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Build on our competitive advantage Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz

HE primary sector is doing a remarkable job of trading, growing and delivering record returns to the New Zealand economy when they are so desperately needed. But this year’s KPMG Agribusiness Agenda reports a sector that is muddled; opportunity-packed and riskburdened, global head of agribusiness and author Ian Proudfoot says. When interviewing agribusiness leaders this year the first comment was “now, where do we start?” No single theme or trend stood out in the interviews, unlike past years. “For some leaders, things have never been better; others face an existential crisis, while many have aspects of their operations that are humming and other parts that are on (or are close to) life support.” Proudfoot said each leader is still fighting through the fatigue for the resolve and resilience necessary to identify and catch opportunities flying at them from various directions. Little has been done to mitigate the tsunami of rules and regulations approaching, while

leaders battle labour scarcity, supply chain disruption, covid absences and water availability. He noted that the Ministry of Primary Industries Situation and Outlook Report highlighted the primary sector’s contribution of $52 billion in export earnings from food and fibre in FY2022. Almost on the same day, the He Waka Eke Noa report made recommendations requiring farmers to report emissions numbers, plan for greenhouse gas management, and pay for methane and long-lived gas emissions. “These two reports perfectly highlight the complex yet opportunity-packed environment in which the sector currently operates.” The assortment of issues that organisations and leaders must balance to create and capture value is increasing. “For some in the sector, tension and frustration are boiling over, but the focus must be on what is controllable to catch the many opportunities inherent in the crises and challenges we face,” Proudfoot said. On the back of good product prices, those with cash to invest in the sector should concentrate on the things they can control, he advised. These include reconnecting

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SILVERSTREAM: New owner John Henderson, vendor Brent Fisher and the record price maker Silverstream Sandown. Photo: Annette Scott

Carried away by Charolais Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz IT WAS love at first sight for John Henderson, who paid the record price of $50,000 for Sandown, a Charolais yearling bull at the Silverstream 34th annual bull sale.

with the world, automation of repetitive roles, capturing opportunities in decarbonisation, collaborating substantively, and unifying the food systems across export and domestic markets. Proudfoot advised a laserlike focus on the sustainable competitive advantage in the future for food value chains rather

“I said when I saw him, I love him, I’m going to buy him,” Henderson said. “I had to pay a bit more for him than I planned but he is just a little bit special. His bloodlines have been on my radar as a sire prospect, so now I should be right for a few years.”

than the productive aspects of commodities. The advantages could come from intellectual property, a health attribute, or a brand story. Efforts must go into understanding consumers, recruiting diverse thinkers, choosing the right partnerships and growing

Henderson, together with his brother Perry, breed for both the beef and dairy industries at Auahi Stud in Piopio, Otorohanga. “We have bought from here before, Sandown’s sire Duty Free Continued page 6

on a balanced platform. “We must choose to build our future value chains around globally relevant, sciencebased, nature positive, health engendering opportunities that have the potential to be scaled quickly enabling us to leverage our competitive advantage while it exists.”

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Sector hopes science trumps politics Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz NEW Zealand farming leaders are hoping science rather than politics prevails when the Government decides the fate of He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) later this year. The plan put forward by the farming industry to price agricultural emissions has been created to make sure decisions around how those emissions are priced is based firmly on science, DairyNZ chairman Jim van der Poel said. “HWEN was framed up the way it is to make sure that we don’t end up in the ETS. Science is evolving in this and we 100% believe we should be using science to decide what the appropriate numbers are and the impact that methane of farming in New Zealand contributes to global warming. “Our expectations are that science will prevail over time.” HWEN can also be changed to meet the science of the future, which would be harder to do if it was in the ETS, he told a webinar on HWEN run by DairyNZ and Beef + Lamb New Zealand (BLNZ). It was one of three been held by the two groups designed to dive into the plan’s details and answer any questions farmers have. BLNZ director Nicky Hyslop said HWEN’s overarching goal was preventing agriculture emissions coming into the emissions trading scheme. This provided farmers with a better outcome, giving them choice and control over their future, she said. “This is about trade and social licence as much as it is about regulation and government.” HWEN’s implementation agency will be governed by an oversight board that will advise

ministers, with appointments made after recommendations put forward by the primary sector and Government. There will also be an independent Māori board to ringfence the levies collected by Māori agribusiness. Mandatory reporting on emissions begins in 2024-25 and emissions pricing begins 202526 using a central calculator as well as sequestration credits and discounts for incentives. By 2027, a more detailed calculator will be used that should recognise more farm practices and sequestration and discounts.

This is about trade and social licence as much as it is about regulation and government. Nicky Hyslop Beef + Lamb New Zealand That calculator will be developed under the guidance of the implementation agency. The equation for pricing emissions is the cost of methane plus the cost of long-lived gases minus incentive discounts and on farm sequestration. DairyNZ strategy and investment leader Bruce Thorrold said they had put in front of government ministers what he believed is a robust and credible scheme. The unique price of methane showed the split gas approach taken by HWEN and because of its

nature, it did not need to go to net zero over the time frame of New Zealand’s emissions budgets. For the first three years, a price ceiling of 11 cents per kilogram of methane has been proposed, which is the equivalent of the 95% free allocation farming would get if it went into the ETS. The long-lived gas price is predominantly nitrous oxide and will be enough to fund sequestration and incentives to reduce it. In 2028, the sector will review its nitrous oxide target, given that this gas does need to go to net zero, he said. Incentives will help farmers recover their levy and they will get a credit or a discount to their bill for approved actions. These will be predominantly technology-driven and the value of these discounts are set by the system oversight board, he said. “It’s fair to say that a lot of it will come down to the availability and price of technology,” Thorrold said. A lot more sequestration will be recognised in HWEN compared to if farming went into the ETS. These categories include indigenous forestry, scattered forest, woodlots, riparian planting and perennial crops. Pricing will be done in a twostage system. In the first stage, it will be linked to the ETS for the first three years and at the bare minimum will be part of existing programmes such as QEII. Once the more detailed calculator is introduced in 2027, more details around sequestration should be available. Any sequestration that farmers should have been paid for initially, they will get back dated payments for.

WORKABLE: DairyNZ strategy and investment leader Bruce Thorrold said they had put in front of government ministers what he believed is a robust and credible scheme.

The sequestration price will also be reviewed in 2028. Hyslop said getting rewarded for sequestration will be incredibly important for sheep and beef properties with extensive farming systems if they are to remain profitable. “We are urging the Government to be cautious heading into this because we do want to protect the viability of our farming systems and our rural communities.” They also do not have as many tools at this stage to lower emissions apart from low

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emission sheep and finding ways to finish animals faster. Hyslop said while New Zealand was the only country that was developing a pricing framework for ag emissions, this conversation was occurring in the EU and UK. A lot of trade agreements also have emissions reductions clauses in them and there was an international expectation that New Zealand will play its part. “Other countries are watching this. I don’t think we will be the only country in this space going forward.”

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Top bull prices reach over $50,000 Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz NORTHERN Angus studs fared well when East Coast buyer Whangara Angus came over the North Island and paid the top money on two consecutive days. The Hayward family at Waipapa station, Te Akau, got $58,000 for Twin Oaks R020. Twin Oaks sold 51 bulls and averaged $12,500, including another at $27,000 paid by Waikari Angus, North Canterbury and three at $22,000. The highest priced bull, the second-highest and two of the three at $22,000 were sired by Gardiner Angus Ranch Ashland, one of the top bulls in the United States. PGG Wrightson auctioneer Cam Heggie said it was the liveliest sale he had called this season so far and the Haywards had put forward bulls in exceptional order after the very difficult season in northwestern Waikato. The day before the Bayly family at Waitangi Angus, Bay of Islands, had a full clearance of 51 bulls and an average of $9350. Top price of $57,000 was also paid by Whangara Angus, for Waitangi R 257 by Seven Hills 327, setting a price record for Waitangi. Two Speckle Park bulls from Maungahina Stud, Masterton, sold at very high prices to Australia.

Maungahina Rising Star R286 sold for $65,000 to Minnamurra Speckle Park at Coolah, NSW, and Maungahina Rampage R301 sold for $60,000 to Gin Gin Speckle Park at Brunswick. In all the McKenzie family at Maungahina sold 43 twoyear bulls, plus embryos and semen lots, which was 30 Herefords averaging $8650 and 13 Speckle Parks averaging $16,500. The top price among the Herefords was $15,000 twice. Near Christchurch, Silverstream sold 59 of their 60 Charolais bulls with a top price of $50,000 and an average of $8132. It also sold all 17 Hereford bulls with an average of $6530 and a top of $11,500. Glen Anthony Simmentals, Waipukurau, sold 19 of 20 offered and averaged $9947 with a top price of $17,000 paid for Glen Anthony 20-55. Down at Amberley, North Canterbury, the Beechwood, Richon and Woodburn Hereford studs sold 22 out of 32 offered with an average of $5680 and a top price of $8000 for Woodburn Advance 200020. Cleardale Angus, Rakaia Gorge, had a top price of $9500 and averaged $5588 across 17 sold out of 30 offered. Atahua Angus, Kiwitea, sold 19 of 35 for an average of $10,710, helped considerably by a top

DESIRABLE: Whangara Angus on the East Coast came across to Te Akau on the Waikato northwest coast to pay $58,000 for Twin Oaks R020.

price of $34,000 for Atahua 1-20, sired by US bull Fail Safe and $31,000 for Atahua 3-20, by Basin Rainmaker. Te Whanga Angus and McFadzean Cattle Company combined to buy the top Atahua bull.

NORTHENER: Waitangi R257 sold for $57,000 to Whangara Angus, setting a price record for the Bayly family in the Bay of Islands.

I am very confident for the future of the industry despite government wanting to turn us all into trees. Brent Fisher Silverstream

Continued from page 1 is doing a tremendous job in the breed, so we know with his new bloodlines and all the qualities of the X-factor we look for that he is going to be a great prospect for us in our future breeding programmes especially with the Charolais breed becoming more and more popular in the dairy industry. “We will get the money back,” Henderson said.

Silverstream stud is run by Brent and Anna Fisher at Motukarara, just outside of Lincoln in Canterbury. Brent says trends come and go and many don’t practically make a lot of sense but they still happen. “One trend that is emerging is the need to be more efficient with our resources, this does make a lot of sense and there will be a time, which won’t be too far away, where we will be paid premiums

Te Whanga Angus, Masterton, had a full clearance of 23, averaged $9195 had topped at $14,500. Rolling Rock Angus, Te Akau, had a full clearance of 21, averaged $9714 and had a top price of $20.000. Mt Mable Angus, Woodville, had a strong sale of 32 out of 43 yarded, of which nearly half made more than $10,000. The average was $9812 and the top price $20,000 for Mt Mable 2008, followed by a $19,000 and an $18,000. Mt Possession Angus, Ashburton Gorge, MidCanterbury, sold 17 out of 20 offered and averaged $7629, with a top of $13,500 paid by Neville Caldwell. Dandaleith Angus, Dannevirke, had a full clearance of 29 and averaged $9103 compared with last year’s $8000. Their top bull was Dandaleith Garth 302 which sold for $18,000. Brookwood Angus sold 16 of 26 offered and averaged $8375, with a top of $13,000, one at $12,500 and two at $12,000. Sudeley Angus, Irwell in Canterbury, sold 49 out of 50 and averaged $8867 with a top price of $20.000 paid for Sudeley R308. Elgin Angus at Elsthorpe sold 20 out of 28 and averaged $8950 with a top of $18,000. Riverlee Herefords at Kimbolton

for being more efficient. “This is really where the beef industry will need to go if it is going to be truly competitive from a land use perspective. “Very few industries have as much variation in their carbon footprint as the NZ beef industry and the exciting thing is we have a lot of scope to increase our output while reducing our carbon footprint. “This is going to become more relevant going forward and is a

sold 20 from 21 in the catalogue and averaged $6350 with a top price of $9200. Earnscleugh Station sold all 49 Angus bulls for an average of $8643 and a top price of $18,000 paid by Mt Possession.

It was the liveliest sale called this season so far and the Haywards had put forward bulls in exceptional order after the very difficult season. Cam Heggie PGG Wrightson Ngaputahi Station, Pohangina Valley, offered 50 Angus bulls and sold 49 with an average of $8872 and the top price of $18,000 made twice, by Earnscleugh Station and Stokman Angus. Totaranui Angus, Pahiatua, sold 32 out of 38 offered, averaged $8765 and had a top of $17,000 paid by a commercial farmer. Kairuru Polled Hereford, Reporoa, sold 20 out of 27, averaged $6050 and had a top price of $21,500 paid by Monymusk Herefords.

good news story for our industry. “Being more efficient won’t just have that feel-good factor of reducing our carbon footprint but it will make our industry more productive.” Brent says the Charolais and Herefords are well placed to take the industry to the next level of productivity. “I am very confident for the future of the industry despite government wanting to turn us all into trees.”

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Making it happen After three years of covid-19 disruptions and other challenges, rural communities are organising events to reconnect. Erin Harvie and Wendy Main, organisers of a recent wellbeing evening in North Canterbury, share what it takes to make it happen.

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ERIN and Wendy have been involved in a Ministry for Primary Industries project run by the local Waimakariri Landcare Trust. The project focuses on four aspects of farming, one of which is community wellbeing. “Some of the farmers involved wanted to build connection within the community so we organised a ‘wellbeing’ evening,” Erin says. “That was the driver.” Wendy, whose family runs a dairy farm near Oxford, says the timing was good. “Farmers in this area have been dealing with a lot of change, a new district plan as well as Government regulations. Sometimes as farmers you sit and think ‘what next?’ You just get your head clear from one thing and something else comes along.” Covid-related labour shortages have added more stress, she says. “There’s been real pressure on farmers and staff to get all the work done and a lot of long hours. Any opportunity to get off farm for a bit is good.” Erin organised a couple of wellknown local speakers to headline the event. First up was Scott Robertson, the Crusaders’ rugby coach. He spoke about building and maintaining team culture and leadership styles. “A lot of what he discussed you could really translate across to

farming,” she says. Next up was Craig Wiggins, the brains behind an initiative called Lean on a Gate, Talk To A Mate. “He focused on the importance of staying connected with friends, sharing your challenges and reaching out for help if you’re not doing so well, rather than hiding away in your back paddock,” Wendy says. She had organised representatives from the North Canterbury Rural Support Trust, the Rural Women’s network, Stay Well and Farmstrong to come along and speak as well, so people could see what help was available locally. “It’s important for farmers to know there is support out there if they need it. Also, when you see a face, you’re more likely to ring them. That’s how rural communities work. Not everyone is on a computer screen, so an event like this allows people to get cards and phone numbers.” After the speakers, people stayed on and chatted over supper. Wendy says offering food is another drawcard. “We tapped into our community networks and used the local Workingmen’s club. It was great to use their knowledge for things like the catering and setting up the venue.” The pair also organised free health checks for those attending through rural health initiative Stay Well. “People were able to get their

POPULAR: More than 70 people turned up to the North Canterbury wellbeing event and things went so well the evening ran over time.

Farmers in this area have been dealing with a lot of change, a new district plan as well as Government regulations. Sometimes as farmers you sit and think ‘what next?’ You just get your head clear from one thing and something else comes along. Wendy Main Event organiser blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose tested,” Erin says. How much time goes into organising an event like this? “We discussed the idea for a few months,” Wendy recalls, “but it probably only took a month from the time we started organising it. I spent a few hours a week, Erin may have spent longer.” Promotion is obviously crucial. Erin’s job was to spread the word. “We promoted the event through the Rural Support Trust, posted on Facebook and

promoted it through our local radio station Compass FM. They have a large following locally. The week before the event I was interviewed on air and they included it in their community notices.” These efforts paid off. On the night, more than 70 people turned up. Things went so well the evening ran over time. “It was supposed to be two hours, but it ended up being closer to three,” Erin says. “The speakers and questions took two hours and there was another hour for people to catch up, have their supper and get their health checks.” The feedback was very positive Wendy says. “People came up after and said ‘thanks for that. I’ve suffered in the past and it’s good to know I’m not the only one.’ So, you’re giving people permission to have those conversations and there were people there reaching out.” Erin agrees. “People said they found the speakers interesting and took away some good pointers. There was lots of discussion.” Wendy also described the rewards of running such an event. “I’ve got real heart for events like this. I’m a registered nurse and work at a local general

practice. I see and hear people who are struggling out there in our communities. It’s great to show people where they can go for help. “We’re considering holding another event towards the end of the year after lambing, calving and harvesting. It’s important to pick a time when most people are going to be available.” Free copies of Farmstrong’s new book Live Well, Farm Well were quickly snapped up. The book features the stories of 29 farmers managing the ups and downs of farming as well as expert advice on topics such as managing stress, sleep and nutrition. “The book provides a lot of practical tips on how to keep on top of your wellbeing by making sure you make time to look after yourself as well as your farm. Farmers often struggle with that idea,” Wendy says. “The value of an event like this is that if you hear someone else down the road is doing it, it helps you accept that you can take that time for yourself. Erin says the event ticks a lot of boxes. “It’s nice and social and it gets people off farm. Every once-in-awhile it’s great to just pause and focus on your wellbeing.” is the official media partner of Farmstrong

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It was not to gift the land to the Crown to use however it wished; there were detailed discussions of the use to which the land was to be put. Justice Ellis High Court Justice Ellis says a decision to sell is likely to require wider consideration by the minister. The receivers for the Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre sought the High Court ruling, but descendants of the original donors, of which Phillida Perry was the first respondent, want the land retained for education, the purpose for which it was gifted. They submitted the legislation does not grant power to the trust to sell the land and if it is to be disposed of, then it should be offered back to the descendants of donors. After WWI, Sir William and Lady Margaret Perry donated 131ha to help returning servicemen reestablish themselves and promote modern farming practices in the Wairarapa.

WOUND DOWN: Financial losses in 2017 and 2018, a forecast further loss in 2019 on the back of lower enrolments, required the repayment of Tertiary Education Commission funds which culminated in the board being forced to liquidate Taratahi in December 2018.

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If the Government decides to sell the Taratahi farm, which is owned by a trust, he says it will be ignoring the rights of property owners. “Whether the land is in somebody’s name or whether it’s in a trust with trustees, it’s the same thing. It’s private land,” he says. Such a decision will also be against the wishes of the original donors and their descendants. They want the farm to remain in the Wairarapa for agricultural training, but that appears to be at odds with what Wellington

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LAND at the former Taratahi farm training centre where thousands of young farmers learnt their craft could be sold to repay the debt that caused the agricultural training centre into liquidation in 2018. A High Court judgement has determined that the 1969 Wairarapa Cadet Training Farm Act, which vested the 294ha with the Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre Trust Board, allows the land to be sold with the approval of the Agriculture Minister. “Approval could be given to a sale by the liquidators, if that sale is necessary to meet the Trust’s lawfully incurred debts (debts incurred in the lawful and trust consistent performance of the board’s statutory functions).”

At the same time a neighbouring 163ha was bought off Mrs Ivelenah Rayner with funds raised from the Wairarapa community, which lead to the establishment of the Wairarapa Cadet Training Farm. The community also donated livestock while the Government funded buildings, fences and equipment. Up to 1969, the farm was controlled and managed by a committee appointed by the Minister of Agriculture, but the passing in 1969 of the Wairarapa Cadet Training Farm Act vested the farm and land in a trust board. That change was needed to give governance a more certain legal footing and to provide easier access to funding. Financial losses in 2017 and 2018, a forecast further loss in 2019 on the back of lower enrolments, required the repayment of Tertiary Education Commission funds which culminated in the board being forced into liquidation in December 2018. Justice Ellis notes that at the time of liquidation, the board owed $11.9m and a further $12.5m to the Westpac. The amount owed to Westpac has been reduced to $6.6m, but liquidators say the land is the last unrealised asset of value. “If the Minister of Agriculture consents … the liquidators intend to sell the land and use the proceeds to pay creditors and the costs associated with the liquidation, in accordance with the Companies Act.” Justice Ellis notes the Attorney General supports the liquidator’s position but noted the minister is committed to finding options for retaining agricultural education at the training centre. Justice Ellis concluded the gifting of land in 1918 was for charitable educational purposes as was the donor’s intent. “It was not to gift the land to the Crown to use however it wished; there were detailed discussions of the use to which the land was to be put. “I have no doubt that it would not have been transferred but for the Crown’s agreement to use the land (and the stock) as the core of the training farm enterprise envisioned by the donors.”

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Scheme to connect remote areas Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz A NEW remote users scheme will be created out of funding from this year’s budget to provide broadband services in some of the country’s most remote locations. These locations have no coverage or only have voice calling and text messaging services. The scheme will provide a variety of means to deliver connectivity to the user’s main site of residence, Minister of Digital Economy and Communications David Clark said at the TUANZ Rural Connectivity Symposium in Hamilton. “Work is underway to finalise the details of this new scheme

It’s a different world that we live in now and we must take advantage of the technologies that are there and I think its critical for us in continuing to generate high wealth out of our rural communities in terms of export dollars. David Clark Minister of Digital Economy and Communications

and it is my intention to launch the remote users scheme later this year,” he said. The scheme will cost $15 million and will come out of the $60m allocated by the Government to improve rural connectivity in New Zealand. Around $43m of that funding will also be used to improve network capacity and speed. This includes, but is not limited to, settlements in the Far North, Gisborne, Manawatū-Whanganui region, Taranaki, Southland and Waikato. When combined with rural capacity upgrades announced in February, the Government has allocated over $90m towards upgrading the capacity of rural networks, to be rolled out over the next three years, he said. “This new funding also includes provision for an additional $2m to be spent on extending the successful Marae Digital Connectivity initiative for up to two years. The additional funding will allow for more eligible marae to benefit,” he said. “More than 560 marae have been connected through this initiative so far, with most of them located in rural areas, serving as hubs for their communities, Clark said. This, along with the remote users scheme, will also improve rural digital equality, he said. The funding should be seen as part of a suite of Government initiatives to ensure New Zealand was one of the most digitally capable countries in the world. Clark said the Government

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PGF gets a pass mark Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz THE Government is hailing the $3 billion Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) as a success, saying it has created 16,000 jobs and boosted regional economic growth.

The PGF might have created some jobs, but that’s offset by fewer jobs being created in the private sector because of the higher taxes to pay for it. David Seymour ACT Party Economic and Regional Development Minister Stuart Nash released an independent evaluation of the fund that revealed $1.89b has been paid out to March 31, 2021, funding 1359 projects.

“Of the 1359 projects approved for funding, over 500 have already been completed, resulting in over 16,000 jobs and improved economic outcomes for our regions,” Nash said. “The report shows that grants and loans from the PGF have directly led to real change with tangible flow-on benefits, such as the $15 million loan and equity stake in Taupō-based GEO-40’s world-leading silica extraction plant, or the $500,000 grant for Southland start-up ecosystem COIN South to launch their pilot business support programme.” The PGF was a NZ First initiative launched in late 2017 that allocated $3b over three years to raise the productive potential of regional NZ. It was reset in 2020 to soften the economic impact in the regions of the covid-19 pandemic. It can only invest in regions outside Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The evaluation by consultants Allen and Clarke reveals Northland, with nearly $600m, received the most funds to March

WORTH IT: Economic and Regional Development Minister Stuart Nash, pictured here with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, says the report shows that grants and loans from the PGF have directly led to real change with tangible flow-on benefits.

31, 2021, while Kapiti ($4m), Chatham Islands ($5m) and Wairarapa ($15m) received the least. It assessed the fund’s design and approach performance as fair to reasonably good and the outputs and outcomes of the fund as effective. The consultants noted more time is needed to fully assess the PGF’s contribution to regional gross domestic product. “Many applicants and other stakeholders indicated that the way in which success is currently measured is too narrow,” it concluded. “More consideration needs to be given to how broader benefits can be captured and what information needs to be

collected.” The report recommends some changes, especially around the application and reporting systems and in measuring what is most important. The largest allocations were for KiwiRail ($300m), Tairawhiti Roads ($135m), Te Uru Rakau ($484m including operational funding), HPR/TAM ($162m), whenua Māori and digital connectivity ($100m), and tourism infrastructure ($75m). Smaller allocations were assigned to energy and waste ($40m), historical sites ($20m) and economic development agencies ($5.6m). The ACT Party reiterated its opposition to the fund, though. Leader David Seymour said it

has been a failure. “It hasn’t created the jobs that the Government promised and the money has to come from somewhere,” he said. “New Zealanders are smart enough to work out it’s from their taxes. “The PGF might have created some jobs, but that’s offset by fewer jobs being created in the private sector because of the higher taxes to pay for it. “Factoring in the disincentives created by those taxes, the PGF has actually made New Zealanders poorer. “ACT would cut spending and taxes because New Zealanders know better than politicians and bureaucrats how to spend their money.”

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Sustainability: the new business as usual BusinessDesk SUSTAINABLE Business Network chief executive Rachel Brown has been in the business of sustainability for more than 30 years – and says when she first started, there wasn’t a sustainability space, at all. “The sustainability professional sector has probably only formalised in the last 10 years,” she says. “When I set up the Sustainable Business Network 20 years ago, it was a very different set of conversations to what we’re having now.” First set up in 2002, the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) is the country’s largest business organisation focusing on sustainability issues and works with businesses to improve their performance when it comes to their impact on the climate, waste and nature. Brown says sustainability has become a hot topic in the last few years and the network has never been busier, but businesses took a “devastating” hit during the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008 and their focus on sustainability was “really knocked sideways”. Brown says since then businesses’ interest in sustainability has been booming, from small organisations with an environmental conscience to big mainstream corporations keen to decrease their climate footprint. When the pandemic started in 2020, Brown feared covid-19 would have the same effect on the sustainability sector as the GFC had. The network braced itself for a lag, but the pandemic actually had the opposite effect. “People connected in a different way with these issues and it’s actually accelerated sustainability,” she says. “We’re really feeling that it’s a change, and lots of industries are talking about it now.” Executive director of the Sustainable Business Council Mike Burrell agrees covid-19 has stimulated interest in sustainable practices. “People have realised these crises do come along and they’re real, and we have to step up and do something about them rapidly,” he says. Burrell jumped back into the sector in early 2020, after eight years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) as its sustainable economic

IMPERATIVE: Rachel Brown says if businesses don’t change to more sustainable practices, they’ll slowly disappear. Photo: NZ Story

development director, and high commissioner to South Africa. On his return, he was surprised at how keen businesses were to engage with sustainability because the last time he had those conversations, 10 years ago, he’d found the sector “pretty embryonic”.

And if businesses aren’t changing, they’ll just slowly disappear, because someone else will do it – it’ll just leave the door open for someone else. Rachel Brown Sustainable Business Network “It still seemed like sustainability was this slightly add-on thing that you did,” he says. Most businesses are now taking a “hard look” at themselves and working out how they can do better, which was very different to a few years ago, he says.

The Sustainable Business Council (SBC) works with more than 100 businesses from all sectors that are striving towards being more sustainable. Its members have a collective turnover of more than $87 billion and employ nearly 160,000 people. Burrell says since the pandemic started, the council’s membership has increased by about 20%. “The kinds of companies that are coming to join us have also changed,” he says. “A lot more mainstream companies are joining us who want to become more sustainable.” And it’s not just the conversation with businesses and consumers that’s changed, Burrell says. The conversation with the government has also changed “really significantly”. “I feel that we’ve got momentum now in a way that we probably didn’t have maybe half a dozen years ago,” he says. It still felt like an advocacy job then, he says. “It was about getting people to understand what the issues were. People understand the issues now. It’s gone from the ‘what’ to the ‘how do we now work on these things?’.” Mitre 10 sustainability manager

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Julie Roberts is passionate about sustainability – and believes that businesses have “always wanted to do the right thing” in this space but didn’t know where to begin. “What’s probably changed is businesses are learning where to start,” she says. Roberts says covid-19 was a wake-up call for many businesses who had to quickly adapt to an unknown environment. “We had a bit of an awakening around sourcing of materials – you had to make sure that your supply chain was secure because there’s obviously been a lack of supply bits and pieces and that story is across every sector.” But it’s not just at a business level that views around sustainability have changed – it’s also at a consumer level. “That’s probably what’s changed from a business perspective in the last 10 years,” Roberts says. Customers are now paying attention to how businesses dispose of products in an environmentally friendly way. “The customer is changing, but their perception of what businesses do is also changing.” Roberts believes government and local councils have a role to play because they’re huge stakeholders.

“If we make it easy, then the customers are going to want to do it and they’re part of the solution.” Mitre 10’s Pot Recycle scheme started last November and has already diverted more than half a million plastic polypropylene plant and seedling pots from the landfill, or about 10 tonnes of plastic, which is remade into new pots. “Businesses play a puzzle piece role,” she says. Both firms and suppliers are accountable for the materials and the products they’re giving to consumers. “Everybody needs to play their part in that.” New Zealand Post’s group sustainability manager Dawn Baggaley has been in her role since 2012 and says attitudes have “absolutely” changed in that time. “We all need to make this change,” she says. “It’s everyone’s responsibility and we’re not going to make the change alone.” Baggaley says sustainability is “critical for businesses”. From a financial perspective, if businesses don’t do anything, their costs are still going to go up, she says. Changing consumer expectations are having a big effect and many businesses could be doing more. Change isn’t just coming at a consumer level, it’s also coming from within the workplace – people are interested in working for companies that have a conscience, she says. Baggaley says 97% of NZ Post’s carbon footprint comes from fuel and the company is focused on finding ways to cut back. It plans to become carbon neutral by 2030 and reduce emissions by 32%. “By 2025, 100% of the NZ Post’s fleet will be electric,” she says. Brown says markets are really demanding that businesses change. “And if businesses aren’t changing, they’ll just slowly disappear, because someone else will do it – it’ll just leave the door open for someone else.” Burrell agrees: “Sustainable business is smart, sensible business. It allows you to actually be more profitable, to be more nimble, to be at the leading edge of innovation. “Sustainability has become the new ‘business as usual’. And if you’re not on board for the new business as usual, you’ll be left behind.”

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Dairy prices picked to come off highs Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz

THE prices of dairy commodities are forecast to modestly decline during the second half of 2022, despite no appreciable increase in milk production from the world’s largest producers. Rabobank senior dairy analyst Emma Higgins is expecting that weakening global demand will bring down commodity prices despite milk production falling for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q2 2022. “The current slowdown in global milk output is directly related to higher costs of production and weather events,” she said. “In the past, production has recovered and surpassed previous peaks, but now there are structural issues that could limit a significant rebound in production from some key exporters. “Dairy herds in New Zealand and Europe have limited scope for growth and are more likely to contract under current and proposed regulations and environmental pressures. “In South America, competition from grains and oilseeds for land and capital

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PRESSURES: Rabobank dairy analyst Emma Higgins expects dairy commodity prices to moderate because of inflationary constraints on consumers.

NZ dairy herd has limited scope for growth and is more likely to contract under current and proposed regulations and environmental pressures. Emma Higgins Rabobank continues to intensify, limiting dairy expansions. “Milk producers around

the globe are facing higher corn and soybean prices, and weather disruptions are affecting certain regions, especially Oceania and South America. “Overall inflation pressures in energy, fuel, and wages are also impacting profitability,” Higgins said. Inflationary pressures on consumers are expected to bring down dairy demand. “In the US and the EU, inflation is at a 40-year high, shocking consumers and impacting lower-income families disproportionately. “Weakening consumer purchasing power is making it difficult for milk processors

to pass increased production costs on to consumers. “And in some regions, like the EU, some retailers continue to resist additional price hikes for some low-margin products.” Back home, Higgins said inflationary input cost pressures on fuel, fertiliser, feed and labour have cut into farmers’ margins and these will remain elevated through 2022 and into 2023. “Our forecast for the new season remains unchanged at $9/kg milksolids, but we stress there are both considerable upside and downside factors to this price given the heightened uncertainty in the operating environment,” she said.

A SOUTHLAND grazing and calf rearing company and its former employees have been fined $95,000 for their role in the deaths of hundreds of calves. The fine was imposed last week on VetEnt GC Ltd (formerly GrazCare Ltd) by the Invercargill District Court, with the company fined $63,000 and its former general manager Mark James Harrison, 42, fined $19,000. At a separate sentencing, the former Otago-Southland operations manager Christopher Douglas Wilson, 45, was fined $13,000. The company and both men had each earlier pleaded guilty to a representative charge of the ill-treatment of animals. The prosecution was brought by the Ministry for Primary Industry following an investigation into a calf rearing operation involving up to 1800 animals at an Invercargill farm in 2017. In a statement MPI says the court found the company, along with Mr Wilson and Mr Harrison, responsible for the deaths of 457 calves out of 1769 that were sent to the farm between August and October that year. “These young and vulnerable animals were not provided with the care they needed and suffered from diseases that were preventable,” says MPI director compliance services Gary Orr.

