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TOUGH LAMBING: South Otago farmer Logan Wallace says it has been a tough few months for southern farmers facing low pasture cover. Photo: Natwick.

Farmers weigh weather impact Neal Wallace & Colin Williscroft

WET spring is proving a major challenge for southern South Island farmers, causing sleepy sickness, forcing dairy farmers to milk once-a-day, feed out supplements or stand cows off paddocks. While annual rainfall is about average, the pattern in which has fallen, with up to 85mm already falling this month, is causing sodden ground conditions, especially on the Southland coast Otago Federated Farmers meat and wool section chair and Clinton farmer Logan Wallace says a dry autumn meant he went into

winter with low pasture cover, which required his hoggets to be sent to grazing. He says much of South Otago is similarly short of feed. He applied urea, which provided a brief respite before a recent cold snap reduced its effectiveness, and recorded more than 75mm of rain in the week to the middle of September, equivalent to that month’s average rainfall. While grass growth in August is traditionally not high, AgResearch figures from the Woodlands station near Invercargill reveal dry matter growth in August was 5.3kg DM/day compared to the average of 9.8kg.

Southland Federated Farmers dairy chair and Central Southland dairy farmer Bart Luyten says calving started well, but in the past two weeks conditions have turned cold and wet, tightening feed reserves, delayed fertiliser application and filling effluent ponds. While conditions aren’t extreme, Luyten describes it as very difficult. Blair Drysdale who farms in Northern Southland says a -3degC frost this week has added to the challenges. Wyndham farmer Dean Rabbidge says he recorded 85mm for a week recently, but 10 mild days prior to that gave him a

badly needed pasture boost. He says winter was relatively warm but being wet, crop utilisation was not high. It’s been a different story in Hawke’s Bay, with farmers there welcoming the rain that fell across much of the region last week, with 40-70mm a steady range, although some hill country farmers received up to double that. Federated Farmers Hawke’s Bay president Jim Galloway says because the rain was spread over a few days the moisture was able to soak in, while streams were running well and on-farm dam levels also received a boost. “It’s been brilliant,” Galloway said.

But everyone’s really tight for grass, so people are selling stock earlier than they might have. Jim Galloway Feds Hawke’s Bay “But everyone’s really tight for grass, so people are selling stock earlier than they might have.” He says farmers had been planning for a dry spring, the third dry year in a row.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – September 20, 2021

Seeka eyes Northland packhouse purchase Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz LISTED post-harvest operator Seeka intends to purchase the Bay of Islands kiwifruit orchard management and fruit packing business Orangewood for a valuation of about $4.7 million.

The amalgamation of Orangewood and Seeka makes sense from every perspective. Brad Davies Orangewood Orangewood has 25 local growers as long-term shareholders, 75% of whom must approve the proposed sale at a meeting on October 1. The directors of Seeka and Orangewood have unanimously recommended the transaction.

Orangewood chair Brad Davies says the packhouse does 2.1m trays annually and the business employs about 70 fulltime people, plus shorter-term workers at harvest. The throughput was about 40% of the Bay of Islands kiwifruit crop. Orangewood shareholders are offered 0.6630 new Seeka shares and $1.35 in cash for every Orangewood share and there are 964,000 issued shares in total. At an issue price of $5.33, the offer values each Orangewood share at $4.88, which Davies says was comparable to the asset value in the balance sheet. Seeka is paying $6.55m in total because it is assuming approximately $1.84m of debt. “The amalgamation of Orangewood and Seeka makes sense from every perspective,” Davies said. “We need capital investment and Seeka has available processing capacity and a proven track record of delivering competitive returns to its growers and stakeholders.”

NEEDED: Seeka requires a 75% shareholder yes vote to approve the purchase.

PROPOSAL: An immigration adviser is seeking a South Island residency pathway for migrants holding a work visa.

Call for SI pathway visa Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz AN IMMIGRATION adviser is calling for a rethink on how longterm migrant workers are treated, saying up to 6000 in the South Island face an uncertain future. Ashburton-based Maria Jimenez says these migrants are employed in healthcare, hospitals, construction and agriculture and have an expectation they could apply for residency after meeting work criteria. Because of covid’s impact on the immigration office, the Government suspended Expressions of Interest (EOI) selections for the Skilled Migrant Category (SMC) last year, closing a pathway to residency for many migrants. The Government is also resetting immigration policy in a move to reduce the reliance on imported workers. Jimenez is launching a petition seeking a South Island residency pathway for migrants holding a work visa, which is applicable after five years working here. Previously there was a specific visa for South Island migrants, which led to residency, but this

was abandoned with the arrival of covid. She says reinstating such a pathway will provide certainty and recognise their contribution.

It will give certainty to people who have been here for five years and they have shown they have the skills that has helped the country through covid, so why not keep them? Maria Jimenez Immigration adviser “It will give certainty to people who have been here for five years and they have shown they have the skills that has helped the country through covid, so why not keep them?” Jimenez asked. She has not had a response from the Government to her suggestion. Data provided by Immigration NZ reveals that as at March 2020, the primary sector with 1767 people, has the greatest number

of Essential Skills and Work to Residence visa holders. Nationally, 5759 people hold these visas. The service sector is the next most reliant with 1586 people, followed by construction at 839. As of the same date there were 19,925 primary sector work visa holders (Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE), Supplementary Seasonal Employment (SSE) and fishing crew), of which 7161 were RSE workers and 3081 SSE. In total, the Government extended the duration of 40,121 work visa holders as part of the covid-19 response. Immigration NZ general manager of border and visa operations Nicola Hogg says data is not collected on why visa holders leave NZ. “Therefore, we cannot say how many migrant workers on work visas have left NZ since the start of this calendar year due to being unable to have their residence application considered,” Hogg said. She says the Government regularly reviews its immigration settings to account for the global situation and how it can provide more certainty for workers and employers.

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M bovis uptick expected Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz WHILE the national surveillance programme is providing assurance that Mycoplasma bovis is not widespread, more infected properties are expected through spring. Following four weeks of sitting on just two active confirmed properties, a new beef property in the Ashburton district was confirmed on Friday bringing the programme’s current active properties to three. The other two are a beef property in the Selwyn district and the Five Star Beef feedlot near Ashburton. Of the 45 bulk tank milk (BTM) detects in July requiring on-farm investigations, none were found to be infected properties, but spring testing will likely throw up some different results, M bovis disease eradication programme director Stuart Anderson said. BTM is a screening tool, screening samples from every dairy supplying milk. “It tells us where to focus our activity by detecting antibodies in milk,” Anderson said. A detect result is not a confirmed property, it means there are Mycoplasma antibodies in the milk. “It does not mean the animals on these dairies have M bovis,” he said. “Generally, more than 95% of BTM detects determine no infection is present after on-farm investigations are completed.” Of the near 8000 dairy farms screened in August, to date 61 have required further on-farm investigation, including testing. “With farmers in mind, we’ve moved as swiftly as we can on these and we’ve already ruled out 30 dairies as not infected and have investigations under way on the remaining 31,” he said. Anderson says spring is historically a time for a high

Yearling bulls make $7200 twice Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz

NO CAUSE FOR ALARM: M bovis programme director Stuart Anderson says more than 95% of BTM detects determine no infection is present after on-farm investigations are completed.

Generally, more than 95% of BTM detects determine no infection is present after onfarm investigations are completed. Stuart Anderson MPI number of detects, as it’s when animals are under stress from calving and young heifers are coming onto the milking platform for the first time. “It will not be unexpected to find some infected farms at this time,” he said. “While it is highly likely that the majority will not find actual infection, we must do our due diligence to be certain.”

Each of the detects are assessed on a case-by-case basis as to the need for on-farm investigation. “We want to ensure we balance the need to follow up and not miss possible infected dairies, but also not to cause unnecessary burden on farmers and the programme,” he said. Because of the increased number of detects in August, the need to assess each on a caseby-case basis and challenges associated with covid alert levels, Anderson says it may take longer to notify farmers of an August detect result. The July detects progressed through the on-farm testing process quickly and most farmers were back to farming, with no restrictions within a couple of weeks. “We intend for August detects to follow a similar pattern as best we can working within covid restrictions,” he said.

Anderson says the national surveillance programme, including BTM screening and beef and drystock surveillance are operating as they should, providing assurance that the disease is not widespread. Farmers getting a BTM detect can firstly be reassured the likelihood of this being a true infected property is low. Secondly, farmers need to make sure they have good on-farm records and up-to-date Nait recording, so movements can be easily tracked and risk events quickly identified. While there are currently two confirmed active properties, there are 35 under Notice of Direction (NoD), with 125 under active surveillance. To date, 172,488 cattle have been culled, with $209.6 million paid in compensation through 2644 completed claims. A further 24 claims remain in progress.

YEARLING bulls reached a top price of $7200 in the first week of spring sales, when two Angus bulls, Totaranui R274 and R235, headed a strong result for the Pahiatua stud. Damien Reynolds and Tally Jackson sold 66 bulls, with an average price of $3697. On the same day Kokonga Herefords, at Waikaretu in North Waikato, the Robinson family had a full clearance of 44 bulls sold. The top price was $7000 for Ipad 76 paid by a commercial buyer and the average was $3031. Te Whanga Angus, Masterton, sold 28 out of 43 offered for an average $2500 and a top of $4000. Heather Dell Angus, Rotorua, sold 30 out of 31, with a top of $4100 and an average $2343. Hukaroa Herefords, Te Kauwhata, sold 56 yearling bulls out of 60, averaging $2557 and a top of $4300, and eight out of nine two-yearolds, averaging $3600, highest $5000. Maranui Herefords, Waihi Beach, sold 19 out of 26, averaging $2005, with a top price of $3000. The Giddings family Meadowslea Angus Stud, Fairlie, sold a flush of embryos from 10-year-old cow G1000 for $950 each in a first-ever online embryo sale. The purchaser was Rob Bulle of Ardrossan Angus Stud in New South Wales. Earlier in the year, G1000 was sold to Australia for $16,000.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – September 20, 2021

Climate expert sceptical of methane plan Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz DESPITE a week of delays, criticism and a big methane target set by major trading partners, a top climate researcher believes New Zealand’s approach to pastoral greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction remains robust and world-leading. NZ Climate Change Research Institute director Professor David Frame says he was sceptical about the United States-European Union Global Methane Pledge that aims to cut 2020 methane emissions by 30% by 2030. This contrasts to NZ’s goal of a 10% reduction by 2030. The pledge, along with the recent deferral of NZ’s final emissions reduction plan, has raised fears NZ may be “climate

This strong preference towards methane is actually biased against developing countries in particular ... You are asking those poorer countries to yield their methane, in order for carbon dioxide emitters to continue. David Frame NZ Climate Change Research Institute

shamed” at the Glasgow climate change conference in November. It has also come as Climate Action Tracker rated NZ’s response to the climate crisis as being “highly insufficient”, while the country’s emissions reduction plan has also been delayed by five months. But Frame is calling for cool heads, in light of the underlying reasons he believes the EU-US have for formulating the pledge. The pledge aims to reduce human-caused methane, primarily released in those countries by leaky gas field pipes and sites, old coal mines and landfills. The US and EU intend to get other named countries, including NZ, to join the pledge. “Really this is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It is aimed at protecting gas and oil interests by seeking an ‘easy’ reduction, by removing those losses through leaks. Really it is quite disingenuous and the benefits are being oversold,” Frame said. The prospects of NZ’s core pastoral exports being “climate shamed” have become more of a concern with such moves. But Frame says this country remains the most advanced with its biogenic (livestock) methane reduction programme. With the absence of any global methane reduction agreement that includes livestock, he doubted NZ could be dragged through the WTO on grounds this country had not met targets like those proposed in the US-EU pledge.

SUPERFICIAL: Professor David Frame maintains efforts by EU and US to reduce methane are disingenuous.

While the prospect of even steeper methane cuts may hold appeal with the Green Party, Frame doubted other parties would see it as a good idea, particularly when no other country had a comprehensive methane reduction framework in place. He maintained there is a strong view in the EU that methane reduction represents an easier win as other carbon reduction options are exhausted. Methane’s life in the atmosphere was far shorter than carbon dioxide’s. Its reduction appealed to policymakers on grounds it gave more wriggle room around carbon dioxide emission level reductions,

usually tied to transportation. “This strong preference towards methane is actually biased against developing countries in particular. They typically have a higher ratio of methane to carbon dioxide due to their agricultural economic base. “You are asking those poorer countries to yield their methane, in order for carbon dioxide emitters to continue,” he said. He acknowledged there was a risk NZ may feel strong-armed into accepting tougher methane reductions by the pledge-makers wanting us on board. “But I do not see any other country suppressing their major export earners at this point to

reduce methane emissions,” he said. He suspected Climate Change Minister James Shaw would have a torrid time at Glasgow and be the recipient of some climate shaming, just as Australia and Canada have also been over time. “But they have not been expelled from any trade agreements,” he said. He argued NZ’s distinction of biogenic (livestock) methane and the reduction targets around it was a well-founded and wellreasoned one. But NZ had to do a better job explaining it to countries where human-generated methane dominated views.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – September 20, 2021

Levy to boost rural connectivity Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz A LEVY to fund universal access to high-speed internet has been welcomed by technology user group TUANZ as another means to improve rural internet connectivity. Minister for the Digital Economy and Communications David Clark told delegates at this year’s rural connectivity symposium a universal basic internet access was a necessity now and one made even more so in light of the pandemic. “There is work going ahead on this and looking at how it could be enabled,” Clark said. TUANZ chief Craig Young says a levy-funded scheme could be relatively easily launched and was done in other countries. “It is something we could easily implement through the Telecommunications Development Levy,” Young said. The levy is used by the Government to pay for telco infrastructure not commercially viable, including broadband in rural areas and improvements to 111. “For rural users it is as much about equity as it is about improving productivity in the primary sector,” he said.

ACCESS: TUANZ chief executive Craig Young says equity of access to the internet should include rural users.

Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) chair Mike Smith says growing demand on rural internet systems was coming as much from farmers installing more digitised equipment as it was from Netflix demand. “The tech we are seeing go on farms now is often so much greater than what we are seeing go into businesses in town,” Smith said. The rate of adoption and demand for bandwidth was leaving providers scrambling to keep up and he cautioned

failing to do so risked widening the broadband gap in some communities. While welcoming the advances made through Rural Broadband Initiatives (RBI) 1 and 2, the fast-changing tech needs and equipment demanded a doubling down in the next five years on a programme that no party could step aside from and claim completion on. “There is no magic bullet solution and connectivity will be through building a fabric of technology that is fit for purpose,” he said.

His members had been “upgrading like crazy” at sites across rural NZ to keep up with demand that had soared since the first lockdown in March last year. “This also includes building into sites and IoT networks, which is still in its early days,” he said. Estimates are rural broadband demand is up 75% under the latest lockdown compared to the last. Similarly, Vodafone is building or upgrading 800 tower sites in the next two to three years and partnering with its other Rural Connectivity Group companies to build an additional 500 RBI 2 sites in the next two years. Company strategic account manager Murray Osborne noted under its new ownership, Vodafone had enjoyed a shift in priorities to meet NZ’s unique internet challenges more closely. “At the moment we are having a lot of conversations about RBI 1 issues, about capacity and government help and support in non-economic areas. We need to keep the pressure on government to continue investment,” Osborne said. Further challenges lay with the low-orbit satellite network Starlink coming to NZ and effectively using the spectrum for free. “There is a need there for symmetric regulation and they

There is no magic bullet solution and connectivity will be through building a fabric of technology that is fit for purpose. Mike Smith WISPA need to be brought into the fold so we are providing an equal playing field for all out there,” he said. Clark says the sector was to establish a digital strategy in coming months to build greater cohesion into future development of the country’s internet infrastructure. Under covid funding, the government had invested $15 million to help reduce congested wireless networks and a rural capacity programme for shovel ready projects, along with $60m promised in its election manifesto. “The goal is for 99.8% of the population to access better broadband by 2023. We now have 85% of the population in 309 towns and cities who can access broadband by fibre, aiming at 87% by the end of 2022,” Clark said.

Scammers target farmers Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz MORE than half New Zealand’s farmers have dealt with cybercrime in the past year, with robo-calls and dodgy invoices forming the bulk of the scams. Federated Farmers president and telecommunications spokesperson Andrew Hoggard released results of the Feds’ latest rural internet survey at this year’s rural internet symposium. The survey covered over 1000 rural users, spread evenly throughout NZ and included the lockdown period. “Fifty-two percent of farmers have experienced it, with robocalls and dodgy calls to mobiles being the main ones. Fake invoices come a very distant second, with 17% receiving them,” Hoggard said. Three-quarters of those who

have experienced it have done so in the past 12 months. This mirrored a general increase in national cyber-crimes throughout NZ.

Fifty-two percent of farmers have experienced it, with robo-calls and dodgy calls to mobiles being the main ones. Andrew Hoggard Federated Farmers In other areas of the survey, Hoggard says respondents had reported that despite more RBI 2 internet investment, the rollout

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was not matching demand. “We had a lot of farmers saying their service was only the same or had declined in the past 12 months. That included comments that service seemed to degrade as residential subdivision went in or rural population increased,” he said. He says the pace of RBI 2 rollout meant it did not feel like the programme was helping as well as it should. He noted Starlink, the Elon Musk satellite company, was very focused on selling to rural users, and could prove a good option for those farmers most isolated from other connection options. TUANZ chief executive Craig Young says as telcos pushed the work they were doing to lift internet connectivity, the survey provided a very grounded snapshot of what real users were experiencing.

MODUS OPERANDI: Feds telecommunications spokesperson and president Andrew Hoggard says dodgy invoices are among the scams farmers get via email and phone.

“It comes back to a comment made last year that with connectivity you just cannot stand still. It has been an issue with

previous governments, to invest and stand aside, but you need to keep on investing and building on what went before,” Young said.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – September 20, 2021

Funds boost for catchment groups Colin Williscroft colin.williscroft@globalhq.co.nz THE latest investment of $2.1 million in farmer-led catchment groups has taken the number of groups receiving support past 150. In announcing support for 31 groups in Manawatū, Rangitīkei and Wairarapa at Mangaweka in Rangitīkei, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor said more than 5000 farmers around the country are now focused on restoring freshwater through their involvement in catchment groups. “In the past 18 months, almost $29 million has been invested in catchment groups, through the Ministry for Primary Industries’ extension services and Jobs for Nature programmes,” O’Connor said. “We’re investing a further $910,000 over two years in the Rangitīkei Rivers Catchment Collective (RRCC), where 17 catchment groups will be supported, with the potential for several more. “In Wairarapa, the Wairarapa Pūkaha to Kawakawa Alliance (WaiP2K) has been allocated $1.1 million over two years to support five existing farmer-led catchment groups and enable up to 10 more to be established.” The Manawatū Rivers Catchment Collective, which was set up last year to bring subcatchment groups within the wider Manawatū River catchment together, has been allocated $120,000 for a nine-month project to support nine existing groups. O’Connor says catchment groups are at the forefront of all efforts to improve freshwater, including the Government’s freshwater proposals and work done by regional and district councils. “While ultimately every farm is different, which is why we will have farm plans, the collective efforts of farmers through catchment groups will be what determines the improvement of water quality,” he said. “I’ve always seen them as the best vehicle to run and share the improvement and practices

TEAMWORK: Rangitīkei Rivers Catchment Collective members Andrew Totman and daughter-in-law Lou Totman take a water sample near Omatane, south of Taihape.

