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Growers back supermarket reform If supermarkets do not strike good-faith wholesale deals with their competitors – our regulatory measures will make it happen for them. We are not afraid to unlock the stockroom door to ensure a competitive market

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OOD industry groups have backed the Government’s supermarket shake-up, saying it will improve competitiveness and fairness in New Zealand’s grocery sector. The Government announced it will establish a mandatory code of conduct between supermarkets and suppliers alongside an industry regulator in a raft of changes in response to the Commerce Commission’s market study of New Zealand supermarkets. Horticulture New Zealand chief executive Nadine Tunley said their organisation supported any move to improve the performance and transparency of New Zealand’s supermarket sector. “Consumers and fruit and vegetable growers need to know they are getting a fair deal from the supermarket sector, particularly when competition is limited due to the small size of the New Zealand market. “Greater transparency and competition in the supermarket sector will improve the functioning of the wholesale fruit and vegetable market, which will increase consumer understanding of the very real relationship between supply and demand,” Tunley said. The Government has accepted 12 of the report’s 14 recommendations and is taking stronger action on the other two. Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs David Clark said the supermarket industry was not working. “It’s not competitive and shoppers aren’t getting a fair deal.

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DO IT: Horticulture New Zealand chief executive Nadine Tunley says consumers and fruit and vegetable growers need to know they are getting a fair deal from the supermarket sector, particularly when competition is limited due to the small size of the New Zealand market.

The duopoly needs to change, and we are preparing the necessary legislation to do that.” Clark said the Government had rejected the commission’s recommendation for a three-year review timeframe because of the cost of living pressures facing New Zealanders. “Our supermarkets know they’re in the spotlight, and we’ve recently seen some posturing around price rollbacks. However, it doesn’t fix the systemic problem at large – which is a lack of genuine competition in the sector.” Clark called on the supermarkets to open up their wholesale arms to would-be competitors, at a fair price. “Do this knowing the

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Government is determined to get a regulatory backstop finalised by the end of the year. “If supermarkets do not strike good-faith wholesale deals with their competitors, our regulatory measures will make it happen for them. We are not afraid to unlock the stockroom door to ensure a competitive market. “We are also looking at how to implement compulsory unit pricing on grocery products which will give shoppers the ability to better compare products. Plus, we’re getting ready to launch consultation on the code of conduct that retailers will have to adhere to.” The Commerce Commission will act as an interim industry regulator until the Government

has established an entity for this role. “Once established, the ‘watchdog’ will help keep pressure on the grocery sector, by providing annual state-of-competition reviews to keep supermarkets honest, as opposed to the checkin after three years recommended by the commission. It will also facilitate a resolution scheme to mediate disputes between suppliers and retailers.” The two recommendations not accepted by the Government relate to implementing a voluntary wholesale access regime and to a review of competition in three years. Clark said he has spoken with both supermarket companies. “They know what is expected

from them and the length of time we are prepared to give them to change before regulation kicks in. The changes will sit alongside legislation announced at the Budget to ban supermarkets from using restrictive covenants on land, and leases to block competition from setting up shop in certain suburbs and shopping centres. This Bill is currently with a select committee. New Zealand Food and Grocery Council chief executive Katherine Rich said the changes announced by Clark will make a difference to the competitiveness of New Zealand’s grocery market. “Consumers, suppliers and other retailers will welcome these plans. The Government has recognised change needs to occur if there is to be genuine competition in the grocery market and an improvement in retailer behaviour,” Rich said. “As we have said regularly, the wholesale market for groceries is broken, and competitive access to a full range of products is important to support healthy competition.”

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Your guide to transition feeding New Zealand farmers are world leaders when it comes to animal care. We understand that in order to get the best from our animals, we’ve got to provide them with the best care. You may have heard dairy farmers talking about ‘transition feeding’, which is all about optimising nutrition for a successful milking season and happy, healthy cows. What is transition feeding?

Why is transition feeding important for animal health?

In the 3 weeks either side of calving, a cow’s nutrition needs change dramatically - from growing a healthy calf, to gearing up to peak milk. Transition feeding is all about preparing your herd to adjust from being a dry cow to a lactating cow, to adapt to a big shift in energy balance and mineral demand, while enhancing their nutrition at just the right time.

Good animal care means doing everything you can to ensure your herd stays healthy and productive. A successful transition diet plan will help cows build up strong reserves of calcium and magnesium to prepare for the added demands of milk production, and reduce the risk of metabolic disorders like ketosis and milk fever. As sharemilker Sam Ebbett has found, extra care during the transition period can make all the difference to a healthy year ahead.

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The first step to a successful transition is having a solid plan in place. It’s a busy time of year for dairy farmers, so knowing what, when, and how you’re going to do it is crucial. The key is to not over complicate it.

Pre calving, the cow’s stomach capacity is restricted by the growing calf inside her, so it’s important to ensure she’s getting top-quality, energy-dense feed during this time to ensure she’s ready for the season to reach peak milk.

Fibre Quality fibre plays an important role in rumen stretch and muscle development. This helps your cows build capacity to eat larger quantities again after calving.

Minerals Balancing your herd’s mineral requirements makes a big difference to their health - and their productivity. They need extra magnesium pre calving, and then a prompt calcium boost straight after calving.

Sam Ebbett is a sharemilker with Mark and Jacqui Muller in Eltham, South Taranaki. He chats to SealesWinslow Nutrition and Quality Manager Natalie Hughes about the importance of transition feeding for their herd of 530 dairy cows.

What does animal care mean to you? “Animal care is really at the core of what we do. To get maximum value out of our cows, we’ve got to give them maximum care. I like to think of them as professional athletes – we’ve got a herd of All Blacks here, so we can’t treat them like average Joes! They’ve got to have the best nutrition. I’m also a big fan of good stockmanship. If the cows come up to you when you go into the paddock, you can take a bit of pride in that.” Sam Ebbett

So you’ve got elite athletes. How do you set them up for a successful season? “Transition feeding is a really big part of looking after our cows, and it makes a huge difference to the health of our herd. What you do in those 21 days before calving can dictate what your cows do for the rest of the year.”

How do you plan for a successful transition? “For us there are three crucial times. The first is in May when we’re winding the herd down, trying to minimise protein intake, to reduce milk. This helps the cows naturally take their feet off the gas when it comes to milk production. The second is over the dry season when I’m really focused on maintaining their body condition. This makes winter easier to manage without the added hassle of trying to put on weight. The third is around calving time, dividing out when cows are due to calve. When they move into their springer mob, that’s when the focus goes on ensuring all their minerals are supplemented.”

So what are you feeding them during the transition? “In those 21 days before calving, we’ll be feeding 60% hay, 40% grass. That’s because the potassium in the grass can affect how cows can mobilise calcium when they calve. We try to offset that by avoiding effluent paddocks and using supplements to dilute the amount of potassium in the diet. We’re really focussed on boosting the magnesium intake, so when she does calf, she can hit the ground running with no health issues.”

That’s great, and as you’ve pointed out, what you do in that transition period can have a huge impact on the health of your herd for the whole year. What’s made the biggest difference for you?

Natalie Hughes

How did you learn about transition feeding? It’s been mostly trial and error and being able to see the numbers! If you get to the end of the season and see you’re 10K short of solids, that’s when you go back and see what you can do differently next time. When you’re at 88-90% success, you’re just trying to adjust little things to get closer to 100%. Even a one or two percent improvement can make a difference. So we’re trialling things all the time.”

What would you say to other farmers who are considering new ways to transition feed? “A lot of farmers are scared of change. It’s all well and good being in our own little world in Taranaki, but there’s a big world out there, and listening to what others are doing can be really helpful. So I’d say don’t be afraid to ask for advice – not just about what other farmers have done, but also why they’ve done it. Then put a really solid plan in place.”

What excites you about the future of farming in New Zealand? “The future is relatively uncertain – the rules are changing – but where there’s change there’s opportunity. Regulations can be scary but I think the future’s bright. There’s money to be made and you just have to find it. You just have to stay open to new ideas.”

“Well, we’d had a few problems with milk fever in the past, and working together with the farm owners, we worked out that our cows needed extra magnesium. For a lot of farmers, magnesium delivery can be as simple as adding minerals straight into their water troughs or dusting it onto paddocks. But our challenge is, being under the mountain, we get over 2 metres of rain, so the cows just find other places to drink. Best practise is using two different delivery methods of magnesium. We drench hay bales with mag, and this season was the first time we tried mineral lick blocks. It beats dusting paddocks and I was sick of getting dust all over my hands! We’ve had way less trouble with milk fever since trialling the lick blocks, so it’s working really well for us. But it’s different for every farm system, and there’s no one way to do anything.”

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Rural water schemes may avoid 3W Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz ABOUT 100 council-owned schemes that supply water for drinking and agricultural use could be sold to users and not included in the Government’s new water services entities, part of its Three Waters Policy. This is one of 30 recommendations from a Rural Supplies Technical Working Group set up by the Department of Internal Affairs, which also says ownership of these mixed-use schemes could be transferred if they predominantly supply stock or irrigation water and in cases where ownership is unclear. “This would apply to schemes that are critical to farming and whose users have the capability and resources to operate them without support from councils or water services entities,” the committee report states. The “tens of thousands” of small privately-owned rural water schemes will remain in private ownership but an unknown number will be subject to water quality regulations from the new regulator Taumata Arowai. Technical working group chairman Bryan Cadogan says a one-size-fits-all approach does not work for rural water schemes, but that does not mean issues facing water services can be ignored. The group’s primary consideration was to ensure safer, better and affordable drinking water services are available for all rural New Zealanders than debating the merits of the Three Waters policy. “We are confident that our recommendations provide a framework for the recognition of the particular interests of our rural communities through the reform process,” Cadogan says.

The possible transfer of scheme ownership to users reflects the primary use of those schemes is for stock water and irrigation. “Drinking water provision is an incidental benefit of the supplies,” he says. “Many are governed, managed and operated as if they were private supplies through the intimate involvement of farmers and other users with long standing family connections with these supplies.”

It’s clear that one size does not fit all when it comes to water reforms in our rural communities. Stuart Crosby Local Government NZ The group did not consider any cost from the transfer of water scheme ownership, but Cadogan expects many will not involve a financial exchange. Bill Bayfield, the chief executive of water quality regulator Taumata Arowai, says for some mixed-use schemes 90% of water is used for agriculture but the absence of alternative domestic water sources means users have to tap into those schemes. The group’s report found that users fear that once scheme ownership is transferred to the Government’s new entities, they will not have input into management and operation nor security of supply especially for agricultural use. Another concern was the future cost of water.

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The group does not want any cross-subsidisation between drinking, wastewater and stormwater systems or from rural to urban schemes. Privately-owned rural drinking water schemes not captured by reform and not shifted to water service entities will have several years before having to register with regulator Taumata Arowai as a drinking water supplier. The group acknowledged community concern about complying with new drinking water regulations but says Taumata Arowai is considering “multiple compliance pathways for small and rural supplies” to balance safety and compliance costs. For example, the health and safety risks of handling chlorine by those who have not done it before may outweigh public health risks. The report says the number of consumers could be a proxy for calculating any water quality risk. “While it is acknowledged that there is no ideal approach, the population approach has the fewest issues when considered against alternatives such as distinguishing supplies based on water volume, or number of drinking water services’ connections.” The report says that if a scheme servicing 25 to 50 people is deemed as small, an estimated 75,000 drinking water suppliers would face lower compliance. Local Government NZ welcomes the option of community ownership of schemes mostly used for stock or irrigation. President Stuart Crosby says such a move would be a win for rural communities. “It’s clear that one size does not fit all when it comes to water reforms in our rural communities.”

GOOD SENSE: Technical working group chairman Bryan Cadogan says he’s confident the recommendations for rural water management recognise the particular interests of rural communities.

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Rain welcomed but feed still short Gerald Piddock & Neal Wallace PERSISTANT rain and unseasonably warm temperatures over the past several days have put a green tint back into parched soils at either end of the country. More rain is forecast in Waikato, leading to some farmers hoping it may signal the end of the drought that has hit the region over the past few months. Rainfall data sites monitored by the Waikato Regional Council ranged from 39mm at Waitanguru in the southwest corner of the region, 50mm in Otorohanga, 54mm at Maungakawa in northeast Waikato, 63mm in Te Kuiti, 74mm in Tokoroa, 80mm in Te Aroha, 196mm in Te Poi, and 258mm on the summit of the Kaimai Ranges. Other farmers reported 60mm at Eureka, 55mm near Te Aroha, 48mm south of Otorohanga, 100mm near Matamata and 46mm near Whaeranga. Neil Bateup, who chairs both the Waikato Primary Industries Adverse Event Cluster and the Rural Support Trust, said it was the first time the region has had successive rainfalls since early December. “It’s the first time we’ve had follow-up rain after rain. The other times we have had a bit of rain, but then nothing. “I drove across the Hauraki Plains a few days ago and it’s great to see it all green and in a growing state.” Bateup believed the rain should be enough to kickstart pasture recovery across the region. “Any moisture we do get is sticking around. I believe it’s enough to get the grass growing well, it’s now a question of building the feed ahead,” he said. While covers are still very short, the grass was now responding to the warm temperatures and was growing again. Waikato Federated Farmers dairy chairman Andrew Reymer said it will still take a while for

WELCOME: Rural Support Trust chairman Neil Bateup says the recent wet weather is the first time Waikato has had successive rainfall since December.

While things are pretty good and we’re certainly not in a drought, were still in a massive feed deficit situation. Andrew Reymer Waikato dairy farmer pastures to fully recover and provide sufficient feed to get through winter. “It’s warm and things are looking pretty good and we can’t ask for more than that, but we’re still way behind feed requirements and pasture cover.” He estimated farmers were about six weeks behind in regard to those covers. “While things are pretty good and we’re certainly not in a

drought, were still in a massive feed deficit situation.” On his own farm, he estimated he has about three weeks of maize silage left in his bunker, but has already made contingency plans to ensure he has sufficient feed for his cows as calving gets underway. The rain has also come too late for many sharemilkers and contract milkers with clauses in their contracts around feed levels for the new employee if they are shifting to a new farm over Moving Day. Bateup said they have encouraged both farm owners and sharemilkers to talk to each other and come to an agreement for how to resolve the situation. The good dairy payout meant in most circumstances the two parties have been able to come to an amicable agreement. The Ministry for Primary Industries classified Waikato’s drought as a medium scaled adverse event last month after

advice from the cluster and other groups. Bateup said that classification will stay in place for now and it will be reviewed when it meets in June. Favourable May weather has eased what was looming as an especially tough winter for farmers in Southland and South Otago. Regular rain and unseasonably warm temperatures has encouraged some late autumn growth and while winter will still be tight for some, farming leaders say prospects are better than initially feared. Wyndham farmer and Southland Federated Farmers meat and wool section chairman Dean Rabbidge says the temperature hit 21C this week and grass is still growing heading into June. His winter crops are on average 4t/ha heavier than expected. For those farmers who took proactive steps when it stopped

raining in late summer, Rabbidge says on-farm conditions will be close to where they would want them to be. “We’ve got some breathing space which is good.” Dairy farmers have milked longer than they were planning two months ago and Rabbidge says many have dried off in the past two weeks. Conditions have improved in parts of Otago although farmers will not want too many extreme winter weather events. Otago Federated Farmers president Mark Patterson says regular rain and warm temperatures have encouraged a late flurry of growth but farmers will still have to carefully manage feed. “Crops have picked up, we’ve had some pasture growth and the long range weather forecast favours warmer temperatures so in terms of where we were, this is the best we could have hoped for.”

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Local market mops up export consignment Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz THE 6000 cattle from a failed live export consignment destined for China have now all sold in the local market. The young dairy-beef heifers have been dispersed into local saleyards across the North Island after Hamilton-based livestock exporter Genetic Development NZ (GDNZ) was forced to abandon a contract to China when a livestock ship failed to arrive as planned. The Chinese importer was not prepared to underwrite the process, so GDNZ could not fully honour the purchase agreement at the export premium value. Taupo-based Central Livestock director Shane Scott says the 6000 cattle are now all cleared from the Tokoroa pre-export isolation (PEI) farm. “It’s been a big effort by all involved to drip feed this number

of cattle into sales over the past couple of weeks to ensure this did not end up as a fire sale. “There’s been a lot of people involved, it’s been efficient and it’s been successful.”

It’s been a big effort to drip feed this number of cattle into sales. Shane Scott Central Livestock While prices were well shy of the contracted export value, they reflected the local market. “It’s what they are worth here, and as expected. Not everybody wants in-calf 18-month dairy-beef heifers, so to sell 6000 like this has

been one hell of an effort. “A few buyers came out of the woodwork and thought they might get a steal, but that was never the case at any of the sales,” Scott said. Canterbury-based Progressive Livestock had a number of farmers impacted by the cancelled contracts but the end result while disappointing, has been pleasing, director Andrew Robins said. Live cattle export is about creating premiums and farmers budget for that premium. “Many of the cattle were contracted at $1100 a head but as we all knew they would not fetch those heights in the local market. “It’s been a monumental task, a huge logistical exercise with all stakeholders cooperating to get this result.” Robins says it has been a saving grace that the East Coast of the North Island has some feed. “Given the scale of the exercise

BARGAIN HUNTERS: A few buyers came out of the woodwork and thought they might get a steal but that was never the case at this Taupō sale, or any of the other cancelled export dispersal sales.

– Waikato on the cusp of serious drought, transport logistics making it virtually impossible to get any of the cattle to the South Island – all stakeholders have done their very best to mitigate losses selling to best advantage in a market under serious pressure.” GDNZ proposes all vendors will get paid an equal portion of the contract invoice that was calculated based on induction weights soon after arrival at the

PEI farm, likely to be about 85% of that value. “We (GDNZ) will pay out $750 a head after the sale and pay the top up balance as soon as possible after dispersal is completed,” GDNZ managing director Dave Hayman said in a letter to clients. Hayman is seeking legal advice on a claim against the shipping company and says if he gets any settlement then a portion of it will be set aside for cattle payment top-ups to farmers.

