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GHG study ‘game changer’ Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz

EW research proves there is a strong case for sheep and beef farmers to get credit for the sequestration happening on their farms. The independent research commissioned by Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) has found New Zealand sheep and beef farms are close to being carbon neutral. Auckland University of Technology’s ecology department senior lecturer Dr Bradley Case says the research calls for the formal recognition of on-farm sequestration. “This indicates a strong position for farmers to get credit for the sequestration happening on their farms,” he said. “This is an integral part of He Waka Eke Noa, the regulatory framework that industry and government are currently developing to manage agricultural emissions and recognise on-farm sequestration. “This research not only builds understanding of the overall greenhouse gas (GHG) contribution of the sheep and beef sector, but will help inform the development of policy and further reinforce the outstanding biodiversity on sheep and beef farms.” The study, led by Case, estimates the woody vegetation on NZ sheep and beef farms is offsetting between 63% and 118% of their on-farm agricultural emissions. Using the midpoint in the report’s range, on average, the

woody vegetation on sheep and beef farms is absorbing about 90% of these emissions. B+LNZ chief executive Sam McIvor says absolute GHG emissions from NZ sheep and beef production have reduced by 30% since 1990. “This research shows that of the remaining emissions the vast majority are being offset by the trees on our farms and NZ sheep and beef farmers are well on the way to being carbon neutral by 2050,” he said. McIvor says the study reinforces the importance of farmers getting formal recognition for the sequestration happening on their farms. “Currently, most vegetation on sheep and beef farms does not qualify for inclusion in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) because it does not meet the definition of a forest,” he said. “If farmers are to face a price for agricultural emissions, it’s only fair they get credit for their sequestration.” The focus to date on livestock’s climate change contribution has been on emissions, rather than on sequestration. “But with any product it makes sense to consider the whole business, in this case, taking a whole farm approach,” he said. “The study should also reassure consumers that NZ beef and lamb is among the most sustainable in the world and our farmers are making a significant contribution to addressing on-farm agricultural emissions. “These findings should be of immense pride for NZ’s sheep and beef farmers, the 92,000 people employed in what is NZ’s largest manufacturing sector, and all New Zealanders.”

CREDIT: Beef + Lamb NZ chief executive Sam McIvor says new research reinforces the importance of farmers getting formal recognition for the sequestration happening on their farms.

This indicates a strong position for farmers to get credit for the sequestration happening on their farms. Dr Bradley Case AUT According to the report, the woody vegetation is made up of 1.52 million hectares of native forest and 0.48m ha of exotic vegetation. In addition to sequestering carbon, this vegetation

delivers wider benefits for NZ’s biodiversity and freshwater ecosystems. “The report identifies where sheep and beef farmers can focus to continue to build the native vegetation and biodiversity on their farms,” Case said. The regional maps in the research indicate where management is most needed to ensure mature-old growth forests are managed to prevent them becoming sources of atmospheric carbon. Importantly, Case says, the net carbon emissions estimation assumed a net-neutral rate for soil sequestration, so the amount of sequestration happening could be even greater. “While there is fairly good

information about soil carbon stocks, there is not good data about yearly changes in soil sequestration and the science on this is still in development,” he said. B+LNZ’s primary objective for the report was to estimate the net carbon position of NZ sheep and beef production, that being GHG emissions minus GHG sequestration. In 2018, industry set a target of sheep and beef farmers being carbon neutral by 2050. A key objective of the analysis was to understand where the sector is now to assist work going forward on how to achieve the target. McIvor says the purpose of this research was also to build a better understanding of the distribution of woody vegetation on sheep and beef farms and also to inform discussions with the Government about farmers getting recognition for the sequestration occurring on their farms. “This is a very significant report for the sheep and beef sector but further than that it is potentially a game changer for NZ’s quest to be carbon neutral by 2050,” he said. The report also underlines previous independent work by the University of Canterbury that sheep and beef farmers are making an unparalleled contribution to NZ’s indigenous biodiversity. The summary report and the full report can be read here: https://beeflambnz.com/newsviews/new-zealand-sheep-andbeef-farms-close-being-carbonneutral-new-research

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ROUND THE FARM TABLE Chef and good keen man Al Brown chats to BFEA entrants from around the country and finds they’re committed to sustainable farming – and growing delicious food.

For Adrian and Pauline Ball, Dennley Farm in Tirau is more than a livelihood. It’s where Adrian grew up and where he and childhood sweetheart Pauline, (they even went to the same primary school, although Pauline reckons she didn’t think much of him back then!) have raised their two daughters Katie (19) and Amber (21). Adrian was just 16 when his father passed away and he had to step up and run what was then a 122 ha beef finishing farm. Today, a fair bit has changed. Some 270 Holstein Friesian cows make up the bulk of the herd on their now 196 ha dairy and dairy beef farm, which, under their careful and considered stewardship, is thriving. Adrian says he reached a point in his life where he felt the need to reduce stress, and re-evaluate. In doing so they have simplified and streamlined the operation while still creating as much value out of their products as possible. It’s this way of thinking that has seen the Balls named as the latest Ballance Farm Environment Awards National Ambassadors, providing them fantastic opportunities to continue their journey of constant improvement. With excellent production, high stock growth rates, and a smaller footprint as ongoing goals, Pauline and Adrian are making a real, sustainable difference – and they’re happy to help others who are keen to do the same. Al Brown chats to the pair to find out more. Al: Dennley Farm – what a beautiful place to live and work! You obviously put a lot of work into looking after the environment here as well as running a successful business. Adrian: Yeah we do. We’ve got a plan we’re working through, and it’s ongoing, but our dry stock farm is now completely off-grid and uses solar power for electric fencing and a deep well for water supply. We’ve fenced off waterways, retired areas of the farm, and planted 8000 natives. It’s been amazing to see the birdlife return to these areas.

Al: A lot of work, but no doubt rewarding! You’re also very deserving winners of the latest Ballance Farm Environment Awards – an awesome achievement. How did you find the awards experience? Pauline: We loved connecting with like-minded farmers and judges, and especially sharing and learning from each other’s stories. It was a great reminder that we’re all in this together and that our industries are pretty special and will continually adapt and evolve. Adrian: The awards have provided incredible opportunities to keep learning as well. We were lucky enough to be able to travel through Ireland and Holland to understand innovation in genetics and animal welfare technologies which is all great learning to bring back home. Al: That sounds like an incredible opportunity. There’s so much to be gained out of sharing those experiences isn’t there? Pauline: Absolutely, and even though farming can be quite a solitary job, you don’t have to know everything or do it all yourself. Adrian has a weekly catch up with the M.M.C guys (Matamata Multisport Club) with 15 local farmers. We play sport, have a drink and talk things out. We share our successes and help each other solve problems. Al: Did you find there were any unexpected benefits to come out of entering the awards? Pauline: Not so much unexpected, but we loved that we got to have our daughters join us at the awards evening and that they were able to feel proud about what we, and the whole industry is achieving. They’re both studying in Auckland and while they might not pursue a role on the farm, the lessons learned about striving for success can be applied to any industry they choose.

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Al: There are definitely a lot of cool things happening in the industry. Over the next 20 years, what do you think NZ agriculture can be famous for globally? Adrian: The potential of dairy beef is exciting, I think. If we think of ourselves as food producers rather than simply farmers, we can really put NZ on the map by creating a culinary experience around our produce – where it comes from, how it’s farmed and of course how good it tastes. Our primary focus will be to produce the best quality products we can backed up with credible independent assurances. Al: Well I can vouch for how delicious it is! So of all the food that is produced on your farm, would you say it’s the beef you’re most proud of?

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Adrian: Yep, the beef is awesome, especially a whole sirloin, cooked on the BBQ with mates over – who all think they are meat cooking experts of course!! Al: So, if you could have anyone over for dinner to enjoy that awesome beef with, who would it be? Pauline: Our daughters, and our friends – Irish Bill, Brownie, Daws and the M.M.C lads. If we didn’t invite them, they’d still turn up. Mostly to tell Adrian he’s overdoing the sirloin!

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Migrant labour challenges loom Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz THE horticultural sector is targeting all areas of the labour force to draw in greater numbers of workers as harvest season looms. Pipfruit New Zealand chief executive Alan Pollard says the sector faces a massive hole in its usual Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) programme, with about 4000 staff still in the country out of the 12,000 originally supposed to be here. For the coming season, the sector had anticipated employing 16,000 RSE workers, but this remained highly doubtful. “And of those 4000 still here, there will still be a few more who will be repatriated yet,” he said. There are also about 11,000 holiday makers capable of working on a visa also still in NZ, well back on the usual 50,000 that provide a valuable seasonal pool of staffing. Pollard says the industry’s first obligation was to employ NZ workers, but attracting them was still challenging as the wages subsidy was only just starting to wind down. “We are told unemployment will peak at 7.8% but not until April,” he said. But our first major harvest is Otago cherries in December, and then apples in February.” The Government recently announced entry allowances for skilled agricultural workers and vets, with a seasonal work visa also now available to allow the 11,000 working holiday visa holders to remain in NZ if they wish to work. The stranded RSE workers have also been provided a more flexible visa to enable them to continue to work, filling in time with non-RSE work prior to harvest and reentering the RSE workforce for the new harvest. Average pay rates are about $20-$21 an hour for fruit picking,

OPPORTUNITY: Rural Contractors NZ chief executive Roger Parton says access to skilled staff is looking brighter than it did a couple of months ago with the Government recently approving access for 210 international machine operators.

We are also looking at how we can incentivise people to move to other regions for harvesting. The unemployed are not always a mobile workforce. Alan Pollard Pipfruit NZ and Pollard says increasing the pay was not always the solution to sourcing more staff. “We are also looking at how we can incentivise people to move to other regions for harvesting. The unemployed are not always a mobile workforce. We are also

trying hard with the student population, to incentivise them to move around in groups between harvesting jobs.” The industry is also hoping to get government approval to source RSE workers again, and Pollard says Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi is open to entertaining a proposal on this, but making no pre-election promises on it. “But the Prime Minister has made it clear the primary sector will be what drives NZ out of a covid recession, so the Government cannot put barriers up to prevent that happening,” he said. He says the mutual benefit of RSE to Pacific Island nations like Samoa could not be ignored either. “Places like Samoa, have been hit hard by loss of tourism and loss of RSE jobs here.” Meantime, meat processors face

the prospect of reduced capacity if skilled halal processing staff are forced to leave due to visa stand down requirements. About a third of the 250 halal workers fall into this category. A further 260 other meat workers may also be required to go, based on Meat Industry Association (MIA) estimates. Like the horticultural sector, the meat industry is working behind the scenes with government officials on a sector agreement and removing the annual departure requirements that go with the essential workers’ visa conditions. “The current immigration policy settings would have significant adverse consequences for our industry and mean we would not be able to operate at optimum capacity or deliver the full economic and social benefits to the country during the recovery,”

said MIA chief executive Sirma Karapeeva. Rural Contractors NZ chief executive Roger Parton says access to skilled staff is looking brighter than it did a couple of months ago with the Government recently approving access for 210 international machine operators. Parton says his members are still recruiting new operators or those who have previous experience and are seeking to extend the immigration visas of operators already in NZ. “All of those things are reducing the pressure, but we are not out of the woods just yet,” he said. One issue is that six month immigration visas, minus the two weeks in quarantine, is too short for some roles which could be needed for seven to eight months, but he doubts the Government will make changes.

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Grazing reduces fire risk, says academic Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz LIVESTOCK grazing reduces fire risk and to say otherwise defies logic, says a Lincoln University academic. Farmers and Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage have been at loggerheads over the role of strategic grazing since last weekend’s devastating Lake Ohau fire in the Mackenzie Basin, which Federated Farmers say was accentuated by the mismanagement of vegetation on conservation land. Sage disagrees, accusing farmers of wanting access to free grazing on public conservation land, which would impact biodiversity values. Prof Derrick Moot of Lincoln University’s agriculture and life sciences faculty says strategic grazing stops the build-up of dead and dry vegetative material, which becomes inflammable carbon. This is a real issue in dry, windy environments such as the Mackenzie where it takes longer for vegetation to decompose so remains dry, volatile fuel for long periods. “If it isn’t grazed, you get long grass which dies and if there is little moisture, that material

STALEMATE: Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage is pushing back against the grazing claims by farmers, saying she would not allow conservation land to become one great big farm.

takes a long time to rot and in a low rainfall environment there is a greater risk that dry carbon becomes fuel,” he said. Moot says that is what happened in the lead up to the 2017 Port Hills fire in Christchurch and is also occurring in Australia and California, which have had large scale fires erupt. “I’m not saying graze the whole area, but there is a role for judicious or strategic grazing

to be used for a period in the environment to reduce the risk of fire,” he said. Grazing could be used to establish fire breaks next to private land or dwellings. He acknowledges the aim of the Department of Conservation (DOC) is to restore public conservation land to native forest, but says that evolution takes many decades, especially in low rainfall areas, during which there is a fire risk, especially when humans have access. Moot says the various parties need to work together to find a resolution, rather than taking entrenched stances in opposing corners. “This is a not an all or nothing issue,” he said. “This is an opportunity to encourage a return to native vegetation and biodiversity at the same time reducing the risk of fire through the judicious and strategic use of grazing.” Sage is pushing back against the grazing claims by farmers, saying she would not allow conservation land to “become one great big farm”. When pointed out that farmers were talking about strategic light grazing, Sage says that even grazed land can burn. The minister says human

activity and wilding conifers were the greatest fire risk and the Government has increased investment in the control of trees and work needs to be done to educate people to reduce the risk of fire. Risk was also being heightened by people building houses in rural areas and planting trees for shelter. “Aside from the odd lightning strike, nature doesn’t start wildfires,” she said. “It’s human activities such as machinery use, infrastructure such as power lines arcing or breaking and farm burnoffs that get out of control which can cause fires.” Sage says local authorities and Government departments in the Mackenzie area are working on plans to deal with a longer fire season caused by climate change and growing housing developments. The fire, which started last Sunday was all but out by Thursday after razing 40 structures and burning 5000ha, including 1900ha of conservation land. “Along with the tragic loss of homes in Lake Ohau village, around 1900ha of public conservation land in the Ruataniwha and Ahuriri

Conservation Areas has been badly affected,” she said. “I understand that the 1900ha of conservation land burnt includes the significant Ohau moraine and wetland complex on what was once Tarnbrae Station. “Damage to these areas is a major loss to conservation.” Jacqui Dean, the National Party’s Waitaki MP and its conservation spokeswoman, says its policy would allow limited grazing on land that has been through tenure review, provided there is a net benefit to conservation. “Residents in the Mackenzie Basin have told me that the threat of fire is a real concern and increasing vegetation is a big factor. “There needs to be a change to DOC’s approach to land management to mitigate that risk. “Adding more land to the DOC estate is all well and good but when that land isn’t properly maintained and managed it poses a major threat to neighbouring communities. “Limited grazing ensures vegetation is kept in check and provides an extra layer of protection from fire.” The cause of the Lake Ohau fire is still under investigation.

Emotions flare over Ohau fires Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz GLENBROOK Station farmer Simon Williamson watched the Ohau fire jump the road and head for his property. “It was burning through scrubby stuff then got to grazing and eventually burnt out,” he said. “My neighbour was evacuated, we were very apprehensive. “I think we are a little bit lucky the helicopter boys got it out – this time.” Two fires in the past month highlight the dangers of retired land and wilding pines. High country farmers are hopeful the destruction caused by the Ohau fire will ignite warnings for the Department of Conservation (DOC) to listen to landowners. Federated Farmers high country chair Rob Stokes says farmers have been warning for years about

fire fuel loads on DOC land in the South Island. Stokes says negotiations with farmers on a partnership approach to deal with uncontrolled vegetation on conservation is a matter of urgency before lives are lost, Stokes said. “Farmers operate commercial businesses and are looking for a partnership, with contracts, to try and reduce a serious risk to safety, private property and the environment,” Stokes said. “Tenure review was an idiotic tool; this ground that has been locked up and hasn’t been grazed is becoming a hazard to life,” Williamson said. “The fuel loading in the land is just huge, you get one spark and it burns everything in sight. “The Nature Heritage Fund has just purchased another 1700 hectares neighbouring here, which is another risk for me now.” He says DOC is 30 years behind

the rest of the world “that has been there, done this, and gone back to grazing”. Australia, the UK and the US have learned this lesson, but New Zealand seems to be going 180 degrees in the other direction. Williamson says in fire risk areas of these other nations, authorities are inviting farmers to graze livestock on public land, in fact, in some places are paying them to do so. “It’s really disappointing, we’ve been warning of this for a long time, there’s a mindset that grazing is bad and it kills wildlife, the reality is these blazes are going to happen more and more and spread further and further. At some stage there’s going to be massive loss of life ” he said. Farmers say they are not advocating for intensive grazing. “Farmers are trying to look after the land with sparse, passive grazing but we are battling a green

DEVASTATION: A home in the Lake Ohau Village that was destroyed by fire in the Mackenzie Basin last week. Photo Gary Kircher

crowd that don’t want any stock,” he said. Williamson was horrified when Environment Minister Eugenie Sage, in her visit to the region last week, suggested farmers just want free grazing. “I said to her, ‘you know I lease a piece of ground off DOC, it costs me $6000 a year to run 60 cows’,” he said.

“And she said, ‘oh, that’s rather expensive, is it not?’ “So, I don’t think the minister has much idea really of what happens on conservation land.” He says while the economic impact of the fires on affected farming businesses is yet to be determined, it will be a significant figure.

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REALISATION: Omarama sheep farmer Grant Murray says the Ohau fire has been an eye opening experience, highlighting just how volatile this country can be.

Farmers take stock of fire damage OMARAMA sheep farmer Grant Murray is counting his lucky stars after the Ohau fire engulfed his Shelton Downs farm leaving two thirds of the property charred. While still accounting for his stock, the death tally is likely to be more than 200 in-lamb ewes. Devastation sums it up, Murray says. “But we are very fortunate we had not started lambing, we are really lucky we have been able to move what (sheep) we did,” he said. But the flock damage will go beyond the ewes destroyed in the fire. Of the injured ewes, some will have to be euthanised and many will not be able to feed the lambs they are carrying. “It’s been a big old eye opener highlighting just how volatile this country can be,” he said.

“In the last two weeks, we’ve had 75mm of rain and several inches of snow (and) now this – there’s always going to be risk farming in this country.” With two-thirds of the 2500-hectare Shelton Downs property burned, Murray is offloading stock to neighbouring properties. “We’ve lost a lot of pasture, fences have burned out, gates are flat on the ground – it’s like where do you start?” he asked. The stock being the priority, as it was when Murray drove into the fire in the early hours of Sunday morning. “I do have areas of the farm that would normally be closed up at this time of year for recreational activity, including the Alps to Ocean trail, but this year, while I wouldn’t normally, I will be lambing in those blocks now,” he said. Depending on what spring and summer deals up weatherwise,

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have lost a lot more stock. “The minute I got the call to say the farm was burning, I called Bevin (Forbes, the shepherd) to raise the alarm and asked him to go and open as many gates as he could so the sheep had a better chance of fleeing the fire.” Even at daylight the smoke was so thick it was dark and difficult to ascertain the extent of the fire. “We just kept pushing the stock down onto the country that had already burned, the fire was all around us,” he said. “At one point, I went up a track and once at the top I looked back and the fire had already crossed the track behind me. “I was pretty scared after that, it made it very real.” As the morning went on Murray, with the help of farm staff and neighbours, was out with farm machinery making fire breaks. It was a relief when the professional resources arrived. “It was good to get the

helicopters and ground controllers, and people who knew what they were doing, rather than farmers just doing the best we could,” he said. At a critical point in saving the home and farm buildings, Murray had a request to dig out dams for filling the monsoon buckets. “The helicopter boys said if you can get in and dig us a couple of dams then we can fill the buckets and get water on much quicker,” he said. “Normally, to do that would require a resource consent and 21 days to get it through. “I just did it, when you are on the ground you have to make the decisions for your own safety, initiative and common sense have to prevail. Now, we still have a home and no buildings were destroyed.” Murray says he has been overwhelmed with offers from farmers, the community and wider farming businesses.

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Pressure to cement EU meat deal Nigel Stirling nigel.g.stirling@gmail.com SHEEP meat exporters are pointing to one month of export figures as evidence of the urgent need for a deal to preserve quota for the European Union currently on track to be carved up at the end of the year. New Zealand’s current tarifffree quota of 228,000 tonnes underpinned the EU’s status as the industry’s single most valuable market until last year when it was overtaken by China. The quota is due to be split between the United Kingdom and the remaining 27 members of the EU, when the final stage of Brexit is completed on December 31. A maximum of 114,000 tonnes of sheep meat would then be able to be exported to the UK each year before tariffs kick in. The same arrangement is to apply to exports to the EU-27.

We remain deeply concerned about the proposal for the EU and UK to split the World Trade Organisation tariff rate quotas, which would reduce that flexibility and disadvantage NZ. Sirma Karapeeva MIA Exporters say splitting the quota takes away the flexibility they currently enjoy to sell up to 228,000 tonnes to either the UK or continental Europe according to where they can get the best returns. Utilisation of the EU quota by NZ exporters has slipped in recent years as China’s demand has grown, falling from 77% in 2015 to just half last year. But the Meat Industry Association’s chief executive

Sirma Karapeeva says the performance of export markets were not constant over time and what were underused arrangements now, might not remain so in the future. She pointed to the industry’s latest export statistics for August showing a 13% decrease in sheep meat exports to China compared to the same month a year ago, while exports to the Netherlands were up 80% and to Germany by 30%. “It illustrates the difficulty of predicting future trends based on historical trade data,” she said. “We remain deeply concerned about the proposal for the EU and UK to split the World Trade Organisation (WTO) tariff rate quotas, which would reduce that flexibility and disadvantage NZ.” The sheep meat quota, along with smaller beef and dairy quotas, were negotiated by NZ and the EU in the Uruguay round of global trade talks in the 1990s. The splits proposed are based on exports to the UK and continental Europe during a three-year period between 2013 and 2015. In September 2017, NZ, along with other quota-holders including the United States, sent a letter to the EU and UK representatives at the WTO complaining that splitting the quotas in such a way was illegal under Article 28 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which prevents parties to trade agreements being left worse off by changes to them. The EU and the UK were eventually forced to the table for consultations after initially trying to use a legal loophole known as “rectification” to avoid their obligations to consult quotaholders about the changes. But with two years of talks behind them and just weeks to go till the quota is due to be split, the Government’s top trade negotiator Vangelis Vitalis said NZ was still at loggerheads with the EU and UK over the proposal. “We are very mindful that the clock is ticking down on the transition period and we are

CONCERN: Meat Industry Association’s chief executive Sirma Karapeeva says the latest red meat export statistics illustrate the difficulty of predicting future trends based on historical trade data.

ramping up our engagement and lobbying accordingly,” he said. “The proposal on the table is not one we can work with.” Vitalis says NZ could only agree to a deal which gave exporters access equivalent to what they had now. The UK and the EU are understood to have rejected a solution put forward by Vitalis that would have seen NZ exporters retain their rights to sell up to the existing quota limit in the UK and continental European markets, but with the proviso the allocation be withdrawn once the 228,000 tonnes was reached cumulatively across both markets. The alternative was to double

the current quota so NZ could continue to sell up to its 228,000 tonne limit in both markets. The NZ Meat Board’s Dave Harrison says the “common ceiling” solution put forward by Vitalis could have helped the EU and UK cope with disruptions to supply that would result if they could not conclude their own trade deal before next year. If the EU and the UK could not reach a deal and they were forced to trade with each other using WTO tariff rates, then British sheep farmers faced being shut out of the continental market completely by a 50% tariff on their lamb from January 1 next year. The London School of

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Sheep milking doubles income in Waikato Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz NEW sheep milking conversions in Waikato are delivering twice the per hectare income that the farmers used to earn from cows. General manager of operations Peter Gatley says the new farms supplying Maui Milk this season are making around $14,000 a hectare, compared to $7000/ha a cow milking farm would typically earn. “Income per hectare is a simple function of stocking rate, yield and payout,” he said. “A ratio of six ewes per cow gives us about 17 ewes per hectare on Waikato dairy country. Our payout is $17 per kg of total solids, or about $3 per litre. Therefore, an average yield per ewe of 275 litres will deliver $14,000.” He says revenue was only part of the equation, adding most of the expenditure such as electricity, fertiliser and breeding were easily calculated. “We’re currently learning from our new conversions about the impact of other factors such as labour,” he said. “At this point, we certainly

expect an improvement in the cash surplus compared to cow dairy, especially on smaller blocks in the 50 to 80ha range.” Gatley says good genetics has been key to establishing the 275L production levels.

Even our first-cross hoggets by Lacaune rams out of Romneys are surprising us. It makes you wonder what is possible in future. Allan Browne Dairy farmer It involved securing genes from the French Lacaune breed, and the company has carried out over 10,000 inseminations with imported semen from progeny tested sires. He says this is the turning point for the industry. “Most of our milk goes to Danone who have launched

ADVANTAGE: Sheep milking allows farmers to capitalise on their pastoral farming experience.

sheep milk infant formula, which is priced at the top of the market above A2 and goat milk products because it ticks every box,” he said. “We need more milk and there’s a lot of interest, especially from small dairy farms who can do an easy conversion to make use of existing infrastructure. “They want improved profitability, a stable payout and environmental compliance. Succession planning seems to feature strongly in their thinking too. We also see potential for equity partnerships and sharemilking.” Waikato farmer Allan Browne owns one of the new sheep milking conversions. He has both dairy cow and traditional sheep farming operations on land near Cambridge. This year he converted part of his property to milk sheep and so far, he is impressed. “We got ewes from Maui Milk that are on track for 350 litres each and they’re only half Lacaune, with a quarter East Friesian and quarter Coopworth. “Even our first-cross hoggets

MONEY MAKER: Maui Milk general manager of operations Peter Gatley says milking sheep can make twice the income as cows on Waikato dairy land.

by Lacaune rams out of Romneys are surprising us. It makes you wonder what is possible in future.” The Brownes’ farm is one of several new conversions in Waikato, mostly involving simple retrofits of old herringbone cowsheds. A lot has been learned from the new suppliers, which is helping refine financial modelling for future conversions. He says there are enough ewes available for several more conversions next year and are taking what they have learned to a series of meetings at Karapiro later this month to talk to farmers. The meetings will be followed by a visit to the Brownes’ new conversion nearby. Gatley says the company needed more milk to satisfy demand from Danone for its infant formula product. There are 3800 dairy farms in Waikato, most having what is required to incorporate sheep milking. “Even the smaller ones have sufficient scale for sheep milking. They have a lot of milking infrastructure suitable for dairy and sheep, such as topography, fertility, small paddocks, races, water and an effluent system,” he said. “You can milk your cows in autumn and have the ewes under way in spring.”

