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4 Fonterra’s recovery road gets steeper Vol 18 No 9, March 11, 2019

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Soil protection policy on way Richard Rennie & Neal Wallace

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NATIONAL policy statement to protect high-value soils is in the pipeline following consultation with councils and industry earlier this year.

The proposal seeks a plan recognising and protecting the soils that make up only 5% of the country’s soil inventory but account for most of the country’s fruit and vegetable production.

I believe that the well-being budget should focus on how to achieve healthy food production, sustainably, well into the future.

Mike Chapman Hort NZ The soils have been recognised as being under critical threat and the rate of their loss was highlighted last year in a report sponsored by Horticulture New Zealand.

A policy statement gives the government the ability to leapfrog over local government policy.

A Ministry for the Environment spokesman confirmed the statement will be finalised through a national direction

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development process laid out in the Resource Management Act. It will include broad public consultation planned for the middle of this year.

Environment Minister David Parker last year expressed his concern at how much urban growth was occurring on irreplaceable, high-value soil.

Pukekohe, in particular, fell on his radar as Auckland pushes further south.

He was also concerned about how NZ’s 170,000 lifestyle blocks bring issues of reverse sensitivity with them, when those living on them object to the disruptions normal farming and orcharding practices bring, ultimately forcing farmers and orchardists out, causing further loss of productive land.

Horticulture NZ chief executive Mike Chapman said while Auckland’s unitary plan does provide some protection for about 3000ha of soil it is not enough and a statement will do much to extend that protection.

He hopes measures in the Government’s first well-being

budget to be delivered on May 30 will promote the production of sustainable food, including the land, water, labour and communities.

The Government says topics covered in its first well-being budget will be natural, social, financial and human capital and Chapman has some specifics he would like included.

“I believe that the well-being budget should focus on how to achieve healthy food production, sustainably, well into the future.

“Of necessity, this will involve creating a food supply or security framework that identifies what is the best food production use for our land and preserves that land for those crops.”

The first step is to preserve high-quality land then consistent and reliable water supply, including provision for storage, followed by a quality workforce.

Chapman said the budget needs to take a holistic view of NZ and to actively plan for a sustainable future, which includes protecting elite and prime soil.

“We need to be able to feed ourselves. We need to be able to grow healthy food.

“Therefore, we need to plan and make provision for this.”

All council planners spoken to by Farmers Weekly expressed support for an NPS on highquality soil. One manager said such a policy would remove some of the pressure councils face when developers seek more land for building.

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The loss of soils has also highlighted the risk to NZ’s food security should the soils continue to be built over.

A report forwarded by the Land Monitoring Forum, compiled by soil and water scientist Fiona Curran-Cournane in 2017, predicted a large percentage of best soils could be lost in the next 50-100 years based on current trends, with major implications for the next generation.

Melbourne provides a sobering example in the forum’s submission

on the need to protect valuable vegetable-producing soils.

With a population similar to NZ’s, the city, just like NZ supplies 85% of its own fruit and greens.

That was estimated to diminish to only 20% by 2050, entirely becaue of the loss of high-quality land around Melbourne to urban development.

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WEATHER OVERVIEW The autumn weather pattern has now arrived and this week is a classic example of early autumn. By that we mean the weather pattern is becoming more changeable and one of the best ways to see it is by looking at temperatures a week out and seeing how, the further south you go, the more they bounce around. The lower South Island has some summer-like days this week and some cooler ones. The country has some windy days and some calm ones. Those in northern New Zealand will experience more of an Indian summer with more settled weather lingering longer thanks to more high pressure. Among the cold fronts and showers NZ still has a number of large highs to come.

4 Hurrell to lead changed Fonterra Fonterra’s newly confirmed chief executive Miles Hurrell has quickly seen the road to company profitability get steeper and his vows more difficult to keep.

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Temperature Temperatures are turning autumnal for the lower two-thirds of NZ. That means we see some days this week with highs in the low to mid 20s but cooler again late week or weekend.

Generally speaking, average to milder than average.

Varying wind directions and strengths this week but with three cold fronts from the Southern Ocean we have northerly quarter winds on Tuesday, strong northwesters south of Wellington on Wednesday, easing Thursday, and calm for most Thursday and Friday. Southerly change on Saturday.

Highlights/ Extremes Three cold fronts in five days is a sign our season is changing. For those who missed out on rain last Friday we see increasing chances of rainmakers for NZ, hopefully more relief coming but it is a bit patchy.

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Pasture growth and facial eczema will be on the rise for some, especially in western NZ following recent rain and showers. Warmer weather for much of this week will also help, along with northerly quarter winds. Some of our driest regions that either missed out on rain last Friday or need more do have some better chances of rain in the next 14 days but it’s still hit and miss.

Eastern parts of the South Island look driest in the next week or so.

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Lamb volumes finally moving Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz SOUTHERN South Island lamb flows into processing plants are higher now than they were a year ago but the season overall remains slower.

Alliance’s Lorneville plant in Invercargill, the country’s biggest, is at capacity with all chains running, the co-operative’s livestock and shareholder services general manager Heather Stacy said.

“By this time last year we’d had a peak and it was tailing off. This year’s been slower but now the lambs are flowing in.”

By this time last year we’d had a peak and it was tailing off.

This year’s been slower but now the lambs are flowing in.

Heather Stacy Alliance The South Island lamb kill has been running consistently about 15% behind last season but she thinks the gap is finally narrowing.

In most of Alliance’s major Southland and Otago catchment feed levels are still favourable and lambs are fattening well.

An exception is Central Otago where plentiful feed earlier has deteriorated in the dry conditions and stock are struggling to add weight.

Canterbury supply is slower, as usual at this time of year, with a lot of lambs being finished on irrigated arable land after being bought as stores.

With the overall supply being lower than over the last couple of years, volumes are still out there with no pressure on feed in most places, Stacy said.

However, she cautioned the supply situation is finely balanced and farmers won’t want to be caught with stock needing to be processed in the short operating weeks either side of Easter, which could lead to space problems, and they also need to ensure lambs don’t get too heavy.

“It’s good now, we’re averaging about 18.5kg to 19kg but we wouldn’t want lambs around that 25kg weight range if farmers do hold them too long.”

The South Island schedule, post the valuable Easter chilled supply contracts, has moved to the $6.60kg/$6.80kg range and Stacy doesn’t expect much movement from there over the next few weeks. The rates are about 5c to 10c/kg above this time last year.

Market demand for lamb remains strong.

Alliance has redirected some products away from the United Kingdom as a safeguard to issues around Brexit, she said.

GlobalHQ analyst Nicola Dennis said the easing in lamb schedules since the Easter chilled premiums ended suggests processors are getting reasonable supply levels into their plants, even though official figures show South Island supply was still 15% behind last year’s levels by February 9.

“The slaughter stats are still

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VOLUME: Easing schedules show processors are getting reasonable numbers of lambs into their plants, AgriHQ analyst Nicola Dennis says.

showing it’s worse each week but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t picked up since then.

“I think it will have over the last three weeks.”

It is also possible there is a bigger reduction in lamb numbers than surveyed by Beef + Lamb NZ and there might have been significant numbers of lambs moved to the North Island, either by the companies for processing or by traders as store lambs.

North Island processing stats show the February 9 lambs tally was 3% behind last year, which wasn’t flash, and 6% behind the five-year average. The North Island schedule was expected to

fall to about $6.90/kg on Friday from $7 a week earlier.

A factor to watch out for is the increase in lambs from Australia being sold for export, Dennis said.

The crop is usually 60% sold to the domestic market but prices might be causing some consumer resistance and export volumes are now higher.

Beef inflows to NZ processing plants are strong, Dennis said.

The February 9 tallies for cull cows show North Island numbers were 27% lower and the South Island off 11% from last year’s big tallies at the same time.

Plentiful feed has encouraged farmers to keep milking for longer

but the dry weather has finally brought them in and the supply is now starting to put strain on killing space, especially in the North Island, Dennis said.

In the South steer numbers are 6% higher than last year and the five-year average, heifers are down 12% on last year but up 8% on the five-year average and bulls up 3.5% on last year and 35% on the five-year average.

In the North steers are up 7% on last year and down 9% on the five-year average, heifers are up 8% year-on-year and 4% on the five-year average and bulls down 2% on last year but up 35% on the five-year average.

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Fonterra’s road to change gets steeper Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz FONTERRA’S newly confirmed chief executive Miles Hurrell has quickly seen the road to company profitability get steeper and his vows more difficult to keep.

Around the time last month that Fonterra downgraded its earnings forecast and postponed dividends, the directors made his position permanent after six months as interim chief executive.

Chairman John Monaghan said Hurrell had demonstrated the wisdom, skills, experience and backbone needed to lead.

“Our current financial performance is not where it needs to be nor will it be fixed overnight.”

Hurrell will have no illusions about the intractable tension between farmgate milk prices and earnings from value-add products and activities.

Since the introduction of market share valuations, Trading Among Farmers and sale of fund units to outside investors Fonterra’s leaders have chased both high milk prices and high earnings, concurrently instead of separately.

Hurrell’s predecessors at the top claimed it could be done but never delivered.

He began his interim term in November with a public goal to restore earnings to give a return on capital of 7% or greater and the implied yield on shares that would satisfy farmers and unit holders.

Judging by the pre-interim results downgrades that goal will not be scored this financial year.

Nor will $800 million of savings deliver a debt ratio within the 40-45% range when share prices dropped into the low $4s following the downgrades, chopping company equity.

Competitors and commentators are nearly unanimous in saying Fonterra’s milk price model inflated milk prices at the cost of balance sheet damage, low earnings and inadequate dividends.

Last financial year’s 10c dividend, an average per farm of $15,000, now appears likely to repeat, as does a milk price in the mid $6s.

Farmers, as members of a pure co-operative with a nominal share price, would not have cause to complain but as investors in a corporate hybrid with an average share capital of $750,000 the grumblings grow louder.

The Ministry for Primary Industries review of the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act must address that conundrum.

Monaghan and Hurrell have also foreshadowed structural changes as well as portfolio divestments, to be floated on March 20 before consultations with farmer-shareholders.

They must address the impression that Fonterra has become too complex for its own good and a twin-company structure, initially rejected by farmer-owners in 2007, might be an answer.

Monaghan said Hurrell’s appointment will bring muchneeded stability during a critical period of change.

“This is a fundamental

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BIG JOB: Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell, right, with chairman John Monaghan is faced with resolving the tension between farmers and unit shareholders.

reshaping, not tinkering, and discussions with shareholders will begin after March 20,” he told a media briefing on February 28.

The announcement of Hurrell’s appointment five days later said his leadership and commercial skills are impressive.

His annual salary will be $1.95m plus short and long-term incentives that will be disclosed in the annual financial statement in September.

Predecessor Theo Spierings had a $2.46m base salary plus superannuation payments and bonuses that took his total earnings over $8m in both his last two years in the job.

Monaghan said when Hurrell was appointed interim chief executive he would earn substantially less than Spierings.

“Despite the challenges with our current performance, the fundamentals of this business are strong,” Hurrell said.

“To realise our potential we need to get the basics right and that means a full review of our strategy and ultimately, a fundamental change in direction.”

He would never take the encouragement and support of farmers and unit holders for granted.

Fitch Ratings added to the expectations laid on Hurrell’s shoulders by saying asset sales will

be critical in getting debt under control and maintaining its high credit rating.

Chief financial officer Marc Rivers acknowledged stronger earnings are needed to deliver a respectable return on capital in the co-op and a strong balance sheet.

Hurrell has been employed nearly 20 years by Fonterra with experience in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, Africa and Russia.

His immediate former position was chief operating officer of Farm Source.

His confirmation was widely applauded by farm leaders and the share price regained most of the 30c it lost when the downgrades were announced.

Hurrell has also confirmed the permanent appointment of Judith Swales as chief operating officer, global consumer and food service, an acting position she has held since the departure of Lukas Paravicini in January.

She has worked for Fonterra since 2013, initially as Australia and NZ chief executive, then as head of transformation and innovation.

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Fonterra solutions are in DIRA Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz SOME of the answers to Fonterra’s financial and structural questions are sitting right under its nose.

Rather than being the scapegoat and obstacle it is portrayed as the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act provides solutions if applied differently, Massey University agribusiness expert Professor Hamish Gow and management school senior lecturer James Lockhart say.

The law, enacted in 2001, created today’s dairy industry and is still applicable.

Central among the solutions is altering Fonterra’s interpretation of DIRA’s milk price setting mechanism, which Lockhart says they have broadly calculated as resulting in above-market payments to farmers of 50c/kg a year.

Lockhart said DIRA does not prevent Fonterra setting a marketbased milk price because the price-setting formula provides pricing advice to Fonterra but does not stipulate a price it must pay.

That overpayment is being taken from Fonterra’s balance sheet, diverted from investment and contributing to its indebtedness, lack of profitability and cancellation of an interim dividend.

But agribusiness expert Professor Keith Woodford says Fonterra’s issues sheet back to earlier decisions by the board and management.

“Fonterra’s current situation is the consequence of a whole series of bad decisions going back many years, which some of us could see all along, including poor investments and weak execution across the globe, not only in China, and inadequate retained funds over a period of at least 12 years.

“There is now no quick or easy fix.”

He is surprised at plans to sell Tip Top. “If Fonterra cannot make a success of value-add products in New Zealand then it cannot expect to do so elsewhere.

“The a2 Milk Company is now a much bigger company by value than Fonterra despite earning nearly all of its profits from just 70 Synlait farmers.

“Fonterra’s long-term future will depend on how it handles the a2 issue from here on.”

In their joint submission to the DIRA review, Lockhart and Gow said the Act has become a defensive mechanism against competition, which reveals a weakness in Fonterra’s strategy.

The DIRA milk price-setting model is not based on reality but instead a price paid by a theoretically highly efficient plant owned by a sole-processor based in the South Island not making any new investment beyond depreciation.

“This creates a misalignment between the milk-price model used for pricing by Fonterra and the strategic model used

by Fonterra, of which the latter requires the retention of some 50c/kg MS per annum to ensure that the company has enough capital to finance their strategy.

“They pay their farmers too much and seldom use the transparency offered by the Act.” Lockhart said those wanting to repeal or make major changes to DIRA ignore that fact it created an industry that is attractive to banks, provides transparency and has helped grow the industry to the size it is today.

But there have been unintended consequences such as Fonterra’s growing indebtedness, greater complexity following the 2012 introduction of Trading Among

Farmers (TAF) and the listing of shares on the NZ Stock Exchange.

Gow said that legally constrains Fonterra from providing suppliers with pertinent and relevant market updates and company information to assist business decisions.

“TAF makes decision-making more complex because of demands from shareholders for increased dividend returns and increasing resentment from supplier-shareholders who have a significant amount of capital tied up.”

Fonterra has increased its forecast farmgate milk price range by 30c to $6.30-$6.60/kg on the back of improved demand from Asia, specifically China, and slowing global production. It also said it will not pay an interim dividend.

Gow said Fonterra continues to operate a business model predicated on paying a high milk price to farmers and tunnelling out its balance sheet to satisfy dry shareholders, which is not reflective of markedly changing global dairy markets.

Dairy competition is increasing from United States and European producers free of subsidies and quotas but also from the growth of alternative protein.

The Australian dairy industry is in a parlous state and there are similar concerns about the condition of the European and US industries.

Gow said Fonterra and the dairy industry need a reset to find a new equilibrium in a global market that will not follow the pricing

SILENCED: Fonterra’s listing on the NZX stops it giving farmers relevant market and performance information they need to make decisions, Professor Hamish Gow says.

cycles experienced in the last 18 years.

“This is the new future.”

But a broader issue is the lack of independent and unbiased sector information available to farmers.

“Where do you go to get independent advice about what is going on markets, industry structure, these types of issues coming forth.”

They view moves to alter DIRA’s entry-exit provisions to Fonterra as short-sighted and ignoring the reality the Act bestows property rights on supplying farms and farm owners and access for their milk to a co-operative processing plant.

That was enshrined in DIRA so those supplying a co-operative before Fonterra’s formation continued to have their milk collected.

“This is a critical piece of legislation and ensured those farms and their property rights were protected in perpetuity,” Gow says.

Removing entry and exit provisions would remove that property right, potentially creating compensation claims.

An unintended consequence of those entry-exit provisions is that new suppliers since 2001 have the same right even if their farm is a long distance from a plant.

Lockhart said Fonterra can but has been reluctant to impose the true cost of collecting milk from those suppliers.

The dairy industry needs Fonterra, it needs to be a cooperative and he says a large co-operative should set the milk price.

But the industry also has some large, important issues to debate but no forum to do it.

Gow agrees saying those challenges are increasing because of farmer indebtedness and uncertainty over land prices, which is proving especially difficult for those who recently entered the industry.

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MPI isn’t hiding anything: Gwyn Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz ERADICATION remains the focus for the Mycoplasma bovis response team but it will be a long haul.

“We have a bit of heavy lifting still to do this year and then, hopefully, next year we will get to the space of long term surveillance,” M bovis programme director Geoff Gwyn said.

Gwyn assured farmers the Ministry for Primary Industries is not hiding a thing.

My focus is on the number of individual farms under regulatory control. That’s the key and the true size of the problem.

Geoff Gwyn MPI

“We are feeding information out every week, all the technical advisory reports have been put on the internet. They give a solid B pass and if we were not being transparent I wouldn’t be putting these (reports) in the public domain.”

With the first round of 2019 regional meetings to start later this month Gwyn said there will be plenty of opportunity for both affected farmers and the public to hear about the national plan for eradication and for feedback.

In separate sessions farmers will have the chance to discuss their individual experiences.

Meetings are planned for Ashburton on March 29, Hamilton on April 5, Oamaru on April 11 and Invercargill on April 12.

Dates are yet to be announced for Taranaki, Northland, Hawke’s Bay and Manawatu-Wanganui.

“And, look, there’s no new plan.

In essence, it’s more of the same – try to eradicate, support all involved along the way and leave the system stronger than when we found it.”

MPI will present an easily consumable booklet outlining performance measures and showing how the response is performing.

“At the end of the day we know we can do better and that’s our focus.”

While he’s confident the eradication programme is proving effective, Gwyn acknowledged it’s going to be a long haul and some areas of farming and agribusiness will need to make changes.

“The social and financial pressure felt by farming families will be high.

“Whatever happens, we can’t let it break us.”

Last May the Government said it will aim for eradication, estimated to a cost about $900 million over 10 years.

More than 80,000 cows of the 150,000 projected to be slaughtered have already been culled.

But Gwyn said eradication is still a long way off and 10 years remains the target before MPI will be confident it is on top of the disease.

There are 67 properties under restriction, including 30 infected properties of which 15 are dairy and 15 beef – 15 are in Canterbury, six in Otago, Waikato has four, Southland two and Northland, Manawatu and Tasman each one.

A total 166 properties are under notice of direction.

Gwyn said the number of NoDs is not indicative because one property could have as many as 10 NoDs. “My focus is on the number of

NOT THERE YET: There’s some heavy lifting yet to do and Mycoplasma bovis programme director Geoff Gwyn will outline the hard yards ahead to farmers at a new round of regional meetings starting this month.

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A total 761 compensation claims have been received by MPI with 482 either completed or

part paid with the value of claims assessed at $57.9 million and the claims paid at $48.4m.

Gwyn confirmed MPI’s prosecution of Southern Centre Dairies director Alfons Zeestraten

is not related to how the disease entered the country.

In August 2018 Zeestraten was charged on five counts relating to breeches of the Biosecurity Act relating to imported goods.

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NZ dairy tech helps China grow Richard Rennie in China THE Chinese government’s intention to feed its people betterquality food means the nation’s industrial might has turned to its agricultural production and a New Zealand company is firmly embedded in that goal.

Waikato Milking Systems China country manager David Morris has spent the past seven years working with Chinese milk companies at the sharp end of a dairy sector undergoing a revolution, moving from small peasant operations to big, controlled, indoor dairy systems.

Today Waikato has about 30% of the Chinese dairy platform market and a close alignment to the stateowned industrial farm component and turnkey operator Beijing Kingpeng Global.

It has become instrumental in building rotary milking platforms so familiar to NZ farmers, with 60 to 80 cows capacity the standard scale.

However, the scale of the operations will be less familiar.

The big platforms are usually built in pairs for indoor farms milking 4000-6000 cows three times a day all year round. Estimates are more than 100 such operations are now spread across China.

“Today it would be very hard

for a small-scale dairy farmer to remain in business. They are very dependent upon someone buying their milk every day and they face the likelihood they will get paid the least amount.

“Any surplus of their milk gets turned into low-value powder and they will be paid a very low price as consumers prefer overseassourced milk powder,” Morris said.

The money in China’s dairy industry today lies in fresh milk sales and increasingly it is the big three milk processors, Yili, Mengniu and Bright, that also own supply system from the farms to the supermarket shelf space.

Morris said there are good margins for processors with that level of control and it also reflects government steps to increase traceability and singlesourced milk supplies to improve consumer confidence in the homegrown product.

Waikato is supplying rotary platforms to most of the big processors, largely through its alliance with Kingpeng, which buys components and technology for its agricultural production systems globally.

Kingpeng chairman and general manager Jiwei Gao said the company buys from whatever part of the world does them best.

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FAST FOOD: Networked courier systems aim to deliver fresh dairy products to Chinese customers within an hour.

Today it would be very hard for a smallscale dairy farmer to remain in business.

They are very dependent upon someone buying their milk every day and they face the likelihood they will get paid the least amount.

PARTNERS: Kingpeng Global chairman Jiwei Gao, left, with Waikato Milking Systems China country manager David Morris.

David Morris Waikato Milking Systems focus is on poultry, pork, dairy and greenhouse operations, drawing on component supplies from Europe and United States.

“And in the case of rotary platforms they see us as a leader and as a company we are the second largest for rotary platforms in the world,” Morris said.

Gao described China as passing through a transferring time as both government policy and consumer expectations drive higher food standards.

The focus on scale has huge impetus behind it with the release of the Chinese government budget only this week revealing aims to turn 5.33 million hectares of land into high-standard crop land.

“Before, you may have been your own farmer on a small piece of land. Now you are likely to be the worker on a farm operated by corporates,” Gao said.

For Waikato the expansion has involved recruiting and training Chinese staff on dairy shed installations that are distributed from the far north regions of Inner Mongolia, across central China to the Tibetan mountains in the southwest where the world’s highest large-scale dairy farm

operates at 5000m milking 3000 cows.

Kingpeng’s strong focus on protein production is following the curve of growing middle class consumer demand for meat, milk and dairy products.

While milk powder remains a valuable market with the infant formula sector estimated to grow to US$32 billion in the next two years, fresh milk and yoghurt products are gaining in popularity.

Average annual urban consumption of milk products has grown to 17kg a head.

While relatively flat in urban areas for the past two years, continuing strong population urbanisation will continue to see increases for years ahead.

The budget also announced intentions to move another 10 million rural people out of poverty and into new urban jobs.

“When we once would have seen problems for consumers to get such fresh products delivered due to distribution delays,

today that has all changed with networked courier systems that are often aiming to deliver to apartments within an hour,” Morris said.

