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Forestry rule change welcomed Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz

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HANGES to rules that allow foreign investors to buy farmland for conversion to forestry will affect about 20% of property purchases, a recent study shows.

While welcoming Government plans to change Overseas Investment Act (OIA) rules, farming leaders say it doesn’t address soaring carbon prices, the underlying driver of farmland conversion to forestry.

The Government intends changing the OIA to require overseas investors buying land for conversion to production forestry to be subject to a higher approval process.

At present applications are considered under a streamlined special forestry test.

Associate Finance Minister David Parker announced that these applications will now be subject to the higher standard Benefit to NZ test, the same test required for any land purchase by a foreign investor.

The special forestry test will remain for foreign investors wishing to buy existing production forests.

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A report earlier this month on forestry, land-use and carbon by former Hastings mayor and MP Lawrence Yule for B+LNZ and 15 councils, highlighted the threat of land-use decisions driven by the carbon price.

Yule’s research revealed 14,000ha of sheep and beef farmland was bought for conversion to forestry in the first half of 2021.

Discussions with real estate agents show that the total area of livestock farmland bought in 2021 for conversion to forestry will exceed 36,000ha, more than was bought in 2019.

McIvor said Yule will now look at creating policy solutions that will enable a more strategic approach to forestry.

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Immigration reset balance questioned Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz STAFF-SHORT regional industries are unlikely to benefit from the Government’s soon to be announced immigration rebalance.

Observers say changes to immigration policy, which the Government says will address what it claims is a low-wage, lowproductivity model, are designed not to add to urban housing shortages and roading congestion in key population areas rather than alleviate regional labour shortages.

Immigration lawyer Ben De’Ath said briefings and documentation he has viewed show the immigration rebalance has aims other than to reset the country’s migrant settings.

What they don’t see is the pain of employers unable to get staff, the poaching of workers at inflated wage rates and having to pay high wages to relatively unskilled workers.

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“The rebalance lacks any geographical or industry focus and given the primary driver is remuneration based, there has not been the necessary diligence around what industries and geographical areas that have a shortage of human capacity and why,” De’Ath said.

Migrants heading to work in the regions will have no impact on housing shortages or the road congestion, he said.

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FLAWED: By using the blunt tool of remuneration to drive immigration policy, observers say migrants will continue to be attracted to New Zealand’s main centres.

spokesperson Erica Stanford understands employers willing to pay migrants 1.5 or twice the median wage will be able to offer a pathway to residency.

Those unable or unwilling to pay those wages will have to be part of Government-approved sector agreements, which Stanford believes there will be few transport, dairy and healthcare among them.

“The reset is aimed at severely restricting the number of migrants that can come into NZ and also centralising decisions about who decides who can come in,” Stanford said.

It will also enable the Government to pick the sectors to which it will grant exemptions and control how many migrants they will allow.

Stanford believes the Government views as a success the increase in wages over the last two years due to the absence of significant migration.

“What they don’t see is the pain of employers unable to get staff, the poaching of workers at inflated wage rates and having to pay high wages to relatively unskilled workers,” she said.

She said NZ’s reputation as a destination for skilled workers has been tarnished by processing delays to residency claims, an inability to have family join migrants and travel restrictions due to covid preventing visits to offshore families.

“Highly skilled migrants will go elsewhere,” she warned.

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immigration, agrees, saying in contrast to NZ, Australia is offering migrant workers who live and work in centres outside the main cities a four-year pathway to residency.

By using the blunt tool of remuneration to drive immigration policy, De’Ath said migrants will continue to be attracted to NZ’s main centres.

Despite training, recruitment programmes and higher wages, sectors such as aged care and dairy in regional areas are still unable to fill gaps in their labour forces, which shows those workers are simply not there.

“It is going to make urban issues a greater problem and not dent rural problems – people in aged care facilities, trucks not

driven and cows not milked,” De’Ath said.

Tightening immigration is also at odds with the Government’s wider aims of doubling exports, which still require lower skilled workers.

Under the policy changes they will be harder to access.

Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi said in a statement that the policy “is part of a transition away from a low-wage, low-productivity economic model”.

The closure of the border due to the pandemic has provided an opportunity to target immigration policy to attract more highly skilled workers.

“In doing so, the Government is aiming to lift working conditions for everyone, to improve career pathways for New Zealanders

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Industry keeps watchful eye on conflict in Ukraine Nigel Stirling nigel.g.stirling@gmail.com IT IS business as usual for now for Fonterra in the important butter market of Russia as the country launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Western countries started rolling out sanctions after Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier recognised eastern parts of Ukraine as independent in a move seen in the West as a prelude to war.

Russian banks, members of the country’s Parliament and a key gas pipeline to Europe

were initially targeted, although tougher sanctions could yet follow.

Russia has historically been one of Fonterra’s top butter markets and the cooperative has a Moscow office, as well as jointly owning a St Petersburg dairy factory with its Russian distributor since 2017.

Last year New Zealand sold $132 million of dairy products to the Russian Federation, down from $195m in 2020 and $201m in 2019.

Fonterra’s director for global stakeholder affairs Simon Tucker said the cooperative would be careful to adhere to any sanctions

CAUTION: Simon Tucker says in some sanctions food is excluded so care needs to be taken to get that right.

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ACTION: Fonterra’s director for global stakeholder affairs Simon Tucker said the cooperative would be careful to adhere to any sanctions imposed by our government.

from the West following financial Russia, it was likely that food imposed by the NZ Government, and travel sanctions against some and pharmaceuticals would although these were likely to be of the invasion’s ring-leaders. be excluded on humanitarian limited.

While NZ food exports were not grounds.

“It is hard to speculate what banned from entering Russia, the will happen next in terms of a then Trade Minister Tim Groser sanctions response,” Tucker said. phoned NZ exporters urging them “In some sanctions situations Russia is a to consider the country’s broader food is excluded so we have to be relatively large dairy fat trade interests and not to take very careful we get that right. market, so disruptions to advantage of the situation by “We will follow any United Nations sanctions, but Russia that market are relevant filling demand previously met by Western food exporters. as a permanent member of the to global trade.

The ban arrived at the (UN) Security Council is unlikely same time as European dairy to make any move to put UN production was exploding sanctions on themselves.”

Simon Tucker in response to the lifting of The Government has copped Fonterra production quota caps by the flak from the National Party for European Union and was a factor blocking legislation drafted by in a reasonably prolonged slump its Foreign Affairs spokesperson in prices.

Furthermore, in the unlikely Gerry Brownlee, which would Tucker was not expecting that event of the UN agreeing on allow NZ to bypass the UN and scenario to be repeated this time impose its own sanctions as many sanctions against Russia, around. it was likely that food and Western countries are now doing.

“Russia is a relatively large pharmaceuticals would be Following Thursday’s invasion, dairy fat market, so disruptions excluded on humanitarian Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta to that market are relevant to grounds, Crewther said. issued a statement saying NZ was global trade, although given the A bigger challenge for the prohibiting the export of goods strong demand dynamic out there dairy industry could present to Russian military and security at the moment, any shocks will itself, however, should Western forces. be relatively easier to absorb at countries impose their own bans The Dairy Companies this stage than it might have the on food exports to Russia.

Association executive director last time that Russia sanctions In the wake of Russia’s invasion Kimberly Crewther said in became a real issue when they of Crimea in 2014, the Kremlin the unlikely event of the UN invaded Crimea,” Tucker said. ordered a ban on food imports agreeing on sanctions against

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Vessel delays at ports remain high Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz GLOBAL shipping delays are unlikely to improve this year.

David Ross, the chief executive of Kotahi, the country’s largest shipping logistics company, says global shipping reliability, a measure of vessels arriving and departing as scheduled, was 32% in December.

This effectively removed 12.4% of vessel capacity from global routes.

“This is due to vessel delays at ports remaining high, sitting at over seven days for the average late vessel,” Ross said.

A shortage of reefer containers will also be an issue for NZ exporters in the first half of

The Maersk Sirius Star service rotation was adjusted in September 2021 to enhance stability, with a new ANZ service, The Polaris, introduced to run alongside it and ensure stable calls to Timaru and a further link to Australia from the South Island.

David Ross Kotahi this year, accentuated by the large volume of dairy, meat and horticulture to be shipped.

“There are strong dairy, meat and horticulture exports for the first half of 2022, which is going to put pressure on reefer availability,” he said.

Congestion and bottlenecks at ports on the US west coast worsened to the point where

PRESSURE: Kotahi chief executive David Ross says demand for dairy, meat and horticulture exports for the first half of 2022 will put pressure on reefer availability.

this month NZ exporters can only secure access to one in four scheduled service sailings.

There are reports more than 100 vessels are waiting to berth at Long Beach California, triple the number of a year ago.

He said delays and port rescheduling means NZ exporters have in the past year or so lost the equivalent of about 35% of shipping capacity to those US ports.

Capacity remains tight on routes with Africa, Middle East, West Asia, US east coast and Australia, with congested shipping schedules between Asia, Australia and Auckland resulting in missed connections and omitted ports.

Issues are also arising – and will continue to do so – from port workers falling ill with covid-19, causing absenteeism which

impacts on the supply chain.

Despite this, he said there has been some improvement.

While most NZ ports were sitting below 30% for schedule reliability in December, performance has improved, especially at the Port of Tauranga, which is at 41.2%.

Ross attributed that improvement to assistance from shipping line Maersk, which has added permanent capacity and changed its port schedule.

“The Maersk Sirius Star service rotation was adjusted in September 2021 to enhance stability, with a new ANZ service, The Polaris, introduced to run alongside it and ensure stable calls to Timaru and a further link to Australia from the South Island,” he said.

“Both the Sirius Star and The Polaris continue to hit 100% of

their berth windows in Lyttelton, ensuring better connections with the Southern Star service to Asia, which has also been a positive.”

He said the shipping challenge will continue due to operational bottlenecks from port congestion.

