Farmers Weekly NZ November 11 2019

1 Page 1 inside

Best trade/specialist publication and website – Voyager Media Awards 2019

Vol 18 No 44, November 11, 2019

farmersweekly.co.nz

$4.00

Incl GST

SHED-FW-NOV19-NW

SALE MUS T END *Terms & Conditions Apply *Terms & Conditions Apply

*Buy a shed this November, and go in the draw to WIN YOURSELF A JOHN DEERE GATOR! 30 TH NOV!

FARM BUILDINGS PROUDLY BROUGHT TO YOU BY

SALE ENDS 30TH NOV!

PR

Every shed order placed during November 2019 goes in the draw to WIN a John Deere Gator XUV560E Crossover Utility Vehicle!* Largest Range. Unlimited Options.

30 years of experience in farm buildings

Full custom design service

4 colour options to choose from:

“Sheds that do the trick”

We

Ironsand

Grey Friars

Karaka

Pioneer Red

All Ned’s Sheds® feature: POLES: H5 treated shed poles FEATURES: Roof, rearwall & 2 sidewalls, All Ned’s Sheds® feature: TIMBER: Verified timber (SG8) 1.0m overhang at the front POLES: H5 treated shed polesmm FEATURES: Roof, rearwall & 2 sidewalls, IRON: Corrugated 0.4 Zincalume or colour and 70mm on the rearwall & sidewalls TIMBER: Verified timber (SG8) 1.0m overhang at the front IRON:

Corrugated 0.4mm Zincalume or colour

and 70mm on the rearwall & sidewalls

1 BAY SHEDS

2 BAY SHEDS 2 2Bay BayCarport

Bays: Depth: Height: Bays:

2 x 3.0m

Carport 4.0 (1 x 4.0 )

Depth: Height:

m

m

m 2.8 – 2.4 m 2 x 3.0 4.0m (1 x 4.0m) 2.8BUILT – TOUGH. 2.4mSTAND TOUGH. S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

22Bay BayLean-to Lean-to m Bays: Bays: 2 x2m3.6 x 3.6m m Depth: 6.0 (2mx 3.0 ) m Depth: 6.0 (2 x 3.0 ) Height: 3.0 – 2.4m m Height: 3.0 – 2.4

11 Bay BayCarport Carport m Bays: Bays: 1 x15.0 x 5.0m m m Depth: ) m) Depth: 4.04.0(1mx(1m4.0 x 4.0 Height: 2.6 – 2.1 m Height: 2.6 – 2.1

2 2Bay BayLean-to

Bays: Depth: Height: Bays:

11 Bay BayGarage

Bays: Depth: Height: Bays:

1 x 4.0m 6.0m (1 x 6.0m) m 3.5 – 2.8 m 1 x 4.0

Garage

Depth: Height:

PACKAGE DEAL!

INCL. Roller door, flashings & spouting

6.0m (1 x 6.0m) m TOUGH. 3.5BUILT – TOUGH. 2.8STAND S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

m

m

Height: Bays: Depth: Height:

INCL. Roller door, PA door, spouting & clearlight

m

m 3.6 – 3.0 m 1 x 4.0 7.0m (2 x 3.5m) m TOUGH. 3.6BUILT – TOUGH. 3.0STAND S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

Want to know more about Goldpine Farm Buildings?

Give us a call on 0800 2 GOLDPINE

22Bay BayLean-to Lean-to m Bays: Bays: 2 x2m3.6 x 3.6m m Depth: 6.0 (2m x 3.0 ) m Depth: 6.0 (2 x 3.0 ) Height: 3.6 – 3.0m m Height: 3.6 – 3.0

Depth: Height:

m

m

3.6 – 3.0 m 2 x 4.0 6.0m (2 x 3.0m) m 3.6BUILT–TOUGH. 3.0STAND TOUGH. m

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

11 Bay BayLean-to Bays: 1 x 4.0 Lean-to Depth: 7.0 (2 x 3.5 )

PACKAGE DEAL!

2 x 4.0m

Lean-to 6.0 (2 x 3.0 )

Jump on to www.goldpine.co.nz

2 2Bay BayLean-to Bays: 2 x 4.5 Lean-to Depth: 7.0 (2 x 3.5 ) m

m

Height: Bays: Depth: Height:

m

m 3.6 – 3.0 m 2 x 4.5 m 7.0 (2 x 3.5m) m 3.6BUILT–TOUGH. 3.0STAND TOUGH. S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

2 2Bay BayGable Bays: 2 x 4.5 Gable9.0 (2 x 4.5 ) Depth: m

m

Height: Bays: Depth: Height:

m

m 3.6 – 3.0 m 2 x 4.5 9.0m (2 x 4.5m) m 3.6BUILT–TOUGH. 3.0STAND TOUGH. S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

*’BUY A SHED AND WIN A GATOR’ Terms & Conditions: Orders must be placed, with a non refundable deposit & a valid completed entry form by COB on the 30th of November 2019.

The John Deere Gator XUV560E may not be swapped with any other product or exchanged for cash. Draw will take place on 9th December 2019. Check entry form instore for full ‘BUY A SHED AND WIN A GATOR’ terms and conditions. All prices exclusive of GST and are from 1st – 30th November 2019 only, while stocks last. Sheds must be delivered prior to 31st December 2019. Sheds are compliant to the 1170 building code requirements. Offer valid on these Standard Kitset Sheds only and for payments made via a Goldpine account. These shed offers are not available in conjunction with any other shed offer. Photographs are for illustrative purposes only.

72

Best trade/specialist publication and website – Voyager Media Awards 2019

Vol 18 No 44, November 11, 2019

Dairy prices to continue firming

farmersweekly.co.nz

$4.00

Incl GST

Farmers enjoy price bliss Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz

R

ED-HOT lamb sales have lifted the AgriHQ new-season indicator price to record levels over the near 20-year history of the database.

New season lamb prices kicked in last week with an average of $9/ kg achievable in both islands.

“We’ve never seen it here before,” AgriHQ analyst Mel Croad said.

She thinks the market and the outlook justify farmers thinking seriously about increasing flock numbers.

Bull prices are at or above $6/ kg, levels not seen for a good five years, amid strong and increasing competition from the United States and China, especially for the 95CL lean beef for the manufacturing sector.

“It’s been going up by 10c to 15c a week and the US price of US$2.85/lb is up from a $1.92/lb this time last year,” Croad said.

The high prices are on low supplies and the market test will come over the next few weeks as processing numbers build up.

Prices will stabilise but Croad believes international demand is such the market can take the increased volumes.

A more immediate challenge for farmers could be to ensure killing space at processing plants before Christmas.

Many will be thinking the same way after a cold spring held back stock weights and condition. The warmer weather starting last week could change the supply scenario quite rapidly, she said. Plan

ahead and be sure of space is her message.

Even if prices come back slightly they will still be at historically high levels and the speed of the market gains feeding into farmgate prices has been a surprise, especially for bull beef, so anyone killing stock over the next six to eight weeks will be exceeding their budgets.

It’s been going up by 10c to 15c a week and the US price of US$2.85/ lb is up from a $1.92/lb this time last year.

Mel Croad AgriHQ “No-one predicted the US price for 95CL would get close to US$3/ lb. It might stabilise but who knows?

“The US was caught short, not taking enough notice of China and now they’re having to bid up to get it.”

For the time being China is the stronger buyer.

The two markets are also the driving force in the lamb market . . . China on volume and the US on price. And the Brexit delay has revived interest in the United Kingdom for the Christmas chilled market.

“There’s more confidence there and UK lamb pricing is up.”

AgriHQ data shows the current UK leg price up about 20% on this time last year and 30% on the fiveyear average. The US French rack price is up by a similar level on the five-year average.

Money pushes big sales PALMERSTON North farmer Andrew Dignam was a buyer and a seller at the Feilding sale yards on Friday.

Dignam had bulls for sale and was looking for replacement stock.

There was a big yarding of cattle available at the sale with about 2000 on offer, including 790 year-old steers and 700 yearling heifers.

Following The Lamb Company chief executive Tony Ruffo saying low lamb numbers are likely to limit further volume growth in the burgeoning North American market, Croad said it’s time for farmers to look at boosting their flock numbers, though the capital cost will be quite high right now.

“I’ve been singing from that song sheet for a couple of years.”

Markets can and do change

Dignam was not surprised with the size of the sale, saying with the grass market coming on some farmers are stocking up. Some of the larger farms in Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa are choosing to sell stock with dry conditions kicking in on that side of the island.

The meat schedule is starting to step up so he expects there to be plenty of interest from farmers.

quickly and farmers might be thinking $9/kg could easily come back to $6, given what has happened to some earlier peaks.

“But the market has matured and shown with the NZ and Australian volumes in the last 18 months that it can handle the higher levels.”

The US lamb story reflects what is happening in a lot of markets and China is in the market in a

PROUD OF YOUR FAMILY HERITAGE? THE FEELING’S MUTUAL. Since 1905, we’ve remained true to what it means to be a mutual.

For example, putting profits back into the business instead of shareholders’ pockets. If that sounds good to you, ask around about us. Or better still, call us now on 0800 366 466.

FMG0862FWFPS_H

We’re here for the good of the country.

big way as the diet becomes more westernised.

The swine fever hitting the pork industry in China is likely to take several years to work through, giving NZ time to cement in both its sheep meats and beef in that market. After big Australian lamb supply because of drought, that country might now take at least a couple of years to rebuild its flocks.

NEWS

WEATHER OVERVIEW We’re still in spring so the weather pattern this week is fairly normal with a cooler change to start then a mid-week warm-up. Many southern and eastern South Island places will be about 10C to 15C cooler on Monday than they were a few days ago. Cooler air flows blend into the North Island for a time too but

by Tuesday afternoon a warmer west to northwest flow returns to southern New Zealand and spreads nationwide on Wednesday though Southland will have another brief showery cool-down. Most of the rain is coming in to the West Coast with heavy rain potential on Wednesday and Friday. Next week sees more westerlies and more high pressure nationwide.

4 Farmers back Fonterra, mostly The prevailing mood might have been optimism among Fonterra shareholders at the annual meeting but a residual bitterness lingered, evidenced by two calls for chairman John Monaghan’s resignation.

Newsmaker ������������������������������������������������������30

Pasture Growth Index Above normal Near normal Below normal

7-DAY TRENDS

Rain Most rain is on the West Coast and Southland this week with some wet weather briefly coming into the western and southwestern sides of the North Island. Generally, eastern and northern areas look mainly dry.

New Thinking ��������������������������������������������������31 Opinion ������������������������������������������������������������32

ON FARM STORY

NZX PASTURE GROWTH INDEX – Next 15 days

Temperature This week kicks off cooler in the south of the South Island and Southland isn’t as warm as it was last week. But many other regions warm up again, especially late week and into the weekend.

Wind A colder southerly on Monday and Tuesday fades with high pressure on Wednesday then the warm west to northwest winds return later this week for many regions.

Highlights/ Extremes A much cooler Monday for southern and eastern parts of the South Island. Some heavy rain on the West Coast off and on this week. Warmer weather returns mid to late week. A dry pattern returns later this week.

14-DAY OUTLOOK

Pasture growth has been slowing recently because of the uptick in dry, sunny days. Windy weather has also contributed to a slowdown.

It’s why any further wet weather this week is so critical for many, especially the top half of the North Island, which has been drying out fast with summer-like temperatures last week. While NZ is heading back to a dry trend the weekend rain and any showers this week should see a lift in pasture growth.

SOIL MOISTURE INDEX – 07-11-2019

36 Learning from experience Trading the bright lights of the big city for the open landscape of Hawke’s Bay hill country has been a big change but Ben and Libby Tosswill relish the lifestyle it’s provided them.

REGULARS Real Estate �������������������������������������������������38-62 Employment ����������������������������������������������������63 Classifieds ��������������������������������������������������63-64 Livestock ����������������������������������������������������64-67 Markets �������������������������������������������������������68-72 GlobalHQ is a farming family owned business that donates 1% of all advertising revenue in Farmers Weekly and Dairy Farmer to farmer health and well-being initiatives. Thank you for your prompt payment.

Source: WeatherWatch.co.nz

This product is powered by NIWA Data

For more weather information go to farmersweekly.co.nz/weather

News

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

3

Huge gaps in environment data Colin Williscroft colin.williscroft@globalhq.co.nz SHORTCOMINGS in New Zealand’s environmental reporting system undermine rules designed to protect the environment, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton says.

His review of the reporting system identifies huge gaps in data and knowledge and calls for concerted action to improve it.

The data gaps and inconsistent data collection and analysis make it hard to construct a clear national picture of the state of the environment – and whether it is getting better or worse.

“Huge gaps in data and knowledge bedevil our understanding.

“This is in stark contrast with our economy, where we are much more reliably informed.”

And the reporting system is fragmented with multiple pieces of legislation creating a mosaic of requirements with unclear responsibilities across organisations, he says.

“We can’t make economically efficient or socially fair environmental rules if we can’t measure authoritatively what’s happening to the physical resource base on which our wellbeing ultimately depends.”

To say NZ has a national reporting system overstates its coherence, he says.

“Ours has been a passive system that has harvested whatever data is there and done the best it can to navigate what’s missing.

“In my judgment what there is, is clearly inadequate.

“NZ lacks consistent, authoritative time series data and comprehensive spatial coverage.

“For example, the last national survey of land cover was taken in 2012 – how can policymakers make decisions using seven-yearold data?”

MONEY: Improving the environmental reporting system needs serious investment, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton says.

Upton is not calling for an overhaul of the system.

It would be better to build on the efforts of the Ministry for the Environment and Statistics NZ, which already produce reports on the environment.

His recommendations include amending the Environmental Reporting Act so it has a clearer purpose, establishing a standing science advisory panel and developing core environmental indicators to form the backbone of reporting.

Federated Farmers environment spokesman Chris Allen says the review is consistent with concerns Federated Farmers first expressed to the Environment Select Committee in 2014 when

the environment reporting legislation was being developed and on a number of occasions subsequently.

Big policy swings are under way, most recently on freshwater, yet Upton’s report makes it clear they are not founded on robust, consistent and reliable national data.

“Not having perfect data is not a reason for doing nothing and farmers, community groups and many others continue to strive and invest in reducing our environmental footprint.

“But the inconsistent and incomplete data the commissioner likened to flying blind and warned could be costing us dearly in terms of poorly

Policies are made in the absence of robust data and we are very concerned they will result in perverse outcomes.

Charlotte Glass Agri Magic designed policy is not a sound footing for some of the policy swings under way that farmers are so concerned about.”

In the short term it would be sensible to focus on national

Fast track to success

Nick and Steph Scott farm 700 Ha of coastal hill country near Waikouaiti just north of Dunedin, now running 3000 Wairere ewes.

“We originally purchased Wairere bred ewe lambs for replacements, from long term Wairere clients. In 2014 we decided to go self-replacing with our bought in flock as all of our females were now Wairere.

Today our flock consistently scans 180% and better and we expect to lamb at 150% or better. 90% of our hoggets scan in lamb at around 120%, returning us a true 85% lambing from mating, last year 800 lambs survival to sale from 900 hoggets mated.”

“Wairere, the fast track to success.” www.wairererams.co.nz | 0800 924 7373

priority catchments – the exemplar and at-risk catchments the Ministry for the Environment is identifying, Allen said.

Agri Magic consultant Charlotte Glass said “In agriculture we are taught to make farming change based on science, confidence and certainty only to have rules in the environmental space that are based on uncertainty, estimates and huge gaps in logic.

“Data that we do find is often sporadic, hidden in council databases and very difficult to interpret.

“Equally, if the risks are in fact so great and we must learn as we change then the Resource Management Act is unable to keep up with the pace of our iterations in learning at farm scale. Farmers that are keen to make changes to improve water quality outcomes have to either part with large sums of money to battle inappropriate and outdated council rules or wait as long as possible to comply with regulations in the hope that the plan will become more sensible in the meantime.”

Glass said Agri Magic’s farming clients are doing their best to measure and monitor their farm environments and use models to try to ensure they manage their environmental impact as best as they can but that data does not get fed back to a central policy agency.

“Policies are made in the absence of robust data and we are very concerned they will result in perverse outcomes.

“Farmers want to do what is right for their catchments and for the ecosystems they farm and live in.

“They contribute significantly to the economy and yet the central agencies that are supposed to be trusted to direct our future are not investing in the areas needed to help understand the issues.

Problem definition and cause and effect are not clear.”

4

News

THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

Farmers back Fonterra, mostly Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz THE prevailing mood might have been optimism among Fonterra shareholders at the annual meeting but a residual bitterness lingered, evidenced by two calls for chairman John Monaghan’s resignation.

About 200 shareholders attended the meeting in Invercargill on Thursday at which shareholders Jan-Maarten Kingma and Peter Moynihan both called for Monaghan’s head, saying there needs to be accountability for the decisions leading to Fonterra’s poor financial performance.

After the meeting Monaghan said he was not surprised by the resignation calls or the contrasting mood of the meeting, which reflected the broad church that is the co-operative.

“My whole job, and there is always politics in a co-operative, is to focus on the future and that is what we need to do.”

Monaghan says the meeting’s support for the new New Zealandfirst strategy mirrors the mood of the 2000 shareholders directors have met in recent weeks.

Kingma told shareholders Monaghan has to take responsibility for overseeing the erosion of $5 billion in equity and the decision that led to the $605m net loss after tax.

Moynihan said change is needed because co-operative shareholders are disheartened and Fonterra is losing milk share.

“I encourage directors when they next vote for a chairman to vote for change because change is needed.”

Monaghan said experience is needed to run a $20 billion business and the board has changed.

Other than himself and Leonie Guiney the balance of the board has been elected or appointed in the last three years.

There was support for the board and the strategy.

Cambridge farmer Jason Trow said it is appropriate shareholders hold the board and management to account for the co-operative’s performance but the key is that lessons are learned.

“If we don’t learn from the past then that is most foolish. The best to lead are those who live through those decisions and that is you,” he told Monaghan.

Thomas Clinton said the board recognises and is addressing the co-operative’s problems and it needs shareholder support.

“I’m not sure we have seen all the bad news but I see our board trying to turn our co-operative around.”

New independent director Scott St John said the board appreciates the past year was bruising for the owners and the staff but the mood is positive, confident and energising.

“I would not be here if it were not.”

Shareholders voiced frustration at the constraints of the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA), the likelihood of hitting the year-end goals of earnings per share of 15c to 25c and a 5% return on capital and Government legislation.

Chief executive Miles Hurrell and Monaghan said Government officials and politicians are listening to Fonterra on DIRA, the Zero Carbon Bill and Essential Freshwater reforms.

Hurrell says with milk volumes forecast to be flat the next wave of value will come from meeting the requirements of customers.

The marketing dynamics have changed from growing milk volume where value was generated from collection, processing and product optimisation.

“If they want NZ milk then they have to pay for it. That is a different discussion to what we have had before.”

Asked where the extra value will come from Hurrell said focus

ALL EARS: Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell and chairman John Monaghan listen to shareholders at the co-operative’s annual meeting in Invercargill.

will be in the key categories.

Food service and NZ ingredients have grown 3% year on year with greater contributions expected from paediatrics, sport and active lifestyle and medical and aging products.

“It’s about having a focus on those categories and not being distracted by other business units.”

Southland farmer Dylan Ditchfield asked how the board will rebuild trust with shareholders. Monaghan promised greater transparency from the board, a shift in the language used when talking to shareholders and to listen more than talk.

Gareth van der Heyden acknowledged the difficult board decision to impose a salary freeze on staff but says it reflects the cooperative’s problems.

He is positive about the future of the co-operative.

“I am a proud, passionate and energised Fonterra shareholder.”

Retiring independent director Simon Israel praised Hurrell, saying he has moved quickly to address the challenges and taken stakeholders with him.

RESIGN: Fonterra shareholder Jan-Maarten Kingma calls on chairman John Monaghan to resign at the annual meeting.

Israel says farmers should not be nervous about the challenge of synthetic proteins but the answer is to invest more in research.

“If I had one wish it would be to see Fonterra increase its investment in research, to bring out new benefits of milk.”

Forrester Sire Sale - Venison Genetics -

Friday 6th December 2019 | Viewing 12pm, Auction 1pm Prior viewing leading up to sale is welcome through appointment The Forrester bloodlines we produce here at Peel Forest Estate are bred for hardiness, solid body conformation, fertility, pass-on growth to their offspring and impressive velvet attributes.

• • • •

English bloodlines High 12-month growth rates for English genetics Deep, sturdy body conformation Heavy, clean velvet - increase spiker yield

• • • •

Johnes Resilience to pass onto progeny Quiet Temperament Eye Muscle mass – Achieved through Ultrasound scanning Parasite Resilience through Carla Testing

PEEL FOREST ESTATE | 1 BRAKE ROAD, RD 22, GERALDINE 7992 | NEW ZEALAND Contact Mark Tapley: 027 779 9008 | mark@pfe.nz

www.peelforestestate.com

News

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

New strategy reassurance from on high Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz FONTERRA’S leaders have told shareholders its new strategy is on target to deliver a recovery in earnings and debt.

Chairman John Monaghan and chief executive Miles Hurrell used their addresses to the annual meeting in Invercargill to reassure and repeat rather than to make announcements.

Monaghan said the co-operative is not broken and delivers a milk price consistently on par with those paid to farmers in Europe and the United States.

But while it is not broken it does need to change.

It should take the best of the past and adapt it for the future and it needs to do more listening.

“Doing more listening than talking and taking what I call the shine off our language has improved the standing of our

co-op in many people’s minds.

“Our new purpose is already guiding our decision-making, culture and behaviour as an organisation.

“We are confident that implemented well, the new strategy will bring a new period of success for our co-op.”

While in the past Fonterra might have regarded itself as a global dairy giant its new focus is on creating value for its owners, customers and communities.

Producing ingredients at scale will still be the engine room, now complemented by research and investment into medical nutrition, sports and active nutrition products with strong growth potential.

Already the leading food service business in China, Fonterra wants to extend that in the Asia-Pacific region and form new partnerships to help expand to other markets without

5

LISTENING: Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell and chairman John Monaghan listen to shareholder JanMaarten Kingma call for Monaghan’s resignation.

Doing more listening than talking and taking what I call the shine off our language has improved the standing of our co-op in many people’s minds.

John Monaghan Fonterra spending large amounts of capital.

Hurrell expanded on that comment by referring to the recent Anchor Food Service Professionals partnership

announcement with Future Group in India.

That group has over 2000 food trade outlets and 5000 public distribution outlets.

“This is a capital-light partnership which combines our dairy knowledge and know-how with Future Group’s access to market, established customer base and strong marketing and distribution networks.

“Combine these two skill sets together and you get more than the sum of its parts.”

Monaghan said the priorities of the directors for 2020 began with delivering the forecast milk price and making a return to respectable earnings that should improve the share price and enable a return to paying dividends as soon as possible.

He also suggested some improvement in the advance rate is possible, subject to the continued improvement of the balance sheet and protection of the credit rating.

Hurrell said the mid-point of the milk price forecast range of $6.55 to $7.55/kg will require Fonterra to push hard to achieve its gross margins.

“So far we’re comfortable with how this season is shaping up in terms of underlying business performance.”

Earnings a share, forecast at 15 to 25c, will be higher than in the 2019 financial year because of lower interest cost and tax.

By the end of the year debt will be no more than 3.75 times earnings, down from 4.3, Hurrell said.

Council role review a priority NEW Fonterra Shareholder’s Council chairman James Barron promises a review of the council’s role will be completed by the cooperative’s next annual meeting.

The council’s priority will be a review of its role while contributing to discussion on the co-operative’s capital structure and new strategy.

Barron is a fourth-generation

farmer milking 450 cows on the 140ha dairy farm he grew up on, on the banks of the Waihou River south of Matamata.

He replaces Duncan Coull who has retired after four and a half years.

There was some passionate discussion at Fonterra’s annual meeting in Invercargill about the council’s performance and whether its review is sufficiently independent.

One remit called for a review

by an independent panel and another for changes to the terms of reference of its performance committee.

Southland farmer Tony Paterson led the remit calling for an independent review, saying he and two others canvassed support among their farming network and were surprised at the level of support.

“The consensus is that change is needed.”

Paterson says a review is

Increase Milk Yield and Solids with MidPro ™

Canola Meal

warranted because of the inaction by the council given the evident non-performance of Fonterra.

Shareholders also want assurance the council representative structure is independent of board influence and fit for purpose letting shareholders have their views heard.

Both the board and council urged shareholders to vote against both motions given the council has embarked on a review.

108 Canol a Meal

104

Control

100

96 Fat yield

Ask your local feed merchant for MidPro™ Canola Meal 021 288 2119 www.cargill.co.nz

NEW GUARD: New Fonterra Shareholders Council chairman James Barron.

Protein yield

Milk Solids

Massey University Research has shown MidPro™ Canola Meal in the ration increases Milk Solids, Protein Yield and Fat Yield by more than 4% over control

LK0098495©

Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz

RAV-11NOV-FW

Apply less.

Lose less.

N-ProtectÂŽ

45.5 50.0 APPLICATION RATE

APPLICATION RATE

kgN/ha of N-Protect

kgN/ha of urea

4.5

kgN/ha of potential N-loss

9.0 kgN/ha of potential N-loss

N-PROTECT

UREA

N-Protect potentially halves N-loss so less purchased nitrogen is needed for the same pasture response.

N-Protect is your winning formula.

N-Protect reduces N-loss from volatilisation, keeping more N in the soil for your pastures and crops. Helping you reduce your environmental impact and optimise growth. Making N-Protect your win-win for nitrogen application.

Smarter farming for a better New ZealandÂŽ

Apply less, lose less with N-Protect.

Call your agri manager or the Customer Centre today.

0800 100 123 ravensdown.co.nz

News

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

7

Carbon Bill clears final hurdle Colin Williscroft colin.williscroft@globalhq.co.nz THE Zero Carbon Bill has passed its third and final reading in Parliament with cross-party support though farm groups continue to oppose methane reduction targets.

National supported the Bill through its final reading despite uncertainty over whether it would do so, fuelled by National MP Judith Collins tweeting on the morning of the vote she was firmly opposed to it and National had a solution to problems with it.

“I’ve made it very clear that I do not support the Zero Carbon Bill in its current form but am supportive of the @NZNationalParty‘s bottom lines of what is needed to be responsible for both the New

Zealand economy and the environment.

“Winston Peters’ NZ First Party has given its full support to the anti-farmer Greens and Labour. @NZNationalParty has the solution. Let’s see what NZ First says about our solution,” Collins said.

National leader Simon Bridges said the party takes a bipartisan approach to climate change but that does not mean it has given up making changes further down the track.

It is committed to tweaking the Bill should it win next year’s election.

“National proposed a series of changes that would have ensured the Bill is in line with National’s climate change principles of taking a pragmatic and science-based approach but, unfortunately, the coalition

They simply want a methane target that is fair and firmly grounded in the best available science, applied in a NZ context.

Dr Tim Mackle DairyNZ

Government voted down all of our amendments.”

Those changes included that the target for biological methane reduction be set by the independent Climate Change Commission and that the Bill ensures the commission considers the appropriate use of forestry offsets and has regard for the carbon sink represented by crops, riparian planting and other farm biomass.

Beef + Lamb and DairyNZ said bipartisan support for the legislation will give farmers certainty but there are aspects of it they continue to oppose.

“We support many elements of the Zero Carbon Bill, however, we remain unhappy with the Neal Wallace 24–47% methane target range as in conjunction with the neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz this is based on an international non-profit US-based report that clearly stated it should Environmental Defense not be used on an individual Fund.

THE Government is investing country basis,” Beef + Lamb chief The control centre will be $26 million in a satellite that executive Sam McIvor said. somewhere in New Zealand. measures human-induced Progress on reducing emissions “This is an ambitious methane but intends using it will be continued with the science partnership between to collect data to help reduce establishment of a farm-level NZ and the EDF that will agricultural greenhouse gas approach that will address see NZ at the forefront of emissions. agricultural emissions and developing and applying The MethaneSAT satellite is ensure farmers get credit for world-leading technology designed to find and measure sequestration on their farms. to the global challenge of methane from human sources DairyNZ chief executive Dr Tim managing greenhouse gas worldwide with the data used Mackle said the methane targets emissions,” Woods says. to track and help to reduce are not only out of step with The EDF’s priority is to those emissions. science, they are more than rural collect emissions data from Research, Science and communities can sustain. the oil and gas industry but Innovation Minister Megan “This is not a scientific target Wood says NZ wants to collect Woods says the satellite but a political one.” agricultural data. will be launched in 2022 METAREX INOV FARMERS WEEKLY 120MM X 265MM Mackle is encouraged Climate

Eye in the sky to see farm gases

SORROW: It was a sad day for common sense when the Government walked away from a farmer proposal that would have met the aims of the Zero Carbon Bill, Federated Farmers vice-president Andrew Hoggaard says.

Change Minister James Shaw is considering sending the methane target to the commission to receive independent advice.

He said farmers have never been afraid of the facts.

“They simply want a methane target that is fair and firmly grounded in the best available science, applied in a NZ context.”

Federated Farmers vicepresident Andrew Hoggard said the Government failed to take on board common sense

SUPERIOR SLUG AND SNAIL CONTROL FROM SCIENCE AND NATURE Metarex Inov is a breakthrough in slug and snail baits containing

technology.

Only Metarex Inov from DeSangosse, the global leaders in slug and snail bait formulation technology, contains Colzactive – specially selected oil seed rape extracts, formulated as an integral part of the bait. Metarex Inov, containing unique Colzactive delivers a bait more attractive, more palatable and faster acting against slugs and snails.

Maximum attractiveness Ph: 0800 100 325 www.upl-ltd.com/nz

® Registered trademarks of DE SANGOSSE SAS

Enhanced palatability

Unequalled fast action

Long-lasting protection

Controlled spreading

suggestions to improve the Bill.

The primary sector recently put a proposal that would have achieved the Zero Carbon Bill’s aims and built on the good faith established by the recently agreed industry-Government climate change commitment, He Waka Eke Noa. Shaw said the passing of the Bill, which attracted almost 11,000 submissions, will help ensure a safe planet for generations to come.

8

News

THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

ALL GO: The Lamb Company’s new state-ofthe-art further processing facility and distribution centre in Pedricktown, New Jersey.

Lamb lack should boost prices Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz STATIC or falling lamb numbers in New Zealand will be a barrier to continued growth in the lucrative United States market, The Lamb Company president and chief executive Tony Ruffo says.

The firm, a joint venture by Australasian meat companies, supplies about 65% of NZ lamb going into the US and 90% of NZ lamb going into Canada as well as venison, beef and goat meat.

The value of products should continue to rise, boosted by three value-add processing plants strategically placed in North America and providing products being sought by consumers.

The Lamb Company is mostly owned by three large NZ meat processors, Alliance, Silver Fern Farms and Anzco, and has been active there for 60 years.

The US is already the highest-

paying market for NZ lamb, with an average value of $17.79/kg in the latest June 30 year and a 24% year-on-year gain in overall value.

It is the second biggest market for lamb, behind China but going ahead of Britain by value in the latest year.

Demand for grass-fed, premium red meats will continue to grow exponentially in North America but Ruffo said he will be surprised to see much further lift in NZ lamb export volumes there because of our static sheep numbers.

For the same reason, the growth potential for lamb from the work Beef + Lamb is doing with its Taste Pure Nature promotion aimed at conscious foodies in California might be limited.

The Lamb Co has decades of market research and development for its own NZ Spring Lamb brand and is in talks with B+LNZ aimed at an agreement to be involved.

The business sells about $300

million of French racks, legs, shoulders and loin products in affluent sectors of the market under the NZ Spring Lamb brand.

The brand is about 30% of the group’s North American business.

The US values might grab the headlines but Canada, where the company is based, is also a large and very important market. It is the sixth biggest individual market for NZ by volume and value.

Two Australian meat companies, Wammco and Southern Meats, now own shares in the business and large volumes of Australian lamb, mutton, and beef are sold through The Lamb Co as well. It also markets product from nonshareholder suppliers, enabling it to ensure year-round supply and service.

The company also provides products for private label programmes for leading North American retail supermarket and food service operators and

has started to market individual shareholder brands.

At the premium end of the lamb market, where the group trades, there has been no impact from alternative meat products, Ruffo said.

“All our products are supported by the attributes today’s consumers are seeking, including 100% grass-fed, antibiotic-free, humanely treated and sustainably raised.”

That applies to both the leading NZ and Australian country origin brands.

Premium, grass-fed beef is a growing part of turnover in recent years, now making up 20% of the total 50,000 tonnes annual sales.

“The market for premium, grassfed beef remains significantly underdeveloped and will account for the majority of our growth due to the expected lamb supply constraints.”

The beef market in North America is 40 to 50 times

the tonnage of lamb and has enormous potential for The Lamb Co. “I envision the day when beef will represent a much larger portion of our total North American business than lamb,” Ruffo said.

The Lamb Co has just built a state-of-the-art processing and distribution operation near Philadelphia, in the northeast United States, as well as expanding its further processing facilities in Toronto and Los Angeles. A marketing and packaging refresh has also taken place.

The business was restructured four years ago, combining the Canadian and US companies into one stronger North American organisation and developing the beef marketing arm. It employs 236 people.

MORE: BARBER P35

TRANSPORTABLE HOMES

Farm Workers Accommodation • Additional Family Dwelling (Great for the Kids or Parents) • Rental Income 25% + Yield • Bed & Breakfast

houseme.co.nz Deluxe One Bedroom (on Skids) with Kitchen, Lounge and Bathroom

59,500 + GST

$ • • • • • • •

10.4m x 3.0m

Double Glazing Fully Insulated Top to bottom Quality Oven, Hobs, Rangehood and Fridge/Freezer TV Outlet and Wall Mounting Bracket Washing Machine Taps and Plumbing Bedroom Storage & Wardrobes FARMERS WEEKLY PROMO: Delivery price based on location FREE STAINLESS STEEL FRIDGE/FREEZER

WORTH $750

100% KIWI OWNED AND BUILT Show homes available to view: HouseMe 10am–4pm at 51-53 Hunua Rd, Papakura, Auckland For more information: P. 0800 468 736 E. info@houseme.co.nz

Together, Creating the Best Soil and Feed on Earth

Together, reducing phosphate loss * by up to 75%

An effective and sustainable phosphate that is better for the environment. *Relative to superphosphate products.

ballance.co.nz | 0800 222 090 BAL0281 - SurePhos A3 Poster - 390x265mm .indd 1

7/11/19 9:54 AM

News

10 THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

Farm forester wants more unity Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz LONG-TIME forester and farmer Denis Hocking has voiced his concern over claims farming is likely to be eclipsed by forestry and reinforced calls for the two sectors to integrate more closely.

Hocking’s concern comes as foresters start to push back against claims being made, by the 50 Shades of Green group in particular, over the impact trees are likely to have gutting rural communities.

He agrees with Forest Owners Association president Peter Weir who has defended an advertisement Wood NZ sponsored, highlighting the value of planting fast-growing trees to counter global warming.

Weir accused anti-forestry protestors of creating fake news and being less than accurate with the truth when it comes to citing how much land has been sold into foreign hands for tree planting.

Hocking said his experience over the past 40 years of farming and forestry on sandy country near Bulls is living proof the two can work well together, with forestry returns generally being more positive than the drystock.

“I have been disappointed we have not seen a good recognition that a forestry string in a mixed farming bow can add tremendous strength to the farm’s value and income stream.”

Hocking is definitely not in favour of wall-to-wall planting of pines. That is a risk and something to be avoided.

“There are areas that should be returned to permanent tree cover on erodible country that is not suitable for harvesting. But there is also a place for mixed forest plantings where exotic trees like eucalyptus can act as a canopy to encourage native reestablishment.”

He is not aware of any farm foresters he knew taking up the Government’s planting grants and his own operation has never benefitted from any, with profitability standing on market log returns alone. But he also

GREENER: Denis Hocking believes “anti tree” groups are doing little to help farming and forestry integrate better.

acknowledges the sandy country he is on is probably the easiest country to integrate livestock with forestry.

“But the beauty of forestry is that it does not demand the best quality land to still do well.”

In a broader national sense he maintains hectare for hectare forestry has proved to be a better earner than red meat.

Data for the 2017-18 year indicates red meat earnings off the country’s six million hectares of pastoral land were $6.7 billion while forestry earnings off 1.7m hectares were $6.4b.

“And this is at a time when we are still not adding enough value due to trade restrictions and issues offshore. It is still a good earner.”

While Hocking’s plantings were established without any subsidies or support his family took advantage of good extension advice and he supports funds being put into such advice under the Billion Trees programme.

“We want people who can go out and do a whole farm plan and say where you are better off planting trees and which trees you should plant.”

He has been encouraged by the number of Massey students doing

INCENTIVE: Farm Forestry Association president Neil Cullen believes the carbon zero bill and water quality proposals are encouraging more farmers to plant trees.

the university’s trees-on-farms paper, worth 15 credits studying his property.

“My only criticism is they appear to get too intense around detail and just need to step back and see the bigger picture more.”