With about 40% of all purchasing including food done online, China’s food system is now strongly app driven. With an announcement to invest NZ$220 billion over five years in a 5G network that will only increase.

Gao said the alliance with Waikato was built on a high level of mutual trust and an appreciation the company’s components are well up to the task.

Morris said platform design has been beefed up to deal with the larger herds, bigger cows and more frequent milking cycles and supported by a strong service team.

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Canterbury has room for growers Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz THE area with the country’s fastest-growing population could be home to vegetable growers forced out of Auckland by urban sprawl.

Selwyn Mayor Sam Broughton says his district, southwest of Christchurch, has always been home to cropping in the Ellesmere and Leeston areas but the arrival of water from the Central Plains Water scheme is creating new opportunities.

It will provide irrigation for 60,000ha, much of it in Selwyn District between the Southern Alps, State Highway 1 and the Waimakariri and Rakaia Rivers.

Broughton has been told anecdotally that Auckland and Pukekohe vegetable growers have

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been investigating opportunities to invest in Canterbury, seeking to take advantage of the long, hot summers, arrival of reliable water and lower land prices while escaping the pressure of urban expansion.

Broughton shares concerns too much of the best land is being buried under tar and bitumen and said food-producing capability must be protected.

But district plans must comply

with regional plans, which, in turn, have to follow national policy statements, meaning aims and goals such as the protection of soils must be consistent across all layers.

Developers also have the right to appeal against decisions to the Environment Court, which creates further tension in the planning process for goals such as protecting elite soil.

For seven years to 2016 Selwyn was the country’s fastest growing area but in 2017 it was pushed into second place by Queenstown.

Broughton is particularly concerned at the impact of farms being cut up into 10ha lifestyle blocks, which are too small to be

economic, contribute little to the local community and generate few jobs.

And if vegetation is not controlled it becomes a fire hazard in dry summers, he said.

Forecasts show little sign of growth in Selwyn abating with projections of the district’s population doubling from 44,600 in 2012-13 to more than 100,000 in the mid-2040s, mostly in the Christchurch commuter belt of Rolleston, Lincoln, Prebbleton, Springston and West Melton.

Broughton said the Selwyn, Christchurch and Waimakariri councils and Environment Canterbury have agreed to limit urban sprawl away from farmland

to focus it on designated areas and to encourage intensification in existing urban residential areas.

By 2025 Selwyn’s population is projected to hit 67,000 and the council’s long-term plan said that is putting pressure on infrastructure and facilities.

That includes roads, where traffic volumes are increasing at a faster rate than population growth, while the population demographic is changing, requiring a greater range of services and facilities.

Infrastructure has been managed and catering for it is a mixture of concentrating in areas where there is spare infrastructure capacity and in smaller towns where there is room.

Auckland wants to protect productive soils Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz IN THE next 30 years up to a million new houses could be built in Auckland on designated land that excludes elite and prime soils.

The city’s rural-urban boundary provides an urban edge with 15,000ha – equivalent to twice the urban area of Hamilton – of rural land identified for future urban expansion, Auckland City Council urban growth and housing director Penny Pirrit said.

In addition, land in Auckland’s

existing urban area has space for another 240,000 houses.

Supplying infrastructure for that degree of expansion is estimated to cost $20 billion over 30 years.

When the council was formed in 2010 one of its first roles was to plan for future residential and industrial growth.

It proposed creating a compact city by establishing an urbanrural boundary that protected elite and prime soil.

The regional policy statement includes rules to protect elite soil while the boundary gives planning certainty for the rural community and to developers

about which direction the council wants the city to grow.

The council’s Unitary Plan requires activities on elite soil to be rural and it allows the amalgamation of small titles, between 1ha and 20ha, on these soils and to be rezoned as Countryside Living.

But that does not preclude those seeking a non-complying activity on elite soil to seek resource consent, which can be granted if the application meets the requirements of the Resource Management Act. “We are working to protect productive soil but it is complicated and there is a lot of

pressure for urban development.

“But we are also seeing the rural community looking at the prices paid for urban land and seeing that as an opportunity.”

Overseas studies say urbanrural boundaries drive up urban land prices but without boundaries developers can bank land and speculate on future residential subdivision, Pirrit said.

The council is researching whether an urban-rural boundary leads to land price differentiation.

Rampant urban growth in Auckland is also being restrained by the requirement for

infrastructure to keep pace with development.

The council supports a Ministry for the Environment proposal to create a national policy statement for elite soil and is providing feedback and details of its experiences trying to protect such soil.

“I think this is really important for New Zealand to have,” she says.

That includes experiences with its Unitary Plan, such as the Environment Court overturning a proposal prohibiting subdivision on rural land to make it a noncomplying or discretionary activity.

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Kiwi’s have chance to catch Australia Nigel Stirling nigel.g.stirling@gmail.com BEEF exporters are taking a wait-and-see approach to news Australia and Indonesia have signed a new free-trade deal.

It supersedes one struck a decade ago between Australia, New Zealand and the 10 Asean countries including Indonesia.

Remaining tariffs on frozen beef imports will be cut from 5% to zero either immediately or five years after the agreement enters into force.

Tariffs of 5% on frozen offal will be eliminated immediately.

Meat Industry Association trade and economic manager Sirma Karapeeva said it does not appear Australia has snatched any significant, immediate

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advantage over NZ exporters though the Kiwis will pay a 5% tariff on bone-in frozen beef from 2020 when their Australian rivals will pay nothing.

“That is a little bit of an upside for them but looking at our trade stats we have sold mainly frozen boneless,” Karapeeva said.

Meanwhile, scrapping the tariff on frozen offal means Australia has now caught up with the deal NZ got in the previous deal.

Where there is potentially more significant downside is in the streamlining of import procedures for live cattle.

Australian breeders can now supply 575,000 head of live male cattle tariff-free annually, rising by 4% a year to 700,000 after five years, with unlimited numbers of females allowed.

Annual import permits will be granted automatically with no seasonal restrictions.

While NZ does not compete with Australia in that market any increase in live cattle imports could feed through to increased local beef production and decreasing demand for frozen imports.

“The live cattle aspect is the bit that might start to kick in at some point but that is very hard to predict,” Karapeeva said.

Australia’s live cattle trade with Indonesia has seldom been plain sailing and it is not certain it will become so with the stroke of a pen.

In the meantime this year’s 10-year review of the Asean deal could provide relief for NZ exporters should it be needed.

“So, hopefully, if NZ has slipped back behind the bilateral with Australia that might be an opportunity to tidy things up,” Karapeeva said.

If the Australian deal puts NZ exporters on the back foot it will be just the latest in a series of setbacks. Sales of NZ beef to Indonesia fell from $184m in 2010 to just $58m in 2015 after the country’s authorities threw up a series of non-tariff barriers to encourage its own farmers to produce enough to remove the need for imports.

Those measures were found to be illegal after NZ and the United States challenged them at the World Trade Organisation.

However, sales haven’t recovered as an influx of Indian buffalo meat has kept exporters focused on higher-returning markets such as China.

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Crossbred fleece, especially lambs’ wool and the finer end of the adult fleece, benefited.

New business was written in Asia and good volumes were sought, PGG Wrightson South Island sales manager Dave Burridge said.

Crossbred fleece 31-35 microns was 5% to 10% dearer than the February 21 sale.

Lambs’ wool firmed across the board with gains of up to 11% and the finer-end was most sought-after.

Sales (all in micron level and price per kg clean): Full wool, good-to-average colour: 28 micron, $9.51, up 26c; 29, $8.90, up 70c; 31, $5.61, up 61c; 32, $5.46, up 66c; 33, $4.94, up 79c; 34, $4.40, up 84c; 35, $3.40, up 20c; 36, $3.20, up 20c; 37, $3.05, up 4c; 38, $3.05, up 4c; 39, $3.04, up 9c. Crossbred second-shear: 33 micron, 3-to-4 inches, $4.37, up 51c; 35, 3-to-4 inches, $3.38, up 22c; 2-to-3 inches, $3.05, up 2c; 37, 3-to-4 inches, $3.08, up 8c; 2-to-3 inches, $3.04, up 4c; 39, 3-to-5 inches, $3.05, up 5c; 3-to-4 inches, $3.04, up 4c; 2-to-3 inches, $3.01, up 1c. Crossbred first lambs’ shear: 27, $7.21kg/clean, up 32c; 28, $6.94, up 10c; 29, $6.35, up 30c; 30, $5.88, up 60c; 31, $4.52, up 14c; 32, $4.30, up 26c.

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Dairy product prices continue upwards Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz THE seventh consecutive rise in Global Dairy Trade auction prices has prompted one further bank economist to increase the farmgate milk price forecast to $6.40/kg milksolids.

Westpac senior economist Anne Boniface has also punted on next season’s price of $7, up 25c from her previous estimate.

Concerns about the impact of recent dry weather on milk flow might have underpinned the most recent lift in prices.

Fonterra has reduced its milk production forecast from a 3% gain to 2%.

Some of the price increase seen in the past month might unwind when weather conditions normalise.

Boniface said a combination of lower milk output in the 2019-20 season and modest growth in Europe and the United States, steady demand from China and a lower New Zealand dollar should

result in a lift in farmgate prices next season.

ASB senior rural economist Nathan Penny, who was the first analyst to suggest $7 next season, said his $6.25 forecast for this season is under review, with upside potential.

The latest GDT rise of 3.3% in the index and 6% in whole milk powder is consistent with Penny’s view a new up-cycle of dairy prices might have begun (Farmers Weekly, February 25).

But it is still early days and more price increases will be needed to confirm that new turn of events.

Anhydrous milk fat and butter rose 3.9% and 3.7% respectively, cheddar was up 6% and skim milk powder prices fell by 4.3%.

The dairy market has risen 24% since mid November and is now only about 1% below its twin peaks over the past 28 months.

Another modest rise at the second March auction could see the GDT index reach its highest point since mid 2014.

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Beltex sale draws wide interest Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz

TOP RAM: BeltexNZ sheep breeders, from left, Jock Allison, John Tavendale and Blair Gallagher with Sterl Roadley, front, and his $22,000 Beltex ram.

Every lamb born last year is like a precious little jewel.

Sterl Roadley Northland farmer as he grows the Beltex breed in the stud sheep breeding operation he manages for his brother Rex, crossing the Beltex ram with their Texel, Suffolk and Romney ewes and the half Beltex hoggets.

While he’s had a lot of interest up north in his first Beltex lamb drop Roadley decided not to sell yet, instead mating the hoggets this year and maybe looking to having a sale of the two-tooths and some of this year’s lambs later in the year.

“I think I’m a winner. It’s been a

long time coming to this, yielding more meat off the bone, in the NZ sheep industry.

“We just have to make sure now farmers get more in the pocket too and it doesn’t all go to the processors.”

Making history for NZ, the highly anticipated Beltex breed, established by Mid Canterbury sheep farmer Blair Gallagher, NZ sheep genetics expert Jock Allison and Canterbury farm consultant John Tavendale, had its first commercial lamb crop in the market this season.

In the first public auction of its kind in this part of the world BeltexNZ offered 16 purebred Beltex rams in 2018, the best of which went under the hammer at $12,000 while the top price of the inaugural sale was a Beltex Suffolk that sold for $15,000.

This year, in a first for NZ, Beltex-cross two-tooth ewes and ewe lambs also went under the

hammer along with the 96 rams.

“It really was an amazing sale with 95% of those buying last year returning this year – very pleased with their first progeny on the ground,” Gallagher said.

“It was also a turnaround with confidence growing in the breed and demand this year pushing the purebreds well ahead of the crossbreds.”

The top price of $22,000 was closely followed by the Robinson family from Gore who bought a $21,000 pure Beltex ram with an overall average for the pure Beltex at $8050.

The Beltex-Suffolks averaged $2050 and the Suffolk-Poll Dorset crosses $1700. The two-tooth ewes and ewe lambs met good demand selling from $600-$1000.

Breed trials are under way with Callaghan Innovation and Landcorp and further trials will start as the ram goes out at Rangiatea this month.

“There’s a lot of (Beltex) sheep out in the industry now. Farmers are realising their value and gaining confidence in the breed and that reflected in the prices they were prepared to pay this year,” Gallagher said.

“There’s some really exciting progeny on the ground and this year they went right across the country from Northland to Southland and for the first time to Hawke’s Bay so we are pretty hopeful of getting more positives back this year.”

Carrfields livestock agent Callum Dunnett said the sale portrayed plenty of spirit and growing confidence with good numbers of commercial farmers really showing interest.

“No one was just looking this year. There were a lot of large, progressive commercial farmers buying. It’s very positive for the meat industry,” Dunnett said.

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The Maungaturoto sheep breeder parted with $22,000, the top price of the day, for a pure Beltex ram at the breed’s second commercial sale in New Zealand, at the Gallagher family’s Rangiatea property in Mid Canterbury last week.

“I bought one ram at the first sale last year and it’s been very impressive,” Roadley said.

“Very easy lambing, very strong once up on the feet and good survivability. Everyone that’s seen them is very impressed with the rib to loin area and the rump.

“For meat to bone ratio they have to be an absolute winner for the whole of the NZ sheep industry so I know I have good potential.”

With 40 ram lambs and 34 ewe lambs on the ground Roadley returned to the sale this year determined to buy the best.

“I sorted out about six and when I got to the sale I knew straight away which one I was gunning for.

I only wanted the top.”

While paying $22,000 for the best Roadley also bought a second ram for $6800.

“Last year I paid $5200 for the one pure ram. This year I had to dig a bit deeper as the breed is really showing its worth and farmer confidence in the breed takes off.

“But that’s okay. Every lamb born last year is like a precious little jewel. They will be even more valuable little jewels this year.”

So much so Roadley, a farmer of more than 50 years and a former shearer, chose to shear his first lambs himself.

“I thought these shearers are not good enough for my precious jewels so I better get in and do those ones myself.”

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Dairy sector risks credit squeeze Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz SIGNIFICANT changes proposed by the Reserve Bank to the amount of capital banks have to hold in reserve could put the squeeze on lending to the dairy sector.

In its latest report on the performance of the banking sector KPMG’s head of banking and finance John Kensington has sounded the alarm about the RBNZ’s proposal to make the banking sector capable of sustaining a one-in-200-year financial shock.

The proposal, which caught the sector by surprise before Christmas, requires a near doubling of the capital held in reserve by banks and came when the sector expected only minor adjustments to what banks already hold.

“When you compare New Zealand to Australia or Europe our model is tough.

“The Reserve Bank is saying we have a very good banking system but that it would be appropriate to think about what sort of shock that system can absorb and they are getting a public view of that.

“Their research seems to indicate they think one in 200 years is about right,” Kensington said.

BANKER: John Kensington believes dairy farmers might face a credit squeeze with Reserve Bank changes.

Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr said the capital could be raised by retaining 70% of all bank dividends for five years, the proposed transition period.

But Kensington said that will not play well with bank shareholders who would effectively have a reduction of their returns and a dilution of their bank’s value would inevitably follow.

“Basically, your return on equity goes down so you have to make even more profit to counter that

and I can’t see banks making more profit on top of what they have made being very popular with the public.”

Banks have instead indicated they would be forced to scrutinise a range of actions including raising more capital, reducing deposit rates and increasing lending rates.

They might also review lending to sectors performing less well or unable to provide security and possibly consider rationing the credit issued to those sectors.

“And two of those sectors are construction and dairying.

“They will look carefully at types of lending that are carrying losses or provisions for bad loans.”

The dairy sector already faces headwinds around bank lending conditions, with banks now required to seek a greater portion of principal repayments after almost a decade of interest-only payment options.

Farmers Weekly contributor Professor Keith Woodford has calculated the sector’s bank debt is $22 a kilogram of milksolids or $41.6 billion (Farmers Weekly, February 18).

Overall sector debt is 49% of assets but 20% of farmers have greater than 70% debt on their assets.

He noted banks are no longer queuing up to finance dairy farmers and when funds are available Government policy requires funding no longer be available on an interest-only basis.

The sector faces the pressure of aging farmers wanting to exit, a younger generation less interested in farming and a vacuum of funds now foreign buyers have been removed by changes to overseas investment.

“And looking to the future there

are issues around sustainability and environmental controls that are all added costs which we do not really know how they will play out yet,” Kensington said.

While the RBNZ has emphasised it is only in a consultative stage Kensington is wary about how much the final decision might depart from the proposal.

“If you look at the last two consultation rounds on open bank resolution and outsourcing, they ended up pretty close to what they (RBNZ) were seeking.”

But the RBNZ has been at pains to encourage submissions from a wide range of parties.

A Westpac spokesman said the proposal for banks to hold more capital will have implications for its business and customers.

“Capital buffers ensure banks have sufficient capital to get through a serious economic downturn.

“However, too large a buffer limits banks’ ability to innovate and enhance customer outcomes and can add significant cost to us and our customers.

“The Reserve Bank has extended the consultation period out to May 3 and we’re talking to all stakeholders to provide the most detailed feedback possible.”

Neither BNZ nor ANZ were prepared to comment.

Apples galore for Scales as good harvest beckons Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz RECORD volumes and revenue in the Mr Apple business highlight the earnings gains for Scales Corporation in its latest year.

The volume growth was mainly in the sales of premium varieties, which gained 18% over 2017 levels, managing director Andy Borland said.

Overall volumes, including traditional varieties, rose 9%.

Prices rose, helped by the product mix and solid demand in key markets.

And Mr Apple continued to invest in orchard redevelopment, he said.

Total group revenue for the year ended December 31 was a record $464.7 million, an 18% lift over the previous year.

The after-tax profit jumped out to $45.49m from $31.6m but included $16.4m in earnings and gains from the sale of the Polarcold Coolstore and Liqueo bulk storage businesses.

The Coolstores sale is still conditional, waiting for Overseas Investment Office approval.

In continuing operations the bottom-line profit was $29m, up from $24.5m a year earlier.

As is usually the case, reported earnings exceeded the group’s earlier guidance.

Despite the higher volumes the 2018 apple harvest had a slightly reduced pack-out rate than the previous couple of years.

Chairman Tim Goodacre said the 2019 harvest is under way and early indications suggest a return to long-run pack-out rates.

The storage and logistics and food ingredients divisions are also trading positively.

Scales bought the Shelby pet foods business in the United States as a strategic replacement for the businesses sold as it seeks higher-returning investments.

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GET TOGETHER: Federated Farmers president Katie Milne wants the entire primary industries sector in one room for two days.

Summit replaces Feds conference Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz FEDERATED Farmers is not holding a national conference this year but wants to bring the whole primary industries sector together.

Federated Farmers sees itself in a unique position to link farmers, growers, politicians, regulators, officials and industry suppliers. president Katie Milne says.

So it is teaming up with conference company Conferenz to create the Primary Industries NZ Summit (PINZ 2019) at Te Papa in Wellington on July 1-2.

“Both organisations have long histories of running conferences for the primary sector and this conference will benefit from combined industry knowledge and experience.

“We are the networkers of the primary sector and this conference will reflect that,” Milne said.

“This is us trying to bring TeamAg together in one room for two days.

“It will be a powerful, informative and entertaining forum to be involved in.

“We are creating a forum where everyone can be in the same room and talk about the things that affect us all, regardless of the products we grow and the markets we serve.”

A Federated Farmers governance day is planned for July 3, also at Te Papa, and that is when the dairy, meat and wool, arable and national council annual meetings will be held.

“The idea is to bring everyone together from all aspects of the primary sector.

“If you think you are working in the primary sector, then you should be there.”

Farmers and growers attending the event will be entitled to a discounted registration.

Conferenz managing director Steve Scott said the aim is to emulate the successful, governmentfunded Australia Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (Abares) conference in Australia.

“It’s very exciting to be building an event which will be part of the NZ primary sector for years to come,” Scott said.

Big ticket issues facing B+LNZ Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz THE big ticket issues facing agriculture will be a major focus at Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s 2019 annual meeting.

Chairman Andrew Morrison said the meeting is important not only for farmers to take an active part in governance but also to get insights into some of the big issues facing NZ’s sheep and beef sector.

The meeting, in Timaru on March 21, will update farmers on key B+LNZ work.

“We appreciate it’s a long way to travel for just our annual meeting.

“That’s why we have also created a full day’s programme of events either side of the meeting focused on the big-ticket items we’re dealing with at the moment,” Morrison said.

In the morning farmers can see the Taste Pure Nature brand launch in California with insights on how B+LNZ is tailoring its approach to get NZ’s naturally raised, grassfed beef and lamb on the plates of the target market – the “conscious foodie”.

A processing company will tell how Taste Pure Nature will complement its in-market work.

Discussions will focus on regulatory challenges, climate change, water quality and biodiversity.

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Neighbours sign free-trade pact AUSTRALIA and Indonesia have signed the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA) they concluded in August.

Trade with Indonesia has been a problem for New Zealand, especially for meat exporters who have claimed illegal Indonesian restriction have cost them $100 million. NZ has taken successful action through the World Trade Organisation against the Indonesian measures.

“Indonesia is one of the largest economies in the world and bolstering the economic ties between our nations will lead to even greater opportunities for Australian businesses,” Australian Trade Minister Simon Birmingham said.

In November Australia also concluded a free-trade deal with Hong Kong.

The economic partnership with Indonesia is particularly a major boost for Australian farmers with the grains, live cattle, dairy and horticulture sectors to benefit

from greater certainty of access and lower tariffs.

As a result, Australian farmers will be able to export 500,000 tonnes of feed grains such as wheat into Indonesia tariff free.

“This is a significant boost for the Australian wheat industry, building on our substantial milling wheat exports,” he said.

It will allow 99% of Australia’s goods exports to enter Indonesia duty free or with significantly improved preferential arrangements. All Indonesia’s goods exports will enter Australia duty free.

“As one of the fastest growing economies in the Indo-Pacific, Indonesia presents a significant opportunity for Australian businesses.

“By some estimates Indonesia will be the world’s fifth-largest economy by 2030 and IA-CEPA ensures that Australia is wellplaced to deepen economic cooperation and share in Indonesia’s growth,” he said.

Indonesia will guarantee automatic issue of import permits for key products such as live cattle, frozen beef, sheep meat, feed grains, rolled steel coil, citrus products, carrots and potatoes.

Import licences are a major irritant for many Australian exporters into Indonesia.

The deal builds on the ASEANAustralia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement to provide better and more certain access to the Indonesian market for Australian exporters.

Negotiations started in 2010 but lapsed until revived in 2016.

Hong Kong was Australia’s twelfth largest trading partner overall in 2017, with total two-way trade in goods and services worth $18.8 billion.

The deal will guarantee entry for all Australian goods at zero tariffs.

Australia has also concluded a free-trade deal with Peru and the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) Plus.

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Higher tariffs, subsidies promised HIGH tariffs will be slapped on lamb and beef imports to protect Britain’s farmers, who might also get increased subsidies, after the country leaves the European Union, reports there suggest.

Only food Britain does not produce will be tariff-free, a report in the British Farmers Weekly says.

Both the Financial Times and Politic said a deal was done in the Cabinet between those wanting to provide cheap food for consumers and those wanting to protect farmers.

It is understood products such as beef and lamb will attract the highest tariffs while those trading at or close to world prices will have lower tariffs and foods, such as citrus fruit, that Britain doesn’t produce at all will have no tariffs.

Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29 but has yet to ratify a deal for its departure. There is also speculation it might seek a delay.

Consumer groups are strongly opposed to tariffs being put on food going into the United Kingdom in the event of a nodeal Brexit, saying it would push up prices and send the wrong signals to other potential trading partners.

But Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Michael Gove attending the National Farmers Union conference promised to introduce tariffs on some food imports, to provide protection from cheap imports.

A formal announcement was said to be imminent but a week later there was no sign of it.

The delays have been widely interpreted as evidence of a continuing spat within cabinet between those who want cheap food for consumers and those who want to support farmers.

A report issued by government on February 26 into the effects of a no-deal Brexit gave no further details of possible import tariffs.

But the reports in the Financial Times and on the Politico website suggested a deal might have been

WILL DO: British farmers’ calls for greater protection from imports have been heard the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Michael Gove says. He also says he won’t hesitate to increase subsidies for vulnerable farmers.

You have argued we need tariffs on sheep meat, beef, poultry, dairy ... to safeguard our valuable domestic production.

Your concerns have absolutely been heard.

Michael Gove Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary struck in Cabinet, which could see a tiered system of import tariffs.

The prospect of tariffs drew stinging criticism from consumer group Consumer Choice Centre.

“Imposing tariffs on meat imports will not only put another burden on British consumers but will also increase the costs of Brexit and send a signal to the rest of the world that post-Brexit

Britain will pursue protectionism ahead of consumer interests,” spokeswoman Maria Chaplia said.

Abolishing tariffs would help lower the price of meat by more than 3% and encourage the meat industry to compete with the rest of the world, she said.

But NFU combinable crops chairman Tom Bradshaw insisted tariff protection is essential in the event of a no-deal Brexit, even in the cereals sector, to offer some protection against sub-standard imports.

“Let’s be clear, tariffs on grain have very little impact on food prices,” he said.

“If British grain exports are going to face EU tariffs it’s not unreasonable for our government to reciprocate and put in place levels of protection for our own growers.”

In its conference coverage the UK Farmers Guardian said farming bodies pushing the Government to mitigate the worst impacts of a no-deal Brexit secured a key win on tariff protection for food products.

Gove confirmed tariffs on food imports such as milk, cheese, lamb and pig meat were likely to be maintained in a no-deal scenario though he would not comment about cereals.

The decision was made in spite of considerable pressure to unilaterally drop tariffs to keep food prices low from top Brexiteers, think tanks and, according to reports, some Cabinet Ministers.

The dairy and pig sectors will be particularly relieved because they were concerned they would be overlooked, with ministers focused on the need to protect beef and sheep meat.

Gove said “The NFU and others have made strong arguments about the need (in a no-deal scenario) to secure strong tariff protection and, in particular, stronger protection for British farming over any other sector of the economy.

“In particular, you have argued we need tariffs on sheep meat, beef, poultry, dairy, like milk and cheese, and pig meat to safeguard

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“Your concerns have absolutely been heard.”

And he said he will not hesitate to provide direct cash support for the most vulnerable sectors on top of tariff protection.

National Sheep Association chief executive Phil Stocker welcomed the comments while Livestock Auctioneers Association executive secretary and UK Livestock Brexit Group chairman Chris Dodds said it is a good example of the industry pulling together for results.

Gove also agreed to consider establishing a Trade and Food Commission made up of food and farming experts to ensure the UK’s high food production standards are protected in any Brexit scenario.

The NFU called on the government to set the commission up to find a way to ensure imports meet the same standards as food produced domestically and explore how future trade deals should be scrutinised by Parliament and industry.

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Cameron takes the reins While the kiwifruit industry is having its day in the sun it is not short of challenges. Luke Chivers spoke to new Zespri chairman Bruce Cameron about the future.

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is to provide ongoing, strong leadership and experience for the company.

And he is set on continuing its growth.

“I’m focused on ensuring our consumer demand is ahead of our supply,” he said.

“The growth of Zespri SunGold production and a strong Hayward crop have meant we’ve been able to maintain our run rate for both categories and continue to put our fruit in the face of consumers.

“We don’t want to fall into the trap of swapping volume for value so we’ve got to stay focused on securing value in offshore markets, putting New Zealand growers first and bringing that value back to our local economy.”

Cameron wants to remove some complexity from the Zespri business, particularly in its operations abroad.

“We need to continue to be very careful in how we operate in overseas markets.

“In recent years we’ve been involved in some offshore trials.

Looking ahead, it is critical that we operate only in countries that respect our plant variety rights and the local jurisdictions,” he said.

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Email: stevebailey@xtra.co.nz We need to have Mid-Canterbury Branch of Black & Coloured our eyes wideSheep Breeders Association open.”

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EW Zespri chairman Bruce Cameron is taking over at a time of strong continuity and volume in kiwifruit exports.

He replaces Te Puna grower Peter McBride who has stood down to pursue other primary industry interests, including a Fonterra directorship.

Cameron has been a grower since 1978, owning dairy, sheep, beef and kiwifruit farms at Otamarakau, east of Te Puke.

He has also held a number of governance roles including managing director of the Cameron Group, whose interests were in the quarry and transport industries before it was sold to Fletcher Concrete and Infrastructure in 2007.

He is on the boards of Cameron Farms, Gilston Mains, The Realty Group and is the chairman of the Waipuna Hospice Foundation.

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LOOKING AHEAD: Zespri is focused on ensuring its consumer demand is ahead of its supply, chairman Bruce Cameron says.

we can provide employment opportunities for New Zealanders first before going further afield.

“We want Kiwis to be able to enter our industry, develop their skills and if they have further career aspirations in the sector then provide them with opportunities to achieve these.”

It’s important we maintain our market access. We must continue to step through the hoops of the global trade dynamic.

Bruce Cameron Zespri Zespri supplies kiwifruit to consumers year-round, worldwide “That supply is coming from NZ for eight months of the year and then we’re supplying from the northern hemisphere for

the remaining four months so it’s important we maintain our market access.

“We must continue to step through the hoops of the global trade dynamic.”

They are challenges Cameron is well-quipped to manage, Zespri said in a statement.

Zespri director Jonathan Mason acknowledged McBride’s longstanding contribution to the board.

“Peter has been an outstanding chairman for Zespri and a leader in the kiwifruit industry.

“Among his achievements was his leadership in supporting the industry’s recovery from the serious challenge of Psa – communicating and listening to growers and developing the response.

“He then saw through the execution of our product and market strategy in response to Psa with the expansion of SunGold and strong, sustainable performance for Green contributing to record returns for the industry.”

McBride’s tenure as chairman from 2013 saw a growth in average

Contribution: • In the 2017-18 season Zespri’s total fruit and service payments to growers increased by 6% to $1.47 billion.

• Total revenue, which includes licence income, was $2.51b.

• Last year saw a 25% increase in • Kiwifruit production increased 25% last year with export revenue forecast to rise to $2.2 billion for the year ended March 2019, according to the Ministry for Primary Industries.

per-hectare returns across all kiwifruit varieties of 55% and growth in the share price from 50 cents in March 2013 to more than $8 a share.

“He leaves behind a strong legacy,” Mason said.

McBride will be formally acknowledged for his contribution to Zespri and the kiwifruit industry at the company’s annual meeting later this year.

Cameron’s position was effective from February 18.

New thinking

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Lab without walls gets farmers in Innovation in New Zealand agriculture has often come from one of two contrasting sources. It’s been either the staunch man alone inventor in a shed somewhere or a worldfirst innovation born after years of research input. Richard Rennie spoke to Manawatu farmer Mat Hocken about a new approach to innovation he hopes will put farmers in the middle of the research rather than just being its recipients.

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HE Provincial Growth Fund has provided $400,000 to support the launch of a rural innovation lab, aimed to accelerate the development and commercialisation of new ideas specifically for the farming sector.

Manawatu farmer and Nuffield Scholar Mat Hocken said while described as a lab, the initiative is not committed to work in bricks and mortar but uses the resources already available through the Manawatu rural community.

The lack of investment into premises also underscores a key philosophy of the initiative, namely to pull down the walls and silos that often surround research programmes and leave farmers out of the equation until much of the work is done.

“Our aim is to be light and nimble, meeting up with farmers at events including the Central Districts Field Days and discussing ideas with them about what they want to see in terms of innovation that helps address some of farming’s big problems today.”

The Central Districts Field Days will be one of six events used to inspire farmers’ input.

The concept has slowly been developing and was accelerated following Hocken’s Nuffield work, which he presented last year.

He examined how farmers in Europe and the United States have responded to the need for more solutions through innovation.

He found the traditional No 8 wire approach to developing new

solutions is as unsuitable now as the isolated, long-term research and development typical of research institutions.

The speed of change, technological advancement and consumer expectations all mean such models are harder to maintain, with farmers ultimately being left out of the equation.

Our aim is to be light and nimble, meeting up with farmers at events including the Central Districts Field Days and discussing ideas with them about what they want to see in terms of innovation that helps address some of farming’s big problems today.

Mat Hocken Grassmere Dairy He found there was a great need to collide ideas across disciplines rather than being left to ferment in a single silo.

While NZ agriculture is starting to develop a clearer vision for its direction, for sustainable, grassfed, high-value food production, the missing piece is a platform to innovate.

A key finding Hocken made in

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Holland was a university group using a process known as reflexive interactive design. It recognises sustainable farm systems require not only technical innovation but also social buy-in from all groups engaged in farming.

Farmers are put firmly at the front of the process and asked to submit even their most absurd ideas for problem-solving.

They also have to be prepared to be subjected to a Dragons Den style grilling on why their concept will work.

One example was taking farmers to a zoo to see how it deals with challenges of effluent, animal welfare and public perception.

Hocken hopes to have one of the researchers heading up this approach visit Manawatu to help lead the rural lab’s innovation work.

Farmers in Manawatu have already seen a prototype approach to the innovation process.

Two years ago Hocken worked on an agritech Hackathon that brought innovators and farmers together to solve farming problems through tech. A third one is being held this month.

He emphasises that while the focus is on putting farmers and growers at the centre of the innovation process, it is not putting them on a pedestal.

“It is really just the perspective we are wanting to change, about where the focus is being placed.”

His Nuffield work looked at innovation to help solve some of agriculture’s wicked problems, around the likes of water use,

GET INVOLVED: Manawatu farmer Mat Hocken wants farmers to get more involved in innovation to ensure developments are useful on the land.

effluent management and animal welfare.

While keen to leave it to farmers in the innovation process to determine what their wicked problems are, he acknowledges some are bound to be the same as his own.

It will also require farmers to be prepared to step up and be open to trials, scrutiny and inevitable data collection.

“But if we can have a group open to this the commercial opportunities for companies wanting to trial innovations is significant. Having a group there,

prepared to be part of the process will significantly reduce trial time and time to market.”

Hocken is also heartened by support from Microsoft’s international agri-tech division, which has put an undisclosed sum into the project.

“There is a sense among all the big tech firms that they need to be engaged in farming and food production as the world’s population grows.

“They are not completely sure how it will play out but know it is an area with potential for major disruption.”

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EDITORIAL Get the mongrel out of Fonterra

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T’S time for Fonterra to decide what it wants to be when it grows up.

At the moment it’s a dog, specifically a mongrel.

Signals from the new board and management suggest they believe their first and only priority is supporting farmers and investors can have whatever is left over. Those leftovers are zero in the interim dividend with no guarantee of a final dividend this year. Fonterra has in the past manipulated the balance sheet and earnings to give farmers a more palatable milk price. There’s no reason why it won’t do so again.

It’s a mongrel because it is part cooperative and part company and is trying to please both classes of owners, whose interests directly oppose each other. It’s an impossible task. Those who worried about bringing in outside investors have been proved right.

Fonterra has tried to have the best of both worlds and ended up having an identity crisis. It brought in the nonfarmer investors to remove the risk it faced in holding money for farmers redeeming shares and free up capital for investment. Given its track record Fonterra should not be contemplating big overseas investments and must now have enough stainless steel in New Zealand.

It needs to decide whether it wants to be a company or a co-op. It and its predecessors were set up to serve the interests of farmers, to take their milk and turn it into as much money as they could get for it. That’s still it’s raison d’etre.

It has two obvious options. It can buy back shares from outsiders and return to co-op principles. That will free it up to be more open with information for farmers.

Sharemarket disclosure rules limit what it can tell them. The other option is to separate its activities. It can remain as a co-op to collect and process milk and make commodities. It can then set Fonterra Brands up as a separate company in which anyone can buy shares. The coop, on behalf of farmers, can hold shares in the company. That way all shareholders get equal returns. The co-op can distribute its share of profits to its farmers.

Stephen Bell

LETTERS

Have no meat with your Greens NOT content with trying to redesign the digestive systems of cows, the vege bunch now want to turn cats and dogs vegan.

Ignoring the fact they have been carnivores for millions of years, there are those who believe domestic pets can now help save the planet by eschewing meat.

The proponents of this variation on the latest dietary fad clearly have no idea what’s in their fur babies’ cans and kibble. Yes, it’s meat, but not as we know it. Gristle, guts, turkey feet and fish heads re-emerge from the detritus of human food processing as yummy casseroles and meaty medleys along with casualty farm animals and slow racehorses.

Livestock are not raised specifically for pet food, thus no purpose would be served nor carbon emissions saved by convincing carnivores to consume kale.

Of course, if humans all

stopped eating meat there would be no by-products for pets.

Let’s hope a quest for protein won’t force Felix and Fido to turn to our native wildlife. And will revered and increasingly scarce carnivorous species, lions and tigers for instance, be warned off wildebeest by well-meaning vegans – or will they insist on meat with their Greens?

Rebecca Glover Waiuku

my daughter and her husband who works on a dairy farm in the South Island. I was a social worker throughout my career and was all too aware of the negative impact of stress and of the resulting depression.

As Boulton indicates, early identification is essential but so is remembering our core values as she so rightly says at the conclusion of her article.

I feel a huge respect for her and just wanted to say so.

Charlie Beaumont Kent

Spot on I HAVE just read the article by Sharon Boulton in the Pulpit section, Depression lurks then slaps hard.

In my opinion it is a brilliant, caring, compassionate and entirely correct piece of writing.

It is also very brave of both she and her family to share their struggles.

I am from the United Kingdom but am staying with

Don’t assume I HAVE two questions.

Are there systems in place to enable farmers to dispose of the balage/bale wrap in an environmentally friendly way?

We are so aware of using plastic as little as possible, no plastic bags in the supermarkets etc, yet I see kilometres upon kilometres of plastic wrapped around and around balage.

This is a huge imbalance.

We are using less plastic and being aware to do this and farmers are using masses upon masses of plastic. I see it lying about on farms, caught in fences and pieces in the creek.

Are farmers supposed to be responsible for acceptable plastic wrap disposal? Burning it does not seem to be an environmentally friendly option either.

Such a lot of sprays go over farmland now, being the tool for cultivation. How safe is this chemical spray for the environment and people around its use?

So much big advertising is going on but no mention of the safety factor, environment, human and livestock.

There needs to be more information and assurance published.

We cannot assume everything is okay.

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Farming vital, pollution isn’t Martin Taylor

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OOD, robust debate on key issues is important if New Zealand is to continue as a progressive, forward-thinking democracy.

But that sort of high-quality, informed debate can happen only when it is based on facts.

Unfortunately, there is a worrying trend by some individuals or groups to rely on an incorrect narrative to justify extreme or controversial positions – what is commonly known as making stuff up.

Normally, I am happy to let the outraged howls from these individuals echo through mainstream and social media without feeling the need to respond.

The simple fact is they are a minority, out of step with mainstream public opinion.

However, the recent opinion column written by National Party MP Hamish Walker, upset that Fish and Game is doing the job Parliament has given it, can’t go unanswered.

This is especially so when Walker and I recently corresponded on this issue and he is well aware of my responses to his criticisms, yet ignored those answers in his column.

Like all Members of Parliament Walker has been elected to represent his whole electorate.

As the recent opinion poll conducted for Fish and Game

by Colmar Brunton shows, 82% of New Zealanders rate the poor water quality in our rivers, lakes and streams as a major concern and want polluters held accountable.

This nationwide result was gathered from rural and urban dwellers so it is a safe bet most voters in Walker’s CluthaSouthland electorate want better water quality.

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Walker tries to attack the result by questioning the poll’s credibility, pointing to a Colmar Brunton poll done for the Ministry for the Environment, which didn’t put water as New Zealanders’ number one concern.

That poll was done in April 2018 to gauge New Zealanders’ concerns about climate change and water quality and the findings did put the climate ahead of water.

He seems to be suggesting we just look the other way but ignoring such environmental abuse won’t help and neither will making excuses.

The bit that Walker leaves out is that the poll also found 82% of those surveyed believe it is very or extremely important to improve water quality in lakes and rivers – 82%.

That figure seems remarkably consistent with what the Colmar Brunton poll done for Fish and

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Game found nearly eight months later.

I am also surprised by Walker’s criticism of Fish and Game for highlighting the environmental damage caused by unacceptable winter break-feeding practices that leave waterways brown with sediment and animals bogged up to their bellies in mud.

He seems to be suggesting we just look the other way but ignoring such environmental abuse won’t help and neither will making excuses.

Just to show the depth of feeling out there about the impact these bad practices are having on the industry, consider this quote: “The days when it was acceptable for animals to stand in mud and water, being break-fed during winter without a place to sit or lie down are over.”

That blunt, forward-thinking and pragmatic statement is from

a recent Farmers Weekly article written by farmer and Beef + Lamb environmental reference group member Roger Dalrymple.

It is exactly the sort of nononsense leadership the farming sector needs and I would suggest Walker adopts a similar approach when dealing with those people in his constituency who don’t want to abandon environmentally harmful agriculture.

Despite what Walker claims, Fish and Game is not antifarming. It is anti-polluter.

Agriculture is vital to this country’s prosperity and contributes significantly to the economy we all rely on.

But that contribution cannot be at the expense of the environment and pollution of our rivers and lakes.

Most politicians now recognise this.

A recently issued party policy

discussion document on the environment puts it well; “Environmental issues are too important to be left to the fringe of politics. These are core issues for NZ … we cannot prioritise short-term economic gain at the expense of the environment.”

I recommend Walker reads the document to bring himself up to speed with current political thinking on environmental issues such as water quality. It is easily found on the front page of the National Party’s website and is called Our Environment Discussion Document.

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Nitrogen is necessary for life Alternative View

Alan Emerson

THE entire debate over nitrogen fertiliser annoys me because it is both ignorant and ill informed. I was being polite.

We had Landcorp employee Allison Dewes telling us the Government can do something like a tax on nitrogen fertiliser as something of a proxy tax on intensive farming. She went on and likened a tax on nitrogen fertiliser to a tobacco tax.

Landcorp also wants a tax on nitrogen. In its submission to the Tax Working Group it said “Pamu believes that placing a levy at source on fertiliser products containing nitrogen represents the best available mechanism to target excessive use of nitrogen in agriculture.”

One could respectfully ask, excessive according to whom?

Is there excessive use of nitrogen in agriculture? What evidence was presented to back that assertion?

We then had Greenpeace raucously, as it does, calling for a ban on synthetic nitrogen fertiliser. It was called New Zealand’s hidden climate killer.

That’s neither remotely credible nor scientifically based but that doesn’t worry Greenpeace.

Rampant emotion to encourage donations from the ignorant or misinformed seems to be its

mantra. Scientific facts don’t rate so are obviously not considered.

Starting by addressing the Greenpeace accusation that nitrogen is NZ’s hidden climate killer I read a 2017 NZ government report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

It dealt with our emissions by sector between 1990 and 2015.

The energy sector emissions increased by 36.7% over that period, industrial processes and product use by 47.3% and agriculture by just 16%.

So, during a time when cow numbers increased by 88% and nitrogen fertiliser use increased 500% our emissions increased by just 16%. That alone makes the Greenpeace statement that synthetic nitrogen fertiliser is NZ’s hidden climate change killer wrong in fact.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development recently released a report entitled Human Acceleration of the Nitrogen Cycle, Managing Risk and Uncertainty.

It is a good read from a highly credible organisation.

It does point out nitrogen is one of the most important elements for life on earth and about half the world’s population relies on nitrogen fertilisers for food consumption, making nitrogen fundamental to global food security.

The OECD also tells us nitrogen will be increasingly essential to global food security as the population grows to an estimated 9.7 billion by 2050.

And Greenpeace wants it banned and Landcorp wants it taxed.

PROOF? Alan Emerson asks what evidence there is of excessive nitrogen use.

To quote my late father “They should stay in the shallow end”.

The OECD document is fascinating. You can read that the majority of nitrogen excretion is from manure and not fertiliser.

Nitrogen in NZ is incredibly low by world standards.

It also states natural sources create some 60% of total nitrogen dioxide emissions. Of the 40% attributed to human activity just two-thirds of that comes from agriculture.

There is considerable discussion on nitrogen mitigation strategies, which seems to me, infinitely more sensible than either taxing nitrogen fertiliser or wanting it banned.

It says that if water quality is the environmental policy goal then nutrient management, conservation tillage field, borders and riparian buffers can be associated to control nitrogen losses.

NZ farmers do much of that now.

The report does add conservation tillage can help reduce overland transport of nitrogen by reducing erosion and runoff.

Thanks heavens for Roundup, I say. Don’t Greenpeace want that banned too?

The report also contains many more initiatives farmers can take to reduce nitrogen runoff but it is important to realise most of that runoff comes from dung not fertiliser. The secret is to use a variety of responses rather than concentrate on just one.

The other fact to consider is that nitrogen in NZ is incredibly

low by world standards.

We have a nitrogen imbalance of 63kg per hectare compared with the UK at 87 and the Netherlands at 199.

I find that fascinating because our water activists hold the Netherlands up as a role model.

There are several additional aspects of a nitrogen tax worth considering.

The first is that if nitrogen fertiliser becomes too expensive or is banned I can boost nitrogen by using soy by-product or palm kernel or fertilising with chicken litter.

They wouldn’t be subject to a tax but would inevitably increase runoff.

Another issue is if nitrogen is banned the logical thing to do, especially if you can irrigate, is to convert to dairy. It would then be more profitable, even at a reduced carrying capacity than either horticulture or cropping.

The use of nitrogen also has the effect of reducing food prices as the addition of the fertiliser dramatically increases yields.

So, my position is to consider the facts and they tell me nitrogen use is essential for farming anywhere, certainly in NZ. Nitrogen does emit greenhouse gases but most of them come from non-farming sources.

Most important, my information comes from the NZ government and the OECD, not out of the air or from tarot cards.

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

Don’t panic, we’re British with plenty of time still From the Ridge

Steve Wyn-Harris

FROM the Ridge (FTR): Prime Minister May, thank you for taking the time for the interview. I know you have a lot on your plate.

Theresa May (TM); My pleasure.

Always delighted to talk to people from our colonies.

FTR: New Zealand isn’t a colony and hasn’t been so since 1907.

Do you think a lot of folk in the United Kingdom voted for Brexit on the mistaken belief that Great Britain is in fact a bigger deal than it actually is nowadays, a harking back to the days when you did in fact have an empire?

TM: We are called Great Britain for good reason. With our severing of the ties from Europe we will take back control of our own

borders, our own laws, our own sovereignty and our own destiny.