Looking further out, he said ship building orders are full, but any benefit from increased capacity will not be felt until the end of the year.

Rabobank’s latest NZ Agribusiness Outlook report warns the pandemic will continue to disrupt global food supply chains.

Report co-author Michael Harvey says the emergence and spread of the Omicron variant has caused supply chain issues to food markets, labour shortages and increased inflationary pressure.

Many governments have reinstated containment measures leading to higher supply chain costs on top of rising inflation and challenges keeping product moving.

Harvey warns of the need to watch China’s zero-tolerance covid policy, which potentially could impact consumer demand.

“There is growing concern about the state of the economic recovery in China, which, combined with the strict lockdown policy, is impacting consumer markets there,” Harvey said.

The growth of retail sales in China slowed towards the end of 2021, and while the most recent retail data shows doubledigit growth, when adjusted for inflation, it was a more subdued picture.

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Fonterra lifts forecast to $9.60 Staff Reporter CONTINUED global demand for dairy products has seen Fonterra lift its milk price from $8.90-$9.50/ kg milksolids to $9.30-$9.90/kg MS. This increases the price midpoint by 40 cents to $9.60/kg MS. Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell said the lift reflected the increase in global dairy prices since the previous milk price update in January and good levels of ongoing global demand for dairy.

“Since we last revised our forecast, average whole milk powder prices on GDT have increased 10.3%, while skim milk powder has increased 8.4%. Both products are key drivers of our milk price,” Hurrell said.

“Global demand for dairy remains firm, while global milk supply growth continues to track below average levels. These demand and supply dynamics are supporting the increase in prices.”

down 3.8% compared to last season.

“This reduction in supply reinforces our strategic focus on ensuring our milk is going into the highest value products,” he said.

He said the $9.60/kg MS forecast midpoint was a cash injection of over $14 billion into NZ’s economy through milk price payments alone.

It will be welcome news for farmers who are facing rising costs on-farm, including from inflation and rising interest rates.

“Analysis by Statistics New Zealand shows a number of key farm inputs have experienced significant inflation pressure over the past two years, for example, electricity costs are up 21%, while stock grazing costs are up 36.9%,” he said.

While the higher forecast puts pressure on Fonterra’s margins in consumer and foodservice, prices in its ingredients business remain favourable for milk price and

Analysis by Statistics New Zealand shows a number of key farm inputs have experienced significant inflation pressure over the past two years.

Miles Hurrell Fonterra Milk production in the EU and US continues to be impacted by the high cost of feed and this is not expected to change in the coming months, he said.

New Zealand farmers have experienced challenging weather conditions, which impacted grass growing conditions.

As a result, Fonterra has revised its 2021-22 NZ milk collections forecast to 1480 million kg MS,

STEADY: Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell says firm global demand for dairy products is the cause of its latest milk price forecast. earnings at this stage.

“As a result, our current 2021-22 earnings guidance of 25-35c per share remains unchanged,” he said.

Hurrell said Fonterra was watching closely the impact on demand from rising interest

rates and inflation, increased potential for volatility as a result of high dairy prices, geopolitical issues and economic disruptions from covid-19, particularly as governments manage the rapid spread of the Omicron variant.

Rural broadband gets much-needed boost signed up, 11 are wireless operators spread evenly across provincial New Zealand.

For AmuriNet founder Chris Roberts of North Canterbury, securing a contract through the funding provides a kickstart to his business’ fledgling fibre service.

“It will be covering semi-rural areas initially in the district of Mandeville-Ohoka and should be able to reach about 650 households and businesses. Fibre is an area we have always wanted to move into,” Robert said.

“Fibre in rural (areas) is more expensive to establish than urban, simply because the cost is dependent on the distance between houses and businesses being hooked up.”

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STOKED: Mike Smith said WISPA members are welcoming the injection of funds to improve rural broadband speeds.

THE Government’s latest tranche of funds for rural broadband is giving some wireless operators the opportunity to make the leap into providing fibre for rural customers.

Digital Economy and Communications Minister David Clark has announced an additional $47 million of contracts have been issued to 13 contracted internet providers, with funding aimed specifically at upgrading rural cell towers, expanding fibre and improving wireless coverage.

The funding is part of the Government’s covid response and recovery funding.

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also be stepping into the fibre network as a first-time provider.

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This initiative is a vote of confidence by government in our members.

Mike Smith WISPA Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) spokesperson Mike Smith said the providers are welcoming the recognition of the role they play

in contributing to a robust, highlyconnected rural internet network.

The project should increase the internet speed to 47,000 rural households by 2024.

“This initiative is a vote of confidence by government in our members being able to do the job of getting rural New Zealand connected to quality broadband,” Smith said.

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PGW lays down record numbers Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz RURAL servicing company PGG Wrightson has reported the first half of the 2022 financial year, with record results and an improved guidance for earnings in the full year.

Chair Rodger Finlay said the business is performing extremely well and the earnings guidance before interest, tax, and depreciation (Ebitda) had been increased to $62 million, compared with $56m in the previous financial year.

The half-year results included revenue up 11% to $552.4m, operating Ebitda up 20% to $47.4m and net profit after tax (Npat) up 32% to $22.5m, all compared with the first half of FY21.

Directors decided to pay a fully imputed interim dividend of 14c a share, compared with 12c previously, payable on April 1 and distributing $10m from the company.

Chief executive Stephen Guerin said the record interim results came from very good trading performances in rural retailing and real estate, underpinned by a positive

outlook for commodity prices.

Disruption in international supply chains and volatility in markets, inflationary pressures and a global pandemic were all reasons for caution, but the business was diversified and adaptive.

The retail and water division had 85% of the total revenue and contributed $43.7m Ebitda, up 30%.

Customers are ordering ahead of time, items such as seeds, fencing and fertiliser, while the company has expanded its inventory position by $30m to ease the supply chain risks.

Guerin mentioned agricultural chemicals being in short supply heading into autumn.

Also, the normal practice of three or four store upgrades each year had been delayed by shortages of building materials.

In the agency businesses, real estate had a strong six months over the spring and early summer.

“It is the best result for rural sales we have seen in many years and has been significant in heartland rural areas,” Guerin said.

“Our market share increased throughout the country and noticeably in the South Island.”

RECORDS: PGG Wrightson chief executive Stephen Guerin and chair Rodger Finlay have announced some of the best results ever for the rural servicing company.

Livestock agency work was disrupted by wet weather in the North Island and covid restrictions on sale yards.

“During the period we have continued to reinvest in the business through upgrades to our sale yard network at Masterton and Wellsford and investment in new technologies to assist our agents better service their clients,” he said.

The online platform bidr had an increased user base of 30% after major weekly sales began live streaming.

Guerin drew attention to the

improvements in the company’s website and the refreshed online account services portal that enabled clients access to their account and invoice details.

PGG Wrightson claimed a total shareholder return over the six months of 55%, being the upwards movement in share price, from $3.50 last August to $5.10 at balance date, plus the 14c dividend.

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RST gears up for Omicron Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz THE emergence of covid’s rapidlyspreading Omicron variant has rural communities on high alert as rural support trusts get prepared with a support plan.

Rural Support Trust (RST) national chair Neil Bateup says contingency planning is the absolute first to ensure farm businesses will manage in the event of a rural outbreak.

“If you can run in bubbles that’s good, some large dairy farms will be able to operate in different bubbles but many other sectors and smaller farms can’t do that, so a contingency plan is the absolute first thing all farmers should be doing,” Bateup said.

We are well prepared to walk alongside farmers and growers.

Neil Bateup Rural Support Trust PLAN: In readiness to support farmers and their rural communities, the RST has prepared a farm business continuity plan and Omicron outbreak protocol.

“There needs to be a lot of pragmatic thinking and farmers are good at that – it will be about farmers helping farmers, is there a way a neighbour can help a neighbour, it will be about supporting one another without exposing one another.”

Then there are the linkages into schools, partners and family members in off-farm wider community work.

“Farms will be keeping to their own bubbles as best they can, but there are so many other variables,” he said.

“We expect there will be a number of farms affected before this Omicron outbreak is over.”

In readiness to support farmers and their rural communities, the RST has prepared a farm business continuity plan and Omicron outbreak protocol.

The plan identifies farming as a critical service.

The Government has established a new exemption scheme, with the aim of keeping critical supply chains running through the Omicron variant outbreak.

This gives workers of critical services an exemption from close contact isolation requirements if the business or sole trader is not customer facing and the worker can maintain a “bubble of one” at work, including travel to and from work,” he said.

“Critical services include food production and its supply chain, as well as animal health and welfare.

“Farming comes under this umbrella.”

Workers who contract Omicron or become aware they are a close contact can continue to work as long as they work in a bubble of one.

This means jobs on-farm will be done independent of other jobs to reduce the risk of virus transmission.

Workers must be vaccinated and it must be possible to maintain distance from anyone else, both outdoors and indoors.

Rapid antigen tests (RATs) are not required and if covid positive workers must isolate at home after work.

The RST plan suggests, for a dairy farm under red phase two and three, the whole team is to work in a bubble of one as much as possible to limit transmission due to other risks of contracting the virus such as children at school.

Under red phase two and three, all staff at all times must wear a mask if within four metres of each other or indoors. Under phase one it is masks when indoors.

Physical distancing is four metres under all red phases and two metres under orange.

Task allocation under red phase two and three should be via a check on WhatsApp or a whiteboard. Under red phase one and orange face-to-face with distancing is acceptable.

In all phases keep windows open when able in indoor settings and wait at least five minutes before entering a room that another worker has been in – timing is everything.

Farms are encouraged to display signage to inform visitors of reduced entry while working in red phase two and three with milk tankers, stock trucks, contractors, ensuring physical distancing.

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A fight for survival Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz THE nature of the challenge facing farmers seeking to renew water extraction rights from the Manuherikia River was dramatically illuminated for Anna Gillespie in a conversation with a senior Otago Regional Council manager.