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Investment to aid trapping tech Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz ALMOST $5 million in funding to Predator Free 2050 will help the country’s pest-tech sector develop more innovative ways to deal with the burgeoning pest population. Invested through the Products to Projects initiative launched in 2019, the funding is intended to promote development of technology that will remove the need for fences as part of the national pest control strategy. Pest Free 2050 science director professor Dan Tompkins says new investments in technology include smart self-resetting kill traps employing AI to “learn” what species are target species and avoid capturing non-target animals. Remote reporting capabilities on live and cage traps or bait stations in remote areas are also in the development pipeline. New methods of targeting rats and stoats in particular include SWARM satellite networks. These are low orbit satellite clusters where ultra-small satellites provide good coverage in remote areas for IoT technology rapidly developing with trap technology. “The new investments alone will support an estimated 26 full time equivalents employed with Jobs for Nature,” Tompkins said. Earlier recipients of funding include Boffa Miskell for a long last ceramic predator lure with an initial production run of thousands selling out in a few weeks, with tens of thousands now being delivered. One of the newest recipients of funding is company eTrapper. The company’s technology remotely monitors kill traps to allow users to reduce time spent checking

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NZ carbon auction prices hold up BusinessDesk MARKETS around the world have been hit by turmoil but the New Zealand carbon auction has held steady, soaking up all available units at near the secondary market price. In the second auction of the year, NZ Units (a proxy for a tonne of carbon) cleared at $76. The secondary market was recently trading at between $75.75 and $77.35 per unit. There were 4.825 million NZUs available in the quarterly allocation and 1.3m NZUs left from the annual cost containment reserve. All of them were snapped up by 17 successful bidders from 26 participants. They made 316 bids for more than 10m units, with the average bid size for 31,806 units. The government reaped $466m from the auction which will go towards funding its greenhouse

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NZ food and fibre exports to hit $52.2b The latest Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries (SOPI) – released on June 9 – forecasts healthy growth across the majority of New Zealand’s food and fibre export revenues, including: • Dairy to reach a record $21.6 billion in the year to 30 June – up 13 percent on the previous year, driven by strong dairy prices and demand; • Meat and wool expected to rise 18 percent to $12.2 billion, due to food services reopening and tight global supply; • Horticulture to hit $6.7 billion,

Keeping a close eye on FMD outbreak Biosecurity New Zealand continues to closely monitor the Foot and Mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in Indonesia, and asks farmers to remain vigilant. “New Zealand has some of the world’s toughest biosecurity measures for FMD and although the risk is low, we want people to keep an eye out for any health issues in their animals,” Biosecurity New Zealand Deputy DirectorGeneral Stuart Anderson says. “Our multi-layered biosecurity system includes risk assessment, visual inspections, X-ray screening, scanning technology, and detector dogs to prevent risk goods being carried into New Zealand by travellers or arriving by mail. All shipping containers and imported goods are assessed for biosecurity risk.” Anderson said Biosecurity New Zealand had been working closely with sector groups here and its Australian counterparts. “We are reviewing information as it comes and have offered technical support to Indonesia. “An audit last year of Indonesia’s supply chain for palm kernel, which is used as a feed supplement in New Zealand, showed it

was meeting strong import health requirements. “We are currently carrying out another audit to ensure that the supply chain continues to meet our requirements.” The outbreak was a timely reminder for New Zealand’s farmers to have strong biosecurity measures in place, Anderson said.

“We are currently carrying out another audit to ensure that the supply chain continues to meet our requirements.” “Farmers should not feed untreated meat products to animals, especially pigs, and they should be keeping overseas visitors away from stock for a week after their last contact with animals overseas. “It is essential that farmers continue using the national animal tracing system and having strong biosecurity plans on farm. “Anyone concerned about their animals’ health, especially symptoms including high fever, mouth and feet blisters or erosions and lameness, should call their veterinarian or Biosecurity New Zealand’s exotic pest and disease hotline (0800 80 99 66.”

a rise of 2 percent, due to strong demand for kiwifruit, apples and pears, and wine. • Seafood expected to hit $1.9 billion, an increase of 9 percent. The exports of logs and forest products is expected to decrease by about 4 percent to $6.2 billion, due to global freight congestion. At the SOPI launch in Wellington, Mr Smith thanked the sector for its hard work, saying everyone involved should be extremely proud. “The record result is great testament to the sector‘s resilience, and puts us on a very firm footing for future growth.”

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Finalists named in 2022 Good Employer Awards Now in their third year, the awards are run by the Ministry for Primary Industries and the Agricultural and Marketing Research and Development Trust to celebrate employers who put their people at the heart of their businesses. Cheyne Gillooly, MPI’s Director Investment, Skills and Performance, said they received an impressive number of entries. “Central to all of them was a real passion in putting their employees’ health, welfare and wellbeing first.” AGMARDT chair Nick Pyke says the success of our food and fibre sector depends on our people. “Good employers create team environments where innovation and new thinking is fostered, systems and processes are designed with care for people top of mind, and where people feel supported and safe. “Retaining the necessary workforce requires employers to champion good employment practices and really nurture their employees, and this is demonstrated throughout the high calibre of entrants for the awards.”

The winners will be announced on June 29. The award categories and finalists are: • Employee Development: Constellation Brands NZ – Auckland wine, Kairoa Dairies – Ashburton dairy, Legendairies Ltd – Invercargill dairy, Raglan Food Co – Waikato food. • Safe And Healthy Work Environment: Align Farms Limited – Ashburton dairy, BeeNZ Ltd – Katikati apiculture, Roseburn Orchard – Roxburgh horticulture, Yealands – Blenheim wine. • Inclusive and Diverse Workplace: Legendairies Ltd –

Invercargill dairy, Recreational Services – Auckland primary industry employment, Sealord – Nelson fisheries, Thornhill Horticultural Contracting Ltd – Napier horticulture. • Small Business Recognition: BeeNZ Ltd – Katikati apiculture, Kairoa Dairies – Ashburton dairy, Legendairies Ltd – Invercargill dairy, Mosa Farming Ltd – Dipton, Southland dairy. • Māori Agribusiness: Tāne Mahuta NZ Ltd – Whakatane forestry, Te Arawa Fisheries Limited – Rotorua fisheries. • Supreme Award: Chosen from the category winners.

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The primary sector’s resilience and hard work is at the heart of record export earnings for the past 12 months, says Ray Smith, the Ministry for Primary Industries’ Director-General. Food and fibre sector export revenue is expected to reach $52.2 billion in the year to 30 June. It will be the first time New Zealand has recorded more than $50 billion in food and fibre exports, and is an increase of almost 10 percent ($4.6 billion) on the previous year. Export revenue is expected to build steadily to $56.8 billion in the year to June 2026.

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Foresters: HWEN too little, too late Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz THE He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) initiative has been panned by forestry for its lack of incentives or advice to farmers to advance tree planting sooner rather than later. President of the New Zealand Institute of Forestry James Treadwell said HWEN is a culmination of a decade of inaction from the agriculture sector and lacks a road map for the realities of climate change. Treadwell has called on the Government to stop buckling to agricultural sector lobbying and what he described as farmers’ “head in the sand” denial of the issues.

It seems we have been so slow in getting to where we are now and there seems to be a lot of pussyfooting around with agricultural bodies not coming out and saying climate change will hammer farming. Graham West Farm Forestry Association “Where’s the incentive in HWEN for farmers to seek advice or just get on with tree planting? As drafted, the HEWN proposals are no help, they are more of a free pass for agriculture to ignore reality.” But Treadwell also acknowledged some positives from HWEN. He said it identifies forests as offset opportunities within farm

systems to provide breathing space while farm systems adapt. But he was adamant this was a plan that should have been in place for the past decade. For sheep and beef operators in particular, much of the heavy lifting in carbon absorption remains reliant upon vegetation sequestration given the lack of technology beyond emerging low methane genetics in sheep to reduce methane at source. The institute is also challenging the dominance of farm interests on HWEN’s oversight board and control over emissions pricing in the future. Treadwell said the levy at 5-10% of current market values for NZ units of carbon is also too low, indicating a lack of commitment to climate change. Farm Forestry Association president Graham West agreed it was disappointing HWEN did not contain stronger incentives for tree planting. “It seems we have been so slow in getting to where we are now and there seems to be a lot of pussyfooting around with agricultural bodies not coming out and saying climate change will hammer farming.” In an effort to boost its voice the Farm Forestry Association has joined forces with iwi groups and other carbon forest groups including NZ Carbon Farming to form the Climate Forestry Association. Iwi concern over the Government’s leaning towards greater native plantings is growing and they are finding an alliance with farm foresters, who are seeing the value in planting exotics for carbon income. The Government is proposing exotic trees in permanent forests would not be eligible for earning carbon units. This is expected to severely curtail iwi’s ability to earn income off land that is often less than

LAME: NZ Forestry Institute president James Treadwell says agriculture has not got enough incentive to change under HWEN protocols.

ideal for other uses. The only other option is to plant that land in plantation forestry, which is often uneconomic due to contour and distance to port. “We do not want to see that option lost, we see permanent forestry and continued cover forestry where small areas are harvested regularly, as opportunities. We have seen lots of farmers happy to grow exotics, and do well off them.” A raft of forestry regulations are now under review, with the review on permanent exotics running alongside a review on the special forestry test that allowed farmland to be bought by overseas interests for conversion to forestry. Under increasing pressure from communities concerned over loss

of pastoral land to forestry, the Government is proposing to move the purchase test to the NZ special benefit test, a considerably more arduous test that is applied to farmland in general. The Bill to amend the legislation is before Select Committee. Forest Owners Association president Phil Taylor said the consultation was something of a “Claytons consultation” with the Government set on getting rid of the concession forestry had been getting. Data from the Overseas Investment Office indicates since 2018 there have been 48 consents granted to May this year for farm to forestry conversions by overseas interests. This amounts to a total area of

about 34,000ha. The bulk of the land falls under the more marginal class 6 or 7 country, with steep contour and poor soil type. Taylor classified the concern raised as akin to a storm in a teacup when compared to the total land area either in forestry or pastoral land. But he also took heart from the Government’s emissions reduction plan, which did not disagree with the Climate Change Commission’s recommendation NZ plant 380,000ha of exotics in coming 15 years. “They are trying to increase the focus on natives. If they get the settings right, it is possible they may get commercial foresters interested in native plantings.”

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Taking succession planning by the horns Carmelita Mentor-Fredericks carmelita.mentor-fredericks@globalhq.co.nz

GENERATIONAL farming families are at the heart of New Zealand’s primary sector, but putting a succession plan in place is often the can kicked down the road when it should be in place from the beginning. “It’s up to the individual – but if you have family, there is no doubt that they will be wondering what is going to happen in the future, and where they fit into that,” partner for Rural Coach, a company which specialises in assisting farming families throughout their farm succession planning process, Dani Darke said.

We all know families where succession planning is the elephant in the room, or has only been addressed when things have started to go a bit pear shaped. Dani Darke Rural Coach She said leaving people in limbo like that is very tough and causes strain on people’s mental health and relationships. “It’s seen all too often, that the next generation comes back home, starts working on the farm, but sometimes it is years before they are given any clarity as to where they fit in with the future of the farm.” Farm succession planning is a “process of determining the future of your farming assets”, however this doesn’t necessarily mean simply passing the farm on to

the next generation, it could also mean that that family decides that it’s best to sell the land. “It is the process of bringing the next generation through and for the current owners, taking a step towards their next stage of life,” she said. And while succession planning provides an opportunity to bring fresh energy and ideas into the business, it can also be the source of a lot of fear because of the changes that may come. “We (Rural Coach) advocate for people to start their succession planning early. Being proactive with your succession planning gives you time and options. It gives you the ability to include everyone in the process, and make sure all voices are heard,” she said. “Some say that succession planning should start when you buy the farm. Certainly, a strategy that keeps succession in the forefront from the beginning will help ensure important decisions around business growth are made with this in mind.” Planning ahead for farm succession means you can deal with potential problems as they arise. Challenges include conflict or friction at the family level and willingness of family members to actively participate in the succession planning process. “Left unchecked, it is likely that this will fester and sabotage the ability to achieve a workable and living succession plan,” she said. It’s also important to align expectations with reality; for example, transitioning an unprofitable business forward to the next generation will not be feasible. “Desiring to settle three children into separate businesses when the existing equity will only meet the parents’ needs in their lifetimes will cause grief for all. In this situation, resetting expectations (aligning to reality) would be a necessary step,” she said.

PATHWAYS: Rural Coach partner Dani Darke describes farm succession planning as a process of bringing the next generation through and for the current owners, taking a step towards their next stage of life.

Darke, who has spent nearly two decades in the agriculture industry while farming and bringing up a family, said creating a shared vision for the family that everyone has had input into is crucial to the plan’s efficacy. “We all know families where succession planning is the elephant in the room, or has only been addressed when things have started to go a bit pear shaped. Be courageous, and get the conversation on the table. This could mean upskilling them around the financial aspects of the business,” she said. “We’ve worked with many situations where the children that are not going to take over the farm have been fully supportive of their farming siblings to get ‘more’ than them to ensure the farm stays in the family. “What is important here is

getting clear on what it is your children value and what their dreams and aspirations for the future are. Assumptions are just that – any succession plan needs to genuinely take in account what is important to everyone involved.” Having an independent facilitator to assist with this process could be critical to ensuring your vision goes according to plan. Succession planning is a collaborative process, with the most robust plan involving all of the wider team, and will often result in updating wills and powers of attorney. A lawyer is often engaged and accountants will advise around business entities and structure. A farm consultant may also be part of the picture, helping the next generation to maintain or

improve the profitability of the business. “Often families think they can do this themselves and have the best intentions in doing so. However, there can be unspoken power gradients in a family that may cause people to stay quiet,” she said. “For example, with dad chairing the meeting, are you sure that you’ve really understood your daughter-in-law’s point of view, or has she kept quiet, not wanting to step on any toes, or feeling it’s not her place to have a say? Has mum been really open about what she wants, or has she been playing the role of peacemaker? “Every family has its own dynamics and behaviours and having someone neutral in the room, keeping the conversation moving forward is really important.”

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Crucial trade conference for Minister Eric Frykberg CRUCIAL trade talks got underway in Switzerland at the weekend after the much-delayed Twelfth Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) finally started in Geneva. New Zealand’s Trade Minister Damien O’Connor is there, having recovered from covid-19 and dodged weather-related shutdowns of key airports to make his connecting flight. Ahead of his departure, O’Connor said as a small exporting nation at the bottom of the Pacific, New Zealand strongly believed in rules-based trade. “Small, open economies like New Zealand’s have long relied on, and benefited from, a strong multilateral trading system,” he said. “The MC12 is an important opportunity to reinforce the importance of the WTO to global trade and economic interests.” MC12 is the first ministerial conference of the WTO since December 2017. In that time, serious problems have eroded its effectiveness. These have including unilateral American trade blockages during the Trump administration, which have not been significantly rolled back by President Biden. Trump’s actions also hamstrung important functions of the WTO, such as its appellate court, by blocking the appointment of new judges. That body has not sat since December 2020, due to what the WTO itself called “paralysis”. Reforming the WTO is something O’Connor is keen on, but efforts to find a solution led by New Zealand officials in Geneva have so far not been adopted by delegates as a whole.

One New Zealand official suggested a good outcome in Geneva would be if “things don’t get any worse”. MC12 has a range of subjects on its agenda, including environmental challenges like subsidies for fossil fuels and ocean fishing. New Zealand strongly supports an end to both two practices, saying they are exactly the opposite of what should be done. But from New Zealand’s point of view, agriculture will still be the big issue to be dealt with in Geneva, or perhaps elsewhere at a later date. However progress is looking very difficult. Agricultural talks in the leadup to MC12 focussed mainly on food security, which many countries said was being eroded by the war against Ukraine, the pandemic and climate change. “Food shortages and price hikes are pushing millions more people into poverty,” said the WTO Director-General Ngozi OkonjoIweala. Many delegates agreed with this – others called for fewer trade distorting subsidies and restrictions, which matches New Zealand’s position. But other delegates were doubtful of reaching consensus on this matter and most issues were left unanswered prior to the start of MC12. Despite these problems, there are signs that New Zealand has learnt to live with the faults of the WTO. In the five years since WTO Ministers last met, total primary sector exports have risen from $38.2 billion to $54.3b. Some of this growth has stemmed from bilateral trade deals that bypass the WTO’s

OPEN UP: Trade Minister Damien O’Connor says small, open economies like New Zealand’s have long relied on, and benefited from, a strong multilateral trading system and the MC12 is an important opportunity to reinforce the importance of the WTO to global trade and economic interests.

This is about injecting some new confidence into the global trading system. Stephen Jacobi Trade analyst multilateral approach. Another cause is that prices for some export products have risen sharply, allowing more money to be earned from each tonne of goods. But even though New Zealand

got some wins on the side, O’Connor insists rules based international trade would benefit New Zealand exporters and bring economic security. In contrast with the strong views of O’Connor and other delegates, trade dissenters continue to accuse the WTO of either ineffectiveness or having the wrong goals. An American activist, Deborah James, said most countries that experienced strong economic growth during the WTO’s 27 year existence did so by integrating trade chains with China, not by adhering to the WTO rule book. A New Zealand colleage, Jane Kelsey said since its inception,

the WTO’s agenda was skewed in favour of rich countries and their corporations at the expense of the Global South. “It aims to lock countries into a neoliberal agenda that put profits and property rights ahead of everything else and undermines democracy and peoples’ fundamental rights,” she said. In contrast, a long standing trade advocate, Stephen Jacobi, said MC12 was important even if specific issues were not resolved. “This is about injecting some new confidence into the global trading system,” he said. “That is more important even than the actual outcome of the meeting.”

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

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

Contact your regional council, farm advisor, or fertiliser supplier – they will be able to help.

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

All dairy farm managers must supply a report to their regional council by 31 July 2022, covering the period from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022, with the information that is needed to calculate synthetic nitrogen application rates for their pastoral land.

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Milne elected VP of world body Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz WEST Coast dairy farmer Katie Milne has been elected vice president of the World Farmers Organisation at its general assembly in Budapest. The former national president of Federated Farmers, Dairy Woman of the Year and Oceania representative on the WFO’s board for the past four years says she had been thinking about succession for a while. It was when she was shouldertapped by other farmers in the organisation to stand for the role that she thought – why not. Still on her way home from Hungary, Milne is eager to make a difference.

Farmers of the world have launched an urgent appeal to governments to take food production seriously. Katie Milne World Farmers Organisation She says the WFO is growing in strength as bodies such as the Food Security Council and the UN are calling on it more and more with many global issues affecting farmers and as a consequence affecting food security. “We’ve got a good vibrant organisation with farmers and farm organisations putting their hand up and being the voice for farmers all around the world. “I’ve felt very humbled at the notice that’s been taken. “I guess when you’re in the throngs of doing the business, you sometimes forget how important it is.” It is important that grassroots farmers, such as small family farms, are at the table being heard when agriculture is the topic of

discussion,” Milne says. The WFO has just wrapped up the general assembly where farmers from many countries gathered and had two days of rigorous debate and conversation listening to and understanding each other’s problems. “Many are facing the same issues that we face in New Zealand, it’s just within different contexts. “We’re all worried about food scarcity because of some of the policies that have been driven down the pipeline in our own countries and many are stifling production where they don’t really need to. “Often, we have a better way forward or another solution that could help with the issues that almost every government is trying to fix. “We’re trying to make sure that the right science and evidence has been put forward to help push back on some of those policies.” Food scarcity will be a reality for more nations in the future and it is important that strong and diverse farm systems are in place, Milne says. “Democracy is the big thing we want to be leaders for farmers of the world, we have a good vibrant (WFO) organisation with good farmer representation around the world. “We can be a good voice with a lot of common ground with farmers right around the world. “There are some big issues on the table from a world farming point of view, food security is the huge one and this is from conventional fully developed nations right through. “Some of our farmers are facing food shortage and hunger, people are saying they have got farmers at home going hungry – they have no bread.” Milne says it is a raw place to be and the WFO is reinforcing a call to action. “Farmers of the world have launched an urgent appeal to governments and other decision makers to take food production seriously and avoid measures that will damage food security.

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sure we can solve them to be better for markets, the consumers and for a better result financially. “We are just trying to grow the food and we are doing the best we can of our ability with the limited resources and knowledge and tools that we have at the moment.” Milne urges policymakers to include farmers in discussion. “When there are discussions about whether the world should

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Farm phones will not be cut off in tech switch Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz RURAL homeowners relying on copper-based technology for their phone line or internet have been reassured those services will not be cut off as their providers switch to new technologies. That infrastructure will remain in place until such time as service providers have the resources and technology to undergo the upgrade, Telecommunications Forum spokesman Steve Pettigrew says. Speaking at a rural connectivity symposium in Hamilton organised by TUANZ, Pettigrew said it did not mean the end of landlines. It was the changing of technology that supported landlines and for many New Zealanders, this change of technology had already taken place. “It’s not the end of the landline, it’s the changing of the underlining technology that enables the landline. “Other than time and money, there is no reason why fibre can’t reach 98% of New Zealanders.

Unfortunately, time and money are two big considerations to add to that mix.” He emphasised that copperbased landlines will only be removed in areas where fibre technology was in place. Spark, which operates the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) – a network of switches that connects calls from one person to another over copper lines – is operating such a policy and are migrating customers off this technology. “They are trying to make sure

They are trying to make sure that rural customers without the options of returning to services such as a landline or rural broadband, are not impacted. Steve Pettigrew Telecommunications Forum

that rural customers without the options of returning to services such as a landline or rural broadband, are not impacted,” Pettigrew said. The reasons for making this change is that the technology was now outdated. It had been 17 years since PSDN equipment providers had created any new upgrades and Spark is finding it harder to source technicians with the skillset to maintain the service, he said. “They are very focused that it’s not impacting rural customers who are dependent on copper services,” he said. There will also be no ‘big switch off’ where peoples landlines will no longer work after a certain date, which had occurred in some countries overseas, or when New Zealand shifted from analog television in 2012-2013, he said. “The approach taken in New Zealand is ultra-local and run over a long period of time. There will be a lot of hand holding of those impacted by the changes coming through.” People who are affected are given six months notice that the change is coming and this is done

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NOT LEFT BEHIND: Telecommunications Forum spokesman Steve Pettigrew says there will also be no ‘big switch off’ where peoples landlines will no longer work after a certain date.

via contacting the home owner by written letter. Over that period, three letters are sent to this person, he said. Pettigrew said there are about 278,000 copper connections in New Zealand.

As of mid-June, about 10,100 premises had been contacted and were in the process window of the six month-withdrawal. Of that 10,100, just under 300 had already transferred and moved to an alternative service.

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Countdown to E Tipu 2022 Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz

GROWING INNOVATION: NZ Institute for Plant and Food Research principal scientist Brent Clothier is one of the speakers at E Tipu 2022.

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TALENT: AgResearch quantitative geneticist Suzanne Rowe will be speaking on her world-first research of breeding low methane-emitting sheep.

E TIPU 2022 kicks off this week, with a powerful summit programme featuring some legendary personalities rounding off the lineup of speakers set to appear. Run over two days, the Boma Agri Summit supports leaders and changemakers to be more intentional, intelligent and courageous about the future. The action-packed programme will showcase extraordinary insights from more than 30 local and global leaders in food and fibre. The ultimate place to zoom out, connect and collaborate on what is shaping the future of New Zealand’s primary industries, the summit will take place at the Christchurch Town Hall and virtually on June 21-22. Through mainstage talks, expert panels, interactive workshops and innovative exhibitions, E Tipu 2022 tackles major topics shaping the future of food and fibre headon. A key focus will be: how do we get ahead of climate change and turn sustainability into an opportunity; what are the key innovations disrupting the primary sector; how is our freshwater environment changing, both on the ground and in governance; and what is the future of data in food and fibre? Newly confirmed for the summit lineup is AgResearch quantitative geneticist Suzanne Rowe, a passionate advocate for climate science and helping agriculture adapt to meet the challenges of climate change. At E Tipu 2022, Rowe will be speaking on her worldfirst research of breeding low methane-emitting sheep. Another agriscience champion joining the summit lineup is AgResearch scientist and early career ambassador Louise Hennessy (Ngāti Maniapoto), speaking on agricultural science and driving efforts to encourage more rangatahi into the realm of natural sciences. Also confirmed is CarbonCrop founder Nick Butcher who will speak about climate tech and how blending technology and rethinking models of collaboration will give solutions to even the most historically intractable of problems. Joining them on the summit stage is AgriSea chief executive Clare Bradley. Bradley believes Aotearoa has the opportunity to live up to its international image of being a clean, green, high-value economy providing quality products while achieving the best living standards in the world. She will speak on building sustainable and ethical businesses. Adding to the powerful

programme is University of Auckland senior lecturer and protein biochemist Laura Domigan, climate tech investor and clean energy advocate Ramez Naam, Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) chief transformation officer Jenny Cameron and NZ agribusiness leader Lain Jager. Along with the legendary speaker list, E Tipu 2022 will host panels focused on some of the most pertinent topics facing the food and fibre sectors. Summit master of ceremonies Rod Oram will facilitate a Freshwater Futures panel to explore the critical questions – how is our freshwater environment changing, both on the ground and in governance and how do we need to adapt our approach to water in order to thrive?

Through mainstage talks, expert panels, interactive workshops and innovative exhibitions, E Tipu 2022 tackles major topics shaping the future of food and fibre head-on.

Joining the Freshwater Futures panel are Te Aukaha Māori agribusiness expert and Pakihiroa Farms Ltd general manager Hilton Collier (Ngāti Porou), NZ Institute for Plant and Food Research principal scientist Brent Clothier, water resource management expert Christina Robb and freshwater and resource management reform specialist Mike Jebson. The Food, Fibre and Agritech Challenges (FFAC) finale showcase and awards ceremony follow day one of the summit with 12 cutting-edge ventures battling it out for a share of $70,000 worth of prizes. As a truly hybrid summit, attendees from around the world are set to join E Tipu 2022 for an immersive virtual experience. Delivered through a full-service event platform, virtual attendees have live access to all mainstage talks and panels as well as exclusive speaker Q&A workshops and virtual networking sessions. To join primary industry leaders and changemakers at Aotearoa’s biggest food and fibre sector summit of the year go to etipu. boma.global/attend to get tickets. Special ticket rates are available for farmers, not-for-profits, startups, groups, students and youth.

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Pond emptied of agritech skills Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz AGRITECH firms are being encouraged to consider sharing staff and look at pooling their resources in order to attract desperately-needed tech people to meet growth opportunities that risk slipping away in coming months. Agritech NZ chief executive Brendan O’Connell says the entire tech sector is estimated to have about 4000 positions open right now. The agritech sector, which employs almost 4000 people, has witnessed intense competition between firms for staff that has the local talent pool close to drained. Some close work between Immigration NZ and the industry had managed to get 600 IT staff into the country throughout the pandemic, but O’Connell said it represented a drop in the ocean. Conscious of not making demand for staff more of an inter-sector scrap than it has been, O’Connell said agritech was in constant dialogue with Immigration NZ for more staff. But there was a need to try and get the process moving faster. “The companies we are talking

startups was that having someone less than full time could reduce the company’s ability to scale up with growth in the future.

There has been so much uncertainty over the past couple of years, from a covid and legislative perspective the safest option, and for a while the only option, was to employ from our own backyard. Scott Townshend Trev TIGHT: Agritech NZ chief executive Brendan O’Connell says staff sharing may be an option for employee-strapped agritech firms.

about are ones that will be helping NZ recover faster from the pandemic and be boosting this country’s productivity.” Businesses were struggling to secure software designers and developers in particular. O’Connell suggested companies may choose to turn to platforms like splitZing that allow employers to share one employee. Employees can indicate how AWDT Next Level 2022 many hours a Food & fibre women – are you ready to lead month they are

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available and can split that time among two or more employers. Startups that may not have the funds for a full-time developer can use the platform to access the talent for the amount of time they need or can afford. O’Connell likened the platform as an “Uber for staff” and said more collaboration between companies may also help ease staff shortfalls. Scott Townshend, chief executive of farm software company Trev, said staff sharing was something his company had considered. But the reality for fast growing

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He said he felt the staff shortage was across the board, with many companies vying for the same skillsets in agritech staff. Immigration has typically been a major source of new, skilled staff for the sector, but one that has been fraught over the covid pandemic. Townshend said all Trev’s roles to date had been filled by NZ applicants. “There has been so much uncertainty over the past couple of years, from a covid and legislative perspective the safest option, and for a while the only option, was to employ from our own backyard. “As we move forward and our borders open this certainly becomes a viable option, however

we are yet to see the floodgates open.” Eitan Dan, NZ managing director for precision agritech company CropX, said NZ was sharing the impact of a worldwide growth in tech startups over the past three years. Himself an arrival from Israel 18 months ago, he said NZ’s attractiveness as a place to live was strong, but the pandemic had introduced some uncertainty to peoples’ willingness to be this far from home. He also saw a need for startups to engage more with students, and there was a place for more incentives to have school leavers engage with employers, possibly including study support. O’Connell said the salary appeal of the tech sector is strong, with remuneration north of $100,000 not unusual for graduates two to three years into their career. Townshend said he would love to see more school leavers consider a career in agritech. “I think at present there is still a natural progression for ag-minded school leavers toward those well-established industries of banking, nutrients and processors or industry good organisations. “I think within agritech we have got a bit of work ahead of us to carve out the same space and demonstrate just how exciting a career path it is.” He said as the country places more emphasis on tech and agritech it was imperative secondary and tertiary curriculums match this.

RETURNS: Analysts have said the sale of Soprole could be worth $1.29 billion.

THINGS are progressing with Fonterra’s sale of its Soprole business in Chile, says a Chilean media report. JP Morgan has presented a “teaser” to prospective buyers as well as a descriptive memorandum, according to newspaper La Tercera, in a story headlined “the Soprole divestment is under way”. It will now move on to developing a short list and those firms will be able to carry out due diligence, visit the installations and receive reports from the executives, the report said. It gave no details about potential buyers, but the Chilean dairy producers’ union Fedeleche had expressed interest before. Analysts have said the assets could be worth $1.29 billion. JP Morgan declined to comment. A Fonterra spokesperson said “this is the standard process for M&A activity so it’s fair to assume it’s the process being followed with our divestment of Chile”.

In March, Fonterra said it was on track to deliver around $1b of capital to shareholders and unit holders by 2024 and part of that would be generated by the sale of Soprole. At the time, chief executive Miles Hurrell told BusinessDesk the cooperative hadn’t officially gone to market with it, but it would do so “relatively soon”. Soprole, meanwhile, is performing well. According to La Tercera, its revenue lifted 18% in the first quarter of 2022 to $284m and profit was up 104% to $24.6m. In its latest business update, Fonterra pointed to continued volume and gross margin growth in the Chilean consumer business. “AMENA [Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North Asia and the Americas] continued to deliver a strong performance. “Normalised earnings before interest and taxes were $406 million, up 30% due to improved gross margins in our Ingredients channel, and a strong performance from our Chilean business,” it said.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – June 20, 2022

Dairy farmers look to the futures market Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz DAIRY futures and options are growing quickly as dairy commodity prices are high and alternative equity and foreign exchange markets cope with higher inflation and interest rates, Singapore Exchange (SGX) head of commodities William Chin says. Chin said the partnership between SGX and NZX in dairy derivatives had gone very well over the first six months. It began operating in December with the expectation of scaling up market access and liquidity. “Our exchange footprint in Asia combined with your dairy expertise is working well. “The numbers of clients and brokers using NZ dairy futures and options have doubled in the six months and contract volumes have expanded exponentially. “But the partnership is still young and when you know that only 10% of New Zealand’s physical market in dairy commodities is hedged with

futures, you realise the potential for growth is huge.” Chin pointed out that some of the metals futures markets are many times the size of the physical markets and therefore dairy had a long way to go.