FTR: Don’t forget the bit about your own passports again. Except for that narrow bit of ocean called the English Channel you are part of Europe and 44% of your exports go there and over half your imports come from there. It is hard to believe that you think you can simply separate.

TM: Well, as you no doubt know, I wasn’t in favour of Brexit myself but it is my destiny, I mean duty, to deliver an orderly exit from the European Union and that is what I intend to do.

The EU was never going to make it easy for the UK to leave the union.

FTR: I’m sure you are aware of this but it is now only 18 days until you are due to leave the EU and you still don’t have an agreement from your own Parliament on any

sort of deal. Hardly anyone likes the deal you struck with the EU. The only thing unifying your own party is those four dreaded words “Prime Minister Jeremy Corbin”.

TM: We still have time to renegotiate a deal with the EU that the British Parliament will accept.

I’ll stake my job on it.

FTR: The EU was never going to make it easy for the UK to leave the union. They didn’t want a precedent set and given what you have gone through it would be a very stupid and foolish country that would want to even think about leaving now.

TM: I’m going to give MPs a second chance to vote on my deal this week. If they reject that I will give them the opportunity to vote to leave without a deal which they will reject and then because I can’t think what else to do, will likely suggest we delay Brexit to buy some time to think of another cunning plan.

FTR: I have to admire your stoicism in the face of adversity but isn’t the UK blundering towards an unmitigated disaster in two weeks? You have ships on the

PRESSING: Time is running out for British Prime Minister Theresa May to get a Brexit deal done. water full of cargo and it is quite likely that when they get to their destinations they will be unable to offload as all your existing trade deals will have evaporated. I see NZ has a flurry of orders for lamb from Europe to fill the gap in April when British lamb won’t be turning up. I see there is also the little matter of your ‘divorce bill’ of £39 billion to pay to the EU. TM: Things are in hand. We will have a deal. The prospect of a no deal will see Parliament resolve its differences.

FTR: By the way, what’s happened to David Cameron? To propose the referendum to stop the right wing of the Conservatives

defecting to UKIP and get another political term was a very bad idea.

It was also very foolish thing to do by putting a major constitutional decision in the hands of a simple majority. That’s why these sorts of big decisions usually require a two-thirds majority. He certainly gave you a hospital pass.

TM: I’m told David is writing his memoirs.

FTR: Well good luck for the next few weeks. You are going to need it.

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

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The signals are clear enough Meaty Matters

Allan Barber

EVERY business has to find an appropriate balance between long and short term planning and farming is no exception.

But, given farmers are very capable of planning and implementing their annual farm strategy, the long term offers the greater challenge.

Forward planning involves a high degree of risk assessment because decisions must take into account several critical factors over which the farmer has little or no control.

Four obvious areas are government policy, climate effect, changing consumer attitudes and market access.

A business can seek advice on all these from industry bodies, consultants, accountants, economists and lawyers but in the end the buck stops with the farmer who must assess every factor that affects farm policy and performance without any certainty about the decisions being more right than wrong.

The most important decision is whether the present farming

activity will still be appropriate for the medium or long term and, if not, how to change it.

A second critical factor is succession planning or sale, which has the potential to be more problematic depending on the Government’s adoption of the Tax Working Group’s recommendations on a capital gains tax.

Government policies have enormous potential to assist or disrupt farming through environmental regulation as well as tax, employment and consumer legislation while everybody is well aware of the important role of the government in trade negotiation.

After more than 20 years of relatively benign and stable government influence from both Labour and National, reflected particularly in improved market access, peaceful employment relations and the exclusion of agriculture from the Emissions Trading Scheme, the coalition Government of Labour, NZ First and the Greens appears to be flexing its muscles.

The world has changed in the last 20 years and it is arguable the previous National government didn’t do enough to address some of the key issues, such as climate change, effects of immigration, consumer militancy and the labour relations pendulum swinging too far towards employers.

The new government has come

to power with a large agenda reflecting the policy wishes of the three partners but without any clearly thought out plan for bringing them to reality.

Hence the number of working parties tasked with coming up with options for the Government to consider.

The big problem with this is the difficulty of gaining consensus, which means it is quite possible, even probable, the Government has no hope of achieving many of its objectives by the end of its first term.

None of the Tax Working Group recommendations will be implemented this side of the 2020 election but the Government has committed itself to signalling in April which of them will form part of its policy for a second term.

A cynic might suggest the more recommendations adopted as policy, the less chance the coalition will get to implement them.

The capital gains tax affecting virtually every asset except for the family home and the immediate area around the home on the family farm has caused the greatest reaction, mostly negative.

Those in favour of a CGT point to the existence of such a tax in most other similar jurisdictions but fail to mention the proposed level of 33%, which is twice as high as several other countries.

It will be a surprise if the Government adopts many of the recommendations, other than

BALANCE: Farmers are good at planning an annual strategy but the long term offers a greater challenge.

applying the CGT to second properties, currently subject to a brightline test.

However, for farmers, these proposals are another complication affecting their longterm planning so, hopefully, the uncertainty will be short-lived.

Then they can get on with their main job of running their farm business.

Long-term farming faces a great deal of ambiguity – growing consumer ambivalence about traditional meat and dairy, the increase in plant or cell-based proteins, pressure on agricultural land from urban development and Government policy to plant a billion trees and restrict irrigation projects, public attitudes to agriculture and its effect on the environment and nervousness about global trading agreements.

These uncertainties will take time to play out but the signals are clear enough.

There will be plenty of demand for traditional products for the foreseeable future but it will be increasingly for quality not quantity, traceability of produce

back to the farm of origin will be mandatory, compliance with rigorous farm assurance and environmental standards will be essential, competition for productive land will increase with an inevitable impact on land value and trade will continue, not always with the same markets as before.

Applying this sort of scenario, farmers can develop a future farming strategy that can be tested regularly against evolving circumstances.

This would then enable the annual business plan to be implemented without having to double guess whether or not the chosen type of farming is the right one. The most critical factor is to have confidence in the long-term direction of the business, tested against known facts and credible forecasts.

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

Acting now is about the future Off the Cuff

Andrew Stewart

LEADERSHIP can be defined many different ways depending on a person’s perspective.

In New Zealand we have been blessed with some incredible examples of leadership over the years.

Sir Edmund Hillary not only conquered Everest but was a true pioneering explorer and devoted much of his life to helping others in the countries he visited.

Sir Peter Blake brought home the America’s Cup and Round the World yachting trophies but his heart was in global oceanic conservation and exploration until his death at the hands of pirates.

And on the footy field names like Meads and McCaw have provided us not only with examples of how to be a great

player but also a great role model.

But when I think about leaders in agriculture I struggle to remember many names that have truly captured my imagination as a leader.

We were blessed to have Alistair Polson as the government’s special agricultural trade envoy until 2013. He epitomised how Kiwi farming leaders should carry themselves on the global stage and he commanded great mana and respect from all who knew him. Losing him to cancer at the age of 58 was a great loss to all in the farming industry and in particular to his wife and family.

Mike Petersen, who replaced Polson, is another who has toiled relentlessly on the global stage on behalf of Kiwi farmers.

My own personal leadership journey went to a new level in 2017 when I applied for and was selected as the first associate director position with Beef + Lamb NZ. For those unaware, the rationale behind the associate director position is to allow someone with a genuine interest, required skill set and relative experience the chance to contribute around a

NOT MANY: Andrew Stewart struggles to remember many people who have captured his imagination as agricultural leaders but the late Alistair Polson is one. board table for a year. The position is an unpaid one but the intention is to arm the associate director with new skills and experience normally reserved for those in paid governance positions.

And so it was that in April 2017 I found myself an active participant in my first board meeting in Wellington.

During my term I was very fortunate to be exposed to

situations, discussions and outcomes that could only have been dreamed about in the past, both domestically and globally.

From feeling like a curious and sometimes uninformed sheep and beef farmer I developed into a well-informed participant and admirer of the work B+LNZ does at a governance and management level.

I will always remember packing my bag and getting ready to travel to Wellington for one of my last board meetings as an associate director.

One of my daughters realised what was happening and asked where I was going so I told her.

She then asked one of the most simple and innocent questions a young girl could but it stopped me in my tracks: “Why?” I realised I needed to take the time to explain to her what I was doing. Why was I going to be missing from her life for a couple of days? What was so important?

So I explained I was going away to meet some other like-minded people who are really passionate about farming and we are all working really hard to make sure she has the chance to be a farmer.

As usual with young children, my explanation might have been not quite as exciting as she had hoped. But the question she had asked and the thought process it invoked for me is as clear today as it was back then.

From my perspective, leadership can’t be defined by just one word. It starts with the courage to step forward, progresses to humility, integrity, vision and motivation and can be defined by a legacy.

We can all be leaders if we so choose, whether it is in governance, business, as a trustee for our local schools or just being more proactive in our families.

For those of us lucky enough to live on the land, farming is in our blood.

And if we want the next generation to have any chance of becoming successful farmers the time to stand up is now.

If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.

Your View Andrew Stewart is a sheep and beef farmer and tourism operator in Rangitikei.

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HOME: Harry de Lautour and fiance Kate, with son Archie, had a passion for travel but the call of the land was stronger.

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It’s all about the bloodline Central Hawke’s Bay farmers Harry and Kate de Lautour are dedicated to bloodline but it isn’t just about their ancestry. Luke Chivers reports.

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ROM the crack of dawn to the close of day sheep and beef farmer Harry de Lautour is set on challenging his animals for the betterment of their health.

The 31-year-old from Flemington has a long-standing connection with the primary sector, sheep genetics and performance recording.

Growing up in rural New Zealand instilled that passion.

“I grew up on a sheep and beef farm in Hawke’s Bay and absolutely loved it,” he says.

“Being out there on the land and working with animals – there’s nothing else quite like it.”

At 11 Harry left the family farm for boarding school and in 2006 moved to Canterbury to

study for an agriculture and farm management diploma at Lincoln University.

“My involvement in the industry never really stopped. I worked on sheep and beef farms right throughout my studies.”

But not long after graduating Harry packed his bags and set off on a world trip for nearly five years.

TRICKY: Despite good stock prices Harry de Lautour has concerns about sheep sector uncertainty – his wool cheque barely covered the costs of shearing it this year.

“Initially, I played rugby in Russia and then headed to the United Kingdom to work on English farming estates.

“I wrapped up my time abroad with a year-long stint working on super-yachts around Europe.”

It was during that time Harry started dating Kate – a colleague and old friend of Harry’s at the time – who is now his fiance.

Both wanted to work in the primary sector so returning home permanently was always on the cards.

“I always thought that I’d end up farming,” Harry says.

“And I’d always hoped I’d end up working on the family farm and I’ve been lucky enough to do that.

“We’re the third generation of de Lautours to farm in Flemington,” he says.

Harry’s grandparents Bay and Shona settled the original 900-hectare block in the 1960s, running 1450 Romneys.

Twenty years later in 1984 Harry’s father Hamish and mother Wynne began farming.

The couples farmed the Flemington property together for nearly 30 years. In 2017 Harry and Kate joined the family partnership on Te Whangai.

The de Lautours saw breeding animals with natural resistance to parasites as a big part of the longterm, sustainable solution for parasite management, before

it was widely accepted.

They focused their breeding programme on parasite resistance to strengthen their flock with animals that required less drench, reducing the risk of drench resistance, increasing farm profitability and taking the edge off workload.

It is a notion that has long been part of the de Lautour DNA. Harry’s focus is sheep genetics but his family background in beef was always going to secure the existence of cattle on the property.

Te Whangai is now a 1500ha (1200ha effective) property Harry describes as medium-to-steep coastal country that is typically summer dry.

It is home to sheep and beef and ran an average of 12 stock units a hectare last season.

The flock includes 7800 mixedage ewes – up to 5500 of which are unrecorded and commercial. The rest are the recorded stud flock.

“In its own right the commercial flock has got better as the stud has got better,” Harry says.

Cattle numbers in 2018 were about 200 mixed-age AngusHereford cows. Last season he sold about 70 weaner steers privately at an average weight of 230kg.

He keeps most of his heifers for replacements.

The property spans Rotohiwi Road and includes 50ha of pine trees and 250ha of regenerating

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native bush, mostly made up of kanuka and manuka trees.

Harry and Kate have a sevenmonth-old, Archie.

Kate, a qualified chef by trade, was raised on a large-scale sheep and beef station at Waipukurau, 49km south of Hastings.

Before Archie was born, she commuted 188km a day to her former job at a catering company in Napier.

“She was driving about an hour and a quarter each way,” Harry says. “So, she gave that up pretty quick.

“Nowadays, Kate is at home on the farm full-time caring for our boy.”

Meanwhile, Harry is busy continuing his family pursuit of natural parasite immunity and higher production.

That is, in part, thanks to a pretty simple regime the de Lautours have had in place on the property for the past 30 years.

It calls for every hogget to get in lamb and the running of A and B flocks.

Replacements are sourced only from the A flock, which carries only ewes that have reared a lamb as a hogget. To stay in the A flock they need to have three lambs in their first two years.

The result is genetic strength growth in the A flock and the farm improving its performance at lambing hoggets.

“I don’t think there’s ever going to be the perfect sheep,” he says.

“But there are now genetics with a very high level of tolerance.”

The good thing about an A and B flock system is you are able to keep any prodigy for your replacements, Harry says.

“We’re consistently looking out for the overall composition of the sheep, their growth rates, feed and wool – and any animal that

doesn’t hold these traits is taken to the B flock, which are used as replacements.”

Te Whangai has produced above-average lambing results in recent years – the simple combination of FE tolerance and good feed availability at tupping.

In fact, Harry’s ewes haven’t been drenched since 1990 as the de Lautours pursue natural parasite immunity.

“Back then my family had taken care of the first steps in sheep breeding.

“They’d got the lambing percentage up in the flock and bred a sheep that was fairly easy care.”

But the de Lautours took it one step further.

“My father made contact with some scientists in Australia who were using some new methods to combat worm burden among sheep – and less drenching played a big part in that.

“Our family also did quite a bit of work with AgResearch to trial and measure the difference between resilience and resistance.

“We found it to be a no-brainer that we ought to be chasing resilience. And that’s been our stance ever since, really.”

Harry does drench lambs.

“We don’t drench our sheep until around February in their first year and that’s only when we know they’re under worm burden so we’re able to identify the animals that aren’t coping.

“Essentially, we’re looking to identify sheep that are resilient.”

It is an ever-changing environment that Harry is trying to keep pace with.

“We’ve started focusing more on facial eczema tolerance in recent years and that was prompted by how quickly it is spreading across the country. It’s pretty early days for us but we’re already identifying animals that are coping with the disease.

“We’re always trying to challenge our sheep and adopt new ways of doing things.”

And it appears to be working.

In turn, in the past three years, Te Whangai has made a shift to new technologies.

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STRENGTH: Harry de Lautour, his father Hamish and grandfather Bay have built up the farm and concentrate on parasite and facial eczema resistance in the flock.

I’d always hoped I’d end up working on the family farm and I’ve been lucky enough to do that.

Harry de Lautour Farmer “We have the whole farm management now running off an app, Cloud Farmer,” Harry says.

“We put everything in it – everything from stock tallies, purchases and sales, fertiliser use, health and safety, among other things.”

Online tools, like Cloud Farmer, provide insights for the de Lautours.

“As long as the technology actually works when you need it to,” Harry says, laughing.

“It saves me a lot of time and hassle having all our records on hand. It means fewer hours in the office and more time on the farm.

Since returning to Te

GROWTH: Te Whangai is a 1500ha (1200ha effective) property Harry de Lautour describes as medium-to-steep coastal country that is typically summer dry.

Whangai in 2013 Harry has also electronically identified every age group to build reproduction records.

“We’re starting to reap the rewards now, keeping on top of bad feet, bad dags or poor composition.

“We’ve certainly had to adjust our farming operation or else risk being left behind.”

Harry is no stranger to on-farm research and development.

He is a member of the Wairarapa Romney Improvement Group, which seeks to breed the most profitable sheep for commercial farmers.

It provides nine individual breeder members with the opportunity learn and share information, taking advantage of genetic trends and new technology.

“We sort of trade and swap genetics between us members.

“We’re competitors but we’re working together to use the best of each other’s genes to try to create the perfect sheep.”

And rightly so, because in recent years Harry has had concerns about the sector – particularly its uncertainty.

“Stock prices are looking pretty good this year but you wouldn’t say it’s that stable, nobody knows where it’s going to go.

“We barely covered the costs of our shearing this year as the payout for wool is terrible at the moment. Exchange rates play a big part in that but I think NZ could be better at marketing its products.

Beef + Lamb NZ is pushing the GMO-free, antibiotic-free and grass-fed message in the United States and I think we’re seeing a good response to that but it’s a small portion of the global market.

“As soon as a major player like China drops out then we’ll be in deep water.”

Staffing issues are also among the challenges.

“There used to be a lot of people keen to give farming a go but you can see the number declining.

“It’s something I frequently hear from other farmers too. They don’t think the industry is keeping up with the training.

“If the likes of Taratahi, for instance, isn’t replaced with something then I’d say it will be a pretty big problem.

“The onus is going to fall on us as farmers to be providing that training. Kate and I try to have a young shepherd on our farm at any one time but the reality is there’s only so many people one farmer can train.”

Harry says higher incomes and better working conditions could help to draw more people to the primary sector.

“It needs a whole of industry approach to change – it’s easy for us farmers to say the Government just needs to step in but I think we all need to do our part.”

In recent years the de Lautours have been trying to change their own working environment to be more relaxed, allowing staff to have more time off and not work such long hours.

“The thing is, though, something’s got to give as the work does have to get done.

“But I think we’re noticing that with less hours being worked, to a degree, with more rest, we’re seeing more productive work being done.

“It’s all creating a working atmosphere where everyone’s happy, getting along and keen to have a beer with each other after work. That sort of thing.”

Looking ahead Harry and Kate say their next steps are to grow their business even more and future-proof it for their family.

“We’re here to make a future for ourselves while carrying on the business.

“We don’t want to let the previous generations down by letting this place go or anything like that.

“We want to keep this farm in our bloodline.”

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Gisborne 5022 Matawai Road

Parihohonu Station; Emerald of Otoko Held in the same family since 1892, Parihohonu has long been regarded as the emerald of Otoko, one of Gisborne’s premium farming districts. 748.5ha in size and nestled in a very sheltered, mostly northerly aspect basin with its own micro-climate. Fenced into 47 paddocks, the farm has excellent natural water from creeks and springs, some of which are reticulated to troughs in many paddocks. The station has a very appealing balance of contour with significant portions of tractor country, which have been cultivated and resown in superior pasture species or are planted in feed crops. Improvements include the main four bedroom homestead which is set in manicured grounds and gardens, two three bedroom homes, a two bin 280 tonne capacity airstrip, and a 1/2 share in a substantial 6-stand woolshed and 3,000 SU covered yard complex, a house, and two cottages.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Wed 17 Apr 2019 10 Reads Quay, Gisborne Simon Bousfield 027 665 8778 simon.bousfield@bayleys.co.nz James Bolton-Riley 027 739 1011 james.bolton-riley@bayleys.co.nz

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Opoutama 1001 Tunanui Road

Tunanui Station - in a league of its own At 2050ha Tunanui Station combines superb scale with spectacular aesthetics. Located just 66km from Gisborne and 48km from Wairoa, the farm has been meticulously managed, both in its former sheep and beef days, moving more recently to 100% bull beef trading. Quality infrastructure provides for ease of management.

Exceptional natural water combined with robust reticulation and generous annual rainfall enhance the operation.

Access throughout the hill country to the approx. 80ha of flats is heightened by Tunanui Road, a public road.

There is an abundance of hill country with a development programme in progress, adjoining the wide-ranging flats. Balanced contour, and attractive scenery with well presented homes across the farm, the main homes are positioned to take in the sea views. A rarely found farming and recreational jewel.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Tue 23 Apr 2019 10 Reads Quay, Gisborne Simon Bousfield 027 665 8778 simon.bousfield@bayleys.co.nz James Bolton-Riley 027 739 1011 james.bolton-riley@bayleys.co.nz

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Hastings 3629 Puketitiri Road, Patoka

'Raumati' premium Patoka dairy A real opportunity to purchase affordable dairy scale of 458 hectares with excellent Patoka summer rainfall.

Located 41 kilometres north west of Napier city, Raumati is a very well set up farm boasting a 2008 built 60 bail rotary, 600 cow feed pad and large purpose built calf rearing shed. Another feature of the property is the four bedroom villa beautifully set in established gardens, two three bedroom cottages and various implement sheds complete this top quality property. Production peaks of 300,000 kilograms of milk solids have been achieved as a result of a very well managed pasture renewal programme backed up with an excellent fertiliser history. This coupled with the easy contour and free draining ash soils mean purchasing this quality dairy unit is a great investment. Being consented to 1,000 cows there is further potential in this property. Absentee owners say sell.

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Auction (will not be sold prior) 2pm, Fri 29 Mar 2019 52 Bridge Street, Ahuriri, Napier View by appointment Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz Gavin Franklin 027 427 8000 gavin.franklin@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Tutira 502 and 629 Matahorua Road

Self contained 364ha dairy with water and rainfall A must view with free draining ash soils, reliable summer rainfall, a fantastic natural water source and huge potential! Located in the reliable Tutira farming district, approximately 49 kilometres north of Napier City and only five kilometres from the Tutira primary school and community store, is this 364 hectare self-contained dairy unit, in four titles, which benefits from a legal easement to the fantastic natural water source of Lake Opouahi, a fenced kiwi sanctuary. A very well set up property boasting a 2005 built 50 bale rotary, underpass, three quality dwellings, cottage, plenty of easy contour with huge potential to cultivate more land, and on target to achieve 180,000 kilograms of milk solids from 550 cows. Retiring vendor is providing a fantastic opportunity to purchase a well set up farm in a great farming environment. The farm is ready to take to the next level.

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Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Tue 16 Apr 2019 17 Napier Road, Havelock North View by appointment Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz Gavin Franklin 027 427 8000 gavin.franklin@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Marton 1338 Makirikiri Road

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Here is an opportunity to walk in and continue farming a well producing quality farm of just over 173ha in the heart of the sought after Rangitikei district, renowned for its high yielding cash crops. The quality land suits many forms of agricultural and horticultural production. Very handy location only 13km from Marton, 24km from Wanganui and 45km from Palmerston North. Complete with a three stand woolshed that has a night pen capacity for 500 sheep, a good set of sheep and cattle yards as well as a very big workshop and implement shed.

The sun-drenched three bedroom, older cottage, sits in established grounds. The property has some established shelter belts, pines and other trees, as well as three Manuka gullies that are suitable for bees. Not many properties of this size come to the market in this location so inquire today.