The catchment’s 700 water users had just been told by council staff they were recommending a minimum flow for the river of 1200 litres/sec by 2023, 1500l/sec by 2030, and 2000l/sec by 2037, more than double its current minimum flow.

Gillespie, who farms east of Alexandra and chairs the Manuherikia Catchment Group, was approached by a council manager who commented to the effect that the meeting had gone well.

“I asked her how she had reached that conclusion to which she replied ‘water users now have certainty and can carry on’,” Gillespie said.

Gillespie again asked how she had reached that view given access to water was being further restricted.

“She said ‘well you can install on farm water storage and carry on’,” she said.

Gillespie said that interaction showed some council staff

have little understanding of the practical and economic impact of their decisions.

The river’s current minimum flows are 500l/sec in the headwaters, 1200l/sec at Ophir and 900l/sec at the Alexandra camping ground.

Among the users’ proposals was a minimum flow at the camping ground of 1100l/sec.

Last August councillors rejected the staff recommendation for new minimum flows for the river, citing gaps in the science, specifically hydrology and habitat modelling.

Chair Andrew Noone successfully promoted a motion that excluded any minimum flow levels.

The council has requested the Technical Advisory Group – set up in 2019 to provide information on hydrology, ecology, water quality, farm systems, climate change and future land use in the Manuherikia – provide regular reports on the science required for the catchment.

Gillespie said the council’s approach to science and managing the river differs from users’ whole of river approach.

“What we have come up with is a whole of river plan,” she said.

“The council’s proposed modelling is not viable even with the river in its natural state.”

Scientists and consultants working for water users include modelling of flows from tributaries

feeding the river around, which they have developed a catchment management plan to protect instream values and habitats.

Gillespie said the council’s sole focus is on the minimum flow for the main river.

She said water users are in a fight for their survival and the council’s approach has been aggressive and staff reluctant to listen to the community.

“We’re not just dumb cockies, we’re well-educated,” she said.

“If the council thinks it can railroad us, it will not work.”

Gillespie has a BCom in agriculture and a Masters in Applied Economics in farm management from Lincoln University and her husband Ben, a degree in agriculture science and Masters in agriculture science in plant science from the same university.

“I am really comfortable standing up and addressing a court,” she said.

The tension from the uncertainty of battling the issue has boiled over for some water users, who have confronted council staff to the point where the council has ruled that staff can only visit in pairs.

She said council staff do not realise the stress their actions are placing on water users, to the point where the group has organised special mental health sessions for locals.

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CHALLENGE: Alexandra farmer Anna Gillespie says water users are in a fight for their survival and the regional council’s approach has been aggressive and staff reluctant to listen to the community.

Realising rules governing the taking of water were changing, in 2017, users engaged with the community.

The council subsequently formed the Manuherikia Reference Group (MRG), which was charged with collating all the science on how the catchment functions, but Gillespie said this subsequently became captured by the council.

“It got railroaded by the ORC and all it came out with was idealism not science,” she said.

Water users started preparing their own case, employing consultants, many former council employees and have so far spent over $1 million renewing consents and a further $600,000 preparing cases for other council plans.

The 85km-long Manuherikia River originates in the St Bathans and Hawkdun Range and flows west to Alexandra where it joins the Clutha River.

In 1935, the Falls Dam was built in the headwaters to supplement the Manuherikia River, including for irrigation.

In 1990, the dam was sold to

users and is managed by the Falls Dam Company, which is in turn owned by the four irrigation companies it supplies water to.

Gillespie said logic would suggest increasing storage by lifting the height of the dam, which was investigated in 2011 and deemed too expensive.

Rules also changed, including the council converting deemed permits or mining rights to resource consents.

She said the failed Ruataniwha scheme, which would have flooded adjacent areas, makes the risk of altering the dam too great.

“There are galaxiidae above the dam and while they would relocate, we feel the Department of Conservation would never let it be flooded, even though the area that would be flooded is reverting to wilding trees,” she said.

Gillespie said water users are investing heavily in science and collating evidence.

“You have to know what you are starting with and we don’t have faith the ORC will do it because they won’t,” she said.

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ORC acknowledges past mistakes Neal Wallace neal.wallace@globalhq.co.nz THE Otago Regional Council says it has learnt from earlier disputes with water users and is trying to work more closely with communities as they renew water rights.

Anita Dawe, the council’s policy and planning manager, acknowledges relationships with water users in the Lindis and Manuherikia catchments in Central Otago are strained but she says lessons have been learnt and changes made.

“We have absolutely learnt lessons and are making sure we can do things better,” Dawe said.

The council has taken steps to broaden its pool of expertise, such as employing an economist to provide information on which council can make its decisions.

But, users cannot escape the reality that there has been what she described as a paradigm shift in the management of freshwater with the 2021 National Policy Statement (NPS).

The NPS resets the priority on which decisions are based, demoting the economic consideration of water use behind the health of the river and ecosystem and use for human consumption.

“The NPS does not say do not provide for economic use, it says you must provide for the river first, then drinking water for people and then economic uses,” she said.

She said the new policy has made conversations with existing water users more difficult.

“It does not make conversations any easier but it does provide clarity for everyone,” she said.

“I’m reluctant to use the word help, but it does make it clearer.”

The council’s new Land and Water Regional Plan will be notified by the end of next year but there will be further consultation later this year and in early 2023.

Current discussions are more than just setting minimum flows, but how the public want freshwater to be managed in Otago and consultation on all aspects of the land and water regional plan.

Environment Minister David Parker has criticised the council for the time taken to replace mining privileges granted in the late 1800s with new consents.

Dawe acknowledged that pressure and the fact the regional water plan was overdue being updated, but she says staff resources have been boosted to complete that work.

She insists the council is listening to communities and cites

the much less confrontational interaction with users on the Cardrona and Arrow catchments as discussion begins in renewing consents as evidence of this new approach.

“We have had a couple of reasonably successful community engagements with the Arrow and Cardrona catchments to discuss minimum flows and allocation,” she said.

“There is a general level of acceptance by the communities of where we have come from and where we have got to go.”

That consultation includes taking stock of environmental, economic and community impacts for any changes to conditions and she stresses council staff do not have a monopoly on good ideas.

“It’s important we get as much background information as we can.”

She could not comment on the Manuherikia dispute, saying a technical advisory group is still working with users and the community to try and reduce areas in dispute.

But there is likely to be a gap between what users and interest groups want as a minimum flow and what is seen as necessary for the health of the river.

“The very real question is how we bridge that of which the

STRAINED: Otago Regional Council policy and planning manager Anita Dawe says the new policy has made conversations with existing water users more difficult.

council is very mindful and we are committed to working with the community and bridge any gap,” she said.

She believes it is possible under the new legislation to accommodate water users and still enhance the health of a river, but it will require compromise.

“Once we identify how much a river needs and if there is a shortfall in what is available, then we have to work out how to manage that shortfall and how do we bridge that gap,” she said.

Dawe urges catchment communities still to go through a minimum flow and allocation renewal process, to be involved in the process and to share their expertise and knowledge.

“They know more about their river and may have better information than the council and will be able to talk about the impact on the community,” she said.

“Do not assume we are coming with a predetermined outcome.

“We’re learning too.”

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Slow recovery forecast for a2 Milk Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz

HOLD STEADY: A2 managing director David Bortolussi says the sales outlook has improved but is not expected to translate into higher earnings as the company increases brand reinvestment.

THE a2 Milk Company’s earnings and net profit in the first half of the 2022 financial year were cut in half when compared with the previous corresponding period.

That reflects the company’s share price over the past year, down 48% to $5.70, being the drawn-out tail of an 18-month, $14 decline from its high-flying days in the sharemarket.

During that time a2 Milk has gone from being the largest listed company on the New Zealand Stock Exchange by market capitalisation, at $15 billion, down to $4.5b now.

However, the alternative protein milk company is still profitable and directors maintain that revenue in the 2022 full financial year will be better than FY21.

“Our sales outlook for FY22 has improved but is not expected to translate into higher earnings as we significantly increase brand

reinvestment consistent with our growth strategy,” managing director David Bortolussi said.

The interim report said revenue was marginally down by 2.6% to $660 million, earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) were down 45% to $97.6m and net profit before tax (Npat) down 53% to $56.1m.

The company said it was in a strong position to execute its strategy and deliver revenue growth in FY22 in a challenging and volatile market.

Its main market, sales of infant formula into China by various means and in both China and English labels, has declined by 3.3% by value due to the cumulative effect of a lower birth rate.

The fall was $20m, down to $306m and sales in the Australian and NZ home market were down $30m, due to reduced volume through the daigou trade.

Sales revenue of $38.6m by Mataura Valley Milk (MVM) was

included in the a2 Milk results for the first time.

An Ebitda loss of $10m was reported for the first five months of a2 ownership of MVM. A2-branded whole milk powder production has begun at MVM, but not the infant formula base which continues to be produced by partowned Synlait.

Synlait will report its interim results on April 1.

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Seeka grows profit, looks to diversify operations Hugh Stringleman hugh.stringleman@globalhq.co.nz LISTED produce company Seeka increased net profit by 44% to $23.5 million in the 2021 financial year ended December 31, helped considerably by a court-ordered Psa compensation of $7.6m.

During a very eventful year, Seeka handled 25% more fruit than in 2020 and completed two regional acquisitions and announced a third late in the year, with a total cost of $70m.

It now estimates that it will handle 26% of the national kiwifruit crop this harvest and has secured finance to make upgrades of its packing lines and coolstores.

The KKP post-harvest facility at Maketu, one of 11 New Zealand and one Australian facilities operated by

Seeka, will have $20m spent on a highly automated packline and energyefficient coolstores.

Revenue was up 23% to $310m and earnings were up 32% to $56.8m.

Directors have decided to pay a second 13c dividend for the year and the total of 26c is 2c more than the previous year and represents about 5% net yield on shareholder capital.

Chief executive Michael Franks said the active growth strategy through acquisitions would lift shareholder value and returns on capital employed.