Further south award-winning sheep, beef and forestry farmer and Farm Forestry Association president Neil Cullen believes the carbon zero bill and water quality proposals are encouraging more farmers to plant trees.

“I went to a recent meeting on farm forestry run by the regional council and Te Uru Rakau and was struck by the number of people there who were not currently involved in farm forestry. They were people who may have 20ha

of land they could put into trees who may not have considered it previously.”

He noted there has also been considerable interest in native plantings but they also come with challenges, including supply and higher establishment costs.

Farmers can apply for grants of $4000 a hectare to plant natives and $1500 a hectare for exotic production trees.

Cullen said the year one achievement of 30,000ha of new forest land planted is commendable, given it started from scratch.

MORE: FIGHTBACK

I have been disappointed we have not seen a good recognition that a forestry string in a mixed farming bow can add tremendous strength to the farm’s value and income stream.

Denis Hocking Farm forester

P27

ADVERTISEMENT

American-made Cooper Tires guaranteed to last R emember when washing machines and refrigerators lasted a generation? And tyres used to last for years too? Things used to last back then.

Now it seems things are made to wear out. The reason for this is that original tyres fitted to new vehicles are made to the vehicle manufacturer’s price.

The result may compromise on the tyres’ performance and life.

Tyre companies making aftermarket tyres exclusively for vehicle owners like you are still providing performance and longer life.

Drivers choosing quality American made aftermarket tyres are finding they are getting a lot more mileage and better value for money than original tyres.

Coopers tyres are only available at selected Cooper Tire dealers.

Cooper Tires – making tyres last since 1920. In 1926, Ira. J. Cooper developed the “cooper Creed” which focused the company on providing “good merchandise, fair play and a square deal”. The vision of Ira. J. Cooper continues at Cooper Tires today.

Guaranteed to last up to 80,000km*

For example, Matt Jones of Exclusive Tyre Distributors explains: “When compared to the original tyres

(Bridgestone AT 693) fitted to the Ford Ranger, the Cooper A/T3 LT has 12.7mm of tread depth – that’s over 50% more than Bridgestone’s 8.1mm tread depth.”

That’s why Cooper are the only tyres

Cooper’s A/T3 LT is the perfect tyre for New Zealanders who use their vehicle for work, carrying weight and towing. Durable Tread Technology makes this the no. 1 all-terrain tyre for New Zealand’s harsh high chip and volcanic road surfaces.

in New Zealand with a mileage guarantee in writing that ranges from 50,000 to 80,000km, depending on size and tread pattern.

Freephone 0800 Mileage (645 3243) LK00100012©

Cooper tyres are better value

Comparison of tread depths. Bridgestone AT 693 (8.1mm), Cooper AT 3 LT (12.7mm)

www.cooperstires.co.nz

News

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

Meat sector learns from wool’s loss Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz THE response from the red meat sector to the challenge from alternative proteins shows the livestock industry has learnt lessons from the way it surrendered wool market share to synthetics, Lincoln University trade and environmental economics expert Professor Caroline Saunders says.

She has been impressed how the red meat sector has front-footed the threat of alternative proteins and defended its presence in the protein market.

The sector’s response gives her confidence in the future of red meat, a factor highlighted in recent British research.

Her department interviewed more than 700 shoppers and found half say they have no intention of deviating from a meat diet.

However, the same survey also revealed the main attributes consumers are prepared to pay premiums for are country of origin, being grass-fed and no artificial growth hormones.

Being carbon neutral and other environmental attributes are low priorities so they will need to be proactively marketed, she said.

“It tells me don’t panic, meat is very important, but we have got to be proactive about what is good and distinctive about our meat.

“Big markets like it being grass-fed with no additives but if we want to market it as zero carbon then we have got to be more proactive.”

The range of alternative proteins will increase, putting then onus on marketers of meat but sector leaders appear more focused and united than previously.

A Colmar Brunton poll of 1000 New Zealanders commissioned by plant-based and cell-based meat alternatives promoter Food Frontier and vegetarian foods maker Life Health Foods found a third of Kiwis are eating less meat.

The survey attributed that to people making choices based on health followed by environment,

IMPRESSED: Professor Caroline Saunders is pleased with how the red meat sector has front-footed the alternative proteins threat and defended its territory.

animal welfare, cost and availability of plant-based options. Its authors said just 3% of New Zealanders are vegetarian or vegan.

Baby boomers are leading the eat-less-meat trend with vegetarians and vegans most likely to be millennials living in Auckland or Wellington.

The survey found six in 10 people have tried or are interested in trying plant-based products and 94% have never mistakenly bought a plant-based product thinking it was meat or vice versa.

Tagging your animals is only half the job ...

Dollar waiting for line-ball OCR call WEDNESDAY’S Reserve Bank decision on the Official Cash Rate has got the market guessing but a rate cut is still priced in and the kiwi dollar could rally hard if it doesn’t come through.

“If they don’t cut, the dollar could go one and a half cents higher,” ASB institutional currency dealer Tim Kelleher said.

“If they cut it might go down half a cent.”

The major trading bank economists are divided over the OCR call. ASB thinks the RBNZ will lower the rate though Kelleher said it is a line-ball and might not really be needed.

It is 60% priced in by the market. Factors influencing the RBNZ will include the gap till its next Monetary Policy Statement meeting, in February. Another is its decision-making on planned strengthening of capital ratios for the banks, due in mid December.

“If it comes down harsh, it might want to keep its powder dry by not cutting this time to see how things work out.”

This is because tougher capital controls could act like a rate hike on the economy.

Kelleher believes the kiwi dollar bottomed out a while back at US$0.6204.

Now the dairy export signs are strong and there’s a lot of fruit to be exported in the next few months, creating exporter demand for dollar hedging at around the 0.63 to 0.635 level.

– Alan Williams

... you need to also register them online: Go to www.ospri.co.nz/tagandregisteryouranimals

Support disease management and help build lifetime animal traceability

NAIT is an OSPRI programme

11

Need help? 0800 482 463 7am–6pm (Mon-Fri)

ospri.co.nz

News

12 THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

Water ruling good for farmers Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz A RULING giving native fish priority over trout and salmon has benefits for farmers and other water users.

And it sets a precedent likely to affect water rules throughout the country.

The status of trout and salmon has been devalued by the Environment Court decision setting minimum flows in an Otago river, in what is being viewed by environmental management experts as a precedent-setting ruling.

The decision, contained in a ruling that sets minimum flows for the Lindis River near Wanaka, puts a higher priority on protecting native fish from what it refers to as introduced predators (trout).

This decision goes way beyond the Lindis decision. This decision goes way beyond Otago.

Graeme Martin Adviser It observes that too high a minimum river flow increases trout access to tributaries, which could devastate the native fish population.

Graeme Martin, a former Otago Regional Council chief executive who has been advising farmers on the issue, says the decision has national implications.

“This decision goes way beyond the Lindis decision. This decision goes way beyond Otago.”

Fish and Game Otago is appealing against the decision.

It wants clarification on what it calls several errors of law relating

to the protection of trout and salmon habitat.

Following several years of hearings to set minimum flows in the Lindis River, the Environment Court last month sided with the Lindis Catchment Group and set a minimum flow of 550 litres a second, which will allow users to take 1640 l/sec.

There is currently no minimum flow for the river but the new levels will generate higher flows for 18km of the river for 92% of the irrigation season.

The council and Fish and Game wanted a minimum flow of 900l/ sec and a primary allocation of 1200l/sec.

The court said 550l/sec allows for more efficient water use and will achieve the objectives of the council’s water plan and the national policy statement on fresh water.

Martin says the ruling questions the previously held status of trout and salmon.

He believes it is the first time the court has ranked indigenous fish above trout and salmon, which is consistent with the existing national policy statement.

“That is probably why Fish and Game has appealed, that is my speculation, but what we are seeing is the judge applying the national policy statement.”

Evidence heard by the court is that the river has five native fish species and that distribution of the native Clutha flathead galaxias is severely limited by the presence of predatory trout.

The commissioners described the number of overseas anglers using the Lindis River as vanishingly small and noted that should the minimum flow increase too greatly brown trout will have greater access to native fish in tributaries, potentially eliminating the population.

Otago Fish and Game chief executive Ian Hadland said the court applied the wrong legal tests regarding the value of trout and

ISSUES: The Environment Court heard the Lindis River has five native fish species and distribution of the native Clutha flathead galaxias is severely limited by the presence of predatory trout.

salmonids under the Resource Management Act. “This appeal is focused primarily on seeking clarity on aspects of the judgment that have potential for national application, not simply for the Lindis River context.”

There are 25 farms covering 88,000ha in the Lindis catchment, a mix of high-country stations and seven intensive breeding or finishing farms.

Combined, they irrigate about 5000ha but farmers are not seeking to extend that area.

In addition to supporting a minimum river flow the farmers will install bores alongside the river to access ground instead of surface water and replace border dyke systems with spray irrigation.

Alexandra farmer and Otago

Water Resource Users Group member Gary Kelliher says provided the appeal is not upheld the ruling will assist other water user groups as the court made its decision based on science, data and common sense.

Kelliher, who was last month elected to the council, says the decision also shows the Otago Water Plan can be operative when used as intended and each catchment must be treated individually rather than a onesize-fits-all regime proposed by the Government’s Essential Freshwater reforms.

The council has had issues implementing its water plan, especially for rivers where water has been allocated under historic mining privileges.

Earlier this year Environment

CHANGED: Former Otago Regional Council chief executive Graeme Martin says the ruling questions the previously held status of trout and salmon.

Minister David Parker appointed the Professor Peter Skelton to investigate whether the council is on track to adequately manage and allocate freshwater resources.

His report has been delayed, partly by the Lindis River case.

Lincoln Uni now a viable outfit Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz LINCOLN University is in its best space in five years and well poised to deliver for the agricultural sector, acting vice-chancellor Bruce McKenzie says.

Addressing the NZ Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Science forum at the university McKenzie said Lincoln is financially viable and has been for the past three years.

It is financially secure, doing better than other universities in terms of research work and starting to rebuild, having finally received a $45 million earthquake insurance settlement this year.

Lincoln’s operating surplus last year was $3.2m, making it a non at-risk institution in the eyes of the Government.

McKenzie credited former vicechancellor Robin Pollard for much of the turnaround.

“He probably saved the university from a forced merger, dragging it screaming and kicking into the 21st century.”

Through belt-tightening, the axing of more than 50 jobs and severing ties with its satellite campus, Telford, Pollard had turned around Lincoln’s finances.

“We are a non at-risk institution now, which is really important because it means Government can’t touch us.

“Also because, while it took nine years, we have finalised our earthquake insurance, which is a big deal for Lincoln,” McKenzie said.

The university’s formal partnership with Canterbury was forced but in August Education

Minister Chris Hipkins changed his mind.

Lincoln is one of the most research-intensive universities in NZ. It has the highest proportion of income from the Performance Based Research Fund at 12% and the highest income per staff member of about $400,000.

But it will still work closely with Canterbury University, McKenzie said.

“Many of the things we put in the proposal we are still going to do.”

McKenzie said they include a joint post-graduate school involving the two universities and the three Crown research institutes based at Lincoln, AgResearch, Plant and Food Research and Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, that will take in its first students next year.

A joint master’s degree agribusiness programme in precision agriculture will also start next year, combining Lincoln’s agricultural scientists and Canterbury’s engineering school.

McKenzie said the joint ventures are well overdue.

“I don’t know why this wasn’t done a long time ago.

“Developing cross-credits so students can do cross papers is a very logical thing we should be doing.”

The two universities are also working together to deliver the children’s university, the first of its kind in NZ. The children’s university encourages seven to 17-year-olds’ aspirations for higher education and life-long learning.

“We have had 200 in the programme this year and that

will lift to 1000 next year and is expected to be 2000 the following year.

“It’s a programme to develop love of learning and that’s a really exciting programme for us,” McKenzie said.

The rebuilding programme will see a very different campus in three years’ time.

The rebuild includes two key buildings, Science North and Science South, the new AgResearch building and a recreation centre that will be almost double in size to the present one.

The new buildings will ensure more collaboration and bring the campus up to date.

“There’s a lot of change going on. The campus will look very different in the next three years,” McKenzie said.

MULTINE B12

Stands up in New Zealand conditions because it’s made for them.

MADE FOR NEW ZEALAND, IN NEW ZEALAND.

MULTINE B12 ®

With boosted convenience of Vitamin B12 ACVM No: A11311. Schering-Plough Animal Health Ltd. Phone: 0800 800 543. www.msd-animalhealth.co.nz Ref 1: Baron Audit Data. June 2019. NZ/MLT/0518/000j © 2019 Intervet International B.V. All Rights Reserved.

In a country like this, things have to be made tough.

increasing productivity and boosting farm income.

So at MSD Animal Health, we make vaccines specifically for New Zealand conditions, ensuring they’re tough enough to work out here.

Multine B12 is New Zealand’s leading 5-in-1 clostridial vaccine, boosted with Vitamin B12 for convenience. It’s made for here, so it works here.

That’s why thousands of kiwi farmers rely on our vaccines and trust them to work, protecting valuable stock,

Ask your animal health advisor for Multine B12.

News

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

15

Grain growers down in the dumps Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz CROPS are establishing well and prices are looking better this season but arable farmers are not brimming with confidence, Federated Farmers arable vicechairman Brian Leadley says.

Canterbury cropping farmers have come out of winter well and, despite the cold spring, the warmer change over the past couple of weeks is encouraging good crop establishment.

Further south it has been wetter and there have been more challenges as a result.

But hanging over the arable sector’s confidence is a sprawling dark cloud.

“The general uncertainty in the farming sector is having an effect for sure.”

The cost of production is not going down, the uncertainty around regulation and compliance costs with ongoing Government policies on freshwater, greenhouse gases and biodiversity are affecting cropping businesses.

“What it’s going to cost us is absolutely having an impact on confidence.

“Arable generally and the stock side of our businesses as well with lambs finishing well to good prices and dairy grazing not pugging up too much over winter, we should be positive looking ahead.

“But it’s the cloud of uncertainty, it saps energy, it’s damaging and has certainly subdued any confidence.”

Leadley said while feed grains are a bit on the flat side, milling wheat and malting barley have seen good uptake this season with both increasing in area.

“The mills have come out very well this season and there’s also been a lift in malting barley but feed has been a bit subdued around people not spending money until they really have to.

“Just the same the potential

DRAINING: Mid Canterbury cropping farmer and Federated Farmers spokesman Brian Leadley says the cloud of uncertainty is sapping energy and subduing arable industry confidence.

Photo: Annette Scott

If any politicians want any ideas on how to minimise the impact of the dairy industry on the environment they need to ban all imported feeds.

Chris Dillon Federated Farmers is there for feed grains, albeit in competition with imported grain.”

Deep in the south arable farmers have been more challenged getting spring crops in the ground.

“We will have some very late spring crops given the stuff that went on with our spring weather.

Wet and cold did cause problems,” Feds Southland arable chairman Chris Dillon said.

“But, fortunately, we had a good run in autumn and those crops have established well. If not for that we would be in a very bad situation.”

Dillon said the last of his feed grain was going out for dairy feed but the competition with imported grain and feeds continues to be a dampener on the feed market for local growers.

“If any politicians want any ideas on how to minimise the impact of the dairy industry on the environment they need to ban all imported feeds,” Dillon said.

North Island growers have also been battling the weather.

“We are getting there now.

Usually in August and September we try to get a jump start on

cultivation but that couldn’t happen, Manawatu-Rangitikei Feds arable chairman Dion Fleming said.

“Soil temperatures are just coming right now so it’s a much later start to the season.”

Maize is the big crop for the region and growers are not looking ahead to a great season.

“We are catching up now and with the hammer down over this next week most guys will have broken the back of it.

“But after the good season last year we are not looking so good for this season and we are pegging back a bit.”

While trying to get up to up 500 hectares of maize in the ground on his family farm, as a contractor he also has about 1400ha to plant for clients.

“But we are looking at being down $20-$30 a tonne on last

year and that’s a direct hit due to competition with imported grain.

“It’s (maize) still worth doing.

There just won’t be the cream on the top this year.”

Malting barley at $470 a tonne is in a good space for the region’s growers but feed barley at $400/t is not quite making the grade for cropping farmers.

Like Canterbury the small pockets of wheat growers are taking advantage of good milling contracts this season.

What has alarmed Fleming comes from a recent visit to Canada.

“I went on this guy’s farm and he was skiting about how he had just landed the contract to supply the grain for New Zealand’s McDonalds buns.

“What can you say to that?

“I’m not planting pine trees – yet,” Fleming said.

It protects sheep and boosts Vitamin B12.

Multine B12: NZ’s leading 5-in-1 with the boosted convenience of Vitamin B12.

Multine® is New Zealand’s leading 5-in-1 clostridial vaccine1, protecting against pulpy kidney, tetanus, blackleg and malignant oedema in sheep, cattle and goats.

And now it’s even better with the boosted convenience of Vitamin B12.

Ask your animal health advisor for Multine B12.

MSD_MB12_02

MADE FOR NEW ZEALAND, IN NEW ZEALAND.

ACVM No A11311. Schering-Plough Animal Health Ltd. Phone: 0800 800 543. www.msd-animal-health.co.nz.

NZ/MLT/0518/0001d. © 2019 Intervet International B.V. All Rights Reserved Ref 1: Baron Audit Data. June 2019.

News

16 THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

Scales result remains on track Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz SCALES Corporation is on track with its profit guidance as it nears the end of its apple export sales season, managing director Andy Borland says.

Its biggest business, Hawkes Bay-based Mr Apple, has been balancing lower prices because of smaller fruit size with the overall higher-volume crop.

Sales into Asia, especially China, remain strong throughout, fitting in with the focus on sweeter, red apples popular in that wider market while the European market remains more difficult for the traditional Braeburn variety in the face of a bigger domestic crop there.

As signalled earlier, in the half-year earnings report, Scales believes the European crop might return to lower, more normal levels next season.

In any event, Mr Apple will have lower Braeburn volumes as it removes trees and replaces them with newer varieties such as Dazzle and Posy.

The increase in new varieties will be most marked in the group’s own orchards but there has also been a good response from

We’ve done a lot of research but aren’t close to anything. We’re not in a rush.

Andy Borland Scales

HIATUS: Overeall apple production might be down for three or four years till recent plantings reach maturity, Scales Corporation managing director Andy Borland says.

independent growers taking up planting rights.

It is all about volumes of the new varieties to sell into the fastgrowing Asia and Middle East markets.

About 85ha are being planted

by Mr Apple this year and next so overall production will be lower for three to four years till the new trees mature as commercial apple producers.

The strategy is the same as when Scales listed on NZX in 2014,

planting new varieties when NZ Queen was the focus.

Scales is pleased with the performance of its 60%-owned Shelby petfood business in the United States, bought last year.

“They have a very good team and it’s going exactly as we hoped, with strong growth,” Borland said.

Domestically, Scales now operates its Meateor NZ petfood business in a joint-venture with meat processor Alliance.

The business is benefiting from the African swine fever outbreak in China, which is resulting in higher demand for petfood proteins from NZ. The business is looking to invest in further valueadd processing.

With the logistics business as well Scales’ guidance to the NZX is

for operating earnings of $49m to $55m for the December 31 year.

A lot of the market interest in the group revolves around investment plans for the cash freed up from the sale of its cold store business.

“We’ve done a lot of research but aren’t close to anything,” Borland said.

“We’re not in a rush.”

The focus is the same as before, on export markets, mainly the China-Asia catchment, and investment could be in the existing range of businesses or into a new area.

Forsyth Barr is one brokerage house that has referred to investment uncertainty as Scales pursues a deal, because of the possibility of a potentially transformational acquisition worth up to $300m.

Borland said the directors are comfortable with the options of a group of small investments or an acquisition of up to a quarter of a billion dollars, which would involve modest debt on top of using the cash balance.

At the June 30 balance date the group had $622m of total assets, including cash of $120m.

Borrowings were $64m, funding just 10% of total assets.

Merino Company gets top award A CANTERBURY business creating a top-dollar future for Merino wool has won the supreme award at the New Zealand International Business Awards.

The New Zealand Merino Company, based in Christchurch, is an integrated sales, marketing and innovation company for Merino wool and the world’s leading supplier of ethical wool through its accreditation brand, ZQ Merino.

The company aims to help transform Merino wool from a commodity into a high-value fibre,

working with brands to create unique, design-led and research and development-based products that incorporate Merino wool, helping growers get better returns Its partnerships include local and global brands with Icebreaker, Allbirds, Mons Royale, Rodd and Gunn, Untouched World, Hugo Boss, Fjallraven and Helly Hansen.

It is also involved in novel products such as United States firm Firewire’s Woolight composite surfboard.

The judges were impressed

with how the Merino worked to help shift the entire local Merino industry from volume to value, investing in a design-led approach over multiple years and also helping many partner brands and suppliers adopt design thinking approaches.

It won the excellence in design award before being chosen from all category winners to receive the supreme award. It was highly commended in the excellence in innovation and best large business categories.

CELEBRATING SUCCESS: Supreme Award winners The New Zealand Merino Company representatives, from left, Peter Floris, John Brakenridge and Stephen Williamson at the NZ International Business Awards ceremony.

Photo: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images, NZTE

To us, obsession is intimately knowing the local rural communities we serve. It’s sharing our expert advice and knowledge to help your farming business and family’s future.

Our obsession adds value

Our obsession is bringing you the most competitive discounts, products and services, all on one card that can be used instore or online, delivered direct to you.

Join Ruralco today - we’re obsessed with agriculture.

ruralco.co.nz

0800 787 256

Consistently save 12¢ off the listed pump price everyday, nationwide.

OBSESSED WITH AGRICULTURE

News

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

17

Border war tech weapons grow Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz LURKING Australian stink bug populations and wind-borne diseases like myrtle rust added urgency and relevance to the second Australasian biosecurity innovation exchange held in Auckland.

The meeting of minds between the two countries to examine latest and emerging technology for biosecurity control is a natural one, Ministry for Primary Industries chief scientist Dr John Roche said.

“We are really the only two countries that take border biosecurity equally seriously and also share similar threats at those borders.”

The threats most recently include the brown marmorated stink bug, which has been discovered in isolated instances in Australia, similar to isolated occurrences in New Zealand.

If established the bug has the potential to wipe out both countries’ horticultural sectors.

In keeping with NZ’s national biosecurity policy Ko Tatou This is US, biosecurity experts examined technology that incorporates smart phone computing power with citizen agents to empower people to better identify and report incursions.

“We have already had a number of stink bug incursions reported using the technology and there is a lot of work going on around the younger generation to engage with them.”

Technology to help identify hitchhiking pests includes nextgeneration genetic sequencing that can detect remnant DNA of such pests in imported products.

“This could be applied to seed, fruit trees, any biological material bought in. The pest may be invisible. In the past we may have even had to try and grow it out from samples. This allows us to detect it much sooner.”

With a 40% increase in tourist numbers in only five years the technology has to play a key role to avoid simply throwing more bodies at it, Roche said.

Auckland and Melbourne airports are the only ones in the world using state-of-the-art x-ray tomography machines capable of viewing bags in full 3D profile.

A survey done 18 months ago showed 95% of people recognised biosecurity as being important, but only 2% thought it impacted upon their daily lives.

Dr John Roche MPI Using latest AI technology the machines are being trained to recognise specific risk items including meat, fruit and seeds.

“It allows us to triage risk items, set them aside and then bring in the people to examine further.”

Ultimately, when combined with digital arrival card data, visitors with nothing to declare will move straight through, leaving staff resources to focus on risk passengers.

The ultimate aim of NZ’s campaign is to engender greater collective responsibility among New Zealanders for biosecurity, boosted with the latest technology.

“A survey done 18 months ago showed 95% of people recognised biosecurity as being important but only 2% thought it impacted on their daily lives,” Roche said.

The concern over stink bug incursions becoming a full-scale establishment in both NZ and Australia has also ramped up in recent months now the pest has been discovered in Chile.

“It means we now have a pest with a 12-month season now it is in this hemisphere.”

Another pest raising concern is the invasive disease xylella, a deadly bacterial pathogen first detected in southern Italy’s olive trees in 2013 and now spread through Tuscany, France, Spain and Portugal.

“We are interested in hyperspectral technology, which can detect what the human eye cannot see. Detection using this sort of technology also removed the risk factor that humans could spread the pest or disease while they are also trying to detect it.

“This technology may also prove useful for detecting myrtle rust or kauri dieback.”

Biosecurity heads have also recognised the need to try to make better use of the petabytes of data now harvested.

“In 2010 90% of the data harvested was structured data and 10% incidental or unstructured.

“By next year 95% of that data is expected to be unstructured.

It is all usable. We just need to better understand how.”

CO-OPERATION: Ministry for Primary Industries chief science adviser Dr John Roche says New Zealand and Australia are the two most border biosecurity aware countries in the world.

Toxovax® is made-to-order. Order yours now before it’s too late. With Toxovax it’s not a marketing gimmick.

Toxovax is made to order. You can use Toxovax anytime up to 4 weeks before mating. And we need your order at least 4 weeks in advance to secure your supply. So order from your vet at least 8 weeks before you intend to introduce the ram.

Only available between 21ST October 2019 and 28TH April 2020

Toxoplasma is on every New Zealand farm, and it can cause ongoing losses or abortion storms. Just one shot of Toxovax gives lifetime immunity to your ewes, and provides on average a 3% higher lambing percentage1. Take control with Toxovax. To learn more about Toxovax, visit www.sheepvax.co.nz

02165_MSD_TOXO_02

MADE FOR NEW ZEALAND IN NEW ZEALAND. CONTROL THE RISK OF TOXOPLASMA AVAILABLE ONLY UNDER VETERINARY AUTHORISATION ACVM No: A4769. Schering-Plough Animal Health Ltd. Phone: 0800 800 543. www.msd-animal-health.co.nz NZ/TVAX/0919/0003 ©2019 Intervet International B.V. All Rights Reserved.

1. Wilkins, M, O’Connell, E and Te Punga, W. Vaccination of sheep against Toxoplasma abortion. Surveillance December 1992

News

18 THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

Pedal power pushes happy farmers farmstrong.co.nz

finding it a great way to destress from the pressures of farming.

“We have a bike group that meets a couple of days a week.

It’s a great way to find out what’s going on in the district and keep in contact with neighbours.”

Smith says “We meet in the early morning in the dark and get the ride done before work.

“Half of us are farmers, half aren’t and that’s important. We can’t just go moaning about the weather or the meat companies, which farmers are good at, because it doesn’t mean anything to people apart from farmers. It broadens everyone’s horizons and changes the conversations you have.”

There are health benefits too.

“I’m a flatland farmer,” Shand said.

“I can move all my electric fences from a quad bike so I don’t get much exercise. I also do a lot of tractor driving. So there are times when you can feel really down and stodgy and exercise like bike riding really lifts you up and makes you feel a whole lot better about life. It benefits your business as well. It gives you offfarm thinking time.”

Smith agrees getting farm fit is worth the effort.

“Farming’s a pretty physical occupation. I think if you’re healthier it’s much easier. You don’t want to be a slob and try and tackle a wild cow. You’ve got to be in shape. I also think getting out and talking to people apart from farmers helps you maintain perspective and keep a positive frame of mind.”

Which is why he kicked on and organised the Get-Togethers.

“They’ve really taken off.

“We are getting 80 people along, which is as many as we can manage. We supply the meat and people bring their own drinks.

It’s hard to get them home at night because people just love an excuse like this to get out and socialise.”

He says society has changed and rural people need to make more effort to connect.

“People don’t run across each

SHEEP and beef farmers Dave Smith and Andrew Shand are the driving forces behind Marton’s annual Pedal for Pleasure bike race.

This year Smith, with the help of Paula Skou, has gone one step further and organised two District Hall Get-Togethers for 80 people.

Locals are keen for a third before Christmas.

Smith and Shand say the popularity of both events demonstrates the keenness of farmers to get away from work for a few hours and have a different conversation.

The bike rides offer three experiences – a 15km ride for beginners, a more challenging 40km ride and an 80km ride for serious riders.

As sheep and beef farmers we often work as individuals and get trapped in our own little world.

Andrew Shand Farmer “Rangitikei is such a gorgeous area to ride in and we don’t need to close the roads to run the event,” Shand said.

“For most people it’s about fitness, health and a fun day out.

“We also offer a huge range of spot prizes donated by businesses in town. We started off with 100 riders and last year we had 170 riders.

“A lot of our riders are off farms or rural people. They bring along families too.”

It happens at the end of March in conjunction with the Marton Harvest Festival.

Shand says they set up Pedal for Pleasure as a fundraiser for Rotary after getting into biking and

OUT AND ABOUT: Farmers Dave Smith, left, and Andrew Shand organise Marton’s annual Pedal for Pleasure but also ride in a regular bike group to get off-farm and mix with other people.

other like they used to. When we were kids we walked everywhere and all the kids used to go to Marton school.

“You met your neighbours and knew them well. Now everyone has cars and the kids go to schools further afield. It’s quite possible you may not know your neighbours well or meet them offfarm regularly.”

They say organising the events has been a great off-farm activity in itself.

“Someone has to give their time to get these things going.

The enthusiasm you get from people for these events keeps us going. You don’t get 80 people if you’re not doing something right.

Someone just has to get off their bum and organise these things,” Shand said.

These two lifelong farmers say there’s a serious side behind all the pedaling and socialising.

“As sheep and beef farmers we often work as individuals and get

trapped in our own little world,” Shand said.

“I used to be terrible at getting off the farm. We’d go down to a beach house for a few days and I’d come back half way through to open the gate and move the sheep then drive back down again because no one else could open a gate like I could. Anything that gets you out of that mindset is a positive.”

Smith said “Biking has been a huge change for me.

“In farming it’s possible to be your own worst boss because you live where you work. You might have a weekend off but you look out the window and see something that needs fixing.

There’s always another task in farming. It’s so hard to just drive down the road and put it behind you.

“No-one ever used to talk about wellbeing in farming. We’ve always talked endlessly about stock, pastures and fertilisers but

staying well is an important part of farming too.

“The health stats in our industry aren’t flash.

“There are more financial pressures in farming now too.

It’s a bigger game so we need to adopt a different mentality and do whatever it takes to make sure farmers get regular breaks. It just brightens you up and makes you feel better. Both of the events we organised were very simple to do. The hardest thing was getting started.

“The challenges in farming are never going away so we’ve got to look after ourselves because who else is going to do it? Getting people together. It all starts there.

Even if you’re part of a good community you’ve got to push yourself to do things,” Smith said.

RANGIATEA PERENDALES 2200

NZ Standard Maternal Worth (NZMW)

2000

2000

1800

1800

1600

1600

1400

1400

Cents

1200 1000 800

iatea

Rang

400 200 0 -200 2007

Pere

Dual

600

s ndale

urpo

P

lock

ZF se N

1200

ge

a Aver

1000 800 600

Winner of NZ Sheep Industry Award for Maternal Trait Leader for Lamb Survival 2016

400 200 0 -200

2007

2009

2011

2013

2015

2017

Enquiries: Blair C Gallagher Rangiatea 8RD, Ashburton Ph/Fax 03 303 9819 Mob 021 0223 1522

CHEVIOT RAMS available for hogget mating

AVERAGE ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH MAKE PROGRESS WITH US.

LK0099317©

2200

GET SET: They’re ready to Pedal for Pleasure.

is the official media partner of Farmstrong

News

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

19

Muller: Labour wants ag gone Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz THE Government does not see agribusiness as part of the future of New Zealand’s economy, National Party agriculture spokesman Todd Muller says.

And the freshwater reforms are potentially damaging to the rural community, he told about 200 people at a meeting in Ashburton.

He is wary of new rules without factoring in the potential economic impact.

“You can only get sustainable, enduring outcomes if farmers can see a way they can farm to their limits.

“Economic, social and environmental implications are all perspectives that need to be in communications.

“That’s why we are pushing back very hard and will do if we are in government after September next year.”

Also on his hit list are several other policy objectives including climate change, the Zero Carbon Bill and Emissions Trading Scheme.

“There has been an onslaught of compliance and policy objectives that don’t have farming interests at heat and that’s because Labour believes the vision for this

economy is away from primary industries.”

Muller said it goes back 20 years to Helen Clark’s vision agriculture is a sunset industry.

“I think it comes from a fundamental philosophy held by the Labour Party that the NZ economy must diversify from its historic dependence on agriculture.

“Yes, they have backed off capital gains tax, environment tax, fertiliser tax, nutrient tax, water tax but the core of their desire is to re-orientate the economy.”

Wrapped in climate change is that agriculture in particular has to change.

“Never mind that there are no tools at our disposal to meet their proposed targets.”

Muller said the Government has finally decided it will be better to work with farmers than against them on the ETS. “ETS from the National Party perspective is that the food we produce in NZ is the most environmentally friendly, our farmers are world leaders and we will talk with industry about how we can amplify that.

“Let’s get some perspective on where we sit, what we can do to do better and what government can do to help.”

Muller said he is not suggesting

ONSLAUGHT: Todd Muller says sustainable outcomes are only achievable if farmers can see a way to farm to their limits.

Over time there will be a consequence where we need to include genetic editing in conversation with customer expectation and comfort.

Todd Muller National Party

pressures to improve should go away.

“The best way to do better is with good data, good technology, time and investments in good systems that allow change to happen, driven by communities as that’s how we will get success.

“Your farms are living demonstrations that if you can see a way to do better you will do it. This is a story that this Government does not understand or respect.”

Muller sees no need to spend the next five years designing a tax system.

“Instead, National will make the solution about tools for farmers.”

So what role will gene editing play in coming up with solutions to reduce greenhouse gas?

“Simon (Bridges) has signalled we are open to strategic conversation.

“Over time there will be a consequence where we need to include GE in conversation with customer expectation and comfort.

“At the moment there is a gap.

The clean, green view is still important but we need to have the conversation to at least test the customer view.

“In future I believe the gap will close,” Muller said.

FIND OUT: National Party primary industries spokesman Todd Muller says while the clean green view is important the gene editing conversation needs to be had in future at least to test the customer view.

Bill to bolster biosecurity Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz A MEMBERS Bill lodged last week will allow border officials to refuse entry to visitors who knowingly bring with them products that breach our biosecurity laws.

The National Party’s Clutha Southland MP Hamish Walker says his Bill is similar to that recently introduced in Australia, which, according to the Stock Journal, has seen two Vietnamese nationals turned around at the border in the last two months for carrying undeclared pork products.

The Bill also proposes increasing fines at the border from $400 to $1000 for those breaching biosecurity laws.

“Prevention is key in

protecting our borders and if offenders are deterred further by the risk of heavier fines or even entry refusal we are further protecting our country,” Walker said.

The Bill must be drawn in a ballot before it can enter the Parliamentary process.

Walker says the biosecurity risk to NZ is increasing as visitor numbers have risen 35% in the last 10 years and more recently Mycoplasma bovis, Queensland fruit fly, myrtle rust and velvet leaf have all breached NZ biosecurity checks.

With African swine fever making its way through Asia towards Australia, Walker says his Bill aims to provide greater protection to the primary sector from such diseases.

“Priced for YOUR profit”

Full range of hay and straw supplements 20 Yrs quality service & delivery

Fibre for Animal Health & Profitability

Call Neville 027 500 3554 • BJ 021 051 5149 • Office 07 827 0105 • Farm direct unit loads

LK0099279©

“Try us , you’ll like us”

News

20 THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

Farm moves can cut gas and nitrates Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz

LOWER: Less nitrogen and fewer cattle will help lower greenhouse gases and nitrates in waterways hand in hand, farm environment consultant Alison Dewes says.

ALL YOUR ON FARM WATER NEEDS IN ONE PLACE. TALK TO US TODAY. Reticulation, storage, stockwater and more.

Visit your local Farmlands store for the best products, biggest range and even better service.

To find out more visit www.farmlands.co.nz

ON-FARM solutions to lower nitrates and, by default, nitrous oxide gases are also a good way to ensure farming holds up to public scrutiny, farm environment consultant Alison Dewes says.

There is a strong social-licence angle in pursuing environmental efforts on water quality and greenhouse gases.

Farmers being seen to be making efforts across both areas will only aid farming’s continuing acceptability to society, regardless of the science dynamic.

“It really has to pass the front page test now,” Dewes said.

She has compiled a matrix of management options that hit the right notes for lowering nitrate losses in waterways and lowering gas emissions.

They include lower stocking rates, doing away with winter grazing, lower nitrogen fertiliser and greater reliance on mixed forages and legumes.

There will also be very few farmers who will argue against planting more trees that help reduce a farm’s gas footprint.

Just getting all farmers to compile farm environment plans, as required under water and greenhouse gas proposals, will be a good start.

“As they come to understand their businesses better they can question some of the things they are doing on specific parts of the farm. For example, why am I walking my cows up this steep section, just to harvest 4t drymatter every year? It may be better in trees and more profitable.”

Dewe’s modelling has shown there are significant profits to be made by making integrated changes to reduce waterway nitrates and gases in tandem.

In her best case, farm operating profit is up 48%.

However, she maintains a reduction in stocking rates, the single biggest driver of both nitrate losses and gases, still has a long way to go nationally.

“There has been so much noise about the impact of lowered stocking rates on profit when in fact you take a lot of stress out of the system.”