Procurement pressure drives lamb returns Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz THE winter prime lamb market appears to be returning to normal after a bullish ride last year, but there is uncertainty about the number of lambs still left to be killed. Up to the week ending May 7 and based on earlier estimates, there are potentially 5.8 million lambs left to kill to September 30, compared with 4.2m last year, which was the lowest for five years. Senior AgriHQ analyst Mel Croad says this current estimate is based on dated data. As a percentage, 5.8m lambs still to process represents 32% of the

estimated total kill compared with a five-year average of 26%. At the same time last year, the percentage was 23%. Croad says global markets in the past month have started to ease, but over that same period farm gate prices have lifted 30-40c/kg. This increase appears to be driven by procurement pressure. “The lift in prices in the last three to four weeks is procurement driven and not reflective of the export markets which have softened.” Croad says a favourable autumn over much of the country may have encouraged more farmers to carry store lambs for the winter market in the hope it replicates last season.

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UNCERTAIN: AgriHQ senior analyst Mel Croad says global markets in the past month have started to ease, but over that same period farm gate prices have lifted 30-40c/kg.

This is true in the South Island where summer dry conditions in Southland meant lambs that would have been slaughtered by now, were bought as stores by Canterbury cropping farmers for sale over autumn and winter.

The market last winter was exceptional with prices rising in May and not stopping. By October prices were $2/kg higher than May. Croad says while she is not forecasting a collapse in

prices, she notes there is more uncertainty this year than last. While still historically high, international market prices have this year followed a traditional pattern of softening through late autumn. There is uncertainty about the impact of lockdowns in major Chinese cities, the dollar has started to strengthen again and questions remain about just how many lambs are left to be processed. “Everybody is searching for a bit of clarity,” says Croad. “AgriHQ is forecasting lamb prices to lift to well above than $9/ kg by spring but the jump between now and the end of the season is not going to be as big as last year.”

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Central Otago Hereford price setters Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz NEW Zealand Herefords president Gray Pannett and his wife Robyn at Limehills Stud, Roxburgh, have again set the early-season price summit with $42,000 paid for Limehills Blast 200468. The top price was paid by Earnscleugh Station, at nearby Alexandra, and the Limehills average was $10,240 over 59 bulls sold out of 64 offered. That compared favourably with last year’s $9950 average. Just $1000 more than they achieved in the 2021 bull selling season, it looks like again being the highest price of the season for a Hereford bull. Limehills Blast 200468 was bred within the stud and sired by Dynamite 180042 out of Limehills cow 180004. He had great EBV figures right across the table, topping the carcase characteristics, intramuscular fat and growth rates on a moderate frame. Lot 19 was sold to Hawkridge Run for $38,000. In the first of the biggest Angus bull sales of the central North

Competition was strong in the mid-teens price range and three bulls will be registration transferred at $15,000 to $17,000. Tim Brittain Storth Oaks Island, Storth Oaks at Otorohanga sold 69 of 86 offered and averaged $8746, a useful advance on last season’s $7500. Top price was $22,000 paid by Waiwhero Angus for Storth Oaks R44, followed by $21,000 for Storth Oaks R33, paid by Ruaoki Station. Stud principal Tim Brittain said competition was strong in the mid-teens price range and three bulls will be registration transferred at $15,000 to $17,000. On the same day and nearby the Jolly family at Hingaia Angus at Te Awamutu made a top price of $14,000 three times and sold 37 of 43 offered for an average of $7364. Umbrella Range Angus, at Waikaia, made a top price of

WANTED: Limehills Blast 200468 was bought by Earnscleugh Station for $1000 more than last year’s Limehills top price.

$19,000 for UR 20421, sold another bull at $18,000 and two more at $17,000.

OUTSTANDING: Shian Angus bull sale lot 1, Shian 20-807, sold for $92,000 to Penny Hoogerbrug, Kaharau Angus, Gisborne, as this edition went to print. Sale report next week.

Across the full clearance of 28 bulls this gave them a meritorious average of $11,535, substantially more than last year’s average $7027. Potawa Simmentals sold a bull for $8500 to Te Hape Station and two more for $8000, resulting in the average of $5840 across 15 sold. Kia Toa Charolais, at Te Kuiti, had a top price of $12,500 paid by the Coogan Family Trust and from a full clearance of 29 the average was $5272. Peters Angus at Clutha Downs topped the sale with $12,000 twice and had a full clearance of 29 bulls, averaging $7010. Tarangower Angus at Mahoenui had a top price of $14,500 paid twice and generated an average of $8214 Glenside Simmentals, Lawrence, sold 16 of 28 offered, with a highest price of $12,000 and an average of $6387. Stoneburn Herefords, Palmerston, sold 24 of 26 offered for an average of $7647 with a top price of $14,000. At the same sale Waimara Angus

sold 25 of 26 offered, averaged $7980 and topped with $18,000 to Pukeatua Station. Flagstaff Herefords sold 11 of 6 offered, averaged $7181 and had a top of $16,000 paid by Oatley Hill. Bannockburn Angus sold 11 of 12 with an average of $6569 and a top of $9000 to a commercial farmer. Beresford Simmentals, Owaka, sold 14 of 17 offered, averaged $6535 and had a top of $10,000 paid by Opawa Simmentals. Colvend Angus and Shorthorn at Ongarue sold 21 of 25 offered with an average across both breeds of $6042 and a highest price of $11,500 for Angus bull Colvend Big Sky 181. The combined vendor Hauroko Valley sale resulted in 42 bulls being sold from 49 offered. Pikoburn Angus, Tuatapere, averaged $8070 with a top price of $13,500. In the same sale Waiau Herefords averaged of $5550, Pourakino Herefords averaged $6780 and Wainuka South Devons sold a bull at $12,200.

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Online trading thrives through covid Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz MORE than 7000 farmers and 11 livestock agencies are using the online platform bidr to buy and sell, which has proven to be a much-needed technology for the times of travel disruption. Covid-19 contact and travel restrictions have given online livestock sales a huge kick along, reducing stock movements and enabling buyers to participate from home. The same is true of the MyLiveStock online platform, owned and operated by NZ Livestock (NZL), an Allied Farmers company. NZL general manager Bill Sweeney said about 10% of all bids are now made online and in recent elite dairy cow sales as many as 75% of lots went to online buyers. MyLiveStock was the first online platform to get started, has 8000 registered users and is the only strong alternative to bidr dominance of the industry, he said. It does not charge the vendors any extra for the online dimension and recently introduced a mobile app which takes livestock purchases from the vendor’s farm to a nominated farm or paddock using the buyer’s preferred carrier. The new app also contains the farmer’s sale and purchase history with the company. MyLiveStock live streams at three saleyards, Frankton, Morrinsville and Stratford, and will be participating in bull sales this season throughout the regions NZL operates. Weekly feature sales from seven saleyards are now live streamed on bidr, with more locations planned, and more than 80 hybrid bull sales will be covered this winter. While hybrid sales are spaced out during the day and evening, feature saleyards can be operating at the same time in different locations and some bidrregistered buyers watch more than one. Most recently dairy clearing sales went online and some wool sales have been featured. The PGG Wrightson-owned

PREPARATION: Bidr operator Jess Davies and national sales and operations manager Caitlin Barnett review the list of online buyers as they get ready to open online bidding for the Rangatira Angus mixed age cow and calf dispersal sale in March 2021.

Covid forced us to change and now we see farmers are on board and comfortable with using the platform. Stephen Guerin PGG Wrightson bidr platform was launched three years ago at National Fieldays to be open to all livestock agencies, chief executive Stephen Guerin said. “We are a traditional industry and initially there was concern about how online trading would work and whether it would be adopted by farmers. “Covid forced us to change and now we see farmers are on board and comfortable with using the platform.” Based at Ruakura, the bidr business team has nine staff

members, five of whom are in the field to facilitate hybrid auctions – those traditional on-farm auctions that are also carried on bidr. The Auctions-Plus platform in Australia was studied but it didn’t entirely suit the New Zealand situation, partly because of our relatively large proportion of livestock transactions from the dairy industry. In the saleyard feature auctions now carried on bidr permanent broadband connections are used. For the hybrid auctions on farms, bidr uses Spark technology linked back to the nearest cell phone tower with Jasper wireless connections for voice, video and data transmission simultaneously. This has provided very good connectivity with near nil latency in districts that may not be adequately served by wire or wireless telephone and internet. “We deliver bids from the floor and from the online network at the same time so the auction progress is not disjointed and nobody misses out,” he said.

Guerin would not say how much PGG Wrightson had spent on the bidr platform, only that it was open to other users from the start. NZL is the only agency that has not joined. Stud stock farmers pay a fee to have bidr at a hybrid auction but no additional fees are paid by farmers who consign to saleyards, or purchase online. Financial transactions are done through the normal agency accounts with the NZ Stock and Station Agents Association obligations, conditions and margins. Click-through pedigrees and EBVs are loaded along with pictures and/or videos of cattle and bidr provides preview marketing of the hybrid offerings, and electronic catalogues followed by the list of prices and outcomes. All livestock in hybrid auctions are independently assessed to ensure that descriptions are accurate. For saleyard consignments

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livestock is weighed and the weight averages displayed along with the price per head and the price per kilogram. As each lot is sold the weight and price information builds the market picture for that day. The proportions of online purchasing are about 10% of all lots at hybrid sales, between 20% and 25% in the live streamed saleyards and over 40% in dairy cattle sales. Some breeders had opted for 100% online auctions, especially when covid movement restrictions were at their most stringent. Guerin said the rapid growth of online transactions was happening alongside updating and rationalisation of joint-owned saleyards. NZ Saleyards in Hamilton has been formed to manage the facilities better, including the employment of staff and access for suppliers. The operating company is 75% PGG Wrightson and 25% Carrfields. It covers the North Island at present, where saleyards are increasingly surrounded by homes and more congested roads, working on environmental and compliance matters. The joint companies have spent $800,000 at Masterton and have work scheduled at Stortford Lodge, Dannevirke and in the Far North over the next year. “Our saleyard responsibilities are growing and we need a professional structure to cope with that,” Guerin said. “There will be fewer saleyards in future, but they will be properly resourced and able to deal with environmental requirements, animal welfare and human safeguards. “They will have live streaming and be used more frequently, so the return on investment is sufficient.” Australia was leading the way into online wool sales and machinery and farm clearing sales were a recent development, the first held in Waikato on May 27. NZ is well advanced in livestock e-commerce when compared with Australia and the US, he said.

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Shearing ups pay

ENTICING: The New Zealand Shearing Contractors’ Association is lifting pay rates to encourage shearers to stay in the country.

Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz THE New Zealand Shearing Contractors’ Association (NZSCA) has announced that pay rates for key roles in the shearing industry will rise between 7% to 23% as the industry moves to retain its workers. NZSCA executive officer Phil Holden says the decision was not taken lightly by members who are competing in a dire labour shortage. “Retaining skilled staff is absolutely vital for the wool harvesting industry in an employment market where labour is in short supply and everyone is competing. “The need to ensure we remain competitive has been what’s driven us to make this move,” Holden says. The focus for association members is retaining the staff they have. “In the light of recent cost of living increases we need to ensure our members’ staff don’t get left behind everyone else and our industry remains a competitive and attractive career option.” Shearing of crossbred sheep, all crutching, and shearing gang cooks will get a 6.91% pay increase.

Retaining skilled staff is absolutely vital for the wool harvesting industry in an employment market where labour is in short supply and everyone is competing. Phil Holden NZ Shearing Merino, half breeds and quarter breeds shearing will receive a 12.38% rise while advanced shedhands and pressers will get a 12.17% pay rise, seniors 22.81% and junior workers 20%. Holden says these are base rates and will vary from region to region. “The association sets a minimum standard rate but a lot of members already pay over the base rate.” He encourages farmers to check with their shearing contractor to learn exactly what it means for them as there is “no one size fits all”. The NZSCA acknowledges that lifting pay rates alone will not address the skill shortage with work ongoing to address the long-term recruitment and training needs of the sector. “We are mindful too that with the boarders opening up we expect to see people go as overseas opportunities become attractive.” The association is hopeful the Government’s reform of the vocational education system can be completed as soon as possible so that the training needs of its sector can be clarified and confirmed. “It takes two years to become a trained shearer, so we can’t just fill in the current labour shortages overnight. “We need the shearers we’ve got,to stay.” Holden says labour shortages threaten recent gains made by the wool harvesting industry. “We don’t want to hinder the growth of our highend Merino product or the progress that’s currently being made to revitalise the strong wool sector. “Any successful industry needs well-trained shed staff. “We can ill afford to lose the staff we have overseas because they’re lured by better prospects. “The reality is, just like other industries in the primary sector, we’ll have to pay more to retain the people we have.” Farmers also need to ensure the working conditions and environment they offer remain a drawcard for shearing industry workers, Holden says.

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Hemp still facing regulatory roadblocks Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz THE global hemp industry is expected to grow to $65 billion by 2030 and if it plays its cards right New Zealand can be in a for a large piece of the pie. With plant-derived medicines rapidly increasing in popularity internationally, hemp could be NZ’s next big export success story, but industry leaders say there is a stumbling block. Addressing a B.linc innovation forum at Lincoln University, keynote speakers outlined the challenges curtailing progress in an industry, that fully enabled, could generate $2b in income for NZ while also creating thousands of jobs. “The future of hemp sits with the NZ Government,” Brad Lake of Brothers Green said. A former rural banker who worked with farmers in various farming systems throughout North Canterbury, Lake realised a need for a sustainable cropping and protein option which would offer diversity in markets and meet changing consumer demands. “Hemp offered not only a sustainable cropping option but also the benefit of regenerating our soils and waterways underneath this crop.” The answer was hemp protein and from there Brothers Green was born. “The hemp food industry is in very early stages and in dire need of new regulation.” The change of legislation to allow the industry to flourish sits squarely with the Ministry of Health (MOH), Lake said. “If we can get it (hemp) out of MOH control and treat it like other crops such as wheat and barley, with the international demand for hemp products, it could become our fastest growing export industry.” Lake urges clear separation between the varying growth processes of the plant either for a drug or for food. There are three areas of the hemp plant where a grower could make money – the seed, the

EXCITING TIMES: Leading researcher of medicinal cannabis Parmjit Randhawa of Greenlab says NZ can develop what it takes to sustainably grow hemp and be a leader in the global medicinal cannabis industry.

It’s becoming increasingly important that we eat from the country we live in. Brad Lake Brothers Green flower and the stalk, with each component serving a different market. Hemp plants and marijuana plants are both the same species but legally hemp is defined as a cannabis plant than contains 0.35% or less Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), while cannabis marijuana is a cannabis plant containing more than 0.35% THC. The difference in the plants is the way they are grown and the

difference in their use and the way they are regulated. “Separation is a big challenge for our industry at this stage. “NZ is in an amazing space with red and white protein, it’s time we stopped floundering around about what we do and get into an amazing green space as well. “We have multiple product industry options that can also improve soil, water quality, and help meet carbon reduction targets. “We need to diversify and make it attractive for farmers to get into, we need a change in regulation. “We need an industry body with structure and understanding giving clear guidelines to get growers out of the woodwork as it’s becoming increasingly important that we eat from the country we live in.” Lake said. AgResearch scientist Peter Brorens has been following the development of the industrial

hemp industry in Canterbury since the first growing trials in the early 2000s. He focuses on whole plant utilisation, looking at the opportunities for both medicinal and industrial hemp to gain full value from the multi-use plant. Brorens says the key focus is to get hemp on the radar as a major opportunity for NZ’s economy in terms of an agricultural crop. The farming community is geared up for it. Using local specialist genetics and local certified seed teamed with innovative agriculture agribusiness and regional specialisation, it will identify NZ’s uniqueness in producing high value niche products. “There are enough uses for hemp to make it interesting, enough to explore yet, and enough for a good future,” Brorens said. Leading medical cannabis researcher Parmjit Randhawa

of Lincoln University-based Greenlab, says NZ can be a global leader in hemp and medicinal cannabis. He says NZ’s challenge is the lack of research and development. “Key players do not currently have any code of practice to consistently reproduce the targeted flower with a known medical potency. “Most growers in the NZ space lack local research facilities and are dependent on overseas contract research.” The nutraceuticals could blow the top of the industry but there is a lot to do, Randhawa said. “Local plant-based research is vital to run a successful cannabis business as potential high end generating products are still in the research phase. “Greenlab is only 14 months on the ground exploring genetics and this is our one time opportunity for NZ,” Randhawa said.

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Fonterra Ingredients back to heavy lifting Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz THE variations in third-quarter earnings from Fonterra’s divisions show the importance of having a big, diversified processing structure in the giant dairy exporter, chief financial officer Marc Rivers said. A year ago, Fonterra Foodservice had produced a very strong performance as quick service restaurants in China emerged from the covid lockdowns. In the nine months of this financial year earnings from Foodservice division have fallen by 65% and those from Consumer are down by 53%. By contrast, Ingredients earnings are up by nearly 70%, from $386 million to $652m (see chart). Ingredients produced 72% of Fonterra’s $900m earnings, compared with 14% each from Foodservice and Consumer. “Foodservice and Consumer margins are under considerable pressure from high milk prices,” Rivers said. “For Foodservice and Consumer margins to improve comes down to our ability to pass on those higher prices to the end consumer.

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COMPENSATIONS: Fonterra’s divisional earnings have switched back to Ingredients and been strong in the AMENA geographical region.

“Eventually consumers do get used to paying more and our margins will be restored. “Or consumer don’t pay the new levels and dairy demand starts being affected and prices come down. “One way or another a new

balance will be found.” Asia-Pacific geographical divisional earnings fell sharply by 40% but that included a $80m impairment in the Sri Lanka business. It also included what chief executive Miles Hurrell admitted

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Europe, North Asia and Americas) the combination of Ingredients and Consumer sales was strong, especially in Chile. Fonterra Ingredients is benefitting from the rise in milk prices, across the portfolio of commodity products, those that contribute to the milk price model and those that don’t. “You need a collection of businesses that behave differently in different circumstances,” Rivers said. He commented on the sustainability of Fonterra’s earnings in a high milk price environment, given that it has been hard for the company to deliver profits and high farm gate milk prices together. Fonterra’s long-term aspirations for 2030 are still possible, including both good milk prices and adequate returns on capital. “Flat to declining milk production in NZ means we can be more selective in who we sell to, and that higher value will show up in the milk price. “Ever-increasing improvements in the portfolio mix should show up in earnings. “That’s the strategy, which needs to be followed by execution – and there is going to be volatility along the way.”

