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Lamb export values surge Rabobank analyst Genevieve Steven says on a positive note exports to the US in March were up 47% with strong demand from the US for Easter lamb. This is an encouraging sign in the lead up to grilling season that the US demand for NZ lamb through 2021 is likely to continue. However, while strong demand from key markets continue to underpin high export earnings, it will come back to what consumers are willing to pay.

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ESPITE supply chain challenges and processing delays lamb export prices have soared to an unseasonal all-time high. Continuing the run of record high monthly lamb average export values (AEV) since August last year, AEV reached $13.49 a kilogram for March. This is the highest ever recorded. Both chilled and frozen AEV reached NZ$20.67/kg and $12.52/ kg, respectively. AgriHQ analyst Hayley O’Driscoll says historically it has only been chilled lamb that has been able to reach an AEV of more than $12/kg. She says frozen lamb typically makes up between 70-85% of New Zealand lamb exports. “This is really what is supporting high farmgate prices and interestingly this record high AEV has occurred during the month where NZ lamb typically experiences its lowest price for the season.” March lamb production at processing plants was significantly impacted by Omicron isolation requirements and staffing shortages. This limited export volumes with March recording only 30,850 tonnes, the lowest export volume ever recorded for the month of March and 658t below the previous low in March 2018. O’Driscoll says less lamb being exported from NZ and Australia, as well as reports that cold storage volumes in Europe and the US are much lower than normal, is

Interestingly this record high has occurred during the month where NZ lamb typically experiences its lowest price.

PRICE PRESSURE: Rabobank analyst Genevieve Steven says soaring inflation could test consumer willingness to pay.

driving values up in these markets. “Now that their economies have reopened, demand from the US and Europe for higher valued cuts continue and are supporting record high prices.” One issue for NZ exporters is being able to take full advantage of these higher prices and strong demand. As well as the Omicron disruption, processors have been struggling all season with a shortage of skilled butchers and have been unable to fully meet the quantities of higher value boneless cuts requested with some meat companies selling more lamb as full carcases. Last year when China was

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paying a higher price for carcases this was a good option, but the price has since weakened and exporters are noting a further softening on carcase prices because of the lower demand coming from China due to lockdowns and shipping disruptions. “Typically, the lamb AEV increases each month from March peaking at the end of the season, whether this is the case this season will be interesting to see given March’s AEV is almost $3.90/kg above March 2021 and the fiveyear average for March.” Indications that there is still a sizeable number of lambs on farm that will be heading to slaughter in the coming months could also

mean that large supply could temper price expectations for the rest of the season,” O’Driscoll said. Meantime, fewer lambs are waiting to be killed and there is a sense that processors have almost caught up with the backlogs. Prices are bumping up a little and most processors will be paying between $8.20-8.40/kg this week. As processors catch up and space becomes available, more fluctuation is expected in the lamb price. Despite export volumes to the EU and UK remaining subdued, RaboResearch anticipates farmgate lamb and mutton pricing will hold steady at least through May.

Hayley O’Driscoll AgriHQ “With inflation reaching 8.5% in the US in March, consumer willingness to pay could be tested,” Steven said. Overseas markets remain complicated with China’s management of covid one to watch. “With widespread lockdowns in China, the key question is how long will they last? “A significant downside price risk remains if Chinese lockdowns continue for months as opposed to weeks, with a risk of lingering impacts on the Chinese economy. “We will be monitoring the situation closely, particularly in the lead up to the winter months when sheepmeat consumption is highest,” Steven said.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – May 16, 2022

SFF rises to the challenge Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz A BID to reduce the impact of labour shortages by lifting wages cost Silver Fern Farms Ltd an extra $40 million in 2021 and shareholders have been warned this may have to be repeated. Chief executive Simon Limmer says higher freight charges added a further $30m in costs to the meat company, but he says the company’s strategy of positioning branded product at high-worth consumers has made these sudden costs tolerable. Limmer told the SFF Coop annual meeting that he is optimistic about market prospects despite global uncertainty, saying that full processing plants and high livestock prices reflect a strong market. Farmgate prices for beef are 17% above the five-year average, lamb 29% and venison 7% below, although a year ago it was 35% below. Limmer says SFF is reconfiguring venison products, the channels to market and its target consumers to turn around the fortunes of deer. “We are clawing our way back to where it needs to be.”

Farming has never been so challenging but the future has never been so bright. Rob Hewett Silver Ferm Farms A relaunch of SFF-branded meat on the NZ retail market has seen sales growth of 52%, including a 15% lift in sales of its burgers. A target in the coming year is developing products around what he called beef’s fifth quarter, or by-products.

ON BOARD: Wairarapa farmer William Beetham was voted onto the Silver Fern Farms board.

Representing 44% of a cattle beast by weight, Limmer says there is an opportunity to add value by promoting products such as hides in the same way branded NZ grass-fed has elevated meat into premium markets. He says a shortage of labour this season means SFF plants had about 10% fewer workers than what it is needed and higher wages could be needed to retain and attract staff. Add the impact of Omicron, and Limmer says on some days the labour force was 70% of what was needed. This, along with a slow season, may extend this year’s season by up to three months. Limmer’s address follows an exceptional financial year in which SFF Ltd, the processing arm in which SFF Co-op owns

50%, recorded a $103.8m net profit after tax ($65.4m in 2020), a $54m lift to $179.7m in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) and a boost in equity from $609.5m to $683.6m. Limmer says the five year plan implemented in 2019 to create financial stability has been achieved in three. That goal was to cumulatively generate and consolidate $150m in profits and a 10% return on equity. It has achieved $240m and in 2021 the return was 16%. “We are resetting our goals and objectives,” he says. The result also reinforces the worth of its market-led plate to pasture strategy and its move to form relationships with suppliers beyond the weekly meat schedule. The other critical move was

employing 35 people in-market including 20 in Shanghai. In the past two years they have retained relationships with customers and managed logistics when SFF staff were confined to NZ due to covid. Limmer expects global disruption to continue and he praised the work of staff, especially those working in the supply chain, in dealing with a difficult two years. Despite these challenges, Limmer says underlying demand for meat remains strong and being positioned as a reliable supplier of quality, nutritious food will help navigate those issues. Chairman Rob Hewett also relished the company’s financial result, saying the year under review was the fifth successive year of dividend payments and/or patronage

rewards for shareholders. Shareholders received $18.4m in dividends from the 2021 result. He is also optimistic despite the challenges. “Farming has never been so challenging but the future has never been so bright.” During 2021 SFF attracted 180 new livestock supplying shareholders of which 160 were suppliers who became fully shared. Hewett announced more than 100 people have participated in the company’s governance development plans in the last six years. Wairarapa director Tony O’Boyle retired from the board after six years and after a very tight race, fellow Wairarapa farmer William Beetham was elected ahead of South Otago’s Simon Davies.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – May 16, 2022

Strong wool shows some signs of life Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz CROSSBRED wool is showing a little more spring in the market with stronger buying power finding buyers eager to get their hands on supplies. Prices over recent sales have lifted in line with a marked improvement in the quality of wool offered. Values have firmed and remain steady around the $3 mark for good quality fleece, a welcome change from the poorer coloured and contaminated fleeces seen as a result of climatic conditions and nutrition levels throughout the summer. PGG Wrightson Wool procurement manager Rob Cochrane says the market improvement is generally driven by the exchange rate, with the same trend showing out in

Australia. He says the spring in the price is more about the sheep numbers and volume of wool available than in any real excitement for an about-turn in the strong wool industry. “The crossbred market has continued to meander along its quiet pathway and while prices in general have not improved greatly over the past couple of months, wool exporters should be congratulated for their ability to support most types offered for sale which has enabled reasonable clearances to at least maintain a flat price,” Cochrane said. Production is lower with the stockpiles of wool that had banked up in both NZ and Australia over the covid period now moved, leaving the market for all grades of wool in a slightly improved position.

“Last season’s wool clip that farmers hung onto has now cleared and we are back to a hand to mouth situation in which the market is now largely driven by the exchange rate. “While crossbred woolgrowers will not see that as assisting their financial woes around total wool production, harvesting, transport and selling costs, at least a huge stockpile of unsold wool has not been created.” China’s demand for wool has eased right back after the most recent lockdowns, softening the Chinese market further from the lesser quality NZ wool that was offered up earlier in the season. Wool showing higher contamination percentages together with a poorer visual assessment than usual have caused market hesitation as there’s very limited interest from

SOLD: Last season’s wool clip that farmers hung onto has now cleared and we are back to a hand to mouth situation in which the market is now largely driven by the exchange rate, PGG Wrightson Wool procurement manager Rob Cochrane says. the Chinese mills that have traditionally purchased and processed these types. But Cochrane says the good news story is that better coloured and quality crossbred wools have received solid support from the wool trade in recent weeks with specific interest in secondshear types displaying good characteristics. Large quantities of crossbred lambs’ wool also continued to

come into the market during March and April with the best interest from exporters also shown towards those with similarly good colour and low Y minus Z measurement characteristics. Cochrane says many lambs’ wool lines offered for sale displayed coarser micron readings compared with earlier due to their longer staple length as shearing of some of these types was delayed because of shearer shortages.

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CONTENDER: Katie Milne is one of three candidates bidding to be the World Farmers’ Organisation’s president.

WEST Coast dairy farmer and former Federated Farmers president Katie Milne is making a bid to head up the World Farmers’ Organisation, a Rome-based advocacy group that brings together farmer organisations and agricultural cooperatives from across the world. Milne has served on the organisation’s board for nearly five years and is standing for election as president at the upcoming general assembly in Budapest from June 7-10. She is one of three candidates, something she says is positive. “It’s healthy to have options and a lot of diversity of thought and debate on the way forward,” she says. The WFO’s role is essential because it brings farmers to the

table and New Zealand has specific skills and insights to share, she says. Organisations like the United Nations have multiple conversations around food production, food systems and food security “and having actual farmers at those conversations is critically important”. Among other things, it ensures that any policies and programmes can actually be implemented, she said. Farmers add an incredible amount of value to those conversations, Milne says. The WFO – which was formed in 2011 – has the added advantage of representing a wide spectrum from underdeveloped nations right through to fully developed countries, “so we bring together the abilities and the perspectives from

the ground from all those farming types”. The WFO’s clout has grown and in the past five or six years it has started to be seen as a “powerful advocacy voice”. Milne says NZ brings something specific to the table. “We farm in a different style to many other parts of the world. Our economy is heavily reliant on farming, so we’ve got a very innovative farming community.” She says NZ agriculture doesn’t benefit from the same subsidies as many farming nations, so we have a different way of looking at things. Today a great deal of attention is paid to how to do better in terms of environmental impacts, biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions. “We bring some leading-edge experience in the way we farm to the table.”

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Details sketchy on feedlot clearance Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz FOUR years into the 10-year programme to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis, Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) officials are confident it is time to clear the one remaining infected property, the Anzco-owned Five Star beef feedlot in Mid Canterbury. But plans for the clearance remain sketchy with some questioning why it is even necessary for such a major disruption when not even halfway through the scheduled 10year eradication programme. While Anzco has got the scale to manage a depopulation process, it has become a frustrating and drawn-out bureaucratic process, Anzco general manager livestock and agribusiness Grant Bunting said. “We are obviously the last remaining property, at the moment, but I am confused at the rhetoric of the clearance just four years into the programme. “We understand MPI’s intention is to look to start depopulating the feedlot by the end of the year but there is a lot of speculation around the process and nothing happens until we are issued the regulation notice that triggers it and we have not had that yet. “The same regulation applies to us (feedlot) as to all the dairy farmers that have had their farms cleared.” While maintaining a working relationship with the M bovis eradication programme, no process or timeline for the clearance of the feedlot has been formally notified by MPI, Bunting said. “The big concern we have is the level of confidence around reinfection. “There has always been ignorance around the feedlot as a source of infection but that has largely been dismissed and that’s why we are continuing to ask –

ONE SHOT: MPI chief science adviser John Roche says various options have been considered to progressively depopulate the Five Star Bee feedlot but international experts deemed that is not possible.

why the clearance at this stage? “Is this in the best interests of much wider agricultural business? “There are a multitude of consequences here starting from the farmgate and going right through to the export market.

It (M bovis) will never wind its way out of Five Star if we don’t depopulate. John Roche MPI chief science adviser “We don’t have the appetite to do this again,” Bunting said. The 18,000-cattle Five Star Beef feedlot is New Zealand’s only large-scale commercial feedlot and has been operating in the

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Ashburton District for 30 years supplying beef to the Japanese market and locally under the brand Wakanui Beef. The feedlot cattle are sourced from across the country and go to slaughter at Anzco’s Canterbury plant located about 10 kilometres from the feedlot. MPI chief science adviser John Roche says the programme is at an important juncture with the focus on moving from delimiting, controlling the last known pockets of the disease, to provisional absence. He confirmed plans are afoot to start depopulating the feedlot later this year. There are different phases to declare freedom from the disease under the OIE, the World Health Organisation for Animal Health, an intergovernmental organisation co-ordinating, supporting and promoting animal disease control. Despite all science supporting the case that the feedlot is “really,

really low risk” because of its means of operation, Roche says to declare freedom from the disease the feedlot must be cleared. “It (M bovis) will never wind its way out of Five Star if we don’t depopulate. “We have looked at various options to progressively depopulate but international experts deemed that is not possible.” Roche completed the terms of reference last year for the feedlot clearance plan and this has been considered by the M bovis governance group that is tasked with providing strategic direction and guidance to the overall programme. “A higher-level plan is completed now and the details of this will be worked through over the next three months.” Roche acknowledged the extraordinary and complex undertaking to clear the feedlot but says delaying the process is not an option.

“If we hold off another couple of years it will just be more expense and delay pulling the plaster off and getting back to the way of farming pre-bovis with new biosecurity measures in place.” While speculation around the cost of clearing the feedlot suggests upwards of $40 million, Roche says it’s just that, speculation. “We don’t know the cost until we are completely finished.” M bovis programme director Simon Andrew says compensation is yet to be determined and will be assessed after depopulation and a claim for losses is lodged. “This is a complex operation and requires careful planning to ensure disruption is minimised. “The feedlot is of significant economic importance to the local community and careful consideration is required to minimise the impact of the depopulation exercise on all those connected to it,” Andrew said.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – May 16, 2022

Live export run abandoned Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz HUNDREDS of farmers and livestock companies are making plans to recover thousands of cattle from a pre-export isolation (PIE) farm near Tokoroa. The move comes after Hamilton-based livestock exporter Genetic Development NZ (GDNZ) was forced to abandon a contract of 12,000 cattle to China when a livestock ship failed to arrive as planned. In a memo to agents GDNZ managing director Dave Hayman advised that the livestock carrier he had contracted, the Al Kuwait, remained a “lame duck” and had not yet moved into dry dock. Al Kuwait required repairs to a broken propeller and was not able to commit to coming to NZ even by the end of May. “Hence, we cannot ship the cattle that are currently in the PEI isolation farm near Tokoroa. “Your cattle are at this farm and unfortunately we have to face the reality of local sale of these cattle,” Hayman said in the memo.

This is the chill wind of international trade coming right to the farmgate directly. Andrew Robins Progressive Livestock

He went on to advise that the Chinese importer is not prepared to underwrite the process, so GDNZ cannot fully honour the purchase agreement at the export premium value. “We now need to get your instructions to proceed to sell the cattle as efficiently and as soon as possible,” Hayman said.

NOT THIS TIME: The Al Kuwait, seen here docked in Timaru, has failed to arrive as planned for a contracted shipment.

Progressive Livestock managing director Andrew Robins is agent to several farmers with cattle involved. “Effectively everyone, including GDNZ, has been left high and dry, a series of events offshore has led to this.” Robins says the priority is planning to distribute the cattle out into the local market. “Some may go home to the farms they came from but with stock right across the country it’s logistically not viable to get cattle back to the South Island. “Shipping across the strait will be an obstacle to start with and it’s right on (dairy) herd

shift time for transportation. “On top of all that GDNZ has stated any cattle that go home will be at the cost of the farmer so it’s almost prohibitive.” Robins described the situation as “awkward” for agents. “We procured the cattle but the contracts are directly with GDNZ, but the eyes turn back to us to do the best by our clients. “We can’t pay for the cattle because we have not been paid. “In fairness it could not be predicted, as a livestock company we have been blindsided by this and we are trying to resolve the situation as best we can,” Robins said.

Live cattle export is about creating premiums and Robins says farmers budget for that premium. Many of the cattle were contracted at $1100 a head but will now only fetch $750-$850 in the local market. “Reality is this is the chill wind of international trade coming right to the farmgate directly,” Robins said. Live export consultant Brent Wallace says in his more than 20 years in the industry this current situation would be the worst he has seen. “Sometimes there might be delays around import permits or

a ship actually arriving but I have never seen it get to this extent – to have cattle in PIEs is alarming,” Wallace said. “The best outcome for all involved first and foremost is the welfare of the animals and they are getting well looked after.” Hayman is seeking legal advice on a claim against the shipping company and says if he gets any settlement then a portion of it will be set aside for cattle payment top-ups to farmers. The shipping company has claimed “force majeure”, unforeseeable circumstances that could not be prevented.

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SunGold licence tender delivers differing results Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz THE 2022 licence release for SunGold and RubyRed kiwifruit produced some variable results that may make Zespri change the closed tender process in future. After years of strong investment demand and oversubscriptions, this year a mixed set of results sent conflicting signals. The median price for SunGold licence rose from $550,000/ha last year to $801,000. But the minimum price paid actually fell, from $525,000 to $451,950/ha. The spread between median and minimum, historically only 5%, blew out to 55%. In addition, the total area successfully allocated was 324ha, less than the 350ha Zespri offered. In previous tenders, applications for SunGold and RubyRed were substantially oversubscribed, exceeding by as much as four times.. The price movements for RubyRed this year were similar in direction to SunGold, but at lower levels.

The median price was $147,000 and the minimum price $44,217. Industry analysts think that very high prices for SunGold, of perhaps $1 million a hectare or more, were paid by orchard developers who must have licences.

I think bidders at prices towards the minimum would have been surprised to be successful. Dominic Jones Origin Captial But the reduced minimums and the undersubscription indicate that demand had limits. Changed conditions on the tenders also caused uncertainties and planting deferments, orchard developers say. Zespri put restrictions on the tender process to spread the available hectares over as many bidders as possible. There was a 10ha per grower

limit and a maximum bid area of 50% of the plantable area on a KPIN. A use-it-or-lose-it two-year rule means that planting or grafting must occur by January 31, 2024, so orchards have to be ready to plant next year. The amount of SunGold licence on offer was halved this year, down from 700h to 350ha. Yet it was not fully subscribed, with a total allocated area of 324ha, 255 successful bids and an average size of successful bid at 1.27ha. These numbers contrast with the 2021 SunGold release: 700ha allocated, 267 successful bids out of 485 bidders who entered seeking 1500ha, and an average successful size of 2.61ha. Dominic Jones, managing director of the kiwifruit equity fund Origin Capital Partners, said the halving of SunGold allocation clearly drove up the median price. The effects of the other changes to the rules were harder to fathom, but they were factors contributing towards the spread of prices. “I think bidders at prices towards the minimum would have

GET GROWING: A use-it-orlose-it two-year rule means that planting or grafting must occur by January 31, 2024, so orchards have to be ready to plant next year.

PEAK: MyFarm head of investment Con Williams says the kiwifruit industry is performing well with good operating margins, but cost increases have put limits on what developers are prepared to pay. been surprised to be successful and certainly wouldn’t have been bidding because they had to achieve an allocation. “That would not necessarily show a lack of demand but reflect the uncertainties of the new rules.” Jones hopes that the tender rules will be amended for next year and fixed in place, because the wide spread was not evidence of a well-informed market. He presumed two groups of dissatisfied participants; those who paid very high prices and saw others buy with only half the outlay, and those who held off thinking that $800,000 or $900,000 was going to be needed. “Whatever the rules, they need to be in place early and persist for a number of years for certainty.”

Orchard syndicator MyFarm’s head of investment Con Williams said the higher median price and unfilled allocation indicated a developing resistance to paying high prices. “We appear to be at the peak of SunGold licence buying. “The industry is performing well with good operating margins, but cost increases have put limits on what developers are prepared to pay.” MyFarm had one gold orchard under development and the restricted licence allocation was a risk that investors were warned about. Williams wanted a more transparent and predictable bidding process, perhaps an auction that would be fair to all participants.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – May 16, 2022

Nathan Guy ready to take the chair at Apiculture NZ Staff reporter FORMER MP Nathan Guy will take over as independent chair of Apiculture NZ in July, taking over from Bruce Wills who has held the role since the industry organisation was established in 2016. Guy has a strong primary sector background, both as an agricultural leader and dairy farmer. He was a Member of Parliament for 15 years, with five years as the Minister for Primary Industries. Through those years he has built extensive networks, including at a government and international level, and brings strong governance, strategy, and business skills to the role. “The board is delighted that Nathan Guy is to be the new chair of Apiculture New Zealand,” Bruce Wills says. “Nathan’s commitment to New Zealand’s primary sector, his understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by the apiculture

sector, and his ability to connect with key stakeholders here in New Zealand and abroad will be welcomed by the industry.” “Nathan’s time as Minister has also seen him gain specific experience and knowledge of key areas including biosecurity and honey regulations, as well as experience of international markets and consumers,” Wills says. Guy says he is excited to be part of Apiculture New Zealand. “The industry plays a critical role in our agri-sector, contributing over $5billion to New Zealand’s economy, not just through honey and bee products but also through pollination services. “There is huge opportunity to grow the sector’s value to New Zealand and I look forward to working with the board, its members and industry to continue their work consolidating a sustainable future for the apiculture sector.”

Rimmington replaced as chair of regional council Staff reporter BARRY Quayle will chair the Waikato Regional Council after a majority of councillors backed the removal of Russ Rimmington from the top spot. An extraordinary meeting of council was called on May 9 following a request by eight councillors was delivered on April 17 to deal with matters associated with the role of the chair. While there was recognition of the extensive contribution made by Rimmington to the Hamilton and wider Waikato communities over a number of years during the meeting, some councillors were concerned about the culture among the governance arm and that the council was not being well represented on a number of matters. In a vote of 8-6, a motion to remove Rimmington as chair was passed. Rimmington said it was disappointing but democracy has spoken. He indicated there could be a judicial review of the decision. Quayle was then voted as new chairman in a 11-3 vote. Kataraina Hodge – who chaired

VOTED OUT: Former Waikato Regional Council chairman Russ Rimmington says he was disappointed to have been voted out as chair said but recognised that democracy had spoken. the majority of the meeting after Rimmington declared a conflict of interest – remains as the deputy chair of the council. Quayle said that decisionmaking would be unaffected by the leadership change. “It is important going forward that this council acts as one and that we have cohesion. “I am confident that all 14 councillors will be able to continue

to respectfully and robustly discuss issues affecting the region and make decisions that are in the best interests of the Waikato.” Councillors have demonstrated that despite at times having divergent individual views, they can engage in full and frank discussions and make big decisions, he said. “That’s been evident with matters like the 10-year budget, our position on local government and three waters reform, our covid-19 response, public transport, and most recently the management of pests in our region. “While there’s just a few months left in this term of council, there’s plenty more work to be done. The coastal plan review is just one example of that – we’ll be working hard and closely with staff to ensure iwi, stakeholder and community views have been taken account ahead of notification.” He acknowledged the valuable and passionate contribution Rimmington had made as chair. “I am certain he will continue to represent the best interests of his Hamilton constituents and the wider region over the remaining months of this triennium.”

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Conscious consumers could boost wool demand

IT’S WOOL’S TIME: Strong Wool Action Group (SWAG) chief executive Andy Caughey says global consumers are changing their buying patterns.