“By becoming bigger and more diverse, Seeka is building a robust, sustainable business to deliver performance to shareholders, employees and our supply chain partners,” Franks said.

“We are excited by the progress we have made in FY21, which has grown our fruit supply base by more than 25%

and look forward to tangible benefits being generated for stakeholders in FY22.”

Orcharding on 1500ha of leased and managed kiwifruit, avocado, kiwiberry and citrus blocks generated $77m, 25% of total revenue, and earnings of $5m.

These are 15% of group assets, valued at $74m.

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Post-harvest facilities now are valued at $316m, 66% of the group assets.

In Australia fruit revenue was $14m and $48m of assets are 10% of Seeka’s total, being 275ha of owned, leased and managed kiwifruit, nashi and pear orchards.

The company’s share price has remained steady around $5 over the past year, having put on $1 the previous year.

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Time to rekindle NZ-India trade talks Nigel Stirling nigel.g.stirling@gmail.com A MEAT industry leader wants to see the Government do more to restart trade talks with India after Australia took a significant step forward in its own negotiations for a free trade deal.

Australia and India last month swapped offers on reducing tariffs on goods traded between the two countries.

Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan said the negotiations were his top priority and he was phoning his Indian counterpart every week to get the deal over the line by the end of this year.

New Zealand, which kicked off negotiations for its own free trade deal with India in 2010, has not held a negotiating round in six years.

The talks came to a halt in 2015 after India baulked at NZ’s demands to scrap tariffs of up to 60% on imported milk powder.

India was part of early negotiations for the massive Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership trade deal, which includes China, NZ and Australia and 13 other mainly South East Asian countries.

But it pulled out of those talks before they concluded in late 2020.

Tehan said Australia accepted India was reluctant to increase dairy imports and had not made those demands in their talks which started a year after NZ began their own negotiations.

There were not the same sensitivities for India surrounding sheepmeat however, and the Australians were pushing for tariff reductions.

Alliance Group chair Murray Taggart would like to see NZ follow fast behind Australia in rekindling its own talks with the Indians.

The Invercargill-based meat processor has been a trailblazer for the NZ meat industry in India over the last few years through its partnership with meat marketer Quality NZ (QNZ), which it owns with a group of former NZ cricketers.

Capitalising on the profile in India of former Black Caps skippers Brendon McCullum, Stephen Fleming and Daniel Vettori, QNZ was set up nearly a decade ago to promote NZ lamb to the cricket-mad nation of 1.3 billion people.

Alliance has been its sole supplier of high-quality lamb cuts and took a 10% stake in the company in 2020.

Taggart said while sales had been growing before the

OPPORTUNITIES: Alliance Group chair Murray Taggart believes New Zealand should make trade negotiations with India a priority to maximise the market’s potential. pandemic, they had only ever reached the low millions of dollars.

That was because the high average tariff of 36% on sheepmeat had restricted QNZ to selling to five-star hotels and high-end restaurants, which offered more limited opportunity in terms of the sales growth that could be achieved.

“We are playing in the top end of that market where it is a less price sensitive segment and you can pay the tariff and still get into the market,” Taggart said.

“As you get into cheaper cuts it obviously is a bigger chunk of the market, but people become more price sensitive and the tariff has a big impact.”

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He said Alliance was as confident as it had ever been about the market’s long-term potential.

It is an opportunity for NZ that can’t be ignored.

Murray Taggart Alliance “For sheepmeat we see no reason why India could not be in 20 years like China,” he said.

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needed to play its part in getting trade talks moving again.

While former Prime Minister John Key travelled to India in 2011 and again in 2016 it has not warranted a visit from Jacinda Ardern while she has been in charge.

Since she has been Prime Minister, Ardern has made travel to the UK and the EU a priority as the Government seeks to wrap up trade deals there.

“At the moment there is a lot of focus going on to the UK and EU FTAs, and rightly so,” he said.

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Covid prompts new biosecurity focus Richard Rennie richard.rennie@globalhq.co.nz DESPITE the slump in passenger arrivals relieving some pressure on airport biosecurity staff, consistently high freight volumes have prompted a reallocation of MPI’s border resources amid new import threats.

Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) northern regional commissioner Mike Inglis said despite disruptions to supply chains, sea cargo volumes into New Zealand have remained relatively consistent over the past two years. In the meantime, airfreight, which took a hit early on in the pandemic, has continued to increase as freight companies explore different logistics pathways.

The volumes have been prompted by significant lifts in online purchasing. Mail volume in the fourth quarter of 2021 was reported as the highest of all time, the result of $2.5 billion spent

online, 45% higher than the year before.

Inglis gave an outline of emerging biosecurity challenges from the new covid environment in a webinar hosted by the Tauranga Moana Biosecurity Capital initiative.

In response to the shift in purchase behaviour and ensuing pressure on border freight biosecurity, investment has been made in innovative 3D AI scanning technology and a new NZ Post $100 million-plus mail centre at Wiri has been fast-tracked and scheduled for opening next year.

“We will be building in capacity for the auto-detection of certain threats, including fruits and plant material,” Inglis said.

Five new machines in Auckland operating are also backed up by a team of sniffer dogs as the range of imported risks continues to grow.

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RISK: A significant import risk that has arisen over the past few years is from seed imports, often touted through online gardening websites and magazines.

eight times more effective than 2D scanning, but some items like seeds can prove problematic for detection.

A significant import risk that has arisen over the past few years is from seed imports, often touted through online gardening websites and magazines.

We are getting increased incursions from China. But we are also finding ships’ captains are flagging early on any detection prior to arrival.

Mike Inglis MPI Inglis said a focus on working with e-commerce platforms to remove seeds from appearing in searches with a NZ URL and campaigns on Facebook has helped significantly reduce this threat.

Issuing significant fines for recidivist importers has also been a deterrent.

Fraudulent documentation has also been an issue, with importers issuing false fumigation certificates; 275 fraudulent documents have been detected at the border since 2019.

With the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) season now in full swing, 55 detections have been made so far this year, up from the 42 this time last year.

“We are getting increased incursions from China. But we are also finding ships’ captains are flagging early on any detection prior to arrival,” he said.

In 2018, the detection of over 100 of the bugs on a ship discharging in Auckland had MPI direct the ship to reload and be directed to Australia for fumigation.

To date this year, no live stink bugs had been detected at Port of Tauranga.

Vehicles are often a prime item BMSBs will enter the country and MPI has been trialling inspection

STEADY: MPI northern regional commissioner Mike Inglis says despite disruptions to supply chains, sea cargo volumes into New Zealand have remained relatively consistent. robots to check the undersides of imports.

“We have used it for 700 inspections so far and generally it has worked well,” he said.

Working with Australian counterparts, MPI is also working on sniffer technology that can detect volatile chemicals exuded by high-risk pests, and between the two countries algorithms are being developed for this technology.

Recognising the value of having cruise ships return to port cities

while reassessing the biosecurity risks they pose, Inglis said it was highly likely next summer will witness their return to some extent.

Taking advantage of the spell in arrivals, MPI has been working to make the accreditation process for cruise operators more robust.

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CRV open new lab to meet demand Staff Reporter DAIRY genetics company CRV has opened a new sexed semen processing facility at its Bellevue facility, southeast of Hamilton.

The new laboratory is equipped with IntelliGen technology and is the only commercial laserablation semen sexing technology available in key global markets.

CRV managing director James Smallwood said IntelliGen technology’s process for developing sexed bovine genetics is gentler on the sperm cells than traditional sexed semen processes.

The technology does not subject semen cells to the high pressures, electric currents and shear forces that are used in the traditional sexed semen technology, which reduces stress on the cells as they are processed.

“The innovative technology we’ll be using at Bellevue means we can provide farmers with a high-quality sexed product to help them maximise their profitability and achieve genetic gains faster and in a more efficient way,” Smallwood said.

The process puts the semen through a quality control process to make sure it is viable and motile. The semen cells are then

loaded onto the technology platform where the sex skew ratio is identified in the sample.

A sperm cell containing female DNA is heavier and more dense than male DNA. When cells are passing by detection laser, the software can then detect the difference in DNA content.

The system will then identify the female cells and use another laser to inactivate the unwanted cells.

INTELLIGENT TECH: CRV’s new facility at Bellevue uses IntelliGen technology to process sexed semen for the dairy industry.

We’ve seen demand for sexed straws continue to grow year-on-year.

James Smallwood CRV The desired cells and the inactivated cells are combined and included in the straw. Cells are prepared with the right buffers for freezing and packaged at the right concentration.

The straws are then frozen.

Each batch must pass stringent quality control criteria and is then ready for transport to customers on-farm.

The new facility will enable CRV to meet the growing demand from farmers and overseas markets for its sexed semen, which has tripled since last season.

That rise in demand is a result of farmers looking to accelerate their herds’ genetic gain and reduce bobby calf numbers.

He described the sexed semen technology as ‘precision breeding’.

“This approach means we are helping farmers select the right mix of sexed semen, conventional

semen and dairy beef sires to breed better replacements, higher-value dairy beef calves and reduce the number of bobby calves,” he said.

“We’ve seen demand for sexed straws continue to grow year-onyear. For herds with good fertility management, using sexed semen from the very best bulls on your best cows is the most effective and fastest way to get ahead.”

If farmers use sexed semen,

they are committing to those genetics being in the herd for eight years, because they are unlikely to get a bobby calf.

“The resulting heifer calves will be the future of their herd.

So, it makes sense to spend time selecting the right genetics,” he said.

CRV’s new facility is EUcertified, which will allow the company to increase exports to the growing grass-fed genetics market in Europe.

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Venison prices on track for recovery Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz VENISON prices are tracking up, with schedules at their highest since the onslaught of covid.

Deer Industry New Zealand (DINZ) chief executive Innes Moffatt says at $7.80 a kilogram venison is fetching its highest price since early 2020 when the impact of covid crashed the market.

