A good balance of contour consists of easy to undulating jamie@nzr,nz land suitable for cultivation along with the majority being mainly AREINZ NZR Central Limited | Licensed REAA 2008 clean medium to steeper hills. A flexible farming regime is adopted depending on seasonal climatic conditions or market trends altering the closing winter stocking rates between 7500su to 8000su on the effective 800ha. The farm is held in 8 titles and improvements include two quality dwellings.

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Mahoe Road, Waitomo

Putaki presents the opportunity to secure a large-scale Sheep and Beef operation on easy to steep hill country in an area that Jamie Proude AREINZ 06 385 4466 | 027 448 5162 is historically regarded for its consistent summer rainfall and jamie@nzr.nz favourable soils renowned for quality livestock production. A total of 1274 ha. Currently used as a sheep and cattle breeding NZR Central Limited | Licensed REAA 2008 station with lambs sold as forward stores or killed and weaners sold in the Autumn. Infrastructure includes a 1993 tidy 4bedroom home with massive views over the farm, 5-stand woolshed (1400NP) with covered yards, covered cattle yards x2 and x4 sets of satellite sheep yards.

OUTSTANDING SMALLER FARM

• Situated on Kakariki Road in the Hukanui District is this very well laid out and run 174ha dairy farm.

• Currently running a 300 cow milking herd of Holstein Friesians.

• The farm has produced up to 139,000kgs of milk solids on a consistent basis off the 114ha effective milking platform.

• Bore supplies high pressure water to all stock troughs and dairy.

• Top quality 32 aside herringbone dairy. Fully equipped with modern electronic Waikato plant with cup removers in-bail feeding and 480 cow circular yard.

• Great opportunity to secure one of the best farms in the Hukanui District.

• Asking $32,200/ha. Call Les to inspect.

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• This property consists of 67.5 hectares in three main titles and is situated on Hansens and Rangitikei Line, Newbury, Manawatu.

• Well farmed with soils that would grow anything.

• Centrally located 20 aside herringbone dairy, with adjacent feed pad and silage bunkers.

• A good family home set in established gardens.

• Very good well water supplied via a 50mm main line to stock troughs.

• The farm is running a dairy herd, is currently consented for 300 cows and supplies Open Country.

• With outstanding soils, great location this is an exceptional place to purchase your first farm.

• Asking $3,495,000 Call Les to inspect and discuss your options.

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Bull beef, dairy support / breeding finishing Tremendous opportunity presented with the availability of this very interesting dairy unit with the potential for a change of land use, in the Ngaroma district, approx 58 kms south east of Te Awamutu    

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829 Mangawhio Road, Ngaroma 300.79 hectares - size and scope currently running 620 dairy cows through 50 aside farm dairy free draining soil being a mix of ash and ash over pumice - high rainfall area contour includes easy rolling to medium and steeper sidlings very good stock access with roads & bridges, etc good water supply sourced from stream through property 2 dwellings: - 5 bedroom homestead with sleep-out; - 3 bedroom, low maintenance home with carport (approx 8 years old) ask about lease to buy option price by negotiation web ref R1212

Howard Ashmore 0274 388 556 Licensed Real Estate Agent - REAA2008

Open Day: Wed, 7 February 2018

11.00am to 1.00pm

Dave Peacocke 0274 732 382 phone

07 870 2112

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PUBLIC AUCTION 2PM, 28 FEBRUARY 2018, 195.72 HA FH FARMING AND INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY, 8KM TO TE ANAU

• The farm is very tidy and has good quality pastures and generally well maintained fences.

• The standard of buildings and facilities is adequate although there are no cattle yards.

• Predominantly utilised as a sheep fattening unit with a small number of fattening cattle. As a guide, 2427 lambs fattened at 17.81kg average and 691 ewes at 29.62kg average. The balance of lambs sold undrafted. Lambing 150.8%.

• Its location in Sinclair Road is very handy to all facilities and services and provides an option of closer subdivision subject to obtaining the necessary consents.

• Offers prior to the auction will be considered. Possession 30 March 2018 or earlier by mutual agreement.

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Buy the best - no regrets A superb sheep & beef finishing and / or dairy support property situated in a picturesque main road location on the northern edge of the Pio Pio golf course, 17 kms southwest of Te Kuiti 

1546 State Highway 3, Te Kuiti

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105.77 hectares

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excellent presentation

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flat to easy rolling contour; smaller areas of steeper sidlings

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predominant mix of ash and silt loam soils

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first class fencing, subdivision and reticulated water supply

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extensive plantings of mature specimen trees

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attractive native bush sheltering fresh water springs

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fertile flats with river boundary

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a fine 4 bedroom homestead with all-weather tennis court nestled in park-like surroundings

Deadline Private Treaty Thursday, 15 February 2018

Open Day: Wed, 7 February 2018 1.00pm to 3.00pm

An outstanding offering which presents a unique opportunity to progressive purchasers or owners of larger holdings of land inclined towards a more relaxing working environment web ref R1256

Brian Peacocke 021 373 113

First farm opportunity A great little dairy unit situated in an attractive valley environment, located in the Parawera district approx 21 kms south east of Te Awamutu 

735 Owairaka Valley Road, Parawera

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36.8846 hectares

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flat to gentle rolling contour

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mairoa ash and silt loam soils

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situated nicely between the road and a good flowing stream

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well subdivided and raced

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good water supply system

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extensive chicory - new grass cropping rotation

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farmed in conjunction with adjoining 61 ha lease block

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calving 255 - 260 cows; 3 year production average 82,510 kgs milksolids

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30 aside farm dairy with 20 sets of cups; variety of additional shedding

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comfortable 3 bedroom dwelling plus additional portable accommodation

Auction Thursday, 22 February 2018

Open Day: Thursday, 8 February 11.00am to 1.00pm

An excellent opportunity for a younger farmer to get started on the land ownership ladder web ref R1255 Licensed REAA 2008

Brian Peacocke 021 373 113 phone

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Prime Morrinsville location

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WEB ID MOR01751

BY NEGOTIATION MORRINSVILLE 184C and 252a Kuranui Road View By Appointment Located on the prestigious Kuranui Road, approximately 6km from Morrinsville and approximately 27km from Hamilton. Farmed by the same family for over 80 years on a low cost low input system.

• 117 ha, three houses, two titles • Front 78 ha flat, with rolling to medium hill at rear Peter Lissington • Subdivision possibility for houses and implement shed Mobile 027 430 8770 block peterl@pb.co.nz • Good quality water supply • Well set up 30 ASHB shed • All this for under $54,000 per hectare - the owners Aidan Cowley want action.

Mobile 027 486 2547

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WEB ID PR59517 MAKURI 934 Coonoor Road View By Appointment This 301.0402 ha farm is located in the highly regarded DEADLINE SALE closes Thursday 22nd February, 2018 at 2.00pm, (unless sold prior), 129 Main Street, PAHIATUA summer moist limestone country at Coonoor, 10km north east of Makuri.

Consisting of easy to medium hill and some steeper sidlings the property has a westerly aspect.

Phil Wilson Currently operated as a trading and fattening unit the Mobile 021 518 660 Office 06 376 5478 farm in 38 main paddocks has a very good fertiliser 4 Home 06 376 7238 history and excellent natural water from dams, creeks philw@pb.co.nz and streams.

1 Jared Brock There is a comfortable four bedroom plus office home Mobile 027 449 5496 with generous open plan living, 2 toilets and separate Office 06 376 4823 laundry along with a single garage and woodshed.

Home 06 376 6341

DEADLINE SALE

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Turn key farm

OPEN DAY WEB ID TUR60045

MATIERE 106 Waikaka Road This 305 ha farm in Matiere has just what you expect in a tidy well run King Country sheep and beef farm.

This farm has been in this family for over 100 years and they have worked hard to get it to its current state.

VIEW 8 Feb 2.00 - 4.00pm & 15 & 22 Feb 11.00 1.00pm

Great balance of contour with approximately 50 ha of flat land that has been used for growing maize grain, the balance is rolling to medium hills with some steeper hills at the rear of the farm.

This is a turn key operation for any one who is ready to make the most of the opportunity this farm presents.

AUCTION 2.30pm, Thu 8th Mar, 2018, (unless sold prior)

Buildings and infrastructure are immaculate, and it has an outstanding fertiliser history.

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AUCTION

Katie Walker

Mobile 027 757 7477 Office 07 895 7123 Home 07 895 7112 katiew@pb.co.nz

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Oringi Station 226 ha

WEB ID PR59577

DANNEVIRKE 19 Jackson Road Iconic Oringi Station, all flat with over 190 ha under irrigation makes this property unprecedented in the Tararua District.

Situated only 15km South of Dannevirke, this property is centrally located to the Hawkes Bay and Manawatu livestock markets. Irrigation from 4 centre pivots and a further 26 ha irrigated by k-line provide unparalleled growing conditions with up to 50 ha of contract maize grown as well as 650 to 700 steers fattened.

Oringi Station is subdivided into 50 main paddocks well serviced by a metal laneway and has a superior range of

support buildings.

VIEW By Appointment The homestead is a character 448m2 stucco home set in AUCTION 1.00pm, Thu 1st Mar, 2018, on site at 19 attractive mature grounds with a further 2 spacious Jackson Road, Dannevirke homes providing ample accommodation.

Oringi Station with its superb soil mix, large scale irrigation and cropping and stock finishing ability provides an opportunity unequalled within the lower North Island.

AUCTION Jared Brock

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John Arends

Mobile 027 444 7380 Office 06 376 4364

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Maru Farm 490 ha

WEB ID PR59766

PAHIATUA 498 Ridge Road North Situated just 6km west of Pahiatua, this iconic property is a 'turn-key' operation and is ready for the new owners to capitalise on its superior ability to both breed and finish livestock. Of the 420 ha effective area, over 220 ha is easy to rolling contour suitable for cultivation.

Combined with an excellent water system and a recently refurbished villa set in mature grounds, this property allows you to get on and farm. The farm has excellent access utilising Ridge Rd North that virtually bisects the property with the added benefit of centrally located infrastructure including woolshed, covered yards,

cattle-yards and dwelling adding to its ease of management and appeal.

Our vendors have purchased elsewhere and need this property sold.

Call John, Jared or Phil today.

