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DOLLAR out every $3 earned from primary products exports comes from China, a scenario that concerns Otago University marketing expert Dr Robert Hamlin. Treasury has also warned about over-reliance on China, particularly for dairy. Hamlin says as a rule of thumb no more than 20% of revenue should be earned from one source to ensure a buffer against changes in terms of trade. According to the 2018-19 Ministry for Primary Industries’ Situation and Outlook report, primary sector exports to China for the year to June 2019 were $14.4 billion out of total sales of $46.3b. Add in the value of all exports of goods and services and annual sales to China earlier this year breached $15b for the first time. There is a gaping chasm back to New Zealand’s next largest primary produce market, Australia, which is worth $4.5b followed by the United States at $4.2b, European Union $3.1b and Japan $2.6b. Hamlin says China’s dominance comes with risk. “The major thing to be concerned about is if you look at NZ exports generally, the share of products going to China is rising and the share of products going everywhere else is falling. “Essentially, China is crowding out other markets.”

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Essentially, China is crowding out other markets. Dr Robert Hamlin Otago University China is taking a long-term approach to secure food supplies for its growing population by also buying NZ processing companies, giving it control of the supply chain. In 2017 China was the top

export destination, accounting for 24% of primary sector exports by value, buying 25% of dairy, 43% of forestry, 31% of seafood and 21% of red meat. Since the devastation of China’s pig population by African swine fever last year it has taken 31% of all primary sector exports and is the leading buyer of dairy at 31% of exports, forestry at 52% and meat and wool 33%. By volume China’s influence is even greater. In the year to the end of September China bought 45%, or 891,400 tonnes, of NZ beef, lamb and mutton, a dominance AgriHQ

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analyst Nicola Dennis describes as unprecedented and with little sign of easing despite dwindling supplies of lamb. China’s influence is also boosting prices and demand for previously low-value cuts such as lamb flaps. It is paying $13 a kilogram for a product previously sold to Pacific markets for $2 a kilo. Queues of Chinese traders were lined up outside NZ booths at the Anuga Food Fair in Germany trying the source supplies of NZ lamb, a sign that lamb’s new dynamics of growing global demand and steady to

falling supply is not widely acknowledged, she said. Trade Minister David Parker says the China-NZ trade relationship is one of our most important. For the year ended June 2019 two-way trade accounted for 19% of overall two-way trade while Australia accounted for 16% and the European Union 14%. But individual exporters decide where they export to, Parker says. “It is up to individual firms to judge where they export but the Government also works hard to ensure that exporters have a

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 21, 2019

Food policy must go beyond soils Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz MOVES to ensure New Zealand has its own, affordable source of vegetables might become the first plank in a national food security policy. Horticulture NZ’s submission to the Government on the proposed national policy statement to protect high-value soils has gone a step further, suggesting NZ needs a food policy that considers supply, food security, national health and climate change. The Government wants to ensure regional councils can prevent high-quality soils being built on or subdivided into unproductive lifestyle blocks. Estimates are Auckland alone has lost 10,500ha or about a third of its high-value volcanic soils to development in the past 25 years. Hort NZ’s 60-page submission said the 120,000ha of horticultural land is a finite resource needing good protection. It goes beyond simply seeking outright protection of valuable soils to say other factors including nutrient input, water use and council rates contribute to that soil’s potential and ultimately to

the country’s ability to feed itself. Hort NZ highlighted the risk productive soils will become limited by other Government policies, namely the national freshwater policy statement.

We only need to look at what happened to the price of pork when it was allowed to be imported and it was again back on consumers’ tables. Professor Hamish Gow Massey University It cites catchments with high nutrient losses where consent is required for any expansion of 10ha or more of irrigation. That is despite orchards and vegetables using a third the water of pastoral systems, emitting less greenhouse gases and having lower leaching levels while they generate the highest gross income per hectare of any land use.

No plans for food policy THE Government does not have plans for a formal food security policy, a spokeswoman for Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor says. “Due to the high volume of food produced in New Zealand we do not consider there is an immediate threat to NZ’s food security or supply but this will need to be carefully managed in the future. “Many of the production issues that affect food security are being addressed.”

That includes $229 million in the Budget to support land users transition to lower emissions and improved environmental outcomes. She said the Government does have a vision for the NZ food system to deliver sustainable and nutritious food accessible to all. “Internationally, there are many member countries of the Paris Agreement for whom food supply is an immediate challenge today. NZ is not in that position.”

Hort NZ says lettuces could cost $5.50 apiece by 2043 if growers are restricted by Government policies on freshwater quality and nutrient losses. The value of the soils in providing fresh, affordable produce vital for national health is also identified by Hort NZ as a reason for improved soil preservation and a broader policy on food security. It cites a survey done this year by Ministry of Health estimating almost 200,000 children live in food insecure households, with significantly lower intakes of valuable fruit and vegetables in their daily diets. About 80% of vegetables grown in NZ on the high-value soils are for domestic consumption. Massey University agribusiness expert Professor Hamish Gow is also adamant high-value soils need protection. “There is no doubt it’s one of the first things we need to do. “That could start by preventing any further lifestyle block development, of which this country has far too many.” Western Bay of Plenty, with a high proportion of valuable soils, has 10,000 rural lots, of which half are less than 1ha in size. But on the bigger issue of a food policy and security of supply Gow said New Zealanders might have to accept this country will develop a two-tier food industry. One will be food production for high-end export markets demanding high-quality, certified provenance product while the other will be lower-value, probably supported by more imported food. “You do have to consider what your comparative advantage in food production is. “Does it really sit with pork and poultry production? But part of the problem is industry regulations preventing imports of chicken. “We only need to look at

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what happened to the price of pork when it was allowed to be imported and it was again back on consumers’ tables.” Similarly, lower-priced frozen vegetables could be imported. But Hort NZ chief executive Mike Chapman maintains a comprehensive, broader policy that takes account of all aspects affecting high-value growing areas would by default ensure NZ can continue to produce enough vegetables without relying on imports. “After this NPS and consultation

on the fresh water policy commercial growers want to engage Government on establishing a national standard for commercial vegetable growing. “The problem we have had with regional councils is they have not appreciated how different vegetables are compared to pastoral production. “Having such a policy would basically be the first plank in a national food security policy because it would ensure we can continue to grow all the vegetables we need to in NZ.”

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Seaweed backed as a gas-buster Colin Williscroft colin.williscroft@globalhq.co.nz A PROJECT to assess the potential for seaweed to be used as a cattle food additive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has been given Government backing despite past concerns about a potential negative environmental side effect. The Cawthron Institute will get $100,000 from the Government’s Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures Fund to add to its $150,000 to look at the potential for turning Asparagopsis armata, a native red seaweed, into a greenhouse gasbusting cattle feed supplement for domestic and global markets. It will research the effect of Asparagopsis on greenhouse gas emissions and develop an early proof-of-concept of production systems needed to develop a feed supplement at pilot-scale. If successful, the project will provide impetus for future work. Cawthron is collaborating with Australian and Waikato University

In previous trials Asparagopsis has proven to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in livestock by up to 80%. Damien O’Connor Agriculture Minister researchers. Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor said the research could be a game-changer for farmers. “In previous trials Asparagopsis has proven to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in livestock by up to 80%. Other products typically provide reductions of between 10% and 20%. “Australian research estimates that if just 10% of global ruminant producers adopted Asparagopsis as an additive to feed their livestock it would have the same

impact for our climate as removing 50 million cars from the world’s roads.” As a feed supplement, any commercial product that is developed from the research is likely to picked up by dairy farmers rather than sheep and beef farmers who run extensive hill country operations, but O’Connor said there is potential for it to be effectively used in all ruminants. It would not be the only answer for farmers, rather one more tool in a whole box of methods to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from livestock. The funding is also a potential boon for the aquaculture industry, worth $600 million a year with 3000 jobs. O’Connor said aquaculture could play a more significant role in the NZ economy. Traditionally, the industry has been focused on only a small number of species and broadening its base will build on that. Possible domestic demand

POTENTIAL: Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor says the research could be a game-changer for farmers.

for a new feed supplement could be hundreds of tonnes a year, resulting in new jobs from harvesting and processing the seaweed. In the past NZ scientists have been wary of using bromoform from seaweed because the chemical is ozone depleting. Dr Andy Reisinger from the NZ Greenhouse Gas Research Centre said seaweed production of bromoform runs the risk of the chemical leaking into the atmosphere because it cannot be controlled in a seaweed farm. AgResearch principal research scientist Dr Peter Janssen said NZ researchers do not use the compound because of its known

environmental impact. A Ministry for Primary Industries spokeswoman said any bromoform contribution from industrial-scale production of Asparagopsis will be negligible. “The project will be working alongside the New Zealand Agricultural Gas Research Centre, which investigates the effect of various means to reduce agricultural greenhouse gases, to ensure best efforts are made throughout the project to limit any emissions of bromoform, while further science into its effects are undertaken.”

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 21, 2019

Fonterra’s path to redemption Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell says Fonterra is going to talk to Kiwis differently. That simple, honest statement captures some of the behind-the-scenes soul searching done by the co-operative over the past 18 months through its Vision and Purpose panel. Richard Rennie spoke to farmer Richard Cookson, one of four thought leaders on the panel. of discontent by suppliers who felt isolated and a yawning gap of disconnection from the cooperative they own. The panel worked with Fonterra staff, exploring emotional pinch points Cookson believes took somewhat longer for staff to acknowledge and explore.

Money was hardly ever the biggest part of it. It sat in the background. It was the feelings that were the elephant in the room. Richard Cookson Farmer “But then that was because at this time Fonterra was a toxic place to be. They were wearing their Fonterra mask.” One of the aha moments for the panel came when Fonterra was personified. “I asked my group one day ‘I wonder who she (Fonterra) is?’ “They were all women and said ‘she’s not a woman, she’s always been a man. The ego and the arrogance to begin with, that’s not on us, that’s on you guys’.” But Cookson maintained because Fonterra was engaged in the most feminine activity of all, milk production, she had to be personified as a female. Doing so would help better understand where she was at and how she regarded herself.

“And ultimately our customers at the other end are women who care and nurture their families.” Taking the analogy further he maintained she was born from a loveless marriage of two iconic parties, namely Kiwi and NZ Dairy, joined unwillingly through DIRA. That history also includes a failure to acknowledge the bitterness and sense of loss that accompanied many of the earlier amalgamations into Fonterra’s parents’ identities. “You could say ‘get over it, that was ages ago’ but for many it meant a lot when they saw their Valley Milk or Bay Milk go that way and that hurt was not recognised.” Today she is a slightly awry 18-year-old who has missed the chances to truly define her personality and direction in life at crucial periods of her growing up. In short, she has been underparented and it is time for her to come home. “We have never really filled those voids with a sense of love and care. Instead, she was created to make money and become a corporate. Farmers and Fonterra employees fell into the void in this space.” Cookson said personifying and acknowledging Fonterra’s birth and stumble into adolescence proved to be an emotional experience for many confronting it, sharpened for him by his sense of only ever having thrown stones at her. The void was only really filled with Trading Among Farmers, something Cookson voted for hoping it would create greater co-operative unity. “But, really, we should have

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RICHARD Cookson describes himself as a Fonterra shareholder who became angry and even arrogant some years back after each encounter with the cooperative’s management. Feeling increasingly distant from the co-operative his family has deep roots in, the contact left him feeling more cynical, ultimately retreating into a figurative shell on his family’s Te Aroha property. “So no one was more surprised than I when I was asked to be part of Fonterra’s purpose programme,” he said. The programme was instigated by Shareholders’ Council chairman Duncan Coull during the vacuum that effectively formed when late Fonterra chairman John Wilson stood down, about the same time as chief executive Theo Spierings. “Duncan stepped into that and at our first meeting spoke about why Fonterra exists. He said we need to look at why we are here and our fundamental values. He had picked his moment and it took a lot of courage in that space 18 months ago.” Backed by a tonne of qualitative data responses gathered from 2000 suppliers the panel became a conduit for the overarching shareholder mood. The research had identified and mind mapped key words and thoughts, with those most prominent and positive including family and generational farming. “Money was hardly ever the biggest part of it. It sat in the background. It was the feelings that were the elephant in the room.” That also included a sense

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 21, 2019

Treasury warns of Chinese exposure Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz EXPORTS to China, driven primarily by food and logs, have risen from $2.7 billion to more than $15 billion in the last decade. China is New Zealand’s biggest single market for dairy, logs, red meat and edible offal and for every month since July 2017 sales have exceeded what we buy from there. But there are concerns NZ dairy is too reliant on the Chinese market with Treasury sounding warnings the sector is too exposed. “A single event in either China or the global dairy sector can lead to a substantial change in export revenues,” it said. In 2000 NZ’s top 10 dairy export destinations each took between 3% and 7% of total dairy trade with China not even featuring. The 2008 NZ-China free-trade agreement prompted a sharp rise in demand for the next five years but the subsequent discovery of botulism causing bacteria forced Fonterra to impose a product recall and China a temporary ban on NZ milk powder imports, contributing to a substantial decline in export revenue. Treasury notes that from 1998 to 2008 annual per head consumption in China rose 12%. In the last decade it has fallen Continued from page 1 wide range of options when they consider where to export their products and services.” Beef + Lamb senior insights analyst Ben Hancock says given China and the US are the world’s two largest economies it is logical they are NZ’s two largest red meat markets. Meat is eaten by the end user, unlike commodities such as iron ore, so that provides a degree of market certainty.

0.3% but is picked to rise 1.6% in the coming decade. “Nevertheless, while continuing to maintain and grow our dairy market share in China, from a risk management perspective it would be prudent to expand exports to other markets in order to lessen the dependence on China.” Treasury sees potential in some

European Union markets but concedes access could be an issue. The Ministry for Primary Industries 2018-19 Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries notes dairy exports to China rose 21.5% in the past year and account for 31% of total dairy export revenue. “Of the $1.47 billion increase

in dairy exports achieved over the previous year, two-thirds of that revenue increase came from China.” The discovery of African swine fever and subsequent culling of an estimated half of China’s pigs has distorted global meat markets. “The strong demand recently from the Chinese market for alternative protein sources, such as NZ beef and lamb is partly due to ASF reducing pork production in China,” Statistics NZ international statistics manager Tehseen Islam said. The biggest beneficiary is likely to be NZ’s beef processing cuts, which are considered a substitute for pork, while sheep meat is a premium niche product, representing less than 6% of consumption and predominantly eaten when dining out. Such is global demand driven by China, Beef + Lamb forecasts global sales of red meat in 2019-20 will exceed $8 billion for the first time. MPI says there is no indication of an imminent recovery in China’s pig population. “Prior to the outbreak 45% of the world’s pork production occurred in China so this decrease represents 12% to 23% of global pork production and 4% to 8% of global meat and poultry production.

Hancock says traditionally 60% of a beef carcase has been sold frozen for manufacturing but new Chinese markets last season pushed on average 2% more of a carcase into chilled cuts. China is already big business for Fonterra and is about to get bigger with the creation of a new role of chief executive for Greater China in the Fonterra management team. Over a quarter of all milk collected by Fonterra ends up in China and the co-operative

supplies 36% of all dairy products imported by China and 11% of all dairy consumed in China. A Fonterra spokesman says it supplies consumer branded products, where Anchor is the number one brand across multiple categories, food service and ingredients. Fonterra sells to 140 countries and is using the success of its China model to develop other markets. “For example, our new strategy has identified food service as one

of the five categories we’re going to focus on, expanding our food service model from China into other markets. “We’ve recently launched our food service business, Anchor Food Professionals, in India.” John Ballingall, an economist with consultant Sense Partners, said Chinese demand for food helped NZ recover rapidly from the Global Financial Crisis in 2008. “We do produce a lot of what the Chinese want to buy,” he says.

FEAR: Treasury is worried the dairy sector is too reliant on China.

“As a result Chinese domestic prices for all meat and poultry have reached record prices, triggering a strong rise in imports of all animal proteins and a rise in meat prices globally.” Earlier this year forestry exports discovered the risk of having a single dominant trading partner when a glut of logs and timber in China caused prices to fall 17%. MPI says total forestry exports last year were $6.9b but are picked to fall to $5.8b next year because of persistently low prices leading to lower harvest volumes and log exports. Chinese manufacturing is sluggish but construction, which uses NZ logs, is not slowing. China is the second largest destination for NZ kiwifruit, taking 25% of our exports worth $458 million in the year to June 2018, second only to Europe. According to Plant and Food Research’s Fresh Facts publication, 2018 sales were up on the $365m a year earlier. There has been a steep increase in horticultural exports to China which were a modest $100m in 2010 but reached $627m in the year to June 30, 2018, making it our fourth-largest customer behind the United States, Australia and continental Europe. The main products sold to China are kiwifruit, honey, apples, wine, cherries and frozen peas.

Exporters are responding to Chinese demand and pricing and Ballingall says that interest is unlikely to change as the Chinese population grows, becomes more affluent and demands more animal protein. But he reliance on China comes with risks that its economy remains strong. “It means exporters need to be well aware that any downturn in the Chinese economy could have implications so it is important to have a diversified portfolio.”

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Farmers want more Fonterra scrutiny Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz FONTERRA’S continued poor performance and losses have sparked two critical resolutions from shareholders to be discussed at the annual meeting in Invercargill on November 7. The resolutions seek to boost independent scrutiny of the cooperative and give more teeth to the Fonterra Shareholders’ Council watchdog. Southland farmer Tony Paterson and a concerned shareholders’ group wants an independent review of the Shareholders’ Council. The review should look at how the council can be a more effective cornerstone shareholder and whether there is a better model. It should be done by appropriately qualified professionals appointed by the group and the council in consultation, not just the group acting separately.

Paterson said the review should begin immediately and be completed by mid 2020 so any change to the constitution can be ready by next year’s annual meeting. He circulated his resolution around farmers before sending it to the company and received universal concern about the need to find better options. The council and the board recommend shareholders vote against the proposal because a review of the council’s functions has already been announced, to be followed by any change in structure required. The second resolution is proposed by Trevor Simpson, supported by Mike Peters, J H and R Cotman and M J Lumsden, seeking changes to the makeup of the council’s performance committee. They want some outside appointments to the committee and the ability to seek international expertise and

benchmarking on Fonterra’s performance. The review structure is inadequate and the Northington Partners report was too little, too late, they said. “The reality is no business can audit itself. “Shareholders no longer want Fonterra directors, staff or their own shareholders telling them about Fonterra’s performance. “Such information with the best will is received with a degree of scepticism. “The time has arrived for us to mature sufficiently enough to want to hear the view on Fonterra’s performance from outside our ranks,” Simpson’s group said. The board said the action proposed is unnecessary because the role and functions of the performance committee will be included in the review of the council. The meeting notice said

directors and shareholder councillors will not get any increase in pay, according to the recommendation of the remuneration committee to shareholders. The chairman’s payment will remain at $430,000 and that of the eight additional directors, $175,000 each annually. Board committee chairmen also receive an extra $35,000. The council chairman gets $100,000 annually and each committee member $35,000. Fonterra has recommended to shareholders that KPMG be the auditor for the financial year ended July 31, 2020. The previous auditor was PwC and the relationship attracted considerable criticism in recent times. Former PwC executives moved on to governance roles in the company and allegations were made of auditor capture, leading to incorrect business valuations.

FROZEN: Fonterra chairman John Monaghan’s pay should remain at $430,000 a year, the board says.

Candidates show transparency for board election Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz FONTERRA farmers have been presented with high-class skills and experiences to help them choose between five candidates for two positions as farmerdirectors in this year’s board election. Incumbents seeking reelection, Donna Smit and Andy Macfarlane, are being challenged by assessed candidates Cathy Quinn and Philipp Haas, and non-assessed, self-nominated candidate Victor Rutherford. Profiles, assessments where applicable and statements from all candidates were released along with notice of the annual meeting on November 7. Quinn scored well in governance capabilities, cooperative empathy and structural knowledge of the dairy industry,

having previously advised Fonterra during the Trading Among Farmers formation. She was credited with considerable success as a corporate lawyer and is already a director of Tourism Holdings and Fletcher Building. The independent assessment panel said Quinn has a calm, collected and clear communication style and projects a high level of competence. “She would offer significant value in strongly representing farmers’ interests on Fonterra’s board,” the panel said. Smit has a very high standard of governance in primary industries from her lengthy experience as a senior executive and chartered accountant in kiwifruit operator EastPack, her family’s multiple dairy farm business and previous directorships.

Her priorities include farming and company environmental sustainability, working towards higher resilience and positioning Fonterra’s dairy products from pasture-fed cows, NZ provenance and co-operative ownership. The panel said she showed grit and determination as a director during times of change and transformation and has a demonstrated heartfelt understanding of farming communities. Haas has a long, successful track record in business management and strategic thinking, the assessment panel said. He has been a joint Swiss and NZ citizen for 20 years and worked in manufacturing businesses overseas while overseeing extensive land and property interests in NZ and Argentina. “Overall, Fonterra would be

fortunate to have an individual with his experience as a farmerdirector. “His confident but understated personal style and succinct and decisive mode of communication suggested he would resonate well with existing board members and provide confidence to shareholders that he was representing their interests well.” Long-time farm management consultant and rural businessman Macfarlane was assessed as having a wide range of managerial, practical and collegial skills. Former and present leadership positions in the deer industry, rural servicing, the meat industry and at Lincoln University were cited. “He is passionate about food production and the sustainable use of water and the use of science, education and communication strategies

to help build sustainable rural businesses with values that enhance the NZ brand. “My passion is linking the global opportunities with onfarm potential across multiple land uses,” Macfarlane said. Rutherford said he presents a strong voice of perspective, conscience and connection with Fonterra. “Trust has been lost and it needs to be earned again. “As Fonterra farmers, we’re all business people running a substantial operation and the lack of transparency is creating disillusion in our supplier base. “I have been very vocal in support of dairy farmers and have an unshakable integrity to be a valuable asset on the Fonterra board but do not believe the independent selection panel or Shareholders Council could see past my previous outspoken history.”

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Lower P losses on cards with new fert Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz FARMERS wanting to cut farm phosphate losses in sensitive catchments will have an alternative to traditional super phosphate that is claimed to cut losses by up to 75%. After 10 years of development and Primary Growth Partnership funding, Ballance has released SurePhos, a superphosphate formulation it says will help deal to one of the big two fertiliser nutrients tagged as being the culprits in waterway degradation. Ballance innovation leader Dr Jamie Blennerhassett said much national attention has been directed at nitrogen levels in waterways but 75% of New Zealand waterways are also classed as phosphate limited and highly vulnerable to further phosphate run-off. “Phosphate is really something of a sleeping giant in the nutrient issue. “We have been aware of the phosphate issue for a long time

and have been working on a solution for a decade.” Phosphate plays a big part in promoting algal growth in waterways, in some instances more so than nitrogen. Earlier research found almost half the super phosphate applied to land can be lost to waterways through run-off and soil erosion. Blennerhassett said SurePhos is a highly stable, gradual release product with a lower water solubility than traditional reactive phosphate. “No one part of the formulation is totally unique but granulating it was a key part while also ensuring it has a phosphate level similar to standard super.” Similar phosphate levels to conventional fertiliser were essential for SurePhos’s practical and commercial success. That is particularly so in phosphate-vulnerable hill country where much of the fertiliser is flown on. “When we set out we knew if we were to transform the phosphate fertiliser sector with a lower-risk product we would have to get

something very close to what is already being used and we have cracked that.” Cost per tonne is about $330, compared to $320 a tonne for conventional superphosphate. “There is considerably less risk with SurePhos. With conventional product if there is a rain event up to 21 days after application the phosphate can run off. “If the rain is the day after application the phosphate concentration in water that runs off is 2000 times higher than normal background losses. That’s like 2000 days of normal run-off in one go.” Phosphate loss in hill country is therefore almost inevitable given 80% of it is applied in only 12 weeks of the year when rain is also more frequent. Ballance researchers are still working on catchment modelling to determine how much phosphate run-off can be saved using SurePhos in particular catchments. The company’s Mitigator nutrient management software can only estimate it at this stage. “But we are developing the

LOW LOSS: Dr Jamie Blennerhassett says SurePhos is an answer to phosphate losses dogging the pastoral sector.

technology to do catchment estimates accurately.” SurePhos is available only in the North Island after a $10 million investment in processing equipment at Ballance’s Mount Maunganui plant. “We had hoped to have it to market three years ago but it’s been a tough process scaling up the trial volumes, at each scale-up point there was a new challenge to solve.” The Government’s freshwater policy requires phosphate levels of .018mg/l be met. There are very few catchments in the country where phosphate is not an issue, he said.

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Lots of rural voters turn out Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz RURAL people have again punched above their weight in the local body elections. While the nation managed only a 41% turnout, rural voters stepped up to average almost 57% voting this year. Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) classifies the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s electorates as urban with more than 90,000 people, provincial with 20,000-90,000 and rural with fewer than 20,000. The results showed Mackenzie, Westland, Grey and Kaikoura districts and the Chatham Islands all exceeding 60% on voter turnout. Multiple rural and provincial areas recorded voter turnouts over 50%. That contrasted with the paltry sub-40% turnouts in some major urban centres. Federated Farmers rates expert Nigel Billings said the high rural turnout is typical and a trend that has been maintained over many electoral cycles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would argue this has a lot to do with farmer participation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you have a $10,000 rates demand you tend to take a real interest in what is going on at city hall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a bigger disconnect

Local body elections 2019 We would argue this has a lot to do with farmer participation. When you have a $10,000 rates demand you tend to take a real interest in what is going on at city hall. Nigel Billings Federated Farmers in the larger cities between ratepayers and their council.â&#x20AC;? He maintains the Feds offered a solid election platform to educate rural voters and it was successful. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had to extend the print run for more copies and we have even had interest in it from urban electorates.â&#x20AC;? Billings said there is good

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63.1%

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61.4%

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37.3%

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Hamilton

38.8%

Wellington

39.9%

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representation on councils by farmers with the likes of federation Gisborne-Wairoa president Sandra Faulkner and Kerry Worsnop on the Gisborne District Council. Farmer representation extended to Buller District electing local dairy farmer Jamie Cleine as mayor. LGNZ policy adviser Dr Mike Reid said the smaller size of rural electorates means candidates are generally better known to their constituents and, therefore, trusted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It can also be a case of also knowing better who you do not want to be standing. There is a level of social capital there where people have built relationships.â&#x20AC;? Reid said LGNZ is also interested in the greater proportion of younger candidates elected this time round. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you take the Far North District Council we now have 40% of the council younger than 40 years old.â&#x20AC;? He also welcomed the growing proportion of women on councils, with 30% of mayors now female. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the first time for a long time we have seen women on the West Coast District Council also.â&#x20AC;? Despite media articles about the low level of voter turnout Reid feels optimistic about how voting went. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I tend to look at international figures and you cannot expect local election turnout to be as strong as central government elections. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But compared to other countries NZ sits about in the middle for local body election turnout. If you compare us to countries like Scotland or United Kingdom where local bodies are similar or to Western Australia or South Australia, our turnout is much better.â&#x20AC;? The UK has averaged only about 33% turnout since 2012. Reid said it is arguable whether

TAKING AN INTEREST: Federated Farmers rates expert Nigel Billings says farmers have bigger rates bills and therefore a greater stake in election outcomes.

online voting will necessarily increase voter participation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The main factor when we ask people about voting is that it requires some research and you still have to do that even if you are voting with a smartphone.â&#x20AC;? He noted, however, there will have to be some assessment of voting methods in the longer

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Rural women strong in elections Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz RURAL women along the eastern North Island have become a force to be reckoned with in the wake of election results. Long-time rural journalist Kate Taylor put her hat in the ring for the first time and came away with a massive 2100 votes for a seat on Central Hawke’s Bay District Council. The results came over a particularly fortunate week for Taylor who was also awarded the Rural Women Champion Award. A rural journalist for 30 years and a Farmers Weekly contributor, Taylor hopes to better communicate the differences between national, district and regional policies as they affect rural communities. She acknowledged the misunderstandings that can arise when local government is tasked with delivering policies set at a national level. “I think, though, here in Hawke’s Bay farmers have already been doing a lot to meet water standards under the Tukituki Plan Change. “However, there are concerns about the need to have consent to farm when a catchment is over its limit. “You can have one farmer meeting all the regulations while the one next door is not but all

Local body elections 2019 farmers in that catchment will have to have a consent to farm.” She is conscious rural areas in Hawke’s Bay fork out significant sums in rates. “While there has to be a publicgood element there also has to be a balance for those ratepayers.” Overall, however, she is keen to see the council continue on its path with a level of consultation with ratepayers she describes as excellent. “One of our mayor Alex Walker’s most successful achievements so far has been Project Thrive and we want to see it continue.” Thrive aims to balance regional economic growth with environmental well-being and lifestyle quality. Taylor welcomes the growing pool of women involved in local body politics and said she is looking forward to the day when their prominence is not even a talking point. After the latest round of council elections 30% of the 63 council mayors are women, up from 19% last time.

Ringing endorsement for Collis THE largely rural district of Tararua has given a big thumbs up to its sitting mayor Tracey Collis, granting her an endorsement that includes a 4500 majority over her nearest rival. Collis, a farmer, earlier this year raised concern over the impact of international investors speculating on carbon credit price rises by outbidding pastoral farmers on large tracts of farmland. Sales of more than 30,000ha of land for forests in the past 12 months underscored her concerns and prompted her to challenge the wisdom of the Government’s ban on sales of farmland to foreigners while supporting foreign forestry ownership to fulfill its Billion Trees project. “We have so much change at the moment in rural communities with forestry sales, freshwater policy and greenhouse gas policies. There is also such a short time frame to submit on these policies and that is playing on their minds too.” Other issues include firearms regulations and tighter banking capital demands affecting lending. Collis said it is vital Tararua be in the room with its three neighbouring and larger councils and the benefits from working with them are significant.

SPEAKING UP: Tararua Mayor Tracey Collis believes in speaking up to give farmers a voice.

She hopes to see some Provincial Growth Fund money go the district’s way to help develop ways for farmers to optimise land use. “Higher compliance costs, including farm environment plans, will demand that farmers will have to come up with some higher value options for their land use.” She hopes to increase urban understanding around greenhouse gas policy implications for all ratepayers, not just farmers. She also wants more dialogue around the Billion Trees policy and its unintended consequences of pushing land into trees, balanced against the rights of farmers to sell their property to the best bidder.

ON THE RECORD: Rural journalist Kate Taylor recorded a strong 2100 votes in her first bid for a council seat.

Tararua Mayor Tracey Collis is one of those, gaining a second term with an overwhelming majority with 4831 votes putting her 4541 votes ahead of her nearest contender. Collis heads up a femaledominated council with six women and two men. Her district also enjoyed one of the highest voter turnouts in the country at 51%, compared to the national average of 41.4%. Rural regions reported significantly higher turnout this year at 56.8%, up from 49.8% in 2018.

Collis has been outspoken about the issues her district faces around increased forest plantings. Meantime, further north up the east coast some prominent farming women have gained seats on the Gisborne District Council. Farmer and environmental consultant Kerry Worsnop says her key priority is to advocate strongly through the council to central government on the costs policy is putting on farming ratepayers. “The costs of policies like the water package are high. “These are coming to councils like ours already struggling with

infrastructure costs and don’t have the resources to divert to compliance costs.” She believes the increased number of women on rural councils reflects a specific, collective decision made by women with knowledge of these areas and often already working in this space. Joining her on Gisborne council is Federated Farmers GisborneWairoa president Sandra Faulkner. Faulkner owns Wairakaia Station at Muriwai with husband Rob. The Manawatu-Whanganui Regional Council (Horizons), straddles the lower North Island taking in both east and west coast areas. Emma Clarke, co-owner of 240ha Woodhaven Gardens near Levin, a major horticultural operation, has also been elected. Like Worsnop, Clarke’s decision to stand was driven by a concern about compliance measures and the lack of voice given to horticulturists in the One Plan. “We got the raw end of the plan over the last nine years. When they allocated nitrogen they really only considered dairy farms with horticulture only being 1% of land area.” She said the plan is now out of step with national policy and fundamentally flawed. The election results mean Whakatane, Opotiki, Gisborne, Hastings, Central Hawke’s Bay and Tararua all have women for mayor.