We believe the days of lock-downs are behind us.

Rhys Griffiths DINZ The recovery has been driven by a good 2021 game season in Europe that recorded good sales and some optimism for the year ahead.

Successful market development activities in China and the United States, together with the recovery of the foodservice sector in the US, have also contributed to the recovery.

The recovery is expected to continue throughout this year with the annual spring peak pricing forecast to reach near precovid levels, Moffat said.

Latest statistics bear this out, with overall exports of venison reaching 14,762 tonnes in the year end December 31, 2021, up from 11,793 tonnes in 2020.

This reflects the management of venison stocks in NZ at the end of 2020 and its sale during 2021.

Sales to China increased from 1120 tonnes in 2020 to 1920 tonnes in 2021.

US sales reached 3600 tonnes, up 1000 tonnes on the previous year.

He said the US has long been an important foodservice market for NZ venison, but until two years ago NZ venison did not

have a significant retail or online presence there.

As part of the deer industry’s covid recovery strategy, the five venison companies prioritised North American retail and online market development, with all companies now having a much bigger customer base there.

“Direct to consumer and online sales took a while to get moving, but the volumes companies are now selling through these channels, alongside the new retail business, will start making a material difference to the returns to deer farmers,” Moffat said.

Demand has recovered from foodservice in the US, as well as NZ’s traditional European markets.

“It’s important that the industry keeps investing in these new channels so we have a more balanced portfolio and reduce the risks of the booms and busts that affect food exporters,” he said.

Shipping delays mean the industry is not seeing the volume of chilled venison exports it had

GOOD RESULT: DINZ markets manager Rhys Griffiths says the season has been positive in terms of farm gate returns.

prior to covid, which is currently limiting the upside while airfreight remains limited and expensive.

Industry is also very mindful that covid has not gone away.

“It could affect processing throughput here in NZ and market access in some countries, but we believe the days of lockdowns are behind us,” he said.

Velvet season ends strongly Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz

GOOD RESULT: DINZ markets manager Rhys Griffiths says the season has been positive in terms of farm gate returns.

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THE velvet season has closed on a strong note, with prices for Chinese grades especially finishing on a high.

Deer Industry New Zealand (DINZ) markets manager Rhys Griffiths says the 2021-22 season has been positive in terms of farm gate returns, with prices continuing to firm as the season progressed. Chinese grades in particular ended the season very strongly.

Meanwhile, shipping has been a nightmare for processors and exporters.

Obtaining containers and keeping staff free of covid has been a concern, exacerbated by the covid-related closure of Dalian port for several weeks at the height of the season.

Dalian is the gateway to NZ’s biggest velvet market, the only

port in China that’s currently able to handle imports of deer velvet.

Most of the Korean grades have now been dried and shipped, along with a large proportion of the spiker and regrowth destined for consumption in China.

Korea Ginseng Corp (KGC), the velvet industry’s largest healthy food partner, has created a buzz for NZ velvet-based products in Taiwan, ramping up its promotions of products in a new market for velvet health foods.

KGC recommended the new product as the perfect Chinese New Year gift for the elderly.

They also claim it will be helpful for anyone needing a boost, such as people doing heavy exercise like mountain climbing or running and people feeling run down from overwork.

“What’s particularly pleasing is that many of KGC’s promotions,

along with those of other companies, feature the NZ origin of the velvet,” Griffiths said.

Further abroad in New York, KGC has opened a Ginseng Museum Café concept store, providing an opportunity to educate New Yorkers about red ginseng.

This also showcases NZ velvetbased products.

What’s particularly pleasing is that many promotions feature the NZ origin of the velvet.

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Arable faces emissions challenges Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz THE diversity of arable farming systems is complicating the understanding of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions pricing options.

The Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) last year developed E-Check, a simple arable specific GHG calculator to enable arable growers to work out farm emissions.

FAR also provided guidance on a range of mitigation strategies.

But given the huge variation in the sector, nothing is straightforward, FAR environment senior researcher Dirk Wallace said.

“The big challenge is the multiple processes of arable farm systems that make it impossible to provide generic estimates of the likely cost of the greenhouse gas emissions pricing options for any one business,” Wallace said.

The big challenge is the multiple processes of arable farm systems.

Dirk Wallace FAR A big component of that comes with finishing stock.

A number of options have been batted around and what is clear is that the majority of farmers want what is easiest to implement and, on the ground, what gives them the best deal.

“At the moment they are not the same thing and with the huge variation in the sector from being crops focused to such a range of livestock integration, there is not one size that fits more than one,” he said.

Wallace urged farmers to know their own farm’s emission number.

“I really encourage farmers to get involved in the consultation,” he said.

“The best thing to do is work out your own on farm number,

DAMAGE: FAR chief executive Alison Stewart says the arable sector will not become collateral damage in the Government’s push to reduce emissions from New Zealand’s livestock sectors.

look at the two options and figure out how they will affect you and your farm and then fill out the survey to tell He Waka Eka Noa (HWEN) what you think.”

In the meantime, FAR has conducted some arable-specific modelling work revealing that financial implications for individual farms will vary hugely depending on the degree of livestock in the farm system.

It is also clear that arable farms will not have the same sequestration offsetting opportunities as beef and sheep farmers and will not be able to enter into collectives to gain emission reduction rewards in the same way as dairy farmers.

The best way forward for arable growers will be to optimise nitrogen fertiliser use efficiency and implement good management practices around residue management.

This will keep nitrous oxide emissions and associated cost as low as possible.

The decision to include livestock, or not, will balance out the increased emissions cost

with the revenue gained from the livestock and the associated soil benefits of having a restorative pastoral phase in the farm system.

Modelling shows that GHG emissions from arable systems typically range from under 1000 kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions a hectare to 5500kg CO2e/ha.

More animals mean more emissions, with modelling suggesting that most of the emissions from a higheremitting mixed arable system, 4000kg CO2e/ha or more, will be associated with livestock.

HWEN modelling of the cost of emissions under the ETS backstop option for a 250ha irrigated mixed arable farm in Mid Canterbury, incorporating 2850 stock units (215kgN/ha), in 2025 would be $7502 cost to the farm and in 2030, $24,358, with an emission reduction of 2.4% in 2025 and 7.8% in 2030.

Modelling for the same farm under the farm-level split-gas option landed at $4301 ($17/ha) in 2025 and $13,994 ($56/ha) in

2030, with emission reductions at 1% and 3.9% respectively.

Under the processor hybrid option, the farm cost would be $7502 ($30/ha) in 2025 and $24,358 ($97/ha) in 2030, with emission reductions at 2.1% and 7.2%.

The difference in cost between the two options comes with the farm-level levy calculating livestock emissions for the period the animals are on-farm, whereas the processor-level levy calculates livestock emissions in kilograms of meat produced, meaning the arable farmer finishing or grazing stock will pay for emissions for the animal from its birth to death.

A key feature of the farmlevel option is farms calculate their short and long-lived gas emissions through a single calculator, with actual on-farm emissions determining payment rather than using national averages.

On-farm efficiencies and mitigations would then be recognised as they become available.

A split-gas approach to pricing

would be applied, meaning different levy rates apply to short and long-lived gases and on-farm sequestration could offset some of the cost of the emissions levy.

Under the processor hybrid system, processors pay for emissions based on the emissions charge applied to products supplied or bought by farmers, but the processor would likely pass on the cost to farms.

FAR chief executive Alison Stewart says no matter what the outcome of the pricing scheme discussion, FAR will continue to work hard to make sure the arable sector’s viewpoints are heard.

“We will not become collateral damage in the Government’s push to reduce emissions from New Zealand’s livestock sectors,” Stewart said.

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Chasing shearing perfection in Northern Waikato Emily and Sam Welch are regarded among the best shearers in the industry. For Emily, it has seen her become a world record holder and industry role model for female shearers.

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Approximately how many sheep does ‘Welch shearing’ shear in a year?

2 How many people are generally in a shearing gang?

What are the different roles within the gang? Outline what each person does.

3 What are some of the accolades that Emily and Sam have won?

4 When they take over the balance of Emily’s parents farm, what stock will they farm and produce?

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5 How do you learn to be a shearer? Can anyone do it?

6 Do you need to go to complete courses to become a shearer? Are there courses available? If so, what are they?

We have a number of top-class shearers in New Zealand and they often get involved in competitions to raise money for various charities.

Recently some South Island shearers took up the challenge of a 24-hour shearathon, Shear 4 Blair charity shearathon, in West Otago over Waitangi weekend. The core of these were Cole Well, Braydon Clifford, David Gower and Eru Weeds and together with casual shearers and a strong contingent of supporters and support workers, they helped raise around $130,000 for the Southland Charity Hospital by shearing 10,084 lambs.

The four shearers worked the full 24-hour period and finished with a combined total of 6476 lambs between them and the final 12 lambs that were left unshorn at the end of the 24-hours were finished by volunteers from the audience.

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Do you know of any other charity shearing events?

Can you name two?

Autonomous machinery?

John Deere Australia-NZ production systems manager Ben Kelly said “With this new tractor, it is as simple as transporting the machine to a field and configuring it for autonomous operation. Then, using John Deere Operations Centre, farmers can swipe from left to right to start the machine and can leave the field to focus on other tasks, while monitoring its status from their mobile device. That centre provides access to live video, images and data, and allows farmers to adjust speed, depth and more from the mobile app.

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How did Kit get into ag-tech?

2 Hands Free Hectare was an idea to show how hands free farming could be put into real life use.

Can you see any negatives to using automated machinery?

3 Kit believes using robotic farming could reduce the need for chemicals and heavy machinery. Why is this beneficial?

4 Do you have any ideas on a farm process that could be automated?

John Deere has developed an autonomous tractor. It is a 410HP John Deere 8 Series model, which is widely used for cropping applications, including tillage, cropping and spraying.

The tractor uses six cameras to enable it to detect objects and calculate distance, with the images captured by the cameras passing through a neural network that classifies each pixel in 100 milliseconds.