Only 10% of New Zealand’s physical market in dairy commodities is hedged with futures and the potential for growth is huge. William Chin Singapore Exchange NZX head of derivatives Nick Morris says the market recently registered over 100,000 open interests which is a milestone for dairy derivatives in this country. Among the reasons he cited turbulent times in world

commodity markets, high milk prices encouraging farmers to manage their risks and the developing partnership between SGX and NZX. “The prices are very attractive and we are seeing a maturity in farmers using these products and as they learn how they work they use more advanced risk management tools like options.” Chin says more money was flowing towards futures markets from foreign exchange and equities because of higher inflation and interest rates. “We are seeing massive interest in having commodities and their derivatives within investment portfolios.” He explains that purchasers of dairy futures, particularly milk price futures, were financial investors without a stake in the physical dairy markets. However, the derivatives must have their feet firmly in the physical markets for the credibility of price discovery and the possibility of futures contract settlement if required.

TOOLS: NZX chief executive Mark Petersen says he sees the expansion of the physical trading environment as both further strengthening existing financial contracts and enabling the creation of new tools and opportunities for dairy processors and end-users to manage price volatility.

physical trading environment as both further strengthening existing financial contracts and enabling the creation of new tools and opportunities for dairy processors and end-users to manage price volatility,” NZX chief executive Mark Petersen said when the deal was first announced. Subject to clearance from various authorities and documentation, the partnership is expected to be completed shortly.

NZX and the European Energy Exchange (EEX) are proposing to each take one-third ownership stakes in Fonterra’s Global Dairy Trade (GDT) platform. This should boost the standing of the GDT as an independent, neutral, and transparent price discovery platform, giving it a presence in prominent international dairy producing regions, and creating future growth opportunities. “We see the expansion of the

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – June 20, 2022

Women miss out in export sector – report Eric Frykberg A NEW report says the role of women in the export sector is not as advanced as in the New Zealand economy generally. This affects the farming business, since 81.8% of New Zealand trade involves goods from the farm-dominated primary sector. The report, entitled Trade and Gender Review of New Zealand, was done by the OECD and the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Afairs and Trade (MFAT). It finds women are underrepresented in the trade sector workforce. While their participation has grown faster than that of their male counterparts, the growth rate is still lower than it is in other industries. And women still comprise just 40% of the export-related workforce, compared with 47% of the New Zealand-wide workforce across all sectors. Matching their experience as workers, women entrepreneurs and business leaders are also less engaged in trade than their male counterparts. But there is a complication here: women-led firms have a marginally higher export propensity than male-owned firms of similar size. That means that while women are less likely to lead a firm than

But this could be improved by making make trade agreements more gender senstive, whether those agreements are bilateral or pluralateral.

While women are less likely to lead a firm than men, they do more exporting than men on those occasions when they get the chance to lead a business.

UNDER-REPRESENTED: A new report says women still comprise just 40% of the export-related workforce, compared with 47% of the New Zealand-wide workforce across all sectors. Photo: NZ Story

men, they do more exporting than men on those occasions when they get the chance to lead a business. The report lists another advantage for women. It says one of the main gains from trade is lower prices and this

can help woman as consumers. This is especially useful for lower income families, which spend a lot of their money on daily consumption, and have little left over for saving or investing, unlike richer families. The advantage is especially true

for single-parent households with dependent children, which are overwhelmingly run by women. The report says New Zealand is ranked fourth globally out of 180 countries in terms of gender equality by the World Economic Forum.

Female success in the trade sector could also be helped by making trade more transparent and straightforward, so that SMEs run by women are not deterred by the volume and complexity of work needed to enter the export space. Women should also be better represented in trade policy making roles, along with getting better access to Government procurement. The report has been welcomed by the Minister of Trade and Export Growth Damien O’Connor, who said that progress had been made but there was still more work to do. He said the Government itself requested the review to help facilitate progress.

Funds for dairy women’s business development Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz THE Government is backing a future farming programme that will help women create solutions to the challenges facing their farming families. The Dairy Women’s Network (DWN) has secured financial support for the professional development programme through Government’s sustainable food and fibres futures (SFFF) grant funding. DWN chief executive Jules Benton says almost half a million dollars has been allocated to support the programme that will empower farming women to create innovative solutions to a variety of challenges and issues facing farmers. “But the truly exciting part of this programme is the ability of those who are part of it to share their learnings with their communities and the 11,000 DWN members,” Benton says. The primary goal of the programme is to enable and empower network members to farm for the future. “We want the dairy sector to grow, adapt and change out of positivity and not fear. “We are experiencing rapid change within the primary

sector, so we have developed a programme to extend the depth and breadth of farmers’ knowledge through peer-to-peer knowledge transfer and learning opportunities.” The project will expand the the network’s business groups, focusing on members who will pilot a programme of wrap around services, developing a central knowledge hub and providing coaching to support business group leaders.

This professional development will lead to great things in our farming sector. Jules Benton Dairy Women’s Network “The primary goal of the programme is to enable and empower DWN’s members to farm for the future so that our amazing sector that is experiencing rapid change can grow and adapt with a positive focus. “We encourage our members to challenge the status quo and this programme will allow not

only that, but an on-sharing of their experiences and knowledge to help others in the group drive change in their own environments, community and businesses.” DWN business groups consist of 10-12 members. Right now there are seven groups across the country coordinated by a DWN business group leader who prepares an agenda and facilitates discussion, but the content of each meeting is set by the members. This encourages contribution and makes sure that relevant and timely topics are addressed. It also ensures the members are getting value out of the time spent meeting with their group, on field trips or listening to sector experts. “We feel there is a gap and therefore the need to continue to build on the programme and spread it wider. Members have joined the programme because they are individuals who create change on their farms, in their farming partnerships and within their teams, and are conduits of knowledge back into their wider communities, Benton says. “I truly believe that this professional development will lead to great things in our farming sector; creating knowledge,

UPSKILL: Dairy Women’s Network chief executive Jules Benton says the programme’s primary goal is to enable members to farm for the future with a positive focus.

leadership and innovation to empower the industry and aid with decision making in the future.” Members challenge the status quo and share their experiences and knowledge to help others in the group drive change in their own environments, community and businesses. Through collaboration and design thinking, group members innovate and implement solutions to problems shared by their farm businesses. While DWN’s partner-aligned workshops focus on opportunities to upskill, Benton says the programme provides a platform

for continuous learning and thought leadership determined by the needs of the members in the groups. The importance of the programme is to fill a gap in the current market by allowing contribution to the wider agriculture sector through undiluted thinking and innovative solutions to a variety of challenges and issues facing farmers. “The positive effect is farreaching, with shared knowledge and solutions filtered from the group members through their businesses, partners and farm teams to their neighbours and communities.”

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – June 20, 2022

Trainee contractor award finalists found Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz RURAL Contractors New Zealand (RCNZ) has announced eight finalists in the organisation’s inaugural trainee contractor of the year awards. The finalists, spread across the country from Kaikohe to Invercargill, have all come from the ranks of those who joined the HanzonJobs initiative established over the past season. The inaugural training initiative has trainees record their daily work experiences, supported by employers and mentors. Rural Contractors New Zealand chief executive Andrew Olsen says the finalists are the best of the best selected from more than 100 HanzonJobs-registered trainees. “They thoroughly deserve their place in the finals. “We’re really proud to be able to put this programme together for our industry.” Olsen says it’s only been possible because of the HanzonJobs programme and support from the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). “We could not have done it without Richard Houston, who has driven the HanzonJobs programme initiative, and MPI, which backed it and now

We’re really proud to be able to put this programme together. Andrew Olsen RCNZ

HELPING HAND: HanzonJobs managing director Richard Houston says behind each trainee is an employer who’s given them the guidance and training to build experience in the industry.

is generously supporting the awards,” Olsen says. Houston says the awards do not just recognise the trainee but also highlight the effort provided by their employers. “A trainee’s growth and development are evident in their record of work and behind that is an employer or mentor who’s given them the guidance and

training to build experience in our industry.” MPI workforce manager Beth Davie says the awards provide a great way to celebrate and acknowledge trainee rural contractors, while also helping to further their learning. “We’re proud to be backing the awards and we congratulate all of the finalists.”

The awards are one of the ways MPI is supporting the food and fibre sector workforce, along with other initiatives such as the Opportunities Grow Here campaign.” Finalists will now compete for the two MPI sponsored $3000 study awards. One winner from each of the South and North Islands will be

selected by the judging panel that includes MPI regional economic development director Peter Ettema, Kyle Baxter from Norwood tractors and machinery and Emily Hawker from Waipounamu Contracting in Southland. The South Island finalists are Alex Oakden, Strange Contracting Ltd, Takaka; Josh Chittock, Oxford Agricultural Services Ltd, Canterbury; Agustin Neuber, D Thompson Contracting Ltd, Invercargill; Liam Rooney, Mark Carey Contracting Ltd, Motueka. The North Island finalists are Ethan Ballard, R and K Thomas Contracting, Kaikohe; Mat Peart, Sims Contractors Ltd, Otaki; Waka Tuhakaraina, Slattery Contracting Ltd, Matamata; Brendon Bergs, A. T. Cook Contracting Ltd, Atiamuri. The eight finalists will be provided with specific primary industry topics to research and present to the judges when they meet on June 29.

Rural advocate rewarded for contribution Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz A LONG-TIME advocate for rural health services in Otago, Dr Branko Sijnja, has been awarded the Peter Snow Memorial Award for 2022. Named after the late Peter Snow, a general practitioner and health sector leader in West Otago, the award recognises contributions to rural health and in Sijnja’s case, his 40 year service and dedication to the sector. After a period overseas, in 1980 Sijnja moved into General Practice and became involved in the formation of Clutha Health First,

a bespoke healthcare provider offering hospital, community and general practice services in Balclutha, South Otago. Clutha Health First opened in December 1998 and has transformed the delivery of healthcare to the Balclutha community. Sijnja is still involved in the governance of Clutha Health First and sits on the board of the Clutha Community Health Company Limited while working at the clinic every Monday. In 2009 he became the director of the Rural Medical Immersion Programme at University of Otago,

through which he mentors fifth year medical students as they spend a year working and studying in rural New Zealand. He uses this role to share his experience and passion for rural health. New Zealand Rural General Practice Network chair Dr Fiona Bolden says Branko has always supported the network. “Whenever he comes to the conferences you can always spot him as he’s the one with the crowd of young doctors around him who know him through the training scheme. “He’s usually telling them tales

and there’s always lots of laughter,” she says. In 2021, Branko was awarded Distinguished Fellowship of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, which recognises fellows of the college who have made sustained contributions to general practice, medicine, or the health and wellbeing of the community. Branko currently works part time at the University and will be retiring from his role as programme director at the end of this month but plans to continue working at Clutha Health First for three days a week.

CONTRIBUTION RECOGNISED: Otago general practitioner Dr Branko Sijnja is this year’s recipient of the Peter Snow Memorial Award.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – June 20, 2022

More time to have your say on pig welfare THE Ministry for Primary Industries has agreed to extend the consultation time on a controversial draft code of welfare for pigs for two weeks. The move came after discussions with NZPork. NZPork chief executive Brent Kleiss said “the proposed changes are colossal and unprecedented, the material accompanying the draft code is substantial and there is a large amount of information for farmers and other industry stakeholders to review and assess”. “Given the survival of individual farmers and the industry supply chain is at stake, we are pleased MPI has agreed to our request.” NZPork argued that the draft code could result in the deaths of thousands of additional piglets, pig farms shutting down and New Zealanders having to rely on imported pork. An economic analysis by Sapere Research Group earlier this year found pork farmers would have to lift prices by 18.8% and keep them at that level in real terms for 20 years to compensate for the changes. The draft code was released in

late April and allowed eight weeks for consultation. A review of the code was launched after the high court declared in November 2020 that the standards for farrowing crates and mating stalls were unlawful and invalid under the Animal Welfare Act. The draft code includes changes to the minimum space allowance required for grower pigs, a ban or significant limitation on the traditional use of farrowing systems (farrowing crates), an effective ban on mating stalls, and sets a minimum weaning age of 28 days for piglets. The changes to the minimum space go beyond the minimum necessary, NZPork said. “Even countries that have subsidies, government funding and protected markets are nowhere near meeting these proposed space requirements and some are below our current standard for space,” it said. NZPork argued the proposals would result in much more frequent movements of pigs and frequent mixing of pigs of different ages and sizes to

MORE TIME: NZPork chief executive Brent Kleiss says they support science-backed improvements to animal welfare, but the proposed changes could force farmers out of business.

Even countries that have subsidies, government funding and protected markets are nowhere near meeting these proposed space requirements and some are below our current standard for space. NZPork regularly adjust stocking rates on farms. “This would impose unnecessary stress and reduce the welfare of our pigs.” It does support the need for an

increase in grower space, just not to the recommended extent. On the farrowing crates, NZPork said the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) hasn’t adequately considered the welfare impacts of piglet mortality. Animal welfare activists argue the farrowing crates are “barbaric cages” that prevent a mother pig from tending to her piglets. SAFE claimed the mother pig’s movements are so restricted she can only stand up and lie down and she can’t even turn around. NZPork said if a mother pig is left to her own devices, piglets fall victim to starvation, hypothermia and being accidentally crushed by the sow. “We believe that the duration of sow confinement around farrowing could be reduced with minor detriment to piglet welfare,

but short-term confinement is beneficial to piglet welfare and must coincide with the most critical days of a piglet’s life when they are at their most vulnerable,” it said. Speaking about the minimum weaning at 28 days, they believe it should be outcome-based, as opposed to prescriptive. By setting a prescriptive minimum weaning age, NAWAC takes no account of the variation in piglet weight for age between farms, differences in weaner accommodation, nutrition and management, NZPork said. “We support science-backed improvements to animal welfare, but the proposed changes could force farmers out of business and put the price of New Zealand-born and raised pork out of the reach of many Kiwis,” Kleiss said.

Two more big farms for NZ Rural Land Co Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz NEW Zealand Rural Land Company (NZL) is raising more share equity to purchase two large Southland dairy farms totalling over 900ha at a cost of $29 million. Existing shareholders have been offered a 1-for-5 shares entitlement at a discounted price of $1.05, which they may take up, leave to a retail shortfall bookbuild, or supplement with an application for additional new shares. Some $11.4m was already raised last week with an institutional offer at $1.05 and the retail offer aims to add $9m, followed by a further $9m of debt financing. The retail offer is open until June 23 and the shortfall bookbuild, if required will begin on June 28. The new properties are Argyll Downs near Invercargill and Greenhill near Winton, both to be leased to long-term sharemilkers. When completed, the new purchases will take the NZL total assets to $250m and net assets to $151m, which is a loan-to-value ratio of 38%. NZL has also predicted that revaluations of its properties on the upcoming June 30 balance date will be in the range of 7.5% to 9.5%, which will bring net asset value up to around $1.50 a share. Recently NZL reweighed two

Given the high level of inflation already observed and forecasts for inflation to remain at elevated levels, NZL expects to realise a significant and permanent uplift to lease income at renewal intervals in 2024 and 2025. New Zealand Rural Land Company

ACQUISITIONS: The New Zealand Rural Land Company plans to buy new properties – Argyll Downs near Invercargill and Greenhill near Winton. Photo: file

major influences on its business, inflation rates and interest rates, and adjusted its earnings forecasts. It began by confirming its earnings guidance for FY22, along with a full-year dividend of 4.2c a share.

It is in the three following financial years that higher inflation and interest rates will come to bear on the listed rural property owner with some shortterm pain followed by longer-term gains. All farmland leases, from which

NZL gains its income, have threeyear uncapped CPI adjustment clauses. “Given the high level of inflation already observed and forecasts for inflation to remain at elevated levels, NZL expects to realise a significant and permanent

uplift to lease income at renewal intervals in 2024 and 2025.” These have been estimated as 14% for leases resetting in June 2024 (about 65% of the NZL portfolio) and 9% for those resetting in June 2025. “Strong dairy prices and the underlying credit quality of NZL’s tenants provides comfort that the increased lease costs will be within the financial capacity of the tenants,” the company said. The new capital raise has pulled the NZL share price down to $1.06, compared with $1.12 recently and the initial public offering of $1.25 in late 2020.

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GRADING UP TO A WILTSHIRE FLOCK OF SHEDDING SHEEP Many coarse-woolled sheep farmers today are not recovering the costs of shearing. An alternative option is to breed a “no wool” sheep like the Dorper or a “selfshedding” sheep that sheds its fleece once a year like the Wiltshire. Some farmers have graded-up to a Wiltshire flock, but quantified research results showing the potential impacts of this transition are currently lacking. Professor Steve Morris is leading a project at Massey University’s Riverside Farm that aims to quantify the benefits and costs of changing from a Romney sheep to a self-shedding Wiltshire. Modelling has indicated that a change to a self-shedding flock will be profitable long term, as the coarse wool price would have to exceed $4.15 per kilogram greasy weight to cover the costs of shearing. However, this model is limited by insufficient production data during the transition period. In March 2020, 400 Romney ewes were bred to either Wiltshire or Romney rams. The resulting half bred Wiltshire ewe lambs were then bred to Wiltshire rams in late April 2021 to generate three quarter Wiltshire lambs born in October 2021. The project continues with seven-eighths Wiltshire lambs to be born in 2022 and fifteen-sixteenths to be born in 2023. At each lambing they will be compared to the base Romney flock at Riverside Farm. The three-quarter Wiltshire cross ewe lambs were given a shedding score on a scale of one (no shedding) to five (fully shed) on 26 January 2022 and 90 per cent showed some shedding. The attached photos show three-quarter Wiltshire ewe lambs with shedding scores of 2.5 and 4.0. This trial is funded by the L. A. Alexander Trust and the Massey University Foundation.

CAN YOU ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: 1

What is the break even for coarse crossbred wool to cover costs?

2 How much has the price of crossbred wool decreased since 2015? https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/ farming/124045758/farmers-struggleto-cover-shearing-costs-as-woolprices-continue-to-hurt 3 What was the price of Crossbred Fleece - AVERAGE STYLE - at the last wool sale (June 2022)? https://www.pggwrightson.co.nz/ourservices/wool/wool-market-reports 4 What is the origins of the NZ Wiltshire sheep breed? http://morrisonfarming. co.nz/wiltshire-sheep/wiltshirehistory/ 5 What does it cost to shear a sheep? https://shavingplanet.com/whatdoes-it-cost-to-shear-a-sheep-wechecked-it-for-you/ or https://www.careers.govt.nz/jobsdatabase/farming-fishing-forestryand-mining/agriculture-horticulture/ shearer/about-the-job

FILL YA BOOTS: Head to https://www.farmersweekly. co.nz/drystock-takes-hit-undermethane-scheme/ to read the article on the He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) farmbased emissions scheme released this week 1

What is the purpose of the farmbased emissions scheme?

2 What methane cost has HWEN based its estimates on? 3 What difficulties will this pose for farmers?

Newsmaker

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High country to high performance Tessa Jopp considers herself fortunate to be able to combine her love of hockey and farming. The Central Otago farmer and New Zealand representative spoke to Neal Wallace on the eve of flying to Europe to the Women’s Hockey World Cup and Commonwealth Games.

PADDOCK TO TURF: International hockey player and Central Otago farmer Tessa Jopp. Photo: Hockey NZ.

T WASN’T the packing or the looming challenge of test match hockey that was top of Tessa Jopp’s mind last week. Rather it was how to adjust to the temperature change she is about to experience. It snowed on her family’s Maniototo farm in Central Otago the previous night and she woke the next morning to a sharp frost. This week she will be training and playing in Spain, a member of the Black Sticks NZ women’s hockey team, where daytime temperatures are close to 30C. “It is going to be a bit of a shock, but I guess my muscles will be warm,” she says philosophically. For the next two months Jopp will be living and breathing hockey. After warm-up matches in Spain the team heads to the Netherlands for the Women’s World Cup. Then in late July they transfer to Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games. Jopp, 26, who is contracted to Hockey NZ, has 33 international caps to her name since debuting against Argentina in 2017. The midfielder is an anomaly within the squad. Contracted players are required to live in Auckland so they can be available for training and matches. She lived in Auckland for five years while studying and playing, but a year or so ago negotiated to be able to live and work on her family’s farm while still contracted to Hockey NZ. When not in Auckland attending block coaching and training sessions or playing club hockey in Dunedin, Jopp is working on her family’s 4000ha Maritanga Station near Kokonga, combining her love of hockey, farming and family. “It allows me to have a life balance which translates into my performance on the field. “I play well when my life is going well,” she says. Part of the agreement to live outside Auckland is that Jopp will play for a Dunedin men’s club hockey side. Each week she travels two hours to Dunedin to play for Kings United, which she says puts her game and fitness under pressure, which is a real benefit. Men tend to have quicker reflexes, are faster and more physical, plus the side is coached by former men’s Black Stick James Nation, who has helped Jopp with her skills and preparation. “It has been really awesome and good for my hockey,” she says.

Some athletes struggle when they return home having worked for four years for an event like the Olympics. But I didn’t find that because I was coming home to my other passion. Tessa Jopp Black Stick “The team has really made me feel valued.” While she pursues specific hockey training, Jopp says farm work also helps her fitness, especially mustering on the hills. The Maniototo has a long and proud history of producing sporting champions, especially hockey players, including Mandy

Smith who played 150 tests for NZ. Jopp’s mother Maree played hockey and when aged five or six, Tessa was given her first hockey stick. She was hooked. Her secondary education started as a boarder at St Kevin’s College in Oamaru, but the necessity to regularly travel to Dunedin for hockey meant a shift. For her later high school years she moved to St Hilda’s Collegiate in Dunedin. By now she was playing for representative sides and found herself in the national Under-18 squad. A year or so later she was selected for the NZ Under-21 squad for the junior World Cup, requiring a move to Auckland to train. She studied marketing at Massey University, but hockey was her priority. “Clearly, I haven’t used my qualification since graduating,” she notes.

In 2020 she travelled to Belgium to play professionally for a club, where the quality of hockey was vastly superior to anything in NZ. She was paid, given a flat and in return helped with coaching. “I got to experience another culture and it certainly took me out of my comfort zone. “I gained a lot of confidence playing over there.” The arrival of covid-19 forced an early return home to the farm, but any inkling she had on retiring evaporated when she played in a tournament and was subsequently selected for the Tokyo Olympics. “It was an opportunity to play in my first Olympic Games and my partner said I had to give it a go.” Jopp was a travelling reserve but still played in three of the side’s six matches. Although the Black Sticks struggled, Jopp says the experience, and mixing with sporting superstars in the games village, was memorable.

OUT OF MY WAY: Central Otago farmer and international hockey rep Tessa Jopp in action against Australia. Photo: Hockey NZ.

On returning home after two weeks isolation, the family farm provided an environment to refresh. “Some athletes struggle when they return home having worked for four years for an event like the Olympics,” she says. “But I didn’t find that because I was coming home to my other passion.” Covid meant her parents, David and Maree, could not attend the Olympic Games to watch their daughter but they are making the journey to Birmingham where she will catch up with a brother and cousin living in Europe. First up is the World Cup in the Netherlands and the need to survive their pool, which includes China, India and England, to advance to the next round. The top qualifier is automatically into the quarterfinals while the next two highest finishers face playoffs. After the cup they will relocate to Birmingham where Jopp will be mixing in the athlete’s village with another Maniototo born and bred international representative and farmer, cricketer Eden Carson. She is playing for the Black Ferns. (See story Farmers Weekly 26 April). A veteran of 33 tests, Jopp says she still gets goose bumps and a feeling of pride when singing the national anthem before a test. “I stand there thinking this is ‘pretty cool’ and ‘how lucky I am to be here’.” The 2022 squad is young and that youth could work in their favour. “Even though we lack some experience it helps when you have players with a big heart and are willing to fight for each other.” Jopp says her sporting career has only been possible because of the support of her family, who have taken her to tournaments and given her opportunities, but also the security and grounding of being raised on a farm. “I am very lucky.”

New thinking

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A better sense of our water Turning an irrigation sensor into an onboard agronomist is helping Canterbury-based Dairy Holdings hit some ambitious water saving targets, while also growing more feed using less fertiliser. Richard Rennie spoke to CropX New Zealand managing director Eitan Dan on how the company’s technology is setting new pastoral irrigation standards.

OIL moisture sensors that are a complete redesign on traditional versions, backed by AI ability delivering information that is easy to understand, have contributed to Dairy Holdings slicing its water use across 20,000ha by a third since 2017. New Zealand remains the only country in the world at this stage to have the sensors used to measure moisture relative to rye grass and clover, rather than for broadacre crops, but the conversion for Dairy Holdings has been relatively quick. Initially, Dairy Holdings was seeking a standardised, automated and easily-accessible soil moisture monitoring system to optimise its irrigation systems and installed three CropX sensors on one farm to trial. Within a year the company had 170 sensors rolled out across its 60 properties, with a further 180 to come. Eitan Dan of CropX says while the technology for moisture sensing linked to irrigation decision making is not new, the older tech is bedevilled by issues that make it inflexible and difficult to use. “You will usually have a moisture strip physically buried in the soil down to about a metre and of course maintenance is an issue. They tend to be five times more expensive, but by far the biggest difference is they are not backed by any AI technology.”

Dairy Holdings’ own experience with the old technology had also found it to be time consuming and delivered inconsistent results. While this tech could generate graphs of moisture and losses, it required someone to interpret it to act on that data. The CropX sensors, backed by AI, have the ability to learn from irrigation events in terms of water loss and movement through the soil, with 95% accuracy. “From there, the system can tell the user how much water needs to be applied, and when, combining data from weather information, the soil moisture, soil type and the irrigation system.” Learning algorithms are based off the input and modelling CropX’s agronomists and data scientists apply, presenting it in a form that is easily understood by the user. Dan says the Dairy Holdings system would be the biggest, most comprehensive irrigation monitoring network on the company’s books and the company has made a point of putting water and fertiliser conservation at the forefront, with effluent application the next to be incorporated. “And we are proud of the fact Dairy Holdings will on-board any new farm managers with a focus on using precision agriculture tech, made easier by this being simple to use.” Since installing the network, Dairy Holdings has also reduced fertiliser use to within the new

SMARTER: Dairy Holdings farm manager Shaun Wise using CropX app for irrigation monitoring.

nitrogen cap regulations of 190kgN per hectare, at an average of 172kgN/ha for the 2021-22 season. Meantime, pasture production has increased, with a significant 90% decline in the quantity of purchased supplement bought into the system each year. The company folded NZ agritech company Regen into its structure to combine Regen’s irrigation tech focus into CropX’s farm sensor and information generation capability to deliver a sensor that goes beyond simple moisture detection. The CropX’s sensor was first launched at last year’s Mystery Creek Fieldays and was a finalist in the innovation awards. It has the ability to measure not only moisture, but also temperature and electrical conductivity. The conductivity measurement means the sensors can also provide an indication of any leaching events that may move recently added fertiliser nutrients beyond the soil root zone. The AI’s ability to learn from the soil’s response to irrigation

and rainfall means leaching and water loss events can be alerted to, helping minimise fertiliser losses while also conserving water.

From there, the system can tell the user how much water needs to be applied, and when, combining data from weather information, the soil moisture, soil type and the irrigation system. Eitan Dan CropX Having only been in NZ since arriving from Israel 18 months ago, Dan says rural NZ is blessed with particularly good internet connectivity, making IoT tech very installable. “Of the Dairy Holdings sensor locations, we only had two out of 200 that initially could not be

hooked up, and only required a small relocation to work.” The sensors record the soil’s status every half an hour and reassesses its irrigation recommendations every 12 hours. “It is basically like having your own agronomist there online offering the most up to date advice.” Dan says as NZ farmers are compelled to also understand their greenhouse gas emissions better and CropX is doubling down on how its sensor tech can contribute. “For example, if you apply fertiliser at the wrong time, at the wrong temperature it can be 10 times more polluting.” Dairy Holdings chief executive Colin Glass says the CropX system has provided the corporate farmer with simplicity at scale. “It allow for more confident decision making and brings greater transparency across our farms. This means our farm managers can learn from each other to further enhance efficiencies and we can take a standardised approach to data management and reporting.”

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EDITORIAL

All eyes trained on Taratahi plan

INDING a workable resolution to the liquidation of the Taratahi Agricultural Centre looks complicated. As we report this week, the High Court has ruled that the liquidators can sell the former training centre’s 294ha farm to release funds and repay creditors. Such a move requires ministerial approval, but the court decision has opened a pandora’s box. Like much of New Zealand’s infrastructure, Taratahi was built on the goodwill and sacrifice of the community, in this case the people of Wairarapa, who 100 years ago gifted land and raised money to establish a farm training centre. A fall in enrolments in 2016, 2017 and 2018 prompted the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) to demand a refund when enrolment targets weren’t met. This pushed Taratahi, which had borrowed to invest in infrastructure to remain current as a farm entity and a farm training centre, into liquidation. That move has raised questions about the actions of the TEC given Taratahi was not the only vocational training provider struggling for enrolments and financial viability. Certainly, creditors deserve to be paid, but the potential sale of the land has raised concerns from the descendants of those who gifted the land about the violation of property rights and from the Wairarapa and farming communities who want and need a vocational training centre. A potential solution could lie in the Telford farm training campus in South Otago. The Balclutha centre had only become part of Taratahi shortly before it went into liquidation, after which Telford became part of the Southland Institute of Technology. Comments from the Beehive are so far reassuring. Agriculture Minister Damian O’Connor says Taratahi is an important part of New Zealand’s agricultural education history and he is committed to securing sustainable agricultural education at the centre. What that looks like is so far unknown. But those in Wairarapa and descendants of the families who gifted the land will be hoping the Government will be more understanding than the Ministry of Education. It took, without consultation or compensation, a 13ha farm gifted 30 years ago by the community to the Taihape Area School, which is now in the Treaty of Waitangi settlement landbank.

Neal Wallace

LETTERS

Right motives, wrong plan on emissions IT IS with great concern that our primary producing representatives have sold out the nation’s future by cuddling up to the Ardernled Government with the He Waka Eke Noa proposal. Where is their collective intestinal fortitude and backbone to stand up and say no to this ridiculous concept of taxing food production and a large proportion of our foreign exchange earning ability? All New Zealanders will feel the pain and heartache from this short-sightedness going forward into the future. Ultimately it looks like they wanted the desire to be used like “useful idiots” by James Shaw and the current Ardern regime. They are not meant to be Government lap dogs, they

are meant to be standing up and fighting for their respective industry and for their levy payers or members that fund their (primary producers) organisations and pay their salaries. When the pushback comes from the everyday primary producers to this madness the Government will throw it back at them that their industry representatives agreed to this illogical and obtuse proposal for proposed legislation. But this madness will result in poorer outcomes for the environment as New Zealand farmers and growers reduce production, for it will only end up with less efficient countries filling the void, with the absent of New Zealand’s efficient management and farming systems.

Now I totally agree that we as primary producers need to continue to strive to be the best and most efficient food producers in the world, while always wanting to maintain and improve the environment in which we operate and work with. However, the net effect of this self-designed emissions tax (poorly disguised as an opportunity) will be an increase in global emissions, a mass acceleration of land use change to pine trees, further intensification and heightened increases in the price of pasture-raised food. Scott Adams Marlborough

Easy pickings after dark I AM fascinated by the

article about the wallabies at Rotorua. More than 20 years ago I had a job that took me to the TV transmitter site for Rotorua. Access was by a track that went through a Soil Conservation Society Reserve or something like that. It was after dark when I finished. I was astonished by the many wallabies the headlights lit up in this area. I could not understand why control measures were not being taken because hunting would have been easy. Are the wallabies coming home to roost because too little has been done for too long? Leyland Benson Canterbury

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A lot of hot air is cold comfort for farmers Mark Cameron

T’S been about two years since I swapped my stubbies for a suit and my quad bike for a seat in the parliamentary chamber. I was driven by the opportunity to provide an authentic farming voice in Parliament to represent a very important part of New Zealand society. As an Opposition MP it’s my job to hold the Government to account, so you’ll be unsurprised to know that I’ve been less than impressed with the Government’s approach to rural New Zealand. There’s been a plethora of legislative changes that I’ve fought against (and continue to do so) such as Significant Natural Areas that put property rights under threat, the tax on utes to subsidise Teslas, ensuring winter grazing regulations that aren’t practical are not implemented, campaigning for allowing the rural workforce to come through the border, and many more. As someone who is familiar with the realities of operating a farming business (long days, plenty of adversity, big bills, but a lifestyle that is second to none), it can be particularly frustrating seeing legislation coming down the pipeline and conjecture about agriculture from MPs that does not reflect the reality of the job. Recently we saw the Emissions Reduction Plan announced by James Shaw as part of Grant Robertson’s brain drain Budget. Taken as a whole, the plan is more about social engineering than emissions reduction and seeks to spend a huge amount of money to achieve no outcome in emissions reduction – because our emissions are already capped under the ETS anyway. It’s political theatre at its most egregious and sadly taxpayers will foot the bill for it. Some of the sector groups have lauded the plan for its decision to allocate $700m to research into emissions reduction for agriculture, but personally I’m more reticent. I’m firmly in favour of developing the tech, ACT has always said that agricultural emissions have no business being taxed until real technology exists to lower emissions, and until more accurate measurements for sequestration from crops exists. However, Shaw has spoken many times of how $200m has already been spent on this sort of technology, and what has this

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Pulpit HELP NEEDED: Mark Cameron says the rest of the world is embracing technology and we’re busy discussing targets and a tax system to reduce New Zealand’s ag emissions without the tools to back them.

delivered for farmers on the open market so far? If a technological advancement is developed and farmers are unable to use it, does it make a difference? What I’m saying is that it’s all very well saying you’re throwing money at technological solutions, it’s another thing to make them available to farmers. Take Bovaer for example, it’s a feed additive that has the potential to reduce methane emissions by up to 30%.