Forester wants trees in right places Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz PUTTING the Horizons One Plan on more of a catchmentfocused footing is a key goal for one of the regional council’s new members, John Turkington. Turkington and incumbent chairman Bruce Gordon were elected in the Manawatu-Rangitikei ward of the Manawatu-Whanganui Regional Council, which trades as Horizons, with Turkington effectively ousting local farmer Gordon McKellar. He is one of six new councillors. A background in soil conservation, forestry and regional council work meant putting his name forward was a natural step for a man with close connections to the region’s land. Over the past two decades he has also built a land use and forestry management company that now includes more than 20 logging crews working throughout the central and lower North Island. But far from advocating a fence to fence carpeting of good farmland in trees Turkington advocates “trees on farms, not farms into trees”. However, for more effective integration of farming and forestry he wants to see the regional plan redone to better acknowledge the distinct differences in land types and catchments.

Local body elections 2019 Forestry planting decisions are encumbered by a national scale of land erodibility, from green to erodible red zone country. “What we have is almost two policies at loggerheads with each other. “To plant in a red zone you need consent and we have about 50,000ha of identified, highly erodible country in our region. These are areas where forestry would be appropriate. “The problem is forestry companies don’t want to touch it – they don’t want to deal with consents and harvest issues so now those erodible areas are tagged as no-go for forestry. They stay farmed while forestry companies head for the orange and yellow areas.” He believes regulators have been spooked by the Tolaga Bay waste wood disaster and it has unduly influenced all consequent forestry planning decisions. Adopting more of a catchment by catchment perspective would allow for unique contour, soil and land use, ensuring forest plantings be adapted to those particular

COMMUNITY: John Turkington wants to see more catchment focused conversations with land users in Horizon’s region. catchments, rather than complying with the existing one-size-fits-all approach. A more catchment-focused approach in the region would also help get the farmers on board far more effectively with the proposed water and land use regulations. “If you want to change behaviour you can’t use a piece of Alkathene. You sit down and you talk and build relationships with the people in those catchments.” Turkington aims to advocate for identifying two to three key concerns in each of the region’s catchments, knowing what is significant in Tararua might differ significantly from what is in Manawatu-Rangitikei to what is in Whanganui. “Let’s identify them that way and put support and education into solving those issues.”

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TEMPERED: New Climate Change Commission boss Dr Rod Carr says he is a realistic optimist.

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FORMER Reserve Bank chairman Dr Rod Carr will chair the independent Climate Change Commission. Carr, previously chief executive of Jade Software Corporation and most recently vice-chancellor of Canterbury University, will take up his new role immediately. His appointment will be formalised later in the year when the commission is established with the passing of the Zero Carbon Bill. The commission is tasked with delivering by

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February 2021 three carbon budgets out to 2035. It is taking up the work from the Interim Climate Change Committee, which to date has advised the Government on how to get agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme and how to speed up electrification of industry and transport. Climate Change Minister James Shaw says he appointed Carr to ensure its independence and credibility and that it takes an analytical approach in its work. “The commission will be crucial to keep us on track for our 2050 target and hold successive governments accountable to meet emissions budgets,” he said. “Carr’s strong leadership skills, strategic vision and professional experience will be a huge asset in the commission’s establishment years.” Carr, an economist and lawyer, was previously a deputy governor of the Reserve Bank. He previously served on the board of Lyttelton Port and is a board member of ASB Bank. He left Canterbury University in January after 10 years as vice-chancellor. Shaw said Carr brings many assets to his new role.

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“His PhD in insurance and risk markets alongside his experience leading the University of Canterbury through the post-earthquake recovery period are exactly what is needed as we get to grips with the implications of sea level rise, coastal erosion, floods, fires, droughts and storms for property and community assets around the country.” While mitigation will be an important part of the commission’s job, adaptation to the impacts of climate change already being felt around the country is rightly coming more and more to the forefront, Jones said. Carr said he is grateful for the opportunity to make a contribution in this critically important area of policy. Everyone has the opportunity and responsibility to use their skills, experience and influence to make a better future. “As a realistic optimist, I have confidence that with urgency, empathy, science, humility and passion we will make the world more sustainable and more inclusive. “Much is being done but much more needs to be done and done today.” Carr will be joined by six other commissioners. More than 170 people were nominated for the positions and Shaw is still settling on his preferred selection. He expects to complete that in coming months. – BusinessDesk

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Agritech mission builds networks Colin Williscroft colin.williscroft@globalhq.co.nz THE recent visit to the United Kingdom and Ireland by representatives of New Zealand agritech companies has been hailed a success, with those taking part being able to build networks and knowledge of opportunities that they will be able to leverage in the future. The two-week Ireland & UK AgriTech Mission was led by Callaghan Innovation and its agritech group manager, Simon Yarrow, said the aim of the trip was to support agritech initiatives. He is conscious that there are a lot of good agritech companies in NZ but they are not always in a position, either due to cost or a focus on local markets, to gain overseas exposure. So Callaghan Innovation, in partnership with Agritech New Zealand and NZTE, coordinated the mission around the 2019 Irish National Ploughing Championships, one of the largest agricultural exhibitions in Europe, and UK Dairy Day, a dedicated annual one-day event for the dairy industry featuring over 300

exhibitors demonstrations and seminars. The delegation, which included mid to late stage start-ups and mature businesses along with researchers and capability providers, were given an insight into both the UK and Ireland’s agri industries, research, innovation systems and channel partners.

UK politicians have already publicly said they will be looking to develop free trade agreements and NZ is likely to be one of the first cabs off the rank. The trip also provided New Zealand companies and agencies with the opportunity to showcase their abilities and technology. In the UK those taking part visited organisations like AgriEPI, an agritech centre created by the UK government that focuses on the delivery of research,

development, demonstration and training on precision agriculture and engineering; the Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock, Europe’s largest farm animal research alliance; and Hands Free Hectare, a project working towards the complete automation of farming processes. They also went on-farm to see what farmers were doing, including a visit to the Waitose farm. In Ireland, as well as the ploughing championships, visits included Origin Green, an initiative that brings together the Irish food industry – from farmers to food producers, retailers to foodservice operators – with the common goal of sustainable food production; the University College of Dublin’s Lyons Farm; and agriculture and food development agency Teagasc. Yarrow said the mission aimed to build networks with sister and brother organisations in the UK and Ireland. In Ireland that it is largely a case of strengthening connections that have already exist, with many similarities between the NZ and Ireland pastoral farming systems, while in

READY: Callaghan Innovation agritech group manager Simon Yarrow says New Zealand agritech companies are well-placed to develop solutions for markets in the UK and Europe.

the UK it more about building new relationships. He said Brexit, once it is sorted out, is likely to produce a variety of opportunities for NZ agritech companies. UK politicians have already publicly said they will be looking to develop free trade agreements and NZ is likely to be one of the first cabs off the rank. Ireland will remain in the EU, which will mean it will be a perfect launch pad for NZ agritech companies wanting to get into European markets.

The 20-strong mission included well-established companies and organisations such as AbacusBio, AgResearch and Fonterra, through to more recent arrivals like electronic cup remover designer MilkTechNZ, farm monitoring and control platform developer Next Farm and farm reporting tool designer Trev Holdings. Yarrow said doors for NZ agritech companies are beginning to open. “Now we just need to walk through them.”

Deer industry group appoints new leader INNES Moffat has been appointed chief executive of Deer Industry New Zealand. Born and raised on a South Otago sheep and cattle farm, Moffat joined DINZ in 2005 as venison marketing services manager after several years with the former Meat and Wool New Zealand, including a fouryear stint in Brussels as market manager for continental Europe. More recently, he has been manager of the deer industry’s Primary Growth Partnership programme, Passion 2 Profit. “Innes’ knowledge of the whole

HEAD: Innes Moffat is the new chief executive of Deer Industry New Zealand.

deer farming value chain from the grassroots to the marketing of our premium products is a huge asset to the industry, especially when paired with his skills as a manager,” DINZ chairman Ian Walker said. The DINZ board ran an external recruitment process that attracted some very strong candidates from both inside and outside the deer farming industry, Walker said. After considering all applicants the board made the unanimous decision that Moffat was the best candidate. Moffat said DINZ benefits

from the solid connections it has with its deer farming and marketing partners as well as strong governance from across the industry. “The food producing sector in NZ is facing challenges but the deer industry has great products and we have shown the capacity to respond and adapt to changing circumstances. I’m excited about leading the talented team at DINZ as we help shape our industry’s future,” he said. Moffat replaces Dan Coup who is now chief executive of the QE II National Trust.

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Farm plan tick-boxes scorned PUBLIC health, environmental, infrastructure and recreation groups oppose mandatory freshwater plans for farms, saying clear and explicit rules are a better way to manage high-polluting activities. The Public Health Association, Forest and Bird, Fish and Game, Environmental Defence Society, Recreation Aotearoa, Greenpeace, Water New Zealand, Whitewater NZ and Choose Clean Water pooled their efforts to respond to Government proposals on improving the nation’s freshwater quality. They came up with four fundamental policies, including opposing the use of farm plans as regulatory instruments because clear rules are the best way to achieve the Government’s goal of measurable improvements within five years. “We do not support replacing effective rules with farm plans. This will lead to farm plans becoming a tick box exercise for compliance,” the group said. “They would fail to be used to their greatest potential to drive real environmental change.” Submissions on a Ministry for the Environment consultation paper on ways to govern the

country’s waterways close at the end of the month. The Government’s proposals are estimated to cost at least $1 billion over 10 years and have been a bugbear for a farming sector already under pressure from tighter access to credit. The umbrella group didn’t go soft on the farming sector with its second policy urging the Government to take a tougher approach when setting pollution limits to avoid letting the biggest polluters lock-in their existing levels. The group supports a prohibition on conversions to highly-polluting land uses such as dairy farming and restricting certain activities such as winter grazing until councils have a plan for how to manage pollution within environmental limits. It also backed strong pollution limits as proposed by the Government and recommended by scientists. Beef + Lamb NZ said submission aligns with much of what its 3000 farmers have told it about improving freshwater quality. “The main concerns that have been raised by sheep and beef farmers are that the

CONSEQUENCES: Locking land use will flow into productivity, land value and farm succession, Beef + Lamb chief executive Same McIvor says.

current proposals would reward the highest nitrogen leaching operations and penalise the farming systems with the lightest environmental touch,” chief executive Sam McIvor said. “We are pleased that environmental groups have also raised this as an area that needs to be changed and that they also agree that farm plans should not be used as regulatory tools.”

McIvor said locking in existing land uses for five years will flow into productivity, land value and farm succession beyond that time. “It’s grand-parenting of existing discharge rights irrespective of impact and we struggle to see how the Government can see it otherwise,” he said. “These proposals would prevent the small changes in farming systems on low-emitting farms

that would be needed to offset the additional costs to comply with other parts of the proposed regulations.” The environmental groups’ final policy was for all sectors, regions and communities to contribute to improving water quality. They oppose an exemption proposed for the country’s six largest hydroschemes. – BusinessDesk

Shearing costs eat into wool cheques Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz A FOURTH straight year of poor strong-wool prices lies ahead for sheep farmers. After the increase in shearing charges in 2018-19 Beef+Lamb has estimated that combined with continuing abnormally low strong-wool prices that in the North Island, where nearly all the wool clip is crossbred, shearing costs take up 90% of farm wool

receipts. Until the start of the downturn four years ago shearing costs typically accounted for just 45% of wool returns. In its New Season Outlook B+LNZ said crossbred prices should be little changed on last year but overall the wool clip, from fine and mid-micron flocks as well, should be up slightly in volume, by about 1%, because of good seasonal conditions. Fine wool prices are forecast to

fall about 10% over the June 30, 2020, year but to remain high for a third year in a row. A 10% fall would take out the 9.6% average wool price increase in the 2018-19 year but not the 58% hike the year before that. Fine wool makes up just 7% of exports but in the latest year made up 29% of total wool receipts. A smaller fall, about 3%, is forecast for mid-micron wools but prices should remain relatively

high for a second year. In 2018-19 mid-micron provided 15% of wool supply and 18% of export receipts. That illustrates the poor returns for strong wool with 78% of total supply but just 53% of receipts. Income is expected to about $532m. The New Season Outlook said, in inflation-adjusted terms, the estimated strong wool price will be the lowest since at least 196061.

This year average export receipts for all wools are expected to be down 1.7% at $5790 a tonne. Total volumes in 2018-19 were 90,800 tonnes clean, down 9.4% on the previous year, which had a lot of wool stocks carried-over from 2016-17. North Asia, dominated by China, has been the biggest wool buyer, taking 49% of total exports over the last two years. The European Union took 30% though volumes fell significantly.

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Another 9000ha goes to forests Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz

New NZX listing invests in land Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz SEEKA has sold one of its Northland kiwifruit orchards to new sharemarket listing, the Private Land and Property Fund. Seeka, New Zealand’s biggest kiwifruit producer, has leased the orchard and will continue to run it. The fund paid $15.5 million for the 20-hectare property and its outlay is expected to rise to $22m as it pays for planting more gold kiwifruit over the next year. There is also provision for a further $1m payment in five years, based on orchard production. PLP is managed by Booster Investment Management, part of the Wellington-based KiwiSaver and investment group Booster Financial Services (BFS). The latest acquisition lifts the value of PLP’s properties to $60m, and the borrowings now total $24.5m. The Northland kiwifruit block is added to PLP’s three vineyards in the Awatere Valley in Marlborough with 111ha planted, Nelson, 105ha, and Hawke’s Bay, 36ha. The Awatere Valley and Nelson vineyards are planted mainly in sauvignon

blanc and the Bridge Pa, Hawke’s Bay, property in pinot noir, pinot gris, syrah, and chardonnay. The new Northland block also has an area planted in citrus, which can be converted to other use.

The new Northland block also has an area planted in citrus, which can be converted to other use.

PLP was set up by BFS two years ago and listed on the NZX in mid-September. The Booster group will remain a major investor in the listed fund including for KiwiSaver clients. The fund has a seven-year investment timeframe. PLP is a chance for retail investors to invest in productive provincial and rural NZ land, BFS chairman Paul Foley said. There might also be investments in industrial, commercial and retail properties. PLP listed with just over $50m of investments. The fund unit price, though

there had been no trades at time of writing, is $1.04, close to the asset backing after allowing for PLP’s borrowings. The market capitalisation for the small fund is just over $32m. All the shares are still owned by Booster group or associated interests. BSF has said it will buy units from the fund as new units are issued monthly and they will be made available to NZX investors at the net asset backing price. Seeka’s kiwifruit orchard is among the large block of assets it bought from T&G Global early last year. The 288ha includes 80ha of producing kiwifruit land. Seeka’s main interest is T&G’s Kerikeri post-harvest operations, which have since been expanded with plans to on-sell the orchards to buyers who will commit the fruitpacking to Seeka. Seeka has sold $46.2m of orchard land including the PLP deal. Another $5.05m of agreed sales are expected to settle before the end of the year. Seeka told the NZX that left $9.54m of orchards to sell, with negotiations under way. It will use the proceeds to repay debt.

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THE Government has in the last three months approved the sale of nearly 9000ha of North Island pasture to foreign buyers for conversion to forestry. In that period the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) has granted approval for the sale of six livestock farms in Wairarapa, Hawke’s Bay and Northland, which meet the Government’s special overseas investor threshold and can be converted to forestry. The Government set the threshold for land sales to foreign forestry investors lower than for land farmed for livestock or horticulture, saying it reflects the dominance of foreign-owned forestry companies investing here. It has since announced a review of those settings because of an uproar among rural communities at the volume of livestock land being sold to foreign forestry companies and the associated loss of rural jobs and the impact on communities and services. In its August decisions the OIO approved the sale of the 1000ha Masterton property known as Bushgrove and Glentarn Station by Roger Dickie Developments to Austrian company Johannes Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg for $4.2 million. The new owner has already planted 121ha of pines and is planting a further 548ha. It plans to subdivide land not required for forestry and to harvest the trees in 2044. The OIO has also approved

the sale of Whaitirinui Farm, a 736ha Wairoa property, to the Gemmingen-Hornberg family from Germany, trading as Grandy Lake Forest. The price was $6.7m. The new owner has been investing in NZ forestry for 18 years and owns a forestry block new to the farm it has just purchased. It intends planting 496ha in commercial forestry while retaining a block of trees planted before 1990 and a 48ha stand of poplar and willow. In July the OIO approved the $5.5m sale of a 710ha farm in Wairoa to Te Au from Singapore, of which 460ha will be planted in forestry and the rest left as native bush or subdivided. It also approved the purchase by Swiss-German company, Kauri Forestry, of a 4273ha South Wairarapa dry stock property. The farm already has 1341ha of forestry and the new owner plans to subdivide and sell 594ha, including all or most of the six dwellings, and plant 2600ha in pines. In June Kauri Forestry was given approval to buy the 1876ha dry stock property, Moerewa Station in Northland, which had 251ha of existing forestry. The buyer intends subdividing 275ha of flat land with dwellings and plant the remaining 1175ha in pines. And in June Norsewood Estate, which has Australian links, bought 373ha at Ruakokoputuna, South Wairarapa, to plant in forestry. A reason Norsewood gave for being granted approval was for the advancement of the Government’s Billion Trees Programme.

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Farmers must get their stories in Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz TOO TOUGH: The Government’s plans for freshwater management amount to economic vandalism, Federated Farmers Mid Canterbury president David Clark says.

Farmers fight upheaval Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz GOVERNMENT requirements for freshwater management in Canterbury are so severe they amount to economic vandalism on farming communities, Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers president David Clark says. About 500 farmers and other people connected to agriculture met in Ashburton last Monday night and overwhelmingly endorsed a strong response in submissions on the plans. “We’re being told that a tough set of goals we have now which are achievable with hard work are being replaced by goals which aren’t achievable except by economic and social upheaval.” The changes relate to nitrogen levels leaching into waterways, with the allowable rate to be reduced by 50% to 80% below the levels in the current national policy statement. The proposed rules were put to farmers without any analysis on the economic and social impacts. “There’s still no analysis and we believe it is a poor showing by the Government. People at the meeting were concerned and disappointed.” The Mid Canterbury fears are based on a report by Environment Canterbury to the Ministry for the Environment in 2017

on the likely impacts of plans for greatly reduced nitrate limits in the Selwyn Te Waihora catchment in and around Lake Ellesmere. They included loss of farms, job losses, land value cuts, loss of equity and possible bankruptcy for farmers with debts that cannot be managed through a transition. That plan was roundly rejected by nearly everyone, including environmental advisers, as unattainable and not economically viable and did not proceed but the proposed nitrate limits for that catchment and now for wider Canterbury are quite similar, Clark said. Submissions on the Government’s freshwater plans will be made directly to the Cabinet, without any reviews at select committee level, he said. “It will be up to the Government to decide if they take any notice of us. We just have to wait and see, and when their final ruling comes out we won’t be able to comment on it.” The draft plan requires a limit of 1mg of dissolved nitrate to one litre of water in the waterways, a massive departure from existing rules, under ECan’s land and water plan of a target of under 6.9mg/l. “The strong flow rivers are fine, they’ve got nitrate levels below 1mg, but the problem is that this will apply to all waterways, including low-flow lowland streams and all outlet drains and that will

have a massive impact.” There are other rule changes but the nitrate level is the major concern in Canterbury. Farmers were also angry at being given a short time to make submissions on complex changes, coming straight after submissions being due on the Zero Carbon Bill. One of the authors of the 2017 ECan report on Selwyn Te Waihora was its chief scientist Tim Davie. Along with Simon Harris, of Land and Water People, he wrote that change on the scale suggested meant there would effectively be no irrigation or intensive land use in the catchment and forestry or extensive grazing would dominate the landscape. Clark noted their comment that such large-scale effective retirement of intensive land had not been experienced in New Zealand on any scale and would lead to significant changes in the social structure of the catchment. The required reduction in nitrate levels could not be achieved either by mitigation or by reducing intensity of the production systems. That would effectively leave just dryland sheep and beef and forestry as land-use options. Clark said the Government plans for all of Canterbury would lead to the same risks that in the end stopped the Selwyn Te Waihora proposals being adopted.

EVERY farmer and Federated Farmers province is being urged to lodge submissions on the Government’s freshwater proposal even though a lot might not be read. The message comes from Feds chief executive Terry Copeland who says that prospect highlights the lack of openness and transparency in the Government strategy. As a national policy statement implemented by regulation the freshwater plan is not required to go before a select committee, meaning a submissions will be considered only by a panel reporting directly to Cabinet. “It’s legal but we think there will be thousands of submissions and many of them probably won’t be read,” Copeland said. But farmers should tell their personal stories describing how the proposals will affect them, their farming businesses and their communities. Copeland has been attending farmer meetings around the country and Federated Farmers headquarters will be filing a comprehensive submission by the October 31 deadline. “I believe that one will be looked at.” The Government will be urged to take a catchment-by-catchment approach to water quality improvement that farmers can be a part of, he said. Huge amounts of work have been done by farmers in many catchments. A rushed, heavy-handed and one-sizefits-all regulation, as proposed, to return waterways to pristine levels is impractical. Every region is different and there should be plans specific for them. Tough nitrate level reductions, by 50% or more in some regions, would be negative for social structure in rural areas and for support businesses but there is no analysis from the Government on those impacts. “It’s like shooting in the dark.” In other regions issues like stock exclusion and winter grazing restrictions are more important. And a planned moratorium on land-use change is impractical and inconsistent with other parts of the economy. “Auckland’s got a major sewage disposal problem that will take years to fix but they’re not saying there will be a moratorium on new house-building till it’s done. But that’s what they’re doing to farming.” He described some of the comments by Environment Minister David Parker and Primary Industries Minister Damien O’Connor as injudicious and dismissive of farmers.

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A fair go, that’s all New Zealand Farming communities are asking for The Farmers of New Zealand and their families are being painted as environmental vandals by their own Government. The persistent focus on farming being a ‘problem’ and the campaign against rural businesses and their families cannot be ignored or worse, given credibility by the Government, or rural families will ultimately pay the price. We ask for a fair go on: • Emissions (Net Zero Carbon Bill) • Water (Essential Freshwater, NES, NPS and 360 RMA regulations) • Land Use changes (Emissions Trading Scheme) and • We ask for a fair go on Mental Health

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Water vagueness flummoxes farmers Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz THE exclusion of farming groups from the final deliberations on the Government’s freshwater policy has created anomalies that are the genesis of much of farmer concern and cynicism. Federated Farmers South Island policy manager Kim Reilly told a meeting of about 80 rural professionals and farmers in Dunedin discussing the freshwater plan that farming organisations were excluded from the final deliberation and given access only two and half hours before the report’s public release. Groups such as hers have since been trying to amend unworkable or illogical suggestions and recommendations. But the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) has told the federation the proposed 5m waterway livestock exclusion fencing rule was a popular distance among submitters to previous policies. However, the plan ignores the practicality of fencing off wetlands with one South Island high-country farmer facing the prospect of fencing off 1300 lightly grazed wetlands. The federation also asked MfE where the proposed winter grazing pugging depth regulations came from and was told from an Australian study. MfE has told the federation a time line is expected to be released after next year’s general election for councils to address urban water issues. Reilly says there is anger from those in hydroelectric scheme catchments that generators but

not farmers are exempt from sediment and flow regulations. Criticism by politicians that the rural response to the plan is too negative ignores the document’s own statements. Reilly noted it says the proposed changes will challenge farmer wellbeing and lead to greater anxiety, create greater compliance and council regulations and higher rates.

That is why we argue that lack of detail is providing so much uncertainty. Lyndon Strang Farmer A more sensible approach for the Government would be to work with the existing freshwater national policy statement, encourage greater collaboration and more catchment groups and target the most polluted waterways. The final document requires only Cabinet approval and will not face the scrutiny of select committee hearings so Reilly urges farmers and rural professionals to make submissions before the October 31 deadline. NZ First agriculture spokesman Mark Patterson said, despite claims to the contrary, the proposal is a discussion document and submissions can influence change. He urged the rural community to create a team ag approach and unite in advocating for the changes it wants.

Otago dairy farmer Ad Bekkers fears tougher winter grazing and pugging rules could mean an end to dairy’s all-grass farming advantage. Dairy farmers in Europe and North America are moving from housed systems to all-grass farming but new freshwater rules here will require stock to be off wet paddocks and could mean the greater use of wintering sheds. Farmers will solve water issues given time and information. “Give us science and we will improve. “We’ve done it before and we will do it again if you give us time.” North Otago dairy farmer Lyndon Strang says the absence of information and economic modelling makes it impossible to quantify the impact of the proposed changes on individual farms let alone the wider industry. “That is why we argue that lack of detail is providing so much uncertainty.” Otago Federated Farmers chairman Simon Davies says if more farming activities require resource consent, interest groups could use the process to delay the granting of those consents through vexatious demands and appeals. Dunedin economist Ray Macleod says the report’s authors do not seem to understand the difference between intensification and efficiency. As written, the proposal means a farmer producing more from less will be deemed to have intensified rather than becoming more efficient.

TEAM AG: New Zealand First MP Mark Patterson is urging the wider farming community to unite in the changes the desire in the freshwater plan.

LACK OF DETAIL: North Otago dairy farmer Lyndon Strang says a lack of detail makes analysis of the impact of the freshwater plan impossible.

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Sainbury’s tips great food shifts IN ONLY four years a quarter of Britons are expected to be vegetarians, double today’s number, and half will call themselves flexitarians compared to a fifth today. Those and other eating trends have been outlined in a comprehensive report from leading food retailer Sainsbury’s, reaching out as far as 2169 in its efforts to plot the food and farming landscape ahead. Looking to 2025 it identifies plant-based foods as the most rapidly emerging type, already increasing at 65% a year. The rise in hydroponic plants is also expected to strengthen, providing opportunities for more urban fresh food sources to be established, including places like disused tunnels and warehouses, using half the space of conventional horticulture plots to produce the same amounts. Technology including lowenergy LED lighting and battery power is bringing a level of vertical integration into the food chain, with the likes of catering businesses and restaurants having a stake in plant and equipment to grow their own raw foods. Alongside the local supply growth will come environmental foot-printing apps to give customers greater clarity on their food’s impact. The apps are likely to be integrated into Google Maps

to give tailored information to customers keen to eat low-carbon or low-calorie foods. Swiss company Eaternity already provides food service businesses with carbon footprints of suppliers’ foods. The report said the trend to a wider range of foods including plant-based components is a back-to-the-future trend. When Sainsbury’s opened in 1869 the British diet was more diverse than today, incorporating many plants but was simplified during World War II for rationing, only to now start a resurgence in variety and depth. The other major trend picked to 2025 is the explosive growth in alternative proteins, expected to be up by 25% by 2025, from US$4.2 billion in 2016. Products recently taken up by Sainsbury’s include jackfruit, a member of the fig family commonly grown in tropical regions. The heavy yielding tree produces a fruit with a meat-like texture and its higher protein content means it is becoming popular as a non-meat alternative. The report highlights the food security risk of relying on four key plant sources for two-thirds of plant-based food globally. Research body Crops for the Future has been formed to focus on underused food crops, including little known plants like kedondong and moringa. New Zealand farmers Jacqui and

LEADERSHIP: Andy Elliot questions whether New Zealand has the leadership to address rapidly changing food markets.

Dan Cottrell have spearheaded a foray into cropping quinoa, an ancient grain they saw growing in Peru in similar terrain to their Taihape property.

NZ needs to work out how to create two to three times the value from 75% of what we already produce. Andy Elliot Nuffield Scholar Algae are also expected to become a more common food source, with Sainsbury’s already marketing a line of free-range hens fed on an algae-rich diet producing high Omega-3 eggs. The other area expected to grow

strongly by 2025 is the food-asmedicine category. Sainsbury’s has identified a conflict in consumers’ minds between interest in functional food with perceived health benefits and growing mistrust of health advice. It is finding greater incorporation of diets into consumers’ healthcare habits and is already offering bio-fortified foods with potential health benefits. They include super-salmon fed a bespoke diet to contain greater levels of Omega-3 fatty acids while super mushrooms deliver 100% of Vitamin D and B12 needs. Nuffield Scholar Andy Elliot completed his work this year on NZ’s need to position its food products beyond grass-fed with more emphasis on proven, discernible health benefits in those products. The upswing to vegetarianism and flexitarianism will be a big

shift for NZ to adjust to and exporters need to spend more time in the market to understand it and the changes. His concern is the environmental and social pressure such changes are bringing is largely being exerted on farmers but forcing costs on producers will only cripple NZ’s ability to become more agile in markets facing such major changes. He cited a lack of leadership, strategy and vision in the sector to create high-value extracts and products from existing production. “NZ needs to work out how to create two to three times the value from 75% of what we already produce.”

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Tech big ingredient for change Colin Williscroft colin.williscroft@globalhq.co.nz THE fastest and biggest disruption of food and agriculture in 10,000 years, driven by technology and new business models, is under way and New Zealand farmers are not immune, food futurist says Dr Rosie Bosworth says. A report, Rethinking Food and Agriculture, by independent United States think tank RethinkX predicts the dairy and cattle industries will have collapsed by 2030 as animal-derived foods are replaced by higher-quality modern equivalents costing less than half as much to produce. Bosworth says it’s something farmers and the rest of the agriculture sector in NZ cannot afford to ignore. Most of the primary sector here will see the report as alarmist with unrealistic time frames. But while our pasture-based production systems produce some products targeted at highend niche markets rather than lower-end ingredient markets, which might give us a short-term advantage over the US, they are not a get-out-of-jail-free card. About 70% of NZ dairy exports are sold for ingredients as powders and formulas, which are the most easily replaced by new systems producing synthetic products. It’s that bottom

CATCHING ON: Rosie Bosworth says new technologies, like the Impossible Burger, will gain traction from the focus on the environmental impact of traditional farming methods.

end of the market that will fall out in the next five years, which calls into question Fonterra’s recent refocus on ingredient-based products, she says. And though Beef + Lamb’s continued push into premium markets, illustrated by its Taste Pure Nature campaign in California, will provide more time for the red meat industry, a significant amount of NZ beef still goes into processing rather than high-value cuts and it’s that market Bosworth says will come under threat first. RethinkX report co-author Catherine Tubb says technology called precision fermentation (PF) and a new production model called Food-as-Software are rapidly driving down the costs and driving up the quality of READY OR NOT: Farmers need to be aware technology is driving rapid changes manufactured proteins. to food production and cheaper, more environmentally friendly products to PF is a process that enables programming of micro-organisms compete with their own are almost here, Rosie Bosworth says. to produce almost any complex organic molecule. foods are about 10 times more fall below US$10 a kilogram by Its costs are dropping efficient across the board – from 2025 and the proteins will be five exponentially because of rapid land and water use to feedstock times cheaper than traditional improvements in underlying consumption and energy use.” animal proteins by 2030 and 10 biological and information Bosworth says with those times cheaper by 2035. technologies. The cost to produce predictions in mind there are a “The industrial livestock molecules using PF has fallen few challenges NZ agriculture industry is one of the oldest, from US$1 million a kilogram in needs to deal with sooner rather largest and most inefficient food2000 to about US$100 today. than later. production systems in the world,” Assuming existing technologies For dairy farmers relying on Tubb says. and using established cost curves, milk powder exports much of the “Modern ingredients and the report predicts the costs will future change will be driven by business-to-business deals. Large multi-nationals are spending huge sums on future food research and development, which is increasing in scale, and when it comes to consumers, she questions how many people will consult the back of a soup packet to see whether the milk powder extract is produced naturally and whether it will be important to them. When it comes to the bulk ingredient market the natural, clean and green sales pitch won’t make a difference, particularly when synthetic alternatives have little environmental impact. Synthetic ingredients are already used to produce medical products such as insulin and no one has batted an eyelid.