For Sale offers invited by (unless sold prior) 4pm, Wed 17 Apr 2019 49 Manchester Street, Feilding Grant O'Shanassy 027 643 6545 grant.oshanassy@bayleys.co.nz Andrew Bonnor 027 941 7630 andrew.bonnor@bayleys.co.nz

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South Canterbury 116 Zig Zag Road, Waihaorunga

Rocklea Downs Rocklea Downs is part of a wider portfolio restructure including six South Canterbury farms. It is an extensive 732.481ha property in two titles that has had a history of sheep and cattle production, to which it is well-suited, but recently has been part of a large dairy operation, carrying up to 1,100 heifers. Although in an approximately 600mm annual rainfall belt, this is somewhat off-set by the size of the property. Land-contour is varied, with undulating flats, easy downs and terraces. The naturally fertile soils support good kale crops followed by new pasture. Fencing and subdivision on the more intensive areas is good, access is via a central lane and three houses, two woolsheds, hay and implement sheds support the property. An extensive stock property with supporting infrastructure allowing economies of scale this property has potential to develop further.

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South Canterbury 163 Dog Kennel Road, Morven

Self-contained dairy farm and support block Part of a wider portfolio restructure including six South Canterbury farms, this dairy package provides real strengths. It includes Dog Kennel Dairy – 278.99ha and Dog Kennel support block – 291.16ha. The dairy farm has a low-cost K-line irrigation system, fully-automated 60 bail rotary dairy, an up-to-date consented effluent system, modern calf-rearing facilities, excellent lanes, fencing and subdivision, a modern homestead and three staff homes. The milking platform is approximately 300ha (including a neighbouring lease), balance used as support.

Average production is around 380kgMS/head or 1,170kgMS/ha at around 3.0 to 3.35 cows/ha, with possible further upside. The close-by support block runs the young stock, winters the herd and provides supplements from any surplus growth. It is a true fit-in with the dairy farm, providing the ability to be fully self-contained.

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4pm, Thu 4 Apr 2019 3 Deans Ave, Chch View by appointment Ben Turner 027 530 1400 ben.turner@bayleys.co.nz Peter Foley 021 754 737 WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Te Awamutu 164 Bank Road Special character dairy at Lake Ngaroto This boutique dairy farm is in a highly desirable location bordering the popular Lake Ngaroto near Te Awamutu.

Encompassing some 53ha (STS) the farm supports 140 to 150 Jerseys with average production of 51,304kgMS. Improvements include a 14 ASHB dairy shed complete with workshop and implement shed, a near new calf shed plus two half round barns and lined effluent pond. There’s a substantial six bedroom home plus two bedroom cottage.

This property has considerable character and given its location may suit tourism or as a larger lifestyle or support block.

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Central Hawke's Bay 927 Mill Road, Ashley Clinton Auction (unless sold prior) 11am, Thu 28 Mar 2019 96 Ulster Street, Hamilton View 11am-12pm Wed 13 Mar Sharon Evans AREINZ 027 235 4771 sharon.evans@bayleys.co.nz Stuart Gudsell AREINZ 021 951 737 stuart.gudsell@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Grazing or forestry in the rain belt Located 19.2 kilometres north west of Takapau in the sought after Ashley Clinton area is this 81.67 hectare (more or less) grazing property.

With an altitude ranging between 450 - 615 metres above sea level and summer rainfall providing healthy and summer safe environment to graze dairy, sheep or beef livestock, or could be developed into a forestry carbon investment.

Don't snooze on this opportunity, vendor says sell.

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Auction (will not be sold prior) 11am, Thu 21 Mar 2019 17 Napier Road, Havelock North View by appointment Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz Gavin Franklin 027 427 8000 gavin.franklin@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Hororata 1240 Morgans Road Blue-chip Canterbury landholding 'Kildara' is a quality farm top-to-bottom, with a productive future underpinned by exceptionally-low-cost water. Adding to this wonderful resource, this 188ha property has versatile, highlyfertile soils, currently demonstrating their ability to grow specialist seeds, potatoes, brassica crops and quality pastures fattening bulls. This, coupled with a consent to dairy, provides numerous farming options for the future. A very high standard of infrastructure includes new steel cattle yards, four centre-pivots controlled by the latest Waterforce software, excellent fencing, a central lane system and a substantial, modernised family home.

Within an easy commute of Christchurch, it is also close to rivers, lakes and mountains for outdoor recreation. A special opportunity.

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WEB ID TOR64124 WHAKAMARU 671 Sandel Road View By Appointment • 414 hectares - five houses. A "must see" property • 48 aside herringbone shed with in-shed meal feeders • 800 cows milked averaging 293,000 kgMS • High fertility with superior pastures • Whole herd and 300 replacement heifers on-farm all year round

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Be impressed by the return generated per m² of land. Being the top performing barn raised meat chicken farm contracted to Inghams Enterprises is testament alone of quality. A secure non-weather affected, profitable investment. Walking in to the wonderful family home you are surrounded by luxury. The stylish outdoor entertaining area includes an inground pool. A self-contained unit provides flexibility to continue with a home-based business, use it for family or rent it out.

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Auction 1pm, Thurs 4th April 2019 Matamata Club (unless sold prior) View Thurs 14th & 21st March, 11.0011.45am www.ljhooker.co.nz/F5GHR1 ljhooker.co.nz/F5GHR1

Rex Butterworth 021 348 276 Peter Begovich 027 476 5787

An impressive modern family home sited on 45.7ha (approx) with some of the most commanding views that you will ever encounter. Surrounded by quality, every detail has been carefully taken care of. From the extensive landscaping to the welcoming decor.

The property is private but not isolated.

Whether its bush walks, hunting, birdwatching, farming, or utilising the massive shed for virtually any purpose you desire you´ll have it covered here.

Link Realty Limited Licensed REAA 2008. All information contained herein is gathered from sources we consider to be reliable. However, we cannot guarantee or give any warranty about the information provided. Interested parties must solely rely on their own enquiries.

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AUCTION to be held on Friday 5th April 2019 at 1.30pm (unless sold prior) 447 CONLANS ROAD, TOKARAHI, NORTH OTAGO

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Make no mistake, our instructions are very clear that this 288.1311 hectare farm is to be sold under the hammer. Hill country dairy farm with modern improvements including 50 bail fully automated rotary shed, pivot irrigation and two-pond effluent storage. Irrigation supplied from NOIC scheme. Currently run as a 500600 cow dairy farm across 200 effective hectares plus 31 effective hectares of support land.

288.1311 hectares

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Richard O’Sullivan +64 27 292 3921 richard.osullivan@colliers.com Agri Realty Ltd, Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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Beef & Dairy Support An attractive finishing property located in the Wharepuhunga district, approx 28 kms south east of Te Awamutu  991 Bayley Road, R D 3, Te Awamutu  161 hectares

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sidlings, Puniu river on north eastern boundary  free draining mairoa ash soil  very good water reticulation system  well fenced with good access races over total

property  currently finishing beef heifers for the local trade market plus breeding Clydesdale horses  very good, all-weather stock handling & load-out facilities  first-class, large, fully enclosed coloursteel shed

with concrete floor - built to contain truck & trailer unit with stock crate  quality low maintenance homestead on elevated site backed by mature specimen trees with north facing views over property; featuring 4 brms, spacious living, modern kitchen, inground pool & tennis court  3 bedroom cottage with carport and sleep-out

Tenders close: Wednesday, 27 March 2019

Open days: Tues, 12 March & 19 March 12noon to 2.00pm

Auction: Wednesday, 10 April 2019

Open day: Thurs, 14 March 12noon - 2.00pm

 school bus past gate for Korakonui Primary and

Te Awamutu College  web ref R1293

On Farm biosecurity protocols will apply vehicles and footwear to be clean prior to arrival

Howard Ashmore 0274 388 556

Brian Peacocke 021 373 113

Quality Dairy Support A particularly good dairy support property with strong potential for finishing beef cattle situated on the main service route through a very good farming district approx 14 kms from the village of Whakamaru and 27 kms west of Taupo  2738 Poihipi Road, Marotiri district - extensive frontage onto Poihipi and Kaahu Roads  202.567 hectares - 1 title  contour varies from easy rolling hay / silage / cropping country to medium country to some steeper areas  Taupo ash soil over pumice  well fenced with a central lane & Transpower road giving very good access throughout the property  crops including swedes, kale, oats & annual ryegrass form part of the regrassing program  very good water supply & reticulation system  farming policy includes wintering dairy cows and dairy heifers plus grazing R1 dairy heifers, R2 dairy heifers, weaner dairy heifers and R1 jersey bulls  farm amenities include excellent cattle yards on concrete base with crush & headbail, wooden rails, steel gates & very good load-out facilities; normal range of farm buildings  a quality homestead in an attractive sheltered, sunny setting featuring 3 bedrooms, open plan living, attached double garage, detached guest room with ensuite, landscaped grounds and all-weather tennis court  a very well presented property with a high standard of improvements in a very good location with school bus to Marotiri Primary & Taupo Secondary schools 500 m from farm entrance  web ref R1296

venue - Marotiri Community Hall

On Farm biosecurity protocols will apply vehicles and footwear to be clean prior to arrival

Dave Peacocke 0274 732 382

Licensed REAA 2008

Brian Peacocke 021 373 113

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07 870 2112

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ATTRACTIVE 117 ACRES BARELAND IN STANWAY DISTRICT 2262 Makino Road, Halcombe, Feilding

Tender Closes 11am, Thu 4 Apr 2019, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding.

Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | 06 323 4434 peter@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

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This bareland property will suit those looking for a small farm of easy country handy to Feilding, with ample water via the local water scheme.

Located 4km past the Stanway Hall, the property gently rolls off a long road frontage to Makino Road, down to an attractive bush gully on the boundary. With a northerly aspect, the pastured area is approx. 35 hectares, the majority mowable contour. The Ruamahanga stream runs through the attractive gully area predominately filled with native species and some pines. Deer fenced, the central woolshed/deer shed is functional and with new outside yards could be a very handy facility. Cattle yards and load-out are located handy to the road. Connected to the Stanway-Halcombe water scheme with 8 units, a new tank on a high point will gravity feed water to the property. In a great community district with bus to the vibrant Halcombe Primary school (circa 200 students) and Feilding High School handy, the property features a number of outstanding potential buildings sites offering wide northward panoramas. Recently consented for subdivision, final survey and title will follow shortly. An attractive property, that does need some work to bring back to its full productivity, yet offers much potential for a range of land uses.

Open Days: Sun 10 Mar 11:00-12 :00pm, Wed 13 Mar 11:00-12:00pm & Sun 17 Mar 11:00-12:00pm. (4WD access, if bringing ATV-helmets required).

47.65 hectares (sts) Video on website nzr.nz/RX1814957

MANGARATA - EXCELLENT INFRASTRUCTURE, BALANCE AND LOCATION 264 Caves Road, Te Ore Ore, Masterton This very tidy sheep and beef breeding and semi finishing unit is located just 5 minutes from Masterton. Since its purchase in 2009 the vendor has enhanced and improved the property - new 4 stand woolshed and covered yards, new cattle yards, 8 km of fencing, capital fertiliser, drainage and developed the flats and cultivable hills with new grasses, clovers and herbs. There are two houses located together with the woolshed, cattle yards hay/implement shed, workshop and other storage sheds just off the sealed Caves Road entrance. Of the 476ha considered effective there are around 25ha of alluvial based road flats which are complemented by approx. 50ha of easy rolling cultivable land towards the middle of the farm, with the balance of the contour being medium hill country sitting on mudstone soils.

There are a high number of tracks through the 48 main paddocks of the property ensuring ease of access and stock movement. The fertility levels are considered good for this land class. Summer and winter fodder cropping as well as regrassing is undertaken to 20% of the cultivable land per annum. The property winters around 3,500 sheep & 150 cattle. Production levels are very good with a normal lambing average of 150-160%. On Masterton´s door step Mangarata should appeal to those seeking a metro-rural lifestyle close to off farm employment, rural services, quality schooling, restaurants and community facilities. Inspection by Appmt.

518 hectares Video on website nzr.nz//RX1802803 Tender Closes 4pm, Thu 21 March 2019, NZR, Level 1, 16 Perry St, Masterton.

Blair Stevens AREINZ 027 527 7007 | 06 370 9199 blair@nzr.nz NZR Real Estate Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

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SELDOM AVAILABLE & OFTEN SOUGHT 693 Pukeokahu Road, Taihape This highly productive easy undulating/medium hill contoured sheep, beef and deer farm is located close to Taihape. With a past reputation of producing quality livestock production figures it is testament to the overall level of ongoing inputs into this property. Currently part of the recently sold Pukekaka Station the decision has been made to make available a majority of the easier contour. Infrastructure includes a very well presented 4 bedroom dwelling plus another 3 bedroom house, prattley cattle yards and deer handling facilities. Subdivided into 30 paddocks including 80 ha which is deer fenced.

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358 hectares Tender nzr.nz/RX1819895

45 Clydes Access, Horopito Located in a stunning alpine location with expansive uninterrupted views of Mt Ruapehu, the Tongariro World Heritage National Park and the tranquil Makotuku stream on the northern boundary. The 41.627 hectare bare land block comprises of entirely flat contour with free draining volcanic ash looms and large patches of attractive native trees and bush.

Ring fenced with 8 wire post and batten, a new road fence and some internal fences. Stock water is supplied from a permanent clear water stream and pond.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closes 1pm, Wed 24 Apr 2019, NZR, 1 Goldfinch St, Ohakune Jamie Proude AREINZ 027 448 5162 | jamie@nzr.nz NZR Central Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

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41.627 hectares Auction nzr.nz/RX1798309 Auction (unless sold prior) 1pm, Tue 16 Apr 2019, NZR, 1 Goldfinch St, Ohakune Jamie Proude AREINZ 027 448 5162 | jamie@nzr.nz NZR Central Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

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Wharekaho Coastal Development

Land Bank Opportunity At Simpsons Beach

Peace, Privacy & Production 780 hectares (1928 acres) sheep and beef farm between Pongaroa and Weber running approximately 7000su.

Approximately 740 hectares effective with 165 hectares flat to easy (cultivatable) with good fertiliser history.

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

WHITIANGA 39 WHAREKAHO ROAD

Four bedroom home.

FOR SALE BY TENDER

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Tender closing 4pm Thursday 28th March 2019 (If not sold prior)

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This picturesque 30ha grazing block has expansive countryside views as well as vistas of Wharekaho and Mercury Bay. Zoned rural, the 30ha property borders the future urban zone, this could be the ultimate land bank for future development or is the ideal location for someone who wants this slice of paradise all to themselves. For retiring farmers this would be a great little grazing block whilst you just enjoy the location and lifestyle. The stylish architecturally designed home was strategically built to take advantage of the stunning views. It includes spacious open plan living areas, three generously sized bedrooms including a master with ensuite and walk-in wardrobe and numerous unique features throughout. Sold +GST if any.

Great network of 4x4 tracks with bridge over Akitio River and two woolsheds.

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39 Wharekaho Road

Durrelle Green M 027 949 3725

E durrelle.green@eves.co.nz Web durrellegreen.eves.co.nz

28 March , From 1pm (unless sold prior)

HELD 247 Cameron Road, Tauranga WEB www.eves.co.nz/ektc2046 VIEW Saturday, 10.00-11.00am

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This has it all!

DEADLINE SALE

Located just 6 minutes’ drive from the centre of Cambridge is this fantastic family home that really does have it all; room for all the family, an impressive amount of shedding, in-ground swimming pool and outdoor entertaining areas, privacy, plus plenty of land to enjoy & farm a selection of furry friends. You’ll feel instantly welcomed into this spacious, two storey brick and cedar home, comprising of five double bedrooms, including master suite with walk-in wardrobe and ensuite. Set on 1.6ha (approx. 3.9 acres) of land, the clever design of the property continues with a 15 x 9 coloursteel garage towards the front of the section, and securely fenced entertainment area with in-ground swimming pool – a space where lots of priceless memories will be made.

DEADLINE SALE: Closes 26th March 2019 at 4.00pm (unless sold prior) Internet ID: CRR2155 Address: 171 Hautapu Road Cambridge Open Day: Sunday 11.30-12.15pm Contact David Soar 027 284 9755 or

Ship-shape Te Pahu dairy 979 Limeworks Loop Road, Te Pahu Delightfully located dairy farm of 134.33ha, situated in popular Te Pahu district, milking up to 400 cows. Modern and generous infrastructure includes 30 aside dairy, covered feedpad, storage bunkers plus numerous other support buildings. Races and fences have recently been upgraded. Fully fenced and planted freshwater stream along one boundary.

Regrassing programme is in place and good fertility ensures year round grass growth.

www.rwteawamutu.co.nz/TEA23247 Rosetown Realty Ltd Licensed REAA2008

For Sale $6.3m+GST (if any) View Wednesdays 13, 20, 27 March, 11.00am - 1.00pm

Neville Kemp

0272 719 801 Noldy Rust 027 255 3047

RURAL | LIFESTYLE | RESIDENTIAL

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TAUWHARE, WAIKATO 1171 Tauwhare Rd

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Quality All Round A large versatile family home, 22ha (approximately) of flat land, good outbuildings and equestrian facilities. Extension and refurbishment have transformed the home whose modern living spaces enjoy great flow to a huge entertainment courtyard and in-ground pool. The dual access property, with a sand arena and stables, has previously been used for calf rearing in addition to heifer grazing. It lies in zone for Hillcrest schools and on the St Peter's school bus route.

(Unless Sold By Private Treaty) Closes 4.00pm, Wednesday 20 March

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Russell Thomas M 020 4004 0360 E russell.thomas@pggwrightson.co.nz

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OHAU, HOROWHENUA 120 Florida Road

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130.462 hectares (322.63 acres) Rarely available to purchase, big block grazing land currently dairy support for nearby dairy owners. New farming strategy means no longer required from 1 June 2019. Undulating and rising in the east to the Tararua National Park. Mixture of medium to steeper land (say 40%), balance plateaus and sidings.

Improved races, fencing, waterlines and troughs. No buildings.

Joe Havill M 027 437 0169 | B 06 367 0835 E joe.havill@pggwrightson.co.nz

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CENTRAL HAWKE'S BAY Dairy Grazing and Beef Finishing Enterprise in Top Location • • • • • •

356.3179 hectares (880 acres) approximately Mainly flat to gently rolling contour Fenced and watered like a dairy farm Spacious five-bedroom home plus one-bedroom cottage Excellent shedding 39km southeast of Waipukurau

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Max Lyver M 027 597 5818 | B 06 858 6780 E mlyver@pggwrightson.co.nz pggwre.co.nz/WPK30106 PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008

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EXPERIENCED CONTRACT MILKER

EARLY DEADLINE NOTICE

2019 / 2020 Season

STAFF?

Due to our current tractor driver moving on to a new venture we require a tractor driver to join the Tuatahi team based on the Moerangi/Oraukura block.

The farm is located half way between Turangi and Taumarunui off State Highway 41 and is one of 3 farms currently under Tuatahi management.

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Call Debbie

We are looking for an experienced tractor driver with the following key skills and experience: • Basic mechanical and engineering skills and above average ability to operate machinery and minimise breakages and down time • Able to plan, organise and carry out pasture and crop establishment in an efficient and timely manner • Self motivated, tidy and take pride in your work and a job well done.

• Good communication skills to liaise with block managers and service providers • Ability to report accurately and in a timely manner and to utilise technology in reporting • A sound level of technical knowledge around pasture and crop establishment and maintenance requirements

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Casual sale yard job opportunity Join the frontline team at AgriHQ with this hands on role.

Duties will include: • Pasture and crop establishment including spraying, cultivation and sowing • Liaising with block managers around timing and service providers for seed, fertiliser etc • Weed control • Topping • Feeding out silage • General farm maintenance

SHEPHERD Glenaray Station, 70,000su sheep, cattle and deer, is looking for a shepherd to join our team.

Located near Waikaia township, we have very good facilities and modern vehicles.

Dog training and other training is offered.

The position offers: • A good 3 bedroom house – primary school bus at end of drive • A safe working environment with modern machinery and facilities • A competitive remuneration package • Future possibility to advance to an Agronomy Manager position within the business For enquiries or applications please contact our HR Manager – Rob Holland 027 565 6661 or email projects@tuatahi.co.nz.

Applications to include cover letter, CV and at least two work referees.

You’ll need: • 4 trained dogs • horse experience preferred • current drivers licence

Operated by the country’s most innovative multimedia agri-information hub GlobalHQ, AgriHQ is at the forefront of livestock market information.

This role is an integral part of the foundations that make up AgriHQ’s business and while down at the sale yard, you will be the face of AgriHQ for many of our customers.

Accuracy and attention to detail is key as information collected at this point flows through to AgriHQ’s sound and respected reports and make up part of the commentary on the market pages in GlobalHQ’s flagship newspaper, Farmers Weekly.

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If you have a good knowledge of cattle breeds and ages, and the ability to ‘condition’ cattle, then this opportunity could be for you.

You will need to attend the Temuka cattle sale every Monday and every second Thursday, plus extra days as and when required (for fairs etc).

This role requires you to be able to follow the sale process efficiently and without distraction, inputting data from each pen of cattle into the tablet as it is sold.

Application close 29th March 2019

Accommodation: Very comfortable single quarters. Cooked evening meal Monday to Friday. Cooked winter lunches.

Cattle Data Collector – Temuka sale yards, Timaru

Some knowledge of operating a tablet is preferred.

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Training will be provided.

Sky TV and internet provided.

Please phone Mike O’Donoghue 03 202 7720, evenings.

Please email CV to: office@glenaray.co.nz

Start date: As soon as possible.

For more details contact suz.bremner@globalhq.co.nz

Stock Manager and Shepherds Required

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

NEED

Tractor Driver

Get your April 8 Farmers Weekly bookings in by midday Tuesday April 2

• North Rotorua • Summer safe • Mainly flat country • 480 cows • 30 ASHB shed • Low input grass based system • Must have good pasture management Excellent accommodation provided.

Email: farmpositionsnz@gmail.com Mobile: 027 493 9064

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Following growth in our business with the acquisition of more land Tuatahi Farming Partnership is seeking applicants to fill the following positions on Manunui Station. Manunui Station has recently grown to a 2600 eff ha unit running sheep (breeding and finishing) and finishing cattle.

Stock Manager (position from 1 May 2019) Shepherd Generals x 2 (immediate start)

We’re hiring

This is an exciting opportunity to further your farming career in a progressive farming operation. We offer the successful applicants the opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge as part of a progressive farming team along with the assistance of technology.

Incorporating Lincoln Hills, a satellite deer farm, Peel Forest Estate is running approximately 12,000 deer plus cattle which includes New Zealand’s largest red deer stud, well respected both locally and internationally, as well as a substantial producer of velvet.

Great location for hunting, fishing, skiing, jet boating and close to Geraldine.

We look forward to hearing from any interested party who can clearly demonstrate the above skills.

Applications with CV and referee contact details to graham@pfe.nz

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We are seeking an outstanding farmer with good business skills to drive an efficient, profitable and professional business. To maximise production with excellent stock and pasture management in a sustainable manner, to develop a good team culture, to seek ways to improve the business as well as identifying new opportunities.

our team of six analysts.

Using the latest tools you will be producing in-demand saleyard and market reports. You will be immersed in the business of farming helping

All successful applicants will have: • An established team of working dogs • Good stockmanship skills and a strong work ethic • An ability to maintain accurate records and use technology for record keeping and reporting • Honest and reliable with good communication skills • Good people skills and able to work as part of team

produce our flagship AgriHQ report – LivestockEye, and in doing so,

In addition we would expect applicants for the stock manager position to have: • A minimum of 7 years farming experience in sheep and beef farming • Ability to plan work and grazing management and deliver to targets • Experience with staff management

primary sector turns to first for independent content they value to keep

build on the strong relationships we have with industry contacts.