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TENDER

VIEW By Appointment TENDER closes Wednesday 21st February, 2018 at 2.00pm, (unless sold prior), to be submitted to Property Brokers, 129 Main Street, PAHIATUA

John Arends

Mobile 027 444 7380 Office 06 376 4364

Jared Brock

Mobile 027 449 5496 Office 06 376 4823

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Phil Wilson

Mobile 021 518 660 Office 06 376 5478

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127 North Road Eketahuna

Ringwood Farm 115 ha

WEB ID PR59083 EKETAHUNA 127 North Road View By Appointment DEADLINE SALE closes Wednesday 21st February, 2018 at This 184 ha beef finishing property located 5km north of Eketahuna is in 2 blocks. The 52 ha home block is of 2.00pm, submit to 129 Main St, PAHIATUA a flat to easy rolling contour in 15 paddocks. A Phil Wilson comfortable three bedroom plus office brick and Mobile 021 518 660 aluminium home with double carport and single garage Office 06 376 5478 Home 06 376 7238 is well supported by a 4 bay shed (1 lock up) and 3 bay philw@pb.co.nz pole shed. The 132 ha woolshed block is just a short distance away to the end of Moss Road. This block in 24 Jared Brock Mobile 027 449 5496 paddocks is well fenced by conventional fencing with Office 06 376 4823 electric booster wires and is served by a 3 stand raised Home 06 376 6341 board woolshed, sheep yards and cattle yards. jared@pb.co.nz

DEADLINE SALE

WEB ID AR60053 ASHBURTON 293 Ollivers Road Seldom do we get the opportunity to market a quality smaller dairy unit with the ability to offer a further 57 ha pivot irrigated (currently being milked off) for lease to the successful purchaser. Special features: • 40 aside Herringbone shed with ProTrack • Meal feeding system • Waikato auto cup removers • Pivot & one hard hose & K- Line • Quality four bedroom Oamaru stone homestead Located in the favored Greenstreet area this dairy unit is a must to inspect.

DEADLINE SALE View By Appointment DEADLINE SALE closes Tuesday 20th February, 2018 at 4.00pm, (unless sold prior)

Chris Murdoch

Mobile 0274 342 545 Office 03 307 9191

Paul Cunneen

Mobile 0274 323 382 Office 03 307 9190

Rodger Letham

Mobile 0274 333 436 Office 03 307 9192

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Beautifully Presented Dry Stock Farm 1097 Waingaro Road 246ha of mainly easy contour in 13 titles. 10km from Ngaruawahia and 24km from The Base, Hamilton.

Presently farming bulls and is ideally suited for beef or dairy support. Improvements are of a high standard with two homes and a large area of support buildings with stables and operational woolshed.

Paddocks are serviced mainly by all weather races and there is trough water to all paddocks bar one. pggwre.co.nz/PUK27268

Ngaruawahia TENDER Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold By Private Treaty) Closes 4.00pm, Thursday 1 March VIEW 1.00-2.00pm, Friday 9 & 16 February

South Auckland Dairy Farm Aka Aka is a well known dairy area nestled between the townships of Waiuku and Pukekohe. After 49 years of ownership, the family has now decided to move into retirement. This 100ha subject to survey, is 100% flat with two homes, a 28 aside herringbone dairy shed, plus auxiliary buildings.

The farm is marketed as sold by tender date pending.

Plus GST (if any)

Adrian van Mil B 09 237 2041 M 027 473 3632

Richard Wright B 09 237 2040 M 027 454 6000

avanmil@pggwrightson.co.nz

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2261 State Highway 5

PRICE BY NEGOTIATION

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richardwright@pggwrightson.co.nz

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Aka Aka

AUCTION

Mamaku

• 432ha milking 630 cows. 260ha dairy platform • Approx 100ha grazed by dairy drystock • Three homes - 50 aside H.B dairy, centrally located • Production 170,000 solids. Production increases are anticipated • 32ha of bush. Picturesque lake and river on farm • Move up to the next level in a reliable summer safe region • Size! Scope! Location!

TENDER

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John Sisley M 027 475 9808

(Unless Sold By Private Treaty), Closes 4pm, Wed 28 Feb, PGGWRE, 11 Vialou St, Hamilton VIEW 11am-1pm, Wed, 7 Feb

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PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008

Dress Circle Location 200 Aspin Road • 113 hectares in two titles on the outskirts of Cambridge • Excellent, modern four bedroom home • Mainly flat contour - two hectares of covenanted bush • 22 aside H.B dairy with good shedding If its quality you are after then look no further!

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Te Miro AUCTION (Unless Sold Prior) 11am, Wednesday, 21 February PGGWRE, 87 Duke St, Cambridge VIEW 11-12pm, Wed 7 Feb

John Sisley M 027 475 9808

jsisley@pggwrightson.co.nz

Peter Wylie M 027 473 5855

pwylie@pggwrightson.co.nz

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Armadale Orchard • Comprising 4.73 canopy hectares G3 Kiwifruit • New AG beam structures • Grafted 2013 and 2015 • Recently modernised four bedroom home • Large implement shed and smoko room • Approximately two hectares of grazing • Phone or email for a full Information Memorandum rlord@pggwrightson.co.nz 3

TENDER (Unless Sold By Private Treaty) Closes 4.00pm Thursday 8 February 7 Jocelyn Street, Te Puke

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pggwre.co.nz/TEP27157

Ayrburn Farm 252.1824 hectares, largely irrigated. 200 Amuri Irrigation shares provide 120l/sec and a further 53l/sec from the Lowry Peaks Stream supplying three pivots irrigating approximately 110ha and a further 100ha irrigated by either rotorainer, k-line or long line lateral sprinklers. Farm infrastructure is outstanding with a large number of quality buildings plus sheep and cattle yards. To complete the picture, the property has two very good dwellings. Multiple farming options available. pggwre.co.nz/CHR27328

Richard Lord M 027 443 8764 rlord@pggwrightson.co.nz

Rotherham DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 2.00pm, Friday 16 February

Peter Crean B 03 341 4315 M 027 434 4002

pcrean@pggwrightson.co.nz

PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008

Modern Burnham Dairy Farm • 201.032 hectares in nine titles located just 9km from Rolleston • Five-year-old 48 aside herringbone shed with meal feeders and a Milkhub automatic weighing and drafting system • Five-year-old superior four-bedroom manager's home plus three other three-bedroom houses • Bore irrigation ranging from 40-89 metres depth • Producing approximately 340,000kg MS from 760 cows pggwre.co.nz/CHR27376

Burnham DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 4.00pm, Thursday 1 March 411 Blenheim Rd, Christchurch

Sam Davidson B 03 341 4301 M 027 488 8269

sdavidson@pggwrightson.co.nz

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Mawheraiti

• 1,453 hectares (more or less) 62km from Greymouth • Large deer breeding unit, beef breeding herd, lamb finishing and dairy grazing • Predominantly deer fenced with a good lane system • Two sets of deer shed and yards, woolshed, implement sheds, haysheds and cattle yards • Four-bedroom managers home, three-bedroom cottage and shearers quarters • Open Days, Wednesday, 7 & 14 February. Assemble main yard area - pre registration essential pggwre.co.nz/GRE27327

Perfection Over the Harbour Lifestyle & Acreage See inside for details on this property.

TENDER Plus GST (if any) Closes 4.00pm, Friday, 9 March 411 Blenheim Road, Christchurch

Dave Becker B 03 768 1222 M 027 222 5184

dave.becker@pggwrightson.co.nz

Peter Crean B 03 341 4315 M 027 434 4002

pcrean@pggwrightson.co.nz

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Contact your local PGG Wrightson Real Estate sales consultant now to discuss your listing options, or go to pggwre.co.nz/lifestyle-collection.

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Mt. Hamilton Station Chewings Road, Mossburn

pggwre.co.nz/TAN27273

For sale by Tender, closing 4.00pm, 2 March 2018, the offering will consist of: Option A – Mt. Hamilton Station containing 2,826.3630 hectares (more or less) Option B – Being either one or any combination of the following options: Option B1 “Deer Block I”

Option B2 “Deer Block II”

• 1,140 hectares (more or less) situated at 1901 Chewings Road, Mossburn • Capital improvements include; one house, deer shed, two three bay sheds and cattle yards

• 882.2210 hectares (more or less) situated at 4262 Te Anau Mossburn Highway, Mossburn • Capital improvements include; one house, three sheds and decommissioned shearing shed

Nick Robertson 027 431 6533 Andrew Patterson 027 434 7636

Peter Lewis 027 202 2405 Andrew Patterson 027 434 7636

Option B3 “Sheep and Beef Block” • 804.1420 hectares (more or less) situated at 985 Chewings Road, Mossburn • Capital improvements include; two houses, five stand woolshed/covered yards, shearers quarters, two sheds and cattle yards

Tony Paterson 027 594 8341 Andrew Patterson 027 434 7636

PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008

Kuriwao Breeding Finishing Property • 1837.353 hectares freehold with approximately one third strong paddock country to two thirds oversown tussock country, also capable of finishing • Well presented improvements of high standard including homestead and second home. Full range of substantial farm buildings and yards • Excellent standard of subdivision, four gravity fed water schemes and an exceptionally strong fertiliser history going back decades • Wintered 2017: 10,830 sheep (including 8,290 ewes), 775 cattle (including 404 cows) pggwre.co.nz/BAL26510

South Otago DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 12.00pm, Friday 23 Feb

Stewart Rutter B 03 418 1381 M 027 433 7666

jrutter@pggwrightson.co.nz

Jason Rutter B 03 418 1382 M 027 243 1971

jrutter@pggwrightson.co.nz

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Employment

THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS WEEKLY – February 5, 2018

CONTRACT MILKER 900 Cows – Tihoi

50:50 SHAREMILKER – TAUWHARE 260 Cows

Our clients require a Contract Milker to farm their attractive, well-resourced farm on the western side of Lake Taupo. The herd is milked through a 50 ASHB with AutopulsC and Protrack, targeting production above 370,000 kgMS from 370ha dairy unit supported by an adjoining 290ha run-off.

We are seeking a 50:50 Sharemilker for our client’s tidy and well set-up 133ha (115ha effective) dairy farm where 260 cows are milked through a 30 ASHB with ACRs. The property is predominantly rolling with some steep and flat contour and is located just 18km from Cambridge, Hamilton and Morrinsville. The farm is targeting 95,000kgMS for next season.

FARM MANAGER Farm Manager required for 550 hectare beef and sheep property approximately 100km north of Auckland on the Kaipara Harbour.

train others • Ability to rectify water issues • Weed control and eradication skills 3 bedroom home available. Primary school in close proximity with bus pick up at the gate, secondary school bus pick up 4km down road.

Easy farm in good country.

Salary to be discussed at interview.

To apply email: admin@oceanique. co.nz or phone Rodney 027 422 3067

SHEPHERD GENERAL Sisam & Sons Limited Due to internal promotion, Sisam & Sons Limited are recruiting for the position of a shepherd on a 1100ha block, situated 24km south of Whakatane, Bay of Plenty.

SHEPHERD Parengarenga Station is a 5900-hectare station situated in the Far North specialising in the farming of high quality beef and lamb. The Incorporation also has commercial interests in Forestry and development plans in Apiculture, Tourism, Aquaculture and Horticulture.

Ideally, they are looking for an Assistant Manager for a fulltime role with around 25-30 hours per week available to the partner to further assist.

The Station has initiated a significant development that will grow the effective farming area and expand stock numbers well beyond the current level of 40,000 stock units.

The farm itself is, flat with a 50-bail rotary and is extremely well resourced. The owners pride themselves on it being in the top 10% of Southland farms in terms of cost per KG/MS achieved through maximum pasture quality and utilisation.

BROUGHT TO YOU BY LANDCORP

The role requires that the person appointed have 4-6 dogs, be experienced in the use of a quad bike or side-by-side and be able to work unsupervised.