This determines if the machine continues to move or stops, depending on if an obstacle is detected and allows it to operate within less than 2.5cm of accuracy.

The tractor is also continuously checking its position relative to a geofence, ensuring it is operating where it is supposed to.

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In the event of job quality anomalies or machine health issues, farmers are notified remotely and can make adjustments to optimise the performance of the machine.

The tractor will be available to a limited number of US customers for purchase this year, before it is rolled out gradually to other countries, including New Zealand, over the next few years.

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2 Who would be most likely to use these?

3 Do you think that these tractors could improve production and/or profitability on farms?

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Newsmaker

Giving people the tools to grow at the heart of NZIPIM The new chief executive of the New Zealand Institute of Primary Industry Management wants to help enable rural professionals to be the best they can be, to support farmers.

Jo Finer spoke to Colin Williscroft about how the institute can help those in the primary sector and her role in facilitating that.

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NE of the biggest attractions of leading the NZ Institute of Primary Industry Management (NZIPIM) for Jo Finer is helping the rural professionals who are its members reach their potential – and the flow-on effect of that to farmers.

“That’s what ticks the box for me, enabling and equipping people, empowering them with the right tools to help grow the value of NZ’s primary sector,” Finer said.

“I also love connecting people, creating networks. By collaborating we can be so much more than we are as an individual.”

Finer says some of her previous roles make her well-placed to help the institute achieve those goals.

She spent more than 25 years at Fonterra in a variety of technical and management roles, as well as

leading its food safety and global regulatory functions.

During her last five or so years with the co-op she dealt with stakeholders, leading relationships with industry and government agencies, while also being involved in Fonterra’s advocacy on regulatory and policy positions.

One of her job highlights was speaking at the United Nations in New York, alongside former Minister for Women Julie Anne Genter, on the economic empowerment of women in agriculture in NZ. “That was an exciting opportunity,” she said.

“Representing the view of women in the primary sector and the way that New Zealand has worked to recognise the key contribution that women make in our primary sector.”

She said the presentation was very well-received, with countries such as Canada, the US and those from Scandinavia among those

TRAILBLAZER: Jo Finer and her husband Paul Grave recently spent 15 days cycling from Picton to Bluff on the Tour Aotearoa trail.

interested in the achievements made in NZ. “We even had Australia asking us for ongoing contact and advice on how we’d gone about achieving that,” she said.

“We talked through the role that a number of different organisations in NZ, including the likes of Federated Farmers, Dairy Women’s Network, and the banking sector, had played in acknowledging the importance of women in practical farming, financial planning and women’s role in decision-making onfarm.”

Another highlight for Finer was time spent involved in global quality and market access, getting insights in terms of how NZ products are perceived in international markets, which included a role as vice president of an international food safety board.

That involved sitting alongside the heads of food safety from McDonalds, Coca Cola, Nestlé and Danone, amongst others.

During her time at Fonterra, Finer did some work around how the co-op engaged with rural professionals, which has helped her understand the important role that rural professionals have in being trusted advisors to farmers.

She begins her new role at a time when the rural sector is facing significant challenges keeping up with environmental and regulatory change.

Her first priority is to engage with members to better understand what they value about the institute, something she hopes to achieve by meeting with branches around the country.

“Getting out on the ground in the regions to see firsthand the role and functions of rural professionals, the challenges they face on a daily basis and how the changing regulations are affecting them,” she said.

On the back of that Finer aims to develop a strategic approach for how to further equip and build capability among the institute’s members from a workforce development perspective.

“As the regulatory and environmental changes come into play, particularly around greenhouse gas and fresh water, we need to ensure that our rural professionals are best equipped to support farmers in those changes and that there are sufficient advisors working in this field,” she said.

“It is a very dynamic space

KNOWLEDGE: Jo Finer brings a wealth of primary sector experience to her new role as chief executive of the New Zealand Institute of Primary Industry Management. and NZIPIM has a key role in ensuring that, as fast-paced change continues to morph, we are here to be that conduit to our members.”

It’s a challenging time to take over as the institute’s chief executive, but that’s something she relishes.

I love a challenge and I love working with people, to enable and equip them, to be able to bring them together.

“I love a challenge and I love working with people, to enable and equip them, to be able to bring them together.”

That love of a challenge extends to life outside work, with Finer and her husband, along with a group of cycling friends, having recently spent 15 days on their bikes, cycling from Picton to Bluff on the Tour Aotearoa trail.

The route took them through the Tasman region, over the Maruia Saddle and down the inland west coast, before going through Central Otago and Southland.

About half the 1400km journey was on gravel roads and single tracks, taking in parts of the Great Taste Trail, the West Coast Wilderness Trail and the Around the Mountains Trail, the last of which saw them ride from Walter

Peak Station on the shore of Lake Wakatipu along 105km of gravel road to Mossburn in Southland, then onto Bluff.

“I saw a lot of sheep and beef country, and the dairy country through Westland,” she said.

“I loved it, absolutely loved it.”

That was despite the weather.

“We hit adverse weather events while we were down there,” he said.

“We got rained in, flooded in at Reefton for a day. I spent more days in my raincoat than I’d been planning to.”

Finer, who will retain her role as an associate director at Southern Pastures while in her new job, has been around farming her whole life.

Growing up as a dairy farmer’s daughter in the Pohangina Valley in Manawatū, she graduated from Massey with a bachelor’s degree with first class honours in food technology and a post-graduate diploma in dairy science and technology.

Then, a few years into her career she took a couple of years break with maternity leave and went 50:50 sharemilking in Taranaki.

She is excited about the opportunities her new job offers and the role the institute has in helping NZ’s primary sector.

“It’s a fantastic organisation with a great purpose – supporting rural professionals, and their role as trusted advisors to farmers, which is absolutely crucial for the primary sector.”

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NZ blackcurrants have the X factor New Zealand blackcurrants are proving to hold a secret ingredient that helps maintain healthy brains and deliver significantly increased values to the country’s small group of growers. Richard Rennie spoke to Canterbury agronomist Jim Grierson about the brain boost delivered by blackberries.

BRAIN BOOSTER: NZ Blackcurrants are rich in a molecule that has been identified as a key brain nutrient.

Grierson said 45 different options have been tested and even associated berries like blueberries and cranberries don’t have it.

He said the reasons why NZ blackcurrants are unique for cGP content is not particularly well understood, but scientists suspect it may relate to a combination of NZ’s soils, maritime climate, and lower atmospheric ozone levels.

Guan’s work has examined not only the role cGP can play in staving off dementia-related diseases, but also its part in treating conditions such as reduced blood circulation, common in stroke victims.

We have tested 45 different options and even associated berries like blueberries and cranberries don’t have it.

Jim Grierson Agronomist She said essentially healthy brains can continually produce new blood vessels to replace lost capillaries, an ability that diminishes with age.

“When we age the capillary nets which deliver nutrients and oxygen to brain cells are fewer and the brain cells which are undernourished do not function as well and build up toxins, which means the brain cells die off slowly, causing brain degeneration,” Guan said.

Cyclic Glycine-Proline’s role is to encourage cells in the brain to create new blood vessels and taking cGP assists the body to make more blood vessels and improve brain circulation.

The commercial company, cGP-Max holds patents on cGP molecule and now has a distributor in China. It has

also recently commenced exporting orders to the United States, Spain, United Kingdom and Australia, having developed sales in NZ as a test market.

Health supplements are touted as one of the key growth markets in China in coming years, as the country suffers the same demographic trend as western nations, that of an ageing population.

The supplements market has doubled in China since 2013 and it is now the largest dietary supplements market in the world.

Grierson said the blackcurrantgrowing community in NZ is relatively small and contained within Canterbury.

It was rewarding to be able to keep the entire supply chain involving the new cGP market within NZ, from growers to processors to lab assessment, to final capsule production.

Blackcurrants are largely marketed through a low-profile blackcurrant cooperative.

Ribena’s withdrawal from contracts with NZ growers as it opted for Polish berries had had an impact some years ago, but an increasing understanding of the berries health giving benefits was helping diversify income out of commodity juice-type output.

Other health products include the berries used in muscle recovery products for the health and fitness market.

“As a crop they are relatively low-input in terms of fertiliser needs and much of their management once hand-planted is mechanised right up to harvesting, which uses modified grape harvesters,” Grierson said.

Because of the significant capital outlay required for the mechanised equipment the crop demanded an area over 50ha to be economic. Even then Grierson cautioned it was essential to have a definitive supply contract before launching into it.

As a plant blackcurrants have a long life and can grow and produce for over 20 years.

DISCOVERY: Dr Jian Guan’s work on brain health revealed the value of a little-known molecule cGP, which is found in NZ blackcurrants.

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LMOST 30 years ago, Auckland University health researcher Dr Jian Guan identified the molecule cyclic Glycine-Proline (cGP) as a key brain nutrient that normalises a hormone known as IGF-1, essential for body health.

She found its presence contributed to improved health outcomes for people suffering from a number of age-related neurological diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and dementia.

Keeping IGF-1 levels maintained through old age can help retain cognitive function.

Unknown to her, but about the same time blackcurrant growers were researching the key health compounds in their crop.

“We already knew they had a good ratio of anthocyanins to deliver a high level of healthy antioxidants. However, we also suspected there was something else in there , and identified high levels of cGP,” Grierson said.

Extraction of cGP from the Canterburygrown crop has now resulted in a value-added boost to the sector, with commercialisation of the molecule resulting in it being put into a capsule and targeted at the Chinese market.

Over 10 tonnes of raw ingredients containing the molecule will be exported there over the next three years, resulting in a value-added boost 18 times higher than what the berries fetch fresh.

Patents are now applied on the molecule, which is claimed to have blackcurrants as the only natural source known and as yet unable to be synthesised artificially.

Grierson said the significantly higher values generated through extracting cGP from blackcurrants has an amplified effect in a market that only totals 35004000t a year.