Her modelling indicates a drop of 18% in stocking rate delivered a 14% increase in per cow production.

“But it seems looking around the country cow numbers are staying about the same, when some areas could drop by 15%.”

DairyNZ has a dozen commercial dairy farms involved in its Partnership Farm Project, studying the effects of lowering dairy farms’ nutrient losses to waterways and gas footprints.

So far the results of only one, Owl Farm at St Peters School near Cambridge, have been released.

There has been so much noise about the impact of lowered stocking rates on profit when in fact you take a lot of stress out of the system Alison Dewes Farm environment consultant They highlight the relationship between lowering gases and waterway nitrate losses and support the options Dewes has presented.

Changes to management have included halving bought-in feed, a 5% lower stocking rate and greater on-farm cropping.

All served to lower nitrogen losses to waterways by 14%, cut gases by 1t a hectare to 12.5t a hectare and ultimately lift farm operating profit by 14%.

A DairyNZ spokesman said the Government’s initiative to require all farms to have a farm environment plan containing a greenhouse gas component will provide the industry with a meta data source.

Analysing that data will grow knowledge of managing links between waterway nitrates and greenhouse gases including nitrous oxide.

“If you can measure this data you can monitor it and ultimately you can improve it.”

Contact us FAR_09299

Farmlands are proud stockists of;

Editor: Bryan Gibson Twitter: farmersweeklynz Email: farmers.weekly@globalhq.co.nz Free phone: 0800 85 25 80 DDI: 06 323 1519

News

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

21

Gas meters are still years away Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz MODELS that compare farm inputs against production look the most likely tool farmers will have to measure their greenhouse gases.

There is no economically viable technology to specifically measure greenhouse gas emissions so farmers will have to input a host of data into a calculator such as Overseer, which will then generate an emission figure.

Technology to specifically measure farm emissions is a long way off, Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium manager Mark Aspin says.

“The idea that you can put a laser on a farm and say ‘these are my emissions’ given the nature of farms, given the complexity of farming, it is unlikely.”

Last week the primary sector and the Government agreed to price emissions from 2024 in return for the sector not joining the Emissions Trading Scheme.

Incentives for early adopters will be offered and carbon dioxide offsetting from small tree lots, riparian areas and natural cover will be recognised.

Between now and then systems will be developed to measure farm emissions along with investment in technology and techniques to lower those emissions.

Aspin says 85% of ruminant emissions stem from the volume of feed eaten by livestock, which also drives nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen discharged onto pasture.

“If they eat more, there will be more emissions.”

The theory behind the modelling is well understood and accepted globally.

“There is confidence these are true numbers.”

Should a vaccine or methane inhibitor be discovered it can easily be incorporated into an assessment model.

RECKONING: Farmers will use models that use farm data to calculate a greenhouse gas emissions figure till other tools are available, Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium manager Mark Aspin says.

There is confidence these are true numbers.

Mark Aspin Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium NIWA principal atmospheric scientist Mike Harvey says it could be two years before a product to measure greenhouse gas emissions is ready but even then it is unlikely every farmer will own one.

The organisation is working with other agencies to develop an open path absorption system, effectively

a machine that analyses the air to measure levels of methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide.

It is not technology that will be used regularly but as a stocktake or verification of a farm’s emission profile by a consultant or contractor.

Another approach is to install measuring points around a property and use wind variability to gather data on emission rates.

Others want to use satellites to gather emissions data.

Harvey says eventually the price and design of measuring devices will reduce.

“You could see technology evolve and ultimately be more cost-effective for individual farmers.”

Overseer has been developed to assess farm emissions and has added a tool that allows farmers

to estimate the amount of carbon being sequestered by trees on their farm.

Chief executive Caroline Read said the capability has been added to OverseerFM and allows a farmer to enter the data on the size, species and age of a block of trees.

It then compares that to a Ministry for Primary Industries table on sequestering rates of trees to calculate the rate of carbon absorption.

Read says OverseerFM can already analyse greenhouse gas emissions using data such as stock numbers and type, farm, topography, soil type and fertiliser use.

“It gives you a breakdown of emissions and where they come from,” Read says.

Modelling also allows a farmer

to assess the impact on emissions of changes in management or farm practices.

Work continues on the development of inhibitors and farming systems that can reduce gas emissions.

There are indications the herb plantain has lower nitrous oxide emissions than a ryegrass-clover mix and Waikato University biogeochemistry Professor Louis Schipper is part of a research group using sophisticated technology to test that theory.

Aspin says a project to identify low-methane rams is under way in conjunction with AgResearch and Beef + Lamb Genetics, which could reduce emissions by 1% to 2% each generation.

Other work on inhibitors and vaccines is continuing but are still many years away, he said.

FOR DAIRY FARM BUILDINGS THAT HELP YOU MANAGE YOUR EFFLUENT STORAGE, COME SEE US AT THE

EFFLUENT & ENVIRONMENT EXPO SITE 24 0800 298 324 www.aztechbuildings.co.nz

News

22 THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

Water-gas link needs more work Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz CLEARER direction on water quality and greenhouse gas policies means farmers might be able to leverage off nitrates to improve both in a relatively short time frame.

The link between lower nitrate in waterways and reduced losses of it as nitrous oxide to the atmosphere can be strongly influenced by some farm management decisions, Waikato University freshwater scientist Professor Troy Baisden said.

Linking greenhouse gas and freshwater policies is timely and more closely integrating them could help farmers work towards achieving the new regulatory demands quicker and more seamlessly.

Nitrogen from livestock converts to nitrate in soils that can enter waterways through leaching and to nitrous oxide gas released into the atmosphere.

Nitrous oxide represents about 20% of all farm gas emissions with methane making up the rest.

But its global warming potential is significantly greater than methane.

While methane has a global warming potential of 28-36 times more than carbon dioxide on a 100-year time-scale, nitrous oxide has a warming potential of 265300 times carbon dioxide.

It also lasts far longer with a life in the atmosphere of about 110

years compared to methane’s 15 years.

“Except for destocking, progress on methane requires a very big silver bullet that can be developed only by big, government-funded science.

“In contrast, nitrous oxide can be dealt with at a farm management level now.”

But nitrous oxide is invisible and expensive to measure. Yet most of the solutions are very similar to what farmers will be considering to reduce nitrate leaching.

Traditionally, reducing nitrate losses means lower stocking rates, less bought-in feed and lower nitrogen fertiliser application.

But emerging solutions include alternative feeds such as plantain or diverse pastures and rethinking practices when paddocks are wet.

“The wins come from limiting the extent of excess nitrogen, mainly from urine patches, in very wet soils.

“It’s the amount of demand beyond what plant and soil can take up that matters so small reductions or changes in timing can make a big difference.”

Better nitrate management will deliver a win-win-win in terms of keeping nitrates in the soil rather than waterways, improved production and lower gas losses from farms.

But Baisden is concerned much of New Zealand’s modelling on nitrates and nitrous oxide gas has

GAS IT: Professor Troy Baisden is concerned by the disconnect between greenhouse gas research and water quality.

The researchers asked regional councils, not farmers, what to model. Farmers risk being left to sort through an accumulation of information and risk facing people who are basically trying to sell them snake oil to solve the problems.

Professor Troy Baisden Waikato University been done in isolation.

“There are people running nitrous oxide models nationally that should also be including nitrate leaching too but I don’t see that happening. The challenge is how do we get the two connected?”

Past reports trying to link the two have also involved complete land use change as a solution when farmers are instead looking at how they can farm better to

achieve the reductions.

“My feeling is past work hasn’t looked in detail at what innovative mitigation on-farm may evolve.

The researchers asked regional councils, not farmers, what to model.

“Farmers risk being left to sort through an accumulation of information and risk facing people who are basically trying to sell them snake oil to solve the problems – farmers will demand a better job from universities and researchers to sort through the sales pitches.”

This is going to also involve some sort of validation of technology claiming to help farmers.

“What farmers can do is consider how they can reduce these nitrogen losses as part of farm environment plans.”

It might also help to start talking about how that creates value, either through production gains or using less fertiliser or by feeding into ways to get a certification label for environmental performance that adds value to products.

He believes Overseer might be better set up to estimate gases than water quality parameters.

“The greenhouse gases are driven by farm-scale data such as cow numbers, all scaled up to a national inventory.

“However, it is harder to put in individual on-farm mitigation inputs and calculate how much we reduce nitrates by doing so.”

He hopes the top 20% of farmers who understand how to get farm environment plans in place and to optimise them will help lead the rest of the sector.

“Researchers and academics like myself will contribute but the solutions have to come from farmers at a farm level.”

Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium general manager Mark Aspin said research on nitrates and nitrous oxide relationships is thin on the ground but is an area demanding greater attention.

“By reducing nitrate losses in soils you have the potential to reduce nitrous oxide.

“But with nitrous oxide it is only lost under certain conditions, such as fully waterlogged soils, colder conditions and off urine spots after heavy rain.

“Generally, the losses are greatest over autumn-winter and more the further south you go.”

DON’T LET SUCCESS OR FAILURE COME DOWN TO THE WIRE. Only fencing wire that carries the WIREMARK guarantee is 100% made and tested in New Zealand for this country’s harsh farming conditions. So make sure you ask for WIREMARK, the fencing wire that’s as tough and wiry as a local fencer. To find out more, visit wiremark.co.nz, call 0800 7227 8335 or email info@pacificsteel.co.nz

MADE TOUGH AND WIRY IN NEW ZEALAND

News

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

23

Lessons learned from Tasman fires Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz AS RECORD temperatures scythe through the country rural firefighters are anxious the lessons learned from this year’s Tasman fire are acted on sooner rather than later.

The review of the Tasman fire that ripped through 2300ha last February was released in late October and was generally favourable about how emergency services responded.

Lessons learned and applied from the Christchurch Port Hills fire a year earlier included more streamlined systems for communications between agencies alongside more regular training.

The 46-page report was written by the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council.

The Tasman fire was created by sparks from farm machinery in a paddock next to a forest and came after a deep-seated drought and heatwave in the area.

Farm Forestry Association and Forest Owners Association joint fire committee chairman Sean McBride said implementing recommendations is now well overdue.

The two key areas of attention are about mitigation and management of fires.

Key mitigation recommendations include having strategic and tactical fire management plans in every region, backed by greater public education on fire risks.

What we were surprised by was the belief by some that this was a one-off event when, in fact, with climate change and higher temperatures this is likely to be more common than that.

Sean McBride Farm Forestry Association and Forest Owners Association It was also recommended Fire and Emergency NZ establish a set of risk reduction guidelines around heat and spark activities that apply to all parts of the

community, not just to forestry.

“The Tasman fires started when farmland was being cultivated in Pigeon Valley and then spread into forest.

“Forest harvesting crews in the area had stopped working because they were following the Forest Fire Risk Management Guidelines, which showed the fire risk was too high to continue working. There needs to be a lesson taken from that.

“What we were surprised by was the belief by some that this was a one-off event when, in fact, with climate change and higher temperatures this is likely to be more common than that,” McBride said.

FENZ has recommended every region develop a mix of air, ground and incident management teams and machines to put on standby when fire risk is high.

“For Tasman we were bringing in resources from across the country.

“The issue is not getting the resources, it is what will happen if you have multiple incidents at one time. It does not just include people but also choppers, trucks and machinery.”

The Tasman fire used 23 helicopters and two fixed-wing planes. The early availability

URGENT: Reforming fire mitigation and management plans is now well overdue, foresters’ fire spokesman Sean McBride says.

of aircraft in Pigeon Valley was thought to be key to the effective early suppression of fires. It is recommended a national capacity to locate and manage suitable aircraft for fires be established.

McBride said forestry companies also have a deep resource of people keen to be skilled in fighting fires.

There are also more things pastoral landowners can do to mitigate risk factors, including

digging more firebreaks around edges of properties and having a good supply of dedicated water on hand.

But McBride also wants to see rural firefighting authorities have a greater advocacy voice at the FENZ table.

“I know FENZ are in the process of establishing land management forums in the future where farmers and forest owners can get together to look at issues locally.”

HC SKP1511

Ron breaks-out his summer look.

Red Bandals. Available in Adult, Children and Junior sizes from leading rural retailers and selected hardware retailers nationwide. www.redband.co.nz

News

24 THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

Wool stains could stop processing DYE-STAINED wool unsuitable for scouring could be problem for years because of the high volume being stored, New Zealand Woolscouring chief executive Nigel Hales says.

“We’d only be guessing how much wool there is out there but feedback from field reps is that every motorbike they see has a can of spray on it.”

The dye stains in wool cannot be scoured out and a lot of wool is now not being scoured at all though Hales said the amount is not material given the overall volumes.

The staining could be potentially disastrous for the industry because it could stop processing of wool in its tracks, National Council of Wool Interests chairman John Dawson said.

“If this happened it would be very, very expensive to alleviate.”

It could be worse than it is because he believes a lot of wool stored on farms over the last few years of low prices has been moving through the supply chain.

The problem is not affecting huge quantities of wool but the problem is increasing.

“But this branding on the wool needs to be stamped out at the source.

“Any product that can get through the wool like this should be removed from the marketplace though I’m not sure how we get that done.”

The council will be discussing the issue at its national conference this week.

Hales said a range of sprays and raddles is causing problems rather than just one type or brand.

The issue could be easily and quickly solved if farmers and livestock scanners marked the top of the nose or the ears of the sheep and make sure they avoid the wool.

Feedback from field reps is that every motorbike they see has a can of spray on it.

Nigel Hales NZ Woolscouring “The way of marking sheep has to change.”

Present practises might involve a dot on the wool or a 20cm stripe and neither of those can wash out.

Affected wool needs to be removed on the sorting table in the shearing shed.

Brokers and exporters are doing their absolute best to make sure the message is getting to wool growers, Hales said.

A major concern for NZ Woolscouring is that there appears to be no formal standard for marking sheep.

“A standard was written in 1992 but it’s never been policed or

UNACCEPTABLE: Staining on wool must be stamped out at source – on farms, New Zealand Woolscouring chief executive Nigel Hales says.

adhered to and there’s no Ministry for Primary Industries regulation on it.’’

NZ Woolscouring’s chief operating officer Tony Cunningham said the marker products being used might be the correct ones but being used in the wrong way.

There are reports that a small number of wool shipments are being reviewed, which could be

put back on the farmer to meet claims.

Dawson, the chief executive at exporter NZ Wool Services International, said traceability means the liability could be put back to growers but as an industry you don’t want to be doing that.

“We just need to stamp it out.

It can be easily done if everyone does the right thing.”

Dawson said it is irrelevant if

wool is scoured domestically or overseas.

Most wool is scoured here but farmers need to stop it before it reaches that point.

The stained wool is mainly a North Island problem but has started to show up in the South Island, where shearing typically starts a bit later.

“We’re not sure what to expect,” Hales said.

When it comes to yield, don’t rely on luck - use your swede and reap the rewards!

With a weighted build-up coating, Ultrastrike® pelleted swede seed is designed to be precision drill planted, a method proven to maximise yield through even distribution and consistent growth.

Increase your yield and bottom line with the market leading pelleted swede technology. Ask your local retailer for PGG Wrightson Seeds Ultrastrike® pelleted swede seed in Hawkestone, Clutha Gold or Major Plus cultivars. *

Call 0800 805 505 | Visit pggwrightsonseeds.com

*Based on Cleancrop™ Hawkestone swede crop at 19,000 kgDM/ha grown for $1,400/ha.

Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz

News

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

25

Data horsepower lies in the cloud Harnessing the horsepower of global cloud computing services on a pay-as-you-go basis is becoming a go-to option for New Zealand agri-tech firms wanting to either scale up their research capability or make the leap to be an international software provider. Richard Rennie spoke to the head of Amazon Web Services in NZ about what it means for agriculture.

FOR the past few months giant cloud computing company Amazon Web Services has been working on increasing information technology workers’ capabilities in cloud computing applications and expanding the services available to growing companies.

Working with the likes of LIC, looking at problem-solving in different ways, we have been able to provide technology platforms to solve those problems at a scale not available previously.

READY TO GO: Farmers already monitor things like soil, water and production and the Internet of Things means people can now connect to the data they generate, New Zealand IoT Alliance chief executive Kriv Naicker says.

Tim Dacombe-Bird Amazon Web Services

significant sector of AWS’s focus in re-education.

“What we have found is the agri-tech sector has an incredible amount of passion rooted in the culture with very deep levels of knowledge and skill. Working with the likes of LIC, looking at problem-solving in different ways, we have been able to provide technology platforms to solve those problems at a scale not available previously.”

Dairy herd genetics generates millions of data points that combined can provide valuable insights to individual animal, herd and national performance.

But that volume also makes processing the data in large amounts challenging.

The elasticity of cloud computing enables companies to scale up almost immediately to swallow data for processing and analysis, without the physical and

financial commitment to more servers.

LIC chief executive Wayne McNee said the organisation has more than a billion pieces of farm data stored on an AWS cloud that has significantly shortened the time taken to analyse data from different sources across the farm, providing real-time insights through its MINDA application, enabling farmers to make quicker, more informed decisions.

As genomic research advances cloud computing is now enabling researchers to more closely examine the bovine genome and its three billion base pairs since it was unravelled in 2009.

“The challenge has been how to get insights from data. We have built at scale analytic platforms that allow customers to analyse their data at scale and keep it at scale. This provides them with greater insights to their research

Will Jackson Piquet Hill Farms, Te Akau

Will Jackson Phone 07 825 4480 william@piquethillfarms.co.nz 0

because they are taking much greater amounts of data to study,” Dacombe-Bird said.

Other data-rich companies capturing cloud storage and systems in the agri-tech sector are GPS-IT, Fonterra and farm financial company Figured.

Fonterra alone every millisecond gets data from one of 900,000 sensors in manufacturing plants and cloud storage has given it the elasticity to compute and hold that data.

All too frequently NZ agri-tech firms fall into something known as the valley of death where postlaunch sales of a proven software system fail to hit the critical volume needed to start generating a reasonable profit.

Dacombe-Bird said AWS has identified 1200 software companies in NZ. “We can work off our platforms to help them optimise their

business in terms of scale so if they do find their customer base expands rapidly, using our platforms they can scale up easily.”

Using a third party also saves on expansion costs and provides the technology to deal with cyber security.

The Internet of Things is estimated to be capable of adding $570 million to the economy and will also benefit by having cloud computing support.

“With agriculture there is a legacy of monitors for soils, weather, production and water already in place and IoT means they now have the ability to be connected and data generated from them,” NZ IoT Alliance chief executive Kriv Naicker says.

MORE: PULPIT P33

Why use Piquet Hill Genetics?

- FE testing at 0.68mg per kg live weight - 35 years of FE testing - No drench policy for ewes - 2 year guarantee for structure and soundness - Lifetime guarantee for facial eczema

Romney – Maternal Composite Perendale – Suffolk

LK0099233©

It claims to have about 34% of all cloud computing capacity, putting it ahead of the likes of Microsoft, Google and IBM. New Zealand country manager Tim Dacombe-Bird said the tech sector is going through a reskilling process as cloud computing grows. More staff need to be upskilled on the manipulation and development of applications now able to be performed thanks to the almost unlimited capacity of cloud computing networks.

“The old days where people would be deployed in tech is not the way of the future. The traditional method of racking and stacking multiple servers has definitely gone now.”

With the heavy lifting of computer capacity now done by the likes of AWS it should free up technology staff to do different things.

AWS has been working on a selfset goal of reskilling 60,000 people in NZ over three years, with its first year target of 16,000 due to be met comfortably.

Dacombe-Bird says NZ’s tech sector is valued at about $9 billion and in that the agri-tech sector recorded about $1.4 billion of exports in 2018. It also forms a

ULTRAVAC. NOW WITH FUEL INJECTION.

ZOE0075

New Zealand farmers have trusted Ultravac® for decades. Now there’s even more reason to make it your vaccine of choice. Developed for sheep, Ultravac 5+1 has added vitamin B12 to support ewe performance and enhance lamb growth.

It’s also available with selenium for extra immune support.

Give them the jump start they need with Ultravac 5+1 B12 or Ultravac 5+1 Se B12.

ONLY AVAILABLE FROM YOUR LOCAL VET. Zoetis New Zealand Limited Tel: 0800 963 847, www.zoetis.co.nz. ULTRAVAC is a registered trade mark of Zoetis. ACVM No. A11606 and A11607.

News

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

27

Foresters resist anti-tree pressure Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz

GROWTH: Peter Weir says foresters want to push back against resistance to tree planting.

to confront claims about wholesale afforestation.

“The large United States and NZ Super fund forest owners, for example, are not expanding their operations.

Much of the sale of forest land is between foresters, it’s a bit of a forest-go-round.

“Then you have the likes of Roger Dickie at the other end, actually doing more planting and being named and slammed for it.

“But all foresters are concerned over their licence to operate. Forestry is actually employing more people in these areas than pastoral farming.”

Groups like 50 Shades of Green have been particularly active on social and mainstream media raising concerns over recent farm property sales to forest companies.

Forestry NZ head Julie Collins said 19 approvals were made in the year to the end of August under the special forestry investment test. Of those eight involved farmland totalling 14,000ha, of which 8000ha went into trees, the rest being subdivided to remain in pasture.

Weir said that was only the equivalent of a typical high country sheep and beef farm and far from the vast swathes such groups have claimed.

“We have tried to take the high ground on this but we are also a broad church with a variety of people calling for more push-back, some for less.”

But Weir acknowledged the pressure being put on available land for forestry.

“Resource management law means we cannot plant in water-short areas including Canterbury and Otago while red zones of erodible country are only there for carbon planting. Tolaga Bay has also made this complicated and pushed people onto better hill country land.”

That is why the perceived conflict is being seen particularly in the lower North Island.

“But if you are a farmer who has been farming for 30 years and you are offered an extra few thousand a hectare from

a forestry company, you are going to want to take it.”

The portion of land bought for foreign-owned forestry is a fraction of the value of the dairy sector where sales of Mataura Valley, NZ New Milk and Westland were all foreign and four times greater than the total for forestry but lacked the same media excitement.

A lack of foreign investment in NZ forestry will leave the sector bereft, given overseas investors’ preparedness to wait a number of years for their investment to mature.

EXPERT LOCALS.

NATIONWIDE REACH.

If you’re selling or buying, talk to your local expert PGG Wrightson Livestock representative for more information about the benefits of trading on bidr.co.nz

0096008

71.67x200 Agrievents 2019

agrievents Saturday 7th December Whangarei A&P Show Venue: Barge Showgrounds Time: 9am- 4.30pm Come along to the Show for the annual competitions, stalls, great food, performances and demonstrations.

Visit: whangareishow.co.nz AWDT Future Focus programme Programmes designed for red meat farming partners to plan their business together. 2 full-day workshops delivered over two months.

Delivered in 20 locations around NZ, registrations for 2020 are now open, visit the website for dates, locations and to register.

Website: To register visit www.awdt.org.nz/ programmes Contact: keri@awdt.org.nz or 06 375 8180 for more info AWDT Understanding Your Farming Business & Wahine Maia, Wahine Whenua Programmes designed for red meat farming women. 3 full-day workshop and an evening graduation ceremony run over four months.

Delivering in 40 locations around NZ, registrations for 2020 are now open, visit the website for dates, locations and to register.

Website: To register visit www.awdt.org.nz/ programmes Contact: keri@awdt.org.nz or 06 375 8180 for more info

LK0096008©

A NATIONAL television advertisement might signal a longer campaign to push back against anti-forestry pressure in rural areas over trees shoving farming from the rural landscape.

A recent episode of Country Calendar ran a revamped advertisement sponsored by NZ Wood, emphasising how time is running out on runaway global warming.

It reiterated how fastgrowing trees are the most effective way to fight climate change by sucking carbon from the atmosphere.

The advertisement had been pulled by the group after a complaint was laid against the initial version that claimed fast growing trees were the only effective way to fight climate change.

But the Advertising Standards Authority did not uphold the complaint laid by F Hore in late September.

Hore said the advertisement was misleading because it suggested there was only one solution to stop global warming, by selling farms and planting as forests.

It raised issues of advocacy advertising, truthful presentation and environmental claims.

But foresters said the statement should be kept in the context of forestry being the only effective means of carbon capture and was qualified by stating “at this time”. And it specified “fast growing trees”.

The authority found as advocacy advertising the advert was not misleading.

Forest Owners Association president Peter Weir said foresters decided to pull the advertisement while the appeal was in process and had only now put it back on air.

The one tweak was the removal of “only” in the phrase fast growing trees were the only effective way and replacing it with “most” effective way.

“Of course, there are other options there (to reduce global warming) such as doing away with hydrocarbons or removing all cattle but trees are the realistic, viable method,” Weir said.

Foresters are taking a wait-and-see approach on further campaigning using the advertisement and other communications.

The association has also ramped up its push-back against groups claiming forests are eclipsing pastoral farming.

But Weir acknowledged association members are all over the place on how best

Should your important event be listed here?

Phone 0800 85 25 80 or email adcopy@globalhq.co.nz

News

28 THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

Three young leaders take out awards Riley Kennedy riley.kennedy@globalhq.co.nz THREE Young Farmers members have won excellence awards for outstanding contributions to the organisation.

The awards are designed to recognise members who are leaders, achievers and role models.

“The one thing they had in common was that they have all inspired those around them,” Young Farmers chief executive Lynda Coppersmith said.

Franklin young farmers chairwoman and business owner

Lisa Kendall was rewarded for her outstanding leadership and contribution to the food and fibre sector.

Kendall owns Nurture Farms, where she is developing sheep milk soap and plans to expand into cheese and produce manufacturing next year.

The 27-year-old said winning the award was a surprise.

“I think it’s really awesome just looking at past winners in previous years. It’s so cool to hear their stories so it’s cool to be on the same level as them, just a group of inspiring people,” she says.

WINNERS: Young Farmers excellence awards recipients are, from left, Kahila Fryer, William Robertson and Lisa Kendall.

Tikikino young farmer Kahila Fryer was recognised for her efforts in convening the 2019 FMG Young Farmer of the Year contest.

“It’s my fellow friends and peer group that put my name forward so it’s quite an honour really.”

Fryer is on Hawke’s Bay Netball’s board.

“It’s a way of me expanding my governance skills and contributing as a youth and a woman in leadership.”

Massey university agriculture student William Robertson won the award for his impressive academic ability.

He’s studying for an agricommerce degree majoring in international agribusiness with scholarships from DairyNZ, FMG and Massey University and was the Qualifications Authority’s top agriculture and horticultural science student at high school.

Robertson is in China studying on a Prime Minister’s

Scholarship for a semester and as part of another Prime Minister’s Scholarship will join an agricultural group going to Thailand in January.

Coppersmith said “I’m so proud of the work that our members do to support their communities on top of growing and developing their own careers.

“We are surrounded by so many inspiring young leaders doing amazing things in the agricultural space.”

Two kiwis named in Zanda award at Fonterra in Auckland. He is actively involved in industry groups including Worksafe, Future Food Network and Young Farmers.

Moyle is a Nuffield Scholar and Agriculture Victoria vet. Her main focus is on biosecurity and animal health, checking the health of livestock and unexplained disease.

Award chairman Richard Rains said “It would be an understatement to say that these young individuals are doing great things in agriculture.

“The achievements they’re all making in their given fields are nothing short of exceptional.

The winner, to be named at

IN THE RUNNING: The finalists for the Zanda McDonald award are kiwis Jack Raharuhi and James Robertson and Australian Elle Moyle.

the Platinum Primary Producers conference in Christchurch on March 31, gets a personal

development package including mentoring by industry leaders and travel that includes chartered

flights on a private jet to reach remote and diverse farming operations around Australasia.

1

ter gement of Wa mmer Mana n Genetics Su Breeding & November

Have you read Dairy Farmer yet?

The latest Dairy Farmer hit letterboxes on November 4, have you read yours?

Our OnFarmStory this month features Invercargill farmers Reza and Silvia Abdul-Jabbar who talk about their Muslim faith and farming.

Breeding and Genetics We check out what options are available for farmers and what mating decisions are being made.

Summer Management of Water and Irrigation It’s getting to that time of year when there is less water around and managing water supply is critical.

& Irrigation

Incl $8.95 GST

2019

rmers Taranaki fa farm proud of Dairy New GM for ards Industry Aw ed support Farmers ne negativity not

Farming h with fait

the lim faith at farmers’ Mus Invercargill nt of everything they do forefro

2460DF-12x7

TWO New Zealanders and an Australian will contest the final of the Zanda McDonald Award.

They are Dr Elle Moyle, Jack Raharuhi and Young Farmer of the Year James Robertson.

Raharuhi worked his way up from dairy assistant to Buller dairy group operations manager for Pamu Farms where he now oversees 10 West Coast dairy farms.

In 2016 he won the Ahuwhenua Young Maori Farmer of the Year Award. He is also heavily involved in coaching, training and mentoring staff as part of the West Coast 2IC development programme.

Robertson is a sales graduate

News

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

29

Another consent for Simons Pass Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz SIMONS Pass Station might now have consent to irrigate part of the Mackenzie Basin farm but owner Murray Valentine says he still faces a lengthy process to have multiple other consents signed off.

An independent commissioner has granted consent to irrigate about 750ha, which already has infrastructure installed.

Mackenzie District Council consent to irrigate was needed because of the landscape features.

“For us it is just about getting things sorted that need to be sorted,” Valentine said.

The 9700ha station is at the southern end of Lake Pukaki between Tekapo and Twizel and since 2005 Valentine has been seeking resource consent to convert part of it to dairying.

That means getting consent to take and use water, discharge effluent, build infrastructure such as dairy sheds and to install a water pipeline.

“It is an ongoing process, a continuation of ticking off one thing after another.”

The property is made up of both freehold land and Crown pastoral lease and is still primarily a beef

Water quality is my number one priority.

You can’t have a farm that degrades water quality.

Murray Valentine Simons Pass Station and sheep farm, with about 1300 beef cattle and calves, 7000 sheep and 840 dairy cows. Milking began in August 2018.

The farm operates as a closed unit in conjunction with a 2000cow dairy farm he owns in North Otago.

Valentine says of the 35,000 stock units, less than a third are dairy cows.

“Dairying is an important part of what we are doing but they are not the main stock units.”

Council records show many of the Simons Pass consents have been appealed against but some were settled and granted in September 2016 and included agreement to set aside 2500ha as a dryland recovery area.

Half of that area is on freehold land and Valentine has agreed to

SMOOTH: Owner Murray Valentine hopes the prolonged consent process for Simons Pass Station will be resolved without court action.

spend $100,000 a year restoring indigenous species.

In addition to that commitment Valentine has also agreed to monthly monitoring of water quality at 10 surface and six ground water sites on the property at a cost of $3000 a month.

His resource consent requires annual monitoring.

“Water quality is my number

one priority. You can’t have a farm that degrades water quality.”

Following conversations with Environment Canterbury Valentine believes the property will meet the water quality thresholds outlined in the Government’s Essential Freshwater reforms.

He wants eventually to milk about 5000 cows through three

sheds and irrigate 4500ha, of which 1500ha will be a dairy platform.

Despite the prolonged process to secure all the necessary resource consents, Valentine, a Dunedin accountant, hopes to avoid litigation with council and ECan as they work through any contentious issues with remaining consents.

30 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

Newsmaker

New head completely immersed in network After 19 years involvement in the Dairy Women’s Network Karen Forlong is excited to be instilling pride and passion in the primary sector and those telling the good stories of dairy farming. She spoke to Annette Scott.

F

ARMING near Atiamuri in Bay of Plenty Karen Forlong has been a Dairy Women’s Network member since it began in 2000 and this month stepped up to head the organisation.

At the annual meeting she took over the role as chairwoman, a position she feels privileged to be in.

“When I first heard I was being given the opportunity it was very overwhelming.

“I was lost for words and that’s not common practice for Karen as anyone who knows me will tell you.

“It’s a privilege to find myself in this situation.”

A self-described inclusive person who brings a wealth of farming and leadership experience to the role, Forlong said it’s all about teamwork.

“I see myself as the conductor of a great orchestra. I’m not actually playing an instrument, I’m just there to bring all of the fabulous components together.”

We need to be louder, prouder, stand as a unified voice and tell New Zealand what we do and how we do it.

Karen Forlong Farmer And having experienced various roles in her almost two decades with the network, Forlong well knows the components across all levels of the organisation that gel for success.

She has done the Agri-Women’s Development Trust Escalator programme, a leadership and governance programme for women involved in primary industries and rural communities, and is chairwoman of Vetora Bay of Plenty, an incorporated society vet club with a 75-year history in the Rotorua area.

That’s all on top of being hands-on in the family farming operation with husband Maurice and their son Mark and daughterin-law Vanessa and their two

young daughters.

While they have been dairy farming 230 hectares milking a 400-Jersey cow herd at Atiamuri for 25 years, Karen and Maurice are first generation on the property.

“We grew up on farms but both went into banking so by the time we decided to go farming the family farms had moved on.

“You could say we have a good grasp of budgets but that doesn’t make them any easier to look at sometimes.”

Her new role means a little more juggling to fit everything in.

“But I do like to be busy. There’s not too many moments when I sit twiddling my thumbs. I’m an active relaxer and I wouldn’t want it any other way.”

After years of working in regional and management support roles with the network Forlong was elected to the board.

“I really appreciate what a great privilege it is to find myself in this position now.”

She says women in dairy can find their sense of belonging in the network.

“It was a phone call from Pattie O’Boyle in 2000 asking me to be part of the first meeting of the regional group for Rotorua that gave me a place to land, a tribe, somewhere that was safe and was a place of trust.”

The network realises life is not a series of silos but is the complexity of many things coming into balance – family, people, the team, the community, animals, environment and financial wellbeing that are all reliant on each other.

“Connection is the cornerstone of a strong culture and our rural communities and the network is a connector as it delivers through face-to-face connections and through technology and online engagement.”

And as place to land it is as relevant today as it was 20 years ago.

“That place needs to feel inclusive, that it will stand with you on your journey, support you, bring to the table the truth and separate the noise from the facts and impart clear and concise knowledge.”

She says the network needs to grow leaders, to be the enabler and the cheerleader behind the

SAFE LANDING: The Dairy Women’s Network gave Karen Forlong a place to land, somewhere that was safe and was a place of trust and she wants to ensure that support continues for other women as she steps up to take the reins as the organisation’s chairwoman.

voices of the future taking on the role as storytellers.

“The industry needs an engaged, full noise voice and one that is consolidated, unified, loud and proud.

“We, as a network, need to be part of the collaborative approach for our future and as women we are intrinsically wired to function in this state so we have a responsibility to use this skill and drive it unrelentingly.”

She knows what it is like to be new to a farming community, having shifted many times in her early years of sharemilking.

“This is why the network is such a brilliant network.

“It’s a great way to meet women in your community who are on your level, women you can really connect with because they are farming, have similar drivers and are often facing the same challenges.

“The network is very inclusive and that support can’t be underestimated during stressful and difficult times.”

Dairying women who put their hands up to run the network’s regional groups are handson farmers themselves with busy workloads that include

juggling farming and family responsibilities.

“We are incredibly respectful of the fact that they give their time freely to the network and other women in their communities to run these groups.”

Forlong has no plan to lead dramatic change.

“It’s not broken, it’s working really well. We are constantly finetuning the operation and placing more and more importance on targeting need and adapting more quickly as need arises.

“It’s all about the people and how we do things slicker and smarter to support them.

“Our key strategy is creating deeper engagement with the people. It’s about extending a hand, not pointing a finger.

“We are world leaders in care of the environment and food production. We need to stand together.

“We have done the best we can for 150 years in farming and all of a sudden there’s change. That doesn’t mean we are going to run off and play golf.

“We refocus, rebuild as a team, we move on. Farmers didn’t set out to lose an environment battle – the game plan has changed.

“We need to be louder, prouder, stand as a unified voice and tell New Zealand what we do, why we do it and how we do it.”

At home Forlong regards getting out on the farm as like having a day off.

“It allows for balance. I head for the hills – work and play, it’s like one big playground.

“I don’t need a gym sub, it’s all rolling hills. I go out to spray a few weeds, get a sweat up – it’s good thinking time too.

“I also have a big garden I do like time to enjoy and I love family time.”

Living the empowerment values of the network prompted Cathy Brown to step down after three years as chairwoman to let Forlong have the same opportunities to grow.

“It’s been such a privilege to be chair of this wonderful organisation that is full of so many passionate, hard-working women,” Brown said.

“It’s the people who really make a difference as we walk alongside our farmers and I’ve experienced such tremendous personal growth in the role it’s now time to vacate knowing the talent in the network has us well placed for the future.”

New thinking

THE NZ FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

31

TASTY: Southland ram breeder Andrew Tripp says progress is being made in improving the genetics of terminal rams to boost eating quality in their offspring.

Breeders boost eating quality Breeders are responding to customers’ desires and positioning the sheep farmers for the day when processors start grading meat for its eating qualities.

Neal Wallace reports.

M

EAT processors don’t recognise eating quality yet but a group of ram breeders is preparing for when they do.

Andrew Tripp from Nithdale Station in Southland is involved in the South Island genomic calibration project, which uses DNA testing to let breeders predict terminal sire rams likely to produce offspring with meat that has superior qualities of tenderness and juiciness.