BUSINESS MANAGER (DAIRY OPERATIONS) BULLER DAIRY UNITS

Are you a successful Dairy Leader looking for a new challenge?

Health & Safety is a major focus of our farming operation and this person will be up to date with good practice and the requirements of a robust health and safety system.

This is a rare opportunity to join Pāmu Farms of New Zealand as a Farm Business Manager of Dairy Operations, responsible for five dairy farms and one dairy support unit in our West Coast Buller complex that are responsible for milking upwards of 4800 cows across 3000ha.

The successful candidate for this role will have knowledge and understanding of New Zealand dairy farming systems, and highly developed leadership and people management skills.

Endorsements in training in the use of a quad bike, general farm equipment and first aid are a distinct advantage.

Although not central to this role, an understanding of pasture management and water reticulation would be an advantage.

If you are this special person we would welcome your application to: The General Manager Parengarenga Incorporation 6636 Far North Rd RD 4, Kaitaia 0484 Email: gm@parengarenga.co.nz A Position Description is available upon request.

Applications close 5 pm, Friday 9th February 2018.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop management skills.

Applications close Friday 23rd February

Ideally this person will have good stock knowledge and knowledge of rotational grazing, general animal well-being and be a team player.

We are offering a competitive salary, relocation expenses (where applicable) and accommodation.

This position offers a wide experience of intensive and extensive farming systems comprising of bulls, steers, dairy heifers, carry over cows and breeding ewes.

Enquiries phone: Matt Sisam 07 312 9060 (evenings)

The person most suitable for this role will have experience in beef and lamb farming and will be acclimatised to either working in Northland or a coastal farming operation in New Zealand.

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The successful applicant must have excellent stockmanship skills and run a minimum of 3 dogs. A positive attitude, sound judgement, initiative and dependability together with good communication skills and the ability to be a team player being important attributes.

Please attach CV and written application to: Matt Sisam, matt@sisamson.co.nz or 31 Sisam Valley Road, RD1, Whakatane

A Fixed Term Position for 12 months as a Shepherd has become available for an immediate start.

They are looking for a couple who are making farming their career are very particular and fastidious in their work, can display sound understanding and experience in pasture and animal management and are motivated to be among the best in the industry. You may be either in a similar level position now or are ready and experienced enough to step up into this role.

Ideally with a tertiary qualification in Agriculture or minimum of Level 4 ITO.

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Fixed Term Position:

Our long-term clients, Simon and Liz Harnett are looking for a farming couple to help them run their 450 cow 150ha farming operation near Winton in Southland.

Phone Debbie Brown 0800 85 25 80 or email classifieds@nzx.com

maintenance • Fencing skills

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FARMING COUPLE – WINTON Assistant Manager – Full time Farm Assistant – Part time

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• Ability to perform all aspects of farm

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A well maintained four-bedroom villa with a garage, sleepout and outside laundry facilities is available for the Sharemilker’s use. The farm is fully serviced with a primary school bus caught under a kilometre away and the secondary school bus is caught 5km from the farm gate. The farm is zoned for Hillcrest High School, Hamilton.

Quality accommodation is provided on the farm for the Sharemilker and their staff. An excellent primary school (110+ pupils) is located within 8km of the farm. The primary school bus passes the farm gate and a secondary school bus to Taupo is located nearby.

For the right couple the owners offer mentoring and training to achieve your goals, commitment to providing a quality working environment and facilities, remuneration equal to your level of skill and effectiveness along with quality four-bedroom accommodation.

Position requires:

We are seeking those who really enjoy farming and have a proven ability in operating a low input farm system, with excellent pasture management and feed budgeting skills; communication and verbal reporting skills. The farm owners offer good support to those who are keen to take that next step in their dairying career.

• Offer proven ability in pasture management, feed budgeting and stockmanship • Have good communication and interpersonal skills • Have the organisational ability to lead a team of four • Are motivated, with a positive attitude to learn, using new technology.

To apply for this position please send CV and cover letter to jobs@fegan.co.nz or phone 07 823 0117

140 bulls.

What you will bring: • Proven practical, commercial, and leadership experience in Dairy Farming operations • Extensive experience in managing budgets and strong commercial acumen • First class attitude to Health and Safety, Animal Welfare, Environmental management and farm presentation • Excellent knowledge and implementation of grazing and pasture management, feed budgeting and profit maximisation To find out more or to apply, please go to www.landcorp.co.nz/careers Applications close 5pm, Friday 23 February 2018.

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Farm running 3300 ewes, fat lambs, cows and

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FARM MANAGER – HANGATIKI Be part of the bigger picture • 420 cows • Well supported farm • Handy to Otorohanga Our client owns and operates a significant family farming business, encompassing two separate dairy farms, a support run-off block, and two drystock properties. The farm owner now needs to step back from the management of one of the dairy farms so that he can focus more on the ‘big picture’.

Supported by two additional full-time staff, you will have the resources and support you need to make it all work. The milking platform is 130ha, made up of a good mix of flat to rolling contour, with some steeper paddocks. Infrastructure includes a 30-aside herringbone shed, a 300-cow feed pad, a five-bay implement shed and a large calf-rearing shed. A tidy, warm two-bedroom cottage is on offer.

HEADING PUPS, well bred, 9 weeks old. Vet checked and parvo. $300 each. Phone 06 765 7269 Taranaki.

HUNTAWAY BITCH b&t, 6 years, handy all rounder, easy to work, $1500.

HEADING bitch, 8 years, gentle nature, kind on stock, easy to work, $750.

Phone 021 150 7638.

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

ANIMAL SUPPLEMENTS

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Located just 10km from the Waitomo Caves, an hour from the West Coast, and surrounded by great hunting destinations – with a generous roster, this could be just the role for you!

www.no8hr.co.nz | ph: 07-870-4901

APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, GARLIC & HONEY. 200L - $450 or 1000L - $2000 excl. with FREE DELIVERY from Black Type Minerals Ltd www.blacktypeminerals. co.nz

CONTRACTORS GORSE SPRAYING SCRUB CUTTING. 30 years experience.

Blowers, gun and hose.

No job too big. Camp out teams.

Travel anywhere if job big enough. Phone Dave 06 375 8032.

Aspiring Farm Manager Situated 25 minutes from Wanganui We are excited to bring to the market this new role for an aspiring Farm Manager located in an idyllic coastal community 25 minutes from Wanganui. Continued growth in the off-farm business model of procuring and marketing high quality lamb has increased the demand on the Owner’s time, driving the decision to lift the current job specification to a management level.

DOGS FOR SALE 12-MONTH-OLD Heading, unbroken tri-colour bitch. $350. Phone 06 346 6089.

BRIAN BURKE, NZ Champ 1984 and 5 times NZ Champ finalist, available to train your working dog.

In three weeks he will transform your heading dog into a productive asset for the farm. Contact Brian 06 343 9561 for further details and pricing (heading dogs only).

This stunning inter-generational property is a credit to the family’s vision and their continuous improvement philosophy.

The property boasts a mixed enterprise model of sheep, beef, forestry and maize on 1005ha of flat sand country.

This systemised, intensive operation requires a Manager to demonstrate their skills across the sheep and beef operation of 3200 terminal sired ewes and 350 cows.

There is an emphasis on quality covering all aspects of this farming operation including stockmanship, fencing and asset management. The appointee will have a high level of personal pride and presentation and will demonstrate strong relationship skills as in time a Shepherd/General will be hired to complement the operations. This is a very unique opportunity within a multi- dimensional platform where you can showcase your initiative, operational excellence, build a team and gain exposure to a grass-to-plate marketing model.

YOUNG HEADING and Huntaways. Top working bloodlines. View our website www.ringwaykennels.co.nz Join us on Facebook: Working dogs New Zealand.

Phone 027 248 7704.

DOGS WANTED 12 MONTHS TO 5½-yearold Heading dogs and Huntaways wanted. Phone 022 698 8195.

NORTH ISLAND BUYING trip 10/2/18. Paying $100 more than anyone! 07 315 5553. Mike Hughes

YOUR FARM MAPPED showing paddock sizes.

Priced from $600 for 100ha. Phone 0800 433 855. farmmapping.co.nz

FERTILISER

DE HORNER

FREIGHT FREE SAVE ON YOUR INK and TONER print cartridges.

Special pricing for our compatible value packs when you purchase all four cartridges. FREIGHT FREE. Visit us at: www. nzconsumables.co.nz or call us 0800 800 857. NZ based and 100% kiwi owned with 30 years industry experience.

PROPERTY WANTED

RAMS FOR SALE

HOUSE FOR REMOVAL wanted.

North Island.

Phone 021 0274 5654.

POLL DORSET RAMS, brucellosis accredited. SIL recorded. Muscle scanned.

All sires. Footrot and eczema tested. Phone 09 2922 504 or 021 073 1620.

FOR ONLY $2.10 + gst per word you can book a word only ad in Farmers Weekly Classifieds. Phone Debbie 0800 85 25 80.

RAMS FOR SALE WILTSHIRE & SHIRE® rams for sale. Hardy, low input, easy care meat sheep. No dagging. No shearing. No dip, drench or vaccine since 1989.

Deliver all over NZ. www.organic-rams.co.nz Email: tim@organicrams.co.nz Phone 03 225 5283.

TRACTOR PARTS JOHN DEERE 6410, 6600, 6610, 6800, 6900, dismantling Andquiparts.

Phone 027 524 3356.

FOR SALE

GOATS WANTED

FERAL GOATS WANTED. All head counted, payment on pick-up, pick-up within 24hours. Prices based on works schedule.

Experienced musterers available.

Phone Bill and Vicky Le Feuvre 07 893 8916.

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.

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SELLING

SOMETHING? Have something to sell?

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CATTLE GRAZING available. Hawke’s Bay area. Phone 027 309 3529.

GRAZING AVAILABLE for Autumn calving cows.

Huntly area. Phone 027 417 6917.

Phone Debbie Brown 0800 85 25 80 or email classifieds@nzx.com

DOLOMITE, NZ’s finest Magnesium fertiliser.

Bio-Gro certified, bulk or bagged. 0800 436 566.

FOR ONLY $2.10 + gst per word you can book a word only ad in The NZ Farmers Weekly Classifieds section.

Phone Debbie Brown on 0800 85 25 80 to book in or email classifieds@nzx.com

STOP BIRDS NOW!

Phone: +64 6 357 2454 HOOF TRIMMER

EARMARKERS

Combi Clamp Sheep Handler

The most versatile Sheep Handler on the market • No power • No air • No breakdowns • Hands free operation • Good flow • Complete control • Portable • Weigh, dag, draft, feet, vaccinate – all in one pass!

The Combi Clamp …

ZON BIRDSCARER

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DOG/PET FOOD. Lamb/ Beef and chicken products.

All natural - raw - no preservatives or additives.

NOSLOC PRODUCTS. Ex-freezer Te Kuiti. For information and prices www.nosloc.com or phone 07 878 6868.