He says the environmental challenges bovine milking was facing to be compliant with new local and central government regulations coming in were also featuring strongly in the thinking among the owners of the newly converted sheep milking farms. “Overseer calculations generally show sheep milking to have a considerably lighter footprint than cow dairy,” Gatley said. “Some farmers see parallels with goat milking in terms of both financial and environmental issues, but sheep milking enables them to capitalise on their experience in pastoral farming, without the need to tie up capital in barns and machinery.” He says shares are not required either, but supply rights will be assigned to protect the interests of early adopters. “Succession planning is a big factor in some of the conversions, with the new generation invigorated by the opportunity to innovate and drive rapid productivity improvement while supplying an ultra-premium product category,” he said. “Interest is also being expressed by those seeking a foot in the door via equity partnerships or sharemilking agreements.” Details of Maui Milk information meetings and farm visits can be found on its website.

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Soil moisture levels a growing concern Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz WAIKATO paddocks may be looking lush and green in the spring flush, but beneath the surface are growing concerns with the dryness of the region’s soils and subsoils. AgFirst director James Allen says that lack of soil moisture meant good pasture management will be even more critical this season. Southland aside, most other parts of the country have had great growing conditions with plenty of silage being made and summer feed crops being sown. But concerns remained at the lack of moisture at a subsoil level, a lingering effect of last season’s drought. “We were out on a farm yesterday (last week) and it’s dry, and this was out at Morrinsville. Everyone was commenting on how hard the soils were and the lack of soil moisture,” he said. Allen has been appointed by MPI to keep a watching brief over national rainfall, pasture growth and feed supplies after the dire outcome of this year’s drought in Hawke’s Bay. The lack of moisture was highlighted in the company’s latest

KEEPING WATCH: AgFirst director James Allen says soils are dry in Waikato despite the good spring conditions so far.

bulletin where AgFirst consultant Dave Miller wrote that the Waikato was 400mm below average for the long-term rainfall for the 2019 calendar year (850mm compared to average 1270mm). For the period January 1 to the end of August, it was 260mm behind the long-term average with every month this year below average so far. Miller says soil moisture

conditions in the region are currently at field capacity but the low river levels suggest soil moisture at depth is below normal. He says it’s imperative to plan early and aim to have summer forage crops in by early October, and to consider an earlier maturing maize hybrid that has a better chance of flowering before a summer dry hit. “It seems a long way off, but

what is the consequence of picking up the phone and booking in space at the works for culls in January/February now? We saw the impact of overloaded meatworks last summer,” he said. Allen says it was still very much a case of “wait and see” when it came to what the trigger point could be when farmers have to start feeding out supplements. “At this stage, it’s a watching brief. It comes down to really good feed planning and budgeting and making sure you know what reserves you have got on hand,” he said. Compounding the issue was that farmers had gone into the season with much lower levels of supplementary feed stored than usual after depleting their reserves through autumn. “The cupboard is more empty than this time last year,” he said. Allen says as far as he was aware, there has been no issues for contractors being able to get to and complete jobs out on farms so far. He says the long spells of fine weather over the past few weeks throughout much of the North Island meant many contractors would have been able to plant summer crops or get silage cut

At this stage, it’s a watching brief. It comes down to really good feed planning and budgeting and making sure you know what reserves you have got on hand. James Allen AgFirst uninterrupted. Waikato Federated Farmers arable chair John Hodge also confirmed that staffing did not appear to be a problem with the contractors he had spoken to, saying the issues around staffing had largely resolved themselves. Allen says anecdotally, he had heard an extra 10-15% summer forage crops and maize silage was being planted this season, but it was still too early in the season to be more precise. Hodge believed the area planted in feed will be about the same, if not more, this season. He said some farmers may switch to more dry-tolerant crops such as lucerne.

Wool sales bounce back Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz THE highest clearance of wool so far this season lifted spirits at the South Island wool sale on Thursday. PGG Wrightson South Island auction manager Dave Burridge says a quality offering of wool from all breeds saw a strong and buoyant market. Biding was widespread with buyers having to complete orders for prompt shipping. Burridge says the presence of a dominant Australian wool exporting company represented on the Christchurch bench

provided the extra urgency in the room, with selling outcomes very much in favour of sellers on the day. Merino fleece 18-micron was up 5% at $14.60 a kilogram clean fleece and up 6% for Merino hogget 16-micron fleece that sold at $19.00/kg. Crossbred fleece was up an average 3% selling from $185-$2.20/kg, while second shear crossbred fleece sold from $1.80$1.95/kg. Mid 28-micron fleece made $5.55/kg and 23-micron $8.95/kg. The next South Island sale will be held on October 22.

COMPETITIVE: The presence of a dominant Australian wool exporting company at market day boosted sales.

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Karicare aims for carbon neutrality DANONE last week announced that its New Zealand milk formula brand Karicare will achieve carbon neutrality at each stage of the product life cycle by 2030. Karicare will join other Danone brands – such as Horizon Organic, which has also committed to becoming carbon neutral, and evian® and Volvic, which are already carbon neutral – on Danone’s journey to becoming a zero-net carbon company by 2050. Karicare’s journey to carbon neutrality is greatly aided by its production in NZ, a country well-known for its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including an abundance of green power and investments in clean transportation. NZ also has an ambition to be net zero on greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. “At Danone, our core belief is that the health of the planet and health of people are interconnected. That’s why we’re committed to taking real steps that help us bring our products to market in a way that minimises any impact on climate change, including transitioning production of our milk formula products to practices that are more sustainable,” Nutricia Oceania managing director Rodrigo Lima said. To underpin Karicare’s carbon neutral commitment, Danone will work with its NZ suppliers and farmers to foster regenerative agricultural practices and improve soil health, continue to invest in decarbonisation of operations and focus on packaging circularity. Karicare carbon emissions associated with operations is a significant area of focus for Danone. This includes installing a biomass boiler to provide renewable heat at its South Island spray drying facility in Balclutha. Announced in July 2019, the NZ$30 million boiler will be operational in 2021 and will eliminate around 20,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year. Danone will also move to 100% renewable electricity for all its NZ plants next year. Between the move to renewable energy and biomass-based heating, the total operational CO2 emissions at the Balclutha plant will be reduced by 95%. Danone’s ambition is to make packaging 100% circular across all its brands. Karicare’s packaging across the total portfolio has a high level of recyclability due the use of tin plates in its cans and the widespread use of recyclable plastics for items such as scoops and snap-seal lids. Consistent with Danone’s global ambition, all Karicare’s packaging will be either recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025. The carbon neutral journey for Karicare will commence with the newly-launched Karicare Gold Plus+ Organic, which will be certified carbon neutral in 2022. All other products in the Karicare range will be progressively certified up to 2030, at the latest. “Danone’s approach to carbon neutrality is to focus on reductions first and foremost,” Lima said. “We continuously act together with our partners to reduce our emissions in agriculture, operations and packaging, then taking responsibility for offsetting remaining emissions to achieve a carbon neutral position. “With carbon neutral Karicare, we’re providing consumers with a more sustainable option and giving them the opportunity to choose a better future for their family.”

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Political parties urged to fix rural healthcare crisis Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz RURAL health advocates were not pulling any punches when they told the health spokespeople from four of the main political parties that services are in crisis. The NZ Rural General Practice Network webinar set the scene by releasing a manifesto of policies it says are needed to rescue a sector that services 700,000 people. While the politicians agreed with the manifesto’s tenor, they differed in how to achieve its aims. The network seeks sustainable funding for rural health professionals who, it says, are struggling to make a viable living under the financial model. “They are generally paid less than their urban counterparts, provide care for a dispersed population that requires significant travel time and cost and need to be available 24/7 for service emergency needs,” the network said. The rural health workforce is in crisis facing a shortage of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals. “This situation is going to get worse with an aged demographic signalling over 50% heading into retirement within five to 10 years,” it said. Relying on health professionals from overseas is not sustainable and the network says a new approach is needed to training, recruiting, upskilling and retaining health professionals. The covid-19 outbreak has

shown the opportunity to access healthcare from a distance, but the network says this is not available to all rural people due to the mixed quality of connectivity. It wants politicians to commit to extending the current planned rural broadband rollout to provide a service equal to that available in urban centres. The webinar debate was between current Health Minister Chris Hipkins (Labour), Dr Shane Reti (National), Jenny Marcroft (NZ First) and Julie Anne Genter (Greens).

I do acknowledge we need more rural GPs, but I am not convinced that creating a whole new medical school and the enormous investment in capital is the best way to achieve the desired outcome. Chris Hipkins Health Minister Hipkins says the problems facing rural health mirrored many of those facing education, of which he is also minister, especially connectivity. “It is reasonable for health practitioners to ask for better access, and if you can get it to

school, then you should be able to get it to a health practitioner,” he said He says work is under way to address the network’s concerns but admits logistically, rural connectivity is a challenge. Labour is promising more funding for mental health and Pharmac, reducing surgical waiting lists and more mobile dental clinics. Marcroft says NZ First has a policy of money for health following the patient, but she also saw a role for the greater use of mobile services and rural health professionals being compensated with isolation payments and other bonuses. Genter says the inequities of rural health are linked to climate change, agricultural policy, food production and social inequality. These can be addressed by changing the taxation system to generate more tax for the Government to spend in areas such as health. Reti says the National Party will build a third medical school for graduate students with a focus on supplying and retaining rural GPs. Business cases have already been filed and Reti says experience from Canada and Australia is that those who train in rural areas, stay in rural areas. It will also invest to extend rural broadband and data collection, and has invested $16 million in rural suicide prevention. Reti believes some of the greatest advances will come from the party’s policy to appoint what he calls primary care

RETHINK: Labour’s Chris Hipkins says the problems facing rural health mirrored many of those facing education, of which he also minister, especially connectivity.

navigators, staff employed to help patients with their primary care requirements. Similar roles at the United Kingdom’s National Health Service improved the management of the health of patients and their outcomes because navigators took a much broader approach to an individual’s healthcare. “This will change the dial for primary healthcare, this will change the dial for rural healthcare,” he said. Hipkins doubts a new medical school is the answer to bolster the rural health workforce. “I do acknowledge we need more rural GPs, but I am not convinced that creating a whole new medical school and the enormous investment in capital is the best way to achieve the desired outcome,” he said. Reti responded that is why he is seeking expressions of interest

and business cases to ensure it stacks up. Responding to the webinar, the network welcomed consensus that rural health is important. There was also agreement that changes are needed to fund rural health services and it requires greater investment, a commitment to a rural health plan and the need for a larger interdisciplinary health workforce. But there was a lack of consensus on how such a programme for training the future rural health workforce would be implemented. “The network members are adamant that rural community input is critical in developing an effective training scheme and are committed to working with any incoming government to drive a rural community driven solution,” it said.

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“Take notice...by being mindful, stopping and taking a brain break, I have noticed a difference” Too often I can find myself getting lost in my own thoughts and making plans, thinking of the ever growing to do list or find myself worrying about the future and being bogged down with negative feelings and things that are out of my control. Over time I have learnt the benefits of taking a break from these thought patterns and focusing on the here and now. It has really helped me ease some of the negative thinking. I am not saying it is simple to do all the time, but by being mindful, stopping and taking a brain break I have noticed a difference. I’m not saying I never feel sad or worried about things. However, when we get caught up worrying a lot about the past or future, it is easy to miss or forget all the good things that are happening right now. I make a point of taking notice of the things I am grateful for everyday.”

I’m a natural worrier. I tend to think about the things that aren’t going very well and what I can do about it. This is a useful strategy because it means that I’m prepared if things go wrong. But it also means that I’m often focused on negatives, and that’s an exhausting, joyless way to view and live life. What’s helped me get a more balanced outlook on life is the simple habit of pausing to Take Notice of some of the good things in my life. It may be as simple as a hot shower after a long, cold day; watching lambs frolicking in the paddock; a genuine belly-laugh. This helps me paint a more accurate picture of my life, instead of only looking at the negative things. And it’s a lot more fun to experience life this way! If you’re a farming woman who wants more tips on how to thrive, join me at a “Time to Thrive Workshop” taking place near you in October and November. See www. ruralsupport.org.nz for more details.

When we stop to take notice of something, then it causes us to pause, which gives us time to breathe and reflect. A key tip for taking notice if you are having a difficult day is to use your senses as the cue. You can do this anywhere and at any time.

One thing you can taste

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Take the time to be still – whether that’s out on the farm or sitting at home, spend a few minutes noticing:

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Spending time in nature, and being aware and attentive of your surrounds, the smells, sights and sounds is great way to feel more present in the moment.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 12, 2020

Farmers have a story to tell Colin Williscroft colin.williscroft@globalhq.co.nz ALLIANCE chief executive David Surveyor wants farmers to video themselves at work. Surveyor is travelling the country at present as part of the Alliance Group’s annual roadshow, which began in Omihi on September 22 and will wind-up in Cromwell on October 20. He said the roadshow, which is an opportunity for the cooperative’s farmer shareholders and other farmers to learn about the co-operative to hear firsthand from directors and senior managers, has been well-recieved by farmers. At its recent stop-off in Taihape Surveyor called on farmers to get their smartphones out and video themselves, their farms and their livestock to help tell the story of the NZ red meat sector to overseas consumers. He said it is important to get those stories on platforms like Facebook and Instagram to help spread the word about the positive messages behind NZ farming. Surveyor told the meeting that the co-op’s bottom line for

TOUGH TIMES: Alliance chairman Murrary Taggart says the past 12 months have been challenging both for the co-op and its farmer shareholders.

the latest financial year would be effected by a series of events: the impact of covid-19 on the operation of its processing plants; the donning and doffing court decision, the costs of which are being backdated six years; the Southland floods, in particular the impact on Alliance’s Mataura plant; and the effect of covid-19 on

its subsidiaries, such as The Lamb Company in North America, which is likely to lose money this year. Details of the financial implications of those events are still being worked through so Surveyor could not provide the roadshow audience with the level of accuracy he usually would on the co-op’s financial performance

during the past year, he is confident the final figure “will be a positive number”. He said Alliance had not only focused on getting through the challenges of the past year, it had also developed a strategy so that it was capable of “winning on the bounce”, making sure it was ready when the market returned. That meant despite being conscious of spending, it was continuing to invest in programmes so that it maintained its strength and could act quickly in the future. Alliance chairman Murray Taggart said it had been a tough year for many of the co-op’s member shareholders. Dry weather in the North Island and top of the South, with a cold and challenging late spring and summer in Southland, was coupled with “abysmal” wool prices and a major price correction in China just prior to Christmas. Covid-19 produced its own challenges, both on-farm and in the marketplace, although it came with a silver lining in that as a result of the associated economic shock, there seems to be a greater

It is important to get those stories on platforms like Facebook and Instagram to help spread the word about the positive messages behind NZ farming. David Surveyor Alliance Group recognition in Wellington of the importance of farming. He said farmers should be proud of how everyone associated with the company stepped up during a difficult year. Nominations have opened to fill two vacancies for the office of Director of Alliance Group Limited. Russell Drummond and Dawn Sangster are retiring by rotation and both are standing for reelection. The election result will be announced in Invercargill on December 17 at the annual meeting of shareholders.

Alliance launches new lamb offer ALLIANCE Group has launched a new lamb offer to its farmer shareholders. The Pure South Handpicked Lamb programme will use an assessment system to measure eating quality, with qualifying lamb initially exported to premium retail markets in Asia and North America. In the first year of the programme, farmers will be offered an additional 10c/kg payment to all qualifying animals that meet the requirements at the time of processing.

The 10c premium is on top of the 15c premium the group currently pays for lambs raised without antibiotics. The programme is being unveiled to farmers at the group’s annual farmer roadshow meetings around the country that began on September 22 and will wind up on October 20. Alliance chief executive David Surveyor says the programme, which aims to build on the success of the group’s handpicked beef programme, will tap into growing demand from consumers

willing to pay a premium price for red meat products from brands they can trust. The programme is open to Alliance Platinum and Gold shareholders, who supply 100% of their ovine livestock to the company. Lambs must be born and raised on the supplier’s property, achieve special raising claim requirements and be antibiotic-free. They must weigh between 17.1kg–23kg, meet required levels of fat cover, intramuscular fat and have desirable pH levels. All ewes

supplying lambs must be body condition scored throughout the year. Only wether and ewe lambs qualify for the programme. The lamb will be selected from lambs of any breed except Merino. Lambs with greater than 50% Merino genetics will not be accepted as these have their own unique attributes and are marketed under the premium Silere Alpine Origin Merino brand. The meat will be hand-selected through Alliance’s plants and then aged to ensure eating quality.

QUALITY: Alliance chief executive David Surveyor says the new Handpicked Lamb programme will tap into growing demand from consumers willing to pay a premium price for red meat products from brands they can trust.

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Anchor introduces low-carbon packaging Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz

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FONTERRA Brands has launched a plant-based alternative bottle for its standard Anchor Blue Top Milk in the North Island, but consumers will have to pay a little more for the sustainable packaging. The new HDPE bottle (high-density polyethylene) is made from sugar cane grown in Brazil and shaped in New Zealand. Although the introduction is a step towards Fonterra’s ambition to have all its retail packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025, this HDPE bottle is not biodegradable. Instead it can be recycled through household collection along with the fossil-fuel plastics. Fonterra Brands managing director Brett Henshaw says the sugar cane raw material is natural, renewable and sustainably sourced. It captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, resulting in a bottle that has a low carbon footprint. “We know sustainability is important to New Zealanders and we want to offer consumers an option to make change for good. This plant-based

PHASED IN: The premium payable on the plant-based bottle would be about 25c a bottle, and will be piloted in the North Island before extending to other locations depending on consumer response.

milk bottle is an important component in Fonterra’s wider sustainability strategy,” he said. “We have also committed to moving towards renewable energy in transport and manufacturing and finding ways to manage and reduce our emissions over the whole supply chain.” Anchor Blue Top Milk will be sold at the rate of 300,000 two-litre new bottles per month for the North Island and the option may be extended to other

milk varieties and locations depending on consumer response. A Fonterra spokesperson says the premium payable would be about 25c a bottle, but that retail prices were set by supermarkets, convenience stores and dairies. Recycling was the preferred sustainability pathway at present because of the widespread infrastructure whereas commercial composting was not available to members of the public on the same scale.

Greenfield oats interest leads to seed shortage Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz A FLURRY of farmers sowing greenfeed oats as catch crops this year has created a shortage of seed. The demand for greenfeed oat seed has been in response to a relatively dry winter, with Sustainable Farming Fund research showing oats is an excellent nutrient catch crop when following winter crop paddocks and new freshwater regulations. Advance Agriculture’s managing director Howard Clarke says these factors have combined to put pressure on seed availability.

RESEARCH: A Beef + Lamb NZ study found oats were an ideal catch crop to sow after kale because they are winter active, deep rooting so capture more nitrogen.

“You’d struggle now to find any,” he said. Clarke says it is difficult to quantify the increased area sown in greenfeed oats, but it shows farmers are listening to advice. As snow and rain buffeting Southland and Otago in recent weeks has shown, Clarke says having predetermined dates by which grazed winter crop paddocks must be resown as required in the new freshwater regulations is unworkable. “The rules are unrealistic,” he said. “Sometimes you can do it, sometimes you can’t.” Federated Farmers Southland arable sector chair Chris Dillon says interest in catch crops has been growing for several years,

but this year demand for seed has outstripped supply. Dillon, who has an agricultural contracting business, says low prices for oats and oat seed have led to a reduced area being sown and the subsequent shortage. He did not know how the recent two weeks of extreme wet weather has impacted sown crops. The relatively dry end to winter enabled catch crops to be sown earlier using technology such as a single-pass spader drill, with oats used to soak up surplus nutrients. According to a Beef + Lamb NZ study last year, sowing an oats catch crop after kale can capture 223kg/N/ha, nutrients that would potentially be lost to the environment. The study found oats were ideal because they are winter active, deep rooting so capture more nitrogen, and suited to Otago and Southland growing conditions. By using the single-pass spader drill, crop establishment in a trial near Gore was seven weeks earlier than conventional cultivation and sowing, resulting in nearly double the dry matter production and greater nitrogen uptake.

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Farmers stage protest against ‘dumb’ rules Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz A TRACTOR protest against freshwater reforms in Gore on Thursday, may not be the last. About 120 tractors descended on the Southland town in what one of the organisers Laurie Paterson says was as a show of unity against the unworkable aspects of the Government’s essential freshwater policies. “It was a pretty successful day,” Paterson said. “We showed farmers are prepared to stand together and that we feel insulted given all the work we are doing and have done on waterways when we get this overarching legislation plonked on top, which is unworkable.” Farmers are especially angry at new rules for winter grazing and possible reactions were discussed at the rally. Paterson says they variously discussed holding regional councils to account at their threeyearly election, ignoring the rules altogether or investigating if they can take legal action against Environment Minister David Parker. Paterson did not know if there were legal grounds, but he says farmers have little respect for Parker. “We think he has overstepped the mark of what his powers should be,” he said. On his Waikaka farm Paterson winters his cows on hill country, which is stony and the soil conditions drier than on lower country. Under the new slope and water rules, Paterson will have to winter them on heavy flat country, which would damage those soils. “Trying to make rules for all of NZ is dumb,” he said. Those living in urban centres need to get the message that the reforms are unworkable and they will be impacted by farmers forced to reduce stocking rates and less spending as farms adjust to comply. Part of that messaging occurred in Invercargill on Friday at a Town and Country Hui, dubbed We All Live Off the Land. Organised by Federated Farmers and the Southland Chamber of Commerce, the community fun day is designed as an exchange between urban and rural, including discussion on the impact of the freshwater reforms. Paterson says they will assess the reaction of the community and the Government before deciding their next move.

UNHAPPY: Laurie Paterson and Bryce McKenzie who organised a tractor rally through the streets of Gore on Thursday to protest the new Essential Freshwater reforms. Photo: Natasha Chadwick

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Appeal for wool donations Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz INSULATION made from wool will line the new Southland Charity Hospital, thanks to an initiative by local farmers and help from wool processors. The community-run hospital being built in Invercargill is the initiative of Southland farmer and cancer campaigner the late Blair Vining. It will provide healthcare for anyone from the Southern District Health Board zone who would otherwise miss out through the public or private systems. Local farmers and friends Amy Blaikie, Brooke Cameron and Sarah Dooley are asking farmers to donate bales of wool, fleece, bellies or pieces to the foundation. Farmers need to state the wool is going to Bales4Blair, which will then be scoured by NZ Wool Scouring to make insulation. Anything left over will be sold and proceeds used to buy wool carpets and furnishings. Blaikie said there are opportunities for wool to be used in squabs, covers and throws. For every $1000 donated in cash or kind, Blaikie said that is one more patient the hospital can treat.

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Processors match Fonterra’s $7.14 Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz

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SMALL dairy companies ended the 2020 season with milk payouts related to Fonterra’s base payment without dividend. As was committed at the time of purchase, Westland Milk Products paid the Fonterra equivalent of $7.14/kg milksolids in the first financial year of its Chinese ownership by Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group. The smaller sister company, Oceania Dairy in South Canterbury, paid the slightly higher $7.24/kg, plus a premium of up to 5c for low somatic cell count. The average paid was 2c, supply and environment manager Shane Lodge said. Westland also paid a premium of up to 5c for low somatic cell count, general manager of supply Mark Lockington said. Final retro payments for the past season would be paid on October 20, along with the new season payment for September milk, the two Yili-owned companies said. In the central North Island, Miraka paid a milk price of $7.14/kg to its suppliers last season, comprising $7 base price and an average 14c premium for Te Ara Miraka incentive scheme. Among the reasons for the slightly lower payout, Miraka cited covid-19 disruption to its UHT plant, which was shut for a period, and impacts to orders for China. On the positive side, demand was higher for its domestic

IMPACT: Miraka chief executive Richard Wyeth cited covid-19 disruption for its slightly lower payout last season.

products branded under Taupo Pure. Despite the summer drought in parts of its collection zone, Miraka ended the last season with 2% higher milk intake than 2018-19 at 290 million litres, general manager of milk supply Grant Jackson said. But the season ended strongly with some months 10% ahead and the new season had begun well, being currently 6% ahead on the same number of supply farms. The more northerly supply farms in South Waikato calved in late-June, while the higher altitude farms in the Central Plateau calved in mid-July, which helped spread the supply to the UHT plant over winter,

Jackson said. Oceania said drier weather took the top off its 2019 spring peak inflow and into the new year, but increased production thereafter saw most of its 73 supply farms finish on or just above budget for the season. Covid-19 caused some disruption to processing plant work patterns but did not negatively impact milk supply or Oceania’s ability to ship products to its customers. Westland and Oceania said their current forecasts for the current season were $6.50 and that 85% of the forecast was paid to farmers during the months June to April with step-ups and retros thereafter.

Fonterra field widens Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz TWO more candidates have put themselves forward for the Fonterra board of directors election, including a former three-term director seeking a return. Nicola Shadbolt, who was a farmer-director between 2009 and 2018, is standing as a nonassessed candidate along with Annabel Cotton. Cotton describes herself as a fourth-generation guardian of a Waikato dairy farm that has been in the family since the late 1800s. She is a business consultant, financial analyst and a company director. Shadbolt is a former Massey University professor of farm management and has been dairy farming with her husband Shane and their family since 1981. Both women have sought panel assessment and

HOPEFUL RETURN: Nicola Shadbolt served as a Fonterra farmer-director from 2009 until 2018.

preferment in the past without success, Shadbolt in 2018 and Cotton last year. They decided this year to go the non-assessed route with the

help of 35 farmer shareholders as nominees. The four earlier-announced candidates are one-term director Brent Goldsack, seeking re-election, former National MP and Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy, Waikato-based farmer Mike O’Connor and Auckland lawyer Cathy Quinn. Six candidates will be vying for two farmer-director seats until the election closes on Tuesday, November 3. It will be followed by the annual meeting to be held in Masterton on November 5, when chair John Monaghan will retire after 12 years and Peter McBride, elected in 2018, will assume the chairmanship. Unless Shadbolt is successful, the Fonterra board will have been completely replaced since the time of the late chair John Wilson and the departed chief executive Theo Spierings, which led to two years of financial losses, major divestments and a change of strategy.