As someone who is familiar with the realities of operating a farming business, it can be particularly frustrating seeing legislation coming down the pipeline and conjecture about agriculture from MPs that does not reflect the reality of the job. Mark Cameron ACT Party It has been approved for use by the European Union and in South America, but here the application has been sitting on the desk at the EPA gathering dust for 13 months. Another example is the HME Ryegrass technology that has been developed by our very own AgResearch. Trials have been completed in the United States and the results are promising, however we can’t even complete trials nor use it

in New Zealand simply because of legislative hurdles with the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act. Surely if the Government was trying to promote technological advancements they’d begin by fixing the legislation and allowing what’s already there to be used? That’s what ACT would do. It’s exacerbated by a lack of transparency towards rural New Zealand from this Government. Scrutiny and attempts to gain information about programmes such as He Waka Eke Noa are met with an almost arrogant disdain. Whenever Ministers are questioned on the topic of how they plan to reduce methane output, and whether their plan includes reducing the herd size we’re met by a brick wall of pithy, throwaway comments and answers that change depending on who they think the audience is. It would be catastrophic if the

Government did force farms to destock. Peoples’ livelihoods would be ruined and likely with no benefit to the climate, as the market space will just be snapped up by a less efficient producer from overseas. I doubt there are many farmers out there who aren’t constantly thinking of ways to improve their farming operation or looking at innovation they can incorporate. As such, I believe they’re justified in a bit of straight talk in what the Government is working on that will directly affect them. There’s money up the wazoo being allocated – that’s nothing new with this Government, but the results don’t match up with the spend and I’m worried that come 2025 farmers are going to still be waiting for something to come their way and help reduce their emissions. That’s why the Minister should be providing some detail on where

the money is going and when farmers will see results. The rest of the world is embracing technology and we’re busy discussing targets and a tax system to reduce New Zealand’s ag emissions without the tools to back them. The biggest help we could give to farmers right now would be by cutting the red tape and giving them the opportunity to safely invest in science-backed tools that are ready.

Who am I? Mark Cameron is the ACT Party’s agriculture spokesperson.

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Biosecurity systems make gains Alternative View

Alan Emerson

THE news that there is a Foot and Mouth outbreak in Indonesia is disconcerting. Although it provides no immediate threat to New Zealand, Indonesia has been clear of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) since 1986. It also comes at a time when we’re opening our borders, with the increased risk that involves. As we all know NZ makes the vast majority of its income by producing and exporting food and any biosecurity incursion puts that at risk. It is, therefore, good to see an increase of $42.9 million for biosecurity in this year’s budget. We have a good system now but that will make it better. There’s also an additional $68m for Mycoplasma bovis (M bovis) eradication and that, despite a bumpy start, has been a real success story. It hasn’t come cheaply with $635.9m spent so far and 172,422 cattle having been culled. In addition, 267 farms have been confirmed properties with 2342 having been placed under Notice of Direction. The disruption caused by the virus has been considerable. The other alternative was to live with the disease at an original cost

estimate of $1.2 billion. It’s important to remember that M bovis is in most countries and accepted as such. In NZ we decided to eradicate it. It was a brave call and the right one. What has been interesting is the full review of the incursion that has been undertaken. The Government appointed a small team to do that review consisting of Professors Nicola Shadbolt and Caroline Saunders, disease management expert Dr Roger Paskin and Southland farmer, entrepreneur and financier Tony Cleland. I thought they did an excellent job that will assist with future incursions. Their report is available on the Ministry for Primary Industries website and worth a read. Simply, the review points out that the reaction was shambolic at the start of the incursion. In addition, and surprisingly so in my view, it decided that biosecurity systems in place at the start of the incursion weren’t fit for purpose. A comprehensive communications strategy was also lacking. That view was supported by then Federated Farmers president Katie Milne, who was there at the start but was “removed” because she felt she asked too many hard questions. The committee had decided that those funding the exercise, DairyNZ, Beef + Lamb NZ, should only be at the governance table. Milne made the point that the money involved was farmers’ whatever way you considered it,

GOT THERE: Professor Nicola Shadbolt was on the team that reviewed New Zealand’s Mycoplasma bovis response, which while having its issues was ultimately a success.

but that point didn’t register. She believed the committee’s actions were “an old boys club shut-out”. That move by the old boys obviously contributed to the shambolic start the review committee found. At the end of the day we did, by whatever route, get rid of M bovis. The only country in the world to do so. M bovis arrived in NZ in July 2017 ahead of the late September 2017 general election that brought a Labour, NZ First Government. The person responsible for picking up the pieces in October 2017 was Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor. He’d immediately decided that a disease manageable in the Northern Hemisphere would

create chaos here. We have top producing animals that like top athletes are easily stressed. That would make them vulnerable to M bovis. “The timing wasn’t easy,” O’Connor said. “We came to power and there was little debate. Cabinet accepted my recommendations and we got onto it. “An early decision was to get industry involved and not to leave the decisions to me and officials. We needed farmers on the ground and that was a key part of our success. “It quickly became apparent that the Nait system wasn’t up to scratch. I’m happy where we’re at now. “Biosecurity is where I’m at.

A caper around the bay RECENTLY I attended a great Hawke’s Bay Farm Forestry field day at Te Awanga. It’s not somewhere most of you will have heard of but it’s a small area well worth visiting next time you are in this part of the world. You will have seen it across the bay if you’ve stood on the Napier foreshore and gazed across towards Cape Kidnappers. Cape Kidnappers is also known as Te Kauwae-a-Māui or the fishhook of Māui given its shape. Māori legend has it that Maui’s brothers wouldn’t give him a fishhook or bait, so he made one out of the jawbone of his grandmother, punched himself on the nose and smeared it on the hook for bait and then caught a great fish that turned out to be the North Island or Te Ika-a-Māui. The hook turned into the coastline of Hawke Bay and no fishing story since has ever bettered this one. The eastern route from Napier towards Hastings runs alongside the sea as you pass the long line of Norfolk Pines then you turn towards the Cape at Clive or Mangateretere. As I cross the bridge over the TukiTuki, I like to look down to where this river that runs through

my own part of the world meets the sea. I once walked to the source of the TukiTuki high in the Ruahine Ranges and further up delighted standing on the main divide and being able to send half a piddle towards the Pacific Ocean down this river system and the other half towards the Manawatū catchment which then cuts through the main divide and ends up in the Tasman. Just over the bridge is the small coastal settlement of Haumoana. Many of the shore-based houses here and further along at Te Awanga and Clifton are succumbing to the effects of coastal erosion as the sea takes back for itself up to half a metre a year. When I was a kid, all the land on the other side of the road was farmland but now it is houses,

We drove up through the farm past their latest initiative, a couple of glamping sites onto the hills that gave stunning views across the sea ...

lifestyle blocks, vineyards, and wineries. Not far past Te Awanga the road finishes at Clifton. Several times, I’ve taken guests on my farmbike from there along the beach right around to the cape itself and we’ve climbed up to spend an entrancing time watching the gannets that nest there. This is the largest gannet mainland nesting site in the world and hosts up to 20,000 of them at peak times. The other great attraction from Clifton is the Cape Kidnappers Golf Course. I’ve played there three times, never had a decent score as its so tough, but some of my favourite days ever given the views and the course itself finished off with a hot shower and a cold beer in the wonderful club house. But this day I was here as I’d never had the opportunity to explore Clifton Station. The Gordon family were our hosts and the fifth and sixth generation to be now farming this historic farm. Angus has become a historian and written three popular books which have preserved some of the history of this part of the world.

We drove up through the farm past their latest initiative, a couple of glamping sites onto the hills that gave stunning views across the sea of Hawke Bay to Mahia, Napier, inland Hawke’s Bay and the back of Te Mata Peak. We viewed and discussed their various plantings which as well as the ubiquitous radiata included several species of Eucalyptus as well as a variety of other species. They are steadily fencing off and planting their streams and wetland areas. They have regular help from one of the local high school’s agricultural classes to help with this and other farm chores. I was surprised to see a Kaka fly overhead and the Gordons told us of the spill over of species that originated from Cape Sanctuary next door. We could see the predator fence that protects 2500ha of the end of the cape and has been a huge but beneficial undertaking by the Lowe and Robertson families. Within they are establishing populations of Kiwi, Saddleback, Kaka, Takahe, Tuatara and a host of other species assisted by a massive native planting program. A remarkable commitment to conservation.

We’re continuing to ramp it up. The increase in trade and people movement is equal to an everincreasing risk from a biosecurity perspective. “Lots of New Zealander’s have got in behind the eradication process and I’m really pleased with what we’ve achieved.” He should be. The review makes some additional and reassuring points. It believes the lessons learned from managing the M bovis incursion should be treated as a significant opportunity to strengthen New Zealand’s biosecurity preparedness. I totally agree. “The panel is confident that the lessons leant from M bovis, if acted upon, will enable NZ to have a far stronger biosecurity preparedness platform for future animal disease incursions.” That’s important. I fully accept that there have been many farmers hugely affected by the M bovis incursion. It must be absolutely gutting to develop a high producing herd and then have to cull it. No amount of money can compensate for that. The fact is no-one invited M bovis here, it arrived. What is fortunate is that we had a Minister who understood the issue and acted, officials who stepped up and a sector that after a rusty start united to irradicate the problem.

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

From the Ridge

Steve Wyn-Harris

After our visit to Clifton Station, we travelled the short distance to the Nilsson’s property of Te Awanga Downs to have lunch at the iconic Clifton Cricket ground. Nestled in a natural amphitheatre, this quirky cricket ground with its gentle slope has seen many fine cricketing battles. The cricket club and community are also combining to plant the waterways to enhance biodiversity and are also seeing spill over of species from the cape as the habitat improves. This contained area of Hawke’s Bay is a terrific example of what can be achieved in terms of conservation when private landowners, the regional council, Government agencies and the community come together with a common goal of making the world a better place.

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

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – June 20, 2022

MILK NOT MEAT: Dairy cattle have been selected over generations for their ability to convert grass into milk rather than muscle, meat yield and the correct feed conversion for prime beef production, although Jerseys, pictured, rank well for marbling and some Holstein Friesian genetics exhibit meat quality.

Dairy beef poised for growth Meaty Matters

Allan Barber

FEED represents more than 70% of the cost of beef production, which makes feed conversion efficiency an essential component of farm profitability. But there is substantial performance variability across the herd that can be significantly improved by measuring it and the use of genomic testing to sort out the relative efficiency of the cattle. American precision livestock company Vytelle has conducted a study of 49,910 animals that demonstrates the opportunity to improve residual feed intake (RFI), which is a moderately heritable trait. The study shows a mean of 7.3kg of feed (dry matter) intake for each 1kg of weight gain, but 11% of the population required less than 5kg, while a 10% improvement in RFI produced 43% higher profit. In contrast, 10% higher average daily weight gain only improved profit by 18%. As the traditional production of beef cattle comes under threat from land use change, consumer desire for smaller and less costly cuts, and environmental pressures, it will be necessary to look at more efficient use of resources. This will mean lifting the overall average performance of the beef herd through better selection,

culminating in faster weight gain and an earlier slaughter age. The dairy industry has long been a source of prime and bull calves entering the beef industry, but the quality of dairy beef from a meat and feed conversion perspective has been variable. Dairy farmers want to get nonreplacement and bull calves off the farm as quickly as possible, while calf rearers have found the market very unpredictable with no guarantee they will be able to make their desired margin when they come to the point of selling them to a finisher. But there are signs this may be about to change. Fifth generation Hawke’s Bay based beef breeders Rissington Cattle Company are convinced a coincidence of regulatory and market dynamics, combined with new and improved technologies, will drive unprecedented growth in the dairy beef industry. Rissington is also the only Vytelle system to measure feed efficiency in NZ. They see seven factors that will accelerate the pace of change: a slow decline in the national dairy herd; sexed semen that will reduce the number of dairy cows needed to generate replacements and produce genetic gains; the ban on live exports of dairy and beef heifers; animal welfare concerns; new DNA tools to identify more efficient beef sires for use with nonreplacement dairy cows; reduction of environmental footprint by replacing low performance beef cows or sheep and achieving earlier finishing; and minimising disposal costs of non-replacement calves. There is no reason prime beef

farmers cannot take advantage of the newest and best genetics to improve the quality of traditional beef herds, although they may be able to generate the best returns from using their best bulls to improve the beef producing characteristics of dairy cows.

There is no reason prime beef farmers cannot take advantage of the newest and best genetics to improve the quality of traditional beef herds, although they may be able to generate the best returns from using their best bulls to improve the beef producing characteristics of dairy cows.

But Rissington’s executive director Jeremy Absolom maintains the dairy industry will largely drive the future beef industry, both out of necessity – what to do with the surplus non-replacement cows – and from dairy’s greater willingness to leverage new technology. There is of course the small problem of dairy cows’ unsuitability for beef production. Dairy cattle have been selected over generations for their ability to convert grass into milk rather than muscle, meat yield and the correct feed conversion for prime beef production, although Jerseys

rank well for marbling and some Holstein Friesian genetics exhibit meat quality. At this point the main weaknesses of non-replacement dairy cows for prime beef are carcase yield, muscle shape, and feed efficiency. These can be improved by careful selection of appropriate beef genetics, while retaining the desired characteristics of easy calving, high days in milk and short gestation, no dehorning requirement, and marbling. In response to the obvious question about the current volatility of the calf rearing link in the chain, Absolom is adamant the dairy beef industry is poised to make a comeback and this will be the responsibility of the dairy farmer in the first instance, not the beef breeder. Dairy farming company Southern Pastures recognises the importance of managing its business with careful consideration for animal welfare, environmental footprint, and productivity. The company is working closely with LIC and Rissington to identify the right beef genetics in combination with technologies such as sexed semen and whole herd mating to AI. This will result in fewer bulls needed for natural service on farm with gains in animal welfare, GHGs and human safety. In the past, 5-10% of calves have been targeted for beef production, but the intention is to increase this proportion to 50% or more, focusing on the animals that exhibit the best traits for marbling, pH, muscle development and fast growth. The objective is to achieve

greater efficiencies, reduce GHGs and channel all calves born towards the outcome best suited for a productive life. Ideally, the end result will be an improvement in feed conversion for both the dairy and beef industries. Southern Pastures applies a strong partnership approach to its business that will be an essential feature of its dairy beef raising ambitions. Rissington’s Profit Maker bull semen and service bulls will produce 750 beef calves over non-dairy replacements in the spring, of which the company will put half with calf rearers and keep half to rear and finish on its farms, so it can measure the herd performance in combination with Rissington and LIC. This is likely to be the case for at least two breeding seasons, while a viable pathway for the dairy beef business is established. This initiative is still in its early stages and there are several moving parts which must be coordinated – beef trait heritability, feed conversion efficiency, an effective supply chain from rearing to finishing, integrating a beef breeding operation into a dairy business, and no doubt others. But credit must go to the partners in this venture for tackling a difficult intersection of the beef and dairy sectors where each side has much to gain from a constructive outcome.

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

Young Farmers head north

IGHT hundred people are getting ready to take over Whangarei for the threeday FMG Young Farmer of the Year Contest Series grand final. Held over three days from Thursday, July 7, seven FMG Young Farmer of the Year grand finalists, 28 FMG Junior Young Farmer of the Year competitors and 63 AgriKidsNZ competitors from across the country, will battle it out for their respective national titles. Grand final convener Natalie Lynch says they’re really looking forward to showcasing the best of Northland’s agriculture industry and showing off the region to the NZYF community. “We’ve kept two things at the forefront of our minds when planning and that was wanting to challenge our contestants to show what they’re made of in terms of their agricultural skills but we also want a spectacle,” Lynch says. “We want it to be awesome to watch for everyone, regardless of their experience within the sector,” she says. The final kicks off on Thursday, known as technical day, where the seven finalists undertake a strategic business exam and an human resources challenge to assess their leadership and management skills. They will also present their market innovation challenge, a project they had 12 weeks to work on, to demonstrate innovation and entrepreneurship through the creation of a new product or service to supply into a new market.

We’ve kept two things at the forefront of our minds when planning and that was wanting to challenge our contestants to show what they’re made of in terms of their agricultural skills but we also want a spectacle. Natalie Lynch NZ Young Farmers NOT SHEEPISH: Seven sheep, beef and dairy farmers from across the country will contest this year’s FMG Young Farmer of the Year grand final.

They will submit and be interviewed on their community footprint project, a threeminute video of each contestant acknowledging the importance of involvement and leadership in rural communities. Friday’s practical day at Barge Showgrounds will be one of the biggest days, free and open for all spectators with hundreds of supporters expected. All 98 competitors will go headto-head in a series of practical and theoretical challenges as well as a number of modules involving big machinery, building, livestock and more. Lynch says everything will have a bit of a Northland flavour. “A lot of people involved in

Northland’s sector are wearers of many hats, so there will be no straight farming skillset required on the day. There will be lots of different challenges contestants will have to face that relate to our industry, not exclusively on-farm.” “We really encourage everyone to come down and watch, there will truly be something for everyone. We can’t wait to showcase the best and brightest of Young Farmers and Whangarei.” At the AgriKidsNZ and FMG Junior Young Farmer of the Year awards ceremony on Friday night, the seven grand finalists will be tasked with presenting a four-minute speech on a range of topics, in front of a crowd of 300 that will also be live streamed.

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NZYF events manager Staci Barnette says competitors will also give back to the local community and volunteer through an initiative with contest sponsor the Environmental Protection Authority on Saturday morning. “Sustainability is a huge part of the contest and making sure the primary industries are fit for the future. It’s pretty cool that our FMG Young Farmer of the Year 2022 grand finalists will be able to leave their own legacy in Whangarei.” They will then head into the evening show on Saturday night, where the famous buzzer quiz will go down and the season 54 FMG Young Farmer of the Year will be announced.

It’s the first grand final in a number of years where all seven competitors are sheep, beef or dairy farmers, an aspect that is exciting NZYF chief executive Lynda Coppersmith. “The FMG Young Farmer of the Year contest series really showcases the future of the food and fibre industries and it’s abundantly clear from this year’s 240 contestants that the sector is in good hands,” she said. The FMG Young Farmer of the Year contest series would not be possible without its family of sponsors FMG, Ravensdown, Worksafe, Environmental Protection Authority, Ministry for Primary Industries, Honda, Massey University, Lincoln University, New Holland, STIHL and PTS Logistics.

Representing the region with pride

URROUNDED by native bush, Tim Dangen can see a glimpse of the wild west coast waves battering the coastline from the peak of his family’s Muriwai farm. Born and raised on the steep country that straddles Goldies Bush Scenic Reserve, he’s the third generation to call it home. “We’ve got a fairly strong connection to the land I think because of the grafting that’s gone into it to make it into the farm that it is today,” he says. “It’s got a few challenges about it that’s for sure, but we love the location and the balance the farm gives us by being close to the city.” As the urban sprawl of Auckland creeps closer, the Northern FMG Young Farmer of the Year contemplates the changing land use and how best to adapt while honouring his family legacy. “Our long-term vision for the farm is to turn it into an educational facility.” “My passion lies with teaching and giving kids the opportunity to be exposed to agriculture. Because we’re on Auckland’s doorstep there’s an opportunity for us to be able to get kids

out, get their hands dirty and feeding animals so they at least have the opportunity to connect with animals, the land and agriculture.” At 100 hectares, the farm is a commercial calf rearing business, supplemented by another 200 hectares of lease properties scattered around the district. The 30-year-old and his wife Jenny live in an apartment in Hobsonville Point. She commutes to Albany every day and he to the farm, shifting stock on the lease blocks on his trek back into the City. Seven years ago, Dangen returned home to the farm aiming to eventually take it over. He and his parents assessed the farm operations and how to make it financially sustainable, settling on calf rearing. In the first year they reared 200 calves, then took the business model and scaled it up to now rear 1000 calves a year, selling at a variety of ages. Aware the current operation has a limited commercial shelf life, Tim and Jenny are building a wedding venue on farm to generate revenue, diversify and capitalise on being on the

Tim Dangen Region: Northern Occupation: Calf rearer Age: 30

fringes of the big smoke. “The farm will always have animals on it because of its size, but if we can try and steer the finances towards the hospitality sector it might free up time to be able focus on my other passions.” Tim graduated from Lincoln University with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science in 2014 and dipped his toes into dairy farming in Southland for 18 months, an industry he loved. Employed by Simon Hopcroft and wife Janine, he credits them to his hands-on farming career. “They showed me how good farming can be and how if you get everything right you can live a pretty good lifestyle,” he said. Hopcroft, crowned 2004 FMG Young Farmer of the Year, also guided Tim into becoming a New Zealand Young Farmers member and passed on the legacy and passion of contest. Since then, Tim has been

heavily involved in Auckland City Young Farmers. He’s also competed in four FMG Young Farmer of the Year regional finals, finally making it through to grand final this year. “A contest like this makes you stay on top of topical issues, keeps pushing your boundaries in different sectors and makes you think in an innovative way,” he says.

“It makes you want to represent your (NZYF) club and other farmers with pride and that filters down into your day-to-day work.” “Most things that I do now, I try and do with the lens that I’m representing my club and all farmers. It makes you a bit more self-aware to keep pushing yourself to do the best you can for your land and animals.”

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Title tilt a team effort

SING technology to reduce their environmental footprint and take better care of their herd is part of everyday business for dairy farmers Chris and Emma Poole. They were in fact the first farm in the country to trial brand new cow collar technology from the Netherlands, Connecterra, in 2019. Chris, the Waikato-Bay of Plenty FMG Young Farmer of the Year is adamant technology will go a long way to improving the dairy industry. “No one has got time to be in the paddock constantly watching your cows every hour, every day of the year,” he says. “Technology can change the job completely. A lot of young farmers get worn down because there’s so many mundane tasks so if there’s anything to reduce that, then it’s going to increase the longevity that person is going to have in that job.” Te Kawa West Young Farmers Chris and Emma are in an equity partnership with his parents, John and Anne Poole, on the family farm near Pirongia. They milk 720 crossbred cows and rear 850 beef calves across 202

hectares on a system five, growing a lot of their own feed and buying it in for higher production per hectare, per cow. “Our system is designed to be able to fully feed our cows every day of the year, no matter what the conditions are. If you get a good season and grow more grass, you just do it cheaper. You always know how much production you’re going to do, the thing that changes is how much it’s going to cost to do it.” Reducing their environmental footprint and wastage on farm is a priority; they’ve cut bobby calves out of the farming system completely, adding them into the business as beef calves. They’re also cutting down their herd while maintaining milk production, by putting the same amount of feed into better producing cows. “We’re trying to get genetic gain by breeding from our best cows. We’ve just bought a really well bred, top herd as well, so we’ll be able to reduce the total number of cows we’ll be milking which is the biggest thing you can do to reduce nitrate leaching and the likes,” he says. Small technology additions to

Chris Poole Region: Waikato-Bay of Plenty Occupation: Dairy farmer Age: 28

improve proficiency and personal input are scattered throughout their business – such as a tractor GPS to ensure fertiliser is being put on areas to have the biggest impact on growth and staying away from the loaded nutrient areas such as gateways and troughs. “We just want to make sure we’re getting the most out of everything,” he says. Chris has a bachelor of AgriScience from Massey University. He and Emma, a then vet student, also met at Massey University Young Farmers, in 2014. He also started his own relief milking business while studying to earn some extra cash and meet some farmers in the region – at one point he had 15 sheds on the go. After graduating in 2016, he went straight back to the family farm.

As much as you need to be as well prepared as you can, a lot of it is out of your control and depends what you get thrown on the day. Chris Poole Waikato-Bay of Plenty Competing in the contest is something he’s always wanted to do after watching it on TV and

being involved with NZYF clubs since university. He hopes his strength to make decisions fast will benefit him over the three days. “As much as you need to be as well prepared as you can, a lot of it is out of your control and depends what you get thrown on the day,” he says. Emma, having been a 2019 grand finalist, is also helping him prepare and study. “There’s a lot of things over the years that I’ve picked up and learnt studying, in life and on the farm, that I’ve taken for granted or never really thought about. And then it pops in contest and I sort of think ‘oh I know that’.”

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One final tilt at the title

AKING a year off to travel the country with a cat, a two-year-old and a caravan in tow, was the holiday of a lifetime for Jonny Brown and his partner Shae Atkinson. The Tasman FMG Young Farmer of the Year is adamant taking time out and getting off-farm should be a priority for everyone. “It gave me a lot of perspective and it made me realise that the dairy industry is hard, but the best defence is a good offence. “You can do things to make sure you put yourself where you’re not going to fail or the likelihood of failing is way less than 50-50,” he said. Since the caravan roadie ended in 2020, he’s been managing a Dairy Holdings farm in Bankside, milking 1300 cows. He and Shae took over contract milking on June 1. “We want to own the herd on the farm we’re on in about five years. “Farm ownership’s not a real

goal, it’s about putting myself in a position where I’ve got skills to add value.” It’s a low input grass system, growing and harvesting as much grass as possible at the lowest cost, averaging 350kg of milk solids per cow a year. Finding reward in being able to see what he achieves each day, the Dunsandel Young Farmer also likes working in a corporate dairy farming environment and working in large teams.

I want to see an industry where the participants have more than the farm, they have hobbies and interests outside the farm gate. Jonny Brown Tasman

Jonny Brown Region: Tasman Occupation: Dairy farm manager Age: 31

“Corporate overheads allow you to have certain skills in the business.... there’s too many skills required of the farm manager to meet all the compliance and get the job done too,” he says. With five full-time staff, he enjoys managing people and knows it’s a crucial factor to making the dairy industry an appealing place to work and retaining good staff. “I want to be a leader in the industry in how to run teams on farms. It’s about running things as well as you can, but you’ve still got to deliver the bottom line if you want people to uptake it,” he says. His purpose is to make dairy farming an industry he’s proud to work in and leave it a better place for his two boys – Harrison, 4, and

one-year old Thomas – if they are to follow in his footsteps one day. “Burnout needs to be a thing of the past, people who put the effort in should be able to reap the rewards,” he says. “I want to see an industry where the participants have more than the farm, they have hobbies and interests outside the farm gate they actually do, and operators that take time off and let their people grow.” Having worked his way through the ranks of the dairy industry as a worker, contract milker and farm manager mainly around Canterbury, he finds bigger farms more appealing. “If you’ve got the mindset to juggle, large farms are far easier than small farms because you’ve

got more cards to play each day, you can build in a bit of flexibility by default.” A Lincoln University alumnus with a Bachelor of Commerce (Rural Valuation and Agricultural Management), Brown grew up in the Bay of Plenty on a familyowned corporate dairy and kiwifruit operation. At 31 and ageing out of New Zealand Young Farmers, it’s his last shot at being named FMG Young Farmer of the Year – for good. Having competed in three regional finals before getting through on his fourth shot, he said the doubt had started to creep in. “It was a bit of a relief to be fair, I came close two other times and asked myself ‘can I actually get over this hurdle’,” he says. But he likes the competition, and farming is a field he’s competent in. “Reasonably intelligent”, he thinks if the questions fall his way in the quiz paired with his strengths in practical day, it could work to his advantage.

Aiming for the top spot

F YOU’D have asked him three years ago where he’d be today, David Reesby would’ve imagined somewhere in Australia or Canada, harvesting and enjoying the overseas experience. Fast track to June 2022 and the Taranaki-Manawatū FMG Young Farmer of the Year is using the global pandemic to his advantage, spying opportunities in the workforce and taking aim. A sharpshooter who represented New Zealand in small bore rifle shooting, he rarely misses. The 21-year-old already has a Dairy Industry Award, named 2020 Manawatū Dairy Trainee of the Year. “The day I finished High School, the next morning was my first milking,” he laughs. “We were short of a worker at the time, and I had been working a fair bit after school, just helping out. I knew that when school finished, I’d be coming to work and I haven’t regretted it.” He’s still based on the home farm in Glen Orua, milking 420 cows across 180 hectares and estimates it’s running somewhere

between a system two and three. While working, the Marton young farmer is also completing Primary ITO level four papers. The farm runs all young stock as heifer replacements and takes a small amount of Hereford-dairycross calves through on a separate 80ha block, which also grows supplement for both farms. Parents Sandra and Gareth Reesby and his late grandfather Don expanded the dairy operation as David and his two sisters grew up. They own another 200-cow farm up the road which is run by contract milkers and farmed alongside the support block. “I’m pretty keen on going contract milking, just working my way up through the dairy industry and getting up to share milking and farm ownership. I’d love to have my own herd one day.” Expecting the grand final to be a huge challenge, he wants to”‘grab the opportunity with both hands and run with it”. Despite being just 21 years old and the youngest finalist, he’s not a contest newbie. He competed in the FMG Junior Young Farmer of the Year

grand final in Invercargill in 2018, coming third nationally alongside a friend. Introduced to the contest at just eight years old, he watched neighbour Chris Will on TV compete in the 2009 grand final, a pathway he’s always dreamt of following. But, qualifying for the grand final at his first regional final this year exceeded Reesby’s own expectations. “I didn’t think I was going to win at regional finals this year, I was pretty surprised to see my name up there,” he recalls. “I was going into the day to win, but I wasn’t actually sure how I would go because I didn’t get quite as much prep in as I wanted to.” Now, he’s spending his evenings sharpening his business and theoretical knowledge, something he identified as a weakness. A stickler for the finer details and a strong practical skillset, Reesby knows that will play to his advantage across the three days. “I’ve definitely got an eye for detail, whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. It might take me

David Reesby Region: Taranaki-Manawatū Occupation: Dairy farmer Age: 21

a bit longer to do things, but I can see the job through at a high quality,” he says. “Being young is a good thing too, it’s a good experience and I’ll be pretty pleased at the end of the grand final. I’ll have learnt a lot of new things and met a lot of people, it’s such a great opportunity.” Asked about his goals and ambitions in life, Reesby wants to win FMG Young Farmer of the Year. “Being known and acknowledged as a good farmer, a good custodian of the land would be pretty cool,” he adds. He also wants to use his platform as a grand finalist to encourage more young people into the industry. “There’s really a job for everyone under the primary industries umbrella, it’s the backbone of our country.”

Being young is a good thing too, it’s a good experience and I’ll be pretty pleased at the end of the grand final. I’ll have learnt a lot of new things and met a lot of people, it’s such a great opportunity. David Reesby Taranaki-Manawatū

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Taking a surgical approach

AVING spent five years as a veterinarian, East Coast FMG Young Farmer of the Year Mark Wallace faced many challenges. Wallace, 30, is now working on the family sheep, beef and cropping farm in Waipukurau. After leaving Central Hawke’s Bay College, he went to Massey University to study to be a vet. “I just wanted to do an agricultural-related degree. It’s hard to get into vet but once you’re in it’s not that hard really, it was good fun,” he says. Following graduation, he spent two and a half years in Ohakune at Ruapehu Vet Services, servicing a 100km radius taking care of all animals – large and small. “I got a lot of laughs out of my job, probably more than I think I was meant to get. You never quite know what’s going to happen when you’re working with animals,” he says. “I learned a lot about people as well, you get people from all walks of life so you see some different things in people that you otherwise wouldn’t normally.” He then spent a year in Wairoa, enjoying the beautiful scenery and what the rural community had to offer.