GRAZING AVAILABLE

FARM MAPPING

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

Known for good sheep flow, has been tested and proven to be the fastest and most popular Sheep Handler sold in Australia, replacing many Automated Sheep Handler units on properties throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Cattle Handling Equipment

Standard Crush, Vet Crush, Weight Crate, Auto Head Yoke, Sliding Gates • Heavy Duty • Hot dipped galvanized • Efficient • One-man operation • Sure catch – never miss • Self-catching with auto reset • No weight limit • Easily adjustable width • Built to last • Full range of options available

T H IN K PRE BU IL T

The position comes with a quaint three bedroom house with a full complement of enclosed farm yard sheds and gardens.

Great schooling is nearby and the ocean is at your doorstep.

NEW HOMES

SOLID – PRACTICAL WELL INSULATED – AFFORDABLE

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Our homes are built using the same materials & quality as an onsite build.

Easily transported to almost anywhere in the North Island. Plans range from one bedroom to four bedroom First Home – Farm House Investment – Beach Bach

Call or email us for your free copy of our plans Email: info@ezylinehomes.co.nz Phone: 07 572 0230 Web: www.ezylinehomes.co.nz

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Your career will be enhanced by this opportunity, apply now and enjoy the ride!

Applications close 5pm Monday 19th February 2018

SMITHFIELD PUPS, both parents genuine handy dogs. Wormed, had first vaccination/vet check. 9 weeks old. Phone 07 872 3844 or 09 235 0851.

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Success will be achieved by an aligned passion for the production of quality, forward planning and the ability to communicate proactively along with attention to detail.

The Manager needs to have a genuine want to, rather than have to, mentality towards reporting and be prepared to communicate openly with the Owners who are often offshore on promotional duties.

For more information, or to fill out an application, please visit www.ruraldirections.co.nz or phone the Rural Directions team in confidence on 0800 475 465 (Reference #3204).

NORTH ISLANDERS delivering Huntaways, Heading, Handys 10/2/18.

To South Island 20/2/18.

Guaranteed. Trial. View online or on farm. 07 315 5553. Mike Hughes.

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Applications close 13 February 2018.

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

ANIMAL HEALTH

To be suitable for this role, you will need top notch overall farming skills, excellent communication skills, the ability to successfully lead a team, and the drive to achieve results.

To find out more and to apply, go to www.no8hr.co.nz (Ref #8HR965).

DOGS FOR SALE

CRAIGCO SHEEP JETTERS. Sensor Jet. Deal to fly and Lice now. Guaranteed performance.

Unbeatable pricing.

Phone 06 835 6863. www.craigcojetters.com

This means that we now have an excellent opportunity for a competent Farm Manager looking for a role in this progressive, successful farming business. This is a well performing farm, with a philosophy of fully-feeding cows 365 days a year and production consistently sitting above 420 kgMS/per cow.

FOR SALE

ANIMAL HANDLING

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0800 227 228

www.combiclamp.co.nz

Southern Fie Days – Go ld Feb 14-16 re 273 Kelly th Lane

Videos on website – On-farm demonstrations available SI Stuart 027 435 3062

livestock@nzx.com – 0800 85 25 80

THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS WEEKLY – February 5, 2018

SALE TALK

At a rural playcentre, a little girl and a little boy were were enjoying being outside and were playing in the sandpit.

The girl, Amie, thought for a moment and asked the boy, “Hey, Stevie, wanna play house now?”

He stopped what he was doing and said, “Sure! I like playing house. What do you want me to do?”

The girl put on a serious expression and replied, “I want you to communicate.”

He said to her, “That word is far too big. I have no idea what it means.”

The little girl smirked and said, “Perfect. You can be the husband.”

GENUINE BREEDING EWES

15MTH HEIFERS 300-380kgs 300-400kgs 15 MTH BULLS 330-500kgs

COWS & CALVES FRIESIAN BULL CALVES 120-180kgs

SILVERDALE SOUTHDOWN STUD

www.dyerlivestock.co.nz

Ross Dyer 0274 333 381

AN OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE CAPITAL LINE High Producing Autumn Calving Holstein Friesians • 58 years of breeding using top bulls from World Wide Sires and Semex • Averaged 635 MS/kg last season • Young cows • All vetted-in-calf by A.I. to top WWS genomic bulls • DTC from 6/3/18 for 6 weeks Price on application.

Contact Hayden McCarthy, NZ Farmers Livestock Ltd

2-Tooth Rams For Sale

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

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0277 574 727 or 03 348 2360

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15 MTH STEERS

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Contact Janet or Diane Gray Phone 06 324 8845 or 021 936 377

Export Contract Contract Export

Herds & Heifers

Multiple lines available with options to suit.

North Island Luke McBride 027 304 0533 North Island Wayne Doran 027304 493 0533 8957 Luke McBride 027 Wayne Doran 027 493 8957 South Island Richard Harley 021 765 430 South Island Greg Collins 027 Richard Harley 021481 7659772 430 Greg Collins 027 481 9772

Located central North Island.

Grazing options available.

DTC 28th July also 2 lines DTC 2nd August.

Vetted in-calf to Jersey Bulls (9 weeks).

BW84 PW78 (avg all lines) 100% ancestry.

Friesian Heifers $1250 Gross(F12+) 2016 Born $1200

Paul Kane 027 286 9279 (North Waikato/ Northland) National Dairy & Live Export Coordinator Philip Webb: 027 801 8057 Central & Southern NI Dairy Coordinator

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2% Rebate Available for other companies.

www.carrfieldslivestock.co.nz

Fully performance recorded – EBVs on all rams

150 Friesian, Xbd & Jersey Autumn calving young cows

Paul Kane 027 286 9279 (North Waikato/ Northland) National Dairy & Live Export Coordinator Central & Southern NI 259 Friesians BW81 PW120 RA97% DTC 1/7 July calving content of young herd, 470ms $1900 Autumn C/Os 96 Frsn/FrsnX BW109 PW138 DTC 20/3 Good strong type $1700 Wanted! Empty sound In-milk 2-5yr Frsn/FrsnX fully recorded cows.

Philip Webb: 027 801 8057 Central & Southern NI Dairy Coordinator

BW 97/44 (up to 164) PW 151/56 (up to 433) RA 94% Approximately 95 Xbds, 25 Frs & 30 Jsy cows - DTC 10/3/18 to 6 weeks LIC Xbd and MG Bull, removed 15/8/17.

All cows scanned to date.

Our vendor purchased these cows as elite young MT’s at the High BW Empty cow sales. They have been diligently milked right through the winter and progressively dried off. All cows have been blanket dry cow treated. 82% are 3-5 years.

An opportunity to purchase outstanding autumn calving cows.

Visit Mylivestock.co.nz NOR54372 for further details Or call Ollie Carruthers 0274 515 312

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72 Poll Merino Rams

On A/c D J Van Bysterveldt F/T

Northland OAD Herds 250 Xbreds BW99 PW117 RA91% DTC 17/7 Established OAD herd 330ms (3yr avg) $2000 260 Frsn/FrsnX BW61 PW69 RA90% DTC 20/7 OAD herd long steep walks, will shift well $1750

NINE MILE Poll Merino Ram Sale Combining tradition and science to re-imagine the Merino

Tuesday 20th February – 12 noon Morrinsville Dairy Complex

Wednesday 14th February

Inspection 11am – Auction 1pm – All Welcome Nine Mile Station, SH 8, Tarras Contacts for more information: Gordon & Spin Lucas 03 445 2285 Jayne Rive 027 566 8068 • Justin Willson 03 445 2631

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Visit stockx.co.nz or call 0508 StockX (786 259) today for more information.

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In-Calf Friesian Heifers

Friesian Heifers (F12+)

AUTUMN CALVING COWS

North Waikato 250 Frsn/Xbred/Jrsy BW64 PW98 RA100% DTC 13/7 Nom CRV sires, can split Frsn 150 & xbred/Jrsy 100 $1850 90 I/C Hfrs Frsn/Xbred/Jrsy BW87 PW91 RA100% DTC 15/7 CRV G3, 70% Frsn $1600 Autumn Heifers 165 xbred I/C BW76 PW80 DTC 14/3, I/C to Jrsy $1700

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Open Day – Knight Road, Ongarue Thursday 8 February 11am – 2pm

Tuesday 13th February

Friday 23rd February Tuakau Saleyards Start 12.30pm

Come and view the sheep that will be sold at Te Kuiti on 22 February.

Grant and Sandy have been breeding Wiltshires since 2004 and have farmed them commercially on Ongarue hill country.

They have been bred predominantly for their full shedding ability, growth rates and performance.

Lunch provided – Signposted 20km north of Taumarunui Further enquiries: Grant and Sandy – 07 894 6136 Marty Cashin (PGW) – 0274 976 414

FORDELL CATTLE FAIR Tues 13th Feb 12pm 1500 1 1/2 yr Steers 250 1 1/2 yr Hfrs Large lines of traditionally bred hill country cattle Annual Lines: Roto Partnership Aranui Station Matawhitia Station The Shades Inzevar Mt Zion I & C Frecklington Marahau Farm A & F Horrocks Enquiries: Harvey Falloon – 027 4429 955

Expected yarding 1500 Special Entry A/C Morunga Station - Matawai 600 2 1/2yr Angus, Ang/Hfd & Exotic x Steers Well Bred Forward Condition Steers Farmed at High Altitude. Top Shifting Cattle.

Tony Blackwood – 0272 431 858

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1200 300 200 450 100 150

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15 month Beef Heifers Comprising: Ang & Ang/Hfd Ang (Landcorp Bred) Char x, Sim x, Dev x Stabiliser Hfd/Frsnx

Thursday, 15th February at 11am PGG Wrightson will offer an opening tally of approx 915 cattle including: 765 R2yr Steers 60 R2yr Bulls 90 R2yr Heifers

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PW 80

$1,950+GST

260 M/A Frsn, Jsy, X/Bred Cows BW 64

PW 72

$1,700+GST

300 M/A Friesian, X/Bred Cows BW 65

PW 66

$2,000+GST

Quality Frsn/Frsn X Herd producing well on all grass.

Craig Murray – 0273 220 063

One Tough Herd. Strong Frsn X Cows milked on Hills.

Kim Harrison – 0275 010 013

Calving 15th July, Young Herd, Tidy Udders. Sole Agency.

Peter Forrest – 0275 986 153

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Agonline ref: 063131

Agonline ref: 063145

78 Friesian InCalf Heifers BW 103

PW 97

$1,800+GST

Friesian, Capital Stock, DNA’D & Well Grown Rising 2 Year LIC Bred Line of Heifers.

Peter Forrest – 0275 986 153 Agonline ref: 063142

645 Frsn/ Frsnx Cows BW 73

PW 88

$1,780+GST

240 Jsy Cows BW 93

PW 78

210 Frsn/ Frsnx/ Jsyx Cows $1,775+GST

BW 67

PW 89

$1,850+GST

200 Frsn/ Frsnx Cows BW 69

PW 81

$1,750+GST

RA94%. Calving 20th July, Will Computer Split.

Richard Todd – 0274 942 544

RA93%. Calving 20th July, Strong Jsy Cows.

Kent Stove – 0276 645 143

RA97%. Calving 10th July, Ambreed Cows.