Other partners in the project include Beef + Lamb Genetics, Pamu, AgResearch, Focus Genetics, Kelso, the Premier Suftex group, the Southern Suffolk group and Beltex NZ. Tripp says measuring and promoting superior eating quality

lamb is the next logical step in differentiating NZ lamb and meeting consumer expectations.

“Customers want a great eating experience, meat that is tender, the right pH, with a long shelf life and great colour, hence the focus on meat quality.”

Central to the project is a flock of 900 ewes run near Manapouri in northern Southland, which have been mated to 45 different rams with known genotyped DNA profiles and supplied by breeders around the country.

A genomic SNP chip, which is integral to the process, was developed by FarmIQ and the International Sheep Genomics Consortium. It enabled the gene responsible for meat yield and quality to be identified.

An AgResearch paper written on the trial said genomic predictions for growth, yield and meat quality in terminal sheep sires need more testing to maintain accuracy and validation of those traits and that is done in the project’s flock.

Lambing dates and weights of stock in the trial are recorded to determine exact growth rates and

IT STARTS HERE: Waikite FocusPrime and Texel rams supplied by Focus Genetics and Pamu in the South Island genomic calibration project to improve meat eating quality.

each lamb is tissue sampled at tailing and genotyped.

“When the lambs are processed the team at AgResearch works with the processor to capture a series of measurements to determine the tenderness and intramuscular fat of each lamb along with pH, meat and fat colour and visual marbling,” it said.

Tripp says meat companies such as Alliance are in the process

of developing technology to test carcases for eating quality attributes while other groups are using genetics and feed to achieve similar goals as the project.

Four years of performance monitoring confirms selecting for eating quality does not affect breeding progress of other desirable terminal sire traits.

Breeders can focus on the meat-eating quality of their top replacement rams, as he is doing,

while ensuring productive traits are not compromised, Tripp said.

“We are making progress in our stud sheep, there is no question.”

Meat quality information is being used to develop a meat quality index for scaling he performance of terminal sires for the specific trait.

Tripp says work is also starting to incorporate eating quality in Sheep Improvement criteria.

“This will enable commercial farmers to breed lambs with better quality meat through buying rams selected for better eating quality.

“Ultimately, the end result is the breeding of the consistently better and more enjoyable eating experience for the consumer.”

Measurable eating quality is another attribute farmers can offer consumers in the face of higher production and compliance costs, extra regulations and competition from artificial proteins and laboratory-grown meat.

“If we market our product as clean and green and environmentally friendly and it is proven to be really good to eat then why wouldn’t people want to buy it?” he said.

MERRY FARMING CHRISTMAS!

Farmer at heart, living in town and dreaming of greener pastures?

Subscribe to the Farmers Weekly or Dairy Farmer to get your agri fix no matter where you live Email: subs@globalhq.co.nz Ph: 0800 85 25 80

farmersweekly.co.nz/subscribe

Farmers Weekly $4 per issue ($196 incl GST / year) Dairy Farmer $8.95/issue ($98.45 incl GST / year) NB Each issue can take up to five days delivery

Opinion

32 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

EDITORIAL

Fonterra’s focus on people not powder

T

HE wall of milk has passed and Fonterra is looking to surf a smaller wave to prosperity.

Building on its strategy renewal announced earlier this year attendees at last week’s annual meeting in Invercargill heard less talk of volume and products and more about people and the environment.

It’s back to basics and it appears they’ve been asking themselves that rudimentary yet vital question every business must ask itself – Why are we here?

It’s not enough to focus on driving volume by building milk pools and adding more and more consumer goods. That’s not why people turn up to work.

Fonterra has had a long look at itself and realised the word health is pivotal to its core – the health of its suppliers and customers and the health of the environment.

Of course, it takes a healthy balance sheet to achieve these things. Any leader will tell you people don’t do the hard yards to add another palate of product to the pile.

They do it to make a difference to someone or something, to make a person or a population healthier, perhaps, or to improve biodiversity.

By identifying its why, the big coop is showing its farmers and New Zealand it is not just focused on milk powder.

It’s focused on the lives of those it touches and the world they live in.

That might sound a bit sappy but it is that emotional connection that keeps people loyal – to the co-operative and to the food it produces.

Last year’s shocking result and the decade-long ebb in its social licence have brought Fonterra to this moment.

So far it seems to have the backing of its farmer-owners. Time will tell if the rest of NZ and the global buying public find it a story they can believe in as well.

Bryan Gibson

LETTERS

Feds misses the point of guns IT WAS encouraging to see Federated Farmers board member Miles Anderson (October 28) firing up at the new firearm laws being rammed through by the coalition Government.

However, Federated Farmers has taken a narrow viewpoint in focusing on pest problems.

The knee-jerk reaction by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Cabinet has resulted in rushed law that flies in the face of proper procedure and democratic principles.

The first reform bill was rammed through in a few days, defying credibility as there were 13,000 submissions. Did select committee members read 13,000 submissions in just three or four days?

Anderson should not be so concerned with pest problems but more with the unfair targeting of firearm owners who enjoy lawful hunting,

often with permission, on farmland. A significant number of farmers are also recreational hunters, often selectively pursuing trophy deer, chamois and tahr.

The targeting of the firearm-owning public at large is discriminatory in that law-abiding citizens are the only ones affected. In the gun buy-back scheme, it would be obvious to all but a fool that law-abiding people would hand firearms in but gangs, criminals and potential terrorists would not.

The Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust has received reports of gangs buying semi-automatic firearms in the North Island and in Marlborough, wellheeled gangs reportedly offering double the money Government will pay. So, the unlawful have added to their arsenals while the lawful public have given up their

semi-automatics.

Virtually all firearms handling and use in New Zealand is legitimate and law-abiding, evidenced by the relatively low number of firearms accidents and homicides. Indeed, homicide statistics show firearms are used in just below 10% of homicides and 90%-plus are weapons other than firearms.

Firearm owners spend an estimated $350-$450 million a year in activities that form NZ’s rural and outdoor way of life.

Recreational hunters harvest an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 big game animals a year (deer, pigs, tahr and chamois) and literally millions of other wild animals (rabbits, hares, wallabies, goats, possums, ducks, geese and mustelids).

Recreational hunters make a massive contribution to ecological management and

to population management of wild animals, which need annual harvesting for the farming industry and to keep numbers below carrying capacity on public land.

Nobody disagrees with practical and sensible measures to actually improve public safety.

But the Ides of March this year was a mass massacre by a non-New Zealander with such meticulously premeditated, murderous intent and, significantly, access to the four or so firearms he needed to complete his grisly mission.

He was granted a firearms licence by police despite obvious irregularities that should have triggered warning signals to investigate his background as reportedly he was on Australia’s watch list.

Laurie Collins Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust Westport

Letterof theWeek EDITOR Bryan Gibson 06 323 1519 bryan.gibson@globalhq.co.nz EDITORIAL Stephen Bell 06 323 0769 editorial@globalhq.co.nz Neal Wallace 03 474 9240 neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz Colin Williscroft 06 323 1561 colin.williscroft@globalhq.co.nz Annette Scott 03 308 4001 annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz Hugh Stringleman 09 432 8594 hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz Alan Williams 03 359 3511 alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz Richard Rennie 07 552 6176 richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz Nigel Stirling 021 136 5570 nigel.g.stirling@gmail.com PUBLISHER Dean Williamson 027 323 9407 dean.williamson@globalhq.co.nz

ADVERTISING Steve McLaren 027 205 1456 Auckland/Northland advertising 09 375 9864 steve.mclaren@globalhq.co.nz Jody Anderson 027 474 6094 Waikato/Bay of Plenty advertising jody.anderson@globalhq.co.nz Donna Hirst 06 323 0739 Lower North Island/international advertising donna.hirst@globalhq.co.nz Sophie Hurley South Island advertising sophie.hurley@globalhq.co.nz Shirley Howard Real Estate advertising shirley.howard@globalhq.co.nz Hannah Gudsell Livestock advertising livestock@globalhq.co.nz

021 605 795 06 323 0760 027 474 6004 06 323 0761 027 602 4925

Debbie Brown 06 323 0765 Classifieds/Employment advertising classifieds@globalhq.co.nz Andrea Mansfield 027 446 6002 Business Development Manager andrea.mansfield@globalhq.co.nz Steph Holloway 06 323 0142 AgriHQ Commercial Leader steph.holloway@globalhq.co.nz PRODUCTION Lana Kieselbach 06 323 0735 Production Manager 027 739 4295 production@globalhq.co.nz Advertising material adcopy@globalhq.co.nz SUBSCRIPTIONS

0800 85 25 80

ISSN 2463-6002 (Print) ISSN 2463-6010 (Online) Circulation: Delivered free to 78,632 farmers from Monday (Current audited circulation figure)

Best letter each week wins a quality Victorinox Hiker knife

So go on!

Stick the knife in WRITE TO The Editor, Farmers Weekly P.O. Box 529, Feilding EMAIL farmers.weekly@globalhq.co.nz • FAX 06 323 7101

LK0096006©

Farmers Weekly is published by GlobalHQ, PO Box 529, Feilding 4740. New Zealand Phone: 0800 85 25 80 Fax: 06 323 7101 Website: www.farmersweekly.co.nz

Opinion

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

33

NZ, a great place for agritech Tim Dacombe-Bird

N

EW Zealand agritech start-ups are creating value, powered by technology.

We are at the beginning of a golden age of artificial intelligence and the possibilities of what it and other modern technologies can deliver are still to be seen.

The agritech sector here is in a unique position to address critical global issues such as meeting the food demand from a growing global population.

The world’s population of 7.3 billion people is estimated to reach 9.7b by 2050. About 83 million people are added to the global population each year.

This growth must be met by corresponding increases in food production.

We have seen the local agritech sector embrace a range of technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing with transformational impacts.

These technologies enable precision agriculture to optimise production while minimising environmental impacts such as detrimental effects on waterways.

In the agritech sector Kiwi startups such as GPS-it and Intela have been working alongside Amazon Web Services (AWS).

These organisations have access to leading-edge innovative capabilities to experiment, remove technical debt and focus on creative ways to innovate for their customers.

In the past on-premises information technology infrastructure would have taken months to procure and cost millions of dollars to operate.

Agritech start-ups now have instant access to on-demand cloud services, which is rapidly changing their business models.

GPS-it, which exhibited alongside AWS at Fieldays in

The

Pulpit

Hamilton this year, is a good example.

AWS underpins the land management software platform of the company, which provides farm and orchard managers with customised maps and geographic information system (GIS) solutions using the latest high-resolution, aerial imagery technology.

New Zealand’s so-called agtech and new food sector is in the top 10 global start-up ecosystems.

It lets farmers improve on-farm management systems such as crop planning, budgeting and paddock rotations.

GPS-it runs its entire technology platform on AWS, yet it cost less than 5% of annual revenue in the 2018 financial year. It is delivering significant

cost savings as the company considers that traditional infrastructure models would have resulted in technology costs of 30% of annual revenue.

The savings the company makes mean it can invest more in the development of new products. That has allowed it to evolve into a business that serves organisations such as Fonterra and Zespri – a long way from its beginnings in a small office on a kiwifruit orchard, with one staff member and a global positioning system unit.

NZ agritech start-ups are in a unique position, given the expertise and skill base here.

It’s widely recognised the sector needs to move from a volume to value focus, as shown by the Government’s recent announcement to boost agritech innovation and productivity.

We have a highly active and rich agritech start-up environment, with significant opportunities to push the global boundaries by deploying innovative technologies.

Globally, NZ is seen as an excellent place to start an THINK BIG: Now is the time for New Zealand’s agtech sector to take its innovations to the world, agritech business Amazon Web Services NZ manager Tim Dacombe-Bird says. because of the ease of doing business the agtech and new food sector and Government support for the Who am I? since 2013. sector, according to the StartTim Dacombe-Bird is New Zealand NZ’s legacy in agriculture up Genome: Global Start-up country manager for Amazon Web combined with smart technology Ecosystem Report 2019.

Services. and innovative thinking is an The report, which is based on independent research from more than 100 companies across 150 cities shows NZ’s so-called agtech and new food sector in the top 10 global start-up ecosystems.

It said 20% of very early stage investment in the local start-up ecosystem has been directed to

opportunity in the making.

Smart farming will evolve and NZ can play an important part, whether it be developing food traceability and in turn food safety systems, creating more efficient water systems or optimising use of resources for increased productivity.

Your View Got a view on some aspect of farming you would like to get across?

The Pulpit offers readers the chance to have their say. farmers.weekly@globalhq.co.nz Phone 06 323 1519

2020 AGRICULTURAL TOURS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD Farmers Weekly Global Trek Brazil March

Southern France & Corsica May/June

Chile & Argentina October

Join Farmers Weekly readers on this exciting tour to South America’s largest country which has such huge potential. Iguazu Falls, the Pantanal, Rio de Janeiro’s famous sights – Copacabana Beach, Sugar Loaf and Cordova are included on this specially planned tour.

Dairy, no till cropping and Nelore cattle breeding will give an in depth insight into farming in Brazil. See how Kiwi dairy farmers are getting big production by adapting our grass systems to local conditions.

Don’t miss the opportunity to extend your tour to the Amazon. Stay in a rain forest lodge where you see the local animals and maybe catch a Piranha.

Bordeaux, Provence – names that conjure up images of France that everyone wants to see. Oyster, caviar, strawberries, wine and cheese might suggest a food and beverage tour but there is so much more to this trip than these culinary delights. Beef, sheep and flower production including a visit to a perfume factory are just some of the additional treats. Don’t miss the opportunity to add on 7 days to the beautiful island of Corsica in the Mediterranean.

A comprehensive tour of these South American Countries takes you to the vibrant capital cities of Santiago and Buenos Aires and the remote Patagonian region. Enjoy a spectacular road trip across the Andes, Chilean and Argentinian wines, their classic barbeques and a variety of farms. Tango with the locals and immerse yourself in South American culture.

See us at the NZ Agricultural Show 13-15th November Site T35 – Christchurch Turkey & Gallipoli ANZAC Service – April China & Yangtze Cruise / Guilin – May China for Fonterra Shareholders – June China for Fonterra Shareholders Short Tour – June Top End Cattle & Cropping – July USA Beef & Agriculture – June / July Iceland & Hurtigruten Cruise – July / August UK & Ireland – August South Africa – August Vietnam – September Cattle & Farming in Queensland Gulf – September Victorian Agriculture & The Melbourne Cup – October

C R McPhail Ltd

P: 06 357 1644

E: enquiries@crmcphail.co.nz

www.crmcphail.co.nz

LK0095958©

Also

Opinion

34 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

5G is a threat to rural internet Alternative View

Alan Emerson

THE 2019 Rugby World Cup has come and gone with gone being the operative word in New Zealand’s case.

For the record, I haven’t found anyone who begrudges England their victory over the All Blacks.

We were totally out played.

Even my 10-year-old grandson Jack, a passionate and fervent supporter of the ABs, told me England deserved its win.

The final was a showstopper and, again, congratulations to South Africa.

What the Rugby World Cup did show was the grossly inadequate telecommunication services in many parts of rural NZ. As a result, relatively few Kiwis watched the RWC live which must have damaged Rugby NZ’s brand.

I have friends who are Spark customers. They received a letter

telling them their Spark service was too slow for the streaming. My reaction to that would be simple – fix it.

Spark, showing its usual contempt for those in the provinces, didn’t.

It massively publicised the 4G wireless network to get people off copper landlines so Spark could keep the money as against paying Chorus the landline rental.

The 4G network is a waste of space for those in the provinces who want to watch any streaming services and that includes the RWC. For the uninitiated 3G and 4G are cellular networks. They use the same technology as your cell phone does. As Spark itself has admitted they don’t do streaming.

I’m at a loss to figure why Spark would take the RWC from Sky while knowing most of its provincial subscribers wouldn’t be able to receive it at the recommended speeds advertised on its website. The service is just too slow as Spark would have known.

Conversely, we’re on the Wairarapa wireless system, WIZwireless, and our reception was superb. I have no complaints whatsoever.

WIZwireless is one of about 40 provincial internet providers. As the name suggests it uses wireless technology and that is fast enough for streaming. In my case I can edit a DVD from the office in farflung rural Wairarapa.

When the big telcos weren’t interested in the provinces these wireless internet providers stepped up. In the case of WIZwireless it was two Tinui farmers who put up the cash and got the show on the road.

The problem is our rural wireless networks are under threat from the 5G network.

The big firms want, for their big city 5G, the wireless spectrum local operators are using.

The big telcos are spending an absolute fortune on flashy advertisements about the benefits of 5G. They’ll be spending a fortune on political lobbying, donations and all the tricks of the trade to get their 5G. The iniquity is that Stuff published what I believe was an absolutely spurious, selfcongratulatory article from the Rural Connectivity Group owned

by Spark, Vodafone and 2 Degrees.

Their apologist told me 3G and 4G provided a world-first in terms

DON’T GIVE IN: Minister Kris Faafoi must hold out against the big telcos. of mobile and broadband services to rural users.

There are about 40 rural wireless internet providers relying on wireless spectrum for their services.

That spectrum is now under threat from the future use of 5G and could mean our rural wireless internet services won’t be able to operate as they do now.

Rural wireless internet providers don’t have the resources to do any of the tricks the big people do.

The key is the GURL, the General User Radio Licence that guarantees wireless operators their spectrum.

Spark, Vodaphone and 2 Degrees want more of it.

Once it is gone it is lost forever.

The issue is that 70,000 rural customers, the productive sector, is surely more important for the benefit of the country than the big city 5G is.

The chance of usable 5G ever getting to rural Wairarapa is zip.

There’s every chance it will get to central Auckland but my issue is that central Auckland has massive telecommunications options now including fibre.

The Government, under Broadcastings, Communications and Digital Media and Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Kris Faafoi has put resources into the rural wireless internet and that is appreciated.

I just hope the Government will hold out on the 5G spectrum, do its own research and listen to all the operators so the provinces can continue to enjoy good internet services.

We’re isolated and need good systems. We’re never going to get fibre but we can work with wireless.

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

It will never get any better than this From the Ridge

Steve Wyn-Harris

MY NEW Ballance fertiliser rep or nutrient specialist, as they are now called, James Logan asked “What are you doing tonight?”

We had just finished doing my bi-annual soil sampling and a couple of herbage samples for good measure.

“It’s column night so right on my deadline, as usual, I’ll be tapping away on that.”

“What will you be writing about then?”

“That’s a very good question James. I don’t know, as is usual.

Perhaps I might write about soil sampling and the results over the years.”

And why not?

Before we started I’d shown young James my soil sampling folder going back decades.

It has the results of about 20 rounds of soil sampling and about 10 different advisers.

The earliest entry was from my father’s day. His then farm adviser Brian Robertson took some herbage samples way back in 1974. I later met Brian at Lincoln in the early 1980s. In his letter Brian was very pleased with the copper levels and the potash, magnesium, manganese and molybdian were adequate. He says he’d like to do clover samples every month to note seasonal variations but history doesn’t record whether pursued that enthusiastic idea.

The next sheet is one from my first year here in 1983, done by Doug Henderson from the East Coast Fertiliser Company. He was very pleased with the PH as we had used a lot of lime from the nearby Hatuma limeworks. But he was quite concerned about the phosphate levels and quite rightly

cheaper and three or four lambs would buy a tonne. Now it’s only two prime lambs required. It will never get better than that. This seemed too good an opportunity to let pass and I put on a lot of capital fertiliser.

My rep at the time, Euan Talbot, wrote several reports enthusiastically plotting the progress of our plan to lift fertility over the farm.

I’d always subscribed to the farm consultants’ advice of good subdivision with a reticulated water supply, which I’d put in place and now I was able to lift fertility to the economic and biological optimums in the mid to high 20s quite quickly.

Once there from the late 2000s, phosphate stopped being the limiting factor and I’ve been able to improve sulphur and potassium levels.

And has this career-long investment in increasing fertility been worthwhile?

Yes, it has. Certainly, I get more pasture grown during the

because they were in low single figures and recommended a fair bit of superphosphate, which we did for a couple of years.

My mate Alan Barr, who sadly died a few years ago, was my Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries farm adviser and the soil sampling he and I did together in 1985 showed an improvement of Olsen P to the low teens.

But the rural recession struck not long after and the subsequent test results over the next 12 years show I was able only to hold the phosphorus levels in the mid teens and sulphur levels remained very modest. On my soil type sulphur has remained modest despite a lot of application. It goes on, it gets used and lost quite quickly.

Through this time with low lamb prices and a relatively high super cost I needed 10 to 12 lambs to buy a tonne.

But that changed dramatically in the early 2000s when sheep meat prices finally recovered and with a lower dollar fertiliser got

Can your FE ram breeder show you these? 



you can trust







NZ Maternal   Worth  with Facial  Eczem  a (MW+X) 

 





























 

 

W

ZM All N

  



s

k Floc

    





















   

  

 

 

  

 

 



www.fegold.co.nz

 

 

 

 

 



year, better performance in the shoulder seasons when feed grows for longer and an improvement in feed quality which often gets overlooked.

More clover fixing more nitrogen provides quality feed for the livestock.

This spring has been a terrific clover season and my stocking rate has been too conservative to control the feed grown.

After James and I took the herbage samples I asked if we were going to have to sit down somewhere and select out the clover for the sampling we planned for the micronutrient testing as I’d done in the past.

I was delighted to hear that some soul in the lab now had that job.

So, he went home and I came back to write a column.

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

Opinion

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

35

Stars align for America meat sales Meaty Matters

Allan Barber

THE Lamb Company was established nearly 60 years ago in Toronto to represent several New Zealand meat companies in North America, focusing initially on lamb and the Canadian market.

In the intervening period there have been changes of shareholding – including Affco exiting in 2003 and Silver Fern Farms buying in – while the focus has broadened substantially to encompass the United States and beef, venison and goat as well as lamb and the inclusion of Australian shareholders to enable the growing market demand to be satisfied year round.

The main shareholders are Alliance with about 44%, Silver Fern Farms, 23%, and Anzco, 13%, with the balance being held by the Australian investors.

My recollection from when I was with Affco in the 1990s is the imbalance between the shareholders led to a suspicion one company, usually the largest shareholder, sometimes received preferential treatment in the allocation of product to the highest-paying customers.

Lamb has historically struggled to achieve a major breakthrough in this market but it is now a growing and trending protein.

I imagine constrained availability of premium product and the broader product range now make that less of an issue.

That said, it is difficult to discover the success of The Lamb Company in any of the three main shareholders’ annual accounts, which refer to their investment in associate companies with the relevant shareholding percentage but without reference to specific or even any profit contributions.

SFF and Anzco report combined earnings from all associates while Alliance briefly covers its North American business with no mention of The Lamb Company.

Lamb Company president and chief executive Tony Ruffo since the merger of the Canadian and United States businesses into a single North American company four years ago says substantial growth has been achieved with annual revenue approaching $1 billion and volume nearing 50,000 tonnes.

This growth has been built on the strong foundation provided by NZ Spring Lamb, which accounts for $300 million, though further expansion is limited by tight supplies. The balance of the turnover comes from the fast-growing, grass-fed premium beef business which accounts for 20% of turnover, an increasing proportion of Australian lamb, which is well placed to compensate for the shortfall in NZ product, and other red meats.

To service this expanding business The Lamb Company employs 236 people in North America with further processing and distribution out of three facilities in Toronto, New Jersey and Los Angeles and sales support centres in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Philadelphia and Los Angeles.

The company has invested $20m in its new, state-of-the-art processing and distribution centre in New Jersey as a sign of its shareholders’ determination to increase its market leadership position in lamb and capitalise on the enormous potential for grass-fed beef.

Ruffo sees a great opportunity to integrate the existing lamb and growing beef business in its product offering to its retail and food service customers across North America, using a combination of branded and private label solutions.

Lamb has historically struggled to achieve a major breakthrough in this market but it is now a growing and trending protein that meets North American consumers’ search for products with nutritional, ethical and sustainable benefits.

The company’s marketing of both lamb and beef focuses on the key attributes demanded increasingly in red meat – grass-fed, hormone and antibiotics free, humanely raised, free-range, great tasting and with consistent eating quality.

The success of its strategy can be demonstrated by the year-on-year growth of 24% in the value of the US lamb market, which has now overtaken Britain as NZ’s second largest export market.

According to The Lamb Company’s market tracking, NZ Spring Lamb has 65% and 90% shares of the US and Canadian lamb markets but Ruffo expects the figures to lift a bit this year, depending on product availability, supported by a major brand and packaging upgrade.

The shareholders have asked for a growth and value-add strategy and as a result The Lamb Company’s vision is to become the leading supplier of premium specialty meats in North America and as a result provide premium returns and competitive advantage to shareholder suppliers.

The key to achieving its vision appears to be the beef market, which is close to 50 times larger than the tonnage sold in the lamb market though the bulk of it is grain-fed, much of it destined for the hamburger trade. However, there is great potential for premium, grass-fed beef as wealthy consumers increasingly search

NEW LOOK: The Lamb Company’s recently refreshed New Zealand Spring Lamb country origin brand on display in a retail supermarket in North America.

for a product that meets their changing lifestyle requirements.

After more than half a century in the majority ownership of the biggest NZ red meat processors and exporters The Lamb Company now appears to be fulfilling its potential as a profitable, co-ordinated vehicle for selling NZ’s lamb, beef and other red meats to the world’s richest and most sophisticated consumer market.

For too many years North American lamb sales have played a very poor second fiddle to the British and European markets while grass-fed beef has been a poor cousin to grain-fed.

At last it seems the stars have aligned for NZ red meat. It suits today’s consumer preferences, tight supply and consumer demand underpin the market price and the shareholders in The Lamb Company are committed to investment in the growing market. Hopefully, the results will start to be trumpeted in their annual reports.

Under the pump?

When life gets busy remember to eat well, get quality sleep and keep active.

Sam Whitelock Farmstrong Ambassador

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

For tips and ideas, visit farmstrong.co.nz

36 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

On Farm Story

Learning from experience Working the land is a challenging business at the best of times and for Central Hawke’s Bay farmers Ben and Libby Tosswill it’s important to focus on what they can change and try not to loose too much sleep over what they can’t, as Colin Williscroft found.

B

EN and Libby Tosswill have been farming at Birch Hill Station for about 10 years, having returned to New Zealand from London where they worked in corporate finance and banking.

Trading the bright lights of the big city for the open landscape of Hawke’s Bay hill country has been a big change but the couple relish the lifestyle it’s provided them and their three boys – Fletcher, 8, Alex, 6, and Jack, 2.

That’s not to say it’s always been easy, with challenging times accompanying the good.

But they have learned from their experiences and enjoy running their own business, adding their own flavour and take on life to the property they lease off Ben’s parents, Bruce and Julie.

Ben grew up on the property that his grandparents bought in the 1970s.

Bruce and Julie transformed it from mostly scrub and gorse into a 1300 hectare (765ha effective) sheep and beef farm, planted 150ha of poorer land in pines, fenced about 350ha of bush and left plenty of trees and bush around the farm to prevent erosion and ensure stock have access to shade and shelter.

It’s work Ben, Libby and others who have worked on the property have continued, fostering a feeling they are longstanding custodians of the land – a privilege that can be passed on.

The couple say Birch Hill is a coming together of land and

FAMILY FIRST: Libby and Ben with children Fletcher, 8, Alex, 6, and Jack, 2.

people that operates as a cooperative or big family unit with a philosophy of what they put in determines what they get back.

“The people who work here work with us not for us,” Libby says.

“They treat Birch Hill Station like it’s theirs. It’s an opportunity to add their footprint.”

Having worked in pressurecooker situations in financial institutions with a lot of other people’s money Ben and Libby understand the importance of having a positive mindset, focusing on what is in their power to influence and accepting what they can’t.

That means knowing what they can and can’t control then working out strategies to make positive change.

That drives what they do.

On-farm it’s being aware there will be tough times, whether that’s

through drought or fluctuating prices for what they produce.

“Sometimes it’s best to accept that shit happens, process that then get back up and get going.

Otherwise it will knock you over.”

An important part of that is building resilience, both personally and in their farming business.

That resilience means when the tough times come, as they invariably will, they will be in a stronger position to deal with them.

Key to that is learning from experience.

One experience Ben won’t forget in a hurry occurred when he and Libby had been on the farm about three years.

Summer of 2013 was marked by a severe drought, which made it near impossible to grow enough grass to feed stock, cranking up the pressure at a time when the

couple had a newborn and a toddler at the top of their minds.

The extended dry meant Ben’s options to feed stock were limited so feed had to be bought in, a cost that was not part of the plan.

“It was a really awesome lesson in what could happen if you don’t have flexibility in the system,” he says.

Determined not to be caught out again he looked at ways to provide more options, important in hill country that can get very dry in summer and which can be exacerbated if spring puts the usual plan behind the eight-ball from the start.

As a solution he opted for an idea outside the square for many in coastal Central Hawke’s Bay and decided to plant a block of lucerne, the logic being it could provide an alternative and highquality food supply and therefore some resilience for their business

if a tough summer followed a dry spring.

About 10% of the farm is cultivable and before Ben decided to plant a forage crop the entire farmed area was in pasture.

The forage crop plan was a fiveyear project, built year-on-year to make sure soil fertility was at a level to provide the best chance of success. Today there’s about 25ha in lucerne and another 16ha in plantain, not a massive amount but enough, Ben says, to provide feed flexibility in spring and early summer.

The result is a greater feeling of control and preparedness thanks to more certainty of feed supply, which evens out past peaks and troughs though the farming system is still underpinned by sub-clover.

Given the feed challenges posed by the summer dry conditions the aim at Birch Hill is to sell as many lambs as possible prime off mum before Christmas with an eye on higher schedule prices.

The farm carries about 3200 ewes, 1100 hoggets and 150 cows with 20 to 30 heifers going to the bull. About 140 trade steers and heifers are also finished each year, depending on the season.

Ben says it’s a pretty simple formula.

The target is 70% of lambs off mum, weaning at 18kg CW. Over the past 10 years they’ve averaged 65% at 17.6kg, with a best of 83% at 18.5kg. All lambs are finished on-farm.

Twin ewes are set stocked at lambing at 4.5/ha, with cattle at 1/ha among them. That stocking rate and combination allows sub-clover to flourish and seed set every year, forming a selfperpetuating cycle of renewal.

It’s a key driver for selling a high

On Farm Story

percentage of lambs off mum, year in, year out.

A half-breed Texel is used to ensure fast growth and good meat quality.

Establishing the forage crops means they can build on performance by using them to flush and tupp lighter ewes for higher scanning percentages to add to the amount of meat produced per hectare.

About 70% of the farm is freedraining with an argillite/shale base. That means it dries out quickly going into summer, hence the need to kill lambs early.

The rest of the property is clay, which provides a balance as it holds moisture and grows grass further into summer.

Paddock sizes average 6ha and most have spring-fed water.

Areas of the clay country that are steep and erosion prone have been identified and Ben and Libby are working with the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council on a pole-planting programme to prevent erosion and sediment loss as well as providing another income stream through carbon.

For eroding areas with a stream at the bottom they are looking at different options, which could involve a change in land use, such as planting in manuka.

On top of that this year they’ve planted 14,000 pines to farm carbon on 15ha of less productive land that wasn’t providing a good return and have earmarked other areas that could be added.

It’s about turning land that was challenging into opportunities.

About five years ago they started

fencing off riparian areas and that is a work in progress.

They are members of the Porangahau Catchment Group, a group that while still in its early stages, is responsible for about 88,000ha of land.

Members are in the process of water testing so they can work out where to start to make positive change to their catchment. Open days are held on each others’ properties to share knowledge and gain inspiration from others’ efforts.

Birch Hill is home to a significant block of native bush, which is fenced from the rest of the farm and has the Mangangarara Stream running through it. It contains a wide array of flora and fauna, something the whole family enjoys.

Biodiversity is very important to Libby, who grew up in Wellington.

During her primary school summer holidays she liked to spend as much time as possible at the Nga Manu Nature Reserve and bird sanctuary at Waikanae on the Kapiti Coast.

It’s an interest and passion that’s never left her.

Having spent most of her life in cities moving to the farm took a bit of adjustment but connecting with the land was made easier by the native bush.

She says walking through new pockets of bush and seeing and hearing the abundant birdlife in it lights her up.

The native bush is goat and possum free and there is a predator control programme to protect and improve on-farm

LAND MANAGEMENT: A pole planting programme helps prevent erosion and sediment loss as well as providing another income stream through carbon.

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

37

UNDER CANVAS: Glamping is proving to be popular at Birch Hill station.

Photo: Tessa Chrisp

biodiversity with rats, feral cats and mustelids being targeted.

The predator control programme is run by Andy and Max Lyver, who live on the farm, help and advice from the regional council.

Max and Andy share a similar philosophy to their own, Libby says, with a positive outlook complemented by a can-do, problem-solving approach.

The bush is one of the attractions for another part of the Birch Hill operation – a glamping site that’s been enjoyed by visitors since 2015.

As well as diversifying, it allows Ben and Libby to share the farm with a wide range of visitors, which is something they love doing.

In setting up the glampsite they used their own travelling experiences and created somewhere they would like to stay themselves by pulling in ideas from a variety of places.

Ben knew a sheltered spot onfarm with sweeping views over the countryside and it gives Libby a business she can fit in around the boys.

The site can accommodate up to nine people in one large, wooden-framed tent and two smaller, sleeping tents. It includes a fully enclosed kitchen and dining area while a camp lounge

provides a communal gathering space.

Visitors can see as much of the farm as they like with kids able to free range, exploring a gully behind the site and building huts, while whole families can walk a network of farm tracks.

Sometimes it’s best to accept that shit happens, process that then get back up and get going.

Libby Tosswill Farmer Max and Andy have developed a wildlife tour where people can see wild deer, feed eels, and visit a weta hotel and turkey roost.

Horse riders are also welcome to take their own mount to enjoy the scenery on horseback.

Glamping visitors are invariably from urban lifestyles and staying on the farm lets them gain a better perspective of the primary sector, where food comes from and how quality food is grown.

It also gives an insight to the work done on farms to protect the environment.

The focus is not only on providing a relaxing place for their guests to stay but also bringing town to the country, to help increase an understanding of rural life.

On top of that the glampsite brings people to the Porangahau area, with its nearby beach and village featuring the rustic Duke of Edinburgh pub, a coffee cart and fish and chip shop.

Having lived overseas Ben and Libby are aware of the appetites consumers in those markets have for quality products that are ethically produced, which they say New Zealand farmers are known for.

They say NZ farmers should feel proud of what they are achieving.

Farmers in general look after the land around them and produce natural, pasture-based, antibiotic and hormone-free products from farm animals that lead the nicest life possible.

Every farmer they have met and, they are sure, the vast majority of others as well, wants to leave the land better than they found it.

For Ben and Libby it’s about taking an inter-generational view, steering the ship in the right direction by turning challenges into new solutions. >> Video link: bit.ly/OFStosswill

NEW LISTING

Boundary lines are indicative only

Morrinsville 21 Maungakawa Road

A cash cow in the heart of the Waikato

4

Supplying the Tatua Dairy Co-op is a privilege enjoyed by only a few farmers in the prime dairying area near Morrinsville. This 136ha (more or less) dairy is an exhibition of aesthetic beauty, road appeal and near perfect layout. Currently milking 500 jersey cows through two 20 aside dairies which are linked by one straight race. The property is picture perfect with several groves of natives and around 20ha of fenced native bush running along one boundary to provide a beautiful natural barrier to the Waitoa River. Production peaked last season in excess of 215,000ms with a five-year average over 208,000ms. Included in the sale are 190,000 MSE’s and Tatua shares equating to that level. There are four dwellings on the property. The opportunity to supply Tatua means ‘certainty’ of very good pay-outs and the ‘family’ atmosphere of belonging to a niche company.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 2pm, Thu 12 Dec 2019 View 12-1pm Wed 13 Nov Mike Fraser-Jones 027 475 9680 mike.fraserjones@bayleys.co.nz

2

2

3

SUCCESS REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

bayleys.co.nz/2310903

Boundary lines are indicative only

Boundary lines are indicative only

Oruanui 1274 Poihipi Road

Kiwitahi Station Kiwitahi will not disappoint the most discerning buyer, carved out of the native rainforest in the early 60’s this property boasts a very high standard of improvements, unrivalled stock performance and set so close to town.

Lambs finished to 22kgs from 4000 Romney ewes which includes the renowned Kiwitahi Stud. 330 Angus cows are wintered on the property with a further 500 Beef X calves being reared. Kiwitahi offers the new owner a real investment in the dry stock sector. This 795ha (more or less) property has magnificent vistas from every aspect, so if you’re an investor or a serious farmer this property has to be seen to be believed.

bayleys.co.nz/2651832

bayleys.co.nz

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 2pm, Fri 29 Nov 2019 44 Roberts Street, Taupo View by appointment Stan Sickler 021 275 7826 stan.sickler@bayleys.co.nz WESTERMAN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

FINAL NOTICE

Gisborne Maranga Station, 1877 Tiniroto Road

Superior breeding and finishing Years of investment and meticulous farm management, paired with exceptional natural attributes, provide the platform for one of the leading farms in the region. Recognised as one of the country's top Maori farmers, Maranga excels as an early breeding/finishing unit. Wintering circa 10,000 SU, finishing on the farms extensive portion of flats, this well-balanced 1,068ha's is a convenient commute west of Gisborne. Boasting two strategically located woolsheds, excellent fencing, tracks and lanes, an extensive fertiliser history, and reticulated waters systems. Set on multiple titles surrounding roads provide widespread access throughout the farm.