Catchment groups are leading the way to achieve what the wider population of NZ want but the wider population has to ensure they also do their bit. Damien O’Connor Agriculture Minister that we need.” He says it’s important that catchment groups are community-led. “While we have always said we will get alongside and help fund people who want to set them up, ultimately they need to be initiated and driven from the ground up,” he said. “But there have to be some bottom lines, so that people know what to aspire to and go beyond. “Those bottom lines are what government has to put in place. “We’re not wanting to tell

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people what to do, but we need to set a standard that the wider community accepts is adequate for the protection of water. “However, what you do onfarm and how you do it, is up to farmers, supported by catchment groups.” O’Connor says the passion and the commitment of people in catchment groups to look after water needs to be better understood by people who don’t know much about farming. “Their commitment to water quality is far greater than that of many people in towns and cities who take water for granted,” he said. “Catchment groups are leading the way to achieve what the wider population of NZ want, but the wider population has to ensure they also do their bit.” RRCC co-ordinator Lou Totman says of the 17 catchment groups under its umbrella, which was established in 2017, nine of those have been added in the last year. She says the target is about 20 groups. The collective’s total area, which

includes sub-catchments across the Rangitīkei, Turakina and Whangaehu rivers, encompasses about 700,000ha, of which the collective currently covers about 470,000ha. Water samples are collected monthly from more than 60 sites, measuring nitrogen (N), phosphorus, E.coli and turbidity (sediment) levels. Results are sent for testing to Central Environmental Laboratories in Palmerston North, which is government-accredited, providing assurance that the data supplied is robust. WaiP2K chair Jill Murray says its funding will help it establish a steering group, along with regional and local coordinator roles. The steering group will be made up of representatives from iwi, the farming community and agencies and will be responsible for developing and monitoring the plan’s implementation. “Local coordinators, at a catchment or sub-catchment level, will be recruited from within each community and be responsible for the coordination

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of the catchment group,” Murray said. “The programme of work will include governance and coordination support to groups, and development of individual farm plans that will feed into wider catchment plans. “Workshops on topics such as mapping, stream health monitoring and predator control will also be delivered across the region.” Manawatū Rivers Catchment Collective chair Shelley DewHopkins says the group is in its infancy but it has just advertised for a coordinator. She says the plan is to operate as an umbrella organisation like the RRCC does. Although the initial contract covers nine sub-catchment groups, she expects that number to grow to 13. Sub-catchment groups already operating individually in the region cover about 182,000ha of the region’s total area of 600,000, which she says shows farmers’ longstanding commitment to the environment.

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – September 20, 2021

OFI outlines factory plans Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz OLAM Food Ingredients (OFI) will release further details around its supply offer to farmers later this year after confirming plans to develop a new dairy processing facility at Tokoroa in South Waikato. The Singapore-based company is ironing out the final details of its milk supply strategy. Decisions around the factory’s supplier catchment area and numbers had yet to be determined, OFI general manager of milk supply Paul Johnson said. “It’s early days. I’ve met with farmers in the local area and rural professionals to get a read on interest. It’s been positive and well received. “We haven’t put a specific kilometre radius on it, we’re just talking with anyone who is interested,” Paul Johnson said. The factory site was 11 hectares and had scope to grow if more suppliers came on board. The target this early on was to work with farmers and ensure their businesses retained confidence, certainty and cashflow if they became suppliers. “The number of farms will be a driver, but it’s really about the offering,” he said. “We’re really excited with the conversations we have had and the feedback we have had. “We’re really excited to be getting in front of farmers and taking expressions of interest and from there, it’s about building trust and relationships.” It is now taking expressions of interest from potential farmer suppliers, employees, contractors and general trade suppliers. OFI ranks among the top three dairy suppliers in the world. The Tokoroa plant will become part of a global network that spans 20 major milk consumption markets, including South-East

Asia, China, the Middle East and Africa. The first stage of the factory, expected to be commissioned in the third quarter of 2023 will involve constructing a spray dryer facility, capable of producing dairy ingredients, with a heavy focus on renewable energy and sustainability. Additional facilities will be added over time to expand the range targeting customers using the ingredients for desserts, bakery, beverages and confectionery. The ingredients produced will form part of OFI’s much wider natural ingredients portfolio, which includes cocoa, coffee, nuts and spices, ideal combinations with dairy for customised products such as yoghurts, protein bars and ready-to-drink tea, coffee and cocoa beverages. Johnson says this value-add proposition would flow through in the offering to farmers. “The milk supply strategy will also have incentives for farmers to be rewarded if their milk is used in an added value product,” he said. “We will be paying the milk price and then looking at how we can recognise those downstream opportunities and looking at how we can pass that value through as part of the entire strategy.” While having a competitive milk price was important, Johnson says farmer feedback had also pointed towards price certainty and ways to manage price risk volatility. He says Olam’s cashflow policy will also be competitive relative to other companies. OFI dairy senior vice president Naval Sabri says the new factory will complement and enhance OFI’s ability to support global customers to meet growing consumer demand for products that are natural, nutritious and delicious.

NEW RECRUITS: Olam has appointed Paul Johnson as its general manager of milk supply and Paul Rennie as its operations director to support the development of its new Tokoroa factory.

“It will also help address their innovation, traceability, and sustainable sourcing requirements as New Zealand’s farming standards and highquality milk are very well regarded,” Sabri said. “We have enjoyed a long and successful history in New Zealand through our previous investment in Open Country Dairy and we are pleased to be deepening our presence and relationships. “Our Tokoroa facility will open up more supply options for farmers in South Waikato, and employment opportunities in the community.” OFI operations director Paul Rennie says the new factory is expected to create 50-60 full-time jobs when fully operational, with more jobs anticipated in future stages of the development. “We are looking forward to joining the Tokoroa community and sharing our strong focus on operating sustainably. “This will include maximising the use of renewable energy sources, waste minimisation and building infrastructure to ensure we handle our waste in the most sustainable way possible.”

Less P loss, more soil carbon THE growing regen movement has seen one fertiliser company develop a product that could help farmers who find some of the movement’s goals appealing. Quinfert chief executive Bert Quin says he has developed new technology that will reduce P loss and increase soil carbon. Quin says while not as environmentally protective as sustained released totally natural RPR, the new technology does permit the safer use of superphosphate and other soluble P fertilisers. He says it also increases the accumulation and activity of soil organic matter that the presence of allophane brings, sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the process. “I am very excited about its potential,” Quin said. The basis of the technology is

incubating soluble phosphate – of any type – with damp subsoil from allophanic or other highly P-retentive soils, which is present in large parts of the North Island and also the South Island. Quin says allophane is a fine clay that has an ability to retain plant available P in non-water soluble form, which protects it from runoff and leaching losses. But that’s not all. “The allophane in soils sequesters carbon dioxide as it accumulates highly-productive soil organic matter,” he said. “It will over time markedly reduce the current massive losses of carbon dioxide that are lost from peat soils – anything up to 1000 tonnes per hectare annually.” Quin Environmentals has applied for patents over the technology.

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Rough seas ahead for supply chain LEADING trade advisor Charles Finny is painting a bleak picture for global supply chains that he suspects will linger for the next two years. Speaking in an online webinar sponsored by Agcarm, Finny says until new ships were commissioned into the global container fleet, there would remain an imbalance that would keep isolated countries like NZ vulnerable to schedule changes and capacity issues. Finny is a partner at Wellington government relations company Saunders Unsworth, where he is specialising in supply chain issues. He has spent years in international relations and oversaw the China-NZ free trade deal.

It seems now, every time I think things will get better, we are back to square one. Charles Finny Saunders Unsworth After the surge in global demand for goods post-2020 lockdowns, he says it was now clear shipping companies had got things very wrong when they anticipated a global retraction in trade. “China came back up and running in only two months, there was an explosion in international trade and we are still catching up,” Finny said.

International ship building companies have had their order books for this year filled by June, with the first being completed by 2022 at the earliest. Maersk, a regular shipping company servicing NZ, has ordered eight new container ships that will be carbon-neutral, due for 2024 delivery. After a career in international relations, trade and diplomacy, Finny candidly admitted last year had been the worst in his working life. “It seems now, every time I think things will get better, we are back to square one,” he said. He referred particularly to the impact of the Ever Given container ship blocking the Suez Canal, just as supply lines appeared to be freeing up. At that point estimates are 14% of the world’s cargo capacity was suspended mid-ocean until the Suez was reopened. He attributed about a third of last year’s supply chain issues to domestic problems here in NZ, particularly productivity issues at Port of Auckland, with its automation and staffing problems. “This year, however, it is largely globally driven,” he said. He believed the big exporters who wielded some weight over shipping capacity were in a reasonable position. The likes of Fonterra and Silver Fern Farms with their Kotahi freight union were one example. Interestingly, utilising bulk ships to freight containers is evolving as an option to avoid container ship shortages and accelerate access to ports that can have dozens of ships at anchor, awaiting a berth. Maritime news sites are

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reporting more bulk carrier shippers switching to lucrative container charters, in some cases tripling their daily charter revenue. Capacity on these ships is, however, relatively limited and subject to contract and safety issues. Putting his trade analyst’s hat on, Finny says NZ should be thankful about our relationship with China today and this country’s plethora of other free trade agreements that meant NZ could shift products to other markets when China shut down earlier on. He predicted a “new normal” rather than a “return to normal”, in a world that involved less people traveling for “quite some time.” E-commerce would only grow and there would be some big questions asked about just-intime inventory models, requiring more localised production and greater stock storage. Shipping companies were now recouping some of the significant losses they had incurred prior to covid and only time would tell if they had got their increased capacity estimates right. As part of the “new normal” he suspected NZ may see fewer

bigger ships visiting fewer NZ ports, requiring sharper focus on a coastal shipping network to service those ports in a “hub and spoke” arrangement. “A number of people are looking at this. If the Government were to intervene, they could accelerate what seems an inevitable trend,” he said.

“And inflation is a real concern for me. “The global debate is around whether it is short term, or will it be longer-term? “A lot of analysts and policymakers have not lived through high inflation like some of us have and do not recognise the danger signals like we do.”

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Rewarding sustainable irrigation THREE New Zealand farms selected as finalists in the 2021 Zimmatic Trailblazer Sustainable Irrigation Awards have been praised by the judges for their willingness to embrace the challenges of irrigation and commitment to finding solutions for the benefit of their farm business and their communities. The awards aim to celebrate excellence in sustainable irrigation and encourage farmers to share ideas for achieving sustainable freshwater management. This year’s finalists are: Simon and Lou White (Hawke’s Bay); Angus Aitken (Canterbury); and Richard and Annabelle Subtil (North Otago). The farms range from mixed arable cropping and beef finishing to sheep and fine wool production, highlighting the breadth of farming sectors that rely on irrigation. IrrigationNZ chair, Irricon Resource Solutions principal and head judge for the awards Keri Johnston says it was exciting to see such a high calibre of entries from all over NZ for this year’s competition. “These awards are an opportunity for the irrigation sector to celebrate and showcase how irrigation done well can

IN THE RUNNING: North Otago farmers Richard and Annabelle Subtil are among this year’s finalists.

benefit the environment and our communities,” Johnston said. “It’s also about farmers building their businesses’ resilience through the adoption of technology, raising awareness amongst their peers and their community about what they’re doing and monitoring performance. “The three finalists stood out for their willingness to embrace the challenges that irrigation

is often associated with. They demonstrated their commitment to working through the issues, seeking out opportunities to do things better and highlighting the positive synergies of working with our natural resources for the benefit of all. They really are leading by example. “While we could only choose three finalists, all our entrants should be commended for their commitment to responsible water

management both on and off the farm.” The competition is run by agricultural irrigation systems leader, Zimmatic by Lindsay, with support from New Zealand Awards partners Farmers Weekly, Irricon, Vantage NZ and IrrigationNZ. It recognises farmers leading the way in responsible irrigation, innovative water management and environmental stewardship. Awards coordinator Sarah Elliot says it is exciting to see the awards gaining momentum, receiving double last year’s nominations. “This result demonstrates that people see the awards as an opportunity to recognise farmers’ efforts, thank those leading the way and use them to tell positive stories about their journeys,” Elliot said. “We’ve been thrilled with the quality and number of entries we’ve had this year as we stepped up the effort required to enter. We are excited to see the competition grow in the future. “This year’s finalists embody the very essence of the awards. They understand that by being innovative and responsibly managing one of our most precious resources, their business thrives and so does the community. Our sincere

congratulations to them all.” Ted and Sue Rollinson from Canterbury were the NZ winners of the 2020 inaugural competition. This year’s competition is only open to NZ farmers, with the awards being held in Australia in 2022. Each entrant is judged on the following categories: sustainable irrigation management; irrigationdriven improvements, which may include cost reductions, environmental outcomes, yield improvements and/or improved efficiencies; waterway protection; stewardship/community. On-farm judging will take place in November before the supreme winner is announced later that month. The award categories are Supreme Award Winner; Sustainable Irrigation Management Award; Farmers Weekly NZ Community Award; and Future Trailblazer Award (awarded at judges’ discretion). Together, Zimmatic and its awards partners are offering a total prize package for 2021 of more than$22,000.

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Milk for the future Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz THE first New Zealand homegrown oat milk is now available in supermarkets nationwide. The announcement of Otis Oat Milk’s new supply deal inked with Countdown coincides with the company’s launch of its 1% Fund, an initiative by Otis to help diversify farming by supporting NZ farmers to grow oats. The deal will see Otis cartons lining shelves around the country in Countdown, New World, Farro and Moore Wilson. Otis co-founder Chris Wilkie says the company wants to help NZ farmers lead the way for the 21st century in a way of farming that’s more diverse, more plantbased and one that works in harmony with nature, not against it. “No surprises, but we think the mighty oat holds many of the answers,” Wilkie said. “That’s why we are dedicating 1% of our total sales to fund projects and initiatives that make oats a viable and exciting farming alternative.” Founded by Wilkie and Tim Ryan in 2018, Otis Oat Milk has a strong underlying philosophy to lead a plant-based revolution. “We are on a mission and our revolution will have farmers and people at its heart, to help the world change from intensive dairy farming to environmentallyfriendly alternatives,” Ryan said. He says oat milk is the perfect milk for the future, with research globally showing oat milk’s footprint is much lighter.

Producing one litre of oat milk requires 11 times less land and 13 times less water than producing one litre of dairy milk. He says that one litre of oat milk also emits three-and-a-half times fewer greenhouse gas emissions than its dairy equivalent. While “very much” at the beginning of their journey with the 1% Fund, the pair plan to connect with researchers, thought leaders and farmers to find out what the barriers are to growing oats, what scientific work could contribute to the project and where farmers may need the most support. Funds will be collected and research undertaken over the coming year. “By gaining a deeper understanding of the opportunities, by September 2022 we aim to channel the first year’s funds in the direction of the biggest impact, whilst ensuring it’s delivered in a way that sees both our rural communities and environment thrive,” Ryan said. While intensive dairy is big business in NZ, Wilkie says Kiwis need to be courageous and start diversifying what they put in their supermarket trolley. “It (dairy) is depleting our nation’s soil, is a large contributor to our nation’s emissions, and pollutes our waterways,” he said. “Oats on the other hand, suck carbon from the air, pull nitrogen from the soil and use hardly any water, plus they don’t burp, fart or urinate. “We think these are compelling reasons to start diversifying our agriculture and for there

MISSION: Otis Oat Milk co-founder Tim Ryan says the business is on a mission to help the world change from intensive dairy farming to environmentally-friendly alternatives.

Oats suck carbon from the air, pull nitrogen from the soil and use hardly any water, plus they don’t burp, fart or urinate. Chris Wilkie Otis Oat Milk to be more investment in dairy alternatives.” Otis Oat Milk has a creamy yet neutral taste and dairy-like consistency and is free from dairy,

soy, nuts and is vegan-friendly. “Oats are a wonder food,” Wilkie said. “We know Kiwis are increasingly looking for clean products that are not only good for the planet, but good for their bodies and tasty to boot.” Otis works with the NZ oat growers’ group and 70 arable farmers who operate a crop rotation system. “A farmer may typically rotate from grazing pasture to oats for an autumn harvest, followed by barley and peas and then to a ryegrass seed crop or vegetable and back to pasture,” he said. “This healthy cyclic farm management provides the soil

with constant variants while each crop performs a different duty.” Ryan says the oats act as a natural catch crop for excess nitrogen that might be in the soil, preventing any run-off entering waterways. The Otis range is available in one litre cartons, and includes an everyday milk, perfect for on muesli, in smoothies, in a cuppa or on its own. The barista milk pairs with any coffee bean roast profile, producing the perfect flat white, with a velvety smooth finish. Otis Everyday oat milk 1l sells at $5.50 and Otis Barista oat milk 1l, $6.00.

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Training cows to use MooLoos Gerald Piddock gerald.piddock@globalhq.co.nz NEW research has shown that cows can be successfully toilet-trained – and potentially help farmers reduce water contamination and greenhouse gas emissions. The work was conducted by University of Auckland-affiliated researchers Lindsay Matthews and Douglas Elliffe on a farm in Germany in 2015, run by the Federal Research Institute for Animal Health. If cows could be trained to urinate in a ‘toilet’ at least some of the time, nitrogen could be captured and dealt with before it pollutes water or turns into nitrous oxide gas. “We’ve shown proof of concept that we can train cows and train them easily,” Elliffe, a University of Auckland professor of psychology, said. “Cattle urine is a major cause of our nitrogen problem. Any reduction in that would make a difference.” Matthews says modelling work on Dutch farms showed if 80% of the urine could be captured, then there could be a 50% reduction in ammonia produced. With their German colleagues, Matthews and Elliffe worked with 16 calves at the German farm, which operated using an indoor barn system. First, they demonstrated that most calves could be trained to “hold it”. If they began to urinate in the wrong place, the scientists would make their collars vibrate. While the vibration didn’t hurt them, most of the calves soon learned to walk a short distance to a latrine pen. Next, Matthews and Elliffe put the calves in a latrine pen, which was bright green to differentiate it from other pens and rewarded them with a favoured food treat if they urinated there.

MOOLOO: A calf enters the latrine pen on a farm in Germany in a study to see if cattle can be toilet trained.

Cattle urine is a major cause of our nitrogen problem. Any reduction in that would make a difference. Douglas Elliffe University of Auckland “This is how some people train their children – they put them on the toilet, wait for them to pee, then reward them if they do it,” Matthews said. “Turns out it works with calves too. In very short order, five or 10 urinations for some animals, they demonstrated they understood the connection between the desired behaviour and the reward by going to the feeder as soon as they started urinating.” The next progression was to increase the distance cows had to walk to the latrine. If “accidents”

occurred in another part of the barn, scientists would squirt a little cold water at them. Most of the calves soon learned the ultimate toilet-training skill. “Very quickly, within 15 to 20 urinations on average, the cows would self-initiate entry to the toilet. This is very exciting because it means they were paying attention to their bladder getting fuller,” he said. “By the end, three quarters of the animals were doing threequarters of their urinations in the toilet.” The calves received only 15 days of training and the majority learned the full set of skills within 20 to 25 urinations, which compares favourably to toilettraining time for three- and fouryear-old children. The next step for Matthews and Elliffe is to bring their research to a New Zealand farming context. AgResearch did that in a separate but similar experiment in 2019 on a Manawatū farm.

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In that study, scientist Luke Cooney looked to see if urination and defecation could be controlled on eight calves in a pasture paddock using a similar type of reward system as Matthews’ study. These calves were trained over four weeks to associate urination and defecation with a food reward from an automatic feeder near a ‘potty stall’ in an enclosed pen within the paddock. The calves were then given free access to the paddock and Cooney measured how often the calves went to the toilet to get a reward. Before training, 1.3% of the calves used the stall and this climbed to 47% post-training. “That’s a 35%-fold increase. It was really great and gave us some encouragement that potentially cows are capable of potty training,” Cooney said. “Lindsay’s study has really bolstered that belief that it’s definitely possible.”

However, stall use by the calves fell to 22% by the third day. Cooney believes the calves needed further reinforcement to encourage undesired behaviour post-training. But it did show it was possible in a paddock setting, he said. Matthew’s use of the vibrating collars and the water squirts looked to be a good way of reinforcing that behaviour. It also showed strong evidence that calves could anticipate the reward if they were at the feeder. Cooney is currently seeking further funding on this research. He also knows an engineer interested in making an automated version of the training system capable of dispensing feed out in a paddock. “What I envision as the end goal for this technology is a kind of cattle portaloo potentially that could be deployed in a paddock that encourages the cows to come over and collect the effluent,” Cooney said.