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Fonterra’s falling share price gives concern Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz FONTERRA has brought forward support for liquidity in the Fonterra Shareholders’ Market (FSM) for supply shares while it waits for the Government to approve the Flexible Shareholding capital restructure. In so doing it acknowledged concern among farmershareholders that the value of their shares has nearly halved in the past year. The wealth destruction on farm balance sheets has come since Fonterra suspended the connection between the Fonterra Cooperative Group (FCG) shares and the Fonterra Shareholders’ Fund (FSF) units before consulting on restructuring. On May 5 last year FCG shares were $4.56, about the nominal value when Fonterra launched market valuation of shares in 2012 as part of Trading Among Farmers and the initial public offering of FSF units. FCG shares are now $2.46 and FSF units a little higher at $2.87. Collectively, the market capitalisations of FCG and FSF

have fallen from $7.85 billion to $4.27b, which is 45% capital loss. Some $860 million of the value reduction has occurred during the past two months in the lead up to most farmer’s end of financial year on May 31.

Although compliance remains on hold, you can still buy or sell Fonterra shares if you wish to do so within one to two times your three-season average milk supply. Peter McBride Fonterra The FSM is in the doldrums awaiting substantial changes, market liquidity is very low and share and unit values are languishing. “Liquidity in the FSM has been low, and we know there is

concern about the decline in our share price over recent weeks and the impact this is having on your balance sheets,” chair Peter McBride said in an email to all farmers. He then made a passing reference to the earnings per share guidance of 25-35c, implying that the share price did not reflect the good earnings outlook or the company’s plans to pass back $1b to shareholders (about 60c a share unfranked) by 2024. The company’s intended remedy is to flag additional support to liquidity in the FSM by arrangements with one or more market-makers. “While those arrangements are still being worked on, Fonterra will be providing additional financial support to the current registered volume provider to more actively support liquidity in the FSM.” But that was the only immediate move announced in McBride’s letter – the rest being intentions for more flexibility in the share standard when Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA) amendments are passed. “Although compliance remains on hold, you can still buy or sell

GOING DOWN: Fonterra chair Peter McBride told farmer shareholders the cooperative was aware of the concern about the decline in its share price over recent weeks and the impact it is having on balance sheets.

Fonterra shares if you wish to do so within one to two times your three-season average milk supply,” he said. Daily transactions of FCG shares during the past nine months have been under 200,000, which is about the size of the average-sized farm current share standard. In previous years around the times of share compliance dates, transaction volumes have been much higher. Under the proposed new share standard of three to one kilogram

of milksolids, about two-thirds of all FCG shares would become effectively “dry”. The company believes these will be valuable for their earnings potential but the market restriction to farmers-only will make ensuring market liquidity a big challenge. Cooperative Council chair James Barron said the workings of the FSM in the interim are matters for the company and its board and he would not make comment on the McBride email.

OIO gives forestry sales the green light Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz FOREIGN buyers have been given permission to buy a further 4000ha of sheep and beef farmland for conversion to forestry. In May the Overseas Investment Office approved the sale of two farms on the East Coast, one in Wairarapa and another in Southland

to European and Canadian interests. This follows approval in April for the sale of six farms covering 4000ha in Southland, Wairarapa, Hawke’s Bay, East Coast and Northland. The latest round of approvals includes the 442ha Te Papa Station at Gisborne to be sold to Canadian company Forestry Investment Ltd. Nearly 400ha is classed as land

use class six and seven. The property adjoins an existing forestry block owned by the purchasers. Totara Forestry Services, backed by European interests and with links to a partnership with Craigmore Sustainables Group, has bought the 849ha Glentui Station in Tolaga Bay. Most of the farm is classed as land use class seven.

Dutch company Ingka Investments, the largest franchisee of Ikea stores in the world, has bought an 1118ha farm at Waimumu near Gore, of which 977ha will be planted. Nearly 200ha is classed as land use class three and the balance class six. This is the third farm it has bought for commercial forestry. Last year it bought Wisp Hill, a 5500ha sheep and beef farm,in

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Little chance of CPTPP progress with USA Eric Frykberg THE Prime Minister’s support for the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) in a meeting in the White House appears unlikely to bear fruit, according to trade experts in this country. The issue arose in comments by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern the media alongside President Joe Biden in the White House. Ardern first praised Biden’s leadership in bringing to the table the 13-nation Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). She then said New Zealand was a “significant advocate” for the CPTPP. But this appears to have fallen on deaf ears. A White House official made no mention of the CPTPP in prepared remarks to the media later and mentioned it briefly in passing later. “The Prime Minister has made her views very clear,” the official said, before going on to talk generally about the “importance of economic engagement”.

People need to remember that President Obama could not get the original TPP through Congress because of deep-seated opposition from the Democrats.

He went on to agree that the politics of the CPTPP were very difficult in the US but there was no reason for New Zealand not to push that at every opportunity. “In fact the Prime Minister has been doing that while she has been in the United States, so I am a bit mystified about why it did not appear in the final communique.” The US is New Zealand’s third largest export market after China and Australia, with earnings of more than $7.1 billion in the year to April.

The US originally agreed to an earlier incarnation of the CPTTP during the Obama administration, but pulled out during the Trump administration. President Biden has made no attempt to reverse this and pushed trade a long way down his agenda during his first year in office. So the latest CPTPP non-event comes as no surprise to long time trade analyst and dissenter, Jane Kelsey. “People need to remember that President Obama could not get the original TPP through Congress because of deep-seated opposition from the Democrats.” she said. “Since then you not only had President Trump criticising the CPTPP but you had Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton coming on board. “The politics on both sides are not going to favour the resuscitation of that deal in its non diluted form.” ‘Biden has made it clear he is listening to those (critical) voices.” Another trade expert has expressed disappointment at the lack of progress towards Americian readmission to the CPTPP. Stephen Jacobi is a fomer diplomat and head of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). “New Zealand remains interested in US involvement in the CPTPP …. and so having no reference to this in the final communique is a wee bit disappointing frankly,” Jacobi said.

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Farmers sunk by methane policy Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz

CONFUSED: Ag@Otago director and Otago University Emeritus Professor Frank Griffin says New Zealand agriculture has been caught up in discussions that should focus on the rapid increase in global fossil fuel-produced methane emissions.

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NEW Zealand livestock farmers are being sold short by methane reduction policies that fail to acknowledge the role of methane sinks and that fossil fuels are increasing emissions of the greenhouse gas. Scientists addressing an Ag@ Otago webinar organised by the University of Otago group said virtually all NZ sheep and beef farmers and most dairy farmers would be carbon dioxide-equivalent neutral due to the naturally occurring element hydroxyl, which removes methane from the atmosphere. Nature has and continues to provide methane sequestration, they say. They also expressed doubts an effective methane vaccine for livestock will be developed because of the difficulties overcoming the complex biology of ruminant animals. Peter Bruce-Iri, who works at North Tec and has degrees in horticulture, education, business and management and now works on climate change, says biogenic methane levels have been relatively steady from 1970 to 2018 while emissions from fossil fuels have risen sharply. He believes methane sinks such as hydroxyl have been given inadequate acknowledgement. “You look at documents such as the Inter-government Panel on Climate Change and you see the words emissions and carbon dioxide equivalent mentioned thousands of times. “They’re the only games in town but there is no talk of methane sequestration.” Bruce-Iri says the mathematics and accounting of methane levels is acknowledged as inaccurate and has resulted in a simplistic policy approach which hamstrings the livestock sector. The number of ruminant animals has been largely static for many decades but fossil fuel extraction, especially the extraction of shale gas, has increased sharply and with it methane levels. He says research shows that hydroxyl radicals, known as a naturally-occurring atmospheric scrubber, removes 90% of methane in the atmosphere. Soil absorbs less than 10%. However, the Australian Academy of Science says global methane emissions have overtaken removal by 22 megatonnes a year. The association also cites work by AgResearch that found each cow produces between 130 and 230 litres of methane a day and that livestock produce about 28% of global methane emissions from human activities. Bruce-Iri says satellite

imagery of methane hotspots around the world show the most intensive contributors are fossil fuel leaks but politicians lump all methane emitters together under the same policy without acknowledging the role of hydroxyl or low intensive livestock farming. Those policies have helped inflate the carbon price, which he says would collapse if a more accurate methane calculation was used and hydroxyl acknowledged. Another contribution from pastoral farmers that is not acknowledged, is the cooling effect of vegetative ground cover. Bruce-Iri used thermal imaging cameras over summer which showed differences in temperature of more than 30degC between vegetative ground cover and bare ground, sealed roads or paths. Alfred Harris, the research manager with Pacific Biocarbon who specialises in soil, compost and biocarbon, says the microbial function of the soil and vegetation offers natural solutions to issues such as greenhouse gas and managing nitrogen.

…there is no talk of methane sequestration. Peter Bruce-Iri North Tec The key is to manage the soil as a deep profile rather than just the top few centimetres by using deep rooting plants. He says NZ soils have the potential to capture and retain vast amounts of carbon. “We have a situation where the models used are over simplified so the potential of soil as a carbon sink is greater than the Government acknowledges.” NZ’s extensive livestock system compares favourably to methane generated from intensive feedlot systems, and the world needs to know that. “We as NZ have a very good story to tell with our herbagefed, pasture-based system, so why are we signing on to this methane story?” he says. Purnell says the UK has shown methane emissions can be measured on individual farms. Ag@Otago director, Emeritus Professor Frank Griffin says NZ has been caught up by the rapid increase in global fossil fuel-produced methane emissions in the past decade. Griffin, a microbiologist, says the role of hydroxyl raises questions about the lifecycle of methane and how its behaviour differs between farms and within farms.

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MISSING: ANZ Bank’s latest Agriculture Insight report says lost grain exports from Ukraine and Russia mean that global grain stocks are depleting rapidly except in China, which has been stockpiling.

Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz FOOD insecurity is worsening after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the United Nations sustainability goal of zero hunger by 2030 is becoming more difficult to achieve. ANZ commodity strategist Soni Kumari and agricultural economist Susan Kilsby warn in the bank’s latest Agriculture Insight that the FAO world food index is at a record level, well above its previous peak in 2011. “Ongoing food inflation will challenge central banks’ ability to rein in overall inflation,” they say. Lost grain exports from Ukraine and Russia mean that global grain stocks are depleting rapidly except in China, which has been stockpiling. “The food crisis is triggering food protectionism, which is worsening supply disruptions and pushing soft commodity prices higher. “Trade restrictions have also been imposed on fertilisers by Russia and China. “Higher energy and other input prices are further adding to producers’ woes.” The UN FAO believes that 25 million tonnes of grain are trapped in Ukraine, and this is causing the numbers of undernourished people in Africa to rise quickly. Wheat inventories have shifted from 50:50 China and the rest of the world five years ago to 60% plus in China right now, where in practice they are not available to other countries. Russia and Ukraine have in recent years contributed 30%, 17% and 76% respectively of global wheat, corn and sunflower oil exports. As the war drags on, Ukraine’s ability to sow the next harvest has been disrupted and its agriculture ministry expects plantings to decline 20-30% yearon-year. Crop yields could suffer even more because of reduced farm management and high fertiliser prices. Russia’s production will also suffer sanctionrelated uncertainties. Sustained La Nina weather patterns have impacted grain production in the United States and Latin America. The Food Policy Research Institute has reported many instances of countries restricting exports so as to tame food inflation. China’s exports of fertilisers have fallen from 1m to 2m tonnes a month to about 500,000t/month currently. The covid-19 impacts on world shipping are not expected to disappear until 2023 and container freight rates have increased by three to four times. “Food-exporting nations like Australia and New Zealand may continue to benefit in a net sense from high commodity prices, but it’s hard going for lower income earners.” Also demand will fall as food prices become too expensive. High food prices contribute to political instability, inducing migration and toppling governments. “The food crisis is another factor to add to the growing list of potential geopolitical risks and the world tentatively emerges from the shadow of covid-19.”

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Studying what’s housed in your home

HEALTHY HOME? AgResearch scientist Sonya Scott says the research will explore what difference there may be between use of wool and synthetics when it comes to the billions of micro-organisms that exist in family homes.

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AGRESEARCH and Campaign for Wool New Zealand (CFWNZ) are studying what effect the fabric used for soft furnishings have on the microbiome of a home. The unique study is the first of its type and will assess the microbiome within commonly found materials such as wool and polyester. Microbiome refers to a group of microorganisms in a specific environment including bacteria, viruses, fungi and other single-celled organisms. The research will involve the analysis of woolfilled and synthetic fibre-filled pillows, along with wool and synthetic carpet. The hypothesis is that the stark compositional differences between wool and synthetics will give rise to a different microbiome. It is the first time CFWNZ has collaborated with AgResearch on a project involving NZ strong wool. “With the funding support from industry and government we are able to carry out novel research that may generate new knowledge around what a natural fibre like wool can offer,” AgResearch senior scientist Sonya Scott said. “In this research we are able to explore what difference there may be between use of wool and synthetics when it comes to the billions of microorganisms that exist in our homes. “Most of us don’t think about the normal microbiome in our homes and how this could be impacted by the use of natural or synthetic fibres. “We hypothesise that different types of fibre around the home will alter what microbes are present, but we do not know if this could have health implications, and the first step is to measure any differences,” Scott said. CFWNZ chair Tom O’Sullivan says the study is an exciting step for NZ wool. “CFWNZ is proud to support this research, both financially and through the supply of product from our partners. “We are passionately committed to influencing conscientious consumers around the globe to buy NZ wool products. “While we can’t predict what the research will find, this study and any that follow it, could provide valuable intelligence to support Campaign for Wool’s strategic objectives and benefit our NZ strong wool growers and their partners,” O’Sullivan said. At its conclusion findings from the research will be made available to CFWNZ’s registered commercial partners, which currently include a range of both large and small manufacturers and retailers such as Bremworth, Godfrey Hirst, BigSave and Swazi NZ.

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Feds faces key losses Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz THE retirement of three of Federated Farmers’ seven national board members at next month’s annual meeting will leave significant gaps in the portfolio areas of resource management and water. Vice president Karen Williams and board members Chris Allen and Chris Lewis are all stepping down while national president Andrew Hoggard has one more year to run.

I estimate 70% of my role is dealing with policy. It’s a huge amount of work. Chris Allen Federated Farmers Those retiring say while their tenure is up, they are also fatigued from an exceptionally heavy workload caused by Government policy, much if it they termed as poorly thought through and requiring substantial change. Hoggard says he spends about 30 hours a week on federation business. Prior to covid-19, Allen says he was spending two days a week while Chris Lewis estimates he

spends three days a week. Allen and Lewis have a year to run but are finishing early to avoid an even great loss with the terms for the three sector chairs also ending next year. “In some ways this breaks up a potentially bigger problem next year,” Hoggard says. “We still have three board members remaining unless there is a challenge to replace them.” Wayne Langford has expressed an interest in taking on the vice president’s role and, depending in his farming circumstances, Hoggard says he could invoke a clause in the constitution that enables him to stay longer to help with the transition. Hoggard says the past few years have been demanding, accentuated by what he called rushed and poorly thought through Government legislation such as essential freshwater. It was a point he made in a letter to Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor earlier this year, urging them to slow down and deliberate more before releasing new policy. Three years after the freshwater reforms were introduced, changes are still being discussed and introduced to make them practical, such as changes to intensive winter grazing rules. Still needed are amendments to stock exclusion rules and input into councils having to rewrite National Policy Statements for freshwater.

BIG WORKLOAD: Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard says the past few years have been demanding, accentuated by what he called rushed and poorly thought through Government legislation such as essential freshwater.

Hoggard says the Government deals with the extra workload by employing more staff, but groups like Federated Farmers do not have that luxury. He did not think criticism from some farmers and groups like Groundswell that sector representation groups are too accommodating to the Government is a factor in retirements or dissuading people from taking leadership roles. Recognising the barrier created by their workload, an independent report to reform of the federation’s structure is due soon and Hoggard says one option could be separating governance and policy roles.

Chris Allen says the role of board members is governance but also requires them to work alongside staff preparing then fronting submissions and responses to policy decisions. “I estimate 70% of my role is dealing with policy. It’s a huge amount of work.” Allen defined that role as “restraining over-ambitious politicians and noisy members of the public with some reality”. He has thoroughly enjoyed his eight years on the board, describing it as honour to represent farmers, but when floods hit his Mid Canterbury farm a year ago, he decided it was time to retire.

Chris Lewis says his portfolios, which included immigration and labour, have been demanding and complex due to closed boarders, immigration changes and labour shortages. Being unable to meet Government officials in person added to that complexity, he says. Southland dairy farmer Jason Herrick has announced his intention to stand for the board. The federation’s current Southland junior vice president and the sharemilker’s section chairman, Herrick has been a member for 25 years. He promises to stand up for what is right now matter how hard it is.

Synlait forecasts $9 payout for new milking season Staff reporter SYNLAIT has matched Fonterra’s opening forecast for the 2022-23 season, announcing it will pay its farmers $9/kg milksolids. The company also updated its forecast for the current season, decreasing the amount by 30

cents to $9.30/kg MS. Late last month Fonterra announced its opening forecast of $8.25-$9.75/kg MS with a midpoint range of $9/kg MS for the new milking season. Synlait chief executive Grant Watson said that some of the shine has come off the 2021-

22 season as dairy commodity prices have fallen over the past two months, but it will still be the highest milk price Synlait has ever paid. “The 2022-23 season is starting in a good position with some product already sold at historically high prices,and

foreign exchange movements supporting a strong milk price. “Despite these two factors, the 2022-23 season’s final milk price will still depend on an everevolving global situation.” He said the forecasts are based on the best information available at the time and the company will

continue to monitor movements and keep its farmer suppliers up to date. Synlait’s final milk price for the 2021-22 season will be confirmed when the company’s full year result is released in September. The 2022-23 season forecast will be updated at the same time.