Nestled amongst exotic gardens is a refurbished six-bedroom homestead. Two other homes provide staff housing, with enviable recreational benefits. An award-winning combination of scale and location.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Wed 27 Nov 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

bayleys.co.nz/2751386

MACPHERSON MORICE LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

NEW LISTING

Hawke's Bay 48 Hawkston Road, Patoka

Exceptional contour, fertility and ROI An opportunity to secure an exceptional 302 hectare dairy unit in the renowned Patoka farming district. Summer safe farming on easy contoured, fertile, free draining ash soils provide the ideal low cost pasture based farming environment. This very well set up dairy boasts a 50 bail rotary with in shed feeding, 700 cow yard, massive 1,400 calf rearing shed, approximately 600 tonne concrete silage bunker, three dwellings and supporting implement sheds. This very productive milking platform is exceptionally clean, has very good fertility with approximately 14 hectares of pinus radiata covering riparian waterways, the environmental planting requirement is near completion. A must view for those looking for a turnkey Patoka pasture based operation providing among the best return on investment in the country. Don’t snooze on this one.

Auction (unless sold prior) 11am, Fri 6 Dec 2019 52 Bridge Street, Ahuriri, Napier View by appointment Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

bayleys.co.nz/2851912

bayleys.co.nz

Motukarara 1065 Hudsons Road

Estate realisation

3

A large scale irrigated property showing excellent performance, fattening cattle and lambs. Weight gains and the supply of a large number of quality cattle to the market are second to none. Lamb fattening has been increasing over the years with over 6,000 finished last season. Paddock size and shape has been considered for ease of Rotorainer irrigation. A further 105ha is under centre pivot. For sale as one large irrigated finishing block, or could be split into two separate units. One being 296ha of bareland with the centre pivot or 210ha which includes a cottage, numerous sheds, sheep and cattle yards. Location is critical with Christchurch and the Canterbury sale yards only 30 minutes away.

Price by Negotiation View by appointment Evan Marshall 027 221 0910 evan.marshall@bayleys.co.nz Ben Turner 027 530 1400 ben.turner@bayleys.co.nz

1

1

2

WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

bayleys.co.nz/5511169

Boundary lines are indicative only

Dargaville Surrounds 2488 Pouto Road Dairy, beef & forestry This is your chance to purchase a dairy/beef farm at an affordable price with options for forestry. This 187 hectare dairy farm offers your farming business versatility – ideally suited to finishing, calf rearing or milking. The contour of the land is 70% flat to easy rolling with the remainder a mix of medium hill with steeper faces.

Races throughout are in good condition and fences are a mixture of two wire electric plus seven and nine wire post and batten.

Infrastructure on the property is beneficial and includes a 16 ASHB milking shed that is supported by a five bay calf rearing shed, two hay barns, fertiliser bin, feed pad for 240 cows and a new cattle yard with head bale. Accommodation consists of a well-appointed three bedroom weatherboard home with views over the farm.

bayleys.co.nz/1020285

bayleys.co.nz

3

Kereta 119/152 Waikawau Valley Road 1

1

2

Asking Price $1,595,000 + GST (if any) View by appointment Catherine Stewart 027 356 5031 catherine.stewart@bayleys.co.nz MACKYS REAL ESTATE LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Big country Be a part of this huge chunk of the Coromandel Peninsula and reap the benefits of a relaxed country lifestyle by the sea. This is your chance to purchase a versatile grazing opportunity with the option of all 570 hectares (more or less) in five titles, or separate titles consisting of 421 hectares and 150 hectares (more or less).

These expansive and elevated blocks consist of a combination of native bush, grass and some plots of scrub. Opportunity abounds with various uses from forestry to grazing or tourism. View today!

bayleys.co.nz/2180290

2

1

1

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 5 Dec 2019 459 Pollen Street, Thames View by appointment Glenn Tanner 027 486 2399 glenn.tanner@bayleys.co.nz Karl Davis 027 496 4633 karl.davis@bayleys.co.nz MH REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008

FINAL NOTICE

Boundary lines are indicative only

Boundary lines are indicative only

Taupiri 847 Lake Road

Morrinsville 66 Washbourne Road

Premium dairy unit This exceptional 118 hectare (more or less) dairy unit is a truly appealing proposition. A property of this calibre with a desirable location, close to northern outskirts of Hamilton, presents all the attributes of a quality farm investment.

The current operation milks approximately 400 cows through a well-quipped 30-aside herringbone shed. The average production over the past three seasons is 193,256kgs of milk solids. An extensive array of shedding and centralised lane ways provide quality access and stock flow with a great balance of contour. An exquisite main home with two further quality homes provide ample workers' accommodation.

11

5

Dairy farm at grazing land price

5

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 2pm, Wed 20 Nov 2019 96 Ulster Street, Hamilton View by appointment Scott Macdonald 027 753 3854 scott.macdonald@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

bayleys.co.nz/2310840

This 113ha (more or less) dairy unit is north facing with a good mixture of contour from flat to rolling and some hill. The 26ASHB is well set up along with support buildings plus a 350 cow uncovered feed pad with adjoining silage bunkers. Currently 329 cows are milked with a three year production average of 110,245kgms.

Water is sourced via a deep bore and pumped to a tank at the dairy shed then pumped to two 25,000 litre tanks on top of the hill then gravity fed to troughs in all paddocks. Morrinsville town water is used to wash milking plant and supplies the house. The main dwelling has four bedrooms and an office. There is a second one bedroom dwelling. With motivated sellers this property would be a great buy both as a dairy or cheap grazing block.

4

1

1

1

Asking Price $3,590,000 + GST (if any) View by appointment Mike Fraser-Jones 027 475 9680 mike.fraserjones@bayleys.co.nz Greg Larsen 027 555 3358 greg.larsen@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

bayleys.co.nz/2310072

NEW LISTING

Tauwhare 109 Lang Road Location is key Contained within two titles of 142ha and 1,143sqm, plus the opportunity to attain a third title, this property offers a rare investment. With undulating contour, native bush and a good fertilizer history, easy access is provided through the centre of the property with water supplied by the creek. Infrastructure includes a woolshed, implement shedding, stock yards and loading race.

The well maintained homestead commands an elevated position with stunning rural vistas, plus a charming stone cottage is an ideal hideaway for B&B guests. Situated only 12 minutes to Cambridge, 20 minutes to Hamilton and zoned for quality schooling. This attractive property presents a rare opportunity to purchase a quality land holding in a very desirable location

bayleys.co.nz/2310913

Whanganui 2789 Waitotara Valley Road, Waitotara 3

2

1

2

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 12 Dec 2019 96 Ulster Street, Hamilton View 1-2pm Thu 14 Nov & Wed 20 Nov or by appointment Peter Kelly 027 432 4278 peter.kelly@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Farm / forestry / hunting Orangimea is approximately 1,281 hectares, with over 700ha of native and regrowth, situated 28 kms up the Waitotara Valley, divided into 19 main paddocks. Fencing is well thought out, with a focus on stock movement and ease of access. The woolshed, cattle yards and covered sheep yards are located on the Waitotara Valley Rd. Large areas of scrub have been developed, and the property has been comprehensively tracked, and fenced.

Stock water is sourced from dams, springs and streams. A renovated three-bedroom home with new kitchen and bathroom plus a one bedroom sleepout support this tidy property.

Orangimea has potential to support a number of income streams with the bush being a hunter’s paradise.

4

2

1

2

For Sale

by Deadline Private Treaty (will not be sold prior)

12pm, Tue 10 Dec 2019 158 Wicksteed Street, Whanganui View by appointment Knud Bukholt 027 222 6161 knud.bukholt@bayleys.co.nz Tracey Wilson 027 412 1586 tracey.wilson@bayleys.co.nz BARTLEY REAL ESTATE LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

bayleys.co.nz/3000965

bayleys.co.nz

NEW LISTING

Taihape 42 and 326 Pukenaua Road Two farms offered separately Brunskill - 142.8 hectares, three kilometres from State Highway 1.

Featuring a very well maintained three bedroom home, tidy two stand woolshed and excellent cattle and sheep yards on six titles.

Offering large areas of rolling contour balanced with mainly free draining hill country soils. A high standard of fencing provides 13 main paddocks.

Pukenaua - 89.5 hectares, five kilometres from Taihape. A very tidy bare land block in two titles featuring an exceptional standard of conventional fencing providing seven paddocks plus three laneways and satellite sheep yards. The whole farm is very well tracked offering easy contoured hills dominated by free draining Ohakune silt loam soils.

North Canterbury 257 Hossack Downs Road, Waiau 3

1

1

Auction (unless sold prior) 2pm, Fri 13 Dec 2019 The Workingmans Club, 34 Kuku Street, Taihape View by appointment Peter Stratton 027 484 7078 peter.stratton@bayleys.co.nz BARTLEY REAL ESTATE LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Toppesfield Scale, balance and high performance are the hallmarks of this 611.6272ha North Canterbury breeding and finishing property, stocking sheep, beef cattle and deer. With contour varying from flat to steeper hill, a full array of well-maintained farm support buildings, a very solid fertiliser history and high-performance sheep, cattle and deer herds, this property has tremendous appeal. There is good stock-health, plenty of shelter, wellmaintained tracks, easy contour, new sheds, 105ha deer-fenced and two houses. The large, recently-refurbished four-bedroom homestead is set in private, sheltered grounds with a tennis court and swimming pool. Toppesfield has been a wonderful home and farm for our Vendors for 35 years and inspection will impress.

4

2

2

For Sale

by Deadline Private Treaty (unless sold prior)

4pm, Thu 5 Dec 2019 3 Deans Ave, Chch View by appointment Ben Turner 027 530 1400 ben.turner@bayleys.co.nz Peter Foley 021 754 737 peter.foley@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

bayleys.co.nz/5510882

bayleys.co.nz/2900111

NEW LISTING

Loburn 375 Stonyflat Road Scale, versatility and options 'Melbury' has a total area of 301.6106ha in three blocks, all with special features contributing to the success, diversity and production of this impressive property. The 49ha bareland block has fertile soils and outstanding summer production, the 51ha block has most of the farm infrastructure and the 202ha block provides an expansive area of earlier and more winter-suitable land. The range of soil-types provides a valuable, wide production base for diverse farming options and the maximisation of income.

In numerous titles, providing many purchasing options, and future potential for subdivision underpins this impressive farming asset.

This well-presented property has farm infrastructure supporting a variety of land-uses, providing many opportunities.

bayleys.co.nz/5510914

bayleys.co.nz

Fernside 605 Mairaki Road 3

1

1

For Sale

by Deadline Private Treaty (unless sold prior)

4pm, Thu 28 Nov 2019 3 Deans Ave, Chch View by appointment Ben Turner 027 530 1400 Peter Foley 021 754 737 peter.foley@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Superior in all respects From its elevated site, the ever-changing views are perfectly captured from this large, architecturally-designed and immaculately presented home on 51.667ha. Complemented by established landscaped grounds, the home environment is truly magnificent. Designed by Chris Prebble, the well-thought-out family and formal living and dining rooms and sheltered outdoor living areas are wonderful for entertaining and relaxing. The property is in very good heart and is well-set-up for the existing cattle-fattening and grazing operation. Well sheltered, it has good subdivision and lane systems, cattle yards and a utility shed.

Current zoning, three road frontages and in two titles (24.7ha and 26.9ha available separately), provides options. A quality property.

bayleys.co.nz/5510841

4

3

2

For Sale

by Deadline Private Treaty (unless sold prior)

4pm, Fri 6 Dec 2019 3 Deans Ave, Chch View by appointment Ben Turner 027 530 1400 ben.turner@bayleys.co.nz Peter Foley 021 754 737 peter.foley@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Real Estate

FARMERS WEEKLY – November 11, 2019

farmersweekly.co.nz/realestate 0800 85 25 80

43

06 323 3363 Farm & Lifestyle Sales “Ederdale”

Kimbolton

AUCTION

OPEN FARM: 21, 28 November & 5 December 1.00 - 3.00pm Quad bike and helmet required

932 Rangiwahia Road

213.26 hectares (526.98 acres) 169 hectares effective

▪ Situated only 37kms north of Feilding and 9kms from Kimbolton.

▪ 3 stand woolshed with attached covered yard. An excellent quality facility and 1000 Lambs/600 Ewes NP undercover.

▪ 4 bedroom home with extensive northerly views. Large family lounge, separate dining room and downstairs/rumpus room and garaging.

▪ Water supply comes from the Kiwitea water scheme with 14 units. Water troughs in all paddocks.

▪ “Ederdale” is well tracked throughout for paddock access with one main laneway going to the 19 hectares of excellent free draining river flats.

To be Auctioned on Wednesday 18 December at 11.00am 56 Stafford Street, Feilding Web ID RAL713

Richard Anderson

Robert Dabb

M 027 543 1610 E richarda@ruralandlifestylesales.com

M 027 255 3992 E robertd@ruralandlifestylesales.com

www.ruralandlifestylesales.com TENDER

|

MOUNT VIEW GOATS

354 Paraite Road, Paraite, New Plymouth Mount View Goats, in its 6th year of supply, holds 63,000 kg of Milk Supply Rights. Having consistently milked 500 mixed age goats and having averaged 112 kgMS per goat. This season stock numbers have increased to 560 mixed age goats.

With infrastructure being relatively new and an exceptionally tidy 40 aside rapid exit herringbone milking shed, milking time is approx. 1 hour. Loafing barns have capacity for approximately 800 goats and plans are in place to develop an outdoor loafing area. Other farm buildings include a 5-bay implement shed and comfortable home.

This operation sits on an 11.6Ha freehold title and beside this is a 4.11Ha West Coast Lease bareland block that complements the farming operation.

Milk pay-out is consistent and has increased annually over the past thirty years with the future being bright. Call today to view.

Tender Closes:

4pm, Friday 6 December 2019 at McDonald Real Estate Ltd, Inglewood

Contact:

Brent Dodunski - 027 498 4346 Peter McDonald - 027 443 4506

eieio.co.nz # NPR01494

THE FULL PACKAGE - Cambridge

AUCTION

Located just 9km from Cambridge this outstanding 81.6-hectare farm is offered to the market for the first time in 18 years. This trophy property is often admired as you drive by the extensive mowed road frontage. Contour is predominately flat with excellent free draining soils that offer great winter grazing or perfect for horticulture or equine operations. Currently run as a self-contained dairy unit milking approximately 195 cows with 45 heifers and 60 calves, grazed on farm throughout the year. The 3 year average production is 92,746 KgMS supplying Fonterra. Milked through a superb 24 ASHB with well-maintained functional farm buildings making it a breeze to manage. A 4-bedroom two storey, character home with swimming pool and indoor-outdoor entertaining area is ideal for friends and family time. AUCTION: Thur 5 Dec 2019 at 11am at the Kaipaki Hall, 530 Kaipaki Road, Cambridge (unless sold prior) Internet ID: CRR2202 Address: 759 Kaipaki Road, Cambridge Open Days: Tues 12th & 19th & Thur 14th & 21st 11.00am-12.30pm Contact David Soar 027 284 9755 or Matt Seavill 027 444 3347

Matamata

373 Tower Road Auction (unless sold prior) 11am, Thu 21 Nov 2019 96 Ulster Street, Hamilton Sam Troughton 027 480 0836 sam.troughton@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Aratiatia Farm • Located minutes from Matamata on highly sought-after Tower Road • 134Ha (more or less) over three titles.

• Milking approximately 470 cows with a three year average 173,300kgMS supply ODC. • Contour is predominately level with free draining sandy soils.

• Quality infrastructure with a 40-bale rotary and five dwellings.

A first class farming investment, don't miss this rare opportunity.

bayleys.co.nz/2400117

TARARUA 129 Main Street Pahiatua pahiatua@pb.co.nz 06 376 8486

Property Brokers Limited Licensed under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008

Greenlands - 490 ha

TENDER WEB ID PR70469

PONGAROA 275 Akaroa Road Greenlands is centrally located 6 km north of the township of Pongaroa and under 50 minutes drive to both Pahiatua and Dannevirke.

The 480 ha of effective area features mostly cultivatable land which has been intensively developed over two generations will suit most farming practices. Greenlands is renowned for producing quality stock to the market and has averaged 155%-160% lambing and 97% calving.

Quality infrastructure includes over 70 dams, 2003 built four stand woolshed (750 np), airstrip, cattleyards, ample shedding and an impressive family home.

This property is arguably one of the best farms in the district and provides the incoming purchaser with the ultimate turn key operation.

TENDER

VIEW By Appointment TENDER closes Tuesday 10th December, 2019 at 2.00pm, to be submitted to Property Brokers, 129 Main Street Pahiatua

Jared Brock

Mobile 027 449 5496 Office 06 376 4823 Home 06 376 6341 jared@pb.co.nz

John Arends

Mobile 027 444 7380 Office 06 376 4364 johna@pb.co.nz

Balmoral - 844 ha

TENDER WEB ID PR71371

TIRAUMEA 13151 Route 52 Located in the renowned farming district of Tiraumea and centrally located to Pahiatua, Pongaroa and Masterton is Balmoral, a 6800 s/u breeding and finishing property. This well fertilised farm has a mix of easy to medium hills and over 34 ha of flats in improved pastures, a further 40 ha is suitable for cultivation with the 110 ha of ineffective area made up of small stands of Pines and over 80 ha of picturesque native bush. An all weather laneway provides excellent access through the property and combines well with four sets of satellite yards to create ease of day to day farming operation.

pb.co.nz

The improvements are of a high standard including a five stand woolshed with an excellent covered yard facility (1200np), an impressive four bedroom family home as well as a 1990's three bedroom cottage, single man quarters and two large lockable implement sheds with concrete floors.

Balmoral provides scale with desirable contour and excellent improvements in a sought after location.

TENDER

VIEW By Appointment TENDER closes Friday 6th December, 2019 at 2.00pm, to be submitted to Property Brokers, 129 Main Street, Pahiatua

Jared Brock

Mobile 027 449 5496 Office 06 376 4823 Home 06 376 6341 jared@pb.co.nz

John Arends

Mobile 027 444 7380 Office 06 376 4364 johna@pb.co.nz

0800 FOR LAND

Property Brokers Limited Licensed under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008

Self contained dairy

Sheep & beef

AUCTION

OPEN DAY

WEB ID MOR01975 WHITIKAHU 760 Whitikahu Road VIEW 13 & 20 & 27 Nov 11.00 - 12.00pm If you appreciate quality and location this is the property AUCTION 11.00am, Thu 12th Dec, 2019, (unless sold prior), Property Brokers, Morrinsville for you. 140.6 ha of quality land approximately 15 minutes from Hamilton and 1 hour from Auckland. Fully self-contained with approx. 320 milking cows, 70 rising 2 year heifers and 70 rising yearlings. This property grows all its own crops of grass silage, green feed maize and silage. Approximately 120 ha is flat consolidated peat and the balance gently undulating mineral soils.

The quality of the peat soil is such that some years ago 4 commercial potatoes and of course the maize crops Stuart Stobie grown on peat soils have no equal.

Mobile 021 776 173

AUCTION

Office 07 280 5534 stuart.stobie@pb.co.nz

WEB ID TER64193 MAHOENUI 12 State Highway 3 VIEW 12 & 19 Nov 11.30 - 2.00pm • Well located on State Highway 3, approximately 22 km DEADLINE SALE closes Thursday 12th December, 2019 at 4.00pm, (unless sold prior), 131 Rora Street, Te Kuiti south of Piopio • 572 ha - approximately 440 ha effective with an even balance of contour • 1990s five bedroom brick dwelling and a complete range of farm infrastructure Doug Wakelin • As our Vendors have moved, motivation to sell is high.

Mobile 027 321 1343 An opportunity not to be missed on the back of strong dougw@pb.co.nz sheep and beef returns

DEADLINE SALE

Hugh Williams

Mobile 021 878782 Office 07 8788266 hugh@pb.co.nz

1

Sheep & beef

OPEN DAY WEB ID TUR72499

TAUMARUNUI 1843 Oio Road • 324.91 hectares • Wintered 10 SUs per hectare • Approx. 40 hectares of rolling flats • Solid 3-bedroom home • 4 stand woolshed and covered yards

water is on the farm with some reticulation and there have been serious efforts made towards fertiliser.

This great farm is located 40 km south of Taumarunui in the Kaitieke Valley.

This is a genuine King Country sheep and beef farm that offers a fantastic opportunity to existing farming operations or someone starting out.

The rolling flats complement the medium to steeper hill country which face North to North West. Good natural

pb.co.nz

A good house and further farm buildings support the farm, including a 4-stand woolshed and haybarns.

TENDER

VIEW 14 & 21 & 28 Nov 10.00 - 12.00pm TENDER closes Thursday 12th December, 2019 at 4.00pm, (unless sold prior), 27 Hakiaha Street, Taumarunui Katie Walker

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

3 1

46

farmersweekly.co.nz/realestate 0800 85 25 80

Real Estate

PAHIATUA 129 Main Street Pahiatua Office 06 376 8486

Property Brokers Pahiatua Ltd Licensed REAA 2008

Gardners Road Farm - 106 ha

TENDER

WEB ID PR69551 PAHIATUA Gardners and Nikau Roads View By Appointment TENDER closes Wednesday 4th December, 2019 at 2.00pm This flat to undulating dairy unit provides options to the market, located just 20 km east of Palmerston Jared Brock North. Featuring favourable soil types with a consistent Mobile 027 449 5496 fertiliser and regrassing programme, excellent Office 06 376 4823 reticulated water and access providing a three year Home 06 376 6341 jared@pb.co.nz production average of 71,000 kgMS on a low cost once a day system. Infrastructure is well provided with 4 a 26 ASHB cowshed, modern plant, compliant effluent John Arends system and 200 cow feedpad. A four bedroom home Mobile 027 444 7380 Office 06 376 4364 completes an excellent add on or entry level package.

1

TENDER

johna@pb.co.nz

pb.co.nz

FARMERS WEEKLY – November 11, 2019

Location and Versatility An attractive, smaller dairy unit with a tonne of scope, featuring extensive road frontage and four generations of ownership, situated in a prime lifestyle location in the Te Rahu district, on the northern town boundary of Te Awamutu  1807 Te Rahu Road, Te Awamutu  76.5 hectares  flat to very gentle contour, river boundary in part  a mix of silt loam and sandy loam soils  well raced and subdivided, with a good water

reticulation system

 calving 210 cows, producing 3-year average of

62,296kgs ms

 low input farming with easy potential for more

output

 16 aside farm dairy, standard range of shedding

Tenders close 4.00 pm Thurs, 12 Dec 2019

Open day: Friday, 15 Dec - 11.00am to 1.00pm

Auction:

Open day: Thurs, 14 Nov - 1.00pm to 3.00pm

 well established 2-storied homestead, 5 bedrooms,

spacious living, covered deck leading to inground pool

 v.g. selection for schooling with school bus at gate  a quality property offering excellent potential and

versatility of land use

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

web ref R1310

Brian Peacocke

021 373 113

“Tarawai” A special opportunity to acquire a first-class dairy heifer grazing property, equally adaptable to an excellent beef finishing unit, located in an area renowned for producing quality livestock, approx 18 kms from Te Kuiti and 15 kms from Pio Pio  234 Mathers Road (off Troopers Road), Te Kuiti  326.9 hectares - 3 titles  attractive easy to medium rolling country, areas of

steeper sidlings, enhanced by pockets of native bush  strong, healthy volcanic ash soils over limestone  subdivided into approx 208 paddocks, with a central

lane through the farm; metal quarry on property  v.g. water reticulation system; good consistent

fertiliser history  currently carrying dairy heifers; approx 138 x 20 mth;

547 x 15 mth; 117 x calves; 38 x dairy bulls  excellent cattleyards, substantial area of concrete

with very good drenching race / cattle crush area under cover; v.g. load-out facilities

1.00 pm venue -

Wed, 27 Nov 2019

Panorama Motor Inn - 59 Awakino Road

 very well maintained Lockwood homestead, including

3 brms with ensuite off master bedroom, office, spacious living, log fire, open fire, heat pump, attached double garage & carport, set in attractive north facing garden area  motorbikes, quads or 4wd side x side required for

inspection - helmets essential On Farm biosecurity protocols will apply vehicles and footwear to be clean prior to arrival

web ref R1303

Licensed REAA 2008

Brian Peacocke 021 373 113

phone

07 870 2112

office@pastoralrealty.co.nz

MREINZ

Est. M M Penwarden

Real Estate

21.77 hectares (54 acres)

379 Western Line, Whanganui

To be Auctioned 1pm Tues 3 December 2019

Opportunity knocks to purchase land in the sought after Brunswick area at an affordable price. Just five minutes north of Whanganui.

We seldom see properties of this size come onto the open market in this location. CV $700,000.

Both properties have been run as beef and lamb finishing blocks and are just 5km off State Highway 3, Turakina.

David Cotton

M: 027 442 5920 H: 06 342 9666 E: davidc@forfarms.co.nz

Block 1 – Glencairn Road – 68ha Approximately 55ha tractor country.

Good water, fencing, sheep and cattle yards.

Great building sites with panoramic views.

Rateable Value – $1,555,000.

John Thornton

M: 027 443 0045 E: johnt@forfarms.co.nz

David Cotton

M: 027 442 5920 H: 06 342 9666 E: davidc@forfarms.co.nz

John Thornton

M: 027 443 0045 H: 06 344 1111 E: johnt@forfarms.co.nz

Block 2 – Bruce Road – 72ha Good balance of contour.

Good water, fencing, sheep and cattle yards.

Rateable Value – $880,000.

For Sale by Auction LK0099905©

We welcome your inspection at Open Days or by appointment with Vendor’s agent.

LK0068450©

www.forfarms.co.nz – Property ID F2913 Property ID FF1299

VENDOR FINANCE

Vendor says sell. Two properties available, buy one or buy them both, with Vendor finance to approved purchaser if required. Flexible possession date.

Open Days: Friday 15th and 22nd November 2019 12.00 noon to 2.00pm

www.forfarms.co.nz

BARELAND X 2 – MARTON

Turakina

(will not be sold prior) at Brickhouse, 72 St Hill Street, Whanganui.

Currently run as a dairy support unit but with Westmere loam flats, reliable rainfall this would equally make an excellent horticulture, finishing or calf rearing unit.

Infrastructure includes four bedroom home, herringbone milking shed.

FARMERS WEEKLY – November 11, 2019

Offers invited by Thursday 12 December 2019

LK0100008©

farmersweekly.co.nz/realestate 0800 85 25 80

www.forfarms.co.nz – Property ID FF2922 www.forfarms.co.nz

Property ID FF1299

LK0068450©

48

Accelerating success.

Reach more people - better results faster.

Open Days: Monday 18th November 11am-12pm TENDER - DAIRY FARM / HEIFER GRAZING BLOCK 509 Denbigh Rd, Midhirst, Taranaki

85 hectare of predominately flat land dairy farm is a great opportunity for a young couple to get into farm ownership. Buildings include a 20 aside herringbone cowshed, calf shed and haysheds. 4 bedroom weatherboard home with open plan living areas, DVS and 2 heat pumps. This property offers a great opportunity for a first farm buyer or a heifer grazing / wintering block.

Kevin Walsh Tender Close Thursday 28th November at 1pm, 201 Broadway, Stratford.

Licensed Under REAA 2008

06 765 8550

www.mgfnco.nz

027 231 1717 kevin@mgfn.co.nz

201 Broadway Stratford

Looking for the complete package?

We’ve got you covered with digital and print options.

2480REHP

Contact Shirley Howard phone 06 323 0760, email shirley.howard@globalhq.co.nz

farmersweekly.co.nz/realestate

colliers.co.nz

FARMERS WEEKLY – November 11, 2019

Real Estate

farmersweekly.co.nz/realestate 0800 85 25 80

49

Accelerating success.

Reach more people - better results faster.

colliers.co.nz

Accelerating success.

Accelerating success.

Reach more people - better results faster.

Reach more people - better results faster.

colliers.co.nz

colliers.co.nz

DEADLINE SALE

AUCTION

Premium Location

The Secret's Out

72 Harding Rd, Matamata

247 Waterworks Rd, Te Miro

When we describe this Matamata dairy farm as immaculate

it is an understatement of what's on offer. This property leads with the beautiful tree-lined driveway to a stunning home built to a high quality standard that won't disappoint.

Just over 119ha of mainly flat free draining soil the Waihou

sandy loam will support virtually any form of farming. The

daily consent allows for 2500m2 of clean water to be drawn from a tributary of the Waihou river eliminating the risk of droughts and providing for many different forms of

Deadline Sale: Closes 2pm, 28th Nov 2019 (unless sold prior) ___________________________________

The last time this property was on the market was

Auction

This fertile property is well subdivided and is currently

___________________________________

View

By Appointment Only ___________________________________

farmed as a heifer grazing unit. A large percentage of

Agent Jack Van Lierop 0274 455 099

horticulture or agriculture. It has allowed this farm to milk

through any summer conditions producing high quality low

LJ Hooker Matamata 07 888 5677

matamata.ljhooker.co.nz/G6ZHR1

Licensed Agent REAA 2008

around 1915. That’s how good it is!

the 118 hectares is able to be mown or cropped, so plenty of options here including utilising the large sheds. Situated on Waterworks Road, a great

location central to most Waikato destinations.

This one will be hard to beat.

matamata.ljhooker.co.nz/G79HR1

Wed 4th Dec, 1:00pm (unless sold prior)

View

Thurs 14th, 21st Nov 11am - 12pm

___________________________________ Agent Peter Begovich 027 476 5787 Rex Butterworth 021 348 276 LJ Hooker Matamata 07 888 5677 Licensed Agent REAA 2008

AUCTION

AUCTION

A Slice Of Quality

Next Level

49 McKinley Rd, Te Aroha

783 Waihekau Rd, Waitoa

The end of an era, our retiring vendors are reluctantly selling

Auction

family for three generations.

Wed, 4th Dec, 1:00pm (unless sold prior)

more desirable as the environmental constraints on land

View

40 hectares of their prized dairy farm that has been in the

Flat Waihou sandy loam blocks such as this will only become uses take hold. The title includes two water sources, one being town supply. All of the farm infrastructure including a tidy 20

ASHB and a beautifully presented five bedroom family home in a magnificent setting.

Grab it before someone else does.

matamata.ljhooker.co.nz/G5WHR1

___________________________________ Wed 13th, 20th Nov 12 - 1pm

___________________________________ Agent Rex Butterworth 021 348 276 Peter Begovich 027 476 5787 LJ Hooker Matamata 07 888 5677 Licensed Agent REAA 2008

If your criteria are - it must be in the dress circle, high

Auction

current owners are retiring after cherishing this 65ha dairy

Wed 4th Dec, 1:00pm (unless sold prior)

An exceptional property in two titles complemented by two

View

producing, flat, fertile and free draining then read on. The farm for the last 76 years.

very nice homes, plus an older cottage. Milking 230 cows

through a top 32 ASHB packed with features including an

adjoining 350 cow feed pad. Production average of 127,000 kgs/ms.

It really is as good as it sounds!

matamata.ljhooker.co.nz/G46HR1

___________________________________ Wed 13th, 20th Nov 11am - 12pm

___________________________________ Agent Peter Begovich 027 476 5787 Rex Butterworth 021 348 276 LJ Hooker Matamata 07 888 5677 Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Real Estate

FARMERS WEEKLY – November 11, 2019

farmersweekly.co.nz/realestate 0800 85 25 80

TENDER

TENDER

Supreme Free Range Chicken Farm

Iron Hill Chicken Farm

Matamata

Matamata

Animal welfare, clean water, food production and

environmental impact are the buzz words of today. Ignore these at your peril. Get ahead of the game and secure an

investment in this free range chicken farm which has a high return on capital and delivers on all of the above.

This remarkable farm was established in 2015 on a 62.5 ha block. The sale will include a current long term grower’s

contract with Inghams Enterprises, all the necessary plant

and equipment plus two very good homes. Serious investors wanting a leading edge agri-business need to apply for

Tender Closes 1pm, 28th Nov 2019 (unless sold prior) ___________________________________ View

By Appointment Only ___________________________________ Agent Peter Begovich 027 476 5787 Rex Butterworth 021 348 276

further information.

LJ Hooker Matamata 07 888 5677

matamata.ljhooker.com.nz/G73HR1

Licensed Agent REAA 2008

51

Progressive investors are recognising the chicken industry for it's secure and enticing return on capital. Iron Hill Farms has a long term contract with Inghams Enterprises and consists of six automated growing sheds totalling 9024m² on 9.45ha,

rearing in excess of one million birds annually. The property is fully compliant and will be sold as a going concern including

two very good homes plus a neat two bedroom unit. The icing on the cake here is the location part way between Matamata and Cambridge. What more could you ask for, the figures stack up and the industry is thriving - look no further!

Tender Closes 1pm, 28th Nov 2019 (unless sold prior) ___________________________________ View

By Appointment Only ___________________________________ Agent Peter Begovich 027 476 5787 Rex Butterworth 021 348 276 LJ Hooker Matamata 07 888 5677

matamata.ljhooker.com.nz/G59HR1

Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Tender

Glentor Farm Old Woodcocks Road Kaipara Flats Warkworth - Farm or Develop

A unique chance to own this very attractive property, 180ha in eleven Titles, flat to rolling with a small area of hill. The farm is well planted providing shelter throughout making it Ideal for fattening or breeding.

Infrastructure includes a woolshed, cattle and sheep yards.

An excellent location just a short drive to Warkworth, down the road to Kaipara Flats Village, school and sports club and handy to new motorway exit. An excellent opportunity for an investor.

Farm and enjoy this stunning property or subdivide into smaller parcels. It is rarely that properties with the options that this has come on the market. ljhooker.co.nz/C9NHAY

180.0 hectares

Tender Closes 4pm Thursday 12th December at LJ Hooker, 20 Queen St, Warkworth _______________________________________________ View

By Appointment _______________________________________________ Agent Jennie Georgetti 021 389 236 LJ Hooker Warkworth (09) 425 8589 Broadbents 2001 Limited Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Broadbents 2001 Ltd Licensed Agent 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.

Keep your stock moving With our experienced agribusiness team For more information about our Agribusiness real estate transactions, valuations or advisory services, visit www.cbre.co.nz

FOR SALE ROCKY HILLS ROCKY HILLS ROAD, TE WHARAU, WAIRARAPA

PRODUCTION FORESTRY LARGER SCALE, PROVEN REGION Rocky Hills is a large-scale and attractive landholding, transitioning from pastoral activities to a carbon offset forest. With some 725ha already established over the past three years and a further 525ha of farm land earmarked for future planting, Rocky Hills has strong forestry fundamentals in a proven growth region. With an on-site metal resource, well-formed track network and economic cart distances for domestic or export, this property is well set up for production forestry.

Contact CBRE today for a detailed Information Memorandum or to arrange an inspection. + Freehold land area of 1,932ha + 725ha young Pinus radiata + 525ha for future forestry + Two dwellings, sheds and yard facilities + Extensive track network, well-formed access road and attractive native bush + This farm land is offered for sale

DEADLINE TENDER Tuesday 10 December 2019 at 4.00pm

CONTACT US JEREMY KEATING 021 461 210

WYATT JOHNSTON 027 8151 303

www.cbre.co.nz/222628Q49

FOR SALE

FOR SALE

THE FRASER FARMS 248 FRASER SMITH ROAD, AWAKINO, WAIKATO

VIADUCT OLIVE GROVE 3962 STATE HIGHWAY 2, HAWKE’S BAY

Boundary line indicative only

Boundary line indicative only

LARGE COASTAL FARMING ESTATE FARMING, FORESTRY, HUNTING An opportunity to purchase a significant coastal farm 1.5hr* from the Hamilton CBD, featuring land for grazing, carbon farming and plantation forestry as well as large areas of native bush for hunting, recreation and potential beehive revenue.

The property contains numerous water courses, ponds, large areas of attractive native bush as well as farming infrastructure including woolsheds, yards and dwellings.

+ 1,445.8ha* Freehold Area

This farm land is available for sale and offered jointly to the market by CBRE and Bayleys.

VERSATILE HORTICULTURE LAND WITH CONSENTED WATER CBRE Agribusiness offers to the marketplace New Zealand’s second largest olive grove.

+ Total land area of 91.15ha (more or less) + Free-draining ‘Mohaka Sandy Loam Soils’

+ RV (2018): $6.28M

Planted in six varieties across 62.25ha (more or less) of flat fertile land, the sale of the Viaduct Olive Grove is a fantastic opportunity to secure a large standalone property with an eye on future development. Home, work sheds, plant and equipment included in sale.