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VITAL: Lincoln University deputy vicechancellor Professor Grant Edwards says it is important that the Lincoln University Dairy Farm’s systems are regularly reassessed.

on-farm nitrogen leaching by up to 20% by managing the cows’ diets, and without reducing overall herd numbers, are obvious and compelling.” In introducing plantain, LUDF is applying research from the Forages for Reduced Nitrate Leaching (FRNL) project. FRNL, a six-year cross-sector programme, looked at ways forages can reduce nitrate leaching. Nearby Lincoln University Research Dairy Farm is also part of the Plantain Potency and Practice programme – a $22m research initiative into plantain on dairy farms. LUDF’s third research initiative places a greater focus on lowering the replacement rate of heifers for the herd.

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A REVISION of systems on the Lincoln University Dairy Farm (LUDF) will see it more effectively contribute to New Zealand dairying and the wider primary sector. The South Island Dairying Demonstration Centre (SIDDC) has revised LUDF farm systems to launch three new initiatives geared at sustainable dairy farming practices. LUDF is a 186ha demonstration dairy farm at Lincoln, near Christchurch. It aims to maximise sustainable, profitable farming by optimising productivity, environmental footprint and animal welfare targets. The revised systems researching variable milking frequency; moving the forage base to include plantain; and replacement rate reduction, are being implemented to expand the farm’s focus and extend its outlook through to 2030. Lincoln University deputy vicechancellor Professor Grant Edwards says the SIDDC is committed to taking a leadership role in dairy farming in NZ through LUDF. “It’s important that the partnership regularly reassesses and revisits the farm’s systems to consolidate its position at the vanguard of current and future scenarios,” Edwards said. SIDDC demonstration manager Jeremy Savage says the variable milking programme will benefit animal welfare and improve staff safety. The variable milking programme, to be implemented from the 2021-22 season, involves moving from the traditional twice-a-day milking to a more flexible milking regime, with 10 milkings over seven days. “It will improve cow welfare through less lameness, better overall health condition and enhanced vigour, but will also lift the safety and wellbeing of staff, with kinder rosters, fewer early starts and more condensed workloads allowing for better work-life balance,” Savage said. DairyNZ, a SIDDC partner, supports the implementation of the new farm systems. “NZ’s dairy sector is committed to remaining the most sustainable milk producers,” general manager for new systems and competitiveness David McCall said. “It is also exciting to see the adoption of variable milking frequencies, following DairyNZ’s three-year flexible milking project which highlighted the opportunities this system presents farmers.” LUDF expects to achieve the improved outcomes without impacting profitability. Starting in October, LUDF will plant at least 10% of the farm per year into plantain, a forage expected to significantly reduce nitrogen leaching. “With cow intakes of 30% plantain or higher, we anticipate LUDF will achieve further improvements to its nitrogen leaching results,” Savage said. “The potential benefits of reducing

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Hort bank lending on the rise Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz BANK lending to the agricultural and horticultural sectors grew in the June quarter, led by Rabobank and ASB, while ANZ decreased its still market-leading position. Total lending at June 30 was $60.82 billion, up by $64 million compared with March 31. ANZ went down by $292m,

CHANGE: Rabobank senior analyst Emma Higgins says GDT prices had moved sideways or lower for the past six months, until the latest lift.

In the latest quarter of Reserve Bank of New Zealand reporting on agri-loans, dairy’s share fell by $199m to $38.18b, whereas horticultural borrowing increased by $218m to $5.95b. Lending to sheep, beef, cropping and other agricultural businesses was steady at $17.5b. Dairy loans have fallen by $1.63b over 12 months, a 4% rate of decrease. NZAB, the NZ-wide agricultural loan broker, which analysed the Reserve Bank figures, pointed out that lending to agricultural and horticultural sectors is less than 13% of total bank lending. That indebtedness total is now $478b, up $10b or 2.1% over the quarter, and up 6% in the past 12 months. Some 80% of that growth was in home loan debt. ANZ is the biggest loan bank, at $140b, followed by ASB, BNZ and Westpac all with $90-$100b each. Banks reported that 1.48% of their agri-loans were classed as non-performing and the range across all banks varied from 0.5% for ANZ to 2.9% for Rabobank.

Rabobank up by $220m and ASB up by $124m. ANZ remains with the largest market share, 26.3%, followed by BNZ on 21.1%, Rabobank 18.7%, ASB 16.9%, Westpac 15.2% and Heartland 1%. It was the first quarter of loan growth for some time because the dairy industry dominance has in recent times featured loan repayments from good milk payouts.

STATS: In the latest quarter of RBNZ reporting on agri-loans, dairy’s share fell by $199 million, whereas horticultural borrowing increased by $218m.

Milk forecasts go both ways Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz A PREDICTED slowdown in Chinese import demand for milk powder is why Rabobank has trimmed 20c from its farm gate milk price forecast, now $7.80/kg milksolids. The analysis of China’s needs and the cut in milk price expectation were done before the latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction, in which the price index rose 4% and whole milk powder rose 3.3%. Rabobank senior analyst Emma Higgins says all eyes are on China, our key export market, as the risk of downside in the milk price forecast. “Supply is outpacing demand in China, with domestic milk production growth combined with growing inventories of dairy products,” Higgins said. “These factors point to the potential for a period of destocking later this year and into 2022.”

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Higgins says GDT prices had moved sideways or lower for the past six months, until the latest lift. “Despite last week’s lift, we see a strong possibility that the nearterm peak in global prices is likely behind us,” she said. “Our $7.80 forecast is at the lower end of all analysts’ expectations right now, but it would still be an excellent result for our dairy farmers – the secondlargest in Fonterra’s history.” Rabobank’s Dairy Quarterly Report said China’s own milk supply is growing 6-7% annually and its milk powder importing has been up 40% in the first half of 2021.

It forecasts that importing will fall by 18% in the second half to drive some destocking. Higgins also commented on other global supply and demand dynamics, which would influence the farm gate milk price. These include the shape of the NZ spring peak and how global dairy demand holds up in the face of reductions in fiscal aid from governments worldwide. High feed costs and growing margin pressure in the northern hemisphere may influence milk production, along with the added strain of inflation. But while Rabobank counselled caution, BNZ senior economist Doug Steel published an upbeat research note on the milk price outlook and raised his estimate 50c to $8.30. He says the balance of risks surrounding the milk price forecasts had moved upward and the $8.30 was not a precise estimate because of the time of the season and all the moving parts. “The bounce in GDT prices follows a general lift in global risk appetite over recent weeks helping underpin demand,” Steel said. There was firmness to the underlying demand and forward price curves showed high prices extending into next year. Fonterra had removed quantities of WMP from the GDT platform citing strong demand through other sales channels. Milk production growth in the European Union had been subdued. “We still don’t expect a strong global milk supply response to strong dairy prices,” he said. Even though the NZ season has started strongly and grass growth has been favourable in most of the country, BNZ doesn’t expect milk production this season to be greater than last season. That is due to good production last season and the trend to fewer cows. Steel pointed out that the NZD had risen 2.6% in value against the USD in the three weeks before the latest GDT event, which tended to work against the 4% index lift. In summary, “the dynamics and balance of risks appear to be changing with robust demand bumping up against subdued supply”.

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Award winning Taranaki farmers environmental journey has led to a number of unexpected but very valuable things including learning te reo Māori. Damian and Jane Roper farm a 320 hectare dairy farm in South Taranaki. Their journey to owning their own farm has not been something that has happened overnight and has allowed them to explore some interesting and varied experiences along the way. Read the full article at https://farmersweekly.co.nz/section/dairy/view/farming-journey-leads-to-learning-te-reo-maori and see if you can answer the following questions. 1 2 3 4 5

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What were some of the other jobs that Damian and Jane did before dairy farming? How long did it take them to own their own farm? How many cows do they milk? What is their milk solid (MS) production per cow? What supplementary feeds do they grow for their cows? What do they use to decrease supplementary feed wastage? What was the difference in the amount of feed fed in the first year of its use? The Ropers journey learning te reo Māori allowed them to see that Māori environmental values were identical to their own. What are these? Damian and Jane are members of the WelFarm group. What is this and what purpose does this group serve? What have the Ropers decided to replant their current 100ha pine lock with when it is harvested?

Identifying stress in yourself: How do we learn to identify stress in ourselves? It is hard to go through life and avoid never feeling worried, anxious or stressed but with interesting times in the world, it is important that we talk about it and the signs. Firstly, don’t compare what you feel stressed about to someone else’s stress. It is hard because our friends and family tell us what they are worried about and sometimes it can make our own situation feel inadequate. IT IS NOT! Always remember everyone has their own things going on in their life and so we cannot compare our journey to that of someone else. You are allowed to ‘feel all the feels’ and our abilities to handle how we are feeling are all so individually different. So don’t ever be hard on yourself as you learn how to grow your own resilience to life.

2 When have values been at the lowest level in the last two years?

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Muscle tension and pain, - Low energy - Headaches - Decreased appetite Muscle spasms/tension - Shortness of breath or trouble breathing

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and digest mode and out of ‘flight mode’. You will feel a Activity: If you start to feel like you sense of calmness after a couple are experiencing any one of the of minutes of doing this. symptoms above then try these exercises. You can do them as It is really important to not have many times in a day as you need any distractions while doing this so and for as long as you think helps. pop that phone onto silent mode! ~ BOX BREATHING: ~ Do something that makes four counts, out for 4 counts, hold for 4 counts. Repeat.

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How does the latest NI mutton value compare to the previous season?

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What are the physical signs of stress?

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A university of Auckland study in conjunction with affliated researchers from Germany have tested whether cows can be trained to urinate in a “toilet” at least some of the time. With the aim that if 80% of the urine could be captured then there could be a 50% reduction in ammonia produced. Have a read of the full article at https:// farmersweekly.co.nz/section/dairy/view/study-shows-cows-can-be-potty-trained Do you think this is something that would be viable on New Zealand farms and throughout the world? Is there a need for this type of innovation?

3 Due to strong demand from China, and growing interest from the US, the July average export value for mutton settled at $8.75/kg. What is the percentage difference compared to the five-year average of $5.99/kg and last year at $6.74/kg?

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Newsmaker

Reflection on a colourful career Emeritus Professor Ralph Sims recently celebrated 50 years of service at Massey University in Palmerston North. Colin Williscroft reports on a career that has brought him international recognition in a variety of fields.

URING the course of his tenure at Massey, Ralph Sims has seen his career go from the paddock to outer space, but it’s the people he’s met along the way that he appreciates the most. Sims’ first role at the university was as a lecturer in agricultural machinery in the early 1970s, covering technology such as tractors and spray calibration. It’s a long way from a Zoom call he was part of a couple of weeks ago to the United Arab Emirates, when he was helping to assess the performance of parts of the Government there, as they vie for the country’s government excellence awards. “It’s very competitive. If you can imagine (in a NZ context) the Ministry of Health competing against the Productivity Commission or the Ministry for the Environment, and they’re all chasing this award,” Sims said. Three years ago, Sims helped review the UAE’s Ministry for Climate Change and Ministry for the Environment equivalents, both of which he says were very good. This time around, he’s looking at its space agency, its civil aviation authority and its telecommunications agency. “But I know nothing about any of those, so I’m learning fast,” he said. The same week as the UAE Zoom call, he was on another international call, this time as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), where he is a review editor for an upcoming report on climate change mitigation. Sims and his wife Cathy arrived in New Zealand in August 1971 from England, the job offer coming via an aerogram. He came to NZ on the back of an agricultural engineering qualification from Newcastle University, which he did after completing an agriculture degree at Reading. “I was looking around for jobs and I’d done a lot of work on milking machine designs. NZ was of course pretty high-profile in the dairying area,” he said. At the time, Massey’s agronomy department included a small group that specialised in agricultural mechanisation and that’s where he began work. “We only intended to be here for two years but ended up staying 50. My father once told me that during your career, when you come to a fork in the road, take it,” he said. During his tenure with Massey, Sims has held several positions and undertaken many international roles, including being a lead author for the IPCC on five major climate mitigation reports, as well as spending time with the International Energy

Agency in Paris. He has also been a supervisor to numerous PhD and masters students, although his role in that area these days is much less than it was. He still takes the occasional lecture, as well as doing plenty of media work, including being called on by Radio NZ’s The Panel for his opinion on energy and climate change issues. “It’s a win-win, I’m pleased to be still part of Massey in a small way, that I’m giving something to the university by way of publicity,” he said. He says the move from there into the fields of sustainable energy and climate change mitigation was more by luck than judgment.

My father once told me that during your career, when you come to a fork in the road, take it.

In the early ’70s, as part of the agronomy department, he got involved in experiments on oil seed crops, such as rapeseed and sunflower, as a response to the oil shocks of the decade. That led to research on how to turn tallow from meat works into a biodiesel that could be used as a tractor fuel. However, after the second oil shock the oil price dropped and interest in that sort of research fell correspondingly. “But I carried on looking at biomass, at bio-energy, at growing short-rotation eucalyptus trees, which got me into renewable energy,” he said. In the mid-90s he held a oneday conference at Massey on the potential for wind farming in NZ. Three or four years later the first wind turbines were built in the Tararuas, at the back of Palmerston North. “That led me into solar, which led me into renewable energy and renewable energy is of course climate change mitigation,” he said. Despite his international achievements, Sims says the highlight of his career are the staff and students he’s met at Massey. He managed to catch up with some of his former colleagues from what he describes as “the good old days” of the ’70s and ’80s at a special function held at Massey to celebrate his 50 years there, just two days before the country went into lockdown last month. As for former students, he runs into them when he least expects it. He was in Palmerston North recently having a coffee with Cathy when he noticed tractors

ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENT: Emeritus Professor Ralph Sims is putting in a wetland on the property where he and his wife Cathy live just out of Palmerston North.

driving around The Square. “I thought, of course, it’s the farmers’ protest,” he said. After seeing placards with an anti-climate change message, he decided he would go and have a chat with some of those involved. “As I approached somewhat hesitantly to initiate a conversation, one of the farmers called out ‘Ralph Sims’, shook my hand. He said ‘I always wanted to thank you for the A-plus you gave me’.” Despite disagreeing with the sentiment expressed by some

of the placards on display that day, Sims can understand the pressures farmers are under at present. “I wasn’t born on a farm but I spent my youth milking cows,” he said. “I’ve got an agricultural background, so I can understand where the farming community is coming from and the pressures on them with water and climate and everything else. “They are trying to run a business and the floods and the droughts are getting worse.

“They deserve to be listened to. It’s a two-way thing.” That does not mean agriculture can ignore its climate change responsibilities. He says although the latest IPCC report identified carbon dioxide as the most important greenhouse gas to address “we can’t afford to ignore the importance of reducing our methane emissions”. “There’s no way out of that. It’s part of our target of getting to zero carbon by 2050,” he said. “We can’t just ignore it and leave agriculture to do its own thing.”

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Tech to benefit dairy sheep sector New Zealand’s expanding sheep milk sector may soon be able to benefit from former Massey University student Jolin Morel’s PhD research, which looked at developing a new way of freezing ovine milk. Colin Williscroft reports.

HE patent process is in motion and work is under way to build prototype on-farm units for freezing ovine milk that could take the NZ dairy sheep industry to the next level. Jolin Morel graduated with a PhD from Massey earlier this year, his research focused on finding a better way to freeze sheep milk, something that will benefit the smaller players in NZ’s dairy sheep industry and open the way for more farmers to get involved in a sector that has been identified as one with a smaller environmental footprint than traditional dairy farms. Morel says the genesis of his project involved a Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) programme called Food Industry Enabling Technologies, which aims to create new technologies within the NZ food industry. Having identified that the bigger players in the NZ sheep milk sector, such as Maui and Spring Sheep, had the size or economies of scale necessary to look after their own production, he looked at how he could help smaller operators and through that encourage others to get into the dairy sheep sector. He says because ewes only produce between one and oneand-a-half litres of milk per day during peak lactation, an average size NZ dairy sheep farm will produce between 600-1000 litres of milk a day. That’s not economical for daily tanker pick-up, so the aim of the project was to create a piece of

equipment that would allow milk to be frozen on-farm, without it losing quality so farmers could hold it until they had enough milk accumulated for pick-up. “Rather than sending 600 litres a day, every two weeks they could send 10,000kg of frozen milk, which would simplify the logistics for them,” Morel said. “The idea is that this unit will be able to be parked next to a shed, with milk taken from the vat over the course of the day and frozen into pallets.”

The idea is that this unit will be able to be parked next to a shed, with milk taken from the vat over the course of the day and frozen into pallets.

The research focused on the changes that occur during the frozen storage of ovine milk, the transitions that occur during the freezing process and the effect of freezing conditions on the ice structure in the frozen product. From that scientific basis, a continuous freezing system was developed and tested, which is currently being commercialised in partnership with a freeze dryer manufacturer that also produces on-farm chilling equipment. The technology is in the process of being patented. During the course of his

research, Morel discovered there were other sectors of the food industry that could also benefit. “It turns out it’s quite useful for freezing lots of liquid products. We’ve tried it with a range of fruitbased liquid products, which has been quite successful, some other dairy products and other liquid foods,” he said. “It’s become more than just about sheep.” Although ovine milk has been frozen before, this new method is a step or two up, even on the international stage, which is why patents have been applied for. “There are some people who freeze sheep milk,” he said. “However, what they will often do is pack it into a 20-litre bladder or a 20-litre bucket, and then stack them in a blast chiller or chiller. “When they come to be sold they have to be thawed individually, then opened, then handled from there, so there’s a lot of manual labour involved.” He says the quality of milk frozen in that way is not as good as milk frozen using the new process, partly because of the time it takes to thaw 20-litre blocks. “What we’ve come up with is effectively a completely novel way of freezing liquid food products,” he said. “There are some other ways where you can continuously freeze liquid so they look like an ice cream machine or something similar, but this method is a lot more simple, it relies on careful control of the freezing process.” Contributing to the development of the NZ primary

COMMERCIAL FOCUS: Jolin Morel’s PhD research investigated a process to freeze sheep milk that could be commercialised and used on-farm.

sector is in Morel’s DNA. George Wickham, his grandfather on his mother’s side, was an associate professor and sheep specialist at Massey and his father, Professor Patrick Morel, specialises in animal science at Massey’s School of Agriculture and Environment. After picking up his PhD, these days the younger Morel works for Callaghan Innovation, looking at ways to take primary industry

byproducts and extract high-value products from them. “Taking waste from apple processing – the peels and stuff, the cores – and seeing what highvalue product can be made from that, rather than turning it into cow food,” he said. As well as that, he’s keeping an eye on the commercial development of his PhD research, which could be a game-changer for the NZ dairy sheep sector.

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EDITORIAL

All our farmers deserve support

henever we post a story about plant-based milk to our social media channels the majority of the comments tend to point out that it shouldn’t be called milk. It’s true that the first definition of milk in the dictionary references mammalian secretions, but language evolves over time and one can find a plant-based definition there as well. What’s interesting is the intense patch protection on display from those thinking they need to defend either cow’s milk or plant proteins. Picking a fight with another farmer seems like a strange tactic when there are plenty of other more pressing issues, but that’s what’s happening. Still, when the marketing around plantbased products takes aim at traditional dairy’s environmental credentials, it’s understandable to want to fire a few shots back. The online world has reduced many of the interactions we have into full-blown shouting matches, with outrage the first port of call for many. But that’s no way to foster a functioning society. Our industry is facing many challenges and they’re only getting more pressing. Adding more artillery to the culture war that seems to have broken out in the food and farming industry doesn’t help anyone. The majority of people just want good, nutritious food to give their families and that may include dairy and red meat, and it may include other forms of protein. The zealots at either end of the food spectrum who lay into those who think differently to them simply give us a distorted view of how things really are. And consumers are becoming increasingly wary of those who perhaps doth protest too much. Ultimately, we should celebrate every aspect of New Zealand food production – from the dairy farmers to the kumara growers and, yes, those who grow oats or peas for plant proteins. We produce nutritious and sustainable milk and meat. We also produce a range of great arable crops that are used in a wide array of foods. That’s all good stuff. It’s all part of our food story and is all something to celebrate.