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MAYBE THE ANSWER IS SIMPLY TO GROW A BIT E With the air of uncertainty around imported feeds in both the short and long term, now is a good time to explore alternatives. And you don’t have to look far. Planting an extra paddock in maize at home, or ordering more maize silage in, may be all that’s needed. Maize silage is the ideal supplement to pasture. The cows love the stuff, it helps you maintain high production and milk quality when your feed levels dip (and will keep for years if they don’t). To find out about adding more maize to your farm system, contact your local Pioneer representative, call 0800 PIONEER or visit pioneer.co.nz/maize-silage

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Wetland construction guidelines released Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz SEVEN years ago, Gray and Marilyn Baldwin decided to construct a wetland on their farm to future proof it against impending environmental legislation and the industry’s changing social licence. It developed into a four-year project aiming to improve the knowledge of wetland design and performance for Waikato farmers. After two years of delays due to covid restrictions, the project’s final field day was held where the Wetland Practitioner Guide – Wetland Design and Performance Estimates was released. The project received funding and support from the Waikato River Authority (WRA), DairyNZ, NIWA, Opus, Hill Laboratories and Waikato Regional Council. Its total cost was $150,000 with the WRA funding half and the rest coming from the other involved parties. The wetland was then built on the 713 hectare farm, just south of Putaruru. It covers 0.85ha, has more than 12,000 native plants and has a 52ha catchment area

close to the Ngutuwera Stream and Pokaiwhenua/Karapiro catchment. Key to the project was the monitoring of waterflows and contaminant concentrations entering the wetland by NIWA scientists so they could monitor its performance. That monitoring showed it removes about 60% of nitrogen (N), 70% of sediment and 20% of phosphorus (P) from the water it receives. “Our farm is located in the Upper Karapiro catchment, which is one of the more sensitive ones in the Waikato region, as it drains into the Karapiro,” Gray Baldwin said. “We want to improve local waterways and we see the wetland as being important to the whole catchment. It is a taonga.” Gray said the most challenging part of constructing the wetland was ensuring the area itself was level, which was necessary to ensure water travelled through the wetland as slowly as possible to allow time for any contaminates to be filtered. Its location was also important. It borders the farm’s main race, meaning all the effluent from the

FINISHED: Gray and Marilyn Baldwin with DairyNZ general manager for sustainable dairy Dr David Burger in the Baldwins’ constructed wetland on their dairy farm near Putaruru.

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BIG JOB: Construction of the 0.85ha wetland started in 2015. Gray Baldwin says the toughest challenge was ensuring the surface was level to ensure water travelled slowly through it to enable as many contaminants to be removed as possible.

areas on the surrounding hills that aid the filtering of nutrients prior to them entering the wetland. The family are pleased to see biodiversity in the area improving and native birds flourishing. “We have had a good increase in wildlife. We do get frog noises. My late father-in-law came down here one day and got great delight on his face when he saw a pair of pied stilts. He said he had not seen pied stilts on this farm for two decades,” Marilyn said. “It’s something pretty special. It does something for the staff too on the farm, to go past the wetland is very cool.” The Baldwins’ wetland is one of 11 case studies published in the new guidelines. These showed that as wetlands increase from 1-5% of a catchment area, sediment removal typically increases from 50-90%, N removal increases from 25-52% in warmer zones of New Zealand and 18-38% in cooler zones of New Zealand and P removal increases from 25-48%. DairyNZ general manager for sustainable dairy Dr David Burger said as farmers increasingly look to protect and develop wetlands, advice is often sought on how to design wetlands to maximise their performance. “We know that wetlands have lots of potential for reducing an environmental footprint and biodiversity and all of those cultural values and we know at a principal level, its about capturing that water, slowing it down and letting all of the bugs do the work.” But installing one was also not so simple to undertake on a working dairy farm, a point Marilyn makes. While she loves having the wetland, there are realities in maintaining it. “This is a working farm and it takes time, it takes money and it needs staff and all of those three things are difficult at times,” she said. There was always ongoing work.

In the past two months, they planted a further 1500 cabbage trees, she said. Burger said the scientists learned a lot from the project, coping with years where there was both flooding and drought. “The learnings have been absolutely significant. We’ve learned a lot about wetland design around the performance of this wetland and we have had a lot of real-time sensors on this wetland monitoring flows and trends and have learned a lot about how they function.”

My late father-inlaw came down here one day and got great delight on his face when he saw a pair of pied stilts. He said he had not seen pied stilts on this farm for two decades. Marilyn Baldwin Waikato dairy farmer From that perspective, the project had been a success, he said. “We’ve got some real science and some real numbers around how the wetland performs.” NIWA’s principal scientist aquatic pollution Dr Chris Tanner said the guidelines are designed for practitioners, but also provide evidence for farmers and councils of wetland effectiveness in removing contaminants. “The estimates are based on over 20 years of New Zealand study and international field-scale monitoring and modelling studies. Estimates were then refined, tested and endorsed by a technical advisory group supporting the project.”

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Scion upbeat on exotic options Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz WHILE the emissions reduction plan (ERP) has focused on indigenous forests for carbon storage, the head of the country’s largest forest researcher Scion sees some good opportunities to apply exotic forest skills to native plantings. The ERP provided more than a quarter of a billion dollars to the forestry sector to help boost its capacity to sequester more carbon, with an additional $73 million to establish a wood biomass research resource, including 10,000ha of forest. Along with pastoral agriculture’s $300m in funding, the forestry funds represented one of the biggest injections for any sector of the economy under the plan. Scion chief executive Julian Elder agrees that at first glance the Government’s focus on increasing plantings and reliance upon indigenous forests to sequester carbon runs counter to Scion’s focus on exotics. His corporation’s own submission on the proposed ETS changes underlined an unease at what the Government was proposing in its reforms, which included stopping exotics being approved for long-term carbon sequestration. Scion’s submission pushes back on the wisdom of this and on the risk of treating all exotic species the same for long term forestry options. “But in answer, we do see an opportunity to use our knowledge on indigenous species, which have been a relatively small part of our focus, compared to exotics. “But clearly, all the things we have learnt from exotics gives us knowledge to apply to indigenous.” Elder acknowledges the catch up in native knowledge Scion is now embarking upon, given exotics and pines specifically have almost 100 years of plantation growing expertise and knowledge behind them. He also reiterates the Scionsourced mantra of “right tree,

EXOTIC OPTION: Scion chief executive Julian Elder maintains there are options for exotic plantings that should not be missed if carbon sequestration remains a priority.

right place”, comfortable with the fact that in some places indigenous plantings may be the only suitable option. Overall, Elder says he is encouraged by the spirit of the ERP and how it specifies R&D investment. The fact it provides a researchfocused organisation like his a clearly-funded pathway to base research on, is also equally important. “It is quite a change from living in Scion’s usual system where a huge amount of revenue comes through contestable funding. “When you have a cabinetmandated purpose to drive R&D for NZ’s benefit and are having to win those contestable funds – it is not always very planned.” A big focus of the funding is on ramping up the ability to propagate more native seedlings and bring down the cost of doing so. Costs of indigenous establishment are eye-watering

at $20,000 to $50,000 a hectare, compared to about $4000 for pines. “One of the big challenges is to bring down that cost. We have a research target to get it down to $6000 a hectare.”

One of the big challenges is to bring down that cost. We have a research target to get it down to $6000 a hectare. Julian Elder Scion Much of the heavy lifting in seedling propagation has already begun. Scion researcher Dr Heidi Dungey and her team are streamlining native propagation,

pulling growing out time down by two thirds prior to planting. They are using smaller paper pots for nursery to field planting and retaining good survivability rates over traditional bulky plastic potted seedlings. Another area of focus for Scion is better understanding of what native carbon sequestration rates are. Typically, natives will sequester only a third to a quarter of pines’ carbon in their first 28 years, but differences exist along the length of this long skinny country and vary between species. “When carbon was low value, not many people were thinking about it, nor planting indigenous. There has not been a lot of funding to develop indigenous sequestration tables, we need to start developing more data gathering to fill out that knowledge base.” Elder also argues exotics have done much to help keep current stocks of native forests from

being diminished further, given the growing global demand for timber and NZ’s plantation skills at helping meet it. “So, it will always be important to keep exotics in the mix, we need them for that and to sequester carbon at a much higher rates than natives.” Mixed canopy options and transitioning from exotic to indigenous are also some of the management practices he believes need considering. He does believe the Government may have swung too far into the indigenous camp, in a political rather than evidencebased response. But Elder says he is not sure the door is completely shut on exotics’ role in longer-term sequestration. “I am heartened by seeing the ministers for forestry and for agriculture together at the ERP launch, talking about the value of trees on farms, and the value to farmers.”

Measuring and reporting synthetic nitrogen fertiliser use Who does this impact?

What actions are required?

Where to get information or help

If your farm uses synthetic nitrogen fertiliser on pasture or any other grazed land, this may affect you.

All farm managers must ensure that no area of pasture can exceed 190 kg per hectare per year of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser without a resource consent.

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A limit of 190 kg per hectare per year of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser on pasture came into effect from 1 July 2021. A resource consent is needed if this limit is exceeded. Those managing dairy farms need to record key information on synthetic nitrogen fertiliser use and supply a report to their regional council by 31 July each year.

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Meat board to fund genetics programme Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz THE New Zealand Meat Board (NZMB) has confirmed funding to back a genetics programme set to boost beef sector profits by $460 million. Following consultation with farmers, the board confirmed it will provide up to $1m this year for the Informing New Zealand Beef (INZB) genetics programme, which was started earlier in the year. The INZB programme is focused on increasing the uptake of genetics in the beef industry. The NZMB joins the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and Beef + Lamb NZ in supporting the seven-year Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures (SFFF) partnership. The five components of the programme are building a genetic evaluation and data infrastructure, progeny test herds, developing breeding objectives and indexes, developing new data sources and designing and delivering a new model of farmer extension for beef genetics. The programme will give commercial farmers the ability to easily source the right genetics for their environment and farm system and drive greater profitability. NZMB chair Andrew Morrison says several farmers who responded to the consultation recognised the value and importance of the board’s contribution to industry good activities. “The board has responsibility for $82.2m of farmer reserves and returns generated from the prudent management of these reserves is supporting the industry to invest in areas such as beef genetics to increase the sector’s productivity and profitability,” Morrison said. NZ sheep and beef farmers benefit directly from the industrygood funding delivered by the NZMB, he said.

OPTIONS: The programme will give commercial farmers the ability to easily source the right genetics for their environment and farm system and drive greater profitability.

This will ensure genetic gain for eating quality can be captured by the dairy beef industry. Andrew Morrison Beef + Lamb NZ Through the consultation farmers encouraged the NZMB to ensure there is necessary research into dairy beef. “B+LNZ is continuing to invest in dairy beef and bobby calf

initiatives in conjunction with the dairy industry and MPI. “Informing New Zealand Beef is laying the groundwork for this activity by building the skills and infrastructure to ensure the sires supplied to the dairy industry are of the highest quality.” B+LNZ is also working collaboratively with the dairy industry and internationally to ensure the data system between farmers, industries and consumers is set up effectively and efficiently. “This is a necessary step to linking consumers all the way through the supply chain and back to the sire for their meat. “This will ensure genetic gain for

eating quality can be captured by the dairy beef industry,” Morrison said. “The board assured that B+LNZ is partnering with dairy industry organisations and government on three different initiatives to improve the use of nonreplacement dairy calves. The NZMB acknowledged some farmers may be concerned about INZB duplicating the Breedplan programme. “Breedplan is an effective evaluation for many stud breeders and INZB plans to work with the providers of Breedplan to ensure that NZ’s non-stud farmers can also capture the value of Breedplan

Have you read Dairy Farmer yet? The latest Dairy Farmer hit letterboxes on May 30. Our OnFarmStory this month features a Canterbury farmer who has taken over a farm and, with the help of a contract milker, is making big changes. We also catch up with a Waikato farmer who leaves his calves with their mums and we chat with cow lameness guru Neil Chesterton. Also this month, we celebrate the 2022 Dairy Industry Award winners and take a look at robotics and automation.

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data in their business.” The programme is going to some length to ensure it is not replicating existing tools through strong links to the breed societies, Performance Beef Breeders NZ (PBBNZ), international experts and stud breeders. The INZB programme also includes a substantial extension effort including beef forums and online Better Beef Buying workshops. “The programme will enable Beef and Lamb NZ to investigate and evolve the genetics extension offering to ensure farmers can make more informed decisions,” Morrison said.

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What class of stock earned the highest per kilogram value ‘this week’?

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Rethink on GM policy needed John Caradus, scientist and chief executive of AgResearch’s commercial entity Grasslanz Technology, is pushing industry leaders, politicians and farmers to reconsider genetic modification (GM) as the primary sector grapples with the challenges of climate change, nutrient losses and disease. He spoke to Richard Rennie about his recent work reviewing GM globally. of the tech’s results. But since then, the Government has shown little appetite for change while other countries have pushed on with broader acceptance of GM. Australia, the United States, Brazil,and Argentina have all determined if gene edits are simply deletions or changes to existing DNA that can occur in nature or through traditional plant breeding, there is no need to regulate it. NZ has a very “process focused” approach to GM. In contrast, countries with a progressive view on it like Canada take a “novel products” approach to approval, evaluating the risk of an organism that results from the tech against its economic benefit.

It has been said we can’t go for GM crops, that Chinese consumers will not like it, but China has the sixth largest area under GM crops and is the world’s largest importer of GM soy. John Caradus Grasslanz Technology Caradus says NZ’s tough regulatory limitations would be understandable if GM were proving a hard sell to consumers overseas. But his review, which studied many survey outcomes, has revealed this is not the case. “It has been said we can’t go for GM crops, that Chinese

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consumers will not like it, but China has the sixth largest area in the world under GM crops and is the world’s largest importer of GM soy.” His review found Chinese consumers more likely to accept GM foods when they include a price advantage and credible data on their safety. A 2016 survey of Chinese consumers found 58% had a positive to neutral view of GM food. Closer to home, a trial at fruit stalls in NZ, France, Sweden,and the United Kingdom selling organic, conventional and spray free-GM fruit highlighted how consumers were more focused on the “spray free” selling point than the organic. Organic enjoyed the greatest market share initially, but when it was sold at a premium,and a discount offered on the cheaperto-grow GM fruit, the organic fruit lost significant market share and GM gained as much as 60% market share in NZ. A 2021 UK study reveals consumers’ willingness to pay more for “GM-free” or organic food rated low compared to willingness to pay for enhanced animal welfare or being “carbon neutral”. Caradus says claims by GM opponents about health risks are also well debunked, backed up by 20 years of GM crop sales having no documented proof of anyone becoming ill or dying from ingesting GM food. “And given the litigious nature of the US, you can be assured we would know if this had been the case.” As Kiwi farmers grapple with the impacts of climate change and disease incursion, Caradus

WELL-BRED: Grasslanz chief executive John Caradus says genetic modification is not a silver bullet, but farmers are being denied the opportunity to include it as a tool to use for disease, climate change and environmental mitigation.

cautions not only are they missing out on a tool for their climate response toolbox with the likes of GM drought resistant grasses, but also significant income. In South Australia the ban on GM crops was lifted in 2020, partly in response to evidence famers had lost more than A$400 million in potential income by being unable to grow GM canola rapeseed. Caradus freely acknowledges his interests in the science of GM, but is not proclaiming it to be a silver bullet to help boost productivity or increase crop resilience. “But it could be another tool in

the toolbox, particularly as we try to provide farmers with crops that help lower methane emissions and nitrate losses. “We are at the point where we need to have a grown-up debate about this. “There is potential we will be left behind, but it also comes back to scientists to show the GM they are proposing is adding value, it is not all just one way.”

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HERE is a level of hypocrisy within New Zealand’s stance on genetically modified (GM) foods that does not sit well with John Caradus. He points out NZ consumers can shop for over 90 different GM foods produced from 10 plant species here, but NZ farmers are unable to grow any of them. “We have a regulatory system that makes it extremely difficult for any entity considering doing so,” he says. The Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act (HSNO) may mean it is theoretically possible to trial GM species here, but the reality is far from that. “There is a reluctance due to the sheer difficulty and cost of doing so, the level of reaction likely from the anti-GMO lobby and reluctance at both an industry and government level to publicly support this technology. You would need that support for a successful Environment Protection Authority hearing.” As he enters the later stages of his professional life, Caradus admits he sees nothing to lose in speaking out about the national GM stance that has remained unchanged for more than two decades. “I have bit the bullet on this because I am tired of the say nothing approach. There are people out there who see value in it, but simply are sick of the battle, or don’t want it.” The Royal Society Te Aparangi launched a campaign more than three years ago to raise the profile of new GM technology and its potential in the primary sector, with examples like lactose-free milk and apple trees capable of multiple crops touted as examples

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Funds to widen RNA study A chapter of this year’s budget outlining a $40 million investment into RNA vaccination research passed with little fanfare. But it was met with much celebration from scientists involved in this area of flexible, rapid vaccination deployment suitable for both humans and production animals. Richard Rennie spoke to Axel Heiser, principal scientist at AgResearch and one of NZ’s few experts in the RNA vaccination field.

S THE world waited with bated breath to see how well its rapidly developed covid-19 vaccinations worked, much was made of the ‘new’ messengerRNA (mRNA) technology that was the foundation for several vaccinations’ success. Greater public awareness of the technology, and the $40 million budget injection for an RNA research and development platform, means the technology could be adopted soon to help unlock some lingering animal diseases less likely to be addressed by large offshore commercial drug companies. Messenger RNA is a technology that has been around for almost 20 years, one which Axel Heiser played a part in helping pioneer, initially with cancer patients. “The costs of using it were high, about $10,000 a vaccination shot, but this is why the work started off with cancer vaccines, it is where the funding is.” Put most simply, mRNA has researchers taking a virus’s genetic blueprint, or its RNA, and isolating the genes responsible for a particular trait they wish to block or inhibit. In the case of covid this required getting the genetic sequence for the protein “spike” the virus used to attach itself to human host cells.