But with itchy feet, the United Kingdom was calling and in 2019, Wallace headed off his on OE. He spent time shearing on trailers in England before working as a locum vet in the middle of London as well as Scotland and the Welsh Border.

With different scenarios you realise you just need to keep calm and take a deep breath and think about what’s in front of you. Mark Wallace East Coast “I worked with nothing but cats and dogs for four or five months,” he says. He arrived back in the country in March 2020 and went to Ashburton for another locum position, with a majority of his clients being large corporate dairy farms. “Locum vetting had never really been my plan, but the

money was good and it provided an immediate job throughout the 2020 covid period. You rarely get time to know your clients or a chance to build up any sort of relationship with them which can be quite difficult.” After six months he moved back to Dannevirke as a locum with the goal of transitioning back to the farm, having always wanted to be a farmer. “There’s a lot more progression to farming compared to being a vet. With farming you can progress through a lot of different ranks and make improvements.” A diverse operation, they run a 300-hectare breeding farm and a 690-hectare finishing farm where they fatten lambs, bulls and dairy heifers, and grow cash crops. “We’ve got a lot of different enterprises, it keeps things interesting, there’s always something that seems to be happening” he says. Wallace focuses mainly on the stockwork while another employee does most of the tractor driving. Now that he’s home, the Tikokino Young Farmer can finally enter the FMG Young Farmer of the Year contest – something he has wanted to do for a long time.

Mark Wallace A first-time competitor, he admits he was a bit naive to contest’s legacy when entering the preliminary stages at district contest. “I didn’t realise it was such a big deal, I’m quite excited about it now, he says. Having no other contest or NZYF competition experience, he hopes the pressures he faced as a vet will help him in the contest environment. “With different scenarios you realise you just need to keep calm and take a deep breath and think about what’s in front of you. Most things are not completely new to

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you, they’re just a different form of something you’ve already done so if you think of it like that you can overcome most challenges. Worried about the head-tohead and some of the practical work, he has been practicing so they’re not one of his weaknesses come July. While he currently owns a small 50-hectare block, his long-term goal is to own a standalone farm.

Contest legacy lives on

ESPITE little experience playing rugby, Tom Adkins once found himself commentating a local club rugby game. The sports-outdoors-fishing and diving-mad Aorangi FMG Young Farmer of the Year considers himself a “yes man”. Twilight netball, touch rugby, surfing for farmers – name anything around Kurow and the Upper Waitaki Young Farmer has probably done it. Adkins, 23, has spent the past two years as a block manager on Caberfeidh Station, a 6000-hectare farm running about 33,000 stock units. It carries a wide range of stock classes including maternal and terminal mated ewe flocks, a DNA-recorded breeding cow herd, a Lumina lamb fattening programme, Firstlight Wagyu finishing cattle, as well as bull beef and trade-finishing steers and heifers. In charge of the 1600ha Caberfeidh block, he says it’s good practice for him to be adaptable to change. With a short, vigorous growth season to then quite dry, stock are always moving block to block, week to week.

“The stock are very malleable in the whole farm system and so that’s something you’ve really got to get used to. No matter what the change is you’ve got to be good with it and make it work.” He spent two years at Telford then one year at Lincoln University gaining a Diploma in Farm Management with Distinction. During his holiday breaks, he gained experience on Manawaimai, a hard hill country property up the Mangamahu Valley as well as Te Mania Angus Stud near Kaikoura. “I found the genetics and the stud work really fascinating, how every animal is accountable to itself and its genetic worth.

I found the genetics and the stud work really fascinating, how every animal is accountable to itself and its genetic worth. Tom Adkins Aorangi

“Every basis rather than the production of the herd or the flock.” Originally from Whanganui, Adkins was raised on 400ha sheep and beef farm breeding and finishing Coopworth ewes and mixed breeding cows. His end goal is to get back to the farm within the next ten years, to eventually buy into it and take over from parents, Grant and Clare Adkins. “I would like to experience and work on a number of farming properties to learn as much as I can about different farming enterprises and types within sheep and beef before returning home.” “I’ve got lots to learn off of Dad and I really look forward to the opportunity to be able to learn from him as well as bring back things I’ve learnt along the way.” His parents are also responsible for introducing him to the FMG Young Farmer of the Year contest – they were involved for a long time, helping to convene events. “The contest is a huge celebration of Young Farmers’ skillset and knowledge which I think is pretty bloody awesome.” Getting through to the grand

Tom Adkins

final after his first regional final was surprising but exciting. “I wasn’t entering to win it this year, I was just going to go and give it my best crack because that’s all I could do and it turns out that was enough.” At the grand final, he thinks the practical day will be up his alley and has been preparing hard for the technical side as well. “I’m reasonably competitive too. That helps out sometimes, but it didn’t help out in my first year of social twilight netball when I broke my elbow, I was probably being too competitive,” he laughs. The legacy and recognition of

Region: Aorangi Occupation: Sheep and beef farm block manager Age: 23

contest also haven’t been lost on him. “It’s made me learn that what I’m part of is a really big deal and it should be really cherished. It’s something to be really proud of that I’m here.” Being his first time competing, he said he doesn’t have huge expectations and just wants to enjoy it. “I’m really looking forward to the quiz because that’s where the contest all started in 1969 and I think that’s really special to be part of,” he said.

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Second time lucky?

UDDLED over the drafting gate in the yards with tears rolling down his cheeks, the incredibly minor fumble of leaving a lamb behind in the paddock was Alex Field’s breaking point. “It was at that point where I couldn’t deal with anything else, I’d gone too hard for too long,” the Otago Southland FMG Young Farmer of the Year recalls. A farm manager for a Pāmu farm, he reached out for help through Pāmu’s mental health support programme. “I picked up the phone, I called the operator, and it took me 15 minutes to be able to speak,” he says. His hardest moment, he says, proved to be his best and he wants to tell others to be strong and reach out for help. “Your lows end up being your highs. That process of dealing with it changed the way I see the world and process things moving forward.” “Once you go through it and you get the support you need, it just opens up doors. A problem shared is a problem halved.” Tucked in the folds of Mossburn

is Waipuna, managed by Field, 28, where he and fiancé Ashleigh O’Connell have been based for more than two years. With 600 effective hectares, it’s a sheep breeding and cattle finishing unit, wintering nearly 500 bull calves, 50 yearling bulls and 1800 ewes.

If I wasn’t competitive, I’d be hungry. Alex Field Southland Field’s working to get the operation oily smooth, planning to finish as many lambs as possible while also fitting in the cattle system to finish the most they can without selling too many stores. “It’s unique in a way that it’s all grass wintered, there’s no swedes or crops but that’s a simple equation for us really. “The farm historically has only really grown four tons of winter crops and it grows 7.5 tonnes

of grass annually so it’s simple math – we grow more feed without winter crops,” he says. Working for a Government entity, Field knows full well the responsibility to set an industry benchmark. “We have a duty to explore different farming systems and research, being the country’s largest farmer. The expectation is that we will lead the way.” Field studied at Telford from 2011 to 2012. He worked for a year in Waikato working with 3000 service bulls and 7000 stud ewes before heading to Manawatū for nearly two years on a breeding farm. Growing up in small-town Apiti just north of Feilding, his passion for farming was passed on by his mother Denise Lequesne who worked on a dairy farm. Field credits his competitive nature to being the youngest of six children. “If I wasn’t competitive, I’d be hungry,” he laughs. Already having been through a grand final in 2019, he knows what’s ahead of him and is ready to deal with the pressure. He enjoys playing golf – a sport he doesn’t necessarily like and

something he reckons he’s actually pretty bad at. “After about six holes, I take a look at myself and think ‘well anything I’m doing is nowhere near as bad as those last six holes of golf’ so lift my head up high and attack it with pride.” A staunch Southlander, he knows he will struggle with the heat in Whangārei – going from 2.5 metres of annual rainfall and the coldest months blanketing his farm in snow – to the winterless north. “I don’t work that well when I am hot. The thing is, you can work to warm up, you can’t work to cool down.”

Alex Field Region: Southland Occupation: Pāmu sheep and beef farm manager Age: 28

Having always wanted to be a farmer, Field wants to lead by example to influence the future of farming in New Zealand. “My goal and ambition is to be the best farmer I can be, to find a way to lead an area and go for that. Naturally being highly competitive, I will always reach for the top 5%.

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Students set to battle for title

OURTEEN FMG Junior Young Farmer of the Year teams from across the country have spent the past few months preparing for their two-day grand final. The contest for high schoolaged students features the top two teams from each region which qualified through regional finals near the start of the year. The 28 competitors in teams of two will be vying for the national title of FMG Junior Young Farmers of the Year. Otago-Southland FMG Junior Young Farmers of the Year Zoe and Millar McElrea say they are excited to see what challenges they’ll be faced with. The twins are 17 and in year 12 at their respective schools, Columba College and John McGlashan College. Zoe says they’ve been preparing through studying and working on their sheep and deer farm just out of Milton. “We’ve got a great Google Doc that consists of a weird range of topics from animal diseases to bees,” she says. “We’ve also been going out on the farm with Dad and asking him all the annoying questions. Between the pair, they have

competed in five grand finals. This will be their second time as a team after placing sixth last year. “I’m excited, we’ve done it a couple times now so we know what to expect. We’ll have to do some more practical stuff because we’re both boarders so it gets a bit hard to practice.

We wanted to provide the contestants with a learning opportunity about an aspect of farming and growing that is unique to the Northern Region. Staci Barnette Young Farmers

Both confident public speakers, they took out top points in the speeches in 2021 and expect it to be another strength this year. After the opening parade on Thursday, FMG Junior Young Farmer of the Year competitors

will be faced with an exam that is known as technical day and a networking event that evening. Friday will see all 14 teams go head-to-head in a series of modules and challenges at practical day which has in the past included animal anatomy, fencing, meat cut identification, equine, agronomy, feed budgeting, chainsaw and motorbike assembly and more. The winners will be announced that night at the awards ceremony. New Zealand Young Farmers (NZYF) events manager Staci Barnette says this year they also wanted the teams and their families to experience some of Northland’s niche agriculture sector. “On Saturday morning they will head to Lynwood Avocado Nursery where they’ll be introduced to different parts of the nursery and growing. Contest sponsor, the Ministry for Primary Industries, will also be on-site, discussing the nursery’s biosecure areas,” she says. “We wanted to provide the contestants with a learning opportunity about an aspect of farming and growing that is unique to the Northern

LET’S GET INTO IT: Otago-Southland FMG Junior Young Farmers of the Year Zoe and Millar McElrea say they are excited to see what challenges they’ll be faced with.

Region. It’s also a chance for the contestants and their supervisors to come together after all of the competing is over so they can network and get to know other, like-minded future young farmers from other parts of the country.” NZYF chief executive Lynda Coppersmith says the contest introduces teenagers to the agriculture, food and fibre sector and showcases the level and skill

and knowledge of high school students. “They get a taste of everything from farming and growing, to fishing and horticulture and anything else in between. Educating and painting a positive picture of the sector from an early age also excites teenagers about the immense number of opportunities available in the sector.”

AgriKids raring to go

INTO IT: AgriKidsNZ grand final Christchurch, July 2021.

HE competition will be hot for 63 AgriKidsNZ competitors battling it out for the national title. Every year more than 400 primary school aged students compete in their local regional finals in teams of three, with the hope of making the top three teams to qualify for the grand final. AgriKidsNZ contestants are set a range of practical modules and challenges based on the food and fibre sector, hosted by sponsors. Kamo Intermediate food technology teacher Jo Grant is supervising the top two Northern AgriKidsNZ teams – The KIS Cows and the Udder Disappointments ranging from ages 11 to 13. Grant has a farming background and says they’ve been working together and preparing hard for the final. “We’ve been doing regular oncea-week meetings and have had a few visits out to places around town to hone our skills a bit more,” she says. “The kids are getting really excited now actually, it’s hitting home a bit more now that it’s real. They’re excited that lots of people are going to be able to come and watch and it’ll be so good to have people from out of town here as well and show what Northland has to offer.

She has personally been involved with three grand finals previously and Kamo Intermediate has a long history with AgriKidsNZ. “It’s one of the highlights of the year for the kids being involved in the competition,” she says.

Just being able to show them that you could be a farmer or sell fertiliser or go dairy farming is really meaningful. Shannon Watson Whangarei Intermediate “A win would be great, we’re aiming for it. Shannon Watson from Whangarei Intermediate is the team supervisor for the Whangarei Waiotira Wombles. She says they put a lot of preparation in for regional finals, bringing in an environmental educator, stock agents and fertiliser representatives to chat with the kids. “This is the third time we’ve

entered but the first time we’ve made it a grand final,” she said. Whangarei Intermediate has a 47% Māori school roll and uses a Te Ao Māori perspective through all its teachings she says. It’s also a Google Reference school and is massively digital. A dairy farmer herself, Watson says it’s great to be able to expose the kids to different opportunities that lie in the agricultural sector, something they would not traditionally be introduced to. “Just being able to show them that you could be a farmer or sell fertiliser or go dairy farming is really meaningful.” she says. One of the girls in her team had never been on a farm in her life and since competing in the AgriKidsNZ regional final, is now basing her science fair project on cows. New Zealand Young Farmers chief executive Lynda Coppersmith says it goes to show how the competition is for children from all backgrounds. “You don’t have to be from a farm to enter, kids of all ages enjoy the competition. It’s a way for them to get outside, have fun with their friends and learn the importance of teamwork while also being exposed to where their food comes from.”

Tournament to test farm skills

EW Zealand Young Farmers Tournament Series finalists have spent the past two months fine-tuning their shooting, debating, stock judging and fencing skills for the national finals. Hosted alongside the FMG Young Farmer of the Year grand final, the NZYF Tournament Series finals will go down on Thursday, July 7 at various locations around Whangarei. Seven fencing teams competing in pairs will be hammering it in for the Goldpine Fencing title at 540 Millbrook Road, Taipuha from 7:30am to 10:30am. It will be followed by the MyLivestock Stock Judging at 11am, where 20 NZYF members will be judged on their ability to score a range of animals across beef and dairy cattle, meat and wool breeds and fleece. Thirteen sharp shooters will also take aim at the Hunting and Fishing Clay Target title at the Whangarei Combined Clay Target Club at 10:30am. All competitors represent their region Northern, Waikato-Bay of Plenty, East Coast, TaranakiManawatū, Tasman, Aorangi and Otago Southland and qualified for the national titles from regional competitions. The winners will be announced the same night at the NZYF Norwood National Awards at

Fencing requires teamwork and is such an essential on-farm skill, as is stock judging. Kent Weir Young Farmers chair

GOOD EYE: Kent Weir says stock assessment, which is featured in the Tournament Series, is vital for farmers and rural professionals alike.

Semenoff Stadium, hosted by Jay and Dunc from The Rock Drive. Auckland City and Lincoln University Young Farmers will kick off the awards night with the Tavendale and Partners Debate in front of an audience of 200,

arguing for and against the moot that electric vehicles are the future of farming in New Zealand. The NZYF Tournament Series has a rich 80-year history, one that outgoing board chair Kent Weir is keen to celebrate.

“Whangarei is the perfect backdrop for the New Zealand Young Farmers Tournament Series with such a diverse food and fibre sector. I’m really excited to get up to the winterless north and watch our members compete,” he says.

He says the NZYF Tournament Series is all about helping the next generation of Young Farmers develop their knowledge and skill. “Fencing requires teamwork and is such an essential on-farm skill, as is stock judging,” he says. “Stock assessment, knowing what to look for in an animal and being a good judge of stock – whether that is in the sale yards, the cattle yards or the woolshed – is vital for farmers and rural professionals alike.” “As a top-dressing pilot, I’m also really looking forward to the debate as well and hearing what the teams come up with, there’s a chance I could be swayed,” he laughs. The NZYF annual meeting will also be held on Saturday morning, following by the AGMARDT/Rural Leaders Brunch featuring a range of inspirational speakers from the food and fibre sector to empower the next generation.

Brothers-in-law to go head-to-head

IM Dangen and Chris Poole have more in common than both being FMG Young Farmer of the Year grand finalists – they’re also brothers in law. Poole, 28, represents WaikatoBay of Plenty and Dangen, 30, represents Northern. Emma Poole – Nee Dangen – was a 2019 Young Farmer of the Year grand finalist and is preparing her big brother and husband for the grueling three-day event. She thinks the pair are competing with each other, rather than against each other. “They seem to be helping each other out a lot and hopefully that’ll be an advantage to them doing it together, rather than doing it separately,” she said. Chris agreed, saying the pair have been sharing study notes and giving each other advice where they can. “We’re not just brothers in law, we’re really good mates so it makes it a bit more fun than it usually would be,” he says. “Regardless of the result, we’ll both be happy for whoever comes out on top and it’ll pretty fun doing it together.” Despite jokes of sabotage from Tim, he hopes one of them will give it a good nudge and take out the FMG Young Farmer of the Year title.

“It’s going to be fun, I’m excited to compete with Chris. We’ll push each other, I know that, but at the end of the day I’ll be just as happy if he won, to myself winning,” Tim said. Emma and Chris are based on his family dairy farm near Pirongia, which they’ve bought into.

They seem to be helping each other out a lot and hopefully that’ll be an advantage to them doing it together, rather than doing it separately. Emma Poole Former grand finalist She juggles her time being a new mum with their four-month-old son Beau, a veterinarian, rearing calves and building a house on the farm – all while ensuring the boys are prepared. Having competed in a grand final before, she said she comes from a place of understanding and is able to be there to push the boys a bit more when they don’t feel like it.

“It’s quite a challenging thing to go through and it’s hard to motivate yourself every day you come off the farm to do more study and practice,” she says. Chris says she’s constantly in his ear reminding him to practice, and Tim said the pair speak most days as she’s one of the main people in his support network. “There’s a fair bit of knowledge there to draw on and a different train of thinking which is what you need in this; diverse minds coming together to try and tackle all the challenges,” Tim says. Asked who she’s backing, Emma’s answer was “no comment”. Upon reflection, she said, laughing, “actually a new New Holland tractor might be nice.” She predicts each competitor will be stronger in their respective fields – Chris a dairy farmer and Tim, a beef farmer. “I think it’ll end up being what modules on the day show up and it’ll randomly swing one of their ways,” she says. The three-day grand final is a great opportunity for both families to come together, something she’s really looking forward to. “I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch though,” she laughs. “I’ll just be happy to see them both finish with a smile on their face.

FAMILY OCCASION: Family bragging rights are on the line with brothers-in-law Tim Dangen and Chris Poole lining up on the grand final this year.

Rural market update Why would we not back our Hill Country farmers to make the best long-term choices? As a company, Property Brokers has stood back from the debate on forestry, carbon, and pastoral farming; when it comes to selling rural real estate, it always pays to stay on task with the job at hand. Currently, however, concern in rural communities continues to ramp that unless the government policymakers intervene, vast tracts of rural land will be lost to pine trees and foreign interests, noting foreign interests are, in fact, excluded from carbon-only sales (permanent forests). This year has been a significant season for hill country sales; many stations have been selling at 2-3 times their value on five years ago, particularly on the East Coast of the North Island. Our company alone has sold over 50,000 hectares of rural real estate this last season, and over 10,000 hectares of that has gone to alternative land use, including carbon farming in the North Island specifically. The policy debate has morphed now into permanent forests vs production forests, with exotics and specifically Pinus Radiata being singled out to be excluded from future ETS registration under the definition of a permanent forest.

Many in our farming community will see this as a win, should this be confirmed, and certainly meantime, “carbon only” buying interest for large stations has all but evaporated ahead of pending Central Government announcements. Potentially problem solved. We’d agree a permanent exotic forest that includes Radiata in the first instance is flawed and that the focus on Radiata should be on production forestry. However, the definition of a “production forest” in the NZ psyche is very much influenced by the short rotation nature of our production forestry of the last 30 years. This is quite unique to NZ, given our latitude and coastal climate. We can grow Radiata in half the time compared to most other regions across the globe. The option to harvest has typically been influenced by the market for wood and the economics of extraction; however, Radiata doesn’t stop growing in value at 30 years. In fact, future NZ production forestry, combined with potential windfall gains from the ETS and seemingly unlimited access to foreign capital, may well extend some production rotation lengths out to 50 years. It’s hard to see the reign of production forestry winding down anytime soon. This is where the real debate around land use needs to focus. NZ Hill Country is almost by definition LUC 6 and 7 land, and this land use classification dominates the descriptions noted in published Overseas Investment Office (OIO) decisions, favouring foreign-owned production forestry. The East Coast of the North Island enjoys the strongest production forestry demand for post-1989 clear pastoral land of anywhere in the country. This demand has far more to do with the proximity to the port and coastal altitude than the favourable slope. The East Coast has endured decades of weather, wreaking erosion havoc. Clearly, any notion that production forestry can’t operate on steep classes of land use is not reflected in current sales or OIO decisions.

Many farmers have already started to look at options to integrate forestry with their pastoral farming enterprises. Looking back 30 years, forestry rewards for farmers have been mixed, given production log prices never lived up to the hype of the early 1990s. Today, however, the ability to generate carbon returns early in the production cycle is a significant hedge compared to times past. This probably explains the 47,000 ha of land registered for planting within existing farms, between 2018 and December 2020, under various government schemes. Of this area, 12,000 ha was identified for manuka/indigenous planting (Beef & Lamb August 2021). Our forestry sector has underpinned hill country land values for the last 30 years, and while carbon-only interests in recent seasons have paid the premiums, production forestry, by contrast, is no plant and run scheme and continues to offer real options for many farmers. There is nothing stopping production forestry from being harvested in 50 years, particularly given our ETS has the potential to offset establishment costs and generate a revenue stream. Current arguments about the distance to port and extraction costs need to be balanced against the reality that we could be talking about many, many decades from today, before harvest. Not to mention the option of it becoming a future renewable energy source.

The opportunity for farmers to create an asset within an asset has never been more real, enabling options to hedge environmental emissions whilst at the same time creating an intergenerational asset. Production forests have the scope to potentially create opportunities to deal with family farm succession challenges through a combination of cutting rights long term and carbon assets in the short term. If there was one take-home message for our hill country farmers, it would be that sequestering carbon on their land is currently a significant property right, and to have no plan for it or, worse still, have a legitimate property right legislated away is selling our pastoral sector short. Exotic production forests integrated within farm systems owned by NZ farmers should be the current policy focus. This would mitigate the current policy reliance on OIO decisions that drive whole farm sales to foreign buyers; production Forestry will continue to accelerate with or without farmer involvement. Permanent forests are a policy illusion and unlikely to run the intended course, particularly when carbon values revert to zero in the decades ahead. For our part, we continue to see a partnership between farming and production forestry as the best hedge for a world desperately seeking renewable construction materials. Hill Country has been on the wrong side of land-use change for a long time now; we actively support policy and conversation that drive better outcomes for farmers, their land and the associated property rights that go with it. Conrad Wilkshire, GM Rural for Property Brokers Ltd conrad@pb.co.nz

Long story short, NZ production forestry is a $6b dollar export earner and stands to benefit significantly from current and future ETS settings. NZ production forests have an exceptional international competitive advantage in growing timber. Pinus Radiata can sequester carbon faster than just about any other species, and NZ has been learning how to grow it for over 100 years.

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Puketawa - 40 ha and Balmoral - 49 ha Located in the farming district of Tiraumea and centrally located to Pahiatua, Pongaroa & Masterton is Puketawa and Balmoral, originally parts of a larger scale breeding & finishing properties. The two portions of 40 ha and 49 ha subject to survey has a mix of easy to medium hills and over 20 ha of flats in improved pastures, both portions are well subdivided by a mix of conventional & electric fencing. The improvements are of a high standard. Puketawa portion includes a four stand woolshed with a covered yard facility, an impressive 4 bedroom plus office homestead with spa room & pool, an older cottage & large implement shed. Balmoral features dual road frontage, dagging shed & sheep yards.

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We offer for sale this excellent Hyde property which is well located For Sale $5,500,000 + GST (if any) View By appointment at the base of the Rock and Pillar Range within easy travelling distance to Dunedin City and Central Otago. The 1,370 ha is made Web pb.co.nz/DNR12950 up of approximately 300 ha of paddocks with the balance being excellent hill blocks. High quality improvements include modern well presented 4-bedroom family home, second separate home, 5-stand near new woolshed and covered yards, as well as numerous farm buildings. Currently wintering 2500 half-bred ewes, 620 half-bred hoggets, 40 breeding cows, 130 R1 mixed sex cattle, 50 R2 mixed sex cattle and rams. Properties such as Craighurst seldom come Ray Kean available. Call Ray to view - you will be impressed. M 027 435 7478

This very good sheep and beef farm is a quality breeding and finishing property located in the heart of Otago. The 2029ha consists of flat and rolling paddocks plus oversown tussock blocks, providing the property with a great balance. 'Mt Highlay' is currently running approximately 8500 SU with predominantly crossbred sheep and angus/hereford beef cattle. The quality of the livestock give testament of the high quality of the property. Improvements include 4-bedroom home, 5-stand woolshed and covered yards, plus numerous farm buildings. An additional 584ha neighboring property is available for lease providing additional production. Please contact Ray to arrange a viewing.

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With resource consent granted for up to 29 lots, spectacular 360-degree panoramic farmland and sea views, and plenty of outdoor activities make this 320-hectare block a rare find. This unique property is secluded and private, yet only a short drive from the ever-popular Warkworth and Matakana townships and an easy commute to Auckland CBD. An extensive driveway system provides access to the multiple building sites, and a multitude of off-road tracks for adventures on horseback or motorbike to every corner of the property, including through the large stands of mature Kauri and stunning waterfalls.

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Opotiki, perhaps the highest producing district. With 1.47 canopy hectares of G3 and 1.76 canopy hectares of Hayward kiwifruit, they dont get much better than this production orchard. Vendor motivation is high, thus a hefty price reduction - his loss is your gain - do the maths on this one, put your own stamp on it and take every opportunity it has. This could and will be another one of the Bay of Plenty's best. Priced for a quick sale, reduced to $3,450,000 plus GST (if any). The sale does not include 2022 crop proceeds.

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Waipapa 460 Pungaere Road Large scale beef farm This well-developed 203.68ha (more or less) property, features volcanic soils and has good scale and is held within four titles. The land is of an easy to rolling contour and is currently utilised as a bull farm, with stock numbers comprising of 400 mixed age bulls. This versatile block is surrounded by lifestyle blocks, horticulture and dairy farms, making it ideally suited for a variety of farming, business, horticulture or lifestyle uses. Improvements include a three-bedroom home, four bay implement shed, disused cowshed, cattle yards and Kerikeri Irrigation water supply. The property borders Lake Manuwai and is located only five minutes from Waipapa and 12 minutes to Kerikeri.

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Rotongaro 568 and 616 Hetherington Road 4

Set Sale Date (unless sold prior) 4pm, Wed 13 Jul 2022 62 Kerikeri Road, Kerikeri View by appointment Craig De Goldi 027 287 7544 craig.degoldi@bayleys.co.nz MACKYS REAL ESTATE LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Golden early season opportunity Rarely does an opportunity present itself to secure such a strategic farming investment so early in a season. Encompassing 106 hectares (more or less) in three titles. The farm is currently run as a OAD operation with last seasons production being 85,111kgMS. Supplying Fonterra the tidy 22 ASHB is complete with modern plant and is supported by a large feed pad. The farm is well catered for with quality infrastructure including a two-bay shed, calfshed, two haybarns, yards, and loading races all centrally located. Predominantly two and three-wire electric fencing subdivide the farm and flank the extensive laneway system. The four-bedroom character home has recently been extensively refurbished and boasts modern appliances and double glazing.

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106ha

Auction (unless sold prior) 11am, Thu 28 Jul 2022 96 Ulster Street, Hamilton View 11am-12pm Wed 22 Jun Karl Davis 0508 83 83 83 karl.davis@bayleys.co.nz Peter Kelly 027 432 4278 peter.kelly@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LIMITED, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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

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SUPPLYING FARMERS SINCE 1962

6,000 Hectares Northwest Tasmania TRT Pastoral Group is amongst Australia's largest privately owned pastoral groups. The group is an Australian leader in sustainable grass fed beef farming practices, continually investing capital in the latest technology and training.

Industries Ltd

The group owns one of Australia's largest grass fed Black Angus herds with over 18,000 hectares in N.E. Victoria, King Island and N.W. Tasmania.

• Ice machines

TRTPASTORALGROUP.COM.AU @trtgroupaustralia

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Price $35,000 Nett

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wheel; Trimax 282 topper; Rotowiper 3.2m; Giltrap 3 point linkage hydraulic wood splitter;

T H IN K PRE B U I L T

weights; 2x Husqvarna chainsaws; Makita post hole borer; Stihl combi with extension, 1 Tonne endless chain; Homelite grass cutter; 2x hand pieces; Oxy acetylene gas plant; Meteor drill press; Tri folding quad ramps; Rigid quad ramps; Wire ropes;

Farm Manager

12HP, diesel, electric start, 50 ton

Fencer General

Heavy duty construction for serious wood splitting. Towable.

Head Shepherd

Supplied flatpack or inquire for assembled pricing

NEW HOMES

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Splitter with hydraulic lifting table $4800

Assorted farm tools; Assorted docking gear; Assorted pipe fittings; Grease guns; Barred

SOLID – PRACTICAL

gates; 15x coils HT wire; Strainers, stays,

WELL INSULATED – AFFORDABLE

posts, pointed battens; Large quantity pig

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.

tail standards; Poly wire reels; Portable solar panels and gel battery; Alkathene pipe; Totara posts; Cyclone dog kennel and run; Husqvarna R220T ride on mower articulated steer; Miscellaneous sundry items.

First Home – Farm House

Terms: All purchases are GST exclusive

Investment – Beach Bach

Cash or EFTPOS on day of sale Enquiries:

Splitter

$4200

To find out more visit

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John Canning 06 372 6641 Graham Howie 0274 474 082

Country Livestock Ltd 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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linkage quick hitch; 3 point linkage counter

pruner saw, grass cutter and hedge trimmer;

MOWER MASTER

Block Manager

Brent Smith wellside stock ute crate; 3 point weight; Water blaster; Bank of 10x 45kg front

Phone 027 479 1142 to discuss

JOBS BOARD

James mole plough; Walco 6.75 grain feeder;

Under Woolshed/Covered Yards Cleaning Specialist www.underthewoolshed.kiwi

We also dig out and remetal cattle yards & calf sheds

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Pests out of control? No job too big, I offer efﬁcient and conﬁdential service. CONTACT: 0275258321

Cost-effective pest control using the latest thermal equipment & technology. I am an experienced hunter and ex farmer, I can get rid of the pests eating down your farm, disturbing your stock, and frustrating you and your neighbors.

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Mighty Hydraulic grader blade with levelling

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4.5T steel deck hydraulic tip trailer; Pearson

• Repairs – service – installations

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2019 Can Am 650 XT MAX quad; McIntosh

• Trailer mounted rooms

Inspection available and recommended, situated in Rangiora. Airport pickup and return if required. A very tidy tractor. New fuel injectors, new battery, very good Michelin tyres, new fluids and filters throughout. Radiators removed, cleaned and serviced. Processors removed, checked and calibrated. QRC couplers serviced and calibrated. Transport can be discussed and arranged.

For more information please contact Cody Whiteman +61 439 676 524 or

Manawa Road, Tinui, Masterton Sign Posted from Tinui Village Date: Sat 25 June 2022 Start Time: 11am

• Freezer / chiller rooms Built to order

Model 175 (175hp)

We are looking for a career applicant wishing to be integral in our strategic expansion plans.

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ON FARM MACHINERY SALE

• Mono-block refrigeration units

Case MX Series

Your honesty with us is important, as only then can we help. To get off the tread mill call Manor Consultancy Ltd 027 454 2702 or email barries@xtra.co.nz

• Kit set chiller / freezer rooms

The successful applicant should have extensive experience in management of large scale intensive beef operations including: Leadership by example with multiple farm hands up to assistant manager level reporting to them Experience in rotational grazing, low stress stock handling, handling large numbers of cattle and grazing management Reporting including collating, analysing and acting on performance data

We don’t guarantee we will find a solution, but we have helped many farmers get on top of their DEBT.