Bryan Gibson

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The what matters more than the who JUST for the record, the “immortal words” quoted in your September 13 editorial are best known as the refrain from Joni Mitchell’s 1970 hit Big Yellow Taxi. Joni might be surprised to have her song described as a “1980s power ballad”, but “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” could certainly be applied to the disappearance of useful farmland under pine plantations, which when harvested in decades, will leave ravaged land in exchange for the dubious benefit of present day carbon credits. Maybe they can just pave

paradise and put up a parking lot. Rebecca Glover Waiuku Editor’s note: The song referred to in last week’s editorial was by Philadelphia rock band Cinderella, but we love this Joni Mitchell analogy.

Keep an eye out for FMD I FOUND the Clive Dalton letter last week very interesting. I am probably one of the very few farmers in New Zealand who has experienced foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) personally. On December 2, 1967, along

with 2000 other farmers, I lost all my livestock, and yes we were compensated, but the outbreak was started by a prolonged dock strike, after six weeks tied up some of the boats dumped their goods overboard and left, this included Argentinian beef. This beef was washed ashore, picked up by dogs and et cetera and the rest is history. What a lot of farmers do not realise is that cows we were paid 80 pounds for, six months later, when we could restock, were costing 200 pounds. And, two years later we had big tax bills from the Government. People do not seem to

understand just how fast this disease can spread; as the farms were being cleaned, all vermin and birds moved to the next one. Rats and stalins were the big problem, and I will not get into the stress caused by it all. Please be on your guard. Robert Spencer Ashburton

Trees on grazing land road to Armageddon AS I write the wind is abating, having registered over 90km. A quick drive to survey the Continued page 23

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Opinion

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Is forestry really all evil? Denis Hocking

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meat and wool proceeds from a third of the area. This is not a recent development dependent on the Chinese log market; the then Forest Service economist M.B. Granger made this claim in the 1960s. At the farm level, I have certainly found forestry much more profitable than sheep and beef as have many, though not all, others. However, I do have concerns about the present direction of forestry. Currently, I believe we are far too dependent on the Chinese paying ridiculous money for low-quality logs, but I also believe that if we get our act together with an emphasis on quality, there is a great future in the trees. As mentioned in point three, there have been recent developments in softwood treatment, including acetylation (think vinegar on steroids) and treatment with furfuryl alcohol,

Put all this together and I suggest that we have a proven and very positive industry, especially if we take these opportunities to get our timber onto the top shelf as we have, very successfully, with our meat industry.

FUTURE: Denis Hocking sees no reason why much of an expanded forestry industry should not be integrated with pastoral farming.

(a common byproduct of cooking carbohydrates such as starch, I might add). These produce Accoya wood and Kebony wood respectively, both very durable and extremely stable forms of environmentally-benign softwoods. In Europe they are being used to displace tropical hardwoods. And the really good news is that our radiata pine is the best wood in the world for these treatments. But the processors only want knot-free, clearwood, or wood from pruned trees. Both are currently major customers at New Zealand clearwood mills, helping to keep pruned log prices stable and above the export log rollercoaster. Ironically, the Kebony process is owned by Norwegians, who use their copious supplies of pine for their lower grades but seek our clearwood for the top grades. Closer to home there is Acodo wood, which uses thermal modification to achieve similar ends. NZ has a long tradition of pruning its trees to produce clearwood and I fondly remember the pruned log premium we received in the 1990s. Subsequently, the premium has fluctuated, but now we have

further evidence that pruning does give us a good competitive advantage. Traditionally we have been the world leaders in pruning, buoyed by some early visionaries, our short rotations and also the species we grow. However, our biggest problem at the moment is our major corporations giving up on pruning – guided by shortsighted accountants in a long-term industry. Put all this together and I suggest that we have a proven and very positive industry, especially if we take these opportunities to get our timber onto the top shelf as we have, very successfully, with our meat industry. I see no reason why much, possibly most, of an expanded forestry industry shouldn’t be integrated with pastoral farming to everyone’s advantage. I don’t think the big problem will be loss of jobs and rural collapse; more likely another labour shortage. But then if all farm trainees were made familiar with planting spades, loppers and chainsaws, they might find plenty of rewarding, seasonally flexible jobs on farms. *The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of the NZ Farm Forestry Association.

BENEFITS: Farm forester Denis Hocking says if production forestry fits better with climate change policies, then its other benefits need to be measured too.

Who am I? Denis Hocking is a farm forester from Bulls, Rangitikei.

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HE ongoing debate on the pros and cons of forestry, and particularly permanent carbon sink plantings versus farming, continues, but I think there are several points missing in the debate. In particular, I’m concerned that protagonists seem to miss the following points: • Recent scientific assessments suggest that production forestry provides more effective greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation than permanent forest sinks. • Production forestry has long been a much better export earner than sheep and beef farming. • With new environmentallybenign treatments dramatically improving durability and stability, future prospects for our mainstay, radiata pine, look very good. • Forestry, be it production or permanent sink, need not be limited to pine, but there are always exotic species that outperform any indigenous species. • Good forestry is quite a labourintensive land use, but with seasonal flexibility. • Forestry has less impact on water quality than any other commercial land use. I’ll start by stating that I am not a fan of carbon sink forestry, and although I collected, and still have, my pre-1990 NZUs, (carbon credits) allocation, I have not registered any of my 30ha of post-89 plantations in the ETS. I grow trees primarily for wood, not carbon, though I have no problem with the new carbon regime based on averaging for production forestry. However, my interest was roused by a recent paper published in Nature Communications, which in turn follows on from earlier IPCC publications in 2007 and 2019, all suggesting that production forestry is more effective than permanent sinks at mitigating GHG emissions. To quote from the abstract of the paper, “GHG mitigation from harvested stands typically surpasses unharvested stands. Commercial afforestation can deliver effective GHG mitigation that is robust to future decarbonisation pathways and wood uses”. This probably won’t be the last word on the subject, but I think it should raise some questions about current government policy. Should there be stronger incentives pushing towards production forestry? Worth noting that all the existing permanent sink, pine forests could still be turned into production forests. If production forestry fits better with climate change policies, then let’s look at some of its other benefits. Firstly, it is a more effective export earner than sheep and beef farming, with, on average, twice the export value a hectare per year. Or, to rephrase that, it earns two-thirds of the red

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Opportunists on the prowl Alternative View

Alan Emerson

ONE of the problems both the 50 Shades of Green and Groundswell protests suffered was the attempted hijacking by those politically motivated and with no rural connections. They varied from the well-meaning to the lunatic fringe and they successfully diverted attention from the protesters’ message. Both 50 Shades and Groundswell put detailed directives out about what was and wasn’t acceptable at the protests. I thought the documents were reasoned and professional. Again, it didn’t matter to the fringe. They just went ahead and did their own thing. Last week I received emails from a group claiming to be Groundswell. They had the Groundswell trailer for the protest on November 21, complete with the contacts. It certainly didn’t reflect Groundswell. As you’ll know, Groundswell was started by two southern farmers, Bryce McKenzie and Laurie Paterson. They are persons of some considerable foresight and integrity. The Groundswell message

is simple: standing up against unworkable regulations and unjustified costs. You can’t argue with that. The problem with the messages I’m getting is that there is a group committed to hijacking the planned protest on November 21. The emails I’m receiving are via National Party members, which surprised me. I would have thought they could have organised their own protest. You can read about the “manipulative Labour caucus” and that “they are rotten from the inside out”. They (the Government) “are controlling the media with money bribes and koha”. They’re also “rewriting history and the Treaty of Waitangi”. The He Puapua report gets special mention, with the claim that it is transforming the country “into a semblance of Zimbabwe, or South Africa or Venezuela”. That “we have no other platform, this is where the line should be drawn in the sand”. I would have thought there were many options for protests other than trying to hijack Groundswell. The banners are interesting too. Under ‘no’, you’ll find He Puapua, hate speech law, socialism, Three Waters and Agenda 2030. ‘Yes’, includes free speech, charter schools, oil and gas, democracy and demanding the debate. Talking to the organiser John May was interesting. “What I’m trying to do is to ride on the tails of Groundswell. A whole bunch of friends of mine

CHALLENGE: Groundswell’s upcoming protest is allegedly being coat-tailed by an unnamed group with a political agenda and who are more than willing to piggyback off the farmer-centric group for their own gains.

What isn’t fine is trying to take over a specific rural protest with a pile of non-rural issues.

are going to piggyback on it,” May said. He also said “there are more general issues than farming”, “I’m not a racist but we’re heading into a divided country” and, finally, “we need a change of government”. My view is that everyone is entitled to their opinion and if the right wing wants to hold a protest promoting their ideas that’s fine. What isn’t fine is trying to take over a specific rural protest with a pile of non-rural issues. Trying to turn a non-political rural protest into a highly political party-driven circus. McKenzie was philosophical when I spoke with him.

“Groundswell will stick to its principles. We always have done and it will always be that way,” he said, adding, “everyone is entitled to their opinion. Groundswell’s not the place to ram alternative viewpoints down people’s throats. We don’t want politicians, pro and anti-vaxxers or anything else.” That’s all good sensible stuff. For the November 21 protest, Groundswell are giving the media copies of their approved posters. They’re making the point that any other poster isn’t Groundswell. I wish them well with a challenging task ahead. The Groundswell mantra of being nonpolitical is smart. You need to stay above politics as Andrew Hoggard did before the last election. At the last protest they were hampered by the Agricultural Action Group that came out of the fringe Advance NZ Party. I thought there was a lot of sound and fury but little else. I’m informed they’re now consigned to history. This protest Groundswell has

a fresh threat dealing with an unnamed group who primarily want the Government changed. Accusations that the Government has a “manipulative caucus who are rotten” doesn’t have any place in a protest about unworkable regulations and unjustified costs. It’s important, as without political neutrality the sector has no pull with any political party. From that perspective, Groundswell has been incredibly successful to date. They have been solely focused on unworkable regulations and unjustified costs and it is to their credit they have. The dealings I’ve had with Groundswell suggests to me they are professional, incorruptible and successful. As I’ve written in the past, farming needs a single voice. Feds are giving it their best shot in Wellington and Groundswell is doing well at grassroots level. Their problem is that their success has encouraged the fringe to get involved. For the good of our sector that needs to be resisted. The Groundswell challenge, therefore, is to discourage coattailers or political opportunists. To that end, farmers need to attend the November protest. Groundswell needs support for its position on regulations and costs. It also needs support to discourage politically inspired pretenders.

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

Better to back science and facts From the Ridge

Steve Wyn-Harris

AT THE time of writing, which is several days before you read this, our covid-19 elimination strategy hangs in the balance. The daily cases reported have come back down into the teens and all of them are household contacts of known cases. Given Auckland’s continuing lockdown, it should completely fizzle out. If everyone plays by the rules that is. And as we have seen with the self-entitled people who escaped lockdown for a spot of skiing in Wanaka, not everyone does. However, the vast majority of New Zealanders have stuck to the rules in a genuine effort to protect themselves, their families and their communities. It seems like aeons ago, but it was only on August 17 that New Zealand’s first community case for some months at that time that no

link to the border was discovered. Because it was the infectious Delta strain, the Government under health advice acted immediately and put the entire country into a Level 4 lockdown that midnight. No one sensible argued against that action. We have the advantage of seeing what has happened in Surat, Suva and Sydney. They couldn’t have acted any faster and yet the one case in managed isolation that somehow leaked out has resulted in nearly 900 cases. Sydney’s experience where the unmasked and unvaccinated limo driver transporting air crew has turned into more than 15,000 cases and is steadily growing. Their health system is now under incredible strain. What is not reported is where hospitals around the world are inundated with C-19 cases and the deaths of people who had heart attacks and strokes, but no ambulance was able to get to them in time, or the lives lost in accidents that would have been saved if a paramedic was there instead of incubating a patient with the virus. Not to mention all the scheduled operations that are now repeatedly postponed. We know that this is our future

because we cannot remain with hermetically sealed borders as a hermit kingdom or suffer continuing lockdowns for much longer. The economic impact on many businesses and the psychological load on people is too great. The elimination strategy has served us well to date. We have mostly lived what was termed ‘normal lives’ for the past 18 months, as well as any nation on the planet. It has bought us time to get vaccines into arms. Seventy percent of the eligible population have had one shot, or both, and there are another 10% booked, so we are getting closer to the sort of levels we need to acquire some type of herd immunity, although 90% or greater would be preferable. This will help those of us vaccinated when the inevitable happens. But also, those who can’t be vaccinated, those who choose not to be but more importantly, children who at this stage are not being vaccinated will have some protection. There are 800,000 children under 12. There are calls from some like David Seymour to put aside the elimination strategy now because of the economic impacts, but it is

too soon. We have this one chance with this current outbreak and if successful, it will buy us some more precious time. But I’m not sure about the next time we have community transmission. At some point we will have to learn to live and die with this virus. Those unprotected from the vaccine have a tenfold greater chance of being seriously ill in hospital and of dying. This is not opinion, it’s fact born out of misery and suffering elsewhere. These are significant odds and spell out the risk clearly of a poor decision. When this begins to happen, as it will, I believe many vaccinehesitant folk will sensibly put their reservations aside and get the shots. After all, it becomes more real when you know people who are struggling to breathe on a ventilator or attending their funeral. Requirements to show proof of vaccination to get into various venues and events will also incentivise them to become protected. The hard core anti-vaxxers of course won’t change their minds but they are a relatively small

group and it is after all their lives. But instead of distributing leaflets around Auckland to disseminate their misinformation, they should keep their views to themselves on the off chance they might be wrong and that the herd immunity that has protected their kids from other serious illnesses over the years might just offer their families some protection from this pandemic. I had my first shot several weeks ago and just after that, the UK evidence came out that the longer intervals between doses offered more protection. I went and read the paper in the British Medical Journal and was surprised to see that it was as much as a twofold increase in antibodies. It’s still good if your interval is 3-4 weeks, but better with 7-12 weeks. I postponed my second shot taking some risk on the current outbreak getting into the regions and vaccine availability and getting it next week. I live in the 21st century and consequently prefer to believe in science and facts.

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

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Measuring the world’s needs Meaty Matters

Allan Barber

NEW Zealand food and related sciences research centre, the Riddet Institute, leads the world in modelling the contribution of global and New Zealand agricultural production to meeting the nutritional needs of the world’s population. The Sustainable Nutrition Initiative (SNI) team, which comprises food and nutrition scientists and mathematical modellers, has developed the DELTA model to test various scenarios for globally sustainable food production. The model demonstrates the bioavailability and source of nutrients from all plant and animal-based foods. Because the DELTA model is entirely scientific evidencebased and uses World Health Organisation and other universally accepted statistical data, the outputs are totally free of emotion or bias. The good news for farmers, whether meat, dairy or horticulture, is they are critical to enabling the growing world population to avoid micronutrient deficiency. The SNI work is agnostic on the importance of different types of food required to produce a globally sustainable diet, concluding all food types contribute essential elements to the nutritional system. In many cases these nutrients are either

not or nowhere near as efficiently available from any other source. As an example 100g of red meat produces the same amount of iron as 1.4kg of spinach, which suggests Popeye would have done better on a more meat-based diet. Exports of agricultural commodities are traditionally measured in dollars and tonnes, but another method is to measure their nutritional contribution. A recent NZX dairy outlook paper shows the global dairy sector contributes 49% of consumed calcium required for bone, teeth and muscle maintenance, 24% of riboflavin (vitamin B2) for cell production throughout the body and 22% of vitamin B12 supporting nerve health, DNA and red blood production and maintaining brain function. NZ dairy exports are sufficient to supply the calcium requirements of 46 million people, vitamins B2 and B12 of 39m and 29m respectively, plus 20 million people’s protein needs. Like dairy, meat is also nutrientdense, containing high levels of B vitamins, certain minerals and high-quality protein. In 2018, global meat production contributed about 7% of total food mass, but a significantly higher percentage of macronutrients (food energy availability, dietary fat and protein), certain vitamins and several trace elements, notably zinc, selenium and iron. Neither dairy nor meat is a good source of all nutrients, making negligible contributions to the availability of carbohydrates, fibre and vitamins C and E. Rice, wheat, fruit and vegetables are essential components of a balanced diet, underlining the importance of such a diet to the world’s health needs. SNI team leader Professor

Warren McNabb told me the model does not take relative economic factors into account, because obviously each country and individual consumers have different opportunities to access sources of nutrients. Distribution and availability of food cause imbalances and wastage, which includes overconsumption in wealthier countries. Waste is heavily weighted towards wealth on the logical principle of the more you eat, the more you waste, although a greater proportion of wastage is in low-density foods like fruit and vegetables.

The good news for farmers, whether meat, dairy or horticulture, is they are critical to enabling the growing world population to avoid micronutrient deficiency.

SNI works with MPI to identify the ideal diet for New Zealanders compared with what we actually eat, although the last survey carried out by Otago University was 10 years ago and a new study is desperately needed for greater relevance to today’s eating patterns. Similar limitations apply to global surveys, although SNI mixes and matches databases to improve the accuracy of its model. The aim is to identify how to feed the global population with the right level of nutrients, which will provide the ideal diet at least cost. The DELTA model can also compare different diets, for

TEST: The Sustainable Nutrition Initiative team has developed the DELTA model to test various scenarios for globally sustainable food production.

example, average flexitarian, vegetarian and vegan, which means it can identify the alternative sources of nutrients where one or other of the diets omits certain essential elements. McNabb says while people who give something up like meat may claim to feel much better having eliminated it from their diet, they must ensure they compensate for the nutrients no longer available to them. The growing desire of consumers to make dietary decisions in order to reduce their impact on global warming and greenhouse gas emissions must be considered in the context of the nutritional effect on the individual, as well as the total global warming impact of which diet only makes up a part. DELTA does not calculate the additional costs of removing or adding types of food from a diet for reasons of conscience, social or environmental reasons. The impact of traded goods, transport and energy consumption make up a significant proportion of an individual’s total carbon footprint, with diet estimated to make up only 25% of the total. In addition, NZ’s energy and agricultural production produce less carbon emissions than many of our trading partners.

LETTERS Continued from page 20 damage, trees down/snapped off, the radio is reporting widespread out of control fires right across Canterbury, as well as power failures, meaning no pumped water, no WiFi and therefore no fuel/groceries and such, so cash only. Many will have no phone service. At such times I have to wonder where the dreamers that support the “greens theories” are? Out there doing the hard yards gaining some actual experience of the real world. Not bloody likely. Sitting in their ‘theory cabins’ in Wellington and beyond writing up another set of reports and unworkable rules. Helping fight the fires and protecting property come to mind – ha. The continued raving for more forestry to replace grazing land for “carbon gamblers” is the road to Armageddon for any who

The Riddet Institute, hosted by Massey University, is one of 10 centres of research excellence (CoRE) working collaboratively with each other, while focusing on different areas of scientific research. Contestable funding rounds are open to universities, wananga and technical institutes and are administered on behalf of the Tertiary Education Commission. The DELTA model is already used by universities in the Netherlands and Australia and the SNI plans further versions, which will include estimates of the impact of food system scenarios on land-use change, GHG production and water quality. The relevance of this research to food producers may not immediately be obvious, but it puts the whole food production system in a local and global context, proving agriculture’s essential contribution to global health and nutrition. Above all it will support farmers’ social licence to continue responsible production without feeling guilty.

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

More letters P20 live in the lee of such ridiculous endeavours, but such people have no idea despite the regular updates from the US, Canada, Russia and Med area. Emergency services are overloaded and no way could choppers fly in this ‘screamer’, one of many in my lifetime and I expect they will get worse.

vulnerable Waikato/Taupō catchments in recent years. As a Cantabrian myself, used to seeing those normally dry plains farmed for sheep and grain, I am amazed at the development of dairy farms there now. By the way, if farmers want to see one of the better farm/forest properties in NZ, they should check out Hocking’s place near Bulls.