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Fonterra cuts losses on China farms Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz FONTERRA has found local buyers for seven dairy farms in China, allowing it to recover a little more than half its total expenditure over more than a decade. A spokesperson says $1 billion had been spent on start-up costs and operational losses for the Yutian and Ying hubs of seven farms, for which $555 million had now been accepted. Inner Mongolia Natural Dairy Company, a subsidiary of China Youran Dairy Group, had agreed to purchase six of the seven farms for $513m. Fonterra would also sell its 85% share of the Hangu farm, first started in 2008, to the minority shareholder Beijing Sanyuan Venture Capital, for $42m. Sanyuan had exercised its first right of refusal to purchase. After regulatory approvals and currency conversions, Fonterra expected the proceeds to be available during this financial year and intended to use them to further pay down debt. Chief executive Miles Hurrell says by building the farms, Fonterra had demonstrated its commitment to the development of the Chinese dairy industry. “Establishing the farms has been challenging, but we have successfully developed productive model farms supplying highquality fresh milk to the local market,” he said. “It is now time to pass the baton to Youran and Sanyuan to continue the development of these farms.” In the announcement of sale, Fonterra did not include the $1bn total cost but confirmed the figure afterwards. Major write-downs of the book value of China farms subsidiary occurred during the past two financial years, totalling $266m. By claiming the anticipated $555m proceeds would exceed the current book values, Fonterra

FOCUS: Chief executive Miles Hurrell says the sale of the farms would allow Fonterra to prioritise areas of its business where it had competitive advantages.

We are still looking to Fonterra to be clear where other noncore or more mature investments sit, like Chile and Australia. Arie Dekker Jarden was not including the operational losses over recent years, only land, buildings and livestock. In the FY20 accounts, China farms reported $11m normalised earnings, an improvement of $25m on the loss incurred the previous year. Hurrell says the sale of the farms would allow Fonterra to prioritise areas of its business where it had competitive advantages. Head of research for Jarden,

Fonterra equities analyst Arie Dekker says the planned sale was a very strong outcome, with Fonterra giving up little in the way of earnings and enabling another large chunk of debt to be repaid. But Fonterra was still involved in the Shandong farming joint venture with Abbott, the multinational infant formula manufacturer, which was consistently making small losses. A $65m impairment was taken in 2020 to align with updated valuations on those two farms. “It would be good to see Fonterra look to exit this investment as well,” Dekker said. “We are still looking to Fonterra to be clear where other non-core or more mature investments sit, like Chile and Australia. “In the China farms experiment, there are important lessons for Fonterra’s farmer shareholders associated with the shift away from its core areas of competitive advantage.

“(It shows) the need for much stronger supporting detail and justification associated with large scale investment of scarce capital away from the core NZ business. “Against the $1bn cumulative investment, the justification for a shift into farming in China was never convincing.” The current performance of the seven China farms includes 31,000 cows producing around 9000 litres annually each cow, for a total of 22m kg milksolids in FY20, worth $282m of revenue. For the past five financial years production has varied between 16m kg MS and 26m, and revenue has risen from $183m to $282m. In Fonterra’s China investment plan, outlined in detail in November 2014, the farms were forecast to produce 1bn litres annually by 2020, compared with 250m litres actual. By now the cow numbers were expected to be 100,000, not 31,000. Then chief financial officer

Lukas Paravicini said the strategy was to have a fully integrated China dairy business, contribute to the growth of the local dairy industry, meet the demand for safe, nutritious dairy products and address the Chinese government’s priority for food self-sufficiency. Then managing director of International Farming Ventures Alan van der Nagal said capital expenditure on China farms to that point had been $598m. The Yutian hub, including Hangu, is to the east and south of Beijing in Hebei province; the Ying hub is further west of the capital in Shanxi province; and the Shandong joint venture is further south in Hanan province. Fonterra says the transaction value was subject to customary purchase price adjustments and exchange rate movements. Any gains or losses on the sale would be normalised upon completion of the sale.

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HOPEFUL: Tracey Bayliss says the project will encourage more farmers to look at regenerative agriculture principles.

Project to test regen’s impact on meat quality Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz

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A NEW project is under way this season to determine if regenerative farming practices lead to better quality beef of New Zealand farms. Led by Waikato farmer Tracey Bayliss, along with assistance from AgResearch, the project will test the hypothesis that regenerative farming practices produce better meat quality compared to more conventional cattle. The project recently received $50,000 from the Our Land and Water Rural Professionals Fund to allow it to proceed. It is one of 15 nationwide projects to receive such a grant from the fund. Bayliss applied for the funding to validate her own private research into the effect regenerative farming has on meat quality for her family farm business Grandad’s Beef. Her father Cliff Bayliss’ farming system revolved around the long-term non-use of synthetic fertilisers, with a heavy focus on healthy soils that are regularly tested for trace elements. “He called it a common sense approach to farming,” she said. That approach led him to believe the meat was of a higher quality than more conventional farming methods. They started sending meat samples to AsureQuality to test its nutrient levels and compared it to results from more conventional farms found through online research to prove that theory. “It was showing really good levels and that ours was higher in things like iron. But we needed something more concrete than that,” she said.

It was at that point Bayliss started pushing for funding to work with groups such as AgResearch to do a proper study. She says initially no one was interested, but that soon changed with regenerative agriculture becoming a buzzword for sustainable farming.

Here is a style of farming that puts the joy back into farming and if you have a value-added product, you should be able to get a premium for that product. Tracey Bayliss Farmer

“For five years we have been trying to get the science to prove this,” she said. Bayliss says it was frustrating that the same people demanding that more science was needed for regenerative agriculture are the same people who earlier did not want that science to be proven. This was why much of the science around regenerative agriculture was only available from overseas. “What was uplifting for me is that farmers have said, ‘bugger it, I’m just going to go ahead and do it’,” she said. “Farmers are doing this and getting good results. They are not waiting for the scientists. They are out there with working models that show they are getting better grass growth, animal health, their inputs

are lower and their profits are higher. “It’s put the joy back into farming again.” She says, for her, it was to give something back to farmers by offering a better style of farming. “Here is a style of farming that puts the joy back into farming and if you have a value-added product, you should be able to get a premium for that product,” she said. In late September, the funding was confirmed. She says it will see 10 whitefaced heifer calves finished on regenerative farmed paddocks this season to around 18-24 months before being processed. In a separate study, Bayliss and her father will undertake their own trial to see if they can reach the same marbling score from 18-month-old cattle. Over that time, samples of the pasture will be taken and analysed for their nutritional content. AgResearch will then test the animal carcases for their intramuscular fat levels, fat melting point for favourability, as well as trace elements such as iron. Those carcases will be compared to 10 of the same type of cattle farmed under more conventionally farmed pastures where fertilisers are regularly used. An AgFirst consultant will also visit both farms to look at the differences in farming practices between the regenerative and conventional farms. She hoped it would lead to a more comprehensive study with a larger sample of animals, including different species and breeds. Bayliss hopes the research will help more farmers make that transition from conventional to more regenerative style farming.

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Cavalier transition ‘right decision’ Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz RESTRUCTURING the company to all-wool products and covid19-related sales disruption have impacted the financial results of Cavalier Corporation in 2020, with more to come. It made a reported loss of $21.5 million in the year ended June 30 and a normalised loss of $3.5m, excluding non-trading adjustments. Revenue was down 13% to

As we move to a new normal, covid-19 reinforces our belief that our transformation to a purpose-led, sustainable business model is the right decision for our company and our longterm future. George Adams Cavalier chair

$118m and the normalised earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) was $2.3m. Non-trading adjustments of minus $11.2m were made related to the strategic change and the company reset. In July, Cavalier said it was quitting the manufacture and sale of synthetic carpets and rugs to concentrate on higher-value, sustainable wool and natural fibres. The transition would take 12 months and the new strategy required rapid debt reduction. Net debt fell to $14.5m at the end of June and has halved since, as the Auckland property was sold and leased back. Cavalier says the new financial year had started well with New Zealand sales revenue up 10% to the end of August and September sales in NZ and Australia up on the same month last year. Increases in woollen carpet sales, especially in Australia, had been encouraging. However, as previously advised, total sales in FY21 were expected to fall as Cavalier ceased synthetic carpet manufacturing and because of covid-19.

“As we move to a new normal, covid-19 reinforces our belief that our transformation to a purposeled, sustainable business model is the right decision for our company and our long-term future,” chair George Adams said. “Consumers are increasingly moving away from plastics and demanding products that are natural and sustainable. “We are ideally placed to respond to this demand, by building on our heritage as a global leader in the manufacture of beautiful woollen flooring to deliver desirable, sustainable, safe and high-performing interior products.” Shareholders have responded by approving the premises sale and lease back and bidding up the shares from 21c (preannouncement) to 36c (currently). Adams says impairments were indicated by a market capitalisation considerably less than the net asset value of the company. “Directors agreed to take the conservative position of writing down assets as the transformation changes the risk profile and return to acceptable profitability is a few years away,” he said.

FOCUSED: Cavalier says its transition to all-wool carpets will take 12 months.

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FINDINGS: UMR has found more than 80% of New Zealanders believe it is misleading if imported pork further processed in NZ is not labelled as imported.

KIWIS want clearer country of origin labelling on imported pork, which makes up more than 60% of pork eaten in New Zealand, according to research. Draft government regulations for cured pork, if confirmed, will mean that imported pig meat could be marinated or injected in NZ and then appear in supermarket chillers alongside NZ pork with no recognition it is produced overseas. The provisions, which are part of the Consumers’ Right to Know (Country of Origin Labelling) Bill,

will only require the imported pork to include the name and address of a New Zealand supplier. The Labour-led government has delayed progress on the provisions until after the election. But independent research by UMR has found more than 80% of New Zealanders believe it is misleading if imported pork further processed in NZ is not labelled as imported. “New Zealand is facing an increasing flood of imported pork products – all produced in countries using farming practices,

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“The regulations as they are currently drafted hide the use of some key categories of imported pork from consumers and mislead Kiwis by their presentation within the fresh meat cabinet. “We’re calling on the incoming Government to include these products in the category of cured pork to ensure consumers are not confused.” Approximately 62% of NZ’s pork consumption is imported, with around 85% of this imported pork further processed.

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Water rules still a big sticking point Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz CLARITY is important when it comes to freshwater, especially in understanding the Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Essential Freshwater package. Federated Farmers policy staff, national president Andrew Hoggard, national executive spokesperson for water and the environment Chris Allen and Mid-Canterbury Feds provincial president David Clark endeavoured to deliver clarity around the $700 million water reform package to a meeting in Ashburton last week. The unworkability of some of the new regulations, many more stringent than existing rules, as well as deadlines for implementation has led to stress and uncertainty for farmers. This includes new rules for practices in regular farming activities such as stock exclusion from waterways, winter grazing of forage crops, nitrogen application, stocking rates and land use intensification.

Environment Canterbury (Ecan) deputy chair Peter Scott and councillor Ian Mackenzie addressed the implications from the regional council perspective. The message was direct and simple. Scott says having already spent $60m putting plans in place, the regional council does not have the money to implement the Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now-overarching national policy reform package. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are proud of where we have got to in Canterbury, and to waste $60m of taxpayersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; money is ridiculous,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our farm environmental plans are a real joint effort between farmers, Ecan and auditors, and to have this thrown out for a national strategy really gets my wick.â&#x20AC;? Ecan is faced with spending $30m more of ratepayersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; money overlaying governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new freshwater regulations over its existing plans. Mackenzie is appalled thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been no compensation for money already spent.

Ecan had submitted comprehensive submissions requesting that work already done on water plans be recognised in the Essential Freshwater package. This earlier work was ignored when the freshwater regulations were released and Ecan has no option in implementing the new regulations. New rules from the National Environment Standards (NES) sit above Ecanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This will be hugely expensive,â&#x20AC;? Mackenzie said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are being treated like all other councils who have done nothing or havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t got near so much in place as Canterbury Regional Council. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will be at least a 10% rate rise each year for the next three years just to do these plans as the Government has regulated and that will not change the direction that Ecan is on and will not make a scrap of difference to the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water quality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even a cheap and nasty implementation (of new regulations) will cost $30m.

MECHANICS: Ecan councillor Ian Mackenzie says no one is questioning the need to improve the environment, it is the pace of change, implementation and cost that is being debated.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every $1m that Ecan spends is a 1% rate rise.â&#x20AC;? Mackenzie says no one is questioning the need to improve the environment, it is the pace of change, implementation and cost that is being debated. He says the new hierarchy concept of Te Mana o Te Wai, setting new priorities for decision-making will be â&#x20AC;&#x153;hugely significantâ&#x20AC;?. This requires regional councils to give the highest priority to the health and wellbeing of water and water bodies, followed by the health needs of people before finally considering cultural, social and economic wellbeing.

This would require any consents to have a beneficial effect on water quality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how we can do any urban development under these new rules,â&#x20AC;? Mackenzie said. Hoggard told the audience it was about having a new lens for looking at water. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do have a degree of optimism that we will turn this juggernaut around,â&#x20AC;? Hoggard said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me, the most important thing is getting out and making sure farmers, rural and wider communities really understand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not just a rural problem.â&#x20AC;?

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Farmer to run marathon in gumboots Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz IRONICALLY, Harrie Chander’s footwear of choice to wear while running the Queenstown marathon next month is the 4X4 Marathon. But the name is the only relevance between his chosen footwear and running 42km. The Otago-based dairy herd manager is planning to run the race in Skellerup 4X4 Marathon gumboots and overalls to show support for farmers and to promote agricultural careers. An experienced long-distance runner, Chander, 30, has run six marathons and three ultra-marathons and decided to wear the unconventional attire for the Queenstown event to support farmers and their response during the covid-19 shutdown earlier this year. “Every time farming comes forward and helps the country, and this is my way of saying thanks,” he said. It is also a way of promoting careers in agriculture. “I want to say, try it once, the gumboots aren’t that heavy.” He and wife Pawan, a caregiver, do not have children but are raising funds for the local Outram school. Chander has a personal best marathon time of 3hrs 22secs but expects to be much slower at Queenstown, aiming for under four hours, although realistically expecting a time of around 4hrs 30mins. Blisters will be his biggest threat but so will hot

feet and sweaty socks, although he has so far been blister free during training. “I may have to change my gumboots and socks halfway,” he said. Chander will wear the same gumboots he wears on the 210ha Taieri dairy farm owned by Mark Adam, where he works. Heat from wearing overalls could also be an issue. Chander says dairying has been kind to him. Raised on a sugar cane and rice growing farm in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Chander arrived in Auckland 10 years ago to study information and technology. He did seasonal work on Tauranga kiwifruit orchards while studying, but when he secured a full time IT job, he realised he missed the outdoors.

“It wasn’t what I wanted,” he said. Chander saw an advertisement by Mark Adam who was seeking a part-time worker and was given an opportunity. “I wanted a change. I saw what farmers do, riding motorbikes, working outside and facing new challenges every day, I thought I should give it a go,” he said. Eight years later, he is still working for Adam and says eventually he would like to take a step on the farm ownership ladder through contract milking and then sharemilking. He is grateful for the opportunities he and Pawan have been given. “We’ve settled down here, got good friends, so this is a way of giving back to the community,” he said.

Every time farming comes forward and helps the country, and this is my way of saying thanks. Harrie Chander Herd manager

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Selling or leasing service bulls? All my bulls are correctly tagged and NAIT registered at my NAIT location I’ve completed a pre-movement TB test* * If you’re not sure, check with OSPRI if you need a pre-movement TB test.

I’ve filled out an Animal Status Declaration (ASD) form and a Declaration to Livestock Transporter (DLT) form When the bulls leave: I’ve recorded a sending movement in NAIT – within 48 hours of them leaving When the leased bulls return: I’ve recorded (or confirmed) a receiving movement in NAIT – within 48 hours of them arriving

Buying or leasing service bulls? I’ve confirmed with the bull provider that the bulls are tagged and NAIT registered I received an Animal Status Declaration (ASD) form from the bull provider When the bulls arrive: I’ve recorded (or confirmed) a receiving movement in NAIT for the bulls I bought/leased – within 48 hours of them arriving When the leased bulls leave my farm: I’ve recorded a sending movement in NAIT – within 48 hours of them leaving* * If you’re sending to the works, they will record the movement for you. Make sure you record your NAIT location number on the ASD form. Failure to comply with NAIT obligations may result in fines or prosecution issued by the Ministry for Primary Industries.

Need help? Call OSPRI on 0800 482 463 UNCONVENTIONAL: Taieri dairy farmer Harrie Chander will run a marathon next month in gumboots and overalls to support farmers.

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Shareholder council cut on LIC agenda Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz A RESOLUTION by LIC to streamline its governance is ringing alarm bells with past shareholder council members and farmers. This year’s AGM includes a resolution that may result in the replacement of the existing shareholders council with a shareholder reference group that comprises 12 members, compared to the 21 in the shareholders council. The move is being met with claims it will significantly reduce the capacity of shareholders to have any oversight on the co-operative’s governance and direction. Past council chair Jenny Morrison says she found the move concerning for several reasons. “They are trying to work a couple of major changes to the constitution, and these have not been clearly signalled to the shareholder base. A loss of the shareholder council is the loss of farmers’ major contact point with the co-operative,” Morrison said. The LIC’s shareholder council was established at the same time as Fonterra’s under the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA). A key role was to protect farmers’ interests in the national dairy herd database, then held by LIC. LIC Shareholders Council chair Mark Meyer says the main purpose of the council had been to protect a database the cooperative no longer held. The database has since passed to DairyNZ stewardship. “This is a work in progress and the third time we have had a crack at it over the past 10 years,” he said.

The changes also include a LIC proposal to reduce elected company directors to six, three in each island. The reference group would replace the council. A letter from LIC chair Murray King informs shareholders that the group’s role would be to “provide the board with open, honest and constructive views from shareholders on major shareholder issues and engage with management on operational performance and quality product development, service delivery and enhancements”. But with that goes the current council’s constitutional power and veto right over LIC’s mission statement and key objectives, if shareholders are not happy with them. The council’s removal also results in loss of its ability to call a special shareholder meeting if it has “serious concerns” about LIC’s ability to meet its mission statement and key strategic objectives. Morrison says in the past, the council had played an active role in keeping LIC’s objectives on track. She cited council efforts to ensure LIC did not split the company off and sell its technology side, including MINDA to overseas interests as an example. “Without that clause there, the reference group will not even know what is in the pipeline,” she said. Meyer acknowledged some shareholders may feel the shift from a council was the loss of a guardrail. “But we believe we are strengthening the co-operative in that one of the things we propose is to have an independent

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CONCERN: Past council chair Jenny Morrison says a loss of the shareholder council is the loss of farmers’ major contact point with the co-operative.

This is a work in progress and the third time we have had a crack at it over the past 10 years. Mark Meyer LIC Shareholders Council chair organisation monitor the financial performance of the cooperative,” he said. “When you consider what the LIC Shareholders Council does now, none of us can read the accounts to the nth degree

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required, so this would strengthen financial scrutiny.” Meyer says the loss of the council would not negate individual shareholder’s ability to call a special meeting if they were concerned about some aspect of the co-operative’s operations. The proposed change in constitution also makes the reference group’s functions capable of being altered by agreement between the company chair and reference group chair. Under current shareholder council rules, a shareholder vote. “So I fail to see how this strengthens LIC governance,” Morrison said. Her concerns are shared by Waikato farmer Ian Storey who also used to be on the council.

He challenged the timing of the decision and how extensive the consultation process has been with shareholders. “I was on the shareholder council, so my antenna is probably more open to this,” he said. Meyer defended the move as an evolution after 20 years of the existing structure, but acknowledged the co-operative’s typically low voter turnout and that a 75% approval was required by those who did. He urged shareholders to vote if they feel strongly enough about the move. The LIC’s annual general meeting will table the resolution on October 15, with online voting closing on October 13.

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TB training targets meat inspectors Colin Williscroft colin.williscroft@globalhq.co.nz

A JOINT training programme run by AsureQuality and Ospri is helping to ensure meat inspectors are kept upskilled on bovine TB lesions and that they understand the importance of the postmortem phase in eradicating the last of TB from New Zealand’s cattle and deer herds. AsureQuality food safety trainer and auditor John Tully says meat inspectors already undergo comprehensive training but, given the fall in bovine TB cases being found over the years, Ospri wanted to reinforce what inspectors should be looking for. Training courses began last year, with more scheduled to run later this month as refresher courses that are part of back-towork induction training, utilising video being shot at present. In earlier courses,

Hamilton-based Ospri regional partner extension services Bill O’Connor took trainees through the background of bovine TB in NZ and the importance of the programme to eradicate it, while AsureQuality representatives covered the more technical side of the training.

If inspectors have any doubt the they should take samples and send them for testing.

That included identifying suspect lesions and how to differentiate them from other diseases such as woody tongue and lumpy jaw. The training reinforced mandatory inspection procedures, along with

additional procedures to be followed if suspected lesions are found. One message reinforced during the training was that if inspectors have any doubt at all about what they are seeing, then they should take samples and send them for testing. About 28 courses have so far been held around the country, targeting regions that have beef and deer slaughter plants. Tully says more than 400 inspectors completed the face-to-face training, with others doing it online. While some of the more experienced inspectors have seen TB in cattle before, others had not. All found the training worthwhile, Tully says, as they take their role as guardians of food seriously. O’Connor says meat companies and inspectors will play an increasingly important role in bovine TB detection when the amount of field and on-farm testing is decreased.

EDUCATION: Meat inspectors have had extra training opportunities to brush up on identifying TB lesions in beef carcases.

OverseerFM wins international design award

PURPOSE: Chief executive Dr Caroline Read says Overseer is a good example of the impact of good design, enabling farmers to apply science to their practices.

NEW Zealand farm management software tool OverseerFM has won a prestigious international award for design in Australia. The software has received a Gold Accolade in the Digital Design Apps and Software category of the Good Design Awards in recognition for outstanding design and innovation. The annual Good Design Awards are Australia’s oldest and most

prestigious international awards for design and innovation with a proud history dating back to 1958. The judges praised OverseerFM’s smart, straightforward organisation of information, especially with map overlays, its comprehensive functionality and the capacity for predictive modelling. Overseer Limited chief

executive Dr Caroline Read says the international award highlights Overseer’s commitment to continuous improvements, innovation and a focus on putting the needs of subscribers first. “OverseerFM has been designed to be as simple and intuitive to use as possible,” she said. “OverseerFM’s design started with good design of the scientific model and an end-to-end

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analysis of the primary sector’s expectations. “OverseerFM is a good example of the impact of good design, enabling farmers to apply science to their practices to reduce environmental impact and boost productivity. Overseer worked with Alphero Limited, a New Zealand digital agency, in the design and development of OverseerFM.

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Walk the talk on health and safety LEADING by example is key to building and maintaining a good health and safety culture in a farm business, says FMG Young Farmer of the Year national finalist and winner of the Waikato Bay of Plenty regional final Mitchel Hoare. “Communication is also very important but you need to consistently walk the talk too,” he said. “Reminding people about things, like wearing a helmet and planning ahead to take the safe approach and always doing so yourself. That’s something I’m even more aware of now that I’m second in charge. Hoare says with a number of the staff team working alone, they’ve also got strong systems in place around staying in contact and being able to raise the alarm if needed. Hoare, who grew up on a sheep and beef farm at Te Kuiti, works at Moketenui Station in the King Country, running 17,000 stock units. He has diplomas in agriculture and farm management from Lincoln University and is a graduate of the two-year Waipaoa Station cadet programme. While at Waipaoa from 2012-14, he was also named as World Young Shepherd Champion. He says that representing New Zealand at the final in France at the age of 19 inspired him to want to “not just be a farmer, but be a good farmer”. During his university holidays, he also worked at Puketiti station at Waitomo, joining the team there after graduating before moving to Arohiwi Station in the Hawke’s Bay and then into his current role in July last year. “Puketiti was my introduction to good health and safety practice,” he said. “There is a very good health and safety culture. The staff team would be brought together for some downtime at the end of the day and that was when we discussed things that had

PROTOCOL: FMG Young Farmer of the Year national finalist Mitchel Hoare says it’s important to have systems in place that ensure everyone’s safety, like keeping a list of what everyone is doing and where they will be.

happened such as near misses and anything that the manager and others might need to know. It was in a relaxed unhurried environment and reporting a near miss didn’t mean paperwork for you. For me, good leadership around health and safety comes down to that kind of good communication.” Hoare says that also extends to talking about the safest ways to do a job. “We catch up at the workshop at the start of the day and we’ll discuss what we are going to do and any potential hazards and the best tools and vehicles for the job,” he said. “Just as an example, a big one for us here is talking about the best routes to take, especially if you are going out with stock or mustering, and the best tools and vehicles to do that safely. “There may be three or four ways to go but there is only one

best way and that may change according to the seasons. It’s important to know about that beforehand and not find out when you are dealing with stock out of step and out of position. “That’s particularly important for newer people, but it’s also important to be aware that older people may have been doing things in a certain way for a long time and may not want to listen, and to work through that with them. “We also have a list for the day of what everyone is due to be doing and where they will be. Everyone gets a copy of that. So you know where everyone is meant to be. We all have radios and check in during the day and we all carry personal locator beacons on our belts, but the list adds that extra layer – if you haven’t seen someone, or you see something that hasn’t been done, then you check in on them.

Hoare says managing fatigue and keeping hydrated is very important for him, so he always carries a water bottle and reminds others to take water out with them too. Vehicle safety is also a strong focus. The farm has a ute, four quad bikes and a side-by-side and two tractors. “We have very good lanes on the farm so access is very good for the vehicles,” he said. “The basic rule here is that if you have to go off the track, in hill country, then you get off the vehicle and take the Waiwai express. The ute is mainly used for town and the tractors for spreading metal. “We are very strong on vehicle maintenance and checking and cleaning the vehicles regularly – they are cleaned fortnightly for most of the year and weekly in summer.“ Hoare says that, because the

For me, good leadership around ealth and safety comes down to good communication. Mitchel Hoare Farmer farm tracks are so good, vehicles are the most efficient way of getting round – but in some places he’s worked, horses were a good option. “We don’t use horses as part of our regular work here, but we all have our own and will use them if we need to go out and check on something at the weekend – but at some places I’ve worked, they were the more efficient option,” he said.

Why are we sorting our waterways? For these little rugrats From fencing off waterways to riparian planting, we’re cleaning up our waterways. Why? Because we’re dairy farmers, and we rise to a challenge. And it’s in these moments we shine.