DEADLINE OFFERS Thursday 28 November 2019 at 4.00pm†

Call today for a detailed Information Memorandum DEADLINE OFFERS Tuesday 26 November 2019 at 4.00pm* and for access to the online data room.

+ 507ha* in pasture + 3km* coastal frontage + Dwellings, yards and farm infrastructure + Waterfall, streams and ponds + Plantation forestry and carbon farming

WYATT JOHNSTON 027 815 1303

MARK MONCKTON 021 724 833

+ Productive area of 62.25ha (more or less) + Majority share in ‘Mohaka Water Company’ + Irrigation infrastructure in place + Revenue from hive placement + Rateable Value - $4.08M (2018)

WYATT JOHNSTON 027 815 1303

JEREMY KEATING 021 461 210

*Approximately †

Unless sold prior www.cbre.co.nz/223649Q49

*Unless sold prior www.cbre.co.nz/181043Q49

CBRE (Agency) Limited, Licensed Real Estate Agent (REAA 2008)

LIS TI N G N EW

"RATA" - QUALITY SOILS AND CONTOUR ON A RARE SCALE 26 Putorino Road, Hunterville, Rangitikei

nzr.nz/RX2081197 Tender Closes 11am, Tue 17 Dec 2019, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding.

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

N EW

LIS TI N G

Located just south of Hunterville and close to State Highway 1, Rata comprises one of the largest areas of finishing and cropping country to ever avail itself in the region. With a high proportion of the highly regarded Kiwitea silt loam as well as other quality soils, around 75% is assessed as croppable contour, with the balance medium hill. This has enabled an integrated system of a self-contained dairying, beef cattle as well as growing supplement for associated dairy farms.

Central to the flats is a 60 bail rotary shed with ACRs, with an adjacent feed pad able to accommodate all of the 650 cows currently being milked. The majority of the circa 70 hecatres of hill contour is located at one end of the property and could be potentially sold separately. Well subdivided and laned, the property has plentiful stock water, including allocation and consents for up to 235 cubic meters of stock water per day, from the local water scheme and bore sources.

With 13 titles, two dwellings, a dividing quiet road and the semi-separate hill block, there are numerous options for this property. The former potato factory sits on its own 7.5 hectare title and could be ideal for those requiring large storage, so close to the country’s main arterial route.

In a favourable location for families, with the Hunterville primary passing the gate, and the Rangitikei College bus just a short stroll away.

395 hectares Video on website

"MELLINGTON" - A HIGH % OF QUALITY FLATS + MEDIUM HILL COUNTRY BLOCK ALONGSIDE. 867 Rangatira Road, Hunterville, Rangitikei Offering a great balance of country with circa 260 hectares (75%) of contiguous quality Kiwitea silt loam flats and 108 hectares of medium hills running along one side, enables this dairy farm to be operated as a largely self-contained grazing unit.

The Kiwitea soils sit amongst the regions best, and they are used for a wide range of intensive land-uses, including dairying, cereals, maize grain and silage, intensive sheep/beef finishing systems and horticultural crops such as potatoes, that this property has grown lots of in the past.

Central to the flats is a modern, highly automated 60 bail rotary dairy shed and integrated large feed-pad, that has assisted this property to average over 335,000kg MS as it has recently transitioned from a year round to spring calving system. Stock and dairy water is sources include both the Hunterville and Mellington water schemes, considerable areas have recently been cropped and re-grassed with fencing upgrades.

With four dwellings and nine titles, there is potential here to purchase in a number of size options, including a number of 30+ hectare titles over Rangatira road.

Located only 8km from Hunterville and within a dairy dominant local district, the primary school bus to a strong primary school passes the gate.

368 hectares Video on website

nzr.nz/RX2085432 Tender Closes 11am, Tue 17 Dec 2019, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding.

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

LIS TI N G N EW

OHINEPUA 209 Ruanui Road, Taihape Ohinepua is an attractive bull beef and sheep finishing operation located in the Mataroa district and only a short trip from Taihape.

The appealing contour consists of undulating, cultivatable areas to medium hills. An emphasis on modernising pasture species is aiding with the great livestock performance that is being achieved and along with the excellent access makes this farm a real treasure. Infrastructure includes a character two storey homestead with four bedrooms that is well situated on the property, as well as a shared quality 4-stand woolshed with covered yards, cattle yards and implement shed.

Now for the recreational enthusiasts there is good trout fishing on your boundary from the Hautapu Stream as well as red and fallow deer roaming through the property.

FIRST CLASS TURN-KEY FINISHING UNIT Clyro, 84134 State Highway 2, Eketahuna, Tararua "Clyro" is a farming operation of exceptional quality, balance and productive capacity. Situated on the outskirts of Eketahuna in a "summer safe" climate this is a flat farm with some good quality hills- close to 60% of the effective area of 312ha (340ha total) are productive flats with the remainder top class easy to medium hill country. This balance allows the farm to run a highly productive sheep breeding and finishing system in tandem with a lamb and bull finishing operation. Recent soil test results are pH 5.9 av & Olsen P 42 av. The farm is supported by a three bedroom plus office home, a four stand woolshed and modern covered yards complex, very well sited and maintained cattle yards and three further satellite sheep yards. The water supply is fully reticulated around the flats, and dams on the northern flats and hills. Our vendors meticulous care and passion, significant development work, regular pasture renewal, well developed metalled lane network, comprehensive fertiliser policies, drainage of the flats and quality infrastructure supports the ability of the farm to turnover high numbers of stock. Clyro is a true statement of the benefit of doing things once and doing them exceedingly well. Clyro presents a Turn-Key opportunity-don´t delay, call today!

Tender Closes 4pm, Thu 5 Dec 2019; Address for Tender; NZR Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810

149 hectares Tender

nzr.nz/RX2087694 Tender (unless sold prior) Closes 11am, Fri 29 Nov 2019, NZR, 1 Goldfinch St, Ohakune Jamie Proude AREINZ 027 448 5162 | 06 385 4466 jamie@nzr.nz NZR Central Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

340 hectares Video on website

nzr.nz/RX2045101 Blair Stevens AREINZ 027 527 7007 | blair@nzr.nz Dave Hutchison 027 286 9034 | dave@nzr.nz NZR Real Estate Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

N O TI CE FIN AL

LANGDALE STATION - APPEALING CONTOUR & SOILS - 556HA Langdale Road, Whareama, Masterton

nzr.nz/RX2027974 Blair Stevens AREINZ 027 527 7007 | blair@nzr.nz Dave Hutchison 027 286 9034 | dave@nzr.nz NZR Real Estate Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

FIN AL

N O TI CE

Historic Langdale Station is a visually appealing and very well-balanced sheep and beef breeding and finishing unit located 30 minutes east of Masterton. A key feature of Langdale are the 80ha of alluvial based silt flats which are complemented by 30ha of terraced valley flats running up to another 220ha of easy to medium front hill country. The balance of around 163ha of medium to steeper hills to the rear total the 493ha effective grazing land, with a further 63ha of pine trees, scrub & bush. There are around 20 paddocks on the flats and 46 paddocks on the terraces and hills with fences predominantly conventional. Langdale´s excellent mix of land class and soils offers the opportunity to intensify the production utilising multiple land use options including; breeding & finishing, dairy support/supplement and cropping. The farm is supported by a tidy two-bedroom cottage, four stand woolshed and covered sheep yards, cattle yards and various other hay and implement sheds. Good scale, great contour mix and versatility are the hallmarks of Langdale. Langdale will attract those seeking a high quality and well scaled block with genuine land use options close to Masterton, in a very well-established farming community. Interest will be high- call today for a property report!

Tender Closes 4pm, Wed 20 Nov 2019; Address for Tender; NZR Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810

556 hectares Video on website

NGAPUHI - ATTRACTIVE HILL COUNTRY AND FINISHING 851 Clifton Grove Road, Gladstone, Carterton Ngapuhi is a picturesque, nicely balanced and well established sheep and beef breeding and finishing unit , located close to the vibrant rural hub of Gladstone and only a 35min drive from Masterton. Ngapuhi has been in the vendors family for several generations, each undertaking extensive planting of gully and hill country faces in a wide selection of trees. Several mature stands of native bush, including some significant Totara trees bring added character and beauty to Ngapuhi. There are around 340ha effective with some 50ha of alluvial & terrace flats used for green feed crops to support lamb & bull finishing, the balance being medium hill with steeper faces towards the back of the main breeding block. With 3 titles purchase options exist of 150ha & 227ha. There is a well sited and modernised homestead with 4 bedrooms, rumpus room and attached studio. Farm buildings consist of a main 3 stand woolshed, second 3 stand woolshed alongside cattle yards, three satellite yards with well-located storage and implement shedding supporting the farming operations. Set in a well-established farming area and with good balance of contour, enabling breeding and finishing options, Ngapuhi has been faithfully farmed and developed over many years- an opportunity not to be missed!

Tender Closes 4pm, Thu 21 Nov 2019; Address for Tender; NZR Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810

377 hectares Video on website

nzr.nz/RX2028088 Blair Stevens AREINZ 027 527 7007 | blair@nzr.nz Dave Hutchison 027 286 9034 | dave@nzr.nz NZR Real Estate Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

FINISHING CONTOUR - OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE TO NEXT LEVEL 3578 Taihape Road, Waiwhare, Hawke’s Bay

BARELAND SILT LOAMS - 37.6 HA 276 McDonell Road, Ohakea Just 9km south of Sanson next to the Rangitikei River is this versatile block of free draining country. Soil maps describe a mix of Manawatu Fine Sandy Loam and Rangitikei Loamy Sand, transitioning to a stonier area near the river.

Currently used to grow maize, cereals and finish cattle, land-use in the past has seen onions and potatoes grown here.

With well formed lane access to a large hay/implement shed, reticulated stock water is supplied via an easement.

Open Farm 10:00-11:00am, Tue 12 & 19 & Sun 17 2019.

nrz.nz/RX2080152

LIS TI N G

Tender Closes 4pm, Thu 12 Dec 2019, 5 Ossian Street, Ahuriri, Napier.

Duncan McKinnon 021 241 9073 | duncan@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

N EW

N EW

LIS TI N G

’Waiwhare’ offers multiple opportunities, with a large portion of flat to easy finishing country, a boundary with the beautiful Tutaekuri River and a private wilderness area for recreation. Located 43km north west of Hastings on the Taihape Road in the Waiwhare district, Waiwhare is a 412ha sheep and bull beef breeding and finishing unit. With approx. 213ha of flat to very easy country in what is traditionally a good rainfall area, the opportunity exists to take the production to a new level with further intensification. Access and workability are assisted by River Road which runs along the eastern boundary plus a laneway that connects the cattle yards to the middle of the farm. The current policy has supported re-grassing, Lucerne crops, Plantain and winter Oats to assist the finishing programmes. Infrastructure includes: two reticulated water systems supported by creeks and dams, a well presented 4 stand woolshed, new set of large sheep yards, good cattle yards, two implement sheds and an operational airstrip. A three bedroom farm house is well located. For recreational enthusiasts, there are deer, trout and an abundance of native bush and birds in the wilderness area.

412.9 hectares Tender (Plus GST if any)

37.6 hectares Video on website

nzr.nz/RX2090418 Tender Closes 11am, Tue 3 Dec 2019, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding.

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

PRODUCTIVE ALLUVIAL SOILS - 65.3 HA 601 State Highway 1, Bulls/Marton, Rangitikei Just 4km north of Bulls, soil maps describe around 3/4 of this property as Crofton Silt Loams, an alluvial soil giving you more winter livestock options. Used as a bull finishing unit, maize silage, cereal and fodder beet have been grown in a program that has seen around 40 ha re-grassed in the past 7 years.

Centrally raced for cattle, there is a 2 std woolshed and a bore for stock water. The 4 bedroom home is set amongst mature trees and features an in-ground pool.

Open Farm 12:00-1:00pm, Tue 12 & 19 & Sun 17 2019.

65.3 hectares Video on website

nzr.nz/RX2086415 Tender Closes 11am, Wed 4 Dec 2019, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding.

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

SILT AND SANDY LOAM SOILS + IRRIGATION & 65HA OF LEASE RUNNING ALONGSIDE 1637 Parewanui Road, Bulls, Rangitikei Located 16km west of Bulls and enjoying a temperate coastal climate, "Scotts Ferry" combines Manawatu, Rangitikei and Parewanui silt loams and sandy loams with centre pivot irrigation to offer a highly productive base irrespective of whether you wish to produce milk, meat, grow crops or vegetables. Running alongside the boundary is 65 hectares of regional council lease, that provides a long-term extension of the grazing area, on similar soils.

Operated as two separate dairy units, milking a total of 860 cows for an average of 335,000kgMS, via 32 and 36 ASHB sheds; however with six titles the potential exists for this property to be split back into the two properties it once was or run a mixed farming model. Five centre pivots irrigators, plus some K-Line cover approximately 220 hectares and provide flexibility of application.

There are four dwellings, two at each end of the farm, with a bus to either of the two Bulls primary schools and Rangitikei College close-by.

The unique combination of silt soil types, irrigation, temperate climate with higher sunshine hours than further in-land, makes this one of the most productively versatile land resources we have offered for sale.

KILLYMOON - PRODUCTION RELIABILITY 287 State Highway 1, Bulls, Rangitikei Located just to the north of Bulls, reliability of production is a strength here, with close to 60% irrigation coverage from two centre pivots and K-line. The Ohakea silt loam and Crofton silt loam soils present are cropped on (incl. maize), dairied on and used for intensive livestock finishing in the immediate district, so you have options for land-use. Just over 500 cows produce 210,000kgMS on average, via a 40ASHB dairy, with a wintering barn (not currently used by owners) providing self-contained potential. With a large homestead and two cottages, Bulls offers two primary schools and buses to various high schools.

181.80 hectares Video on website

nzr.nz/RX2070898 Tender Closes 11am, Thu 28 Nov 2019, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding.

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

246ha + 65ha lease Video on website

nzr.nz/RX2070909

Tender Closes 11am, Thu 28 Nov 2019, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding.

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

HIGHLY ATTRACTIVE & PRODUCTIVE 442 Porewa Road, Marton, Rangitikei ’Sudbury’ is one of the most visually appealing dairy farms in the region. Ashhurst stony sandy loam and Tokorangi fine sandy loam soils are overlaid with approx. 130 ha of centre pivot irrigation and some K-line, provide you the ingredients of a highly productive unit. Currently milking just over 600 cows via the 50 bail rotary, with average production of just over 290,000kgMS. An added bonus, to provide versatility in your productive system, (un-used by the current owners), is a covered feed-pad for up to 1,000 cows with concrete silage bunkers. Three homes complete this property.

240.40 hectares Video on website

nzr.nz/RX2069758 Tender Closes 11am, Thu 28 Nov 2019, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding.

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

LIS TI N G N EW

MAUNGAROA "LONG RIDGE" 862 State Highway 4, Manunui, Taumarunui Held in the Tylee family for the past 66 years it is with great pleasure to offer this attractive 279 hectare farm for sale. The location of this property to amenities is a huge benefit in this day and age, all within 8km to town. Entirely effective land area with a favourable easy to medium hill contour with a majority lays well with a warm northerly aspect. Infrastructure includes a quality three bedroom home with inground swimming pool accessed off SHWY 4 and four stand wool shed and cattle yard at the front of the property are all in tip top condition.

Currently carrying 2500 su on very reliable soils.

"MAHI" TOP NOTCH IN ALL REGARDS 468 Ruanui Road, Taihape If you are looking for that farm to just walk in and start farming then this 219 ha farm has to be seen. Well balanced contour with approximately 96 ha of cultivatable land along with clean medium hill country and smaller margins of steeper country.

Strong soils types comprise of Ohakune and Mangaweka silt loams that are all renowned for producing quality livestock production. Reliable springs providing fresh, clean water all year long for stock and domestic use. Infrastructure comprises of a quality, low maintenance 3 bedroom home, set among wellestablished gardens along with garaging.

279 hectares Tender

nzr.nz/RX2022947 Tender Closes 11am, Thu 28 Nov 2019, NZR, 1 Goldfinch St, Ohakune.

Jamie Proude | Alan Blackburn 027 448 5162 | 027 203 9112 jamie@nzr.nz | alan@nzr.nz NZR Central Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

219 hectares Video on website

nzr.nz/RX1857077 Auction 11am, Thu 5 Dec 2019, Taihape Town Hall, Taihape.

Jamie Proude AREINZ 027 448 5162 | 06 385 4466 jamie@nzr.nz NZR Central Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

OPTIONS GALORE Whakapapa Road, Owhango Here´s an opportunity rarely available to secure an attractive 33 hectares of flat to undulating contoured land. Currently run as a deer unit but with contour gives the discerning buyer plenty of options. Infrastructure includes a deer handling facility on a concrete floor plus a separate load out yard all easily accessed from a centralized race running through the farm to connect the 20 paddocks to all faculties along with a handy five bay implement shed. Included is the luxury of a reliable reticulated water source from the Owhango water scheme and the versatile loamy sand soils.

DAIRY OR FINISHING / CROPPING UNIT 147 Mellington Road, Hunterville, Rangitikei A quintessential "first farm", with soil types that offer lots of land-use alternatives. Around 72 ha is of croppable contour, Kiwitea Silt Loam, with the balance med hill, Considerable recent development incl. upgrades to the water system, fencing, effluent, and generous capital fertiliser. Running a 180-190 cow, wintered on system, the recent average has been 80,000kg MS. Two solid homes, largely original to their 1960s heritage.

Open Farm 10:00-11:00am, Wed 13 Nov 2019 (Please ensure clean footwear & vehicles please).

33 hectares Tender

nzr.nz/RX2041815 Tender Closes 4pm, Thu 12 Dec 2019, NZR, 1 Goldfinch St, Ohakune.

Jamie Proude | Alan Blackburn 027 448 5162 | 027 203 9112 jamie@nzr.nz | alan@nzr.nz NZR Central Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

87.96 hectares Video on website

nzr.nz/RX2075576 Tender Closes 11am, Wed 11 Dec 2019, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding.

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

Real Estate

FARMERS WEEKLY – November 11, 2019

farmersweekly.co.nz/realestate 0800 85 25 80

RURAL | LIFESTYLE | RESIDENTIAL

TENDER

ARAPOHUE, NORTHLAND Make This One Your First Farm • • • • •

81 hectares Four bedroom home Garaging/workshop/outside room 14 ASHB cowshed Good implement sheds

A lovely first farm with character, 13km to town, and has many options to suit either dairy, beef, calf rearing and lifestyle. The owner has had the farm since 1998 and the time to retire has come so are offering this farm to market.

EXCLUSIVE

4

1

1

TENDER

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold By Private Treaty) Closes 2.00pm Tuesday 26 November

WAIKINO, WAIKATO Swetman Road Quality Finishing/Dairy Support Unit • • •

Megan Browning M 027 668 8468 B 09 439 3344 E mbrowning@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/DAG31294 PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008

THE DESTINATION FOR RURAL REAL ESTATE Land is the biggest asset to any farming business so it pays to stay up to date with the market.

Connect with the right audience at

farmersweekly.co.nz/realestate

• • •

57ha (140 acres) more or less. Currently farming Hereford breeding stock.

Mixed contour of easy to medium, regular fertiliser application Excellent covered calf rearing facility, large implement shed Strong cattle yards, Cattlemaster crush Bore water supply Subject to subdivision and issue of title

$1.38M

Plus GST (if any)

VIEW By Appointment Only

Lester Mullan M 021 121 4940 E lester.mullan@pggwrightson.co.nz Mike Matutinovich M 027 474 5345 B 07 863 6587 E mmatutinovich@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/WAH31216 Helping grow the country

59

RURAL | LIFESTYLE | RESIDENTIAL

OPEN DAY

TIROHANGA, TAUPO DISTRICT 176 Okama Road

3

Time To End The Pain!

Unforseen issues have led to the point of no return, the vendors have reached the decision where the farm must sell.

Situated in the renowned dairying district of Tirohanga, some 41 kilometres north of Taupo, this farm consists of around 138 effective hectares of easy rolling and some steeper contours. Having produced up to 129,019 milk solids when on a twice a day milking regime, however last season, with a manager, this fell to 70,154 milk solids on a once a day system. Currently the vendors are back on farm with a target of some 95,000 milk solids from 320 cows once a day milking. 345 mixed aged cows, 65 heifers and 27 bulls were wintered on farm.

Approximately 210 ton of PKE is purchased, 13 hectares of summer crop sown, and 30 ton of grass silage made on farm, with the NRP calculated at 66.

Infrastructure includes two three-bedroom Lands and Survey style dwellings, a tidy 22 aside straight rail dairy with in-shed feeders, two large calf sheds, three PKE or fertiliser bins and a disused woolshed. Water is well catered for by way of a farm bore and council water supply.

1

2

AUCTION

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) 1.00pm, Thursday 21 November PGG Wrightson Real Estate Rotorua

VIEW 12.00-1.00pm, Thursday 14 November Graham Beaufill M 027 474 8073 E graham.beaufill@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/ROT31119

FINAL NOTICE

THORNTON, WHAKATANE 63 Magee Road Developed for Sustainability 145 hectares (subject to survey) main farm, plus 28.75ha support block, plus 29.30ha support block, all flat contour. Recent and exceptional capital investment has been made in infrastructure, with a forward-thinking vision for a sustainable long-term future. Aiming to be environmentally friendly, to achieve compliance better than the regulations require. The near new industry leading 40 ASHB high tech dairy, with fully covered yard and feedlot has an ultra-modern water conservation system.

Only 5km out of Whakatane, continue the vision, profit is to be gained from this opportunity.

FINAL NOTICE

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 4.00pm Thursday, 28 November

VIEW 11.00am-1.00pm

Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Phil Goldsmith M 027 494 1844 B 07 307 1620 E pgoldsmith@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/WHK31158

OWHIRO, WAITOMO 657 Owhiro Road Belvedere 264 hectares, more or less. Contour is a very well balanced farm and healthy hills to croppable country - approximately 230 hectares effective.

On average wintering approximately 725 MA ewes, 225 hoggets, 60 MA cows, 80 dairy graziers, 60 yearlings. The vendors have successfully utilised all contour mixes to optimise stock performance. Please bring motorbike and helmet to open days.

To be offered as three options: 1. Complete farm 2. 81 hectares bare land 3. 182 hectares includes house and farm buildings

3 TENDER

(Unless Sold By Private Treaty) Closes 1.00pm, Friday 29 November

VIEW 11.00am-1.00pm

Tuesday 12 & 19 November

Peter Wylie M 027 473 5855 B 07 878 0265 E pwylie@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/TEK30867

PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008

‘Lifestyle Collection’ property magazine out now – www.pggwre.co.nz/lifestyle-collection Request your printed copy by contacting your local consultant today. www.pggwre.co.nz

PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under the REAA 2008.

1

Helping grow the country

RURAL | LIFESTYLE | RESIDENTIAL

FINAL NOTICE

AWAKINO, WAITOMO Manganui Road

EXCLUSIVE

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY

The Top Farm

(Unless Sold Prior) Closes 1.00pm, Friday 6 December

•

VIEW 11-1pm, Tues 12, 19 Nov

•

•

•

•

780 hectares, more or less, approximately 520 hectares effective, 12km north of Awakino.

Big hill breeding farm, on average running 520 2th ewes, 1140 mixed age ewes and 120 mixed age cows Contour - mix of approximately 34 hectares flat, 90 hectares rolling and balance is steep. Good fertiliser history, natural water Four stand woolshed, lockable shed, two sets of cattle yards and three sets of sheep yards, no house 9 hectares of lease in between river and road

•

• Peter Wylie M 027 473 5855 B 07 878 0265 E pwylie@pggwrightson.co.nz

•

557.3737 hectares (1377.27 acres) Large scale third generation breeding unit in the sought-after Patoka district west of Napier Easy contoured country front and back. Large hill in middle making an ideal hogget block Well-laned and all conventionally fenced into some 55 main paddocks Two good four-bedroom dwellings 5-stand woolshed, 2x sheep yards, cattle yards, numerous implement and workshop sheds The family's decision to sell creates a seldom afforded opportunity

TENDER

Plus GST (if any) Closes 4.00pm Thursday 5 December

Doug Smith M 027 494 1839 B 06 878 3156 E dougsmith@pggwrightson.co.nz Paul Harper M 027 494 4854 B 06 878 3156 E paul.harper@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/HAS31362

$6M

Plus GST (if any)

VIEW By Appointment Only

Peter Wylie M 027 473 5855 B 07 878 0265 E pwylie@pggwrightson.co.nz

HUNTERVILLE, WANGANUI Buy One Or Buy Both - 609 Putorino Road These two properties are currently farmed in conjunction with a successful dairy farm.

Property 1 (609 Putorino Road - 20.4038ha) is predominately flat on two terraces, with medium to steeper sidlings. There is a well positioned three bedroom home, set on an elevated site with good views of the Putorino Valley. The property, which is well fertilised and on a water scheme, is also complemented by a good hay shed/implement shed.

Property 2 (Smiths Road and Putorino Road 19.9308ha) is flat with two road frontages and two half-round hay sheds.

TENDER

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold By Private Treaty) Closes 4.00pm Monday 16 December

VIEW 1.00-2.00pm

Sunday 17 November

Doug Glasgow M 027 204 8640 B 06 349 2005 E dougglasgow@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/FDG31384

PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008

‘Lifestyle Collection’ property magazine out now – www.pggwre.co.nz/lifestyle-collection Request your printed copy by contacting your local consultant today. www.pggwre.co.nz

1

TENDER

`Punawai' History and Breeding

• •

•

388 hectares freehold with another 75 hectares of lease Up to 640 cows have been milked on farm in the past with all stock wintered on 50 bail rotary with feed pad, three dwellings, calf sheds, implement shed, tractor shed, workshop and hay barns Multi revenue streams available - dairy, grazing, cropping, forestry, carbon credits. A self sufficient farm Fertility, races and comprehensive re-grassing have all been done to the highest order

3

pggwre.co.nz/TEK31351

PATOKA, HAWKE'S BAY

•

• •

TENDER

•

Multi Options at Mahoenui

Please bring your own motorbike

pggwre.co.nz/TEK31225

• •

MAHOENUI, WAITOMO

PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under the REAA 2008.

Helping grow the country

RURAL | LIFESTYLE | RESIDENTIAL

TENDER

POHANGINA, MANAWATU 322 Finnis Road

6

'Glengarnock' A well balanced farm between Pohangina and Colyton, 199.38 hectares (492.67 acres) is for sale. Large areas of flats and easy undulating country is currently grazed for dairy support and sheep.

The six-bedroom home has recently had the open plan kitchen/dining and lounge room redecorated and modernised and double glazed.

The three-stand woolshed and sheds area have all steel framing and the covered yard has sheep drafting. The cattle yards with a Cattlemaster crush system are beside the outside sheep yards. There is tractor and implement shedding. Water is sourced on farm by springs, pumped to a header tank and gravity fed to troughs. There are two stands of Pinus Radiata near to harvest.

A property of this size is rarely available only 22km to Feilding.

2

3

TENDER Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold By Private Treaty) Closes 2.00pm, Thursday 28 November

VIEW By Appointment Only Geoff White M 027 274 1478 E geoff.white@pggwrightson.co.nz Wayne Brooks M 027 431 6306 E wayne.brooks@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/FDG31150

EXCLUSIVE

NEW LISTING

METHVEN, MID CANTERBURY Scale And Splendor In The Foothills Seldom do properties of this scale come to the market in the rain belt of the Canterbury foothills.

This picturesque 476ha block has been well run as a cattle and lamb fattening operation as well as dairy grazing through the winter. Known for its finishing prowess, this block at the base of Mount Hutt has a baseline of 66kg N/ha. There are three dwellings, outbuildings and cattle yards, with a newly refurbished set of sheep yards. Purchase options include - as one unit 476ha; or in parts, 101ha, 374ha with dwellings and farm buildings; 67ha, 154ha or 152ha (subject to survey).

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 3.00pm Friday 29 November

TAPANUI, WEST OTAGO 'Glenburnie' • • •

Robin Ford M 027 433 6883 E rford@pggwrightson.co.nz Tim Gallagher M 027 801 2888 E tim.gallagher@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/ASH30667

• • • • •

573.7732 hectares Delightfully decorated three bedroom modernised home Four stand woolshed/covered yards (1,250NP), support buildings and stock yards, 91 paddocks and farm water scheme Estimated at approximately 4,000 stock units All gullies fenced off Hunting lodge for the enthusiast 52ha of pine trees, tussock and native bush provides excellent shelter A well farmed tidy unit still under development

3

Plus GST (if any)

VIEW By Appointment Only Bill McDonald M 027 434 1928 B 03 209 0303 E wmcdonald@pggwrightson.co.nz Darrell Duncan M 027 432 5767 B 03 209 0302 E dduncan@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/GOR31400

‘Lifestyle Collection’ property magazine out now – www.pggwre.co.nz/lifestyle-collection Request your printed copy by contacting your local consultant today.

PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under the REAA 2008.

3

$3.975M

PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008

www.pggwre.co.nz

1

Helping grow the country

Agri Job Board

FARMERS WEEKLY – November 11, 2019

classifieds@globalhq.co.nz – 0800 85 25 80

EXCITING CONTRACT MANAGER OPPORTUNITY

You can visit our website lazyfish.co.nz To apply please send your cv to sue@swphotos.co.nz

The stunning landscape of Muriwai Downs Farm is situated just 40km northwest of Auckland Central and within close proximity of Auckland’s West Coast. Operating as a 500ha mixed enterprise property, the new owners have a comprehensive vision to further develop the land and resource by driving excellent environmental outcomes and building on the reputation of this property by deploying fit for purpose people, livestock and infrastructure.

A Farm Manager is required to drive the animal productivity of Muriwai Downs and optimise supply and demand. This will be a busy operation with many moving parts and for the right person will be a uniquely rewarding business to be involved in.

The appointee will have the ability to seek out new business opportunities while working to a plan with the capital stock component, currently comprising 70 Angus cows and 1600 ewes with a contract to supply the Kaipara Lamb program.

The appointee to this role requires skills in logistics and the understanding that forward planning and communication is critical. A Stock Manager will report through to this position, with this relationship being vital to the overall business. For the owners, success in this role would be described as “we are optimising our business; productivity and development are on target, the animals are performing and the team is efficient, courteous and welcoming.”

www.no8hr.co.nz | ph: 07-870-4901

The new owners of Muriwai Downs Farm are committed to a very clear continuous improvement vision for the future. There is a real opportunity here to showcase your skills and be recognised as a specialist in your field. Accommodation is offered as part of a generous remuneration package.

farmersweeklyjobs.co.nz

JOBS BOARD Contract Manager

An exciting career opportunity is available on a Central Hawke’s Bay sheep and beef finishing property. Located approximately 20 minutes west of Waipukurau in the Ashley Clinton district, the property comprises 545ha of flat and easy rolling country. Lambs and cattle will be finished which will predominantly be sourced from another property in the group. The property is well laid out with good working facilities.

Deer Stock Manager Farm Manager Full-time Caretaker Manager

Sharemilker

If you have the necessary skills and desire to succeed as part of a large progressive farming business you should apply by emailing your CV to: Brian Burrough Chief Executive Officer NZ Rural Property Trust P O Box 783, Hastings email: brian.burrough@ruralequities.co.nz or telephone 027 446 9964 for more information

*conditions apply

Contact Debbie Brown 06 323 0765 or email classifieds@globalhq.co.nz

classifieds@globalhq.co.nz – 0800 85 25 80

You’re reading the Farmers Weekly and so are the people you want to employ.

GET IN TOUCH

For all your employment ads Debbie 06 323 0765, classifieds@globalhq.co.nz

Noticeboard

HOLIDAYS

FOR FARMERS 20M2A0R

Next Stop BRAZIL

to

3 R 31 MA TUES

FRI 1

WE ARE THE SOLUTION

LK00100045©

LK0096815©

Station Cook and General Hand

SELLING

RECRUITMENT & HR Register to receive job alerts on www.ruraldirections.co.nz

The position commences in mid-February 2020, reports to the Chief Executive and provides a high degree of responsibility. A three-bedroom home will be provided along with an attractive remuneration package. There is primary schooling locally with a bus to secondary schooling in Waipukurau.

Shepherd

FOR SALE

Applications close 5pm Monday, 18th November 2019

SOMETHING?

The Original Victorian Style Drying Rack The most enjoyable way to dry your washing fast and easy all while saving the planet!

Water Filter Systems LK0100078©

Senior Deer Shepherd

*FREE upload to Farmers Weekly jobs: farmersweeklyjobs.co.nz

To view a Job Information Pack or to apply, please visit www. ruraldirections.co.nz or phone the Rural Directions team in confidence on 06 871 0450 (Reference #7028).

This is a key position for a working manager which requires a dynamic, well organised and broad thinking person with a proven record preferably using modern management techniques. Essential skills will include excellent livestock and pasture management, computer literacy, good communication, high personal standards, an eye for detail and the ability to work with others.

Private Retreat Managers

3 sizes available

• Whole House

Join over 3000 satisfied Kiwis …

Lifestyle Products • www.lifestyleproducts.co.nz 0800 75 49 86 • info@lifestyleproducts.co.nz

• Town or Tank Water • Chlorine Removal

w w w. e l e c t r o t e k . c o . n z

Have something to sell?

Advertise in Farmers Weekly

P.O. Box 30, Palmerston North 4440, NZ

WEBSITE

Phone Debbie Brown 0800 85 25 80 or email classifieds@globalhq.co.nz

electro-tek@xtra.co.nz

Phone: +64 6 357 2454

EMAIL

enquiries@crmcphail.co.nz PHONE

(06) 357 1644

DE HORNER

HOOF TRIMMER

EARMARKERS

• Installer Network

Ph 09 376 0860 www.jder-cintropur.co.nz

ZON BIRDSCARER

www.crmcphail.co.nz

• No Expensive Cartridges

SHOP ONLINE

STOP BIRDS NOW!

LK0100155©

Applications for this role are invited with urgency as takeover is expected to be early December. An interim Manager may be appointed to accommodate the preferred applicant’s notice period.

Farm Manager Central Hawkes Bay

Agronomy

LK0100123©

We are looking for a motivated couple who want to apply their skills and experience in managing a unique and exclusive (privately owned) family lodge in a spectacular part of the Queen Charlotte Sound in Marlborough where access is by water only. The lodge is for private (not public) use only.

The lodge is set amongst extensive grounds of wandering boardwalks and gardens with five beautifully appointed bungalows, and separate managers accommodation.

The position involves looking after all aspects of this unique place and location, from hosting and looking after guests, property maintenance, housekeeping and gardening.

The role would ideally suit a husband & wife team (or partners) with a wide range of handyman or practical skills, a can-do attitude and who love working in an environment where no one day is the same.

Applicants must be physically fit and able to carry out a diverse range of manual duties including painting, water, pest control, passionate about enhancing the existing gardens and landscape, working with boats and willing to live and work in a relatively isolated location. (Not suitable for children)

Auckland’s West Coast

SEE PAGE 64

FOR MORE NOTICEBOARD ADVERTISING

LK0099618©

PRIVATE RETREAT MANAGERS MARLBOROUGH SOUNDS

Farm Manager

LK0100074©

• Progressive farm in Feilding • Split calving • 550 cows Our client has been farming this property for 21 years, and with growing commitments off-farm has asked us to find him an experienced go getter who has proven ability in managing pasture, people and time. Comprising 260ha, this farm has a 44-bail rotary shed with all the technology ‘bells and whistles’.

We are looking for an outstanding farm leader who can demonstrate strong communication skills, along with pride and excellence in achieving the right outcomes. It goes without saying that you’ll have top notch pasture management and animal husbandry skills; equally important is that you will take pride in the appearance of the farm.

You could be an experienced Contract Milker already, or this could be your first step into Contract Milking – either way, you will have at least four year’s farm management experience.

On offer is the opportunity to enjoy great financial returns, work with a progressive and supportive farm owner and all in a location that is handy to rivers for trout fishing, deer for hunting and the Ruahine Ranges for tramping enthusiasts.

If you’re serious about returning excellent results for yourself and the farm owners, you’re in it for the long haul and will take the custodianship of this farming asset seriously, we want to hear from you!

For more info and to apply go to www.no8hr.co.nz (Ref#8HR1240).

63

Noticeboard

Now working in Eketahuna/Tararua areas

We also clean out and remetal cattle yards – Call us!

LK0100175©

Ph: Scott Newman 027 26 26 272 0800 27 26 88

DOGS WANTED

LIVESTOCK FOR SALE

RAMS FOR SALE

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

DAGS .25c PER KG. Replacement woolpacks.

PV Weber Wools.

Kawakawa Road, Feilding. Phone 06 323 9550.

12 MONTHS TO 5½-yearold Heading dogs and Huntaways wanted. Phone 022 698 8195.

WILTSHIRES-ARVIDSON. Self shearing sheep. No1 for Facial Eczema. David 027 2771 556.

PUREBRED RED DEVON yearling bulls.

BVD negative. Phone Don 06 375 8589.

15 PUREBRED IN-CALF Hereford cows due to calf 1/1/20. 20 IN-CALF Hereford due to calf March 2020. Brad Devlin. 027 498 1203.