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Due to the groups recent expansion TRT Pastoral is looking to fill the key position of Farm Manager for its 6,000 hectare Woolnorth Aggregation in North West Tasmania. This is a senior position reporting to the General Manager of TRT Pastoral Group.

Ag jobs first!

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• Bills keep coming. • You work hard to get on top of it all. • Your borrowings were manageable, yet they keep climbing.

FARM MANAGER

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Gravel Screens Vibrating, Portable, USA tough. 20, 50, 75, 100, 150mm available mesh. 3 models from $10,800+

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ANIMAL HANDLING

DOGS FOR SALE

FLY OR LICE problem? Electrodip – the magic eye sheepjetter since 1989 with unique self adjusting sides. Incredible chemical and time savings with proven effectiveness. Phone 07 573 8512 w w w. e l e c t r o d i p . c o m

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CRAIGCO SHEEP JETTERS. Sensor Jet. Deal to fly and Lice now. Guaranteed performance. Unbeatable pricing. Phone 06 835 6863. www.craigcojetters.com

ANIMAL HEALTH www.drench.co.nz farmer owned, very competitive prices. Phone 0800 4 DRENCH (437 362). FOR ONLY $2.10 + gst per word you can book a word only ad in Farmers Weekly Classifieds. Phone Debbie on 0800 85 25 80.

ATTENTION FARMERS 40c/50c PER KG dags fadges/bales. Replacement woolpacks. PV Weber Wools. Kawakawa Road, Feilding. Phone 06 323 9550.

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BIRDS/POULTRY

Heavy duty long lasting Ph 021 047 9299

PULLETS HY-LINE brown, great layers. 07 824 1762. Website: eurekapoultryfarm.weebly. com – Have fresh eggs each day!!!

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

FOR SALE

DOGS WANTED 12 MONTHS TO 5½-yearold Heading dogs and Huntaways wanted. Phone 022 698 8195. BROKEN-IN HUNTAWAY wanted. Lower North Island. Good home guaranteed. Phone 06 927 1093.

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

GOATS WANTED

FERAL GOATS WANTED. All head counted, payment on pick-up, pick-up within 24 hours. Prices based on works schedule. Experienced musterers available. Phone Bill and Vicky Le Feuvre 07 893 8916. 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. NAKI GOATS. Trucking goats to the works every week throughout the NI. Mustering available. Phone Michael and Clarice. 027 643 0403.

HORTICULTURE NZ KELP. FRESH, wild ocean harvested giant kelp. The world’s richest source of natural iodine. Dried and milled for use in agriculture and horticulture. Growth promotant / stock health food. As seen on Country Calendar. Orders to: 03 322 6115 or info@nzkelp.co.nz

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

TUESDAY 21 JUNE 1.00pm Matariki Hereford & Woodbank Angus Bull Sale 1.00pm Gembrooke Stud Polled Hereford & Angus Bull Sale 7.00pm Black & White Youth Auction

LIVESTOCK FOR SALE

WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE

FALLOW DOES for sale. Trophy genetics, 40 years breeding. Phone 021 886 065. RED DEVON BULLS. Well grown, purebred. Feilding. Phone 027 224 3838.

12.30pm Te Mania Angus Bull Sale 2.00pm Manawatu Holstein Friesian Elite Genetics Sale

THURSDAY 23 JUNE 11.30am Datri Farm Herd Clearing Sale 11.30am Seven Hills Angus Bull Sale 12.30pm Stern Angus Bull Sale

FRIDAY 24 JUNE

PUMPS HIGH PRESSURE WATER PUMPS, suitable on high headlifts. Low energy usage for single/3-phase motors, waterwheel and turbine drives. Low maintenance costs and easy to service. Enquiries phone 04 526 4415, email sales@hydra-cell.co.nz

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

WANTED TO BUY SAWN SHED TIMBER including Black Maire. Matai, Totara and Rimu etc. Also buying salvaged native logs. Phone Richard Uren. NZ Native Timber Supplies. Phone 027 688 2954. HOUSES FOR REMOVAL. North Island. Phone 021 455 787. STOCK CRATE. ALLOY. 4m (l) x 2.2m (w). Phone 06 342 8772. Wanganui. 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)

UPCOMING AUCTIONS

NZ’s Virtual Saleyard

1.00pm Ratanui Angus Bull Sale

MONDAY 27 JUNE 10.00am Tangihau Angus Bull Sale 4.00pm Kaharau Angus Bull Sale

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

STERN ANGUS

DOLOMITE

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since 1937

Annual Sale 106 Bulls 23 June – 12.30pm Totara Valley, South Canterbury James Fraser 021 186 4796 Donald Hay 021 187 8186

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AUCTIO N 27TH JUNE | 10AM Paddock viewing available from 7.30am 1 1 9 T a u ma t a Ro a d , Re r e , G i s b o r n e

EST 1949

P l e a s e n o t e c h a n g e o f s a l e t i me .

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BREEDING BULLS SINCE 1949

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Dispersal Private Sale HEREFORD HEIFER R2 INCALF

Contact: Joe (CM) Hodge – 027 280 6747 Benneydale

SALE TALK

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Bloodline ex Mount View Polled Hereford Stud, Oropi Tauranga, Est 1940s. 10 x R2. $1,500 each. Calving 27/8/2022 to 14/11/2022 BVD free & vac. C10.

FARMERS WEEKLY – June 20, 2022

An Australian is visiting England. He is from a small rural town and he does not know anything about traffic laws and street lights.

Call Javier:

0800 85 25 80

He crosses a street and almost gets hit by a car. A police officer sees him and screams: “Oi! Did you come here to die?” The Australian replies: “Nah mate, I came here yesterday!”

Here at Farmers Weekly we get some pretty funny contributions to our Sale Talk joke from you avid readers, and we’re keen to hear more! If you’ve got a joke you want to share with the Farming community (it must be something you’d share with your grandmother...) then email us at: saletalk@globalhq.co.nz with Sale Talk in the subject line and we’ll print it and credit it to you.

12 noon Friday 9 September 2022 346 Kokonga East Rd Waikaretu Valley Pip Robinson 021 611 363 • 09 2333020 kokongafarms@hotmail.com

Conditions apply

AUSTREX NZ LTD

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

LIVES TOC K EXPOR TER S

Stay ahead of the rest

2021 Holstein Friesian Heifers

BUYING NOW HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN & ANGUS Yearling Heifers

F12 and plus $1,550 plus GST F8 – F11 $1,450 plus GST A2A2 $1,600 plus GST

2021 Angus Heifers

FOR CHINA EXPORT

Commercial $1100 Registered $1600 • Commercial $1350 LK0111964©

Please contact your local agent for further information.

Choose which sale yards you want to

Enquiries to: Paul Tippett 027 438 1623 Colin Jordan 027 667 0903 David Kelk 027 644 1285 or Paul Moroney 027 886 5168 www.austrex.co.nz

2021 Simmental Heifers

BEEFGEN : Brian Pearson : 021 0907 1688 BEEFGEN : Jess Crow : 022 074 1210

follow and find out the number and class of stock being entered at the next sale. farmersweekly.co.nz/enewsletters

BEEFGEN Office : 06 927 7154

QUALITY FRIESIAN – FRIESIAN CROSS HERD ON FARM AUCTION A/c DATRI FARM Thursday 23rd June 2022 84 Goodwin Road Cambridge D/N: 73507 Start Time: 11:30am will be available for online bidding

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

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

New Zealand Angus Breed Average

+2.3 +2.2

+2.5

+1.6

+2.5

+3.1

Calving Ease (CE DIR)

+4.2 +4.1

Calving Ease Daughters (CE DTRS)

–4.2 –4.7

Gestation Length (GL)

Birth Weight (BW)

Maternal Traits

Growth Traits +91

+77 +89

+117

+95 +89 +100

+100 +116

+19+ +15

+50 +42 +50

200 Day Weight (200D)

400 Day Weight (400D)

600 Day Weight (600D)

Mature Cow Weight (MCW)

Milk (Milk)

Carcase Traits +8.1 +65 +50 +66

+4.1

+6.2 +0.0 +0.6 +0.0

Eye Muscle Area (EMA)

Rump Fat (P8)

-3.8

Days to Calving (DC)

Retail Beef Yield (RBY)

+1.6

+141

Scrotal Size (SS)

+194

+111

AngusPro Index ($PRO)

Angus Breeding Index ($A)

1167 Mangaone Valley Rd, Pahiatua, NZ

Massey Ferguson 748 170HP Chipped 205HP, Quicke Q61 Loader front weights (4000hrs) – 2015 Quivogne air seeder 3.2M – Can-Am side by side 26000km 800CC – Hustle 2 bale feeder SL 700-x – 4Ag DV950 hydraulic discs – Rata silage grab – 650L gorse spray unit with 200M hose – Honda motor – Racewell transportable 3way draft Iconix unit – 3.5M leveller hydraulic with crumbler – Tandem trailer – trailer crate – log splitter – Krone mower AM 323S – tractor duals RT 855 – 2x Lyndon harrows – Sunbeam shearing grinder – Toyota Hilux tractor grips/ rims – 1000L petrol tank – Diesel tank – 2x ATV trailers – wool table – John Deere x 135R ride on mower – 500L portable diesel tank –

AUCTIONEERS NOTE: Quality strong Friesian and Friesian Cross cows that come forward in excellent condition. Highly recommended.

eliminator weed wiper – Ryobi mig welder – 2x

DELIVERY/PAYMENT TERMS:

A great opportunity to purchase well

Immediate delivery within one week of the auction. Payment 14 days from sale day.

Intra-Muscle Fat (IMF)

+221

+1.8 +2.1 -4.6

+0.9 +2.1

sSelection Index Traits +162

-4.3

+0.2 +0.5

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Fertility TraitsS

Rib Fat (Rib)

+0.6 -0.4

-0.5 Carcase Weight (CWt)

+2.6

+0.5

GREENVALE, GORE

DETAILS: This quality herd has come to the market due to a change in farming policy. • Due to calve from 20th July to nominated CRV Friesian (4 weeks) tailed with Hereford • Vetted in-calf to date (a final PD will be done within a week of the sale) • Production last season averaged 470ms/ cow, while rearing 160 calves on whole milk • Low somatic Cell Count throughout the season • System 2 feeding with 2kg meal in the spring and grass silage feed in the summer • Herringbone shed

Australian Angus Breed Average

–5.8

REEVES FAMILY 410 CHARTERIS BUSH ROAD

COMPRISING: • 165 Frsn/FrsnX Cows BW101 PW133 NZMI 178 • 28 Frsn/FrsnX 1yr Heifers BW169 PW174 NZMI 251

Seven Hills Sale Bulls

+3.6

MONDAY 27th JUNE 2022 - 2:00PM

CONTACT: Kelly Higgins 027 600 2374 kelly.higgins@carrfields.co.nz or Dave & Trina 027 493 2516 For more information and to view our catalogue. Visit our website:

www.carrfieldslivestock.co.nz

air compressors – tailing shute – band saw – cattle hay feeders – other workshop tools & farm equipment. looked after, quality farm equipment and tools. ENQUIRIES:

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Calving Ease Traits

HIGHVIEW PARTNERSHIP CLEARING SALE

Carrfields Agent: Paul Roulston 027 616 4241 Vendor: Kelvin Reeves 027 759 3666 Visit our website:

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BULL SALE

Est 1957

www.carrfieldslivestock.co.nz

FARMERS WEEKLY – June 20, 2022

Livestock Noticeboard

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STOCK REQUIRED

Need to mooooove stock?

R1YR ANG or ANGX HEIFERS app 230kg R2YR FRIES BULLS 400-460kg

MORRINSVILLE DAIRY COMPLEX

600 1YR SIL EWES Terminal Ram Feb/Mar

THURSDAY 16TH JUNE 2022

R2YR ANG & ANG X STEERS 380-450kg

R2YR HEREFORD BULLS 480-550kg

12 Noon

STOCK FOR SALE

100 R1YR FRIES

On A/c Client

Contact Javier: 06 323 0761 / 027 602 4925 livestock@globalhq.co.nz farmersweekly.co.nz

Calving from 1st July 2022 Fully Recorded Unless sold prior Contact: Don McKenzie 021 754 174

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50 x CTP M/A Friesian X Cows

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BULLS 240kg

57 R2YR ANG HEIFERS VIC 1st Dec 450kg

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Easy efficiency, any country Galloway cattle are one of the most rapidly-expanding of all British beef breeds and this expansion, not only at home, but in many countries overseas, is based on the realisation that here is a breed which has a great deal to offer to the discriminating breeder. Galloway cattle are a medium sized breed that is suitable for first-time cattle owners with a low impact on pastures and fences. They are renowned for being an attractive heritage beef breed that is easily recognised by their various colour patterns from standard black, belted, white galloways with black ears, legs and muzzle and the lesser-known riggit galloway colour pattern with a white dorsal stripe running down its back with some animals producing dun and red colouring. Due to the breed’s naturally dense, insulating hair coat the galloway does not layer on excessive outside fat, which is generally discarded at slaughter time enabling good production of some of the finest quality beef that is lean and low in fat and cholesterol. Galloways are renowned for producing under the most economical conditions. Originating in the Scottish hills, the galloway thrives under free range conditions, upon types of land where other breeds could not exist, and can economically convert their inferior pastures with their ability to thrive in the harshest of winters with a willingness to eat weeds in pasture. Although developed for cold, wet conditions galloways equally do well on dry hill country. Galloways are well known for their high fertility, longevity (cows often calving annually until ages 15 to 20) with an ease of calving, excellent calf

Our inaugural bull sale is taking place on Bidr 30th June 2022 @ 7.30pm

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when crossed in commercial herds and are ideal over dairy heifers for the ease of calving with beef calves that grow quickly and are attractive to local markets as feeder calves. All these factors make them an attractive option for both commercial and lifestyle block farmers. If you are considering galloways we will be holding our inaugural galloway auction on the 30th June 2022 at 7:30pm with a variety of galloway cattle.

Interested in receiving the bull sale results? Subscribe to the Farmers Weekly bull sales e-newsletter and receive upto-date results from sales across the nation, direct to your inbox. Head to tinyurl.com/bull-sale to sign up today. Got a result to share? Email Javier at livestock@globalhq.co.nz or text 027 602 4925.

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Galloways are well known for their hardiness, great converters, easy calving with low weight calves and are naturally polled.

vigor. They are naturally polled (hornless). They are great colour markers

MARKET SNAPSHOT

Market Snapshot brought to you by the AgriHQ analysts.

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Hayley O’Driscoll

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Deer

Sheep

Cattle BEEF

SHEEP MEAT

VENISON

Last week

Prior week

Last year

NI Steer (300kg)

6.05

5.45

NI lamb (17kg)

8.80

8.70

7.90

NI Stag (60kg)

7.95

5.55

NI Bull (300kg)

6.00

5.40

NI mutton (20kg)

6.00

5.90

SI Stag (60kg)

8.00

5.60

NI Cow (200kg)

3.80

SI lamb (17kg)

8.85

8.75

7.70

SI Steer (300kg)

5.95

5.90

5.00

SI mutton (20kg)

5.80

5.70

6.00

SI Bull (300kg)

5.85

5.80

4.95

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

SI Cow (200kg)

3.65

3.60

3.40

UK CKT lamb leg

12.29

12.44

12.06

Export markets (NZ$/kg) 9.77

9.92

9.00

US domestic 90CL cow

9.68

9.46

8.56

North Island steer slaughter price

5.0

10.0

4.5

9.0

South Island steer slaughter price

$/kg CW

10.0 South Island lamb slaughter price

5.5 4.5 Apr

Jun

2020-21

Dairy

7.0 5.0

Oct

Dec

Aug 2021-22

Oct

Dec 5-yr ave

Feb

Apr 2020-21

Jun

Aug 2021-22

Apr

Prior week

Last year

Coarse xbred ind.

2.64

2.67

2.42

37 micron ewe

2.60

2.65

30 micron lamb

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1381

1336

672

2.35

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495

435

319

2.25

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1794

1611

990

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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 Jun-21

Aug-21

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500 450

DAIRY FUTURES (US$/T) Nearby contract

350

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May-21

Sep-21

Nov-21

Jan-22

Mar-22

May-22

$/tonne

5.5

6.36

5.2

Ebos Group Limited

39.2

44.3

36.11

Mainfreight Limited

71.8

94.4

69.63

Contact Energy Limited

7.1

8.42

6.96

Infratil Limited

7.53

8.4

7.43

Listed Agri Shares

5pm, close of market, Wednesday

4.2

3.78

2.98

Delegat Group Limited

10.2

14.45

Fonterra Shareholders' Fund (NS)

3.07

3.78

2.75

450 400 350

May-21

WMP FUTURES - VS FOUR WEEKS AGO

4.3

Mercury NZ Limited (NS)

3.13

500

* price as at close of business on Thursday

36.9

4.98

Comvita Limited

4530

9.36

41.08

4.64

600

4200

9.36

40.61

0.215

4180

9.36

Ampol Limited Spark New Zealand Limited

6.39

SMP

Milk Price

6.88

4.56

550

6800

7.95

The a2 Milk Company Limited

3855

5700

7.37

YTD Low

4125

5700

Auckland International Airport Limited

0.27

4180

Butter

33.4

YTD High

WMP

6625

5.36

19.23

0.225

vs 4 weeks ago

5850

4.33

4.5

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Ltd

Prior week

5850

YTD Low

ArborGen Holdings Limited

CANTERBURY FEED BARLEY

AMF

YTD High

Company

Last price*

Jul-21

Sep-21

Nov-21

Jan-22

Mar-22

May-22

WAIKATO PALM KERNEL

Foley Wines Limited

1.47

1.57

1.38

Greenfern Industries Limited

0.125

0.25

0.089

Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd (NS)

1.5

1.73

1.3

Marlborough Wine Estates Group Limited

0.17

0.26

0.165

New Zealand King Salmon Investments Ltd

0.199

1.38

0.187

PGG Wrightson Limited

4.2

5.76

3.93

Rua Bioscience Limited

0.31

0.53

0.29

Sanford Limited (NS)

4.18

5.07

4.03

Scales Corporation Limited

4.4

5.59

4.07

Seeka Limited

4.7

5.36

4.7

3.07

3.54

3.04

4400

550

Synlait Milk Limited (NS)

4200

2.72

3.01

2.72

500

S&P/NZX Primary Sector Equity Index

11724

14293

11724

4000

450

S&P/NZX 50 Index

10636

13150

10636

S&P/NZX 10 Index

10350

12725

10338

$/tonne

US$/t

Jul-21

Meridian Energy Limited (NS)

400

7.00

Aug 2021-22

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Company

MILK PRICE FUTURES

Jun

2020-21

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5-yr ave

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8.0 6.0

WOOL

5.0

Dec

9.0

7.0

6.0

5-yr ave

South Island stag slaughter price

11.0

8.0

5.0

Oct

7.0

6.0

6.5

4.0

8.0

7.0

5.5

7.0

9.0

5.0

Last year

10.0

8.0

6.0

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North Island stag slaughter price

11.0

6.0

4.0

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9.0

6.5

$/kg CW

7.0

Last year

North Island lamb slaughter price

10.0 $/kg CW

US imported 95CL bull

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$/kg CW

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

$/kg CW

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Sara Hilhorst

Ingrid Usherwood

3800 3600 3400

T&G Global Limited

400 350

Jun

Jul Aug Latest price

Sep

Oct 4 weeks ago

Nov

300

May-21

S&P/FW PRIMARY SECTOR EQUITY

Jul-21

Sep-21

Nov-21

Jan-22

Mar-22

May-22

11724

S&P/NZX 50 INDEX

10636

S&P/NZX 10 INDEX

10350

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – June 20, 2022

Analyst intel

WEATHER

Overview Quite a west to southwest airflow coming up this week – a touch different from last week as those air flows were more from the west to northwest. Winds don’t look to be as vicious this time round either but they will still be strong now and then. Rain or showers are likely for western regions while drier and sunnier conditions can be expected in the east. On Thursday, we calm down for a moment as a ridge of high pressure moves in. Friday and Saturday we have a northerly quarter airflow with some wet weather in the west then changing to the south on Sunday over the South Island.

Lamb exports absorbed into global markets

14-day outlook Still a bit unsettled looking forward but not as bad as last weeks conditions, showers and rain continue in the west and far south through to Wednesday in a west to southwesterly airflow. Wednesday may see some snow for the Southern Alps west of the Main Divide, also some snow about the far south in the hills. Thursday a ridge of high pressure moves in before northerly quarter winds build ahead of a system moving through on about Sunday. Early next week some high pressure looks to finally be making an appearance over the South Island then spreading to the North Island. Wednesday onwards looks to be mainly settled with high pressure.

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Wind

Westerly quarter winds today look to be quite strong, tending a little more to the southwest over the South Island on Wednesday. Thursday sees winds calm down. Sunday southerlies may be a bit blustery in the east for the South Island. Source: NIWA Data

Temperature

7-day rainfall forecast

A bit cold at the moment, though eastern regions and the upper North Island are a little warmer than elsewhere. Friday and Saturday is when day time highs could lift a little, cooling down again on Sunday for the South Island with southerlies.

Wet conditions will mostly be confined to western regions and the far south today through to Wednesday. There is a chance as fronts pass over a few spots of rain could spread eastwards at times. Thursday sees a few showers about but clearing. Friday showers return to some in the west, rain for the West Coast on Saturday then rain or showers move into eastern regions on Sunday with southerlies. 0

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Rainfall accumulation over 7 days starting from 6:00am Sunday 12 June through to 6:00am Sunday 19 June, forecast generated at 12:00am Thursday 9 June

The unsettled weather continues, today’s weather may be the windiest of the bunch with strong to gale westerlies through central New Zealand likely. Some snow in the Alps west of the Main Divide on Wednesday, also about Southland and Otago in the hills above about 400m.

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AFTER a very disruptive April in terms of processing, May export volumes redeemed themselves. Some of this will include product that was destined for processing and exporting in April. But it’s heartening to note that even though New Zealand pushed more lamb and beef into export markets, there hasn’t been a wave of negative reaction. Lamb exports reached a 13-month high last month of 32,000t. This should have been a good test of market robustness. While export values for May won’t be released for another couple of weeks, there is a sense that we traversed the month relatively unscathed. Supporting this is the fact that we really haven’t tested market strength for many months, therefore markets are still hungry for our product. Processing disruptions that have spanned most of this year, mixed with a slow start to the season, has meant exporters have basically drip-fed supplies into key export markets. Fortunately, our tighter supplies haven’t been dwarfed by surging supplies from competing markets. Australia, our largest competitor, has faced very similar processing and export conditions as us. The export data also shows NZ’s reliance on China for lamb has slipped this season. Lamb exports to China have fallen by close to 40,000t. Some of this is connected to lower overall export volumes, but China’s market share of NZ lamb has slipped from 51% last

season to 39% for this season to date. Interestingly, monthly export volumes there have failed to push past 11,000t per month. Last year monthly volumes to China peaked at 24,000t. Key indicator prices for lamb flaps into China have also eased. For the past six weeks, prices have fallen behind what could be achieved last year by as much as 40c/kg. It’s safe to say that Chinese lockdowns have negatively impacted pricing and demand for our lamb cuts. Dining out restrictions, but also the arrival of summer, has also temporarily dented interest in lamb. Fortunately our more traditional markets have picked up the slack both in terms of volumes demanded and prices. Based on volumes exported, the US, UK, Germany and Netherlands have all increased their market share of NZ lamb this season. While some heat has seasonally come out of UK and European markets in recent weeks, the US market remains robust with key indicator prices lifting to record levels. From here, lamb export volumes start to seasonally decline, bottoming out in August before the spring processing season gets underway. Processors still have their work cut out to get through all the remaining winter trade lambs. This means there is every chance NZ might have more lamb than usual to export over the next couple of months. Growing global market volatility will create some headwinds which will place an even greater emphasis on balancing the supply of lamb exports into key markets without creating additional pressure on prices.

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Bad weather sees selective bidding Store cattle markets tend to just tick over at this time of year as most farmers prep for winter and are already operating at winter stocking levels. Recent wild weather has also kept a lid on the market for lesser cattle, but the better than usual autumn that preceded the wintry and wild blast has allowed for some opportunistic buying. At Feilding on Friday, June 10 several capital stock consignments drew in a competitive crowd and vendors were rewarded for quality and good breeding. A feature was nearly 100 R2 Hereford heifers from Taihape that sold for $1085-$1260. Vendors feeding into the Frankton sale yards have changed from offloading stock due to dry conditions to offloading stock due to very wet paddocks. NORTHLAND Wellsford store cattle • The bulk of the R2 heifers dropped to $2.45-$2.55/kg • Nice R2 Friesian bulls, 321kg, made $2.93/kg • Good dairy-beef heifers held at $560-$690 Demand eased at WELLSFORD last Monday as conditions get a bit wet underfoot. R2 steers were of varied weights and the average dropped 10c/kg to $2.76/kg and better types, 437-494kg, traded at $2.72-$2.82/kg. R1 beef-bred steers earned $710-$775 and dairy-beef typically $590-$650. Nice Angus cows, vetted-in-calf to a Hereford bull and due to calve in July, fetched $1150. Read more in your LivestockEye. Kaikohe cattle • Nice R1 whiteface steers sold well at $690-$750, $3.60/kg to $3.80/kg • Smaller R1 whiteface heifers earned $3.00/kg to $3.75kg • Vetted-in-calf Ayrshire cows achieved $1.78-$1.80/kg • Empty Angus cows made $1.70/kg There was a smaller sale of 360 cattle at KAIKOHE last Wednesday and demand has eased a little after a week of wet and windy weather. The best of the R2 steers were mostly beef-cross and made $2.75-$2.85/kg and a small offering of R2 heifers $2.40/kg. Decent R1 beef-cross and exotic-cross steers traded at $3.00/kg to $3.15/kg.

AUCKLAND Pukekohe cattle • Medium R2 steers earned $2.65-$2.76/kg, $1200-$1235 • Boner cows sold in a wide range of $0.87/kg to $1.53/kg Prime cattle held at PUKEKOHE on Saturday, June 11. Medium steers earned $2.80-$2.88/kg, $1590-$1710 and heifers $2.82-$2.87/kg, $1530-$1620. Light to medium R2 heifers traded from $2.18/kg to $2.58/kg, $760-$990.

COUNTIES Tuakau store cattle 9.6, sheep 13.6, prime cattle 15.6 • Prime steers reached $3.08/kg • Heavy boner cows sold from $1.60/kg to $1.95/kg • Store Hereford-Friesian steers, 479kg, made $3.01/kg • Heavy ewes realised $152-$200 Prime steer and heifer prices lifted 5c/kg at TUAKAU last Wednesday, PGG Wrightson agent Craig Reiche reported. Heavy steers returned $2.94-$3.08/kg and light-medium $2.79/kg to $2.94/kg. Heifers also sold well with heavy at $2.94-$3.07/kg, medium $2.86-$2.94/kg and light, $2.76$2.86/kg. Dairy-type heifers managed $1.90/kg to $2.48/ kg and beef cows $1.70/kg to $2.12/kg. Boner prices firmed 10-15c/kg with light-medium cows at $1.30/kg to $1.60/kg. In-calf Jersey and Friesian-cross cows made $2.18-$2.30/kg. Monday’s sheep sale drew over 1100-head and the market was firm. Heavy prime lambs fetched $166-$183, lightmedium $120 to $166, and stores $70 to $150. Medium ewes

made $137-$152 and light, $72 to $137. About 540 cattle were offered at the store sale on Thursday, June 9. Included were 512kg Hereford-Friesian steers at $2.96/kg and weaner Hereford-Friesian steers, 137kg, $635. Hereford-Friesian heifers, 432kg, made $2.77/kg with 305kg Angus at $830 and 245kg Charolais-cross, $765. Weaner Hereford-Friesian heifers, 150kg, $570.

WAIKATO PGG Wrightson Frankton cattle • Better R2 heifers met solid demand to reach $2.73-$2.83/kg • Autumn-born 2-year Charolais-Friesian heifers, 383-406kg, sold well at $2.98-$3.12/kg, $1190-$1210 • Prime steers mostly made $2.95-$3.02/kg • Boner cows typically fetched $1.50-$1.60/kg The market ticked along for better cattle at the PGG Wrightson FRANKTON cattle sale last Tuesday. The top end of the R2 steers were on par to the previous sale at $2.91$3.01/kg, and the next cut typically 10c/kg either side of $2.70/kg. R1 steers and heifers above 200kg sold in a wide range of $510-$780 and lighter types $455-$470. Read more in your LivestockEye. NZFL Frankton cattle • R3 beef-cross steers, 504-526kg, managed $2.72-$2.74/kg • R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 480kg, made $2.97/kg • R2 Angus steers, 450-457kg fetched $2.69-$2.71/kg • R2 Speckle Park and Simmental-cross heifers, 380-406kg, earned $2.49-$2.57/kg A good-sized crowd was on the benches at New Zealand Farmers Livestock’s FRANKTON sale last Wednesday. Unusually, there was a large number of run-with-bull cows and heifers available mostly of either traditional or beefcross breeding. The highest $/kg price achieved by these was the $2.17/kg paid for 339kg R2 Hereford heifers that had been run with a Hereford bull. The remaining 90 were mostly over 475kg and sold within a tight range of $1.80$1.90/kg regardless of breed. R1 Hereford-Friesian steers, 328kg, made $930, and the many traditional and beef-cross steers and bulls, 200-296kg, fetched $650-$820. Prime beef-cross steers had good support and 628-676kg traded at $3.00-$3.02/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

KING COUNTRY Te Kuiti winter ewe fair and cattle sale • Two-tooth-6-year Romdale ewes fetched $190-$196 • R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 408-422kg, achieved $2.94/kg to $3.22/kg • R2 Angus heifers, 398kg, traded at $2.85/kg, $1140 • Vetted-in-calf crossbred cows, 500-550kg, earned $1.88/kg to $2.02/kg, $900-$975 There were 2300 ewes offered at the TE KUITI winter ewe fair and cattle sale on Friday, June 10. Capital stock Romney-Coopworth ewes were first up and 2-tooth ewes, scanned at 186%, achieved $210, and 5-6year, $181-$202.

The best of the R3 steers were Angus which made $2.93/ kg to $3.06/kg and R2 Angus steers, 487-512kg, $3.23/kg to $3.30/kg. Weaner Angus and South Devon steers, 193199kg, made $560 and 179kg Charolais, $575.

BAY OF PLENTY Rangiuru cattle and sheep • R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 383kg, earned $2.92/kg • R1 Charolais-cross steers which weighed 322kg collected $2.64/ kg A small gallery gathered in the rostrum at RANGIURU last Tuesday to take their pick of a mixed yarding of cattle. R2 steers opened with a pen of Hereford-Friesian, 415kg, that made $2.89/kg along with another four of the same type. A second tier of lesser quality dairy-beef formed at $2.62$2.74/kg. The bulk of Hereford-Friesian heifers returned $2.73-$2.81/kg. R1 Angus steers and rigs were either passed in or made $2.08/kg. Hereford-Friesian heifers, 176kg and 257kg, were the top of their section at $2.49-$2.50/kg. Prime Murray Grey-cross steers, 826kg, returned $2.94/kg and heifers, 560-600kg, traded at $2.75-$2.77/kg. The heaviest cow, a Murray Grey at 492kg, realised $1.75/kg. Top prime lambs earned $179 and better stores collected $124-$129. Ewes averaged $90. Read more in your LivestockEye.

POVERTY BAY Matawhero sheep • Heavy ewe lambs lifted to $144-$155 • Light male lambs earned $100-$126 • Mixed-age Romney ewes, scanned-in-lamb with singles, sold well at $215 • Heavy prime mixed-age ewes made $190-$192 There was good demand from local buyers at the MATAWHERO sheep sale on Friday, June 10. Around 70% of the store lambs sold in a range of $140-$150. Heavy ram lambs sold at $150-$166, medium $142 and light $80-$111. Heavy prime lambs realised $188-$189 and medium $160$161, and better 2-tooth ewes $147. Read more in your LivestockEye.