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This table shows prices for Angus and Angus-Hereford two-year steers at the Feilding Store Sale. There is a strong trend developing across the country in recent weeks where good-quality cattle are sought after, although demand is soft for ‘longer-term’ cattle. This means cattle of mixedbreeding or of lighter weights are selling at cheaper prices compared to bigger and/or better-bred cattle. Cattle need to reach certain weights in order to go to the processors, i.e. heavier cattle will be ready earlier than lighter cattle.

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2 What was the North Island prime price last week?

3 How is this tracking compared to year-ago levels?

Compare prices for steers weighing 529-589kg, and those weighing 312kg.

2 Following the drought, many regions have also had below average rainfall through winter. This means many farmers are concerned around the amount of grass they will have for this coming summer. Why do you think this impacts on prices paid for lighter cattle in particular?

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3 Schedules for prime steers at the processors dropped last week. How will this affect prices paid for store cattle?

In your paper

1 Go to www.farmersweekly.co.nz 2 Find and watch the OnFarm Story of Jenni and John Ridd “We’re in it for the long haul” and read the accompanying article “Pioneers overcoming challenges ”.

Fonterra has just announced that they will be releasing plant-based 2L milk bottles which will be in stores from the 13th October. These are derived from sugarcane and are 100% curbside recyclable and the bottles are made in NZ. Read the whole article here in this week’s Farmers Weekly edition. Sustainability and related innovation within fibre and food production is a necessity going forward. How important do you think it is that companies like Fonterra keep looking for alternatives for packaging? How do you think the likes of the old glass milk bottles stack up environmentally against the newer alternatives? Make sure you take into consideration the processes involved in recycling and producing the different options. What other products do you see a need for alternatives to be produced for things like packaging? (Think of things like the trays that meats are on in our supermarkets).

Agribusiness New Zealand’s economy is dominated by agriculture and food - it generates about 80% of the country’s export earnings a year and international demand is predicted to continue to grow. Primary industries in the NZ economy according to 2019 MPI report[1]. • 80% of trade, steady increase over the last two decades • 15% of employment - 351,000 people • 11% of GDP

4 Apart from hemp what other crops do the Ridds grow? What else do they have on the farm?

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From 2018 to 2020, what are the fastest growing primary industries in terms of export revenue?

Where could you add value in this agribusiness value chain?

2 Are these expected to be the fastest growing industries from 2020 to 2024?

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3 These projections were made in 2019, prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. How do you think the pandemic will impact on the growth projections?

Agribusiness Strategies Agribusiness Management Sustainable Agribusiness

Agribusiness supply chains employ people from the farm to the marketplace. What key skills do you think are needed for the following roles in an apple supply chain? • Orchard manager • Packhouse apple grader • Exporter WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT AGRIBUSINESS? CHECK OUT:

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How much land do the Ridds use exclusively for hemp production?

2 They use dual crop varieties, which are suitable for both seeds and fibre. What products are made from these? 3 There are currently a lot of regulations in growing hemp? Can you list some of these? 4 Hemp is relatively easy to grow, reducing the need for chemicals for weed eradication. There is one main problem that they encounter around seed harvest time, what is this? How do the Ridds deal with this issue? 5 When harvesting the fibre there have been issues with the stalk wrapping around the harvester and jamming things up, how did Jenni and John resolve this? What did they end up having to use to cut the wrapped stalk out of the machinery? (that shows just how strong the fibre is).

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New Ravensdown director juggles farming and the law Ravensdown’s newest shareholder-elected director Jane Montgomery juggles her time as a city lawyer with time on the family farm. She talked to Annette Scott about her passion for the land and future farming.

NTELLECTUAL property lawyer and farm owner Jane Montgomery says it is a great time for the primary sector in New Zealand and she looks forward to being a part of new challenges as she takes up her role as a Ravensdown director. Montgomery is the newest shareholder-elected director, announced at Ravensdown’s 2020 annual meeting, taking in the area from Selwyn to the top of the South Island, including the West Coast. She also owns a farm in partnership with her brother at Cheviot in North Canterbury. Growing up on the family’s Cheviot Hills property that her father purchased in 1960, farming has long been in her blood. “I grew up on a sheep and beef farm and in the 80s my father moved into deer as well,” she said. Later her brother shifted the focus more to arable and deer farming on two blocks, the family farm near Cheviot and another property near Parnassus. In business with her brother and sister-in-law, Montgomery became involved with an off-farm venture in 2009 – Cheviot Hill Fine Foods, selling farm reared venison and related value-add products from the farm. This was a great insight into learning the importance of understanding what consumers want. “We were selling direct to consumers and restaurants and it was interesting to hear directly what consumers wanted,” she said. “We could see the thought going into their purchasing decisions and the values they considered in

their decision-making. Montgomery was producing value-add products, including salami and sausages, and also making preserves to go with the venison and ready-made meals they were selling directly from the farm. While it was small-scale, Montgomery says it is still the same principles as the big processing and exporting companies.

We’ve been a vital part of the economy while other sectors are more challenged by covid-19, and there is incredible scientific and technological work being done to help farmers continue producing quality food in a sustainable way. Jane Montgomery Ravensdown director “We certainly learnt a lot about understanding and producing what the consumer wants and that is something we all, as food producers, need to understand and work towards.” Hit hard by North Canterbury’s four-year drought, the farm’s direct marketing business was wound up in year three of the drought in 2016. More recently, the brother-sister

farm owner partnership bought a new farm north of Cheviot and, while currently leased out, Montgomery is excited about its potential. The property is currently in short-term leases, part horticulture and the rest grazing. “It’s really exciting, I enjoy being up there seeing the potential with that farm and the development as we assess the best land-use options for the future,” she said. Rounding out her farming lifestyle, Montgomery enjoys spending time on her partner’s sheep and beef farm, also in the Cheviot district. In contrast, she runs her own Christchurch-based law farm, spending much of her week-day life in the city. “I am more of a rural person, but lawyers are expected to be in the city and with Zoom, these days it is easier to work remotely and I am spending more time on the farm,” she said. While Zoom has been a way of her work for four years, covid lockdown has made it a lot easier. “It’s been great timing with clients and other lawyers more used to using Zoom,” she said. “I’m enjoying being able to work more remotely and be more involved in the rural community and having the farms strengthens my rural connections.” Specialising in intellectual property law since she went out on her own in 2003, Montgomery says it’s a great area of law to be involved with. “I am working and meeting with great people doing really great things, solving very hard problems but having fun along the way,” she said.

BALANCE: New Ravensdown director Jane Montgomery’s election now means half of the shareholder-elected directors are women.

Being a Ravensdown director will be more of the same. Previously an associate director with AgResearch, Montgomery has also held several governance roles in not-for-profit organisations, including the JR McKenzie Trust. “I enjoy governance and I am excited to continue working with NZ food producers,” she said. She says Ravensdown is in a “sweet spot” at the intersection of many things important to her personally, to society and NZ in general. “There’s all the factors of science, food production, soil nutrition and health, feeding the world with good food – about being sustainable, with optimism, all with a focus on environment and economic benefit. That’s what attracted me,” she said. Montgomery says the agricultural sector’s performance through covid-19 has proven it is more than ready for the future. “We’ve been a vital part of the economy while other sectors are more challenged by covid-19, and there is incredible scientific and technological work being done to help farmers continue producing quality food in a sustainable way,” she said.

Ravensdown is developing these technologies and actively doing the work to help farmers farm smarter and better so they can produce food in a way that is environmentally sustainable. Montgomery believes her sound commercial law background cross pollinating almost every sector of the NZ economy, including agribusiness, farmers, researchers and scientists, will feed her ability to have sound input at the Ravensdown board table. Ravensdown chair John Henderson says Montgomery’s new perspective will be important as the co-operative and its shareholders tackle opportunities and challenges in a volatile world. Montgomery replaces retiring director Stuart Wright as Area Three director. Her election now means half of the shareholder-elected directors are women. As part of the board’s two-year plan to reduce the number of shareholder-elected directors to six, there was no election to replace retiring Area Seven director Scott Gower. Area Seven will be merged into the three remaining North Island areas.

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Dropping the fences for collared cows Fences are to farming what salt water is to the sea, but a New Zealand agri-tech firm is tipping out the traditional model of what a farm should look like, as its technology allows cows to graze behind invisible fences. Richard Rennie spoke to Halter business manager Steve Crowhurst about the company’s plans to go commercial in the new year.

T FIRST glance the herd of cows happily grazing in lush Waikato pasture appear the same as any in the region at this time of year. But take a closer look, and they are grazing within a zone without the usual array of standards and reels to keep them there. The cows are members of one of several relaxed but leadingedge herds in the Waikato, whose grazing and management is being controlled through a GPS collar and software system developed by New Zealand agri-tech start-up Halter. The Halter technology solarpowered GPS-enabled collars transmits five data readings a second on the cow’s status. They also ensure she is contained within a grazing break as defined on the farmer’s smartphone. Wearable tech for cows is not new. For well over a decade, collars or anklets that hold the cow number and monitor movement for mating activity have been available, along with boluses that get dropped into the rumen to monitor herd health. But after three years in development, a legendary pitch to Silicon Valley investors and lengthy trialling, the Halter technology promises to deliver farmers more individual animal data than they have had access to in the past. The company is founded by Craig Piggott, the son of Morrinsville dairy farmers Malcolm and Rosalie, where Halter’s development base is located today. The technology was developed over time as Piggott came back to the farm on weekends, while still working for groundbreaking company Rocket Lab. “Craig could see there was a lot of time spent by his Dad moving fences, stock and

particularly getting cows to the dairy for milking every day,” Halter business manager Steve Crowhurst said. “Ultimately, he got to the point where he had to leave Rocket Lab and pursue Halter’s development, with Peter Beck’s blessing. Today, Peter is on Halter’s board.” Aged 23, Piggott trekked to Silicon Valley to pitch his idea for initial Tier 1 funding. He floodlit a paddock on the family farm back in Morrinsville, arranged a video link to his laptop while pitching and had potential investors shift the cows to a new break, all from 10,000km away.

Typically, cows will respond to existing sound triggers like the click of a fence reel being wound up, or the sound of the tractor coming, as a signal they will be fed. This works on the same process. Steve Crowhurst Halter To this day, it is regarded as one of the most memorable pitches ever made, and resulted in input from investors and advisors who have worked with the likes of Spotify, AirBnB and Tesla. Patented algorithmic technology embedded in the collars enables the cows to be trained to respond to vibration and sound cues. These effectively replace the usual visual cues like fences and gates. Sounds tell them where they can go, and vibrations where they cannot. “The training and conditioning

to these new cues relates directly to Pavlovian theory of conditioned response,” Crowhurst said. Pavlov found giving food to dogs when he rang a bell caused dogs to salivate. Soon, simply ringing the bell, regardless of providing the food, caused the same response. “Typically, cows will respond to existing sound triggers like the click of a fence reel being wound up, or the sound of the tractor coming, as a signal they will be fed. This works on the same process,” he said. Cows can be trained to remain within defined zones of a paddock and stepping outside of the break prompts a vibration and a sound alert that directs them back into it. Accessing the herd via a smartphone app means the herd can be moved from their break at the push of a button. This can include removing one of the most time-consuming jobs on a dairy farm, sitting behind a mob nudging them to the dairy for milking twice-a-day. “One of our first commercial trial farmers using this in the Waikato can now pick his kids up from school in the afternoon, and while he’s waiting for them he will activate the collars to send the cows to the shed, so they are there when he’s back from school,” he said. Similarly, farmers with more than one mob to milk can activate the second herd to head to the dairy while he or she is still milking the first, saving round-up time and unnecessary standing around for the cows once at the dairy. The ability to define a paddock virtually opens options for more efficient grazing. Awkward sized paddock areas can be better allocated, area per cow based on dry matter intake can be defined and a riparian strip around waterways put in place, all without the fencing.

COLLARED: Halter business development manager Steve Crowhurst with one of the Halter-collared cows on the Piggott family dairy farm in Morrinsville.

Crowhurst acknowledges the surreal nature of cows grazing without physical boundaries takes any Kiwi farmer some time to get their head around, but they also soon start to see the possibilities it opens up. “The amount of time saved enables them to do other things, to really protect waterways and better allocate feed for optimal grazing,” he said. “This is very much a Kiwi solution for Kiwi cows, it is not adapted from some European farm system, the algorithms are all based off the cows here in Morrinsville.” With the collars’ ability to read and transmit multiple data points, real-time information like dry matter intake is possible and, ultimately, will link through to

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EDITORIAL

To regulate or not to regulate?

Y THIS time next week, nearly all the votes will have been counted and we should have a pretty good idea who will lead New Zealand for the next three

years. This drawn-out election campaign has seemed never-ending and judging by the number of people who’ve voted early, many voters seem to have seen enough. Of course, caution around the covid-19 pandemic has led many to the ballot box early. The virus has cast a big shadow over everything this year and the election is no exception. Our success so far in keeping covid-19 at bay has left New Zealanders better off physically and economically than most other countries in the world. Farming businesses, while facing some significant challenges, have been able to navigate 2020 better than most. It’s worth remembering that simply being able to turn up to work and generate an income is something not everyone can do at the moment. It will take a bold strategy to get through the next three years and political parties from across the spectrum have been laying out their plans to pay back debt and return people to work and comfort. While not being the political football it was three years ago, agriculture has featured quite heavily in this campaign. To regulate or not to regulate, that is the big question. The answer is different depending on your colours. If you’re still gauging the specifics of each party’s farming policies, do watch the Sarah’s Country election special this Wednesday evening, where the party spokespeople will lay out their visions for the primary industry. In some ways, it seems the world has slowed, but in many ways it is accelerating even faster. This covid-19 disruption has given many countries the chance to stop, think and reset their economies in ways that better address some of the other challenges we face right now. New Zealand has that same chance this weekend.

Bryan Gibson

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Columnists short on fresh ideas? I HAVE completed reading the weekly contributions – unfortunately both on the same page – from regular feature writers Alan Emerson and Steve Wyn-Harris in Farmers Weekly (October 5), and I can’t help feeling both are running out of steam and fresh ideas for interesting articles. Advice and articles on voting for or against legalising recreational cannabis smoking abound over recent months and I would have thought farmers are perfectly capable of making up their own minds on the matter, without yet another opinion with a onesided view being thrust down their throats. I also wonder if Emerson has ever worked alongside a regular cannabis

smoker, or indeed, ever employed one. We had one such fellow work for us many years ago who had managed to give it up. It was no easy task as Emerson suggests, and he couldn’t have been a more pleasant fellow to work with, but sadly, the drug had left him with memorylapse. He forgot to shut gates behind him, couldn’t remember things that had just happened, or was able to tell the colour of things he had just seen. So much for rampant arrogance should Parliament not act after the election, the righteous indignation of the anti-cannabis brigade who seem to be far removed from reality, despite what the leaders of our medical association believe and warn us about.

Then we have to put up with the umpteenth opinion of where Winston Peters is heading, dear fellow. Down the tube, according to WynHarris. Another story repeated so often in so many ways and papers over recent weeks. Again, a few weeks ago WynHarris queried readers in his weekly article on why farmers send their kids to “fancy pants” schools, by which, I presume, he was referring to private school education. I would have hardly thought Farmers Weekly had the vehicle to air such enquiries when you have the privilege to write week-in and week-out. To his credit, Wyn-Harris has been contributing fullheartedly for the paper for decades it seems and is to be

congratulated for his sterling contribution. A final note of praise to Andrew Stewart for his very sensible contributing article regarding bringing all our farming organisations into line with one organisation. Sound, fresh, sensible ideas and excellent reading. Philson Sherriff Marton

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Measuring NZ’s soil carbon stock In the last of the three-part series about soil carbon, Dr Paul Mudge from Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research looks at data gathering under way at different scales to increase knowledge of New Zealand’s soil carbon stocks and how they’re changing with time.

Z’s soil scientists are exploring how our soil carbon stocks are changing across a range of agricultural land uses and physical environments, and under different farm-management practices. Their long-term goal is to confirm actions that NZ farmers can take to maintain or increase their soil carbon stocks. Soil carbon is vital for farm productivity and an important factor in climate change. At the national scale, researchers have begun the first phase of a 12-year study funded by the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre. It will improve our estimates of soil carbon stocks under the broad agricultural land uses of cropland, perennial horticulture, dairy, flatrolling drystock and hill-country drystock. More importantly, it will determine whether changes are occurring over time within any of those land uses. The study will sample about 500 carefully selected sites around the country, to a depth of 60cm. Data from the study will also improve our estimates of how soil

carbon stocks change if land use changes. It will therefore increase the accuracy of national reporting on soil carbon stock changes required under the international climate change agreements NZ has signed. But what about measuring and monitoring at the individual farm scale? Many farmers want to know how much carbon their own soils contain and how those stocks are changing. It’s possible to measure at the farm scale, but the approach isn’t easy and can be expensive if robust data are desired. So, before beginning, it’s important to be very clear about why you want to measure. For example, you might simply want a one-off measurement from a single location (such as a point in a paddock) at a single point in time, to get an indication of how much carbon your soils contain. Or, you might want comprehensive quantification at representative points across your entire farm, starting with an accurate baseline measurement and then repeating measurements with time to determine whether

More work needed THE Ministry for Primary Industries advises that because of the current uncertainty about how New Zealand’s soil carbon stocks are changing within any land use and how changes are influenced by specific management practices, including losses through soil erosion, the New Zealand

National Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory does not account for changes in soil carbon stocks within a land use. Reporting is limited to accounting for soil carbon stock changes when land use changes – for example, from pasture to forest. See the Ministry for the Environment website for more.

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ANALYSIS: Dr Paul Mudge discusses soil carbon stocks and what’s being done at different scales to fill the evidence gaps.

soil carbon stocks have changed. While costs will vary significantly depending on the number of soil samples needed, the basics of soil sampling and processing are the same regardless of your objective. They include careful sampling of a known volume of soil (usually with a soil corer, to a minimum depth of 30cm), then sending the sample(s) to a laboratory for processing (which includes weighing, drying and sieving), analysis of organic carbon and calculation of carbon stocks. A study to accurately quantify carbon stocks across your whole farm and monitor changes through time needs careful design, by a specialist, to ensure enough samples are collected and they represent the range of soil types, slopes and management activities on your farm. To monitor changes, a minimum of two measurements are required: a baseline and a subsequent sampling, typically three to five years later. However, measuring more frequently (say, every one or two years) will increase confidence that any changes are ongoing. The number of samples required (and associated costs)

will vary depending on the size and topography of your farm, the spatial variability of soil carbon stocks and stock changes, and the study design used. For example, at least 50 sampling sites would be required to detect a change in soil carbon of about two tonnes per hectare (about a 2% change) on a typical dairy farm, should such a change occur between two sampling times. More sampling sites would be required on more variable hill country farms. The cost to design a statistically robust study for a typical dairy farm and undertake benchmark soil sampling, processing and analysis would probably be between $10,000 and $15,000. Subsequent measurements and analysis to determine whether carbon stocks have changed from the benchmark sampling would cost between $5,000 and $10,000 each. It’s important to note that statistically robust benchmarking and monitoring over time at the whole farm scale will not, alone, conclusively determine the impact that different management practices have on soil carbon. That’s the subject of other

research, described by Louis Schipper in last week’s article. Farmers interested in finding out more about their options to measure soil carbon are welcome to contact me at mudgep@ landcareresearch.co.nz

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Who am I? Dr Paul Mudge is a soil scientist at Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research in Hamilton, where he conducts and coordinates research on interactions between carbon, nutrient and water cycling in agroecosystems. He is leading the multi-million-dollar long-term national soil carbon monitoring programme funded and coordinated by the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC).

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Times have changed – and for the better Alternative View

Alan Emerson

I WAS listening to the early morning news when I heard Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard telling me that contrary to what National Party leader Judith Collins was claiming, Labour wasn’t anti-farmer. That was a big call I thought. He went on to say that “there’s a number of people in both parties who probably don’t have a great deal of empathy for agriculture and I think it’s probably disingenuous to say it’s one colour or the other”. He then praised both Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor and National’s spokesperson David Bennett as being “passionate about farming”. I thought that was extremely well said. What Hoggard has done is to position Feds as representing farmers, end of story. That’s where they should be. Whereas in the past Feds has been described as the National Party in gumboots, now that’s well gone. I can remember in the dark

ages covering a Feds conference when Colin Moyle was Minister of Agriculture. He was described back then as “a great minister but in the wrong party”. Fortunately, those attitudes have changed. That’s vital for the sector as we move forward. That future is going to be vastly different from the past. The economy we knew just six months ago is gone. We no longer have an army of backpackers touring the country. We’re unlikely to have them back in the foreseeable future. The upper end tourists will return when there’s a vaccine, but they won’t be the tourists of the pre-covid era. A lot will have suffered a financial hit and won’t have the discretionary income to travel. Our fruit and horticulture industries will have issues too when it comes to labour, as we’re unlikely to have an open border before the next harvest. My belief is that the industry has to change. Taking kiwifruit as an example, it is a highly profitable industry. Having had mates that have done some picking, you wouldn’t want to live on their wages. The reality will be either paying more or changing the method of hiring and paying, so it’s the workers and not those up the chain who reap the benefits. Likewise, our retail industry will

see massive change. With more people working from home the foot traffic in the cities will be cut and working from home presents a far simpler, cheaper lifestyle than travelling to work each day. You don’t need a suit if you’re in front of a computer and there’s unlikely to be a coffee shop next door. Property prices will be in for a change too. If you don’t have to go to the office five days a week, why live in the city? People are moving out of the cities as the Wairarapa real estate prices would indicate. Conversely, the primary sector is in as good a space as it is possible to be. Independent research tells us that we’re accepted by our urban neighbours. We also had a local Times Age editorial praising farmers and that was great to see. In the Rabobank update for October 2020, it notes that “New Zealand food and beverage remains a good place to be through this (covid-19) crisis”. It also notes that covid-19 infections remain low in our key markets of China and Australia. They also predict a fall in the NZ dollar against the greenback. Putting the covid-19 crisis in perspective, Rabobank also told me that due to the virus, 50 million jobs were supported by job retention schemes as against just five million during the Global Financial Crisis.

IMPARTIAL: Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard’s comment on National and Labour’s views on the sector has drawn a line in the dirt when it comes to the federation’s position – it represents farmers.

So, we are better off than most, but we’ll also need to change. As recently explained in Farmers Weekly (September 28), the environmental and animal welfare practices of NZ farmers will come under increased scrutiny in trade negotiations. I believe we’re good now, but we have just one chance to get it right for the international observers. Getting it right will only happen as the result of a meaningful partnership between politicians, bureaucrats and the farming sector. We must have a cooperative approach. It is pleasing to see that all political parties have agriculture in their manifestos. For the record, I believe some of the proposals and disbelieve others, and that’s across the board. As Hoggard pointed out, it was a far cry from last election

Trump’s in a league of his own THIS column comes with a reader advisory. If you are in that small minority of impassioned folk who are convinced that President Donald Trump is the best thing that has happened for America and the world, then I suggest you stop reading at this point. You won’t like this. If you have ignored this advice and have continued, then please don’t feel compelled to write to me pointing out the error in my views or opinion. Over 25 years of writing this column, I’ve had plenty of people get in touch who don’t agree with me, which is fine because we all have different views on the world and its happenings. We usually have an exchange where we agree to differ. But a lot of Trump advocates write nasty and unpleasant notes, such is their passion for this man. Not all, but quite a few. It’s curious that a small group of people hold such a passion for a man who has zero knowledge of them and their lives and wouldn’t care one iota if he did. I can’t think of a living human being that I’m more contemptuous of, or I dislike, more than Trump. There are greater despots out there such as Duterte, Kim Jong-un and Assad, but the world has always suffered from

LEGACY: US President Donald Trump’s biggest failure has been his complete mismanagement of a public health crisis, resulting in the death of over 200,000 Americans.

appalling people like this who are more than prepared to put their personal gains in terms of power and wealth ahead of their fellow citizens. But Trump is different. Democratically elected and in charge of the United States, which is a cornerstone of the world economy and of democratic nations. Even before he was elected, most of us here could see that he would not make a good leader of that or, for that matter, any country. Nothing that has happened in the four years since has shown that view was wrong. The way he has treated women, his complete lack of empathy for others and a long list of other character failings prove that. He is a billionaire, but that fortune was created by his father

and it would seem he has done nothing to add to that immense wealth himself. Recent news is that he hasn’t been paying tax for a decade or more might be because his own business empire is in trouble rather than straight out evasion. That he has personal debts over US$400 million to foreign entities, thus raising national security concerns. It could explain many of his odd foreign policy preferences. But he did run a reality show. The Apprentice was created in the UK and Trump’s tenure of the US version was remarkably successful. He has treated the presidency as though the whole thing is a reality show. His four years in the White House have been chaotic. If the ordeal hadn’t had such a profound impact on America

itself, international relations, and trade, it would be amusing and bizarre. Trump and his ascension to the presidency is a symptom that the US empire has reached its peak and is in decline, as is the fate of all empires eventually. It may still be the wealthiest nation, although with US$27 trillion of debt, one must wonder how these tables are created – but it will soon be overtaken by China. The bigger game here is the arm wrestle of the two biggest economies and militaries as they compete for dominance. But despite that national wealth, the disparity of wealth within the country is huge and many people are finding living exceedingly difficult. They are the people who switched their allegiance to Trump because he has been excellent at appealing to their fears. Trump’s biggest failure has been his complete mismanagement of a public health crisis. Instead of a rational response, he has treated the emergency incompetently and in his own interest of being re-elected and it has cost the lives of 211,000 Americans with an estimate that it will be 400,000 by the end of the year. That is how many people the US lost in the whole of WW2. And then as expected, given his disdain for simple measures like social distancing and wearing

where our sector was treated as a political football. Times have changed and for the better. Finally, I believe reality will prevail. You can’t cut off the hand that feeds and currently agriculture provides the only food on the table. So, I’m optimistic going forward. The next government will need to meaningfully consult with farmers and have any proposals practically tested before they’re implemented. Federated Farmers will need to be an integral part of that and positioning the organisation as being representative of farmers and politically neutral was smart.