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THE planets may finally be realigning for wool as the world starts questioning the impact of synthetic fabrics, woolclassers were told last week. Several industry representatives who spoke at the New Zealand Woolclassers Association annual meeting and professional development day in Mosgiel, were upbeat about the fortunes of strong wool, but their optimism didn’t appear to be coming from a position of self-interest. The 50 or so classers were told the industry is united and given examples of green shoots of opportunity by marketers and retailers. Despite that, no one was left in any doubt of the scale of challenge ahead. Strong Wool Action Group (SWAG) chief executive Andy Caughey has lived in Europe for many years and recalls in 2019 UK sheep farmers celebrating they were receiving more for their wool than NZ farmers. He is optimistic about the future of strong wool, given changes to consumer buying patterns, especially among young people and growing awareness about the environmental impact of synthetic products. “The youth in Europe and the US are building the world for their future and are actively looking for products that have a low environmental impact and are sustainable,” Caughey said. Each year in NZ 150,000 tonnes of synthetic carpet is dumped in landfills, which have to be sealed to avoid the toxins in the products leaching into waterways. “These special pits are tombs of toxicity,” he said. Ironically a potential market for wool could be synthetic carpet manufacturers looking for more natural products. He said the lifestyles and choices being made younger generations differ from their parents. In the US many are abandoning inner-city apartment living for houses in the suburbs to engage with nature and spend time outdoors, creating an opportunity for wool blankets. He said SWAG will transition to Wool Impact on July 1 under a soon to be announced board, which will not be made up of industry representatives. Its chair will be chosen for their breadth of international experience, not necessarily in agribusiness, and

the board will have people with experience in marketing, managing change, finance and NZ agribusiness. Wool Impact will have an annual budget of $3.8m and employ a small executive. Caughey said Wool Impact will work with industry to develop markets, brands and products and he sees opportunities for acoustic panels, insulation, floor coverings, furniture, bedding, sanitary products, bandages and new products using deconstructed powders. Wools of NZ chief executive John McWhirter estimates that of NZ’s 750,000 annual strong wool clip, new uses or markets have to be found for 45,000 to 50,000 bales to start driving prices back up again. He said 25 years ago wool accounted for 90% of sales of NZ floor coverings. Today it is 14%.

Plastic has beaten wool and we’ve let it happen. We have to take it back. John McWhirter Wools of NZ “Plastic has beaten wool and we’ve let it happen. We have to take it back,” McWhirter said. McWhirter said new initiatives and commitments to use wool announced recently will absorb 2000 bales. Wools of NZ is aiming to capture 50% of polypropylene’s current NZ carpet market share, which will consume 55,000 bales. National Council of Wool Interests chair Rosstan Mazey said the key to turning around the fortunes of wool was the quality of the fibre. “For strong wool, it has never been in a more challenging space, but also it has never had a greater opportunity, evident with companies like Bremworth committing to only sell wool carpets,” Mazey said. He also spoke on the launch of the NZ Farm Assurance Plan (NZFAP), which provides assurances about the production integrity of agricultural products. He was asked what role, if any, wool prepared by certified classers or graders would have in meeting the criteria of the NZFAP. He said the scheme was in its early stages and had been focused on meat, but he was keen for it to be expanded to include wool.

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Investors cut primary sector stocks Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz THE S&P/NZX Primary Sector Equity Index has fallen by 13% since the beginning of the year as nervous investors sell down shares in agricultural companies despite high commodity prices. The primary sector index of 17 New Zealand listed companies in agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, aquaculture and forestry has fallen nearly 2000 points since the start of the new year, being now around 12,400. The same 13% loss in value hit the S&P/NZX 50 index, which includes the 50 biggest stocks on the NZX share market by market capitalisation. For comparison, the S&P/ASX 200 index of the largest listed companies in Australia has fallen 6% since the beginning of the year and the NYSE Composite of the largest share market in the world has fallen 9.6% year-to-date. Leading the way down on the NZX is a 25% loss in price by Fonterra Shareholders Fund (FSF) and a 15% fall for Fonterra Cooperative Group (FCG) supply shares. Both stocks are heavily weighed down by uncertainties over Fonterra’s capital structure and

milk supply share standard. FSF and FCG were trading above $5 in March last year before the restructuring intention was announced. They are now at $2.80 (FSF) and $2.55 (FCG) and have lost half of their market capitalisation of 14 months ago. Farmers themselves have lost $4 billion of equity.

The horticultural sector has also lost share value this year despite its product prices being at record levels.

A2 Milk Company shares have fallen 21% since January, from $5.74 down to $4.50, a steady decline with almost no daily rallies. Synlait Milk has fared somewhat better than its much larger dairy industry companions, its share price remaining steady in a $3.30 to $3.40 range. The horticultural sector has also lost share value this year despite its product prices being at record levels.

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Concern code will hurt piglet welfare Colin Williscroft colin.williscroft@globalhq.co.nz THE recently released draft welfare code for pigs will not only have a negative effect on farmers and piglet welfare, it will also affect the staff who look after them and consumers who want to buy fresh NZ pork, Manawatū pig farmer Andrew Managh says. Managh, who farms about 700 hectares near Halcombe, with about 6000 pigs on the property on any given day, says despite the draft code seeking to improve pig welfare, in a practical sense it means farmers are being asked to invest money into something that will not achieve that goal. He says under the proposed changes, farrowing pens at his and his wife Geraldine’s Ratanui Farm property will need to increase from their current 4.5 square metres to 6.5m2 and he can’t see the benefit in that. Massey University based NZPork animal welfare adviser Dr Kirsty Chidgey says the main causes of piglet deaths in any system are starvation, hypothermia and accidental crushing by the sow. Farrowing crates significantly reduce crushing but also allow critical management like fostering to ensure all piglets have a functional teat and colostrum, a heat lamp to attract piglets to lie in a safe area and reduce chilling, and stockpersons can quickly and safely give sows assistance to farrow if needed. Chidgey says it’s not clear how or why the 6.5m2 was decided. Pen sizes in other countries that have adopted farrowing pens are mostly in the range of 5.5m2 to 6m2. Germany recently adopted legislation to require temporary crating in 6.5m2 pens. German farmers will have 15 years to transition (by 2035) and their Government is providing funding to cover up to 40% of

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WELLBEING: NZPork animal welfare adviser Dr Kirsty Chidgey says the draft pig welfare code will not necessarily bring an improvement to animal welfare.

expenses, with a maximum limit of €500,000 per farm. She says research into farrowing systems is clear that alternative systems to farrowing crates have comparatively higher piglet mortality. “Farmers are concerned about piglet welfare for many reasons but the outcome of these proposals will not necessarily bring an improvement to animal welfare,” she says. “Yes, there’s a cost to farmers, and certainly to the consumers as well, but there’s a welfare cost here too.” She says some of the other proposals in the draft code are not supported by animal welfare science, such as proposed increases in space for growing pigs, which are between 56% and 140%.

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“We think there would be unintended welfare consequences of those proposals. “That’s because it would require much more frequent movements of pigs and frequent mixing of pigs of different ages and sizes to regularly readjust stocking density on existing farms. This would impose unnecessary stress and reduce the welfare of the pigs. However the reality is most farms would not be able to adopt either proposal for space.” Managh says if the proposed changes to the code become law, he would need to reduce pig numbers by about 60% to fit his operation’s total space. That would mean that he couldn’t keep on all the 21 staff he currently employs and he is concerned for the welfare of staff who would have to deal with extra

dead piglets. “Our staff come to work to look after the welfare of piglets, they don’t turn up every morning wanting to walk around and pick up crushed piglets.” He expects other farmers will choose to walk away from the industry, which longer term will affect consumers. “I imagine a large number of farmers will exit the industry and then consumers of fresh NZ pork won’t be able to purchase some of the cheapest protein on the market. “It will force the cost of living up again, and if the only option is imported product from a country with a lower welfare standard, then there’s no winners.” “The Government’s own report said the cost of fresh NZ pork would increase by 19%.”

Managh accepts welfare changes need to be made but he wants them to be science based and practical, rather than based on an ideology or a set agenda. Chidgey agrees changes need to be made to the code but says that some proposals have overstepped the mark and are unprecedented on a global scale. “We already have some of the highest standards in the world,” she says. “If you look at even the major pig producing countries, the EU for example, we have higher standards than most areas. “Some of the countries that we’re importing pork from don’t even have an Animal Welfare Act, they don’t have codes of welfare, yet we recognise sentience (the capacity to experience feelings and sensations) in our Animal Welfare Act.” She says NZPork supports an increase in the space allowance for growing pigs but the magnitude that the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) has proposed is too much. Submissions on the draft welfare code, which is available on the Ministry for Primary Industries website, close on June 24. Chidgey says there is a lot of material to digest but it’s important that farmers understand what’s in the proposals. “They have a voice and we want them to think about how this will affect them and communicate that through the submission process. “It’s not just commercial pig farmers, there are 5000 properties in NZ that are not commercial pig farmers but own and keep pigs. “They will be similarly affected by any changes to the code.” To view the draft code and supporting documents go to: https://www.mpi.govt.nz/ consultations/changes-to-thecode-of-welfare-for-pigs-andassociated-regulations/

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Growing Goodness Despite Covid challenges globally New Zealand's Horticultural exports climbed to a record breaking $6.6 billion in the year ending 30 June 2020. This was an increase of $450 million on the year prior and made up more than 11% of New Zealand’s merchandise exports.

Looking at this graph, which product has the largest export value?

2 What has the smallest export value? (look closely)

STRETCH YOURSELF: 1

Looking at this graph, which product held the largest market share of exports continuously?

2 Which product has had the greatest increase in market share from 1995 to 2020? 3 Which product remained at fairly static (consistent) levels throughout? This table looks at the top ten countries that we export horticultural produce to

What imported product has the greatest value?

2 What products on this graph are only imported and not exported? 3 Which product has a similar import and export value? Why do you think this is?

Puzzle time

Looking at this table, which export section earned the most?

2 Which export earned more, potatoes or onions?

STRETCH YOURSELF: 1

Kiwifruit, grape wine, apples, onions and potatoes were the dominant export crops by value. Can you find five lesser recognised crops (from the table) that have increased markedly in the past ten years?

2 Compared to 2019 returns, which four products had the largest value increases? 3 What was the value difference between total exports in 2010 and 2020?

Which countries' imports have the largest value to NZ?

2 Is there a product that is imported to all of the countries?

STRETCH YOURSELF: 1

Which three products go to the most countries?

2 Why would Australia not import apples from New Zealand? 3 What was the value difference between exports to Continental Europe and China in 2010, and then again in 2020? Can you work out the percentage difference between exports to these two countries in both years?

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Westpac: New normal is $8 Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz STAGNANT global dairy production should keep prices high for New Zealand farmers over the next 12 months, Westpac senior agri economist Nathan Penny says. A softening of demand for dairy in China because of the Omicron outbreak is likely to be temporary, he told farmers at a field day at Owl Farm in Cambridge. That softening is being blamed for dairy prices tumbling at the latest GDT auction and subsequent 30 cent revision in Fonterra’s forecast for this season. Omicron waves usually pass and Penny said he was confident demand will return to that market once the wave was finished. At the same time, supply will stay tight around the world and this will help underpin prices. “Come spring, we think underlined prices will rebound as China comes out of its Omicron wave and the key thing around production tightness globally will reinsert itself as the dominant force for prices.” Interest rates were also rising for the first time in a long time.

While this will impact global growth, it was not as important influence as supply. Dairy is a staple rather than a luxury product so even when incomes became tighter because of the effect of interest rates, they will still consume it. “Yes, it matters, but not nearly as much as the supply crunch. That’s the key driver over the next 12-18 months,” he said. On the downside, inflation and cost increases will continue to impact the farming sector – much more so than the rest of the economy. This is not a challenge that is going away any time soon, he said. Dairy incomes are very strong and farmers still had buying power that other parts of the economy did not have. “I expect the pressure on costs for farmers to be really rough over the next season at least.” Six months earlier, all of the indicators pointed to a fall in global dairy production and a lift in commodity prices. There was a drought in the United States, the Ukraine-Russia conflict, high fertiliser, fuel and supplementary feed prices and supply chain issues. At the same time in China and

South East Asia, demand for dairy was taking off and prices followed suit, with record prices for several categories. That never lasts and over the past few months, a few of those indicators were starting to go the other way, Penny said. Right now the commodity price cycle is different to the one that occurred in 2014. It is longer and prices are going to stay higher for longer. “We’re thinking another $9/kg MS milk price for next year. “It’s going to be quite different this time round and the key reason for that isn’t any milk around to fill the gap that we have seen during covid.” Like New Zealand, European dairy producers had their own production issues and their margins are no where near they should be for them to crank up production. “There isn’t a big supply response coming this year like there was back in 2015. This is going to be a longer cycle and we expect consecutive high milk prices. “Where is the new normal? The new normal is now $8. There’s still quite a wide range around that, but $8 is the new $6.”

RECOVERY: Westpac senior agri economist Nathan Penny is confident demand will return in China once it emerges from the latest Omicron wave. The pandemic accelerated that shift upwards, which was already slowly occurring and now New Zealand was at a new long running milk price. That acceleration has put the

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Doubling down on fall army worm pest Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz

IN coming weeks biosecurity officials will be doubling down on efforts to identify if the fall army worm has established itself further in the upper North Island. The highly invasive caterpillar moth was found in Tauranga in March and has since been identified in several Waikato maize sites and one at Pukekohe near Auckland. A Tauranga Moana Biosecurity seminar recently updated industry on progress and options for controlling the moth. Officials are hoping the colder winter months will kill off a moth that has become a major pest in Australia. Native to Central America and common in tropical climates, the moth was first discovered in Australia in 2020, New Caledonia in 2021,and now New Zealand. “It has been a very quick, consistent march across the globe and the damage it causes is pretty intense,” Ministry for Primary Industries’ response manager Kieran Patchell said. The moth’s preferred diet is sorghum, maize/ sweetcorn, and rice. Patchell said it was at least fortunate that NZ only had one of those as a major food source. “But they do still have quite a lot of host material when it runs out of primary feed. It will latch onto a wide range of host plants across 76 families. In NZ that includes potatoes, capsicums, aubergines, and some brassicas.” The moth’s caterpillars have been detected on one brassica site. Eighteen properties have been confirmed as detection sites to date. Australia now has the pest established in Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland after initially trying to eliminate the caterpillar. “And they are seeing re-invasion southward every year.” The moth’s ability to travel 100km overnight has made it a particularly rapid spreader. MPI officials are working to reduce reservoir populations of the pest and limit the chances it could persist into the warmer spring months when its preferred feed supplies will increase significantly. “We are wanting to remove any host material, and modelling to better understand the spread risk, working collectively with all national bodies on this.” An immediate challenge is getting a better handle on the full degree of the caterpillar’s spread. “We suspect it does get cold enough in many areas to kill it off, but in Northland, maybe not and we need more surveillance there.” Amelia Pascoe, the government-industry agreement relationship manager, said NZ has a strong history of managing lepidoptera (moth) incursions, including codling moth and painted apple moth. But she acknowledged the unpopularity of some controls, including the extensive painted apple moth aerial spray programme in 2002. “We know from previous experience it can be hard to get community support across the line.” Another technology that has proven successful is drone dispersal of sterile codling moth males, as done in Hawke’s Bay to control an outbreak there in 2018. This is regarded as one of the most successful applications of the emerging technology to date. Scion spray specialist Justin Nairn said unmanned remote vehicles were suitable for targeted spraying of tall trees and were more socially acceptable than conventional aerial applications. However, they require early detection and strong surveillance to give a high degree of confidence the infected area was being well covered.

It has been a very quick, consistent march across the globe and the damage it causes is pretty intense. Kieran Patchell MPI

INVASIVE: The fall army worm has proven highly invasive in Australia and is prevalent in Queensland, Western Australia and Northern Territory.

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Truly in a class of his own Bruce Abbott has enjoyed a wide-ranging career in the wool industry, culminating in being made a life member of the New Zealand Wool Classers’ Association. Neal Wallace discovers his passion for wool burns as bright as ever.

DVICE given to Bruce Abbott when he returned to work after a Massey University wool classing course in the mid-1960s resonated throughout his career. A senior staff member at the National Mortgage wool department in Dunedin reminded him that the most important aspect of wool preparation was colour, which he would be learn while on the job. Abbott’s 55-plus year career has taken him from wool sheds to wool scours, including more than 30 years classing fine wool on Otago and Southland farms. He has seen the highs and lows of wool farming – the micron madness of the 1990s when farmers were racing to produce ever-finer Merino fleece, to the virtual collapse of the crossbred wool industry as consumers forgot the fibre’s merits. Despite that, Abbott who is semi-retired and living in Mosgiel, remains confident and upbeat about the industry and is still actively doing his bit to spark a recovery. He effectively stumbled into the industry when he left Otago Boys’ High School in 1964. His brother in law was a private wool buyer in Waimate and Abbott had enjoyed travelling to farms and working with wool. It seemed an interesting career and he secured a role in the Dunedin wool department of the National Mortgage stock firm. Part of his training involved studying for a Diploma in Wool and Wool Classing at Massey from 1965-66. After five years at National

Mortgage, he was offered a wool sorter’s role at the Water Taylors scour at Timaru, which began more than a decade working and later managing scours. He estimates there were 35 scours, albeit small, dotted around the country in those days but notes there were also about 70 million sheep. There are now three. There were also eight wool brokers operating in Dunedin alone. An opportunity to work for the NZ Wool Testing Authority (NZWTA) eventuated,and together with wife Patricia they moved to Wellington, but it was only a year before they decided to return south. They were enroute without a job when the NZWTA offered him a regional manager’s role in Dunedin, which he accepted. For the next seven years he managed the collection, sampling and despatching of wool results. During that time the two largest Dunedin wool brokers, Wrightson and Dalgety, decided they would micron test all wool, a significant move that spread nationally and required an expansion of testing services. An impromptu meeting in the street resulted in a complete career change. Bruce and Pat were offered the role of managing the YMCA’s Dunedin accommodation facility, which they did for seven years. A year after making that change, Abbott was invited to class the Nokomai Station halfbred and Merino clips, which he did while they still managed the accommodation business. Eventually Abbott worked with

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MAINTAIN QUALITY: New Zealand Wool Classers’ Association life member Bruce Abbott says farmers have a role ensuring quality is high and there is not a repeat of the recent situation where UK farmers received more for their wool than NZ.

Alexandra shearing contractor Peter Lyons, which grew his classing run to eight sheds mostly in Otago. For about 100 days from late July to early December he classed up to 100,000 fleeces, his A1457 stencil appeared on clips from Walter Peak, Cecil Peak, Halfway Bay, Motatapu, Wainui, Horseshoe, Auripo and the Selbie farm. He has cut back to three sheds now, but classing reinvigorated his passion for wool. “It’s not a skill you learn from textbooks, it’s about the feel and the colour. When I class I am always looking at the colour.” His skill and judgement determines a farmer’s income. A highlight was helping the Selbie family one year receive $265/kg at auction for a bale of 13 micron Merino wool. Such is the fickle nature of the industry, the next year the equivalent bale sold for $20/kg. Abbott says the most important person in the shed is the presser, the gofer between shearers, shed hands and the farmer who

is responsible for penning up, tidiness and branding and tracking each bale. “If you have a good presser, everything flows.” As he stepped back from classing Abbott became involved in the NZ Woolclassers’ Association, acting as its executive officer for seven years. In that time he improved communication, introduced field days, linked the association to other wool groups and grew membership by introducing an associate role. Another passion is education and he has helped introduce wool training courses through the Southern Institute of Technology that have grown from less than five people a course to 58 this year. Abbott sees horticulture providing a solution to wool’s ills. Avocado and kiwifruit sectors were in dire situations, he says, until the two industries started working together. Abbott says that is what wool has to do. “We’re not a big industry and

we have previously not worked together.” But with consumers moving away from synthetic materials, Abbott says wool’s time has come provided the industry works together to promote quality fibre. Farmers have a role ensuring quality is high and there is not a repeat of the recent situation where UK farmers received more for their wool than NZ. “Crossbred wool preparation has gone out the door and we have got to get it back and we can only achieve that with properly trained people in the shed.”

It’s not a skill you learn from textbooks, it’s about the feel and the colour. When I class I am always looking at the colour. Bruce Abbott Wool classer

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Researcher digs up magic compounds in NZ produce Plant and Food Research scientist Dr Odette Shaw admits she lacks green thumbs when it comes to growing the key subjects of her work, fruit and vegetables. However, what she lacks in horticultural skills she has more than made up for by lifting the lid on the compounds that make fruit and vegetables even better for us than we originally thought. She spoke to Richard Rennie. to people would be the anthocyanins, the compounds that give us the red, blue and purple colours you find in the likes of blueberries and red cabbage.” Her research has already prompted the launch of an ingredients venture with New Zealand company Anagenix Ltd, based around the unique blend of polyphenols found in boysenberries and apples. BerriQi is a patented consumer product containing polyphenols. Originally, BerriQi was developed for consumers who live in high pollution areas concerned about protecting their lungs from damage. Her research continues to provide science-based evidence to further develop the BerriQi product range and support the marketing strategy. The evidence from her research programme has been key to successfully patenting BerriQi and raising the demand from consumers in Asia, Europe, North America, South America and the Pacific. Prior to the disruptions caused by the pandemic, Shaw and her colleagues were planning a comparative study between Chinese consumers and NZ subjects, looking at the effects of using the product when under air pollution stress. Her work is highlighting a common theme through NZ-grown produce that

researchers are starting to recognise. This is a growing appreciation of the compounds occurring in plants that result in health and wellness effects that could be used to market products. One example is blackcurrant research work that has been looking at the specific effects of New Zealand-grown blackcurrants on sports and mental performance, and using this scientific data in the marketing of extracts and products. But gaining regulatory approval to make a claim about a food product’s wellbeing properties, such as the one Green kiwifruit garnered for digestive health several years ago, is a tough road to go down. “It is a lot of work and expense to show you have a food product that can have beneficial effects, not all can afford the R&D that sits behind these sorts of claims.” She has also been involved with the Rubus breeding programme, developing a method for high-speed screening of fruit samples, identifying those that may exhibit anti-inflammatory or immunity-enhancing properties. Shaw says the most interesting aspect of her work is the collaboration, not only with the likes of Zespri and Anagenix, but along the complex chain that sees a berry, fruit or vegetable

breed ultimately become a commercial venture. “You can find that the practicalities of growing a particular crop that may have some particularly valuable compounds, are not easily achieved. Or it may be that crop has the compounds but has a particularly poor taste profile.” One promising project involves a species of raspberry exhibiting good disease resistance, growing characteristics and taste profile. But the extraction of bioactive and beneficial compounds does not have to necessarily be limited to the freshest, highest quality fruit. Extraction from lower grade fruit or rejects holds plenty of promise for helping reduce the mountain of food waste quality standards can generate. “It doesn’t matter if it’s not pretty, it can be dried, powdered and used as an ingredient across a range of uses including supplements and cosmetics.” Ultimately her work is testament to the “5-plus a day” mantra being even more significant than simply using fruit and vegies as a source of basic vitamins and fibre. “This work is a way to identify valuable components from plants we are good at growing, and many successful health and wellness products and compounds could ultimately come from plantbased sources.”

The ones most known to people would be the anthocyanins, the compounds that give us the red, blue and purple colours you find in the likes of blueberries and red cabbage. Odette Shaw Plant and Food Research

LAYERS: Dr Odette Shaw’s work is helping unravel more layers of high value, nutritionally-important compounds in NZ-grown produce.

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R ODETTE Shaw’s work on understanding some of the valuable compounds in the likes of raspberries and boysenberries traces back to her early career work studying the human respiratory system. “Working in respiratory health and studying the lungs provided an insight to one of the biggest capillary networks in the body, and they provide a good means to look at what happens to components when they enter the blood supply.” She enjoyed the concepts of food as a source of compounds with the natural ability to influence the body’s respiration, immune function, and inflammation pathways. A key part of her work over the past decade has been studying how compounds found largely in berries can help improve lung function and health. In a country like New Zealand where the incidence of asthma is among the highest in the western world, her work has become particularly relevant. This is even more so after a global respiratory pandemic continues to wreak havoc on health. Some of the key compounds she is studying are polyphenols, chemicals that occur naturally in plants and are also found in the likes of teas and spices. “The ones most known

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – May 16, 2022

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Finding skilled labour a growing challenge

THOUSAND miles, eight degrees of latitude, and some deeply contrasting social differences are the gaps separating Gore in Southland from Opotiki in eastern Bay of Plenty. Opotiki is wrestling with gangs, drug use and entrenched intergenerational unemployment. Down south Gore is pedalling hard to keep locals local and to bring skilled labour into the strongly pastoral district. But both rural communities appear to have the numbers against them when it comes to their working age populations’ growth. An aging populace and departures for brighter lights by young people all threaten to eclipse the growth opportunities these communities aspire to, and can only meet by having a healthy strata of young working people in their midst. For Opotiki the jobs for those workers are more plentiful than ever as the community turns to the sea for new farming opportunities, while also intensifying its land use into high value, labour intensive horticulture. In Gore the continuing surge in red meat values has processors seeking highly skilled staff capable of extracting the most from every carcase, along with those skilled in other demanding aspects of the pastoral supply chain, from farming to truck driving. But the mayors and officials of both districts are far from defeated by the negative predictions of demographers for their respective populations. Meeting the local challenge with local solutions is helping stem the flow. For school children who are tomorrow’s workers, efforts to get them familiar with the work Mum and/or Dad head off to do is becoming part of their learning experience, a steppingstone to getting them engaged in constructive work experiences, backed with an education more tailored to their district’s needs. None of the people charged with keeping their districts working claimed the challenge is easy. But all have a deep sense of commitment and passion for their districts’ future, one that eclipses any of the broad-brush policies passed out from Wellington.