Dean Evans – 0272 431 092

RA92%. Calving 19th July, One Owner 25yrs, Low Input.

Shaan Featherstone – 0276 661 198

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Agonline ref: 063020

Agonline ref: 062669

Agonline ref: 062674

150 Frsn Cows BW 84

PW 100

225 Jsy Cows $1,850+GST

BW 99

PW 84

160 XBred Cows $1,925+GST

RA96%. Calving 10th July, 140 Cows 4yrs or Younger.

Rhys Mellow – 0272 240 999

Calving 20th July. OAD Milking all Season.

Peter Schnuriger – 0272 431 836

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BW 73

PW 88

650 XBred Cows $1,780+GST

RA94%. Calving 20th July. Sole Agent.

Richard Todd – 0274 942 544 Agonline ref: 063255

$1,180+GST

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Pick 650 out of 1100 Cows. AB Bred, Young Herd.

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NORTH ISLAND AUTUMN CALVERS 450 Frsn Cows BW 13

PW 32

175 Frsn/ Frsnx Cows $1,975+GST

RA93%. Calving 10th March, Genuine Aut Herd, Outstanding Holstein Cows, Will computer Split.

Andrew Reyland – 0272 237 092

BW 92

PW 121

$1,750+GST

68 Frsn/ Frsnx Cows BW 67

PW 90

$1,600+GST

32 Frsn Aut Calving Heifers $1,450+GST

RA83%. Calving 1st March, Carryover Cows.

Chris Ryan – 0272 431 078

RA92%. Calving 10th March, Carryover Cows, One Vendor Code.

Chris Leuthart – 0274 936 594

Calving 12th February, Unrecorded, Well Grown.

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Grain & Feed

MILK PRICE FORECAST ($/KGMS) 2017-18

Last week

Prior week

Last year

Canterbury (NZ$/t)

6.40

6.20

AS OF07/12/2017

AS OF 18/01/2018

MILK PRICE COMPARISON

358

327

NI mutton (20kg)

4.60

4.50

3.10

379

286

SI lamb (17kg)

6.75

6.75

5.20

Feed Barley

369

374

281

SI mutton (20kg)

4.50

4.45

3.10

244

Export markets (NZ$/kg) 9.28

9.12

7.74

6.5

Maize Grain

441

441

370

6.0

PKE

271

271

246

What are the AgriHQ Milk Prices?

The AgriHQ Seasonal milk price is calculated using GDT results and NZX Dairy Futures to give a full season price. The AgriHQ Spot milk price is an indicative price based solely on the prices from the most recent GDT event. To try this using your own figures go to www.agrihq.co.nz/toolbox

WMP GDT PRICES AND NZX FUTURES

284

UK CKT lamb leg

7.0

* Domestic grain prices are grower bids delivered to the nearest store or mill. PKE and fertiliser prices are ex-store. Australian prices are landed in Auckland.

6.5 6.0

INTERNATIONAL

5.5 Last week

Prior week

Last year

5.0

CBOT futures (NZ$/t)

4.5

Wheat - Nearest

217

214

215

Corn - Nearest

191

189

197

APW Wheat

300

6.5

368

271

600 6.0

328

327

253

359

358

235

396

ASW Wheat

371

3000

Feed Wheat

2500

Feed Barley

2000 Mar 17 Jun 17 Sep 17 C2 Fonterra WMP

PKE (US$/t)

NZX DAIRY FUTURES (US$/T)

South Island 1 7kg lamb

7.5 7.0

3500

Dec 17 Mar 18 Jun 18 NZX WMP Futures

North Island 17kg lamb

7.5

Ex-Malaysia

393

118

118

NZ venison 60kg stag

$/kg

US$/t

285

Australia (NZ$/t)

4000

Nearby contract

5.15

374

7.0

Feb 18 AgriHQ Seasonal

6.85

358

Waikato (NZ$/t)

Dec 17

500 5.5 400 5.0 300

4.5

OctOct

110

DecDec

Prior week

vs 4 weeks ago

WMP

3225

3145

2975

SMP

1950

1940

AMF

6260

Butter

5000

5‐yr ave Last week

Prior week

Last year

Last week

Prior week

Last year

1700

Urea

520

520

482

2.96

2.86

3.31

6160

5940

Super

303

303

317

Nth Isl 37m

3.00

2.93

3.50

4850

4500

DAP

739

Sth Isl 35m

5.05

5.50

3.67

752

752

3000 May

Jun

Jul

Aug

THE NZX50 has ended its 12-month winning streak and logged a 1.18% decline for January. The Australian index also logged a loss but not as steep, down just 0.45%.

In the United Kingdom, the FTSE 100 ended down 2.02% while the broader European index, the Stoxx 600, logged its biggest monthly gain since October, rising 1.6%. In the United States the Dow Jones, along with the S&P 500, gained more than 5% for its best month since March 2016. The Nasdaq had an even stronger month, up 7.36% for its best monthly performance since October 2015.

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address had markets on edge. However, the rhetoric remained presidential and markets breathed a sigh of relief. Trump mentioned increased infrastructure spending, tightening immigration policies, healthcare pricing regulation and trade policies.

The US reporting season has been a key driver behind the US markets strength with expectations continuing to be high. It was a busy week for investors with 125 companies from the S&P 500 reporting. So far, reporting season has been positive with more than 80% of companies beating earnings expectations.

Market commentary provided by Craigs Investment Partners

19411

S&P/NZX 50 INDEX

8384

S&P/NZX 10 INDEX

7970

$/kg Feb 15

Feb 16

Feb 17

Feed barley

4 weeks ago

Sharemarket Briefing

15158

250 150 Feb 14

NZ venison 60kg stag

4.5

600

c/k kg (net)

NZ$/t

US$/t

350

Coarse xbred wool indicator

5.5

CANTERBURY FEED PRICES

3200

S&P/FW AG EQUITY

This yr

Coarse xbred ind.

450

S&P/FW PRIMARY SECTOR

Last yr

(NZ$/kg)

3400

Latest price

Jun Jun AugAug

NZ average (NZ$/t)

WMP FUTURES - VS FOUR WEEKS AGO

Apr

AprApr

WOOL

* price as at close of business on Thursday

Mar

FebFeb

FERTILISER

Last price*

2800

Last year

6.95

Feed Wheat PKE

Oct 17 AgriHQ Spot Fonterra forecast

Last week Prior week

NI lamb (17kg)

Milling Wheat

7.5

5.5 Aug 17

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

c/kkg (net)

$/kgMS

SHEEP MEAT

DOMESTIC

AGRIHQ 2017-18

FONTERRA 2017-18

Sheep

$/kg

Dairy

300

2.5

Oct

Oct

Dec

Dec

Feb

Feb

Apr

Apr

Last yr

Jun

Jun

Aug

Aug

This yr

Dollar Watch

Close

YTD High

YTD Low

Auckland International Airport Limited

6.64

6.73

6.26

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Ltd

13.20

14.39

12.80

Meridian Energy Limited The a2 Milk Company Limited Spark New Zealand Limited Ryman Healthcare Limited Fletcher Building Limited Mercury NZ Limited (NS) Contact Energy Limited Port of Tauranga Limited (NS)

2.85 9.26 3.55 10.90 7.80 3.39 5.46 5.13

3.00 9.39 3.68 11.30 7.83 3.45 5.64 5.20

2.79 7.66 3.49 10.27 7.33 3.30 5.31 4.89

Listed Agri Shares

3.5

400

5‐yr ave

PKE spot

Top 10 by Market Cap Company

500

5pm, close of market, Thursday

Company

Close

YTD High

YTD Low

The a2 Milk Company Limited

9.260

9.390

7.660

Cavalier Corporation Limited

0.420

0.490

0.390

Comvita Limited

9.100

9.210

8.300

Delegat Group Limited

8.000

8.050

7.800

Foley Family Wines Limited

1.550

1.560

1.520

Fonterra Shareholders' Fund (NS)

6.290

6.660

6.180

Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd (NS)

2.250

2.250

2.250

New Zealand King Salmon Investments Ltd

2.360

2.430

2.270

PGG Wrightson Limited

0.580

0.610

0.570

Sanford Limited (NS)

7.960

8.500

7.950

Scales Corporation Limited

4.780

4.920

4.690

Seeka Limited

6.200

6.520

6.200

Tegel Group Holdings Limited

1.110

1.240

1.110

S&P/FW Primary Sector

15158

15306

14765

S&P/FW Agriculture Equity

19411

19585

18763

S&P/NZX 50 Index

8384

8456

8211

S&P/NZX 10 Index

7970

8038

7694

WESTPAC expects the This Prior Last NZD vs decoupling of the United week week year States dollar from interest USD 0.7389 0.7346 0.7292 rate trends to eventually EUR 0.5913 0.5907 0.6768 end, allowing it to push 0.9195 0.9115 0.9513 higher against the kiwi and AUD other currencies.

GBP 0.5183 0.5171 0.5818 Why the big dollar is so Correct as of 9am last Friday weak when the American economy is so strong, highlighted by sharp moves higher in Treasury bond yields, is the subject of much guesswork, Westpac strategist Imre Speizer said. “It’s surprisingly downbeat and the reason for that is, we don’t know. The economy isn’t on fire but close to it.”

The NZ dollar is technically stretched at just under US$0.74.

“That sounds an alarm bell saying watch out, there could be a reversal approaching.”

But, for now speculators are exiting short NZ$ positions and the kiwi could even go higher in the next few weeks, possibly to 0.75 or even 0.76.

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to increase core US interest rates three times this year. This is Westpac’s view and Speizer says there is potential for a fourth increase.

“The relationship between interest rates and the dollar has broken down, for now, and we think it will come back.”

On this basis, the kiwi could dip to US$0.68/0.69 on a threemonth view, from an earlier estimate of 0.67, then to 0.65 by late next year.

Speizer sees the kiwi lower against the Aussie dollar, maybe below A$0.89, and testing £0.50 over this year.

Alan Williams

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THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – February 5, 2018

SI SLAUGHTER STEER

NI SLAUGHTER COW

NI SLAUGHTER MUTTON

($/KG)

($/KG)

MEDIUM MIXED SEX LAMBS AT CANTERBURY PARK

($/KG)

($/HD)

4.10

5.30

4.60

Cattle & Deer BEEF Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Last week

Prior week

Last year

NI Steer (300kg)

5.50

5.45

5.20

NI Bull (300kg)

5.30

5.25

5.00

NI Cow (200kg)

4.10

4.00

3.90

SI Steer (300kg)

5.30

5.30

5.25

SI Bull (300kg)

5.10

5.10

4.90

SI Cow (200kg)

4.15

4.15

3.95

US imported 95CL bull

6.53

6.57

6.43

US domestic 90CL cow

6.48

6.42

6.24

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

North Island steer (300kg)

6.5

$/kg

6.0 5.5 5.0 4.5 4.0 South Island steer (300kg)

6.5 6.0

NZ venison 60kg stag

c/k kg (net)

$/kg

5.5 600

500 5.0 400 4.5 300

4.0

Oct Oct

Dec Dec

Feb Feb

5‐yr ave

Apr Apr

Jun Jun

Last yr

Aug Aug This yr

VENISON Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Last week Prior week

Last year

NI Stag (60kg)

10.15

10.15

8.00

NI Hind (50kg)

10.05

10.05

7.90

SI Stag (60kg)

10.70

10.70

8.00

SI Hind (50kg)

10.60

10.60

7.90

New Zealand venison (60kg Stag)

11

c/k kg (net) $/kg

10

NZ venison 60kg stag

9

600 8 500

400 7 300

6 Oct

Oct

Dec Dec 5‐yr ave

Feb Feb

Apr Apr Last yr

Jun Jun

Aug Aug This yr

85.50

high lights

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$80-$92

$710-$725

Medium wether lambs at Temuka

Friesian bulls, 150175kg, at Feilding Dairy Beef Weaner Fair

Temuka pumps the stock through sales

T

HE TEMUKA saleyards has been a busy place in the last few weeks, with large numbers of all classes of stock going through. Ewe fairs, big store cattle sales and larger than normal Monday sales have all had numbers exceeding previous years.