Guan said while NZ blackcurrants are uniquely rich in cGP, they are also exploring other natural sources of the nutrient.

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EDITORIAL

Results a reward for superb efforts

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OMPANY reporting season can give a pretty good six-monthly report card for the sector.

Right now everything seems on a knife-edge as Omicron begins to spread rapidly and hinder the usual order of business.

But despite what many critics say, we’re in pretty good shape and hopefully will be able to avoid the fate of other nations.

What we do know is that the pandemic has pushed returns for our food exports higher.

PGG Wrightson’s result suggests farmers are willing to spend the money to make sure they maximise those returns.

Results from some of the horticulture exporters also point to good returns for growers.

Seeka and Scales are both doing well and Zespri is optimistic about this year’s crop.

As always, things could change very quickly and the two factors keeping us up at night are labour issues and the supply chain.

One can’t think of anything more heartbreaking than producing top-quality food, selling it at a high price, but not being able to pick, process or ship it.

Through good management and innovation by the Government and industry we’ve avoided much of that so far, but it’s still a tense time.

But looking ahead, the Government’s immigration strategy will force the primary sector to rethink the way it hires, retains and pays its workforce.

It’s a major shake-up that will, in essence, entrench the challenges covid-19 has brought.

Those challenges can be met and the kiwifruit sector is showing how it can be done.

Jobseekers have power at the moment and that’s something employers have to realise and account for.

They need to offer careers that give people certainty, good money and wellbeing.

It appears the days of looking abroad for workers more desperate for a job are coming to an end.

All that said, as it stands farming’s report card is exemplary, with an A for effort and the results following behind.

Bryan Gibson

LETTERS

Proud stock agent compelled to reply I AM writing in reply to J Barrow’s letter to the editor (February 14).

After reading this piece, calling stock agents crooks and farmers dumb, I felt compelled to reply.

I am an industry-trained agent and have been in this industry for 36 years. I work for one of New Zealand’s major stock and station companies, but these views are my own.

This is a vitriolic, personal attack on our industry and by association all of the people who work in it. I work with a dedicated, professional group of men and women who work bloody hard in some very difficult circumstances to achieve good results for our clients and we become heavily invested in their businesses and often forge lifelong

friendships. Our company has recently invested heavily in technology, which has helped us to keep operating during the pandemic.

Every industry in the world has a small rogue element, including farming, and in ours there are so many checks and balances that no one should be getting “ripped off” as Barrow claims.

I am one of those dastardly agents who owns land, a whole 50ha of it, which I started saving for as a very young boy trapping possums, plucking dead sheep, dagging and picking up hay, among other things, on the family and neighbouring farms.

Stock bought for my Ponderosa are predominantly bought and sold at auction, but on the rare occasion I

buy off a client, they are told where they are going and are free to get an independent valuation.

I have a massive passion for farming, as do many agents I know, and if I could, I would be farming full-time. You might be surprised, Barrow, but us agents love to see our clients succeed, grow and develop their farms.

Barrow claims to not know where his stock are going, if this is so he should include himself in the aforementioned “dumb farmers”.

I would expect a man of Barrow’s vintage and experience as a former Horizons councillor to display a bit more class and before picking up his poisonous pen, take a minute to think about the people he is slandering.

Lastly, Barrow, maybe you should wheel yourself to the Feilding sale one Friday and come and meet us.

Who knows, you may learn something.

Just watch out for those blindfolded truckies, they’re everywhere.

P Transom Stock agent and proud to be one

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Getting emissions settings right The

Pulpit

Sirma Karapeeva OVER the next few weeks, hundreds of farmers will be heading to roadshow meetings across the country to hear more about the two pricing options developed by the He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) Primary Sector Climate Action Partnership.

The meat processing and exporting sector is a fully committed partner in HWEN. We have helped develop the pricing options and we’ve been

encouraging farmers to know their on-farm emissions number.

Make no mistake, there is a lot at stake for our sector. As food companies we generate $10 billion in export revenue every year and employ approximately 25,000 people, mainly in rural communities. We want a system that proves to New Zealanders and to our global customers that we are committed to producing environmentally-sustainable red meat.

We also shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that New Zealand is leading the world in addressing this issue. No other country in the world is considering such pricing mechanisms for agriculture. There isn’t a rulebook for this work and this decision will have generational impacts for our farmers and the country.

Meat processors share a common goal with groups such as Beef + Lamb NZ and DairyNZ. We want to keep agriculture out of the ETS and instead develop a fair pricing system, which incentivises real change by rewarding for emissions-efficient production (including sequestration) and supports the uptake of new technologies.

We believe this is the only way to ensure the NZ sheep and beef

sector can continue to be a global leader in climate action, while remaining profitable and viable.

Clearly, NZ farmers are innovative and adaptable – the best way to achieve change is to empower farmers to manage their farms and livestock in a way which reduces emissions.

We believe bringing the red meat sector into the ETS would be a mistake because farmers would have no incentive to reduce their emissions and it would not result in the outcomes the Government or NZ is seeking.

The ETS is too much of a blunt instrument to capture the complexities of the impact of different gases from agriculture.

Cementing a split-gas approach to the pricing of agricultural emissions is critical to ensure the sector can play its part in managing climate change while remaining vibrant and profitable.

The ETS also doesn’t recognise or reward lots of vegetation on farm land that is actually sequestering carbon. Many sheep and beef farmers are already sequestering carbon through trees on their land that is outside the ETS and making a valuable contribution to addressing climate change.

This recognition is important, as

our pastoral-based farming system is unique to NZ and our red meat sector. If we get the settings right, this is a story backed by science that we can tell our customers around the world.

With the price of NZUs in the ETS increasing, we believe putting agriculture into the ETS would have a devastating impact on the red meat sector and ultimately rural communities across the country. More so, pricing through the ETS removes the opportunity for farmers to manage their own costs and risks. And we have heard time and time again that farmers want to be responsible for their own emissions. If we don’t get this right, and don’t agree on an alternative through HWEN, then agriculture will be brought into the ETS – the Government has made that clear.

Ultimately, we want a system that will recognise and reward emissions-efficient farmers (including for their sequestration) and support them to take up new technologies, because producing low-emissions products is the way of our future and is crucial for our future positioning with customers.

Doing nothing is not an option – the Government has demanded action and the public expects it.

The alternative options

proposed by HWEN will better achieve the outcomes that New Zealanders, farmers and our customers all want.

For these reasons, we support a price for on-farm emissions paid at farm-level, with the money raised used to support the uptake of new technologies that reduce emissions and support better farm management.

Farmers now have a decision to make. We must come up with an agricultural-specific emissions pricing framework through HWEN to ensure agriculture stays out of the ETS and design an alternative farm-level pricing approach, which is not only practical and fair, but incentivises farmers to make positive changes to reduce their emissions.

We strongly encourage farmers to engage with this issue, to participate in the roadshows and to have their voices heard.

Who am I? Sirma Karapeeva is chief executive of the Meat Industry Association.

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Why can’t we count soil carbon?

Revenue raised will be used to administer the scheme and the rest will be invested back into agriculture to help reduce emissions. This will include R&D and supporting on-farm actions to reduce emissions, like sequestration.

Soil carbon has been considered by the partnership but won’t be recognised at this stage. Right now, there is a lack of New Zealand-based scientific evidence to accurately measure soil carbon within our different farm systems in a cost-effective way. This is because New Zealand soils are unique – what works in other countries might not work here.

Why the 2008 sequestration baseline?

The partnership needs to pick a point in time to ‘reward’ farmers that is both practical to implement (and verify) on-farm and recognises early adopters.

Based on what we have heard from farmers and Government to-date, using a 1990 baseline within the NZ ETS can be hard to verify on-farm. This is because of the poor aerial and satellite imagery available at that time, and limited records to verify when a tree was planted.

The partnership feels 2008 provides a good ‘middle ground’ of balancing the need for quality data and recognising farmers’ previous actions. The partnership will reward management of native forestry established before 2008 (including before 1990).

There is also uncertainty about how soil carbon should be fairly accounted, especially during droughts, floods, or cultivation when soil carbon is lost. The partnership has a pathway for integrating soil carbon sequestration into the system which will require further investment into R&D. Has modelling shown the options will only reduce emissions by 1%?

The pricing option alone, as in the ETS, will only reduce emissions by 1%. Modelling has shown the alternative options will achieve greater reductions – in the region of 4% – than the ETS. Don’t miss your opportunity to have a say, register to join a regional online meeting today at dairynz.co.nz/roadshow.

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Tunnel vision at the cost of NZ Alternative View

Alan Emerson

THE problem we mortals have with many politicians is that they’re in it for the here and now.

Looking good from one election to the other is far more important than doing anything worthwhile.

For example, the last National government encouraged unfettered immigration, which kept the economy growing while achieving little else. Most immigrants settled in Auckland, but there were no new hospitals, schools and roads built to accommodate the huge influx.

That is one reason the country’s biggest city is now largely dysfunctional.

Now we have our nuclear moment with climate change, which the current government is pursuing, certainly in the form of James Shaw. Last week we had a self-congratulatory media statement applauding the fact that the law subsidising electric vehicles while penalising utes had passed.

That will achieve nothing. Even with the subsidy, electric vehicles are out of the average punters price range, we burn coal to

provide the electricity to charge them and the manufacturing companies exploit third-world countries to get the raw material for their batteries.

In addition, a minute portion of our vehicle fleet is EV (.5%). On the broader front electric cars kill just as efficiently as those powered by fossil fuels, their old batteries are toxic waste and they still need tyres with all the pollution they produce.

I’m also unaware of any behavioural changes that people are making to save the planet.

Certainly none that are remotely practical. Websites tell us to bike, walk and take public transport.

That’s fine in the city, but not in the productive hinterland. The other ‘helpful’ suggestion is to have one meat-free meal a week, which won’t solve anything.

We’re planting trees to offset emissions. Carbon farming has been described as the equivalent of strip-mining fertile farmland and I agree.