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Assessing the blame for ecosystem decline YOUR correspondent Laurie Collins (Farmers Weekly, May 9) found fault in Keith Woodford’s piece (Farmers Weekly, April 25) on pine trees in the landscape. I noted that Woodford was a bit rusty with some of his botanical/ecological stuff but generally it was a sound article. Collins got a bit confused about what mammals are and gaily likened them to birds of the past. The only native land mammals here are bats and seals and I’ve yet to hear of them creating havoc in our high country. What really rankles Collins is that the mammalian pests he wants to protect, such as deer, chamois and tahr, introduced by our British and European forefathers in the past 200 years, are the very animals his “Sporting Hunters” want to

maintain, despite their impact on our native forest and alpine ecosystems. Collins often cites the late Graeme Caughley, a university and forestry colleague of mine, who knew well that moa had a sometimes significant impact on our ecosystems but nowhere near as much as the big game mammals and smaller animals like rabbits, hares and possums that were introduced by the old Acclimatisation Societies. Graeme and I worked in North Island ranges assessing plant and animal condition and presence and we kept in touch until his untimely death. He was a thoughtful and modest man and would have been embarrassed by Collins’ presumptions about his work. He moved to Australia because they had a much more interesting mammalian fauna and not to escape “the

subjective pest dogma” that Collins claims. For Collins’ interest I come from a family of botanists, foresters and hunters, two of whom were professional hunters. David Field Rotorua

Add pepper to pest control arsenal REGARDING Steve WynHarris’ battle with his roof space rat (Farmers Weekly, May 2), there’s an easy way to keep rats out of hidden places in buildings. Give them a blast of ground pepper. A year ago a rat took up residence under our built-in bath and after the pepper treatment he never returned. I used a metre length of 12mm clear plastic tubing and poured a shot of ground peppercorns

into it. With one end of the tube fed into the rat’s lair and my air compressor into the other, a good blast of airspread pepper all through his hiding place. Ground pepper is non-toxic and won’t cause any damage to your building. Once the rat has been forcibly evicted it buys some time to catch it in a trap. You can also get a good night’s sleep as well. Neale Blaymires Te Puke

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No lessons in shaming and bullying Kathryn Wright

OMEWHERE, beneath the hyperbole, there had to be a human. Usually, in all disagreements and misunderstandings there are two factors at play – the issues and how the issues are being dealt with. And in the very pertinent issue of our environment and how some environmental activists are presenting some southern farms, it is most certainly the latter. No one is disputing that the health of our land and water holds great importance, well, certainly not anyone that I know. Like many a disagreement gone before me, rather it is how the issue is being played out. I’m a mental health professional that works with almost exclusively rural people. I am currently doing research on the mental health of young rural men, however, all matters pertaining to rural mental health are of interest to me, and I will strongly advocate where there is social and individual harm occurring in this sector. This is why, when I saw the latest Facebook post from an NZ-based environmental activist, something snapped within me. These activists covertly photograph Southland farms that they perceive to be flouting restrictions and harming the environment.

Photos shown on social media are literally a snapshot of a moment on time. And in that moment of time, people will often believe without question that what they see is legitimate, without any context.

I am not a farming or environmental expert, so I cannot comment on those particular matters, but I do understand mental health and I do understand rural people. I also know a fair bit about how people learn and how they are affected by bullying and shame. Hypothetical question: Imagine for a moment that your community has a gambling problem. So, to address this problem, a group of photographers were hired to covertly photograph

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these people sitting at the pokies, draining their money away. Then, the photos were posted all over social media, with thousands of horrified followers slandering and shaming them. The people who were photographed are harassed for weeks or months, and their mental health suffers substantially. All this, to get people to stop gambling. Will this solve the gambling problem? The answer is of course no – humans do not learn through bullying and shaming, they learn through support, example and education. Social media is a double-edged sword. It connects people like never before – (almost) everyone is available for instant contact at the touch or swipe of a button. This can be a light in endless darkness for some, or an allocation of misery for others. Photos shown on social media are literally a snapshot of a moment on time. And in that moment of time, people will often believe without question that what they see is legitimate, without any context. What represents that moment in time for some, equates to weeks, months or even years of investigation, suspicion and hardship for the farms that are held up as an example in those photos. This creates untold grief for them, but even for other southern farmers, there exists a constant feeling of needing to be on guard, looking over their shoulder and a sensation of a loss of control because those moments in time are seldom the whole story. Every farmer is fair game. Experiencing a feeling of constant surveillance damages the social fabric of affected societies.

CAUSE AND EFFECT: Counsellor and mental health advocate Kathryn Wright says that by sharing information on social media without context and supporting facts creates a narrative based on misinformation that could have destructive consequences. Photo: Megan Graham

It affects the way that people think and act and alters their perception of who to trust. Constantly living in fear of defamation and public shaming is damaging to mental health and will promote anxiety, depression and a multitude of other mental health conditions that will flow on to affect relationships, families and wider communities. Poor mental health exists in spades within the rural communities of New Zealand – agricultural workers are more than twice as susceptible to suicide than their urban counterparts. There are stratified reasons for this and these explanations are changing over time. Currently, through my research, governmental pressures around new regulations that are moving too fast – along with a growing national perception that agriculture is to blame for all of this country’s environmental woes, are coming through as reasons that agricultural workers feel maligned and unappreciated. Of course, this is a little like the

entire school getting held back for detention when that one naughty kid throws their sandwich at the teacher. I know of individuals and families that have been torn to pieces when these photos have been published – photos that never seem to tell the entire story. It might seem incredulous to some, but those farms have real people, families, livelihoods and in many cases, bank managers behind them that exist on the turn of a dime. There appears to be no consideration of this when those photos are witnessed by urbandwelling, farmed-food consuming individuals whom to them, the farmers are nothing but faceless, heartless environmental slayers. Contrary to this, many farmers love the land and take kaitiakitanga (guardianship of the land) very seriously. Yes, some need to do better, but again, bullying and shaming is never the way. What if, instead of using bullying, shaming and trespassing on peoples’ land, these activists

used their above-average photography skills to showcase the many good examples of farming we have here in NZ? Regenerative, organic and conscious farming methods exist everywhere if you look. Hold them up as examples and mentors – show them a better way. I’m sure their financial backers are rational, empathetic human beings that would see the logical side of this and will also understand the human cost of the current bullying tactics. No epiphany needed.

Who am I? Kathryn Wright is a Te Anau counsellor and deer farmer who is studying the mental health of young rural men through Otago Polytechnic.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – May 15, 2022

Why take our tools of the trade? Alternative View

Alan Emerson

I’M SICK of Police Minister Poto Williams telling me that an Arms license is a privilege. While I accept it isn’t a right, I don’t agree it is a privilege. According to my dictionary privilege means the advantages or immunities enjoyed by a small, usually powerful, group to the disadvantage of others. I’m at a loss to figure how the Minister thinks it is a privilege to own a firearm. I first received a firearms license years ago aged 15 or 16. My father, who was injured in WW11, told me it was now my job to provide meat for the family and I did with a .303. Most Fridays I biked through the Greymouth CBD with my rifle slung. No-one ever questioned me and I don’t accept that providing food for my family was a privilege. Is the Minister also suggesting that shooting noxious animals is a privilege? I certainly didn’t encourage them and they’re most destructive not to mention catastrophic for the climate. I don’t shoot them as a privilege.

ESSENTIAL: Alan Emerson doesn’t accept that providing food for his family was a privilege.

Is it a privilege to shoot a dog whose had its back broken by a cow’s kick? What would Minister Williams have me do, sit it down and give it a talk on co-governance? Is it a privilege to shoot a steer whose fallen down a bank and broken bones or a bull that’s lost it and threatened to cause mayhem on the road? Is it a privilege to shoot a wild pig when it has bitten the heads off half a dozen lambs? It begs the question does anyone in Wellington have any idea what firearms are used for in the provinces? We now have an inefficient, totally screwed up system of gun licensing and license renewal that is contributing to both hunger

in many outlying areas and the explosion of noxious animal numbers in others. How is that justified? By telling people they’re enjoying a privilege and can be dicked around on bureaucratic whim? It further begs the question is it a privilege for a builder to have a hammer or a car driver to have a license? Both can kill. I have several issues with the current firearms impasse. As I’ve said I don’t believe anyone in Wellington has the faintest idea of the practical use of firearms in the provinces. They’re still thinking toys for boys. I think Minister Williams is both

incompetent and out of touch. Her so-called Arms Advisory Group is a joke designed to give her the answers she wants. The police, like the Minister, are incompetent when it comes to firearms. They have no idea. Taking eight months to renew a license along with over 30 pages of largely irrelevant garbage is ridiculous and shows that neither the Government nor the police have any regard for legitimate firearms owners. We have the police wanting feedback from gun clubs with a 130-page document that allowed six weeks for a response, which was a waste of time anyway as the new law is to come into effect in June. The Police Commissioner tells me that guns aren’t imported into NZ, yet in April the police told the nation that firearms were being imported from the United States. I sent an Official Information Act request to the police, which was a total waste of time. I asked how many of confiscated firearms were legal to be told there was no such thing as an illegal firearm. I then asked how many of the firearms taken were semiautomatic to be told that semiautomatics were ‘prohibited’ – not illegal firearms, which I thought was a cute response. There were 34. I wanted to know of the 865 arrests in the recent Operation Tauwhiro how many had current licenses.

The answer was 43, around 5%. My point is that it isn’t legitimate firearms owners who are the problem so why try and marginalize them as both the Government and the Police do? We keep reading that the arms laws and police actions are all about keeping people safe as a result of the Christchurch mosque shooting. That’s rubbish. The mosque shooter was an Australian white supremacist who should never have been given a gun license. He bears no resemblance to the 250,000 legitimate, licensed gun owners in NZ. Legitimate gun owners also bear no resemblance to the many nonlicensed gang gun owners who can import guns and get around the system. In the recent ruckus over gang numbers in Parliament the Minister basically denied that gang numbers had increased. The police union suggested the Minister talk with police and get the real facts. The Minister would talk to the police several times a day, which leads me to the conclusion that either the police weren’t giving her the facts, or the Minister wasn’t listening. Those suffering the fallout are legitimate, honest licensed firearm owners.

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

We must get the regulations right Dr John Roche A RECENT Farmers Weekly article raised issues about the complexity of the regulatory process for approving methane inhibitors, delays and a suggestion that the process appears “to have grown more complicated”. I love how quotations can be succinct turns of phrase that capture profound insight. The article I refer to reminded of two such pearls of wisdom: the old Chinese Proverb that “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago … the second-best time is now”, and my father’s line that “laws made in haste, make bad laws”. The value of New Zealand’s food exports is built on the credibility of our food safety and biosecurity standards. We are world leading and we are known for that competency. This reputation is underpinned by our regulations and the fact that their development is evidencebased, with appropriate domestic and international consultation. We undermine this at our peril. The Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicine (ACVM) Act came into effect in 2001, and the impetus for its establishment was to regulate inputs used for the management of plants and animals for reasons outlined above.

This was well before methane or nitrous oxide inhibitors were even considered ‘a thing’. When it was recognised that the ACVM Act did not cover such inhibitors, work began on the best way to overcome this limitation. Industry strongly supported the work to amending the legislation and making sure it was done right. To ensure it was done right, a two-step approach was designed. This involves declaring a list of inhibitor substances to be agricultural compounds using the legal measure as an Order-inCouncil, while a more permanent solution will be achieved through a legislative change to the ACVM Act. Substances on the list will be subject to the Act and will require registration. The process has not become more complicated. Instead, for many people interacting with the process, this is simply their first time doing so. The regulatory process for these inhibitor substances will be the same as for other agricultural compounds, such as pesticides and veterinary medicines. And it is important to be clear. No methane inhibitor (or any other type of inhibitor) has been delayed to market due to the regulatory process because available inhibitors can be used without ACVM registration. Crucially, however, the new

registration process will give the primary sector and consumers here and abroad genuine confidence in inhibitor products. Reducing our greenhouse gas emissions is complex. We’re battling more that 50 million years of evolution to suppress methane. This is not easy and the products to do this are new. We must ensure no negative impacts on animal welfare, food safety, or product integrity, as well as ensure the efficacy of the inhibitor relative to its claims. It shouldn’t be surprising, therefore, that government would require chemical residues and efficacy data to register a product. Farmers, food processors, and our consumers will want this. With five million New Zealanders and more than 40 million people overseas depending on our food safety system, not to mention the reputation of more than $40 billion in export revenue, it is vital that we do not cut corners. We need to work together to achieve our collective aims: he waka eke noa, we are all in this together.

Who am I? John Roche is the chief science adviser at the Ministry for Primary Industries.

CARE NEEDED: Ministry for Primary Industries chief science adviser John Roche says the value of New Zealand’s food exports is built on the credibility of our food safety and biosecurity standards and we undermine that at our peril.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – May 16, 2022

A Californian thistle in my side From the Ridge

Steve Wyn-Harris

“NATIONAL frontiers have been more of a bane than a boon for mankind,” wrote D.C Thomson, a Scottish newspaper publisher in the 19th century. It became prophetic with two world wars closely following and yet another example as we watch the pointless destruction and suffering of Ukraine by Russia. However, it’s the word bane that brought me to this aphorism rather than a desire to delve into world affairs. A bane is a source of harm or ruin, or even a curse. The bane of my life in recent years have been Californian thistles. The Californians call them Canadian thistles and even this is not fair as they came to the Americas from Europe with seeds in the 17th century. That’s likely how they ended up here as well. There have always been Californians about but for some reason in the last few years, they have become worse rapidly and now instead of an unsightly inconvenience are beginning to become production-limiting in the areas they are invading.

I wonder if my improved soil fertility levels and the recent droughts reducing any other plant competition have encouraged them. The worst paddocks for the last two or three decades happened to be a couple of roadside paddocks on peaty soils next to a creek, so I assume they have their extensive root system down into the water table. Most of us are probably guilty of a spot of window farming and I’ve been no different with these paddocks.

There have always been Californians about, but for some reason in the last few years, they have become worse rapidly and now instead of an unsightly inconvenience are beginning to become production-limiting in the areas they are invading. Most years I’d take the old tractor around to these paddocks and give them a good topping, but they would make a comeback later in the season. To be truly effective, one needs to continue to top them each time they make a revival to deplete their root reserves. But I’ve lacked the perseverance. Then I bought a modest weed

wiper and would drag this over them, but with mixed results. The glyphosate would check but not eradicate them and I’d be back at it each year. Mind you, the wiper with glyphosate was effective against rushes so all was not lost. I did experiment with hormones through the wiper, but again with variable results and the next year the thistles would come back stronger than ever. A recommended practice was to hard graze with stock, but I’ve never been keen to thrash my ewes to get them to help me with my thistle problem. There was an attempt to introduce a beetle for biological control, but it hasn’t been successful, and I do see the rust fungus on the thistles, but it has made little difference to their vigour. I have double-sprayed glyphosate on bad Californian paddocks with a summer fallow before drilling crops, but that first spray encourages the thistles as they have no other competition. One time I did a third spray and that was effective on those particular paddocks but can’t be a sustainable option, although I’m desperate enough to try anything. Because I’ve spent my whole pastoral farming career doing everything I can to grow clover, I’ve always been a reluctant broadacre sprayer of hormone herbicides, but have resorted on occasion to get the spraying contractor to spray bad patches of Californians. This because if there was clover among it, no stock

PROBLEMATIC: Steve Wyn-Harris has been struggling to keep Californian thistle in-check on his farm and hopes to have finally found the remedy. Photo: Matt Lavin was going to battle their way in to eat it and it was probably only supplying nitrogen to the thistles rather than ryegrass as intended. I had hoped to exterminate the weed from at least these road paddocks before I died or retired but if anything, the thistles were more vigorous than ever. Finally in desperation, I appealed to my seed supplier and expert James. I said I’d do anything to rid me of these accursed weeds. He told me in that case, instead of my career’s half-hearted attempts, I needed to knuckle down and commit to the fourspray programme. I signed up on the spot. The following early December when the thistles got to 10% flowering, the spraying contractor turned up and gave them a dose of herbicide with the usual satisfying unhappy thistle patches. But I knew they’d be back. This time last year before the cooler weather, the regrowth got

another spray. Last spring, they struggled back to life but didn’t get to 10% flowering until later in January when we sprayed them once more. Since then, the feed from two large rain events has completely swamped any regrowth to the point they are hard to find so I’m not going to spray them again this season, but will be prepared to do so again if they manage to make a comeback next season. If it works on these areas, I’ll roll out the programme elsewhere targeting the worst and most annoying areas. Hopefully, James’ recommendation, the spraying contractor and I become the Californians bane rather than the other way around.

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

Striving for better climate outcomes Jim van der Poel DAIRYNZ is fighting for an emissions pricing solution that’s fair and ensures you can continue running profitable and sustainable businesses. We’re using your feedback now to strengthen two alternative emissions pricing options developed by the Primary Sector Climate Action Partnership (He Waka Eke Noa). The Government has legislated it will put agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme if we don’t come up with a better alternative. So, doing nothing is not an option and we fought hard with our industry partners for the opportunity to come up with a better solution. All 10 primary sector organisations in the 13-member partnership, including DairyNZ, Beef + Lamb NZ, Dairy Companies Association of NZ, Federated Farmers, Horticulture NZ and Irrigation NZ, are speaking up for our own members and seeking a solution that works for everyone. Following your feedback, we’re

doing everything we can to drive down the administration costs of the He Waka Eke Noa options, as far as practically possible. It’s vital you can continue running successful businesses while we work as a whole sector to reduce emissions, alongside all sectors and Kiwis. There will be ongoing discussion and debate on this subject because there’s a lot at stake. Agriculture going into the ETS would not bring positive outcomes for farmers or New Zealand. The ETS would be a broadbased tax on farmers going up every year and would not reduce emissions. We believe the options we’re streamlining now, thanks to your feedback, are effective, credible, fair and scientifically robust. DairyNZ represents farmers with the world’s lowest carbon footprint – that’s down to the hard work of our farmers over many years. Now, we want to remain internationally competitive – as our biggest customers like Mars, Nestlé and McDonalds increasingly seek sustainability assurances. Your feedback from the

DairyNZ and B+LNZ roadshow is resoundingly clear – 99% don’t want agricultural emissions priced through the ETS. You want a system that is costeffective, fair and recognises the actions you’re taking to reduce emissions behind the farm gate. We’ve heard you want control over your farm emissions and farm management. You’ve expressed a strong preference for the farm-level levy option, so you’re recognised and incentivised for on-farm actions. We’ve also discussed starting with the processor hybrid levy and transitioning to a farm-level levy as soon as possible. You want transparency over where the money is going and proof of an effective plan to deliver technology to farmers. We’ve heard you support the recognition of a wider range of on-farm vegetation not eligible in the NZ ETS. We’ll keep working to make sure the partnership’s recommendation to Government, due May 31, reflects what you’ve told us. And we’ll keep sharing dairy farmers’ voice when the Government releases their final proposed agricultural emissions

NO GO: DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel says agriculture going into the ETS would not bring positive outcomes for farmers or New Zealand. pricing design for public consultation in August. That’s another opportunity for you to have a say. It’s vital we have a system that works.

That’s why we’re working so hard to get this right.

Who am I? Jim van der Poel is the chair of DairyNZ.

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A seasoned campaigner There isn’t much that is routine on Lorne Peak Station in northern Southland. Neal Wallace talks to Matthew Tayler, someone who is brutally honest and looks for things that work rather than things he likes.

ATTHEW Tayler acknowledges he made mistakes last year, conceding he was slow to read key weather signals and ignored key triggers that subsequently had significant impacts. His mistakes were readily identifiable, but rather than dwell he quickly corrected them and made changes on his northern Southland high country station. “I bought 800 ewes with lambs at foot plus 4000 store lambs early in response to a bumper spring, but then feed ran out when just 20mm of rain fell in each of February, March and April.” He ended up selling 4000 store lambs in April but by then it had compromised ewe condition. “This flowed through to this season with ewes in poor condition last winter at set stocking, leading to poor lamb growth and survival over lactation meaning a disappointing weaning draft of 5%. “Weaning weights were lower overall leading to a delayed kill this summer.” Tayler realised he needed a flexible class of stock he could quickly quit when seasons conspire against him, something he previously adopted but didn’t utilise last year. Lorne Peak Station is a 5600ha high country property at Garston, about 20km south of Kingston, a town sitting at the southern tip of Lake Wakatipu. It lies towards the west, north and south, and is a property of contrasts, but also opportunity. Lying adjacent to the Mataura River is 300ha of flat, rich, silt loam suited to fodder beat and red clover, plus 1200ha of light, stony glacial outwash soils best utilised for lucerne. Part of the area is irrigated but Tayler is in the process of

expanding the area to 300ha. The balance of the property is rolling to steep clay terraces and tussock country rising to steep hill country, peaking at 1500m above sea level before dropping into the Nevis Valley. “We are more agriculturists than graziers,” Tayler says. “Having this balance is one thing, but the key is how we take advantage of that.” Matthew and wife Shona are the third generation to run the pastoral lease, which was bought by Matthew’s grandfather in 1960. They took over the management from his parents Phillip and Jenny about 10 years ago. They have two children, Logan and Prue. Lorne Peak Station Limited owns the stock, plant and the pastoral lease and leases two farms off separate family trusts. Behind the company Shona and Matthew’s family trust owns the shares, designed to make future succession to their children easier. Tayler recalled his grandfather’s attempts to cultivate the flats were unsuccessful due to rocks damaging cultivating equipment, prompting the ominous name, Siberia. Improved equipment and techniques allowed those flats to be developed by wintering dairy cows, providing Tayler with flexibility and options. Stock carried this year shows that flexibility: 13,500 Romney ewes, 3800 hoggets, of which 1500 are mated, 1800 winter trade

HIGH COUNTRY: Bulls being finished on Lorne Peak Station.

LEARNING: Lorne Peak Station owner Matthew Tayler says how he measures performance and business success has changed over the years.

lambs, 350 Angus cows, 100 in calf heifers, 150 trading heifers, 180 R2 steers, 380 calves, 50 R1 Friesian bulls, 700 R2 Friesian bulls, 600 contract winter grazing dairy cows and 300 cull dairy cows which are killed in June or July. The aim is to have flexibility to weather the seasons in a climate he says is comparable to Canterbury. Irrigation has added to that flexibility. “The way it has worked for us with irrigation, is that we fatten 800 to 1000 R2 Friesian bulls.” “I call them my elastic band because they are so flexible and can be killed quite quickly at anywhere between 250 and 350kg CW.” He tends to buy them in the autumn, a time of year when sellers are wanting to destock ahead of winter.

Lorne Peak has between 700mm and 900mm of rain a year and Tayler says most years they get that amount. “We always get our annual rainfall at some stage during the year, it’s just a matter of when we get it.” Another consideration when Tayler took over Lorne Peak from his parents, was the option of tenure review. That process, since halted by the current Government in its first term, enabled pastoral lessees to negotiate the sale of rights they have in the lease to the Government for the right to freehold the balance. The land surrendered tends to have high conservation and ecological values. Tayler says the farm was managed to give a clear differentiation between

productive and ecological values should tenure review be an option. He attempted tenure review four years ago but was rejected due to the lack of resources at Land Information NZ and the Department of Conservation but also because DOC believed the remaining significant inherent values would not benefit from further protection. It was obvious entering the process would have been contentious and an endorsement of the state of conservation values which reflected the way Lorne Peak has been managed. “We were never keen to go into tenure review until we knew how it we could operate once the farm had lost its summer country. “I didn’t want to be playing catch up, I wanted to front foot it.” The decision by former Lands

BIG COUNTRY: Lorne Peak has between 700mm and 900mm of rain a ye

On Farm Story Minister Eugenie Sage to end tenure review removed an option for leaseholders for which he says the public are the poorer. “It is a pity because the public miss out on new access opportunities.” It sends the wrong message by penalising those leaseholders who have carefully managed their properties. “It incentivises poor behaviour by not rewarding the good stewards for their past endeavours.” Each year they grow about 300ha of crops - fodder beat and brassicas, for wintering stock and pasture renewal but also lucerne. Lucerne makes sense from a bulk perspective, growing three times more dry matter/ha/year than traditional grasses, but also providing 10.5 to 11 units of metabolised energy.