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

From the Ridge

Steve Wyn-Harris

a mask, he’s caught the virus himself. I suppose one must give him credit for consistency, given he has played loose with other people’s lives and then his own. The difference being that he has the best medical attention and drugs available of any person on the planet. Unlike many of his fellow citizens, who can’t even get medical care because he unwound the Obama healthcare initiatives designed to assist the most vulnerable, the poor. Based on the current polling in the race for the presidency, he is unlikely to gain a second term. Biden at nearly 79 is obviously no spring chicken, so worth keeping an eye on his vicepresidential nominee Kamala Harris, as she has a decent chance of coming into play over the next four years.

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

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 12, 2020

Trade winds losing their strength? Trade Wars

Nigel Stirling

DAVID Parker has copped it from farmers for his freshwater reforms as Environment Minister. But how has he performed for them as Trade and Export Growth Minister during the past three years? How should we grade him on his efforts to deal to the many obstacles to doing business still faced by our primary exporters in overseas markets? Exporters heaved a sigh of relief following his first outing as minister in Vietnam just days after Labour’s 2017 election win.

Given his workload though, it is hardly surprising Parker hasn’t been able to sniff out more marketopening opportunities for NZ farmers as his predecessors had tried to do. After threatening in opposition to derail the TransPacific Partnership unless certain bottom lines were met, Parker and new Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern finally backed the 11-country trade agreement after it was given a fancy new name (now the Comprehensive and Progressive TransPacific Partnership) and changes relating to the ability of foreign companies to sue future governments were made. Parker was an energetic participant in the Ottawa Group of 13 Trade Ministers, who began meeting the following year to come up with a plan to save the

World Trade Organisation (WTO). A rules-based international trading system is vitally important for a small country like NZ, but it had been on life support for years even before the arrival of Donald Trump who believes the WTO is biased against the United States and has repeatedly threatened to withdraw from the organisation. Parker was right to join efforts to save it. Nothing less would have been expected of any NZ trade minister. Given the mostly glacial speed they take place at, it is not unusual for trade negotiations to span several governments. Parker has been left to deal with the difficult end-stages of several of them. He has been locked into a holding pattern with the European Union, which is reluctant to make any concessions on access for NZ’s agricultural exports, while it still does not know the shape of its post-Brexit trading relationship with Britain. In talks with China to upgrade the 2008 free trade agreement, Parker calculated there was little to gain from continuing to push for the early removal of safeguard tariffs costing NZ dairy farmers $100m annually in lost earnings. The National Party blamed the Labour-led government’s hardline stance on foreign investment and immigration for the failure of the talks, but the reality was that it also had struggled to make progress since getting the Chinese to look at the deal again in 2014. Former prime ministers John Key and Bill English and their trade ministers Tim Groser and Todd McClay had pushed Beijing hard to get it back to the table for talks. McClay also travelled to Iran during 2016 and 2017 in a bid to re-open what at the time looked like it could be a lucrative market once again for sheep meat exporters. Before that Groser juggled a leading role in TPP talks with becoming the first Western trade minister to launch bilateral negotiations with Russia in 2010. While the talks eventually collapsed on diplomatic grounds,

OBSERVATION: David Parker’s past three years in the Beehive have been busy, but the real question is, has it been impactful?

the potential was enormous for NZ exporters given the toll the collapse of communism had taken on Russia’s agricultural industries had led it to become one of the world’s largest food importers. Parker has launched talks with the UK, which would have happened no matter who was in the Beehive. Like McClay, he has wisely steered clear of engaging Trump in bilateral trade talks and continued to fight the corner of sheep meat exporters facing being stiffed by the EU and the UK on post-Brexit quotas. Given his workload though, it is hardly surprising Parker hasn’t been able to sniff out more market-opening opportunities for

NZ farmers as his predecessors had tried to do. As if far-reaching changes to freshwater rules weren’t enough, a shake-up of urban planning rules, a review of the Resource Management Act and a significant tightening of foreign investment rules have all been led by Parker. Throw in the busy job of attorney-general, responsible for everything from the Government’s response to the Burnham Inquiry to the legality of the first covid-19 lockdown, plus associate finance minister, and it all adds up to one majorly pre-occupied minister. Presumably that explains why he deputised Primary Industries Minister Damien O’Connor to represent him in the important

closing stages of the megaregional trade deal the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. A long-since retired former trade minister puts it this way: “I did a lot of face-to-face work with people … it is not that he has done anything wrong, but his workload has meant he has not been able to do that work offshore as effectively as he might have.” Parker is on the record as saying previous National governments have relied too much on trade agreements to generate export growth. Might that view also explain why he has been too busy doing other things to make a bigger splash as trade minister?

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Staff key to Rangitaiki Station’s s Rangitaiki Station has made big environmental gains over the past few years, but there’s still work to do yet. Gerald Piddock reports.

HERE’S no such thing as small-scale at Rangitaiki Station. The vast 9500-hectare property east of Taupo is Pamu’s largest farm on a stock unit basis, wintering 85,000 sheep, cattle and deer. Only Molesworth Station in the South Island, which Pamu also manages, is larger in land mass. Its 8317 effective hectares breeds and finishes sheep, beef and deer, supplying lamb, bull and prime beef to Silver Fern Farms and its venison to Duncan Venison. The property contains 625ha of protected areas and 852ha of production forestry. Overseeing the running of the station and its 22 full-time staff, is farm business manager Sam Bunny. Staff are divided into teams which manage each stock species. He says there is a great group of leaders within these teams that he relies on and would not be able to manage such a large farming business without them. “Our people are our key, they’re really important to us and we have a great team,” he said. He meets with the leaders of each team once a week and those team leaders meet with staff every Monday morning to plan the week ahead and discuss any health and safety concerns. Looking after people is one of Rangitaiki Station’s core values, the others being profit and environmental sustainability. “It’s who we are and what we are trying to do,” he said. “We have this saying: we want to make the farm better tomorrow than it is today, so we’re forever after improvement.” “Those are our three main

IN CHARGE: Rangitaiki Station farm business manager Sam Bunny oversees a staff of 22 on the 9500ha property.

values, they are really important to us and none of them compromise each other, they go hand in hand. We don’t try to make a commercial decision without it not having a positive impact on the environment. “We are trying to find a way to farm the land so we can do it for a long time and where we are having a positive impact and not a negative impact on the environment.” Bunny and his team use Farmax to help guide them to that goal. They use the software to model policy and determine their feed budget and its economic impact. They also use Overseer for an environmental assessment of any decision. Around 80% of the farm is flat, with the balance in rolling hills. Deer and bulls are farmed on the

flats with the sheep and prime beef on the hillier area. Bunny says one of Rangitaiki’s biggest challenges is managing its pasture growth curve. It is dramatic, with long periods of below optimum growth and explosive spring and early summer growth, averaging 7500t/ ha/yr grown in the sheep and deer systems and 9,500t/ha/yr in the beef finishing systems. “Pasture management is what we farm for. We grow grass and we farm grass and we use animals to harvest it,” he said. To that end, Bunny and the team look to grow as much quality feed as possible and utilise it as best they can through animals with a good feed conversion efficiency. “We have challenges with that because we have a steep feed

PEOPLE POWER: Rangitaiki Station farm business manager Sam Bunny and beef finishing specialist Ian Shaw. Bunny says he could not manage such a large farm without his staff.

curve. We grow 70-75% of our feed in about four months of the year, so one of our challenges is wintering enough stock to utilise the spring,” he said. He says that spring utilisation is critical because it has a huge bearing on how productive the rest of the season will be. Bunny and his staff decrease autumn and winter rotation length, spanning it out to 150 days before closing it up to 24 days in late spring. Winter crops and silage are also fed out at this time. “What that does is that it gives us the ability to hold our stocking rate, so when the spring comes on, we have enough animals to utilise it,” he said. It is at that time the 100kg bull calves arrive from Pamu’s dairy farms, which lifts spring and

Our people are our key, they’re really important to us and we have a great team. Sam Bunny Farm manager summer feed demand at that critical time. Conversely, the farm’s finished two-year-old bulls are gone by January, reducing its stocking rate going into autumn. The bull beef operation is farmed on a 2500ha system evenly split between techno and cell grazing. The specialist nature of it meant it is largely kept separate from

BEEF: Rangitaiki Station has a 2500ha bull beef operation, where it finishes Friesian bulls to 315kg carcass weight.

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uccess the sheep, deer and prime beef operations. Likewise, the deer operation is largely restricted to where there is deer fencing, however there is more integration both in labour and in stock with the sheep and prime beef cattle used to keep on top of pastures in the deer paddocks. Its 4000 Friesian bulls are finished to a 315kg carcass weight at two years old. These bulls are purchased as 100kg Friesian calves from Pamu’s dairy farms and are on-farm for two years. A recent policy review, led by farm operations manager James Van Bohemen and farm consultant Bob Thomson, will see the current beef cow policy move towards using dairy beef genetics and a once-bred heifer operation. This will see in-calf dairy beef heifers bred from Pamu’s dairy farmers transferred to the station where it has its calf and are then finished as a two-year-old. “It’s not an easy system because you have to try and finish the heifer while she’s milking a calf, but if you do it well, it can be quite profitable,” he said. All of the station’s home-bred heifers will switch to this policy and dairy beef heifers from Pamu’s dairy farms will be purchased to make up the rest of the stock numbers. The calves from those dairy beef heifers will be kept as replacements, eventually taking the place of the station’s mixed age cow herd. “We’re going to slowly breed our way into dairy beef genetics in our cows. We are going to slowly transition from Angus genetics to dairy beef genetics,” he said. It mates 8800 Romney ewes to a Romney sire, keeping 3000

MEASURING: Harry Maxwell weighs steers.

ewe lamb replacements annually, while 2000 of these lambs are provided to other Pamu farms as replacements. The station’s 12,000-13,000 lambs are weaned in January and are finished as prime if it is a favourable season or sold as store if it turns dry. It usually mates ewe hoggets over 42kg to a terminal sire, with this flock averaging a 135% lambing and 27kg weaning weight in January. This policy is not being done this season due to the impact last season’s drought had on the stock. Its deer system fawns 7500 red hinds to a mixture of wapiti and red genetics. Around 4500 yearling deer are finished annually and red replacement hinds are retained. Around 2000 tonnes of silage is cut annually from the station over spring. It is stored and fed out over the autumn and winter. Any summer surplus feed is sold externally off-farm. This can vary between 500t-2500t per year. The station is also a pilot farm in the Assurance Programme Plus, which Silver Fern Farms along with other meat companies is part of. The programme is an audit on their farm that looks at how the station’s animals are farmed, as well as its environmental footprint, human resources and biosecurity procedures.

SHEEP: Rangitaiki Station uses Romney genetics, keeping about 3000 ewe lambs as replacements.

DEER: Around 4500 yearlings are finished annually and are processed by Duncan Venison.

Bunny says it was sponsored in part by McDonald’s wanting sustainable beef for its burgers and being able to show to its customers that it came from a farm that followed best practice. He believes such audits will become the industry norm. “I think consumers will just expect it,” he said. The station’s location at the head of the Rangitaiki Catchment meant water flowed through it along with its farming neighbours before it left downstream and

DOWN THE LANE: Rangitaiki Station farm operations manager James van Bohemen and his dogs shift a mob of steers down the race to a new paddock.

eventually into the sea near Whakatane. Rangitaiki makes up around 20% of the farms in the catchment and together with the rest of the landowners, form a group to look at ways of better protecting water quality as it heads downstream. Bunny says one of their biggest challenges are the light pumice soils, which are prone to leaking nutrients such as nitrogen into waterways. There was a heavy focus around soil management and nutrient leaching. The goal is to see a reduction in nitrogen (N) lost by 10% in two years and 20% in five years. Rangitaiki has averaged a N loss of 46kg/N/ha over the last three years. To achieve that goal, the station is slowly reducing its winter cropping of swedes and kale. The land will be returned to pasture and stock policies will be adjusted to prevent any feed deficits. Around 5000 poplar poles have been planted to provide livestock with more shelter and shade and every waterway is fenced off and planted. All its sensitive land areas have been retired from pastoral farming. An additional 240ha of forestry is planned to be added to the 852ha already in radiata. This will see carbon emissions reduced by 40%, a reduction in net emissions from 12,473t to 7673t. This will be planted on the station’s more marginal land as it follows its policy of using forestry

strategically throughout the station. The station is also experimenting with wind farming as an alternative land use, with monitoring towers about to be installed to measure wind speed over two years to see if it is viable. “We’re really supportive of that. For us it’s an opportunity,” Bunny said. While Bunny cannot be sure what lies ahead for Rangitaiki Station, he is adamant New Zealand is entering into a new age of farming. Environmental sustainability has become the norm and he wants to front-foot any new central or local government policies as much as possible. “That’s been the biggest focus for us going forward. We have been on this really positive journey in that space and it’s just going to continue to grow,” he said. He says the challenges it did face have largely been dealt with such as the fencing of waterways and the reduction of winter cropping. Those that remained were more shelter for the stock and dealing with ways to farm without excessive nutrients leaking through its leaky pumice soils. “That’s the journey we are on, but we have a long way to go,” he said. >> Video link: bit.ly/OFSrangitaiki

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NEW LISTING

Taupo Surrounds Hay Road

Quality grazing block that demands attention Approximately 158ha (subject to title) and 140ha effective. Located 20 minutes outside of Taupo this land has had no expense spared in its development. Large laneways, quality fencing provides great subdivision throughout the property, a set of cattle yards with crush and concrete floor, there will be ample water with the new source going in. You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find many properties with this amount of mowable land. Approximately 17ha of forestry has been strategically planted to give character and appeal to the property. Being located on a private road, the property provides a high level of privacy and big views. Flanked by forestry those looking for a topquality lifestyle/large runoff to retire to will be impressed with what they find here. A convenient location with great building sites. What has now become surplus land to Wairakei Estate is now being offered to the market.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Fri 6 Nov 2020 1092 Fenton Street, Rotorua View 12-1pm Tue 13 Oct Ben Hickson 021 433 283 ben.hickson@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LIMITED, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Hawkeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bay Hawkston Road, Patoka

Patoka dairies provide enviable returns Located in the green belt of Hawke's Bay are three adjoining dairy farms which boast excellent fertility and contour. Buy either title or all three (799 hectares). Patoka One being 313 hectares, Patoka Two - 302 hectares and Patoka Three - 182 hectares. Consolidated production peaked at 699,377kgMS (2017/2018). With one 60-bail rotary and two 50-bail rotary sheds, a total of nine dwellings, five of which are modern homes, excellent calf rearing facilities and effluent ponds - these farms are well set up and ready to go. The free draining ash soils provide the perfect platform and with excellent pastures and water, these farms make good money. Financials available to genuinely interested parties. The vendors offer the going concern purchase of these farms with approximately 2,000 cows, plant and machinery.

Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 4pm, Wed 2 Dec 2020 17 Napier Road, Havelock North View by appointment Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Hastings Bay View Station, 167 Beattie Road, Eskdale

Bay View Station provides location and scale

Located only 20 minutes' drive from Hawke's Bay Airport, Bay View Station is a well maintained 572-hectare breeding/finishing property which has good portions of easy and medium contour, excellent conventional fencing, a reliable water supply reticulated to 43 troughs, with an on farm airstrip with 160-tonne fertiliser bin.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Fri 20 Nov 2020 52 Bridge Street, Ahuriri, Napier View by appointment Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz James Macpherson 021 488 018

A good standard of improvements include a refurbished four-bedroom home, four-stand woolshed (800 night pen capacity), quality steel cattle yards as well as numerous implement sheds and hay barns. The vendors have also undertaken a substantial regrassing and fencing program. A well set up station with a good balance of aspect and contour. With excellent scale so close to town, Bay View Station is a must view for those wanting an easy commute for off farm income.

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NEW LISTING

Hastings Pirau Road, Fernhill

Build (or duck shoot) on top of Hawke's Bay With views to die for, this 38 hectare title, subject to survey (includes a portion of Lake Oingo) has several components which provide the purchaser with options galore. Build your dream home and live the good life yourself or with several other house sites the options to further subdivide are plentiful. Owning part of Lake Oingo you have prime duck shooting for life, and with a seven hectare cropping flat there are good horticultural options. This unique property is topped off with a three bay lockable workshop and self contained unit. To get all this only 15 minutes from the Napier Airport and 14 kilometres from Hastings CBD, it's a must view.

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Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 5 Nov 2020 17 Napier Road, Havelock North View by appointment Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Ngakuru 145 Totara Road First farm opportunity Milking 215 cows off 90 effective ha with average production around 90,000kgMS, R2 heifers, grazed off the property, R1 heifers grazed on the property. 16 ASHB shed featuring in-shed meal feeder and new flexi tank for effluent. Support buildings include a very good range of calf rearing and other sheds. Contour is easy to rolling with a good race system. Soils are Taupo ash with excellent fertiliser history. Good water system, sourced from bore and two springs reticulated throughout the farm to storage tanks via a 32mm main line with 25mm feeder lines to troughs in every paddock. There is one main home with four bedrooms plus self contained unit attached. School buses for both primary and secondary at the gate.

Atiamuri 270 Galatos Road 5

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 5 Nov 2020 1092 Fenton Street, Rotorua View 11am-12pm Wed 14 Oct Derek Enright 027 496 3974 derek.enright@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LIMITED, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Profitability, fertile and consistent Seize the opportunity to purchase this fantastic farm. 189ha of quality country with 60% of easy to rolling contour balance being strong hill country providing the ability to finish all classes of stock and offering the opportunity to further introduce feed crops to extend production. This farm has wintered up to 1,000 dairy cows for 8 weeks, finished 2,500 winter lambs, traded 8,000 summer lambs and also carries 200 one & two year bulls with an excellent fertilizer history and regrassing programme, fencing is in excellent order and water system upgraded. Improvements include a superbly positioned home with five bedrooms. A three stand woolshed, covered yards, cattle yards, on two titles.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Wed 4 Nov 2020 View 12.30-1.30pm Wed 14 Oct Derek Enright 027 496 3974 derek.enright@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LIMITED, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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NEW LISTING

Okato 575 Upper Pitone Road

North Canterbury 387 Eggleston Road, Cheviot

Luxury lodge and lifestyle

Found: An impeccably presented luxury lodge discreetly nestled in the foothills of Mount Taranaki, this property is perfect for those who aspire to own a private and executive luxury lodge surrounded by bush and birdsong. Set out amongst 14.49 ha (more or less), the property includes the spectacular main lodge with owner accommodation, an additional accommodation wing with ten ensuited rooms for guests, and a separate one bedroom apartment for further income opportunity. All just 30 mins from New Plymouth and a short walk to Pukeiti Gardens.

Auction (unless sold prior) 1pm, Fri 4 Dec 2020 15 Courtenay St, New Plymouth View 11.30am-1.30pm Sun 18 Oct Brendan Crowley 027 241 2817 brendan.crowley@bayleys.co.nz Angela Sefton 027 845 2190 angela.sefton@bayleys.co.nz

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Lowry Hills - farming at its very best A well-balanced and productive 732.1451ha property in excellent heart, Lowry Hills is a mix of north and south facing country with good shelter. It has an excellent fertiliser history, great water supply and productive, cultivated pastures, allowing a simple and profitable farming system. Exceptionally well-fenced and tracked with a high standard of infrastructure including a cottage, fourstand woolshed and covered yards, hay and implement sheds, sheep and cattle yards. The elegant Heathcote Helmore designed homestead has been tastefully refurbished and offers the convenience of modern amenities paired with timeless decor and style. It is set in well-sheltered gardens with a swimming pool and tennis court. A quality and high-performing property.

For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty (unless sold prior)

12pm, Tue 3 Nov 2020 3 Deans Avenue, Chirstchurch 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

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NEW LISTING

Canterbury 284 Goulds Road, Springston

Darfield, Canterbury

A solid investment opportunity

Rural Fields Limited All the hard work has been done, a very well presented and well maintained fleet of machinery equipped with the latest technology enables the continuation of high profitability. A large loyal customer base is boasted from years of quality advice with dedication to precise timing and quality results for clients. Perfectly located just outside of Darfield with about 90% of clients within a 30km radius from the yard, keeping travel time to a minimum. A very consistent solid cash flow is achieved from specialising in all types of cultivation, drilling and mowing, leaving future up-side with the possible expansion by providing additional services or further maximise the machinery to capture the ever increasing Canterbury Contracting market.

Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 12pm, Wed 28 Oct 2020 3 Deans Avenue, Christchurch View by appointment Ben Turner 027 530 1400 ben.turner@bayleys.co.nz Craig Blackburn 027 489 7225 craig.blackburn@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Situated in a prime location and boasting an excellent productivity record, this 123 hectare (subject to survey) dairy unit warrants your full attention. The availability of water combined with an efficient dairy farm system promises a solid future for this desirable property. The majority of the land is covered by a Wiper Pivot, with the balance of irrigation via the combination of a Southern Cross Gun and Turbo Rainer. The existing platform area of approximately 133 hectares has been running around 430 cows and producing an average of approximately 195,000kg/MS. The 40-bail rotary dairy shed has been fully upgraded in the last two years. The property is situated in the heart of a wonderful community, close to all local amenities.

Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 12pm, Thu 29 Oct 2020 3 Deans Avenue, Christchurch View by appointment Ben Turner 027 530 1400 ben.turner@bayleys.co.nz Evan Marshall 027 221 0910 evan.marshall@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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NEW LISTING

Canterbury 488 Ridge Road, Motukarara Solid performer A solid performing 184ha well located Dairy Farm that has been in the family for generations. The well established Dairy Farm has good fertile soils, low-cost irrigation water, shelter, and well-caredfor pasture, which reflects in the grass growth and ability to exceed average efficient production. Three houses, a cowshed, calf-rearing facilities and general shedding is well maintained and of a good standard. Overall, this is a well-presented dairying opportunity, close to Christchurch City and many recreational activities. The property currently has a milking platform of 160ha, currently producing approximately 221,000kgMS, this season is budgeted to do 220,000kgMS from 500 cows off the platform area of 160ha.

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Catlins Surrounds 9 Rewcastle Road 2

Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 12pm, Mon 2 Nov 2020 3 Deans Avenue, Christchurch View by appointment Ben Turner 027 530 1400 ben.turner@bayleys.co.nz Sandy Butterick 027 417 2639 sandy.butterick@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Lifestyle investment opportunity The Whistling Frog Restaurant and Resort contains a multitude of dining, camping and lodging accommodation options for travelers, at this mid-point Catlin’s destination stopover, providing a complex for the new owners to further enhance unrealised income potential. This property will appeal to an adventure, rural lifestyle purchaser, including returning ex-Pats, families looking to work together and expand this operation over time and to diversify and grow existing tourism operations. With pure air, water, uncrowded beaches, surfing, kayaking and stunning scenery; the Whistling Frog complex is a “must consider” for those looking to purchase a growing business enterprise.

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Asking Price $5,750,000 + GST (if any) View by appointment Warwick Kerr 027 473 3130 warwick.kerr@bayleys.co.nz QUEENSTOWN & SOUTHERN NZ REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008

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23 Awarima Road 4

Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 2pm, Wed 4 Nov 2020 Unit 7/50 Theodosia Street, Timaru Hamish Lane 027 685 6204 hamish.lane@bayleys.co.nz Georgie Robson 027 562 4100 georgie.robson@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008

'Awarima' - the complete package Amazing opportunity to purchase a 1312.6967 hectare (more or less) breeding and semi finishing property situated near Fairlie. Irrigation is fed via a Briggs Roto Rainer 200, supplied by the Opuha Water Scheme. Stock wintered on Awarima includes 2450 Perendale ewes, 750 Hoggets, 73 MA Angus cross cows, 23 Angus cross replacement Heifers and 18 Steers.

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Fairlie

121 Three Springs Road 5

Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 2pm, Thu 5 Nov 2020 Unit 7/50 Theodosia Street, Timaru Hamish Lane 027 685 6204 hamish.lane@bayleys.co.nz Georgie Robson 027 562 4100 georgie.robson@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008

'Punaroa Downs' Ideal opportunity to purchase a 240.0594 hectare (more or less) well-balanced farm. Stock on hand at the end of June includes approximately 400 cattle and approximately 500 deer. Approximately 215 hectares is deer fenced with a mixture of contour from flat to rolling hill with some steep faces and is subdivided into approximately 50 paddocks.

Central Waikato dairy 48 Dingle Road, Ohaupo 60 ha approx (STT) of prime dairy land in the heart of the golden triangle location of Ohaupo, close to Hamilton, Cambridge and Te Awamutu. This property has rolling/flat contour with a mix of ash and peat soils and is well raced and fenced with bore water supply. Two dwellings, 14 ASHB dairy and additional implement sheds. This is an ideal property for dairying, but also lends itself to other options such as grazing, maize growing or kiwifruit. Price will be + GST (if any).

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Tender Closes 1.00pm, 29 October at Ray White Te Awamutu. May not be sold prior. View Wednesdays 14, 21 October, 11.00am - 1.00pm Noldy Rust

027 255 3047 Neville Kemp

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Golden Opportunity

Licensed REAA 2008

2.85 ha

Meat Chicken Farm - Eureka This meat chicken farm is located in the mighty Waikato within an easy commute to Hamilton City. It offers buyers a profitable some-what relaxed lifestyle with the certainty of a consistent return on investment regardless of the weather. The three automated growing sheds are well maintained and fitted with some of the latest technology. The property comprises of 2.8 ha (approx), some of which is fenced off and planted in established olive trees that could in time provide an extra revenue source without compromising the ability to run a handful of beefies or sheep. To top it off the tastefully refurbished family home has a northerly aspect. providing quality living for all of the family.

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For Sale Tender closes Thurs 22nd Oct, 1pm (unless sold prior) ___________________________________ View By Appointment ___________________________________ Agent Peter Begovich 027 476 5787 Rex Butterworth 021 348 276 LJ Hooker Matamata 07 888 5677 Link Realty Ltd. Licensed Agent REAA 2008 ruralandlifestylesales.com

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Motivated vendor will meet the market Substantial Dairy Farming Portfolio An outstanding opportunity for an astute investor seeking a competitive yield to acquire a large-scale self-contained dairy portfolio located in South Waikato. • Total area 2,724 hectares including 1,978 hectares dairy platform, 541 hectares support block and 90 hectares in trees

• Turn-key operation, available as a going concern including livestock, plant and machinery at valuation

• Four dairy units with four-year average production of 1.505 million kgs of milksolids from 4,810 cows

The properties are located on State Highway 32, in close proximity to Tokoroa and Whakamaru and are offered to the market with excellent, near new infrastructure having been converted in 2015. Two farms bound the Waikato river, giving access to Lake Maraetai for recreational boating and fishing.