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NZ farming is noncommercial? THE letter from Lewis Hore of Oamaru (Farmers Weekly, September 13) decrying Denis Hocking and Piers McLaren for having “a vested interest in commercial forestry” was odd. By default he implied that farming in New Zealand is noncommercial. That would surprise most farmers, who have done a pretty effective job over the years in

Letters to the Editor EYE CATCHING: The normally dry Canterbury Plains are now home to plenty of dairy farms.

producing meat, wool and milk in a generally commercial fashion. Mind you, their farming forefathers had to remove vast areas of native forest and scrub in both South and North Islands to

achieve the “good beef and sheep hill country farms” that Hore lauds. No mention, of course, of the plantation forests converted to dairy farms in the highly

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The role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to develop on the station. The position includes a 4-bedroom house. The farm is 15 minutes from the nearest primary school with a school bus from the gate and 30 minutes from the nearest high school in Marton with a bus from Huntervile.

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The Turakina valley is renowned for its strong social community with recreational activities on your door step. Contact Harry Duncan on 06 322 8612 or send your CV with two references to: harrymckduncan1@gmail.com

BALAGE $75+gst. Unit loads available. Top quality. Phone 021 455 787. 600 BALAGE UNITS available. $85 per bale. Taihape. Phone 027 303 8956.

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

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DOGS FOR SALE BORDER COLLIE / Blue Heeler pups. Ready early October. One male, four females. $400each. Motueka. Phone 022 031 8314 or 03 528 7464.

We are currently looking for an experienced full-time permanent Stock Manager who has a passion for being on the land and has great leadership skills to support our farm team. The Ōtakanini Tōpū (the Tōpū) is a Māori incorporated farm, located on the South Kaipara Peninsula, with a total land area of 2674ha. The Tōpū is mostly pastoral, sheep, cattle and with some forestry. The Topu currently runs approximately 6500 ewe ﬂock plus replacements and approximately 1200 head of cattle, comprising of an Angus breeding herd, their progeny, and Friesian bulls.

DELIVERING DURING lockdown. NZ Wide. Trial. www.youtube.com/user/ mikehughesworkingdog/ videos – email: mikehughesworkingdogs@ farmside.co.nz 07 315 5553.

For our shareholders and the wider South Kaipara Ngāti Whātua community, the Tōpū is not only an economic and material resource, but an important living cultural landscape linked to our tribal history and identity.

PURINA PROPLAN WHATATUTU dog sale. NEW DATE: Saturday 25th September. At Otara Station, 319 Whatatutu Road, Te Karaka, Gisborne. Sales start at 12 noon. Dosing clearance required. Vendors please confirm entry go to: Whatatutu Dog Sale – Facebook page

As we are the largest Māori Farming Operation in the Auckland region, we are on a journey to explore potential diversification opportunities for the Tōpū that will provide a good return to our shareholders and our future generations. We require a Stock Manager who will be responsible for day-to-day operational aspects of the stock programs set in place and assists within pastoral, with the key objective to assist the Farm Manager to maximise productivity and profitability of the Tōpū. Key attributes of the Stock Manager and responsibilities required include: • High level of stockmanship, with excellent animal welfare values and practises • Ability to assist the Farm Manager to maximise productivity and profitability of Ōtakanini Tōpū • Demonstration of effective leadership, communication and time management skills • Experience in training kaimahi in all aspects of stock management and farm operations • Demonstrated ability to run a high-performance farming system and ability to adapt to change and to learn new technologies as farming systems evolve • Demonstrated experience in stock, feed, pasture management and a consistent record of increasing and maintaining stock performance • Strong computer skills and a proven ability in performance and recording based farming technology programs • Demonstrated ability in health and safety leadership, culture and compliance

DOGS WANTED 12 MONTHS TO 5½-yearold Heading dogs and Huntaways wanted. Phone 022 698 8195. BUYING WORKING DOGS all abilities NZ wide. Prompt pick up and payment. Email: mikehughesworkingdogs@ farmside.co.nz 07 315 5553.

For the successful candidate there is a competitive remuneration package, including accommodation and development opportunities. The location of Ōtakanini Tōpū oﬀers superb lifestyle opportunities including the Kaipara Harbour on your doorstep, east and west coast beaches within an hour’s drive and within close proximity of the vibrant CBD of Tāmaki Makaurau and Northland.

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If you think you’ve got what it takes, are ready for a new challenge and are willing to work hard to manage farm operating priorities, we oﬀer a supportive Governance team who are committed to the wellbeing of our people. How to apply Please email your CV and Cover Letter to rmrecruitmentnz@gmail.com by 5pm, 15th October 2021.

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If you have any questions regarding the role, please contact Michelle Hill on 027 491 3265 Please note: It is a requirement that you must already hold a NZ Passport or valid working visa to apply for this role.

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FOR LEASE EQUESTRIAN COMPLEX and 200ha grazing available in North Taranaki. Phone 06 752 9142.

FOR SALE CONCRETE CULVERT PIPES. Farm grade pipe stocked in Taupo. 450mm & above. Call Wayne for more info. 027 405 6368.

GIBB-GRO GROWTH PROMOTANT PROMOTES QUICK PASTURE growth. Only $6+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.

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

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LIVESTOCK FOR SALE WILTSHIRES-ARVIDSON. Self shearing sheep. No1 for Facial Eczema. David 027 2771 556. 17 YEARLING BULLS for sale. All raised on hill country, good temperament. Good growth rates, easy calving low birth weight sires. BVD tested and vaccinated, TB status C10. For more details please call John on 027 644 1143. RED DEVON BULLS. Waimouri stud, Feilding. Phone 027 224 3838.

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HAULER CREW available for summer harvest. Wairarapa area. Phone 027 489 7036.

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PERSONAL BUSHMAN, 56yo, seeks a woman to court. View relationship. 027 864 5092 John. Or email: bushman56yrs@gmail.com

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Puketoi Station is an 1800ha hill country property located 15 minutes from Hunterville on the Turakina Valley Road. The farm runs 12,000su in and breeding/finishing system with Romney ewes and Angus/Hereford cows. The Topography ranges from easy to steep hill country.

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I believe the wool we produce in NZ is a solution to a lot of problems …so presenting the buyers with the best wool our farmers have to offer is important to me .. by keeping the standard and quality of our w ool h i g h w e c a n g e t t h e True value at auction. WOOL REP

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The Texan is again unimpressed and says, “We have longhorns that are at least twice as large as your cows.” They carry on walking around the ranch when the Texan sees a group of kangaroos hopping through the field.

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He asks the Aussie, “And what are those?” The Aussie replies, “Don’t you have any grasshoppers in Texas?”

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!

2021 Notice of Election to Forest Growers Levy Trust Board

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.

The Board of the Forest Growers Levy Trust Inc invests in industry good projects, on behalf of all forest growers, the levy income from the 2019 Harvested Wood Materials Order under the Commodity Levies Act 1990.

Conditions apply

Nominees need not own forests themselves. Nominations close 5pm Friday 1 October

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Nominations for four board members are called. Two are to represent forests more than 1000 hectares and two to represent forests fewer than 1000 hectares.

GO TO Forestvoice.org.nz for a NOMINATION FORM or email admin@fglt.org.nz

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2021 STOKMAN 97.14x137 ANGUS YEARLING BULL & HEIFER SALE Stokman Angus Yearling sale 2021

Wednesday 29th September 2021 100 REGISTERED BULLS SELL!

40 R1 COMM HEIFERS SELL Same sires as Bulls

Can’t make it on Sale Day? We work with BIDR, so you can bid from a location convenient to you.

- EBV’s available Sale Day

THE STOKMAN BULL . . . * FERTILITY AND SEMEN TESTED * CARCASS SCANNED * HD50K TESTED FOR HIGHER EBV ACC. * SUPER QUIET DISPOSITIONS * GROWN WELL TO BREED HEIFERS OR COWS * C10 TB STATUS, BVD VAX AND TESTED

CALL FOR A CATALOGUE OR TO VIEW BULLS AT YOUR CONVENIENCE

Mark, Sherrie and Jake Stokman Phone 07 333 2446 Mark 027 640 4028, Sherrie 027 499 7692, Jake 027 787 4008 Email: mtkiwi@farmside.co.nz Facebook: Stokman Angus Farm Sale Location: 1708 Te Kopia Road, Waikite Valley Rotorua

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Friday 24th September – 1pm 73 lots of Speckle Park and Hereford Yearling Bulls

Annual Bull Sale On-farm Auction &

FARMERS WEEKLY – September 20, 2021

Auction Plus – streamed live for online bidders and viewers

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35 Rugged 2-year-old Bulls Monday October 4th – 1.30pm Open Day to view bulls: Tuesday September 28th from 1.00pm Sandown 445 Deans Road, SH 72, Darfield Video of bulls on

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Get in touch with Ella to discuss the best advertising options to suit your needs this sale season!

Call Peter Heddell on 027 436 1388

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Wednesday 29th September 2021, 12noon ON FARM - LUNCHEON PROVIDED 660 Ngaroma Rd, 26km off SH3, Sth East of Te Awamutu.

34 TOP YEARLING BULLS & 60 2-YEAR OLD BULLS Sound bulls with exceptional temperament • Full EBV details in catalogue. Selection of Short Gestation & Low Birth Weights • Bulls ideal for Beef & Dairy Free local delivery or grazing till 1st Nov. Payment 20th Oct.

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BULL SALE 23 Yearling Angus Bulls 30th September 2021 1710 Carleton Rd, Oxford On-farm and online at

Enquiries to Marie FitzPatrick P: 0273381658 E: acmgfitzpatrick@gmail.com

Speckle park Bulls available for private sale

• Yearling and 2 year old • DNA tested • Parentage verified

• BVD tested and vaccinated • Semen tested • M. Bovis tested

A Canterbury based stud recently established from the best genetics available in NZ, Australia and Canada.

www.kotingotingospecklepark.co.nz

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TA UMARUNUI Y EARLING BUL L S A L E D AY

Calving Ease Bulls • Monday 27th September • Black Ridge 11.00 AM • Puke-Nui 1.30PM

Levy rates on sheepmeat and beef

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Notice is given that for the levy year commencing 1 October 2021 the rates of sheepmeat and beef levies (exclusive of GST) will be 75 cents a head for sheepmeat (increased from 70 cents a head) and $5.20 a head for beef (unchanged). B+LNZ’s Board decided to proceed with the sheepmeat levy increase based on the level of support shown by farmers who voted in the 2021 referendum.

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TANGIHAU MAXIMUS N458 Inspection and Enquiries always welcome | All bulls BVD vaccinated and tested. Lepto vaccinated. TB C10.

All sale bulls are BVD/Lepto/10 in 1 vaccinated. MONDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER 2021 AT 1:30PM ON-FARM BULL SALE VENUE: 303 River Road, SH 43, Taumarunui

WWW.BEEFLAMBNZ.COM 0800 233 352

25 CALVING EASE Bulls FOR SALE

Ruapehu Speckle Park

Alan & Catherine Donaldson P: (07) 896 6714 E: agcsdonaldson@gmail.com www.pukenuiangus.co.nz Find us on Facebook

ON-FARM BULL SALE Monday 27th September 2021, 11am 27 Low Birthweight Yearling Bulls

Dean & Teresa Sherson 675 Taringamotu Rd, RD 4, Taumarunui P: 07 896 7211 • M: 027 690 2033 E: mailto:black_ridge@live.com.au Like & Find us on Facebook

Quality Hill Country Angus Bulls

10 rising 2-year-old purebred bulls for sale

First Annual Yearling Bull Sale 2021 On Farm Sale 1st October 2pm Viewing from 1pm

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1912 Pohangina Valley East Road, Ashhurst, Manawatu

YEARLING BULL & HEIFER SALE

THURSDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

Phone: Ray 027 365 4641 Email: raynjanbrown@outlook.co.nz

A QUALITY SELECTION OF 26 IMPRESSIVE YEARLING BULLS WITH LOW BIRTH WEIGHT & EARLY GESTATION + HEIFERS WHICH ARE SOLD IN LOTS.

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Calving ease Short gestation Temperament Low to moderate birth weights All bulls sold as Yearlings

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Contact Dave & Nicole Stuart Home: 06 329 4748 Cell: 027 422 7239 Email: komako.farm@gmail.com

DON'T MISS OUT - ENQUIRIES TO: LINDSAY JOHNSTONE (027 445 3211)

Agents: Carrfields Livestock: Cam Waugh 0274 800 898 Stephen Harris Livestock: Mark Anderson 0274 691 004

MARIA JOHNSTONE (021 610 5348) OR YOUR LOCAL LIVESTOCK AGENT.

Need to mooooove stock? Call Ella: 0800 85 25 80

Wanting to buy Friesian export heifers $1875-$1950 Jersey export heifers $1150-$1225 Hereford export heifers $1075-$1150 Simmental export heifers $1275-$1350 Price is depending on location and weight so please contact out team for more information. All heifers True to type for breed, Standard Chinese protocol Minimum 6 months on-farm requirement, BVD, IBR free For more information contact: exports@yarracorpnz.com Barry Purcell 027 263 5095 • Pene Visser 0274 330 497

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BVD tested and vaccinated. TB Status C10.

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STEERS 400-550kg

2YR FRSN BULLS 420-500kg 2YR BEEF BULLS

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Wanted to buy – Friesian Beef Cross Heifers

Wanted to buy – Kiwi Dairy Crossbred Heifers

Paying top prices Spring born 2020

Paying top prices Autumn & Spring born 2020

Must have been on property for 6 months and meet Chinese Export Protocols.

Min weight at delivery -270kgs.

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using proven performance genetics to enhance commercial returns for our clients

NEW SALE DATE at 12 noon on farm

87 yearling bulls at Waitangi ALL Bulls are i50K tested for enhanced EBVs

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Contact: Sharon Browne Ph: 07 843 7577 or 027 490 6146

Waitangi Angus “ A Consumer orientated breeding programme

Delivery date late September/early October.

Ross Dyer 0274 333 381

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027 474 3185,

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Sale Catalogue link: www.waitangiangus.co.nz/upcoming-sales

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Ready to talk some Bull?

Capacious Jersey AB bred herd

Contact Ella: 0800 85 25 80 livestock@globalhq.co.nz

6th ANNUAL YOUNG IN-MILK COW AUCTION

DETAILS: • Complete herd, farming property since 1905. 4th generation • Calved from 20/7, all in-milk. HB Shed, herd tested TB C10 • 75% A2A2 verified, low scc, 350 ms/cow. System 1 feeding • Unmated, in excellent condition, lepto vacc • Originally pedigree based herd but AB bred since 1980 • 99,000 scc 2021 season. 75,000 scc 2020 season

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Payment due 20th January 2022. Deliveries immediate.

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PAYMENT TERMS:

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FURTHER ENQUIRIES TO CARRFIELDS LIVESTOCK AGENTS: Brent Espin 027 551 3660 or brent.espin@carrfields.co.nz Daniel Crowley 027 215 3609 or daniel.crowley@carrfields.co.nz

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AUCTIONEERS NOTE: A wonderful AB bred herd that has been well managed for decades. Our Vendors are retiring this farm into dry stock. Owned herd 30+ yrs, always LIC bred. Cows in very good condition.

This auction date is scheduled subject to any changes due to Covid-19 regulations.

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CARRFIELDS LIVESTOCK AGENT: Kelly Higgins 027 600 2374 or kelly.higgins@carrfields.co.nz

DETAILS: • All in-milk. Milked in HB shed. 543ms/cow last season • 25,000 som cell avg last season. Current season 60,000 • TB C10. Lepto vaccinated. A2A2 bulk milk tested • Calved from 18th July. System 3 feeding. 10% MT rate last season

AUCTIONEERS NOTE: All cows personally guaranteed by our Vendors, offering 1-week trial. Cows purchased to supply calf milk, then offered for auction. Buy with confidence. We totally recommend and have received very good comments from previous buyers.

PAYMENT TERMS: 20th October 2021. Deliveries immediate.

COMPRISING: 190 PREDOM FRSN & FRSN X HERD BW72/41 PW69/14 R/A 98% HERD TEST DATA AVAILABLE

DETAILS: • TB C10 MBovis not detected & BVD negative • All cows in-milk, milked twice daily in rotary shed • 6th annual in-milk auction • Strict selection criteria

AUCTIONEERS NOTE: Immaculately managed dairy herd. Four years ago, the original milking herd was sold. They retained the replacement heifers and continued milk production when calved. Magnificent big, framed Jersey cows that are well managed, quiet, and will be in optimum condition for mating. Totally recommend these 100% genuine strong, high indexed, dairy cows that are extremely well bred. PLEASE NOTE: This auction date is scheduled subject to any changes due to Covid-19 regulations.

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A/c JW & MT Hamblyn Family Trust Thursday 7th October 2021 at 319 Waiau Road, Tikorangi, Waitara – North Taranaki Start Time: 11:30am (Undercover, BBQ lunch provided)

A/c Troy Stevenson on Friday 1st October 2021 at 437 Patiki Road, Pihama, Sth Taranaki Start Time: 11:30am Undercover BBQ lunch provided

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FURTHER ENQUIRIES TO CARRFIELDS LIVESTOCK AGENT: Colin Dent 027 646 8908 or colin.dent@carrfields.co.nz

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Visitors always welcome. For all enquiries, contact: Sam LeCren M: 027 474 9989 E: sam@takapoto.co.nz Andy Transom, PGGW M: 027 596 514 Follow Takapoto Angus on Facebook

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COMPRISING: 90 JERSEY IN-MILK 3rd & 4th CALVERS BW202 PW193 R/A 99%

LONG ESTABLISHED LIC BRED IN-MILK DAIRY HERD AUCTION

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A/c Rockhill Trust Wednesday 6th October 2021 at 746 Roto O Rangi Road Cambridge – OCC385 Start Time: 11:30am

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FARMERS WEEKLY – September 20, 2021

BEXLEY HEREFORDS Yearling Bull Sale

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

NZ’s Best Dairy-Beef Bulls

Spring Bull Sale

Industry – leading maternal and fertility traits including a selection especially suitable for heifer and dairy-cow mating

On-farm, Fairlie, Friday, October 8th

Friday 24th September 2021 at 12 Noon

Online bidding opens Sunday, October 3rd at www.meadowslea.co.nz

To be conducted at Bexley Station 3715 State Highway 3, Awakino Gorge, Mokau 4376 Registered and Unregistered Bulls comprising of: 46 1yr Herefords 15 1yr Angus

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Call: David Giddings 027 229 9760 Email: giddingsfamily@xtra.co.nz

Top Yearlings (460kg+) grown to suit heifer mating, cow mating or beef cow mating.

MATING HEIFERS OR DAIRY COWS?