I have introduced a whole lot of little tricks that add up to a solution to a summer or autumn dry, but the real trick is knowing when and which lever to pull, which we’ve done better this year compared to last. Matthew Tayler Lorne Peak Station It provides a guarantee his two tooths and hoggets can hit target weights of 65kg and 40kg respectively. This improvement in stock performance provided by irrigation and lucerne, has made it viable to further subdivide and improve the fertility on the hill country and Tayler says the return on that investment has been significant. “Lucerne has definitely been a good return on investment by also allowing us to extract value elsewhere on the farm.” How he measures performance and business success has changed over the years. Initially it was to hit a target number of animals and performance, but he found he

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was neglecting other potentially profitable aspects of the business. Similarly kg product/ha or other performance measures were too narrow focused. “This approach also led us to neglecting some environmental and people outcomes we value.” A former accountant, Tayler uses a blend of free cashflow and return on investment alongside product produced/ha and gross margins. “I am still mindful these are outcomes rather than drivers hence why we’ve come back to targeting a condition score of three for our ewes, which is reasonably easy to measure, and a culture that drives innovation, ownership and growth.” Tayler says these are more intangible but can be measured through staff interviews and development. Behind all of this is an understanding of their vision and values: We will lead by always innovating and being a place where people come to learn and grow. “It is still a work in progress and it doesn’t explicitly talk about monetary reward, so our measure of success now reflects this.” Ten years ago, the farm was run by Matthew and his father Phillip. Today he has a team of six helping him: junior shepherd Aiden Sullivan, shepherd Eilish Gardner, general farm hand, handyman Doug Broekstra, tractor driver Mark Taylor and stock manager Hamish McGregor. His father still helps out. They are also leasing a farm owned by Shona’s family, a 400ha Mossburn property which is managed by Willie Weatherburn. Tayler’s focus on flexibility, also reflects the staff he employs, seeking those who are fallible and display versatility and initiation. The approach to work of current generations differs from those in the past, and Tayler says that is a reality. “Instead of employing people based on what they know, I look at values and their outlook of life and I back myself to teach them what they need to know. “People who come to work here are made aware that there is no status quo. “I’m willing to admit my faults which means I can be seen to

ear and Tayler says most years they get that amount.

WATER MANAGEMENT: Irrigation is a key tool for managing Lorne Peak Station.

be a little indecisive, but it also means I allow space for people to contribute their own ideas.” The family has always shown a willingness to try new ventures and if they fail once, that are willing to try again with some tweaking. Early on his grandfather applied superphosphate by air to some foothill country, unaware that the soil was already high in phosphate and aluminium, so got a very poor response. Undeterred he applied it to another part of the property with different soil and got a phenomenal response. In 2005 Tayler said his father was approached by a dairy farmer looking for winter grazing for cows. Agreement was reached and income from the venture funded the development of 500ha of cultivatable land. “We are not afraid of failure and giving something a go.” Tayler attended Otago Boys High School in an era he says school leavers were encouraged to go to university, but he was discouraged from going to Lincoln University.

Instead, he studied commerce at the University of Otago which among skills, taught him how to learn and how to research. “I’m quite happy learning from reading a book, on-line or listening to a podcast. “It gives me space to reflect and to question how to adapt an idea or make it fit here.” He takes the view that he should know elements of his business such as soil fertility, rather than relying on a salesman to provide those details. An example was participating in a Beef + Lamb NZ Innovation Farm programme investigating beef finishing on legumes to avoid issues such as bloat. The result was to integrate more bulls to utilise the growth of high octane crops which also provides flexibility for the whole farm system. He especially enjoyed working with experts such as Chris Mulvaney and Derek Moot from Lincoln University on the project, realising the value of collaboration and forming lasting relationships. Tayler says while his priorities remain, his focus has broadened. He is increasingly embracing

FUTURE CROP: Replacement ewe lambs on Lorne Peak Station.

biodiversity on his farm and is currently attempting to gain NZ FAP-plus accreditation. A wetland on his flats is home to the very rare Gollum Galaxiid native fish. Extending from the wetland is a dry riverbed which, at times of heavy rain, reconnects to the Mataura River. Tayler is proposing building a 2ha to 3ha wetland at the junction of the riverbed and Mataura River which includes a fish weir to prevent trout accessing and decimating Galaxiid population. His is finding the lucerne and irrigation is reducing pressure on the hill country allowing the regeneration of native vegetation. Stock grazing is also controlling wilding trees, a growing problem caused by an exotic forest across the valley. In his spare time Tayler is the chief Fire Officer with the Garston Rural Volunteer Fire Brigade, a member of the local Beef + Lamb NZ farmer council, Southland Federated Farmers and various community groups. >> Video link: bit.ly/OFSTayler

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Exile on Main Street

IMPACT: Gore has lent heavily on migrants to fill the worker shortage and is home to 45 ethnicities, but Mayor Tracy Hicks is confident as large urban centres become too costly, New Zealanders will be lured south by opportunity, high wages, lower living and housing costs. Photo: Natwick

This week, Farmers Weekly journalists Richard Rennie and Neal Wallace investigate how two different districts, Opotiki and Gore, are trying to encourage new workers and address an ageing workforce while facing a static or falling population. Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz NEW Zealand’s rural-led economic recovery is being hamstrung by a shortage of working-age staff, an inability to retain people and intergenerational social issues. Some rural districts already struggling for staff face even greater labour challenges in the coming years if demographic predictions prove accurate. Work by retired University of Waikato demography professor Dr Natalie Jackson is forecasting that in the next decade 75% of the country’s regional authorities will experience a decline in their working age population as young people either leave for bigger urban centres or are not being born. The primary sector worker shortage is extensive: 4000 dairy workers, hundreds of truck drivers, 2000 meat workers, 200 agriculture contractors and up to 10,000 in horticulture. Rural depopulation could be accentuated, with predictions 50,000 people could leave NZ now borders have reopened.

Jackson predicts Opotiki in the Eastern Bay of Plenty and Gore in Southland will experience population losses of 7% and 3% respectively in the coming decade, impacting growth aspirations. For Opotiki this comes as the district builds a more diverse primary sector, looking beyond traditional pastoral and forestry to the sea and horticulture for income generation for iwi and investors. In Gore the employment challenge is largely about maintaining business as usual, sustaining and processing the dairy, sheep, meat, wool and cropping industries. Pre-covid that shortfall would have been filled by migrants, but a combination of closed borders and a government immigration reset tightening access to foreign workers and elevating the wages that have to be paid has curtailed migrant numbers. Absenteeism is a growing issue among the meat and horticulture sectors with employers claiming the granting of a fifth week of sick leave is being treated by some as annual leave.

On any one day, 15% of meat workers will be absent with that figure blowing out to 25% of staff in some departments. Along with the existing worker shortage, meat companies have been unable to further process meat and fruit has been left unpicked.

While the national working-age population will grow 7% nationally between now and 2033, 31 of the country’s 66 district councils can expect their labour force population to shrink, even allowing for immigration.

An unemployment rate of 3.2% for the first quarter of 2022 indicates the NZ labour market is “extremely stretched” warns the ASB. It is the lowest as measured by the Household Labour Force

Survey since 1985 and at 3.2% is above its maximum sustainable level, senior ASB economist Mark Smith said. Similarly, wage growth has risen to a post global financial crisis high with more to come, as workers seek compensation for soaring inflation. Smith warns the relaxation of border restrictions could tighten the labour market further as Kiwis head offshore on a belated overseas experience. Jackson identifies north Waikato, Waimakariri, Selwyn and Southern Lakes districts among the few rural districts likely to experience gains in their working population. She estimates some districts can expect a 12% slide in their working-age population of 20 to 65-year-olds, a figure reflecting a significant drop in NZ’s fertility rate over the past 20 years. While the national workingage population will grow 7% nationally between now and 2033, 31 of the country’s 66 district councils can expect their labour force population to shrink, even allowing for immigration.

An optimistic scenario where immigration is 55,000 a year and fertility boosted from 1.6 to 1.9, still means almost half the country’s territorial authorities will still have reduced working-age populations. The mayors of Opotiki and Gore highlight lifestyle, opportunity, low house and cost of living costs as reasons for locals to stay and people to move there. Trouble is, virtually every other community leader is touting the same line. Opotiki Mayor Lyn Riesterer said the district is standing at the dawn of a new era for growth, with significant investment from the Provincial Growth Fund providing a new harbour development linked to mussel factory and farming ventures. Gore has lent heavily on migrants to fill the worker shortage and is home to 45 ethnicities, but Mayor Tracy Hicks is confident as large urban centres become too costly, New Zealanders will be lured south by opportunity, high wages, lower living and housing costs.

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Opotiki mayor looks to future Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz OFFICIALS charged with boosting rural employment in the Opotiki district doubt predictions the district will suffer a labour crisis in the coming decade. Predictive work by Waikato University demographer Professor Natalie Jackson has raised the prospect of Opotiki being one of several districts nationally to suffer a significant decline in its working age labour force aged 20-65. Her estimates are that even with moderate migration gains, the district’s labour force shrinks by 7% and up to 11% should migration remain low. But Opotiki Mayor Lyn Riesterer said this is not the first time she has seen such predictions and doubts they will be fulfilled. “Over the past three years we have actually seen our population grow, from 9200, to now be at 10,000. We attribute part of this to covid, with people coming home to whanau, and also seeing jobs with the opportunity to buy a house,” Riesterer said. The 10,000 population is up 10% on the 2006 census and in 2018, 20% of the population had moved back in only the past two years. Along the poor end of the Bay of Plenty, Opotiki was hit hard in the 1980s by Rogernomics, with sheep farming subsidies removed, two clothing and one shoe factory closing and many Ministry of Works staff redundancies. In the meantime, the golden glow of the kiwifruit industry the Western Bay enjoyed was late arriving, with the Opotiki

GAINS: Opotiki Mayor Lyn Riesterer says she is unconvinced population decline in Opotiki will become a full blown exit of working age people in coming years. district struggling through three decades of reduced labour opportunities and dwindling services. In a population where 65% are Māori, the district has recorded unemployment rates typically double the country’s average and a deprivation index making it the third worst in the country after Wairoa and neighbouring Kawerau. But looking out over the next 10 years, Riesterer sees every reason for the district to not only continue attracting ex-locals back, but to keep them and to grow, thanks to some major initiatives from iwi, the primary sector and government.

The district is now a hub for higher-value kiwifruit cropping further up the coast and is moving to farming the sea alongside its existing land-based assets of pasture, forestry and orchards. And under the Provincial Growth Fund, Opotiki’s boat literally came in. After over a decade and five funding attempts, it received $80 million towards its harbour development and a mussel factory operation, which opened in August last year. It represented a significant injection to a small district economy that generates about $450 million of GDP a year. Operating as Open Ocean Whakatōhea Mussels, the factory will ultimately employ 230 people by 2025, representing the last piece of the district’s aquaculture puzzle for more employment. The factory fits with the massive 5000ha of ocean area off the town’s coast that was a key part of the Whakatōhea Treaty settlement. It was the first settlement to include ocean area as part of the deal and is the largest open ocean farming zone in the world. The focus on the sea makes sense in a district where 75% of the land is locked in DoC estate, while also claiming 50% of the Bay of Plenty’s total coastline. It is also the culmination of iwi elders’ vision to farm the sea to provide income for whanau. Barbara MacLennan, workforce manager for the development agency Toi EDA, said the projects have been undertaken with an eye on ensuring long-term, sustainable jobs are offered locally first. “We have asked, ‘what does a good job look like?’ There is a strong values base

at heart of that, something some sectors have been incredibly slow to get across,” MacLennan said. The Opotiki district has suffered generations of embedded welfare dependency and even now in a time of plentiful jobs has 1500 of its 10,000 population on benefits. Of these over half are unemployment benefits, with intergenerational welfare dependency common. “It has taken three generations to get into this position and will take time to get out, there are no quick fixes. People need a lot of pastoral care to step into work,” she said. She said moving people into work involves more than simply promising a living wage. The district has developed a “pathways to work” approach almost a decade ago, identifying people while still on a benefit, both young and old, and helping deal with drug, family and housing pressure prior to placement in a job. This can be as simple as helping would-be employees get their car licence, often the first step to other higher-paying licences, including forklift operating and heavy trucks. “We have put support in to encourage employers to take someone on without a licence and wrap around to help them get it while working,” she said. The “pathways to work” philosophy has become a blueprint later embedded in tender documents for the harbour and factory projects. “It means much more of the supply side to these projects is now sourced locally, like concrete for example, and involves local people and businesses,” she said.

Sector advised to work with schools Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz THE primary sector has some challenges to overcome about how it is perceived before it can successfully engage more of a younger generation in the Opotiki district. As a district, Opotiki could provide a burgeoning pool of young talent to meet the district’s future growth aspirations in horticulture and aquaculture, with 22% of its population aged between 0 and 14, compared to 19% nationally. But Barbara McLennan, workforce management for development agency Toi EDA, said there is a need for greater engagement between the primary sector and school pupils if the sector wants to make more of the human resources on hand into the future. “They do not get into schools early enough and there is a poor perception and reputation for primary industry among many whanau,” McLennan said. She maintains there is even greater need for engagement by the primary

sector, given the absence of specialised agribusiness teachers in the local high school. “There is a need for employers here to create more excitement about the opportunities they offer. You so often go into a group of students and these jobs are not on the tip of their tongue,” she said.

There is a need for employers here to create more excitement about the opportunities they offer. Barbara MacLennan Toi EDA

She acknowledges the one-size-fits-all education system means qualifications and studies are not always well matched to regional opportunities. To help counter that, Toi EDA has engaged a work exposure programme known as WE3 continuum.

The system’s three steps involve children being “exposed” to the world of work at age 10-14, “exploring” as 13to 16-year-olds what may interest them for work, then “experiencing” work from 16-18, in real-world settings. “Work experience matters, let’s have a go at co-designing some work experience and exploration between industry and local schools, one size will not fit all districts,” she said. “We could then follow up young peoples’ curiosity so the teacher can be upskilled in helping them further that interest.” She is excited about the relationship developing with nearby Whakatāne High and the local mussel industry, with the school offering a marine studies course from Year 12. The covid pandemic has also bought a silver lining with funding from the Ministry for Social Development, targeted specifically at employing more rural young people under 30. Mayor Lyn Riesterer said all rural areas that have taken up the funding have placed over 1500 young people, and in the past year Opotiki has placed 50 under-30s into new, full-time work.

TAILORED: Toi EDA workforce manager Barbara MacLennan says there is a need to tailor local learning in schools to local job opportunities.

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Tough harvest for eastern BoP Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz LONG-TIME Opotiki kiwifruit grower and contractor Brett Wooten is finding this season more challenging than ever over harvest, and said he can’t wait for migrant labour to return to the eastern Bay of Plenty. Wooten grows 24ha of kiwifruit spread between Green and SunGold, and also runs a large contracting business to harvest and manage kiwifruit orchards in the district. Like most growers he would prefer to employ locals. But he has clearly become frustrated at this season’s labour challenges. He needs about 150 staff on the ground this season, but admits some days he is short as much as 40%. Despite Opotiki having over 800 jobseeker beneficiaries, he will often have to try 30 locals, just to get 8-10 to turn up for a shift. “And sometimes I may only get four or five out of that. I admit, I will worship the ground backpackers and RSE workers walk on should they return next year,” Wooten said. “I have all but given up (on locals), they are too stoned, too drunk – gangs and drugs are the biggest issues here.” He is compelled to separate some work teams on grounds of their respective gang affiliations, lest scraps break out in clients’ orchards during shifts. However, he also said he has some extremely loyal hardworking local employees who he deeply respects that have been working for him over 15 years. Barbara McLennan, workforce management for development agency Toi EDA maintains kiwifruit has been slow off the mark when it

TOUGH: Opotiki kiwifruit grower and harvest contractor Brett Wooten says future growth of kiwifruit in Eastern BoP will have to rely upon migrant staff.

has come to offering permanent, well-paid jobs to locals. “In 2015, about one in five jobs was full-time and that is changing. But the payment of a living wage has been one of the most important things to come out since covid limited RSE workers here too, before this just was not happening across the industry,” McLennan said. She said the ability to pay more full-time roles, aided by the arrival of the district’s mussel plant has helped many iwi who may be supporting extended whanau in their household. “And we have seen kiwifruit

step up offering far more flexible hours and being quite innovative, offering transport to jobs, meals at the start of shifts and sites for people in camper vans to stay,” she said. Wooten has long taken the view that the “bottom 10%” of the community need lifting up, leveraging off the opportunities the likes of him can offer. He was part of a community of growers donating 1-2c a tray to a fund that accumulated almost $100,000. However, he said conflicting objectives among contributors meant it became spread too

LAGGING: Barbara McLennan, workforce management for development agency Toi EDA, maintains the kiwifruit industry has been slow off the mark when it has come to offering permanent, well-paid jobs to locals.

widely, and he felt compelled to resign. Even as more orchards are developed further down the coast, Wooten is circumspect about how far future expansion can go, given labour constraints. “I really think once you get down toward Te Kaha, we are going to see a mini-Tonga there, with RSE workers having to do the job,” he said. Eastpack and Seeka are the two main post-harvest processors in the district. Eastpack chief executive Hamish Simson said he sees a disjoint between the training skills schoolleavers are receiving in the district and the district’s job needs. He accepts the sector has some responsibility to engage with locals and points to school holiday employment as a successful example. “For many of these kids we are their first boss and workplace exposure, we spend a lot of time inducting them because we want them to come back,” Simson said. Eastpack also works with the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) to engage beneficiaries. “Does this help get some off unemployment? Yes, but it’s not 100% successful. The challenge is not enough people are workready, to stick with something day in, day out,” he said. Seeka has recently purchased Opotiki packhouse operator OPAC. The company is also developing 65ha of orchards up the coast at Te Kaha with iwi. CEO Michael Franks said the company has a history of working with iwi and MSD in other regions,

and was likely to build on that in Opotiki. This includes limited period on-boarding programmes giving potential employees an insight to the business. An active cadet programme could also be replicated locally, with 13 already on a five-year programme to Level 4 industry training.

The job opportunities are there, but everyone’s challenge is how do you reduce unemployment in a town where it has always been high? Hamish Simson Eastpak But like Simson, Franks is adamant RSE workers and backpackers will remain a key part of the labour supply into the future. Simson said Opotiki is and always will be on the edge of the industry in terms of accessing labour supply, given the increased plantings, distance, small population base and inherent social issues. “The job opportunities are there, but everyone’s challenge is how do you reduce unemployment in a town where it has always been high?” he asked. “Guys like Brett really are at ground zero right now, especially after the year we have had where labour is at a crisis point.”

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Filling vacancies still a challenge Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz GORE has 90 job vacancies, a problem that is becoming more pronounced and shows no sign of going away. The jobs are across the spectrum: farming to automotive, education to retail and hospitality. “Generally speaking, employers are crying out for workers and it’s across all the sectors as they probably are throughout the country,” Gore District Council’s newcomers network co-ordinator Mark McCann says. The district has a population of about 13,500, with Gore home to 10,000 of those, which has been steady for the past 15 years. But it is ageing with a median age of 43.6 at 2018 census. McCann says job vacancies have in recent years varied between 80 and 100 but it is worsening without access to foreign labour. Competition from Australia, which offers a two year work for residency programme for dairy workers, has accentuated that problem as will the resumption of international travel. Like many rural communities,

migrant workers have filled the vacuum. Gore is now home to 45 ethnicities including a large population of Filipino farm workers. “Agriculture is very reliant of people from overseas, They fill a large part of the void,” McCann says. Gore Mayor Tracy Hicks recalls as a youngster there were few migrants in the community but says they are now an integral part. Like most rural communities, young people from Gore tend to drift to larger centres for education and many do not return, either working in urban jobs or venturing overseas. “We have to ensure the lifestyle they enjoyed as they grew up here is still there when they settle down so they want to come back.” He says attracting people to move to rural communities is a challenge and, like many other local authorities, his council is promoting the region’s lifestyle, lower housing and living costs alongside opportunities. “We’re placing a focus on lifestyle, that Gore is a good place to raise a family and for young people and it is close to Stewart

Island, the lakes and mountains,” Hicks says. “Alongside that we have a number of jobs.” He acknowledges the inducement was used by other councils to promote their districts but says workers from Wellington and Auckland are being attracted to move to Gore. Hicks says managing Gore’s ageing demographic is a challenge. “We are looking at what happens as older generations transition out of work and what that means to the community, while also finding younger people to fill the gaps.” One challenge for young rural people is getting their driver’s licence. Testers visit from outside rural towns, but co-ordinating days they are available with demand can be challenging and delay young people getting their licence. McCann says the council works with the Ministry for Social Development (MSD) on a Closing the Gaps initiative that provides funding to support youth into employment,and helping people move to the regions for work.

JOBS APLENTY: Gore District Mayor Tracy Hicks leads a campaign to attract workers to Gore. Photo: Natwick They aim to place 50 job seekers with employers each year, but in the past 18 months have placed 98. McCann says he would like more farmers to be involved in the scheme, which is tailored for small to medium businesses. MSD figures show that in the quarter to December 2021,there

were 780 people on a benefit in the Gore district, with numbers fluctuating from about 700 in 2018 to more than 800 in 2020. Of those, 354 were receiving a job seeker benefit, 186 were solo parents, 225 supported living and 15 on other benefits. Almost all beneficiaries are of working age, aged 18-64.

Staff shortage forces labour rethink Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz DAIRY farmers are giving up trying to recruit new workers, says a Southland farmer. Jason Herrick, who farms near Mossburn, said the 4000 workers the industry needs will be fewer now, as he is hearing farmers are making management changes to reduce their labour needs because they cannot attract New Zealanders or secure migrant staff. Relief milkers are now charging $45/ hr and the worker shortage is leading to poaching and higher wages, which will be inflated further by new conditions attached to recruitment of migrant workers Herrick said employers must currently pay immigrants a minimum of between $27 and $28/hr. Under new conditions that will now increase to about $40/hr, which will push up other wages as existing employees seek wage relativity. Herrick employs four Filipinos and says for many farmers’ immigrant workers are the only short-term solution. The fact many migrants are being recognised by Dairy Industry Award titles shows they want to learn and are ambitious to advance their dairy careers. He said changing the perception of dairy farming to make it an appealing career for New Zealanders is an intergenerational challenge that is hampered by attacks from environmental and animal welfare

EXTRA HANDS: Dairy farmers Jason Herrick and Macoy Iguana. Herrick employs four migrant workers on his Southland farm. groups and incorrect public perceptions. Most farmers are reluctant to defend their sector in fear of being further attacked and labelled. “Most farmers put their head in the sand and hope it goes away because they don’t want to be shot down,” Herrick said.

Ironically, an exceptionally dry summer helped Southland shearing contractor Jamie McConachie navigate this shearing season with fewer staff than he usually needed. A shortage of shearers and wool handlers is a major challenge, but the exodus of

stock from a rain-short province reduced demand for his services. “It is hard to find career shearers and wool handlers, people who want to make a choice as a career or a job,” McConachie said. At the peak of the season McConachie needs 80 workers, but changes to the shearing patterns are impacting the inter-island flow of workers, while closed borders have prevented the trans-Tasman movement of workers. The North Island main shear is starting later and ending later, which is crossing over with South Island shearing. Similarly, pre-lamb shearing is getting busier in the south from June to August. The pool of rural people who normally work in the shearing industry is shrinking and competition for those that remain is heightened. “It’s getting harder and harder. The rural fabric has changed,” he said. With workers increasingly living in larger centres, they now have to travel further to sheds. He said with fewer workers, issues such as the quality of shearing facilities and working conditions are becoming employment factors. Farmers with substandard sheds could find it harder to attract shearing contractors. He does not believe the physical nature of the job is a deterrent, saying that, along with the potential earnings, it is part of the attraction.

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A vocation worth promoting Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz THE head of one of the country’s largest transport groups is urging the education system to promote vocational training and careers to help address a nationwide truck driver shortage. Anthony Jones, the chief executive of Invercargill-based HW Richardson Group, says the national rural transport company, which employs 2500 staff, is short about 75-80 drivers while the contracting side of the business needs a similar number.

We want to show them that there are great career paths and lifestyle. Anthony Jones HW Richardson Group “Where have all the people gone?” asks Jones. He says jobs as drivers, mechanics and other transportrelated vocations were highly

BATTLE: HW Richardson chief executive Anthony Jones says the worker shortage is encouraging competing transport operators to lure staff with higher wages and conditions, but Jones says that is not a sustainable solution. technical, important careers, but the education sector traditionally promotes tertiary-based academic careers, viewing vocational careers as low-skilled. “It’s a stigma applied incorrectly.” The worker shortage is encouraging competing transport operators to lure staff with higher wages and conditions, but Jones says that is not a sustainable solution.