ANIMAL WELFARE: The mRNA technology was used to develop some covid-19 vaccines, but it is hoped it could also be used to address livestock diseases like Mycoplasma bovis, Johne’s disease, foot and mouth and ovine pneumonia. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

VACCINATED: AgResearch scientist Axel Heiser sees significant potential for mRNA in production animal vaccinations of the future.

Isolating that particular “messenger” RNA, it can then be used to give the host cells instructions, such as to build the covid-19 virus’s spikes, but not the virus itself. Building multiple spikes using the genetic blueprint it has been given means the immune system learns how to attack and destroy the intruding virus when it arrives. The fact only the protein is produced means the host will not become sick in the process of being vaccinated, while the host cells destroy all spikes and memory cells linger, producing antibodies into the future to offer on-going protection. As a technology mRNA has proven quick to develop, once

the RNA sequence of the virus is known. Heiser was involved in the first efforts to develop mRNA, in the late 90s with the first clinical trial treating prostate cancer and getting a positive immune response from the vaccination. Further work included vaccination trials for brain cancer before he returned to New Zealand in 2010, ultimately joining AgResearch’s infectious diseases team. “We have always tried to get funding for RNA vaccinations in animals, but it is not an easy path. At present, our first disease we would look at targeting is Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD).” BVD is a complex, insidious

disease estimated to account for about $150 million a year in lowered productivity, sick and dead livestock and thought to be significantly under-diagnosed. Vaccines are available, but Heiser says an mRNA vaccine could deliver a prevention with higher efficacy in the field The BVD virus has a spike similar to covid’s and scientists feel confident it could be developed given sufficient funds within a couple of years. “People often say how quickly the likes of the Pfizer virus came out in response to covid, but really this reflected the significant amount of funds committed in a short time. With enough money you can move this technology along quickly.” Part of the challenge for a small pastoral country like NZ is the likelihood large multi-national drug companies will not develop vaccine solutions themselves, given the relatively low volume and low margins pastoral production animal vaccines offer against their high development costs. Heiser says it is possible such companies will wait until the heavy lifting research behind mRNA vaccination technology is developed, before taking it on commercially. But he is also hopeful the new $40 million fund may see NZ commercialise its own vaccination products, given the new fund has a specific goal to bridge engagement between researchers and industry partners to test and commercialise new approaches. “The beauty of mRNA is

We have always tried to get funding for RNA vaccinations in animals, but it is not an easy path. Axel Heiser AgResearch you do not need large 100,000 litre fermenters to make these vaccines.” The relative ease of identifying, packaging, and inserting mRNA vaccination tech opens the door to multiple disease control options, including Mycoplasma bovis, Johne’s disease, foot and mouth and ovine pneumonia, a huge health constraint on sheep production. Methanogen vaccinations may also benefit from mRNA if their more complex means of working across the rumen, bloodstream and saliva can be overcome. Researchers are also hoping the recent funding boost will help support “micro-RNA” research, technology that may prove the diagnostic disease tool of the future. They can also work as therapeutics, helping drive the optimal delivery of treatment for disease specific release, with minimal toxicity. “We are also confident there is work involving the human side of vaccinations, while our BVD project will also be planned around the next 18 months.”

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EDITORIAL

Thanks for taking on the thankless job

HE qualities that make a good leader can be hard to quantify. The person must understand the work their team does and create an environment that enables the team to flourish. They must advocate for their team where necessary. And they must keep the train on the track, always having the destination in mind. For a variety of reasons, Federated Farmers will be going through something of a leadership renewal soon. Three of its executive team are moving on, which creates opportunities for others to step up but also means new relationships will need to be nurtured. It’s been a tough couple of years for the Feds, with masses of Government regulation to navigate. The Government’s push to implement its environmental agenda, while worthy, has happened at a pace that’s turned out to be too fast to be accurate. Rules around the likes of winter grazing failed to consider the realities of farming in regions most affected. The He Waka Eke Noa partnership to price emissions has also been a lengthy and involved process, with many cooks looking to season the pot. The there’s the Three Waters reform that has seen ideologies and, unfortunately, prejudices cloud the process. There’s been a global pandemic that has thrown many spanners into the food production system. Many of the people our industry leaders represent are becoming frustrated, if not downright angry. Some feel the farming sector isn’t getting the respect it once did. But navigating change is one of the biggest challenges for any leader. And with global events highlighting the importance of having a strong and resilient food production sector, having the right people to guide that sector is not a nice-tohave. It’s a must-have. The next cohort of Feds leaders face a tough road ahead, but for farming’s sake, they must pick a path that keeps not only members, but also the whole of New Zealand, engaged.

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LETTERS

Browsing the literature for our forest history TWO recent letters in response to Laurie Collins’ drawing a comparison between 60 million years of bird browsing featuring several species of moa and that of wild animals, principally deer, deserve a comment. Firstly, David Field (Farmers Weekly, May 16) speaks of renowned ecologist Dr Graeme Caughley as a “forestry colleague” of his and asserts Graeme “would have been embarrassed by Collins’ presumptions” about his work. While Caughley was not a “forestry colleague” of mine he was a close friend from the 3A to 6A forms at Palmerston North Boys High School. As schoolboys we went rabbit hunting in Manawatū and in later years, both studying for degrees in Wellington, spent many weekends deerstalking in the Tararua Ranges.

In later years we renewed our friendship and I heard him as an eminent ecologist speak at conferences. At one conference in 2000, Caughley said “the period of moa browsing — would be closer ecologically to — the period of mammalian (eg deer) browsing since 1850”. His approximate likening of moa browsing to wild animal browsing was echoed by scientists, (one being Caughley) at a 1986 seminar “Moa, Mammals and Climate in the Ecological History of NZ”. Burrows, McCulloch and Trotter concluded “the feeding effects of moa may not have been very different from those of browsing animals”. For decades, the Government and Forest and Bird had claimed NZ’s vegetation evolved with no browsers. But speakers at the 1986

seminar refuted that. Atkinson and Greenwood said “the established view that NZ’s plants and vegetation evolved in the absence of browsing animals is wrong”. McGlone said “habitats (in moa times) were subjected to considerable browsing pressure”. Clout and Hay went further than just moa, and detailed at least five species of vegetarian forest birds “which feed at all levels in the forest” such as kereru (pigeon) and kokaho. So having known Caughley well, I see no reason that he would be embarrassed by Laurie Collins’ logical arguments, which after all seemed based on scientific conclusions. David Field may be interested to read more on Caughley in my book “About Deer and Deerstalking”, published 2002.

Ewan McGregor’s letter made a bold claim that if wild animals are left “uncontrolled” there would be “destruction”. In my book, I cited Thane Riney’s classic study in 1956 of an unhunted deer population at Lake Monk, Fiordland which shows the reality. It’s all governed by carrying capacity of the habitat and the classic “bell curve” graph of rise and then fall to a moderate. sustainable population level. McGregor, with the Ruahine Ranges as his backdrop, would be interested in hydrologist/ botanist Dr Patrick Grant’s work which concluded ”erosion on the Ruahine Range has accelerated since 1950 but not because of browsing animals”. The main reason being climate change. Tony Orman Marlborough

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TROUBLED TIMES: Neil Walker says high carbon prices puts great pressure on the economy and makes forestry more attractive than sheep and beef.

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agriculture and there surely is a right of ownership to use your own land to do what you want. Moreover, as the price of carbon keeps going higher and the Government’s cost containment reserve system has had its budgets blown, the price will soon be more than $100/unit and go further still if local carbon restrictions on forestry are imposed. The Greens and non-farming

My view is to try to find a middle ground. Recognise that we are going to have an increasing carbon price, however painful. Recognise that we will have to pay through the nose for some credits from overseas sooner or later. Realise that marginal land will go into forestry and that some, especially the distant, poor quality land, will be in permanent exotic trees. Encourage native repair, manuka planting and the closing of some areas for natural regeneration and paying for it. What’s to be done about the huge numbers of pests out there? Try to get a bipartisan approach that does not flip every couple of years. Spend the money on research that comes from the cash generated from the cost containment reserve sales of carbon, but know that you will have to buy back foreign carbon to fund it. Stop different parts of Government pushing contrary policies that both promote and suppress at the same time

There is a refusal to face reality, a reality of Wellington’s making. Neil Walker Farmer and regional councillor Make carbon legislation and policy simpler so that there are more than three people in New Zealand who understand it. None of this will reduce the pain but when walking through a selfsown mine field we have to do it.

Who am I? Neil Walker is a Taranaki Regional Caouncillor and dairy farmer.

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ABSOLUTELY agree with Keith Woodford that current policy on carbon pricing is a mess. The problem is years of illjudged, ad hoc policy on the hoof. We now have a situation where whichever path is taken some objectives will fail. The Governments and officials of the past and present have signed up to the Paris Agreement that has targets that in our context are challenging. They want the Emissions Trading Scheme, through carbon pricing, to force change. A high carbon price also puts great pressure on the economy in general and makes forestry more attractive than sheep and beef. This is the case with both timber forestry and with permanent carbon forestry. Some want to suppress forestry altogether but that exposes New Zealand to billions of dollars by purchasing foreign carbon credits and that is triggered by legislation already passed. Carbon forestry is many times more profitable than traditional

city interests favour very high carbon prices, even if traditional farming is damaged or destroyed. Warnings about the importance of agriculture being the life blood of the economy mean nothing to them. Along comes Forestry Minister Stuart Nash who wants to simply paper over the cracks for another year. The Government puts up $194,000,000 to create native forests when everybody knows you cannot do this on any scale. He wants to prevent Māori from making money on their remote land. The last Government had a billion trees program. Before this is even completed Nash wants to suppress forestry and stop planting. Stop, go, lurch one way, lurch another. Then there is the election, when all parties will say and do anything to temporarily gain votes. There is a refusal to face reality, a reality of Wellington’s making. So what can we do? Well, like it or not somebody is going to get hurt when all ways out are lost.

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Rules make sow’s ear out of silk purse Alternative View

Alan Emerson

EVERY now and again something happens that strikes me as crazy, counter-productive and idiotic and that’s currently the case with the bureaucratic nonsense over our pork industry. Years ago I had an advisory role in the industry and was impressed with the management and focus of the pig farmers I dealt with. They farmed on a knife edge. One mistake and they’re out of business. New Zealand can be proud of its pig industry. Its PigCare welfare assurance program illustrates how NZ farmers are world leaders when it comes to providing high pig welfare standards. They take animal welfare extremely seriously. Our pig herd has one of the highest health statuses in the world. With biosecurity, NZ Pork was the first animal-based industry to enter into a government-industry agreement (GIA). When travelling I’ve seen pig farms in some of the countries we import from and their operations would be illegal here. Hygiene and welfare can be non-existent, yet we import pork from those countries and we’re

generally in blissful ignorance of the fact we could be eating it. Manufactured in NZ doesn’t mean a lot if the pork comes from, for example, the Philippines. Today in the local pig industry it isn’t management mistakes that could put them out of business, the Government and bureaucracy are doing everything they can to achieve just that. NAWAC, the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, has released a draft code of practice for pigs that bears little resemblance to practicality. Looking at the NAWAC make up I can see why. What surprised me is that a member of NAWAC has been portrayed as honorary patron of the NZ Animal Law Association. Surely that is a conflict of interest and a major one at that. For a start NAWAC recommends the hardy annual of banning farrowing crates, which the industry believes will result in the deaths of up to 60,000 piglets. I thought that was conservative. Farrowing crates are used internationally to protect piglets and why we’re wearing a hair shirt in NZ is beyond me. I know that both SAFE and the NZ Animal Law Association went to court to have them banned but cowering to both those groups is inexcusable. SAFE doesn’t want animals farmed full stop. I also wonder what a bunch of city lawyers would know about the practicalities of pig farming or if they cared about the deaths of 60,000 piglets. It is, in a phrase, a bugger’s muddle.

NOT FAIR: We are imposing ridiculous restrictions on our pig farmers, restrictions more stringent than anywhere else in the world, Alan Emerson says.

NZ Pork tells me that “NAWAC accepted very limited input from farmers and the industry’s technical advisors including NZ Pork’s animal welfare scientist when NAWAC itself has no experience at all of pig farming”. Farrowing crates are one travesty, insisting a minimum weaning time of 28 days is ridiculously prescriptive. As any farmer knows weaning too early costs. They don’t do it. Also, piglets have different growth rates as do different breeds so one size doesn’t fit all. Finally, have the bureaucrats floating the ridiculous idea figured how they’re going to police it? NZ Pork tells me the “draft code lacks scientific credibility and justification” and it “imposes

unachievable minimum standards”. The draft code will put prices up more than 18% so why are we doing it? It also makes imported pork so much cheaper, putting local farmers out of business, which is crazy. We import pork from many countries including China, Poland, Spain, Croatia, Thailand, the Philippines and Ireland. I’ve seen pig farming in some of those countries where I’d describe the practices as barbaric. They bear no remote resemblance to farming in New Zealand, yet we import their pork with impunity. Just think of the logic of that. We impose ridiculous restrictions on our pig farmers,

Sparking joy in the workshop SEVERAL strands of my life have interwoven to bring about change. Having written that, I realise that you will be expecting something of immense importance or significance. Maybe for me, but I think you will be disappointed where we are going with this. I’ve started burying the odd mate so the fragility of life, indeed of one’s own life, is now considered and confronted. Overlaying this is the realisation that my farming career of 40 years is approaching its own conclusion. Last week I woke up for my 63rd birthday and it was raining. I lay in bed listening to the rain drum on the roof while my good wife delivered me a cup of coffee instead of the usual reciprocal arrangement and then she went off to sort out a cooked breakfast as requested. A birthday does still give one some advantages. I mused on how I might use this day productively to improve my life and came upon a plan. I have a constant irritant that troubles me more than it should and could be easily fixed with just some of my time. But for no reason I can fathom, its sits there bothering me and yet I don’t help myself by dealing to it.

Well, today was going to be the day given the rain, the prospect of death at some point and the looming end of my career. I was determined to finally get stuck into cleaning out my workshop.

I’m no hoarder but don’t like to throw out something that may have lost its use but is still too good to chuck out. I did use to keep on top of it with the imminent arrival of my father-in-law for an annual visit, but he’s been gone for nearly a quarter of a century. The main incentive was my growing concern that I might actually leave it too late and my three sons would gather sometime after the funeral and do it themselves with a mixture of amusement and disparagement. I always feel troubled when I go into someone else’s workshop that is tidy, ordered and there’s little pictures on the wall of a tool and all the actual tools are in their place.

It shows the signs of someone on top of things and in control. Or of too much time on their hands. I’m no hoarder but don’t like to throw out something that may have lost its use but is still too good to chuck out. That sentence makes me now wonder what the definition of a hoarder might be. I’ve saved you the trouble and looked it up. A hoarding disorder is where someone acquires an excessive number of items and stores them in a chaotic manner, usually resulting in unmanageable amounts of clutter. Crikey. After a good breakfast I entered the lion’s den. Out went all the rusty nuts and bolts that I’d overlooked for four decades in favour of the newer shiny ones. Never going to be used. Same with the second-hand gudgeons. I stripped the used, although still functional, trough valves of their unbroken arms and dumped them. Quite a bit of furniture that I’d grown up with, but Jane replaced with fancier models, headed for the fire heap.

The second-hand running machine that I’d scored for dropping a tree for a townie but never actually used got dragged out to the heap. My old faithful pack that came with me through uni and around the world a couple of times was difficult to bid farewell too. The Donald loadbars, weighing unit and printer should really have gone to a museum. They had replaced the old mercury scales in a technological leap but in turn been superseded by several advances with the latest reading the EID stud tags and blue toothing the data to the weigh scale. No difficulty throwing several decades of accounts onto the fire heap. Not being certain if the requirement was now five years, I erred on the side of caution and retained the last seven financial years should IRD like to spend many happy hours trawling through my affairs. Jane came out to encourage the cathartic cleansing going on and immediately spotted her discarded childhood ice skates used on the dam in the depths of a Middlemarch winter a lifetime earlier. She remonstrated and an

restrictions more stringent than anywhere else in the world. That puts the price of our pork up, opening the way for cheap imported pork from countries who in many cases use third world production techniques. We stop ethical pig farming in NZ to allow rough imports. Why would you? We propose putting local, ethical pig farmers out of business so we can import pork from countries with little or no animal welfare regulations. As I said at the start it is just plain crazy and another example of idiocy in governmentsponsored organisations that have little if any practical knowledge of the sharp end of farming. What I want to see with NAWAC and other such organisations is much more transparency. I want to know if a person judging animal welfare standards is or has been part of an antifarming pressure group, has fixed anti-animal views such as many vegans and what hands-on farming experience they have. The current system isn’t working. It’s hitting an ethical, welfare oriented, professional food production system on all sides. It’s putting farmers through absolute hell trying to reach ridiculous standards that don’t apply to imports. They should.

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

From the Ridge

Steve Wyn-Harris

intense discussion ensued. I said if she wanted to keep them, they were going to the house not staying in the workshop. They got thrown out. Perfectly good neon tubes for lights that no longer existed went off to meet their maker. And so it went on and a further half-day later in the week was needed to complete the job. But I now have a tidy and empty shed with absolutely no clutter. Very satisfying. I moved my golf clubs into a more favourable position than where they have been stuffed and noticed one of the golf shoes was missing. A job for today is to clamber through everything discarded on the fire heap and hopefully find it.