NORTHLAND NORTHLAND Very few cattle have traded through WELLSFORD since the year kicked off, and moving sale day to Tuesday last week didn’t help.

Because Tuesday is prime cattle day the yarding had Hereford-Friesian steers, 776-830kg, selling on a steady market at $2.89-$2.92/kg. Both lines of 2-year steers were Hereford-Jersey. One line, ahead of the other in weight and yield, sold for $2.74/kg, while the other made $2.56/kg.

Featured in the 1-year pens were exotic-cross cattle. Simmental-cross lines sold at a premium over Limousincross in both sections. Steers, 362kg, made $2.96/kg. Heifers were 30kg lighter and 5c behind at $2.91/kg.

Weaners made up nearly half the sale. Two lines of steers made $500$520, while Friesian bulls, 155kg, sold for $560. A heavier line of Friesian & Friesian-cross, 222kg, earned $710.

Feed levels are high in Northland, which means no pressure to offload, resulting in a small sale of 300 head at KAIKOHE last Wednesday. Most were dairy-beef weaners, which sold exceptionally well, PGG Wrightson agent Vaughan Vujcich reported.

A small R2 section consisted of medium exotic and beef steers at $2.90-$2.95/kg, with beef-cross heifers trading at $2.75/kg. Friesian bulls made similar values to heifers at $2.75$2.80/kg.

High demand for weaners set the market alight, with Murray Greycross, Angus-Friesian and Simmental

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steers very popular. Quality lines of 180-190kg pushed to $700-$760, while 110kg traded at $650-$680. A sizable offering of dairy-beef bulls were also well contested, with better types up to $650-$750, next cut $550-$600. The top heifers, 160-180kg, made $560-$620, 110kg, $480-$550.

Beef-Friesian cows finished the sale at $1.90-$1.92/kg.

COUNTIES COUNTIES A small yarding of 265 head faced a medium bench of local buyers at TUAKAU last Thursday, Craig Chamberlain of Carrfields Livestock reported. Quality was mixed but the market was reasonably steady.

The offering included a small line-up

of 400-480kg 30-month steers, mainly Hereford-Friesian, which traded at $2.69-$3/kg. The 18-month section was mostly Hereford-Friesian, with 380430kg steers making $2.86-$3.14/kg.

Some autumn-born R1 steers at 280kg sold for $920, a handful of weaner steers, 100-140kg, $645-$790.

Heifer numbers were light. Goodmedium 18-month heifers at 260320kg earned $2.80-$3.07/kg, weaner heifers, 100-130kg, $460-$570.

Last Wednesday’s prime sale was also a small affair, with the yarding dominated by boner cows. Heavy well-conditioned dairy cows traded at $1.93-$2.14/kg, medium $1.81-$1.92/

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46 THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – February 5, 2018 kg. Lighter boners sold down to $1.50/kg and a very small entry of prime steers and heifers sold at similar values to the previous sale.

The sheep sale was shifted to Tuesday, drawing about 1400 ewes and lambs. The market remained steady, with heavy prime lambs selling up to $138, good-mediums $115-$125. Lighter primes earned $105-$115, good stores $85-$100.

Medium stores returned $70-$85, lighter lambs $60-$70. In the prime ewe section, heavy ewes traded at $120-$135, medium $95-$115, lighter $50-$80.

WAIKATO Both sales at FRANKTON last week were small but mighty, with numbers lower than usual after a holiday weekend.

A reduced yarding greeted buyers last Tuesday, but this didn’t deter the local buying bench, which was buoyed by support from Northland.

The market was steady to lifting for most.

Hereford-cross heifers, 111kg, lifted to $465, as did HerefordFriesian, 95-104kg, $400-$437, with a line of 104kg bettering this at $470.

The bull market strengthened for most and Hereford-cross, 108kg, lifted to $535. Hereford-Friesian were the highlight with 98-102kg earning $550-$562, 120kg $625.

Friesian bulls met keen interest, with those 98-105kg lifting to $455$495, 118kg, $525.

Local buyers made short work of the offering last Wednesday and results were strong, particularly for 2-year and weaner lines. The only exception was an easing for some 1-year steers.

Two-year bulls had a good showing and were well contested with Hereford, 518kg, making $1640, $3.17/kg, and Friesian, 506510kg, lifting to $2.82-$2.87/kg.

Hereford-cross 1-year steers eased, with 328-338kg making $2.96-$3.09/kg. Friesian-cross, 319-381kg, were also back at $2.53$2.54/kg.

Heifers were steady with AngusFriesian, 313-320kg, making $2.86$2.88/kg, Friesian-cross, 314-362kg, $2.39-$2.46/kg.

Autumn–born weaners sold to keen interest as HerefordFriesian steers, 236-287kg, realised $920-$1020. Heifers had a good following. All lines 285-305kg sold for $820-$850, Friesian bulls, 222kg, $760.

The prime market continued its strong run, with particular strength in the heifers. Angus-Friesian, 497-513kg, strengthened to $2.84$2.87/kg, as did Hereford-Friesian 433-455kg, $2.75-$2.79/kg, 519kg $2.87/kg.

Boner cows were steady with good returns for Friesian as those 470-563kg made $1.85-$1.96/kg, 589kg $2.19/kg.

Following some large sales in early summer and a healthy dollop of rainfall post-Christmas, good store cattle are in short supply in north Waikato and South Auckland.

BAY OF PLENTY BAY OF PLENTY Feed around Bay of Plenty has hardened off in the hot weather and is providing good fodder to grow out cattle. This is keeping the lid on numbers coming to RANGIURU, but is also bringing out extra buyers.

For 1-year Hereford-Friesian steers, $/kg typically increased as

the weight reduced, and 352-367kg returned $3.02-$3.07/kg, while the better lines of 255-314kg made $3.14-$3.17/kg. Friesian, 295300kg, managed $2.80-$2.82/kg.

One line of Hereford-Friesian heifers, 295kg, sold for $3.10/kg, 323-344kg $2.83-$2.89/kg.

Weaners easily outnumbered all other classes. A standout consignment of Simmental-cross had one line of steers, 247kg, making $945, and heifers, 199235kg, $800-$860. Friesian bulls, 106-134kg, fetched $430-$490.

A consignment of 62 autumncalving Friesian cows headed to Taupo and Waikato at an average of $1400.

Service bulls featured in the prime pens and Angus and Hereford, 668-743kg, made steady returns at $3.03-$3.10/kg, lighter Hereford $2.86-$2.95/kg. Jersey, 450-491kg, sold exceptionally well at $2.63-$2.72/kg. Prime steer and heifer numbers were low but one line of very good Hereford-Friesian steers made $3.05/kg, and all heifers sold for $2.79-$2.93/kg.

A small sheep sale was attended by a small bench of buyers. The prime lamb pens had some goodsized lines and sold up to $155.

TARANAKI TARANAKI The same outside buyer was back at TARANAKI last Wednesday to rock the boat in the ex-service bull pens, which helped maintain prices at new levels. Traditional bulls, 561-765kg, traded at $3.08$3.18/kg, with Hereford taking out both the heaviest prize and highest $/kg. The Jersey market was solid and held at $2.70-$2.83/kg for 471-523kg, with lighter 400-413kg earning $2.50-$2.53/kg.

The store offering was moderate.

One-year steers managed to hold around the $3/kg level, with most 330-465kg and trading at $2.98$3.03/kg, though 289kg sold up to $3.15/kg. Red Devon-Friesian sold for $2.88-$2.91/kg for 340-381kg, while their sisters, 350kg, were off that pace at $2.51/kg.

Jersey bulls also featured in a small 1-year bull section, and at 330-370kg fetched $2.30-$2.42/ kg. One line of six Friesian and Friesian-cross, 470kg, managed $2.99/kg.

POVERTY BAY POVERTY BAY A consignment of male store lambs were the main attraction at MATAWHERO on Friday. Two large good-weighted lines were $100$111, with a heavier cut making $120. Some medium-light lambs were $77.

Prime lambs were anywhere between $110.50 and $152, and a few prime ewes were $90-$120.

HAWKE’S BAY HAWKE’S BAY More cattle were sold at STORTFORD LODGE’s prime sale last Monday than Wednesday’s store sale. Prime prices lifted for the yarding of 100 head, with increased space available at the processors Beef steers passed $3/kg as 12 Angus, 628kg, made $3.10/kg, a smaller line of Angus-Hereford, 659kg, $3.03/kg. Hereford-Friesian and Hereford-Jersey, 558-617kg, lifted to $2.85-$2.86/kg.

Thirty-three traditional heifers, 484-547kg, made $2.83-$2.86/kg.

Two lines of Angus cows traded at $2.15/kg.

The ewe section consisted

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of small lines with most buyers having to buy several pens to meet their requirements. That wasn’t a problem, with prices steady to firm.

Heavy ewes sold to $122-$144, all other lines $93-$120.

Mixed sex lambs were consistent and the market firmed. Most sold for $125-$162, with the top line achieving $170.50.

Wednesday’s sale was very small in the cattle and sheep pens. Just 1750 sheep were offered, mainly adult mixed-sex and store lambs from the Chatham Islands.

Despite the small sale new faces were in the crowd and the store lamb market was firm. The top line of mixed-sex Romney from the Chatham Islands sold for $116.50, though the second cut made much higher $/kg at $110. Most medium to good mixed-sex returned $89$110, lighter lines $47-$85. One line of good ewe lambs sold for $109.50, lighter males $104.

Small lines of breeding ewes and adult mixed-sex completed the sale, with 4-5-year Romney making $91-$111, 2-6-tooth ewes and wethers $60-$105.50.

Cattle numbers dipped to 46 with local farmers under no pressure to offload.

Chatham Island cattle made up a fair portion and quality was very mixed. Two-year Herefordcross steers, 336kg, sold for $2.84/ kg, while two lines of heavier beef-cross bulls, 487kg and 433kg, sold for $2.55/kg and $2.77/kg respectively.

Five 1-year Angus steers, 340kg

made $3.18/kg while the only other lines of significance were four weaner Friesian bulls, 111kg, which sold for $495, and three heavier bulls, 215kg, $680.