He says his group promotes lifestyle, health and safety, the quality of gear and work conditions to attract and retain staff while also targeting students at Southland high schools. “We want to show them that there are great career paths and lifestyle.” The company runs its own driver training scheme, the HWR Driving and Assessment

programme, which aims to fill vacancies and upskill staff. In 2021 the 20 trainers completed more than 2750 assessments, spanning both in-cab assessments and licencing and everything from forklifts to various heavy classes. Each assessment and licence costs $3000 and while not every graduate will continue working for Richardsons, Jones says the overall

benefits outweigh those issues. Solving the issue of an ageing driver workforce requires lateral thinking. Jones says some drivers nearing retirement no longer want to drive long line-haul routes so Richardsons moves them to their concrete business, keeping them gainfully employed driving short distances while retaining their skills and filling a crucial role. Jones says another attribute the company invests heavily in is health and safety, using driver technology such as fatigue monitors and cameras to make the job safer. Promoting the lifestyle of working in rural communities can be a challenge but Jones, who was born and bred in Australia and worked for much of his life in Sydney, has experienced first-hand the benefits of such a shift. Moving to live and work in Invercargill he has found the lifestyle relaxed and the locals are interested in people. Jones says while those rural community attributes need to be promoted, staff moving to work in rural communities also need support and to feel valued.

Industry jobs still a hard sell Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz THE days of advertising job vacancies and then sifting through the applicants are gone for large rural employers like the Alliance Group. Its manufacturing manager Willie Wiese, says employers have to start recruiting well before the season, using creative tactics and supporting their workers. Alliance and Silver Fern Farms estimate they are each short about 500 workers this year. The whole industry estimates it is short about 2000. Realising early last year staffing would be an issue, Alliance began early recruitment and training of staff, reviewed its recruitment methods and looked

SCRAMBLING: This season Alliance brought 200 workers in to bolster its Lorneville workforce while another 90 were recruited from the Cook Islands, with many working at its Mataura plant, right.

at issues facing workers. Wiese says one issue identified is a lack of housing in rural towns. Alliance has targeted potential workers from South Auckland and Wiese says while pastoral care and support is important for people relocating, the major challenge is housing. Luring families from high population areas into jobs in the regions is more difficult than it sounds. The loss of friends and family, adjusting to new communities and housing are all barriers which Wiese says needs Government support to make happen. Alliance now runs all but two of its plants for 10-11 months of the year making jobs more permanent and desirable than seasonal positions.

A collective agreement with the NZ Meat Workers’ Union allows staff to move between plants according to need, which helps maintain production levels according to livestock supply. This season Alliance brought 200 workers in to bolster its Lorneville workforce while another 90 were recruited from the Cook Islands, with many working at its Mataura plant. Wiese says while this has helped, the worker shortage required a reconfiguration of plants to allow the daily management of further processing and cutting linked to worker availability. Financial incentives are another tool. The minimum starting wage has been increased to $24.50/

hour, an education system has been introduced so staff can get national qualifications and staff who refer a new employee can earn $600 provided they stay for a minimum length of time. Wiese accepts meat industry jobs are hard and repetitive and the requirements to constantly wear personal protective equipment and work in minus 25degC conditions are demanding. Alliance has invested $60m in automation in the past two years to reduce the reliance on labour and is working with engineers to expand technology into areas such as the slaughter board. Silver Fern Farms regional operations manager Marcus Beadell says attracting and retaining staff is a significant focus. “We pay a starting wage far in excess of the minimum wage and have a focus to ensure new starters get appropriately introduced to the industry, for example using buddy trainers.” SFF also provides staff wellness, job sharing opportunities, discounted insurance options and meat sales. “If someone recruits one of their friends or family to join the team SFF pays them a $500 referral fee.” Fonterra is also feeling the impact of a tight labour market

PUTTING DOWN ROOTS: Alliance Group manufacturing manager Willie Wiese says one issue identified as a barrier to recruitment is a lack of housing in rural towns. across its retail, on farm support and processing businesses. Fonterra’s director NZ manufacturing Alan Van Der Nagel says as a seasonal business it needs a pool of short term workers to cover peak milk periods, which are not attractive positions when there are plenty of job options. While there have been some delays in filling positions, this has not impacted the co-operative’s ability to process milk.

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Motukeo Hills • 260 ha STS of hill country (bareland) • 14 km circa to the Gisborne port This bare land block of property is being subdivided off from Motukeo Station and is a bare block of land that would be suitable for: Livestock grazing Forestry Carbon farming Honey production Hunting park Or a mixture of the above. There is no infrastructure on this property.

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Picnic Point Picnic Point provides an outstanding opportunity to purchase a quality sheep and beef property in the well-respected farming district of Matiere, Taumarunui. Available as one farm of 827.99 ha, or as three different properties. • Mt Mable - 198.99 ha • Picnic Point - 324.20 ha • Waikaka - 304.80 ha This property has been well managed by its owners and on further inspection you will appreciate the work that has gone into making this farm perform at the level it does. The infrastructure is evenly balanced over the three blocks, with woolsheds, yards, and houses on each. Water and fencing have been a major focus with significant improvements to give the farm flexibility for stock classes and income streams including dairy grazers. The contour is balanced with a total of 102 ha of flat productive river flats and further easy rolling hills. Property Brokers Ltd Licensed REAA 2008 | pb.co.nz

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Hinemoa hill country - 122 ha Located in the Hinemoa Valley being 10 km from the Pahiatua township, and within commuting distance to Palmerston North, Dannevirke and Masterton. This property has been utilised for dairy support with the grazing of heifers and mixed age cows. Contour consists of 6 ha of flats and the balance in medium hill with some steeper sidlings and just over 6 ha in pine trees. The property features good access and is well subdivided into 26 main paddocks by a mix of conventional and electric fencing with good natural water throughout. The well apportioned four bedroom home with modern kitchen and fresh decor throughout is set in mature well kept grounds and is available as a stand alone of 1.2 ha.

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Sun Peaks Station is 734ha of balanced contour, located 46km inland from Gisborne City, in the thriving Pehiri community. Set in an appealing farming climate, Sun Peaks enjoys mild winters and largely good growing conditions throughout summer. Investment into the farm in recent years, is emphasised through new fencing and the addition of an extensive stock water reticulation system, which is complemented by excellent natural water across the farm. The farm aspect provides excellent sheltered breeding conditions. Easy contour at the front of the farm is utilised for summer crops and high-performance pastures, with circa 100ha easy contour bull unit at the back.

Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 4pm, Wed 22 Jun 2022 10 Reads Quay, Gisborne View by appointment Simon Bousfield 027 665 8778 simon.bousfield@bayleys.co.nz Stephen Thomson 027 450 6531 stephen.thomson@bayleys.co.nz

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Scale and scope in a predominantly summer safe environment. 834.5838ha of medium hill country situated 30 minutes from Masterton. The vendors have grown this property over 40 years by accumulating four farms, creating a very workable unit. Two main woolsheds, both with covered yards, service opposite halves of the property. The bulk of the farm is located in two main basins which feed down naturally to the stock facilities with laneways. A traditional sheep and beef breeding property running 3,500 ewes lambing at 130%, plus breeding cows. 12ha block of pines pre 1990, next to the road for easy extraction is included. Rare opportunity to purchase a substantial breeding property well located in the Wairarapa/Tararua district.

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834ha Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 9 Jun 2022 186 Chapel Street, Masterton View by appointment Lindsay Watts 027 246 2542 lindsay.watts@bayleys.co.nz Andrew Smith 027 760 8208 a.smith@bayleys.co.nz Simon Clinton-Baker 021 953 909 simon.clinton-baker@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY (WAIRARAPA) LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

A well-equipped North Canterbury dryland farming operation, historically wintering up to 1,800 cattle on crop. At 208.1246 hectares, this substantial farm operates as a dairy grazing and sheep and beef finishing operation, wintering up to 1,600 dairy and 200 beef cattle on crop. The versatile farm setup includes full infrastructure for cattle, sheep and crop. Well-fenced by post and wire fences with good lanes, providing convenient access to all areas of the farm. The good Darnley soils offer a solid platform for continued productivity. Water is currently supplied via the County Scheme. Excellent facilities include a six-bay implement shed, woolshed, several hay sheds and grain silos. Set among attractive gardens is the sunny family home, and a self-contained sleepout.

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Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 12pm, Thu 2 Jun 2022 3 Deans Avenue, Christchurch Phone for viewing times 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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This award winning, high-quality dairy unit is immaculately presented and situated just a short drive to Eketahuna. Featuring outstanding improvements with good silt soils this property really is one of a kind. The property consists of a 117ha dairy farm (100ha platform), subdivided into around 56 main paddocks. The farm won the Supreme Award in the 2011 Ballance Farm Environment Awards with waterway fencing enhanced with plantings of natives in many areas of the farm. Contour is flat to rolling with excellent access via well maintained races. The dairy unit´s last three years production has averaged 91,000kgms from 220 cows at 415kgms/cow. Improvements on the property are significant and include a very tidy and renovated four-bedroom family homestead. The dairy shed is a 26 aside herringbone in excellent condition with in-shed feeding system installed around 12 months ago. A covered feed pad with rubber matting floor supports management of soils during wetter periods. This farm may also be purchased/combined with our other listing, close by on South Road No 2 with the two operations currently run under the same management. This is a "turn key" operation, ideally suited for a first dairy farm or as a quality add in to other farming operations. Tender Closes 4pm, Tues 7th June 2022. Address for Tenders; NZR, Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810 or via email by arrangement.

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GOOD SCALE AND INFRASTRUCTURE WITH POTENTIAL - 230HA DAIRY UNIT 184 South Road No.2, Eketahuna This is a great opportunity to purchase a mid-sized dairy unit with good infrastructure. Featuring high quality improvements with a good water supply and silt based soils , the property has potential to develop further. The land consists of a 230ha dairy farm (170ha platform) with excellent access via well maintained races to around 62 main paddocks. The vendors have had an active regrassing and fertiliser programme and the last three years production has averaged 163,000kgms from 420 cows at 390kgms/cow. Improvements on the property are significant and include a substaintual four-bedroom main home and a tidy two-bedroom house. The dairy shed is a 36 aside herringbone in excellent condition with in-shed feeding system. Winter/Spring pasture and feed management is assisted with a centrally located feed pad and covered wintering barn. A recently added long term lease block will add real value to the farming operation. This farm may also be purchased / combined with our other listing, close by, on Morgans Road with the two operations currently run under the same management. This is a great opportunity for an Equity Partnership, investors looking for a second farm or as an add on to other dairy or non-dairy businesses all in a summer safe region! Tender Closes 4pm, Tues 7th June 2022. Address for Offers; NZR, Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810 or via email by arrangement.

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Kereru Station is a large sheep and beef property located 35 minutes west of Hastings. Comprising 2014ha effective, the farm has a good balance of contour ranging from flat to medium hill country. The farming business is divided into two blocks with the finishing operation run at Kereru Station and the breeding operation at Thornflat. Owned by two Charitable Trusts, the Station has a high performing management team with a proven track record of engaging with and growing their employees. The properties have excellent infrastructure, and the board supports continuous improvement of the asset including a 200ha irrigation platform in the final stages of development and new stock yards currently being built. Therefore, it really is a great time to join this business! THE OPPORTUNITY... Kereru Station are now seeking a Machinery Operator/General whose key areas of work will be in the agricultural side of the farming operation, preparing land and completing the cropping/ pasture requirements for the farming business as well as taking responsibility for the general repair and maintenance programme for the Station. There will be other general work including some fencing, both R&M and new, as well as assisting with water reticulation and irrigation including the running and maintenance of the water usage. During busy times of the year, you may have the opportunity to jump in and help with stock work, such as docking, crutching, and weaning.

Wharekiri Station is a 1080ha effective property situated in Benneydale, 35 minutes from Te Kuiti and part of the Tiroa E and Te Hape B group of farms covering 7500ha effective. Wharekiri Station winters 12,000 stock units made up of a high performing breeding ewe flock and beef finishing system.

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A BIT ABOUT YOU... As there will be autonomy in the working day this role requires a self-starter with good time management skills. The successful applicant will ideally come with the following skills: • Cropping/Ag work experience – both operational and maintenance (i.e. Welding/workshop experience). • Water reticulation knowledge and experience. • Fencing skills – R & M and new fencing. • Chemical handling experience and spraying knowledge. • Stock experience would be beneficial and the ability to use a handpiece is advantageous. ON OFFER... The Machinery Operator/General role comes with an attractive remuneration package, including a tidy 3-bedroom home with recently refurbished kitchen and new carpet. Offering spacious grounds, a large deck, and a fireplace with a heat transfer system. The Station is located in the established rural community of Kereru where the community spirit is alive and well. Kereru Primary School is 3km away as is the local pre-school - Tots and Dots. There is plenty to keep you busy with hunting and fishing on the farm and a local community hall offering social events and squash courts. Tikokino is 20 minutes’ drive, where there is an active Young Farmers Club and Rugby Club. Don’t miss your opportunity to work within a progressive and diverse farming business, where the Trust’s distributions benefit the wider Hawke’s Bay region, both in education and in the community.

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NATIVE FOREST FOR MILLING also Macrocarpa and Red Gum, New Zealand wide. We can arrange permits and plans. Also after milled timber to purchase. NEW ZEALAND NATIVE TIMBER SUPPLIERS (WGTN) LIMITED 04 293 2097 Richard.

LEASE AVAILABLE SHEEP FARMING LEASE. 210 Hectares, (1-3 Year Lease from 1st July) 2.53k SU. Hawke’s Bay, good facilities, summer safe. Mobile 021 327 637.

LEASE BULLS AUTUMN CALVING lease bulls available. BVD. TB tested. Competitive rates. Freight paid. Phone 027 739 9939.

LEASE LAND WANTED YOUNG FARMER looking for sheep and beef lease or grazing. Gisborne area but would consider anywhere. Remote places welcome. Phone 022 574 1426.

WILTSHIRES-ARVIDSON. Self shearing sheep. No1 for Facial Eczema. David 027 2771 556.

TJ SCRUBCUTTING NEEDING SCRUB OR gorse cut? Manawatu. Call us on 022 323 9367 now to book a free quote. tjscrubcutting@gmail.com

WANTED TO BUY HOUSES FOR REMOVAL. North Island. Phone 021 455 787. WHAT’S SITTING IN your barn? Don’t leave it to rust away! We pay cash for tractors, excavators, small crawler tractors and surplus farm machinery. Ford – Ferguson – Hitachi – Komatsu – John Deere and more. Tell us what you have no matter where it is in NZ. You never know.. what’s resting in your barn could be fattening up your wallet! Email admin@ loaderparts.co.nz or phone Colin on 0274 426 936 (No texts please)

WINTER GRAZING WANTED

FOR 150 IN-CALF dairy cows. Manawatu / HB. Contact Peter 06 327 6172.

DOLOMITE NZ’s finest BioGro certified Mg fertiliser For a delivered price call ....

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THINK PREBUILT

SOLID – PRACTICAL

Our homes are built using the same materials & quality as an onsite build. Easily transported to almost anywhere in the North Island. Plans range from one bedroom to four bedroom First Home – Farm House Investment – Beach Bach

References available

Phone Tim 021 640 027

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Experience in leasing property previously

CONTROL FLYSTRIKE & LICE Includes • Jetter unit • Pump & hose kit • Delivery to nearest main centre

Farmers/Woodlot owner Tired of waiting for someone to harvest your trees?

76 80 +GS

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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

WELL INSULATED – AFFORDABLE

14 years managing Sheep and Beef properties

Free quotes Markets for all species Email: BTZforestry@gmail.com

GRAZING AVAILABLE from July 1st. Up to 2000SU sheep or cattle. Short or long term. Located Pongaroa. Phone Mike 06 372 5910 or email badwolffarm174@gmail. com

LOG BUYER

HAULER CREW available for harvesting. Wairarapa area. Phone 027 489 7036.

NEW HOMES

Good Pasture, animal husbandry skills.

We are not committed to one buyer that is how we get our customers the most profit we can. Set up to do the smaller, trickier wood lots. No job too big or too small.

GRAZING AVAILABLE

RED DEVON BULLS. Well grown, purebred. Feilding. Phone 027 224 3838.

PROMOTES QUICK PASTURE growth. Only $6.50+gst per hectare delivered. 0508-GIBBGRO [0508 442 247] www. gibbgro.co.nz. “The Proven One.”

Hardworking farming couple looking for sheep/beef lease farm opportunity: South Island

(Obtaining the best profits for our customers)

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.

LIVESTOCK FOR SALE

GIBB-GRO GROWTH PROMOTANT

LEASE PROPERTY WANTED

BTZ Forestry Marketing and Harvesting

GOATS WANTED

SUPPLYING FARMERS SINCE 1962

Industries Ltd

0800 901 902 sales@pppindustries.co.nz www.pppindustries.co.nz

Call or email us for your free copy of our plans Email: info@ezylinehomes.co.nz Phone: 0800 399 546 (EZYLINE) Web: www.ezylinehomes.co.nz

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FEILDING WEANER FAIR

Wednesday 18th May, 11.30am

Thursday 19th May, 11.30am

Masterton Saleyards.

Feilding Saleyards Complex.

Comprising Approx: 850 VIC cows A real opportunity to purchase top end Wairarapa hill country capital stock genetics. Renowned for heavy weaning weights & strong growth rates.

Ricky Alabaster Family Trust Taihape

Patuna, Martinborough

Heifers Suitable for Breeding

• 100 M/A Angus Cows - Vic 1/11/22 Angus bull

A/C Carey Alabaster Family Trust & Cross Keys Taihape

A/C McFadzean Cattle Company Glenburn Station • 50 R3 Angus heifers - Vic Angus bull 5/12/22 • 40 R4 Angus heifers - Vic Angus bull 29/10/22 Valdor Station • 40 M/A Angus cows

• 300 Ang & Ang/Hfd Heifers

• 100 Ang & Ang/Hfd Steers • 100 Ang & Ang/Hfd Heifers A/C Hardrock Station Tapuae • 70 Angus Steers • 70 Angus Heifers A/C A & K Coogan Taihape

• 30 M/A Angus Hereford X cows - Vic Angus bull 10/11/22

• 35 CharX Steers

• 25 R5 Hereford cows

• 35 CharXHeifers

Waikaramu, Gladstone

Further Enquiries: Maurice Stewart 0272 469 255

50 M/A Angus cows - Vic Angus bull 10/12/22

A/C Devane Brothers Taihape

Further enquiries: Andrew Jennings 027 594 6820

• 100 Ang & Ang/Hfd Steers

Birch Hill, White Rock, Martinborough

Further enquiries: Phil Transom 0274 420 060

Renown South Wairarapa farm has been sold. A rare chance to purchase one of the nation’s renown commercial hill country Hereford herds. 26 years of breeding, starting off in the late 90’s with Waikaka, Maungahina, and Otapawa Hereford blood over the last 8 years. These are strong robust quiet cows, a reputation for their weaners to shift and grow into big bullocks. Don’t miss this opportunity! Capital Stock Hereford cows and heifers. • 70 R3 VIC Angus heifers (Dandaloo bull) - 1st December bull date

A/C A & A Coogan Taihape

• 73 MA Angus cows (Dandaloo bull) - 1st December bull date • 160 MA Hereford cows (Otapawa bull) - 20th Dec bull date

• 100 Ang & Ang/Hfd Heifers

• 40 Ang & Ang/Hfd Steers Riini Trust Taihape • 40 Char Steers Further enquiries: Gareth Williams 0275 264 613 All these cattle are late born hill country steers & heifers out of the Taihape & Northern Manawatu Region. Last chance to buy quality weaners.

FOR SALE 1600 M/A Rom,Rom X & Pere Pere X Ewes. SIL to Polled Dorset & Suffolk Rams.

• 69 R2 Hereford heifers • 73 R1 Hereford heifers

• 600 Twins • 1000 Singles Due 25th June. Freshly Shorn. $180 ono

Further enquiries: Rihi Brown 027 404 7514

Further enquiries: Darryl Williamson 0294 329 285

Other

HIGH INDEX QUALITY INCALF HEIFER SALE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY BIDR ONLINE SALE ONLY Monday 23rd May, 7.00pm

• 300 Ang & Ang/Hfd Steers

Herrick Land Co, Martinborough

Sheep

A/C MJ & J Dickson - Te Awamutu Comprising: • 48 Friesian & XBred Incalf Heifers, BW 265, PW 260, (BW’s up to 404) • 2 R3yr Lineback Incalf Cows Heifer/Herd Details: • 16 Heifers contract mated 2021 & 2022 • Over 50% weigh over 500kgs (weights in catalogue) • 3 Digit herd code • A2 tested Calving from 10th July to AI then tailed with DNA profiled high BW XBred Bulls. Heifers scanned and those holding to AI identified as accurately as possible. Closed herd with heifers grazed on run-offs. Herd Production: 520 MS/Cow, 1400 MS/ha. All animal health vaccines done. The herd has been farmed by the Dickson family for over 60 years who have endeavoured to breed a medium sized capacious cow that is extremely quiet with very good dairy conformation. Murray says there are many strong maternal lines/families within the herd that the AI companies have liked resulting in numerous bulls been selected. A 50/50 sharemilker has been employed for next season so, the herd has been sold to a local farming enterprise who knows the herd well. This is a unique opportunity to buy top genetics from genuine farmers that will give your breeding program a boost. Open day to view the Heifers will be held on Thursday 19th May 2022 at 1-3pm. On Farm - Hawthorn Road, Te Awamutu Payment 14 days from sale date. Delivery immediate unless prior arrangement made. Catalogues available on www.agonline.co.nz

Further enquiries: Murray & Julie Dickson (Vendors) 021 790 840 Andrew Reyland (PGW) 027 223 7092 Watch and Bid from anywhere. For more info visit www.bidr.co.nz

Freephone 0800 10 22 76 | www.pggwrightson.co.nz

Helping grow the country

GROWING, GROWING,

GONE.

Bull Sales On Now!