WILTSHIRE & SHIRE® Meat rams. Low input. www.wiltshire-rams.co.nz 03 225 5283.

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

ANIMAL HEALTH www.drench.co.nz farmer owned, very competitive prices. Phone 0800 4 DRENCH (437 362).

DOLOMITE NZ’s finest BioGro certified Mg fertiliser For a delivered price call ....

0800 436 566

FEED TROUGH TRAILER

LK0099665©

(For supplementary dairy feeds)

Heavy duty long lasting Ph 021 047 9299

• ATV 6 ply floatation wheels • Welded aluminium trough stepped over front wheels • Flip-up drawbar with latch to lock front wheels • Size: 6.6 metre, 2 cubic metre capacity Transtak Engineering & Equipment

Ph 0800 30 30 63 sales@transtak.co.nz www.transtak.co.nz

CONTRACTORS GORSE SPRAYING SCRUB CUTTING. 30 years experience.

Blowers, gun and hose.

No job too big. Camp out teams.

Travel anywhere if job big enough. Phone Dave 06 375 8032.

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 DOGS FROM 30 CENTS a day! Delivering NZ wide 23/11/19. 30 day trial. www.youtube.com/user/ mikehughesworkingdog/ videos 07 315 5553.

SMITHFIELD BEARDIE pups. Bob tail and long tail available. Good working lines. $400. Phone 027 255 7217.

B&T HUNTAWAY, good noise. 2½ years old. Phone 06 388 0212 or 027 243 8541.

DOGS WANTED DOGS WASTING AWAY in kennels? I offer them a second chance. Mike Hughes 07 315 5553.

Quality Pre-Owned

TRACTORS & EQUIPMENT

John Deere 7230R (503983): 2015, 3709hrs, IVT, TLS, duals......$145,000 John Deere 8330 (504585): 2008, 225Hp, 8760 hrs, duals...........$95,000 John Deere 6210R (503969): 2015, 210Hp, 2255 hrs, IVT, TLS...$139,000 John Deere 6170M (504432): 170Hp, 6085 hrs, PowrQuad Plus.$78,000 John Deere 6930 PREMIUM (504135): 2011, 150Hp, 5500 hrs.....$79,000 John Deere 6930 (503654): 150Hp, 8437 hrs, PowrQuad Plus...$59,900 John Deere 6150R (503528): 150Hp, 2637 hrs, TLS, 4 SCVs........$112,000 John Deere 6150R (503622): 3160 hrs, DirectDrive, TLS..............$109,000 John Deere 6150M (504541): 150Hp, 4760 hrs, H360 loader.....$103,000 John Deere 6150M (503972): 150Hp, 2916 hrs, TLS, 3 SCVs........$94,000 John Deere 6920S (503902): 2005, 150Hp, 9635 hrs, 3 SCVs......$45,000 JOHN DEERE 6140M (503953): 2015, 140Hp, 2218 hrs, 3 SCVs.....$99,000 John Deere 6130R (504573): 130Hp, 2330 hrs, TLS, prem cab..$110,000 John Deere 6630 (504091): 2009, 130Hp, 5966 hrs, duals...........$48,000 John Deere 6125M (504487): 125Hp, 1404 hrs, Stoll loader........$92,000 John Deere 6620SE (504494): 125Hp, 8735 hrs, JD loader...........$36,000 John Deere 6430 (504424): 120Hp, 4331 hrs, Stoll loader...........$57,000 John Deere 6110M (504457): 110Hp, 2506 hrs, Stoll loader.........$87,000 John Deere 6420 (504165): 110Hp, 9381 hrs, JD loader...............$39,990 John Deere 6105M (503665): 105Hp, 1148 hrs, JD loader............$84,900 John Deere 6520SE (504002): 2005, 103Hp, 7458 hrs, loader.....$38,000 John Deere 6230 (504583): 2011, 95Hp, 4667 hrs, 24F/24R........$43,000 John Deere 6220 (504411): 2006, 90Hp, 9422 hrs, Stoll loader..$29,000 JOHN DEERE 5075E (504286): 75Hp, 206 hrs, PowrReverser..........$39,900 John Deere 1025R (504258): 2014, 25Hp, 532 hrs, turf tyres........$11,995 CLAAS ARION 640 (504044): 155Hp, 3625 hrs, Power Shift............$65,000 Kioti RX8030 (504538): 2018, 76Hp, 440 hrs, wet clutch...............$40,000 New HOLLAND TS100 (504194): 2006, 100Hp, 6484 hrs, loader...$42,000

MaTT - 021 745 908

CervusEquipment.co.nz

*All prices exclude GST and are subject to change without prior notice.

Hours and condition are subject to change.

FARM MAPPING FOCUS ON YOUR strengths with a farm map showing paddock sizes.

Contact us for a free quote at farmmapping.co.nz or call us on 0800 433 855.

FORESTRY

S

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

STOCK FOR SALE FRSN BULL CALVES 100+kg TOP 400kg 1YR FRSN BULLS STOCK REQUIRED YOUNG WET DRY EWES

1YR BEEF BRED HEIFERS 250-320kg 2YR BEEF BRED HEIFERS 350-420kg 1YR TRADITIONAL STEERS 320-360kg 2YR TRADITIONAL STEERS 500+kg 2YR BEEF BRED BULLS 470+kg

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.

www.ecoland.co.nz

Ross Dyer 0274 333 381

Ph: 021 326 563

A Financing Solution For Your Farm E info@rdlfinance.co.nz

WANTED FORESTRY/ FARM WOODLOTS (All volumes – big or small)

We purchase standing trees, land and trees or harvest and market on your behalf.

FORESTRY/ SCRUB CUTTING INTEGRATED VEHICLE wood chipper for local chipping of trimmed/ cut branches. NZ Patent 713280.

Easily driven to work site, operates independent of tractor or large truck/trailer combination solutions.

Retains material on-site for natural recycling without the carbon footprint of transporting the slash/ scrub cuttings. Minimizes volume of material from piles of cuttings. Contact: Silver Crags Engineering at richard.w.finney@gmail. com

www.dyerlivestock.co.nz

Auto delivery Bait Station for Possums and Rats

All paper work is done for you around health and safety, resource consent application and management.

GUARANTEED PAYMENTS Call or email Aaron West 027 562 3832 aaron@westtreenz.co.nz for a no obligation appraisal

1pm Monday 18th November 2019 New venue Te Kuiti Saleyards 70 Top Rams for sale by 9 North Island Breeders

26th Annual NI Perendale Ram Sale 1pm Monday 18th November 2019 Rams all selected from top 20% Te Kuiti Saleyards New Venue of Vendors flock Rams for sale by 9 North Island Breeders Contact: Sale Secretary Philip Brandon 07 873 6313 Contact: Sale Secretary: e: pa.brandon@farmside.co.nz Cam Heggie PGG Wrightson PhilipWrightson Brandon Cam Heggie, PGG Ph: 027 501 8182 873 6313 027 501Ph:07 8181 E: pa.brandon@farmside.co.nz Catalogue available online 12th November wwwperendalenz.com Catalogue available online 12th Nov: www.perendalenz.com 70 Top

Rams all selected from top 20% of Vendors Flock

CRAIGCO

powered by

SHEEP JETTERS SHEEP JETTERS SINCE 1992

CRAIGCO SENSOR JET

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.

BELTEX CROSS-SHEEP RAM SALE

Guaranteed Performance Save time and Money . Flystrike and Lice cost $$$ Quick to Set up . Easy to use . Job Done

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

Robust construction. Auto shut gate. Adjustable V panels Total 20 Jets. Lambs 5 jets. Side jets for Lice.

Davey Twin Impeller Pump. 6.5 or 9.0 Hp motors

Beltex – The new terminal sire in NZ

06 8356863 . 021 061 1800

www.craigcojetters.com

Higher dressing yield and meat ratio Tuesday, 19 November, 12.30pm Wellsford Sale Yards

2 YEAR WARRANTY. NZ ASSEMBLED. ELECTRIC START & QUALITY YOU CAN RELY ON 13.5HP. Briggs & Stratton Motor. Electric start.

1.2m cut

26th Annual NI Perendale Ram Sale

TOWABLE TOPPING MOWER

TOWABLE FLAIL MOWER GST $4400 INCLUSIVE

GST $4200 INCLUSIVE

27 first-cross Beltex rams Dames: Romney and Texel origin

12Hp Diesel. Electric Start

11.5HP Briggs & Stratton Motor.

Industrial. Electric start.

Brucellosis free and vet examined.

Enquiries to: Rex Roadley 09 4318 266 rex.roadley@farmside.co.nz

50 TON WOOD SPLITTER

GST $4200 INCLUSIVE

To find out more visit www.moamaster.co.nz

Phone 027 367 6247 • Email: info@moamaster.co.nz

Shedcaddy™ • Hook can go in either direction.

• Store spray cans, tail paint, mastitis tester, hoof knife, tail trimmers, tagging, and vaccination gear.

NEED TO REDUCE DRENCH USE?

GENETICS

“Keep It Together”

BUY YOURS NOW! hugoplastics.nz

LK0100130©

www.underthewoolshed.kiwi

ATTENTION FARMERS

LK0099857©

NZ’s #1 Under Woolshed/Covered Yards Cleaning Specialist For Over A Decade

ANIMAL HANDLING

LK0100148©

SCOTTY’S CONTRACTORS

Livestock

- part of a sustainable drench management plan

$35 plus p&p

0800 888 454

www.wormfecgold.com

LK0100088©

classifieds@globalhq.co.nz

LK0100185©

64

Livestock Noticeboard

FARMERS WEEKLY – November 11, 2019

SOUTHDOWNS – Ready when U R LK0099162©

breeder at:

IPURUA WILTSHIRES Genuine full shed sheep

Deliver your ram sale messaging to every farm letterbox nationwide with a weekly publication that farmers choose first for news, opinion, market updates and even their own advertising.

Find a registered

2T Rams available

For further information contact our Noticeboard sales team on 0800 85 25 80 or email livestock@globalhq.co.nz

NO SHEARING NO DAGGING NO DIPPING

farmersweekly.co.nz

www.southdownsheep.org.nz

65

livestock@globalhq.co.nz – 0800 85 25 80

t

Breeding the difference

37TH ANNUAL ELITE SIRE STAG SALE

SIL RECORDED

Talk to us about our FE programme

PETER & CAROLINE FOSS

Saturday 11th January 2020 @ 1pm

495 Potaka Road, RD 1 Aria, King Country Ph/fax: (07) 877 7881 E: pcfossy@xtra.co.nz

Exceptional Breeding stags plus Commercial/Trophy stags on offer.

Offering to include 2, 3, & 4yr old sons of:

CANE, MUNRO, FITZROY, ORLANDO, APEX, KALLIS, RIGBY, ALEXANDER, AMADEUS, GREGOR, MCCAW Catalogues will be posted out in December

SCAN FOR CATALOGUE

Are you looking in the right direction?

PHONE HANNAH GUDSELL 0800 85 25 80

ALL ENQUIRIES: Barry Gard 021 222 8964, a/h 03 431 2803 bgard@foverandeerpark.co.nz www.foverandeerpark.co.nz

farmersweekly.co.nz

ECZEMA TOLERANT

Karaka Jerseys Kihikihi

FOR SALE 29 Jersey weaner heifer calves 5 top Jersey/Ayrshire cross calves

PAKI-ITI SUFFOLK

NUMBERS TELL A STORY • Over 150 clients purchased/leased Paki-iti rams last year

RAMGUARD TESTING SINCE 1985

• 11 years of wintering ram hoggets on steep hill country • 98 years of breeding rams for the NZ sheep industry BUT BREEDING IS MORE THAN NUMBERS It is about longevity, structural soundness, constitution and then the numbers.

paki-iti.co.nz

FEGold logo

SUFTEX SUFTEX - – A NEW ERA RAMS AIN NEWTERMINAL ERA IN TERMINAL RAMS Raupuha Studs Genetically linked to Waimai & Kikitangeo Romney

Stewart Morton 06 328 5772 • Andrew Morton 06 328 2856 R D 54 Kimbolton, Manawatu • pakiroms@farmside.co.nz FESilver logo

GRUNT

Fast growth, high meat yields, excellent survival and tough Where every day is an open day hardy rams

GRUNT

PERFORMANCE

How much has eczema cost you?

TERMINAL RAMS Fast growth, high meat yields, Start your genetic progress here. meat quality, excellent survival GRUNT SUFTEX Arams NEW ERA and tough–hardy Fast growth, high meat yields, meat quality, RAUPUHA excellent survival and tough hardy rams PERENDALES ARE #1 IN TERMINAL RAMS PERFORMANCE AND THE BREEDERS North to South PERFORMANCE

Sale Preview Perendale 2 th Rams Romdale 2 th Rams SufTex 2 th Rams Beltex 2 th Rams Suffolk 2 th Rams

Paki-iti Hemingford Punchbowl Castledent

Manawatu North Canterbury North Otago Otago

PremierSuftexNZ AND THE BREEDERS

LK0100168©



 





 











































SIL Dual Purpose Facial Eczema

06 328 5772 03 3158Russell 689 and Mavis Proffit: 2033 State Highway 3, RD, Mahoenui 3978 M: 027 355 2927 • E: rnmwproffit@xtra.co.nz • www.raupuhastud.co.nz 03 439 5693 03 485 9535

 

 

 



 





 



 



SUFTEX – A NEW ERA IN TERMINAL RAMS







 

PERENDALE 2TH RAMS TESTED .57

07 877 8977 King Country Raupuha GRUNT ROMDALE 2TH RAMS TESTED .57 NZ Standard Terminal Worth (NZTW) 0800 453 576 Hawkes Bay Kelso Fast growth, high meat yields, excellent survival and tough 06 855 4943 1600 Hawkes Bay Pahiwi 1600 Suffolk and Suftex terminal 2ths are available hardy rams 1400 Premier Suftex 06 328 5772 Manawatu Paki-iti - please enquire 1400 03 3158 689 1200 Industry Average Hemingford Nth Canterbury 1200 PERFORMANCE 03 439 5693 1000 North Otago Punchbowl 1000 – ON FARM SALE – 03 485 9535 800 Otago Castledent 800 GRUNT THE BREEDERS NORTH TO SOUTH 190 rams Comprising of Perendale, Romdale, 03 205 3586 …..AND Gore Nithdale 600 600 Fast growth, high meat yields, excellent survival and tough 03 208 5904 Raupuha Twin Farm Suffolk, Suftex & new Beltex x 2th rams hardy ramsGore 400 King Country 400 07 877 8977 027 201 7312 200 Wyndham Greeline 200 PERFORMANCE Kelso Hawkes Bay 0800 453 576 19th November 2019 Tuesday 03 225 4689 0 Mount Linton Otautau 0 at 12 Noon Bay2016 06 855 4943 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 Hawkes 2010 2013 027 230 4052 Pahiwi Crossieberg Invercargill

 

Follow the leader

PREMIER SUFTEX

LK0099573©

Visit to view our breeding programs

 

SUFTEX A NEW ERA IN

• 5 years of C/T scanning

 

LK0100128©

Jersey calves $450 + GST each or near offer

Keith Abbott Raglan 027 463 9859 www.waiteikaromneys.co.nz

PAKI-ITI SUFTEX

• 450+ Suffolk and Suftex rams sold and leased last year

Structurally sound Robust functional sheep that survive Achieving less Parasites and Dags No ewes worm drenched, dipped or vaccinated WormFEC™

 

• • • •

 

• Herd has been bred for 75yrs, TOP inspected, computer mated to selected sires using LIC & CRV nominated proven sires.

• 2018/2019 season production approx 80,000kgs M/S on 50ha, 190 cows, system 3-4. 425kgs M/S per cow on herd test.

• Farmed at Kihikihi on rolling to steepish land.

• 97% Paki-iti terminal sale rams fully SIL performance recorded

***** RATING

LK0099215©

BW 155 average, on 1kg meal per calf plus quality grass, weight 75kg+, recorded on Data base, Nait tagged, dehorned, 6 in one vaccinated

Contact Ross and Carol Turner 07 871 7736, 027 571 7736 or Chris and Jennifer Turner 07 871 5591 rckaraka@hotmail.com

LIVESTOCK ADVERTISING

66

livestock@globalhq.co.nz – 0800 85 25 80

Livestock Noticeboard

FARMERS WEEKLY – November 11, 2019

Check out Poll Dorset NZ on Facebook

SOUTH SUFFOLKS & POLL DORSETS

"Maximising your return through personal livestock management"

On-Farm Ram Sale Friday 6th December 2019, 2.00pm, by Auction LIVESTOCK ADVERTISING

FOR SALE 120 x In-milk Friesian cows available now _______________________________

0800 85 25 80

byllivestock.co.nz

07 823 4559

Stud and Flock rams available Approx 130 South Suffolks Approx 30 Poll Dorsets Approx 20 South Suffolk and Poll Dorset Texel cross • Eye muscle scanned

• SIL Recorded • High growth and high yielding rams • Born and bred under challenging conditions • All Sires DNA foot scored

Call HANNAH livestock@globalhq.co.nz

LK0100147©

Ambreed herd averaging 430ms/cow on a low system.

On current herd test, averaging 28 litres/day. SCC 80,000. $1800 View listing and photos on website # MAN76263 Contact Emmet McConnell 027 443 7671

• • • •

byllivestock

Rams that will MEAT your requirements.

For further information or catalogues please contact: Simon Prouting, 06 374 3661, 1529 Ngapaeruru Road RD3, Te Uri, Dannevirke • prouting@inspire.co.nz

North – Tom Suttor 0276164504 – South – Callum Dunnett 027 587 0131 Auctioneer – Neville Clark 027 598 6537 or contact your local Carrfields Agent

MID NORTHERN ROMNEY SALE 18TH NOVEMBER 2019

TE KUITI SALE YARDS (At completion of Perendale Sale – Approx. 2.00-2.30pm) Comprising: 17 x 2th Romney Rams On A/c: Brookbank, C.E. Brears 7 x 2th Romney Rams On A/c: Murvale Farm, C. Trousdale 10 x 2th Romney Rams Both Vendors breeding eczema tolerant fertile rams.

For further information please contact:

PGG Wrightson Cam Heggie 0275 018 182

P : 0 7 8 94 61 3 6

ENQUIRIES CONTACT

LK0100146©

NZ Farmers Livestock Ltd Brent Bougen 027 210 4698

Bruce & Thelma Rapley

Phone: 07 8701714/027 843 6662 Email: info@goldstreamfarm.com

POLL DORSET

31st Annual Ram Sale A/c AA & DJ Clements

ANNUAL RAM & EWE SALE

OMAGH SUFFOLK STUD TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2019

MANU 14/13tw

To be held on the property 201 Drake Road, Purua, Whangarei

ON-FARM

APPROX No.’S

395 Barnswood Road, Mayfield, 26th November 2019 at 2.00pm (Viewing from 12.00pm, light lunch is available)

28 Suffolk Rams 25 Suffolk Texel Rams 25 Suffolk Ewes

Monday 25th Nov 2019, 1pm start 61 Top Quality One Shear Poll Dorset Rams • All rams Ovine Brucellosis accredited • All rams eye muscle scanned • All Manu rams performance recorded (SIL)

Contact: Alex Clements 09 433 5871 clements@ubernet.co.nz Auctioneers: Carrfields Livestock - PGG Wrightson

LIVESTOCK ADVERTISING PHONE HANNAH 0800 85 25 80

SELLING AGENTS

Phone: 07 8732818 RD2, Otorohanga

Warwick & Rebecca Rapley

MANU

LK00100011©

HAVE A SALE COMING UP?

12th Annual Ram Sale

PhoneCARRFIELDS Carrfields Studstock PHONE STUDSTOCK Callum Dunnett - 027 587 0131 Callum Dunnett - 027 587 0131 Ryan Carr - 027 432 4022 Roger Keach - 027 417 8641

Vendors VENDORS

Omagh - Norman Carr 303 6134 Omagh - Norman Carr 303 6134 Blackrock - Kent Tilson 324 2686 027 470 1068

Paul Mitchell: Cam Heggie:

027 273 3538 027 501 8182

Livestock Noticeboard

livestock@globalhq.co.nz – 0800 85 25 80

SALE TALK “He’s great on the court,” a sportswriter said of the local high school basketball player in an interview with his coach.

“But how’s his scholastic work?” he asked. “He’s makes straight A’s,” replied the coach.

“Wonderful!” replied the sportswriter. “Yes,” agreed the coach, “but his B’s are a little crooked.”

KAAHU GENETICS

Here at Farmers Weekly we get some pretty funny contributions to our Sale Talk joke from you avid readers, and we’re keen to hear more!

COOPWORTH | ROMWORTH | COOPDALE

Weekly Auctions

If you’ve got a joke you want to share with the Farming community (it must be something you’d share with your grandmother...) then email us at: saletalk@globalhq.co.nz with Sale Talk in the subject line and we’ll print it and credit it to you.

Wednesday night – North Island

Thursday night – South Island

Conditions apply

For more information go to bidr.co.nz or contact the team on 0800 TO BIDR

PINE PARK

1.00pm Tuesday 19 November 2019 312 Tutaenui Road, Marton

58 Elite 2th Rams to be Auctioned 20 Coopworths 20 Romworths 18 Coopdales Private treaty sales from 18th Nov

Est 1993

KAAHU GENETICS LIVESTOCK ADVERTISING

Mixed-aged cattle for sale

160 SIL ELITE HIGH INDEX 2th RAMS

Open Day Pre Sale: 7th Nov.1pm to 4.30pm Private Treaty Sales from November 25th PGG Wrightson: Callum Stewart 027 280 2688 Phil Transom 027 442 0060

CALL HANNAH 0800 85 25 80

Murray Sargent 027 392 7242 | murraysargent@hotmail.com kaahu.co.nz

Cam Heggie 027 501 8182 | camheggie@pggwrightson.co.nz

1. Mixed-aged purebred Wagyu bulls 2. 18-month purebred Wagyu heifers

Annual 2yr

3. Bloodlines include Sumo Michifuku and Ginjo Hatshira K930

“Fifty five years selling performance recorded rams”

Contact: Ed Sherriff 021 704 778

FE Tolerant Worm Resilient Meaty carcase & good bone MYOMAX muscling gene SIL Recorded Top performance

Auction Day 14 November, 12.00pm Te Kuiti Sale Yards

Bid, buy, sell all things rural

INAUGURAL RAM AUCTION

50 FE Tolerant Coopworths 50 FE Tolerant Romworths 60 Terminal • Suffolk • Suftex Texel x Poll Dorset

67

Ph: Michael 021 635 021

Sire Stag Sale Wednesday 11th December

wagyupurebrednz@hotmail.com

1:30pm at 37 Pukenaua Rd, Taihape

Albany, New Zealand wagyu pure bred nz

• 35 stags with 12 month BVs +20 - 30kg • Highest average 12 month BV stag auction in NZ since 2011 • Maternal reds selected on temperament and fully guaranteed

GLENGARRY POLL DORSET

53RD ANNUAL SALE

LIVESTOCK ADVERTISING

Monday, December 2nd, 2019 – 1pm Feilding Saleyards, Manchester Street, Feilding

CALL HANNAH 0800 85 25 80

130 Rams up for Auction

www.deerstud.nz For further information contact Paul Hughes: 027 446 6309 Gareth Williams: 0275 264 613 • Robert Auld: 0275 901 335

Why you should buy a Glengarry ram: • 43 years performance recording • Major emphasis on growth, survival and muscling • All sires DNA tested for footrot and muscling genes • No. 1 ranked Terminal Sire 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010 & 2017 (SIL ACE list) • 550 stud ewes means only the best rams are sold • Three rams in Top 20 2019 SIL Terminal Lamb Growth • 1st Ranked Ram 2019 SIL Terminal Sire Lamb Growth

Your source for PGG Wrightson livestock and farming listings Cattle Sheep Other Key: Dairy ELITE CHAROLLAIS RAM SALE Tuesday 26th November 12 noon Feilding Saleyard, Complex 70 Charollais and Charollais X 2th Rams High growth, high yield, easy lambing, great carcass characteristics and ideal for hogget mating.

Contact:

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

Tony Gallen – 0275 901 711 Ryan Shannon – 0275 650 979

McMILLAN SHEDDING SHEEP 2TH RAM SALE Thursday 28th November, 12pm Te Kuiti saleyards Comprising 100 - 2th Wiltshire rams These rams have been selected out of a large number of rams. They are fully shedded and all are born as twins.

Grant and Sandy have been breeding and farming these sheep commercially on Ongarue hill country since 2004.

They are bred for shedding ability, facial eczema tolerance and growth rates.

Brucellosis Accredited.

Better stud stock for better business.

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

LK0100091©

pggwrightson.co.nz/ramsales

Further enquiries Grant and Sandy 07 894 6136 Marty Cashin, PGG Wrightson 027 4976 414

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

Helping grow the country

LK0100107©

FARMERS WEEKLY – November 11, 2019

MARKET SNAPSHOT

68

Market Snapshot brought to you by the AgriHQ analysts.

Suz Bremner

Mel Croad

Nicola Dennis

Cattle

Reece Brick

Caitlin Pemberton

Sheep

BEEF

William Hickson

Deer

SHEEP MEAT

VENISON

Last week

Prior week

Last year

NI Steer (300kg)

6.20

6.10

5.60

NI lamb (17kg)

9.00

8.85

8.10

NI Stag (60kg)

9.35

9.50

11.20

NI Bull (300kg)

6.20

6.10

5.10

NI mutton (20kg)

6.10

6.00

5.00

SI Stag (60kg)

9.40

9.50

11.20

NI Cow (200kg)

4.85

4.85

3.90

SI lamb (17kg)

9.00

8.60

7.80

SI Steer (300kg)

6.05

6.05

5.45

SI mutton (20kg)

6.00

6.00

4.85

SI Bull (300kg)

6.00

5.85

4.90

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

SI Cow (200kg)

4.60

4.55

3.90

UK CKT lamb leg

11.69

11.70

9.14

US imported 95CL bull

9.83

9.31

6.30

US domestic 90CL cow

7.99

7.70

6.22

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Last week Prior week

Last year

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

$/kg CW

North Island steer slaughter price 6.25

North Island lamb slaughter price

9.0

$/kg CW

South Island steer slaughter price

South Island lamb slaughter price

6.5

7.0

$/kg CW

5-yr ave

2018-19

Dairy

Aug 2019-20

Dec 5-yr ave

Feb

Apr 2018-19

Jun

Last week

Prior week

Last year

-

-

3.16

WMP

3240

3125

AMF

4925

4925

5075

Butter

4100

4100

4000

Milk Price

7.38

7.18

6.93

Top 10 by Market Cap Company

5.54

3.38

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Ltd

20.17

20.17

12.3

Auckland International Airport Limited

9.27

9.9

7.065

The a2 Milk Company Limited

12.57

18.04

10.42

4.705

3.54 10.4

Mercury NZ Limited (NS)

4.77

5.62

3.51

360

Contact Energy Limited

7.34

9.05

5.82

Dec-18

Feb-19

Apr-19

Jun-19

Aug-19

Oct-19

440

Port of Tauranga Limited

6.53

6.8

4.9

Ebos Group Limited

25.25

25.6

19.95

Listed Agri Shares Company

Close

YTD High

YTD Low

The a2 Milk Company Limited

12.57

18.04

10.42

Comvita Limited

2.95

5.42

2.5

Delegat Group Limited

11.5

12.5

9.4

Fonterra Shareholders' Fund (NS)

4.19

4.85

3.15 1.47

Foley Wines Limited

1.77

2

0.85

1.08

0.75

360

Marlborough Wine Estates Group Limited

0.21

0.24

0.192

340

New Zealand King Salmon Investments Ltd

2.35

2.98

1.76

PGG Wrightson Limited

2.47

2.52

0.47

Sanford Limited (NS)

7.15

7.25

6.35

Scales Corporation Limited

5.3

5.45

4.34

SeaDragon Limited

0.002

0.003

0.001

Seeka Limited

4.82

5.35

4.2

Synlait Milk Limited (NS)

9.03

11.35

8.45

Dec-18

Feb-19

Apr-19

Jun-19

Aug-19

Oct-19

WAIKATO PALM KERNEL 350

T&G Global Limited S&P/NZX Primary Sector Equity Index

$/tonne

3100 3000 Nov

Dec Jan Latest price

Feb

Mar 4 weeks ago

Apr

5pm, close of market, Thursday

Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd (NS)

380

Oct-18

3200

YTD Low

13.62

3300 US$/t

YTD High

4.54

4.45

Oct-18

3400

Close

Meridian Energy Limited (NS)

13.25

320

* price as at close of business on Thursday

2900

778

Ryman Healthcare Limited

320

WMP FUTURES - VS FOUR WEEKS AGO

787

Spark New Zealand Limited

400

2565

787

400

420

2680

315

DAP

3115

2690

650

314

-

vs 4 weeks ago

SMP

616

314

-

CANTERBURY FEED BARLEY Prior week

616

-

$/tonne

Last price*

Urea

30 micron lamb

Jul-19 Sep-19 Sept. 2020

DAIRY FUTURES (US$/T) Nearby contract

Aug 2019-20

Last year

3.15

$/tonne

6.25

May-19

Jun

Prior week

-

440

Jan-19 Mar-19 Sept. 2019

Apr 2018-19

Last week

-

CANTERBURY FEED WHEAT

6.75

NZ average (NZ$/t)

37 micron ewe

480

Nov-18

Feb

FERTILISER

Super

7.25

5.75

Dec

Fertiliser

Aug 2019-20

Grain

Data provided by

MILK PRICE FUTURES

$/kg MS

Oct

Coarse xbred ind.

Jun

Oct

5-yr ave

(NZ$/kg)

Apr

8.5 7.5

8.0

WOOL

Feb

9.5

6.0

5.25

Dec

South Island stag slaughter price

10.5

5.0

Oct

8.5

11.5

5.75

4.75

9.5

7.0

$/kg CW

$/kg CW

6.25

10.5

6.5

9.0

4.75

Last year

North Island stag slaughter price

11.5

8.0

5.0

5.25

Last week Prior week

7.5

6.0 5.75

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

$/kg CW

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Ingrid Usherwood

300

2.62

2.81

2.43

16322

17434

15063

S&P/NZX 50 Index

10795

11219

8732

S&P/NZX 10 Index

10461

11001

8280

250 200

Oct-18

S&P/FW PRIMARY SECTOR EQUITY

Dec-18

Feb-19

Apr-19

Jun-19

Aug-19

Oct-19

16322

S&P/NZX 50 INDEX

10795

S&P/NZX 10 INDEX

10461

69

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

6.10

SI SLAUGHTER LAMB ( $/KG)

9.00

SI SLAUGHTER STAG ( $/KG)

9.40

HEREFORD-FRIESIAN STEER AND BULL CALVES, 100-110KG, AT TARANAKI WEANER FAIR ( $/HD)

580-615

Sellers go home chuffed NORTH ISLAND

L

IKE a lot of the North Island, Northland had a couple of very hot days last week. The west coast and the Far North are badly in need of rain so farmers were hoping the 40mm forecast for the weekend arrived. If it did, pasture growth rates should take off.

Around Pukekohe Gold kiwifruit growers are preparing for pollination.

Both orchardists and vegetable growers are faced with dry soil and thirsty crops. It’s a familiar sight to see mobile irrigation equipment being transported on local roads – the sudden very warm temperatures have caught people by surprise.

The weather’s changed very quickly from cool to hot in Waikato and pasture quality changed almost overnight. It’s now stalky and needs to be managed. Maize is in as are other crops and rain’s needed to kick them along.

We’re told it’s been beer and barbecue weather in Bay of Plenty. Dairy farmers are reporting one of the best mating periods in a very long time – there’ve been good feed levels and lots of sun so hopes are high for some good conception rates.

Lambs and calves are also thriving in the sunny conditions and are growing well.

The farmer we spoke to had just sold some beef calves. They’d hit the magic 100kg mark two weeks earlier than usual.

Spring’s finally arrived in King Country.

Later lambing farms are still docking but for most it’s out of the way. There were three days without rain and green feed crops going in flat out. The region’s looking lush.

As the temperature has risen in Taranaki so have pasture growth rates.

There’s now more than enough grass to keep milk production going so silage is being made. A little more milk’s going into the vat than at the same time last year.

There’s still quite a bit of snow on the mountain but it’s melting quickly.

Gisborne hasn’t had any rain for about three weeks and 30mm to 40mm wouldn’t go amiss. Farms need moisture to keep things ticking through to December.

There’s been a bit of a heat wave with temperatures in the 30s. On Tuesday 2500 predominantly Angus cattle were up for sale at Matawhero. And they sold like hot cakes. The ag consultant we called says vendors went home absolutely chuffed.

Forward store steers, ones that just need to put on another 100kg or so before they’re ready to go to the works, sold for $1680 dollars. It’ll take them another 60 to 80 days to reach those weights. Cull ewes are fetching great prices at $6/kg, so about $180 each. Three years ago they were getting $80 or $90. Lambs are worth $9/kg or $150 or thereabouts.

Manawatu and Rangitikei had a lovely week for growing grass. In terms of workload in Rangitikei, it feels like the Christmas rush has started and farmers are attending to the list of jobs that have to be completed before December 25.

There’s docking to finish on some farms, ewes to shear, cattle to send off to the works, drainage to be sorted and crops to plant.

All of a sudden shorts have come out

If you love the information you get from these pages, you will love AgriHQ’s livestock reports.

LivestockEye

We create transparency for the industry with these independent, objective reports providing full sale results and informed commentary covering 10 saleyards across NZ that are emailed directly after the sale.

TOP DOLLAR: Prices were well up at the Annandale on-farm lamb sale in Pigeon Bay last week.

Photo: Stu Uren, PGG Wrightson

of drawers and there are a lot of white legs on show in Wairarapa. Tractors are going full noise to get crops in the ground. There’s been a very good turnout each week to Wednesday’s touch rugby tournament for farmers and their families in Masterton with 160 people forming teams. They have a good run around and a barbecue afterwards. It’s an all-in effort to get farmers off the farm. The social touch evening has backing from Federated Farmers, Beef + Lamb, the Rural Support Trust, DairyNZ, Fonterra and Silver Fern Farms.

SOUTH ISLAND It’s very dry in Nelson. Rainfall is 20% to 30% behind normal so people are irrigating in orchards earlier and at greater rates than the past couple of years. If there’s no rain in the next three weeks water rationing is likely. Hand thinning on apples and pears is about to start and fungicide progammes are being maintained.

After temperatures reached 32C the previous weekend Marlborough’s also getting dry but there was a sprinkle of moisture around Blenheim on Thursday night. The manager of a local organic vineyard says they are shoot thinning and bud rubbing at the moment. The mid row crop’s gone in too. She says they’ve sown buckwheat because it brings a lot of beneficial insects to the vineyard. Wire lifting’s due to start soon.

Farmers on the West Coast made the most of two sunny days last week.

Everyone’s been flat out trying to regrass paddocks and make silage. Artificial insemination is under way and one farmer at Rununga says AI takes an extra hour and a half a day sorting out cows and assisting the technicians. Milk production is still constrained because of the wet spring and a lack of quality feed.

Our contact at Hororata says “What a difference a week can make.”

Temperatures were over 30C throughout Canterbury the previous weekend and coupled with a string of drying northwest days, ground conditions have dried out very fast. Irrigation’s now in full swing.

Farmers have been planting kale for grazing next winter and, hopefully, by the end of next week all the tractor work will be done for the season.

In Central Otago’s orchards tree thinning’s under way. A fruit grower at Roxburgh says his team, which includes locals and German backpackers, is thinning 70% to 80% off apricot trees because larger fruit are needed for the export market. The cherry crop is moving fast. It’s a heavy crop this year and picking should start later this month.

Southland’s had a stunning week for farming. There’s been a wee bit of rain to keep things ticking but otherwise it’s been fine with temperatures in the mid 20C. That’s enabled the grass to grow and farmers to catch up on tailing. Tractors are now rolling on paddocks they hadn’t been able to access. Wet weather earlier means they’re almost a month behind with sowing new grass.

FARMERS MARKETS And the Farmers’ Market Association says asparagus is in full swing all around the country now and white asparagus is very popular. In Southland and Otago baby carrots and Jersey Bennes are making an appearance Strawberries are coming on stream across the country and in Hawke’s Bay early blueberries have just arrived.

Raspberries are also back in northern markets. Beautiful spring flowers are at their best at markets all around the country now with peonies, snapdragons and irises all evident.

Courtesy of Radio New Zealand Country Life You can listen to Country Life on RNZ at 9pm every Friday and 7am on Saturday or on podcast at rnz.co.nz/countrylife

Livestock Insight

Every week, we explain the context of the current market situation, drivers which are impacting the livestock markets and what to expect in the coming week.

Livestock Outlook

For those who want to see and understand forecasting, this monthly report projects farmer operating prices six months ahead and supports these prices with analysis of supply/demand, procurement factors, key export markets and exchange rate effects.

INDEPENDENT • OBJECTIVE TRUSTED • WORTHY Discover how we can help you keep up to date with market conditions.

agrihq.co.nz 0800 85 25 80

2476AGHQ

NI SLAUGHTER MUTTON ( $/KG)

DON’T STOP HERE...