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It will start with cost but the hygiene factor, the more efficient use of land and water will come into play. Rosie Bosworth Food futurist Then there’s the changing demographic of consumers. Bosworth says while baby boomers still look forward to a Sunday roast, millennials’ eating habits are different. They eat less meat and snack more so are less attached to traditional food preferences. The new technologies will also gain traction from the focus on the environmental impact of traditional farming methods: the output of greenhouse gases from livestock and their effect on freshwater. Bosworth says while the paradigm shift in product might be driven by production, the environmental factor will also have an important role. “It will start with cost but the hygiene factor, the more efficient use of land and water will come into play.” Bosworth does not see too much of a long-term future for plant-based proteins because they are more of a stepping stone than a destination in what will be a revolution in food production. That’s not to say it is all doom and gloom for NZ. She says there will be huge opportunities in the biotech sector as new production systems are developed. Countries that embrace the changes first will become the new leaders in food nutrition and will be able to sell that knowhow elsewhere so it can be upscaled. NZ has a proud history in developing food and selling it to the rest of the world and the cashflow that’s been generated by the country’s pasture-based agriculture systems can help fund the transition to new technologies.

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New approach lets cows produce more Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz

DOING HIS SUMS: Dunedin economist Ray Macleod says farmers can get more money from fewer cows with a lower replacement rate.

AN EMERGING approach to dairying might let farmers obey environment rules while maintaining or growing milk production. The farm system change project has found farmers can run fewer but higher-performing cows while maintaining or growing milk supply. It is done by accurately managing costs, feed quality and quantity to maintain cow condition, which results in a more efficient farm and conversion of feed by cows. Farm system change has been developed over many years by consultant Bryan McKay of Dairy Production Systems who says he has compiled up to six years of data from 18 farms to show it is workable and profitable. “It’s about being more efficient.” McKay says running fewer, more productive cows means feed use is higher and lowers the farm’s environmental footprint, helping it meet climate change and freshwater requirements. The farms are also profitable.

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In the low milk payout of 2015-16 McKay’s clients averaged profits of more than $2000 a hectare compared to average Dairy Base farms, which recorded a loss. “These farmers produce about 30% more milksolids per cow than conventional systems. “The cows lactate longer, are in better condition, enjoy better health and last longer. “These guys have worked out you can manage and feed cows to a much higher level than previously considered.” The key is to treat cows as a central processing unit and that means ensuring they operate efficiently and are fuelled with correct volume of high-quality feed. But that does not mean buying in vast quantities of supplements. McKay says the clients are all self-reliant in forage but bought complements equivalent to between 5% and 20% of a cow’s annual diet to ensure a balanced ration. Such purchases were fed across the herd and results monitored to ensure it was economically worthwhile. “The cost of production is no higher than conventional farms, in some cases it is lower, but productivity is 50% higher,” McKay said. His clients follow a variety of farming systems across all regions, from all-grass to hybrid housing. Whatever the system, they closely monitor costs and production to ensure they are viable. Dunedin economist Ray Macleod worked with McKay on the project and says the farms averaged 206 cows per 100,000kg MS produced compared to the NZ average of 269 cows. “They do that through rumen efficiency, through improved cow efficiency and performance.” Macleod says benefits are not only from higher production and subsequently higher income but also a lower replacement rate of less than 20%. They are satisfied the production benefits are proven but there are indications a cow’s higher performance means less nitrates leached and methane produced because of greater efficiency transforming feed into milk. They have assessed nitrogen leaching using Overseer on farms as low as 12kg a hectare a year. That requires more research but McKay says Overseer struggles to cope with the farms in the farm

system change project. Macleod agrees more work is needed to quantify what that means for greenhouse gas and nutrient emissions but the indications are promising. “If you are improving the rumen efficiency and cow performance that means a higher percentage of feed is converted to milk and less to urine and manure.

Our initial study of results from farms indicates we may have reached peak cow but that does not mean peak milk. Ray Macleod Economist “The cow is more efficient overall so commensurately there will be less nitrogen and other discharges. “Our initial study of results from farms indicates we may have reached peak cow numbers but that does not mean peak milk.” The average NZ cow produces 370kg MS but farm change system clients achieved more than 495kg MS a cow through more efficient management and breeding higherperforming and more efficient cows. “I don’t think we’re even close to peak milk.” They have worked with the Ministry for Primary Industries to develop and prove farm system change but that ended when the ministry’s focus moved to dealing with Mycoplasma bovis. McKay says the system has been developed over more than 20 years but dismissed by DairyNZ and other industry bodies. Given the challenges facing the sector, McKay says it is a viable alternative to simply reducing the national herd. It does require further research into cow emissions and exactly what farmers following the farm system change approach do differently from conventional farmers and to determine the productivity and profitability drivers. The Government has acknowledged farmers will need to change to adapt to its climate change and freshwater quality polices and has budgeted $229 million to help them.

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Organic project gives resilience Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz LANDCORP has significantly reduced nitrogen leaching, improved soil structure and biomass and achieved greater pasture resilience on its Wairakei Pastoral Estate dairy farm due to receive full organic certification about now. Earnslaw is one of two Landcorp farms receiving the organic tag after a three-year transition from conventional dairying, one farm is still in the process and three others are beginning the conversion this season. Landcorp expects Earnslaw to get a $2/kg MS premium on Fonterra’s standard farmgate price for its organic milk this season. A smaller but still significant premium was received by Earnslaw and the Tasman farm in Manawatu in years one and two of the transition, the Governmentowned farming company says in its annual report. Synthetic fertilisers have been removed and the farm team applies alternative nutrients such as chicken manure and grows legume crops as a natural source of nitrogen to build soil fertility. It has raised the overall sustainability of the Earnslaw operation compared to that of a conventional unit, the report says. Landcorp, which trades as Pamu, had 860 cows being milked at last season’s peak on Earnslaw’s 675ha of irrigated ryegrass, clover and mixed pasture. Cow numbers were reduced from conventional farm levels as imported supplementary feed was taken out of the diet. Earnslaw is a closed-unit growing all its own feed and retaining nearly all calves as eventual herd replacements, for dairy-beef production or to sell to bull beef finishers. Young stock from Tasman and its sister organic transition farm Tutoku are grazed on Earnslaw’s run-offs to help achieve optimum herd sizes across the farms. After a difficult start to managing an organic health regime on Earnslaw the farm’s cow death rate is now the third lowest across all the Wairakei dairy units. Landcorp had earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation, and revaluations of $34 million for the year ending June 30. That is its favoured measure of earnings, being based on ordinary business cashflow operations. The result was lower than the $48m in 2017-18 and $36m in 2016-17. After revaluations in the latest year there was a bottomline loss of $11m. The farm operations benefited from high red meat prices but dry late summer and autumn conditions cut into milk production. Operating cashflow was $24m, down from $28m previously. In their report chairman Warren Parker and chief executive Steven Carden said they are disappointed by the result and see room to

NOT IN CHARGE: Landcorp’s environmental reference group does not direct farming strategy but provides advice that is weighed against other factors, chief executive Steve Carden says.

We are cognisant, too, of the need for a well-managed transition in livestock and plant genetics, energy systems and farming practices to achieve the targets proposed in the Zero Carbon Bill. Warren Parker Landcorp improve Pamu’s performance. The group farms about 154,000ha of the 336,000ha it manages across the country, running 440,000 sheep, 80,000 beef cattle, 74,000 dairy cows and 89,000 deer. It has 9458ha of pines. Landcorp is also trying reduced nitrogen and phosphate applications on a conventional Canterbury farm, saying there has been no or minimal loss of fertility. Lucerne, not requiring nitrogen inputs and with very low leaching, now makes up 15% of the Canterbury farmland. The group is firmly focused on reducing carbon emissions to help NZ reach ambitious goals, they said. The country’s long-term export competitiveness is contingent in part on achieving emissions profiles better than the rapidly

emerging and potentially disruptive alternatives to pastoral farmed meat and milk. “We are cognisant, too, of the need for a well-managed transition in livestock and plant genetics, energy systems and farming practices to achieve the targets proposed in the Zero Carbon Bill.” While committed to the environmental outcomes, Parker and Carden said the role of Landcorp’s environmental reference group (ERG) is often mischaracterised as one that directs overall farming strategy. This is not the case. It offers a diversity of insight and advice that is balanced with other factors such as the need to achieve an acceptable return for the shareholder and the physical practicality of being able to implement the changes across the business. At the same time Landcorp’s stakeholder group covering a wide range of agri-sector, government, Maori, environment, women and banking representatives said it wants greater recognition this country’s production has lower greenhouse gas intensity than global competitors. It also said farmers need to recognise they operate in a global market and consumer preferences and perceptions are paramount, even those that seem ill-founded. During the year Landcorp started exporting speciality milk products including organic to China and is selling sheep milk

$124m, made up of $50m in sheep products from the Spring Sheep meat, $36m in beef, $17m in dairy Dairy joint-venture business to and $21m in deer. Asia. Milk revenue was $92m, down The 50%-stake in Spring Sheep from $95m a year earlier. Wool is valued in the accounts at $6m. and forestry revenues were $4m Genetic improvement in the East each. Friesian flock resulted in a 25% Landcorp made a $6m one-off increase in milk flow in the 2019 profit on the sale of its shares in year. The flock size grew to 4000 Westland Milk to Chinese group ewes from 3600 and 2050 in 2016Yili and $5m of it was paid to the 17. Crown as a dividend. The plan is to develop a New The annual report shows Zealand industry achieving $200m Landcorp’s total assets were to $700m in gross revenues by $1.78 billion at balance date with 2030. shareholder funds making up Landcorp also has a 35%-stake $1.42b of that. in Melody Dairies, which is due to complete a speciality spray drying plant near Hamilton in July. That stake is valued at $7m. Spring Dairy will be a supplier to the facility. The annual report said Pamu deer milk is being sold to a leading South Korean pharmaceutical company for its range of cosmetic products. In the core red meat business Landcorp had If you’re selling or buying, talk to lifted its share of your local expert PGG Wrightson the high-value Livestock representative for more venison trade into information about the benefits of the United States. trading on bidr.co.nz Total livestock revenue was

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Pukeuri boost for Alliance Alan Williams alan.williams@globalhq.co.nz ALLIANCE is achieving small steps in its quest to build its share of the New Zealand beef processing market, with a volume record at its Pukeuri plant in North Otago. The kill for the season ending September 30 was 71,000 cattle and follows a record at the Mataura beef plant in Southland a year earlier. Alliance has invested significant capital to strengthen processing capabilities at both plants, chief executive David Surveyor said. The co-operative is benefiting from strong beef demand in China and the wider Asian markets. Alliance has told shareholder-farmers it is targeting number one or two market positions for the species it processes and sells. For beef there is still a long way to go from its position as number five player, with a market share of just over 9%, trailing Silver Fern Farms, 30%, Affco and Anzco, both just under 19%, and Greenlea, also just above 9%, based on Meat Board quota figures. Alliance is easily the biggest sheep meat processor with a 28% market share.

Massey-Lincoln ag exchange lives on THE battle for the silverware at the annual Massey-Lincoln Agricultural Exchange, held last month in Lincoln, saw the home teams come out on top. Lincoln University’s netball team claimed the Enid Hills Trophy. A strong Lincoln rugby side then claimed the LA Brooks Cup for another year with a 57-7 victory. Though the results were not in Massey’s favour, students who take part say the event means much more than just playing sport. “It’s the only time where Massey and Lincoln students get a chance to interact. It’s a bit of fun, a good sporting challenge and everyone seems to get along well,” Massey Young Farmers member Shaun Rowe said. “Because of the New Zealand agriculture industry being as small as it is there’s a good chance Massey and Lincoln students will end up working together and so it’s a good way to find common ground.” The students were passionate about the longevity of the exchange, understanding that in 1966 it had been retired and not revived until 2005, 39 years later. “The sporting teams are a mixture of first-year to fourth-year students, mainly student run with the help of facilitators in some respects,” Rowe said. The Young Farmers club committee ensures each year is a success, with organisation and planning starting early in the year to ensure students can make cheap travel arrangements. Rowe says it’s also a good chance for young people to exercise leadership skills, having to organise rugby equipment and clothing, accommodation, travel and team numbers. The next exchange will be hosted by Massey next year with Massey hoping to break its three-year drought in front of a home crowd.

Expert: Act now on swine fever Dr Eric Neumann’s career takes him to animal disease hot spots throughout the world to advise officials and farmers on their response and to monitor severity and behaviour of disease outbreaks. Neal Wallace talks to the epidemiologist.

HE savagery of African swine fever was starkly illustrated to Kiwi epidemiologist Dr Eric Neumann when he visited a 1000-pig farm in Vietnam. The fever’s presence had been confirmed in the housed piggery two weeks before his visit but by time he got there 600 animals had died and most of the survivors were sick. “They had fevers. Some would stand up, walk 1.5m then lie down, others would roll onto their sides, all clinical signs of African swine fever.” Neumann, who owns epidemiology consultancy Epi Insight, specialises in the pig industry and dealing with population-scale disease in animals. Born and educated in the United States he is now based at Taieri south of Dunedin and has spent his career specialising in infectious pig diseases, initially in the US then last 15 years or so in New Zealand. He has adjunct appointments at Iowa State University, Massey University and Otago University and works for NZ Pork. He has 25 years’ epidemiology experience and helps international clients on biosecurity, animal health, livestock production and public policy aspects of animal disease. Half his year is spent overseas and the other half supporting clinical research at Massey and Otago and, as a qualified vet, doing some clinical work. Before his academic career Neumann was veterinary services manager for Heartland Pork Enterprises in Iowa, which ran 65,000 sows, and was the director of swine health and research at the National Pork Board in Des Moines, Iowa. One of Neumann’s international roles is to deliver foreign aid projects and he is in Vietnam helping them deal with the fever while also learning as much as he can to aid the preparedness of the US Department of Agriculture should the disease find its way to the US. Having devastated the pig population in China, the fever has now reached East Timor and the Philippines, inching ever closer to Australia. It was discovered in Africa, reached Europe in 2014 and is now present in much of Africa, central and eastern Europe and central and southeast Asia. Despite being surrounded by infected countries Thailand

REAL RISK: Epidemiologist Dr Eric Neumann says NZ must act now to keep African swine fever out.

The risk has changed but the pathways haven’t changed. Dr Eric Neumann Epi Insight remains disease-free but is preparing for its arrival. It has been estimated 200 million pigs have been killed though Neumann says the exact number is difficult to quantify. Freezing does not kill the virus. The only way to is to cook it or to change its pH level through curing or processing. “African swine fever is a very hardy disease,” he says. Humans are not susceptible but have a huge influence on its spread. Neumann says the risk of it arriving in Australia is rising though its commercial pig farms are well away from the likely entry through its northern coast. The fear is Australia’s feral pig population will become infected, making eradication a major challenge. While the fever has behaved as scientists expect, it has moved rapidly in the last six months making the threat to NZ very real.

Neumann warns NZ’s relative security from being an isolated island nation and with modern biosecurity and surveillance systems could be compromised. NZ imports 60% of the pork meat it consumes, which comes from 25 countries including Australia, in-part due to reciprocal trade access agreements. The fever has been found in some of those countries from which NZ imports pig meat, such as Belgium, and NZ relies on internal biosecurity measures to keep that imported product disease-free. Belgium has isolated the area where the fever has been discovered and is not sourcing pig meat from that region but Neumann says that policy is only as good as the monitoring to ensure infected pigs do not breach the cordon. “My concern is that your infection zone border is only as good as the last known report of the disease.” NZ has about 100 commercial piggeries but he believes the biggest threat for spreading the disease is the way the 8000 to 10,000 non-commercial piggeries are managed. The fever can be introduced to pigs by feeding uncooked or under-cooked food scraps containing contaminated

or cross-contaminated pork products. The risk is that owners of non-commercial pigs can be lax in what they feed their pigs and might not be as careful with animal husbandry or monitoring animal health as a commercial operator. “There is a perfect storm in NZ with lots of fresh product coming from overseas, lots of non-commercial farms with not a lot of contact with vets or animal husbandry rules and thirdly, a robust waste-food feeding culture.” Neumann says given the fever’s steady advance the Ministry for Primary Industries needs to act now to acknowledge that heightened risk. “The risk will continue to rise and I think we need to encourage MPI to think about that increased risk and not decide that because it has been safe in the past that is going to be adequate in the future. “The risk has changed but the pathways haven’t changed.” Neumann urged noncommercial pig owners to ensure they know the origin of their pigs, to adhere to feeding guidelines, which stipulate any meat in feed scraps must be cooked at 100C for one hour, and to watch carefully for any sick stock. He also urges pig owners to implement biosecurity measures, such as introducing quarantine systems for anyone who might have been in contact with pigs while overseas and cleaning clothes and footwear. Whenever Neumann returns from overseas he self-imposes a week-long quarantine and ensures all clothes are thoroughly washed before coming into contact with livestock. Scientists have unsuccessfully been searching for a vaccine for the fever for 40 years but Neumann says success has been stymied by the ability of the disease to change its structure. “Nothing is certainly imminent.” He is also looking at how farms can restock once the disease has gone and he believes if a surface can be disinfected then animals can return after 60 days or so. Neumann says significant disease outbreaks in animals occur regularly around the world, a fact that is a reason for NZ to stay vigilant.

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Is this the future of irrigation? Curbing water consumption and the leaching of nitrogen is no easy feat but a major research programme has devised an ingenious plan. Luke Chivers explains.

SIX-YEAR research programme on irrigation has ended with a big win for agriculture – the development of promising new sensor technology systems that give arable, vegetable and pastoral farmers the tools to use precision irrigation at sub-paddock scales. The systems work alongside existing irrigation scheduling technology, mapping and monitoring a field at sub-paddock scales and calculating exactly how much water is needed at the right time and place. It is a leading development for irrigation and field trials have proved to dramatically reduce water wastage, save users money and minimise farm runoff. So, how did researchers do it? New irrigation systems over the past two decades have let farmers and growers accurately apply water at appropriate intensity. But the amount of water required on different soil types and pieces of land varies from place to place and without the correct application users found too little or too much water could easily be applied, causing yield losses. And too much irrigation results in run-off and nutrient leaching as well as wasted water. A Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employmentfunded programme, dubbed Maximising the Value of Irrigation (MVI), led by Landcare Research with Plant and Food Research and the Foundation for Arable Research, took on the challenge. Researchers did three field trials at Plant and Food’s experimental station at Lincoln. They showed water savings of 9% to 30% when irrigation was varied according to different crop water demands

monitored in different soil management zones. They used high-resolution sensor mapping and in-field soil and crop sensor monitoring systems. “The sensor mapping used a vehicle mounted with GPS and an on-board data logger and towed an electromagnetic sensor that sensed the soil and collected information on the differences in soil moisture and texture,” MVI programme leader and Landcare scientist Dr Carolyn Hedley said. This sensor mapping system was tried on six farms to measure drainage characteristics and how much water each soil zone could hold. Meantime, the group designed, built and used a smartphone app to measure the soil moisture content in the management zones in almost real-time and provided users with the information to guide precise irrigation schedules. The trials showed promising results that saved water and almost completely stopped irrigation-related nitrogen leaching losses. They showed irrigation could have been reduced to the poorly drained soil zone by as much as 60mm, to avoid over-wetting and possibly also increase yield, Hedley said. “This equates to an unnecessary water cost of approximately $720 per year, assuming $2/mm/ha/ yr, and a conservative yield loss equivalent to approximately $2400, assuming a yield penalty of 2t/ha for the 6ha zone, so VRI could potentially save this farmer approximately $3000 a year at this site,” she said. Another group of MVI researchers used remote sensing to create a technique for

HOW’S THAT: Retired scientist Dr Peter Jamieson, left, and Dr Hamish Brown of Plant and Food research test the new irrigation sensor technology on a crop at Lincoln.

monitoring daily crop water use. Plant and Food researcher Dr Hamish Brown said “To know exactly how much water to put on a field there’s two approaches you can take. You can measure the soil water content, which is generally what irrigation scheduling is based on; or you can measure how much the crop is taking out of the soil as a direct crop water extraction method. “If you add that up daily you can calculate how much water you need to put back on the land.” Researchers originally tested the technique in a rain shelter for two barley crop varieties. They then applied different irrigation to each crop. “We found that we reduced the water use a little bit in the heavy soil but in the light soil there was a considerable reduction in water use with no yield reduction in the crop, which is promising,” Brown said. Researchers found their method reduced drainage to near zero and concluded it can substantially reduce the environmental impact of irrigation. Effective irrigation for crops such as wheat, corn, grass seed and potatoes has been a significant problem for farmers around the globe for centuries. It’s a delicate balance to get the correct amount of irrigation onto the land without dramatically reducing production, wasting water and causing unwanted run-off. Developing technologies to measure accurate real-time soil moisture and crop water use is of immense value to farmers and growers making irrigation decisions, Landcare said. Canterbury farmer Steven Bierema has relatively flat and even land but soil moisture sensing has given him another tool for improved irrigation scheduling. “You always think ‘the soil is dry, run the irrigator over it and job done’ but actually, no, it’s not accurate enough,” Bierema said. “With irrigation scheduling you can track that soil moisture content and make sure the soil moisture is adequate for plant growth. “We run five irrigators on the farm with three soil moisture probes. We want to increase that because it really does give us a better view of what crops use and what growth stages they are at,” he said. The technology has also been tried on a Hawke’s Bay farm with a large area of land to irrigate but a very limited amount of water available. Although that farm has a mixture of different soils farmer Hugh Ritchie still found the technology effective. “Different crops and different soils in a paddock have different moisture requirements at different times so having the ability to apply the water more effectively and efficiently at those different

ASSURANCE: Canterbury farmer Steven Bierema says the system lets him make sure the soil is moist enough for plant growth. Photos: Bradley White

ADAPTABLE: The system lets Hawke’s Bay farmer Hugh Ritchie maximise crop performance in paddocks with a mix of soil types with different moisture needs.

places means you get more efficient use of the water. “You are optimising the crop performance with that water. Because you are not getting it too dry or too wet the crop potential is maximised,” Ritchie said. Over time the new software control models almost took over the irrigator, prescribing what the model thought would be the best for the crop at the time given the current and past weather. Irrigation use remains a hot topic. Long, variable, dry summer conditions coupled with increased demands mean irrigation is now essential for consistent and quality food production on the east coast. Since the late 1970s the area of farmland under irrigation has doubled every 12 years. The latest figure shows 747,000ha being irrigated in 2017 and it is expected to reach more than a million hectares by 2035. Preserving water resources and

enabling farmers to have access to the amount of water they need is an ongoing discussion between regional councils and farmers. The two groups agree highresolution, sensor-informed irrigation scheduling has the potential to help make informed decisions for precision irrigation at sub-paddock scales. And FAR said adopting this research could be the answer. “Irrigation is seen as a contentious issue and adoption of the outcomes of this research should alleviate public concerns over potential wastage of NZ’s natural resources and the risk of unintended environmental pollution,” FAR chief executive Alison Stewart said. And while the industry is aware of the potential benefits of smart irrigation scheduling the next challenge will be for farmers and growers to integrate it into their farm business in a cost-effective way.

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Policies threaten our food security

EW Zealand’s reliance on trade with China is well documented but perhaps less so is the scale of it, with China last year buying 31% of all primary produce exports. It is our largest buyer of dairy taking 31%, meat, 33%, and forestry, 52%, with horticulture catching rapidly but that reliance comes at a risk. The fundamental principle of willing seller-willing buyer underpins decisions about who exporters sell to but China’s food security motivation is clear. Twenty years ago it wasn’t even a top 10 buyer of NZ dairy while its demand for red meat, in part due to African swine fever devastating its pig industry, could push NZ global meat sales above $8 billion next year for the first time. China is also securing food supplies by buying processors such as Westland and Mataura Valley, having a stake in Silver Fern Farms and adopting the best global farming systems for its domestic farms intensive horticulture from the Netherlands, dairy platforms from NZ and Dutch piggery systems. Certainly, China is driven by the need to feed 1.4 billion people but contrast its approach to NZ where food security equates to economic security. It is only through dogged determination from Horticulture NZ that the Government has proposed a national policy statement to protect high-class soils to protect these irreplaceable vegetable beds from being buried under tarseal and concrete. And the Government should be applauded for acting. Unfortunately, it has overlooked or ignored the risk to food/economic security from two policies that will inevitably result in lower food production, the Zero Carbon Bill and National Policy Statement on Freshwater. As we report this week, the Government has no plans for a food security policy, given we export 90% of what we produce. But food security in NZ equates to economic security and the fact this risk appears to be taken lightly is worrying but also evidence farmers and growers are masters, ensuring supermarket shelves are stocked all year round with fresh fruit, vegetables, milk and meat.

Neal Wallace

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Time to shut the door on GM IN HUGH Stringleman’s article, Four leaders seek continuity, on September 30 he quotes Federated Farmers Northland president John Blackwell as saying “We have no pro-GMO or anti GMO position, just that the door should be kept open for the future”. I would have thought it more logical for their stance to be that the door be kept firmly shut considering the millions of dollars it’s members have paid out over the years to control gorse, rabbits, possums etc not to mention TB levies as a result. All those were introduced with good intent and had a similar story attached – scientifically proven and in the best interest of the economy, environment etc. It all went horribly wrong and we will forever be managing the very expensive impact of that.

GE introduction is a massive risk as, in practice, it’s irreversible. We have created a massive environmental problem with our food production practices and Federated Farmers is coming across as if it would introduce an even bigger, irreversible disaster as a solution to reducing emissions in the form of gene-edited or genetically engineered ryegrass. Just imagine members’ future disappointment when their dairy and meat products are instantly devalued. Pro GMO activists are lobbying politicians and being allowed to take control of policy-making to mess with the very structure of the food we eat and are, therefore, made of. Farmers have to remember they are individuals and for the sake of their children’s

futures they do not have to follow the collective. Diane Sisley Otorohanga

Claim questioned IN RESPONSE to your article of October 14, we are pleased to be given the opportunity to provide details which were not included in the original story. The M bovis programme is committed to working to support all affected farmers. We fully understand the challenges and emotional impact for those involved and don’t believe that any of the people employed by the programme would take part in bullying or threatening behaviour. The programme and the DairyNZ and Beef and Lamb

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Dirty game birds are fouling waterways Ron Frew

EW Zealand’s waterways are mostly pretty good in terms of being safe to swim in. Certainly, I know of no deaths or even serious illness directly or indirectly attributed to swimming in a NZ river because of contamination from industrial, agricultural or municipal causes. The discussion has largely been about contamination from dairy farms and that was driven by Fish and Game, possibly to divert attention from the fact that E coli contamination from water fowl, eg game birds, is very high in some locations. Fish and Game have successfully planted the notion of dirty dairying in the minds of many people. Broadly speaking, NZ’s rivers on the west of both islands are fast flowing and get lots of rainfall and so are frequently flushed. Those flowing east are usually slower flowing and get less rainfall, particularly in summer and this is when problems are most evident. Thus, it seems logical to have different rules for different catchments where local knowledge will be useful in deciding what is workable and what not. Regulations that could conceivably be required in one location could cause unnecessary expense and stress in another. The freshwater discussion document, while containing some reasonable positions, included provisions that are unworkable, impractical and likely to create extreme stress among even the most normally law-abiding farmers. To propose a number of regulations experienced farmers know won’t work, will render their farming operation less

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economically viable, will make some farms unsaleable and make it even more difficult to attract good-quality people to agriculture is causing extreme distress in the farming community. No section of the NZ population deserves such treatment. Any proposed change to how people alter their practice needs co-operation and contribution from the participants to ensure the changes are necessary and will achieve the desired results. The document fails on both counts. If implemented in its entirety we are likely to see drastic reduction, my guess is 30%, in export earnings from agriculture because without adequate artificial nitrogen and elemental phosphate applications production will drop markedly, the enclosure of waterways and the planting of trees along waterways will result in land encroachment by water beyond the five metres either side of waterways and result in larger areas of reversion to swampland with a consequent loss of production.

The loss of good grassland farms to forestry will lower export earnings from meat and dairy and the NZ advantage of educated, innovative, intelligent farmers with skin in the game will be lost as the land is acquired by absentee owners and operated by a peasantry as it is in many parts of the world. The fact that neither cattle nor sheep enter waterways without reason has been ignored. Only in the extreme heat of summer and in pursuit of water to drink do beef cattle enter waterways. Sheep never voluntarily enter a waterway but may sometimes drink from the edge. They are a dry land animal. Dairy farming where animals are intensely grazed is a different proposition and most NZ dairy farms have already fenced their waterways but, even so, dairy cows are reluctant to enter waterways unless forced to do so by grazing pressure. One of the problems with total stock exclusion on sheep and beef farms, apart from cost and the fact that it won’t make much difference to the water quality, is the weed invasion, particularly of wild blackberry, broom and gorse, which follows, necessitating spraying with herbicides regarded as toxic. E coli pollution in waterways won’t be much reduced by total stock exclusion. The real culprits in this regard are waterfowl and discharge from partially functioning sewerage treatment plants. For example, the highest E coli reading in any waterway in my area is the Waitangi Stream at Waiouru with no farmland in its catchment. The discharge from Waiouru Military Camp gives that waterway very high E coli levels and high phosphate from household cleaners. Many NZ municipalities

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are located next to rivers and result in raised E coli and phosphate levels. As a specialist potato grower I exchange land with the Mott family who specialise in parsnips and swedes. That we should be required to obtain a consent with the expense and frustration involved in dealing with an administrative person who probably knows nothing about farming or market gardening just adds one more onerous task to the already overwhelming burden of compliance. We are never going to return our waterways to pre-European times when the islands supported a total population estimated at 100,000 to 120,000 people. Proceeding with the proposals will create social and economic distress of a scale not seen since the 1930s. So what to do? We can leave stock exclusion of sheep and beef farms unchanged except that farmers remove cattle from near waterways they might enter in peak summer. Farm environmental plans are not a panacea but will require

another layer of bureaucratic box ticking and unproductive employment. Phosphate fertiliser is key to NZ’s farming productivity. Mess with it at your peril. It doesn’t move much through the soil profile and farmers already avoid applying it to waterways. Landcare measured phosphate movement in a field of carrots on our farm some years ago and found minimal movement of phosphate in any direction. Give credit to farmers for the measures they have already taken. You have a distressed body of people out there dealing daily with difficult jobs and to add mental anguish to their lives is unwarranted and unfair.

Who am I? Ron Frew is an Ohakune market gardener, dairy and sheep farmer and contractor.

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A slower rural life won’t help anyone Alternative View

Alan Emerson

THE Transport Agency has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. It failed to regulate the transport sector, had an extra $45 million for regulation, read over-regulation, we can expect the costs of warrants and certificates of fitness to rise and the structure of the agency means internal audits could be fudged. My view of the agency is simple. It is useless, excessively bureaucratic and out of touch. On road safety, however, the situation isn’t as much a tragedy as farce. Over the years we’ve had many road safety initiatives foisted on us. The licence age was lifted, the blood-alcohol level was reduced, we’ve been inundated with expensive, albeit irrelevant, advertising campaigns and the road toll keeps going up. Now they’re grasping the straw of speed, much of it on rural roads.