MANAWATU MANAWATU It was back to business at FEILDING last Monday, but it will be short-lived with no sale the Monday before Waitangi Day. Vendors took the opportunity to offload, and buyers were looking for numbers to make up for the previous week and to stock up.

Two main buyers battled it out for 3500 lambs and while returns were solid the market eased $2-$3 on volume. Heavy to very heavy mixed sex made $134-$153.50, medium $119-$133.

Big lines of ewes came down from Taihape hills and made up a sizable chunk of the 3000 offered.

Prices held and good to heavy ewes at nearly half the offering made $120-$145. Medium-good ewes sold for $106-$119, three lines of light ewes $80-$85.

Bulls and cows featured in the rostrum with just two AngusHereford steers, 505kg, making $3.04/kg.

A big offering of Jersey bulls sold exceptionally well. A line of 17, 447kg, sold above market value at $2.73/kg, and a prime line, 595kg, made $3.06/kg. Most other lines fetched $2.27-$2.35/kg.

There was no change out of $2000 for Hereford bulls. The six offered weighed 658-700kg and sold for $3.18-$3.20/kg, with 540-550kg matching that price.

The strength continued in the cow pens. Beef-dairy, 533-805kg, traded at $2.22-$2.28/kg, with prime Friesian not far off the pace.

Boner Friesian, 440-530kg, fetched $1.85-$1.99/kg.

The rostrum at RONGOTEA last Wednesday provided a bit of shade, and prices warmed up on a relatively small market, New Zealand Farmers Livestock agent John Watson reported.

The older cattle pens featured 3-year Hereford bulls, 654kg, which sold well at $2.93/kg.

Boner numbers were low but prices reflected steady demand as Friesian, 582kg, returned $1.75/kg, crossbred, 517kg, $1.68/kg.

Two-year Angus-cross steers, 408kg, sold for $2.94/kg. HerefordFriesian heifers, 322-397kg, firmed to $2.70-$2.85/kg. Bulls were the only 1-year cattle offered with Friesian, 225kg, earning $3/kg, crossbred, 245kg, $2.86/kg.

Most of the action was in the weaner pens and demand was solid for the limited number available.

Hereford-Friesian steers, 170kg, fetched $630, heifers, 135-267kg, $500-$770. Lesser bred crossbred heifers, 92-151kg managed $245$300. Bulls sold well. Friesian, 103kg, realised $495, Friesian-cross, 125-175kg, $490-$640. Red factor Friesian calves sold for $205.

Ewes made $62-$100, wethers $135, mixed sex lambs, $57-$132.

Friesian bull prices went to a new level at FEILDING last Thursday, as Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa battled it out.

With Friesian bulls selling freely and a bit more resistance shown on Hereford-Friesian, the heavier Friesian sold at a premium to similar weighted whiteface. Lighter lines of both breeds, 105-118kg, made $525-$600, which was a big improvement on the last fair.

Quality Friesian lines at 137-139kg lifted to $675-$680, with budgets pushed to $710-$720 for those 158-164kg. Hereford-Friesian, 140165kg, returned $610-$660.

Heifer numbers were down. The buying gallery was reduced by two-thirds but there was still plenty of punch. The heavier calves were off the pace of the last sale, but lighter types made up for that, with most lines reaching $500. HerefordFriesian, 100-111kg, lifted from $420-$450 at the last sale to $500$520. The market settled for heavier types. Better pens, 115-125kg, were steady at $540-$545.

Hereford-Friesian steers, 130163kg, traded at $535-$660. One exceptional line of 146kg reached $700.

Store cattle sold well at FEILDING on Friday considering the size and quality of the yarding.

R3 steers were where most of the lift was felt. Beef-Friesian lines, 420-525kg, rose to $3.05-$3.15/kg.

A single line of 480kg traditional steers reached $3.28/kg. R3 heifers and bulls were steady. Beef-Friesian heifers, 370-420kg, were $2.86$2.96/kg, 575-600kg beef-bred bulls $3-$3.11/kg.

Weight was lacking through the R2 steers, but bidders were still keen. Angus-cross, 275-335kg, made $970-$1200, $3.51-$3.65/ kg. The rest were much lower. R2 heifers sold to a steady market.

Charolais, 360-390kg, were $1095$1150, $2.93-$3.06/kg, while 265330kg Hereford-Friesians made $790-$985, $2.88-$3.05/kg Competition for the R2 bulls wasn’t as intense as the previous week. Friesian bulls, 400-465kg, fetched $1150-$1300, $2.81-$2.92/ kg, two beef lines $2.96-$3.02/kg.

There was just a token offering of weaners. Some 215kg Friesian bulls were popular at $770, $3.56/kg.

Around 13,000 lambs were yarded, but didn’t quite live up to the previous sale. The main weakness was through the heavier end. Most good-to-heavy lines were whiteface males, usually selling in the $108-$119 range.

The lighter lines were steady or a touch firmer. Good-to-medium lines were a mixture of whiteface males and mixed-sex blackface lines, making $89-$102, while the

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lifted to $2.80-$2.92/kg for 277387kg. Lighter Hereford-Friesian prices were right up there with the Angus at $3.09-$3.14/kg.

Most of the traditional and exotic-cross heifers also hailed from the Chathams, or were lesser bred types which was reflected in a much lower $/kg range. Traditional, 210-272kg, sold for $2.41-$2.52/kg, with Devon-cross also slotting in there. By far the highlight though was the small offering of HerefordFriesian, which at 280-405kg sold exceptionally well for $2.90-$3/kg.

The bull pens featured small lines and the market was very consistent.

Better beef lines sold up to $2.78$2.89/kg, while Friesian, 363-423kg, sold at expected levels of $2.60$2.66/kg.

The calves had a good sale for what they were and HerefordFriesian bulls, 130-149kg, traded at $500-$550, Friesian, 116-160kg, $460-$525.

cut below were $70.50-$91. Tailenders made $56-$71.

CANTERBURY CANTERBURY Southland lambs again made up a large chunk of the store section at CANTERBURY PARK last Tuesday.

Extra buyers easily absorbed the moderate 4800.

Male, ram and wether lines were moderate in size though all sold in excess of $3/kg with the lighter end making $70-$86, better types $90$98. Two lines of ewe lambs had more than 200 head and traded at $86-$91, with the heavier lines very good buying.

The market for medium to good mixed-sex firmed and all sold for $85-$107. Light lines traded at $67-$87, and the very light end over $4/kg.

Another quiet day in the prime pens had lambs selling on a firm market at $100-$149 with Easter trade contracts still being completed.

Late lambing ewes featured in the ewe pens and prices were firm.

Heavy ewes cracked $200, although most lines traded at $90-$140 and $143-$188.

Just 41 prime cattle stepped up to the plate, with the sale done in no time.

Six of the eight Angus-Friesian steers hailed from one property.

Forward store types, 505-540kg, solf for $3.01-$3.08/kg, prime, 550725kg, $2.96-$2.98/kg. Two 588kg Hereford-Friesian made $3.02/kg, Friesian $2.64-$2.75/kg.

Angus-Friesian were the main feature in the heifer pens and prices firmed. Those 437-535kg returned $2.88-$2.96/kg, though one 520kg Hereford-Friesian hit $3/kg.

Two Devon-cross bulls, 480kg, sold well at $2.96/kg.

On Friday January 26 HAWARDEN held its annual ewe fair, with about 18,000 on offer.

Both vendors and buyers felt they had come away with a win as prices met vendor expectations but were still within buyers’ budgets.

The big yarding drew in a large crowd of buyers mainly from North Canterbury and Marlborough, though some fine wool lines did head to South Canterbury.

Competition was very strong on the better bred types and prices on average were up $50 on last year’s fair, with all but a few small lines retained for breeding.

Prices for top lines of younger sheep exceeded $200, with a line of halfbred 2-tooths achieving $220. The better 2-tooths sold for $180-$255, with a small second cut trading at $132-$172. Two-shear ewes mainly sold for $190-$214 and $125-$167. The top 3-shear ewes also sold to $210-$211, with the remainder making $140-$160.

The strength of the sale continued into the older ewe pens, and 4-6-tooth Romney made good values at $160-$165, while most 4-year ewes sold for $130-$172.

Five-year ewes ranged from $120 to $172, with Romney at $168-$170, Corriedale $156-$172, half-bred $122-$168 and crossbred $130$150. Six-year Corriedale sold for $131-$151, and half-bred $146.

Annual draft ewes returned $100$150 while most mixed age traded at $110-$158.

Another moderate yarding of sheep took little time to sell at COALGATE last Thursday, while all the R2 cattle hailed from one property.

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ON SHOW: A line-up of some of the best animals on show at last week’s New Zealand Dairy Event in Feilding.

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Store lambs were light to medium and the market firmed.

The yarding was split into two main price brackets of $73-$79 and $81-$88, helped by a line of 289 at $76 and two lines of about 130 at $87 and $88. Top-end lambs sold for $90-$95, with a good line up to $102, while 161 lighter lambs returned $60-$62.

Two regular buyers split almost the entire very small prime lamb section between them. Prices firmed to $110-$145.

Ewe numbers were easily absorbed by regular buyers. The lightest lines made $91-$98, medium $110-$127, tops $130$166. A few small lines fetched $190-$200.

Store cattle numbers were low.

Angus steers, 282-320kg, made respectable returns at $2.90-$2.94/ kg, Angus-Hereford, 233-301kg, $2.97-$2.04/kg. One small line of seven at 233kg managed $3.20/kg.

The heifer market was solid. Angus, 277kg, sold for $2.78/kg, 242kg $2.89/kg. Angus-Hereford, 251316kg, made $2.83-$2.87/kg.

The sale finished with a small weaner section, and the highlight was Hereford-Friesian heifers, 111118kg, $460-$490, which was not far behind a line of same bred bulls, 114kg, at $510.

Sixty-five prime cattle were offered, with most cows. Good heavy cows, 680-700kg, firmed to $2.20-$2.21/kg, while a line of seven at 599kg made $2.08/kg.

Dairy lines, 436-500kg, sold for $1.72-$1.81/kg.

Other sections were very small.

The feature in the bull pens was a line of six, 429kg, at $3.16/kg, while eight sold for $2.81/kg for 519kg.

The best of the heifers were 460473kg and fetched $2.86-$2.88/kg.

SOUTH CANTERBURY SOUTH CANTERBURY Another busy week for TEMUKA started with a large sheep sale and consistent cattle yarding.

Wednesday played host to mixed age ewes and the week finished with a moderate store cattle sale last Thursday.

Store lamb prices rebounded as annual draft lambs and 1000 Romney male lambs from Central Otago drew in a bigger crowd. Male

lambs sold for $89-$116, while a big yarding of small to good Romney and Border-Romney wethers made $79-$92.

A big yarding of ewe lambs split into three price ranges as buyers worked to per head budgets. Light lambs sold for $71-$92, second cuts $80-$91 and the tops, $100-$135.

Mixed sex prices tended to be more consistent and lifts were seen on last week’s lesser quality yarding. Top price was $130, though most were medium to good at $81-$120, with third cuts making $64-$80.