70

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

Health check hub is a sale yard hit The Glob made its first appearance at the Stortford Lodge sale yards last Wednesday, starting the journey of free mini health checks for the rural community.

Craig Wiggy Wiggins and Dr Sue Fowlie travelled from the South Island to be on-site and from the time the caravan door opened at 9am there was a steady flow of people.

It was a big sale day with 6000 lambs and 1200 cattle in, which meant a larger than usual crowd at the yards and about 55 people were checked, with the 45-70 age group the most common.

Feedback was extremely positive with many saying this type of support is just what the farming community needs.

NORTHLAND Wellsford store cattle • Two-year Angus-Friesian steers, 421-439kg, held at $3.06-$3.15/ kg • Two-year Hereford-Friesian heifers, 380-424kg, sold well at $3.08$3.13/kg • Yearling Angus-Friesian steers, 203-238kg, sold over a range of $3.69/kg to $3.89/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 200-248kg, improved to $3.25$3.32/kg • Yearling Friesian bulls, 266-281kg, lifted to $3.27-$3.29/kg A sizeable yarding was on offer at WELLSFORD last Monday, with just under 1100 cattle penned. Two-year cattle traded on a mainly steady market. Hereford-Friesian steers, 430-535kg, held at $3.18-$3.28/kg, as did AngusFriesian heifers, 383kg, $3.00/kg. Yearling cattle were very well sought after. Angus and Angus-Hereford steers, 280403kg, sold well at $3.21-$3.31/kg while Angus-Friesian, 301-367kg, strengthened to $3.54-$3.55/kg. An improved $3.58/kg to $3.89/kg covered most Hereford-Friesian steers, 219-337kg. Heifers strengthened for the majority. Angus, 237-387kg, held at $3.02-$3.12/kg. Angus-Friesian, 318336kg, realised $3.07-$3.16/kg, while 246-251kg gained 8-18c/kg to earn $3.03-$3.13/kg, Hereford-Friesian, 313kg, returned $3.18/kg. Ten yearling Hereford bulls, 287kg, had good support at $3.14/kg. All weaner heifers, 127-158kg, held at $450-$570, regardless of breed.

Kaikohe cattle • Two-year beef-dairy steers improved to $3.15-3.22/kg • Two-year Angus and Hereford-Friesian heifers held at $3.00$3.05/kg • Top quality yearling steers held at $3.30-$3.50/kg • Angus cows with calves-at-foot achieved $1440 per unit • Heavy beef-cross cows held at $2.20-$2.28/kg Buyer hesitancy was apparent at KAIKOHE last Wednesday, with a larger yarding on offer, PGG Wrightson agent Vaughan Vujcich reported. A run of hot dry windy weather has reminded all that summer isn’t too far away. Heavy two-and-a-half-year Angus and HerefordFriesian steers earned $3.10-$3.15/kg. Two-year beef-cross bulls earned $2.75-$2.80/kg. Yearling Exotic and beef-dairy heifers were harder work with the tops at $3.00-$3.10/kg, and second cuts $2.85-$2.95/kg. Cows with calves-at-foot were well received at $1000-$1150 per unit.

AUCKLAND Pukekohe cattle • Top steers fetched $2020, $3.11 • Medium 20-month steers returned $3.12-$3.14/kg • Medium 15-month heifers managed $3.00-$3.14/kg • Cows with calves-at-foot sold very well at up to $2050 It was a close-to-capacity yarding at PUKEKOHE on Saturday November 2 with the last lines going under the hammer shortly before 4.30pm. The yarding was a mixed bag, though flourishing pastures upped buyer competition keeping the market strong. Forward 2-year heifers sold well at $1090-$1310, $2.94-$3.09/kg, while lighter 15-month steers traded at $760-$930, $2.86-$3.38/kg. Weaner steers eased slightly to $570-$625, with their sisters also back at $560-$640.

COUNTIES Tuakau sales • Angus steers, 530kg, sold strongly at $1812, $3.42/kg • Prime Hereford-Friesian heifers, 540kg, made $3.18/kg

• Top prime ewes returned $230.

• Good-medium prime lambs (new season) sold from $180 to $239 on Monday • Store lambs averaged $129, with the tops making $148 Almost 1200 cattle were yarded at TUAKAU last Thursday and the market eased slightly, PGG Wrightson agent Craig Reiche reported. The offering included 454kg AngusFriesian steers, which made $1440, $3.17/kg, with 331kg Hereford-Friesian fetching $1095, and 315kg Speckle Park, $1030. In the heifer section, 319kg Hereford-Friesian sold at $1000, and 270kg Hereford-Friesian, $820. Prices for prime steers firmed on Wednesday, with 600-750kg steers trading at $3.21-$3.32/kg and medium types, $3.18-$3.25/ kg. Heifers eased by 3-5c/kg, with most heavy types making $3.04-$3.12/kg and medium, $3.00-$3.10/kg. Wellconditioned Friesian cows earned $2.33-$2.40/kg, with medium boners fetching $2.20-$2.30/kg.

WAIKATO Frankton dairy beef weaner fair • Autumn-born Hereford-Friesian steers, 143-195kg, earned $700$820 • Autumn-born Friesian bulls, 149-223kg, eased to $600-$650 • Red Hereford-Friesian steers, 97-106kg, improved to $510-$545 • Angus-Friesian bulls, 103-106kg, held at $400-$485 Just under 2200 weaners turned out at FRANKTON last Tuesday, though good buying support meant most traded at solid levels. Heifers were sold outside, and no weights were available. Autumn-born Hereford-Friesian heifers managed $580-$655, while good spring Hereford-Friesian heifers were mostly $420-$615.

Autumn-born Angus-Friesian bulls, 167-175kg, eased to $660-$690, whilst Hereford-Friesian, 149-191kg, sold to per head budgets at $700-$760.

Spring dairy-beef weaners traded at steady to lifting levels for most. Hereford-Friesian bulls, 96-115kg, improved to $610-$650, and Angus-Friesian, 127kg, $650.

Friesian bulls made up 70% of their section and most softened as 103-128kg eased to $480-$540, though 20 at 124kg held at $590. Lighter 93-102kg also softened to $430$477. A small weaner steer offering was mainly HerefordFriesian and at 111-128kg held at $630-$690.

Taupo cattle sale • Yearling Angus-Friesian steers, 315-355kg, made $3.63-$3.72/kg • A line of 92 Hereford-Friesian heifers, 315kg, sold for $1040, $3.30/kg • Yearling bulls of all breeds and weights were largely $2.98-$3.10/ kg • Autumn-born Hereford-Friesian heifers, 145-150kg, were $630$635 A little more than 800 store cattle sold to a mixed market at TAUPO, but disappointments were in the minority. A small selection of 365-520kg two-year beef-Friesian steers made $3.06-$3.21/kg. Good quality yearling steers were very keenly fought over.

Some 310-335kg autumn-born Simmental-cross steers went for $3.61-$3.84/kg. The heifer market was reasonable – well-marked 255-360kg lines were usually $3.14-$3.26/kg, with other mixed-quality types around to $3.00/kg. Interest in yearling bulls was fairly flat.

The largest line, 44 head of 305kg Friesian bulls, made $920 or $3.01/kg.

Frankton cattle • Two-year Hereford-dairy steers, 430-508kg, held at $3.20-$3.24/kg • Yearling Angus-Hereford steers, 286-313kg, improved to $3.48$3.57/kg

• Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 318-362kg, held at $3.30-$3.40/ kg • Yearling Simmental-cross heifers, 317-326kg, were well received at $3.25-$3.36/kg • Yearling Friesian bulls, 299-314kg, lifted to $3.14-$3.22/kg Vendors made the most of the strong current market by offering up close to 1200 store cattle at FRANKTON last Wednesday. Two-year beef-dairy heifers, 393-430kg, traded at $3.06-$3.21/kg. Good quality yearlings were well rewarded, but lesser types varied. Murray-Grey steers, 241-289kg, returned $3.51-$3.53/kg, with Angus-Friesian and Hereford-dairy, 284-355kg, steady-to-weaker at $3.36$3.52/kg. Friesian, 265-338kg, earned $2.98-$3.11/kg.

Yearling Hereford and most beef-dairy heifers, 241-368kg, sold well at $3.16-$3.29/kg. South Devon-cross bulls, 272kg, were a highlight at $3.27/kg. Prime cattle traded on a steady market with dairy-beef heifers, 453-590kg, at $3.08-$3.18/ kg.

BAY OF PLENTY Rangiuru cattle and sheep • Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 390-525kg, eased to $3.10/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 320-375kg, eased to $3.27/kg • Boner Friesian cows, 770-555kg, were $2.01/kg • Lambs managed $100-$221, with the best hoggets $190 A large yarding of cattle at RANGIURU last Tuesday featured 793 stores and 121 primes. The gallery was smaller than usual, and prices softened slightly. The top line of 2-year steers were Angus-Friesian, 536kg, $3.23/kg, with other lines over 500kg at $3.09-$3.14/kg. Yearling cattle numbered 611 and were mixed quality. Angus steers, 263-342kg, made $3.45-$3.50/kg while good heifers sold well with Hereford, 178-222kg, at $3.11-$3.20/kg. Yearling Friesian bulls, 235-305kg, averaged $2.69/kg. In the prime pens Hereford-Friesian bulls, 762-808kg, fetched $3.52$3.54/kg. Most steers were 500-623kg and made $3.20$3.25/kg regardless of breed, with one pen of HerefordFriesian, 672kg, at $3.39/kg.

POVERTY BAY Matawhero cattle fair • Two-year Angus steers, 460-470kg, firmed to $3.51-$3.54/kg • Two-year Angus heifers, 420kg, also improved to $3.21-$3.29/kg • Two-year Hereford-Friesian bulls, 470-505kg, earned $3.33-$3.40/ kg • Yearling Angus steers, 365-405kg, lifted to $1450-$1525 • Yearling Angus heifers, 250-275kg, lifted to $850-$1020 In true MATAWHERO style over 2400 cattle were offered at the monthly cattle fair last Tuesday. Annual draft traditional cattle dominated, though exotic cattle also featured between the black pens. All classes sold on an improved market, and most 2-year traditional and exotic steers consistently traded for $3.40-$3.54/kg. Hereford bulls, 355-395kg, sold for breeding at $1500-$1720. Yearling steer prices reached record levels, with top lines exceeding $1500, and 245-325kg up to $1000-$1190. Most steers traded at $3.78-$4.13/kg, though some lighter lines reached $4.23-$4.47/kg.

Exotic steers, 370-400kg, sold for $3.86-$4.03/kg. Yearling heifers lifted, and most traditional lines traded at $850$1020 for varied $/kg. Angus bulls, 215-275kg, returned $665-$880, $3.09/kg to $3.20/kg.

Matawhero sheep sale • 147 Romney breeding ewes made $241 • Top prime ewes made $216-$225, with most $170-$178 There was a good yarding of sheep at MATAWHERO last Friday with nearly 1100 penned. New season store lambs were the bulk of the tally, with prices softening for most weight grades. The largest lambs made $136.50, with medium lines $107-$124, though the lion’s share of the tally were lighter lines that made $68-$101.

Prime hoggets are starting to disappear from the line-up, but prices held up well due to strong schedules and most fetched $200-$265.

TARANAKI Taranaki cattle • Prime beef-dairy steers, 585-655kg, firmed to $3.31/kg • Two-year beef-dairy steers, 429-507kg, firmed to $3.22-$3.31/kg • Two-year Hereford-Friesian heifers, 360-395kg, also firmed to $3.10/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 148-170kg, averaged $3.12/kg A respectable 390 cattle were penned at TARANAKI last Wednesday, and a small but lively buying bench kept each other honest. A small prime yarding was big in prices as some steers pushed past $2000, including a 945kg Friesian at $2900, $3.07/kg.

Prime Angus-cross heifers, 446-555kg, reached $3.12$3.16/kg. Second cuts of two-year steers made $3.06-$3.08/ kg, with better heifers in that range too. Friesian-cross bulls, 375-440kg, met genuine competition and sold for $2.96-

SALE YARD WRAP

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019

grew to 1230 head and Manawatu and Hawke’s Bay buyers dominated. Cows with calves-at-foot started the day and the highlight was 17 Angus-Hereford at $2070 per unit.

Other top lines reached $1700-$1800. Two-year HerefordFriesian heifers, 395-417kg, made $3.36-$3.44/kg, while yearling Angus heifers, 250-296kg eased to $3.14-$3.21/kg.

MANAWATU Feilding prime cattle and sheep • Friesian and Ayrshire steers, 570kg, made $3.02/kg • Angus-cross steers, 466kg, fetched $2.57/kg • Boner Friesian cows, 274-505kg, dropped to $2.22/kg • The best of the 500 lambs were $200-$217 A warm windy day greeted buyers at FEILDING last Monday. Steady schedules meant prices for hoggets largely held, though top lines eased. Very heavy types made $199$218, and heavy, $174-$194. Over 2000 ewes sold and the market was very competitive. A very heavy line reached $250, while other very-heavy types returned $197-$229.

Heavy ewes were $182-$194, and good $140-$177. Of the 60 head of cattle penned, 42 were boner cows. Better quality Friesian, 525-610kg, sold well at $2.26/kg to $2.44/kg, while the biggest pen of the day - 12 at 438kg - sold for $2.05/kg.

STOCKTAKE: PGG Wrightson livestock administrator Peter MacLean gets his free health check from Dr Sue Fowlie in The Glob.

$3.01/kg. The yearling pens housed small lines of mixed quality. 16 White Galloway steers, 213kg, sold for $690, while beef-Friesian, 241-382kg, varied from $3.27/kg to $3.48/kg. Lesser lines fell below $3.00/kg.

Taranaki dairy-beef weaner fair • Hereford-Friesian steers, 119-134kg improved to $695-$750 • Hereford-Friesian heifers, 102-106kg, held at $480-$510 • Speckle Park bulls, 98-120kg, managed $615-$670 • Hereford-Friesian bulls, 105-108kg, held at $580-$600 • Friesian bulls, 107-130kg, eased to $450-$525 Throughput doubled last Thursday at TARANAKI with just under 1160 penned. The increase was just a little too many for most, with the mainly local buying bench cautious in their bidding. Hereford-Friesian steers, 104113kg, eased to $580-$600. Heifers had mixed results with Angus-Friesian, 97-106kg, softening to $350-$390.

Hereford-Friesian, 97-98kg, improved $475-$490, with Red Hereford-Friesian, 98-100kg, at $360.

The bull offering was a mixed bag with some beef-dairy and exotic lines managing steady to lifting returns, though there was a softer tone for most. Hereford-Friesian bulls, 108-117kg, improved to $610-$640, Red Hereford-Friesian, 127kg, returned $500, though $370-$400 was more common ground for those 89-100kg.

HAWKE’S BAY Stortford Lodge prime cattle and sheep • Hereford-Friesian heifers, 471-488kg, earned $2.96-$3.03/kg • Angus cows, 566-694kg, lifted to $2.70-$2.76/kg • Heavy mixed-age ewes held for most at $187-$200 • Medium mixed-age ewes improved to 150-$155 • Very heavy male hoggets held at $208-$236 Throughput lifted across the board at STORTFORD LODGE last Monday, with strong buyer interest.

Cows made up most of the cattle and beef-cross, 554kg, returned $2.43/kg. Angus heifers, 556-592kg, held at $3.17$3.21/kg, and Hereford-Friesian, 513-585kg, $3.01-$3.15/kg.

Sheep numbers lifted to just under 2,400. Very heavy ewes eased, though still made $204-$210. Very good ewes also softened to $179-$183, while good types held at $155-$169.

Spring lambs made up over half of the total tally in the lamb/hogget section. A consignment of heavy mixed-sex lambs set the tone to trade at $180-$200.50, while ten very-heavy types topped their section at $215. The balance traded at $175.50-$205. Hoggets held for most with very heavy mixed-sex at $220, and heavy, $155-$182. Heavy ewe hoggets eased to $169.

Stortford Lodge store cattle and sheep • Two-year traditional steers, 417-539kg, firmed to $3.60-$3.69/kg • Two-year Friesian bulls, 470-477kg, held at $3.54/kg, and 491493kg, $3.38-$3.39/kg • Yearling Angus steers, 355-393kg, sold well at $1380-$1485, $3.78-$3.89/kg • Medium mixed-sex lambs came back to $108-$117 • Medium to good ram lambs made $116.50-$131.50 Store lamb volume exceeded 6000 head at STORTFORD LODGE last Wednesday, accompanied by a big cattle yarding. Store lamb prices adjusted to realistic levels, with prices back $23-$25. Heavy mixed-sex made $167.50-$173, and second cuts, $145-$151. Small cryptorchid sold for $96.50-$108.50. Cattle throughput

Feilding store • Straight-beef 2-year heifers, 445-595kg, were $3.29-$3.43/kg • Traditional yearling steers, 405-420kg, made $1550-$1610 • Yearling Friesian bulls, 245-405kg, mainly sold at $3.21-$3.37/kg • Standard ewes with LAF eased to $122-$131 all counted • Store lamb averaged dipped to $117 A packed yarding couldn’t hold back a very strong cattle sale. Old steers began with some 820-940kg HerefordFriesian which made $3.24-$3.28/kg, $2700-$3040. Other 2-year beef-Friesian steers, 455-500kg were $3.18-$3.24/kg, with the better heifers of the same breed at the same level.

Top-qualirt traditional yearling steers had a cracker with almost 250 weighing in at 370-430kg, making $3.73-$3.91/ kg. Bull market was roughly steady, though light lines made up the core of the options.

Only a few heifers had sold at the time of writing, with four consecutive pens of 245-310kg Hereford-Friesian at $3.18-$3.27/kg. A hot day outside wasn’t replicated in bidding on either lambs or ewes. Sixteen pens of ewes with LAF only went above $130 all counted on the odd occasion.

Though only light ewes or lines with small lambs went below $122 all counted. Store lamb prices went through a correction, though more varied quality and breeding made it look worse than was really the situation. Good cuts were $136-$150, down to $109-$128 on the medium-to-lighter end. Old season hoggets began at $138 was went up to $209.

Rongotea cattle • Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 426-530kg, realised $2.97$3.23/kg • Two-year Friesian bulls, 395kg held at $2.96/kg • Yearling Angus-cross steers, 323kg, lifted to $3.06/kg • Yearling Friesian bulls, 207-293kg, earned $2.95-$3.17/kg • Yearling Angus-cross heifers, 197-282kg, fetched $3.22-$3.63/kg Spirited bidding helped to sustain and, in some cases, improve the market at RONGOTEA last Wednesday, New Zealand Farmers Livestock agent Darryl Harwood reported.

Two-year Hereford-Friesian heifers, 477kg, earned $3.22/ kg, while yearling heifers of the same breeding, 205-277kg, eased to $2.70-$3.15/kg. Weaner Hereford-cross steers, 83-86kg, were strong at $460-$500, while Friesian bulls,104157kg, improved to $495-$650. Hereford-Friesian heifers, 96-167kg, held at $470-$635. All calves traded from $120$180.

CANTERBURY Canterbury Park cattle and sheep • Prime Limousin steers, 510-715kg, were $3.46-$3.48/kg • Prime beef-dairy steers, 530-720kg, fetched $3.25/kg • Prime Hereford heifers, 502-605kg, made $3.16-$3.19/kg • Two-year Simmental-cross steers, 389kg, sold for $3.16/kg.

• The top pen of ewes with lambs sold for $151 all counted Competition cattle attracted plenty of interest at CANTERBURY PARK last Tuesday. Charolais and Charolaiscross steers, 592-720kg, made $3.30-$3.40/kg, and Hereford, 495-615kg, $3.25-$3.34/kg.

Competition heifers outperformed steers with pairs of Limousin, 668kg and 598kg, at $3.59/kg and $3.66/kg respectively. Prime traditional steers, 510-805kg, held at $3.29/kg, and 425-500kg, $3.32/kg. Hereford-Friesian, 510720kg, returned $3.23/kg. Traditional heifers, 500-660kg, fetched $3.19/kg, and 430-480kg, $3.25/kg. Only off types and dairy lines sold below $3/kg. Sheep volume rose to 2300 head. Prime hoggets were steady to easing, with the bulk $170-$199, and top lines up to $231. Ewe throughput jumped to 500, with very heavy $215-$287, and heavy, $170$205. 350 store lambs and hoggets sold between $87 and $172.

71

Coalgate store and prime cattle; all sheep • Top prime steers held at $3.20/kg to $3.34/kg • Most prime heifers earned $3.06-$3.11/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 290-365kg, made $3.09/kg • Top new season lambs were $201-$239, with the bulk $180-$199 • Top ewes returned $239-278, and most others exceeded $140 More than double the normal volume of cattle were yarded at COALGATE last Thursday. Only one line of twoyear steers exceeded $3/kg; 368kg Hereford-Friesian at $3.02/kg, while beef-cross, 321-342kg, made $2.68/kg to $2.85/kg. The best Friesian pen, 399kg, was $2.62/kg. Better lines of yearling Hereford-Friesian steers sold well a 375kg pen fetching $3.35/kg. 19 Angus steers, 288kg, achieved $3.82/kg, while the best heifers were also Angus, 270-286kg, $3.18-$3.20/kg. Sheep volume was on par at 3000 head. A few large pens of ewes and ewe hoggets with lambs-at-foot sold for $98-$139 all counted. Very-heavy hoggets made $200-$234 with heavy $190-$199.

SOUTH-CANTERBURY Temuka prime and boner cattle; all sheep • Prime Hereford-Friesian heifers, 500-635kg, dropped to $3.053.10/kg • Boner Friesian cows, 565-770kg, improved to $2.22/kg • 114 Perendale ewes with 152 lambs sold for $125-$144 all counted The cattle tally at TEMUKA last Monday was double the previous week at 450 head. Hereford-Friesian steers, 545730kg, averaged $3.15/kg. Hereford, 595-670kg, reached $3.17-$3.25/kg and beef and beef-cross, $3.11-$3.21/kg.

Traditional and exotic heifers over 500kg softened to $3.05$3.15/kg, while competition for bulls had Hereford, 690kg, push to $3.35/kg. One line of prime hoggets managed $242, with most very heavy $200-$236, and the balance, $160$190. Some exceptional ewes made $265-$300, with second cuts $210-$228, while most others sold for $180-$204. Store hoggets were mostly fine wool types; half bred ewes were $155 and the best of the merino pens $129.

Temuka store cattle • Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 370-500kg, improved 33c/kg to $3.26/kg • Two-year Simmental-cross steers, 440-485kg, made $3.24/kg • Two-year traditional heifers, 295-420kg, rose to $3.21/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 285-355kg, sold for $2.99-$3.06/ kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 255-275kg, climbed to $3.06/kg It was another dairy-beef oriented sale at TEMUKA last Thursday, as Hereford-Friesian contributed nearly 900 of the over 1300 cattle yarded. The market improved for twoyear cattle with Hereford-Friesian heifers, 430-505kg, firm at $3.15/kg. The few straight beef heifers sold better, with Angus, 419kg, $3.28/kg, and Saler, 408-419kg, $3.24-$3.25/ kg. Nearly 500 head could be found in the mixed quality of yearling steers. A line of 47 Angus steers, 285kg, managed $4.04/kg, while other Angus were $3.41/kg to $4.05/kg.

Yearling heifers eased, with 270-290kg Hereford-Friesian losing 20c/kg to $2.70/kg.

OTAGO Balclutha sheep • Heavy prime hoggets held at $180-$210 • Heavy prime ewes held at $180-$200 • Prime rams returned $120 A good number of buyers were on the rails at BALCLUTHA last Wednesday, PGG Wrightson agent Russell Moloney reported, keeping the market strong across the board. Light to medium hoggets were steady at $120-$170, with ewes of the same condition lifting for the top end at $120-$170. A handful of good to heavy ewes with lambs-atfoot returned $95-$125.

SOUTHLAND Lorneville cattle and sheep • Heavy prime hoggets improved to $198-$236 • Heavy ewes lifted to $208-$244 • Top store hoggets eased to $110-$120 • Heavy cows strengthened to $2.20-$2.40/kg • Two-year Hereford-cross steers, 413-443kg, earned $3.22-$3.24/ kg Prime hoggets sold very well at LORNEVILLE last Tuesday, with most light to medium types improving to $150-$182. Light to medium store hoggets softened to $70-$105. Local trade rams improved to $80-$132. Mixedage ewes with lambs-at-foot held at $110-$125 all counted, though two-tooths with lambs-at-foot managed $140 all counted. Good prime heifers fetched $2.80-$2.90/kg, while light to medium cows managed $1.60-$1.90/kg. Medium yearling traditional-cross steers averaged $2.97/kg, with their sisters at $2.79/kg.

Weaner Limousin-cross bulls returned $730, though their sisters went one better at $770.

Markets

72 FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – November 11, 2019 NI SLAUGHTER LAMB

NI SLAUGHTER STEER

NI SLAUGHTER BULL

($/KG)

($/KG)

FRIESIAN BULLS, 100KG, AT FRANKTON WEANER FAIR

($/KG)

($/HD)

9.00

6.20

6.00

high $108-$117 lights Medium mixed-sex

475

lambs at Stortford Lodge

Milk prices head towards mid $7 Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz

S

KIM milk powder prices were the star of a very buoyant Global Dairy Trade auction last week, setting their highest level in more than four years.

Fonterra’s SMP offerings reached US$3005/tonne for February delivery and averaged $2951 across all delivery periods and product descriptions.

The New Zealand products achieved 10% more than United States offerings and 6% more than those from Europe.

Rabobank dairy analyst Emma Higgins said Fonterra’s provenance and reputation are consistently bringing premium prices now that the true market for SMP is not influenced by the former European Union stockpile.

Global supply remains constrained and the implication from a supply perspective is that prices should at least remain firm.

Imre Speizer Westpac “That older product in stockpile created a demand for fresh, premium products out of Oceania, which has now carried forward to the present.

“Strong preference remains for NZ SMP with the most-recent GDT price jumping almost 7% to US$2924/tonne.

“Buyers will have been looking for cover

as we move past the seasonal peak and product available for purchase reflects this.

“SMP offer volumes for the GDT platform drop off considerably next month with a 15% decline in offer volumes forecast for the December events.”

Higgins said an outcome of the higher SMP prices is a smaller spread between fat and protein product prices.

The gap between whole milk powder and SMP prices is narrower than at any time since 2016.

SMP prices have risen 45% in the past 12 months while WMP prices increased 23%.

In the latest GDT event the price index rose 3.7%, the best gain since last January.

WMP prices rose 3.6%. butter milk powder was up 5.4%, rennet casein up 5.1% and anhydrous milk fat 2.6%.

As the biggest-volume dairy product we export, rising WMP prices are good news for the farmgate milk price, ASB senior rural economist Nathan Penny said.

His $7/kg MS forecast now has upside potential and is being reviewed, as is Rabobank’s $7.15.

“Global dairy supply remains tight and it now appears previously firm NZ production growth is starting to soften.

“If production growth does continue to slow as we expect then we anticipate global dairy prices will firm further over the remainder of 2019.”

Westpac’s head of NZ strategy Imre Speizer agreed the WMP upwards momentum is now firm, having risen nearly 10% since the start of gains in July and being at a level not reached for two years.

“NZ milk collections, which showed promise over the mild winter, have slowed slightly. A cooler-than-usual spring means that October probably failed to match the pace of last year.

GOOD NAME: Rabobank dairy analyst Emma Higgins says Fonterra’s provenance and reputation are consistently bringing premium prices now the true market for SMP is not influenced by the former European Union stockpile.

“Meanwhile, global supply remains constrained and the implication from a supply perspective is that prices should at least remain firm.”

The jump in the GDT index and the reaction in the dairy derivatives market resulted in a 17c increase in the NZX milk price forecast to $7.41.

The NZX spot price has shot up 26 cents to $7.90/kg MS. The spot price indicates what the milk price would be if November 5 GDT prices were achieved over the entire dairy season at current exchange rates.

The milk price futures contract for September 2020 last settled at $7.38.

These numbers are strong indicators for a milk price in the mid $7.

$1405-$1525 Yearling Angus steers, 330-370kg, at Matawhero

ACROSS THE RAILS SUZ BREMNER

On-farm lamb sales are well supported NEW-SEASON lambs are slow coming forward at South Island sale yards but much to buyers’ relief the on-farm sales have begun and are very well-supported.

Last Wednesday, the 14th annual Annandale Lamb Sale was held in Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula, and featured 1900 Sufftex-Romney lambs (Sufftex rams over Romney ewes). The season has meant lambs nationwide are a few weeks behind last year because of the higher survivability of mainly multiples but also the lack of heat has meant growth rates have been slower.

Despite that prices at Annandale were well up, with this year’s sale average at $124 compared to $112 for 2018.

PGG Wrightson agent Stu Uren said that with so few lambs available a good bench of buyers took the chance to try and secure early bulk numbers and that meant competition was strong. Many were return buyers and Mid Cantabrians, in particular, were strong, though a regular buyer from Southland also took a unit load. The store lambs sold for $89-$156 while a pen of 87 prime types reached $168.

The Sinai on-farm sale at Oxford on Thursday had 3600 lambs and 1400 ewes.

The lambs were well-bred Dorset Downcross and Merino-Dorset Down while the ewes were crossbred or Merino. The buying bench had a very similar feel to the previous day’s event with two from Southland but the competition was led by Mid and North Canterbury buyers. Results were around $10 up on 2018 with lambs trading at $94-$186 for an average of $130 while the cull ewes averaged $188. Rural Livestock agent Aaron Leckie said the vendor was very happy with the results, with a full clearance achieved.

A second on-farm sale will be held on November 27 to accommodate the laterborn lambs and with extra vendors offering up stock that tally is expected to sit at 8000 lambs and 2000 ewes. suz.bremner@globalhq.co.nz

Find out more about AgriHQ at agrihq.co.nz

SHEEP JETTER Sheep dipping… made easier!

Innovative Agriculture Equipment

• Fantastic penetration • Get one now before price increase

7685

$ Serving NZ Farmers since 1962

+ GST

www.pppindustries.co.nz / sales@pppindustries.co.nz / 0800 901 902

LK0097942©

• Manufactured from stainless steel • Electric Eye • 800-1000 sheep per hour

PREVIOUS GATOR WINNERS!

INCL GST

W OR T H OV ER $ 18K !

Murray Holdaway Winner February 2014

Kevin Davies-Bourne Winner September 2015

“I won the Gator! When I found out I had won I was absolutely stoked. Great shed which went up easy and makes the perfect home for my new Gator. Fantastic!”

David Johnston, Kaikoura | Gator Winner September 2016

Two distinct brands available in the range

Largest range of farm buildings in the market

Hundreds of standard plans available

We could build our Strongbuilt® Sheds lighter, but we don’t and won’t. That’s why Strongbuilt® Sheds are...

PLUS FREE FREIGHT Easy to build yourself

Engineered with strength for NZ conditions

Built to last the distance & protect your possessions

A timber frame that takes the knocks

Designed to meet your needs

3 BAY SHEDS

3 Bay Lean-to

3 3Bay BayLean-to

Bays: Depth: Height: Bays:

Bays: Depth: Height:

3 x 3.6m

Lean-to 3.6 (1 x 3.6 )

Depth: Height:

is included in all Strongbuilt® Shed prices shown within a 30km radius of any Goldpine Store.

m

m

m 3.6 – 3.0 m 3 x 3.6 3.6m (1 x 3.6m) mSTAND TOUGH. BUILT3.0 TOUGH. 3.6 – S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

3 x 3.6m 9.0m (3 x 3.0m) 3.9 – 3.0m

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

3 3Bay BayLean-to Bays: 3 x 4.2 Lean-to Depth: 6.0 (2 x 3.0 )

3 Bay Gable

m

m

Height: Bays: Depth: Height:

m

4.0 – 3.4 m 3 x 4.2 6.0m (2 x 3.0m) 4.0 – 3.4m m

Bays: Depth: Height:

33Bay BayLean-to Lean-to m Bays: Bays: 3 x3m3.6 x 3.6m m Depth: 6.0 (2mx 3.0 ) m Depth: 6.0 (2 x 3.0 ) Height: 3.0 – 2.4m m Height: 3.0 – 2.4

S H E D S ,

3 x 3.6m

Lean-to 6.0 (2 x 3.0 )

Depth: Height:

PACKAGE DEAL!

INCL. PA door, roller door & internal wall

m

m

3.6 – 3.0 m 3 x 3.6 m 6.0 (2 x 3.0m) m 3.6 BUILT – 3.0 TOUGH. STAND TOUGH. m

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

3 3Bay BayGable Bays: 3 x 4.5 Gable9.0 (2 x 4.5 ) Depth: m

m

33Bay BayLean-to Lean-to m Bays: Bays: 3 x3m3.6 x 3.6m m Depth: 6.0 (2mx 3.0 ) m Depth: 3.66.0 m x 3.0 ) Height: – 3.0(2 Height: 3.6 – 3.0m

Height: Bays: Depth: Height:

PACKAGE DEAL!

INCL. PA door, roller door & internal wall

These prices include plans, PS1, H5 treated poles, SG8 verified timber (rafters, purlins and girts), cladding as specified and all fixings required. Spouting, clearlight, flashings and gates etc are at extra cost unless stated.

Photographs are for illustrative purposes only.

Sheds come in easy to construct kitset form.

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

3 3Bay BayLean-to

Bays: Depth: Height: Bays:

3 x 4.5m 6.0m (2 x 3.0m) 4.2 – 3.6m

m

m 4.2 – 3.6 m 3 x 4.5 m 9.0 (2 x 4.5m) m 4.2 BUILT – 3.6 TOUGH. STAND TOUGH. S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

PACKAGE DEAL!

INCL. PA door, roller door & internal wall

33 Bay BayLean-to Lean-to m Bays: Bays: 3 x3m4.0 x 4.0m m Depth: 7.0 (2 m x 3.5 ) m Depth: 7.0 (2 x 3.5 ) Height: 3.6 – 3.0m Height: 3.6 – 3.0m

FARM BUILDINGS PROUDLY BROUGHT TO YOU BY

FARM BUILDINGS PROUDLY BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Largest Range. Unlimited Options.

4, 5 + 6 BAY SHEDS

4 Lean-to 4Bay Bay Bays: 4 x 4.5 Lean-to Depth: 9.0 (2 x 4.5 ) m

m

Height: Bays: Depth: Height:

m

m 3.9 m 4x– 4.53.0 9.0m (2 x 4.5m) m 3.9BUILT–TOUGH. 3.0STAND TOUGH. S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

5 5 Bay BayLean-to Lean-to

Bays: Bays: Depth: Depth: Height:

Height:

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

5 x 4.8m m 5 mx (2 4.8x 3.0m) 6.0 m 6.0– 3.6 (2 mx 3.0m) 4.2

4.2 – 3.6m

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

4 4 Bay BayLean-to Lean-to m Bays: Bays: 4 x4m4.0 x 4.0m m Depth: 6.0 (2m x 3.0 ) m Depth: 6.0 (2 x 3.0 ) Height: 3.6 – 3.0m m Height: 3.6 – 3.0 4 Lean-to 4Bay Bay

Bays: Depth: Height: Bays:

4 x 4.2m

Lean-to 6.0 (2 x 3.0 )

Depth: Height:

m

m

44Bay BayLean-to Lean-to m Bays: Bays: 4 x4m3.6 x 3.6mm Depth: 9.0 (3mx 3.0 ) m Depth: 3.99.0 m x 3.0 ) Height: – 3.0(3 Height: 3.9 – 3.0m

m 4.0 m 4x– 4.23.4 m 6.0 (2 x 3.0m) 4.0 – 3.4m

6 6 Bay BayLean-to Lean-to

Bays: Bays: Depth: Depth: Height:

Height:

LIFESTYLE BARNS

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

6 x 4.5 m 6 mx (2 4.5x 3.0m) 6.0 m 6.0 (2 mx 3.0m) 4.2 – 3.6 m

4.2 – 3.6m

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

Jersey Jersey Lifestyle Barn Lifestyle Barn Bays: 3 x 4.5 m

Depth: Bays: Height: Depth: Height: PACKAGE DEAL!

9.0 (2 m x 4.5m) 3 xm4.5 m 5.2 – 3.7mm 3.7 9.0– (2 x 4.5 )

3.7 – 5.2 – 3.7m

INCL. PA door, flashings, spouting, 3 x roller doors

Hereford Lifestyle BarnBarn Hereford Lifestyle m Bays: 3 x 3.5 m Bays: 3 x 3.5 Depth: 7.0m (2mx 3.5m) m Depth: 3.5 ) m Height: 3.07.0 – 4.6(2–x3.0 Height: 3.0 – 4.6 – 3.0m

S H E D S ,

B A R N S

&

S T A B L E S

BUILT TOUGH. STAND TOUGH.

PACKAGE DEAL!

INCL. PA door, flashings, spouting, 2 x roller doors

Shield and protect your assets from the harsh NZ conditions with

GET IN QUICK! SALE ENDS 30TH NOV! Give us a call on 0800 2 GOLDPINE

Jump on to www.goldpine.co.nz

Check them out instore today!

FARM BUILDINGS PROUDLY BROUGHT TO YOU BY