THE CHOICE IS 18 TWO-YEAR-OLD BULLS 100 YEARLING BULLS 12 noon, Tuesday September 28th

On-farm auction, Marton or buy online with

WILLIAM MORRISON 027 640 1166 ardofarm@xtra.co.nz PMS – PMS 173 C

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NZ Farmers Livestock Agents: Brent Bougen 027 210 4698 Stephen Sutton 027 442 3207

Carrfields Agent: Grant Ross 021 174 8403

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VENDORS: ColWhin & Carol King P: 06 752 9863 l E: ccking@farmside.co.nz

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David & Fiona MacKenzie and Greg & Vicki Straker

Thursday 23rd September

Lot 1, 2021 supporting meat the need

16th Annual Service Bull Sale / 300 McDonald Mine Road Huntly Undercover & Streamed Live with Online Bidding 440 BULLS COMPRISING:

All bulls are BVD & TB tested & BVD double inoculated. All bulls have been sample tested to extremely high percentages for M Bovis and results show M Bovis not detected. Our vendors stand behind their bulls, if there is an issue with a bull when delivered you can swap the bull or be fully refunded. Delivery on sale day if needed, then every Monday from 27th September until 1st November - you pick your day/s. Auctioneers note: I have personally inspected all bulls and can vouch for their excellent temperament and condition. Buyers can buy in confidence at this sale, not only because of the bulls, but the vendors that stand behind their article. Where else do you get the chance to pick what you want, get delivery when you want and pay via Bull Plan if you want! Remember online bidding is available if you are unable to make it to the sale. Be in to win $2500 cash - visit MyLiveStock for more details. Agent in Charge: Bill Sweeney - 027 451 5310

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3RD ANNUAL ELITE INMILK HEIFER & COW SALE Thursday 30th September 11.30am A/C Waiau Trust (Jim & Sue Webster) 29 Ohanga Road, Onaero, Waitara (North Taranaki) 50 Frsn/Frsn X Quality InMilk Cows & Heifers Herd BW 172, Herd PW 243 Rel 95% PGG Wrightson are proud to be favored by Jim & Sue Webster to sell by Auction on Farm, this top-quality offering of young Friesian & Friesian X Cows. The Waiau Herd name is synonymous with production, type & breeding that have been used by AB Companies over a long period of time. Jim has a passion for breeding top quality Dairy Cattle, hence giving prospective purchasers this opportunity to buy cows with proven ability to produce. These cows & heifers will come forward in top order, ready for sale day. Points to note: - Offering includes 14 Contract Cows. - BWs to 354 & PWs to 471 - Herd Tested & A2 results Available - 1st Herd Test ave 2.46 m/s per Cow - Deferred Payment to 20th October 2021 Catalogs with 3GPs available www.agonline. co.nz Sale will be hosted by Bidr as a Hybrid Livestream auction, with online bidding More info visit www.bidr.co.nz

DOUGLAS COX LTD WEDNESDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER 7PM Offering approx. 50 to 60 R2 Murray Grey Bulls Being sold on BidR 7pm This is an excellent chance for the Dairy Industry to get access to quality bulls. Further enquiries:

Matthew Holmes (PGW) 027 518 734 Sarah Rhodie (Vendor) 027 407 5875

RIVERTON HEREFORDS 30TH ANNUAL SALE FORDELL, WANGANUI THURSDAY 23 SEPT – 12 NOON

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Tuesday, 21 September 2021 12.30pm Te Atarangi Angus Yearling Bull Sale Wednesday, 22 September 2021 11.30am Holstein Friesian 60th Annual National Bull Sale 1.00pm Turihaua Angus Bull Sale 7.00pm Murray Downs - R2 Murray Grey Bull Sale Thursday, 23 September 2021 12.00pm 98th Annual National Jersey Bull Sale 12.00pm Riverton Ezicalve Hereford Bull Sale 1.00pm Twin Oaks Angus Yearling Bull Sale Friday, 24 September 2021 12.00pm Waiterenui Angus Yearling Bull Sale Monday, 27 September 2021 11.00am Black Ridge Angus Yearling Sale 11.30am Riverlee Hereford Spring Bull Sale 1.30pm Puki-Nui Angus Yearling Bull Sale

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Friday 24 September @ 10am Palmerston Saleyards All cattle yarded overnight and sold over scales Comprising Approx: 10 Angus & Hereford R2 Steers 60 Hereford Friesian X R2 Steers 95 Hereford Friesian X R2 Heifers 380 Angus & Angus X R1 Steers 80 Simmental X R1 Steers 112 Charolais X R1 Steers 8 Hereford Shorthorn X R1 Steers 475 Angus & Angus X R1 Heifers 112 Charolais X R1 Heifers 30 Simmental X R1 Heifers 10 Hereford Shorthorn X R1 Heifers Gerard Shea (PGGW) 027 442 5379 Don Roney (RLL) 027 435 7434 The Sale yards and/or the operating partners are not liable if any sale is unable to proceed as booked due to Covid-19 restrictions or for any associated costs/loss. An alternative sale method may need to occur. Helping grow the country

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MARKET SNAPSHOT

Market Snapshot brought to you by the AgriHQ analysts.

Mel Croad

Suz Bremner

Reece Brick

Nicola Dennis

Sarah Friel

Caitlin Pemberton

Deer

Sheep

Cattle BEEF

SHEEP MEAT

VENISON

Last week

Prior week

Last year

NI Steer (300kg)

6.35

6.25

5.75

NI lamb (17kg)

9.40

9.35

7.20

NI Stag (60kg)

6.55

6.60

NI Bull (300kg)

6.25

6.15

5.60

NI mutton (20kg)

6.60

4.90

SI Stag (60kg)

6.65

6.45

6.60

NI Cow (200kg)

4.70

4.60

4.25

SI lamb (17kg)

9.30

9.25

7.05

SI Steer (300kg)

6.10

5.20

SI mutton (20kg)

6.75

4.65

SI Bull (300kg)

5.90

5.15

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

SI Cow (200kg)

4.90

4.05

UK CKT lamb leg

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

8.06

8.60

7.11

North Island steer slaughter price

6.0

5.50

5.0

5.00

9.0

4.50

8.0

4.00 South Island steer slaughter price

6.50

Jun

Aug 2020-21

$/kg CW

Dec 5-yr ave

Feb

Apr 2019-20

Jun

Last year

2.73

1.93

37 micron ewe

2.10

30 micron lamb

8.00

420

7.50

410 400

7.00 6.50 6.00 S

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DAIRY FUTURES (US$/T)

Aug-20

vs 4 weeks ago

871

844

578

1.80

Super

342

294

DAP

1135

758

Oct-20

WMP

3700

3715

3630

SMP

2835

2830

2825

AMF

4140

4100

4050

Butter

3500

3460

3430

Milk Price

7.61

Company

Dec-20

Feb-21

Apr-21

Jun-21

Aug-21

YTD High

31.4

36.55

YTD Low 27.1

Meridian Energy Limited (NS)

5.175

9.94

4.925

Auckland International Airport Limited

7.38

7.99

6.65

Mainfreight Limited

92.52

99.78

64.85

Spark New Zealand Limited

4.77

4.97

4.37

Mercury NZ Limited (NS)

6.51

7.6

5.79

Ryman Healthcare Limited

15.1

15.99

12.46

Contact Energy Limited

8.01

11.16

6.6

Fletcher Building Limited

7.47

7.99

5.67

Ebos Group Limited

35.53

36.25

27.51

Listed Agri Shares Company

5pm, close of market, Thursday Close

YTD High

YTD Low

0.31

0.335

0.161

The a2 Milk Company Limited

5.68

12.5

5.42

Comvita Limited

3.73

3.75

3.06

420

Delegat Group Limited

14.7

15.5

12.9

Fonterra Shareholders' Fund (NS)

3.72

5.15

3.61

400

Foley Wines Limited

1.51

2.07

1.45

Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd (NS)

1.24

1.35

0.81

380

Marlborough Wine Estates Group Limited

0.245

0.65

0.24 1.39

Aug-20

WMP FUTURES - VS FOUR WEEKS AGO

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Ltd

ArborGen Holdings Limited

360

* price as at close of business on Thursday

NZ average (NZ$/t)

Top 10 by Market Cap

440

$/tonne

Prior week

Aug 2020-21

Urea

CANTERBURY FEED BARLEY

Last price*

Jun

Last year

390 370

Apr 2019-20

Prior week

380 Sept. 2022

Feb

Last week

CANTERBURY FEED WHEAT 430

Dec

FERTILISER Prior week

8.50

Nearby contract

Oct

Fertiliser

Aug 2020-21

Last week

$/tonne

$/kg MS

Oct

Grain

Data provided by

Sept. 2021

7.0

6.0

MILK PRICE FUTURES

5.50

8.0

5-yr ave

Coarse xbred ind.

Dairy

9.0

5.0

(NZ$/kg)

2019-20

South Island stag slaughter price

6.0

WOOL

5-yr ave

Oct-20

Dec-20

Feb-21

Apr-21

Jun-21

Aug-21

WAIKATO PALM KERNEL

New Zealand King Salmon Investments Ltd

1.4

1.72

PGG Wrightson Limited

3.63

3.99

3.11

Rua Bioscience Limited

0.405

0.61

0.37

Sanford Limited (NS)

5.05

5.51

4.3

Scales Corporation Limited

5.2

4.22 4.66

Seeka Limited

5.43

5.68

3800

400

Synlait Milk Limited (NS)

3.05

5.24

2.85

T&G Global Limited

2.95

2.85

3700

350

S&P/NZX Primary Sector Equity Index

13639

15491

12865

S&P/NZX 50 Index

13080

13558

12085

S&P/NZX 10 Index

12663

13978

11776

$/tonne

US$/t

South Island lamb slaughter price

4.50 Apr

7.0

10.0

5.00

Feb

8.0

11.0

5.50

Dec

9.0

5.0

Oct

Last year

6.0

7.0

6.00

4.00

9.60

7.0

6.00

Last week Prior week

North Island stag slaughter price

11.0

8.0

$/kg CW

6.50

12.04

North Island lamb slaughter price

9.0

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

$/kg CW

8.95

9.00

$/kg CW

9.00

US domestic 90CL cow

Last year

10.0 12.07

Export markets (NZ$/kg) US imported 95CL bull

Last week Prior week

$/kg CW

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

William Hickson

Ingrid Usherwood

3600 3500 3400

300 250

Sep

Oct Nov Latest price

Dec

Jan 4 weeks ago

Feb

200

Aug-20

S&P/FW PRIMARY SECTOR EQUITY

Oct-20

Dec-20

Feb-21

Apr-21

Jun-21

Aug-21

13639

S&P/NZX 50 INDEX

13080

S&P/NZX 10 INDEX

12663

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – September 20, 2021

Analyst intel

WEATHER

Overview The weather pattern around New Zealand at the moment is typical for spring, but it’s also full of ‘chaos’. Chaos is a good thing when it comes to weather patterns, as it means we’re not stuck in the same rhythm that sees it either raining day after day in the same spot, or dry for weeks on end. Chaos brings variety and we’re certainly seeing plenty of variety at the moment, which bodes well for pasture growth and water levels but also injections of warmth to get pasture, plants and animals growing. Over the next week or so the spring westerlies return, mixed in with northerlies and southerlies.

14-day outlook Westerlies return for this week but not as aggressively as they have been in previous weeks. In fact some parts of New Zealand will have sub-tropical northerlies developing this week. At the time of print, the low will likely fall apart over the upper NI on Friday, then westerlies return nationwide for this weekend with West Coast rain. Next Monday looks to kick off with a colder southerly, then high pressure crosses NZ for the final days of September.

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Westerlies kick off this week, then turn more northerly (subtropical) for a time midweek, before westerlies return late week. A southerly change on Monday likely gives way to lighter winds next week, as high pressure moves in from the west.

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7-day rainfall forecast

Temperature

The next week is mostly dry in the east of both main islands, with limited rainfall in northern NZ. However, northern NZ may have a rainmaker later this week, which was borderline at the time we went to print. Either way though, the bulk of the rain this week will be on the West Coast, with 80-100mm. Longer range and the upper North Island may again get some northerly focused rain – not yet locked in, monitor your local WeatherWatch/ RuralWeather.co.nz for hyper-local rainfall estimates. 0

Chilled lamb season looks short, tense

Fairly mild for this time of the year, with subtropical northerlies developing this week for a time, pushing temps above average. Next Monday may see another cool down and if high pressure comes in next week that will encourage colder nights (and pleasant days).

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HE Christmas chilled export trade season is nearly upon us and it promises to be more hectic than previous years. Shipping delays have been cutting into chilled lamb shelf life for a while now. Adding in the pressure to get chilled lamb into Europe for a specific retail window (i.e. in the supermarkets with enough shelf life left for Christmas dinner) makes for challenging logistics. Throw in the very tight spring lamb supply and we have ourselves a bit of drama. Usually, there are weekly shipments of chilled lamb leaving our shores throughout October to early November to arrive in Europe by the Christmas deadline. Sometimes production will start in September, if lamb supply allows it, or switch to airfreight later in the season, if customers are prepared to pay for the convenience. This time around, there are only two shipping vessels scheduled for the October production window. Three, if you are prepared to count a vessel scheduled to arrive in Europe on December 18. That scheduled arrival date is already too late for customers to get the lamb onto the retail market. And scheduled dates are largely irrelevant at this point. The risk of

shipping delays remains extremely high. There is congestion at transit ports in Singapore and the Asia-Europe shipping routes are hotly contested. This week shipping lines announced some blank sailings (skipping scheduled sailings) on this route during October. It is not uncommon for some blank sailings to take place over the Chinese Golden Week holidays. But, with shipping backlogs aplenty, this will aggravate an already tense shipping situation for chilled Christmas lamb. The silver lining of the situation is that hitting the pause button may allow shipping lines to get their vessels to align with their schedules, rather than bunching up at congested ports. Also, good shipping profits are encouraging companies to invest in new ships and there are also rumours that two shipping companies are looking to start New Zealand routes. None of that will help in time to get Christmas chilled lamb to market. So, the upcoming Christmas lamb production period is looking like it will be quite a short-lived affair. While it will be a headache for exporters and their customers, farmers are unlikely to feel it in the farm gate prices. Christmas chilled orders are in demand despite the messy shipping situation. In fact, lamb in all forms is in strong demand. Competition for frozen lamb means that, outside of the Christmas arrival, the returns for frozen lamb orders are often on-par with chilled returns. This means that lamb export returns are expected to remain strong and underpin good farm gate lamb prices.

Highlights/ Extremes

100

200

400

Rainfall accumulation over seven days, starting from 6am, Monday, 20 September 20 to 6am, Monday, September 27.

A long way off, but there is the possibility of a subtropical low or storm on the last day of September/ start of October. Definitely not locked in but worth mentioning, as it will start to appear in some longrange weather maps now.

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Chaos reigns in spring HEAVY rain has been falling here and there across the North Island lately, substantially filling rain gauges in many areas. The nature of New Zealand’s weather pattern over winter and now spring has been one of chaos. And, chaos breeds variety when it comes to weather, so that means while some areas have had a little too much recent rain (Southland, Manawatū-Whanganui, Nelson), others would like more (South Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Hawke’s Bay). The general net result is that NZ is in a good position soil moisturewise coming into spring. Also, while chaos is often associated with spring, it’s worth noting that the previous couple of springs were dominated far more by high pressure in northern NZ, which led to drier weather for most of the North Island. Good spring rain and the growth that will follow is always a key element of the success of the spring store cattle markets. Even though some regions are too wet underfoot, once the paddocks dry out competition will heat up. Couple that with the dry regions playing catch-up on feed and the store cattle market looks set to be hot property this season. NORTHLAND Kaikohe cattle • Yearling beef-cross steers made $3.00/kg to $3.20/kg • Yearling Friesian and beef-cross bulls fetched $2.65-$2.75/kg • Whiteface cows with calves-at-foot earned $1350 • Autumn-born weaner Friesian and Hereford-Friesian bulls, 120140kg, realised $510-$580 • Boner cows sold around $2.00/kg to $2.15/kg Quality lifted at KAIKOHE last Wednesday, which was well received by buyers, PGG Wrightson agent Vaughan Vujcich reported. Two-year beef-cross steers made $2.90$3.00/kg. Heavier heifers fetched $2.80/kg to $2.95/kg and lesser types, $2.60/kg. There was a nice line up of yearlings on offer. Good 260-300kg Hereford-Friesian sold to $3.50$3.60/kg, Angus-Friesian realised $3.25-$3.30/kg and beef-cross, $3.00/kg to $3.20/kg. Very nice 330kg whiteface heifers earned $3.00/kg and lighter types fetched $3.00/kg to $3.12/kg. Hauhora spring fair • Two-year cattle typically earned $2.80/kg to $3.00/kg • Yearling South Devon and beef-cross steers, 260kg, made $800$950 There were around 400 head at the HAUHORA spring cattle fair last Thursday, including a good line up of quality yearling Simmental steers and heifers. Heavy Simmental steers made $1300-$1400 and lighter types $1100-$1250, while better heifers achieved $1000-$1150 and the next cut $800-$900. The balance of South Devon, Charolais and beef-cross heifers traded to $700-$820 and lighter types $600-$650.

WAIKATO Frankton cattle 14.9 • Two-year beef-dairy heifers, 355-453kg, improved to $3.07-$3.14/kg • Yearling Angus-Friesian steers, 300-305kg, realised $3.42-$3.44/kg • Quality yearling Charolais-Friesian heifers, 303-341kg, fetched $3.08-$3.19/kg A larger than expected yarding of 983 cattle was penned at FRANKTON by PGG Wrightson last Tuesday and good demand meant a full clearance was easily achieved. Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 243-321kg, varied from $3.37/kg to $3.82/kg and same breed heifers, 246-307kg, $2.95/kg to $3.45/kg. Friesian bulls, 275-317kg, improved to $2.85-$2.95/kg. Autumn-born weaner Hereford-Friesian steers, 127kg, realised $590 and 109kg heifers $465. Prime cattle were well-contested and very good beef-dairy steers, 623-733kg, earned $3.29-$3.40/kg. Heifers softened slightly and Hereford-Friesian, 425-629kg, returned $3.09-$3.23/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye. Frankton cattle 15.9 • Quality 2-year steers, 395-487kg, fetched $3.20-$3.29/kg • Yearling Angus-Friesian and Hereford-Friesian steers, 270-345kg, managed $3.26-$3.30/kg • Prime Hereford steers, 536kg, pushed to $3.40/kg Throughput increased to 860 head for New Zealand Farmers Livestock at FRANKTON last Wednesday and there was good competition throughout. Two-year HerefordFriesian heifers, 401-431kg, reached $3.04-$3.16/kg. Most Hereford-dairy, 322-401kg, eased to $2.88-$2.99/kg. Yearling Murray Grey steers, 262kg, reached $3.21/kg and similar weighted Hereford $3.05/kg. Beef-dairy heifers, 200-275kg, were mainly $2.93-$3.03/kg. Autumn-born weaner Anguscross steers above 150kg earned $620-$690 and heifers, 150176kg, $520-$530. Hereford-dairy bulls, 105-158kg, returned $450-$625. A smaller prime section had beef-dairy steers, 561-660kg, at $3.18-$3.27/kg and all heifers, 461-515kg, held at $3.16-$3.18/kg. Top boner Friesian cows pushed to $2.77/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

KING COUNTRY Te Kuiti sheep • Heavy prime ewes made $208-$210, medium $140-$165 and light $120-$139 • Ewes with lambs-at-foot realised $79-$105 all-counted • Top store male lambs sold to $191 It was a wet day at TE KUITI last Wednesday. There was a medium yarding of prime lambs and the best sold to $228$246 with medium $180-$197 and lighter types down to $150. Prime 2-tooth ewes fetched $168-$172 and one pen of wethers to $195. Top store Romney ewe lambs earned $186 with medium $140-$160 and light $120-$135.

BAY OF PLENTY Rangiuru cattle and sheep • Prime Hereford-Friesian bulls, 743kg, achieved $3.65/kg • Prime Hereford bulls, 785kg, returned $3.50/kg • Prime Hereford-Friesian heifers, 516kg, managed $3.57/kg • Two-year Hereford bulls, 448-520kg, pushed to $3.19-$3.26/kg A good yarding of prime cattle was well-received at RANGIURU last Tuesday and high-yielding traditional and exotic steers 550kg plus attracted bids of $3.31-$3.41/ kg. They were joined in this price bracket by Friesian, 706kg, that earned $3.33/kg. Quite a few 520-581kg Angus, Hereford-Friesian and Murray Grey-cross steers and heifers carded results of $3.19-$3.27/kg. Quality attracted good bids in the store section and included traditional and well-marked 2-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 438-468kg, that earned $3.15-$3.23/kg. Highlights in the yearling pens included 226kg Angus steers that earned $3.94/kg, $890, almost matching the per-head price of 296kg Angus that earned $3.14/kg and $930. Prime lambs sold well and were priced from $159 to $199 while a small pen of ewes with lambs-at-foot earned $119 all counted. Read more in your LivestockEye.

POVERTY BAY Matawhero sheep • Prime ewes earned $170-$200 • Romney ewes with lambs-at-foot fetched $100 all-counted • Store rams traded at $80-$120 There was just a small yarding at MATAWHERO last Friday. Heavy prime lambs strengthened to $250-$295 with medium $170-$200 and light $122-$152. Read more in your LivestockEye.