• Support block carries all replacement heifers plus harvests 130 hectares of grass silage • Excellent accommodation provided by 16 modern brick homes

Capitalise on the efficiencies created by significant scale and the strong fundamentals of global demand for dairy products by investing at an opportune time in the property cycle. Motivated vendor will meet the market for this portfolio of dairy properties that are generating very attractive returns. Properties will be offered in the first instance collectively; and then as individual farms by way of public auction.

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Dairy Support

AUCTION TOKOROA Wainui Road • • • • • • • • • •

WEB ID TWR02686

541.2446 hectares (subject to title) Taupo sandy loam soils Easy to medium rolling country with some sidlings Approx. 480 ha in pasture with 130 ha mowable Bore water supply to troughs in all 98 paddocks Grazes all replacement heifers through for two years Near new 250 head capacity steel cattle yards 3-bay implement shed plus lockable workshop Covered double-bay 200t fertiliser bunker 1 modern brick dwelling

AUCTION (unless sold by Private Treaty) Friday, 6th November, 2020 South Waikato Sport & Events Centre 25 Mossop Road, Tokoroa

Atiamuri

AUCTION WHAKAMARU 2603 Whakamaru Road

WEB ID TWR02688

• 612.7273 hectares • Atiamuri sandy loam soils on flats, Ngakuru hill loam on higher country • Flat to easy undulating contour with some easy hill on higher country • 594 hectare dairy platform; 1,420 cows • 4-year average 418,741 kg milksolids • 60 bail rotary dairy with in-shed meal feeding • 600 cow capacity concrete feed pad • 4 modern brick homes

AUCTION (unless sold by Private Treaty) Friday, 6th November, 2020 South Waikato Sport & Events Centre 25 Mossop Road, Tokoroa

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Price expectation based on yield Tokoroa Downs

AUCTION TOKOROA 726 State Highway 32

WEB ID TWR02689

• 593.1596 hectares • A mix of Tirau silty loam and Taupo sandy loam soils • Flat to easy undulating contour with some sidlings • 546 hectare dairy platform; 1,330 cows • 4-year average 428,574 kg milksolids • 60 bail rotary dairy with in-shed meal feeding • 600 cow capacity concrete feed pad • 20 hectares in eucalypt plantation deriving lease income • 4 modern brick homes VIEW 14 Oct 11.00 - 1.00PM AUCTION Friday, 6th November, 2020 South Waikato Sport & Events Centre 25 Mossop Road, Tokoroa

Twin Lakes

AUCTION WHAKAMARU 1957 Whakamaru Road

WEB ID TWR02690

• • • • • • • •

482.8841 hectares Atiamuri sandy loam soils Flat to easy undulating contour with some sidlings 367 hectare dairy platform; 935 cows 4-year average 290,094 kg milksolids 60 bail rotary dairy with in-shed meal feeding 600 cow capacity concrete feed pad 37 hectares in eucalypt plantation deriving lease income • 18 ha ex forestry suitable for pastoral development • 3 modern brick homes VIEW 14 Oct 11.00 - 12.00PM AUCTION Friday, 6th November, 2020 South Waikato Sport & Events Centre 25 Mossop Road, Tokoroa

Whakamaru

AUCTION WHAKAMARU 2362 Whakamaru Road • • • • • • • •

WEB ID TWR02691

494.0799 hectares Atiamuri sandy loam soils Flat to easy undulating contour with some sidlings 470 hectare dairy platform; 1125 cows 4-year average 368,030 kg milksolids 60 bail rotary dairy with in-shed meal feeding 600 cow capacity concrete feed pad 4 modern brick homes

VIEW 14 Oct 1.00 - 2.00PM AUCTION Friday, 6th November, 2020 South Waikato Sport & Events Centre 25 Mossop Road, Tokoroa

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Ellerton Farm

OPEN DAY WEB ID TWR02902

TE AWAMUTU 1287 Te Kawa Road A quality dairy unit, uniquely located with the Waipa River on the western boundary, in the southern sector of the Pokuru district, midway between Te Awamutu and Otorohanga. • 154.73 ha situated at 1287 Te Kawa Road (West), 17 km from Te Awamutu • attractive flat to easy rolling contour with a small area of sidlings • predominantly mairoa ash, some peat loam; well subdivided; Tihiroa District Water Scheme

• aesthetically pleasing with numerous deciduous VIEW Tuesday 13 Oct 11.00 - 1.00pm specimen trees AUCTION 1.00pm, Thu 5th Nov, 2020, Te Awamutu • calving approx 455 cows; 3 year average of 142,000 Sports Club - Albert Park Drive, Te Awamutu kgMS • 28 ASHB farm dairy with in-shed feed system, adjoining feed pad and concrete races; large range of farm buildings • 4 brm brick homestead with ensuite, good living areas, inground pool; 2 additional 3 brm brick dwellings • a great district with good schooling options available

AUCTION

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OPEN DAY WEB ID TWR02901

TE AWAMUTU 8 Cottle Road A particularly attractive dairy unit situated in the very good farming district of Korakonui, 25 km south east of Te Awamutu and a similar distance north of Otorohanga. • 8 Cottle Road, off Happy Valley Road, Korakonui, Te Awamutu • 136.2265 ha; free draining mairoa ash soils • a pleasing mix of flat to easy rolling contour • attractive with numerous autumn colouring specimen trees planted around the property; well subdivided; good water supply

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• 420 cows calved produced 138,258 kgMS 2019/2020 season • excellent 60 bail rotary dairy with in-shed feed system • large high-stud workshop / implement shed plus support buildings • spacious 5 brm brick homestead with tennis court set in established grounds • additional dwellings include a well maintained 4 brm home plus a smaller 3 brm home • bus service to very good primary and secondary schooling

AUCTION

VIEW Thursday 15 Oct 11.00 - 1.00pm AUCTION 1.00pm, Thu 5th Nov, 2020, Te Awamutu Sports Club - Albert Park Drive, Te Awamutu

5 Brian Peacocke

Mobile 021 373 113 brianp@pb.co.nz

RURAL rural@pb.co.nz 0800 FOR LAND

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Unique money spinner here

TENDER WEB ID MOR02871

TE POI Tauranga Road Here is your chance to buy a well set up farming operation milking 290 cows autumn calving cows with all young stock and fifty head of beef cattle also farmed on the property. Production is consistent around 150,000 kgMS and with maize silage and grass crops grown on farm, this operation is profitable. This property has provided for three generations of family and hasn't been on the market since 1919 which sums up the enjoyment and pleasure that all have had with this unique farm. The farm consists of 216 ha with 136 ha in grass along with two adjoining leases of 28 ha.

The non-effective area is native bush that has no restrictive covenants in place. The location of the farm is ideal being approximately 10 km south east of Matamata and a leisurely 20 minute drive to Tauranga. Farm infrastructure is good and the buildings include two herd homes, implement sheds, 3 x 250 T silage bunkers, calf sheds, workshop, haybarns and a 26 ASHB with a modern De Laval swing over plant.

TENDER

VIEW By Appointment TENDER closes Tuesday 3rd November, 2020 at 2.00pm, (unless sold prior), Property Brokers Cnr Arawa & Tui Streets matamata

Ian Morgan

Mobile 027 492 5878 ian.morgan@pb.co.nz

Irrigated dairy - Whakatane

OPEN DAY WHAKATANE 70 Moody Road Farm held in four titles, total land area 155.1956 ha. Combined with two neighbouring leases, 8 ha and 7 ha respectively, to create a 155 ha milking platform. Land 90% flat, 10% rolling. Well fenced, pumice races maintained using on-farm quarry. An extensive irrigation system with three pivot irrigators and sprinkler network ensures summer safe production. Three water supplies to the property including artesian bore. Currently operated by a 50/50 sharemilker, with management input from farm consultant on behalf of family trusts.

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WEB ID WTR75036 VIEW 14 & 21 Oct 10.30 - 12.00pm Approx. 440 F/Fx cows produced 206,000 kgMS last season. 40 ASHB dairy. Accommodation includes three TENDER closes Wednesday 4th November, 2020 at good homes, self contained cabin and an excellent range of farm buildings. The farm as a whole is very well 12.00pm maintained and offered for sale in excellent order. Detailed farm Information Memorandum available from the agents or can be downloaded from the Property Brokers website.

TENDER

Maurice Butler

Mobile 027 451 4395 Office 07 307 0165 maurice.butler@pb.co.nz

RURAL rural@pb.co.nz 0800 FOR LAND

Property Brokers Limited Licensed under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008

Kaitawa - 540 ha

Brinksway

TENDER

WEB ID PR77898 ALFREDTON 14405 Route 52 This well balanced sheep & beef property is located in the renowned Alfredton district & well located to Masterton and Pahiatua. 45ha of flats which are well complemented by north facing hill country with some sidlings. An extensive development programme including sub division, fertiliser & improving pastures has resulted in excellent stock & financial performance. The improvements are of a high standard including a three stand woolshed with a covered yard facility, cattle yards, 10 bay calf rearing shed. A north facing four bedroom home set in mature grounds completes an unequalled package.

TENDER

TENDER View By Appointment TENDER closes Wednesday 4th November, 2020 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

WEB ID WR78223 CENTRAL HAWKES BAY 1200 State Highway 50 View By Appointment TENDER closes Thursday 12th November, 2020 at 2.00pm, 176 ha, 20 km west of Waipukurau in the heart of the Ruataniwha Plains. Flat Takapau soils, free draining, ideal Property Brokers, 98 Ruataniwha Street, Waipukurau for cropping or finishing both cattle and lambs. Four bedroom homestead set in mature gardens plus second three bedroom home. Full set of farm improvements. Adjoining Brinksway there is 44 ha bare land providing the discerning purchaser with an opportunity to purchase 220 ha.

TENDER

Pat Portas

Options: 176 ha Brinksway 44 ha Neighbour 220 ha Total

Mobile 027 447 0612 Office 06 928 0521 Home 06 855 8330 patp@pb.co.nz

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OPEN DAY WEB ID FR78076

OPIKI 26 Te Rewa Road Located on Te Rewa Road, with additional road frontage on State Highway 57, this 285.75 ha (more or less) farm offers 10 titles of the Manawatuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most desirable soils which are complemented by location, improvements and productive performance. The soils consist of Opiki Complex, Kairanga loam and Makerua peaty loam and when combined with the extensive drainage, excellent fertility levels and quality pasture swards, an average production level of 1,250 kgMS from 620 cows has been achieved over the past 4 years.

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Farm improvements include of a 36 ASHB with in shed meal feeding, 6 bay implement/calf rearing shed with a fully lockable workshop, 10 bay implement/calf rearing shed, multiple hay/implement sheds and silage bunker. All fencing is in excellent condition and water is sourced from a 175m artesian bore. The property features three houses, an immaculately presented 2006 built four-bedroom home, a 2012 built three-bedroom cottage and a four-bedroom renovated managerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house.

DEADLINE SALE

VIEW 13 & 20 Oct 11.00 - 12.00pm DEADLINE SALE closes Tuesday 10th November, 2020 at 11.00am, (unless sold prior), Property Brokers Ltd, 54 Kimbolton Road, Feilding.

Blair Cottrill

Mobile 027 354 5419 blair@pb.co.nz

Stuart Sutherland

Mobile 027 452 1155 Home 06 323 7193 stuarts@pb.co.nz

RURAL rural@pb.co.nz 0800 FOR LAND

Property Brokers Limited Licensed under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008

Productive potential

Strategic investment opportunity

DEADLINE SALE

WEB ID OMR77830 OAMARU Special School Road, Campbell Park Dairy Farm View By Appointment DEADLINE SALE closes Friday 30th October, 2020 at 4.00pm A medium scale dairy in an excellent location in the Waitaki Valley region of North Otago. This property has quality soils, well sourced Irrigation water with modern infrastructure. An opportunity not to be missed. • 153 ha total • Modern 44 ASHB dairy Ross Robertson • Three year average production 192,000 kgMS Mobile 021 023 27220 • Irrigation water consents via KDICL and Community rossr@pb.co.nz Scheme • Spray irrigation • Modern effluent system and underpass Andy Kelleher RV $5,050,000- Price + GST Mobile 027 666 6811

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Investment potential plus!

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DEADLINE SALE

WEB ID OMR72668 HILLEND 17 Tongue Road View By Appointment DEADLINE SALE closes Friday 30th October, 2020 at 4.00pm 352 ha dairy farm, well situated in strong and fertile country in the hinterland of South Otago. The property is a must view for all prudent buyers looking for an early return on their investment, while also seeking a property that has the capacity for further potential productive gains.

DEADLINE SALE

Ross Robertson

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DEADLINE SALE

Large scale irrigated pastoral farm

DEADLINE SALE

• 250 ha platform, with 30 ha in Pinus Radiata and approximately 70 ha of grazable gullies • Five-year production average of 201,000 kgMS • RV $4,630,000 Price + GST (if any)

WEB ID OMR75319 OAMARU 266 Eastern Road, Otekaieke View By Appointment DEADLINE SALE closes Friday 30th October, 2020 at 4.00pm Large scale dairy farm, location, soils, reliable water, modern infrastructure, all provide for a very efficient low input dairy unit. Return on investment will impress. • 423 ha located at Otekaieke, Waitaki Valley North Otago. • Five-year production average of 602,000 kgMS or 1,474 milk solids per hectare effective • 406 ha platform, strong pastures with good fertility. • Modern automated 70 bail rotary dairy shed milking 1,600 cows RV $16,510,000 Ross Robertson Price + GST (if any) Mobile 021 023 27220

Mobile 021 023 27220 rossr@pb.co.nz

4 Andy Kelleher

Mobile 027 666 6811 andyk@pb.co.nz

WEB ID OMR77828 HAKATARAMEA 1308 Hakataramea Valley and 1580 McHenrys Road View By Appointment Riverside is a well-developed and large irrigated pastoral DEADLINE SALE closes Friday 30th October, 2020 at 4.00pm farm located in the Hakataramea Valley in South Canterbury. • 830 ha freehold • 590 ha irrigated • 513 shares Haka Valley Irrigation Ltd • Additional water extraction consents • 15 centre pivots with K-line • Well subdivided with central lane system. • 2 large homes • RV - $8,780,000 Ross Robertson • Information Memorandum available on application Mobile 021 023 27220 rossr@pb.co.nz Price + GST (if any)

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Grazing / dairy support

A real change in real estate.

OPEN DAY

The Property Brokers and Farmlands partnership means great things for provincial real estate WEB ID TER78169 OTOROHANGA 95 Veale Road • 71 ha in two titles • Mairoa ash & silt loam soils fertilised regularly • 46 paddocks. Approx 20 ha mowable contour • Spring fed water supply pumped to manacons then gravity • 4 bdrm home with sleepout & detached double garage • 2 bay 1/2 round shed & haybarn

Together our combined strengths complement each other to create bigger networks, more buyers and better results. For more information call 0800 367 5263 or visit pb.co.nz/together

Currently used as milking platform and dairy support in conjunction with an additional 43.9 ha with the option of purchasing both blocks.

Proud to be together

TENDER VIEW 14 & 21 Oct 12.00 - 1.00pm TENDER closes Thursday 5th November, 2020 at 4.00pm, (unless sold prior), 131 Rora Street Te Kuiti

Hugh Williams

Mobile 021 878782 Office 07 8788266 hugh@pb.co.nz

4 Doug Wakelin

Mobile 027 321 1343 dougw@pb.co.nz

100.67 ha - Uptop Farm

Leonard Dairy

AUCTION

TENDER

WEB ID AR78085 METHVEN 294 Rakaia River Road View By Appointment AUCTION 3.00pm, Fri 23rd Oct, 2020, (unless sold prior), Ski Long regarded as Canterbury's premier farming destination, a rare opportunity exists to purchase a farm Time, Racecourse Avenue, Methven of this calibre. In the Holmes family 41 years, each and every one of those years has seen good management inputs to achieve low cost productivity. The property ticks all the boxes and results are almost assured with the farm resources that matter - soils, climate, rainfall 4 the key to profit. Excellent range of well maintained farm buildings and very comfortable modernised 1 Paul Cunneen character home.

AUCTION

Mobile 0274 323 382 Office 03 307 9190 Home 03 302 6751 paulc@pb.co.nz

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WEB ID TMR77715 TEMUKA 283 Milford Clandeboye Road This is a quality dairy farm that is running a low cost system, and showing good returns. With an efficient irrigation scheme, good consents and three pivots, along with a centrally located 50 bail dairy shed. This farm has been established with the future in mind, including a 250 cow feed pad for those times in the season when weather conditions are not that favourable. Three comfortable homes and a location that is hard to beat make this property very attractive. Call now for a viewing!

TENDER View By Appointment TENDER closes Thursday 5th November, 2020 at 4.00pm, 83 Sophia Street Timaru 7910

3 Michael Richardson

Mobile 027 228 7027 Office 03 687 7145 Home 027 228 7027 michael@pb.co.nz

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Te Pahu 108 Grove Road Dairy support / Grazing – with Location

Bare land of this size particularly in this location being so handy to Pirongia, Te Awamutu and Hamilton is a rare find. Now surplus to requirements this outstanding property is going to be of interest for those seeking a top notch grazing, dairy support or larger lifestyle block with a good mix of contours on offer. * 53.8254 hectares more or less * Close to 50% of pastures are mowable or suitable for Maize cultivation * Fenced into 26 paddocks with a large portion deer fenced * Deer shed, and round haybarn * Good elevated building sites * Capital value $1,500,000 This property has been milked off for a number of years by an adjoining farm and has seen a good investment in new pastures and fertility. With the majority of paddocks accessed via fenced lane ways for ease of access and stock movement. We challenge you to find a better property. Auction day will be sale day so view with urgency today.

Te Pahu 336 Grove Road A Farm with Options

After 23 years of family ownership, the decision to sell this spring has been made and our retiring vendor is not disillusioned by current market conditions. It will sell! * 139.5756 hectares (more or less) * Milking 350 cows off a 105 hectare dairy platform * Excellent 35 aside herringbone cowshed with in-shed feeding * Modern effluent storage facilities * Large four bedroom home and a three bedroom cottage * Numerous support buildings With two adjoining farms also on the market, this property could also be of interest to those seeking a larger dairy operation in this area. Offering multiple titles and in a sought after location, this is the opportunity that was well worth the wait. Come and see the potential this property offers at our next Open Day or phone Kerry now to find out more.

For Sale: By Auction

29th October 2020– at 12 noon Pirongia Rugby & Sports Club, 2 Kane Street, Pirongia Unless sold prior

View: Thursday 15th & 22nd

October 11am www.harcourts.co.nz/OH8827

Kerry Harty

M 027 294 6215 P 07 873 8700 kjharty@harcourts.co.nz Blue Ribbon Realty Licensed Agent REAA 2008

For Sale: By Auction

29th October 2020– at 12 noon Pirongia Rugby & Sports Club, 2 Kane Street, Pirongia Unless sold prior

View: Wednesday 14th & 21st October 11am www.harcourts.co.nz/OH8752

Kerry Harty

M 027 294 6215 P 07 873 8700 kjharty@harcourts.co.nz Blue Ribbon Realty Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Te Awamutu 546 Ngutuni Road

For Sale: $4,680,000 Plus GST (if any)

Find the right balance – on 157 hectares

View: Friday 16th & 23rd

A picturesque dairy unit with a good balance of contours, quality housing and on-farm infrastructure that won’t disappoint. Our motivated vendors have made the decision to down size, and offer this well presented property to the market. * 157.0180 hectares more or less * Approximately 142 hectares in grass * Currently milking 290 cows (once a day) * All cows, replacements and additional beef wintered on farm * Production history in excess of 100,000 kg/ms * Excellent 31 a-side cowshed, modern calf shed and numerous support buildings * Quality 2015 built four bedroom home plus a three bedroom dwelling An opportunity to purchase a property with character, set amongst a mixture of established native bush stands, recently planted and retired land areas. Located 27 kilometres south west of Te Awamutu, this unique farming operation shows the perfect balance between a sustainable farming operation and sensible environmental land practice.

Te Pahu 154 Goodfrey Road First Farm Buyers – Take Note!

The wait is finally over for a quality first farm in a popular location. Motivation to sell is genuine, and our retiring vendors aim to meet the market this spring. Handy to Pirongia Village, Te Awamutu and Hamilton, the contour and on-farm dairy infrastructure will impress you. * 84.3543 hectares (more or less) * Milking 250 cows off a 75 hectare dairy platform * Good 22 aside herringbone cowshed with in-shed feeding * Modern effluent storage facilities * Three bedroom weatherboard home * Exceptional building sites located off the Grove Road frontage With the option to purchase the adjoining 53 hectare or 139 hectare blocks either side, the opportunity to expand to a larger farming operation can’t be ignored. Don’t leave your run too late this spring as we are confident this property will sell under the hammer.

October 11am www.harcourts.co.nz/OH8827

Kerry Harty

M 027 294 6215 P 07 873 8700 kjharty@harcourts.co.nz Blue Ribbon Realty Licensed Agent REAA 2008

For Sale: By Auction

29th October 2020– at 12 noon Pirongia Rugby & Sports Club, 2 Kane Street, Pirongia Unless sold prior

View: Wednesday 14th & 21st October 11am www.harcourts.co.nz/OH8752

Kerry Harty

M 027 294 6215 P 07 873 8700 kjharty@harcourts.co.nz Blue Ribbon Realty Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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555HA - EXCELLENT GROWING CONDITIONS 327 Haliburton Road, Kotemaori, Hawkeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bay

555 hectares Tender

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"Tiromoana" is located in the rain-belt area of Kotemaori. The 555ha sheep and beef farm has a mix of medium to steeper hill country and access onto the property Tender Closes 12pm, Mon 23 Nov 2020, from two different roads, enhancing workability. NZR, 5 Ossian Street, Ahuriri, Napier. Located 70km north of Napier and 54km south of Wairoa, just 3.5km off SH2, Tiromoana is well located. Grass growing conditions are excellent, supported by an Duncan McKinnon 021 241 9073 | duncan@nzr.nz approx. annual rainfall of between 1300mm and 1500mm, pumice soils, a regular fertiliser programme and altitude between 100 and 320 masl. Access on Tiromoana is via a network of 4wd tracks plus long leading ridgelines. Hawkes Bay Real Estate Ltd | Licensed REAA 2008 Tiromoana has a three bedroom dwelling with a modernized kitchen. Other improvements include; a 3 stand woolshed with covered yards, cattle yards located next to the road and two implement sheds in close proximity to the house - one near new fully enclosed 4 bay and a 3 bay shed.

KERERU - FINISHING AND "X-FACTOR" 22 Nelson Road, Kereru, Hastings "Pukehiwi" is located in the healthy farming district of Kereru, in what is traditionally a reliable rainfall area. The 350ha sheep and beef farm incorporates easy to medium contour which would support a full finishing enterprise. Presenting a high standard of infrastructure and a well-appointed modernized home, combined with X-Factor scenery, Pukehiwi offers opportunity plus multiple recreational options. Situated 50km west of Hastings on sealed roads, the Kereru farming district is well sort after. A key feature is the homestead and setting including a pool. The generous home is tastefully refurbished offering four bedrooms plus rumpus and a northerly facing veranda overlooking the farm. Infrastructure includes; a 4 stand woolshed with covered sheep yards, cattle yards, a laneway with access to a crutching shed with satellite sheep and cattle yards towards the back of the property, plus ample shedding adjacent to the homestead. A reticulated water system services part of the property which could be expanded. Pukehiwi is a very attractive farm with further potential to increase productivity plus has real X-Factor with the Ngaruroro River on its door step, providing a range of recreational activities.

350 hectares Tender

nzr.nz/RX2494937 Tender Closes 12pm Wed 11 Nov 2020, NZR, 5 Ossian Street, Ahuriri, Napier Duncan McKinnon 021 241 9073 | duncan@nzr.nz Hawkes Bay Real Estate Ltd | Licensed REAA 2008

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FARMERS WEEKLY – October 12, 2020

UNPARALLELED COMBINATION - 25HA 155 James Road, Halcombe, Manawatu An unparalleled combination of attractive land, quality infrastructure and a striking home. Close to two country schools, just 10 minutes from Feilding on a quiet "country lane", the immediate environment is predominated by quality homes. Understated in style, the home features expansive living areas, with wide openings to hardwood decks on two sides. Well fenced, with great stock handling facilities and reticulated water. Impressive high stud shed with deep bays and a woolshed.

4 BED | 2+ BATH | 6+ CAR Video on website

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VIEW BY APPOINTMENT Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | peter@nzr.nz Nicola Barnett 027 482 6831 | nicola@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

Tender Closes, 11am Wed 4 Nov 2020.

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PRIVATE & HANDY TO TOWN - 59.1HA 254 Te Rakehou Road, Feilding, Manawatu Only 5 minutes to Feilding is this attractive rolling and flat farm. Quality conventional fencing in the main with stock water reticulated from a bore, the farm has been used to finish cattle. Farm buildings include a four bay shed, while another, built for calf rearing, could easily convert to a woolshed. The circa 275m² home, privately set well back from the road, was extended 20 years ago, is within a lovely woodland garden.

59.1 hectares Video on website

nzr.nz/RX2496390 Tender Closes 11am, Thu 5 Nov 2020, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding. Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | peter@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

Open Day 1pm, Wed 14 Oct 2020 (bring bike and helmet) or call for private inspection.

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LOCATION AND POTENTIAL TENDER closing Thursday 5th November at 4pm with our office 60 SCRIVENERS ROAD, LICHFIELD, PUTARURU

Open Days: Wednesday 7th, 14th, 21st 28th October. 11.30am-12.30pm

This 124 hectare dairy farm located in the renowned area of Lichfield. Milking 300 cows, wintered on production averaged over the last 3 years, 110,000 kg MS, rearing 60 calves. Contour mainly easy rolling with some steeper sidling’s at the rear of the property. Effective milking area 115 hectares, balance used for young stock. The farm is well laid out with the dairy shed centrally located and raced to 45 paddocks with an ongoing refencing and re grassing programme with Trojan seed. Also growing annually 11 hectares of maize, farm water from bore. Farm buildings, older 30 aside herringbone shed in good order with feed pad, maize and palm kernel bunkers, new above ground effluent tank approximately 1.8 million litres which is irrigated over 25 hectares. Three barns used for calf rearing and implements. Main home is modern with 3 bedrooms, ensuite plus bathroom, open plan living set among mature grounds. Second home 4 bedroom older home with office, large living area, double car garaging. The farm can be purchased as a full going concern if required. Open Days 7th, 14th, 21st 28th October. 11.30am-12.30pm

Alan Duncan 027 478 6393 alan.duncan@colliers.com

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CRRLD Limited Licensed under the REAA 2008

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AUCTION

FOR SALE BRACKENFIELDS SHOPPING CENTRE NORTH CANTERBURY

DARGAVILLE Large Holding with Options

SUPERMARKET ANCHORED SHOPPING CENTRE A rare opportunity to acquire a supermarket tenanted investment in a growing regional centre on high profile State-Highway 1. The centre is anchored by supermarket giant, Countdown, providing outstanding security of cashflow with a term of 8.6 years remaining.