We had a heady statement from the agency that only 5% of open roads should have a 100kmh limit. The crystal ball must have been working overtime. I don’t believe they have the faintest clue. That was followed by some outfit called the International Transport Forum telling us the speed limit should be restricted to 70kmh on rural roads and 30kmh in urban areas. Its report found speed is a key factor in crash severity. The locals in the Tinui pub could have told you that in seconds and for no expense. The one logical statement on rural speed came from Fed’s head Katie Milne who told us reducing speed limits is a step in the wrong direction. I agree. Then the Wellington brains trust suggested we need a lot more speed cameras and greater fines, a move I’d suggest is more in the interest of generating revenue than reducing the road toll. Apparently, they believe that worked in Sweden. Comparisons with Sweden aren’t realistic as they have twice our population, seven times more state highways and 10 to 20 times more expressways than we do. Having said that, I’m pleased the Government is spending more money on roads but that’s

just a start. Let’s use the fuel tax and road user charges for what was originally intended – the investment in safe roads. The concentration on speed tends to become myopic. Last Christmas we had Police Minister Stuart Nash warning motorists not to exceed the speed limit. Judging by the number of fatalities, that warning did little good. The University of West Australia found stricter enforcement of speed limits reduces drivers peripheral vision and increases stress levels, making driving more difficult. So, based on Australian research, which I’m sure applies equally here, strict enforcement means our roads are more dangerous. My point is we have a situation where the agency doesn’t have a clue and is grasping at straws over speed, specifically on rural roads. That was followed by what, in my view, was a classic case of stupidity from the chief science adviser for the Transport Ministry, one Professor Simon Kingham. He told us reducing speed has benefits beyond safety such as incentivising people to walk and use their communities better, which can improve health. What is he suggesting; that I

FORGET IT: Rural people drive to the road and conditions so lowering speed limits won’t do anything for them.

walk the 50km to Masterton and visit the library for the sake of my health? The speed exercise is a waste of time. For a start, if you set the speed limit at 60kmh who is going to obey it? Who is going to police it? The more you drive on shingle roads the better you get and having some pious bureaucrat telling the rural sector what’s safe and what isn’t is ridiculous. I’m sure the Wellington bureaucrat would be dangerous driving at 60kmh on a shingle road. Rural people aren’t. Likewise, reducing speed to 80kmh on sealed rural roads is stupid and think of the animal welfare issues on long hauls. Twenty three years ago when we moved here there was little traffic on the road to Masterton. Now it’s unusual to make that drive without encountering four or more log trucks and at least two honey vehicles. That’s on top of

the road being busier. The problem is it is the same road. There have been no upgrades despite the increased traffic. Further, a speed limit is a waste of time on rural roads where you drive to the road and conditions. Going from here to Masterton there are a few places I can go 100kmh if I’m not behind a truck and a few where 80kmh is excessive. The speed limit on rural roads is irrelevant and I haven’t seen an accident or a traffic cop. So, my sincere advice to the agency is to do something that is relevant. Improve rural roads and if you’re getting hit with a touch of creativity try macrame instead of playing with the speed limit.

Your View Alan Emerson is a semi-retired Wairarapa farmer and businessman: dath-emerson@wizbiz.net.nz

The end of the world is coming, eventually From the Ridge

Steve Wyn-Harris

THE Eschaton is coming. There is little doubt. It’s just a matter of time. It’s an ancient Greek word for the final event or the end of time. My own certainty of an end of

days is that our star we like to call the Sun is 4.5 billion years old and has about another seven or eight billion years left in it before things get messy. The sun is busily fusing hydrogen atoms together to make helium. This fusion process creates vast amounts of energy, which gives us life on Earth. Scientists are trying to crack the ability to control fusion here on Earth to create a viable and sustainable source of energy without the drawbacks of nuclear fission, such as the danger of accidents and radioactive by-

products, but are not there yet. However, in seven or eight billion years the Sun will have fused all the hydrogen it has and the helium will collapse in on itself. Compressing a gas generates heat from all that pressure and the Sun will bloat into a red giant. In doing so it will engulf the inner planets; Mercury, Venus and, yes, Earth. Then we really will know that global warming has come. Throughout history there have been a steady stream of humans who have predicted the end of the world sooner than

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this and hunkered down to wait for the inevitable. Finally, being disappointed then relieved then completely foolish before moving to another town where no one knows them. Most if not all religions preach an end of the world. Norse mythology calls it Ragnarok. The Sun and Moon will disappear from the sky and poison will fill the air. Dead will rise from the ground and there will be widespread despair. I’d be more than despairing; I’d be crapping myself. The Buddha might not be too

far off the mark as he predicted seven suns appearing in the skies and burning Earth up. Christianity has various forms of the end of days depending on your denomination. They vary on just what will happen and when but all versions have it sounding very unpleasant, especially if you belong to the wrong group. In 1843 William Miller, a Baptist preacher, made several predictions the world was to end in a few months. When it didn’t,

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GDP a poor measure of ag sector Keith Woodford

AGRICULTURAL GDP catches well under a quarter of the agribusiness system so fails to capture the importance of agribusiness to the economy. One of the problems facing New Zealand agriculture is a widespread urban perspective it is not important to the nation’s economy. To a large extent this perspective is built around agricultural GDP, which, as officially measured, is only 4% to 5% of all GDP. What few people understand is the definition of agricultural GDP depends on historical notions of what a farm was and is. The notion goes back to the days when agricultural output was largely the output of what the farmer himself did. And in those days, it really was a him who relied on his own muscle power and that of his horse. To cut to the chase, agricultural GDP excludes all farm inputs as intermediate goods. Those exclusions include, for example, all animal health inputs including veterinary services, plus the value of fertiliser inputs. Agricultural GDP even removes the economic contribution of shearers, contract milkers and every other contractor on farms. They go into a support services category outside agriculture. My interest in the issue and how it is misused was piqued by a recent report by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER), written under contract for Fish and Game, Forest and Bird and Greenpeace. It used figures for dairy’s GDP contribution to develop their claim new freshwater rules will have no major impacts on the national economy. Yeah, right, I said. With statements like that, it is no wonder there is a huge urban and rural divide. How can such a statement be correct? The headline claim, supplied by NZIER itself, was not specific to dairy, However, the report did focus totally on dairy. That in itself is intriguing. Many sheep, beef and arable farmers would be more than a

Continued from previous page his followers called that period The Great Disappointment. The Jehovah’s Witnesses predicted the end of the world was nigh several times during the 20th century but haven’t got it right to date. Harold Camping is one of my favourite poor predictors of the end of the world. He predicted it many times, made a lot of money from donations and eventually died in 2013 at 92. The end had

little put out that their own issues are not worthy of mention as being relevant to such a broadranging claim. The answer to the extraordinary NZIER claim is that it is based on using a very narrow definition of GDP that assumes all rural contractors, consultants, truck drivers, vets, fertiliser company workers and so on could find other things to do if there were no agriculture industries and would suffer no loss of income. In economic language, these resources are assumed to be transferable across the economy. As for the value these people provide, that is already allocated to other sectors such as manufacturing and professional services. Some are even allocated to agricultural support services but that does not make its way back into agriculture itself. NZIER does acknowledge dairy’s importance extends beyond the farm gate. Accordingly, it does bring back into its overarching figure the value-add associated with dairy processing. But it is only the core of processing that is added. On that basis, NZIER calculated that between 1991 and 2017 the average combined direct contribution of dairy farming and dairy manufacturing was 3.09% of GDP. I have checked this figure for the most recent available year, 2017, and I have no question in relation to its technical accuracy. If I calculate the numbers on the same greatly flawed basis, excluding all inputs to the farm, excluding transport to the processor and anything after the processor as being part of the separate food and beverage industry then I come up with a similar number. The problem is it is based on concepts belonging back in the dark ages. In 1957 Harvard University academics John Davis and Ray Goldberg realised agriculture is so much more than the net value of what is added on the farm so wrote a book called The Concept of Agribusiness. They realised agriculture and agribusiness are really a network of interdependent activities spanning farm inputs, farm production, product processing and marketing. If we want to measure the value of this interdependent system we have to look at the total value of output. In NZ we have been slow to embrace notions of an

come for him at least. Last week saw yet another sad case of several souls who had hunkered down waiting for the world to come to its end then figuring they could be wrong. This time in the Netherlands, which is somewhat surprising because the Dutch are usually a solid and sensible lot though the man is reported as Austrian. A 58-year-old bloke took his six young children down into a basement nine years earlier to sit it out. The children now range in

NOT COUNTED: Any work done by contractors is not included in agriculture’s GDP.

In NZ we have been slow to embrace notions of an agribusiness system. It is as if there is still a firm divide between what happens inside and outside the farm gate. agribusiness system. It is as if there is still a firm divide between what happens inside and outside the farm gate. When I was considering returning to Lincoln University in 2000, following 20 years of working internationally, I was interested in coming back only if my professorial title spanned the agribusiness spectrum. At my interview I said I wanted to knock down the psychological importance of the farm gate and if that was not consistent with the Lincoln vision of the future, then don’t appoint me. When I retired at the end of 2014 and moved to an honorary position I negotiated a new title as Professor of Agri-Food Systems for two reasons. One, I wanted to create space for whoever was the new professor of farm management and agribusiness. As it turned out, Lincoln decided to revert to the to the old title of farm management, as held by my predecessors. Second, it seemed to me to be very important recognition be given to the notion that agriculture fits with a system that is much broader than just business. There is a need to look at the whole agri-food spectrum

age from 16 to 25 and believed no one else was alive. He has done a terrible thing depriving his own children of a decent childhood. It seems the father kept them down there and grew vegetables and farmed some animals around his isolated rural house to feed them. The eldest son seems to have had enough and walked to the nearest pub where he ordered five beers and asked for help. He hadn’t had a haircut in nine years and was very unkempt.

as something that integrates the biological, ecological, social and business spectra. Linked to this is the notion that though farm managers manage within the farm gate, nearly all the big decisions are a function of what happens outside that gate. Calculating the total value of the agribusiness sector is not easy. But here is a start using Stats NZ data for 2017. The value of all agricultural inputs that year was $13.7 billion. The value added on-farm, what Stats NZ calls agricultural GDP, was $11.3b. The farmgate value of production was therefore $25b. The value-add of basic processing of agricultural products excluding sea-food was $8.4b. These add to $33.4b, comprising 12.4% of traded GDP. This still does not include any of the marketing contribution. In contrast, most of GDP is made up of services that we sell to each other. Examples are financial services at $15b, professional services, $25.5b, retail trade, $12.3b, media and telecom, $6.7b, rental and real estate, $19.7, and government services, $40b. Starting from a different point and looking at exports, I note pastoral exports in the June 2019 year were $28.6b and total primary-industry exports were $46.4b. They comprise 48% and 78% respectively of total exports. I also note it is exports that drive the economy. Now, as someone who has actually spent periods of his life working as an economist, I also know some economists will want to argue with me. Their key point will be to go back to the notion that if dairying or other

The father appears to have had a slight stroke and is in police custody to answer some questions. The rest of us can be safe in the knowledge that the imminent end of all things is very unlikely and so make the most of living in the here and now.

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

parts of our agribusiness system were to go away, then that would liberate resources to be allocated elsewhere. My counter is that most of the resources allocated to agriculture and, in particular, pastoral agriculture do not have a lot of value elsewhere. Most of our pastoral soils are totally unsuited to arable farming. Yes, we can grow trees on a lot of them and then sell the carbon credits to the urban folk so they can continue their lifestyles. But that won’t earn export income. The credits will be just monetary transfers within NZ to help avoid having to buy carbon credits overseas. So, I want to hear from the urban folk, of which I am one, as to where we are going to earn export income to pay for all of those items we use in our daily life (cars, trucks, buses, planes, computers, smart phones, pharmaceuticals, overseas travel and so on) but for which we have no international competitive advantage and which we do not produce ourselves. And I do say, how dare you ignore that challenge. I trust that in answering that challenge the focus will not simply be that there has to be change. All serious participants in the debate accept that change has to occur. Some of us are actually working on what that change could look like.

The NZIER report is here: [https:// nzier.org.nz/static/media/filer_ public/68/3c/683c1ce2-c9f3-4c698ac5-679d80fac0fc/getting_the_ balance_right.pdf].

Your View Keith Woodford was Professor of farm management and agribusiness at Lincoln University for 15 years to 2015. He is now principal consultant at AgriFood Systems. He can be contacted at kbwoodford@gmail.com

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FAMILY: James and Katherine with Georgia, 2, and Wagyu calves.

They’re committed to their land A Central Hawke’s Bay family farm is combining bulls and Wagyu steers to make the most of its climate and the most of its family asset. They not only know what they are doing on-farm but also know the supply chain from end to end so can tick all the boxes expected of them. Kate Taylor reports.

ROWING quality cattle on an all grass and homegrown fodder system is all that’s needed to keep James Greer happy in his work. “Farming is in our blood. Every day is different and every day is a challenge. We love it.” James and Katherine Greer and James’ parents Jerry and Diana farm 830ha at Argyll east, west of Waipawa. James returned to the family farm where he grew up in 2007 after studying farm management at Lincoln University. Katherine joined the family about eight years ago, about the same time the Greers became shareholders in First Light, which is based in Hawke’s Bay, and bought their first 20 or so Wagyu cattle. Neither James or his father are interested in breeding cattle but run a quality finishing operation with a mixture of bull beef and the prime Wagyu. “They are rotated in a similar fashion although the Wagyu don’t dig holes and they’re a lot easier to shift,” Jerry says. “We can also run a higher stocking rate of Wagyu per hectare because the steers don’t eat as much as the bulls,” James adds. Most of the stock arrives on the farm as spring- or autumnborn calves – 200 of each of both Friesian bulls and Wagyu. Most of the Wagyu calves are from Waikato rearers with some from

If you have water you have opportunities. James Greer Farmer Canterbury for the first time this year. They want to increase the number of autumn-born Wagyu calves to about 75% to suit the farm’s climate. “We were 100% spring calves but they just don’t fit into the system as well. So now we’re moving to a mostly autumn-born system. We can get them started and up to speed earlier. They struggle if they’re 90-100kg going into summer but the autumnborns will be 200-230kg by the end of the year and they handle the dry a lot better. The change also means we can process them at the peak of the market – we hit the premium winter finishing market, which attracts top dollar.” The business, trading as The Brow Farms, is made up of three separate blocks run in conjunction with each other on a seasonal basis. “Parts of the two bottom farms are more summer safe than up here,” James says from their home high on Range Road overlooking the other farms and out to the Ruahine Range.

DIRECTION: James and Jerry Greer know exactly what they want to do on their farm that fits the climate, environment and customer expectations and gives them a living.

“We’re trying to reduce the stocking rate going into autumn. We run cattle numbers down until the end of January, probably, and then February through April we run a much lower stocking rate because we don’t grow a lot of feed in that time. “That’s why we contract an extra 200 calves out of Southland. They

turn up here in April at 200kg and generally we’re starting to grow feed for them then. They offer us flexibility. We don’t have to take them if it’s a tough season and we can also sell them if we need to.” Cattle are in a cell system and moved regularly, not set stocked. “They seem to do well if you can constantly feed them rather than

have these big peaks and troughs,” James says. “Wagyu are unforgiving if you don’t feed them. You pay the price at the other end,” Jerry says. They had a few bad autumn droughts when they started farming Wagyu. “It was a bit of a lesson because there was no weight gain and then

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they exploded and did about 2kg a day through the spring and we thought these were brilliant but it was compensatory growth,” James says. “Little and often is more the way to go, slow and steady.” The farm is mostly grass alongside winter kale and oat crops and a 4ha block of fodder beet yielding 22-25 tonnes a hectare to finish tail-end Wagyu steers before winter. They won’t use the fodder beet in winter with other classes of stock because of mud. Environmental concerns prompted the Greers to use Ecotain with the kale. “You strip graze your kale and then back fence it and then the plantain will regrow. They should be grazing that next May. (Brotherin-law) Malcolm’s on the tractor putting that in as we speak.” The family was disappointed when the Ruataniwha Dam didn’t eventuate but have used a natural spring to develop 8ha of wetland. They now have consent to take water for storage from the spring with irrigation in mind for the future. Two thousand native trees were planted last winter and another 2000 this winter, with willows still to be removed, James says. “It ticks environmental boxes, it’s full of eels and koura and is clean enough to drink and also gives us more options to futureproof the farm. If you have water you have opportunities.” It will also help James with his aim of selling cattle every month to get a more even cashflow. The first of the bulls go at 18 months at 280kg minimum carcase weight so they’re gone before autumn, which means they effectively have only one winter on the farm. “They are the most economic,” James says. “Sometimes another pick will be taken before the winter but the rest will generally be taken through a second winter and kill them in the spring at about 340kg plus on the hook through October, November and December. They’re our release valve. “When push comes to shove we can trade them. We can’t sell the Wagyu through the store market,” Jerry adds. James says they take as many Wagyu as their system can carry comfortably to beyond 24 months old. “We’d rather sell a bull than forfeit that Wagyu premium.” James’ aim for the top springborn Wagyu is 320kg carcase weight picked from about 600kg live weight. “We’re getting better at that but we don’t push the system with fodder beet or irrigation. We don’t get the heavier weights or the marbling but for what we’re putting into them, with a grass-fed system with low costs, we’re happy with our results.” The autumn-born Wagyu are being processed at the same time

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REFLECTIVE: James Greer ponders the 8ha wetland created from a natural spring. The family has also put in 4000 native plants in the last two years.

All they want to see is grass. They don’t want to see mud. They love the views and the animals on the hills with all the grass. That’s the picture. We always exceed their expectations. James Greer Farmer but they’re another four months older with another 20-30kg of carcase weight. “First Light has a lot of dangling carrots. Firstly, a steer over 330kg or a heifer over 270kg instantly gets another 20 cents a kilo. There’s also a high marbling bonus and the heavier animals usually have more marbling so that’s like a compounding benefit.” The farm’s average marble score to date is four, above the company’s national average of 3.8.

“A marble score of three or four Wagyu is just as tasty as a seven or eight but the higher the marble score, the richer the meat,” Jerry says. “People have their own preferences for that,” Katherine adds. “We did a blind tasting once and they said people who like the three tend to like a pinot noir or a mild red while people who like the stronger reds like syrah like the eights and nines.” The farm is close to First Light’s head office in Havelock North so James says they see lots of international customers. “All they want to see is grass. They don’t want to see mud. They love the views and the animals on the hills with all the grass. That’s the picture. We always exceed their expectations.” James and Katherine, a Westpac rural bank manager, visited the United States with First Light earlier this year. ‘It was amazing. It’s a special experience to go to the market and see your product and see how people rave about it over there. It’s fair enough at grassroots level

growing an animal and putting them on a truck but going over there and seeing how people react to it and how they want more of it, it’s rewarding. “There are a lot of added costs to farming these days and you have to cross your Ts and dot your Is twice now and part of that is ticking all the boxes – environmental, sustainable, certified humane.” Katherine says the customers want the story and all the environmental boxes ticked. “There’s no packaged meat in these high-end supermarkets. “It’s all sold at the butcher’s counter and they have a chat with the customers about what’s there and where it has come from. “They know it is fully grassfed and not finished with grain, certified humane, antibiotic-free. “It’s such good quality even the meat patties are like steak.” At one supermarket they went to, First Light Wagyu took up 10% of the beef butchery cabinet but made up 80% of the sales. James says they’re grateful to the support from his parents to

WINNING COMBO: Wagyu cattle on a grass diet are a recipe for success for the Greer family.

farm The Brow and to join the First Light family. “We are being given the opportunity to add value and expertise to previous generations’ hard work. “We’d love to try to continue the farming gene and look after our assets for further generations.” James is the third generation on the farm. Jerry started his working life in a family motor business but then took up farming with Diana when their family was young. That young family has now delivered another generation with in-laws and grandchildren and while they still farm together, Jerry, who has just been elected to the Central Hawke’s Bay District Council, and Diana have stepped back to give James and Katherine more control. Daughter Charlotte and sonin-law Russell Heald manage and have a vested interest in the family’s dairy farm business at Norsewood – The Brow Dairies. The 170ha effective dairy farm is run in conjunction with a 128ha run-off, Fenwick, and is in its first year of conversion to an organic system. Younger daughter Annabelle and son-in-law Malcolm Campbell live on the home farm with Malcolm working full time for The Brow Farms. Younger son Angus is a diesel mechanic operating heavy machinery for Awakere Drainage in Hastings. The extended family has been through several farm succession planning sessions. They have to make it workable, especially with four children, Jerry says. Facilitated family meetings helped each of them gain an understanding of the expectations and dreams of the others, including the definitive statement that none of them wanted to sell any land. Jerry and Diana are proud of their family’s work ethos and the fact they all get on so well. “So many families don’t,” Jerry says. >> Video link: bit.ly/OFSgreer

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British will chop many trade tariffs Stephen Bell stephen.bell@globalhq.co.nz THE British government has severely undermined its farming industry by confirming it will remove tariffs on some key agricultural sectors, including grains, eggs, fruit and vegetables and some dairy products in the event of a no-deal Brexit, National Farmers Union president Minette Batters says. However, it will still protect the sheep meat sector. There will be no extra market access for sheep meat and the 12.8% tariff will still apply. However, New Zealand will have duty-free access for 114,000 tonnes of sheep meat though that is only half the quota it now has for the entire European Union. NZ provides 74% of British sheep meat imports. Though some dairy products will get free access the concession does not apply to butter and cheese. The tariff on NZ honey will fall from 17% to zero. Batters said not only will the government’s approach put significant extra financial pressure on farmers at precisely the time they will face enormous challenges from a no-deal Brexit it also risks the United Kingdom

GONE: With the British government’s low or no tariffs regime post Brexit it has missed a real chance to back British farmers, National Farmers Union president Minette Batters says.

being flooded with imports produced to lower standards that would be illegal for UK farmers. “I wrote to the Prime Minister (Boris Johnson) only a few weeks ago to express our concerns with the approach the government took back in March to import tariffs in a no-deal scenario. “But with the chances of us

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little impact on retail food prices. “They can, however, have a massive impact on the viability of farm businesses and our ability to produce high-quality, great British food. “I believe that offering some limited tariff protection and managing volumes through a system of import quotas would have struck the right balance between protecting the interests of domestic producers and keeping retail food prices under control. “Farmers are going to feel betrayed by this government’s failure to act now in making sure that all that can be done is being done to help mitigate the damaging effects of a no-deal Brexit. “I don’t recall anyone selling a vision of post-Brexit Britain as one involving lower-standard food filling shop shelves while British farmers, the guardians of our cherished countryside, go out of business,” Batters said. The government has said the changes to the temporary tariff schedule are likely to last for a year while consultation is done on a new regime. The changes were to keep prices down for consumers after Brexit and mean 88% of all imports will be tariff-free.

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EUROPEAN Union member states have agreed Britain’s listed status to export live animals and animal products as a third country can continue in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The EU’s standing committee on plants, animals, food and feed confirmed the acceptance of Britain’s listed status after it met the health and biosecurity assurances required for a third country. With listed status now confirmed businesses exporting animals and animal products to the EU – business worth more than £5 billion a year – will still need

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to meet new requirements such as going through the correct EU border inspection post. The deal ensures live animals and products of animal origin such as meat, fish and dairy will continue if Britain leaves the EU on October 31. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Theresa Villiers said “This is good news for United Kingdom businesses. “It demonstrates our very high standards of biosecurity and animal health which we will continue to maintain and improve after we leave the EU.

However, Villiers said the UK government’s top priority remains delivering Brexit by the end of October and the preference is to strike a negotiated deal with the EU. On October 2 Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK could ban live exports of animals after Brexit. “I think it is very relevant to the concerns of this country that we will for the first time be able to ban the export of live animals, which has offended people in this country for so long,” he told Parliament. But meat trade bodies

and farming industry representatives have expressed serious concern about a ban on live exports, which are worth £1.6b to the farming industry each year. The Ulster Farmers’ Union has previously warned banning the live export of farm animals would be completely unworkable for the Northern Ireland farming industry. Up to 50% of Northern Irish lambs are exported to the Republic of Ireland and a large majority of Northern Irish sows are slaughtered on the British mainland. UK Farmers Weekly

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leaving in less than four weeks without a deal increasing by the day the Prime Minister has missed a real opportunity to back British farmers. “Farmers and growers are understandably anxious to know that the government will take all steps necessary to help the sector avoid the worst impacts of leaving the EU without a deal.

“Instead we will see – from day one – farm businesses facing new, high tariffs on much of the 60% of our exports that go into the EU while tariffs on goods coming into the UK will be set far, far lower and in many cases won’t be applied at all. “In particular, British egg farmers, British cereal farmers, our horticultural growers and many of our dairy farmers will have zero protection against cheap imports coming in from around the world. “Without the maintenance of tariff protections we are in danger of opening up the UK to imported food which would be illegal to be produced here, produced at a lower cost because it may fail to meet the environmental and animal welfare standards which are legally required of our own farmers, flooding our market and resulting in unsustainable price falls. “Not only could this be terrible news for farmers, whose very businesses will be under threat, but also for consumers who enjoy the high-quality and affordable British food they produce,” she told Johnson. “While it is clearly important that the government manages prices for consumers in a no-deal scenario, border tariffs have very

DUTCH farmers caused traffic chaos as they descended on The Hague in protest following calls to slash livestock production in half. Thousands of farmers joined demonstrations following a suggestion they were largely responsible for a nitrogen oxide emission problem, causing more than 1000km of traffic jams across the Netherlands. Motoring organisation ANWB said the protesters caused the worst-ever Dutch morning rush hour. Protests were held across the country with farmers welcoming widespread public support.

Farmer groups said they feel victimised while other industries such as aviation are evading scrutiny after a report called for inefficient cattle farms to be shut down. Liberal MP Tjeerd de Groot had called for livestock production to be halved to tackle emissions. Protesters were angry at being highlighted by a small group as a problem when their businesses are essential for maintaining food supply, nature management and a green living environment. LTO Nederland, the Netherlands agriculture and horticulture organisation,

STANDSTILL: The Dutch farmers’ protest caused severe traffic jams gridlocking more than 1000km of roads.

chairman Marc Calon said he is extremely proud of the signal farmers and horticulturists had given. “The agricultural sector stands shoulder to shoulder and Dutch society is behind us. My compliments to the organisers. “Politics cannot ignore this,” he said.

LTO highlighted polls in the Dutch media which show 90-95% of the Dutch public support farmers. Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten told protesters there will be no halving of livestock as long as she is minister, adding society needs to appreciate farmers more. UK Farmers Guardian

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Green fears block Mercosur trade deal AUSTRIA has blocked the European Union-Mercosur trade deal in a move that could derail it completely. MPs demanded a Government veto on the deal with concerns over environmental issues. Without backing from every EU government, the deal cannot go through. The Mercosur region includes Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil. Fires in the Amazon have brought environmental issues into clearer focus. France and Ireland have already warned they could reject the deal if Brazil does not do more to curb fires in the Amazon.

French President Emmanuel Macron has been particularly critical of the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro over his stance on climate change and the Amazon. All but one of Austria’s main parties rejected the deal, stating the agreement must do more to tackle environmental issues. The Austrian Trade Union Federation argued the deal focused on the interests of industry rather than people and did not focus on workers’ rights and the environment. Jorg Leichtfried of the centreleft SPO said it was a great success for consumers, the environment, animal welfare and human rights.

He warned the deal would be bad for climate protection and labour rights in South America. But the Federation of Austrian Industries backed the deal, stating it includes a commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement and the fight against deforestation in the Amazon. Farming groups around Europe have been critical of the proposed arrangement, with concerns about increased access for South American agricultural produce, including poultry meat and beef. The Mercosur deal was announced in June after 20 years of negotiations. British farming unions warned

South Americans eye China ARGENTINIAN farmers have set their sights on China, with more meat plants authorised to export as China looks to switch protein sources in the wake of African swine fever. Eight more Argentinian beef plants have been approved for export to China following seven poultry establishments being granted approval. Argentina’s Agriculture and Livestock Minister Luis Miguel Etchevehere said they are working for a greater number of meat plants to be granted access very soon. China has also granted approval for the first seven soya bean milling plants to export after the market was opened to Argentinian exporters for the first time. Chinese demand has been the driver behind increased exports of Argentinian beef. Between January and August, almost 500,000 tonnes were exported, with 350,000t going to China. According to the Argentine Association of Producers and Exporters the need for China to increase its protein supply as a result of the pig losses has led to the entry of chilled and in-bone meat in 2019. Previously, only boneless frozen cuts could be exported. While domestic consumption

ACCESS: Eight more Argentinian beef plants have been approved for exports to China.

still makes up most Argentinian production, even cuts traditionally popular in Argentina, such as ribs, are being shipped to China. It is estimated Argentine exports of beef will reach 720,000t this year. Paraguay is also looking to China, with the Paraguayan Association of Meat Producers and Exporters (APPEC) appealing to the Government to find a way to open a commercial relationship without affecting

diplomatic issues with Taiwan. With local prices dropping, the Paraguayan industry is calling for exports to supplement demand. APPEC president Fernando Serrati said the external problem was Paraguay is not accessing the main global markets, especially China. “There is a diplomatic problem, which we understand, but they also have to understand we need to be in China.” UK Farmers Weekly

Cattle numbers at 70-year low CATTLE numbers in Scotland are at their lowest level since the 1950s because of the decline in the profitability of beef production, according to the latest government figures. The Scottish government has published the results from the June 2019 census, which shows that while dairy cow numbers remained virtually unchanged, beef cattle numbers have continued to decline, dropping by 2% or 27,600 head on 2018 levels. That means total cattle numbers for 2019 were 1.73 million, which is 950,000 fewer animals than

were found on farms in 1974 when cattle numbers were at their peak. The fall is being linked to reduced profitability in the beef sector with the industry under severe financial pressure from rising costs and poor market returns. However, the census shows lamb numbers recovered in 2019 following a difficult spring in 2018. In 2019 there were 3.25m lambs, an increase of 4% on the previous year, because of better weather during the lambing season. Lamb numbers were down in 2018 because of the effects of the

Beast from the East snowstorm, which led to higher levels of lamb mortality. Other notable findings from this year’s survey include a 1% rise to 67,100 in the number of people estimated to be working in agriculture. The census also shows a 4% rise in the area used to grow potatoes. Officials say the increase in area is most likely caused by strong market prices over the past year. However, despite the increase, the area of potatoes is below the 10-year average. UK Farmers Weekly

OVERLAP: Moves to block a European Union trade deal with South American countries have nothing to do with farming or trade but are spurred by environmental and workers’ rights concerns.

of the impact on an already struggling beef sector, highlighting the differences between

production methods in the United Kingdom and Brazil. UK Farmers Weekly

Beef demand poses risk to worlds producers THE world’s major beef producers are becoming increasingly reliant on the Chinese market, raising concerns over what might happen if China’s huge demand for protein declines. China is drawing in more protein to fill the void left by the drop in its pig production, which has been devastated by the continuing African swine fever outbreak. Rabobank estimates suggest a 25% drop in China’s pig sector productivity this year with a further 10-15% drop in production forecast for next year. The lack of availability, higher prices and a mistaken belief among China’s shoppers that pig meat is no longer safe to eat have driven demand for other proteins. Besides the impact of swine fever, Chinese beef demand was already rising. Between January and the end of June imports of red meat and poultry, including offals, increased by almost 550,000 tonnes to total 2.6m tonnes, according to official Chinese data. Of the alternatives beef recorded the largest increase in exports, of more than 240,000t to total just under 700,000t. A report by Britain’s Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board’s beef and lamb section suggests the increase in supply has been drawn from just a handful of global beef and lamb exporting countries – Australia, Argentina, Brazil, New Zealand and Uruguay. “Looking at the top five exporters of beef and lamb to China it is noticeable to see that a few countries are becoming increasingly reliant on the Chinese market,” board analyst Tom Forshaw said. “Large South American

countries such as Argentina and Uruguay continue to increase beef production.” For Argentina, 71% of total beef and sheep meat exports are now destined for China while Uruguay exports 62% into the country. Forshaw raised a concern that as beef production is relatively slow to expand and contract, any decrease in demand from China, if the swine fever crisis wanes, could quickly lead to increased supplies on the global market. “The global beef market could eventually experience some pressure on it, once the Chinese market recovers from swine fever and is back in line with normal production,” he warned. Brazil is also expanding production but it has a more diversified portfolio than the other two South American producers and is therefore potentially more resilient. It is almost the sole supplier of poultry meat to China, exporting about 250,000t in the first half of the year. Once that is taken into account Brazil is the largest supplier of red meat and poultry protein as a whole. For sheep meat, China gets almost all it needs from Australia and NZ. NZ increased its total sales of red meat to China by 40% in the first half of 2019 to 231,000t while Australia upped its exports by 48% to 207,000t. “The market is potentially a little more stable for sheep meat as the increases recorded are more in line with the historic trend,” Forshaw said. On top of that, there is generally a short supply situation in both Australia and NZ, which will continue to add price support. UK Farmers Weekly

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Awatuna 2174 Eltham Road

Prime 266ha dairy farm

Many titles give purchase options for this impressive farm. Purchase all titles or possibly titles to suite. The 60 bale rotary shed comes with a square yard, cup removers, Protac and in shed feed system. Beside the shed is a feed pad, on the other side of the road which is connected by an underpass is another feed pad. Races are in very good order as are the four homes and plentiful sheds. There are two storage ponds for effluent and a spray irrigation system to apply effluent over the pasture.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 1pm, Tue 12 Nov 2019 15 Courtenay Street, New Plymouth View by appointment John Blundell 027 240 2827 john.blundell@bayleys.co.nz

The Waimate West water scheme gives certainty of quality water for a quality farm. The opportunity to purchase such a large quality dairy farm in Taranaki is not common. This flat farm with excellent infrastructure and amenities awaits your inspection.