TARANAKI Taranaki cattle • A nice line of 2-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 473kg, achieved $3.30/kg • Quality 2-year Speckle Park-cross and Murray Grey-cross, 442486kg, made $3.14-$3.15/kg • The lion’s share of autumn-born R2 Hereford-Friesian steers earned $3.29-$3.34/kg • Autumn-born R2 Hereford-Friesian heifers, 253-286kg, fetched $3.04/kg • Better yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers fetched $2.92/kg to $3.04/kg Top end cattle weren’t too far off the previous sale at TARANAKI last Wednesday, though buyers were selective in the quality they bid on. Two-year steers typically made $3.16-$3.26/kg with lesser-quality lines mostly $2.81/kg to $2.93/kg. Late-born and light yearling Hereford-Friesian steers made $3.16/kg to $4.02/kg and 260-292kg beefcross ranged from $3.03/kg to $3.14/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

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Stortford Lodge prime sheep • Heavy to very heavy mixed-age ewes held at $195-$255 • A pen of three very large wethers topped the sale at $340 • Good two to four-tooth ewes improved to $171 • Top male lambs earned $234-$255.50 • Ewe lambs were well-sought after at $191-$223 A stunning spring day was enjoyed by all at STORTFORD LODGE last Monday where a larger yarding of 1595 prime sheep and lambs were penned. Good buyer demand kept the ewe market steady. Very good mixed-age ewes maintained levels of $170-$185 with good types at $148$159. Medium ewes traded at $136.50-$141 and light to light-medium, $77-$108. Lambs had plenty of weight and the top end of ram and mixed-sex lines returned $249. The balance of mixed-sex pens traded at $179-$213. Read more in your LivestockEye. Stortford Lodge store cattle and sheep • Three-year Angus steers, 450-499kg, reached $3.22-$3.33/kg • Two-year Friesian bulls, 470-519kg, firmed to $3.25-$3.31/kg • Heavy cryptorchid lambs sold for $172-$195 • Very heavy ewe lambs returned $212-$224 Store cattle tallies pushed to 610 at STORTFORD LODGE last Wednesday, despite the sale being between big spring yarding’s. A large portion were beef-dairy, and weight dictated price. Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 568kg, made $3.25/kg though lines around 440kg returned $2.90$3.03/kg. Heifers of same age and breed at 378-394kg varied from $2.79/kg to $2.96/kg. Two-year Hereford and Red Devon bulls, 422-431kg, returned $3.26-$3.32/kg. Yearlings were lighter than the previous week and Angus and AngusHereford steers, 215-226kg, sold for $802-$820, $3.64-$3.73/ kg. Beef-Friesian, 246-279kg, returned $780-930, $3.10$3.18/kg. Angus and Angus-Hereford heifers, 205-219kg, returned $515-$630. Store lamb supply dropped to 1400 and demand was solid throughout. Good ewe lambs lifted to $170-$177 as big line sizes attracted extra interest. Read more in your LivestockEye.

MANAWATŪ Feilding prime cattle and sheep • Angus cows, 458-491kg, fetched $2.18-$2.20/kg • Friesian cows, 435-525kg, earned $2.14-$2.25/kg • Friesian cows, 760kg, returned $2.51/kg • Jersey cows, 483kg, made $2.29/kg With the first of October fast approaching, over 6000 old season lambs were auctioned at FEILDING last Monday. Proceedings sailed at pace and big lines were a feature. A quarter of the tally were very heavy types that fetched $244$271 while buyers who were also quick to pick up lines from the many heavy pens that ranged from $193 to $239. Lighter medium-good pens included several October-born lambs that mostly sold within a price bracket of $162-$190. Ewes were few and far between and the best pen managed $207. Read more in your LivestockEye. Feilding store cattle and sheep • Two-year Angus steers, 480-520kg, all made $3.25-$3.30/kg • Two-year traditional heifers, 475-500kg, sold for $3.25-$3.30/kg • Yearling traditional steers, 265-295kg, were $3.55-$3.70/kg • Store lambs were again mainly $145-$175 • Four-tooth ewes with docked blackface lambs were $142.50 all counted Almost 900 store cattle mostly sold well at FEILDING. Two-year dairy-cross steers, 375-505kg, made $3.00-$3.15/ kg while 375-465kg 2-year dairy-cross heifers were mostly $2.90-$3.10/kg. Two-year 405-450kg Friesian bulls sold for $3.25-$3.30/kg. Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 310345kg, were $3.20-$3.45/kg but 205-260kg yearling Friesian bulls weakened to $600-$640. However 145-165kg autumnborn Friesian bulls went better at $585-$600. Yearling Angus heifers, 180-225kg were $3.15-$3.35/kg. It was a good sale

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• Two-year Sussex steers, 261kg, fetched $3.22/kg • Two-year Speckle Park heifers, 325-371kg, traded at $3.08-$3.11/kg • One-year Angus heifers, 215-257kg, sold from $3.15/kg to $3.31/kg It had been six months since the last dedicated Wednesday store cattle sale at CANTERBURY PARK and despite being earlier in the season than usual there was sufficient demand from both buyers and sellers for not only today’s edition but for additional Wednesday auctions over the next few months. A large selection of 2-year traditional steers over 300kg earned $3.13-$3.23/kg while dairy-beef steers were commonly 350-470kg and $2.90-$3.00/kg. The best traditional heifers earned similar prices to their male counterparts as 345-394kg achieved $3.09-$3.19/kg. In the yearling pens the odd traditional line in both the steers and heifers sold up to $3.31-$3.37/kg followed by AngusHereford steers, 186-237kg, that managed $3.02-$3.12/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

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for the 2400 store lambs. Top price went to a line of prime male lambs at $218, but forward stores were mostly $170$190, medium store lambs $155-$170, and lighter types usually $120-$145. Ewes with lambs-at-foot were flatter, where good-sized lines with undocked terminal-cross lambs maxed out at $109 all counted, while lesser lines were down at $81-$100 all counted. Read more in your LivestockEye. Rongotea cattle • Two-year Friesian bulls, 405kg, made $2.35/kg • Two-year White Galloway-cross heifers, 495kg, achieved $2.91/kg • Yearling Friesian bulls, 197-231kg, eased to $2.42/kg to $2.59/kg • Weaner bulls returned $400-$510 and heifers, $460 • In-milk Friesian cows sold to $900-$1000 Heavy rain impacted both cattle throughput and buyer numbers at RONGOTEA last Tuesday, New Zealand Farmers Livestock agent Darryl Harwood reported. Better 2-year Hereford-Friesian steers sold to $3.06/kg and heifers, $2.46/ kg to $2.76/kg. Yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 270355kg, fetched $2.37/kg to $2.48/kg. The top end of feeder bull calves realised $235-$290, medium $155-$165 and lighter bulls and heifers, $40-$80. Friesian boner cows, 530578kg, made $2.04/kg and Hereford, 525kg, $2.43/kg.

CANTERBURY Canterbury prime cattle and all sheep • Prime Speckle Park steers, 318-650kg, achieved $3.40-$3.41/kg • Top prime ewes earned $300 while half were heavy types that made $211-$256 • Corriedale store lambs ranged from $132 to $160 Extra prime steer and heifer entries were easily absorbed at CANTERBURY PARK last Tuesday. The steers were a classy bunch, and none sold below $3/kg with a level of $3.26-$3.36/kg commonly achieved amongst most exotic, beef and beef-cross over 550kg. Much of the balance were plainer types and a sizable collection of Angus, 458-493kg, traded at a level of $3.21-$3.31/kg. The top heifers were a mix of traditional and exotic types over 500kg that ranged from $3.24/kg to $3.33/kg. Just over 150 prime lambs traded at $251-$286 and close to 1000 heavy fetched $216-$249. Most of the remaining pens earned at least $150. Read more in your LivestockEye. Canterbury Park store cattle • Two-year Angus steers, 326-370kg, earned $3.16-$3.22/kg

Coalgate cattle and sheep • Prime Hereford-Friesian steers, 583-729kg, earned $3.28-$3.36/kg • Two-year Hereford-Friesian heifers, 329-370kg, made $2.35/kg to $2.49/kg • Prime lambs reached $362 and ewes, $363 • One pen of 85 Coopdale ewes and 162 lambs traded at $128 all counted • The store lamb pens were quiet, and lines sold for $123-$154 Prime lambs were once again the main feature of the sheep pens at COALGATE last Thursday. A pair of buyers battled it out for ex-stud lambs that reached $354-$362. Plenty of others also sold above $300 followed by the majority at $200-$294. A level of $170 was needed to secure remaining pens. The top ewes managed $343-$362 with most other heavy pens $200-$269. The remaining ewes were evenly spread from $150 to $199. High yielding prime steers continued to achieve $3.28-$3.38/kg regardless of breed. Heifers sold along the same lines with over 60 491549kg Angus, Angus-Hereford and Charolais-cross priced at $3.30-$3.36/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

SOUTH-CANTERBURY Temuka prime and boner cattle; all sheep • Prime traditional and exotic steers over 600kg returned $3.24$3.34/kg • Prime Angus heifers, 550kg, pushed to $3.36/kg • 120 Coopdale ewes with 185 lambs traded at $130 all counted • Store Texel-Romney ewe lambs earned $160-$190 Volume was lower than expected at TEMUKA last Monday as some scheduled lines were forced to pull out due to wild weather. The top pen of prime lambs managed $280, followed by $240 to $262 while the lion’s share traded at $160-$237. Top prime ewes reached $304-$310 and a quarter earned $210-$288. The next cut largely earned $149-$194. Most medium store lambs achieved $126-$156. A level of $3.19-$3.28/kg was commonly achieved amongst exotic, beef and beef-cross steers in the 525-575kg weight range while equivalent heifers were $3.15-$3.25/kg. Friesian cows over 500kg sold from $2.21/kg to $2.34/kg though the odd pen reached $2.54/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

steers were available and nearly all in the 200-350kg weight bracket sold within a range of $3.15/kg to $3.30/kg. Quite a few Hereford-Friesian, 154-247kg, achieved $3.09-$3.18/ kg. Traditional heifers, 200-280kg, largely fetched $2.83/ kg to $3.03/kg although one pen of Angus, 277kg, did a little better than most at $3.30/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

OTAGO Balclutha cattle and sheep • Heavy prime ewes made $180-$240, medium $140-$170 and light $100 • Top store lambs earned $120-$140 and medium $100 • Yearling Angus steers, 200-240kg, fetched $3.50/kg Prime lamb volume was at the lowest level this year at BALCLUTHA last Wednesday. The top end made $180-$220, medium $150-$170 and light $140. There was solid demand for good-quality cattle. Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 420kg, made $3.00/kg to $3.20/kg, and 360kg heifers $3.00/ kg.

SOUTHLAND Lorneville cattle and sheep • Heavy prime ewes fetched $196-$232 with medium at $146-$180 and light $120-$140 • Local trade rams earned $90-$100 • Boner cows made $1.50/kg to $1.90/kg • Two-year Friesian bulls, 412kg, sold to $2.86/kg • Yearling Hereford-cross heifers, 281-278kg, achieved $2.70-$2.75/ kg Heavy prime lambs earned $175-$199 at LORNEVILLE last Tuesday with medium at $158-$168 and light $141. Good 2-tooth ewes achieved $138-$154 and light to medium $90-$98. Top store lambs were secured for $130$145, medium $115-$125 and light $90-$110. Top prime steers fetched $3.15/kg, and heifers above 480kg reached $3.20/kg. There was solid demand for 2-year cattle and good 459kg steers traded to $3.05/kg, while Charolais-cross heifers, 484kg, achieved $3.12/kg. Yearling Hereford-cross and Speckle Park-cross steers, 295kg, made $2.86/kg-$2.88/ kg. The top end of feeder calves up to three weeks old traded at $110-$140 thought there was little demand for the small calves.

Temuka store cattle • Two-year Charolais and Charolais-cross heifers, 439-451kg, fetched $3.12/kg to $3.26/kg • Yearling Angus steers, 230kg, managed $3.74/kg • Yearling Hereford-Moutbeliarde bulls, 246-260kg, earned $3.04$3.12/kg • Yearling Speckle Park-Belgian Blue bulls, 238kg, traded at $2.99/kg As well as the usual traditional and dairy-beef types at TEMUKA last Thursday there was also plenty of interesting crossbreeds available. Two-year Charolais-cross steers, 445kg, earned the most at $3.21/kg with the heaviest pen of Hereford-Friesian, 479kg, not far behind at $3.20/ kg. Buyers chased the lighter Hereford-Friesian steers, 367-428kg, that made up most of the section and earned $2.95-$3.04/kg. Same breed heifers, 371-398kg, nearly all made $2.83-$2.95/kg with one pen of 436kg priced at $3.10/ kg. A large contingent of exotic and traditional yearling

Feeder calf sales Prices eased for beef-cross calves at MANFEILD PARK last Monday. Hereford-Friesian bulls traded at $100-$170 and exotic-cross, $120-$140. Angus-Friesian managed $150-$250. The top end of the same breed in the heifer pens made $105-$140 and the balance, $30-$90. Good Friesian bulls made $80-$95, medium $45-$60 and small, $30. A reduced 570 calves were penned between PGG Wrightson and New Zealand Farmers Livestock at FRANKTON last week. Friesian bulls mainly held with top calves at $230-$290 and small to medium $10-$115. Medium to good HerefordFriesian bulls traded at steady to improved levels of $140-$245 while small eased to $10-$100. Simmentalcross managed $140-$190 with Angus-cross at $95$105. Red Hereford-Friesian bulls and heifers both held value with bulls at $15-$120 and heifers, $15-$70. Good Hereford-Friesian heifers were discounted to $90-$130 and small to medium calves were mainly steady at $10-$90. A slightly smaller yarding of 360 calves were penned at TIRAU last Tuesday. Medium Friesian bulls returned $70-$80. Good Hereford-Friesian bulls were strong at $210-$240 and Angus-cross reached $140$200. Hereford-Friesian heifers strengthened at the top end and good calves earned $110-$130 while small to medium types held at $15-$60. Medium red factor lines realised $20-$60.

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HINA continued to take 40% of New Zealand’s meat and co-products exports in the 2021 financial year, paying $3.64 billion out of $9.1b total export revenue. Half of China’s expenditure was on NZ sheepmeats, one-third on beef and the rest co-products. The Meat Industry Association’s (MIA) annual report said the United States was the second-largest market, paying $1.87b, two-thirds spent on beef and the rest split between lamb and coproducts. Overall, sheepmeats and beef account for 43% and 39% respectively of export revenue, co-products returning the remaining 18%. MIA chair John Loughlin and chief executive Sirma Karapeeva commented that FY21 was a near-record year for meat exports, down 3% on the year before, and that $9.1b worth of products went to 108 countries. This was a testament to meat companies’ relationships, resilience, agility and innovation under the extraordinary impact of covid-19. “Companies were able to move products both between markets and within markets, adapting quickly to the impacts of covid-19 on the foodservice sector and a rise in demand for retail ready meals,” they said in the report. They commented on the huge logistical challenges that were bringing out flexibility and creativity in the meat industry. The need to move more than 60,000 shipping containers annually has run into significant disruptions to shipping schedules, large cost increases, shortages of reefers and long delays at ports affecting berthing windows and product shelf life. The MIA report does not quantify the increased costs and delays in the supply chain.

SOUGHT-AFTER: Half of China’s expenditure was on NZ sheepmeats, one-third on beef and the rest co-products.

Over 25,000 people are employed in the industry, which is the largest on-thejob trainer, with 5000 people enrolled in NZQA courses each year with an 85% pass rate. However, a shortage of workers in the regions means a big need for migrant labour, especially halal butchers. “When the current visa extensions for the existing migrant halal butchers run out, our industry will face a crunch point,” the report said. MIA called on the Government for a permanent solution, being a special work visa for halal butchers. It also recognised the need for the industry to do more to tell New Zealanders that good paying jobs and career pathways are available. For the first time in five years, sheepmeats exports rose above 400,000 tonnes and China took an extraordinary 60% of that volume, up 17% on the year before. Although that is a very high percentage of exports going to one country, the response to covid-19 showed access to a wider range of countries, now 87 in total. The recovery of the foodservice sector in North America lifted sheepmeats

imports from NZ by 35% to 37,500t and $486m. European countries took $1b of sheepmeats and the MIA thought that changes in the volumes going to European Union countries and the United Kingdom were probably market-related rather than caused by Brexit. The split in our WTO quotas for sheepmeat and beef between the EU and UK remains unresolved, but the MIA expects announcements on freetrade agreements this year. Beef exports totalled 480,000t, up 4% on the previous year, and another record volume. China’s 39% share fell slightly as other exporters like Brazil, Argentina and the US improved their access. Japan’s share of our beef exports increased 19% by volume to 26,600t and 7% by value. China led the demand for coproducts like casings, tripe, hides, skins and offals. The US and Australia take different products, like prepared and preserved meats and blood products. Meat and bone meal and tallow make up 20% of all co-products.

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ACROSS THE RAILS SUZ BREMNER

Yard switches up store cattle sales THE store cattle market continues to ramp up and some yards have made changes to better suit their buying and selling family. It is not an unusual event for Canterbury Park Saleyards to hold a standalone store cattle sale on a Wednesday, but what was unusual about the recent one was the time of year. In a move to better accommodate both sellers and buyers, agent companies at this yard opted to separate prime and store cattle sales earlier than historically and that may well become the norm, according to PGG Wrightson regional livestock manager Grant Nordstrom. This year, slow growth and the lockdown period meant store cattle tallies built up to a point that a standalone sale was the best option, also given that high volumes of prime cattle are still being offered. The separation meant that store buyers did not have to sit through the prime sale first and it was such a popular move that the next store-only cattle sale is already calendared for Wednesday, September 29. Store cattle volume also exploded further south at Temuka and a build-up on volume there has meant that the regular fortnightly sales will be weekly for the time being. Temuka would typically shift to weekly at this time of year, but last week they shut the books and even though there were several withdrawals prior to the sale, volume still pushed over 1100. Results for both these sales can be found in the Sale Yard Wrap section. Online trading platforms are also in operation at a growing number of yards with Temuka the latest to introduce Tessco Agribidder. Agribidder joins MyLivestock and bidr® as a livestreaming and bidding platform, which allows more competition in the rostrums without people physically being there. Online trading is huge in Australia but given that travel times to yards in New Zealand is much less, uptake of the systems was not as high here. But covid-19 restrictions on the number of attendees to yards worked in these platforms favour, as some buyers are turning to that option and enjoying the comfort of bidding from home. suz.bremner@globalhq.co.nz

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PROXIMITY SENSOR M12 – M12 PLUG MH-CEL00766

35695

UNIVERSAL SENSOR 3.6M

Suitable for most McHale FUSION 3 (from s/n 662853) & VARIO (from s/n 900344) balers.

PROXIMITY SENSOR M18 – M12 PLUG MH-CEL00767

36550

+GST

Suitable for most McHale F5 Series, FUSION 1, 2, V660 (up to s/n 801349) balers and HS2000, 991, 995, 998 Series bale wrappers.

PROXIMITY SENSOR M30 – M12 PLUG MH-CEL00768

40095

+GST

Suitable for most later model McHale F5 Series, FUSION 3, VARIO & V660 balers.

MAGNET BLUE WHEEL MH-CEL00017

3195

MH-CKN00011

+GST

Suitable for most McHale balers and bale wrappers.

KNIFE – CUT & HOLD

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KNIFE – CUT & HOLD KIT MH-ACT00061

3795

$ 95 +GST

Suitable for most McHale FUSION balers and HS2000, 991, 998 Series bale wrappers.

Suitable for most McHale 991, 995 Series bale wrappers.

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+GST

MIXER WAGON FEED WAGONS

GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR JAYLOR

WELDING ANGLING BLADE / AUGER TIP JL-AAA-005-00085

Keep your JAYLOR blades sharp and achieve • Lower HP consumption • Better cutting efficiency • Higher quality mix

17895

+GST

All items listed above suitable for most JAYLOR 4000 & 5000 series.

FEED WAGONS

SINGLE KNIFE

KIT OF 10 KNIVES

Including bolts/nuts. JL-AAA-005-00226

VERTICAL KNIFE C/W FASTENERS

Including bolts/nuts, JL-AAB-005-00018

JL-AAA-005-00225

+GST

JL-AAA-005-00224

36695

213495

24895

ALEXANDER KNIFE KIT C/W BOLTS NUTS

+GST

All items listed above suitable for most JAYLOR 4000 & 5000 series.