TARANAKI Taranaki cattle • R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 429kg, made $2.84/kg • The R1 dairy-beef steer average eased to $3.32/kg • R1 heifers mostly earned $2.70/kg to $2.90/kg, $460-$510 • Prime steers were solid at $2.95-$3.07/kg The store cattle tally eased to 220-head at TARANAKI last Wednesday. Local buyers kept the market for better cattle ticking along and good R2 Hereford-Friesian heifers, 431-474kg, firmed at $2.62/kg to $2.76/kg. Better R1 steers realised $3.63/kg to $3.83/kg, $640-$725. Prime heifers, 484-510kg, sold for $2.74-$2.82/kg and boner Friesian cows ranged from $1.61/kg to $1.79/kg.

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Stortford Lodge prime sheep • The top pen of ewes managed $207 • Other very heavy ewes returned $180.50-$191 • Heavy lambs often traded at $195-$203 • Other forward types fetched $158-$170 A good bench of buyers turned out at STORTFORD LODGE last Monday and, after a week-break between auctions, ewe numbers approached 2000. Heavy pens managed $174-$178 while the good types that made up most of the entries earned $144-$170. Read more in your LivestockEye. Dannevirke sheep sale • Top pen of prime lambs achieved $192 Volume reached 2452 at DANNEVIRKE on Thursday, June 9 and store lambs made up the majority. Male and cryptorchid lambs came forward in good tallies and ranged from $81 to $165 at an average of $135-$140. Ewe lambs sold over a tighter range at $111-$153 to average $124-

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – June 20, 2022

HEREFORD FEATURE: Capital stock R2 Hereford heifers from Taihape were a big feature of the June 10 sale at Feilding.

$134. Just over 400 ewes were penned, and they sold on a consistent market at $130-$170 for an average of $155-$156. Stortford Lodge store cattle and sheep • Top R2 Angus steers, 413-428kg, sold well at $3.21-$3.31/kg • Lighter R2 Angus and Angus-Hereford steers, 322-357kg, were off the pace at $2.80-$2.89/kg • Four-tooth Romney ewes, scanned 167% to Poll Dorset, reached $241 • Top 2-tooth Romney ewes, scanned 164% to Texel, returned $247 • Good cryptorchid lambs held at $150-$15 Sheep tallies came up while cattle tallies dropped at STORTFORD LODGE last Wednesday. Cattle totalled just 166-head and mainly featured small lines of tidy-up jobs. R3 Angus and Angus-Hereford, and Speckle Park steers, 433-447kg, returned $3.03-$3.05/kg and all lines of traditional R2 heifers, 340-450kg, made $2.53-$2.65/ kg. All R1 heifers traded at $430-$480. In contrast, sheep volume lifted to 10,500 and included 2300 breeding ewes. The remainder of the 2-tooths sold for $148-$196 and most older ewes traded at $200-$227. Lighter mixed-age Romney returned $150-$191. Market movements between classes balanced out the store lamb market to steady. Heavy male lambs eased to $155-$177 yet good types firmed to $140-$154. Ewe lambs were variable, and some very heavy types reached $180$192 while lighter lines traded at $105-$125. Most sold for $130-$140. Read more in your LivestockEye.

MANAWATŪ Feilding store cattle and sheep • Capital stock R4 Angus cows, 475kg and vetted-in-calf, made $1300 • Capital stock R2 Hereford heifers, 425kg, were $3.20/kg • R1 Charolais-cross steers, 350kg, returned $1240, $3.55/kg • Store male lambs averaged $158 • Store ewe lambs averaged $130 The 1150 store cattle were steady-to-stronger at FEILDING on Friday, June 10. Capital stock mixed-age cows, 500-575kg and vetted-in-calf, were $1150-$1250. R2 traditional steers, 390-430kg, lifted to $3.20-$3.30/kg while 390-540kg dairy-cross traded at $2.80-$2.90/kg. R2 Friesian bulls, 380-395kg, rose to $3.25-$3.30/kg. Several capital stock R2 Hereford heifers, 360-415kg, traded at $2.95-$3.10/ kg. R1 Friesian bulls, 210-280kg, were $2.90-$3.10/kg while good-sized lines of 165-225kg traditional R1 heifers made $3.45-$3.70/kg. On average, the 13,500 store lambs sold on a steady market. Forward-store males were $175-$185, good lines $155-$170, medium $135-$155 and light, $110-$130. For ewe lambs, good lines fetched $140-$155, medium $120-$140 and light, $100-$120. Top cuts of mixed-age ewes, scanned as singles to non-terminal rams, made $180$208 while other decent-quality mixed-age ewes, scanned 170% plus to a terminal ram, were $180-$212. Read more in your LivestockEye.

Feilding prime cattle and sheep • Angus cows which weighed 492kg fetched $2.62/kg • Heaviest significant pen of lambs returned $223 Dairy cow numbers were balanced by beef cows at FEILDING last Monday and all sold on a similar market as most collected $1.40/kg to $1.70/kg, aside from a handful of beef types with more condition. Hereford-Friesian steers earned $1.70-$1.75/kg and Hereford-beef, 705kg, made $1.90/kg. Two Angus heifers, 450kg, collected $2.58/kg. One ex-service Angus bull, 1040kg, earned $1.20/kg while a younger 425kg Angus doubled that figure. All but one pen of male lambs sold above average and made $186-$216 while the rest of the returns were spread more evenly. Ewe throughput increased to 1420-head and the bulk traded from $140 to $160. Read more in your LivestockEye. Rongotea cattle • R3 steers and heifers made $2.15-$2.21/kg • R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 328-480kg, earned $2.38/kg to $2.71/ kg • R2 Hereford bulls, 595kg, achieved $2.72/kg • In-milk Friesian-cross cows sold for $950-$1250 • Boner cows, 488-603kg, fetched $1.36/kg to $1.48/kg Throughput lifted last Tuesday after a wet week at RONGOTEA, New Zealand Farmers Livestock agent Darryl Harwood reported. R2 Hereford-Friesian and Angus-cross heifers, 382-441kg, achieved $2.32-$2.38/kg. R1 Angus and Angus-cross steers, 292-325kg, fetched $2.84-$2.87/ kg and same breed 264-282kg heifers, $2.48/kg to $2.65/kg. R1 dairy-beef heifers, 144-194kg, varied from $2.84/kg to $3.46/kg. Autumn-born weaner steers and heifers typically traded at $490-$580.

Canterbury Park cattle and sheep • A prime Charolais-cross steer, 670kg, fetched $3.50/kg • R2 Speckle park-cross steers, 440kg, earned $3.18/kg • Top prime lambs made $270 Demand drove returns for heavy prime cattle up at CANTERBURY PARK last Tuesday and a group of beef steers over 500kg collected $3.34-$3.41/kg while dairy-beef traded from $2.80/kg to $3.10/kg. Top prime heifers made $3.15$3.22/kg but lighter, trading options eased. Also strong were beef cows which returned up to $2.36/kg and traditional bulls, 700-745kg, made $2.92-$2.98/kg. In the R2 steers, well-marked Hereford-Friesian, Belgian Blue-Friesian and Angus-cross realised $2.85-$2.91/ kg. Most R2 heifers traded from $2.74/kg to $2.84/kg. R1 Angus steers, 175-192kg, made $3.59-$3.60/kg while Angus and Angus-Hereford heifers, 228kg, earned $2.98/kg. A consistent yarding of crossbred lambs sold on a steady market and the top price of $156 was made by wether lambs and most others traded over $138. Prime lamb and ewe markets held on last week. Read more in your LivestockEye.

SOUTH-CANTERBURY Temuka prime and boner cattle; all sheep • The top end of the prime heifers lifted to $3.00-$3.10/kg • The bulk of the prime cows firmed to $2.40-$2.50/kg • Store Perendale cryptorchid lambs fetched $165 • Heaviest prime lambs secured $260 The prime cattle market lifted at TEMUKA last Monday. The top end of the prime steers lifted to $3.15-$3.25/ kg and a few top Charolais-cross achieved $3.31/kg. The boner Friesian cow average strengthened by 16c/kg to $1.90/kg and two very nice lines reached $2.19-$2.20/kg. A smaller gallery gathered for the store lamb sale in the cold conditions. Woolly Chatham Islands Romney-cross collected $154$194 and Halfbred-blackface of similar size softened to $140-$160. Prime lamb throughput lifted to 1452-head and good demand lifted returns $5-$10 while ewe values also increased by $5. Read more in your LivestockEye.

OTAGO Balclutha sheep • The best of the store lambs reached $156 • Prime lambs earned $162-$176 Store lambs offered by PGG Wrightson at BALCLUTHA last Wednesday firmed with the average up $20 to $137. Prime ewes ranged from $70 to $170, and a small number of prime rams made $90.

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CANTERBURY Coalgate cattle and sheep • Prime Angus steers, 553kg, fetched $3.30/kg • R2 Angus-Hereford steers, 367kg, made $3.19/kg • Heaviest lambs returned $259 Heavy prime cattle sold on a stronger market at COALGATE on Thursday June 9 and any steers in reasonable condition traded above $3.10/kg. Top heifers were Angus at 488kg which made $3.13/kg and HerefordFriesian, 537-585kg, earned $3.05-$3.06/kg. Returns for beef cows ranged from $1.90/kg to $2.20/kg and Angus bulls, 490-700kg, realised $2.94-$3.00/kg. All R2 traditional heifers sold from $3.04/kg to $3.16/kg and top HerefordFriesian, 450kg, made $3.09/kg. R1 Angus-cross steers, 186kg, collected $3.23/kg and traditional heifers traded from $2.66/kg to $2.84/kg. In a predominantly forwardstore yarding, top male lambs fetched $160 and combined ewe and wether pens earned $154 and $156. Medium or better mixed-sex lambs started from $138. The top end firmed slightly in the prime lambs and the market for ewes was also firmer across the board. Read more in your LivestockEye.

Lorneville cattle and sheep • Better boner cows above 450kg ranged from $1.70/kg to $1.96/kg • R1 beef heifers, 300kg, earned $2.70/kg, $810 • Top store lambs realised $140-$155 • Local trade rams fetched $40-$75 Prime cattle sold on a solid market at LORNEVILLE last Tuesday. Beef steers, 450kg and above, earned $2.90/kg to $3.10/kg and heifers $2.80/kg to $3.00/kg. In the store pens, R2 Hereford-cross steers, 350kg, achieved $2.86/ kg and 382kg heifers, $2.85/kg. Heavy prime lambs made $160-$230, medium $145-$160 and light, $130-$140. Heavy prime ewes were secured for $160-$230, medium $130-$150 and light, $95-$120. Light to medium store lambs traded at $100-$130. Charlton sheep • Better store lambs achieved $150 • Prime rams varied from $50 to $120 There were 526 store lambs offered by PGG Wrightson at CHARLTON on Thursday, June 9 which averaged $126. Prime ewes averaged $143 and ranged from $60 to $241. Prime lambs firmed to $135-$212.

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Storms rock the boat Suz Bremner suz.bremner@globalhq.co.nz

HE catchment of the Temuka and Stortford Lodge sale yards stretches as far as the Chatham and Pitt Islands and at this time of year livestock from both should be a regular feature at the yards. Yet they have been notably absent, aside from a small number starting to appear as of late. Farmers on the main islands book a truck to pick up their livestock, while on the outlying islands the only mode of transport is the MV Southern Tiare – a ship that is equipped to carry livestock across from the islands, a journey that can take up to three days depending on the weather. The ship is at the mercy of Mother Nature and this year she has caused major disruptions, which has in turn delayed the stock appearing at the sale yards. Chatham Islands farmer Robert

Holmes co-ordinates the stock and shipping and says he has never seen such hold-ups. “The ship has been held up with all these storms that have been going through. I’ve never seen anything like it in 25-years – it’s been the worse six weeks we have ever had,” he says. “There’s no problem with the ship, it’s just too rough and it could be 8-9 days before it sails yet, but we do have a window of opportunity on Thursday.” Holmes says that storms are always a part of voyage planning, but it has been the continuity of them that has caused major issues this year.

We usually have to deal with some storms, but they have almost been continuous. Robert Holmes Chatham Islands farmer

“We usually have to deal with some storms, but they have almost been continuous. Two and a half months ago we were ahead of schedule by two voyages, now we are three behind and we are still not sure if we will sail this week. “At our (Chatham Islands) end the weather is good but it is the big swells further out over the Chathams Rise that are the real issue,” A new wharf was built five years ago on the island and Holmes says this season has been the first real test for it. Fortunately, a good autumn has provided a buffer for farmers who are holding onto stock longer than expected, Holmes said. “We have been very, very lucky that the season has been brilliant. We haven’t got a lot of feed, but we have more than what we’ve had in the past. But we will be quite pleased to get rid of them.”. Most of the lambs are yet to come over and once the ship is underway again the lambs will take precedence over cattle and ewes, to ensure they get to market

TOO ROUGH: Bad weather over the past six weeks has meant livestock has not been able to be moved off the Chatham Islands to either Timaru or Napier ports. The livestock ship MV Southern Tiare is docked at the Chatham Islands wharf, as 9-10 metre swells roll in.

before they risk cutting their teeth. In a typical season, the ship would take loads on a fortnightly basis, alternating between Timaru and Napier ports, carrying around 2500 lambs per voyage. The first voyage back to New Zealand for the MV Southern Tiare will port at Timaru and then return for a load to head to Napier Port. Buyers on the mainland are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Chatham Islands lambs too as

the old season male lamb supply available in the North and South Islands starts to reduce. The vendors will be rewarded with a market very similar to last year’s results, though as the lambs will be heavier due to the delay, per head prices should be higher.

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FARM, SPECIALTY AND LIFESTYLE PROPERTIES FOR SALE ISSUE 1 – 2022

Accelerating out of the

CORNER rigorous thresholds under the special forestry test to be met, could influence this particular dynamic.

Rather than being derailed by global forces at play and the long tentacles of the pandemic, New Zealand’s rural sector has doggedly remained largely on track – rolling with the punches and, like the rest of us, accepting that uncertainty will be with us for the foreseeable future.

How rural New Zealand accelerates out of the corner and responds to changing market fundamentals, the inflationary environment and evolving industry thresholds remains to be seen. As the backbone of this country, farmers and other primary producers will be putting pedal to the metal to reposition themselves at the front of the line.

The rural market has experienced significant growth over the last 12 months to 31 March 2022 – with total deal value up 32 percent across the broader sector according to the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ). Property volumes and values are holding strong, which highlights the importance of the primary sector in New Zealand’s story on a global stage. With the shortest day of the year almost here, but the real bite of winter still to come, our rural sector is gearing up for the seasonal shifts they know are ahead. In some parts of the country, farmers and producers are dealing with the tail end of unseasonal climatic events that have caused havoc – it’s been wet when it’s usually dry, or dry when it’s usually wet.

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In this edition of Rural Insight, we give an overview of the different rural sectors from our network on the ground and provide to the marketplace the most informative sector insights available on request for the first time.

NICK HAWKE N, BAYLE YS’ NATIONAL D IRE CTOR RU RAL

We have sheep and beef fattening operators competing with dairy. We have pastoral operators looking for ways to structure deals to outbid forestry. Recent proposed changes to Overseas Investment Office requirements around forestry conversion, which require

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Flooding on the East Coast is a reminder that nature has its own agenda. However, farming tends to be a long-term investment decision for many, and cyclical fluctuations in the seasons and the market come with the territory. Inflationary pressures are looming over all of us – whether urban or rural – but with interest rate hikes and on-farm costs escalating, focus remains firmly on maximising margin. There is now the opportunity for New Zealand producers to capitalise on the world’s demand for food as global markets and food service operations open back up. This is a welcome sign for all export sectors, particularly venison producers who have been hamstrung for much of the last two years, but now have markets including the Pacific Northwest and Alaska opening up to them. Although decarbonisation is now a clearly defined target, the government’s recent commitment to establishing a new Centre for Climate Action on Agricultural Emissions shows a willingness to engage and find solutions to support the rural sector. He Waka Eke Noa, the primary sector climate action partnership that’s consulted with farmers to find an alternative to the Emissions Trading Scheme for pricing emissions, has indicated to the government that farmers prefer a fairer farm-level pricing structure – one that reflects and rewards their on-farm actions. Meanwhile, with rural land transactions, we’re still seeing competition among different sectors in the market, and this is pushing up prices in many cases.

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BAYLEYS COUNTRY

RURAL REAL ESTATE BRAND IN NEW ZEALAND

100 1,700 SALESPEOPLE

SALES AND LEASING TRANSACTIONS

$2 billion

OF PROPERTY SOLD OR LEASED

*For the period 1st April 2020 - 31st March 2021

CONTENTS Farm, specialty and lifestyle sales snapshots

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Viticulture market update

Dairy market update

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Lifestyle market update

Pastoral market update

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Farm, specialty and lifestyle properties for sale 13-15

Horticulture market update

SALES

SNAPSHOT PROPERTY SALES VOLUMES AND VALUES ARE HOLDING STRONG, WHICH HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RURAL SECTOR IN NEW ZEALAND’S ECONOMY – HERE’S A TASTE OF WHAT HAS SOLD RECENTLY WITH BAYLEYS.

DAIRY Frith Road, Mamaranui: 357ha dairy unit in two titles, producing more than 350,000kgMS at an intensive level 5 operation, sold for $6,150,000. Infrastructure includes 70-bail rotary shed, irrigation to 80ha, and two 4bdrm homes. (Todd Skudder, Bayleys Dargaville)

Rocky Gully Road, Albury: ‘Kerry Downs’, a 288.85ha dryland dairy support block for a larger dairy operation, sold for $4,900,000. (Hamish Lane, Georgie Murray, Bayleys Timaru)

PASTORAL Parahi Road, Ruawai: 108ha in two titles, well-fenced and raced with easy terrain, deer shed and yards, running 240 head of stock as a dairy support/grazing block, sold for $1,450,000. (Catherine Stewart, Bayleys Dargaville) Biddle Road, Wellsford: 67ha grazing property fenced into 30 paddocks, well-raced with reliable water supply, multiple sheds, cattle yards and two houses, sold for $1,500,000. (John Barnett, Bayleys Warkworth) Tahuna-Ohinewai Road, Morrinsville: 133ha grazing property with mixed contour, sold for $4,800,000 + GST (if any). Improvements include a 2-stand woolshed, gable hay barn, implement shed and 4bdrm home. (Mike Fraser-Jones, Bayleys Waikato) Glenroy Road, Whangara: 1,275.15ha, mainly medium contoured and sheltered hill country fattening property, sold for $18,000,000. Improvements include a 6-stand woolshed, covered yard, new cattle yards, dry weather airstrip and multiple sets of strategically-positioned satellite yards. (Simon Bousfield, Stephen Thomson, Bayleys Gisborne)

Central Road North, Ngatea: 78ha dairy unit with top production over 100,000kgMS in the 2018/19 season, sold for $3,801,000 + GST (if any). Infrastructure includes 25ASHB shed, 3-bay workshop, 2-bay implement shed, fertiliser bunker, large half-round barn with attached yards for calf rearing, and 3bdrm home. (Karl Davis, Lee Carter, Bayleys Waikato)

Spargo Road, Tikorangi: 31.86ha flat, prime grazing land with several paddocks, orchard, and boundaries to Waitara river, sold for $2,380,000. (Brendan Crowley, Bayleys Taranaki)

Lake Arapuni Road, Arapuni: 120.9ha well-presented dairy farm, producing 188,000kgMs from a split calving operation, sold for $6,240,000 + GST (if any). Centrallylocated improvements include 28ASHB shed, expansive feed pad, 4-bay shed, two calf sheds and haybarn. Property has two 3bdrm homes and offers a lakeside lifestyle. (Peter Kelly, Bayleys Waikato)

Pokuru Road, Tirohanga: Easy to hilly contoured 198ha property with 34ASHB, in-shed feeding, 4bdrm house and 3bdrm dwelling, sold for $4,200,000. (Stan Sickler, Bayleys Taupo) Mangawhero Road, Hawera: 129ha dairy farm, with best season producing 220,000kgMS from 360 cows milked through a 22-bail rotary shed, sale price confidential. (Brendan Crowley, Bayleys Taranaki)

State Highway 2, Tutira: 273ha finishing block subdivided off Melrose Station, with reticulated water system, metalled laneways, and a high percentage of easy tractor country, sold for $7,900,000. Improvements include two dwellings, two woolsheds, ancillary buildings, and a powered house site. (Tony Rasmussen, Bayleys Havelock North) Carswell Road, Puketitiri: 432ha beef breeding property, sold for $6,850,000. Improvements include bull shed, ancillary buildings and 3bdrm home. (Kris August, Tim Wynne-Lewis, Bayleys Havelock North)

Wallace Road, Cambridge: 127.7ha dairy farm with flat contour, complete with high-tech 44-bail rotary shed, covered feed pad, and numerous support buildings, sold for $7,670,000 + GST (if any). (Sharon Evans, Stuart Gudsell, Sam Troughton, Bayleys Waikato)

Taneatua Road, Whakatane: 128ha mixed contour dairy unit in 10 titles, sold for $3,800,000 + GST (if any). Support buildings include a 20ASHB shed, 4-bay barn, 5-bay implement shed and 3bdrm home. (Rhys Mischefski, Bayleys Whakatane)

Waihirere Road, Wairoa: 109.12ha cropping/grazing land with fertile alluvial soils, sold for $10,600,000. Infrastructure includes two houses, conventionallyfenced paddocks, subsurface drainage, sheep and cattle yards and large implement sheds. (Jacob Geuze, Simon Bousfield, Bayleys Gisborne)

Horehore Road, Te Karaka: 1,676.2ha of predominantly medium to steep contoured grazing land, sold for $13,000,000. Improvements include a partiallyremodelled homestead, and substantial woolshed with adjoining stock handling facilities. (Simon Bousfield, Stephen Thomson, Bayleys Gisborne) Hihiroroa Road South, Ngatapa: 458.06ha of wellmanaged and maintained grazing land, sold for $9,100,000. Improvements include 3bdrm home and shedding. (Simon Bousfield, Stephen Thomson, Bayleys Gisborne) Mahia East Coast Road, Mahia: 355.27ha mixed contour fattening land, sold for $5,000,000. (Simon Bousfield, Stephen Thomson, Bayleys Gisborne)

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Paynters Road, Fairhall: 8.2ha property with 6.86ha in sauvignon blanc vineyard, reliable water sources, plus 5bdrm home, sold for $4,100,000. (Kurt Lindsay and Tarin Mason, Bayleys Marlborough) Waihopai Valley Road, Waihopai Valley: 25.16 can/ha vineyard, majority sauvignon blanc with some riesling and pinot gris, along with a 388sqm home with elevated views, sold for $9,100,000. (Kurt Lindsay, Tarin Mason Bayleys Marlborough) State Highway 63, Wairau Valley: 16.19ha property featuring 13.85 can/ha sauvignon blanc with strong historic yields, sold for $4,650,000. Improvements include storage reservoir, sheds and farmhouse. (Kurt Lindsay, Tarin Mason Bayleys Marlborough)

OTHER Taverners Road, Chertsey: 67.18ha bare land, historically used for cattle grazing and arable crops, with centre pivot, and water sourced from bore, sold for $3,225,000. (Mike Preston, Simon Sharpin, Bayleys Ashburton)

Te Puke Quarry Road, Te Puke: 89.47ha multi-zoned property with potential income from forestry, grazing, landbanking or subdividing, sold for $1,960,000. Approximately 78ha with 27-year-old stands of timber has just been harvested in first rotation. (Phil Mangos, Bayleys Tauranga)

Airfield Road, Ardmore: 8.17ha flat fertile land with two homes, generous garaging and shedding, horse agistment facility, greyhound kennels with training track, and stock yards, sold for $4,500,000. (Peter Sullivan, Kristina Liu, Bayleys Takanini)

Butlers Road, Fairlie: 145.63ha currently growing crops and finishing cattle, with support buildings including 4-bay shed, 3-bay shed, and a set of cattle yards, sold for $2,750,000. (Hamish Lane, Georgie Murray, Bayleys Timaru)

Ernest George Drive, Karaka: 4.3ha flat fertile land with 3bdrm home, macadamia trees currently yielding over 15 tonnes, implement shed, workshop and processing shed with machinery, sold for $2,600,000. (Shona Brown, Ben Jameson, Bayleys Pukekohe)

HORTICULTURE

J Renall Road, Pollok: 5bdrm home on 11.97ha, sold for $1,350,000 + GST. (Michele Mathieson, Bayleys Pukekohe)

Blue Gum Lane, Kerikeri: 6.99ha kiwifruit orchard with around 1.6 can/ha Zespri Sungold G3 in full production, 0.6 can/ha Hayward Green, plus 0.5 canopy hectares of mature rootstock ready for grafting, sold for $2,050,000. (Alan Kerr, Bayleys Bay of Islands)

Seddon Road, Te Aroha: 21ha property with elevated home having views to the Kaimai ranges, 3-bay enclosed barn, plus semi-enclosed 3-bay gable pole shed with stallion box, sold for $3,196,000 + GST (if any). (Mike Fraser-Jones, Bayleys Waikato)

O’Regan Road, Ngahinapouri: 4.5ha supporting a productive blueberry business and orchard, retail outlet with ice cream and berry sales, processing packhouse and additional support buildings including a quality 4bdrm home, sold for $2,500,000 + GST (if any). (Scott Macdonald, Bayleys Waikato)

Bennett Road, Matata: 4bdrm home on 4ha beachfront site with ocean views to the north and mountain ranges to the south, sold for $2,630,000. (Rhys Mischefski, Larissa Reid, Bayleys Whakatane)

Te Puna Road, Tauranga: 2.87ha of mostly flat land, with around 2.29 can/ha green kiwifruit, and a 3bdrm home, sold for $3,300,000. (Brent Trueman, Bayleys Tauranga) Omanawa Road, Lower Kaimai: 3.77ha award-winning orchard with 396 young Hass avocado trees, plus 1.58 can/ha G3 with Agbeam structure, large loading bay, and decommissioned cowshed for storage, sold for $2,800,000. (Phil Mangos, Steve Low, Bayleys Tauranga) Riverpoint Road, Matawhero: 4.33ha with 3.54 can/ ha G3 kiwifruit, sold for $6,024,242. Improvements include a new hail net, frost fan, irrigation system, and tidy 4bdrm home. (Simon Bousfield, Jacob Geuze, Bayleys Gisborne)

State Highway 41, Kuratau: 274ha (subject to survey) easy to hilly contour with deer shed, sold for $9,000,000. (Stan Sickler, Maurice Heappey, Bayleys Taupo)

Fleming Road, Hamurana: 4bdrm home on 3.7ha of mostly flat land, fully fenced with substantial shedding, sold for $2,750,000. (Derek Enright, Bayleys Rotorua)

State Highway 41, Kuratau: 77.51ha easy to rolling contour with 2bdrm dwelling, implement shed, greenhouse and deer shed, sold for $1,425,000. (Stan Sickler, Maurice Heappey, Bayleys Taupo)

LIFESTYLE Shieling Road, Waipu: 77ha with 12ha of good grazing land and the balance in native bush, numerous waterfalls, stony-bottom creek, elevated with coastal views and close to white sand east coast beaches, sold for $1,465,000. (Lin Norris, Bayleys Whangarei) Coatesville Riverhead Highway, Coatesville: 5bdrm home plus 1bdrm minor dwelling on 5.1ha, with a 3-bay barn, infinity pool, pond and drinkable bore, sold for $6,850,000. (Ailsa McArthur, Bayleys Coatesville) Rimmer Road, Helensville: 4bdrm home plus 2bdrm minor dwelling on 5ha with barn, tack room, and established fruit trees, sold for $2,145,000. (Jayne McCall, Lisa Bindoff, Bayleys Kumeu) Taylor Road, Waimauku: Elevated 4bdrm home on 4.2ha, with valley views, rolling pasture and native bush, sold for $1,690,000. (Simon Spiller, Cooper Spiller, Bayleys Kumeu)

Railway Road South, Longlands, Hastings: Centrallylocated 14ha block with a 4bdrm family home, plus 3brdm cottage, 2bdrm cottage and 1bdrm “tiny house”, sold for $3,920,000. (Tim Wynne-Lewis, Luke Dee, Bayleys Havelock North) State Highway 1, Oruanui: 24ha with easy to hilly contour, featuring a stable complex with large workshop, sheds, haybarn, horse arena and horse walker – plus a 3brdm cottage and a 3brdm dwelling attached to the stable complex – sold for 3,250,000. (Stan Sickler, Bayleys Taupo) Spooners Hill Road, Taihape: 3bdrm homestead on 9ha of mostly easy to rolling contour, sold for $1,250,000. (Pete Stratton, Bayleys Taihape) Kaituna-Tuamarina Road, Kaituna: 8.14ha with 4bdrm home, large sheds, 4.85 can/ha of sauvignon blanc grapes, deer-fenced grazing paddock and river access, sold for $2,655,000. (Kurt Lindsay, Tarin Mason, Bayleys Marlborough)

VITICULTURE Mere Road, Fernhill: 4ha vineyard within the Gimblett Gravels wine-growing district with high-density plantings of syrah and cabernet sauvignon, sold for $985,000. There’s an implement shed with 3-phase power, on-site bore and frost control fan. (Tony Rasmussen, Jeff Kevern, Bayleys Havelock North)

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State Highway 63, Wairau Valley: 4bdrm home on 2.03ha, with several fenced paddocks and large 4-bay shed, sold for $1,200,000. (Tarin Mason, Kurt Lindsay, Bayleys Marlborough) Methven Highway, Ashburton: 2.02ha, with 3bdrm home and variety of sheds, sold for $1,215,000. (Mike Preston, Simon Sharpin, Bayleys Ashburton)

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DAIRY MARKET UPDATE

14 Map of Bayleys Dairy Sales (1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022)

Property in the dairy sector has continued to experience significant growth off the back of a very strong 2021 spring market. Throughout the country, we have seen a greater volume of large-scale operations come to the market, notably in Southland, and a resurgence in the Canterbury region. Larger properties with scale have been transacting well, with value increases being recorded in Canterbury and Southland. The list of qualified buyers looking to invest in dairy – from individuals to corporates – continues to grow, with existing operators looking to maintain their investments and add to portfolios. While spring proved to be more subdued transaction-wise for less desirable second and third tier properties, we have seen activity lift through the autumn months.

There have continued to be a number of buyers new to the dairy property market, generally with an existing investment in agriculture, but also nonfarming buyers. All are enthused by the future of the dairy sector and what it can add to their existing businesses – farming or otherwise – by way of cashflow. Existing operators are also competing in these buyer pools, seeking to expand their dairy platform or support landholdings to future-proof their operations across a larger footprint as environmental considerations start influencing carrying capacities. We continue to see a trend for smaller farms with older infrastructure in regions like the Waikato, and to a certain extent Taranaki, being purchased and amalgamated into an existing dairy platform – often decommissioning the tired dairy shed in the process. Alternatively, these smaller properties are targeted acquisitions to support grazing of younger stock and/or growing supplement crops. There has been a noticeable value change driven by the demand for dairy support property, with sale prices hovering in the same value range as dairy farms themselves. With conversions in the foreseeable future now off the table in many parts of the country, we would expect to see values continue to stabilise in the dairy space, driven by longer term platform scarcity, demand outweighing supply, and a continuing sound payout – albeit tempered by inflation and increased operating costs.

$578,668,375 Bayleys Dairy Total Sale Value

BEN TURNER Bayleys Canterbury Director and Country Salesperson

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Bayleys Dairy Total Number of Sales

Bayleys Dairy Sales (1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 comprising cleared sales)

SELECTION OF BAYLEYS RECENT DAIRY SALES Northland 325 Kokopu Block Road, Kokopu Sale price

$3,545,000

Land Area

123.8ha

Price per hectare

$28,629

Waikato 210 Papatangi Road, Matamata Sale price

$11,250,000

Land Area

187ha

Price per hectare

$60,160

Waikato 499 Plateau Road, Reporoa Sale price

$4,350,000

Land Area

112.5ha

Price per hectare

$38,667

Canterbury 373 Old South Road, Dunsandel Sale price

$9,966,256

Land Area

188.1ha

Price per hectare

$52,973

DELVING DEEPER INTO THE DAIRY MARKET As a whole, the dairy industry seems to be in a significantly better position than in earlier years, and the longer-term fundamentals supporting the dairy sector beyond the payout, would appear to be stronger than ever.

The dairying property market turned a corner in the 12 months to 31 March 2022, with almost twice the amount of dairy land being sold compared to the year prior. Without a doubt, the strong farmgate milk price and commodity market has been a key driver injecting confidence back into the dairy sector, providing solid cash yield and attracting a multitude of investors.