Your week will be spent creating high level analysis and commentary relied on by primary sector business at all levels of the value chain. You will build professional relationships, extracting the right information from a wide range of industry sources. You will be working in a team the them informed and give them a competitive edge.

With a great working environment comes serious responsibility, decision making, and company collaboration with teams working across our diverse suite of highly respected products: Farmers Weekly, Dairy

Tuatahi can offer for each position: • Remuneration package to reflect skills, experience and position • A three bedroom house • A safe working environment with modern facilities • Ongoing training and personal development • A career path in a growing farming business

Farmer, On Farm Story and a range of custom publications and reports.

GlobalHQ, based in Feilding, is an agile multi-media enterprise with plenty of scope to grow, delivering exciting opportunities for the right candidate.

If you’re ready for the responsibility and the challenge, we invite you to

Successful applicants will be required to pass a pre-employment drug test

register your interest and request a job description now.

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work permit.

Please email: steph.holloway@globalhq.co.nz Applications close Monday, March 18.

For further details contact: Rob Holland – HR Manager 027 565 6661 Email cover letter, CV and contact details for at least two work references to Rob at projects@tuatahi.co.nz

Applications close 29 March 2019

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Peel Forest Estate, a substantial deer farming business, has created a new position of General Manager.

Peel Forest Estate, located at the foothills of the Southern Alps, is an iconic property proudly maintained at a very high standard.

We have a new full-time vacancy for a smart-thinking candidate to join

The total Tuatahi farming operation is made up of three farm units with a total of 6300 eff ha and 70,000 stock units located between Turangi and Taumarunui, with sheep, beef and deer breeding operations as well as bull and lamb finishing.

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AgriHQ produces livestock market data and analysis the industry trusts.

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Farm Assistant / Manager

Senior Supervisor-Stockyard

Beef fattening/breeding farm. Located North Waikato/Coromandel. Farm consists of 1000 acre breeding unit and 1500 fattening unit.

The client Based in Invercargill, you will be joining an established locally owned global leader. As specialists in the food procuring and processing sector, they have a strong reputation for food excellence and observing high animal welfare standards.

Farming predominately Angus cattle.

Person required must have minimum five years experience with dogs, fencing, tractor, motorbike and stock-work.

The role Hours of work: Monday-Friday 7am-4.30pm and every third Sunday.

Livestock Procurement and Marketing Manager

FARM MANAGER – SOLE CHARGE

Brownrigg Agriculture is a significant privately-owned farming operation.

Their business pivots around lamb finishing and Wagyu genetic / breeding and bull finishing programmes.

You will be in a sole charge position of a predominantly deer farm located in Rotorua.

The property is 236 hectares effective with 1100 stock units. Although there is also a small mob of sheep run on the property, experience with deer is preferred.

Attributes and industry skills • Experience working in stockyards • Effective confident communicator • Strong work ethic with a hands-on and can-do attitude to work • Proven track record leading teams and enhancing productivity • Knowledge of NZ Animal Welfare legislation • Computer literacy

Based in Hawke’s Bay, reporting to the GM Livestock, you will be managing the livestock procurement and marketing programmes and functions. This will include managing livestock contracts daily, ensuring well-aligned supply of both the volumes and classes needed to meet business requirements.

You must be a strong relationship builder connecting farm staff, livestock agents, market customers, and leading NZ meat processing companies.

While you may not have management experience, you will have at least two years of head shepherd or leadership experience.

What is in it for you If you are motivated to build a career and advance, they will invest time and training to make this happen!

This role will be one with a high engagement level. You will have to work quickly on the phone to build credibility, cement relationships and secure livestock at the right price and time. There is plenty of variability dependent on seasonal timing. We need someone who can deal with a large rural and primary industry network in Hawke’s Bay and nationally. You will stay close to the ever-changing livestock markets and keep a level head in this dynamic environment.

For more information please contact Mike Ramsey on 07 878 7077

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Please apply with your CV and cover letter to hra@crusadermeats.co.nz

SHEPHERD GENERAL

Contact: vanessa.r@stellarrecruitment.co.nz or for a confidential discussion on 03 595 5788

You must be commercially savvy, have strong analytical skills, and a genuine ability to build relationships. While office based, you will also be comfortable out and about on farms and in the yards. We are flexible about your experience but you must be able to master the variables associated with livestock supply chains. A sense of urgency, head for numbers and rural affinity is essential.

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The extent of your experience will reflect the remuneration you can earn here. It may suit a graduate with five plus years’ experience but could also be won by a proven livestock industry manager looking for change. If this sounds like you, please email you CV quoting reference “LPMM” to careers@redconsultinggroup.co.nz or call the team at Red in complete confidence to learn more. Telephone 06 877 6637.

We are looking for an experienced Shepherd General to join our team. We are a deer only farm located in the Rerewhakaaitu, between Murupara and Rotorua.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated person, preferably with previous experience working with deer. Ideally, you will have tractor, fencing and chainsaw experience.

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On occasion you will be required to work on two other Company farms to help out and cover periods of leave. No dogs are required.

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Success in this role may lead to a management position, in time.

A 3 bedroom house is available, so could suit a couple or family.

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For more information please contact Mike Ramsey on 07 878 7077

– Wharekiri Station

Please apply with your CV and cover letter to: hra@crusadermeats.co.nz

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Applicants must have NZ residency or valid NZ work visa.

Wharekiri Station is a 1,080ha effective property situated in Benneydale, of farms covering 7,500ha effective. Wharekiri Station winters 12,000 stock units made up of a high performing breeding ewe flock and beef finishing system.

Due to the changes in the operation of the farm we now have two vacancies available.

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have had experience with finishing both lambs and cattle.You will need to have excellent stockmanship, clear written and oral communication,

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SHEPHERD GENERAL

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

The successful applicant will have a broad range of skills including fencing and general farm maintenance. You will conduct a variety of roles supporting the whole farm team with stock work from time to time. 1-2 dogs would be beneficial but not essential for the role. Like the above role you will need to be an excellent communicator and work well within the team.

Both positions come with competitive remuneration, a great work

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environment and good housing.

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ

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

Contact Debbie Brown 06 323 0765 or email classifieds@globalhq.co.nz

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Please contact Jason Taitoko 07 878 4834, email wharekiri@tiroatehape.maori.nz for further information or a copy of the job application and description.

Applications close Friday 22nd March 2019

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

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Your responsibilities will include • People leadership (promoting team morale and inter team collaboration) • Involvement in planning / scheduling and financial reporting • Financial management (annual departmental plans, operating expenses and budgets) • Maintaining existing risk management programme and promoting health and safety best practice • Ensuring all company policies and compliance requirements

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Enquiries to Harold Ward Phone 09 233 3149 or 027 773 9302

Applicants must have NZ residency or valid NZ work visa.

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Classifieds

ANIMAL HANDLING

ATTENTION FARMERS

DOGS WANTED

FLY OR LICE problem?

Electrodip - The magic eye sheepjetter since 1989 with unique self adjusting sides.

Incredible chemical and time savings with proven effectiveness.

Phone 07 573 8512 w w w. e l e c t r o d i p . c o m

FAST GRASS www.gibb-gro.co.nz GROWTH PROMOTANT $5.85 per hectare + GST delivered Brian Mace 0274 389 822 brianmace@xtra.co.nz

BUYING 350 DOGS South and North Islands. No one buys or pays more! www.youtube.com/user/ mikehughesworkingdog/ videos 07 315 5553.

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

ANIMAL SUPPLEMENTS APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, GARLIC & MANUKA HONEY. 20L - $54.95, 200L $495 or 1000L - $2,200 plus GST with FREE SHIPPING from Black Type Minerals Ltd www. blacktypeminerals. co.nz

ATTENTION FARMERS FREE DEER FENCES, posts, wire gates yards doors water troughs.

At Waiuku.

Trademe #1967370306 Phone Chris 027 493 1108.

DOLOMITE NZ’s finest BioGro certified Mg fertiliser For a delivered price call ....

0800 436 566

DEERLAND TRADING LTD DEERLAND TRADING LTD buying deer velvet this season and paying above the average. Also contractor required to buy deer velvet. Payment on commission basis. Contact 021 269 7608.

DOGS FOR SALE 45 HEADING AND Huntaways!

Deliver South and North Islands, Trial, guaranteed. www. youtube.com/user/ mikehughesworkingdog/ videos 07 315 5553.

FARM DOG TRAINING DAY with Anna Holland Tihoi,Taupo 31st Mar Morrinsville 2nd April Feilding 7th April Masterton 11th April Places Limited - 35 $100 pp & $140 pp Free Booklet Mob 027 28 44 639

annaholland@xtra.co.nz www.annaholland.co.nz

SCOTTY’S CONTRACTORS

DOGS WANTED

Under Woolshed/ Cover Yards Cleaning Specialist

12 MONTHS TO 5½-yearold Heading dogs and Huntaways wanted. Phone 022 698 8195.

www.underthewoolshed.kiwi

We’re back and taking bookings

YOUR FARM MAPPED showing paddock sizes.

Priced from $600 for 100ha. Phone 0800 433 855. farmmapping.co.nz

FOR SALE NEARLY NEW 2018 Ifor Williams Livestock trailer.

TA510 Tri-axle 14’ x 6’. A really high specification trailer. Extras included: Sump tank, Opening front flap, Removable partition, fold down ramp with gates.

Only used a handful of times. $20,000 ono. Te Kauwhata. 027 221 1988.

DOG/PET FOOD. Lamb/ Beef and chicken products.

All natural - raw - no preservatives or additives.

NOSLOC PRODUCTS. Ex-freezer Te Kuiti. For information and prices www.nosloc.com or phone 07 878 6868.

FORESTRY WANTED

NATIVE FOREST FOR MILLING also Macrocarpa and Red Gum, New Zealand wide.

We can arrange permits and plans. Also after milled timber to purchase.

NEW ZEALAND NATIVE TIMBER SUPPLIERS (WGTN) LIMITED 04 293 2097 Richard.

GOATS WANTED GOATS WANTED. All weights. All breeds.

Prompt service. Payment on pick up. My on farm prices will not be beaten.

Phone David Hutchings 07 895 8845 or 0274 519 249. Feral goats mustered on a 50/50 share basis.

LEASE LAND/ SHAREFARMING WANTED

Call Steff 022 574 1426

LEASE BLOCK WANTED

Check out our website and let results speak for themselves www.aotearoastockman.com johnnyanderin2017@gmail.com maiexperiencejohnnygray

Working alongside Crusader Meats

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Ph: 027 959 4166

KING COUNTRY. Additional 1000 - 4000 stock units sought by an enterprising couple who have already worked their way into a 3400su lease.

HORTICULTURE NZ KELP. FRESH, wild ocean harvested giant kelp.

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

LIVESTOCK FOR SALE RAMS. HILL COUNTRY Perendales. Easy care with good size and quality wool. $250-$500. Phone 06 376 4751 or 021 133 7533.

RAMS. TERMINAL SIRES Southdowns and Suffolk/ Southdown X for heavy fast growing lambs. Suitable for Hogget mating. $250$500. Phone 06 357 7727 or 021 133 7533.

BOOK AN AD. For only $2.10 + gst per word you can book a word only ad in Farmers Weekly Classifieds section. Phone Debbie Brown on 0800 85 25 80 to book in or email classifieds@globalhq.co.nz

PROPERTY WANTED HOUSE FOR REMOVAL wanted.

North Island.

Phone 021 0274 5654.

MARTON LIONS CLUB mans shed. VIEW spitfire aeroplane, shearing gear, milking goats, bottles, vintage machinery, cars, trucks, tractors, helicopter, Mack trucks, Steel sculptures and more.

Saturday 16th March, 2019.

9.00 to 3.00 Registration Marton Memorial Hall & Spitfire hanger Ohakea Air Base, from 8.30. Cost $30.00 cash only. Raising funds for Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter. Murray Richardson Convenor 06 3278503. Steve Carkeek 0274 993 165.

PUMPS

If you can help or wish in confidence to discuss the suitability of this couple to your situation, please contact in the first instance Geoff Burton, Rgd Farm Consultant, 07 895 8052.

We can help design a sensible and fair lease agreement.

CLASSIFIEDS

ADVERTISING Have something to sell?

Advertise in Farmers Weekly Phone Debbie Brown 0800 85 25 80 or email classifieds@globalhq.co.nz

FOR SALE CLASSIFIEDS REACH EVERY FARMER IN NZ FROM MONDAY Advertise in the NZ Farmers Weekly $2.10 + GST per word - Please print clearly

HIGH PRESSURE WATER PUMPS, suitable on high headlifts.

Low energy usage for single/3-phase motors, waterwheel and turbine drives. Low maintenance costs and easy to service. Enquiries phone 04 526 4415, email sales@hydra-cell.co.nz

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

Name: Phone: Address: Email: Heading: Advert to read:

WANTED TO BUY KOMATSU EXCAVATOR PC60-5. Suit wrecking or parts. Phone 027 440 3699.

WORK WANTED FARM MANAGER SEEKING position in Manawatu - Rangitikei areas on sheep and beef unit. Young passionate farmer motivated to lift farm / stock performance.

Experience in all aspects of farm management.

Open to share farming opportunities. For more information call 021 042 3000.

T H IN K PRE BU IL T

NEW HOMES

SOLID – PRACTICAL WELL INSULATED – AFFORDABLE Our homes are built using the same materials & quality as an onsite build.

Easily transported to almost anywhere in the North Island. Plans range from one bedroom to four bedroom First Home – Farm House Investment – Beach Bach

Call or email us for your free copy of our plans Email: info@ezylinehomes.co.nz Phone: 07 572 0230 Web: www.ezylinehomes.co.nz

Get your April 8 Farmers Weekly bookings in by midday Tuesday April 2 Material deadline 5pm Tuesday April 2

0800 278 677

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

See us at C entral Districts Fi eld Days Site M12

www.cattlestops.co.nz

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

EARLY DEADLINE NOTICE

Ideal tenants and excellent farmers, extremely tidy and will go above and beyond to ensure you enjoy having them on your farm.

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Specialists in mustering Wild Goats, Cattle, Horses and Sheep across New Zealand

FOR BEEF COWS. March/ April / May. NW Waikato.

Large numbers. Phone 027 697 1049.

FOR 300 R1 DAIRY heifers long term. Experienced grazier, references available. Lucerne, maize silage, crops. Rauweka Station, Gisborne. Phone Mike McKay 06 862 8049.

Experienced stockperson looking for smaller lease or share-farming opportunity. Very good references. Anything considered.

Based in Gisborne but happy to move.

JOHNNY GRAY

GRAZING AVAILABLE

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Ph: Scott Newman 027 26 26 272 0800 27 26 88 NZ’s #1 service provider for under woolshed cleaning for more than a decade

GORSE SPRAYING SCRUB CUTTING. 30 years experience.

Blowers, gun and hose.

No job too big. Camp out teams.

Travel anywhere if job big enough. Phone Dave 06 375 8032.

FARM MAPPING

MARTON LIONS CLUB

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CRAIGCO SHEEP JETTERS. Sensor Jet. Deal to fly and Lice now. Guaranteed performance.

Unbeatable pricing.

Phone 06 835 6863. www.craigcojetters.com

CONTRACTORS

GOATS WANTED

FERAL GOATS WANTED. All head counted, payment on pick-up, pick-up within 24 hours. Prices based on works schedule.

Experienced musterers available.

Phone Bill and Vicky Le Feuvre 07 893 8916.

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PRELIMINARY NOTICE

CAPITAL STOCK HEREFORD FEMALE SALE

Wairoa Cattle Fair 21/03/2019 at 11am

A/C Colraine Herefords & Kanuka Herefords Colin & Sue Corney and Russo Family Tuesday 26th March @ 7.00pm

Entries include A/c Tangihau Stn 55 1.5yr Angus Strs A/c Te Tiki Stn 55 1.5yr Angus Strs A/c Roscommon 30 1.5yr Hereford x Strs A/c Karamu Ltd 50 1.5yr Hereford S/Devon Strs 31 1.5yr Hereford S/Devon Hfrs

The Colraine and Kanuka breeding programme has been based on breeding fertile, maternal females using the best available genetics to continually improve the quality of the cow herd.

The females for sale are straight from the heart of each herd and from some of the best cow families. The offering includes females in-calf

by AI to breed leading sires Koanui Techno 3062 and Limehills Streaker 150368.

On offer in the inaugural “PGG Wrightson Hereford Female Sale”, being conducted online through the new bidr® online auction platform, are the following animals; • 6 – In-calf Rising 3yr & 4yr Cows • 10 – In-calf Rising 2yr Heifers • 1 Stud Sire - 2015 National ChampionWaikaka Skytower 1329

Ian Rissetto: 06 838 8604 or 0274 449 347 Mason Birrell: 06 838 7091 or 0274 967 253 Hamish Forrester: 0276 012 351

Helping grow the country

STOCK WANTED 400kg Friesian Bulls – RS 100 x 400kg + Steers – CS/CK

STOCK FOR SALE 70 Genuine Autumn calving Fsn/Fsn X cows – CS 100 Heifers, KiwiCross replacement line, 154BW, 1/5 del. 98%anc. $1000 – CS/AC 60 Aut born Beef X hfrs. Ave. 250kg+ $750 – CK 30 Hereford/Friesian bulls 250kg – RS 28kg – 36kg lambs – RS Aaron Clapperton 027 496 7410 Richard Seavill 021 169 8276 / 07 825 4984 Chris Smith 027 496 7413 / 06 756 8968 Chris Kyle 027 496 7412 / 07 883 7412 Bryce Young 027 496 7411

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Office 07 823 4559 BYLLIVESTOCK.CO.NZ byllivestock

To register as a purchaser with bidr® please contact the team at bidr®on 0800 2BIDR or enquiries@bidr.co.nz For further enquires Cam Heggie – PGG Wrightson Genetics 0275 018182

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

Bid, buy, sell all things rural

Moonlight Charolais Stud

Complete Dispersal Sale 4th April, 2019 – 1pm 495 Waiwhero Road, Motueka Approximately: 65 VIC females, 18 weaner heifers 25 weaner bulls 2 x 2.5 year sire bulls 8 x 18 month bulls

Reaching over 78,000 rural mailboxes weekly we are the ideal space to engage with the right audience for your bull sales.

Farmers Weekly also publishes a free weekly e-newsletter during autumn and spring that showcases bull sale results from around the country. Adding digital advertising options to link to your catalogue offers added benefits.

To find out more, contact Nigel Ramsden on 06 323 0761, 027 602 4925 or email livestock@globalhq.co.nz

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Enquiries to Vicki Adnams Ph 027 667 6009 • wolfadnfarm@gmail.com J McKone PGG Wrightsons – Auctioneer 027 229 9375

WAIRARAPA SHEEP & BEEF AWARDS 2019 WINNERS FIELD DAY Friday 29 March 2019

COMPETITION SPONSORS

George and Luce Williams Grassendale, 1062 Manawa Road Tinui, Masterton

The farm tour will start at GRASSENDALE 9.30am 1062 MANAWA ROAD TINUI, MASTERTON Allow 50 minutes from Masterton

Vehicles – Quads with helmets compulsory Lunch must be purchased at the venue: $10 per person (Please bring cash – Tinui School Fundraiser)

4.30pm Refreshments & BBQ will be served

For further details phone BakerAg 06 370 6880

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Rebate to all pre-registered agents Catalogue available

Hit the bulls-eye with advertising in the Farmers Weekly.

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

Contact Callum Dunnett 027 587 0131

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Coopworth Ewe Lambs • For Sale

available. calf heifers of all breeds available.

Contact Murray Sargent 027 392 7242 murraysargent@hotmail.com Enquiries to the sole marketing agents:

•Annual Romney • Romdale 3rd Angus Female Sale Visit us at the In-Calf Wanaka Show May 1st 12pm on-farm – next to the Rugby club on Romney ringside Perendale x Tex x Approx. fullytent - recorded Females sharing80our with Stud Beltex NZ

• LIVESTOCK R2, R3, R4, and Annual Draft Cows ADVERTISING • Texel x Romney • kelso. x Romney 50 R2 Commercial Meadowslea Bred 3rd– Annual Angusheifers, In-Calf Female Sale May 1st 12pm on-farm o. Maternal • kelso.

Terminal (Blackface) Contact: David Giddings 03 685 8027 Approx. 80 fully - recorded Stud Females Auctioneers: R2, R3,Keith R4, and Annual Draft PGGW Willson 027 412Cows 5766 – 50 R2 Commercial heifers, Meadowslea Bred Callum Dunnett 027 5870131 Carrfields Contact: David Giddings 03 685 8027 Hamish Zuppicich 027 403 3025 PWA Auctioneers: Anthony Cox 027 208 3071 RLL PGGW Keith Willson 027 412 5766

CALL NIGEL 0800 85 25 80

isit us at the Wanaka Show

– next to the Rugby club on ringside sharing our tent with Beltex NZ Callum Dunnett 027 5870131 Carrfields Hamish Zuppicich 027 403 3025 Anthony Cox 027 208 3071

d Annual Angus In-Calf Female Sale May 1st - 12pm on-farm

Approx. 80 fully - recorded Stud Females SoundR3, wellR4, fleshed Excellent temperament R2, andsires, Annual Draft Cows 200 Fully breedplan recorded cows – 50 R2 Commercial heifers, Meadowslea Bred 20 Bulls Catalogued

Contact: David Giddings 03 685 8027

Keith Willson 027 412 5766

25TH ANNUAL SALE THURSDAY 6TH JUNE BULL OPEN DAY • ALL ENQUIRIES WELCOME 027 29TH 5870131 1PM, TE KUITICallum SALE YARDSDunnett WEDNESDAY MAY 1 - 5PM

Hamish Zuppicich 027 403 3025 Anthony Cox 027 208 3071

WILTSHIRE RAMS AVAILABLE

> Genuine full shed sheep > No shearing > No dagging > No dipping

PETER & CAROLINE FOSS

495 Potaka Road, RD 1, Aria, King Country Ph/fax (07) 877 7881 • Email: pcfossy@xtra.co.nz

contacting Brian Robinson Brian Robinson BRLL 0272 410 PH: 0272 Ph 410051 or 051 07 8583132

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

360 Fr Herd BW40 PW49 DTC 15/7 Web Ref DH 1326 Milked on difficult farm. Has averaged 410ms previously. $1700 190 Xbred herd BW100 PW139 RA95% DTC 27/7 Web Ref DH1323 Well-bred herd with high indexes.

435ms, Low SCC $1950ono 260 FrsX herd BW68 PW108 RA100% DTC 14/7 High capacity cows on system 3. $1900 187 Xbred herd BW100 PW109 RA96% DTC 1/8 8 weeks AI, tailed speckled park/Hereford $1900 58 Xbred In-Calf Heifers BW111 PW125 DTC 1/8 Capital line mainly black (Herd above) $1500 157 Xbred herd BW112 PW168 (Top 2%) DTC 24/7 I/C to LIC xbred, 480ms, low SCC $2100 36 Xbred In-Calf Heifers BW139 PW166 DTC 1/8 I/C to Jrsy (Herd above) $1700 140 F/FX In-Calf Heifers BW111 PW124 DTC 25/7 Capital line out of hard-working herd. $1700 Philip Webb Ph: 027 801 8057 Central & Southern North Island Dairy Coordinator 240 Young Frsn Cows. BW49 PW46 RA 89%.