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Easter trade is still helping the prime lamb market and prices held at $110-$157, with a small top end up to $166.

The ewe market continued to climb, with prices firming $3-$5.

Most light to medium lines made $90-$139, with the better end trading at $140-$195.

In the rostrum ex-service bull numbers typically flowed at high levels, but pushing numbers further was high volumes of beef heifers and steers.

Angus steers lacked the quality needed to push up to premium levels, and those 578-808kg eased to $2.78/kg, with $2.80/kg the price ceiling for steers, with most trading at $2.70-$2.80/kg.

Beef heifers sold on a steady market and Hereford-Friesian, 480606kg, made $2.61-$2.76/kg, with all beef lines selling somewhere in that slot too.

The high numbers of bulls made

buyer’s jobs easier as they could afford to be more selective. A line of 25 Angus, 528kg, sold for $2.56/kg, while Hereford, 502-670kg, eased 10c/kg to $2.77-$2.86/kg; as did Friesian, 504-600kg, $2.61-$2.72/ kg. The Jersey bull section featured a heavier line-up with more 543578kg, which eased to $2.60-$2.66/ kg.

Beef cows were low in number but Hereford, 436-535kg, made steady returns at $2.12-$2.13/kg.

The boner cow market was the golden child as increased demand resulted in a firm to lifting market for Friesian cows. Those 500kg plus lifted to $2.03-$2.16/kg, while 380-480kg sold on a steady to firm market at $1.77-$1.88/kg.

Around 13,500 mixed age ewes were offered last Wednesday, and capital stock and well known annual draft ewes had a very good sale, though the balance of the yarding never really fired.

The market had a stronger tone than last year’s fair, with prices for comparable lines gaining $50.

Longdown popularity is growing.

Four-tooth and 6-tooth lines achieved $202-$225, with a smaller line of 4-year making $202. A consignment of traditional Romney ewes sold for a premium. Two and 3-shear lines made $184-$185, and the remainder of the bigger lines $160-$178.

Five-year ewes lifted on last year but were still buyable as Romney made $110-$176, Coopworth $138$158. Mixed age ewes lifted by a similar margin with Perendale at $137-$164.

Aside from the capital stock lines there was hesitancy on younger ewes. Capital stock TexelCoopworth made $175-$186, most two-shear $160-$185.

Rain on the rostrum roof last Thursday was music to the ears and helped coax a few more bids for the store cattle yarding of 925.

A fair portion of the R2 traditional cattle were from the Chatham Islands, and steer prices took a lift as competition increased along with the raindrops. Angus and Angus-Hereford steers, 367-417kg, lifted to $3.14-$3.19/kg, bettered though by lighter Angus, 327-337kg, $3.21-$3.28/kg. Hereford-cross also

OTAGO OTAGO BALCLUTHA posted good results last Wednesday. Easter trade added competition to the prime lamb pens and the store lamb sale had a good following.

A reasonable yarding of store lambs sold to increased interest, with blackface lambs in particular selling well, PGG Wrightson agent Russell Moloney reported. The top lambs returned $80-$88, medium $60-$70, light $50.

Good demand for prime lambs meant prices held at $140-$145 for the tops, medium $120-$135, light $100-$110. Ewe prices were very similar. Heavy ewes made $140$145, medium $125-$130, light $70-$105.

SOUTHLAND SOUTHLAND Higher than usual numbers flowed into LORNEVILLE last Tuesday, because no rain had fallen by sale day.

The store lamb market held up well, with prices relatively firm.

Top lambs made $80-$90, medium $70-$78, lighter $55-$68, tail end $45-$50.

Easter trade contracts are still being filled, which kept prime lamb prices on an even keel. Heavy lines made $123-$149, medium $100$122, third cuts steady at $90-$99.

There was a gap between prime ewes and grazing types again, with heavy ewes lifting to $127-$178, and medium and lighter types holding at $96-$119 and $46-$93.

Similarly in the cattle pens, sections were of medium size as farmers offloaded. More prime cattle were penned and steers, 465kg, made steady returns at $2.62/kg, while good 440kg heifers fetched $2.50-$2.60/kg. A bigger yarding of bulls had 550kg-plus earning $2.60/kg, and 450-500kg, $2.50/kg. Cow prices eased, with 550kg of medium condition earning $1.70-$1.80/kg, and 450-500kg, $1.60-$1.70/kg. Light lines sold for $1.40-$1.50/kg.

Weaner cattle made up the lion’s share of the store section. Good Friesian bulls, 138kg, realised $430, while Hereford-Friesian, 115-140kg, made $450-$500, 80-90kg, $250$300. Heifers ranged from $360$370 for 110kg down to $220-$300 for 80-90kg.

A line of 15-month beef-cross steers, 380-437kg, looked good shopping at $2.45-$2.65/kg while Jersey bulls, 300-360kg, returned just $1.66-$1.77/kg.

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ARMERS who sold older ewes before Christmas came out firing at the Hawarden ewe fair on Friday January 26.

Prices were very strong, well up on the equivalent weight kill-value and on last year’s sale.

The best 2-tooth price was $255 a head for a pen of 193 Romney-cross ewes from Coaltrack Farm at Waikari, put through by Hazlett Rural.

Older ewes averaged about $50 up on the $120-$130 of last year, PGG Wrightson’s Canterbury livestock manager Grant Nordstrom said.

Two-tooth averages were up about $30.

“You had a lot of buyers paying $200 or so for the 2-tooths after getting $140 from the processors for their older ewes earlier in the summer, and that’s a good deal for them,” Nordstrom said.

Hazlett general manager Ed Marfell agreed, saying the sale reflected the high mutton schedule in November and December.

“It was a sale we had high hopes for and everyone was happy.”

Between 17,000 and 18,000 ewes were yarded, with all selling. The crowd was the biggest Nordstrom had seen there Outside the sale toppers, the best 2-tooths sold up to about $250. Better ewes were

PACKED IN: It was a big yarding, a big crowd and a good sale at the Hawarden ewe fair.

$190-$220, medium to good $170-$190, lighter $150-$170.

Some of the higher-priced ewes were capital stock.

Mixed-age Romney crossbred capital stock sold in the $160-$200 range, better 5-year annual-draft Corriedales $150-$175.

Mediums fetched $145-$165, lighter $120-$135.

Crossbred annual-draft ewes were $130-$160.

Most stock was from North Canterbury, and in good order considering the conditions.

The sale highlighted increased confidence in the sheep industry, although the trend was towards fattening lambs rather than increasing

ewe numbers, Nordstrom said.

Older and annual draft ewes struggled to sell at last Wednesday’s Temuka sale.

Many were sold for processing, PGG Wrightson’s South Canterbury livestock manager Joe Higgins said.

This took the gloss of the start, when seven lines of well-bred capital stock reached good prices.

Buyers picked their lines carefully, and ewes from vendors with good reputations sold easily. The top price was $225 for a pen of 2-shear Longdowns.

Outside those two classes the market was difficult, Higgins said.

high $800-$860 Simmentallights Weaner cross heifers, 200-

The yarding was 12,000 ewes.

Young capital stock sold for $180-$225, five-and six-year $170-$180.

Annual draft ewes were about $20 a head cheaper.

Two to three-shear animals were $155-$170.

The best price for five-year and older annual draft ewes was $176 for heavy types, about the same as their killvalue, and prices dropped away from there.

Most buyers were from South Canterbury and North Otago, Higgins said. There was demand for lambs to fatten, but more breeder caution on the high prices.

“We’ve had one good year of high prices and you’d need to see a second year of this to build up confidence. It’s not often you get two good years in a row.’’

PGG Wrightson South Island livestock manager Shane Gerken said Hawarden was helped by having a higher proportion of fine wool sheep, and by North Canterbury buyers topping up after destocking into the high mutton schedule before Christmas.

Both Higgins and Gerken said having capital stock in the sales indicated that farmers were still changing land use, but big numbers weren’t coming through.

The lamb market did well, with stores selling at the $2.80/kg level, despite the numbers coming out of Otago and Southland. Canterbury farmers with ample feed had good opportunities to buy lambs for finishing.

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$202-$225 Four-tooth, six-tooth & four-year Longdown ewes at Temuka Ewe Fair

Sheep have made a comeback this year BREEDING ewes have just about had their run in the saleyards and it’s been an interesting season to watch. There have been mixed feelings on results, with expectations high because Suz Bremner of the strong cull ewe prices AgriHQ Analyst and lamb markets. Some of that expectation was met, especially for capital stock and renowned annual draft lines, but for some it was felt that run of the mill ewes could perhaps have pushed higher.

There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that sheep have made a comeback this year and ewe fair prices are well up on 2017, but we have seen that in the past and then the bottom has fallen out of the markets, such is the volatility of the industry. Farmers need assurance they will profit from their farms, and sheep have not always provided that reassurance, with roller coaster prices over the years. It does seem to me though that we might be on a steadier path now with improved marketing and more consistent customer demand. With all that in mind, it has been very pleasing to see most ewes sold will be retained, despite processors having good budgets to work with this year.

Another factor that has helped the increased demand for breeding ewes in the North Island has been record high cattle prices. Back in 2014 it was realistic to expect to pick up a good traditional weaner steer for $400-$700, where now $850-$1100 is the reality. Likewise Friesian bull prices have lifted significantly, from needing a $350-$450 budget in 2014 to now requiring $500-$700 to cover the same type.

This has seen a few buyers change farm policies and return to the ewe pens in search of lower outlay opportunities.

All in all, I think ewe fair results have been very good. They are up on last year and in fact right up with some of the best prices we have ever seen. Next year may well be very different so I think we tick this year off as a win. suz.bremner@nzx.com

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Bays: 3 x 4.5m Depth: 6.0m (2 x 3.0m) Height: 3.6 – 3.0m

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Bays: 4 x 3.6 Depth: 6.0m (2 x 3.0m) Height: 3.6 – 3.0m m

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Bays: 4 x 4.5 Depth: 9.0m (2 x 4.5m) Height: 3.9 – 3.0m m

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Bays: 5 x 4.5m Depth: 9.0m (2 x 4.5m) Height: 3.9 – 3.0m

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Bays: 3 x 4.0m Depth: 7.0m (2 x 3.5m) Height: 3.6 – 3.0m

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Bays: 3 x 3.6m Depth: 6.0m (2 x 3.0m) Height: 3.6 – 3.0m

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Bays: 2 x 4.5m Depth: 6.0m (2 x 3.0m) Height: 4.2 – 3.6m

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Bays: 5 x 4.8m Depth: 9.0m (2 x 4.5m) Height: 4.2 – 3.6m

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Angus Lifestyle Barn Bays: 3 x 4.0m Depth: 8.0m (2 x 4.0m) Height: 3.0 - 4.6 – 3.0m

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Hereford Lifestyle Barn Bays: 3 x 3.5m Depth: 7.0m (2 x 3.5m) Height: 3.0 - 4.6 – 3.0m

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Bays: 4 x 4.5m Depth: 6.0m (2 x 3.0m) Height: 4.2 – 3.6m

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