Visit the website to view: www.pggwrightson.co.nz/bull-sales

FARM CLEARING SALE ON A/C: BEAULY TRUST Ongarue - Ngakonui Road, Taumarunui (Signposted from Ongarue turnoff & Main Nth H/Way)

Saturday 21st May 2022 3500 Sheep - To be sold at 10am

1000 x 2th Rom/Growbulk Ewes (Feb. Shorn) 900 x 4th Rom/Growbulk Ewes (Dec. Shorn) 800 x 6th Romney Ewes (Dec. Shorn) 800 x 4Yr Romney Ewes (Dec. Shorn) All the flock are run with Coopworth Growbulk Rams Flock Avg Scanning last 5 Yrs 166% Farm Machinery & Sundries to be sold at 11am Eftpos Available Terms stricktly cash or on A/c with NZ Farmers Livestock Contact: Alan Hiscox 027 442 8434

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Cattle

FRIESIAN FREISIAN CROSS INCALF COWS MORRINSVILLE SALE DAIRY COMPLEX Thursday 19th May 2022 12 noon

On A/c Client 145 x 2Yr - 8Yr Friesian & Friesian Cross Incalf Cows With 20 years of LIC Breeding BW 126/54 PW 157/65 RA 96% Incalf 5 weeks to Friesian A1 Tailed with Angus Bull To begin calving 17th July 2022 Bull out 24th December 2021 Cow production 404 kgs per Cow, 1250 kg/ha System 2, C10, Cows were blanket dry cow and are coming forward in excellent condition Contact: Liam McBride 021 222 2662 Glen Tasker 0274 777 345 View Catalogues on mylivestock.co.nz Streamed Live via MyLiveStock

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Key: Dairy

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

Website | Mobile | App

ON-FARM MACHINERY CLEARING SALE 108 Raupo Road, Rangiotu, Palmerston North Wednesday 18th May commencing 11am Comprising: 100HP John Deere 6310SE with front-end loader & bucket; tractor forks; Hustler Chain-less 4000 Bale Feeder; Hustler Soft-hands; Rata 5-leg sub-soiler; Half-tonne Walco fert spreader; 2.5 metre Celli power harrow; 800lt Spray-smart sprayer with 8 metre boom & hand-gun; Stallion 50-teat calfateria; 125lt Milk-bar milk cart; CDAX mag spreader; Suzuki DR200 motorbike; Clough 4-farrow auto-reset plough; Rata silage grab; Suzuki auto 400cc quad bike; Milk transfer pump; 6kw Petrol generator; Bertollini spot sprayer; 2000lt colostrum plastic tank; 700lt diesel fuel tank; 4 x 6m plastic culvets; 2.5m Cambridge roller; calf trailer; 2 x older trailers; car trailer; 3 x MCK meal feeders; 3 x hay racks; Honda powered water pump; Maxum 2.5 metre topper; 2 x portable molasses troughs; 6 x calf-milk troughs; Williams irrigator; Silvan calfpack calfateria; jack-hammer; air-compressor; numerous farm tools and sundries; Reels & stakes. Terms: All purchases are GST exclusive. Cash/EFTPOS on the day unless NZFL operating account Enquiries: Emmet McConnell 0274 437 671; Richard Trembath 0274 993 992

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COMPLETE DISPERSAL CAPITAL STOCK COWS

KING COUNTRY, WAIKATO & BAY OF PLENTY PEDIGREE SHORTHORN 2 YEAR BULL SALES

RAPU HEREFORD STUD (Unregistered Herd)

FRANKTON SALEYARDS

Wednesday 18th May 2022 START TIME 11.30AM

THE FRANKTON WEEKLY SALE WILL FOLLOW AT COMPLETION OF THE RAPU SALE Hybrid Auction Sale Livestreamed via MyLiveStock

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32 x 3-5Yr VIC Hereford Cows - to Hereford Bulls 30 x 6Yr Plus VIC Hereford Cows - to Hereford Bulls 7 x M/A Hereford Cows with calves at foot 8 x Weaner Hereford Heifers 8 x Weaner Hereford Bulls The Rapu Stud has been faithfully farmed by the Rendell Family for over 30 years, buying top Hereford Bulls for calving ease, temperament and markings. C10 Status For further information contact: Don Allison 0274 515 318 Brent Bougen 0272 104 698

ORENA SHORTHORN - KATIKATI Thursday 19th May 2022 1pm 10 x 2Yr Shorthorn Bulls Contact: Craig Morton 021 520 244 Livestreamed via MyLiveStock LOCHBURN SHORTHORN BEING SOLD AT ORENA - KATIKATI Thursday 19th May 2022 1pm 4 x 2Yr Shorthorn Bulls Contact: Craig Morton 021 520 244 Livestreamed via MyLiveStock RAUPUHA SHORTHORN STUD - MAHOENUI Tuesday 31st May 2022 9am 10 x 2Yr Shorthorn Bulls Pick of 7 out of 28 top R2 VIC Shorthorn Heifers Contact: Russell Proffitt 0273 552 927 COLVEND SHORTHORN - TAUMARUNUI Tuesday 31st May 2022 3.30pm 10 x 2Yr Shorthorn Bulls Contact: Alan Park 07 894 6360 For further information contact: Brent Bougen 027 210 468 NZ Farmers Livestock Studstock text 8pt text 8pt centered

2022 BULL SALES BULL WALK

A great chance to see around 1100 R2 Bulls over four days that will be auctioned this season. Prior viewing would be available by arrangement with Vendors, or the Agents listed below.

SOUTH & MID CANTERBURY Tuesday 24th May 10am to 4pm

Meadowslea Angus, Fairlie Merrylea Hereford, Cave Orari Gorge Hereford, Geraldine Okawa Hereford, Mayfield Matatoki Hereford, Cave Mt Possession Angus, Mt Somers Cleardale Angus, Rakaia

David Giddings James McKerchar Robert Peacock Nick France Paul Scott Ryan Hussey Ben Todhunter

03 685 8027 03 614 3332 03 692 2893 03 303 9749 03 612 9962 03 303 9867 021 140 3760

Tuesday 24th May 1pm to 4pm Kakahu Angus & Charolais, Geraldine Stern Angus, Pleasant Point

Tom Hargreaves James Fraser

03 697 4979 03 614 7080

Andrew Laing Brent Fisher Richard Van Asch

03 329 1709 0272 514 791 021 191 5584

CENTRAL CANTERBURY Wednesday 25th May 12pm to 4pm

Sudeley Angus, Irwell Silverstream Charolais & Hereford, Greenpark Burtergill South Devon, West Melton

NORTH CANTERBURY Thursday 26th May 10am to 4pm

Red Oak Angus, Weka Pass Grampians Angus, Culverden Hemingford Charolais, Culverden Kaiwara Angus, Culverden Grassmere Hereford & Riverlands Angus, Cheviot Capethorne Hereford, Cheviot Te Mania Angus, Conway Flat Richon Hereford, Amberley Beechwood Hereford, Amberley Woodburn Hereford, Amberley Jandoc Hereford Hawarden

Rick Orr Jono Reed Sam Holland George Johns Chris Jeffries Greg Chamberlain Will Wilding Rob Stokes Rob Burrows Helen Molloy Doc Sidey

0272 457 751 0272 580 732 0211 814 868 0221 983 599 0274 608 849 021 549 229 027 826 4015 027 757 1673 027 263 3582 0274 994 079 021 169 949

James Murray Johnny Murray Paul Hickman George MacPherson Angus Peter Greg Crombie

027 486 6699 027 731 9430 021 575 155 03 574 1009 022 428 7906 0275 511 011

MARLBOROUGH BULL WALK Friday 27th May 10am to 4pm

Matariki Herefords, Clarence Bridge Woodbank Angus, Clarence Bridge Taimate Angus, Ward Okiwi Angus, Queen Charlotte Brackenfield Angus, Awatere Leefield Station Angus, Waihopai Valley

ST ARNAUD, WAKEFIELD & RAI VALLEY BULL WALK

Stay ahead of the rest Sign up to AgriHQ’s free upcoming saleyard notifications to find what’s on offer before sale day. Choose which sale yards you want to follow and find out the number and class of stock being entered at the next sale. farmersweekly.co.nz /enewsletters

FARMERS WEEKLY – May 16, 2022

Sale Day June 7 - Open Everyday Commercially Farmed Herd in Tiraumea Hill Country

43 High Performance Bulls On Farm Auction 12 Noon & Live on Bidr

Hill Country Cattle Thriving in any Environment

Stuart Robbie 027 8484408

Sons of Feature Sires

TH Frontier 174E & Okawa Rommel

otapawa@xtra.co.nz

Douglas Robbie 027 9197150

www.otapawa.co.nz

RIVERLEE HEREFORDS

6th Annual Beef Bull Sale

14th June 2022, 1pm Held on farm 2354 Rangiwahia Rd, Kimbolton

Offering: 22 R2yr Polled Hereford Bulls HILL COUNTRY BRED FOR HILL COUNTRY FARMERS • ALL COWS COMMERCIALLY RUN & WINTERED WITH THE EWES • TEMPERAMENT • CALVING EASE • CONSTITUTION • GROWTH

Selling Agents Carrfields Livestock: Dan Warner 027 826 5768 NZ Farmers: John Watson 027 494 1975

www.herefords.co.nz

Enquiries & Visitors Welcome Murray & Fiona Curtis: 2354 Rangiwahia Road, RD 54, Kimbolton 4774 P: 06 328 2881 • E: mfcurtis@farmside.co.nz

NGĀPUTAHI 13 JUNE BULL SALE

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Viewing from 1pm AUCTION 3pm

Ngāputahi is bringing out the

BEAST MODE

Friday 27th May 10am to 4pm

Lake Herefords, St Arnaud Martin Farming Hereford & Angus, Wakefield Blacknight Angus, Rai Valley

Malcolm McConochie 021 251 0078 Richard Martin 027 230 3098 Ben Maisey 03 571 6271

Further Enquiries 027 529 9375 027 590 8612 027 208 3071 027 462 0126 027 587 0131

Ready to talk some Bull? Contact Javier: 0800 85 25 80 or email livestock@globalhq.co.nz

SONS SIRED BY BEAST MODE AVAILABLE NOW. FIGURES WITH A FIGURE APPOINTMENTS WELCOME

TOTARA RESERVE POHANGINA VALLEY

Forbes Cameron 06 329 4050 or Angus Cameron 06 329 4711

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John McKone, PGG Wrightson Simon Eddington, PGG Wrightson Anthony Cox, Rural Livestock Callum Dunnett, Hazlett Robbie Kirkpatrick, Carrfields

FARMERS WEEKLY – May 16, 2022

WANTED 2021 BORN FRSN HEIFERS F12+: $1700 + GST / head F8-F11’s: $1600 + GST / head F7/Unrecorded: $1400 + GST

Storth Oaks Annual Sale on-farm th May 2020 @ 1pm Wednesday 27KAIRURU

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PINE PARK ANGUS

POLLED HEREFORDS

ON FARM

JUNE - 1PM at Kairuru,8 Reporoa (m

26th March a In conjunction

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35 2-year-old bulls Sale Thursday 9th June – 11.30am

with BIDR

28 R2YR BULLS 3 R1YR BULLS

KEVIN & JANE Mc McDONALD (REPOROA) 07 333 8068 • 027 451 0640 JEFF & NICOLA McDONALD McDONALD 021 510 351 • kairuruNZ@gmail.com

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SPECIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: • True to type Friesian Heifers, including the F8-F11 unrecorded heifers. • Standard Chinese Protocol, heifers must have been on the property for a minimum of 6 months at the time of delivery.

SINCE 1979

31ST ANNUAL SALE

190 kgs min live weight Delivery – July 2022

NORTH & SOUTH ISLAND

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PHONE TIM ON 027 443 7420 FOR MORE INFORMATION or email timbrandonlivestock@outlook.com

LIVESTOCK FINANCE MADE EASY

For over 80yrs Hingaia bulls have been standing up to the demands of the industry

HINGAIA OFFER: Proven Genetics Constitution Fertility Longevity Soundness Balanced EBVs

HINGAIA ANGUS

“A balanced breeding programme for all environments”

Annual Bull Sale Wednesday 1st June 2022 147 Hingaia Road, Te Awamutu - 4.00pm

Contact our OneStock® team to discuss your livestock finance requirements

0800 223 070

onestock@carrfields.co.nz

www.carrfieldslivestock.co.nz

INSPECTION AND VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME Richard Jolly 147 Hingaia Road, RD4, Te Awamutu 3874, P: 027 499 7159 Email: jollyrt57@gmail.com Andrew Jolly P: 0272 090 037

www.hingaiaangus.co.nz

Andy Transom PGG Wrightson Ltd P: 0275 965 142 Brent Bougen NZ Farmers Livestock P: 027 210 4698 Bruce Orr P: 027 4922 122

13 in-calf R2yr heifers 13 heifer calves Registered Polled Herefords

KEVIN & JANE McDONALD

07 333 8068

Q Tim & Kelly B 524 Paewhenua

Tuesday 31st of May\. 07-8732816

18 Ahiweka Rd, Dannevirke mi tim@stortho

"Beef by Genetics

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Bull Walk – Tuesday 17th of May storthoaksa 12 – 2.00pm, or by appointment Simon Collin: 027 636 3243

Storth Oaks

ANGUS Beef By Genetics... NEW website - check it out storthoaks.com

Bull sale: 1st June, 1 pm

George Collin: 027 782 5237

SELLING 20 R2 CHAROLAIS BULLS

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FARMERS WEEKLY – May 16, 2022

SALE TALK

NZ’s Virtual Saleyard

A farmer walks to his post box, unusually today there was no post, just a bunch of flowers with the heads cut off. The next day the same, no post just another bunch of flowers with the heads cut off. Returning home his wife said, you look worried the farmer, said yes I am..I think I’m

BEEFGEN is currently purchasing animals for live export for late July delivery:

being Stalked. Sent by Dave McNally

2021 Holstein Friesian Heifers

If you’ve got a joke you want to share with the Farming community 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.

(preference given to A2/A2 heifers)

2021 Angus Heifers 2021 Simmental Heifers

NZC122

LAST RUN:

05/05/22

Please contact your 18.2X4local agent SIZE: for further information. BEEFGEN : Brian Pearson : 021 0907 1688 BEEFGEN : Jess Crow : 022 074 1210 BEEFGEN Office : 06 927 7154

TUESDAY 17 MAY

11.30am Montrose Ayrshires Dispersal Sale-Day 2

THURSDAY 19 MAY 12pm 2pm 2pm

Ruaview Simmental and Angus Annual R2 Bull Sale Glenwood Angus & Loch Lomond South Devon Bull Sale Puketoi Angus Bull Sale

FRIDAY 20 MAY 1pm 2pm

Longview Shorthorns Bull Sale Penvose Angus Bull Sale

12.30pm 1.30pm 2pm 7pm

Matapouri Herefords (Clements Farms Ltd) Select Heifer Sale 22 Kaimoa South Devon Bull Sale Gold Creek Simmentals Bull Sale In Calf Dairy Sale - A/C MJ & J Dickson

MONDAY 23 MAY

Conditions apply

Regular Livestream coverage of five North Island Saleyards Head to bidr.co.nz to find out more.

Top quality bulls bred for NZ Farmers ● ● BVD Tested Clear, BVD and 10 in 1 Vaccinated ● Calving ease, moderate birth weight bulls suitable to mate 1 or 2 year old heifers or cows ● Breedplan Recorded ● TB Status C10 ● Herd completely free of known genetic defects ● Only proven NZ bred bulls used in last 10 years ● Renowned for great temperament ● Three year comprehensive guarantee

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Simmental Registered $1600 • Commercial $1350 Angus Commercial $1100 RANGITATAU TRUST PROOF TIME 29/04/2022 1:10:11 PM

UPCOMING AUCTIONS

37th Annual Bull Sale

Monday 13th June 2022

Enquiries and inspection welcome. Contact

Kevin or Megan FRIEL ph: (06) 376 4543 625 Jackson Road, Kumeroa

kev.meg.co@xtra.co.nz

www.mtmableangus.co.nz

Farmers Weekly advertising deadlines have changed

42ND THURSDAY 9TH JUNE 2022

16th, 17th & 18th May by appointment

All deadlines are now 24 hours earlier

All bulls i50k and structurally assessed. BULLS SIRED BY: • Hoover Dam • MF Klooney 2414 • MF Treadstone 2435 • MF Edmund 2136 • Te Mania 17533 • C Capitalist 316 • Storth Oaks L35 • Te Mania 18500

For advertising deadlines please go to farmersweekly.co.nz/s/advertising Or contact 0800 85 25 80 for further information

Online Bidr available Bidr available

PLEASE READ ALL COPY CAREFULLY. CHECK SPELLING AND PHONE NUMBERS.

Once proof is approved NZME. will not accept responsibility for incorrect copy or layout.

PROOF

FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT FARM MANAGER: GREG CROMBIE PH 0275 511 011 EMAIL greg@leefieldstation.co.nz LEEFIELD STATION 1171 WAIHOPAI VALLEY ROAD, MARLBOROUGH

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OREGON 130.71x100angus 0097594

50 YEARS OF BREEDING EST. 1972

Oregon Angus

Lot 6

34 BULLS

Tuesday 7th June 2022 – 3pm Mary Taylor PH: 06 8555322 Andy & Emma Martin PH: 068555348 E: taylors@glenbraestud.co.nz View Online: www.glenbraestud.co.nz

Sons of Glenbrae Nightrider 1761 available

Selling 30 Powerful Poll Hereford bulls

Glenbrae Annual Bull Sale 1019 Mangaorapa Rd, Porangahau.

OREGON DYNAMITE

Thursday 2pm. 2nd June 2022

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AT MORLAND 1464 MASTERTON STRONVAR ROAD KEITH & GAE HIGGINS 06 372 2782

BULL WALK THURSDAY 19TH MAY, FROM 1.50PM

KAIMOA

On Farm Sale Monday, 23rd May 2022 - 1.30pm 1775 MANGAONE VALLEY ROAD EKETAHUNA

Mark, Anthony and Di Eagle ‘Chessfield’ 1775 Mangaone Valley Rd Eketahuna p: 06 376 8256 m: 0274 347 152 e: eagleeketahuna@xtra.co.nz

Kaimoa South Devons have pleasure in putting forward 20 Bulls in 2022 Kaimoa South Devons have the biggest selection of polled South Devon bulls in New Zealand. Our mission is to produce polled only bulls. In addition, we are committed to producing meaty bulls with good constitution and excellent temperament.

Sound well fleshed sires, Excellent temperament 200 Fully Breedplan recorded cows • 20 Bulls Catalogued BULL OPEN DAY: WEDNESDAY 1st JUNE, 1 - 5PM • ALL ENQUIRIES WELCOME

28TH ANNUAL SALE THURSDAY 9TH JUNE, 1PM, TE KUITI SALE YARDS

also online bidding with

PETER & CAROLINE FOSS

495 Potaka Road, RD 1, Aria, King Country Ph/fax (07) 877 7881 • Email: pcfossy@xtra.co.nz

Winners of the Steak of Origin 2018

BULL WALK - Thursday 19th May 2022 9.00-9.30am

11.25-11.55am

1.10-1.40pm

3.05-3.35pm

9.55-10.25am

Willie & Angela Falloon

Neil, Joan, Rod & Sam Kjestrup

Joe & Lea, Shaun & Fi Fouhy

Tapiri Angus Pinebank Rob & Lucy Thorneycroft Angus Te Whanga Angus

Jason Coffey, Paddy, Sarah & Rob Borthwick

10.40-11.10am

Dandaloo Angus

1.50-2.20pm

having lunch please phone: Joan 06 3722838 or email: centralwaiangus@xtra.co.nz

Keith & Gae Higgins

Light lunch provided at Gladstone Inn Gladstone Inn – If intending

PROFIT-A-BULL EXCELLENCE

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Deer

Sheep

Cattle BEEF

SHEEP MEAT

VENISON

Last week

Prior week

Last year

NI Steer (300kg)

6.00

5.95

5.25

NI lamb (17kg)

8.35

8.30

7.25

NI Stag (60kg)

7.95

5.35

NI Bull (300kg)

5.95

5.90

5.15

NI mutton (20kg)

5.75

5.60

SI Stag (60kg)

8.00

5.40

NI Cow (200kg)

3.80

3.50

SI lamb (17kg)

8.30

8.20

6.90

SI Steer (300kg)

5.85

5.80

4.65

SI mutton (20kg)

5.60

5.55

5.40

SI Bull (300kg)

5.70

5.65

4.60

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

SI Cow (200kg)

3.55

3.15

UK CKT lamb leg

12.76

12.68

11.68

US imported 95CL bull

10.56

10.17

8.54

10.0

US domestic 90CL cow

9.56

9.23

7.66

9.0

6.0

8.0

5.0

$/kg CW

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

North Island steer slaughter price

$/kg CW

7.0

6.0

5.0

$/kg CW

4.0

South Island lamb slaughter price

Oct

Dec 5-yr ave

Feb

5-yr ave

Jun

2020-21

Aug 2021-22

Dairy

8.0 7.0

Oct

Dec

Apr 2020-21

Jun

Apr

Last week 2 weeks ago 2.65

2.63

Last year

NZ average (NZ$/t)

Prior week

Last year

2.36

Urea

1205

672

373

319

1420

990

37 micron ewe

2.75

Super

30 micron lamb

2.30

DAP

Top 10 by Market Cap

CANTERBURY FEED WHEAT 600

9.50

550

9.00

$/tonne

$/kg MS

10.00

8.50 8.00 7.50 7.00

Apr-21

Aug-21 Oct-21 Sept. 2021

450

350

Dec-21 Feb-22 Apr-22 Sept. 2022

DAIRY FUTURES (US$/T) Nearby contract

500

400 Jun-21

Apr-21

Aug 2021-22

Last week

Company

MILK PRICE FUTURES

Jun

2020-21

Fertiliser

Aug 2021-22

Grain

Data provided by

Feb

FERTILISER

Coarse xbred ind. Apr

9.0

5-yr ave

(NZ$/kg)

4.5 Feb

South Island stag slaughter price

5.0

WOOL

5.0

Dec

7.0

6.0

Oct

8.0

10.0

5.0

4.0

9.0

6.0

5.5

Last year

10.0

7.0

6.5

Last week Prior week

North Island stag slaughter price

11.0

8.0

South Island steer slaughter price

7.0

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

11.0

9.0

4.5

$/kg CW

North Island lamb slaughter price

10.0

5.0

Last year

7.0

6.5

5.5

Last week Prior week

$/kg CW

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

$/kg CW

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Sara Hilhorst

Ingrid Usherwood

Jun-21

Aug-21

Oct-21

Dec-21

Feb-22

Apr-22

CANTERBURY FEED BARLEY

YTD High

YTD Low

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Ltd

20.9

33.4

20.73

Meridian Energy Limited (NS)

4.6

5.36

4.33

Auckland International Airport Limited

7.17

7.95

6.88

Mainfreight Limited

4.78

4.98

4.3

Spark New Zealand Limited

5.73

6.36

5.45

Mercury NZ Limited (NS)

75.5

94.4

74.25

Ebos Group Limited

40.15

44.3

36.11

Contact Energy Limited

7.62

8.42

7.36

Infratil Limited

8.04

8.4

7.5

Fletcher Building Limited

5.89

7.44

5.81

Listed Agri Shares

5pm, close of market, Wednesday

Company

YTD High

YTD Low 0.215

ArborGen Holdings Limited

0.245

0.27

The a2 Milk Company Limited

4.55

6.39

4.2

Comvita Limited

3.15

3.78

3.12

Prior week

vs 4 weeks ago

600

WMP

3715

3950

4475

550

Delegat Group Limited

12.64

14.45

11.81

Fonterra Shareholders' Fund (NS)

2.8

3.78

2.75

SMP

4200

4205

4600

500

Foley Wines Limited

1.52

1.57

1.4

Greenfern Industries Limited

0.11

0.25

0.106

Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd (NS)

1.66

1.73

1.3

Marlborough Wine Estates Group Limited

0.2

0.26

0.2

New Zealand King Salmon Investments Ltd

0.24

1.38

0.24

PGG Wrightson Limited

4.36

5.76

3.93

Rua Bioscience Limited

0.36

0.53

0.355

AMF

5850

6550

6770

Butter

5700

6450

6650

Milk Price

9.35

9.42

9.60

$/tonne

Last price*

400 350

Apr-21

* price as at close of business on Thursday

WMP FUTURES - VS FOUR WEEKS AGO

4000

$/tonne

US$/t

Jun-21

Aug-21

Oct-21

Dec-21

Feb-22

Apr-22

Sanford Limited (NS)

4.5

5.07

4.38

Scales Corporation Limited

4.67

5.59

4.55

Seeka Limited

5.09

5.36

4.98

550

Synlait Milk Limited (NS)

3.24

3.54

3.12

T&G Global Limited

2.84

3.01

2.77

500

S&P/NZX Primary Sector Equity Index

12376

14293

12199

S&P/NZX 50 Index

11233

13150

11229

S&P/NZX 10 Index

10865

12725

10865

WAIKATO PALM KERNEL

4500

3500 3000 May

450

450 400 350

Jun Jul Latest price

Aug

Sep 4 weeks ago

Oct

300

Apr-21

S&P/FW PRIMARY SECTOR EQUITY

Jun-21

Aug-21

Oct-21

Dec-21

Feb-22

Apr-22

12376

S&P/NZX 50 INDEX

11233

S&P/NZX 10 INDEX

10865

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – May 16, 2022

Analyst intel

WEATHER

Overview The airflow over New Zealand is looking quite westerly this week so wetter weather can be expected in the west with the West Coast picking up the bulk of the rain. There’s some rain about the far south as well. Eastern regions are going to be drier overall but when fronts pass over showers or spits of rain may make it eastwards at times. A front passes over New Zealand today from the west, another weaker one just for the South Island tomorrow. Thursday has a more vigorous front lined up followed by a few more over Friday and Saturday where the flow gradually tends more southwest. A high moves in on Sunday.

14-day outlook Unsettled this week with a westerly quarter airflow lying over us. A series of fronts will move through with one on Thursday the strongest looking, bringing heavy rain for western regions, namely the West Coast. Saturday the airflow starts to tend a little more to the southwest so while showers or rain are expected in the west a cool change should eventually work up the eastern side of the country too. Sunday conditions ease as an anticyclone moves in and this will likely mean frosts. The week beyond that in longe range models is looking mainly settled, perhaps a front may affect the South Island around mid to late next week.

Soil Moisture

Highlights

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Wind

Westerly quarter winds through central and southern parts of New Zealand may be strong at times this week. On Thursday strong northwesterlies spread to many areas then tending westerly on Friday. Southwesteries may be strong about eastern coastal parts on Saturday, winds ease Sunday. Source: NIWA Data

7-day rainfall forecast

Temperature

Rainfall accumulation over 7 days starting from 6:00am Sunday, May 15 through to 6:00am Sunday May 22, forecast generated at 12:00am Thursday May 12. A link to this image can also be found at weatherwatch. co.nz

Warm in the east and about the upper North Island this week. Friday will feel cooler for the South Island and Saturday perhaps even more so and spreading into the North Island too. Temperatures are cool to average for most on Sunday.