Web Ref DH1424 DTC 1/7. 55 year breeding history.

Calving date split available to suit SI. Low SCC. $1800.

130 FR/Xbred Early Calving Cows BW102 PW138 RA99% DTC 25th June to 20th July to AB. 25 years breeding $2000 99 F/FX In-Calf Heifers BW87 PW76 DTC 15/7 Capital line out of 420ms System 3 herd $1600 Paul Kane: 027 286 9279 National Dairy Coordinator

Wellsford Weaner Heifer Fair

www.carrfieldslivestock.co.nz

Monday 11th March 2019 – 12.00pm start On behalf of various Carrfields clients, annual drafts of approximately 300 weaner heifers comprising approximately: • 30 Char & Charx Heifers • 40 Ang & Angx Heifers • 40 Here & Hfrdx Heifers • 170 Here/Frsn Heifers • 20 xbred Heifers

A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO BUY INTO THREE AND A HALF DECADES OF BREEDING

VIEW POINT HEREFORD STUD

Further inquiries contact Robert McLean 027 590 4829

Registered Polled Herefords

Kauri Weaner Heifer Fair

COMPLETE DISPERSAL SALE

Tuesday 12th March 2019 – 12.30pm start On behalf of various Carrfields clients, annual drafts of approximately 300 weaner heifers comprising approximately: • 100 Charolais Heifers • 100 Ang Heifers • 100 Ang & Herex Heifers

OF ALL FEMALES RISING 2YRS & OVER

• 18 Rising 2½ YR in calf heifers • 23 Rising 1½ YR in calf heifers • 67 in calf mixed age heifers

Further inquiries contact Tim Williamson 027 511 7778

Kaikohe Weaner Heifer Fair Wednesday 13th March 2019 – 12.30pm start On behalf of various Carrfields clients, annual drafts of approximately 500 weaner heifers comprising approximately: • 200 Char Heifers • 150 Ang Heifers • 150 Here Angx & Here Heifers • 50 Simx Heifers

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March 15th – 1pm on-farm SH 8, Fairlie • Romney • Romdale including 2th rams – 7 • Perendale x Romney Visit us breeds, at thex Tex Wanaka Showa selection Romney x Romney –• Texel next the Rugby• kelso. club on ringside fortoxhogget mating • kelso. sharing Maternal Terminal our• kelso. tent with Beltex(Blackface) NZ

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March• Perendale 15th – 1pmxon-farm SH 8, Fairlie Tex x Romney including a selection 150 2th rams – 7 breeds, • Texel x Romney • kelso. x Romney for hogget mating • kelso. Maternal • kelso. Terminal (Blackface)

Many cows contracted LICfully forrecorded, 2011 matings 200 CRV cows, youngtoherd, due Due to calve from 16-7-12, 6.5 weeks from 28/7/19 to CRV Friesian, tailed with Hereford AB Jersey and Kiwi cross and Angus, off mainly Estimated to 400kg be ms 420 cowsall grass aftersystem, non good frame and udders, upper South Island. pregnant, culls, older cows & 5% rejection Production last in calf season 347kgs 45 CRV bred heifers, top line due ms/cow, from 1000kgs ms/ha, on rolling to steeper 25/7/19, and 65 CRV heifer calves from above herd contoured farm, no meal, palm kernel or maize fed. also available.

Young 400 replacement also OAD Ayrshirestock cows off veryavailable hard property, due

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utumn Ram Sale Autumn Ram Sale • Romney • Romdale

Spring Calvers

Herds and RA In-calf BW 143/50 PW 161/67 100% (in top 10 All Breeds for NZ ) heifers for sale

Suitable for mating Ideal for starting a flock of milking• sheep. Dairy Ram X Coopworth ewe. from 5/8/19, recorded. Will sell in small lines to suit Outstanding genetics & potential to be one of Approx 100 with EID and pedigree. purchasers. Recommended to shift well. the countries leading suppliers of Genetics to Reasonably Priced. the dairy industry years Also severalfor other herdsto andcome. lines of Full cows details and in

Autumn Ram Sale March 15th – 1pm on-farm SH 8, Fairlie 150 2th rams – 7 breeds, including a selection for hogget mating

CROSS HERD

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SALE TALK

EARLY DEADLINE NOTICE

Contact Nigel Ramsden DDI: 06 323 0761 0800 85 25 80 livestock@globalhq.co.nz

Livestock

Further Inquiries contact Neil Miller 027 497 3492 Reuben Wright 027 284 6384 Rhys Dackers 027 241 5564

Broadwood Weaner Heifer Fair

ON FARM SALE

Friday 14th March 2019 – 12.30pm start

Thursday 21st March 2019 @ 10.30am 1468 State Highway 1, RD 2, Okaihau 0476

On behalf of various Carrfields clients, annual drafts of approximately 450 weaners comprising approximately: • 200 Char & Charx Heifers • 150 Ang & Angx Heifers • 100 W/f Heifers Further inquiries contact Reuben Wright 027 284 6384 or Dan Sweetapple 021 046 0755

www.carrfieldslivestock.co.nz

VENDOR: Glen Ireland • P: 09 401 9937 CARRFIELDS LIVESTOCK AGENTS: Bruce Orr • P: 027 492 2122 Kris Sturge • P: 027 510 4385 LK0096743©

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Looking for quality heifer grazing?

Puriri Wiltshire Rams for sale

Prograze 027 281 4232

Full shedding Hard black feet Big and brawny Easy natured Genetics from Morrisson, Glenbrae and McMillan.

FOR SALE

2th @ $450 + GST Ram lamb @ $200 + GST

**COMPLETE EWE FLOCK**

You will not be disappointed

260 x ROMNEY 2TOOTH EWES RWR 1050 x ROMNEY 4TH-5YR EWES RWR 60 x ANGUS DAIRY BULLS 530-540kg

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Brook & Rachel 09 232 9875 puririheights@gmail.com www.puririwiltshire.com

16 x HEREFORD BULLS 540kg

STOCK REQUIRED STORE LAMBS 25-35kg 2YR FRIESIAN BULLS 350-420kg

LIVESTOCK ADVERTISING Are you looking in the right direction?

www.dyerlivestock.co.nz

Ross Dyer 0274 333 381

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Key: Dairy NOKOMAI STATION ON FARM STORE LAMB SALE Preliminary Notice Account: Nokomai Station Athol, Northern Southland

DAIRY HERDS & IN-CALF HEIFERS FOR SALE

Monday 15th April Commencing 1.30pm (Please note change of date from PGGW calendar) Approx: 6000 Half Bred Wether Lambs 3000 Half Bred Ewe Lambs 1000 Texel x MS Lambs

NORTH ISLAND HERDS & IN-CALF HEIFERS FOR SALE 180 Jersey Cows BW 129

PW 142

225 Frsn/Frsn X Cows $1,890

BW 92

+GST

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PW 124

195 Frsn/Frsn X Cows

$1,880

BW 98

+GST

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PW 146

$2,000

+GST

RA99% Calving 18th July, One owner 50yrs.

Todd Van Berlo – 027 529 7748

RA97% 28 Low SCC, on target for 1400 m/s h/a this season.

Regan Craig – 027 502 8585

RA99% Calving 7th July Young herd.

Jason Roberts – 027 243 1429

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135 X Bred Cows BW 99

PW 140

44 X Bred Cows $2,000+GST

BW 69

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PW 124

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BW 116

PW 132

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32 Frsn/Frsn X In-calf Hfrs

$1,500+GST

BW 101

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60 MA Frsn, Xbred Carryover Cows

PW110 $1,380+GST

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BW 51

PW 87

$1,500+GST

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Calving 10th July, M/Grey Bull, well grown.

Steve Taylor – 027 648 6711

RA93% Complete herd of rising 2nd calvers. Incalf to nominated A2 A2 LIC sires.

Matt Hughes – 027 405 2824

RA90% Owner bred Friesian VIC Carryover cows, low somatics.

Peter Forrest – 027 598 6153

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59 Frsn, Frsn/Jsy X, Jsy InCalf Hfrs

32 Frsn/Frsn X In-calf Hfrs

BW 140

PW 1445

$1,650+GST

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BW 101

460 M/A Friesian, X/Bred Cows

PW110 $1,380+GST

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BW 62

PW 80

$1,850+GST

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RA99% outstanding figures, will come Forward in Top Condition.

Jamie Cunninghame – 027 583 3533

RA93% Complete herd of rising 2nd calvers. Incalf to nominated A2 A2 LIC sires.

Matt Hughes – 027 405 2824

RA82% Strong capacious Cows with very tidy udders, run on rolling to hilly country.

Craig Murray – 027 322 0063

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Market Snapshot brought to you by the AgriHQ analysts.

Suz Bremner

Nicola Dennis

Mel Croad

Cattle

Reece Brick

Caitlin Pemberton

Sheep

BEEF

Deer

SHEEP MEAT

VENISON

Last week

Prior week

Last year

NI Steer (300kg)

5.25

5.25

5.65

NI lamb (17kg)

7.00

7.00

7.10

NI Stag (60kg)

9.60

9.60

10.80

NI Bull (300kg)

4.85

4.90

5.55

NI mutton (20kg)

5.00

5.00

4.85

SI Stag (60kg)

9.55

9.55

10.80

NI Cow (200kg)

3.60

3.60

4.40

SI lamb (17kg)

6.60

6.75

6.95

SI Steer (300kg)

5.00

5.10

5.40

SI mutton (20kg)

4.80

4.80

4.75

SI Bull (300kg)

4.80

4.85

5.20

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

SI Cow (200kg)

3.60

3.60

4.30

UK CKT lamb leg

8.92

8.85

8.97

US imported 95CL bull

7.13

7.04

6.74

US domestic 90CL cow

6.95

6.84

6.62

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Last week Prior week

Last year

North Island lamb slaughter price

5.5

$/kg CW

South Island steer slaughter price

6.0

12

5.0

11

4.0

10

South Island lamb slaughter price

$/kg CW

6

Oct

Dec 5-yr ave

Feb

5-yr ave

Jun

2017-18

Aug 2018-19

Aug 2018-19

Prior week

Last year

Coarse xbred ind.

2.87

2.86

2.96

37 micron ewe

2.70

2.70

6.0

Jun-18

Aug-18 Sept. 2019

Oct-18

Dec-18 Sept. 2020

Last price*

320

Feb-18

vs 4 weeks ago

-

625

523

3.00

Super

321

321

307

5.05

DAP

833

833

775

Top 10 by Market Cap Company

Apr-18

Jun-18

Aug-18

Oct-18

Dec-18

Feb-19

7.77

7.065

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Ltd

15.05

15.1

12.3

Spark New Zealand Limited

3.77

4.18

3.61

Ryman Healthcare Limited

11.26

11.5

10.4

Mercury NZ Limited (NS)

3.655

3.8

3.51

Contact Energy Limited

6.39

6.49

5.82

Fletcher Building Limited

4.86

5.34

4.78

Port of Tauranga Limited (NS)

5.4

5.45

4.9

Listed Agri Shares

5pm, close of market, Thursday

10.420

5.420

4.090

Delegat Group Limited

10.000

10.100

9.400

Fonterra Shareholders' Fund (NS)

4.500

4.850

4.170

Foley Wines Limited

1.620

1.670

1.470

Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd (NS)

0.870

0.870

0.750

360

New Zealand King Salmon Investments Ltd

2.360

2.410

2.100

340

PGG Wrightson Limited

0.510

0.570

0.470

Sanford Limited (NS)

6.410

6.980

6.350

Scales Corporation Limited

4.790

4.820

4.340

SeaDragon Limited

0.002

0.003

0.002

Seeka Limited

4.950

4.980

4.200

Synlait Milk Limited (NS)

10.390

10.900

8.860

T&G Global Limited

2.650

2.810

2.650

S&P/NZX Primary Sector Equity

16400

16563

15063

S&P/NZX 50 Index

9437

9437

8732

S&P/NZX 10 Index

9137

9137

8280

400

AMF

5450

5450

5210

Butter

4465

4465

4250

Milk Price

6.43

6.40

6.27

$/tonne

7.63

4.340

2430

380

320

Feb-18

Apr-18

Jun-18

Aug-18

Oct-18

Dec-18

Feb-19

WAIKATO PALM KERNEL

3400

350

$/tonne

3300

Aug

3.38

Auckland International Airport Limited

Comvita Limited

440

2490

Jun Jul 4 weeks ago

3.895

YTD Low

2540

Apr May Latest price

3.88

15.000

SMP

Mar

10.42

Meridian Energy Limited (NS)

YTD High

420

3100

YTD Low

15

14.500

2845

3200

YTD High

14.5

The a2 Milk Company Limited

3200

WMP FUTURES - VS FOUR WEEKS AGO

Close

The a2 Milk Company Limited

Close

3200

3000

-

NZ average (NZ$/t)

Company

WMP

* price as at close of business on Thursday

Fertiliser 625

CANTERBURY FEED BARLEY Prior week

Aug 2018-19

Urea

370

Feb-19

DAIRY FUTURES (US$/T) Nearby contract

Jun

Last year

420

$/tonne

6.5

Apr-18

Apr 2017-18

Prior week

470

5.5

Feb

Last week

CANTERBURY FEED WHEAT

7.0

$/kg MS

Jun

Grain

Data provided by

MILK PRICE FUTURES

US$/t

Apr 2017-18

Last week

30 micron lamb

Dairy

Dec

FERTILISER

(NZ$/kg) Apr

Oct

5-yr ave

WOOL

Feb

8

5.0

5.0

Dec

9

6.0

5.5

Oct

South Island stag slaughter price

7

7.0

4.0

4.5

8

6.0

8.0 4.5

9

6

7.0

9.0

5.0

10

7

$/kg CW

$/kg CW

6.0

Last year

North Island stag slaughter price

12

8.0 $/kg CW

North Island steer slaughter price

Last week Prior week

11

Export markets (NZ$/kg) 9.0

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

$/kg CW

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Ingrid Usherwood

300 250 200

Feb-18

S&P/FW PRIMARY SECTOR EQUITY

Apr-18

Jun-18

Aug-18

Oct-18

Dec-18

Feb-19

16400

S&P/NZX 50 INDEX

9437

S&P/NZX 10 INDEX

9137

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – March 11, 2019 NI SLAUGHTER BULL ( $/KG)

5.85

SI SLAUGHTER COW ( $/KG)

3.60

SI SLAUGHTER MUTTON ( $/KG)

4.80

BONER FRIESIAN COWS, 450-545KG, AT TEMUKA ( $/KG)

1.30

Rain, but is it enough?

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ORTHLAND’S kumara need rain. The harvest is 15% through and some moisture would help swell the size of the kumara. The up-side of the dry is it is easy to get them out of the ground. The crop needs to be harvested by the end of May so there is only limited time to wait for rain and to get through it all. Kumara have been very expensive in the past couple of years because of a lack of supply and growers would love it if prices could ease a bit so it’s more affordable for everyone.

Around Pukekohe the long, dry spell continued until Thursday when some scattered showers drifted over the district but our South Auckland correspondent says they might get some useful rain from the approaching cold front. He says much of the district’s cultivated land is bare except for irrigated paddocks where brassicas and lettuce are growing or are being planted.

When we rang an ag consultant in Waikato he said everyone was outside doing a rain dance. Rain is forecast but he’s concerned it might be enough to keep the grass alive but not much more. Maize crops are suffering. Yields are down but contractors are working flat out into the night to harvest them. Sheep farmers are looking to get lambs away as fast as they can because there’s not much lamb tucker about so there’s a backlog at the works.

Beautiful, gentle rain has been falling in King Country and on Friday it looked like it was setting in. Farmers there have been busy feeding out and some have been weaning their beef calves early to keep condition on their mums. They’ve also been making sure animals have ready access to water because often there’s no reticulated supply.

In Bay of Plenty our contact had called another farmer near Whakatane earlier who apologised for being slow to answer his phone. He had to find the phone in his pocket through his wet weather leggings.

He was feeding out in the rain. The dry, till now, has been forcing farmers to make some tough calls. They have been deciding if they should dry off parts of their herd or move to once-a-day. They are also sending off any killable stock because of the lack of feed.

Hawera had had a couple of hours of good, steady rain when we called at 9.30am on Friday. There was discussion last week about whether a drought should be declared. On-farm conditions have deteriorated very quickly. The meat works have gone from desperately trying to find animals to farmers having to wait two to three weeks to get their cull cows in. The heat and lack of feed has seen milk production drop. Lots of farms are moving to once-a-day or 16-hourly milkings, even on higher altitude farms that are typically wetter and usually have more feed.

The grape harvest has started in Hawke’s Bay. People are picking chardonnay and early sauvignon blanc grapes, mainly for lower alcohol wines – they are picked at a lower brix. The main chardonnay harvest starts early next week and reds a few days later. Growers say it

South Island sheep and beef poised for positive autumn market Generally positive market and climatic conditions have stimulated the South Island’s sheep and beef trade.

PGG Wrightson South Island Livestock Manager Shane Gerken said this season’s ewe and lamb sales have had pleasing results.

“Pasture production early in the summer and excellent meat company schedules kept livestock sales firm through the summer, and this is poised to continue during the autumn.

“Enduring confidence in the sheep industry encouraged farmers to replace animals culled last year, and increase flock numbers as they endeavour to address the shortage of good breeding stock. Under solid demand, the best two-tooth ewes sold for more than $300 a head, while the bulk of sales ranged between $250 and $280. Demand for annual draft ewes was also solid, with sales ranging from $150 and $200.

READY: Grape harvests around the country are now under way.

is about time they had a dry vintage. It’s been wet on and off and challenging for the past four years. Finding labour has been tricky this year. The grape harvest clashes with the apple harvest. Picking grapes is easier, less heavy work than apple picking but it’s hotter and there’s less shade. Hawke’s Bay pastoral farms have dried out in the last month but there’s still a of feed about. If it gets much drier there’ll be a significant fire risk.

The ag consultant we spoke to in Manawatu was looking out the window to see people using umbrellas at Friday’s Feilding farmers’ market. He says around Taihape and Rangiwahia farms are looking good for feed and there’s no pressure to get rid of lambs. That’s a good thing as lower Manawatu and Rangitikei’s finishing country, where they might head, is extremely dry and there’s no capacity to take them. He says most dairy cows are getting only a third of their diet from grass. The rest is coming from supplements. Here, too, space at the works is very tight.

In Wairarapa, it was also raining at the end of the week. Some farmers are busy planting new grasses. Prime lambs are fetching good prices at the works, $135 to $140 for a 20kg animal. Wairarapa’s grape harvest is under way.

SOUTH ISLAND The Nelson/Motueka region has finally had some rain, a good dose too. About 21mm across the plains and some more in the hills. Until Thursday the region had only about 20mm since Christmas. Last year it was the complete opposite and 400mm had already fallen by early March and there was extensive flooding. Apple growers have just about finished picking Royal gala and the mid-season Ambrosia and Jazz varieties will start coming off next week. Kiwifruit harvesting is about three weeks off and the rain couldn’t have come at a better time for the crop.

It’s wet in eastern Marlborough too.

Some 20mm was in the gauge after Thursday night and more was expected.

Our contact at Seddon says harvesting is well under way on pinot noir grapes.

They’re coming off a couple of weeks earlier than usual due to the high brix levels. Generally, vineyards that have their own water reserves are having a great season but for those without it’s been rough, in fact hundreds of hectares of grapes up the Wairau Valley have already been rejected because of the lack of moisture and the plants are defoliating.

On farms there is heaps of drilling going on for winter crops. After three days in the ground they’re already up and this rain’s going to give them a turbo boost.

There’s been lots of sun and a good dose of rain around Hokitika on the West Coast. Dairy farmers are getting maintenance jobs done before winter.

These include fixing water leaks, fencing, clearing up around water troughs and putting gravel onto tracks. Herd-wise cows are being drenched, vaccinated and any culls are being sent to the works.

Another scorcher in Canterbury last week saw temperatures back into the 30s. The rain received a fortnight ago has helped, however, farmers are again looking for more. Feed levels remain tight.

Winter feed crops are struggling in the hot and dry conditions and as a result yields will be back. The positives are prices for everything except wool are high.

It was Wanaka Show time in Central Otago and after 17mm of rain on Thursday night it was a bit sticky underfoot but no one was complaining as the season has really been one out of the box. Ewes are being crutched and made ready for the ram. A lot of lambs are going away and prices are firm on last year for ewe sales. These are older sheep that often have one lambing left and after that they are fattened and sold to the works .

After a hot dry week in western Southland the skies opened on Thursday afternoon. One farmer was not that pleased with the timing as he was helping his son empty the effluent pond on their dairy farm. The slushy job suddenly got even slushier but they managed to spread it onto a paddock growing summer turnips. And 18-month beef cattle hitting the scales at about 560kg are booked in for the freezing works. Tail end lambs are getting shorn to help faster growth.

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“Meanwhile, after a brief hiatus, lamb sales have picked up again. As cropping farmers become more active in the market, demand for store lambs has increased,” he said.

Looking towards the South Island’s calf sale season, beginning on 20 and 21 March at Blenheim, Brightwater and Owaka, Shane Gerken expects that market will stay close to the positive levels it traded at last year.

“Similar to last year, as calf sales progress through the rest of the South Island between now and early May, we are looking forward to keen demand, especially for traditionally bred cattle.

Calves that are sought after for the Angus and Hereford programmes should be the focus of particular attention.

“Of note, 21 March will mark the final calf sale at the Owaka saleyards, which is the end of an era. Owaka calves have been renowned for their breeding and shifting ability,” he said.

According to Shane, Tasman’s ongoing dry conditions are a concern and the region’s farmers are suffering.

“Without feed and water, de-stocking is a priority for many. Looking towards autumn, and waiting for rain, the medium term forecasts do not hold much hope, unfortunately.

“Although parts of Canterbury have also become dry, recent rainfall has helped alleviate that situation somewhat,” he said.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – March 11, 2019

Solid results for the Southern Man sales The Southern Man Two-Day Fair at Lorneville last week offered buyers the chance to purchase big volumes of R2 steers and heifers with 2100 steers and 550 heifers offered last Wednesday and Thursday. Regular buyers from Otago, Canterbury and Southland were in attendance. While the sale was not as strong as previous years it was considered to be fair to both vendors and buyers alike.

NORTHLAND Wellsford weaner steer fair • Autumn-born Angus, 280-317kg, eased to $915-$1010 • Autumn-born Angus & Angus Hereford, 283-307kg, earned $860$950 • Angus, 251-268kg, eased to $745-$805 • Angus and Angus-Hereford, 190-274kg, softened to $650-$830 • Hereford, 211-239kg, returned $730-$825 WELLSFORD penned just under 1000 steers last Monday, with some stunning lines presented.

Top end weaner steers had the weight of the previous year but came down in price by $90-$240.