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Hamilton 28 Telephone Road

Top location - multiple titles

This 120ha (more or less) dairy unit, just a few kilometres off the new expressway, boasts 27 titles and an excellent set-up. The property is rectangular in shape with an all flat contour and consists of consolidated peat loam soils. Currently milking 360 cows on a 50/50 share milking regime with production over the last three seasons averaging in excess of 140,000ms. The well located 30ASHB is supported with plenty of calf rearing and implement storage shedding. An excellent race system runs away from the dairy with two main races feeding to all 80 paddocks. There is a four bedroom main home and three bedroom second home. Here is an opportunity to continue farming a very productive and easy to operate dairy unit or perhaps explore the option of utilising itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 27 titles. Whatever the future holds for this property, it shall be a great investment in so many ways.

Auction (unless sold prior) 11am, Thu 21 Nov 2019 96 Ulster Street, Hamilton View 12-1pm Wed 23 Oct Mike Fraser-Jones 027 475 9680 mike.fraserjones@bayleys.co.nz

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Taranaki 879 Otaraoa Road, Tikorangi

Well located 230ha dairy With eight titles in place the property has options to be sold as an entire unit or in parts to suit interested parties. Located only 8 kilometres from SH3 in the well regarded Tikorangi farming district the property runs both sides of Otaraoa Road with a connecting underpass. Improvements include a new four bedroom home built in 2018, second three bedroom home plus portable two bed cottage. The 36 a-side dairy shed with Protrack is supported by good quality outbuildings including a 10 bay implement / calf shed. In addition is the feed pad, silage bunkers and contour ranges from flat to rolling and medium hill with access via a good network of laneways. Calving approximately 500 cows and producing 205,000 kgMS last season the farm has increased production over the last three years. Close to town and well appointed the farm has numerous options with scale or as a smaller unit.

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Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 1pm, Fri 8 Nov 2019 15 Courtenay St, New Plymouth View 11am-12pm Thu 24 Oct Mark Monckton 021 724 833 mark.monckton@bayleystaranaki.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY TARANAKI LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Gisborne Maranga Station, 1877 Tiniroto Road

Superior breeding and finishing Years of investment and meticulous farm management, paired with exceptional natural attributes, provide the platform for one of the leading farms in the region. Recognised as one of the country's Top Maori Farmers, Maranga excels as an early breeding/finishing unit. Wintering circa 10,000 SU, finishing on the farms extensive portion of flats, this well-balanced 1,073 ha's is a convenient commute west of Gisborne. Boasting two strategically located woolsheds, excellent fencing, tracks and lanes, an extensive fertiliser history, and reticulated waters systems. Set on multiple titles surrounding roads provide widespread access throughout the farm. Nestled amongst exotic gardens is a refurbished six-bedroom homestead. Two other homes provide staff housing, with enviable recreational benefits. An award-winning combination of scale and location.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Wed 27 Nov 2019 10 Reads Quay, Gisborne Simon Bousfield 027 665 8778 simon.bousfield@bayleys.co.nz James Bolton-Riley 027 739 1011 james.bolton-riley@bayleys.co.nz

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Mahia Pahnui Station, 330 Mahanga Road

Substantial coastal dairy and fattening Rarely do expansive flat land parcels, capable of dry stock fattening or dairy come to market on the East Coast. This highly desirably contoured property is 590ha (320ha being flat land) and includes a water take consent. The two platforms (288ha in total) are complemented by additional flat cropping land and approx. 170ha of medium to steep hill country, an ideal run off, or a separate proposition for buyers. Previously milking up to 1,200 cows, but more recently reducing numbers to 800 via the automated 44 bail rotary cowshed. The dairy infrastructure, constructed in the early 1990s is centrally located surrounded by a range of sheds, and previous dry stock infrastructure. Fertility throughout the farm is excellent. Three sturdy homes provide good on-farm accommodation, near the shores of Mahanga beach and a handy 75km south of Gisborne.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 7 Nov 2019 10 Reads Quay, Gisborne Simon Bousfield 027 665 8778 simon.bousfield@bayleys.co.nz James Bolton-Riley 027 739 1011 james.bolton-riley@bayleys.co.nz

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Tutira Te Rangi Station, 748 Heays Access Road

Deer, hunting, farming and tourism options Te Rangi Station, a special 948ha property, one of the original deer farms providing a huge opportunity to build a business around tourism and farming. Includes over 200ha of native bush and kanuka which provides a fantastic habitat for the kiwi and other native bird life. This unique parcel of land is located only 50 minutes' drive from Hawke's Bay Airport. Scope for hunting, breeding and finishing deer, sheep and beef, with a fantastic fertiliser history, excellent summer rainfall and large areas of easy contour with options that include guided walking, hunting, horse or four wheel drive tours. Improvements include a colonial 1920s four bedroom homestead, 1960s three bedroom manager's residence, shearers quarters, four stand woolshed, sheep and cattle yards, truck shed/workshop and two deer complexes with all weather access. Call now to view.

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Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 4pm, Wed 20 Nov 2019 17 Napier Road, Havelock North View by appointment Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz Gavin Franklin 027 427 8000 gavin.franklin@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Hawke's Bay 3986 Puketitiri Road, Patoka

Patoka district provides return on investment Are you looking for summer safe farming on fantastic free draining fertile ash soils? Possibly the best dairy return on investment in New Zealand? Then look no further. Ben Alpin, a 351ha dairy farm, located in the premium Hawke's Bay farming district of Patoka. Boasting approximately 240ha of mainly flat and easy milking platform with a further 50ha of support land and a further 51ha of QEII bush for recreation, this well set up dairy unit must tick all the boxes. Improvements include two dwellings, single men's quarters, a 60 bail rotary shed with cup removers and in shed feeding, excellent housed calf rearing facilities for 350 calves, numerous implement sheds, as well as a convenient on farm quarry and large on farm dam. Ben Alpin is a must view for discerning local and out of town buyers who recognise quality when they see it, all at prices half that of some other dairy regions.

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Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 21 Nov 2019 17 Napier Road, Havelock North View 1-1.15pm Wed 23 Oct or by appointment Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Taihape 1397 Moawhango Valley Road

Te Maai - 491 hectare breeding and finishing farm

Superbly located in the sheltered Hiwera Valley only 18 kms East of Taihape, Te Maai features an attractive modern homestead with outstanding uninterrupted views including Mt Ruapehu and the Ruahine Ranges.

Auction (unless sold prior) 11am, Fri 29 Nov 2019 The Workingmans Club, 34 Kuku Street, Taihape View by appointment Peter Stratton 027 484 7078 peter.stratton@bayleys.co.nz

Te Maai offers fertile and free draining soils with a strong production history of sheep breeding and finishing complimented with finishing cattle and dairy grazing. Favoured with 54 cubes/day of pristine stock water from the Erewhon Rural Scheme, the contour is mainly rolling to medium hills with 150ha that has been cultivated. The modern five bedroom architecturally designed homestead built in 2004 commands extensive and uninterrupted views from an elevated site in a sheltered valley.

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Apiti 163 Makoura Road

"Ruaiti"- begin your journey

This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a 122 hectare (more or less) property to start your farm ownership journey. Currently milking 215 Friesian cows through a 24-aside herringbone shed on the 90 hectare platform, with the balance of the property acting as the support block. The infrastructure is excellent with in-shed feeding, Te Pari yards, and numerous sheds. Effluent disposal is via a trash pump from the fully consented twin pond system. Stock water is supplied from the large farm water reservoir and is pressure reticulated to troughs in each paddock. The elevated four-bedroom homestead is complemented by a second comfortable three-bedroom home. All this located on the edge of the friendly, community-minded Apiti Village. This property is genuinely for sale and our vendors will consider sale as a going concern. We look forward to your call.

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4pm, Thu 7 Nov 2019 49 Manchester Street, Feilding View by appointment Paul Hofmann 02108460446 paul.hofmann@bayleys.co.nz MID WEST REALTY LTD, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Takapau 636 Speedy Road

Bluechip CHB landholding

Katoa Farm sits in the hub of the Ruataniwha basin located only 15.5km from Waipukurau. The 174ha property with its alluvial soils, with potential horticultural options, is spread over two flat terraces. A history of high yielding cash crops with potatoes, onions, wheat, peas and squash along with a beef fattening operation wintering between 250-500 bulls (dependent on cropping program). Irrigation is via a centre pivot, with an 80ha consent and second bore for stock and house water. The well appointed four bedroom home which has been tastefully refurbished has commanding views over part of the farm. Numerous implement sheds, farm metal pit and cattle yards. Close proximity to Golf clubs, wineries and a range of Central Hawkes Bay services. This is a standout performer rarely seen on the CHB Market.

Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 4pm, Wed 13 Nov 2019 11 Bogle Brothers Esplanade, Waipukurau View by appointment Andy Hunter 027 449 5827 Andy Lee 027 354 8608 Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253

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Central Hawke's Bay 420 Middleton Road, Waipukurau

243ha and 88ha with water and massive potential

Edenbridge, a mostly easy contoured 332 hectare sheep and beef farm in two parcels, benefits from the desirable Farm Road Water Scheme. Located 10 kilometres south of Waipukurau, this property has huge potential to cultivate both the mainly flat easy 88 hectare title or the 243 hectare home block. Each block complements the other, with the flat land holding on better in a dry period.

Auction (will not be sold prior) 11am, Thu 7 Nov 2019 17 Napier Road, Havelock North View by appointment Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz Andy Hunter 027 449 5827 andy.hunter@bayleys.co.nz

Leased out for many years, currently ewes lamb early August, with cattle traded depending on the season. Improvements include a four bedroom home with attached self contained accommodation, three stand woolshed, sheep and cattle yards. Rarely does such a well located property with this contour and reticulated water come to the market. Out of town vendors want a sale. Call now to view.

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Central Hawke's Bay 1312 Ngahape Road, Flemington

464 hectares with fertility and contour

Located 20 minutes south of Waipukurau and only 3km from the highly regarded decile 10 Flemington School is this well developed 464ha breeding/finishing property which boasts large portions of easy contour and excellent soil fertility. The farm is well subdivided, has an excellent laneway system, reticulated water and a lot of the farm is still deer fenced. A feature of the property is the 290sqm, 2015 built, four plus bedroom homestead which is nicely sheltered and positioned to capture all day sun. Excellent shedding, inground pool and established gardens top off this large farmhouse. Other improvements include three stand woolshed and covered yards, Te Pari cattle yards and an unused deer shed. A must view for those wanting a well located easy contoured sheep and beef farm, topped off with a fantastic modern family home. Call now to view.

Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 14 Nov 2019 17 Napier Road, Havelock North View by appointment Tony Rasmussen 027 429 2253 tony.rasmussen@bayleys.co.nz Andy Hunter 027 449 5827 andy.hunter@bayleys.co.nz

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Dargaville 5780 State Highway 12

Huntly 4382 Highway 22

Poised for profit Located only 10km out of Dargaville, this 247 hectare dairy farm boasts amazing infrastructure, simplistic flows for cows, fertile productive flats and is proven to be cost effective on a low input system. Featuring an excellent modern 50 bale rotary dairy with Westfalia plant, automatic cup removers, fully automated drafting, plant wash system and teat spraying all combine to set this shed apart from others. The management and control of livestock is a particular key attribute, the yard and standoff pad have capacity for up to 700 cows. Shedding includes six bay calf shed with river rock system with workshop, four further implement sheds with large limestone based pads. The four dwellings offer good levels of accommodation.

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A rare find 394 hectares Auction (unless sold prior) 1pm, Wed 4 Dec 2019 84 Walton St, Whangarei View by appointment Catherine Stewart 027 356 5031 catherine.stewart@bayleys.co.nz Todd Skudder 027 439 1235 todd.skudder@bayleys.co.nz MACKYS REAL ESTATE LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Winston Farm is a well developed 394ha sheep and beef unit with three titles, versatile soil and medium contour. The property is surrounded by dairy farms and with multiple soil types it is very adaptable. Comprising a good proportion of quality finishing country with easy contour, with the balance and steeper sidings well-suited to the current operation. Infrastructure includes a three bay implement shed, two haybarns, three stand woolshed, Te Pari cattle yards, and a tidy homestead positioned on an elevated site. If you are looking to capitalise on the positivity and profitability of the sheep and beef industry, diversify into forestry, or harness the possibilities as a large run off, this outstanding farm provides many options and is well worth your inspection.

Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 14 Nov 2019 View 10.30-11.30am Wed 23 Oct & Wed 30 Oct or by appointment Peter Kelly 027 432 4278 peter.kelly@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Kuratau 631 Karangahape Road Picturesque country lifestyle in Kuratau Set amongst 19.74 hectares (more or less) of lifestyle pastures, is this beautiful, modern home built on one level, 235sqm (more or less). For those extra guests there is an independent sleep out with W/C. Fully fenced section with a 'ha ha' giving uninterrupted views of your property and stock, a large farm workshop with concrete floor for all the implements. The TAND is 23kg/N/ha. This is a picturesque block and a stunning part of the Central Plateau.

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Central Hawke's Bay Rangeview, 55 Byrne Road, Takapau 5

Set Sale Date (unless sold prior) 2pm, Thu 14 Nov 2019 44 Roberts Street, Taupo View by appointment Stan Sickler 021 275 7826 stan.sickler@bayleys.co.nz Maurice Heappey 027 277 1674 maurice.heappey@bayleys.co.nz WESTERMAN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 WESTERMAN COZENS REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Finishing, grazing, cropping options Rangeview is a premium and versatile 221 hectare property, the majority is of flat contour with a portion of easy to rolling. Infrastructure includes a woolshed, numerous other shedding, a high standard of fencing and excellent water that is sourced from two bores and reticulated to all paddocks. The spacious family home is nestled amongst lovely landscaped gardens on an elevated terrace. Centrally located, 20km west of Waipukurau and only 5km from Takapau which has schooling, health centre and multiple sports clubs. Retiring vendors have said to sell and are ready for new owners to take to the next level. With the perfect combination of excellent water, prime location, outstanding contour and versatility, this is an opportunity not to be missed.

Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 1pm, Fri 8 Nov 2019 Railway Station Building, 11 Bogle Brothers Esplanade, Waipukurau View by appointment Kathy Young 027 318 3806 kathy.young@bayleys.co.nz Andy Hunter 027 449 5827 andy.hunter@bayleys.co.nz EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

bayleys.co.nz/2870667

NEW LISTING

Matamata

373 Tower Road Auction (unless sold prior) 11am, Thu 21 Nov 2019 96 Ulster Street, Hamilton View 11am-12pm Fri 25 Oct, Fri 1 Nov & Fri 8 Nov Sam Troughton 027 480 0836 sam.troughton@bayleys.co.nz SUCCESS REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Aratiatia Farm • Located minutes from Matamata on highly sought-after Tower Road • 134Ha (more or less) over three titles. • Milking approximately 470 cows with a three year average 173,300kgMS supply ODC. • Contour is predominately level with free draining sandy soils. • Quality infrastructure with a 40-bale rotary and five dwellings. A first class farming investment, don't miss this rare opportunity.

bayleys.co.nz/2400117

Ross

1253 Harihari Highway 4

Canterbury 670 The Peaks Road, Hawarden

bayleys.co.nz/5510728

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Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 1pm, Thu 7 Nov 2019 View by appointment Austen Russell 027 441 7055 austen.russell@bayleys.co.nz

A very modern dairy 'The Peaks' is a very-well-developed 173.8ha dairy conversion, located in a favourable dairying area. Developed to a very high standard, it has low-cost water, scheme-managed nutrients and modern infrastructure. Production has been steadily increasing and in the 2018/19 season produced 264,444kgMS from 560 cows off 160ha effective. This year’s budget is to milk around 580 cows at peak production. The property is well-watered via three interlinked wells by pivot irrigators. There is a modern, automated 54-bail rotary dairy, large implement sheds, a calf shed and three modern homes. The main homestead and is set on a terrace above the Hurunui River, providing stunning views. A very well-set-up property - phone us now for an appointment to view.

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Historic Fergusons Bush Homestead

For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty (unless sold prior)

After 150 years in the Ferguson family, the historic Fergusons Bush Homestead, 297 hectare farm property, combined with the family's 68 hectare Mikonui support property are being offered for sale. These properties present an opportunity to continue with the current, beef breeding and finishing or are well enough developed to suit a dairy support operation.

4pm, Thu 7 Nov 2019 3 Deans Ave, Chch Peter Foley 021 754 737 peter.foley@bayleys.co.nz Ben Turner 027 530 1400 ben.turner@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Mikonui Block

bayleys.co.nz/5510820

Real Estate

FARMERS WEEKLY – October 21, 2019

NEW LISTING

Summerhill 345 Ashley Road Retiring vendors - now's your chance “Bucklands” is a well located farm of 164.1656 hectares in four titles plus excellent road frontage. Flat contour, well tracked, plentiful subdivision including deer fencing, reticulated water supply, and older support buildings. Irrigated from WIL scheme and its own water source. Currently leased, running mainly dairy support stock. The four bedroom homestead with Historic Places Trust status, set in a delightful woodland setting, has consent to be subdivided off. With service towns handy and a short drive to Christchurch and the airport, there are numerous possibilities here with the vendors open to all options.

bayleys.co.nz/5511007

For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty (unless sold prior)

1pm, Wed 20 Nov 2019 Dean Pugh 027 335 6303 dean.pugh@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Maurice Newell 027 240 1718 maurice.newell@farmlands.co.nz FARMLANDS REAL ESTATE LTD, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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RURAL rural@pb.co.nz 0800 FOR LAND

Property Brokers Limited Licensed under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008

Top Grass Farm - 238 ha

TENDER WEB ID PR68345

DANNEVIRKE 221 Tamaki River Road One of a kind, this excellent dairy unit is extremely well located just minutes south of Dannevirke township and centrally located to the Manawatu and Hawkes Bay. A development programme over the last five seasons has resulted in impressive production from this self-contained dairy operation with a 3 year average of 216,000 kgMS milking 500 cows. A 2016 built 60 bail rotary cowshed is centrally located to the operation and features auto drafting and weighing, milk metering, ACRs and in-shed feed system.

Four homes provide ample accommodation on the property with the main homestead an impressive five bedroom 240 m2 two storey family home. Dairy units of this calibre in an affordable location which are fully compliant are unique in the current market.

TENDER

VIEW By Appointment TENDER closes Thursday 7th November, 2019 at 2.00pm, to be submitted to Property Brokers, 129 Main Street, Pahiatua

Jared Brock

Mobile 027 449 5496 Office 06 376 4823

John Arends

Mobile 027 444 7380 Office 06 376 4364

Jim Crispin

Mobile 027 717 8862 Office 06 374 8102

The cream of the crop

DEADLINE SALE WEB ID FR70501

OPIKI 753 Poplar Road Located in the renowned farming area of Opiki, some 15 minutes south of Palmerston North, this 175 ha dairy farm is situated on some of the finest soils, being a mixture of silt loams and Opiki peat. Currently milking +/- 520 cows and producing 1,350 kgMS/ha on a system II basis, the property offers a scale and quality which are seldom found together. Improvements include a 50 bail rotary cowshed and an excellent range of support buildings to ensure every need is met, season round.

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Dwellings include a four-bedroom manager's house and a three-bedroom cottage, both of which are very tidy, featuring modern refurbishments. An executive, four-bedroom family home, is available for purchase in addition to the main farm if desired. High fertility levels, well maintained races and an ample supply of quality bore water complete this exceptional farm which reflects the pride our Vendor has taken in developing this property to what is today.

DEADLINE SALE

VIEW By Appointment DEADLINE SALE closes Wednesday 13th November, 2019 at 11.00am, (unless sold prior), Property Brokers Ltd, 54 Kimbolton Road, Feilding.

Blair Cottrill

Mobile 027 354 5419 Office 06 323 1538 blair@pb.co.nz

Stuart Sutherland

Mobile 027 452 1155 Office 06 323 5544 Home 06 323 7193 stuarts@pb.co.nz

RURAL rural@pb.co.nz 0800 FOR LAND

Property Brokers Limited Licensed under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008

"Waimouri"

OPEN DAY WEB ID FR70989

FEILDING 749 Kimbolton Road "Waimouri" presents a rare opportunity to purchase a quality property on the highly sought-after Feilding town boundary. Divided into four titles, this 51.3570 hectare property is available for purchase in varying sizes, each with separate road access in place. Featuring quality free-draining soil types, two reliable water sources, excellent access and good drainage, this property could lend itself to a variety of uses.

Completing the package is a generous homestead with five bedrooms, set in attractive, established grounds with an orchard, as well as a range of versatile farm buildings, including a 2 stand woolshed with yards, two sets of cattle yards, 6 bay covered cattle wintering barn, 2 bay hayshed plus additional outbuildings. This is a property which will appeal to many, so do not miss your opportunity to view.

TENDER

VIEW Sunday 3 Nov 11.00 - 11.30am TENDER closes Thursday 28th November, 2019 at 11.00am, Property Brokers Ltd, 54 Kimbolton Road, Feilding

Stuart Sutherland

Mobile 027 452 1155 Office 06 323 5544 Home 06 323 7193 stuarts@pb.co.nz

Blair Cottrill

Mobile 027 354 5419 Office 06 323 1538 blair@pb.co.nz

Graze it, maize it, milk it

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Another cracker!

OPEN DAY

WEB ID TER71033 OTOROHANGA 1034 Rangiatea Road VIEW 25 Oct & 1 & 8 Nov 11.00 - 12.00pm • 44 ha located approximately 13 km east of Otorohanga and 25 km south of Te Awamutu • Mairoa Ash soils with the contour being mainly flat to easy rolling makes a large percentage of the farm suitable for mowing or cropping Hugh Williams • Subdivided into 35 paddocks with a reticulated bore Mobile 021 878782 water supply Office 07 8788266 • Structural improvements include a 14 ASHB shed, 2 hugh@pb.co.nz bay barn and a 1 bedroom workers cottage • While currently run as a dairy unit, location and contour on offer here make this a desirable proposition Doug Wakelin for a variety of uses Mobile 027 321 1343

TENDER

$1,850,000 + GST (IF ANY)

dougw@pb.co.nz

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WEB ID TOR70312 WHAKAMARU 1790 State Highway 32 View By Appointment This is one of two modern commercial scale dairy farms TENDER closes Thursday 7th November, 2019 at 4.00pm, in South Waikato district. Mangakino is a 503.5 ha dairy (unless sold prior), 37 Swanston Street, Tokoroa property. Also available is Twin Lakes - 482.8 ha. These properties are separated by State Highway 32, each having access to the waters of a picturesque hydro lake. Paul O'Sullivan Each farm has been developed to the highest standard, Mobile 027 496 4417 improvements are second to none. Information Office 07 280 8502 Memorandum available upon request. Astute investors paulo@pb.co.nz will recognise the opportunity presented here to capitalise on prevailing market conditions. Each farm has a 60 bail Rotary dairy shed. Doug Wakelin

TENDER

Mobile 027 321 1343 dougw@pb.co.nz

RURAL rural@pb.co.nz 0800 FOR LAND

Property Brokers Limited Licensed under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008

Taree Farm - 220 ha

Ruchama

TENDER

WEB ID PR69084 MANGAMAIRE 431 Mangamaire Road Located 10 km south of Pahiatua and only 30 minutes from Palmerston North, this self contained dairy operation will appeal. Consists of 120 ha flat platform, 18 ha flat support and a 81 ha support property located nearby. Available as one unit or separate properties. Key infrastructure includes a centrally located 25 ASHB, 2 family homes and numerous outbuildings of a high standard. Ongoing regrassing and consistent fertiliser applications on well sought after Manawatu & Kopua silt loams has resulted in an excellent production history of 138,000 kgMS (3yr avg).

DEADLINE SALE

WEB ID TMR61187 WAIMATE 129 Shearers Hill Road View By Appointment A very well laid out farm on 181.9770 ha with excellent DEADLINE SALE closes Friday 22nd November, 2019 at 2.00pm, (unless sold prior) access from all-weather lane ways. The property would suit all types of farming categories from sheep and beef, to dairying, to cropping on approximately 40% of the property. We have motivated vendors and this is an opportunity to purchase a farm that is in a very good rural and social district. With a comfortable four bedroom plus office home, good sheds, 25 ha under pivot and 64 ha under K-line. Very good pasture 4 Michael Richardson renewal under the irrigation.

TENDER View By Appointment TENDER closes Friday 15th November, 2019 at 2.00pm, to be submitted to Property Brokers, 129 Main Street Pahiatua

Jared Brock

Mobile 027 449 5496 Office 06 376 4823 Home 06 376 6341 jared@pb.co.nz

John Arends

Mobile 027 444 7380 Office 06 376 4364 johna@pb.co.nz

Grandview

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

To convert or not!

DEADLINE SALE

WEB ID TMR71070 WAIMATE 1590 Pikes Point Road View By Appointment 235 hectares of a well laid out farm in a prime location, DEADLINE SALE closes Friday 22nd November, 2019 at 4.00pm, (unless sold prior) with 170 hectares of irrigation from the MGI Irrigation Company. This property will support all farming but in recent years have been part of a neighbouring dairy platform milking approximately 600 cows. Currently used for dairy support and beef finishing, with kale and green feed planted over approximately 50 hectares. The farm is very well subdivided with all-weather lane-ways connecting to most paddocks, a large 4-bedroom warm 4 Michael Richardson home with modern kitchen and separate lounge set in Mobile 027 228 7027 mature gardens. Office 03 687 7145

DEADLINE SALE

Home 027 228 7027 michael@pb.co.nz

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DEADLINE SALE

WEB ID TMR70738 WAIMATE 168 Briggs Road View By Appointment DEADLINE SALE closes Friday 22nd November, 2019 at This would have to be one of the tidier properties 2.00pm, (unless sold prior) around on the market, 235 hectares with 130 hectares under K-line irrigation, the farm has been designed for a dairy conversion, so has been fenced and laned to a standard that works best for milking time and efficiencies. Currently used for dairy support and beef finishing. The farm has been all re grassed over the past 5 few years with riparian plantings along the water ways to help with environmental constraints. Options to 1 Michael Richardson purchase two neighbouring properties of 235 ha Mobile 027 228 7027 TMR71070 and 181 ha TMR61187. Office 03 687 7145

DEADLINE SALE

Home 027 228 7027 michael@pb.co.nz

Real Estate

FARMERS WEEKLY – October 21, 2019

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RONGOTUI DAIRY FARM

RURAL Office 0800 FOR LAND

Property Brokers Limited Licensed REAA 2008

A2 dairy - Leading with pride

DEADLINE SALE This very attractive productive dairy unit offers a consistent 112,903kg milksolids from the 117 hectare farm, supported by 57ha runoff.

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An investment in the waiting, consider many of the purchase options available. Deadline sale by 21/11/2019.

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DEADLINE SALE

Craig Boyden M: 027 443 2738 O: 06 374 4105 E: @craigb@forfarms.co.nz

Viewing by appointment www.forfarms.co.nz - FF2902 www.forfarms.co.nz

Property ID FF1299

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WEB ID DFR70473 HORORATA 1106 Ardlui Road View By Appointment DEADLINE SALE closes Thursday 21st November, 2019 at 215 ha dairy farm located in the favoured Central 4.00pm, (unless sold prior) Canterbury. Milking 700 cows off 184 ha milking platform (balance of land used for wintering) through a modern 40 ASHB shed with ACR’s, auto teat sprayer Gareth Cox and meal feeding system. Excellent irrigation from Mobile 021 250 9714 groundwater and Central Plains Water scheme, applied gareth@pb.co.nz via centre pivot irrigators. Full complement of housing including a 3 bedroom homestead plus two staff Matt Collier houses. Location, hybrid irrigation, environmental Mobile 027 205 6626 compliance and A2 milk supply are key features of this mattc@pb.co.nz business that set it apart from the rest.

A pleasant setting with native bush, quality soil types, a complete range of improvements including a 4 bedroom renovated homestead, 3 bedroom Share-milkers home, 24 aside HB cowshed and support buildings.