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

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Future of land use hard to pick Meaty Matters

Allan Barber

A NEW report from Lincoln’s Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, The Matrix of Drivers: 2022 Update, presents a summary of the key changes and trends likely to affect land use in New Zealand. The report was funded by the Our Land and Water (OLW) National Science Challenge, whose mission is to “enhance primary sector production and productivity while maintaining and improving our land and water quality for future generations”. It lists 35 challenges that have been prioritised by primary sector experts and the winner is – wait for it – climate change with a significant gap back to greenhouse gas emissions, the condition of the environment and water quality. The report lists the other 30 in their finishing order, rather like a horse race. The Lincoln research team invited 2818 sector experts, including agri sector leaders, policymakers and academics, to participate and received 622 responses and 251 completed questionnaires, which at less than 10% of the original sample base is probably par for the course. The survey results were also analysed to reflect the views of those who professed to be very knowledgeable or knowledgeable about food exports – mostly those working in the primary

sector, who comprised 30% of the respondents. The research undertaken is very thorough, as it includes 1500 international and domestic sources of information selected by an academic literature review process, covering central and regional government strategic and regulatory, primary sector group and farmer association documents, as well as international agency reports and academic literature. The research also includes 83 international consumer preference studies that suggest attributes consumers are prepared to pay a premium for, such as organic certification. Although, experience has shown consumers are less willing than they profess to pay a premium when it comes to the point of purchase. It also proposes less reliable areas of added value like regenerative agricultural production, where product differentiation and consumer benefits are harder to prove. Responses to domestic, as distinct from international, drivers of change differ slightly with water quality being seen as a more important issue than climate change, followed by the environment, agricultural policy and GHG emissions. Other issues to increase significantly in importance since the previous report in 2019 are extreme weather events, Māori values, cultural values and soil quality. Product attributes that are seen as earning greater returns from lower production include high quality, low environmental impact, food safety, and low carbon footprint. The report identifies eight

main categories of future trends and challenges that the research team see as having high potential to affect New Zealand land use change in the next few years: climate change, New Zealand’s environmental policy, covid-19, global trends and challenges, emerging technologies, innovative products and new food technologies, international trading environment and consumer trends. Unsurprisingly extreme weather events, the launch of the Global Methane Pledge, COP26 commitments and the introduction of GHG targets are all seen as heightening the challenge of adapting land use to cope with climate change. This will be further exacerbated by environmental policy, including freshwater management and council designation of Significant Natural Areas on private land. The continued impact of covid-19 on supply chains and labour supply is mentioned as a challenge, but the resilience of the primary sector and potential supply chain adjustment to logistical disruptions will undoubtedly reduce the likely impact on future land use. The volatility of commodity prices and inflationary uncertainty are mentioned as continuing challenges, as well as the handling of food waste, although population growth is regarded as likely to drive the growth of protein consumption. Logically the report considers the emergence of new technologies like electric farm vehicles, blockchain, autonomous and robotic systems, precision agriculture, GHG mitigation technologies, gene edited crops (New Zealand’s objection to GM is noted as an obstacle), and

CHANGING APPETITES: A new report from Lincoln University references 83 international consumer preference studies that suggest attributes consumers are prepared to pay a premium for, such as organic certification.

regenerative agriculture as trends that will encourage changes of land use and presumably farming operations. Innovative products and new food products such as alternative proteins and cellular production, combined with changing consumer tastes – less meat consumption, online shopping, desire for proof of sustainability, cultural values, and provenance – are also expected to usher land use change, although this is somewhat at odds with the predicted growth in traditional protein consumption. The report notes that a 2018 study estimated 1.74 million hectares in New Zealand was suitable for growing plant protein crops, which surprisingly represents about 13% of the farmed total, three times as much as is currently in arable and horticultural production. This would presumably come from existing pastoral land. However, the present legislation that encourages carbon farming is far more likely to drive land use change than a sudden upsurge in alternative proteins. The international trading environment, incorporating new trade agreements and geopolitical tensions, will also

present challenges, although New Zealand’s trading relationships and adaptability will minimise any sudden disruption of the farming sector and land use. The report’s authors assess all the trade agreements that New Zealand already has in place or is negotiating, but realistically the biggest impact to land use would arise if one of our largest markets were to be closed to imports from here for any reason. The present level of dependence on China for a large proportion of agricultural exports makes New Zealand sensitive to any political fallout from a dispute between the world’s great powers. This is a very detailed and well-researched report, although it leaves me with an irresistible impression of a document produced by academics and scientists for academics and scientists, rather than for farmers, processors and exporters operating in the real world. It will be interesting to look back in 15 years’ time to see who was right.

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

Ag Budget needs careful scrutiny Nicola Grigg THE Government’s claim it is investing more than $1 billion of new money into the primary sector is a masterclass in smoke and mirrors. Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor’s Budget 2022 press release announced a $1b spend on primary industries, but this really needs close scrutiny. It is full of vague waffle like $118 million for ‘advisory services’ to ‘support farmers’, $40m for Stuart Nash’s ‘transformation’ of the forestry and wood processing sectors, and $32m for Meka Whaitiri’s fund to crack down on farmers with increased compliance, enforcement and onfarm inspections. Close inspection of Treasury’s Appropriations document shows this announcement conflates a number of initiatives to reach that impressive-sounding $1b.

STILL NO PROFIT? National’s Associate Agriculture spokesperson Nicola Grigg says New Zealand’s agriculture exports are rapidly climbing towards $50b, but the cost of doing business on-farm is skyrocketing.

For example, the Government has included the likes of a $68m collective agreement for some Ministry for Primary Industries staff in this figure, and $95m for ‘integrated advisory services’ – whatever they are. I think most farmers would

agree that isn’t exactly investing $1b into the primary industries. What worries me the most is the large sums of money being poured into compliance, policing and inspections. Right at a time when most farmers are fed up to the back

teeth with regulatory change and time-consuming auditing it looks likely there’ll be a whole new wave coming at them. This Labour Government has unleashed unprecedented levels of spending in the 2022 Budget, with more than $9.5b in new spending forecast this year alone. To put it in context, it is now spending 68% more, or an extra $51b per year, since coming into office. While we’d all agree that spending to boost the likes of biosecurity measures is essential, Grant Robertson’s refusal to rein in spending and take meaningful action to dampen inflation is piling pressure on our primary sector. This out of control spending is putting huge pressure on the economy and is driving inflation to a record 30-year high, with the cost of farm inputs rising by 9.8% since the March quarter last year.

Last week we saw another 50 basis point jump in the official cash rate, the first back-to-back 50 point increase since the OCR was introduced – and will effectively double interest rates on this time last year. Therefore, it stands to reason that a farm carrying $4m in borrowings that sees a 100 basis point increase in their interest rates will need to pay an additional $40,000 a year in interest costs. New Zealand’s agriculture exports are rapidly climbing towards $50b, but the cost of doing business on-farm is skyrocketing. For this sector to continue to carry the New Zealand economy during these turbulent times, it’s my view the Government needs to rein in spending on compliance and ‘advice’ and instead cut costs in order to increase productivity.

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ON OFFER The Experienced Production Manager and Senior Farm Assistant roles come with excellent remuneration packages including modern, newly renovated, homes, with a log fire and heat pump. You will be in a great rural community, with the Marton Young Farmers club nearby and ample hunting, and fishing right on your doorstep, as the farm backs on to Rangitikei River. There is a school bus from the gate to local primary and secondary schools.

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Females are scanned Incalf to Orena, Ruapuha, Glendhu & Waimai Bulls

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Calving from 27th July 2022 with approx. 90 day spread. The Stokes Family have been breeding Shorthorns since the

BEEFGEN : Brian Pearson : 021 0907 1688 BEEFGEN : Jess Crow : 022 074 1210 BEEFGEN Office : 06 927 7154

mid 1970’s, reregistering the Herd in 2002. They have been faithfully farmed and come forward in good

LOT 27

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LOT 31

LOT 36

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WANTED 2021 BORN FRIESIAN HEIFERS

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F12+: $1700 + GST / head F8-F11’s: $1600 + GST / head F7/Unrecorded: $1400 + GST 190 kgs min live weight

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2 Year Olds Bull Sale Thursday 9th June, 2022 at 11am

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LOT 66

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60 Charolais . 18 Herefords BRENT & ANNA FISHER 03 329 0994 027 251 4791 silverstream@farmside.co.nz www.silverstreamcharolais.co.nz

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THE FINAL CUT

EXPORT WANTED 2021 Born ANGUS HEIFERS

BULL SALE: 45 ANGUS BULLS

FRIDAY JUNE 17 – 1PM 839 VALLEY ROAD, HASTINGS

August 2022 Delivery $1100 Gross Contact: Tom Suttor, Carrfields 027 616 4504 or Dean Freeman, Redshaw Livestock 027 445 1944

North Island Wayne Doran 027 493 8957 Harry Van De Ven 027 486 9866 Luke McBride 027 304 0533 South Island Richard Harley 021 765 430 Burke Patching 027 441 1515

SALE TALK

TE WHANGA ANGUS power plus performance “We’ve been using Te Whanga genetics for the past 12 years and have always been really impressed with their fertility and temperament allowing us to have consistent results year in year out. The quiet nature makes them a pleasure to handle and I believe content cattle are great doers!” RICHARD TOSSWILL - WAIRARAPA FARMER OF THE YEAR 2021.

2022 SALE DATE FRIDAY 10 JUNE 10.00 JASON COFFEY 691 Te Kopi Rd, RD4, Masterton te_whanga@borthwick.co.nz

27, Rising 2 year old Angus Bulls

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Est 1957

Thursday 23rd June 2022, 11.30am NOT ALL ANGUS BULLS ARE CREATED EQUAL

EBV Comparison An EBV comparison between the breed average EBVs and 71 Seven Hills Angus 2020 born sale bulls. Calving Ease Traits

Seven Hills Sale Bulls

+3.6

New Zealand Angus Breed Average

+2.3 +2.2

+2.5

+1.6

+2.5

+3.1

Australian Angus Breed Average

–5.8 Calving Ease (CE DIR)

Calving Ease Daughters (CE DTRS)

–4.2 –4.7

Gestation Length (GL)

Birth Weight (BW)

Maternal Traits

Growth Traits +91

KAHARAU 306-17

2022 Sale Bulls by: Kaharau 306-17 Kaharau George 589-16 Atahua 378-17 by Te Mania

Unlimited, sold to Turiroa 2020 KAHARAU GEORGE 589-16

2yr Bull Sale - Monday 13th June, 2022 - 11am

200 Day Weight (200D)

+95 +89 +100

+100 +116

+19+ +15

400 Day Weight (400D)

600 Day Weight (600D)

Mature Cow Weight (MCW)

Milk (Milk)

Carcase Traits +8.1 +65 +50 +66

+4.1

Carcase Weight (CWt)

Eye Muscle Area (EMA)

Fertility TraitsS

+0.0 +0.6 +0.0

Rib Fat (Rib)

Days to Calving (DC)

+0.2 +0.5

+0.9 +2.1

-0.4 Retail Beef Yield (RBY)

Intra-Muscle Fat (IMF)

sSelection Index Traits +162

-3.8

+0.6

Rump Fat (P8)

+221 +141

+194

AngusPro Index ($PRO)

Angus Breeding Index ($A)

+1.8 +2.1 -4.6

+2.6

+0.5

+6.2 -0.5

-4.3

ALAN AND MICHELE DALZIELL 283 McBeth Road, RD7, Feilding 4777 Ph: 06 328 9784 Mb: 027 629 8954 Email: atahua.angus@farmside.co.nz

+117

+50 +42 +50

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+77 +89

Stern 345-17 by Millah Murrah Klooney K42

+4.2 +4.1

+1.6

Scrotal Size (SS)

+111

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Est. 1972

SALE DATE: 1pm, Thurs 16 June On farm auction at 811 Maraetotara Rd

GOLD HEIFER SALE!

50 year anniversary sale! 60 rising two-year-old bulls 10 rising tw0-year PTIC heifers Come along to our 50 year anniversary sale. There will be plenty of hospitality, top quality bulls, amd a golden opportunity of ten PTIC heifers. This won't be one to miss!

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Monday 13th June 2022

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UPCOMING AUCTIONS

TUESDAY 7 JUNE

TE KUITI SALE Friday 10th June, 2022 Start 11.30am Special entry A/c Carter Farming P/ship Complete Flock Dispersal (Farm sold) • 300 2th Romney Coopworth x ewes • 500 4th - 4yr Romney Coopworth x ewes • 200 5yr Romney Coopworth ewes • 200 6yr Romney Coopworth x ewes All ewes scanned In-lamb Sufftex & Lamb Supreme rams 20th March. This is a very high eczema tolerant flock and have been using eczema tolerant rams for 40 years. All enquiries Len Sheeran 027 473 5859 Freephone 0800 10 22 76 | www.pggwrightson.co.nz Helping grow the country

12.00pm Otapawa Herefords Bull Sale 1.00pm Wairere Angus Bull Sale 2.30pm Netherton Angus, Foulden Hills Polled Hereford & Bluestone Santa Gertrudis Bull Sale 3.00pm Oregon Angus Bull Sale

WEDNESDAY 8 JUNE

10.30am 11.00am 12.00pm 1.00pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 7.00pm

Mokairau Hereford Bull Sale Orari Gorge Hereford Bull Sale Dandaloo Angus Bull Sale Kairuru Hereford Bull Sale Merchiston Angus Bull Sale Okawa Hereford 53rd Annual Bull Sale Stokman Angus Bull Sale Jersey Power Annual Sale

THURSDAY 9 JUNE

11.00am 12.30pm 1.00pm 2.30pm 3.00pm

Beechwood, Richon and Woodburn Bull Sale Glen Anthony Simmental Bull Sale Waitangi Angus Bull Sale Grassmere Hereford & Riverlands J Angus Bull Sale Ranui Angus Bull Sale

FRIDAY 10 JUNE 10.00am Te Whanga Angus Bull Sale 10.00am Rolling Rock Angus Bull Sale 1.00pm Twin Oaks Angus Bull Sale

MONDAY 13 JUNE 11.00am 11.00am 2.30pm 2.30pm

Cleardale Angus Bull Sale Atahua Angus Bull Sale Mt Mable Angus 37th Annual Bull Sale Mt Possession Angus Bull Sale

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TE KUITI CATTLE & EWE WINTER SALE 17 June 2022 Te Kuiti Sale Yards Estate of Waltraut Carlton 1700 Capital stock Romney ewes TT to 5-year Lambing from 1 September High FE tolarance land corp Rams used Lambing 150% Will be shorn and un scanned and sold in age groups 526 TT ewes and 1200 Ma ewes 25 in calf Young Angus cows in calf to Black Ridge Bulls 35 R2 in calf Angus Heifers Lbw Stockman Bull Calving from the 12 August. For more information please contact: Willie Purvis 0275927542

SIRES OF 2022 BULLS INCLUDE: TAIMATE LAZARUS

MUSGRAVE STUNNER RANGATIRA TAURUS TURIHAUA WIREMU

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TUESDAY

14th JUNE 12:30PM

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MARKET SNAPSHOT

Market Snapshot brought to you by the AgriHQ analysts.

Mel Croad

Suz Bremner

Reece Brick

Fiona Quarrie

Hayley O’Driscoll

Caitlin Pemberton

Deer

Sheep

Cattle BEEF

SHEEP MEAT

VENISON

Last week

Prior week

Last year

NI Steer (300kg)

6.00

5.30

NI lamb (17kg)

8.65

8.55

7.70

NI Stag (60kg)

7.95

5.50

NI Bull (300kg)

5.95

5.25

NI mutton (20kg)

5.95

5.85

5.90

SI Stag (60kg)

8.00

5.55

NI Cow (200kg)

3.80

3.50

SI lamb (17kg)

8.70

8.60

7.45

SI Steer (300kg)

5.90

4.75

SI mutton (20kg)

5.65

5.70

SI Bull (300kg)

5.80

4.70

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

SI Cow (200kg)

3.60

3.15

UK CKT lamb leg

12.37

12.73

11.95

US imported 95CL bull

10.06

10.09

8.87

US domestic 90CL cow

9.27

9.36

8.15

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Last week Prior week

Last year

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

8.0 7.0 5.0

8.0 7.0 6.0

10.0

5.0

9.0

South Island lamb slaughter price

8.0

10.0

4.5

9.0

6.0

8.0

5.0

South Island steer slaughter price

7.0

5.0

Oct

5.0

WOOL

4.5

(NZ$/kg) Feb

Apr

5-yr ave

Jun

2020-21

Dairy

Dec

Feb

5-yr ave

Dec 5-yr ave

5.5

Dec

Oct

7.0

6.0

Oct

7.0

Apr

Aug 2021-22

Feb

Apr 2020-21

Jun

FERTILISER Two weeks ago

Prior week

Last year

Coarse xbred ind.