Autumn-born Charolais steers, 334kg, made $925, and Hereford-cross, 295-310kg, $870-$890.

Angus steers, 232-246kg, traded at $685-$790, and 197220kg, $750-$755. Charolais-cross, 262kg, were well off 2018 returns at $835, and Hereford, 211-239kg, managed $730-$825. All Simmental-cross, 205-273kg, traded at reduced levels of $655-$790.

Kauri weaner fair • Low numbers of heavy exotic steers sold to $960-$1175 • Most steers made $710-$850 • Second cuts returned $590-$690, with a few below that level A small yarding of 900 steers sold at KAURI last Tuesday, and the fair was a challenge, PGG Wrightson agent Ian Munro reported. Locals were there to bid, but only to a level, and prices were well down on 2018. The calves were traditional and traditional-cross, and exotic.

Kaikohe weaner fair • Top exotic steers made $1000-$1110 • Good beef and exotic steers sold for $780-$980 • Most steers were medium types, 230-260kg, and sold for $740$820 • Smaller lines, 200-220kg, made $650-$720 Results were pleasing at KAIKOHE’s weaner steer fair last Wednesday, PGG Wrightson agent Vaughan Vujcich reported. 1900 mainly Angus, Charolais and Simmental calves sold, with widespread demand from as far as Whanganui.

Medium and better calves exceeded expectations and most traded at $3.20-$3.60/kg. The audience had gone by the time the lighter calves appeared and 160-180kg traded at $450-$560.

Peria weaner fair • Top line of autumn-born Charolais steers, 420kg, made $1250, $2.98/kg • Most traditional and exotic steers sold for $780-$880, $3.20$3.30/kg • Heavy exotic bulls, 320-330kg, made $950-$1080, $2.85-$3.20/kg • Friesian bulls, 130-140kg, earned $450-$520 • Heavy exotic heifers sold for $850-$950, $2.75-$2.85/kg A combined weaner fair meant throughput at PERIA last Thursday was high at 2500. The region is renowned for big exotic cattle, which featured prominently, along with Angus, but also a significant number of dairy-beef calves were offered. The buying bench was like Kaikohe, with King Country strong.

Hereford-Friesian steers made $600-$620, and red lines, $480-$520. Second cuts of beef bulls sold for $2.70-$2.85/ kg. The balance of the beef and exotic heifers sold for $2.80$2.90/kg, while dairy-beef lines battled, with several lines passed in. Most made $450-$550.

AUCKLAND Pukekohe cattle sale • Prime heifers and steers sold for $2.61-$2.79/kg • Boner cows ranged from $1.24/kg to $2.30/kg • Medium R2 steers made $2.60/kg, and good heifers, $2.76-$2.78/ kg • Medium R2 crossbred steers made $575-$720, and off-bred steers and heifers, $390-$560 • Weaner heifers sold for $400-$560

COUNTIES Tuakau sales • Heavy store steers sold to $2.78/kg • Prime steer prices eased by 5c/kg • Limousin-cross beef cows earned $1.85/kg • Heavy ewes made $120-$150 Last Thursday’s store cattle sale at TUAKAU drew a small yarding of 250-head, but the market was “pretty good” considering the dry conditions, Chris Elliott of PGG Wrightson reported.

Heavier steers, 500-570kg, made $2.68-$2.78/kg, and 400500kg, $2.60-$2.92/kg. R2, 300-400kg, traded at $2.78-$2.98/ kg and weaner steers, 200kg, fetched $560-$705.

Heavy heifers, 400-486kg, sold at $2.60-$2.67/kg and R2 heifers, 342-370kg, $2.45-$2.65/kg. Weaner heifers, 180220kg, made $500-$670.

About 360 cattle were yarded at last Wednesday’s prime sale, with cows out in good numbers. Heavy steers traded at $2.60-$2.65/kg and good-medium $2.50-$2.60/kg. Heavy heifers earned $2.52-$2.60/kg, and medium $2.48-$2.52/ kg. Boner cows were good buying and heavy Friesian made $1.38-$1.60/kg, medium $1.28-$1.38/kg and light $1.00$1.20/kg.

Good prime lambs earned $130-$158 last Monday and good-medium $120-$138. Store lambs fetched $60-$80 and heavy prime ewes $120-$150. Medium ewes returned $100$120 and light $40-$100.

WAIKATO Frankton beef weiner fair • Angus steers, 244-250kg, lifted to $1010-$1050 • Angus steers, 191-226kg, eased to $720-$850 • Hereford-Friesian steers, 169-195kg, softened to $635-$720 • Angus heifers, 203-235kg, eased to $570-$665 • Hereford bulls, 189-192kg, returned $965-$970 Just on 1050 weaners were penned at FRANKTON last Monday. Most traded on a softer market than 2018, with the bulk discounted by $50-$225. Vendors were realistic in their expectations and were satisfied with results.

Angus steers, 265-304kg, traded at $960-$1060, with Simmental-cross, 288-302kg, down to $985-$990. HerefordFriesian, 273-279kg, improved to $970-$975.

Angus heifers, 147-174kg, managed $420-$515, and Angus-cross, 214-253kg, returned $645-$750. Hereford, 230286kg, traded at $700-$800, and 123-196kg, $540-$685.

Hereford bulls were sought after and 255-287kg returned $1120-$1270, 194-227kg $930-$1070, and 165-192kg, $810$970.

Frankton Prime and store cattle sale • Prime dairy-beef heifers, 450-528kg, firmed to $2.51-$2.64/kg • Prime traditional cows, 550-694kg, earned $1.71-$1.88/kg • Boner Friesian & Friesian-cross cows, 396-430kg, eased to $1.23$1.25/kg • R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 450-467kg, traded at $2.60-$2.73/kg • R2 Angus-Friesian heifers, 298kg, lifted to $2.85/kg Just over 380 cattle were yarded at FRANKTON last Wednesday, with cows making up most of the prime section.

Boner Jersey-cross cows, 393-416kg, earned $1.08-$1.09/ kg, with in-calf boner cows, 394-470kg, trading at $1.16$1.23/kg for most, though Friesian-cross, 520kg, pushed to $1.38/kg.

R2 Angus-Friesian steers, 468-475kg, earned $2.46-$2.62/ kg, while their sisters, 326-432kg, improved to $2.41-$2.64/ kg. Hereford-Friesian, 385-451kg, traded at $2.47-$2.55/kg.

A smattering of weaner bulls, 171-201kg, earned $500$550 regardless of breed.

BAY OF PLENTY Rangiuru cattle sale • Prime steers, 515-565kg, made $2.47-$2.58/kg • Prime beef-cross heifers, 360-520kg, were $2.48-$2.54/kg • Boner dairy cows, 425-500kg, softened to $1.22-$1.37/kg • R2 beef-Friesian steers, 345-435kg, fell to $2.56-$2.62/kg

• R2 Devon and Hereford heifers, 435-480kg, were $2.48-$2.54/kg It was another quiet week in the RANGIURU yards last Tuesday. Both the dry conditions and varied quality of cattle kept prices relatively flat. R2 steers eased 10-15c/kg, with a similar situation developing for beef heifers. R2 dairy heifers, 385-400kg, returned $1.91-$2.22/kg.

Weaner Hereford-Friesian heifers, 125-155kg, made $410$440.

Both prime steers and heifers held ground at $2.47-$2.58/ kg, but boner cows eased again on similar tallies to the week prior. Prime lambs averaged out at $115, and the ewes were $100.

KING COUNTRY Taupo weaner fair • Hereford-Friesian steers, 182-225kg, made $660-$705 • Exotic steers, 230kg, averaged $730 • Hereford-Friesian heifers, 124-188kg, made $420-$510 • Hereford-Friesian bulls, 202-298kg, traded at $630-$765 • Friesian bulls, 190-216kg, earned $680-$780 The TAUPO weaner fair was held last Monday and Tuesday, with 1200 steers and heifers on the first day, followed by 1050 bulls. All prices were back on last year due to lack of buying support, though bulls by the smallest margin of $30-$80.

Steers were good buying with most better types at $700-$900, with no lines exceeding $1000 over the two days. Lighter beef-Friesian steers made $430-$590. Heifers followed a similar path and Charolais-cross, 183-275kg, made $493-$740, while the better Hereford-Friesian, 249310kg, earned $600-$778.

Friesian bulls sold in two ranges, with 142-185kg at $680.

TARANAKI Taranaki cattle sale • Boner Friesian cows, 438-571kg, eased to $1.49-$1.58/kg • Empty Friesian cows and heifers, 413-450kg, mostly traded at $1.51-$1.55/kg • Better R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 354-535kg, eased to $2.64$2.74/kg • Other R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 355-428kg, eased to $2.54$2.63/kg • R2 Friesian and Friesian-cross heifers, 376-425kg, traded at $2.13$2.25/kg

POVERTY BAY Matawhero cattle fair • Good quality R2 Angus-Hereford steers, 210kg, sold for $3.62/kg • R2 Angus-Hereford heifers, 210kg, sold for $3.33/kg • Weaner Angus steers, 260kg, made $885 The market at the MATAWHERO CATTLE FAIR generally softened, driven by declining schedules and mixed quality of cattle. R3 steers could not crack the $3/kg mark and Angus-Hereford, 575kg, made $2.85/kg. R2 Angus steers, 320-405kg, eased to $3.13-$3.21/kg. Angus heifers, 310330kg, mostly traded at $2.91-$2.92/kg, although some very light 185kg made just $2.80-$2.82/kg.

Weaner volume was low, with most Angus-Hereford steers, which sold for $660.

HAWKE’S BAY Stortford Lodge prime sale • Very heavy ram lambs traded at $146-$164 • Very heavy mixed sex lambs were firm at $172-$182 • Heavy ewes improved to $137.50-$149 • Medium ewes lifted to $112-$122 • Light-medium ewes softened to $100-$108.50 Just under 1000 sheep were yarded at STORTFORD LODGE last Monday, with a decent number of buyers on the rails. Ewe quality was good while lambs were mainly heavier types, and the market improved for both.

Heavy cryptorchid lambs earned $148, and good mixed sex lifted to $130.

Heavy ewes improved with small volumes of very heavy types at $153-$155, though light ewes eased to $70-$89.

Stortford Lodge store sheep sale • Store lamb volume was low at 1650 head • Medium-good to good cryptorchid lambs made $104-$110 • Medium-good wether lambs made $96.50-$103 • Medium-good to good mixed sex earned $97.50-$105.50 • One line of light-medium five-year Romney ewes sold for $101 Stortford Lodge weaner fairs • Angus steers, 250-290kg, made $920-$1065 • Angus & Angus-Hereford steers, 224-274kg, earned $822-$1005 • Exotic-cross steers, 238-287kg, eased to $865-$1030 • Angus heifers, 187-211kg, fetched $600-$700 • Simmental-cross, 242-277kg, returned $732-$840 STORTFORD LODGE held all early weaner fairs in one week this year, with 1700 steers offered last Tuesday, followed by 1050 heifers and 160 bull last Wednesday. The steer market was satisfactory, with local buyers strong but good influence from Waikato through to Manawatu. Heifer vendors had to meet the market set by local buyers.

SALE YARD WRAP

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BEST BUY: The top weighted pen of heifers at Stortford Lodge last Wednesday were these Shorthorn-Hereford, 304kg, that sold for $880.

Prices were back overall, with only a few lines of steers exceeding $1000, but the calves were very well-presented.

Angus steers, 180-220kg, eased to $690-$827, and Angus & Angus-Hereford of similar weight, $695-$775. The top price for steers of $1252 was spent on 365kg South Devon, with the top heifers also South Devon, 298kg, at $970.

Bull volume was low and Angus-Hereford, 179-218kg, made $605-$725.

Heifers were discounted $105-$125 on 2018 levels. Angus & Angus-Hereford, 207-240kg, earned $640-$750, and 170207kg, $550-$640. Charolais-cross, 229-265kg, returned $750-$825.

MANAWATU Feilding prime cattle and sheep sale • Boner Friesian cows, 525-585kg, eased to $1.52-$1.57/kg • Boner Friesian cows, 435-510kg, eased to $1.44-$1.51/kg • Prime beef and Friesian bulls, 500-780kg, lifted to $2.58-$2.68/kg • Heavy prime lambs held at $144-$162.50 • Prime ewes were steady, usually $101-$134 Cows tallies doubled at FEILDING last Monday. Even with an extra buyer these fell 5-10c/kg, especially through the lighter cuts. Crossbred and poorer quality cows, 430510kg, made $1.30-$1.41/kg. A large line of 585kg Jersey bulls sold for $2.52/kg.

It was quiet in the sheep yards and low supply kept lambs and ewes from falling too far. While the better half of the lambs held, lighter cuts eased to $118-$138. One buyer took home most of the ewes.

Feilding store sale • Traditional capital stock MA cows & calves were $1780-$1790 • Traditional R2 steers, 420-455kg, were $3.06-$3.17/kg • Beef-Friesian heifers, 385-475kg, were $2.45-$2.62/kg • Decent ewe lambs eased to $102-$110 • Male lambs were mainly $110-$117 It was a fairly empty cattle sale once again. Traditional R2 steers added some quality and were at least steady. The heifers were mainly dairy-cross and came back around 10c/ kg. A consignment of capital stock cows and calves were a feature, all making $1780-$1790. Store lambs packed out the sheep pens, though this didn’t attract too much of a crowd considering. Perhaps they were all down at the Central Field Days instead. Quality was quite even through the male lambs, and by the sales end the majority had sold for $110-$121, though only a few went above $117. Ewe lambs were quite a bit slower to move, with decent lines at $102-$110 and lesser-types around $87-$92.

Rongotea cattle sale • Boner Friesian & Friesian-cross cows, 339-685kg, eased to $1.35$1.60/kg • R2 Hereford-Friesian heifers, 321-441kg, came back to $1.85$2.39/kg • Weaner Shorthorn bulls, 204-295kg, earned $600-$670

• Weaner Hereford-Friesian heifers, 127-190kg, traded at $450-$460 • Bull calves sold for $280-$340 and heifers, $165-$300 Long term cattle prices came back at RONGOTEA last Wednesday due to dry conditions, New Zealand Farmers Livestock agent Darryl Harwood reported.

R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 310-316kg, eased to $2.52$2.56/kg, with other breeds at $1.67-$2.18/kg. Beef bulls, 362-472kg, made $2.09-$2.13/kg and Friesian and crossbred heifers, 410-422kg, $2.11-$2.13/kg.

Weaner Hereford-Friesian bulls, 145-205kg, earned $350$500, Friesian, 146-158kg, $435-$450, and crossbred, 137167kg, $300-$385. Angus-cross heifers, 122-162kg, returned $390-$450.

CANTERBURY Canterbury Park prime and store cattle; all sheep sale • Medium store lambs softened to $95-$106 • Heavy store lambs were steady at $110-$121 • Prime steers, 515-725kg, made $2.60-$2.70/kg • R2 Angus heifers, 375-400kg, were $2.75-$2.79/kg • R2 beef-cross heifers, 330-375kg, were $2.58-$2.65/kg Store lamb tallies lifted to 3000 head at CANTERBURY PARK last Tuesday, with the mid-range cuts taking a hit. On average store lambs were $95.

Both prime lambs and prime ewes were similar pricewise to the week prior, though tallies were a little larger.

Around 300 store cattle had a mixed sale, reflecting their quality. A consignment of 315-345kg Murray Greycross earned $2.63-$2.75/kg, $865-$915, and little else was stronger. Better condition in the R2 heifers meant they made more. Light beef cows, 380-545kg, were $1.53-$1.64/ kg.

Coalgate sale • Traditional R2 steers, 385-435kg, eased to $2.40/kg • Prime heifers, 520-545kg, held steady at $2.56/kg • The median prime lamb price eased to $123 • The median prime ewe price softened to $142 • Mid-range store lambs eased to $98-$108 The sheep pens were filled with a little less than 4000 store lambs. The dry chipped away at prices on these, pulling them back by around $5. They sold in three rough cuts; heavier lines at $111-$115, mediums at $98-$108, and all but the tail-enders were $84-$93. Prime lambs and ewes managed to stay similar to the week prior, with prime lambs mainly $110-$137, and $120-$158 the norm for ewes. Store cattle were flat. Only the lighter traditional R2 steers could do better than $2.60/kg. Dairy heifers were the majority in the prime pens, usually $1.55-$1.72/kg for 360-395kg.

SOUTH-CANTERBURY Temuka Prime and boner cattle, and all sheep sale • All medium-good store lambs made $92-$114 • Prime ewes held at $80-$176, and lambs firmed to $110-$149

• Prime Hereford-cross steers, 550-702kg, firmed to $2.58-$2.66/kg • Boner Friesian cows, 450-545kg, averaged $1.30/kg • Boner Friesian heifers varied from $1.42/kg to $2.40/kg All sections increased in volume at TEMUKA last Monday, with nearly 9000 sheep and 570 cattle.

Most store lambs came from Wanaka and were met by buyers from Mid Canterbury, though prices were steady to easing. Male lambs sold for $95-$111, and ewe lambs, $95-$112.

Extra buyers for boner cows kept the market in check, with heavy lines steady, though lighter types eased to $1.15$1.20/kg. Top Friesian cows, 490-544kg, made $1.30-$1.40/ kg and 400-522kg, $1.20-$1.29/kg. Angus cows, 635-654kg, came back to $1.61-$1.65/kg.

Temuka Store Cattle • R2 beef-dairy steers, 375-450kg, eased to $2.55-$2.66/kg • R2 beef-dairy heifers, 375-435kg, softened to $2.46-$2.62/kg • R2 Friesian bulls, 365-480kg, were tough to sell at $2.27-$2.31/kg • Friesian bull calves, 140-170kg, were $440-$455 Just short of 1100 store cattle were yarded at TEMUKA. The dry meant buyers were few and far between, pulling prices down another step. R2 steers dropped 10-15c/kg, maxing out at $2.66-$2.70/kg for 365-415kg Simmentalcross and good Hereford-Friesians.

The same applied the heifers which could only get as strong as $2.54-$2.70/kg for 375-450kg traditional and Charolais-cross.

Half of the R2 Friesian bulls were passed in, only the heavier cuts moving around $2.30/kg. Some beef-cross bulls were 5c/kg lower than the Friesians. Dairy calves were out in good numbers too, steady on a fortnight ago, with 150-175kg Hereford-Friesian steers at $555-$590.

OTAGO Balclutha sheep sale • Medium to good store lambs eased to $90-$110 • Light store lambs eased to $60-$80 • Prime lamb prices eased with heavy types at $130-$145, and the remainder, $100-$125 • Heavy ewes held at $140-$165 • Light to medium ewes also held at $70-$135

SOUTHLAND Charlton sheep sale • Heavy prime lambs eased to $132, with the remainder making $115-$125 • Heavy prime ewes sold for $175 • Medium ewes eased to $130-$145, and light $115-$125 • Rams sold for $100-$115 • Store lambs eased to $80-$105 The sheep pens were filled with a little less than 4000 store lambs. The dry chipped away at prices on these, pulling them back by around $5. They sold in three rough cuts; heavier lines

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Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz

TRINGENT Chinese border controls to stop unofficial meat imports are boosting export prospects for New Zealand beef, Rabobank animal proteins analyst Blake Holgate says.

Illegal imports are believed to be a likely source of African swine fever in the pig population, widespread across China and causing a big drop in pork production, a key part of the meat diet.

Those imports made up a large part of total imported volumes and the border controls, including the arrest of meat smugglers, led to sharp decline in activity in the final few months of last year, Holgate said.

The supply gap has to be filled by other meats and NZ beef exporters are very well placed to take advantage, with favourable market access arrangements and their supply being delivered only through official channels.

Beef prices in mainland China have been rising despite a 50% lift in imports and a 1.5% increase in domestic production last year. Other meat types have also increased in price because of border controls.

The policing of the borders is expected to continue through the first half of this year.

China has been NZ’s fastest-growing beef market in recent years and exports there exceeded those sent to the United States during the final three months of last year.

Meat Industry Association (MIA) chief executive Tim Ritchie said that might be a timing event rather than China becoming the major individual market ahead of the US on an annual basis but it is extraordinarily important for NZ and month-on-month growth is high.

He hopes the strong demand will continue but the industry here will not be making too much of another country’s misfortunes and they do

IN THE POUND SEATS: New Zealand beef exporters are well placed to take advantage of China’s crackdown on illegal meat imports in the wake of African swine fever, Rabobank analyst Blake Holgate says.

China already takes a significant component of our beef exports and they’ll be managing the risk, not wanting to put too many eggs in one basket.

Tim Ritchie Meat Industry Assn import from other countries.

NZ exporters will make their own commercial decisions.

“China already takes a significant component of our beef exports and they’ll be managing the risk, not wanting to put too many eggs in one basket. They also have contracts in other

markets and will be careful not to shut those countries out.”

Holgate said an overall shortage of supply combined with improving US beef prices and strong demand in Asia as well as China has resulted in a modest improvement in NZ farmgate returns so far this year but he expects to see some softening of prices over the coming quarter as domestic slaughter rates pick-up.

Dry conditions will result in increasing numbers of cattle being sent for processing at the same time as the build-up in culling of non-productive dairy cows.

The Asian (ex-China) demand includes a 58% lift in exports to Japan in the final quarter of last year, ahead of tariff reductions coming in at the start of this year, which will help further.

Exports to Taiwan increased 11% in the final quarter.

Weaner Fair

ACROSS THE RAILS SUZ BREMNER

Weaner fairs hit and miss as prices retreat THE chorus of freshly weaned calves rang out at many sale yards around the North Island as the early weaner fairs reached peak. Weaners went under the hammer from Northland to Taranaki and across to Hawke’s Bay so about 15,000 hit the market.

Results from the fairs were hit and miss but overall were well down on last year. While annual buyers prepare at home for the extra mouths the very dry conditions and lack of sufficient feed have played a pivotal role in prices, taking grassmarket buyers out of the equation. Buyers would have struggled to make a decent margin on the high prices paid in past years so have tightened their budgets. Some areas reported prices at expected levels but others were disappointed.

There is no doubt 2018 prices were exceptional, with records from the previous year smashed. In fact, 2016-18 were the best years ever for weaner prices and they just kept climbing to last year’s peak. Some yards did post results like 2017 but prices generally came back anywhere from $50 to $200. They have not gone as low as 2015, though, and it appears a relatively happy median has been reached between 2015 and 2018 levels.

Northland results were varied with Kaikohe stronger than expected and selling at much higher levels than the likes of Wellsford and Kauri.

Weaners met expectations at Frankton, albeit at lesser levels than last year. A big offering of Hereford bulls featured and was keenly contested for breeding. Taupo put close to 2300 calves through the yards on Monday and Tuesday and while bulls sold well enough, steers and heifers proved a challenge for a much smaller buying bench. Taranaki is extremely dry and that had a significant impact on steer and bull prices though heifers were more resilient. Stortford Lodge sold all the early weaners in one week, rather than spreading them out over two, and nearly 2900 were offered. The steer sale was considered to be a success but heifer vendors had to meet the market, with returns just satisfactory.

Weaner fair results can be found in the sale yards section. suz.bremner@globalhq.co.nz

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