For Sale by Deadline Sale

Desirable Dairy Support A quality dairy support / cropping property featuring a high percentage of arable land, situated centrally within the very good Otorohanga, Maihiihi and Ngahape districts, 11 kms north-east of Otorohanga and approx 25 kms south of Te Awamutu  794 Mangaorongo Road, Otorohanga  65.7 hectares - 2 titles, extensive road frontage  attractive easy rolling contour with smaller areas

of sidling country

 free draining ash soil, consistently fertilised  well subdivided with barberry hedging & electric

type fencing  currently utilised for producing grass baleage and

maize silage  versatile land with potential to be a first class

beef finishing unit  facilities / amenities include a good range of farm

shedding, disused cowsheds x 2, galvanised steel cattleyards with head bail and load-out race, good water supply

Auction: Wed, 20 November 2019

Open day: Thurs, 24 Oct - 10.00am to 11.30am

Auction: Wed, 20 November 2019

Open day: Wed, 23 Oct - 11.00am to 1.00pm

venue -

Te Awamutu Sports Club

 a nicely maintained brick homestead set on an

elevated site with outstanding panoramic, northfacing views, 4 brms with ensuite off master, office, good living areas & attached double garage  web ref R1306 On Farm biosecurity protocols will apply vehicles and footwear to be clean prior to arrival

Dave Peacocke 0274 732 382

Brian Peacocke 021 373 113

Birchview Farm An excellent central Waikato dairy unit, particularly well farmed and achieving first class results, unique in size and location, situated between the top quality Roto-o-Rangi and Puahue districts, approx 11 kms from Te Awamutu and16 kms from Cambridge  1167 Roto-o-Rangi Road, R D 3, Cambridge farm dairy accessed from Cowan Road off Parklands Road, Puahue  211.1 hectares  predominantly flat with a nice area of easy rolling country  v. attractive with a scattering of mature specimen trees  good strong soils being a mix of silt and volcanic loams  very well subdivided and raced, supported by a very good water reticulation system  strong pastures reflecting regular cropping, regrassing and consistently strong fertiliser applications  620 cows calved, best production 312,650kgs ms under a System 4 feed regime - 140 calves reared annually  50 bail rotary farm dairy, auto cup removers, in-shed feeding system, large area of concrete with independent undercover AB/vet race  extensive and compliant effluent system

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 full range of farm shedding and calf rearing facilities  4 dwellings including a quality 4 brm brick homestead in an attractive setting plus 3 well maintained homes  extremely well located for quality primary and secondary schooling  a unique opportunity to acquire a special property in an especially good location  web ref R1305 On Farm biosecurity protocols will apply vehicles and footwear to be clean prior to arrival

Dave Peacocke 0274 732 382 Licensed REAA 2008

Brian Peacocke 021 373 113

phone

07 870 2112

office@pastoralrealty.co.nz

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Real Estate

FARMERS WEEKLY – October 21, 2019

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SOUTHERN WIDE REAL ESTATE

VENDORS WANT THIS SOLD

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OFFERS OVER $750,000 + GST (IF ANY) – CONICAL HILL, WEST OTAGO

Web Ref SWG1906

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Lifestyle block Well set up lifestyle block with fenced lanes to all paddocks leading to and from the sheds Water troughs to all except one paddock Very tidy and well maintained

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Duck pond and maimai Recreational hunting with deer and pigs close by in the Blue Mountains

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Outstanding home kill facilities Small one stand older woolshed and basic cattle yards 39a Medway Street, Gore 9710 p 03 208 9283 f 03 208 9284 e gore@swre.co.nz w www.southernwide.co.nz

MARK WILSON m 027 491 7078 e mark.wilson@swre.co.nz

SOUTHERN WIDE REAL ESTATE

SRM Realty Ltd, Licensed under the REAA 2008, 225 Thames Street, Oamaru p 03 434 7422 f 03 434 8626 e oamaru@southernwide.co.nz

95 MCARTHUR ROAD, KIA ORA, WAITAKI

NEW LISTING

DAIRY FARM FOR LEASE - ROUND HILL DAIRY, KIA ORA, OAMARU

170Ha

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

• 170 Ha dairy platform • 4 bedroom family home • 40 aside herringbone dairy shed with grain feeding system • Fully irrigated from North Otago Irrigation Scheme by Pivots and K-Line. • Oceania supplier • 5 year lease (3+2) • 450 cows. Leasee will need to own cows or purchase herd on the property. Opportunity for diligent and industrious parties that are passionate about the dairy industry to consider this option to progress their goals and vision for the future. The owners are looking to focus on their other farming business and are offering their property for lease to interested parties that would treat this property as their own and maintain the property in at least the standard that applies at the commencement of the lease. Expressions of interest are invited, and viewings of the property will be arranged with the lease arrangement to be in place by 02/12/2019.

WEB REF SWOR11103

OPEN DAY THURSDAY

BARRY MEIKLE 027 436 5131

TENDER

DRYSTOCK FARMING AT ITS BEST!

1630 Mangaehu Road, Makahu

Tower Road Dairy Farm 1212 Tower Road, Matamata A chance to get onto your new dairy farm for the 2020 season in a very sought after area. With it being mainly flat on Waihou sandy

loam soils and a central race this farm has

got the basis for good production. Two homes & well subdivided. The cowshed is a 36 ASHB

with an in-shed feeding system. 116 ha approx.

(STS) producing 1212kg/ms/ha (av. last 3 years). Call Jack for more information.

For Sale Deadline Sale - Closes 2pm 21st Nov 2019 (unless sold prior) ___________________________________ View Tues 22nd & 29th October 11am - 12pm matamata.ljhooker.co.nz/ G5SHR1 Jack Van Lierop 027 445 5099

This quality 417.55 Ha (1031 acre) drystock farm is located in very strong and consistent sheep and cattle country. Along with strong infrastructure the farm offers a balance of flat harvestable land as well as ample easy hill country with the balance being medium hill. The farm has over the years consistently grazed 3800 stock units. It is well appointed with two woolsheds, a cowshed, multiple sheep and cattle yards and in close proximity to Makahu Primary School. This property has been faithfully farmed by the same family for around 40 years and has seen annual fertiliser applications. Properties of this calibre in the central area are rare and do not become available often, all serious purchasers must view! Open Day:

Thursday 17 October 12:30pm - Meet at the woolshed and bring your motorbike.

Tender Closes:

4pm, Tuesday 5 November 2019 at McDonald Real Estate Ltd, Stratford.

Contact:

Brent Dodunski - 027 498 4346 Blair Burnett - 021 190 7728 Peter McDonald - 027 443 4506

Viewing:

eieio.co.nz # STR01889

Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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MAUNGAROA "LONG RIDGE" 862 State Highway 4, Manunui, Taumarunui

279 hectares Tender

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Held in the Tylee family for the past 66 years it is with great pleasure to offer this attractive 279 hectare farm for sale. The location of this property to amenities is a Tender Closes 11am, Thu 28 Nov 2019, huge benefit in this day and age, all within 8 km to town. NZR, 1 Goldfinch St, Ohakune. The entirely effective land area is of a favourable easy to medium hill contour with the majority laying well to a warm northerly aspect. Infrastructure includes a Jamie Proude | Alan Blackburn quality three bedroom home with an in-ground swimming pool, easily accessed off SHWY 4 along with a four stand wool shed and cattle yard located at the front 027 448 5162 | 027 203 9112 jamie@nzr.nz | alan@nzr.nz of the property, all in tip top condition. NZR Central Limited | Licensed REAA 2008 Currently carrying 2500 su on very reliable soils consisting of Waitataura and Ongawhao sandy loams. All livestock finished to good weights with the scope to introduce more trading stock into the farming system.

IMMACULATE PRESENTATION, TOP SOILS 147 Puawai Road, Glen Oroua Part of the Morison Estate, this property, along with their bounding 74.5ha (sts) farm that is also for sale, combines quality soils with 78 years of careful guardianship. Predominantly Kairanga loams, a 100,000kgMS+ average has been achieved on a simple system, however soils of this quality have so many options. With a freshly painted home, recent capital expenditure in the 28AS dairy, along with well maintained farm improvements, the new owner of this property (and/or both farms), can be confident they are buying well maintained assets.

113.4 hectares (sts) Video on website

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Tender Closes 11am, Thu 14 Nov 2019, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding. Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | peter@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

VERSATILE SOILS, QUALITY FARM 107 Puawai Road, Glen Oroua With 30+ years of careful stewardship by the current sharemilkers and the Morison Estate, pride in presentation is clearly evident on this 200 cow dairy unit. With options to buy this property and/or the bounding 113ha (sts) dairy property concurrently for sale by the same vendors. Comprised of Kairanga loams, close to 83,000kgMS has been averaged on a simple system; equally this could be an outstanding finishing, support or maize block. Very tidy farm improvements, with a well maintained home with modern kitchen and bathroom, set in an immaculate garden.

74.52 hectares (sts) Video on website

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Tender Closes 11am, Thu 14 Nov 2019, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding. Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | peter@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

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"SUDBURY" - HIGHLY ATTRACTIVE & HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE 442 Porewa Road, Marton, Rangitikei

240.40 hectares Video on website

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VERSATILE SOILS, IRRIGATION & LEASE 1637 Parewanui Road, Bulls, Rangitikei Located 16km west of Bulls, "Scotts Ferry" combines quality Manawatu, Rangitikei and Parewanui silt and sandy loams with centre pivot irrigation, with an additional 65ha of regional council lease, alongside the boundary. Operated as two separate dairy units, milking a total of 860 cows for an average of 335,000kgMS, via 32 and 36 ASHB sheds; however with six titles the potential exists for this property to be split back into the two properties it once was or to run a mixed farming model. Five centre pivot irrigators, plus some K-Line cover approx. 220 ha and provide flexibility of application.

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Tender Closes 11am, Thu 28 Nov 2019, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding. Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | peter@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

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Situated on the Rangitikei river terraces, Sudbury is one of the most visually appealing dairy farms we have in the region. The Ashhurst stony sandy loam and Tokorangi fine sandy loam soils are not typical of the wider district and sit in a quoted unique micro-climate that has seen two boutique vineyards establish close-by; overlay this with approximately 130 hectares of irrigation delivered via two centre pivots and some K-line and you have the ingredients of a highly productive unit. Currently milking just over 600 cows via the 50 bail rotary shed with average production of just over 290,000kgMS; an added bonus, to provide versatility in your productive system, (and un-used by the current owners), is a covered feed-pad for up to 1,000 cows with concrete silage bunkers. With three homes, including the main on an elevated spot, nestled on the edge of the 3ha bush block, the primary bus to Hunterville primary is just down the road. With the immediate district a mix of cropping, livestock finishing and dairy farming, put this property on your list if a bit of x factor aesthetics is important within a productive farming operation.

246ha + 65ha lease Video on website

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Tender Closes 11am, Thu 28 Nov 2019, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding. Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | peter@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

KILLYMOON - PRODUCTION RELIABILITY 287 State Highway 1, Bulls, Rangitikei Located just to the north of Bulls, reliability of production is a strength here, with close to 60% irrigation coverage from two centre pivots and K-line. The Ohakea silt loam and Crofton silt loam soils present are cropped on (incl. maize), dairied on and used for intensive livestock finishing in the immediate district, so you have options for land-use. Just over 500 cows produce 210,000kgMS on average, via a 40ASHB dairy, with a wintering barn (not currently used by owners) providing self-contained potential. With a large homestead and two cottages, Bulls offers two primary schools and buses to various high schools.

181.80 hectares Video on website

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LANGDALE STATION - APPEALING CONTOUR & SOILS - 556HA Langdale Road, Whareama, Masterton

nzr.nz/RX2027974 Blair Stevens 027 527 7007 | blair@nzr.nz Dave Hutchison 027 286 9034 | dave@nzr.nz NZR Real Estate Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

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Historic Langdale Station is a visually appealing and very well-balanced sheep and beef breeding and finishing unit located 30 minutes east of Masterton. A key feature of Langdale are the 80ha of alluvial based silt flats which are complemented by 30ha of terraced valley flats running up to another 220ha of easy to medium front hill country. The balance of around 163ha of medium to steeper hills to the rear total the 493ha effective grazing land, with a further 63ha of pine trees, scrub & bush. There are around 20 paddocks on the flats and 46 paddocks on the terraces and hills with fences predominantly conventional. LangdaleÂ´s excellent mix of land class and soils offers the opportunity to intensify the production utilising multiple land use options including; breeding & finishing, dairy support/supplement and cropping. The farm is supported by a tidy two-bedroom cottage, four stand woolshed and covered sheep yards, cattle yards and various other hay and implement sheds. Good scale, great contour mix and versatility are the hallmarks of Langdale. Langdale will attract those seeking a high quality and well scaled block with genuine land use options close to Masterton, in a very well-established farming community. Interest will be high- call today for a property report! Tender Closes 4pm, Wed 20 Nov 2019; Address for Tender; NZR Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810

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NGAPUHI - ATTRACTIVE HILL COUNTRY AND FINISHING 851 Clifton Grove Road, Gladstone, Carterton Ngapuhi is a picturesque, nicely balanced and well established sheep and beef breeding and finishing unit , located close to the vibrant rural hub of Gladstone and only a 35min drive from Masterton. Ngapuhi has been in the vendors family for several generations, each undertaking extensive planting of gully and hill country faces in a wide selection of trees. Several mature stands of native bush, including some significant Totara trees bring added character and beauty to Ngapuhi. There are around 340ha effective with some 50ha of alluvial & terrace flats used for green feed crops to support lamb & bull finishing, the balance being medium hill with steeper faces towards the back of the main breeding block. With 3 titles purchase options exist of 150ha & 227ha. There is a well sited and modernised homestead with 4 bedrooms, rumpus room and attached studio. Farm buildings consist of a main 3 stand woolshed, second 3 stand woolshed alongside cattle yards, three satellite sheep yards with well-located storage and implement shedding supporting the farming operations. Set in a well-established farming area and with good balance of contour, enabling breeding and finishing options, Ngapuhi has been faithfully farmed and developed over many years- an opportunity not to be missed! Tender Closes 4pm, Thu 21 Nov 2019; Address for Tender; NZR Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810

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WAIERUA - COASTAL BREEDING STATION- 573HA 631 Otahome Road, Whareama, Masterton Boasting a unique coastal location, in an established farming district and with some further productivity gains possible, welcome to Waierua! Located between Castlepoint and Riversdale beach Waierua is a 30-min drive from Masterton and features access to a stretch of Pacific coastline loaded with Paua and Crayfish and excellent fishing. There are numerous building sites that have stunning views over Castle Rock and the Pacific Ocean. The farming operation is a traditional sheep and beef summer dry breeding unit currently carrying approximately 2,200 ewes and hoggets, with 150 cows and heifers. There are around 470 ha of effective grazing land, mainly medium hill, with 42 ha of pine plantations. There is a four-bedroom plus office and sunroom dwelling, four-stand woolshed and other support buildings. The farm is set up to be run by one labour unit with good quad bike tracks and Otahome Rd enhancing access through the eastern side of the farm. The proximity to Masterton means there are off farm employment and top secondary schooling options. The local rural community supported primary school of Whareama is just a few kms away. This is a great opportunity to invest in a proven breeding unit situated in a special location......an opportunity not to be missed! Tender Closes 4pm, Thu 31 Oct 2019; Address for Tender; NZR Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810

ENVIABLE BALANCE, GREAT INFRASTRUCTURE & POTENTIAL - 775HA Te Rau, 10284 Route 52, Pongaroa, Tararua Te Rau is an extremely well balanced sheep and beef breeding and finishing unit located a few minutes from Pongaroa. Over one third of the 730ha effective area is cultivable offering the ability to finish all stock and to trade. The balance contour is a mix of medium front hill country and medium to some steeper back hills. Te Rau has quality infrastructure with two tidy homes, a substantial modern woolshed and covered sheep yards complex, along with cattle yards and satellite yards. Water supply is provided from the well proven Pongaroa water scheme to troughs in every paddock. Access is excellent, with road boundaries on three sides of the main farming block and several well sited tracks and lanes. Around 85ha of the 285ha flat to easy land has been extensively drained, and a capital fertiliser program over the last five years is starting to pay dividends. There are seven titles allowing purchase options. Te Rau is a high quality and well scaled breeding and finishing block with rural services and community facilities all close at hand. The hard work has been done - Te Rau is now set to provide a new owner with plenty of options to take it to the next level - an opportunity not to be missed!! A detailed property report is available. Viewing by Appointment. Tender Closes 4pm, Thu 7 Nov 2019; Address for Tender; NZR Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810

573 hectares Video on website

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Total area 284 hectares, second generation dairy farm with many opportunities. You could not ask for a better location. It has a right to an 8 lot rural subdivision, subject to council approval. The property has a huge seam of blue and brown rock. Currently consented for farm use. Its close proximity to Auckland would make it ideal for developers needing to find a home for land fill. Currently milking 320 cows targeting this season 140,000kg MS, all wintered on including young stock, 30 aside herringbone shed with Westfalia milking plant, in shed feed system, 360 cow yard - a modern 4 bay calf shed, 5 bay implement shed and a 4 bay enclosed storage shed. Water supply comes via a bore, fed throughout the farm through 40mm pvc lines with storage tanks. Contour flat to rolling with some steeper sidlings. Supported by a good central race system leading to 58 paddocks. In summer the farm grows 23 hectares of maize silage, and in winter 20 hectares oats. Suppliers for Open Country Dairy. Current sharemilker in place. A total of three homes, modern five bedroom family home, the original homestead and a managers home. A perfect opportunity for an investor seeking an alternative income. Approximately 25 minutes to Pukekohe, 55 minutes to Auckland and only 15 minutes to the ever expanding Pokeno. Call the Colliers team today for a full IM. View by appointment only.

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HONIKIWI FOREST WAIKATO 1753 HONIKIWI ROAD, OTOROHONGA

VIADUCT OLIVE GROVE 3962 STATE HIGHWAY 2, HAWKE’S BAY

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SECOND ROTATION FOREST WITH ALL HARD WORK COMPLETE The Honikiwi Forest is an attractive landholding containing a mixture of younger Pinus Radiata crop, various other exotic species, significant areas of established bush, streams, cost effective cart distance to markets and surplus grazing land - An ideal standalone forestry investment with all the hardwork complete. Contact CBRE today for a detailed information memorandum and for access into the online data room.

VERSATILE HORTICULTURE LAND WITH CONSENTED WATER

+ Total Freehold Land Area of 394.46ha (more or less) + Total Stocked Area of 228.9ha (more or less) + P.Rad established between 2011- 2015 + Harvest infrastructure in place + Suit ground-based and hauler harvesting methods DEADLINE OFFERS Thursday 21 November 2019 at 4.00pm* WYATT JOHNSTON 027 815 1303

*Unless sold prior www.cbre.co.nz/178662Q49

JEREMY KEATING 021 461 210

CBRE Agribusiness offers for New Zealand’s second largest olive grove to the marketplace.

+ Total land area of 91.15ha (more or less)

Planted in six varieties across 62.25ha (more or less) of flat fertile land, the sale of the Viaduct Olive Grove is a fantastic opportunity to secure a large standalone property with an eye on future development. Home, worksheds, plant and equipment included in sale.

+ Free-draining ‘Mohaka Sandy Loam Soils’

Call today for a detailed Information Memorandum and for access to the online dataroom.

DEADLINE OFFERS Tuesday 26 November 2019 at 4.00pm*

+ Productive area of 62.25ha (more or less) + Majority share in ‘Mohaka Water Company’ + Irrigation infrastructure in place + Revenue from hive placement + Rateable Value - $4.08M (2018)

WYATT JOHNSTON 027 815 1303

JEREMY KEATING 021 461 210

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HINDS, CANTERBURY 89 Chisnalls Road Traditional Sheep Breeding On The Plains • • • • • •

360.0849ha for sale for the first time since 1901 Immaculately presented and traditionally farmed for four generations Four-bedroom homestead and a large array of farm buildings including covered yards Baseline of 17kgN/ha with options to bring scheme water/nutrients over Available as one unit of 360ha or as separate parcels of 43ha, 66ha, 63ha, 91ha and 95ha With buyer enquiry over $19,000/ha, this property is genuinely for sale

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 3.00pm, 12 November

Tim Gallagher M 027 801 2888 E tim.gallagher@pggwrightson.co.nz Robin Ford M 027 433 6883 E rford@pggwrightson.co.nz

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THORNTON, WHAKATANE DISTRICT 63 Magee Road Developed For Sustainability Total Land Area: 203.05 hectares 145 hectares (subject to title) main farm, plus 28.75 hectare support block, plus 29.30 hectare support block. Recent and exceptional capital investment has been made in infrastructure, with a forward-thinking vision for a sustainable long-term future.

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 4.00pm, Thursday 28 November

VIEW By Appointment Only

Aiming to be environmentally friendly, to achieve compliance better than the regulations require, and looking toward alternatives, such as A2, organic and retail whole milk products. The near new industry leading 40 ASHB high tech dairy, with fully covered yard and feedlot, has an ultra-modern water conservation system, solid effluent disposal system, remote herd and dairy monitoring systems and full staff facilities. Milking 430 cows and producing a three year average of 166,639kg MS. Recent investment in improved soil and pastures are just beginning to pay off. Only 5km out of Whakatane, continue the vision, profit is to be gained from this opportunity.

Phil Goldsmith M 027 494 1844 | B 07 307 1620 E pgoldsmith@pggwrightson.co.nz

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AUCTION

TIROHANGA 176 Okama Road Time To End The Pain! Unforseen issues have led to the point of no return, the vendors have reached the decision where the farm must sell. Situated in the renowned dairying district of Tirohanga, some 41km north of Taupo, this farm consists of around 138 effective hectares of easy rolling and some steeper contours. Having produced up to 129,019kg MS when on a twice a day milking regime, however last season, with a manager, this fell to 70,154kg MS on a once a day system. Currently the vendors are back on farm with a target of some 95,000kg MS from 320 cows once a day milking. 345 mixed aged cows, 65 heifers and 27 bulls were wintered on farm. Approximately 210 ton of PKE is purchased, 13 hectares of summer crop sown, and 30 ton of grass silage made on farm, with the NRP calculated at 66.

AUCTION

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) 1.00pm, Thursday 21 November 2019

VIEW 12.00 - 1.00pm, Thursday 31 October

Infrastructure includes two three-bedroom Lands and Survey style dwellings, a tidy 22 aside straight rail dairy with in-shed feeders, two large calf sheds, three PKE or fertiliser bins and a disused woolshed. Water is well catered for by way of a farm bore and council water supply. Given a little time and experience, this property has some fantastic features as a place to live and the ability for production upside. Alternatively use the infrastructure as a well set up support property to a larger dairy unit or beef farm.

Graham Beaufill M 027 474 8073 E graham.beaufill@pggwrightson.co.nz

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TENDER

ARAPOHUE, NORTHLAND Make This One Your First Farm • • • • •

81 hectares Four bedroom home Garaging/workshop/outside room 14 ASHB cowshed Good implement sheds

A lovely first farm with character, 13km to town, and has many options to suit either dairy, beef, calf rearing and lifestyle. The owner has had the farm since 1997 and the time to retire has come so are offering this farm to market.

TENDER

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold By Private Treaty) Closes 2.00pm Tuesday 26 November

Megan Browning M 027 668 8468 B 09 439 3344 E mbrowning@pggwrightson.co.nz

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RUAWAI, NORTHLAND Rare Opportunity on the Ruawai Flats 1124 hectares over four properties and 35 titles. Two of the dairy farms and cropping blocks are flat, Cartwright Road dairy farm, the support block and beef unit are easy rolling. Average of 689,000kg MS over last three years. Individual farm kg totals are available. Milking 1690 cows across the three farms. 60 bail rotary, 40 ASHB, 18 ASHB and 10 houses. The location is desirable and is an established dairy farming area. These farms carry options around utilisation of the flat land for future management. A unique opportunity to purchase either the entire holding or individually.

DEADLINE SALE

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 2.00pm Wednesday 20 November

Ron Grbin M 027 471 6388 E rgrbin@pggwrightson.co.nz Dennis Wallace M 022 312 7704 E dennis.wallace@pggwrightson.co.nz Mel Currin M 021 134 6472 E mel.currin@pggwrightson.co.nz

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KARAMU, WAIKATO 114ha Waikato Dairy Unit • • • • •

Good mix of contour – lovely aesthetic appeal 30 ASHB dairy, sound home with excellent farm infrastructure Additional 20ha of milking country available for lease Fully compliant with good farm records There’s lots to like about this well located farm

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY

(Unless Sold Prior) Closes 4.00pm, Friday 15 November

John Sisley M 027 475 9808 E jsisley@pggwrightson.co.nz pggwre.co.nz/HAM31271

MATAMATA, WAIKATO 965 Tauranga Road Outstanding Dry Stock Property Without doubt one of the finest dry stock/fattening properties in the Waikato comes to the market. Immaculately presented, this 101.32 ha block (more or less) sits on the foothills of the Kaimai Ranges just 10 minutes from Matamata and 30 minutes to Tauranga. Comprising 100 paddocks and raced with flat to gentle rolling contour. Infrastructure and shedding is impressive. Seldom do properties of this calibre come to the market. A must view!

VIEW 12.00-2.00pm, Wednesday 2, 9, 16 and 23 October

Trevor Kenny M 021 791 643 E trevor.kenny@pggwrightson.co.nz

Michael Swney M 027 624 8214 E michaels@pb.co.nz

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AUCTION (unless sold prior) 11.00am, Wednesday 30 October 965 Tauranga Road, Matamata

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MATAMATA, WAIKATO 468 Waharoa Road East

In a Different League Whether you want a high producing dairy farm, fertile land for cropping or an equine facility this 126 hectare trophy property is something special for the astute purchaser looking for a first class farming investment. Proudly presented to the market in immaculate condition, this well located property has been farmed by the same family for 110 years. This dairy unit comes with a proven history of consistent milk production with a three year average of 253,509kg MS from approximately 530 cows. The contour is flat and fertile with predominately free draining soils. The farm is well fenced and subdivided into 45 paddocks accessed by a well designed looped race leading to a 36 ASHB cow shed, making farm management a breeze.

Situated in close proximity are concrete feed bunkers, feed pad, and a full range of sundry buildings offering ample room for calf rearing and storage requirements. A feature of the property is a tree lined tar-sealed entrance way leading to an executive homestead surrounded by specimen trees and landscaped grounds. Two other homes accommodate staff and complement the property. Don't hesitate as properties of this calibre and location rarely come to the market.

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 4.00pm, Thursday 14 November

VIEW 11.00-12.30pm, Thursday 24 & 31 October Peter Donnelly M 021 449 559 E pdonnelly@pggwrightson.co.nz Trevor Kenny M 021 791 643 E trevor.kenny@pggwrightson.co.nz

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WHAREPUHUNGA 184 Grice Rd Quality, Cattle Grazing, Production, Location 547 hectares, approximately 435 hectares effective. Fertiliser truck does bulk of spreading. Driven by contour, fertiliser applications, superb infrastructure, this is an excellent grazing/finishing farm. 191 hectares deer fenced, 244 hectares conventional fencing, excellent lane-way access. Three bedroom quality brick home built 2012. Good standard of farm buildings. This is a proven performer and getting better year by year. Motivated vendors, fantastic opportunity.

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY

(Unless Sold Prior) Closes 11.00am, Friday 22 November

VIEW 11.00-1.00pm, Wednesday 23, 30 October, 6 November

Peter Wylie M 027 473 5855 B 07 878 0265 E pwylie@pggwrightson.co.nz

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TE PUKE, WBOP 'Kiwi Park Farm' - Quality Grazing and Kiwi's • • • • • •

152.8 hectares total area 64.5 hectares easy grazing Prime grazing at the front of the property Exclusive native bush at the rear Good set of stock yards Excellent summer country that can really grow the grass • Majority of the grazing land is easy contour • Located approx 15kms from Te Puke Kiwi Park is a special parcel of paradise. Phone or email to receive the full Information Memorandum

TENDER

(Unless Sold By Private Treaty) Closes 4.00pm Thursday 14 November

VIEW 1.00-2.00pm

Sunday 27 October

David McLaren AREINZ M 027 223 3366 E dmclaren@pggwrightson.co.nz Karen McLaren M 027 555 0421 E karen.mclaren@pggwrightson.co.nz

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ELSTHORPE, HAWKE'S BAY 2538 Kahuranaki Road

Great Sheep Country • • • • • • • • •

TENDER

242.8114 hectares (600 acres) more or less Good percentage of flat land complementing the bigger hill country Comfortable three-bedroom Summit Stone home set back on an elevated site Large areas of the flats in plantain/clover mixes and short rotation grasses Running mainly breeding ewes plus replacement hoggets all progeny finished on farm Good fertiliser history Located 31km south east of Havelock North - close to Kairakau Beach Three-stand woolshed and two sets of sheep yards Good opportunity for aspiring sheep farmers

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 4.00pm, Thursday 28 November Paul Harper M 027 494 4854 | B 06 878 3156 E paul.harper@pggwrightson.co.nz Doug Smith M 027 494 1839 | B 06 878 3156 E dougsmith@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/HAS31058

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OPEN DAY

THORNTON, WHAKATANE 24 Smith Road Pumping Grass All Season • • • • •

Available for sale - 95 hectares in three titles can be sold separately Average production - 92,601kg MS from 85 hectare milking platform 30 ASHB, two hay barns, three bedroom manager's home A simple farming operation, with low cost management Great natural soil and water attributes, allow all year grass growth.

All tenders will be considered!

TENDER

WHAKATANE 1956 State Highway 2 Intensive Finishing - 11 Titles - 314.0523ha

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold By Private Treaty) Closes 4.00pm Thursday 14 November 2019

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Phil Goldsmith M 027 494 1844 B 07 307 1620 E pgoldsmith@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/WHK31043

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Highly productive land with contour from flat and easy through to medium hill Currently finishing cattle, dairy grazing and has a South Suffolk sheep stud Intensively sub-divided, extensively raced, including 60ha deer fencing Strong fertiliser history, on fertile Whakatane Loam soils, reticulated water to most paddocks A good range of improvements maintained to a high standard, including two homes Ohope Beach and cafe's only 20km away, multiple schooling options, a rare opportunity

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 4.00pm Thursday 14 November 2019

VIEW 12.00-2.00pm

Thursday 24 October

Phil Goldsmith M 027 494 1844 B 07 307 1620 E pgoldsmith@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/WHK31052

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EAST TARATAHI, WAIRARAPA 661 Cornwall Road

Farming, Lifestyle, Location • • • • • • •

180.19 hectares (445.26 acres) Extremely well balanced farm with a variety of soil types giving you options with farming/horticultural activities High level of farm infrastructure including K-line irrigation, woolshed, sheep and cattle yards Reliable, quality water reticulation system Outstanding five-bedroom modern executive home with stunning views, outdoor flow and swimming pool, plus an additional threebedroom cottage Two rivers on the boundary giving an array of recreational activities Don't miss this opportunity to purchase this premium part of the Wairarapa

TENDER

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior) Closes 3.00pm, Tuesday 19 November

VIEW 1.00-4.00pm, Thursday 24 October

Bevan Edwards M 027 204 2895 E bevan.edwards@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/MAS31070

OHAU, HOROWHENUA Horowhenua Farm Land 1320 Hectares PGG Wrightson Real Estate are proud to offer for sale by Tender on behalf of the Verry Williams Trust approximately 1320 hectares at Ohau, Levin, including: 164ha flat to rolling pasture; 173ha rough hill, some fenced; 16ha forestry; 958ha bush Two homes, woolshed, yards, airstrip and fertiliser bin. This property offers a mix of alternative land uses and land development opportunities - growing, grazing, carbon credits, forestry, recreational. It must be the largest in size land holding to come available in Horowhenua for a very long time.

TENDER

Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold By Private Treaty) Closes 1.00pm, Friday 29 November

VIEW By Appointment Only

Joe Havill M 027 437 0169 B 06 367 0835 E joe.havill@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/LEV30961

HAWARDEN, CANTERBURY 'Birchdale' - Striking Breeding & Finishing Unit 'Birchdale' is an outstanding, 660 hectare farming operation that features a mix of easy to rolling hill country and flats. It is regarded as healthy stock country which is well-suited to breeding and finishing. The land is complemented by wellmaintained farm infrastructure, two four-bedroom dwellings, good stock water supply systems, fencing and lane ways. Current farming practices include a mix of Composite sheep and Hereford cattle breeding and finishing. A striking, easily accessible, foothills property that represents one of the best purchasing options in Canterbury.

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY

(Unless Sold Prior) Closes 2.00pm, Friday 8 November

VIEW By Appointment Only

Peter Crean M 027 434 4002 E pcrean@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/CHR31095

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Glenaray is near Waikaia township which has a primary school, store, bistro, tea-rooms and pub. Also rugby, squash and tennis clubs and a golf course. There is excellent hunting on the property.

Salary negotiable. Apply in writing by email to hamish.d@daypoint.co.nz with previous experience and referees or to Daypoint Ltd, PO Box 33-149, Takapuna 0740

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Auckland Council’s farming operation spans across 19 Regional Park locations throughout the Auckland region and at 1430ha is thought to be one of the world’s largest urban farming enterprises. The farming operations comprise 6650 sheep/1200 cattle in total, both breeding and finishing. Stock class management, breed type, stocking rates and sheep to cattle ratio are set on the best fit for managing public land without compromising the park resources and wider objectives.

With a new structure in place, Auckland Council now requires two Shepherds to work on the region’s Northern and Southern farms. The key focus of these positions is to work collectively with the Farming Operations Manager and Block Supervisors to implement the operational plan in a way that optimises farm performance. This is a fantastic opportunity to further develop your shepherding skillset with involvement in all day-to-day tasks on farm including stock work, animal health, pasture management and general maintenance.