2.71

2.73

2.33

37 micron ewe

2.65

30 micron lamb

2.80

Last week

Prior week

Last year

Urea

1336

1255

672

Super

435

373

319

DAP

1611

1420

990

NZ average (NZ$/t)

Top 10 by Market Cap Company

CANTERBURY FEED WHEAT 600

10.00 9.00 8.50 8.00 7.50

4.3

38.68

36.9

500

Mainfreight Limited

77.99

94.4

71.52

450

Mercury NZ Limited (NS)

5.63

6.36

5.45

Ebos Group Limited

40.57

44.3

36.11

Contact Energy Limited

7.67

8.42

7.36

Infratil Limited

7.77

8.4

7.5

…

WMP

4125

4115

4020

550

SMP

4300

4150

4175

5675

5400

6425

Milk Price

9.36

9.42

$/tonne

600

Butter

Sep-21

Nov-21

Jan-22

Mar-22

May-22

Listed Agri Shares

5pm, close of market, Wednesday

Company

YTD High

YTD Low

ArborGen Holdings Limited

0.245

0.27

0.215

The a2 Milk Company Limited

5.3

6.39

4.2

Comvita Limited

3.34

3.78

2.98

14.45

11.44

Fonterra Shareholders' Fund (NS)

2.99

3.78

2.75

500

Foley Wines Limited

1.38

1.57

1.38

Greenfern Industries Limited

0.111

0.25

0.089

450

Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd (NS)

1.62

1.73

1.3

Marlborough Wine Estates Group Limited

0.186

0.26

0.183

350

May-21

WMP FUTURES - VS FOUR WEEKS AGO

Delegat Group Limited

Jul-21

Sep-21

Nov-21

Jan-22

Mar-22

May-22

WAIKATO PALM KERNEL

New Zealand King Salmon Investments Ltd

0.2

1.38

0.187

PGG Wrightson Limited

4.62

5.76

3.93

Rua Bioscience Limited

0.32

0.53

0.29

Sanford Limited (NS)

4.25

5.07

4.13

Scales Corporation Limited

4.62

5.59

4.45

Seeka Limited

4.93

5.36

4.8

3.48

3.54

3.11

4300

550

Synlait Milk Limited (NS)

2.85

3.01

2.73

4200

500

S&P/NZX Primary Sector Equity Index

12605

14293

12131

450

S&P/NZX 50 Index

11373

13150

11065

4100

S&P/NZX 10 Index

11025

12725

10677

$/tonne

US$/t

Jul-21

400

* price as at close of business on Thursday

6.88

36.9

vs 4 weeks ago

6575

4.33 19.48

Ampol Limited

Prior week

5800

5.36 33.4 7.95

Last price*

5850

4.68 20.75

4.98

CANTERBURY FEED BARLEY

AMF

Meridian Energy Limited (NS) Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Ltd

7.63

350

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…

Nearby contract

YTD Low

4.86

May-21

DAIRY FUTURES (US$/T)

YTD High

Auckland International Airport Limited

400 Sept. 2022

Spark New Zealand Limited

550 $/tonne

$/kg MS

9.50

Sept. 2021

Aug 2021-22

Fertiliser

Aug 2021-22

Grain

Data provided by

MILK PRICE FUTURES

7.00

Jun

2020-21

6.0

6.5

4.0

South Island stag slaughter price

11.0

5.0

4.0

$/kg CW

9.0

6.0

5.5

$/kg CW

6.0

Last year

10.0

9.0

6.5

Last week Prior week

North Island stag slaughter price

11.0

$/kg CW

7.0

10.0 $/kg CW

North Island steer slaughter price

North Island lamb slaughter price

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

$/kg CW

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Sara Hilhorst

Ingrid Usherwood

4000 3900

T&G Global Limited

400 350

Jun

Jul Aug Latest price

Sep

Oct 4 weeks ago

Nov

300

May-21

S&P/FW PRIMARY SECTOR EQUITY

Jul-21

Sep-21

Nov-21

Jan-22

Mar-22

May-22

12605

S&P/NZX 50 INDEX

11373

S&P/NZX 10 INDEX

11025

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – June 6, 2022

Analyst intel

WEATHER

Overview Another unsettled week is here, with our weather coming in from the west. The short story is it will be wet in the west and drier in the east with fronts barreling through at times. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday look to have fronts with thunderstorms possible on those days, while it is drier in the east, Tuesday may see some rain get into the eastern North Island. On Saturday the airflow finally changes southwest, with showers moving up the east coast for a time. On Sunday another onslaught moves in from the southwest with the bulk of any wet weather likely in the west, but showers should eventually move up the eastern side of the country too.

14-day outlook Wet weather in the west this week, drier and warmer in the east, southwesterlies on Saturday may bring showers in the east. Sunday has a southwesterly airflow spread over the country that looks to originate much further to the south so at that point temperatures may start to drop with snow a bit more likely in the ranges. Early next week a westerly kink develops in the airflow with eastern regions drying out again then midweek southwesterlies push through, hanging about till later in the week when perhaps, going out on a limb, high pressure could be seen to be moving in just after the mid point of June.

Mel Croad mel.croad@globalhq.co.nz

Soil Moisture

Highlights

01/06/2022

Wind

Northwesterlies may kick up a fuss ahead of fronts moving through on Wednesday and Friday and strong winds will likely develop about central New Zealand. Cook Strait could see gales. Sunday has a much broader, strong westerly airflow over the country ahead of a southwest change. Source: NIWA Data

7-day rainfall forecast

Temperature

Another week of wet weather in the west and, as mentioned above, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday will be the days to watch with more persistent falls for western regions. Drier in the east mostly although there may be spots spread from the west at times, especially the eastern North Island on Tuesday. The weekend sees showers start to spread into eastern regions as the airflow tends more southwest. 0

Oz has the lambs, but kill rate stalls

Temperatures the mid to late teens in the east and for much of the North Island this week, cooler for the West Coast and far south. As we get into the weekend eastern regions will start to cool down a bit as the airflow tends more southwest.

AFTER a couple of years of successful flock rebuilding in Australia, consistent growth in the lamb crop has reached a point where its now spilling over into higher slaughter rates. Earlier this year, Meat and Livestock Australia forecast that lamb slaughter rates would increase by 1.35 million head on 2021 levels to 21.6m head. It was expected that higher slaughter rates would appear early in the year and remain consistently higher than last year to absorb these extra lambs. However, these expected slaughter rates haven’t exactly come to fruition with covidrelated processing disruptions causing kill rates to fluctuate either side of five-year average trends. Favourable seasonal conditions have kept lambs on farm for longer which has also hamstrung processing rates. A key indicator of this has been a record lamb carcase weight for the first quarter of this year, coming in at a hefty 25kg. Recent analysis suggests that Australian lamb slaughter will need to at least match if not exceed last year and the five-year average processing rate over the remainder of the year to get anywhere close to the target of 21.6m head. And these higher supplies are not a one off. Forecasts peg further upside to the Australian lamb crop and therefore production for at least the next two years. May lamb slaughter tallies finally showed

some promise of aligning with these earlier forecasts. Weekly kill rates ranged between 337,000351,000 head. Unfortunately, the spike in supplies has pressured prices, with current trade lamb prices well under last year’s levels. The concern is that if forecast slaughter rates for the year are correct then there is still a large wave of lambs to process. Processing rates generally drop to align with winter production from early June. However, given the sheer volume of lamb that have come out through May it does suggest there is a backlog of lambs that need to be processed sooner rather than later. It may be that processors will need to continue to offer increased availability to work through these numbers. Unfortunately, this could mean further pricing pressure. While domestic consumption will absorb a percentage of these higher supplies, inevitably it will also lead to larger export volumes. All indications point to a solid performance for Australian exports this year. Export values hit record levels in March, reflecting the strong demand. New Zealand and Australia share a number of common markets for lamb and exporters here will need to be prepared that Australia is set to have an even larger presence on the export scene. And that is likely to become more visible sooner rather than later, especially if Australia’s lamb production remains elevated through the winter months.

Australian eastern lamb slaughter (thous. head) 450

Highlights/ Extremes

100

200

400

Rainfall accumulation over 7 days starting from 6:00am Sunday 5 June through to 6:00am Sunday 12 June, forecast generated at 12:00am Thursday 2 June

400

Fronts on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday bring heavy rain to western regions, thunderstorms at times too. Later on Sunday will bring a drop in temperatures as air spreading northwards looks to originate quite far to the south near Antarctica.

350 300 250 200

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Mar 5-yr ave

May

Jul 2022

Sep 2021

Nov Source: MLA

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Demand for prime stock increasing Limited processor space has been a major issue this year but as a light opens at the end of the tunnel buyers are actively seeking short-term cattle from the sale yards. There are not a lot to be found though, especially in the North Island, and eyes were on South Island yards as they offered up larger entries of both prime steers and heifers. All markets showed improvement and prime traditional steers averaged 550-605kg and $3.11-$3.15/kg and heifers 475-535kg and $2.95-$3.11/kg. NORTHLAND Wellsford cattle • Top R2 heifers sold well at $2.80-$2.90/kg • A nice line of R1 Hereford-Friesian steers reached $740, $4.54/kg • A good line-up of R1 Angus heifers was mostly 205-211kg which traded at $520-$560 • R1 Angus bulls, 210kg, achieved $595 Just over 400 store cattle were offered at WELLSFORD last Monday. The R2 dairy-beef steer average lifted to $2.86/kg, helped by slightly heavier weights and a large portion of 453-508kg able to reach $2.85-$2.92/kg. There was a lift of enquiry for R2 heifers, and the average improved around 10c/kg to $2.75/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

AUCKLAND Pukekohe cattle • Light to medium prime heifers earned $2.66/kg to $2.84/kg, $1290-$1620 • Boner cows lifted to $2.04/kg, $1120 • Light R2 crossbred steers made $790-$870, $2.26/kg to $2.70/kg • Prime lambs sold for $142-$156 Prime steers made $2.75/kg to $2.90/kg, $1280-$1680 at PUKEKOHE on Saturday, May 28. Very good R1 steers earned $2.66/kg to $2.88/kg and nice R1 Hereford heifers traded at $670, $2.77/kg. Store lambs range from $71 to $130.

COUNTIES Tuakau sheep 30.5, prime cattle 1.6, store cattle 26.5 • Heavy prime steers lifted to $2.96-$3.07/kg • Top prime lambs reached $217 • Hereford-Friesian steers at 294kg made $915 TUAKAU’s prime cattle sale drew 380-head last Wednesday and the market firmed, PGG Wrightson agent Craig Reiche reported. Steers lifted 8c/kg and medium types sold for $2.80-$2.96/kg and light, $2.75-$2.80/kg. Heavy heifers realised $2.76-$2.90/kg while medium made $2.68-$2.76/kg and beef cows, $1.48/kg to $1.83/kg. Boner prices strengthened 15-20c/kg. Heavy-medium cows fetched $1.45/kg to $1.71/kg and light, $1.09/kg to $1.45/ kg. Medium-heavy prime lambs returned $137 to $217 last Monday while stores ranged from $65 to $138 and heavy ewes, $140-$190. Medium ewes earned $117-$140 and light, $62 to $117. About 400 store cattle were yarded on Thursday May 26. Hereford-Friesian steers, 540kg, returned $2.96/kg and 444kg, $2.81/kg. R1 Angus-cross and Hereford-Friesian steers at 185kg made $540-$580. R2 Hereford-Friesian heifers, 396kg, returned $2.74/kg and Simmental-cross heifers, 322kg, $2.70/kg. In the younger pens 231kg Hereford-Friesian heifers made $710 and 139kg HerefordFriesian, $520.

WAIKATO PGG Frankton cattle 31.5 • The top end of the R2 heifers held at $2.70-$2.80/kg • Better R2 Friesian bulls made $2.85/kg • Good boner Friesian cows earned $1.50-$1.60/kg There was just a small offering of both store and prime cattle at the PGG Wrightson FRANKTON sale last Tuesday which totalled 360-head. The best of the R2 HerefordFriesian steers, 422-478kg, met good demand to achieve $3.03-$3.11/kg though the balance eased with the next cut $2.60-$2.70/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye. NZFL Frankton 1.6 • R1 heifers mostly fetched $520-$655, $2.84-$2.86/kg • R1 Belgian Blue-Friesian bulls, 245kg, earned $705, $2.88/kg • Boner cows above 630kg made $1.72-$1.79/kg There was a small yarding of 140 cattle at the New Zealand Farmers Livestock FRANKTON sale last Wednesday. Better R2 steers earned $2.63-$2.69/kg and a few 410kg Jersey bulls $2.68/kg. Prime Hereford-dairy steers, 509590kg, achieved $2.90-$2.99/kg and 435-490kg heifers, $2.76-$2.88/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

KING COUNTRY Te Kuiti cattle • R3 Angus steers, 485-700kg, sold from $2.84/kg to $3.16/kg • Empty R2 heifers, 373-446kg, achieved $2.33/kg to $2.46/kg • The best of the Angus cows up to 603kg fetched $1.95/kg, $1180 There were 100 pens of cattle offered at TE KUITI on Friday, May 27 and the market was on par with the previous sale. R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 434-480kg, made $2.90$2.96/kg and the best of the Angus-Hereford heifers, 380kg, $2.55/kg. A good pen of yearling Hereford bulls, 408kg, earned $2.74/kg. Te Kuiti sheep • Heavy prime ewes earned $176-$180 • Heavy prime lambs achieved $178-$192 • Mixed-age ewes, scanned-in-lamb to a Suffolk ram, made $163 • Mixed-age ewes, run-with a Romney ram, sold for $184 Store lambs made up the bulk of the yarding at the TE KUITI sheep sale last Wednesday. The top end lambs made $150-$159, medium $127-$135 and lighter types, $105$115. Medium prime ewes made $130-$150 and lighter types, $102-$105.

BAY OF PLENTY Rangiuru cattle and sheep • Angus and Hereford cows averaged $1.60/kg for those over 500kg • R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 465kg, fetched $3.08/kg The yarding of cattle at RANGIURU last Tuesday was predominantly cows and other tidy-up lines ahead of moving day. There was little change in the boner cow market, and most made $1.26-$1.35/kg. A middle tier of R2 dairy-beef steers traded at $2.80-$2.84/kg. R1 Angus steers and heifers sold for $500-$560 and Hereford-Friesian heifers, 232kg, earned $660. Better store lambs realised $83-$96 and prime lambs ranged from $125 to $135. Ewes collected $110. Read more in your LivestockEye.

POVERTY BAY Matawhero sheep • Top store ewe lambs earned $137-$144 • Store ram lambs made $136-$144 • Mixed-age Romney ewes, run-with-ram, achieved $164 • Prime lambs mostly fetched $162-$177 Store lamb throughput jumped back up to 3340-head at MATAWHERO on Friday, May 27. Lighter male lambs lifted to $100-$130, medium types around $150 and the top end reached $170. Ewe lambs typically sold for $120-$130. Read more in your LivestockEye. Matawhero cattle • Better R3 traditional steers earned $2.97-$2.98/kg and the next cut $2.80/kg • R2 Angus and Angus-Hereford steers, 455-475kg, achieved $1390-$1485 • R2 Angus heifers, 410kg, reached $1230, $3.00/kg • Better weaner Angus steers traded at $805-$875 • Weaner heifers typically realised $2.70/kg to $2.85/kg Almost 1500 cattle were offered at the MATAWHERO cattle fair last Tuesday. The top end cattle met good demand though lesser types were stickier. The bulk of the R2 traditional steers earned $3.00/kg mark. The top end was able to reach $3.05/kg to $3.21/kg. The majority of the R2 traditional heifers sold for $2.77-$2.89/kg. Good mixed-age cows, 555kg plus and vetted-in-calf, traded at $1060-$1260. Read more in your LivestockEye.

TARANAKI Taranaki cattle • R1 Hereford-Friesian steers, 170kg, achieved $540, $3.18/kg • R1 Hereford-Friesian heifers, 148kg, made $500, $3.38/kg There was a very small yarding of 60 cattle at TARANAKI last Wednesday. R2 Angus-cross and Hereford-Friesian steers, 390-405kg, fetched $2.70-$2.82/kg and better R2 Hereford-Friesian heifers $2.45-$2.47/kg. A handful of boner Friesian cows were on par with the previous sale at $1.57/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

HAWKE’S BAY Stortford Lodge prime sheep 30.5 • One line of prime ewes sold to $212 • Other very heavy ewes managed $198-$202.50 Ewes continued their solid run at STORTFORD LODGE last Monday. The majority of these were heavy pens that sold for $175-$188 while smaller lines were generally purchased from $110 to $168 dependant on condition. Around a quarter of the lambs were either heavy male, cryptorchid or rams that consistently returned $213-$228 while second cuts managed $180-$204. Read more in your LivestockEye. Stortford Lodge store cattle and sheep • R3 traditional steers, 560-600kg, firmed to $3.21-$3.27/kg • R2 Angus steers, 420-490kg, reached $3.20-$3.35/kg • R1 traditional heifers, 190-218kg, made $610-$710 • Heavy male lambs came back to $150-$172 • Good ewe lambs sold for $137-$160 Plenty of quality was offered in the 520-head store cattle yarding at STORTFORD LODGE last Wednesday. A pen of 11 R3 Angus heifers sold well at $1400, $2.92/kg. R2 Angus and Angus-Hereford steers, 425-461kg, were off the pace of the Angus lines at $3.08-$3.09/kg but a pen of 30 Friesian bulls, 421kg, reached $3.28/kg. A consignment of R1 Simmentalcross were offered and the steers made $830 and heifers, $600. Store lamb prices mainly eased and around $5-$10 was taken out of the market. Shorn cryptorchid sold well at $161-$173.50 though lighter ewe lambs eased to $115-$135. Read more in your LivestockEye. Dannevirke sheep • Prime lambs sold well at $147-$171 • Store ewe lambs reached $147 and averaged $132-$138 Sheep tallies just ticked over 4000-head at DANNEVIRKE on Thursday, May 26. Most were store lambs and male pens still managed to outnumber ewe lambs. Most were cryptorchid and sold for $130-$157.50 while wether lambs earned $127-$153. All male lambs averaged $144-$146. Prime ewes varied from $70 to $191.