Highlights/ Extremes

China’s April red meat buying down

100

200

400

The main feature this week is a front on Thursday which is preceded by strong northwesterlies and it will likely bring heavy rain in the west as it moves through. It moves over and off the North Island early on Friday.

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OR all the chaos that Omicron caused through April, the amount of both beef and lamb shipped from NZ’s shores through the month didn’t take a huge fall, though it was less than would otherwise be the case. The latest data shows both beef and lamb exports were down 11% on 12 months earlier, equivalent to a 5100t decrease on beef and 3500t easing on lamb. For lamb, the month-on-month slowdown was spread fairly evenly through the major markets. Each of the UK, EU and US were down 900-1000t month-on-month, equivalent to a 18-20% decrease. Actual volumes decreased by a similar degree into China too, though their larger market size meant this was only an 8% decrease. Things get a lot more interesting when looking longer-term. China was the slowest it’s been in 10 years for an April at 9600t or a 35% market share. Through 2021 it commanded half of the lamb market. Earlier months this year showed similar trends and were assumed to be a shortterm blip, which is clearly not the case. This latest month looks to be due to risk avoidance during Omicron – processors didn’t want to place export licenses to China in jeopardy as was seen in the likes of Australia through the pandemic. Almost twice as much lamb was sent to China in February-April 2021 than the same months this year. For beef, frozen exports (excluding manufacturing beef ) bore the worst of the drop-off with a 4700t or 25% fall on the month prior. This was the lowest volume in five months and the smallest for April since 2017.

This wasn’t some universal swing down though. Rather almost all the change was again in China, which took more than a third less than the month prior. Their market share fell to 53%, the lowest for a month since 2020. Other key markets were essentially unchanged in actual volumes from March. South Korea does merit mention as it clung on as the second largest market for this type of beef for the sixth consecutive month, buying almost 50% more than the US over this period.

This latest month looks to be due to risk avoidance during Omicron – processors didn’t want to place export licenses to China in jeopardy as was seen in the likes of Australia through the pandemic. Manufacturing beef volumes only settled 10% less month-on-month to 20,000t. North America showed the largest decrease. But even still, the US maintained a 55% market share, around normal for postcovid trading. A halving of sales into Canada only took them down to normal after an especially active April. Shipments to China were steady on both February-March and last year, which gave it a 23% market share. Japan continued to have a much larger presence than usual, 9.5% share and 1900t to be exact. They’ve only taken more manufacturing beef in a month twice since at least 2007. This was the third consecutive year of increased buying from Japan.

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In-calf cows farmed on In-calf heifer and cow fairs have been dotted about the country. Farm sales supplied a good portion of the volume and annual draft topped up the balance. Processor buyers were not as active as they have been in previous years, due to limited space, and therefore did not have as much influence on the market. However, good demand from farmers looking for extra cows or top breeding meant solid results. A feature consignment of capital stock South Devon cows at Stortford Lodge sold for $1585-$1610 and at Temuka top traditional cows reached $1100-$1210. At Te Kuiti, 4-5-year Angus cows were able to reach $1660-$1740. Feilding featured a consignment of over 200 Hereford heifers and cows that were penned due to a Taranaki farm sale. NORTHLAND Wellsford store cattle • Five R3 Angus and Angus-Hereford steers, 580kg, topped their section at $2.91/kg • R2 Angus-Friesian and Hereford-Friesian steers, 349-392kg, firmed to $3.05-$3.14/kg • Top quality autumn-born yearling steers, 234-273kg, finished at $835-$900 • Weaner traditional steers, 248-326kg, fetched $840-$1030 A smaller yarding of 338 cattle was presented at WELLSFORD last Monday. Three-year Friesian steers, 633kg, reached $2.91/kg. The balance of R3 steers, 505545kg, mostly held at $2.77-$2.84/kg. R2 Hereford steers, 344kg, returned $2.97/kg. Better heifers, 360-433kg, traded at $2.75-$2.81/kg while the balance met the market at $2.47-$2.58/kg. Bulls over 400kg were consistent at $2.89$2.92/kg. Better weaner dairy-beef steers, 201-226kg, fetched $720-$790 and traditional heifers, 255-308kg, fetched $740-$885. Younger dairy-beef steers, 102-116kg, sold well at $450-$580. Read more in your LivestockEye. Kaikohe store cattle • Yearling beef steers eased to $3.10-$3.20/kg • Nice weaner Hereford bulls made $890, $3.30/kg • Weaner beef and beef-cross heifers traded at $2.50/kg • Run-with-bull and vetted-in-calf beef cows achieved $1.60/kg About 550 cattle were offered at KAIKOHE last Wednesday, PGG Wrightson agent Vaughan Vujcich reported. The best of the R2 steers were whiteface at $2.85$2.92/kg with nice Devon-Hereford around $2.80/kg. R2 Friesian and beef-cross bulls fetched $2.60-$2.65/kg and heifers made the same values. Weaner dairy-beef steers around 130kg made $500-$600.

AUCKLAND Pukekohe cattle • R2 whiteface steers made $2.83-$2.88/kg, $1230-$1450 • Boner cows achieved $1.68/kg to $2.37/kg, $800-$1560 • Prime bulls earned $2.38-$2.90, $1100-$1975 Prime steers made $2.80-$2.90/kg, $1410-$1890 at PUKEKOHE on Saturday, May 7 and prime heifers ranged from $2.62/kg to $2.90/kg, $1600-$1850. Small to medium weaner steers traded at $510-$570 and medium heifers $532.

COUNTIES Tuakau sheep 9.5, prime cattle 11.5, store cattle 5.5 • Prime Angus-Friesian heifers, 625kg, made $3.01/kg • Heavy boners, 550kg-plus, sold up to $1.77/kg • Hereford-Friesian steers, 503kg, fetched $2.98/kg Prime steer and heifer prices lifted 10c/kg at TUAKAU on Wednesday, Carrfields Livestock agent Karl Chitham reported. Steers, 550-700kg, returned $2.83-$2.97/kg. Heifers, 520-600kg, traded at $2.88/kg to $3.01/kg while 410-450kg made $2.74-2.79/kg. Boner prices strengthened by 15-20c/kg, 480-550kg cows managed $1.48-$1.58/kg and 400-480kg, $1.11/kg to $1.40/kg. Heavy prime lambs realised $164-$189 on Monday, and light-medium, $120$153. Heavy ewes sold well at $164-$191, while medium fetched $147-$158 and light, $45 to $105. Around 520 cattle were yarded at the store sale on May 5 where Angus steers, 443kg, earned $2.80/kg and 273kg Hereford-Friesian, $850. In the heifer section, 416kg Hereford-Friesian returned $2.48/kg and 289kg Hereford-Friesian, $850.

WAIKATO Frankton cattle 10.5 • A large portion of R2 heifers made $2.65-$2.75/kg • Weaner dairy-beef heifers mostly fetched $425-$505 and 311kg Angus $825 • Friesian bulls, 177kg, dropped around $20 to $500 • Prime heifers improved to $2.85-$2.90/kg • Heavy boner cows lifted to $1.40-$1.49/kg

The market was stronger across the board for PGG Wrightson at FRANKTON last Tuesday. R2 steers lifted, and the best consisted of 449-472kg Hereford-Friesian which sold above expectations at $3.00-$3.10/kg, and 442kg Charolais-cross were not far away at $2.96/kg. Weaner traditional steers at an exceptional weight of 343kg earned $900 and the next cut above 200kg, $600-$790. Read more in your LivestockEye. Frankton cattle 11.5 • R2 dairy-beef steers, 288-470kg, realised $2.60/kg to $2.79/kg • R2 Hereford-Friesian and Angus heifers, 361kg, earned $2.51$2.52/kg • Weaner Hereford-Friesian steers, 191kg, were the pick of the bunch at $700, $3.66/kg A smaller offering of under 300-head was offered by New Zealand Farmers Livestock at FRANKTON last Wednesday and this buoyed results for some. R2 beef-cross heifers, 438kg, reached $2.71/kg but the balance mostly softened as the dairy-beef heifer average price eased 4c/kg to $2.31/kg. Weaner Angus steers, 253kg, managed $815. A consignment of Hereford heifers, 174-232kg, sold to a single buyer at $500 for varied $/kg. Prime beef-cross steers, 551-633kg, held at $2.81-$2.87/kg though dairy-beef options, 545-559kg, eased to $2.67-$2.77/kg. Boner Friesian cows, 459-533kg, firmed to $1.35/kg to $1.56/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye. PGG Wrightson feeder calf Just over 280 feeder calves were presented at FRANKTON last Tuesday and a full clearance was achieved. Good Friesian bulls earned $115-$120 with small to medium at $40-$85. Medium to good Hereford-Friesian fetched $180$275 and good Charolais-Friesian, $210. In the heifer pens, top Hereford-Friesian realised $200-$250 and medium, $100-$180. Good Charolais-Friesian managed $210.

KING COUNTRY Te Kuiti in-calf heifer and cow fair • Hereford cows, 530kg, made $980-$1000 • R3 Angus and Angus-cross heifers, vetted-in-calf, earned $2.91$3.07/kg, $1570-$1575 • R3 Hereford-Friesian heifers, 456-470kg, traded at $2.68-$2.75/kg, $1250-$1340 It was a big day at the TE KUITI in-calf heifer and cow fair on Friday, May 6 and buyers came from Taihape and Hawke’s Bay through to South Auckland. Capital stock 4-year and 5-year Angus cows, 547-608kg, earned $2.85/kg to $3.15/kg, $1660-$1740 and 6-year and above $2.61/kg to $2.86/kg. Te Kuiti sheep • Heavy prime ewes earned $156-$180, medium $130-$143 and light $80-$90 • Heavy prime lambs achieved $199, medium $160-$170 and light $137-$144 There was a big yarding of store lambs at TE KUITI last Wednesday and demand was good for heavier lambs which made $138-$146. Medium types earned $125-$133 and lighter lambs, $90-$121. Mixed-age Perendale ewes, runwith Suffolk ram, traded at $110-$135 and run-with-ram Suffolk from $204.

BAY OF PLENTY Rangiuru cattle and sheep • Prime Hereford-Friesian steers, 614kg, collected $2.82/kg • Weaner Angus steers, 292kg, fetched $1010 Markets took a step in the right direction at RANGIURU last Tuesday after a large gallery of buyers made their purchases. Amongst the small yarding of prime cattle, heifers which weighed 495-553kg returned $2.63-$2.71/ kg while the largest proportion of boner cows made $1.20-$1.30/kg on a stronger market. Across R2 beef and dairy-beef steers, better breeding and weight returned $2.80-$2.91/kg and a second cut realised $2.66-$2.76/kg. Better Hereford-Friesian heifers reached $2.63/kg while

$2.48-$2.54/kg was common for others. In a small yarding of sheep, the heaviest prime lambs earned $151 while top store lambs traded at $140. Read more in your LivestockEye.

POVERTY BAY Matawhero sheep • Top store ewe lambs made $130-$143.50 and lighter types $100$112 • Mixed-age Merino ewes, run-with a Merino ram, earned $130 • Limited prime lambs improved to $151-$200 Store lamb throughput eased to just under 1700-head at MATAWHERO on Friday, May 6. Top male lambs lifted to $150-$163 and lighter types, $121-$140. Store ram lambs achieved $130-$156. Read more in your LivestockEye.

TARANAKI Taranaki cattle fair • R2 heifers mostly sold around the $2.50-$2.60/kg mark • Weaner steers typically made $500-$580 and heavy Speckle Park $760 • Weaner heifers mostly fetched $470-$650 with heavy types at $630-$645 More than 1000 head of cattle were offered at TARANAKI last Wednesday and while quality cattle were met by solid demand, off-types were harder going. The top end of R3 steers made $2.92-$3.00/kg and the next cut $2.76-$2.83/ kg. R2 Charolais and Angus heifers, 480-504kg, reached $2.86/kg. The best of the R2 steers were 397kg Angus which were secured for $3.12/kg and the next cut of Angus and Hereford-Friesian $2.90-$2.98/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

HAWKE’S BAY Stortford Lodge prime sheep • Very heavy mixed-age ewes reached $176-$197 • Heavy cryptorchid lambs realised $186-$199 • Good ewe lambs improved to $146 A smaller yarding of 204 ewes was presented at STORTFORD LODGE last Monday. Most mixed-age ewes were in medium to very good condition and medium to good types realised $118-$134. Very good ewes managed $147.50-$153. Lamb numbers increased with just over 400 yarded. Good to heavy lambs sold at steady to improved levels of $149-$190. Read more in your LivestockEye. Stortford Lodge store cattle and sheep • R3 Angus steers, 472-526kg, firmed to $3.04-$3.08/kg • R2 Angus steers, 425-469kg, firmed to $3.24-$3.32/kg • Weaner Angus-Devon steers, 194-232kg, sold for $750-$830 • Top male lambs reached $163-$175 • Good ewe lambs firmed to $120-$139 A nip in the air at STORTFORD LODGE last Wednesday had little impact on the store cattle market as a competitive bench of buyers looked for stock to winter. Tallies were moderate at 490-head, yet some good lines featured and included a pen of 30 R3 Hereford steers which sold for $1360, $3.01/kg. R2 traditional heifers, 365-404kg, sold well at $2.87-$2.92/kg. Later-born weaner Angus-Hereford steers from Mahia sold for $630-$730 and Angus-Devon heifers traded at $650-$750. Lamb supply dropped to 7200head which is typical for the time of year. Male lambs sold on a softer market, yet ewe lambs improved. Good male lambs made $130-$156 and medium ewe lambs, $119-$125. Read more in your LivestockEye.

MANAWATŪ Feilding store cattle and sheep • R2 traditional steers, 400-460kg, sold for $3.15-$3.25/kg • R2 traditional heifers, 520kg, reached $2.80/kg • Store male lambs averaged $141 • Store ewe lambs averaged $129 Only 460 store cattle were yarded at FEILDING on Friday, May 6. R3 traditional steers, 460-565kg, returned $3.00-

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Prime lambs sold on a stronger market along with a small yarding of ewes. A mixed-quality yarding of store lambs sold steady for type. Read more in your LivestockEye. Canterbury Park cattle and sheep • Shorthorn-cross steers, 498kg, fetched $3.07/kg • Angus and Angus-Hereford heifers, 485kg, collected $2.89/kg • Heaviest lambs earned $227 Any market shifts were positive at CANTERBURY PARK last Tuesday. Top returns for prime steers went to wellfinished traditional types from 470kg to 500kg and heavier options earned $2.83-$2.88/kg. Hereford-Friesian traded from $2.68/kg to $2.88/kg while heifers of the same breed, 470-513kg, realised $2.61-$2.69/kg. Better beef cows made $1.80/kg or more, up to $2.16/kg for some younger Angus, 376kg. Most boner cow returns were $1.10/kg or more. Good competition resulted in a firmer market for prime lambs by $5 a head, and likewise for ewes. Shorn ewe lambs started the store sale and fetched $136 while heavier mixedsex options from West Coast made $146. Premiums were paid for shorn and sex-drafted lambs. Read more in your LivestockEye.

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AND IN THE RED CORNER: Feilding hosted 800 cattle at the annual in-calf fair and included was a consignment of over 200 Hereford heifers and cows from Taranaki. The three pictured pens made $1150-$1260.

of these 440-475kg R3 heifers returned $1185-$1290. The R4 and R5 cows made $1150-$1260 at 455-555kg and 500555kg mixed-age cows $980-$1105. Most of the remainder were Angus or Angus-Hereford where 480-580kg mixed-age cows mainly sold for $1050-$1190, though two pens at 605675kg made $1440-$1480. Read more in your LivestockEye.

$3.10/kg while 425-490kg R2 Hereford-Friesian steers all made $2.90/kg. R2 Friesian bulls, 435kg, received $3.00/ kg and 420-425kg R2 Limousin-cross heifers made $2.60$2.65/kg. Weaner Hereford-Friesian steers, 220kg, were $780, $3.55/kg with the same 200kg heifers at $600, $3.00/ kg. A little more than 11,000 store lambs were yarded and sold on a mixed market. Forward-store males made $150$165, good lines $140-$150, medium $130-$140 and light mainly $120-$125. For ewe lambs, good-to-heavy lines returned $140-$150, medium $125-$140 and light mainly $110-$125. Around 300 run-with-ram ewes ranged from $100 to $140. Read more in your LivestockEye. Feilding prime cattle and sheep • Two Charolais heifers, 573kg, fetched $2.90/kg • Top lambs in larger pens made $195.50 There was more variation in the cattle pens at FEILDING last Monday, but the dominant class was still boner cows. The market for these firmed by 5c/kg so that the bulk traded at $1.33-$1.45/kg. Friesian heifers, 408-450kg, made $2.20-$2.27/kg. Two steers collected $2.74-$2.75/kg while beef and dairy-beef heifers, 500-585kg, returned $2.71$2.79/kg. Beef cows ranged from $1.57/kg to $1.79/kg for 770kg South Devon and in-spec bulls made $2.56/kg to $2.78/kg. A small yarding of sheep sold at a similar level to previous sales and good lambs earned $161-$181. Better conditions in the ewe pens resulted in a top price of $198. Read more in your LivestockEye. Feilding in-calf heifer and cow fair • In-calf R3 Angus and Angus-Hereford heifers, 465-555kg, were $1440-$1485 • In-calf mixed-age Simmental cows, 565kg, made $1600 A little more than 800 in-calf heifers and cows were yarded at FEILDING last Thursday. About half were Hereford, mainly due to a large horned consignment, and

Rongotea cattle • R3 Speckle Park-cross heifers, 600kg, made $2.73/kg • Autumn-born yearling Angus heifers, 243kg, achieved $2.39/kg • Boner Friesian cows, 443-663kg, fetched $1.27/kg to $1.41/kg • Weaner heifers sold at $365-$560 Throughput of heavier cattle lifted at RONGOTEA last Tuesday, New Zealand Farmers Livestock agent Darryl Harwood reported. R2 steers ranged from $2.43/kg to $2.76/kg and better heifers $2.33/kg to $2.47/kg. Weaner Hereford-Friesian steers, 256kg, made $710 and 142-216kg $410-$570. Better feeder calves earned $200-$270 and lighter types $85-$140.

CANTERBURY Coalgate cattle and sheep • R2 Angus steers, 320kg, fetched $3.16/kg • Mixed-sex Angus calves, 273kg, returned $900 • Shorn ewe lambs from West Coast fetched $136 • Heaviest prime lambs collected $211 The prime cattle sale returned to COALGATE on Thursday, May 5 after three weeks of calf sales, and market changes were noticeable. Better steers traded from $2.68/ kg and up to $2.78/kg for 690kg Speckle Park-Friesian while others were discounted down to $2.45/kg for 468kg Hereford-Friesian. Export weight heifers came in at $2.63$2.68/kg and local trade weights realised $2.41-$2.56/kg. R2 Angus steers, 338-383kg, earned $3.02-$3.08/kg while dairybeef options made 40c/kg less. Angus and Angus-Hereford heifers weighed 360-452kg and all collected $2.83-$2.89/kg.

Temuka prime and boner cattle, all sheep • Heavier prime heifers above 530kg held at $2.76-$2.86/kg • Better prime bulls achieved $2.55-$2.65/kg • Good Romney store ewe lambs made $143 The boner cow market strengthened at TEMUKA last Monday with the lion’s share of the 470-head sold for $1.46$1.56/kg, up an average of 15c/kg. The top end of the prime steers held at $2.87-$2.95/kg and the next cut $2.66-$2.76/ kg. Just over 4400 store lambs were penned, and the market strengthened around $4-$5 per head. Preference remains for sex-drafted lines of reasonable breeding and a top Perendale and Suftex male lambs made $152. Prime ewes lifted $3-$4 and lambs a bit more at $5-$8. Read more in your LivestockEye.

OTAGO Balclutha adult cattle sale • Bulls, 351-400kg, made $2.13/kg, $810 • Steers were mostly 400-580kg and earned $2.79/kg to $3.16/kg, $1180-$1550 Around 90 heifers were offered at the BALCLUTHA adult cattle sale on Thursday, May 5. Better types, 350-480kg, fetched $2.63/kg to $2.83/kg, $910-$1270 with lighter options at $2.38/kg to $2.74/kg, $810-$900. Cows, 400580kg, made $1.46-$1.53/kg, $710-$850 and those above 580kg returned $1.66-$1.75/kg, $1060-$1070.

SOUTHLAND Charlton sheep • Prime rams made $20-$110 • Store ewes achieved $190 Prime lambs firmed to $120-$176 on Thursday, May 5, while ewes eased and traded in a range of $40-$162. Store lambs made an average of $100 with the bottom end around $80 and better types up to $123.

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BREEDERS and vendors of two-year-old beef bulls and their livestock agents will be full of optimism for the sales season ahead, based on high beef prices and good, widespread bull condition. Six weeks of on-farm bull sales begin at the end of May with favourable indicators for demand and prices. Export returns for beef since the start of the year are the highest ever recorded, slightly over $10/kg fob after processing and packing. Shipping disruptions have redirected beef exports away from China and towards the United States, Southeast Asia and Europe, but all markets are showing strong demand signals. Prime beef schedule prices are $6/kg in the North Island and $5.85/kg in the South Island, both about 16% higher than this time last year and 13% higher than the five-year average. AgriHQ senior beef analyst Mel Croad said these price levels are at the top of the market, somewhat unexpected for this time of the season, and remarkably stable. “Farmers who have been delayed in slaughtering consignments can take comfort in the stability of these high returns,” she said. Normally beef schedules peak in November but this season they kept rising through December and January and have remained high. Schedules are starting to reflect the benefit of a falling NZ dollar, which is another unexpected positive in times of high commodity prices. PGG Wrightson national genetics manager and auctioneer Callum Stewart said the demand for bulls should result in repeats of the good prices paid last year.

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“The returns for livestock are very favourable right now and buyers should be prepared to pay more for better genetics. “The bull offerings we have seen look exceptional after the very good growing season in most regions.” Carrfields stud stock agent Tom Suttor, in Hawke’s Bay, said top quality bulls will always sell and the East Coast has enjoyed a very good season. “The old story; good lamb prices buy bulls.” Farmers should be prepared to turnover their bulls at younger ages to bring in in sharper genetics.

The bull offerings we have seen look exceptional after the very good growing season in most regions. Callum Stewart PGG Wrightson The loss of sheep and beef farms to forestry was cutting into the demand volume for bulls but Angus and Hereford have held on well compared with some other breeds. “All the signals are positive and I expect that bull sales will go well, with the ones I have seen in very good order.” Croad said the export beef picture was as good as it gets before larger volumes coming to market from Australia in the second half of the year. For the past 18 months Australian farmers have been rebuilding their herds and that country’s monthly export tonnages have consistently been 20,000 tonnes or 25% below the five-year averages.

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PROSPECTS: PGG Wrightson national genetics manager Callum Stewart says returns for livestock farming are favourable and bull buyers should be prepared to pay more for better genetics. “Perhaps the global shipping issues are underpinning these high commodity prices and we can’t say when things will change. “Right now, this looks like the year that bull prices should be high. “If buyers go for quality genetics, even if finished cattle prices come back a bit, they still will produce higher quality outputs. “It is always the lower quality that is hard to sell when the market is weaker.”

STORE lamb prices have reached record heights in recent years, but everything is relative as they follow the trend set by higher schedule pricing. In 2018, lamb schedule pricing broke new ground as it climbed from an average of $5.906.10/kg CW for the 2017 April-May period, up to $7.20-7.30/kg and then stayed relatively high over the following years. This season impacts of covid through shipping and staff issues has kept a lid on prices, yet strong overseas demand meant that $8.30/kg CW has been common, which is record averages to date. Store lamb prices in the pens and paddocks will trend in line with schedule prices, though are also influenced by other factors such as pasture levels and adverse events. The general rule of thumb, though, is simple – if schedule prices are high, then sale yard prices will be too. The Feilding sale yards put through the highest national throughput of store lambs and it is not unusual for 50,000-plus to be sold during the month of April, dependent on the season. Historical data from AgriHQ shows a significant increase in prices paid on the rails since data collection started in 2008, and they are very much in line with changes noted for schedule prices. Price increases in the past 10-year period alone has seen climbs from $5.60-5.75/kg CW for the April-May period in 2012, to current levels of $8.30/kg CW. Prices paid at the yards as a percent of schedule was relatively high in 2012 at 50%55% for both males and ewe lambs, and prices averaged $95-104. Roll on 10-years and buyers are hard-pressed to source any lambs under $100 as buyers have finished lambs on a higher schedule, or have high-priced contracts in place, and come to the yards with bigger budgets to compete with. Right now, Feilding sale averages are $140-150 for males and $124-135 for ewe lambs, yet as a percent of schedule they are not hugely different to 10-years ago at 47%-51%.