Reporting to either the Northern or Southern Operations Manager, two Block Supervisors are required to assist with implementing operational plans across Auckland Council’s Northern and Southern farms. As Block Supervisor you will play an active role in all day-to-day farm activities including animal health, seasonal events relating to stock, pasture management, feed budgeting and record keeping. These varied positions will also involve ensuring maintenance/development works are undertaken, supporting the team with training and development and assisting the Farming Manager with financial budgeting.

The successful applicants for these positions will have 1 – 3 dogs under good command along with proven practical farming skills such as stockmanship, fencing, general maintenance and the ability to use farm machinery and equipment safely. You will be committed to ongoing self-development and receptive to learning new technologies to help improve farm productivity and profitability.

To be successful in these roles you will need a wide range of practical sheep and beef farming skills, including a high level of stock and pasture management with a capable team of 2-3 working dogs. You will have excellent communication skills, a mind-set around continuous improvement and will be receptive to learning new technologies. The confidence to lead others and make on-farm decisions in the absence of the Farming Manager is essential.

Sharemilker Shepherd Shepherd / General Station Cook and General Hand

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Contact Debbie Brown 06 323 0765 or email classifieds@globalhq.co.nz

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Auckland Council stands for excellent environmental, social and farming outcomes and has committed a specialised business unit to ensure the farming strategy is executed. This is your chance to be involved in a farming business where quality land, livestock, infrastructure and the best people are central to its goals. To view a Job Information Pack or to apply, please visit www.ruraldirections.co.nz or phone the Rural Directions team in confidence on 06 871 0450 (Reference #8006). Applications close 5pm Monday, 4th November 2019.

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To view a Job Information Pack or to apply, please visit www.ruraldirections.co.nz or phone the Rural Directions team in confidence on 06 871 0450 (Reference #8005). Applications close 5pm Monday, 4th November 2019.

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

DEERLAND TRADING LTD DEERLAND TRADING LTD buying deer velvet this season and paying above the average. Also contractor required to buy deer velvet. Payment on commission basis. Contact 021 269 7608.

DOGS FOR SALE GOOD STURDY 2-pen dog crate for flat deck truck. 1.2m x 1.74m x 800mm high. Plastic waterproof sides. POA. Phone 06 388 0212 or 027 243 8541. KELPIES WORK CATTLE and sheep. Head, heel, back and bark. Proven workers, references available. Phone 09 439 6720. NZ BIGGEST SELECTION. Deliver, trial, guaranteed. www.youtube.com/user/ mikehughesworkingdog/ videos 07 315 5553. ONE 12-MONTH-OLD Heading dog. Going well. Mad keen. Phone 06 388 0212 or 027 243 8541. SMITHFIELD BEARDIE pups. Bob tail and long tail available. Good working lines. $400. Phone 027 255 7217.

DOGS WANTED 12 MONTHS TO 5½-yearold Heading dogs and Huntaways wanted. Phone 022 698 8195. QUICK SALE! No one buys or pays more NZ Wide! 07 315 5553. Mike Hughes.

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FORESTRY/ SCRUB CUTTING INTEGRATED VEHICLE wood chipper for local chipping of trimmed/ cut branches. NZ Patent 713280. Easily driven to work site, operates independent of tractor or large truck/trailer combination solutions. Retains material on-site for natural recycling without the carbon footprint of transporting the slash/ scrub cuttings. Minimizes volume of material from piles of cuttings. Contact: Silver Crags Engineering at richard.w.finney@gmail. com

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.

GOATS WANTED GOATS. 40 YEARS experience mustering feral cattle and feral goats anywhere in NZ. 50% owner (no costs). 50% musterer (all costs). Phone Kerry Coulter 027 494 4194.

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

LEASE LAND WANTED SHEEP AND BEEF farmer looking at leasing a hill country farm in the Manawatu and Rangitikei area. 027 452 0723.

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

LIVESTOCK WANTED 2 OR 3 YEAR Jersey bulls. Phone 06 762 8058 or 027 4415 935.

PROPERTY WANTED HOUSE FOR REMOVAL wanted. North Island. Phone 021 0274 5654.

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.

STOCK FEED MOISTURE METERS Hay, Silage dry matter, grain. www.moisturemeters.co.nz 0800 213 343. HAY 12 EQUIVALENT squares $70. STRAW 12 equivalent squares $55. BALEAGE at $70. Unit loads available. Phone 021 455 787.

TRACTOR PARTS JOHN DEERE 6410, 6600, 6610, 6800, 6900, dismantling Andquiparts. Phone 027 524 3356.

UTE MATS FITS ALL flat deck, wellside and trailer decks. Non slip, durable, easy to clean. FREE freight delivery when you mention this ad. Call Burgess Matting & Surfacing Ltd on 0800 808 570 www.burgessmatting. co.nz

WORK WANTED E X P E R I E N C E D , PASSIONATE Stock Manager with excellent team of dogs, great horsemanship. (Southland). Email for full CV mustering4u@gmail.com

SELLING

SOMETHING? PH DEBBIE 0800 85 25 80

FARMERS WEEKLY – October 21, 2019

Livestock Noticeboard

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MANU

STOCK FOR SALE 80 AUT FRSN/HERE STEERS 400kg

Masterton Sale

80 1YR HOME BRED ANGUS BULLS 450kg

BVD, EBL & Bovis Tested FRSN BULL CALVES Nov Delivery STOCK REQUIRED YOUNG EWES with LAF 1YR FRSN BULLS 260-300kg

IN-MILK AUCTION 100 CRV FRIESIAN & FRIESIAN CROSS COWS

30th October a/c Maungahina Speckle Park

Ph Chris McBride 027 565 1145

2YR BEEF BRED HEIFERS 350-420kg

www.dyerlivestock.co.nz

COMPRISING OF: 100 Frsn & FsnX In-Milk, CRV Dairy Cows calved from 30th July. Unmated, Low SCC, 20ltrs/cow avg.

LIVESTOCK ADVERTISING

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

31st Annual Ram Sale A/c AA & DJ Clements

Date: Friday 25th October 2019 Address: Cambridge Saleyards Start time: 11.30am

www.carrfieldslivestock.co.nz

550kg+ ANGUS STEERS

POLL DORSET

Helvetia Lands

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22 F1 Yearling Heifers (PB Here Cow x PB Speckle Bull) Complete line 340kg

MANU 14/13tw

AUCTIONEERS NOTE: A tidy line of 100 young 3-8yr old cows which includes 70 x 3-5 yrs, all in good condition.

PHONE ANDREA 0800 85 25 80

To be held on the property 201 Drake Road, Purua, Whangarei

Monday 25th Nov 2019, 1pm start

Additional entry: A/C CLIENT 25 In-Milk FsnX Heifers

61 Top Quality One Shear Poll Dorset Rams • All rams Ovine Brucellosis accredited LK0099811©

PAYMENT TERMS:

14 days after auction. Enquiries to: Kerry Coulter 027 494 4194 Paul Kane 027 286 9279

INAUGURAL GRASSENDALE GENETICS TERMINAL SIRE RAM AUCTION

www.carrfieldslivestock.co.nz

• All rams eye muscle scanned • All Manu rams performance recorded (SIL)

Contact: Alex Clements 09 433 5871 clements@ubernet.co.nz Auctioneers: Carrfields Livestock - PGG Wrightson

Thursday 31st October 12.30pm Grassendale Genetics (George and Luce Williams) Solway Showgrounds, Fleet Street, Masterton

WANTED

Comprising: 40 SuffTex rams and 40 Beltex/SuffTex rams

Beltex and Beltex Suffolk ram sires will be on site for viewing.

2019 autumn born hfrs F12s $1250

Inspection available by appointment prior to auction. Contact your local PGW agent or Andy Jennings (PGW) 027 594 6820 George Williams (Vendor) 06 372 6671

Helping grow the country

KIKITANGEO ROMNEY STUD

EST 1922

Stud Principal – Gordon L Levet

2019 spring born 100kg lwt hfrs North Island Ph Tim Brandon 027 443 7420 South Island Ph TJ Visser 027 314 8833

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A quality line up of terminal sires selected on thickness, meat, growth data and eye muscle scanning.

2018 spring born hfrs F12s $1650 F8-F11s $1550 Unrecorded $1450

KIKI G197-14

Proﬁtability Surprise The Coopworth ewe is the ‘engine’ room of your farm. A sound productive sheep with comprehensive SIL validation. Consistently ranking ahead of the rest in NZ Sheep Genetics.

Weekly Auctions Tuesday night – PGG Wrightson Gisborne, Service Bull Sale Wednesday night – North Island Thursday night – South Island For more information go to bidr.co.nz or contact the team on 0800 TO BIDR

30th ANNUAL RAM SALE Wednesday 4 December 2019 at 12 Noon

140 Selected Romney Rams – out of over 500 30 Suffolk, Southdown, Suftex and Suff-Texel cross rams Plus 60 Romney Rams for private sale after auction (book early to ensure supply) • Bad feet are a major problem in many flocks. Kikitangeo has always selected for sound feet. All sale rams are scored for sound feet and this

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For the modern forward thinking farmer

grading is in our catalogue, as is the DNA rating indicating resistance to foot diseases. • After 33 years of intensive selection for the worm resistant trait – using scientifically approved protocols, we now have sheep that are resistant to the highest worm challenges in the country, and require no

drenching. What has been achieved at Kikitangeo can be replicated in other flocks • Semen available – we now have semen available from our top sire G197-14 – further information is on our website www.kikitangeo.co.nz • Field Days – having received the Husqvarna North Island Farm Forester on the year award, we will be hosting field days on 13 and 16 November for the viewing of the sale rams combined with a tour of the farm to see the forestry operation. Particulars will be advertised and on our website. HIGH PERFORMANCE GENETICS

• Catalogue and Newsletter – The catalogue and our August newsletter

Visit the website for your local Ram Breeder’s contact details www.coopworthgenetics.co.nz CoopworthGenetics

Sale date Monday, 4 November

on our website – catalogue about mid-November. If you require a hard

Open Day on farm in Waikaretu Friday 1 November

5192 Kaipara Coast Road, RD 2, Wellsford 0972 Email: glevet5192@gmail.com • Tel: 09 423 7034

www.nikaucoopworth.co.nz  09 2333 230

www.kikitangeo.co.nz

Tuakau Saleyards, 12:30 pm

copy of the catalogue, please telephone or email

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will be mailed out to those on our mailing list and will also be available

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

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FARMERS WEEKLY – October 21, 2019

ECZEMA TOLERANT

Ram Auction

COOPWORTH | ROMWORTH | COOPDALE

Monday 4th November 12:30pm Feilding Sale Yards Flock Rams from FE tolerant sires

SIL recorded. EMA Scanned. 20 years Ramguard testing

RAMGUARD TESTING SINCE 1985 ***** RATING

FE Tolerant Worm Resilient Meaty carcase & good bone MYOMAX muscling gene SIL Recorded Top performance

Puketauru Coopworths

Open Day 1 November, 1pm-3pm

Structurally sound Robust functional sheep that survive Achieving less Parasites and Dags No ewes worm drenched, dipped or vaccinated WormFEC™

Keith Abbott Raglan 027 463 9859 www.waiteikaromneys.co.nz

Inquiries: Ryan Shannon, PGGW M: 0275 650 979

122 Kaahu Road, RD 1, Mangakino, 3492

Genetically linked to Waimai & Kikitangeo Romney

Auction Day 14 November, 12.00pm

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PAKI-ITI ROMNEY

Te Kuiti Sale Yards

58 Elite 2th Rams to be Auctioned 20 Coopworths | 20 Romworths | 18 Coopdales

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Murray Sargent

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Are you looking in the right direction?

027 392 7242 murraysargent@hotmail.com kaahu.co.nz

027 501 8182 camheggie@pggwrightson.co.nz

Call Andrea

PAKI-ITI ROMNEY

0800 85 25 80 livestock@globalhq.co.nz

TALK TO A WAI-ITI CLIENT NEAR YOU Nelson Ian Parkes ‘Punawai’ – Wakeﬁeld 027 444 4709

Taihape Ross Gordon ‘Awarua’ – Mokai Valley 06 388 0092

North Canterbury Att Lawrence ‘Mount Hilton’ – Hawarden 03 314 4095

Manawatu Scott Bailey ‘Tuahiwi’ – Waituna West 06 323 6846

South Canterbury Hamish Bell ‘Ngaripa Farm’ – Hakataramea Valley 03 436 0133

Wairarapa Andrew Mathewson ‘Whakapuni Station’ – Martinborough 06 307 8117

Central Otago Scott Armstrong Omakau 0274 473 616

Zandy Wallace P: 06 372 2551 M: 0226 580 680 E: farm@waiitirams.co.nz Tim Wallace P: 06 372 2654

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PAKI-ITI ROMTEX Enhanced growth and meat yield option Rams sold from a stabilised ﬂock focused on fertility Added beneﬁts of hardiness Rams sold as 22ths

paki-iti.co.nz

Visit to view our breeding programs

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

PINE PARK

INAUGURAL RAM AUCTION 1.00pm Tuesday 19 November 2019 312 Tutaenui Road, Marton

Southland Nelson Hancox ‘Kowhai Downs’ – Gore 0272 173 902

ROMTEX AND SUFTEX ALSO AVAILABLE

Are you looking in the right direction?

• Breeding for constitution, structural soundness and performance • All round performance – fertility, growth, ewe efﬁciency, survival • Five year lambing average – 150% unshepherded • • • •

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Hawke’s Bay Dale Tatam ‘Forest Home’ – Wakarara 06 856 6852

PAKI-ITI ROMTEX

160 SIL ELITE HIGH INDEX 2th RAMS 50 FE Tolerant Coopworths 50 FE Tolerant Romworths 60 Terminal • Suffolk • Suftex Texel x Poll Dorset

Open Day Pre Sale: 7th Nov.1pm to 4.30pm Private Treaty Sales from November 25th “Fifty five years selling performance recorded rams”

Contact: Ed Sherriff 021 704 778

PGG Wrightson: Callum Stewart 027 280 2688 Phil Transom 027 442 0060

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Central Taranaki Paul Topless ‘Akama Farm’ – Stratford 06 762 7503

PAKI-ITI RAMS • 160 clients purchased or leased Paki-iti rams last year • Rams bred on a 870ha hard hill country property rising up to 637m asl (2090f asl)

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A r v i d s o n W I L T S H I R E S - Pure Meat, No Shearing

Banklea Stud

NZ’s No1 F.E. Meat Breed Flock * SIL * Parasite Testing Well Muscled - Fast Growth. Ph: David 027 2771 556

100 Years Breeding and Marketing Romney Rams Celebration Auction 13 November 2019

30 Elite high index rams On farm: 2183 Kimbolton Road Kiwitea (north of Feilding) Wednesday 13 November at 1.30pm Rams on view 12.00pm

NZ Farmers Livestock Ltd is proud to be associated with Perendale NZ

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For all your Stud Stock and livestock requirements contact:

Top Waidale rams of Ike Williams, Pleasant Point will also be auctioned Enquiries to Richard Brown 027 449 7866 banklea@inspire.net.nz or Ryan Shannon, PGG Wrightson Livestock Genetics – 027 565 0979 Tom Suttor, Carrfields – 027 616 4504 Brent Bougen, NZ Farmers Livestock 027 210 4698 SALE TALK

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An almost 60 year old woman Debbie had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. While on the operating table Debbie had a near death experience. Seeing God she asked “Is my time up?” God said, “No, you have another 33 years, 2 months and 8 days to live.” Upon recovery, she decided to stay in the hospital and have a face-lift, liposuction, breast implants and a tummy tuck. She even had someone come in and change her hair color and brighten her teeth! Since she had so much more time to live, she figured she might as well make the most of it. After her last operation, she was released from the hospital. While crossing the street on her way home, she was killed by an ambulance. Arriving in front of God, Debbie demanded, “I thought you said I had another 33 years? Why didn’t you pull me from out of the path of the ambulance?” God replied: “Gosh! I didn’t recognise you!”

Stud stock

Brent Bougen 027 210 4698 John Watson 027 494 1975

General Manager

Bill Sweeney 027 451 5310

Regional Manager - Waikato Ollie Carruthers 027 451 5312

Regional Manager - Manawatu Malcolm Coombe 027 432 6104

Regional Manager - King Country Alan Hiscox 027 442 8434

Regional Manager - South Island Regan Laughton 027 440 6722

Regional Manager - Taranaki Stephen Sutton 027 442 3207

Regional Manager - Northland Allan Swindlehurst 027 493 2844

CALL ANDREA 0800 85 25 80

150 FE Gold

BULL SALE RESULTS 2019

SIL recorded Romney Rams for Private Sale from

ROMNEYS 28 th HAIN November 2016 FE Gold Rams

SIL recorded and DNA tested

Publish your bull sales results in our spring bull sales e-newsletter* and provide stud bull breeders with valuable market information.

for Private Sale on farm

Contact Andrea on 027 446 6002 or livestock@globalhq.co.nz to sign up or include your sale results.

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* Delivery of the Bull Sales e-newsletter is subject to the submission of bull sale results.

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THIS SEASON’S CROP FIRST LIGHT WAGYU IS QUIETLY GROWING IN LINE WITH DEMAND FROM OUR DISCERNING NEW ZEALAND AND INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS.

THIS YEAR WE HAVE A LIMITED RELEASE OF HEALTHY, WAGYU DAIRY CALVES AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE.

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MARKET SNAPSHOT

Market Snapshot brought to you by the AgriHQ analysts.

Suz Bremner

Mel Croad

Nicola Dennis

Cattle

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Caitlin Pemberton

Sheep

BEEF

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Deer

SHEEP MEAT

VENISON

Last week

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NI Steer (300kg)

6.10

5.75

NI lamb (17kg)

8.70

8.20

NI Stag (60kg)

9.60

9.70

11.30

NI Bull (300kg)

6.00

5.90

5.05

NI mutton (20kg)

5.75

5.70

5.00

SI Stag (60kg)

9.60

9.65

11.30

NI Cow (200kg)

4.80

4.00

SI lamb (17kg)

8.55

7.90

SI Steer (300kg)

6.00

5.65

SI mutton (20kg)

5.75

5.70

4.90

SI Bull (300kg)

5.75

5.70

4.95

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

SI Cow (200kg)

4.50

4.45

4.10

UK CKT lamb leg

11.59

10.73

9.31

Export markets (NZ$/kg) 8.92

8.74

6.33

US domestic 90CL cow

7.58

7.64

6.33

North Island steer slaughter price

$/kg CW

6.25

5.75

5.25 $/kg CW

South Island steer slaughter price

6.25 $/kg CW

6.5

11.5

5.0

10.5 South Island lamb slaughter price

Feb

Apr

5-yr ave

Jun

2018-19

Dairy

South Island stag slaughter price

9.5 8.5 7.5

8.0

6.5

7.0

Oct

Dec

Oct

Dec 5-yr ave

Feb

Apr 2018-19

Jun

2019-20

MILK PRICE FUTURES

Last week

Prior week

Last year

3.19

NZ average (NZ$/t)

Prior week

Last year

Urea

616

523

314

304

787

753

37 micron ewe

3.20

30 micron lamb

DAP

Top 10 by Market Cap

CANTERBURY FEED WHEAT

Company

480

YTD High

Meridian Energy Limited (NS)

5.4

5.54

3.38

Auckland International Airport Limited

9.2

9.9

7.065

$/tonne

$/kg MS

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Ltd

440

6.75 6.25 5.75

Nov-18

Jan-19 Mar-19 Sept. 2019

May-19

DAIRY FUTURES (US$/T) Nearby contract

Last price*

19.53

12.3

13.35

18.04

10.42

4.44

4.705

3.54

Mercury NZ Limited (NS)

5.46

5.62

3.51

Ryman Healthcare Limited

13.54

13.62

10.4

360

Contact Energy Limited

8.55

9.05

5.82

Port of Tauranga Limited

6.73

6.8

4.9

Fletcher Building Limited

4.84

5.55

4.28

Sep-18

vs 4 weeks ago

The a2 Milk Company Limited Spark New Zealand Limited

Nov-18

Jan-19

Mar-19

May-19

Jul-19

Sep-19

CANTERBURY FEED BARLEY Prior week

YTD Low

400

320

Jul-19 Sep-19 Sept. 2020

Aug 2019-20

Last week

Super

7.25

Jun

Fertiliser

Aug 2019-20

Grain

Data provided by

Apr 2018-19

FERTILISER

Coarse xbred ind.

Aug

Feb

5-yr ave

(NZ$/kg) Dec

8.5 7.5

WOOL

Oct

9.5

6.0

5.25

Last year

10.5

6.0

5.0

Last week Prior week

North Island stag slaughter price

11.5

7.0

5.75

4.75

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

8.0

9.0

4.75

Last year

North Island lamb slaughter price

9.0 $/kg CW

US imported 95CL bull

Last week Prior week

$/kg CW

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

$/kg CW

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Ingrid Usherwood

Listed Agri Shares

5pm, close of market, Thursday

Company

YTD High

YTD Low

440

The a2 Milk Company Limited

13.35

18.04

10.42

Comvita Limited

3.3

5.42

2.5

Delegat Group Limited

11.16

12.5

9.4

3125

3110

3025

420

SMP

2690

2680

2565

400

Fonterra Shareholders' Fund (NS)

4.03

4.85

3.15

1.76

1.47

AMF

4925

5075

380

Foley Wines Limited

Butter

4100

4000

Milk Price

7.12

7.00

6.82

$/tonne

WMP

360 340 320

Sep-18

* price as at close of business on Thursday

WMP FUTURES - VS FOUR WEEKS AGO

Nov-18

Jan-19

Mar-19

May-19

Jul-19

Sep-19

WAIKATO PALM KERNEL

3250

350

1.08

0.75

0.215

0.24

0.192

New Zealand King Salmon Investments Ltd

2.41

2.98

1.76

PGG Wrightson Limited

2.49

2.5

0.47

Sanford Limited (NS)

6.96

7.06

6.35

Scales Corporation Limited

5.2

5.23

4.34

SeaDragon Limited

0.002

0.003

0.001

Seeka Limited

4.88

5.35

4.2

Synlait Milk Limited (NS)

9.43

11.35

8.45

S&P/NZX Primary Sector Equity Index

3150

$/tonne

US$/t

0.85

Marlborough Wine Estates Group Limited

T&G Global Limited

3200 3100 3050 3000 2950

Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd (NS)

Nov

Dec Jan Latest price

Feb

Mar 4 weeks ago

Apr

300

2.58

2.81

2.43

16404

17434

15063

S&P/NZX 50 Index

11142

11219

8732

S&P/NZX 10 Index

10786

11001

8280

250 200

Sep-18

S&P/FW PRIMARY SECTOR EQUITY

Nov-18

Jan-19

Mar-19

May-19

Jul-19

Sep-19

16404

S&P/NZX 50 INDEX

11142

S&P/NZX 10 INDEX

10786

FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – October 21, 2019 NI SLAUGHTER STEER ( $/KG)

6.10

SI SLAUGHTER STEER ( $/KG)

6.00

SI SLAUGHTER LAMB ( $/KG)

8.55

TWO-YEAR FRIESIAN BULLS, 470KG AVERAGE, AT STORTFORD LODGE ( $/KG LW)

3.50

More sunshine wanted NORTH ISLAND

T’S been an exceptional week in terms of pasture growth on the back of some good rain in Northland. Growth rates have doubled and farmers have been able to stop feeding out as much. Quite a number of farmers have shut paddocks for silage. Cropping is under way after being a bit delayed because of wet soil. More rape is being planted though farmers are also planting turnips and chicory. Mating has started and the consultant we speak to says it’s important farmers have a welltrained team and tail paint is touched up each week. A perfect sunny Sunday last weekend in Pukekohe was the prelude to a short storm for the start of the week when heavy rain and gale force winds moved south over the region. It was all over by Wednesday and calmer, gloomy conditions returned with a little sunlight early on Friday as it signalled a return to more rain. Some wind damage will have occurred in exposed spots, especially to the foliage of sensitive crops. Overall, spring growth is steady but would benefit from more sunlight. It’s been a mixed week in Waikato, extremely windy at the start and there’s been a lot of rain. A little bit of silage is being made. Crops are starting to go in to the ground too. Milk production has peaked and mating is under way. It’s a busy time of year. The September and October payments for dairy farmers have been reasonably good so that’s some positive news. The sun was out in Bay of Plenty when we rang though they have had a fair bit of rain for this time of year and it’s been relatively cool too. They’re growing just enough grass but it would be lovely to have more sun. Kiwifruit is just in that pause between bud break and flowering. It’s just been a bit hard to get out on the orchards with all the rain but this week is looking better. Pollination is a few weeks away. Zespri has updated its forecast on the May harvest and prices are slightly stronger, with gold going up 20 cents a tray to about $11.30 and green up 20 cents to $6.50. In King Country farmers have been struggling to get jobs done this spring. They just haven’t been able to get out in the wet weather. It’s mid-season for docking for most farmers. Those who lamb early are trying to shear and dag. Lamb survival has been okay given the conditions earlier on. There wasn’t such a high percentage of twins and triplets because of the difficult autumn and summer. Farmers are feeling terrible because of so much negativity around farming. They’re just trying to get on with the job and don’t even want to raise their heads. One well-respected dairy farmer said he tells people he farms Angora goats to avoid the sideways looks, Our contact in Taranaki was enjoying a mild northerly breeze on Friday morning. It’s been a showery week and farmers have been trying to get maize planted when they can. While the coastal areas are okay for feed, the mid and high country are a bit short and farmers are feeding out with silage. It’s the mating period for

Slow start to spring and lack of feed holding back South Island livestock markets Spring has been slow to arrive in much of the South Island, with a corresponding shortage of available feed dampening livestock markets. PGG Wrightson South Island Livestock Manager Shane Gerken says pasture production has not yet picked up in districts south of the Waitaki, though in Canterbury and Tasman more favourable growing conditions are starting to stimulate demand. “While the spring is here in the northern half of the South Island, Southland and Otago have remained unseasonably cold, with little grass growing and insufficient feed to enthuse sheep and beef farmers, who are not committing to livestock purchases, at least not yet. “We are now right into the dairy bull sales season, which is going well, with good clearances, plenty of bulls sold, and prices remaining close to last year’s record levels.

EARLY LAMBS: The first pen of these new season, mixed sex Southdown-cross lambs from Te Aute sold for $165 in the rain at Stortford Lodge last week.

herds. The freshwater accord is causing a lot of grief. It’s going to cost farmers tens of thousands to fence with a substantial loss of land to boot. Our contact says farmers are used to keeping an eye out for each other in stressful times. A farmer south of Gisborne says it’s been a very wet week. They’re in the middle of sowing maize but because of the rain it’s been difficult. They’ve had up to five weeks of wet weather, which has slowed cultivation. Mind you, it’s good in the long run for water storage. Orchardists are madly trying to get fungicides on in Hawke’s Bay. It’s been tricky because 100 mm of rain fell on Heretaunga Plains last week. The usual spring dump of rain has come later this year and coincided with the apple bloom, which opens fruit up to black spot in particular. The choppers are booked up for spraying and boggy orchards are making it difficult to get jobs done. It’s wet without being sodden in Wairarapa. The farmer we speak to was in his shirtsleeves in the warmth and waiting to hear about the prices he’d get for his store lambs but he was expecting between $130 and $140 a lamb compared to about $115 last year. The wet weather means it’s been slow getting crops in. Just 5% of seed is in the ground compared to 80% this time last year. SOUTH ISLAND IN THE Nelson region bees are busy pollinating apples, pears and nashi trees. It’s been showery so apple growers are busy spraying for black spot and powdery mildew while mowers are out in force keeping the grass down. Commercial peony picking is under way with the first blooms going into the local market. The picking season lasts about six weeks. Conditions in Marlborough have been going from cold to wet and wet to cold so it’s not been ideal for lamb tailing but it’s just about done now on the flats while on high country farms there are still more to tail. Farmers are doing a lot of direct

drilling. Feed crops and maize are going in. In vineyards younger plants are being trained, spraying to protect vines against fungal diseases continues, irrigation systems are being made ready for summer and most of the Recognised Seasonal Employer workers who were pruning over winter have now gone home. A farmer up the Grey Valley on the West Coast says the grass is finally starting to grow after what’s been a cool and wet early spring. The cows are doing all right though with milk production about on par with last year. Peak flow should be reached in three weeks’ time. Canterbury’s had another variable week of weather with only a couple of good days in which to get on the tractor. When the weather is okay farmers and contractors are working around the clock to try to keep up with the work ahead of them. Feed levels remain tight. On Saturday Leeston hosts the Ellesmere show. It’s the largest single-day A&P show in New Zealand. Central Otago had a good dose of rain and a couple of fine days last week so the grass is shooting out of the ground. Lambing’s under way on high-country fine-wool properties while further down crossbred lamb marking or tailing’s in full swing. There’s a lot of tractor work going on with summer brassicas going in and oats being sown for supplementary winter feed. Talk of new farming regulations is worrying many Southland farmers and stress levels are going up. The sun appeared last week though and feeling that warmth on the back is helping to lift people’s spirits. A farmer at Waimahaka says the ground’s finally dry enough to aerate paddocks to stop pugging. Dairy mating’s due to start soon but he says milk production’s slowed down because of the last few weeks of cold and wet weather and a lack of quality grass. On sheep farms some winter or year-old lambs have been going to the works at 20plus kilos, so good weights. Tailing’s under way on spring lambs.

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“Sales of the traditional beef cattle breeds meanwhile, are also reasonably strong, although demand for dairy beef animals is more problematic due to the lack of feed and the consequent lack of buyers. However, that should turn around when the grass starts growing more widely throughout the South Island,” he said. When that happens positive export market fundamentals should buoy up local demand with overseas consumers influenced by the incidence of African swine flu in China, which by contrast is enhancing the appeal of New Zealand sheep meat and manufacturing beef. “Prime lambs are in high demand and the schedules are strong as farmers prepare them for processing. Ewes and lambs are also selling well, though the pricing has come back slightly since the start of the season. Once again, available feed is the issue,” says Shane. PGG Wrightson’s livestock team remains busy fielding calls from farmers interested in bidr, the company’s new online saleyard, which provides a real-time virtual auction facility and access to buyers throughout the country. “Farmers anticipating the timing of feed availability, when demand for livestock will start to rise, are recognising the benefits of bidr as a smart and responsive way to quickly capitalise on a spring flush of pasture production, which is likely during the next few weeks,” says Shane. Helping grow the country

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Demand heating up for short-term bulls Demand for short-term Friesian bulls has picked up in the last few weeks though finding them has proved to be the thorn in buyers’ sides. So, when good volumes are available there are several buyers looking for bulls to finish keen to secure them and that has seen prices go to new levels. At auction in the North Island big lines of good-quality Friesian bulls around the 500kg mark have achieved $3.40-$3.46/kg while 470-480kg returned $3.47-$3.53/kg. NORTHLAND Wellsford store cattle • Two-year beef-dairy steers averaged 370kg and eased to $3.22/kg • Good two-year Hereford-Friesian and Angus-cross heifers, 410446kg, earned $2.98-$3.05/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 301-353kg, eased to $3.27$3.33/kg • Better yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers from 258kg to 420kg sold for $3.04-$3.13/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 188kg, lifted to $3.40-$3.46/kg Volume swelled to an unexpected 1000 cattle at WELLSFORD last Monday and proved to be too many for buyers to absorb. Yearling heifers were the highlight as outside orders boosted demand. Hereford-dairy, 274-315kg, varied from $2.86/kg to $3.07/kg, with similar steers at those levels. Selective bidding on the balance of the steers meant Hereford-Friesian, 273-278kg, managed $3.50-$3.56/ kg, but lesser lines were below $3.00/kg. Two-year quality was mixed, and sold accordingly. Friesian-cross steers, 349378kg, were consistently priced at $2.49-$2.56/kg. Hereford-dairy heifers, 358-406kg, eased to $2.77-$2.84/kg. Autumn-born weaners had a good showing and prices were respectable. Most steers returned $610-$700, and heifers, $490-$555. Kaikohe cattle • Two-year Angus-Hereford steers returned $3.10-$3.12/kg • Two-year traditional and exotic heifers were rewarded at $3.12$3.22/kg • Better yearling beef and beef-dairy steers improved to $3.15$3.45/kg • Yearling beef and beef-dairy heifers earned $3.00-$3.12/kg • Yearling beef-cross bulls managed $3.00/kg A smaller yarding greeted buyers at KAIKOHE last Wednesday, with good pasture growth meaning vendors are not in any hurry to offload, PGG Wrightson agent Vaughan Vujcich reported. Just a couple of pens of 2-year bulls were on offer and being cross-bred types, they were harder work at $2.65/kg. Lighter yearling beef-cross bulls returned $2.75-$2.85/kg, with crossbred steers similar at $2.70-$2.80/ kg. Empty Friesian cow numbers increased, but this did not soften the market with most earning $2.10-$2.17/kg.