MANAWATŪ Feilding store cattle and sheep • R3 Angus steers, 580kg, made $3.30/kg • Two pens of R2 Angus bulls, 395-410kg, sold for $1490-$1530 • Two big lines of R2 Angus heifers, 385-405kg, sold for $3.15$3.30/kg • Store male lambs averaged $156 • Store ewe lambs averaged $133 It was a solid market for the 1300 cattle at FEILDING on Friday, May 27. R3 straight-beef steers, 590-665kg, primarily made $3.15-$3.20/kg. R2 straight-beef steers, 370-605kg, were $3.10-$3.15/kg with dairy-cross mixed, usually at the lower-end of $2.90-$3.15/kg. R2 Friesian bulls, 450-485kg, made $3.00-$3.10/kg. R2 dairy-cross heifers, 340-460kg, sold for $2.45-$2.65/kg. R1 Hereford-Friesian steers, 170-220kg, returned $3.60-$3.90/kg. R1 Friesian bulls, 195-245kg, sold evenly between $3.20/kg and $3.50/ kg. The 13,000 store lambs sold well, though the start of the sale was stronger than the end. Forward-store males made $165-$180, overlapping with good lines at $160$175. Medium males were $140-$155 and light, $120-$135. Forward-store ewe lambs were $160-$170, good lines $145$155, medium $125-$145, light $100-$120, and tail-enders, $75-$90. Two-tooth ewes, scanned-in-lamb 135%, fetched $183-$185. Read more in your LivestockEye. Feilding prime cattle and sheep • Medium condition 493kg Friesian cows fetched $1.68/kg • Heaviest lambs collected $214 Boner cows were still the stars of the show at FEILDING last Monday as 266-head sold on a stronger market. Top Friesian heifers which weighed 470kg made $2.51/kg while lighter options were heavily discounted. A pen of HerefordFriesian steers, 568kg, earned $2.78/kg while an Angus heifer, 460kg, collected $2.61/kg. Hereford-beef cows, 458586kg, traded at $1.55-$1.62/kg. Prime lamb throughput increased to 3282-head after a stronger sale last week, but the market softened again. A smaller yarding of ewes sold

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Rongotea cattle • Two-year Angus bulls, 480kg, earned $2.65/kg • Good R2 Angus-cross heifers reached $2.73/kg • Autumn-born yearling Belgian Blue-cross steers, 263kg, made $2.82/kg • R1 Hereford-Friesian steers, 200kg, achieved $465 • Boner Friesian cows, 430-543kg, realized $1.42/kg to $1.59/kg There was a small sale at RONGOTEA last Tuesday, New Zealand Farmers Livestock agent Darryl Harwood reported. Better R2 steers made $2.30/kg to $2.50/kg and the next cut, $2.14-$2.17/kg. R2 heifers around 334-443kg typically achieved $2.23/kg to $2.42/kg. R1 Hereford-Friesian and Speckle Park-cross heifers, 133-170kg, traded at $340-$400.

Canterbury Park cattle and sheep • R2 Speckle Park-cross heifers, 319kg, earned $3.15/kg • R1 Murray Grey steers and heifers, both 316kg, made $1020 and $1005 respectively • Prime Angus-Hereford steers, 533kg, fetched $3.23/kg An active gallery for both prime and store cattle lifted most sections at CANTERBURY PARK last Tuesday. R2 Hereford-beef steers, 281-309kg, fetched $3.24-$3.32/kg while better dairy-beef breeds traded at $3.06-$3.13/kg. Most traditional heifers returned $2.95-$3.01/kg and top R2 Friesian bulls collected $2.67-$2.75/kg. Later-born R1 traditional steers and heifers made $600-$685 at 156-213kg. Well-finished beef steers exceeded $3.10/kg and the market for local trade heifers eased due to space restrictions. Most beef cows started at $1.85/kg and reached $2.10/ kg. Prime lambs firmed again and a top price of $253 was made. The ewe market also improved. A sizeable yarding of store lambs sold to good demand and smaller shorn male blackface lambs from Banks Peninsula earned $144. Read more in your LivestockEye.

CANTERBURY Coalgate cattle and sheep • R2 Angus heifers, 334kg, earned $2.72/kg • Prime Angus-cross heifers, 468kg, collected $3.08/kg • Top Romney-cross ewe lambs from North Canterbury made $161 In a small yarding of store cattle at COALGATE on Thursday May 26, R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 256-306kg, made $2.70-$2.71/kg while same breed heifers, 274-279kg, traded at $2.37-$2.44/kg. R1 cattle were good buying at sub-$2.00/kg for dairy and dairy-beef breeds. They were heavier than beef-cross which ranged from $2.43/kg up to $2.88/kg for 170kg Murray Grey-cross steers. Prime steers over 450kg fetched $3.08-$3.18/kg and beef heifers from 480kg to 677kg traded upwards of $2.98/kg. Better beef cows returned $1.80$1.86/kg while Friesian, 477-485kg, collected $1.50-$1.60/ kg. Quality store lambs still sold well in a limited yarding and returns for prime lambs strengthened. The ewe market also

SOUTH-CANTERBURY Temuka prime and boner cattle, all sheep • Top Charolais and Angus steers, 575-660kg, made $3.29-$3.30/kg • Quality prime beef heifers achieved $3.11-$3.21/kg • Forward store Romney-Texel ewe lambs collected $189 The boner cow market continued to perform well for over 740-head at TEMUKA last Monday. Most cows fetched $1.70-$1.80/kg regardless of breed. A large portion of prime steers lifted to $3.10-$3.20/kg. The bulk of the prime dairybeef heifers improved to $2.90-$3.00/kg. Good demand for store lambs continued and the market held. Romney male lambs from Rakaia Gorge made $157 and Merino wethers

realised $115. Prime lambs sold on a firmer market and a top price of $253 was earned while ewes were steady. Read more in your LivestockEye.

OTAGO Balclutha sheep • Prime lambs varied from $120 to $198 Store lamb numbers lifted to 1340 at BALCLUTHA on Wednesday, May 25. The average store lamb value eased to $104 though the top end firmed to $145. Prime ewes lifted to $132-$218 and prime rams made $80-$100.

SOUTHLAND Lorneville sale • Boner cows earned $1.45-$1.53/kg • R2 Hereford-cross steers, 520kg, achieved $3.06/kg • R1 Angus steers and heifers, 202-228kg, made $600-$680 • Local trade rams achieved $50-$75 Prime steers, 450-530kg, made $2.70/kg to $2.88/kg at LORNEVILLE last Tuesday and 500-530kg heifers, $2.75$2.88/kg. R2 Hereford-cross and Speckle Park-cross steers, 379kg, made $2.80-$2.82/kg and better heifers, $2.64-$2.73/ kg. Prime lambs firmed to $180-$202, medium $155-$170 and light, $140-$170. Heavy prime ewes traded at $208$268, medium $158-$196 and light, $128-$140. Top store lambs improved a few dollars to $130-$154, medium $100$125 and light, $80-$100. Charlton sheep • Prime ewes ranged from $60 to $188 • Prime rams also ranged from $60 to $195 Approximately 415 store lambs were offered by PGG Wrightson at CHARLTON on Thursday May 26. The average store lamb price was $102, and values ranged from $70 to $145. Prime lambs eased to $142-$195.

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Autumn on-farm sale pays dividends tidied up at once and before winter.” The last lambs were sent to the processors three weeks prior to the sale and the balance were targeted for the on-farm event, which was held at the McRae’s finishing block Avonvale, 20 kilometres from the breeding block at Lochiel Station. The sale was organised and marketed by Dave Hardy from DBH Livestock with the help of Hazlett agent Alby Orchard. “They (Dave and Alby) did a top job marketing the sale and it showed in the interest we had. A lot of buyers know the lambs, having bought them in the past from our summer on-farm sales, and so they turned up to bid. They also appreciate being able to buy big lines – our biggest had 700-800 lambs in it.” He also said that the results were exceptional and overall around $20 more than expected. The lambs were recently-shorn Romdale and Suftex and were presented in nine sex-drafted lines.

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CHANGE of plan for selling lambs and cattle paid dividends for Hanmer Springs farmers Hamish and Mary McRae from Lochiel Station. Over the years different farming systems have been trialled to get stock to their end point – whether that be finishing on-farm or selling store, but this year an autumn on-farm sale was the focus and it proved to be successful enough that Hamish McRae will look to hold more in the future. “This was a first for us to hold an on-farm sale at this time of year, but it made sense,” Hamish said. “We would usually finish 9-10,000 lambs and got to the point where we had finished 6000. With the remaining 3000 we opted to hold an on-farm sale now, as it was a good way to get everything

Hazlett Livestock agent Alby Orchard was on hand to sell the lambs and said the auction set a new level. “There was keen bidding from Marlborough and Canterbury buyers, and some missed out due to the strong buying bench who were determined not to back down,” Orchard said. “Tallies such as those offered at the sale are becoming very scarce within the Canterbury area, yet there is still plenty of demand from buyers with plenty of feed still in front of them due to an amazing autumn in Canterbury.”. The male lambs sold for $155$193 with ewe lambs very close behind at $154-$190, setting a sale average of $164. That was above the average price for those that had been finished, though the lambs sold on-farm ranged from prime to forward-store types. The R2 Charolais and AngusHereford cattle were offered under similar circumstances to the lambs. Orchard was very impressed

BUYERS AT THE READY: A competitive crowd turned out for the autumn on-farm sale held by Lochiel Station owners Hamish and Mary McRae at their finishing block Avonvale.

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Sizes available: 1690H x 750mm, 1800m, • Slam Latch & Striker Plate 2100mm, 2500mm, 2700mm, 3100mm • 20mm

15% OFF RRP

PLUS FREIGHT

Sheep Draft Module V-Sides

3 Way Draft Module

950 .00

FRP Catwalk Grating

Farmhand Handler Farmhand 7 Rail Farmhand Gate With walkthrough headbail Cattle Yard Gates Latches • Great for lifestyle blocks or small STOCK LASTS

nels Farmhand Loading Ramp

+GST

farms needing an economical cattle handling area • Headbail and railed sides

.00 +GST

1,595.00

Sliding Yard Gate • Including mounting brackets

69.00

+GST

PLUS FREIGHT

Woolaway Lift & Sheep Race AntiSwing Gates Backing Flaps

• 3-way draft • 3110mm L x 600mm W

PLUS FREIGHT

3,295.00

+GST

50 Head Sheep Yard

From PLUS FREIGHT

1190 .00

+GST

Pair

PLUS FREIGHT

159.00

+GST

PLUS FREIGHT

710 Head Sheep Yard

• Includes fixed sided draft module

• Includes adjustable sides draft module

76m2

13.8m2

FIXED

58m2 13.8m2

43m2 49m2

26m2 41m2

3.5m2

7,990 .00 +GST

24,990.00 +GST

Crutch and Weigh Combo Sheep Handler

THE ONLY EEP AUTOMATED SH BLE HANDLER AVAILA THAT GIVES FULL ACCESS TO FEET & BELLY

The best all round sheep handler in the market!

Entry shut off gate

Tips sheep on side for crutching and dagging

Auto Catch

Daggers MateSheep Handler Daggers Mate Daggers Mate Sheep Handler Sheep Handler • The ultimate machine for fast and efficient dagging and crutching • Air controlled on skids • Tips sheep on their sides for dagging and crutching • Adjustable overhead clamp • Made in New Zealand

Adjustable overhead clamp

3-way drafting

Automatic ramp clamp

Optional extras: Belly flap, Transport kit.

Entry ramp (adjustable) Air controlled

Rubber lined floor and slides

Hot dip galvanised

*Scales sold separately. Optional extras: Ramp clamp, Belly flap, Transport kit.

Sheep Weigh Crate

Sheep Panels

• Alloy, lightweight, transportable • Mounts on to any existing loadbars

• Quick, easy pin together yard panel for a variety of uses • Use for sheep/calves/goats

Auto Weigh Sheep Handler Weigh • Railed -Sheep 3m W x 1m H Handler 3 way drafting • Manual weighing and Auto

Shee

Made in New Zealand

Open access to feet and belly

FREE GALLAGHER 600MM LOADBARS INCLUDED

2,495.00 +GST

179.00

+GST

EACH

FINANCE AVAILABLE! YOU CHOOSE THE TERMS!

T’S & C’S APPLY

Sheep Weigh Crate/ Portable Sheep Ramp

Sheep Sheep Weigh Crate/ Weigh Scale Portable Combo Sheep Ramp Weigh Scale Combo

Woolshed Lift and Wool Fadge Holder Gates Wool Fadge Holder WoolshedSwing Lift and Sheep

Swing Gates

V-Sid

THE RURAL BUTCHER FarmhandSheep Vetless Shears Cattle Crush Rechargeable Rural Mincer T22 Rural Mincer T12

Farmhand Vet Crush Rural Sausage Rural Sausage Filler 3L Filler 7L

Rechargeable Sheep Shears • Make mince from home • Make mince from home • Stainless steel body • 750W motor • Capacity 150kg/h

• Make sausages at home

• Stainless steel body • 850W motor • Capacity 250kg/h

595 Walkthrough

895 Swingbail

• Make sausages at home

339

239

$ Farmhand .00Headbail $ Farmhand .00Headbail $ Stockman Headbail .00 .00 Sliding Gate $ Stockman BU13 +GST BU08 BU10 +GST BU09 +GST +GST

Rural Meat Slicer Rural Meat Mixer SheepSheep Express Conveyors Express Conveyors • Slice meat to perfection every time. • Easy mixing handle and Suitable for home, to semiprofessional use.

799 .00

+GST

•

pivoting cradle with lid.

BU94

469 .00 +GST

Double Burger Pattie Press

Burger Pattie Press 130mm diameter

130mm diameter

•

BU14

219 .00

BU132

+GST

20 .00

BU131

+GST

SPEND OVER $500+GST ON BUTCHERY ITEMS Farmhand Slam Farmhand Yard Panels Farmhand Cattle Yard & RECEIVE A FREE BUTCHERS APRON!* Sheep / Calf Ramp Farmhand Sheep - Bundle of 10 amp

LatchesSheep & Hog GatesSausage heep / CalfNatural Ramp Farmhand Sheep Casings from New Zealand Pen Panel Sheep and Hog Pen CasingsPanel are the two main types

20m Sheep

40m Sheep

.91

.30

+GST

90m Sheep

+GST

.39

+GST

90m Hog $

52.17

+GST

of edible natural casings used for sausage making, the main difference between the two being their size (width). Sheep casings are not as wide as hog casings so a sausage made with a sheep casing will be slim and tender, e.g. a breakfast sausage or hot dog. A sausage made with a hog casing will be a fat and chunky, e.g. an Italian Sausage. BU112

Butcher Chainmail Glove

Mutton Cloth Stockinette

• 2.5kg roll

• 500g roll

Sheep Draft Sheep Draft Module Farmhand Curved Force TubModule Sides Draft Module Sheep V-Sides Draft Module SheepAdjustable

der

BU114

BU113

BU135

Magnetic Knife Holder

Farmhand Loading Ramp

Adjustable Sides

V-Sides

129

.00 +GST

BU68,69,70

.00

+GST

BU138

.00

BU137

+GST

Hoist N Lock Big Game Hoist N Lock Post/Tree T-Meat Grab Hook Mount

45.00 +GST

BU110

Single Swivel Meat Hook

10mm x 235mm

26.00

125

$ 6

.00 +GST

BU171

135

+GST

.00 +GST

4” hook BU172

.00 +GST

5” hook

.00 +GST

14mm x 270mm

BU60/61

33 .00 +GST

BU62/63

0800 843 024 WWW.RURALBUTCHER.COM Promotional offers valid until 30th June 2022. All prices exclude freight unless specified. Limit 1 apron per customer. Available at advertised & online prices only. Not available to trade customers. Not transferable to any other products.

THE RURAL BUTCHER Medium Meat Saw

Large Meat Saw

• Throat size 270mm H x 200mm W • 1.1kW motor • 210mm alloy pulley wheels • Table 500 x 600mm

• Throat size 380mm H x 250mm W • 1.5kW motor • 260mm alloy pulley wheels • Table 700 x 550mm

• Throat size 460mm H x 285mm W • 1.5kW motor • 300mm alloy pulley wheels • Table 700 x 550mm

999 Stainless Steel

Small Meat Saw

.00 +GST

BU91

2,249 .00 +GST

BU92

Corner Bench Unit

Sink Bench

• 900 x 900

475

+GST

BU93

Stainless Steel Workbench

• 900 L x 600 D

495

.00 +GST

BU81

Chopping Board • 600 L x 400 W 40 D

• 1200 L x 600 D

•1200 L x 600 D

3,190.00

Butchers Block Workbench

.00 +GST

BU82

399

.00 +GST

BU83

370

.00 +GST

BU80

129 .00 +GST

BU95

SPEND OVER $500+GST ON BUTCHERY ITEMS & RECEIVE A FREE BUTCHERS APRON!* Butchers Apron PPU

Butchers ApronNylon

29.00

+GST

BU105

+GST

Plastic Knife Pouch

29.00 +GST

BU123-30

BU139

+GST

25.00 +GST

BU106

22.00 +GST

BU108

BU180-87

14 .00 +GST

0800 843 024

27.00 +GST

15.00 +GST

BU142

Belt & Steel Holder

BU107

Double Carcass Swivel Hook

• 8mm x 200mm

49.00

• 500 x 120mm

• 520mm L • Hold up to 2 knives

Single Stainless Hanging Hook

Knife Roll Bag

Sleeve Protector

Plastic Knife Pouch Plastic Knife Pouch

• 370mm L • Hold up to 4 knives

• 325mm L • Hold up to 4 knives

29.00

Rural Butcher Bata Gumboots

23 .00 +GST

BU109-11

Mutton Skid Swivel Hook

• 330mm width hook to hook

BU64

45 .00 +GST

BU67

57 .00 +GST

BU89

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Promotional offers valid until 30th June 2022. All prices exclude freight unless specified. Limit 1 apron per customer. Available at advertised & online prices only. Not available to trade customers. Not transferable to any other products.

HAY FEEDERS Farmhand Round Hay Feeder • Large bale, 2m diameter AVAILABLE • 15 head positions AT

FARMLANDS

Farmhand Heavy Duty Round Feeder

Large Round Bale Cradle Feeder • 2250 W x 1780 L x 1200 H • Drop down sides for calves

• Hangs on railed fence or gate • 467H x 454 W x 270 deep

• Large bale, 2m diameter • 1200mm high • 9 head positions

895

.00

+GST FREIGHT PLUS

Sheep/Calf Small Bale Cradle Feeder • 1650 L x 1440 W • CLEARANCE PRICE!

.00

• Flip top lid keeps hay dry • Bottom tray minimises hay wastage

2 FOR $159.00

+GST

+GST FREIGHT PLUS

1,295 .00

PLUS +GST FREIGHT

169 .00

FREIGHT +GST PLUS

Large Square Bale Cradle Feeder

Rectangular Hay Bale Feeder

• 2900L x 1500W x 1080 H • CLEARANCE PRICE!

• Fits 2 large bales

WHILE STOCKS LASTS

STOCK LASTS

Hanging Hayfeeder with Lid

Farmhand Lifestyler Hay Feeder

WHILE STOCKS LASTS

595

.00

+GST

PLUS FREIGHT

795

.00 +GST

1,295.00

$ PLUS FREIGHT

PLUS +GST FREIGHT