Subsequently, two fundamental shifts occurred in the equity and debt markets which potentially slowed the recovery of the dairy market from those prior low payout years. Firstly, changes to the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) rules in 2017 restricting foreign investment swept away a substantial amount of offshore capital affecting liquidity, and secondly, borrowing became significantly harder to access. While the OIO rules have not been altered again since, the banking sector has transitioned away from interest-only facilities to increasing the requirement for debt repayments. This has possibly enabled the banking sector to recycle capital and provide new debt to those more capitalised operations within the sector, or to new entrants. While there have been a multitude of challenges faced by farmers in the dairy sector, better connections within the supply chain between farmers and processors are starting to have an influence. With the wider industry coming together, dairy farmers have a better understanding of how their day-to-day operations can positively (or negatively) influence the overall supply chain.

dairy farms sold (up 123% from 683m)

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Some commentators are speculating that we have seen the peak of commodity prices, and inflation will start to eat into farmgate margins so there will be some headwinds, but for now, it seems there is freeboard above the waterline for most operators.

dairy farms sold (up 83% from 160)

Source: REINZ transaction data for period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 in respect of rural properties sold by all REINZ member real estate agencies in New Zealand.

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Investors in the dairy sector are not only chasing solid commodity prices and returns; they are attracted to the underlying fundamentals of the industry, understanding that they are investing in a high-value nutrition market that has longevity.

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This is possibly of greater importance than commodity prices alone, and as a result, there have been increased levels of capital flowing from both the debt and equity markets into dairy.

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When you have multinationals like Nestlé implementing responsible sourcing programmes to ensure their supply chain is carbon neutral, and using a deforestation-free ingredient policy, it is clear that the challenges New Zealand producers face are not localised.

dairy farms sold (up 70% from 24,044ha)

Bayleys National Director Rural

Median price per hectare

It is interesting to note that this market slowed down in 2018 – despite the farmgate milk price having arguably recovered from the lows of the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons.

40,958ha

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However, there are also wider influences at play that appear to have had a (positive) impact on the dairy property market.

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Overseas Investment Office increases restrictions on foreign investment in farmland (2017)

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PASTORAL MARKET UPDATE Given continuing strong commodity markets, farmers in the pastoral sector should have been achieving some of the best financial returns on record, however, increased costs due to escalating inflation, and pandemic-related staffing and supply chain challenges have eroded real returns in the past six months. With prices of products such as urea, glyphosate, seed and fertiliser increasing to new highs, overall farm working expenses have skyrocketed – especially those with high input systems – meaning earnings before interest and taxes remain similar or worse to years gone by for sheep and beef farmers. Parts of New Zealand, especially the lower South Island, continue to suffer severe drought conditions, while typically dry parts of New Zealand are seeing the best summer and autumn pasture growth rates in many years.

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Autumn conditions have been extreme in some areas. Flooding and significant damage across many farms, and access to remote farms for stock cartage has been a real problem with many roads closed for long periods due to weather events. We’ve seen farmers with an abundance of feed taking a conservative stocking approach, rather than capitalising on the woes of drought-affected farms and the associated squeezed market. With the pandemic still fresh in their minds, farmers are looking ahead and considering the implications should freezing works be shut down or be at reduced operating capacity and not be able to sell livestock though winter.

SELECTION OF BAYLEYS RECENT PASTORAL SALES Waikato 377 Bain Road, Huntly Sale price

$2,280,000

Land area

90.2ha

Price per hectare $25,263 Property type

Grazing

Waikato 27 Puaiti Road, Ngakuru

Climatic conditions have continued to frustrate producers this season, particularly for those who just can’t get the stars to align in what’s been a golden period in the commodity markets for New Zealand farming. Pastoral land values have continued to track upwards, following on from the growth experienced over recent years.

Sale price

$2,750,000

Land area

123ha

In the past 12 months, we’ve seen record sales achieved across many parts of the country, with values underpinned by the forestry investment sector which has pushed hard for farmland amidst heightening carbon values. Despite differing views among the forestry sector and the sheep and beef community, we are seeing farmers leveraging high land prices to reinvest in other land classes, other sectors, or use their equity to grow their existing businesses.

Price per hectare $22,365

Proposed government legislation changes, if confirmed, are likely to impact these buyers as amendments are embedded into the marketplace. With rising interest rates, farmers in strong cash positions are securing either more land or off-farm investments.

$761,029,777 Bayleys Pastoral Total Sale Value

SIMON BOUSFIELD Bayleys Gisborne Director and Country Salesperson

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Bayleys Pastoral Total Number of Sales

Bayleys Pastoral Sales (1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022)

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Grazing

Gisborne 396 Stafford Road, Pehiri Sale price

$8,900,000

Land area

467.5ha

Price per hectare $19,036 Property type

Grazing

Hawke’s Bay 89 McDonald Road, Tuai Sale price

$9,250,000

Land area

629.7ha

Price per hectare $14,689 Property type

Breeding/Finishing

DELVING DEEPER INTO THE PASTORAL MARKET At the end of the day, the rural sector comprises many types of land users, and as we are aware, ecosystems work best when they are balanced.

While the chase for carbon credit revenue has definitely been a driver of increasing pastoral land prices in recent years, it is important to also acknowledge other factors at play in the pastoral property sector.

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The contest for pastoral land has come from all rural asset classes, with buyers competing to secure land for any number of reasons and end uses. Pastoral land suitable for conversion to horticulture use tends to be in a league of its own – particularly where there is access to natural water resources, as this can unlock significant value for a horticultural operator.

Sustained buoyancy in meat schedules has continued to provide positivity for red meat producers and, as opportunity arises, those operators are transacting some of their lessproductive land at reasonable prices in order to acquire land that will better contribute to their business bottom line. Then, given the increasing environmental requirements, there are dairy operators wanting to expand their dairy footprint and future-proof their platforms and they too want to secure productive parcels of land. At the lower end of the market, a push for carbon plantings has been driving values and influencing the cost of breeding land. If we go back three or four years, around 90 percent of traditional breeding land on the East Coast was selling for under $10,000 per hectare.

Source: REINZ transaction data for period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 in respect of rural properties (excluding Dairy) sold by all REINZ member real estate agencies in New Zealand.

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Given there are different buyer groups continuing to compete for land assets in all the rural sectors, it is important not to have a bias towards a specific buyer group.

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Although not often reported, there are examples where pastoral, conventional forestry and carbon land buyers have all been at the table competing head on for properties.

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That has been progressively changing as the influence of the carbon price took hold and, when the price caps came off, probably around just 50 percent of that breeding land market is transacting below $10,000 per hectare.

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Bayleys National Director Rural

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If we put that class of land to one side and look at the more productive pastoral end of the market, there is clearly competition occurring between livestock fattening and dairy operators – they’re often going head-to-head to secure land, and motivated for different reasons.

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HORTICULTURE MARKET UPDATE

Kiwifruit has continued to lead the way in the horticultural property sector when it comes to return on investment and prices paid per hectare.

Map of Bayleys Horticulture Sales (1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022)

Record sales values for properties growing both green and gold kiwifruit varietals have been recorded over the past six months, and buyer groups paying these premiums are a mix of local growers, syndicates, iwi groups and investors looking for strong cash returns. Zespri recently released licences for SunGold G3 and RubyRed varieties, with allocated licences being less than the maximum hectares available. With a reduction to only 350ha (from 700ha) for SunGold G3, it’s easy to jump to the conclusion that demand has caught up with supply. However, criteria changes to the tender process, such as reducing the maximum total bid area per bidder, is likely to have had an influence. At $801,000 per hectare plus GST, the median SunGold G3 licence price was up 45.6 percent on 2021 figures, while the median price for RubyRed was almost twice last year’s median price at $147,000 per hectare plus GST. Likewise, we saw strong sales results for mature SunGold orchards at the start of the year – exceeding $2 million per hectare, and green varietal orchards fetching in excess of $800,000 per hectare. Demand for kiwifruit assets remains strong throughout the Bay of Plenty, Northland, and Gisborne regions. The ability to capitalise on early harvest premiums in Gisborne has continued to attract buyers, with values across various horticulture crops seeing record levels in the past six months, however, with some prominent players in the market recalibrating and reassessing their position at current values, demand has eased. The attraction of early premiums has now expanded further through the country, with historically untapped centres such as Wairoa seeing a huge lift in the value of flat land, particularly for the development of apple orchards to capitalise on the warm and early Wairoa climate. The avocado sector provides a timely reminder that much of New Zealand’s food bowl remains reliant on commodity markets. The payouts for the season are a promising sight after a relatively tough past six months, with growers now budgeting on $15-$20/tray. Focus remains strong in further developing Asian markets, leveraging the ‘superfood’ card. Research and development show avocado being added to skincare products and having promising pharmaceutical benefits – so the fruit’s future looks bright, with the current avocado orchard prices potentially representing excellent buying value.

$191,633,471 Bayleys Horticulture Total Sale Value

MATT CLUTTERBUCK Bayleys Bay of Plenty Country Manager

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Bayleys Horticulture Sales (1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 comprising cleared sales)

SELECTION OF BAYLEYS RECENT HORTICULTURE SALES Northland 36 Orchard Road, Kerikeri Sale price

$4,928,000

Land area

7.3ha

Price per hectare

$674,560

Type

G3 kiwifruit

Northland 43 Croucher Road, Poroti Sale price

$1,650,000

Land area

9.2ha

Price per hectare

$178,128

Type

Avocado

Bay of Plenty 163 Western Drain Road, Edgecumbe Sale price

$34,000,000

Land area

28.4ha

Price per hectare

$1,196,635

Type

G3 kiwifruit

Hawke’s Bay 83 Richmond Road, Clive Sale price

$2,170,000

Land area

8.8ha

Price per hectare

$245,508

Type

Green kiwifruit

VITICULTURE MARKET UPDATE

Map of Bayleys Viticulture Sales (1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022)

With continued huge global demand for New Zealand wines, the fundamentals underpinning viticulture property values remain positive. A big driver of viticulture land sales – particularly in Marlborough – is widespread sentiment that this demand for New Zealand wine is likely to continue, meaning wine companies need to secure longer-term access to fruit supply. Properties with a short-term grape supply contract or short-term lease in place ensure that purchasers have imminent access to fruit and some certainty around future supply. It’s not just wine companies investing in grape land either – other investors including iwi groups are widening their asset net and looking to place capital in large acquisitions.

SELECTION OF BAYLEYS RECENT VITICULTURE SALES

In Marlborough, the central Wairau Valley has historically drawn premium prices, however, the outer areas like Awatere are catching up and starting to compare favourably – where yields and risk profiles are comparable. There has also been a notable volume of properties coming to the market as retiring grape growers have been tempted by good land prices being attained. We are having a lot of conversations with clients around succession, as owners consider releasing equity from their viticulture assets. Another interesting trend is where large tracts of land are being repurposed from food production into leasehold vineyards, where owners have identified an opportunity to have a relatively hands-off investment as landlords within the wine industry. It’s been a relatively tough season for Hawke’s Bay, Gisborne and East Coast grape growers with a significant amount of rainfall in recent months, combined with the humid cyclone weather that has occurred. Hence the vintage in those regions this year is very much a mixed barrel. The early varieties came in better than anticipated, however, yield numbers were down across the board and there’s been tank space left in many North Island wineries. This contrasts with the Marlborough season where a massive rain event in February, followed by humid weather, threatened a clean finish in the lead up to the vintage. Crop yields, however, were above average and of good quality – expected to translate to fresh and lighter wines, fuelling a good year for aromatic varieties. With all Marlborough wineries reporting full tanks and no space available, surplus capacity at wineries in the North Island presents the opportunity to ship juice north and replenish the shelves globally. Meanwhile, further south and having avoided any major climatic events, Central Otago arguably had the best harvest in the country for 2022, achieving good volumes and great quality.

$89,560,000 Bayleys Viticulture Total Sale Value

GLENN DICK Bayleys Marlborough Director

Bayleys Viticulture Total Number of Sales

Bayleys Viticulture Sales (1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 comprising cleared sales)

Hawke’s Bay 18 Mere Road, Fernhill Sale price

$985,000

Land area

4ha

Canopy hectares

3.5

Price per canopy hectare

$281,429

Marlborough 3518 State Highway 1, Riverlands Sale price

$13,500,000

Land area

32.7ha

Canopy hectares

26.5

Price per canopy hectare

$509,434 (Zoned Industrial 2)

Marlborough 36 Wrekin Road, Fairhall Sale price

$3,175,000

Land area

10.25ha

Canopy hectares

8.95

Price per canopy hectare

$354,749

Marlborough 441 Hawkesbury Road, Hawkesbury Sale price

$3,150,000

Land area

9ha

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$338,710 (Based on total area)

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LIFESTYLE MARKET UPDATE

271 Map of Bayleys Lifestyle Sales (1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022)

Over the past six months, most regions in New Zealand have seen a yearon-year increase in the median sale price for lifestyle properties, along with relatively shorter selling periods. The average sale price of lifestyle property in most regions peaked last spring, but values have now started to ease back. There’s no denying that the realities and long tail of the global pandemic have influenced – and continue to affect – the lifestyle property sector. Rolling lockdowns and realising an urban home’s shortfalls for schooling and working from home for extended periods, the need for social distancing and a desire to be more connected to the land saw lifestyle property take on new appeal.

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For some owners of lifestyle property, a mindshift also occurred with a reordering of priorities and a need to be closer to family in urban areas. Enquiry levels for lifestyle property were up, people were selling, buying and moving when they could, and prices reflected increased activity.

SELECTION OF BAYLEYS RECENT LIFESTYLE SALES

While the attraction and dream of lifestyle living continues for many, there have been some fundamental and structural changes in the market. The pandemic continues to have a sting in its tail, there’s interest rate pressure and tighter lending criteria on the back of the high inflation environment, and this has started to have an impact on sales volumes of lifestyle properties recently.

Waikato 859 Maungatautari Road, Cambridge

Days-on-market have generally increased, we’re seeing more conditional contracts being negotiated and, while deals are still progressing and being concluded, things are taking a little longer to come together. While the latest Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) statistics show a slowdown in lifestyle property activity compared to the prior year’s March quarter, we need to remember how far the lifestyle market has come in recent years and the enormous growth that has occurred. According to REINZ, the value of the lifestyle market has almost doubled, and the number of transactions grown by 26 percent since March 2019, pre-pandemic. Those fortunate enough to have entered the market through that period, will be enjoying the benefits of country living and with the work-from-home concept now wellembedded in corporate and business culture, together with the cost of fuel impacting a daily commute, living the lifestyle dream takes on new meaning. So, while the market may be easing, we expect lifestyle property will remain reasonably resilient as a desirable asset class given the advantages it offers, and the limited amount of lifestyle-zoned land around the country.

$1,803,786,563

Sale price

$5,320,000

Land area

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Bay of Plenty 14A Treholm Lane, Te Puna Sale price

$4,640,000

Land area

0.95ha

Hawke’s Bay 116 St Andrews Road, Havelock North Sale price

$4,425,000

Land area

2.8ha

Bayleys Lifestyle Total Sale Value

RAYMOND MOUNTFORT Bayleys Auckland General Manager Lifestyle

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Bayleys Lifestyle Sales (1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 comprising cleared sales)

Canterbury 177 Heywards Road, Clarkville Sale price

Confidential

Land area

5.23ha

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Located Located centrally centrally between between Hastings Hastings and and Napier Napier is is this this top top quality quality 19-hectare 19-hectare kiwifruit orchard. Featuring 13.74 canopy hectares of fully licensed G3, Located orchard. centrally Featuring between Hastings and Napier is this top licensed quality 19-hectare kiwifruit 13.74 canopy hectares of fully G3, one one and two-year-old plantings of 1.8 canopy hectares RubyRed, and 2.0 canopy kiwifruit orchard. Featuring 13.74 canopy hectares of fully licensed G3, one and two-year-old plantings of 1.8 RubyRed, and 2.0 canopy hectares of Hayward kiwifruit with all varieties on Bruno rootstock. The and two-year-old plantings of with 1.8 canopy hectares RubyRed, and 2.0 canopy hectares of Hayward kiwifruit all varieties on Bruno rootstock. The growing is soils, modern irrigation hectares environment of Hayward kiwifruit with fertile all varieties Bruno rootstock. The with growing environment is ideal ideal with with fertile soils, a aon modern irrigation system system with very good water consents for irrigation and frost protection, and fantastic growing environment is ideal with fertile soils, a modern irrigation system very good water consents for irrigation and frost protection, and fantasticwith support structures, including and the very good water consents forAg-Beam irrigation pergola and frost protection, andcovered fantasticwith support structures, including Ag-Beam pergola and the majority majority covered with overhead shelter. Other assets include a 486 square metre storage shed support structures, including Ag-Beam and the majority covered overhead shelter. Other assets include apergola 486 square metre storage shed with complete with smoko room and a centrally located overhead Other assets include 486 square metre storage shed complete shelter. with office, office, smoko room and aamenities, amenities, a near-new near-new centrally located three-bay pole shed. 2022 production 218,657 trays (95,889 Kiwi Start). complete with smoko room and218,657 amenities, a near-new centrally three-bay pole office, shed. 2022 production trays (95,889 Kiwi Start).located

Tender not be sold 2022 prior) Closing 4pm,218,657 Tuesday 28th June 2022 three-bay pole shed. production trays (95,889 Kiwi Start). Tender (will (will not be sold prior) Closing 4pm, Tuesday 28th June 2022 17 Napier Road, Havelock North, New Zealand 17 Napier Road, Havelock New Zealand Tender (will not be sold prior) North, Closing 4pm, Tuesday 28th June 2022 17 Napier Road, Havelock North, New Zealand Jeff Tony Rasmussen +64 27 429 2253 Jeff Kevern Kevern +64 +64 27 27 482 482 0745 0745 Tony Rasmussen +64 27 429 2253 jeff.kevern@bayleys.co.nz tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz jeff.kevern@bayleys.co.nz tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz Jeff Kevern +64 27 482 0745 Tony Rasmussen +64 27 429 2253 EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, EASTERN LTD,REA BAYLEYS, EASTERN LTD,REA BAYLEYS, jeff.kevern@bayleys.co.nz tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz LICENSEDREALTY UNDER THE ACT 2008 LICENSEDREALTY UNDER THE ACT 2008 LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Commutable Commutable lifestyle lifestyle with with views views Commutable lifestyle with views 159 Waikareao Road, Te Hauke, Hastings, Hawke's Bay 159 Waikareao Road, Te Hauke, Hastings, Hawke's Bay 159 Waikareao Road, Te Hauke, Hastings, Hawke's Bay

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Easy Easy contoured contoured 12.9 12.9 hectare hectare lifestyle lifestyle property property with with elevated elevated panoramic panoramic views views of the bush clad limestone hills from the decking of the modern threeEasy hectare lifestyle property with panoramic of thecontoured bush clad 12.9 limestone hills from the decking of elevated the modern three- views bedroom home. property fantastic feeling of of the bush clad The limestone hillsprovides from thethat decking of the modern three-in bedroom home. The property provides that fantastic feeling of living living in the the country, while the large master bedroom, modern bathroom along with bedroomwhile home. The property that fantastic feeling of living in the country, the large masterprovides bedroom, modern bathroom along with spacious lounge and open plan design provide very country, while the large master bedroom, modern bathroom along with living spacious lounge and open plan kitchen kitchen design provide very comfortable comfortable living environment. Outside, the concrete parking area and three-bay spacious lounge and open plan kitchen design provide very comfortable living environment. Outside, the concrete parking area and three-bay garage/workshop, two-stand woolshed, cattle yards and reticulated water environment. Outside, the concrete parking area and and three-bay garage/workshop, two-stand woolshed, cattle yards reticulated water supply top farmlet. garage/workshop, two-stand woolshed, supply top off off this this productive productive farmlet. cattle yards and reticulated water Price Negotiation supply top off this productive farmlet. Price by by Negotiation Price Rasmussen by Negotiation 27 429 2253 Tony Tony Rasmussen +64 +64 27 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz Tony Rasmussen +64 27 429 2253 EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, EASTERN REALTY LTD,REA BAYLEYS, tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz LICENSED UNDER THE ACT 2008 LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Luke Luke Dee Dee +64 +64 21 21 158 158 3152 3152 luke.dee@bayleys.co.nz luke.dee@bayleys.co.nz Luke Dee +64 21 158 3152 EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, EASTERN REALTY LTD,REA BAYLEYS, luke.dee@bayleys.co.nz LICENSED UNDER THE ACT 2008 LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Iramutu Iramutu -- irrigation irrigation and and options options to to purchase purchase Iramutu irrigation and options to purchase 3389 State Highway 2, Takapau, Central Hawke's Bay 3389 State Highway 2, Takapau, Central Hawke's Bay 3389 State Highway 2, Takapau, Central Hawke's Bay

79.9315 79.9315 79.9315

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This This highly highly desirable desirable mixed mixed cropping cropping and and livestock livestock finishing finishing property property with with its its many attributes make this property a standout among its peers. Located This highly desirable croppinga and livestock finishing property withonly its many attributes makemixed this property standout among its peers. Located only 11km from the township of Waipukurau, Iramutu consists of a total of many attributes make this property a standout among its peers. Located only 11km from the township of Waipukurau, Iramutu consists of a total of 79.9315ha of terrain. Currently utilised as finishing platform for 11km from the township Waipukurau, Iramutu consists of a total of 79.9315ha of flat flat terrain. of Currently utilised as a a support support finishing platform for a a larger breeding property, the farm has been known for livestock performance 79.9315ha of flatproperty, terrain. Currently as known a support finishing platform for a larger breeding the farm utilised has been for livestock performance throughout the year. Mild winters and an consent allowing larger breeding property, the farm has been for livestock throughout the entire entire year. Mild winters and known an irrigation irrigation consentperformance allowing pasture growth and quality remains consistent. A bore providing water with throughout the entire year. Mild winters and an A irrigation consentwater allowing pasture growth and quality remains consistent. bore providing with an irrigation consent allowing up to 31 litres per second being drawn, 60,480 pasture growth and quality remains consistent. bore providing water with an irrigation consent allowing up to 31 litres per A second being drawn, 60,480 cubic metres per month, 330,400 cubic metres in a 12-month period between an irrigation consent allowing up to 31 litres per second being drawn, 60,480 cubic metres per month, 330,400 cubic metres in a 12-month period between 1st July to June. Water is centre pivot being 456m, plus cubic metres per month, 330,400 cubic via metres in a 12-month 1st July to 30th 30th June. Water is supplied supplied via centre pivot being period 456m, between plus hard hose irrigator up to an area of approximately 80ha of pasture and crops. 1st July to irrigator 30th June. is supplied via centre pivot 456m, plus hard hose upWater to an area of approximately 80ha being of pasture and crops. Infrastructure includes sheep and cattle yards, woolshed and haybarn. hard hose irrigator up to an area of approximately 80ha of pasture and Infrastructure includes sheep and cattle yards, woolshed and haybarn. crops. Price Infrastructure includes sheep and cattle yards, woolshed and haybarn. Price by by Negotiation Negotiation Price by Negotiation Andy Andy Andy Hunter Hunter +64 +64 27 27 449 449 5827 5827 Andy Lee Lee +64 +64 27 27 354 354 8608 8608 EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, Andy Hunter +64 449 5827 Andy Lee 27 354 LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT27 2008 LICENSED UNDER+64 THE REA ACT 2008 8608 LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Modern Modern home home on on 15.5ha 15.5ha Modern home on 15.5ha 1312 Ngahape Road, Flemington, Hawke's Bay 1312 Ngahape Road, Flemington, Hawke's Bay 1312 Ngahape Road, Flemington, Hawke's Bay

Beauley Beauley Beauley 2858 Masterton-Castlepoint Road, Masterton, Wairarapa 2858 Masterton-Castlepoint Road, Masterton, Wairarapa 2858 Masterton-Castlepoint Road, Masterton, Wairarapa

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2015-built, 2015-built, five-bedroom five-bedroom family family home, home, on on 15.5ha 15.5ha (subject (subject to to survey), survey), with with 3 3 stand woolshed/covered yards, cattle yards and numerous implement sheds. 2015-built, five-bedroom family on 15.5ha to implement survey), with 3 stand woolshed/covered yards, home, cattle yards and (subject numerous sheds. stand woolshed/covered yards, cattle yards and numerous implement sheds. Auction not be sold prior) 12pm, Friday 1st July 2022 Auction (will (will not be sold prior) 12pm, Friday 1st July 2022 17 Napier Road, Havelock North, New Zealand 17 Napier(will Road, Havelock Zealand Auction not be sold prior)North, 12pm,New Friday 1st July 2022 17 Napier Road, Havelock North, New Zealand Tim Tony Rasmussen +64 27 429 2253 Tim Wynne-Lewis Wynne-Lewis +64 +64 27 27 488 488 9719 9719 Tony Rasmussen +64 27 429 2253 tim.wynne-lewis@bayleys.co.nz tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz tim.wynne-lewis@bayleys.co.nz tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz Tim Wynne-Lewis +64 27 488 9719 Tony Rasmussen +64 27 429 2253 EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, EASTERN LTD,REA BAYLEYS, EASTERN REALTY LTD,REA BAYLEYS, LICENSEDREALTY UNDER THE ACT 2008 LICENSED UNDER THE ACT 2008 tim.wynne-lewis@bayleys.co.nz tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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JR's JR's Orchard Orchard JR's Orchard 78 Gregs Lane, Greytown, South Wairarapa 78 Gregs Lane, Greytown, South Wairarapa 78 Gregs Lane, Greytown, South Wairarapa

JR's JR's Orchard Orchard sits sits on on 127.9942 127.9942 hectares hectares and and is is just just minutes minutes from from Greytown. Greytown. This vertically integrated apple orchard, exports internationally and is JR's Orchard sits on 127.9942 hectares and is just minutes from Greytown. This vertically integrated apple orchard, exports internationally and is RSE RSE approved. Irrigated with 85 hectares under cover producing 260,000 This vertically integrated apple orchard, exports and is trays RSE of approved. Irrigated with 85 hectares under coverinternationally producing 260,000 trays of apples and pears. Improvements include large cool stores, smart fresh approved. with 85 hectares under cover producing 260,000 apples andIrrigated pears. Improvements include large cool stores, smart freshtrays of technology and apples and pears. Improvements include large cool stores, smart fresh technology and packhouse. packhouse. technology and packhouse. Price Price by by Negotiation Negotiation Price by Smith Negotiation Andrew Andrew Smith +64 +64 27 27 760 760 8208 8208 EASTERN REALTY (WAIRARAPA) LTD, BAYLEYS, EASTERN (WAIRARAPA) LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSEDREALTY UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 EASTERN REALTY (WAIRARAPA) LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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30 30 kilometres kilometres from from Masterton. Masterton. 750 750 hectares hectares with with a a balance balance of of silt silt flats, flats, medium hill featuring sheltered basins and spectacular rocky outcrops. 30 kilometres from Masterton. 750 hectares with a balance of silt flats, medium hill featuring sheltered basins and spectacular rocky outcrops. Character homestead with excellent facilities and a consistent history medium hill featuring sheltered basins and spectacular rocky outcrops. Character homestead with excellent facilities and a consistent history of of inputs and proven stock performance, good access to Masterton and Character with excellent facilities and a consistent history of inputs andhomestead proven stock performance, good access to Masterton and the the beautiful Wairarapa Coastline including Castlepoint and Riversdale. inputs and proven stock performance, good access to Masterton and the beautiful Wairarapa Coastline including Castlepoint and Riversdale. beautiful Wairarapa Coastline including Castlepoint and Riversdale. Price Price by by Negotiation Negotiation Price by Watts Negotiation Lindsay Andrew Lindsay Watts +64 +64 27 27 246 246 2542 2542 Andrew Smith Smith +64 +64 27 27 760 760 8208 8208 lindsay.watts@bayleys.co.nz a.smith@bayleys.co.nz lindsay.watts@bayleys.co.nz a.smith@bayleys.co.nz Lindsay Watts +64 27 246 2542 Andrew Smith +64 27 760 8208 EASTERN REALTY (WAIRARAPA) LTD, BAYLEYS, EASTERN REALTY (WAIRARAPA) LTD, BAYLEYS, EASTERN REALTY (WAIRARAPA) LTD, BAYLEYS, EASTERN REALTY (WAIRARAPA) LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 lindsay.watts@bayleys.co.nz a.smith@bayleys.co.nz LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 EASTERN REALTY (WAIRARAPA) LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Vineyard Vineyard investment investment Vineyard investment Northbank Road, Kaituna, Marlborough Northbank Road, Kaituna, Marlborough Northbank Road, Kaituna, Marlborough

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Positioned Positioned a a short short distance distance from from Renwick, Renwick, this this young young sauvignon sauvignon blanc blanc vineyard offers a great opportunity to enter the wine industry or broaden Positioned a short distance from Renwick, this sauvignon vineyard offers a great opportunity to enter theyoung wine industry or blanc broaden your your existing portfolio. vineyard offers a great opportunity to enter the wine industry or broaden your existing portfolio. existing portfolio. For For Sale Sale offers offers invited invited over over NZ$4,500,000 NZ$4,500,000 + + GST GST (if (if any) any) For Sale offers invited over NZ$4,500,000 +Mason GST (if+64 any) 788 5748 Kurt Lindsay +64 27 469 9685 Tarin Kurt Lindsay +64 27 469 9685 Tarin Mason +64 27 27 788 5748 kurt.lindsay@bayleys.co.nz tarin.mason@bayleys.co.nz kurt.lindsay@bayleys.co.nz tarin.mason@bayleys.co.nz Kurt Lindsay +64 27 469 9685 Tarin Mason +64 27 788 5748 BE MARLBOROUGH LTD, BAYLEYS, BE MARLBOROUGH LTD, BAYLEYS, BE MARLBOROUGH LTD, BAYLEYS, BE MARLBOROUGH LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 kurt.lindsay@bayleys.co.nz tarin.mason@bayleys.co.nz LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 BE MARLBOROUGH LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Breathtaking Breathtaking views, views, vineyard vineyard and and building building site site Breathtaking views, vineyard and building site 488 Delta Lake Heights, Renwick, Marlborough 488 Delta Lake Heights, Renwick, Marlborough 488 Delta Lake Heights, Renwick, Marlborough

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This This is is an an excellent excellent opportunity opportunity for for buyers buyers to to secure secure an an elevated elevated building building site site with breathtaking views across the Delta Lake and Wairau Plains. The This is an excellentviews opportunity for buyers to secure an elevated site with breathtaking across the Delta Lake and Wairau Plains.building The vineyard, currently contract-free, adds income to this wonderful asset which with breathtaking views across the Delta Lake and Wairau Plains. The vineyard, currently contract-free, adds income to this wonderful asset which allows you, the to or bank some to build vineyard, currently contract-free, income thistake wonderful asset allows you, the buyer buyer to build build now nowadds or land land banktoand and take some time time towhich build your dream home. If you are after a quality lifestyle property in a great area allows you, the buyer to build nowaor land bank andproperty take some to build your dream home. If you are after quality lifestyle in time a great area this is definitely worth a look. your dream home. If you are after a quality lifestyle property in a great area this is definitely worth a look. this is definitely worth a look. The The vineyard, vineyard, planted planted in in sauvignon sauvignon blanc, blanc, comes comes with with shares shares in in the the Delta Delta Lake Lake water scheme giving you the reassurance of plenty of water to get through The vineyard, in sauvignon blanc, comes with in get the through Delta Lake water scheme planted giving you the reassurance of plenty of shares water to the growing season. 2006 on rootstock water scheme givingPlanted you thein reassurance of plenty of water to get with through the growing season. Planted in 2006 and and 2007 2007 on 3,309 3,309 rootstock with 2.5-metre rows, the vineyard is well set up. the growing season. Planted in 2006 and 2007 on 3,309 rootstock with 2.5-metre rows, the vineyard is well set up. Price 2.5-metre rows, the vineyard is well set up. Price by by Negotiation Negotiation Price Poff by Negotiation Mike Mike Poff +64 +64 27 27 6655 6655 477 477 mike.poff@bayleys.co.nz mike.poff@bayleys.co.nz Mike Poff +64 27 6655 477 BE MARLBOROUGH LTD, BAYLEYS, BE MARLBOROUGH LTD, BAYLEYS, mike.poff@bayleys.co.nz LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 BE MARLBOROUGH LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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