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HEAVY DUTY INSTRUCTOR SEAT

+GST

BLUE

KR-SC61104

BLACK

KR-SC61101

NEW POLYESTER FIXED HEADRESTS

19995

+GST

REAR BLACK: KR-SC506011 GREY: KR-SC506144

SHOP INSTORE OR ONLINE

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WINTER 2022

CAMERA SYSTEM 7” TFT KR-CAS667201KR

67995

+GST

10” QUAD TFT KR-CAS669401KR

114995

▶ Two camera inputs and automatic channel switching ▶ With built-in microphone ▶ Connecting cable: 20 m

Individual componentry and cameras are available upon request

+GST

RAM® MOUNTS SUCTION MOUNT C/W X-GRIP PHONE HOLDER

TWIST-LOCK DOUBLE SUCTION CUP BASE (“B” SIZE) KR-RAMB189B202U

11595

UP TO 4.5” WIDE

UP TO 3.25” WIDE

KR-RAMB166UN10

KR-RAMB166UN7

TWIST-LOCK TRIPLE SUCTION CUP MOUNT C/W ROUND PLATE KR-RAP365101U

19995

15795 $16350

+GST

EACH MOUNT ASSY 5” 4 HOLE AMPS ROUND PLATE ADAPTERS (“B” SIZE)

MOUNT C/W 2 RAM-202 & ARM Series RAM-C

KR-RAMB101

KR-RAMC101

12695

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+GST

FILTRATION

DONALDSON AIR FILTER INNER

AIR FILTER OUTER Suitable for Kubota BX, G, ZD Series. KR-P822686

Suitable for Case-IH 5100, MXM MAXXUM PRO series, New Holland TM Series, Massey Ferguson 3000, 6100 series and a wide range of Manitou Telehandlers. KR-P119410

2950

+GST

3250

+GST

Suitable for Case-IH MAXXUM, MXU series, wide range of Class Tractors, Fendt FARMER 300/400 series, New Holland T 6000, TSA series. KR-P780523

Suitable for Case-IH MAXXUM, MXU series, wide range of Class Tractors, Fendt FARMER 300/400 series, New Holland T6000, TSA series. KR-P780522

4650

AIR FILTER

7250

+GST

PRIMARY RADIALSEAL

SAFETY RADIALSEAL

Suitable for Case-IH CX, MXC series, New Holland TL, TLA Series, Landini ATLAS, GHIBLI, POWERFARM, VISION series, McCormick CX, MC Series. KR-P828889

Suitable for Case-IH CX, MXC series, New Holland TL, TLA Series, Landini ATLAS, GHIBLI, POWERFARM, VISION series, McCormick CX, MC Series. KR-P829333

6650

3995

+GST

FUEL FILTER ELEMENT

OIL FILTER SPIN-ON

Suitable for Most Tractors using a CAV fuel system. KR-P556245

Suitable for Claas ARES, ARION, AXION, CELTIS series, wide range of John Deere Tractors. KR-P550779

2550

$ +GST 50

+GST

MANN FUEL CHANGE FILTER

FUEL FILTER

Suitable for Claas ARES, CELTIS Series. KR-WK8118

Suitable for New Holland LM, TD Series. KR-WK8044X

3950

+GST

OIL CHANGE FILTER

Suitable for Case-IH MX Series, New Holland 40, CX, FR, T6000, TS Series, John Deere 6000, 6010, 6020 Series. KR-WH945

Suitable for Case-IH MAXXUM, MXU, STX Series, New Holland 70, T6000, T7000, TSA series. KR-WH1263

6495

2995

+GST

SHOP INSTORE OR ONLINE

www.partsdirect.farm

13995

+GST

WINTER 2022

NEW RANGE

CASE-IH

TIE RODS/AXLE COMPONENTRY AXIAL BALL END

TIE ROD END

TIE ROD

Suitable for Case-IH MX MAXXUM, Suitable for Case-IH 5100, MX MAXXUM, MXC MAXXUM series. MXM MAXXUM PRO series. KR-SHP447KR KR-SHP395KR

17995

+GST

Suitable for Case-IH 5100 series. KR-SHP158KR

9995

10450

+GST

Suitable for Case-IH CVX series. KR-SHP402KR

14995

+GST

JOHN DEERE AXIAL BALL END

TIE ROD END

AXIAL BALL JOINT

Suitable for John Deere 6M, 6R series. KR-SHP462KR

Suitable for John Deere 6000 TWENTY, 6000 TWENTY SE series. KR-VPJ3579

15995

+GST

Suitable for John Deere 6M, 6R, 6000 TWENTY, 6000 TWENTY SE series. KR-SHP397KR

13995

14795

+GST

Suitable for John Deere 6000 TWENTY, 7000 THIRTY series. KR-SHP167KR

19495

+GST

MASSEY FERGUSON TIE ROD END

DRAG LINK ROD

FRONT AXLE JOINT TIP

Suitable for Massey Ferguson Suitable for Massey Ferguson 133, 3000, 3100, 3600, 6100, 6200, 135, 148, 158, 240 models. 8100, 8200 series. KR-SHP227KR KR-SHP202KR

18995

+GST

Suitable for Massey Ferguson 365, 375, 390, 398, 399 models & 4200, 4300, 5300 series. KR-SHP446KR

11995

8750

+GST

Suitable for Massey Ferguson 7400, 7600 series. KR-SHP421KR

10495

+GST

FENDT TIE ROD END

AXIAL BALL END Suitable for Fendt 816, 818, 822, 824 models. KR-SHP079KR

26395

+GST

Suitable for Fendt 300, FARMER 100, FARMER 200, FARMER 300, FAVORIT 600 series. KR-SHP080KR

9695

+GST

Suitable for Fendt 300, FARMER 300 series. KR-SHP393KR

9995

FIND US ON

+GST

Suitable for Fendt FARMER 100, FAVORIT 600 series. KR-SHP082KR

13995

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+GST

WATER PUMPS

FUEL PUMPS

Suitable for Case-IH C, CX, MX series, McCormick C, CX, MC series. KR-311781A1KR

19995

+GST

Suitable for Case-IH C, CX series, Landini 60, 80, ADVANTAGE, BLIZZARD, REX series, wide range of Massey Ferguson series, McCormick C, CX series. KR-41313237KR

9295

Suitable for Case-IH FARMALL, JX, JXU, MAXXUM, MXU, QUANTUM series, Claas NECTIS series, New Holland T, TD, TL, TN, TS series. KR-2830266KR

4250

+GST

5350 +GST

ELECTRIC FUEL PUMP

+GST

Suitable for Case-IH 75 Series, Claas DOMINATOR, MERCATOR series, wide range of Landini series, Massey Ferguson 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 5300 series. KR-4131A021KR

6995

Suitable for Case-IH C, CS, CX series, wide range of Landini series, wide range of Massey Ferguson series, McCormick C, CX series. KR-2641808KR

+GST

Suitable for Ford 40, TS series, New Holland 40, TS series. KR-87800714KR

Suitable for John Deere 5E, 5M, 5R, 5015, 5000 TWENTY, 6M, 6R, 6030, 6000 TWENTY, 7020, 7030 series. KR-AL168483KR

Suitable for Massey Ferguson, 3400, 5400, 6400, 8900 series, McCormick CX, MB, MC, T, X series, Landini POWERMONDIAL, TREKKER, VISION series. KR-ULPK0041KR

18995

+GST

22995 +GST

FUEL PUMP CI Suitable for Case 621, 688, Case-IH 5100, 5200 series. KR-J928143KR

29995

+GST

Suitable for Case-IH 40, 5100, 5200, COMBINE HARVESTOR, MX, TRACKED EXCAVATORS, WHEEL LOADERS series, McCormick MTX series. KR-A77703KR

13350

Suitable for Deutz-Fahr AGROTRON MK1, MK2, MK3, NEW series.

KR-938350KR

KR-04503572KR

1995

19995

10 10

+GST

FUEL PUMP LIFT

+GST

Suitable for Case-IH JX, JXC, JXN, JXU, JXV, MXM series, New Holland 30, 35, L, T3, TD, TDD, TL, TN, TELEHANDLER LM series. KR-99454833KR

9050

+GST

SHOP INSTORE OR ONLINE

www.partsdirect.farm

+GST

20795 +GST

WINTER 2022

STARTERS SUITABLE FOR

SUITABLE FOR

CASE-IH

12V 4.2KW Suitable for Case-IH MAXXUM, MXU MAXXUM, PUMA series. KR-STA2167261

44995

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

FIAT

FORD

12V 3.1KW 12V 3.1KW Suitable for Case-IH 5100, MX MAXXUM series. KR-STA2167247

49995

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

Suitable for Fiat 90, F series. KR-STA2167312

Suitable for Ford THOUSAND, 10, 30, TW series & New Holland 30, 40, 60, M, TM, TS series. KR-STA2167311

12V 3.0KW

38995

37995

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

KUBOTA

JOHN DEERE

12V 4.2KW 10 TEETH CW

12V 0.8KW 9 TEETH

12V 4.8KW 11 TEETH

Suitable for Kubota B1550, B1750, B4200 models. KR-STA26170471

Suitable for John Deere 6000, 6000 TEN, 6000 TWENTY, 7000 TWENTY series. KR-IS1157

Suitable for John Deere 7000 TEN, 8000 THIRTY, 9000 THIRTY series. KR-STA21672196

37995

74995

+GST

59995

+GST

ALTERNATORS SUITABLE FOR

SUITABLE FOR

CASE-IH

SUITABLE FOR

FENDT

FIAT

14V 95A

14V 65A

14V 95A

14V 45A

Suitable for Case-IH 5100, 5200, MX MAXXUM, MXC series. KR-ALT26250891

Suitable for Case-IH CX series. KR-IA0876

Suitable for Fendt 200 VARIO series. KR-ALT2625119

Suitable for Fiat 88, 90, 94 series. KR-ALT2625163

29995

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

FORD, NEW HOLLAND

54995

+GST

43995

28995

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

JOHN DEERE

MASSEY FERGUSON 14V 70A

14V 100A

14V 150A

Suitable for Ford 40 series & New Holland 40, TM, TS series. KR-ALT26250691

Suitable for John Deere 5M, 5R, 6M, 6R, 6000 TWENTY, 6000 TWENTY SE, 6000 THIRTY series. KR-ALT26250681

Suitable for Massey Ferguson 300, 3000, 3100, 3600, 4200, 6100, 6200, 8100 series. KR-ALT1410GP

33995 +GST

44995

+GST

FIND US ON

19995

+GST

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11 11

SUITABLE FOR

GREGOIRE-BESSON

KUHN

LANDSIDE LH/RH KR-177319N

7995

PLOUGH

SUITABLE FOR

SHARE POINT LH KR-173331N RH KR-173332N

SHARE POINT LH KR-622129N RH KR-622128N

EACH

1650

+GST

2495

+GST

MIXED SKIM BOARD LH KR-19171N RH KR-19172N

UNIVERSAL SKIM SHARE LH KR-19125N RH KR-19126N

LANDSIDE POINT SK LH KR-761217N RH KR-761216N

EACH

4295

2295

+GST

3595

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

OVERUM

SHARE POINT LH KR-41659460909N RH KR-41659460809N

XL MOULDBOARD L KR-41659459709N R KR-41659459609N

XL 16” SHARE L KR-41659460109N R KR-41659460009N

XL LANDSIDE L KR-41659460509N R KR-41659460409N

EACH

1795

2795

+GST

5995

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

VOGEL & NOOT

SHARE POINT PK8 LH KR-PK801102N RH KR-PK801101N

SHARE WITHOUT POINT LH KR-PK701401N RH KR-PK701301N

LANDSIDE SHORT LH KR-PK803501N RH KR-PK803401N

MOULDBOARD WY 400 RH KR-PK800109KN

EACH

1450

$ 12 12

+GST

7995

SHOP INSTORE OR ONLINE

+GST

www.partsdirect.farm

4450

+GST

43695

+GST

WINTER 2022

SUITABLE FOR

CULTIVATOR

SUITABLE FOR

AMAZONE

HORSCH

CHISEL 370X55

POINT MULCHMIX

KR-CP119

KR-34060850GP

2495

POINT LH KR-CP122GP RH KR-CP121GP

+GST

WING SHARE WIDE 4-HOLE LH KR-00311328N RH KR-00311329N

EACH

3395

+GST

2695

SUITABLE FOR

KÖCKERLING SPRING TINE WITHOUT POINT 70X12X720MM KR-CP100150 70X12X780MM KR-CP100160

CULTIVATOR POINT

+GST

HARROW DISC NOTCHED 514x5mm 615x6,5mm

KR-912032KR

113

50 $ +GST

KÖCKERLING DUCKFOOT POINT

2595 +GST

270x50x15mm

270x80x15mm

KR-155027N

KR-155028N

2950

+GST

3150

+GST

CULTIVATOR POINT 60X10MM 3 HOLES

POINT TOPDOWN

KR-504019KR

KR-504032KR

+GST

VADERSTAD

13495

KR-910964KR

3395

SUITABLE FOR

EACH

+GST

EACH

2450

+GST

50mm

80mm

KR-4471521KR

KR-4448981KR

4850

+GST

4695

+GST

WE KEEP FARMERS FARMING DISCLAIMER: Prices are based on recommended retails, exclude GST and are valid to 30 September 2022. Additional freight charges may apply. If in any doubt contact your local dealer for assistance when selecting the correct part for your model and application. Items shown are sample images only.

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13 13

SUITABLE FOR

ALPEGO

POWER HARROW

AMAZONE

POWER HARROW TINE

POWER HARROW TINE 305x14MM LH KR-KE6700 RH KR-KE6701

EACH

2650

+GST

POWER HARROW TINE

312x15MM LH KR-KE0715 RH KR-KE0716

310x18MM LH KR-KE0122 RH KR-KE0123

EACH

2795

290x18MM LH KR-KE0115 RH KR-KE0116

330x15MM LH KR-KE0106 RH KR-KE0105

EACH

2495 $2695

2950

+GST

290x15MM LH KR-KE0113 RH KR-KE0114

+GST

3495

+GST

PIN (16X65MM)

LINCH PIN(6X22MM)

KR-DK168

KR-DG086N

SUITABLE FOR

ALPEGO/KUHN HEXAGON HEAD BOLT

FLANGED LOCK NUT M16X1.5 10.9

DIN960 M16X1.5X60 STEEL 12.9

KR-KE11603

495

+GST

$ 50 +GST

KR-960161560129B SUITABLE FOR

LELY

$ 95 +GST

POWER HARROW TINE

SUITABLE FOR

KUHN SCRAPER 180X75

COACH BOLT AND NUT

BRACE NUT

KR-AB070006

DIN603 M10X30 STEEL

KR-KE0717

M16X1.5-68 MM

ZINC-PLATED 4.6 KRAMP

KR-6031030

340MM LH KR-KE0811 RH KR-KE0812 EACH

2995

95 +GST

+GST

300x16MM LH KR-KE0703 RH KR-KE0704

315x16MM LH KR-KE0713 RH KR-KE0714

EACH

14 14

50 +GST

+GST

SHOP INSTORE OR ONLINE

www.partsdirect.farm

EACH

2695

+GST

HEXAGON SOCKET HEAD CAP SCREW

NUT CONICAL M20 X 1,5 MM

DIN912 M20X70 STEEL 12.9

KR-KE11501

KR-9122070129B

POWER HARROW TINE

+GST

335MM KR-KE0802 370MM KR-KE0803

95 +GST

SCRAPER 100X110MM KR-AB080017

450

+GST

895

+GST

WINTER 2022

ROTARY HOE

SUITABLE FOR

BREVIGLIERI ROTOVATOR BLADES 210X133X80MM

$ 95 +GST

EACH

1050 $1250

+GST

NERSH

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

CELLI

ROTOVATOR BLADES

230X174X60MM 6MM THICK LH KR-RB522601 LH KR-RB522601 RH RH KR-RB522600 KR-RB522600

EACH

895

190X130X80MM 8MM THICK LH KR-RB722534 LH KR-RB722534 RH RH KR-RB722533 KR-RB722533

50MM 12MM THICK LH KR-RB422631 LH KR-RB422631 RH KR-RB422630 RH KR-RB422630

EACH

1050

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

1095

+GST

KUHN

340MM COULTER DISC

COULTER DISC 406X4.0MM

KR-23010201GP

+GST

SEED DRILL

SUITABLE FOR

HORSCH

DISC 430X4.5

COULTER DISC 460X4.0MM

KR-110033N

KR-110034N

KR-110032N

+GST

5995

+GST

7995

7495

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

VADERSTAD SEED BOOT RD UNIVERSAL HC

ROLLER BEARING PEER KR-204PY3

50 +GST

HARROW TINE 12 MM KR-445067GP

BEARING HOUSING WITH BEARING KR-420832KR

LH KR-432116KR RH KR-432117KR

EACH

95 +GST

2695

FIND US ON

+GST

7750

/ KRAMPNZ

KR-RB141535

8MM THICK LH KR-RB482181 RH KR-RB482180

BOLT + NUT M14X1,5X35 12.9

7MM THICK LH KR-RB9930 RH KR-RB9931

+GST

15 15

SUITABLE FOR

MOWER

SUITABLE FOR

CLAAS

KRONE

MOWER BLADE Ø19mm

EACH

$ 50 +GST

118x50x4mm LH KR-1398884N RH KR-1398894N 115x48x4mm LH KR-0009520430KR RH KR-0009520420KR

105x48x3mm LH KR-0009041788KR RH KR-0009041778KR

BLADE BOLT & NUT

COMPLETE BLADE BOLT ASSY

KR-001377266N

HEAVY DUTY 117x57x4mm

EACH

KR-1398003

$ 50 +GST

BLADE BOLT & NUT

BLADE HOLDER L=377

KR-001377266N

KR-200361700

KR-0001058110KN

450

$ 50 +GST

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

KUHN

POTTINGER

MOWER BLADE

MOWER DISC

MOWER BLADE Ø21mm

KR-56812600N

107x45x4mm Ø18.25mm LH KR-55903210KR RH KR-55903310KR

112x49x4mm bore LH KR-434969KR RH KR-434970KR

100x48x4mm LH KR-434977KR RH KR-434978KR

EACH

26395

$ 95 +GST

KUHN BLADE BOLT & NUT

MOWER DISC

+GST

$ 95 +GST

KR-001377266N

39595

SHOP INSTORE OR ONLINE

+GST

www.partsdirect.farm

$ 50 +GST BLADE BOLT & NUT

KR-55931400N

KR-56115800KN

16 16

13995

+GST

450

+GST

$ 95 +GST M12 X 1.75 HEXAGON FLANGE NUT

BLADE BOLT KR-119013N

KR-12VR

$ 95 +GST

2450

+GST

WINTER 2022

RAKE & TEDDER

SUITABLE FOR

CLAAS

COMPLETE TINE FIXATION

ROTARY TINE

KR-0009191561KN

KR-0009554830KR

KR- 0009568151KR

1950

1495

KR-0009536290KR

+GST

1995

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

FELLA COMPLETE TINE FIXATION ROTARY TINE

KR-160111KR

1095

KR-160313KR

KR-150862KR

+GST

2650

+GST

KR-150094KN

1050

+GST

KR-160305KN

1795

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

KRONE ROTARY RAKE TINE

KR-002684050KR

TEDDER TINE

CCW

KR-001530141KR

KR-001530151KR

1995 $1650

+GST

1650

+GST

TINE HOLDER

CLAMP

KR-2650611KR

KR-001530320N

495

+GST

$ 95 +GST

SUITABLE FOR

KUHN ROTARY TINE

TEDDER TINE

TINE FIXING KIT KR-57502100KN

COMPLETE TINE FIXATION KR-58525700KN

CW KR-57644010KR

KR-58740700KR

1750 $1495

+GST

CCW KR-58740600KR

1495

+GST

2350

FIND US ON

+GST

2395

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+GST

1717

BALERS

SUITABLE FOR

KRONE

EACH

$ 50 +GST

PICK-UP TINE

KR-009381481N

KR-270098360N

KNIFE ROUND BALER KR- SM06761

KR-009380403N

5995

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

NEW HOLLAND PICK UP TINE

KR-80131673N

$ 50 +GST

W TINES E N R O F E TIM KR-80127566N

850

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

CLAAS PICK-UP TINE

KR-0008603510KR

$ 50 +GST

KR-0008072972KR

$ 50 +GST

KR-0009862900KR

$ 50 +GST

KR-0008483810KR

1295

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

WELGER PICK UP TINE

KR-0940522500N

$ 95 +GST

18 18

KR-0940522100N

$ 95 +GST

SHOP INSTORE OR ONLINE

www.partsdirect.farm

KR-0940530200N

$ 50 +GST

KR-0343580000N

895

+GST

WINTER 2022

LOADER WAGON

SUITABLE FOR

CLASS

SILAGE KNIFE

PICK-UP TINE

KR-SM05303

$ 50 +GST

6395

KR-009381481N

KR-0009182380KR

KR-0009862900KR

$ 50 +GST

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

POTTINGER PICK UP TINE

SILAGE KNIFE

895

KR-436144N

7195

KR-436151N

$ 95 +GST

+GST

7695

KR-SM07126

KR-SM07135

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

SCHUITEMAKER PICK UP TINE

SILAGE KNIFE

RAPIDE 50/6

KR-458053N

$ 95 +GST

KR-SM52103

KR-SM52105

HAVE YOU CHECKED ES YOUR KNIV LATELY?

KR-4330132KR

4750 $5195 $5495

+GST

SUITABLE FOR

STRAUTMANN PICK-UP TINE

SILAGE KNIFE

KR-87010630N

KR-SM04501

KR-SM04250

$ 50 +GST

8995

+GST

11995

+GST

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1919

WALTERSCHEID GUARD COMPLETE

W2000/W2100/W2200 L=1500MM KR-SD051500

W2200/W2300 L=1500MM KR-SD151500

W2300/W2400/W2500/W2600 L=1500MM KR-SD251500

28995 $39995

24995 +GST

BEARING RING SC25

+GST

1595

+GST

SD25 W2380/W2480/ W2580/PW480/PW580 KR-852562

SD15

L=186MM W2480 FLEXO KR-850102

3795

+GST

13995

+GST

2500 / P500 SERIES 36X89MM KR-1116692 KR-3600131

184

95 +GST

20 20

4850

+GST

13495

+GST

2600 / P600 SERIES 42X104MM KR-260003

289

95 +GST

HEAVY DUTY LONGER LIFE OPTION

2480 / P480 SERIES 32X76MM / 27X94MM KR-3506134

2580 / P580 SERIES 36X89MM / 32X106MM KR-3606134

+GST

EACH

2400 / P400 SERIES 32X76MM KR-1116361

2600 / P600 SERIES 42X104MM KR-2600131

32995

L=186MM W2380 FLEXO KR-850101

WIDE ANGLE CV JOINT 80° W2480 1.3/8 - 6 SPLINE

CROSS KIT- “P” SEAL 2300 / P300 SERIES 27X75MM KR-2100131

L=203MM W2580 FLEXO KR-850103HE

SD25

9995

+GST

SD25

GUARD CONE

FLEXO ELEMENT COMPLETE

+GST

KR-823603

3995

55495

GUARD SAFETY CHAIN 400MM

SAFETY CHAINS AND BEARING RINGS AVAILABLE IN OTHER SIZES

KR-828314

W2600/W2700 L=1000MM KR-SD351000

23995

SHOP INSTORE OR ONLINE

+GST

www.partsdirect.farm

22995 +GST

(WG2480) KR-3583830351310

129995 $179995 $

+GST

KR-36831103613104

+GST

WINTER 2022

WALTERSCHEID FRICTION DISC

56 X 90 X 4.5MM KR-567313

91 X 150 X 3MM

100 X 152 X 3MM

KR-567308

KR-567321

3950 $4795 $5795

+GST

100.5 X 157 X 3MM

120 X 185 X 3MM

KR-567312

KR-567311

5250

6495

+GST

AGRASET QUICK RELEASE PIN KIT

STANDARD SPRINGS KR-AG100

KR-AG101

3695

2495

+GST

KR-AG102

3850

+GST

KR-AG106

7495

+GST

AGRASET SLIDE COLLAR KIT

METAL 1.3/8”

PLASTIC 1.3/8”

KR-AG118

KR-AG122

KR-AG123

8995

9550

+GST

12995

+GST

WALTERSCHEID REPAIR KIT HOOK

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