+GST

50395

+GST

TELEHANDLERS TELEHANDLERS

MERLO PLUSH SOFT TOY

SEAT COVER

ME-UM9083

ME-100025

13095

5195

MERLO MULTIFARMER 40.9 (1:32) ME-UM9085

+GST

39995

+GST

Suitable for Grammer seats fitted to Merlo telehandlers.

TELEHANDLERS

BRAKE PAD (SINGLE)

ME-046917

PARK BRAKE PAD (SINGLE) ME-049614

3695

+GST

9095

+GST

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2021/2022

FILTRATION FUEL FILTER CAV KR-FI522SP

HYDRAULIC FILTER KR-1687042M91GP

INTERIOR FILTER MANN-FILTER KR-CU3125

$ 95 +GST

Suitable for most older tractors using a CAV fuel system.

Suitable for most Massey Ferguson 230, 250, 253, 263, 375, 390, 550, 1080 models.

Suitable for most John Deere 5000 TWENTY, 5E, 5M, 5R, 6M, 6R series tractors.

OIL FILTER SPIN-ON DONALDSON

FUEL FILTER KIT

FUEL FILTER ELEMENT KR-FM31873

4395

+GST

Suitable for most Caterpillar 400 Series Backhoe Loaders, John Deere 5000 TWENTY, 5015, 6000, 6000 TEN, 6000 TWENTY, 6015, 7000, 7025, 7000 TEN series tractors.

95 +GST

3695

KR-P550020

95 +GST

+GST

KR-VPD6080

3250

+GST

Suitable for a large range of John Deere, Renault and Zetor tractors.

Suitable for most Case-IH 5100, 5200, 7100, 7200, 9100, 9200, MX series tractors.

SCREWDRIVER SET SLOTTED / POZIDRIV 6PC

PNEUMATIC IMPACT WRENCH SET ½” 6PC

HAND TOOLS SCREWDRIVER SET SLOTTED / PHILLIPS 6PC KR-1808030106KR

95 +GST

¼” SOCKET SET 45PC KR-180445400KR

11495

+GST

¾” SOCKET SET 20PC KR-180421060KR

34995

+GST

COMBINATION METRIC SPANNER SET 26PC KR-1802025426KR

26995

+GST

KR-1808030606KR

95 +GST

3/8” SOCKET SET 23PC KR-180423800KR

12750

KR-180429200KR

15450

KR-180496420KR

40695

+GST

ADJUSTABLE WRENCH SET 3PC KR-1802635200KR

8695

+GST

COMBINATION METRIC RATCHET SPANNER SET 6PC KR-1802030406KR

17695

+GST

½” SOCKET SET 29PC

+GST

¼” + ½” COMBINATION SOCKET SET 96PC

27695

KR-1919101205KR

+GST

COMBINATION METRIC RATCHET SPANNER SET 12PC KR-1802030412KR

34595

+GST

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+GST

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How It Works Base

® RAM MOUNTS Choose a Device Adapter 1 How It Works RAM® offers a wide selection of adapters and cradles for your specific device.

Device Adapter

HOW IT WORKS Choose an Arm

2 3

BALL SELECTION GUIDE

Ball Size BallSelection Size BallSelection Size Guide Selection GuideGuide

Select an arm based on your desired length and placement.

Choose a Device Adapter RAM® offers a wide selection of adapters and cradles for your specific device.

Device Adapter

Choose a Base

Arm

Select from a variety of bases to help secure your device where you need it.

Choose an Arm Select an arm based on your desired length and placement.

B Size • • •

Choose a Base

B Size B Size

C Size

C Size C Size

D Size

1" diameter • 1" ball diameter • 1" ball diameter ball • 1.5" diameter • 1.5" ball diameter • 1.5" ball diameter ball Holds up• toHolds 2 lbs up • Holds to 2 lbsup to 2 lbs • Holds up• toHolds 4 lbs up • Holds to 4 lbsup to 4 lbs Ideal for •phones, Ideal for cameras • phones, Ideal forcameras phones, cameras • Ideal for •tablets Ideal and for• tablets Ideal for and tablets and and cup holders and cup holders and cup holders small monitors small monitors small monitors

• • •

Arm

Select from a variety of bases to help secure your device where you need it.

D Size D Size

2.25" diameter • 2.25" ball diameter • 2.25" ball diame Holds up• toHolds 6 lbs up • Holds to 6 lbsup to Ideal for •display Ideal for• display Ideal for dis integrationsintegrations integrations

Base

CHOOSE YOUR DEVICE 5 5 5ADAPTER RAM X-GRIP HOLDER

FOR UP TO Ball SizePHONES Selection Guide 3.25” WIDE (“B” SIZE)

105

50 +GST

B Size • •

1" diameter ball Holds up to 2 lbs Ideal for phones, cameras and cup holders

4 HOLE AMPS RECTANGULAR PLATE ADAPTER (“B” SIZE)

4 HOLE AMPS ROUND PLATE ADAPTER (“B” SIZE)

KR-RAMB238

KR-RAMB347U

KR-RAMB202

2095

+GST

C Size •

2450

+GST

D Size

1.5" diameter ball Holds up to 4 lbs Ideal for tablets and small monitors

•

2.25" diameter ball Holds up to 6 lbs Ideal for display integrations

CHOOSE YOUR SOCKET ARM Ball Size Selection Guide • •

2.42” (60MM) SHORT SOCKET ARM (“B” SIZE)

2 HOLE AMPS DIAMOND PLATE ADAPTER Base (“B” SIZE)

2895

KR-RAMBHOLUN7

•

KR-RAMB201A B Size • • •

• •

3.73” (95MM) MEDIUM SOCKET ARM (“B” SIZE)

C Size KR-RAMB201B

5195

1" diameter ball Holds up to 2 lbs +GST Ideal for phones, cameras and cup holders

• • •

D Size

5195

1.5" diameter ball Holds up to 4 lbs +GST Ideal for tablets and small monitors

• • •

2.25" diameter ball Holds up to 6 lbs Ideal for display integrations

6” (150MM) LONG SOCKET ARM (“B” SIZE)

RAM DOUBLE SOCKET SWIVEL ARM (“B” SIZE)

KR-RAMB201C

MI-RAP-B-200-12U

6850

3695

+GST

CHOOSE YOUR BASE

0.75” TO 1” DIAMETER RAM TORQUE BASE (“B” SIZE)

1” TO 1.875” DIAMETER RAM TOUGH-CLAW BASE (“B” SIZE)

0.5” TO 1.25” DIAMETER SINGLE U-BOLT BASE (“B” SIZE)

MI-RAM-B-408-75-1U

KR-RAMB404P

KR-RAMB231Z

5295

+GST

KR-RAMB2241U

+GST

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

3995

9495

+GST

RAM TWIST-LOCK SINGLE SUCTION CUP BASE (“B” SIZE)

11595

95 +GST

+GST

NEED A BIT MORE STRENGTH? HAVE HEAVIER TABLETS AND MONITORS? ASK ABOUT OUR HEAVIER DUTY C SIZE RANGE

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DISCLAIMER: Prices are based on recommended retails, exclude GST and are valid to 1 January 2021. Additional freight charges may apply. If in any doubt contact your local dealer for assistance when selecting the correct part for your model and application. Items shown are sample images only.

2021/2022

KRAMP HYDRAULICS COUPLINGS FEMALE COUPLING M22X1.5 KR-3CFPV12215F

10895

+GST

¼” FEMALE QUICK RELEASE COUPLING S/A – ¼” BSP

3/8” FEMALE QUICK RELEASE COUPLING S/A – 3/8” BSP

KR-NV14GASF

KR-ANV38GASF

2250

2295

+GST

3/8” MALE COUPLING – 3/8” BSP

¼” MALE COUPLING – ¼” BSP

Suitable for most modern tractors.

½” FEMALE QUICK RELEASE COUPLING S/A – ½” BSP KR-NV12GASF

1850

+GST

KR-NV14GASM

KR-NV38GASM

1195

1895

+GST

½” MALE COUPLING – ½” BSP KR-NV12GASM

1095

+GST

¾” FEMALE QUICK RELEASE COUPLING S/A – ¾” BSP

GASKET SET ½” OLD TYPE COUPLINGS (PACK OF 10)

KR-ANV34GASF

KR-9901028P010

5995

½” FEMALE QUICK RELEASE COUPLING D/A – ½” BSP KR-PV12GASF

+GST

1050

+GST

UNIVERSAL SEAL KIT ½” QRC

¾” MALE COUPLING – ¾” BSP

KR-AS12UNIVERSEEL

$ 50 +GST

KR-ANV34GASM

3150

+GST

$ 95 +GST

OIL COLLECTION CONTAINER 600CC

½” FEMALE THREADED COUPLING - ½” BSP

5LTR MEASURING JUG C/W SPOUT

KR-TAR12B

KR-VV12GASF

KR-41903GROZ

2995 +GST

6995

1650

+GST

½” MALE THREADED COUPLING – ½” BSP KR-VV12GASM

4995

+GST

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WALTERSCHEID

LINKAGE REPAIR KIT HOOK CAT 1 / 2

REPAIR KIT HOOK CAT 3 / 3L

LOWER LINK WELD-ON HOOK CAT 2

LOWER LINK WELDON HOOK CAT 3

KR-200001

KR-200002KK

KR-200016

KR-200020KK

8995

11495

+GST

26995

32995

+GST

PTO CROSS KIT 2200 SERIES (STANDARD)

CROSS KIT 2300 SERIES (STANDARD)

CROSS KIT 2400 SERIES (STANDARD)

CROSS KIT 2500 SERIES (STANDARD)

24mm x 61mm

27mm x 75mm

32mm x 76mm

36mm x 89mm

KR-200000

KR-210000

KR-350000

KR-360000

6795

7495

+GST

8495

+GST

11495

+GST

CROSS KIT 2600 SERIES (IMPROVED SEAL)

WIDE ANGLE CV JOINT 80° W2480 SERIES

WIDE ANGLE CV JOINT 80° W2580 SERIES

KR-260003

KR-3583830351310

KR-36831103613104

289

95 +GST

FRICTION DISC 120 X 185 X 3MM KR-567311

95 +GST

AGRASET QUICK RELEASE PIN KIT KR-AG100

610

95 +GST

1299

95 +GST

FRICTION DISC 100.5 X 157 X 3MM KR-567312

50 +GST

1799

95 +GST

FRICTION DISC 56 X 90 X 4.5MM KR-567313

50 +GST

AGRASET QUICK RELEASE PIN KIT

KR-AG101

KR-AG102

95 +GST

SHOP INSTORE OR ONLINE

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2950

+GST

FRICTION DISC 91 X 150 X 3MM KR-567308

4795

+GST

FRICTION DISC 100 X 152 X 3MM KR-567321

5795

+GST

AGRASET PLASTIC SLIDE COLLAR KIT 1.3/8” KR-AG172

4995

+GST

2021/2022

ALL MAKES GRASS RANGE

MOWER MOWER BLADE RH

BLADE HOLDER

MOWER BLADE LH

KR-0009520420KR

KR-0009385970KR

KR-1398884N

MOWER BLADE RH

MOWER BLADE LH

11595

+GST

KR-0009520430KR

KR-1398894N

$ 95 +GST

Suitable for most Claas COUGAR, DIRECT DISC, DISCO series mowers.

MOWER BLADE (HEAVY DUTY) KR-1398003

$ 50 +GST

$ 50 +GST Suitable for most Claas COUGAR, DISCO series mowers.

Suitable for most Krone AFA, AFL, AM, AMT, BIG M, EASYCUT series mowers.

BLADE HOLDER

BLADE BOLT & NUT

MOWER BLADE LH

BLADE BOLT & NUT

KR-001399817N

KR-001377266N

KR-55903210KR

MI-56115800KN

$ 50 +GST

5495 +GST

MOWER BLADE RH KR-55903310KR

$ 95 +GST

Suitable for most Krone AM, AMT series mowers

Suitable for most Krone AFA, AFL, AM, AMT, BIG M, EASYCUT series mowers.

Suitable for most Kuhn FC, GMD series mowers.

ROTARY TINE

KR-0009554830KR

KR-0009557100KR

ROTARY TEDDER TINE

TEDDER/RAKE ROTARY TINE KR-0009536290KR

1795

+GST

Suitable for various Claas LINER, WS series rakes.

1195 +GST

Suitable for various Claas LINER series rakes.

1495

+GST

KR-0009023442KR

$ 95 +GST

Suitable for various Claas LINER series rakes.

Suitable for most Claas VOLTO, W, WA series tedders.

PICK-UP TINE

BALERS PICK-UP TINE

PICK-UP TINE

KR-80131673N

KR-0008603510KR

KR-MA74528N

KR-009381481N

$ 50 +GST

Suitable for most Claas QUADRANT 1100, 1150, 1200, ROLLANT 42, 45, 46, 46RC, 66 model balers.

Suitable for most International B46, B47, 420, 422, 430, 440 model balers.

Suitable for most Case-IH RB, RBX, SB series and most New Holland 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, BR Series balers.

1295

+GST

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Suitable for most Krone COMBIPACK, VARIO-PACK series balers.

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ALL MAKES CULTIVATION RANGE

POWER HARROW

LINCH PIN (6 X 22MM)

LH POWER HARROW TINE 18MM

LH POWER HARROW TINE 16MM

PIN (16 X 65MM)

RH POWER HARROW TINE 16MM

$ 50 +GST

KR-KE0115

RH POWER HARROW TINE 18MM KR-KE0116

2695

KR-DG086N

KR-KE0713

KR-DK168

KR-KE0714

$ 95 +GST

Suitable for Amazone Power Harrows

Suitable for various Kuhn Power Harrows with FAST FIT®

2995

+GST

Suitable for Amazone KE3 Series Power Harrows

+GST

CULTIVATION CULTIVATOR POINT 215 X 36 X 6MM

CULTIVATOR POINT 255 X 50 X 6MM

DUCKFOOT POINT 120 X 105 X 4MM

KR-CP042GP

KR-CP703GP

KR-CP5105

CULTIVATOR POINT 215 X 40 X 6MM

CULTIVATOR POINT 270X40X16MM

KR-CP5032

KR-CP270

$ 50 +GST

$ 95 +GST

KR-CP5175

$ 50 +GST

DUCKFOOT POINT 150 X 150 X 4MM KR-CP5150

1595

$ 95 +GST

+GST

Suitable for various Vaderstad cultivators

1050

SADDLE BOLT AND NUT M10 X 35

KR-CP19

KR-CP121GP

KR-CP992P025

CULTIVATOR CURVED POINT LH

M10 X 40

KR-CP122GP

95 +GST

490x75x10mm. Suitable for Amazone cultivators.

DUCKFOOT POINT 150 X 200 X 4MM $

CULTIVATOR CURVED POINT RH

+GST

95 $ +GST

KR-CP5200

$ 50 +GST

CULTIVATOR POINT 445 X 185 X 20MM

5695

DUCKFOOT POINT 175 X 175 X 4MM

$ 70 +GST

+GST

DUCKFOOT POINT 150 X 250 X 4MM KR-CP5250

1450

+GST

KR-CP504P025

$ 50 +GST

M10 X 45

KR-CP704P025

$ 75 +GST

CAN’T FIND WHAT YOUR LOOKING FOR?

JUST ASK YOUR LOCAL PARTS INTERPRETER. 412

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2021/2022

LIGHT UP THE NIGHT

LIGHT BARS LED LIGHT BAR 36W – 3060LM – 12 LED

LED LIGHT BAR 72W – 6120LM – 24 LED

LED LIGHT BAR 81W – 7290LM – 54 LED

LED LIGHT BAR 180W – 15300LM – 60 LED

193 x 87 x 78mm Combo Beam KR-LA10302

353 x 87 x 78mm Combo Beam KR-LA10308

302 x 61 x 78mm Combo Beam KR-LA10301

812 x 87 x 78mm Combo Beam KR-LA10303

13495

6750

+GST

LED LIGHT BAR CURVED 300W – 25500LM – 100 LED 1320 x 87 x 78mm Combo Beam KR-LA10310

325

17895

+GST

LED LIGHT BAR CURVED 180W – 15300LM – 60 LED

LED LIGHT BAR 300W – 25500LM – 100 LED 1320 x 87 x 78mm Combo Beam KR-LA10304

5195

+GST

95 +GST

33695

+GST

812 x 87 x 78mm Combo Beam KR-LA10309

19650

+GST

WORK LIGHTS LED WORK LIGHT 18W - 1440LM - 6 LED

LED WORK LIGHT 24W – 2240LM – 8 LED

LED WORK LIGHT 39W – 3510LM – 13 LED

135 x 109 x 27.5mm Square. Flood Beam. Carbon Fibre.

89 x 89 x 58mm Round. Flood Beam.

141.5 x 64 x 90mm Oval Flood Beam.

124 x 144 x 69mm Oval. Flood Beam.

KR-LA10051

KR-LA10081

KR-LA10058

KR-LA10039

LED WORK LIGHT 27W – 1800LM – 9 LED

3650 +GST

5050 +GST

LED WORK LIGHT 48W – 3840LM – 16 LED

LED WORK LIGHT SET 9W – 1000LM – 4 LED

159 x 112.1 x 54.5mm Square. Flood Beam.

Blue LED Spray Light. 90 x 90mm Square.

KR-LA10047

KR-LA10002

3695 +GST

14650 +GST

6495

4695 +GST

LED DAYTIME RUNNING LIGHT SET – 6W – 4 LED 120.5 x 28.5 x 32mm Rectangular. KR-LA80030

15150

+GST

LED INSPECTION LIGHT – MAGNETIC 150 x 15mm. Comes with 3x AAA batteries. KR-LA10KR

1095

+GST

Ian Batchelor sees the light Ian and Judith Batchelor run a mixed sheep, beef and cropping operation based at Saltwater Creek in North Canterbury. A longtime Power Farming Canterbury customer Ian took an interest in the KRAMP lighting equipment when he visited the Power Farming site at a recent South Island agricultural machinery Field Days.

in productivity and value for money were the key reasons for changing. He can’t recommend KRAMP LEDs highly enough.

Initially Ian converted the top 4 worklights on his Massey Ferguson 6465 to KRAMP LED lights. The difference was “simply unbelievable” he said. Subsequently not only the remainder of the Masseys lights were converted to KRAMP LEDs but also all the lights on his New Holland 7520 and Claas MEGA 204 combine. The ease of conversion, reduction in eye strain, increase

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SAFETY

POLE MOUNT BEACONS LED BEACON 8W – 1 FUNCTION KR-LA20027

6995

ROTATING LED BEACON 24W – 1 FUNCTION

LED BEACON 9W – 1 FUNCTION

KR-LA20020

KR-LA20016

12650

LED BEACON 27W – 1 FUNCTION – 1 BOLT KR-LA20004

11950

FIXED MOUNT FLASHING LIGHT BARS LED FLASHING LIGHT BAR 90W – 250MM – 26 FUNCTION KR-LA20018

22950

214

+GST

50 +GST

+GST

MAGNETIC MOUNT BEACONS

+GST

14995

95 +GST

FIXED MOUNT BEACONS LED BEACON 9W – 1 FUNCTION

KR-LA20001

KR-LA20015

+GST

LED BEACON 9W – 3 FUNCTION

LED FLASHING LIGHT BAR 126W – 365MM – 26 FUNCTION KR-LA20019

322

50 +GST

SHOP INSTORE OR ONLINE

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+GST

LED BEACON 9W – 1 FUNCTION

LED BEACON 12W – 2 FUNCTION – RECHARGEABLE

KR-LA20017

10250

KR-LA20029

9995

+GST

MAGNETIC MOUNT FLASHING LIGHT BARS LED FLASHING LIGHT BAR 90W – 250MM – 26 FUNCTION KR-LA20007

216

95 +GST

LED FLASHING LIGHT BAR 126W – 365MM – 26 FUNCTION KR-LA20008

37895

+GST

Spring/Summer 2021/22

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