+ Long term Countdown lease + High quality post-EQ build + Near exclusive growth catchment + High profile - State Highway 1 + Further development opportunity + Fully leased NOI: $1,335,502pa (estimated)

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Thursday 5 November 2020 at 4.00pm (unless sold prior)

TIM ROOKES 027 562 3700

CAMERON DARBY 027 450 7902

375 hectares in eight titles with location. GJ Gardner family home with large deck and captivating views. Fattening 300 Friesian bulls (from four day old through to finishing). Mixture of flats, rolling hills with some steeper. 64 paddocks with internal four and two electric wires. Covered calf rearing shed, three bay implement shed, half round barn, three sets of stock yards - two with loading facilities and head bails. Water supply is by way of a bore and dams. Call us to discuss the options available for purchase.

AUCTION

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) 11.00am, Tuesday 24 November PGG Wrightson, Whangarei Office

Megan Browning M 027 668 8468 E mbrowning@pggwrightson.co.nz Tom Hackett M 027 498 2908 E tom.hackett@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/DAG32873 www.cbre.co.nz

PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008 CBRE (Agency) Limited, Licensed Real Estate Agent (REAA 2008)

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Fencer General

Te Hau Station Limited – Gisborne

CATTLE DATA COLLECTOR Frankton Sale Yards – Casual Vacancy Join the frontline team at AgriHQ, NZ’s leading livestock market information provider. We have a casual employment vacancy to join our team of data collectors at Frankton sale yards.

Key aspects: • General R&M • Tractor driving • General stock work • Spraying, weed control • Other general farm duties • Water scheme maintenance

The role: If you have a good knowledge of cattle breeds (particularly dairy beef) and ages, and the ability to ‘condition’ cattle, then keep reading. You will need to attend Frankton’s Tuesday sales and Thursday weaner fairs, and be available to provide cover for other sales when needed. This may include Rangiuru sale yard cover.

Must have a skill set • Fencing experience new and existing • Motor bike and tractor experience hill country • Chainsaw experience • Hand piece experience • Ability to help with yard work • Able to work as a team and to work on your own tasks

This General Manager position presents a fantastic opportunity to join what must now be considered to be one of the East Coast’s iconic sheep and beef, breeding and finishing stations. The key deliverables of this role are to drive the culture, production, business strategy and overall leadership and management of THSL, with the outcome of a profitable agricultural farming business.

This role requires you to be able to follow the sale process efficiently and without distraction, inputting data from each pen of cattle into the tablet as they are sold. Some knowledge of operating a tablet is preferred. Training and guidance will be provided.

The remuneration package will be based on your experience and skills.

Reporting to the Board, the General Manager will have a hands-on component and with their team of dogs will be responsible for the operational oversight of the Te Hau block. Further, this position will ensure the three integrated blocks continue to perform well with the farming systems that have been put in place and will enable the efficient management of the surplus stock across the business. The establishment of appropriate performance targets and budgets in accordance with the Business Plans & Strategy of the Board, maintaining expenditure within the limits authorised and providing performance reporting and forecasting to the Board are key functions.

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This position is a varied position which works alongside with another breeding unit Moanaroa station at Akitio and a ﬁnishing unit at Maku, Pongaroa. Total run of 23,000 stock units.

Te Hau Station Limited (THSL) combines the properties of Te Hau Station, Wheturau Station and Waipaoa Station totalling 5,234ha and currently farming over 47,500 high performance stock units. These adjoining properties, along with additional flat finishing land at Whatatutu, have created a property envied for its level of improvements, scale and diversity of earning potential. The introduction of irrigation on fertile river flats has enabled product diversification into process crops, and provided risk management for finishing livestock to meet market specifications.

CONTRACTORS GORSE AND THISTLE SPRAY. We also scrub cut. Four men with all gear in your area. Phone Dave 06 375 8032.

DOGS FOR SALE 12-MONTH HEADING dog and bitch, fast, strong, good command, pulling sides. Station and trial potential. Contact Nolan Timmins. 027 932 8839. 4½-YEAR-OLD Handy Huntaway. Phone 027 498 0895. Lower NI.

DOGS FOR SALE

GOATS WANTED

LIVESTOCK FOR SALE

DELIVERING MOST NZ wide 24/10/20. www. youtube.com/user/ mikehughesworkingdog/ videos – email: mikehughesworkingdogs@ farmside.co.nz 07 315 5553.

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.

WILTSHIRES-ARVIDSON. Self shearing sheep. No1 for Facial Eczema. David 027 2771 556. B R O O K L A N D SIMMENTAL, LBW, short gestation, bulls, suitable for beef or dairy, EBV’s available. Phone 06 374 1802.

DOGS WANTED 12 MONTHS TO 5½-yearold Heading dogs and Huntaways wanted. Phone 022 698 8195. BUYING DOGS NZ Wide. No One Buys or Pays More! Email: mikehughesworking dogs@farmside.co.nz 07 315 5553.

FARM MAPPING SIMPLE AND CLEAR farm maps with paddock sizes will help you achieve your daily goals. Get a free quote from farmmapping. co.nz

NAKI GOATS. Trucking goats to the works every week throughout the NI. Phone Michael and Clarice. 027 643 0403.

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

RAMS FOR SALE WILTSHIRE & SHIRE® Meat rams. Low input. www.wiltshire-rams.co.nz 03 225 5283.

WANTED TO BUY SAWN SHED TIMBER including Black Maire. Matai, Totara and Rimu etc. Also buying salvaged native logs. Phone Richard Uren. NZ Native Timber Supplies. Phone 027 688 2954.

PERSONAL

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Ware Ware Station is a steep hill country property of 1250ha at Akitio/Pongaroa, farming Romney sheep and Angus cattle.

FOR SALE

General Manager

(Moanaroa Farming Company)

3-bedroom newly refurbished home available. School bus available from the front gate to a primary school and kindergarten in Pongaroa. This a strong farming community with a wide range of organised local events including hunting, ﬁshing, rugby and golf. Applications close 30th October 2020 Digby Thompson Manager email – dig.rach@icloud.com

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SALE TALK A Doberman, a Golden Retriever and a cat died and met St Peter at the golden gates. “God will see you soon,” he said, and as he spoke, God beckoned them in, where he sat on his heavenly seat. He then said to them, “Tell me why I should let you into heaven.”

The Golden Retriever said, “I will fetch your slippers and anything else you ask me to.” God said, “Then you can sit at my left side.” Finally, God looked at the cat and said, “And what will you do?” The cat said, “Excuse me. I think you’re sitting in my seat.” 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! 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. Conditions apply

Are you looking in the right direction?

10th Annual Spring Sale Call Ella

0800 85 25 80 livestock@globalhq.co.nz

40x 2 YEAR OLD POLLED HEREFORD BULLS ON SALE

40 Yearling Bulls

Sterndale, Totara Valley Wednesday, 14th October 2020, 1pm View catalogue at:

www.sternangus.co.nz

Auctioneers PGG Wrightson Greg Clearwater (027) 591 8045 Callum McDonald (0274) 336 443

rural Livestock Ltd Tony Pryde 0274 347 230 Craig North 0274 730 864 Rodger Eade 0274 730 816

Helen Miller Ph (03) 202 5339 • Cell (027) 431 9759

Beltex x and Beltex Cross Rams Belte First Annual

TWO TOOTH SALE

19 November 2020

Viewing from 11am, Sale starts 1.30pm ‘Rangiatea’, 571 Upper Downs Rd, Mt Somers, Mid Canterbury

Are you one tup ahead? ANNUAL SALES COMMENCE 1 NOVEMBER: SECURE YOUR PICK TODAY. ROMNEY

The mainstay and back bone of our breeding operation. Over 40 years’ of high selection pressure under commercial conditions has put these rams on the map. Sheep that ‘hold it together’ during tough times and deliver predictable and repeatable performance. FE tolerant Romney sires now available. ROMTEX

Bred out of our replacement stud Romney ewe hoggets (genetic gain) by robust and structurally sound high index Texel rams. Robust and meaty rams run under the same conditions as the Romneys and subject to the same strict culling standards. SUFTEX

Callum Dunnett

027 587 0131

Simon Eddington

0275 908 612

Blair Gallagher 021 022 31522

John Tavendale 027 432 1296

Hamish Gallagher 027 550 7906

A nationally proven and predictable terminal ram. We understand and appreciate the need for culling/selection pressure so have a strong focus on providing structurally sound rams with a focus on longevity.

ZANDY WALLACE H. 06 372 2551 M. 022 658 0680 farm@waiitirams.co.nz

LIVESTOCK ADVERTISING

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PHONE ELLA HOLLAND 0800 85 25 80

Ram your message home here!

If your rams have genetics farmers should invest in this season contact Ella and discuss options to get your message across. Ella Holland: 06 323 0761 or livestock@globalhq.co.nz | farmersweekly.co.nz

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GRAZING WANTED

STAY OUT FRONT

Looking to place 100 dairy

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Tackle FE head on and reduce ewe wastage, increase weaning

Canterbury Region

Maximize refugia and protect the effective life of your drenches – top FEC genetics and no drench ewe flock.

Phone Blake 021 278 8550

HEREFORD BULLS

www.nikaucoopworth.co.nz  09 2333 230 Check out Poll Dorset NZ on Facebook

QUIET WELL GROWN BULLS FOR SALE: • 3 x R2 registered Hereford bulls

CULVERDEN SPRING CATTLE SALE CULVERDEN SALEYARDS Friday 16th October - 10am start

MANGAHEIA STATION

MAYFIELD SPRING YEARLING STEER SALE

Further Enquiries: Jim Hazlett (Hazlett) 027 462 0128 Alby Orchard (PW&A) 027 534 5753 Cody Clark (RLL) 027 473 0802 Alex Horn (PGGW) 027 591 8449 Mike Steel (Carrfields) 027 211 1558

1st Annual On Farm Sale Monday 2nd November

Top quality, station bred Angus & Angus Hereford Steers

Tauwharepare Road - Tolaga Bay at 12 Noon

Tuesday 20th October 2020 704 Fountaines Road Mayfield, Mid Canterbury Starting at 1.00pm VENDORS: Harwood Farms 250 Angus Steers – Sires used – Stern Meadowslea-Woodbank Grampians 50 Angus Hereford Steers

600 1 Year Steers A/c Mangaheia Station 300 Angus Steers A/c Mc Neil Farming 300 Angus & Angus X Steers

MJ & MA Copland 90 Angus Steers – Sires used Kakahu Mayburn Trust 65 Angus Steers – Sires used – Stern, Meadowslea 450 Steers in total. AUCTIONEERS NOTE: Great opportunity to purchase good quality, forward condition cattle. LK0103985©

For more information please contact Carrfields Livestock Agents: Andrew Holt 027 496 3311 Ryan Carr 027 432 4022 Sam Kingston 027 292 6104

www.carrfieldslivestock.co.nz

SUFTEX A NEW ERA IN

PAKI-ITI ROMNEY

TERMINAL RAMS

PAKI-ITI ROMNEY & ROMTEX

Fast growth, high meat yields, meat quality, excellent survival and tough hardy rams

PREMIER SUFTEX

PERFORMANCE 1600

NZ Standard Terminal Worth (NZTW)

1600

Premier Suftex ﬂocks average

1400

TS ﬂocks average

1200

1000

800

600

400

200

0 -200

2019

07 877 8977 0800 453 576 06 855 4943 06 328 5772 03 3158 689 03 439 5693 03 485 9161 0800 648 432 03 208 5904 027 201 7312 021 779 485 027 230 4052

2017

King Country Hawkes Bay Hawkes Bay Manawatu Nth Canterbury North Otago Otago Gore Gore Wyndham Ohai Invercargill

PremierSuftexNZ

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Stewart Morton 06 328 5772 • Andrew Morton 06 328 2856 RD 54 Kimbolton, Manawatu • pakiroms@farmside.co.nz

Raupuha Kelso Pahiwi Paki-iti Hemingford Punchbowl Longdowns Nithdale Twin Farm Strathallan Run Mount Linton Crossieberg

2015

paki-iti.co.nz to view our breeding programs

AND THE BREEDERS North to South

2011

PAKI-ITI ROMTEX

2013

Visit

GRUNT

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• 160 clients last year purchased or leased Paki-iti rams • Bred on a 870ha hard hill country property rising up to 637m asl (2090f asl) • Breeding for constitution, longevity, structural soundness and then performance • Constitution = moderate frame, deep bodied type of sheep • Performance = Growth, fertility, survival, meat yield, incorporating FE tolerance and parasite resistance • 10 years of breeding Romtex, utilizing a stabilised SIL recorded Romtex ﬂock • Paki-iti maternal Romtex offer faster growth rates and higher meat yields • Romtex rams sold as 22th rams

An outstanding opportunity to buy Quality, renown for quietness & ability to grow on To be drafted on weight and frame Weights will range from 420kg to 320kg A 1.5% rebate is available to purchasing agents by arrangement Buyers & Guests will enjoy East Coast Hospitality on the day All enquiries to: Central Livestock Ltd Shane Scott 027 4956031 PGG Wrightson Ltd Tony Holden 027 5981538

2009

TUI HILLS HEREFORDS

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2007

r.philips@xtra.co.nz

0800 85 25 80

2005

Ross & Schirelle Philips livestock agent: BRUCE ORR 027 477 7935 Carrfields RD3 Tauranga 027 492 2122

Phone Ella Holland 0800 85 25 80 or email livestock@globalhq.co.nz

Call Ella

> 65 R2 Hereford X, MG X & AH X Steers > 45 R2 Hereford X & AH X Heifers > 385 Angus & Angus Hereford X Yearling Steers > 120 Charolais X Yearling Steers > 70 Stabilizer X Yearling Steers > 140 Hereford & Hereford X Yearling Steers > 25 Murray Grey X Yearling Steers > 25 R1 Devon X Steers > 14 Belgian Blue X Steers > 70 Hereford X Yearling Heifers > 130 Angus & Angus Hereford X Yearling Heifers > 25 Murray Grey X Yearling Heifers > 20 Stabilizer Yearling Heifers

2003

Enquiries & visitors most welcome

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TB & BVD clear herd, tested & vaccinated

To advertise

2001

KARAMU Finlay16005 HUKAROA Lux 13130

Are you looking in the right direction?

1999

SIRES: FOULDEN HILL Mustang 16038, 2017 Canterbury Supreme Champion

1997

• 5 x R1 comm Hereford bulls (by regd sire)

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1995

• 3 x 18 mth registered Hereford bulls

NZ Herefords online sale catalogues

Increase lamb Survival and Weaning Weight - great mothering ability and milk production

Open Day on Farm, Tues 3 Nov Sale on Fri 6 Nov, Tuakau Saleyards

Bred for temperament, calving ease & performance

Further details on www.herefords.co.nz/

with Farmers Weekly

Efficient productive ewes with high disease tolerance and low drench input has been the successful policy of Nikaus breeding program for over 40 years

Delivery flexible from Dec/Jan/Feb arrangement.

OF THE MOB

Nikau Coopworth has confidence in a vibrant sheep industry

heifer calves. until late Sept. Prefer long term

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Weaner Heifers Wanted

"Maximising your return through personal livestock management"

FOR SALE

40 R1 Frs Bulls 290kg, owner bred

40 R1 Ang/Frs Bulls 290kg, owner bred

Hereford bulls for sale 480-540kg. All tested.

NATIONWIDE Recorded Sires

BY/CK

Frs Weaner Bulls, well marked, 100kg min. $500

55 R1 Frs Bulls 310kg, $2.85/kg

F12 + with Friesian sire 100kg plus

WANTED 100 R2 Frs/Here, Ang/Frs or Beef Heifers 360kg+

100 R2 Frs Bulls 480kg+

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Richard Seavill Chris Smith Chris yle Jason Roberts Bryce Young

J12 + with Jersey sire 80kg plus

CK/RS

R1 Beef/Beef Steers 250kg+

Grazing or Lease Blocks Wanted

280-320kg

www.dyerlivestock.co.nz

Ross Dyer 0274 333 381 A Financing Solution For Your Farm E info@rdlfinance.co.nz

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50 R2 Frs Bulls 380kg

livestock@globalhq.co.nz – 0800 85 25 80

PHONE ELLA HOLLAND 0800 85 25 80

ECZEMA TOLERANT ROMNEYS RAMGUARD TESTING SINCE 1985 • • • • • •

5 star rating Structurally sound Robust functional sheep that survive Minimum input Selecting for less parasites and dags No ewes worm drenched, dipped or vaccinated

KEITH ABBOTT, RAGLAN 027 463 9859 | www.waiteikaromneys.co.nz @waiteikaromneys

NZ’s Virtual Saleyard UPCOMING FEATURE AUCTIONS Wednesday, 14 October 2020 11.30am – Torrisdale Murray Grey Bull Sale 1.00pm – Stern Angus Annual Spring Yearling Bull Sale Thursday, 15 October 2020 11.30am – Kane Farms 2020 Hereford & Angus Yearling Bull Sale 1.00pm – Sudeley Genetics Angus Bull & Heifer Yearling Sale Friday, 16 October 2020 1.00pm – Timperlea Angus For more information go to bidr.co.nz or contact the team on 0800 TO BIDR

TEMUKA SPRING BEEF ONLY CATTLE SALES THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER, 2020

Temuka Saleyards - Commencing 10am • Approximately 1500 Ylg Angus & Angus/Hereford x Mixed Sex Cattle

FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER, 2020

Temuka Saleyards - Commencing 10am • Approximately 1250 Ylg Exotic & Hereford Mixed Sex Cattle

For full details of entries please go to www.temukasales.co.nz Enquires: Joe Higgins 027 431 4041 Freephone 0800 10 22 76 | www.pggwrightson.co.nz Helping grow the country

KAAHU GENETICS

KAAHU WHITE SHEDDING RAMS 1st INAUGURAL SALE

1st time available in NZ

Amazing.... Fantastic.... Incredible Approximately 100 2th rams for sale by Auction. Sale day Friday November 20th 1pm On farm @154 Whakamaru Rd, SH 30 Whakamaru. Livestreamed on Open Day Wednesday 4th November, 1pm - 3pm.

SIL Recorded... All traits measured and recorded Top Production Low input extremely high output Ewe Hoggets scanned 163% all hoggets mated Carcass meaty and high yielding EMA muscle scanned Great eating quality

KAAHU GENETICS Murray Sargent 027 392 7242 | murraysargent@hotmail.com kaahu.co.nz

Cam Heggie - 027 501 8182

MARKET SNAPSHOT

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Cattle

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Sheep

BEEF

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Deer

SHEEP MEAT

VENISON

Last week

Prior week

Last year

NI Steer (300kg)

5.65

5.70

6.10

NI lamb (17kg)

7.20

8.70

NI Stag (60kg)

6.20

9.65

NI Bull (300kg)

5.55

5.90

NI mutton (20kg)

4.90

5.70

SI Stag (60kg)

6.65

9.65

NI Cow (200kg)

4.15

4.20

4.80

SI lamb (17kg)

7.00

8.55

SI Steer (300kg)

5.20

6.00

SI mutton (20kg)

4.75

5.70

SI Bull (300kg)

5.15

5.70

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

SI Cow (200kg)

4.00

4.05

4.45

UK CKT lamb leg

9.79

9.75

10.73

US imported 95CL bull

7.51

7.62

8.74

US domestic 90CL cow

7.51

6.95

7.64

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

$/kg CW

6.50

8.0

6.0

5.50

5.0

5.00 4.50 $/kg CW

8.0

5.0

$/kg CW

Oct

Feb

5-yr ave

Apr

Jun

2018-19

Dairy

Aug 2019-20

Apr 2018-19

Jun

Last week

Prior week

Last year

Coarse xbred ind.

2.05

2.00

2.78

37 micron ewe

1.95

1.90

30 micron lamb

7.50 $/tonne

7.00 6.50

Jun-20 Aug-20 Sept. 2021

Last price*

602

578

616

Super

297

294

314

DAP

768

787

Top 10 by Market Cap

15.7

21.74

13.8

7.6

9.21

4.26

Spark New Zealand Limited

4.69

5.09

3.445

Ryman Healthcare Limited

14.8

17.18

6.61

Mercury NZ Limited (NS)

5.37

5.62

3.595

SMP

2865

2830

2670

395

AMF

4075

4000

4050

Butter

3460

3430

Milk Price

0.00

7.22

$/tonne

400

Nov-19

Jan-20

Mar-20

May-20

Jul-20

Sep-20

390

380

Sep-19

Nov-19

Jan-20

Mar-20

May-20

Jul-20

Sep-20

WAIKATO PALM KERNEL

3100

400

3000

350

Contact Energy Limited

7.55

7.74

4.54

Port of Tauranga Limited

7.39

8.14

4.9

Mainfreight Limited

47.1

48.73

Listed Agri Shares Company

385

$/tonne

21.1 3.61

The a2 Milk Company Limited

2875

2800

5pm, close of market, Thursday Close

YTD High

YTD Low

The a2 Milk Company Limited

15.7

21.74

13.8

Comvita Limited

3.15

4.97

1.66

Delegat Group Limited

14.55

15.08

6.39

Fonterra Shareholders' Fund (NS)

4.04

4.08

3.41

Foley Wines Limited

1.87

2.13

1.35

Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd (NS)

0.76

0.9

0.68

Marlborough Wine Estates Group Limited

0.2

0.21

0.17

New Zealand King Salmon Investments Ltd

1.73

2.3

1.29

PGG Wrightson Limited

2.73

3.01

1.55

Sanford Limited (NS)

5.55

8.2

5.46

Scales Corporation Limited

5.02

5.35

3.3

Seeka Limited

4.08

4.74

3.4

Synlait Milk Limited (NS)

5.59

9.1

4.36

T&G Global Limited S&P/NZX Primary Sector Equity Index

2.69

2.93

2.35

15677

16959

12699

S&P/NZX 50 Index

12236

8499

S&P/NZX 10 Index

12543

12701

9100

300 250

Oct

Nov Dec Latest price

Jan

Feb 4 weeks ago

Mar

YTD Low

Auckland International Airport Ltd

3010

2900

37.89

410

3015

WMP FUTURES - VS FOUR WEEKS AGO

YTD High

34.44

5.8

405

* price as at close of business on Thursday

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Ltd

5.5

Sep-19

vs 4 weeks ago

Company Meridian Energy Limited (NS)

WMP

2700

Urea

CANTERBURY FEED BARLEY Prior week

NZ average (NZ$/t)

420

380

Oct-20

DAIRY FUTURES (US$/T) Nearby contract

Aug 2019-20

Last year

390 Feb-20 Apr-20 Sept. 2020

Jun

Prior week

400

6.00 Dec-19

Apr 2018-19

Last week

CANTERBURY FEED WHEAT

8.00

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Feb

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 12, 2020

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WEATHER Soil Moisture

Overview High pressure once again dominates the country this week, but it’s not going to be perfectly dry. The week kicks off with northern patches of rain and showers – great news for increasingly dry North Island regions. On Wednesday, a cooler southerly kicks back in with showers moving up the South Island along with a temperature drop, moving into the eastern North Island by Thursday then fading out. This weekend, a weak cold front will try to head north, including for Election Day. But this weekend looks mainly dry with yet another big high pressure belt moving in. Next week again kicks off with high pressure then warmer northerlies build again.

New Zealand dollar remains unpredictable against USD

08/10/2020

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Wind

Winds aren’t too strong this week, with plenty of high pressure around making for light and variable winds. A slight SW flow at times, and on Friday westerlies kick in over the South Island for a time before the next high rolls in.

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Temperature Fairly normal temps this week. There’ll be some cooler moments at night with light winds and high pressure, but some mild afternoons in the mix too.

14-day outlook

Drier than average for more than half of the country, especially eastern areas. Rain most likely in the west of both islands and some parts of the upper North Island too.

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WEAK NZ dollar (NZD) is a farmer’s friend because it allows exporters to present our products at a competitive price to overseas buyers without cutting into export returns in NZ currency. And if a weak NZD isn’t an option, then the next best thing is a steady, predictable NZD. The AgriHQ lamb rack indicator is the perfect illustration of how changeable the NZD has been lately. A failing US restaurant sector and very limited sales of lamb racks has meant that this indicator has been stuck at US$6.50/ lb since early July. And yet, weekly changes to the NZD have meant that the export returns for lamb racks have changed by up to 53c/kg over a single week. With the NZD/USD exchange rate strengthening and easing in response to global drama induced by covid-19, the NZ lamb rack prices have been oscillating between $21.20/kg and $21.90/kg with no consistent trend. We should note, however, that the NZD would have to be in a complete tailspin to get lamb rack returns back up to the NZ$37.00/kg level enjoyed last season. Perhaps, it is best not to rule that out given the looming recession. As I write this, the NZD is currently posted at US$0.66, which is US3 cents

stronger than the same time last year. The NZD appears to have been trading within a tight range over the past few days, but it is only one presidential tweet or vaccine announcement away from jumping back up to 0.67 or down to 0.64, which makes it a moving target for exporters. Particularly those exporters selling manufacturing beef in the US market where prices in USD terms are subject to their own weekly volatility. It’s also not that easy for exporters trying to compete against the flopping Brazilian currency to gain the attention of Chinese beef buyers who typically trade in US currency. If we look to the other export currencies, we can see that there is a bit of movement in the NZ exchange rate with the British pound and the Euro as the markets react to a second wave of covid-19 restrictions. Gazing into the crystal ball, things are looking changeable for a while. On one hand, we have the World Health Organisation indicating that there could be a covid-19 vaccine by the end of the year. That would provide a quick exit from the covid-19 mirror maze that we find ourselves trapped in. But on the other hand, we have a NZ general election in a few weeks, a US presidential election in November and a few more months of squabbling over the potential EU/UK trade deal before the end of the Brexit transition period on December 31. All of these events will induce currency wobbles, which make it harder for exporters and meat processors to lock in profits.