AUCKLAND Pukekohe cattle • Medium prime steers improved to $3.09-$3.15/kg • Forward two-year steers sold well at $3.02-$3.06/kg • Medium yearling Hereford-Friesian steers sold between $2.77$3.20/kg • Medium weaner steers lifted to $580-$620 • Boner cows fetched $2.21/kg A solid turn out of buyers meant that there was good competition at PUKEKOHE on Saturday October 12. Recent rain and good local grass growth also bolstered the market. Good yearling heifers returned $840$1100, $2.85-$3.09/kg, with lighter types earning $590-$750, $3.06-$3.53/kg. Medium weaner steers strengthened to $580-$620, with smaller crossbred steers steady at $370. Medium weaner heifers earned $460-$520, with small types matching their male counterparts at $370.

COUNTIES Tuakau sales • Hereford-Friesian heifers, 440kg, earned $1400 • Heavy prime steers, 680-750kg, held at $3.09-$3.17/kg • First new-season prime lambs made $188 • Top prime ewes sold at $250 Yearling and 15-month cattle dominated the store cattle

yarding at TUAKAU last week and the market remained firm, Carrfields Livestock agent Karl Chitham reported. The 800-head offering included Hereford-Friesian steers at 453kg, which made $3.35/kg, with 437kg Angus earning $3.30/kg. Good Hereford-Friesian steers, 296kg, fetched $1140 and a 264kg pen made $1040. In the heifer section, 344kg Angus sold at $1400 and 290kg Hereford-Friesian, $945. Wednesday’s prime market was steady. Heavy beef heifers traded at $3.07-$3.12/kg, with light-medium making $3.01$3.05/kg. Well-conditioned Friesian cows, 550-620kg, returned $2.12-$2.23/kg and medium boners, $1.85-$2.02/kg. Prices prime hoggets in good-medium order ranged from $188 to $233 last Monday, with light-medium making $157-$188. Most of the heavier prime ewes fetched $205-$226.

WAIKATO Frankton cattle and feeder calves • Two-year Angus steers, 362-366kg, sold well at $3.59-$3.62/kg • Two-year beef-dairy heifers, 389-458kg, earned $3.08-$3.16/kg • Better yearling Angus-Friesian steers, 306-313kg, improved to $3.42-$3.53/kg • Yearling traditional heifers, 223-251kg, were well received at $3.57-$3.59/kg • Prime Hereford-Friesian heifers, 453-594kg, held at $3.09-$3.19/ kg • Throughput eased to 814 cattle at FRANKTON last Wednesday. Two-year beef-dairy and beef-cross steers, 403-463kg, traded at $3.18-$3.28/kg, while Friesian heifers, 406-443kg, improved to $2.89-$2.97/kg. Yearling Angus-cross steers, 267kg, managed $3.71/kg. AngusFriesian, 208-269kg, traded at a softer level and varied from $3.03/kg to $3.35/kg. Hereford-Friesian, 233-341kg, also eased to $3.32-$3.48/kg, though 196-200kg lifted to $4.00-$4.01/kg. Most Hereford-dairy steers, 233-328kg, strengthened to $3.27-$3.35/kg, with 201-212kg at 3.77$3.78/kg. Hereford-Friesian heifers, 189-215kg, held at $3.39-$3.51/ kg, though Friesian bulls, 297-341kg, softened to $2.82-$2.98/kg. Prime heifers, 431-490kg, held at $3.10-$3.23/kg, as did steers, 523-670kg, $3.16$3.29/kg, regardless of breed. Feeder calf numbers dropped to 190, with most easing. Friesian bulls earned $70-$110. Top Hereford-Friesian came back to $170-$230, and medium $120-$150. Top Hereford-Friesian heifers earned $140-$180, medium $100$120, and small $40-$60.

BAY OF PLENTY Rangiuru cattle and sheep • Two-year Charolais-cross steers, 380kg, made $3.37/kg • Two-year Hereford bulls, 506kg, traded for $3.44/kg • Prime Angus steers, 575kg, were $3.29/kg • Friesian boner cows, 555kg, fetched $2.43/kg • Prime hoggets were $99-$192, with ewes $180-$200 There was a larger gallery at RANGIURU last Tuesday, though difficult weather conditions to deal with. The highlight in the store steer pens was 2-year HerefordFriesian, 329-458kg, that provided nearly half the tally and improved to $3.34-$3.40/kg. Heifer quality was variable, with one line of Hereford-Friesian, 273kg, best-selling at $3.08/kg. Two-thirds of the store yarding were yearlings of mixed quality; the top Hereford-Friesian steers, 193-201kg, made $3.88-$3.89/kg, while the bulk of Friesian bulls, 322-476kg, made $2.80-$2.90/kg. The prime yarding improved to 115 head. Hereford-Jersey, 667kg, provided the bulk of the steers, selling for $3.28/kg. Boner quality varied; better quality Friesian made $2.32-$2.43/kg, with poorer lines $1.98-$2.03/kg.

TARANAKI Taranaki cattle fair • Prime Hereford-Friesian steers, 550-590kg, lifted to $3.27/kg • Two-year beef-dairy steers lifted to an average of 445kg and $3.38/kg • Yearling Angus-cross steers, 244-303kg, varied from $3.35/kg to $3.51/kg • Most yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 267-329kg, sold for $3.37$3.47/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 194-197kg, made $4.06-$4.07/ kg The cattle fair at TARANAKI last Wednesday had a grass market feel to it, with all classes and types selling at improved levels. Two-year Hereford-Friesian steer weights varied over a 100kg spread from 400-500kg, with most 480kg and better making $3.11-$3.21/kg, while others ranged from $3.22/kg to $3.49/kg. Thirteen Charolais-cross, 415kg, managed $3.54/kg, and a small heifer yarding was consistent at $3.07-$3.16/kg for most. On a per head basis yearling heifers largely traded on a firm market at $780$920, though $/kg prices varied significantly.

HAWKE’S BAY Stortford Lodge prime cattle and sheep • Boner dairy-cross cows, 559kg, made $2.30/kg • Prime Angus and Angus-cross steers and heifers, 544-815kg, firmed to $3.07-$3.19/kg • Very heavy ewes lifted to $197-$222 • Very heavy male hoggets firmed to $215-$235 • Heavy mixed-sex hoggets firmed to $190-$225 Buyers were committed to the cause at STORTFORD LODGE last Monday, and there was a noted boost to the sheep market. Ewe prices lifted. Good to heavy lines made $159-$186, and medium- good, $130-$154.50. The hogget section followed a similar path and 70% of the 1100 penned exceeded $200. Close to 90 cattle were penned, with a line of 24 dairy cows boosting volume. Stortford Lodge store cattle and sheep Hoggets with lambs-at-foot sold for $113-$121 all counted Top lines of new season lambs made $157.50-$165 Two-year Friesian bulls, 460-480kg, sold for $3.51-$3.53/kg Yearling Angus bulls, 410-472kg, returned $3.56-$3.61/kg Yearling Angus &amp; Angus-Hereford steers, 194-263kg, sold for $4.26-$4.33/kg A small sheep sale had plenty of talking points at STORTFORD LODGE last Wednesday. The first big offering of new season lambs met strong demand, and the smaller lines made $131-$143.50. Hoggets with lambs-at-foot also lifted in price. A few cancellations due to poor weather reduced the cattle yarding to 880 head, but there was plenty of quality lines of beef, dairy-beef and dairy cattle. Bulls featured, with Friesian in the 2-year pens and Angus in the yearling, and second cuts of the Friesian bulls made $3.42-$3.47/kg. Short-term 2-year steers made $3.57$3.60/kg, though traditional heifers eased slightly as Angus and Hereford-cross lines sold for $3.22-$3.28/kg, and 26 Hereford, 393kg, $3.10/kg. Angus-Simmental, 444kg, managed $3.54/kg, and Hereford-Friesian, 316-485kg, $3.16-$3.19/kg. One line of 25 yearling Hereford bulls, 336kg, sold as service bulls for $1330.

MANAWATU Rongotea cattle • Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 445-490kg, earned $3.08$3.17/kg • Two-year Hereford bulls, 458kg, returned $3.41/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 207-210kg, varied from $3.33$4.11/kg • Yearling Friesian bulls, 348-365kg, managed $2.55-$2.74/kg Heavier cattle were the order of the day at RONGOTEA last Wednesday, New Zealand Farmers Livestock agent Darryl Harwood reported. Two-year Angus-cross steers, 535kg, fetched $3.20/kg, while Anguscross bulls, 382kg, earned $3.13/kg, and heifers of the same breeding, 560kg, managed $2.98/kg. Yearling Angus-cross steers, 254kg, sold well at $3.23/kg. Charolais-cross bulls, 284-290kg, made $2.48-$2.54/kg, and Hereford-Friesian, 237kg, at $2.36/kg. Weaner Herefordcross steers, 195kg, held at $600, while Hereford-cross heifers, 130-182kg, made $480-$640, and Friesian bulls, 135-227kg, $350-$570. Boner cows, 585kg, traded at $2.25$2.30/kg, while in-calf Friesian cows achieved $1000-$1585. Bull calves mostly traded at $60-$170, though Simmental pushed to $200. Heifers managed similar returns at $60$140. Feilding prime cattle and sheep; feeder calves • Boner Friesian cows, 525-575kg, dropped 15c/kg to $2.19/kg • Boner Friesian cows, 475-525kg, fell 20c/kg to $2.21/kg • Very heavy ewe hoggets were $207-$220 • Very heavy male hoggets were $209-$234 Prime hogget throughput fell to 4200 head at another

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Angus, 324kg, achieved $1310, $4.04/kg, with buyers spread from the North Island to Canterbury. The top pen of Angus heifers, 375kg, made $1120, while most sold for $800-$1000, with upper South Island buyers particularly dominant.

SOUTH-CANTERBURY Temuka cattle and sheep • Prime Hereford-Friesian steers, 585-705kg, increased to $3.17/kg • Prime Hereford-Friesian heifers, 450-520kg, improved to $2.95/kg • Boner Friesian cows, 540-675kg, sold for $2.09/kg • Capital stock Romney ewe hoggets made $203 A good bench of buyers were keen to secure stock at the TEMUKA sale last Monday, with the overall market taking a lift. Steer prices are 43c/kg above last year; HerefordFriesian, 510-575kg, was firm at $3.08/kg, while lighter lines, 477-508kg, were $2.90-$2.95/kg. Heifers were in better condition, with traditional, 545-650kg, rising 7c/kg to make similar money to steers at $3.09/kg. Prime hoggets numbered over 2000 head, and prices dropped slightly to reflect the quality offered. Over half sold for $200-$239, with another quarter of the yarding $180-$199. The top prime ewes made $290, but the bulk of the yarding were good to heavy types at $170-$196. Store hogget volume was only a third of the previous sale at 1102, with heavier mixed-sex lines $148-$200.

WOOLLY WET: Rain greeted these new season lambs at Stortford Lodge last week.

strong FEILDING sale last Monday, with prices rising by $2-$4 per head over the previous sale. 2700 of the 4200 very heavy hoggets on hand made $202-$219.50. Ewe volume doubled to 1143 head, and prices rose with very heavy sold for $266-$285, while heavy lines traded for $180-$193. Throughput in the cattle yards remained low with only 55 head offered; all but two pens boner cattle that dropped in value. A smaller yarding of calves was sold at MANFEILD PARK, the last yarding before the venue moves back to the Feilding sale yards. Good Hereford-Friesian bull calves made $235, while heifer prices improved to $170. Feilding store • Traditional and exotic 2-year steers, 495-545kg, made $3.56$3.69/kg • Yearling South Devon-cross steers, 425-440kg, went for $3.49$3.62/kg • Yearling Friesian bulls, 350-415kg, lifted to $3.20-$3.34/kg • New seasons lambs mainly made $128-$159.50 • Decent ewes with LAF lifted to $127-$142.50 all counted It was all action on the cattle again. Short-term steers are going from strength-to-strength, adding another 5c/ kg to the market, with 370-430kg traditional heifers not far behind at $3.45-$3.49/kg. The yearling steers were a bit flat again, but didn’t have the same quality as the week before for the most part - 285-335kg Hereford-Friesian were $3.17$3.37/kg. Yearling bulls were back well above $3.00/kg again. Few heifers had sold at the time of writing. Around 1400 terminal-cross new season lambs had a very strong sale. The lighter types were $128-$128.50, rising to $137.50$140 on the mediums, while the three top lines were $151$166. The heaviest line was some very large Poll Dorset lambs. Ewes with lambs-at-foot seemed to strengthen another level, though lamb sizes were better than past weeks. The better-quality lines were usually at $131-$137 all counted, with only a few lesser pens and hoggets way back down at $96 all counted. The only big line of hoggets were some light-medium ewes which were $136.

CANTERBURY Canterbury Park cattle and sheep • Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 342-387kg, made $3.00-$3.01/ kg • Yearling Angus-Hereford steers, 183kg, made $4.03/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian steers, 264-331kg, were $2.38-$2.48/kg • Boner Friesian cows, 430-655kg, fetched $2.05/kg • Ewe prices rose, with very heavy $210-$241 and heavy $175-$206 The volume of store cattle was high at CANTERBURY PARK last Tuesday, with close to 500 mostly yearling cattle yarded. Many two-year steers and heifers were HerefordFriesian that improved at the top end; 342-445kg was $3.00$3.01/kg, with one pen $3.16/kg. Lesser pens were $2.56/ kg to $2.73/kg. Over 100 yearling Friesian steers, 240-285kg, were offered, and averaged $2.45/kg. Yearling HerefordFriesian heifers sold better than steers, with 204-242kg at

$2.70-$2.74/kg. There was a decent offering of very good prime traditional steers. High yielding types, 520-620kg, lifted 8c/kg to $3.25-$3.28/kg. A second cut around 500kg made $3.10-$3.18/kg. A small entry of prime new season lambs earned $218-$220. Very heavy prime hoggets were $210-$237, heavy $190-$209 and mid-range, $150-$189. Store hoggets were largely fine-wool and sold with variable returns, with larger types at $100-$150. Coalgate store and prime cattle; all sheep • Two-year Hereford-Friesian heifers, 314kg, made $3.09/kg • Yearling Angus heifers, 171kg, were $3.39/kg • Prime Hereford-Friesian steers, 515-625kg, improved 5c/kg to $3.21/kg • Boner Friesian cows, 495-575kg, dropped 11c/kg to $2.09/kg • Ewes with lambs-at-foot sold for $111-$133 all counted It was a small cattle sale at COALGATE last Thursday, with a combined 280 head presented. The bulk were yearling heifers; better lines of Angus, 171-201kg, fetched $3.39-$3.48/kg with mid-range Angus, 165-205kg, mostly $3.02-$3.03/kg. A collection of Gelbvieh sold for $2.94/kg to $3.23/kg. Heifers contributed a third of the prime tally, and the best-selling Hereford-Friesian, 498-603kg, traded at $3.06-$3.13/kg. Close to a third of the prime hogget tally were very-heavy types that traded for $220-$242, with 1000 heavy hoggets making $190-$208. The balance were smaller types, with most $170-$189. New season prime lambs sold for $160-$224. Ewe prices rose, with the top end $200-$236, and heavy types $180-$198. The store section featured 117 new season lambs that earned $131, and 250 hoggets sold for $93-$126. Blenheim spring cattle fair • Top 2-year Angus steers, 439-465kg, made $1470-$1480, $3.16$3.37/kg • Top 2-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 482-520kg, achieved $15501600, $3.07-$3.21/kg • Top line of Angus and Angus Hereford heifers, 370kg, sold for $3.05/kg • Most yearling steers weighed 220-340kg and traded at $3.50$3.80/kg • Most yearling steers weighed 200-360kg and sold for $3.00-$3.25/ kg One of the big days on the BLENHEIM sale calendar is the Spring Cattle Fair, held last Wednesday at the Riverlands selling complex. Around 850 cattle were penned, with the yarding predominantly home-bred traditional cattle that are farmed to this fair, PGG Wrightson agent Peter Barnes reported. Plenty of enquiry prior to the sale resulted in a small but determined buying bench, that spread from Taumarunui in the North Island through to Canterbury. Two-year steers made up a quarter of the yarding and sold to Nelson and local buyers. Most traded at $1200-$1300, though prices did range from $960 to $1600. Quality was good in the heifer pens, where around 100 were penned. Some headed to Wairarapa, while the balance stayed local. Yearling steers ranged from $785-$1200, though a line of 37

Temuka store cattle sale • Two-year Hereford-Friesian steers, 420-535kg, firmed 10c/kg to $3.07/kg • Two-year Friesian-cross heifers, 440-464kg, made $2.57-$2.67/kg • Yearling Friesian bulls, 270-305kg, dropped to $2.51/kg • Yearling Hereford-Friesian heifers, 265-275kg, were $2.91/kg • Autumn-born 1-year beef-dairy heifers were $2.80/kg The biggest gallery in some time turned out at TEMUKA last Thursday, where better quality cattle sold well and firmed in price, although poorer quality struggled. Hereford-Friesian comprised half of the two-year heifer section and sold in two cuts. Better lines, 403-440kg, were $2.94-$2.95/kg and lesser types, 390-393kg, $2.80-$2.82/ kg. Two-thirds of the yearling steers were Hereford-Friesian and prices rose, with one 252kg pen reaching $3.52/kg, while mid-range examples of were mostly $3.06/kg to $3.26/kg. Yearling Friesia bulls, 270-305kg, dropped 6c/kg to $2.51/kg.

OTAGO Balclutha sheep • Heavy prime hoggets eased slightly to $170-$200 • Younger ewes with lambs-at-foot managed $114, all counted A small yarding was penned at BALCLUTHA last Wednesday, with most easing on last sale. A couple of larger lines of prime hoggets increased numbers, though traded at a slight discount, with light to medium types earning $130-$160. Store hoggets couldn’t reach the highs of last sale trading at $100. Central Otago spring cattle fair • Top line of 2-year traditional steers made $1910 • Top line of yearling Charolais steers, 426kg, made $3.42/kg • Yearling Angus-Hereford, 388kg, achieved $3.60/kg 1000 traditional steers were penned at WAIPIATA sale yards, for the 5th annual Central Otago Spring Cattle Fair. It is a fair that is growing in popularity, with return vendors and buyers, Carrfields agent Tony Arscott reported, as it is one of the few to offer up high volumes of quality stationbred traditional steers. The yarding was broken down into 600 2-year steers and 400 yearling steers, most of which were Angus and Hereford breeding, with a few exotic cattle as well. The 2-year steers ranged from $1650-$1910, $3.20-$3.30/kg, while the yearlings sold for $1000-$1460, $3.60-$3.70/kg. Buyers were mainly from the wider Canterbury area, and strong competition meant the market was firm on 2018.

SOUTHLAND Lorneville cattle and sheep • Heavy prime hoggets softened to $186-$195 • Heavy ewes improved to $202-$236 • Medium cows, 450-500kg, lifted to $1.70-$1.90/kg • Two-year traditional steers, 431-471kg, sold well at $3.04-$3.05/kg • Weaner Friesian bulls earned $400 Ewe demand continued strongly at LORNEVILLE last Tuesday, with top ewes lifting and medium to lighter types steady at $142-$186. Medium prime hoggets earned $168-$176, while medium to good two-tooths traded at $166-$236. Medium to heavy rams made $60-$100, whilst ewes with lambs-at-foot softened slightly to $109-$110 all counted. Good prime steers lifted to $3.00-$3.05/kg, with heifers at $2.85-$3.00/kg. Good cows held at $1.95-$2.05/ kg, though lighter types softened to $1.30-$1.50/kg. Two-year South-Devon cross steers, 435kg, fetched $3.05/ kg, and yearling Hereford-cross, 266kg, traded at $670.

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ROSPECTS for a $7-plus farmgate milk price in 2020 have firmed with the lower New Zealand dollar value and a spring production peak that might not reach any great height. ASB senior rural economist Nathan Penny believes the NZ dollar falling below US63c is worth up to 50c/kg to the milk price after the delay of the Fonterra currency hedging policy works through. Fonterra was already forecasting $6.25-$7.25/kg ahead of any currency boost and ASB has pegged $7 before the possible currency upside, Penny said. Participants in the Global Dairy Trade market are still waiting to see if the NZ spring peak is going to exceed last season’s but that is unlikely.

After production to the end of August was 3.8% ahead, milk flows in September and October were reportedly variable. “If the spring peak proves to be flat compared with last season then global dairy prices are likely to firm for the rest of 2019,” Penny said. The most-recent GDT result was a 0.5% increase in the price index compared with the first October sale, incorporating skim milk powder up 2.4% and whole milk powder unchanged. After the GDT sale the NZX milk price predictor rose 14c to $7.20 and the spot price is now at $7.65. The spot price indicates what the milk price would be if October 15 GDT prices were achieved over the entire dairy season at latest exchange rates. Westpac’s NZ strategy head Imre Speizer said WMP prices have risen 6% since July. The GDT price index is up 21% since this time last year.

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“NZ growing conditions in September and October have been mixed with soil moisture around average but temperatures in the South Island below average. “Constrained supply is one possible explanation for futures markets consistently predicting moderate gains in GDT auction prices,” Speizer said.

WHILE it has been a wet and miserable week in Hawke’s Bay there will be very few farmers complaining about it with the timing perfect for most. Grass markets are now kicking in on cattle but the real talking point was the seemingly impossible levels store lambs found themselves at last Wednesday at Stortford Lodge. Anyone with an interest in store lambs would have been keen to know how these first lambs fared, with the only lambs to be offered previously being 260 at Feilding. The consignment was close to 1400 Southdown-cross mixed-sex and while it was pouring down at the sale and the lambs were soaked the strength of their Southdown frames showed through. They sold in five cuts and buyers from Taupo, Hawke’s Bay and Manawatu had all made the trip to try to secure some of them. I’ve followed the sales for a few years and I have never seen lambs hit $165 so early in the season but that was exactly where the first pen finished. The top two pens were about 30kg LW and made $157.50$165 while the balance sold for $131-$143.50, leaving many seasoned buyers shaking their heads in disbelief. The second and third cuts were secured by a buyer from Taupo, who bought the lambs last year and was so pleased with them that he was first on the rails this year. The big question on everyone’s lips is are these prices a one-off, reflecting a bit of excitement the lambs are finally arriving? History does suggest these early lambs always make a premium and looking back over AgriHQ records to 2015 that has been a very clear pattern, with more realistic levels relative to schedule settled at as the season progresses. So, before anyone gets too excited it is likely prices will not be sustained but it sure is a great start to the season – the best seen in fact. The real flow of new season lambs does not kick in until November but perhaps there are now a few more farmers looking out the window contemplating the possibility of selling store. suz.bremner@globalhq.co.nz

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LLAN and Leeann Woodrow describe their Perendale ewe hoggets as peas in a pod. And the judges must have agreed when they presented them with the phenotype award in the 2019 New Zealand Ewe Hogget competition. “They’re a similar size and shape – they’re very even. “We’re always trying to improve the flock so it’s nice to get the recognition,” Allan said. The Woodrows have had a lot of success with their Perendales over the years, winning the breed section of the NZ Ewe Hogget competition six times since 2007. They have also been runners-up three times, including this year, and have missed out on the top award each time by only the slimmest of margins. But after 12 years of putting their hoggets up for scrutiny they have decided to bow out of the competition. “We went into the competition this year knowing it would be our last time. “It was always our goal to win it but we’re still pretty happy with what we’ve achieved,” Allan said. The Woodrows’ lounge is full of the many plaques and certificates they have received over the years for their ewe hoggets. “The competition has really made us fine tune our selection process and we keep only the very best ewe lambs,” Allan said. Allan’s father George introduced Perendales to their Waikana Valley property, near Mataura, in the early 1970s. He had previously farmed Romneys but decided he wanted a breed of sheep that

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Five years ago they started putting their hoggets over 50kg to the ram and are now achieving 102% lambing unshepherded. While most of the ewes go to Perendale rams their less productive ewes go to Suftex rams. The Woodrows have been buying their Perendale rams from the same breeder for more than 40 years. George Woodrow started buying rams from the Ayers’ Kamahi stud at Wyndham in the mid 1970s. Allan and his brothers Ian and Colin, who also farm Perendales, get all their maternal rams from the Ayers. They get the top pick and between them they take home up to 20 rams a year. The Woodrows like big-boned, robust, wellmuscled rams with high meat yields and good wool. They select the rams firstly on eye appraisal and use SIL records to select those with the best genetics. “Our ram breeder doesn’t give the rams any special treatment and their property is exposed to the elements, which enhances the stock’s survivability,” Allan said. The Woodrows have increased the longevity of their flock by grass wintering them and putting only the hoggets on crop. That means they don’t need to keep as many ewe lambs and can apply good selection pressure to their replacements. “We have ewes that are having their ninth lambing this year.” Despite its low value wool is still important to the Woodrows, who won the ewe hogget competition’s wool quality award in 2016. They are fussy about their wool clip and

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UR aim at Double Hill is to achieve a balance between getting the most out of our sheep and cattle production while maintaining an achievable workload. It is one of the primary reasons we run Perendales as our breed of choice. We believe whatever breed we run must be resilient, fit and easycare. The Perendales are free-moving sheep capable of maintaining condition in harsh conditions. That coupled with their ability to achieve a reasonable level of production with no assistance over lambing make them a very good fit for Double Hill. Our selection process for buying rams and classing ewes is first and foremost based on having the necessary constitution to comply with this. This year we are carrying about 8700 ewes and 2500 hoggets into winter and 70% of the ewes will be mated to a Perendale ram with the rest going to a terminal sire. And 60% of the hogget flock will be mated this year, at an average of 46kg. They will all be mated to a Cheviot ram for their ease of lambing. The number of hoggets that go to the ram is flexible depending on the season, however, we have set a target of mating 90% of them at a minimum weight of 40kg. Most of the ewes are mated on hill country saved up from February 20, with the exception of any lighter condition ewes and the hoggets. They are put to the ram on the developed flats. Ewes will stay on hill country till scanning in late July. Then multiplebearing ewes will winter on brassica crops and singles will stay on the hill. Hoggets begin on rape pre0scanning and are fed right through regardless of whether they scan as a twin or single. A quick run-down of the scanning results for 2018: • Old ewes – 197% (15% triplets) • Mixed age ewes – 175% (5% triplets) • Two-tooth ewes – 160% • Hoggets – 90% Our dry rate in the mixed age ewes is about 1.8%. We are fairly happy with these

results with the exception of the two-tooths. Another target for us is to lift them from 160% to consistently scanning 170%. We have been experimenting with different management techniques to achieve that. We supplement light two-tooths with sheep nuts and keep mating mobs on the hill to fewer than 800, which is smaller than they have been in the past.

The Perendales are free-moving sheep capable of maintaining condition in harsh conditions. The wintering system, priority feeding ewes to keep condition on them and reducing the death rate, is working well. Last year the winter losses in all our ewes was only 1.3%. All hill country is destocked from August to be spelled for lambing. Some ewes will begin lambing in late September but most will lamb from October 8. Last season, the overall lambing was 135% across the entire flock, including hoggets. The goal with our lamb crop is to target an on-farm sale at the end

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Rangiatea Perendale and Cheviot genetics are proud to be associated with Double Hill and the Hutchinson family and congratulate them on being awarded the Sir Geoffrey Peren Cup (2019)

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AVERAGE ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH MAKE PROGRESS WITH US.

CHEVIOT RAMS available for hogget mating

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

ASHBY STUD

Do you want Production Performance from your Perendales?

Perendale & Cheviot Also Meat breed sires and Hereford Bulls

“HAUTERE PERENDALES”

SIL recorded

Born and reared under Perendale conditions on the eastern side of the Puketoi range. To ensure genetic gain in both the Hautere flock and also Ram Clients flocks, only 2th ewes and rams with a “NZ Maternal Worth plus Meat Index” above 2000 on the “SIL NZGE Across Flock Analysis” are retained or offered for sale. Constant genetic improvement results in the bar continually being raised.

Stock History

• Over 50 years of stockmanship Must Have • Practical experience • True Breed Type, including wool • Common sense • Be structurally sound with good That’s the basics bone • Good fertility, or they are culled

All enquiries to Gilbert and Diana Timms P: 06 362 7829 I M: 027 348 3365 E: ashbystud@xtra.co.nz

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Our History

John Henricksen Ph 06 374 3888 Korora Road R.D.1 Dannevirke j.henricksen@inspire.net.nz

Also “Highland Cheviots”. The ideal sire for hogget mating

Ram sale moves after 25 years

WENTY-FIVE years ago a commercial farmer asked the late Jeff Proffit, who was manning the Perendale stand at the National Fieldays, where he could buy good Perendale rams at auction. So a committee of Proffit, Gilbert Timms, Graeme Maxwell and David Welch was formed. Taihape showgrounds was chosen as a central venue for the sale. All North Island registered Perendale breeders were invited to send rams for sale from the top 20% of their flock. A limit of 100 rams was set for the sale and total clearance was achieved many times. In later years with the fall of ewe numbers nationwide and the decrease of breeders the number of rams offered for sale dropped to 70. The facilities at Taihape were getting to the stage where the odd ram escaped and it was decided to shift to the Te Kuiti sale yards where rams will be under cover for inspection. There will be rams for sale from breeders who have been testing for facial eczema tolerance for up to 16 years and Ramguard testing to .47. Worm tolerance is another trait some breeders are testing for, with one breeder now Wormfec Gold accredited. There will be rams to suit every farmer’s breeding objectives so come along to the 26th North Island Perendale ram sale on November 18 at the Te Kuiti sale yards and buy the rams to suit your needs.

There will be a catalogue available and online at www.perendalenz.com after November 12 or contact sale secretary Philip Brandon on 07 873 6313.

Hazeldale

PERENDALES

Bred to Yield

� High Fertility � Well Muscled � High Yielding � Excellent Survivability InquIrIes Welcome: richard & Kerry France 1419 Moa Flat Road RD 2, Tapanui New Zealand Ph/Fax: (03) 204 8339 email: france@yrless.co.nz

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Suffolk and Suftex terminal 2ths are available

PERENDALE 2TH RAMS TESTED .57 ROMDALE 2TH RAMS TESTED .57

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RAUPUHA

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NZ Maternal Worth + Facial Eczema (MW+X)

SIL Dual Purpose Facial Eczema

MARK THIS OPEN DAY DATES ON YOUR CALENDAR:

Tuesday 5th November at SH3, Mahoenui. 1-3pm

– ON FARM SALE – 175 rams Comprising of Perendale Romdale Suffolk Suftex & new Beltex x 2th rams

Tuesday 19th November 2019

at 12 Noon

Russell and Mavis Proffit: 2033 State Highway 3, RD, Mahoenui 3978 Cellphone: 027 355 2927 Email: rnmwproffit@xtra.co.nz • www.raupuhastud.co.nz