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We’re still seeing high pressure dominating, but also some hints of La Nina forming north of New Zealand. For now, high pressure will continue to dominate NZ for the most part and while there will be some showers this week, it won’t accumulate to a lot for most. High pressure is definitely the more dominant force for now and again next week. However, the lows are appearing in the sub-tropics between the highs as La Nina kicks in – watch this space as we head into November, hopefully.

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SALE YARD WRAP

Ebbs and flows for store cattle Store cattle continue to be the big focus at sale yards around the country and last week it was the North Island’s turn to put up the big volume. A combined total of the cattle offered at Matawhero, Stortford Lodge and Feilding pushed past 6000 head. Each sale went in ebbs and flows as the different classes started with the better quality and bred types, and annual draft cattle yet finished on the lesser quality and bred types. Buyer attendance was down due to concerns around another approaching dry period and sales nationwide are missing the grass market demand. Yearling carryover cattle are feeling the pinch the most, while short-term cattle have regular buyers holding the market up. NORTHLAND Kaikohe cattle • Two-year beef-cross bulls made $2.40/kg • Two-year beef-cross heifers sold up to $2.65/kg • Autumn-born Friesian weaner bulls traded at $530 • Heavier boner cows earned $1.80-$1.85/kg Around 500 head were offered at KAIKOHE last Wednesday, PGG Wrightson agent Vaughan Vujcich reported. The market was tough with more rain needed to boost enthusiasm. Better short-term 2-year beef-cross steers made $2.80-$2.86/kg, although dairy-beef lines struggled to fetch $2.20-$2.30/kg. Good yearling whiteface steers earned $2.85/kg, with beef-cross heifers at $2.50-$2.60/kg. Wellsford store cattle • Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 322-370kg, held at $2.76-$2.77/ kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 213-214kg, also held at $3.29$3.34/kg • Six yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 251kg, improved to $3.15/ kg A bigger yarding of 700 cattle was penned at WELLSFORD last Monday. Two-year Hereford-dairy steers, 367-523kg, held at $2.66-$2.70/kg. Murray Grey-cross, 425-451kg, returned $2.68-$2.69/kg, and Angus-cross, 376kg, $2.73/kg. Good quality Hereford-Friesian heifers, 320-449kg, rivalled the males at $2.66-$2.79/kg and Hereford-dairy, 424-466kg, made $2.67-$2.68/kg. Yearling Angus and Angus-Hereford steers, 195kg, realised $2.82/kg. Angus-Friesian, 203-256kg, earned $2.78-$2.93/kg and Hereford-dairy, 185-193kg, $2.25$2.32/kg. Hereford-Friesian heifers, 205-253kg, returned $2.80-$2.96/kg. Thirteen autumn-born weaner AngusFriesian steers, 116kg, reached $490 with Hereford-Friesian heifers, 128kg, at $495. Read more in your LivestockEye.

AUCKLAND Pukekohe cattle • Medium 18-month steers made $2.66/kg to $2.86/kg • Yearling light to medium crossbred heifers earned $2.73-$2.80/kg Cattle sold on a very strong market at PUKEKOHE last Saturday with good weather boosting enthusiasm from buyers. Prime steers strengthened to $2.97/kg to $3.10/ kg and heifers fetched $2.75/kg to $2.94/kg. Weaner steers made $450-$585 and small heifers traded up to $460.

COUNTIES Tuakau sales • Hereford-Friesian steers, 441kg, made $3.03/kg • Autumn-born weaner steers, 139kg, fetched $620 • Heavy Friesian cows, 735kg, managed $1.96/kg • Prime hoggets averaged $154 Around 1000 store cattle were yarded at TUAKAU on Thursday, Carrfields Livestock agent Karl Chitham reported. Hereford-Friesian steers, 400kg, made $2.89/kg, $1160, while red-bodied whiteface steers, 350kg, earned $810 and 266kg Hereford-Friesian, $730. Most heifers in the 330-390kg range sold at $2.66-$2.79/kg. Hereford-Friesian bulls, 460kg, managed $2.51/kg. Wednesday’s prime market eased. Heavy steers, 650-720kg, traded at $2.84-$2.91/kg and 550-620kg made $2.78-$2.85/kg. Hereford-Friesian heifers, 490kg, earned $2.74/kg and 414kg Angus, $2.61/ kg. Boners softened by 10c/kg, with most 460-490kg cows fetching $1.65-$1.80/kg. Prime hoggets sold from $117 to $195 on Monday and store hoggets averaged $91, selling up to $116.50. Top ewes made $185 and lighter sorts sold down to $40. Please note - old season lambs are now referred to as hoggets.

BAY OF PLENTY Rangiuru cattle and sheep • Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 375kg, stretched to $3.02/kg • Two-year Angus and Hereford steers, 326-375kg, made $2.91$2.97/kg • Prime Angus and Limousin steers, 655-710kg, fetched $3.10-3.11/kg

Cattle demand eased off last Tuesday at RANGIURU. Most 2-year steers were Hereford-Friesian or Hereford-dairy, 330-535kg, that traded from $2.79/kg to $2.93/kg. Yearling quality was a mixed bag, and this was reflected in the prices posted. The best steers were Hereford-Jersey, 301kg, that made $1035, $3.44/kg. Heifers were nearly all under 300kg with the top cut Hereford-Friesian, 234-297kg, at $2.81/kg to $3.10/kg. Prime hoggets made $110-$170 and ewes, $101$127. Two pens of ewes with lambs-at-foot earned $85 and $98 all counted. Read more in your LivestockEye.

WAIKATO Frankton cattle 6.10 • 18-month Hereford-Friesian heifers, 303-331kg, held at $2.71$2.78/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian and Charolais-Friesian steers, 336373kg, held at $2.89-$2.92/kg • Twelve yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 232kg, improved to $2.80/kg PGG Wrighston store cattle throughput lifted to nearly 600 head at FRANKTON last Tuesday, and yearlings provided 400 of that tally. A limited 2-year section included ten HerefordFriesian heifers, 344kg, which eased to $2.70/kg. 18-month beef-cross and beef-dairy steers, 359-421kg, also eased to $2.66-$2.79/kg. Yearling Angus-Friesian steers, 258kg, managed $2.93/kg, though 305-366kg could only muster $2.63-$2.75/kg. Most Hereford-Friesian heifers, 235-277kg, were steady at $2.60-$2.77/kg. Most autumn-born weaners traded at a reduced $350-$590. Prime cattle were solid as steers over 600kg traded at $3.00-$3.03/kg and heifers above 480kg $2.86-$2.94/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye. Frankton cattle 7.10 • Specially advertised yearling Charolais-Friesian steers, 294-303kg, returned $2.76-$2.87/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 168-241kg, held at $3.03-$3.07/ kg • Prime Hereford-Friesian steers, 575-684kg, softened to $2.81$2.84/kg Store cattle numbers lifted to 563 for New Zealand Farmers Livestock at FRANKTON last Wednesday, and most eased. Two-year Angus-Friesian steers, 445-455kg, eased to $2.56-$2.66/kg. Hereford-Friesian, 340-374kg, managed $2.94-$3.00/kg while red-factor lines, 346-476kg, earned $2.72-$2.84/kg. Beef-cross and beef-dairy heifers, 410488kg, held at $2.77-$2.86/kg. Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 274-295kg, eased to $2.79-$2.81/kg. Angus-Friesian heifers, 191-222kg, held at $2.27-$2.38/kg while Hereford-Friesian, 197-229kg, softened to $2.34-$2.44/kg. Prime throughput lifted and beef-dairy heifers, 454-590kg, softened to $2.81-$2.83/kg. Thirteen well-finished Friesian heifers, 513kg, fetched $2.78/kg. Boner Friesian cows, 422-571kg, returned $2.05-$2.15/kg, though nine at 497kg pushed to $2.21/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

KING COUNTRY Te Kuiti cattle and sheep sales • Heavy prime hoggets sold to $145-$159 • Two-year Angus steers, 601-620kg, sold well at $3.07-$3.14/kg • Two-year Simmental-cross steers, 640-663kg, reached $2.99$3.14/kg • Two-year Charolais and South Devon-cross steers, 524-527kg, returned $3.06-$3.10/kg The highlight of the TE KUITI sales last week was an annual draft consignment of 400 2-year steers. These drew in buyers from most of the North Island and sold on a competitive market at an average of $1675 for 557kg. Angus-Hereford, 569-607kg, achieved $2.91-$3.08/kg and the section finished with Hereford-Friesian, 457kg, $3.19/kg. Small entries completed the sale and 2-year Angus heifers, 295kg, made $2.01/kg, while yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 359kg, returned $3.08/kg. Autumn-born Angus steers, 230kg, sold for $3.07/kg. Sheep totalled 600 head last Wednesday and medium prime hoggets made $132-$144

and third cuts, $120-$125. Two-tooth males earned $106$121, and dry ewes varied from $100 up to $161. A small entry of store hoggets sold for $104-$116.

POVERTY BAY Matawhero cattle fair • Three-year exotic steers, 490kg, made $3.06/kg • Better two-year heifers fetched $2.69-$2.73/kg • Yearling Angus steers, 345-370kg, earned $3.42/kg to $3.53/kg • Yearling Hereford bulls, 270kg, sold well at $3.33/kg Buyers were very selective at the MATAWHERO cattle fair last Tuesday for the 2500 head offering. Lighter weights in the two-year steers category pushed the average value for traditional lines down 8c/kg to $3.10/kg, although nicer traditional and Charolais, 305-385kg, were able to reach $3.51-$3.61/kg. Yearling exotic heifers above 300kg were sought after and sold above the $3.00/kg mark, while the balance sold in a wide range with lighter types heavily penalised. Read more in your LivestockEye

TARANAKI Taranaki cattle • Two-year Hereford-Friesian heifers, 392-395kg, made $2.63/kg • Two-year Friesian bulls, 412-476kg, fetched $2.44-$2.52/kg • Better yearling Hereford-Friesian steers traded at $3.04/kg to $3.18/kg • Prime steers made up to $2.99/kg • Friesian boner cows sold well at $2.08/kg to $2.15/kg The buying bench lacked enthusiasm at TARANAKI last Wednesday, mostly due to lower than typical feed levels. The top end of the two-year steers held at $2.82-$2.90/kg, while the balance mostly fetched $2.67-$2.77/kg. There was a good line up yearling bulls and Friesian mostly earned $2.37-$2.48/kg, with Jersey at $2.66/kg to $2.84/kg.

HAWKE’S BAY Stortford Lodge prime cattle and sheep • Very heavy ewes held at $165-$180 • Top male hoggets eased to $183-$193 • Very heavy ewe hoggets held at $150-$186 A hot day greeted salegoers at STORTFORD LODGE last Monday, though with sheep numbers at half of the previous sale buyers did not have to brave the sun for long. Most ewes held though four top specimens strengthened to $198. Heavy types held at $145-$154, as did good to very good at $125-$137. Medium ewes improved to $120-$123.50. Compulsory mouthing started in the hogget pens. Very heavy males held at $154-$189 and similar ewe hoggets $150-$186, though heavy types eased to $141.50-$142. Nine cattle were presented and included six Angus and AngusHereford heifers, 548kg, which earned $2.80/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye. Stortford Lodge store cattle and sheep • Two-year Angus steers, 522-575kg, sold for $3.20-$3.28/kg • Two-year Friesian bulls, 430-456kg, held at $2.87-$2.92/kg • Yearling Angus steers, 308-343kg, came back to $3.31-$3.38/kg • Top yearling Angus heifers, 239kg, reached $3.26/kg • Top annual draft autumn-born Simmental-Friesian bull calves made $908-$100 Cattle took centre stage at STORTFORD LODGE last Wednesday, with 1600 penned compared to 930 sheep. The main two lines of ewes with lambs-at-foot made $90-$96 all counted, while 670 hoggets varied from $94.50 to $192. Each cattle section started well, but demand faded for lesser types. Two-year traditional steers, 373-435kg, made $3.10$3.25/kg though lesser lines fell below $3/kg. Angus heifers, 398-459kg, firmed to $3.05-$3.07/kg and the top lines of Simmental-cross and Hereford-Friesian, $2.90-$2.96/kg. Other lines traded at $2.51-$2.66/kg. Yearling Angus steers, 266-275kg, came back to $3.20-$3.25/kg and Angus-cross heifers, 265-279kg, $3.06-$3.08/kg. Angus bulls, 203-251kg, were consistent at $2.94-$3.03/ kg with Friesian bulls similar. A pen of 18 Angus, 337kg, reached $3.15/kg. Autumn-born Simmental-Friesian

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 12, 2020

$2.51/kg, with 357kg Angus-cross at $2.64/kg. Yearling Friesian bulls, 250kg, traded at $2.04/kg, while 252kg Jersey managed $2.78/kg. Weaner bulls fetched $260-$330, with 240kg Hereford-Friesian heifers at $540, while autumn-born bulls and heifers sold at $340-$400.

CANTERBURY

INTO IT: Independent agent Phil Hewitt, seen here at Stortford Lodge, is in the thick of the yearling Friesian bull selling season, and he has noted that the August-September period has not been an easy one.

heifers, 197-250kg, made $600-$765, and 116-157kg, $475$540. Light bulls of same breed made $550-$700. Read more in your LivestockEye.

MANAWATU Feilding prime cattle and sheep; feeder calves • Hereford-Friesian heifers, 460kg, made $2.61/kg • Limousin cows, 645kg, sold for $2.29/kg • Friesian cows, 485-590kg, earned $1.92/kg to $2.06/kg • Simmental-cross and Hereford-Friesian bull calves made $180 The hogget season didn’t show any sign of winding down at FEILDING last Monday with throughput above 5000. Very heavy hoggets made the same as the previous sale at $178$187 while heavy held at $163-$177. Medium-good pens also held at $122-$161. Ewes had a better sale than other recent offerings with $150 plus often achieved. Very good ewes earned $153-$159 while good pens made $143-$152. Read more in your LivestockEye. Feilding store sale • Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 490-525kg, were $2.80-$2.90/kg • Big lines of 300-370kg yearling Angus steers made $3.35-$3.45/kg • Yearling Friesian bulls, 325-420kg, eased to $2.55-$2.70/kg • Ewes with large lambs-at-foot were $100.50-$111 all counted • A line of a hundred new season lambs made $108 A packed yarding of largely quality cattle mostly eased. The older steers were down around 10c/kg, though it was even more for some lesser-types – good beef lines were mainly $3.05-$3.20/kg. Heavy 2-year Friesian bulls, 570-620kg, were $2.95/kg. Two-year heifers were mainly 335-390kg, and sold at $2.60-$2.75/kg through all breeds. Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 285-345kg, eased to $2.75$2.90/kg, whereas traditional lines were mainly $3.10-$3.40/ kg depending on quality. Yearling bulls rarely made more than $2.70/kg. No heifers had sold at the time of writing. A few pens of ewes with lambs-at-foot opened the sale. Lamb size dictated prices, with the smaller types $78-$87 all counted, going all the way up to $111 all counted for top pen. The first big pen of new season lambs made $108. In the hoggets, forward lines were $140-$150, mediums sold at $125-$135, with the lightest down to $100. Read more in your LivestockEye. Rongotea cattle • Two-year Hereford-Friesian bulls, 448kg, earned $2.55/kg • Two-year Hereford-Friesian heifers, 486kg, sold at $2.74/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 305kg, made $2.31/kg • The top end of the feeder calves achieved $150-$205 Cattle were limited at RONGOTEA last Wednesday, New Zealand Farmers Livestock agent Darryl Harwood reported. Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 335-418kg, made $2.49-

Canterbury Park prime cattle and all sheep • Charolais steers, 570-575kg, fetched $2.82-$2.83/kg • Hereford-Friesian steers, 587-705kg, sold for $2.80-$2.84/kg • Charolais and Charolais-Hereford heifers, 515-585kg, traded for $2.81-$2.91/kg • Heavy prime ewes made $178-$220 and good $125-$176 Prime cattle prices dropped at CANTERBURY PARK last Tuesday. The highest prices achieved were $2.84-$2.88/ kg for 620-645kg Hereford steers. Other steers over 550kg earned $2.65-$2.75/kg and under 550kg, $2.55-$2.65/kg. This range was common in the better heifers though half graded at medium-good or less. Very heavy prime hoggets pushed to $206-$215 while heavy pens made $181-$197. Medium types were resilient at $130-$179. Numbers halved in the store hoggets where the main pen of interest was Corriedale-cross ewes that made $130 with most other pens $70-$115. Read more in your LivestockEye. Coalgate cattle and sheep • Two-year Angus heifers, 367kg, earned $2.21/kg • Prime Hereford-Friesian steers, 580-623kg, made $2.63-$2.75/kg • Top new season prime lambs reached $168 • Very heavy ewes achieved $200-$237 and the balance $150-$178 • A big line of ewes with lambs-at-foot sold for $98 all counted Prime hoggets featured at COALGATE last Thursday. Very heavy lines made $203-$212 and heavy $170-$192 while the bulk of the section were medium types at $140-$169. New season store lambs met keen interest and sold for $88-$105 while a line of ewe hoggets sold well at $135. Per-head budgeting on store cattle meant most 2-year steers and heifers traded for $700-$850. This resulted in the heifer pens often outperforming steers on a $/kg basis. Hereford-cross and Hereford-Friesian steers, 410-492kg, earned $1.91$2.03/kg while Angus-Hereford, 330-379kg, provided the bulk of the heifers at $1.96-$2.08/kg. Yearling Angus steers, 264-295kg, ranged from $2.20/kg to $2.83/kg with off-types hard to move. Read more in your LivestockEye. Cheviot spring cattle fair • Top yearling Angus, and Angus-Hereford steers, 270-334kg, reached $3.21-$3.26/kg • Yearling Hereford steers, 205-312kg, all sold for $2.84-$2.95/kg • Yearling Angus-Hereford heifers, 240-268kg, sold well at $2.84$2.85/kg • Yearling Angus and Angus-Hereford heifers, 200-241kg, returned $2.41-$2.53/kg The CHEVIOT spring cattle sale was deemed a success on Friday 2nd October, as cattle quality matched buyer requirements. Yearlings dominated and most were ownerbred, annual draft cattle. Autumn-born traditional steers, 380-454kg, returned $2.84-$2.85/kg and heifers, 353-430kg, $2.56/kg. Most yearling Angus and Angus-Hereford steers sold for $2.90-$3.12/kg. Angus heifers were variable and ranged from $2.67/kg up to $3.07/kg.

SOUTH-CANTERBURY Temuka prime cattle and all sheep • Traditional steers, 510-595kg, sold for $2.50-$2.60/kg • One pen of prime ewes reached $260 • Other heavy prime ewes made $180-$220 with the balance $140$177 • Big lines of ewes with lambs-at-foot made $98-$100 all counted The TEMUKA sale was back in the usual Monday slot last week. Fine wool types were the main feature of the store hogget pens and the heaviest achieved $155-$175. Results were mixed in the remaining pens and they made $67-$130. The top prime hoggets earned $190-$201 while most others fetched $140-$185. Beef steers and heifers met a difficult

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market. Much of the yarding was dairy-beef with $2.45$2.55/kg typical of those over 500kg. In contrast big boner heifers sold above expectations at $2.15/kg to $2.35/kg while cows held value. Read more in your LivestockEye. Temuka store cattle • Two-year Speckle Park steers, 410kg, made $2.55/kg • Two-year Charolais-cross heifers, 318kg, fetched $2.64/kg • Two-year Friesian bulls, 339-414kg, all made $1.86-$1.98/kg • Yearling Hereford and Angus-Hereford steers, 278-303kg, traded for $2.71-$2.80/kg It was a difficult day for auctioneers and vendors at TEMUKA last Thursday. Scattered rain wasn’t enough to attract buyers and with a full yarding offered for the third week in a row there were too many for the market to absorb. Both steers and heifers were mostly dairy-beef types. Two-year steers, 415-505kg, made $2.35-$2.45/kg while 355-405kg heifers earned $2.05-$2.15/kg. Prices were also consistently lower across the yearling pens. HerefordFriesian sold in two cuts: 289-363kg at $2.42-$2.49/kg and 205-245kg from $1.96-$2.05/kg. Close to 60% of the heifers were Hereford-Friesian and 270-337kg earned $2.14-$2.24/ kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

OTAGO Balclutha cattle and sheep • Prime ewes eased with heavy types back to $140-$160, medium $100-$130 and light $80 • A small number of store hoggets fetched $70-$80 • Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 400-450kg, $2.40-$2.50/kg Prime hoggets met good demand at BALCLUTHA last Wednesday with heavy types at $150-$180, medium $130$140 and light $100-$120. There was a full yarding of store cattle and overall, the market softened. Demand for heifers was soft and Hereford-Friesian, 400-450kg, returned $2.25$2.35/kg. Mt Benger spring cattle fair • Two-year Angus steers made $1100 • Better yearling Angus-cross heifers sold for $560-$705 • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers earned $980 There were around 800 cattle on offer at the MT BENGER cattle fair last Wednesday. Buyers were present from Otago and Southland, but overall yearlings were back by around $150 from the previous year. Some outstanding yearling Hereford heifers were penned and the best traded at $1110$1220. At the top end of the yearling steers Angus and Simmental-cross sold up to $1220-$1250, with the next cut $1020-$1180 and third cuts, $770-$990.

SOUTHLAND Lorneville sheep • Yearling Hereford-cross heifers, 270kg, made $2.40/kg • Prime two-tooth ewes sold at $115 • Prime ewes firmed with heavy $147-$160, medium $121-$138 and light $90-$115 There was a moderate yarding of prime cattle at LORNEVILLE last Tuesday which sold on a softer market. Prime steers, 525kg, earned $2.20/kg, with better 390420kg heifers at $2.20/kg to $2.35/kg. The store market was subdued and yearling Hereford-cross steers, 280kg, traded at $2.92/kg. A small yarding of heavy prime hoggets strengthened to $159-$170, with medium $144-$150 and light $126. Charlton cattle • Two-year Friesian bulls, 347-427kg, sold at $2.13/kg to $2.20/kg • Yearling Angus-Hereford heifers, 279kg, made $2.82/kg • Yearling Angus-Hereford steers, 278-333kg, earned $3.01/kg to $3.12/kg The buying bench consisted of mostly locals at CHARLTON last Thursday. Two-year Friesian and Friesiancross steers, 349-550kg, traded at $2.00-$2.09/kg. The top end of two-year heifers fetched $2.32-$2.39/kg, while better yearling heifers made $2.52-$2.61/kg.

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Positive outlook as dairy demand firms Hugh Stringleman

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HE latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction results have indicated relatively firm continued demand for dairy products despite the impact of covid-19 on markets and economies, analysts say. It is an encouraging picture for New Zealand farm gate milk prices with peak spring production less than a month away. The GDT price index rose by 2.2% and whole milk powder prices increased by 1.7%, returning to levels above US$3000/tonne, where they had not been since August. Because Fonterra is the world’s largest trader of WMP and derives more than half of its revenue from that product, the latest auction prices bode well for the farm gate milk price. ASB and Westpac said their milk price forecasts of $6.75 and $6.50/kg respectively were looking firm, with more upside risk than before. NZX Dairy Data and Insights said its forecast milk price had risen 9c to $6.99/kg after the GDT event and the dairy derivatives market response. All WMP futures prices had risen over the three weeks since the previous GDT event, and all contracts were now quoted over $3000, the peak expected at $3040 in December. NZX said milk price futures contracts for September 2021 (current season) had risen 17c over the period between GDT events and was $6.77 last Thursday. ASB economist Nathaniel Keall said it was encouraging for dairy farmers to see the forward contracts for WMP rise above the $3000 threshold. “Previously we highlighted healthy milk production data and continued

PEAK: Westpac senior agri-economist Nathan Penny said the second consecutive rise in the GDT index occurred as the NZ spring milk peak began.

economic uncertainty overseas as downsides to that ($6.75) forecast over recent weeks, but all-up, the GDT result suggests those risks are receding,” he said. Westpac senior agri-economist Nathan Penny said the second consecutive rise in the GDT index occurred as the NZ spring milk peak began, despite recent data that showed a strong start to the season. Production in August was up 4.7% ahead of the previous corresponding month. “In the short-term, strong NZ spring production still has the potential to put pressure on prices, although for now firm global and especially Chinese demand is dominating.” The offering volumes in the latest GDT were down compared with this time last year, although volumes were picking up as they do at this time of the NZ season.

It is an encouraging picture for New Zealand farm gate milk prices with peak spring production less than a month away.

In particular, there was less butter on offer because Fonterra said it was getting better prices off GDT, helping to explain the upward price pressure as the supply tightened. Butter rose 8.4% on GDT and anhydrous milk fat rose 5.4%. The latest 2.2% increase in the GDT price index followed the 3.5% rise on September 15. The rally followed a total 8.3% fall in the market between July 7 and September 1.

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Yearling bull orders slow to eventuate AS WINTER slides off into the distance, focus for some farmers turns to hitting the spring cattle markets, and throughout Hawke’s Bay stocking up on yearling Friesian bulls is forefront in many minds. The year has not been an easy one and the best-laid plans have had to be changed, but bull farmers need to keep their systems turning over which means offloading finished or older cattle and bringing in the next round of bulls, so the cogs keep turning. Most of the trading of yearling Friesian bulls tends to happen outside of the sale yards, and independent agent Phil Hewitt is currently in the thick of it in Hawke’s Bay. He has noted that spring buying orders have been slower to come forward, as paddocks usually earmarked for yearling bulls are being shut up to rebuild depleted supplementary feed, while Wagyu cattle have also been spotted on some of the more traditional bull finishing Hawke’s Bay farms. Looking back to July, the bull market tracked along its usual path, but the August-September period has been a hard battle. “We are up against a lack of confidence in the weather and to a lesser though still significant extent the markets. Feed is not springing away and while there are plenty of Friesian bulls on quote, those to buy them are thin on the ground and sticking closely to budgets,” Hewitt said. Any yearling bulls that are picked up now are to carry-over and North Island quotes are varying from $2.60/kgLW up to $3.20/kg dependent on weight and type, but most are quoted at $3/kg currently. Even this level has proved to be a sticking point for buyers and $2.95/kg has also been tabled. “Rain and grass growth will turn this market around, but we need both in good volume,” he said. In contrast, Hewitt says the two-year bull market has been static. “We have seen the older bulls around 500kg sit close to the $3/kg mark for weeks on end, but buyers know they will likely have these cattle finished and off their properties by Christmas,” he said. suz.bremner@globalhq.co.nz

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