It gets worse with wealthy foreigners buying good NZ farmland to offset their emissions.

They claim NZ credits then transfer the money offshore to offset their emissions in their home country. That isn’t saving the planet.

NZ is about to do the same thing. The cunning plan to offset our GHG emissions as hatched by the brains trust in Wellington is to plant trees overseas, in the Asia Pacific region. Our neighbours

Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

We’re doing to the Asia Pacific region what wealthy foreigners are doing to us and that is reducing the amount of land available for food production to offset emissions.

In the long-term that indicates to me that the planet will return to forestry, our carbon profile will be considerably reduced and the world population will inevitably decline as people starve.

It is frustrating as saving the planet is one thing, maintaining and improving our standard of living is another.

On the way to COP26 in Glasgow, Shaw wanted to announce a cut in NZ’s emissions by 45% by 2030 compared with 2005. Fortunately, the Cabinet rejected the stupidity, along with its cost of $12.8 billion. For the record, the Treasury estimated that to meet a target of 40% reduction then 67% of that target would have to be purchased offshore.

That is stupid as the OECD has warned that international carbon markets will only substantially increase in cost. What that means for NZ is we’d either need a substantial increase in tax or a considerable reduction in services.

It all seems pointless, as a UN report last year told me that the world’s wealthiest 10% make up 50% of the world’s carbon footprint. It added that the wealthiest 1% made up 15% of the world’s emissions.

I wonder if that’s why food

FLAWED: Alan Emerson says NZ’s plan to meet targets is flawed because “we’re doing to the Asia Pacific region what wealthy foreigners are doing to us and that is reducing the amount of land available for food production to offset emissions”. production in NZ is being hit by stupid and counter-productive costs and targets in an effort to save the planet. Does the Wellington crew actually believe NZ farmers make up the world’s wealthiest 15%? By their actions it would seem so.

According to the UN, if the global rich cut their carbon footprint by 97% we wouldn’t have a problem with global warming.

We wouldn’t have to strip-mine good farmland for carbon farming.

We wouldn’t have to plant trees in food-producing land in the Asia Pacific. We wouldn’t have to destroy a solid economy in NZ to pursue stupid and theoretical gains to support nothing more than political bandwagons.

Nothing in Shaw’s crusade

has positives for NZ. He wants to plant trees to threaten food production, buy offshore credits to threaten our economy and vilify food production for whatever misguided reason.

I only remain humbled that anything we do will, according to the UN, enable the world’s incredibly rich to keep their jets, gas guzzlers and excessive lifestyle.

I remain super humbled that by his actions Shaw is insisting NZ pay for those excesses and while that may make him feel good now, he has, in my view, jeopardised NZ’s future.

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

Russia-Ukraine conflict risky business From the Ridge

Steve Wyn-Harris

RUSSIA’S flagrant illegal disregard for international law with its invasion of Ukraine is a completely unnecessary destabilising event that will have global implications for many years.

I know little about that nation and what is leading to what is becoming a bad outcome for many millions of people. And repercussions for everyone else.

It’s the second-largest country in Europe after Russia and the poorest not helped by corruption.

Forty-four million people live there, but the population has been decreasing by an average of 300,000 a year since 1990 due to emigration, high death rates and low birth rates.

But it has terrific farmland and fertile soils and is one of the largest grain exporters in the world.

It has been contested over, divided and ruled by a variety of

invaders, including Mongols and native Cossacks.

Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Ukrainian People’s Republic was formed and recognised.

Russian communism, famines, WW2 (six million Ukrainians are estimated to have died), the Nazis and the Soviets took terrible tolls on Ukraine and its people through the 20th century.

In 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded, leading to the worst nuclear reactor accident in history. This disaster had a part to play in the collapse of the USSR and in 1991, Ukraine finally became an independent nation, but still beset with problems. Riots, revolutions, political instability, separatists and ongoing corruption have been its recent turbulent history.

Now we need to try and understand Vladimir Putin and his ambitions as to why he is doing this appalling thing.

His career was as a foreign intelligence officer with the KGB until entering politics in 1991. He rose rapidly through the ranks and was acting president following Yeltsin’s resignation at the end of 1999 and elected president in 2000.

He has managed to circumvent

the entirely sensible rule of only two successive presidencies and has effectively held power in Russia for more than 20 years.

In that time, he has shifted Russia away from a budding democracy back to its more familiar authoritarian state, with jailing and repression of political opponents, suppression of a free press and a lack of free and fair elections.

Putin has in effect created himself as a new Russian Tsar for life and his grip on power is strong.

He is feared by his political peers, so there are few checks and balances to his power or his motives and ideas.

His approval rating in Russia has been dropping due to tough economic conditions and because he is seen to have badly mishandled the coronavirus crisis.

Creating foreign policy diversions, such as we are seeing now, is a strategy to distract an unhappy population. He plays heavily on nationalism and jingoism and talks a lot about restoring Russian pride and strength.

He has long resisted Ukraine’s moves towards becoming more of a part of Europe. The country is looking in that direction economically, socially and also possibly joining NATO, which the

Russians definitely don’t want to see happen.

In 2014, Putin annexed Crimea from Ukraine. At the same time, Russian-backed militias in the Russian-speaking areas of Southeastern Ukraine seized territory and the Russo-Ukrainian war has waged ever since, with 14,000 lives lost.

The world has watched in recent weeks as Putin has amassed an army on the border of that region, on Ukraine’s other borders and in Belarus and Crimea.

Last week he made his move and in a long speech showed his hand.

He recognised the independence of the two Ukrainian territories held by Moscow-backed separatists and by doing so made it clear that Russian forces would move into this part of Ukraine as a ‘peacekeeping operation.’

But his speech went further claiming the rest of Ukraine was a Russian construct and not a legitimate country and within a few days ordered an invasion of a sovereign country.

This of course is a frightening prospect for the Ukrainians and a very destabilising scenario for Europe.

Because Ukraine is not part of NATO, foreign armies are not stationed there, although they

are in the NATO countries on its southern and western borders.

The Ukrainians are preparing to defend themselves and have a large army and reservists, but still well outnumbered by Russia in people and military hardware.

It’s hard to understand why Putin would contemplate such a nasty war and the repercussions for all, including his own country.

Many Western countries have immediately enforced greater sanctions on Russia, which will further dramatically harm its economy. Share markets and currencies, including here, immediately responded negatively to the perils of a war in Europe.

This may well be the event that ends a golden economic run.

But it is the people of Ukraine that will carry the heaviest burden with the prospect of loss of life, homes, freedoms and a refugee crisis.

We have seen how brutal Putin has been with his own domestic opposition and he will be harsh with the Ukrainians.

Our thoughts are with these poor people.

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

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Meat sector harmony pays off Meaty Matters

Allan Barber

TIMES really have changed for the better among the country’s meat processors, not just as a result of consistently better market conditions, but for a whole range of reasons which suggest the meat industry has finally achieved maturity. Counterintuitively, the coronavirus pandemic appears to be the catalyst that has helped to bring this about.

RESULTS: More than one meat executive made the point that the meat processing industry is much better off with a new level of cooperation, which is largely attributed to the pandemic.

The role of the Meat Industry Association has evolved over the last 30 years from being a neutral forum for company chief executives to discuss the few topics that weren’t competitive to a body which genuinely represents all its members on a wide range of issues.

Industry executives I spoke to pointed without exception to the collegiality and trust that exists in stark contrast to any previous decade you care to examine, most notably the horror days of the 1990s and early 2000s. Then, impending and actual receiverships, hostile takeovers, excess capacity and wafer-thin margins produced an environment in which competition for livestock was so intense a number of companies were charged with collusion by the Commerce Commission. The processors colluded in a vain attempt to limit procurement prices to an affordable level.

The real cause of unaffordable

prices was excess capacity, partially solved in the 90s by the receiverships of Fortex and Weddel and progressively by amalgamation and plant closures.

The role of the Meat Industry Association has evolved over the last 30 years from being a neutral forum for company chief executives to discuss the few topics that weren’t competitive to a body which genuinely represents all its members on a wide range of issues, as well as working closely with the farmer representative organisation, Beef + Lamb NZ. He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) is a good example of the joint approach.

The recent development of trust between the companies has come from a closer relationship at CEO-level and the realisation there are important areas where cooperation, not competition, makes good strategic sense.

These areas include day-to-day operational matters like shipping, health and safety, access to PPE gear and rapid antigen tests, rendering and toll processing. On the other hand, there are several broader strategic opportunities for cooperation and rationalisation on rendering, hide processing, marketing and pet food manufacture.

Affco has taken the initiative on contracting break bulk shipments to the west coast of North America

to counteract container shipping delays and capacity shortage.

Anzco and Silver Fern Farms have already taken shipping space, although Affco’s general manager of sales and marketing Mark de Lautour is keen to see other agricultural exporters, like dairy and kiwifruit, take space to compensate for lower meat volumes in the second half of the year. Affco has recently committed to its biggest charter vessel to date, which can hold over 5000 tonnes of cargo.

Filling these charters is critically important to encouraging the shipping line to continue servicing New Zealand ports. While this service is not necessarily more or less expensive than containerisation, it does not suffer from the five-week container ship delays off Long Beach. According to De Lautour, this arrangement could make the difference between being able to slaughter cull cows or not at the peak.

Longer-term areas of cooperation are happening in by-product processing and marketing, often referred to in the industry as the fifth (and potentially very profitable) quarter. While farmers may suspect the meat companies of generating income out of parts of the animal they don’t pay for, in fact the by-products are

an integral part of the schedule calculation which determines the weekly livestock price. A less profitable example is the dramatic fall in the price for wool and pelts, which has had a predictable impact on the schedule for lambs and mutton, disguised by historically unparalleled prices for the meat component.

Fires at the rendering plants at Tuakau and Taranaki By-Products have placed greater emphasis on industry cooperation to enable rendering volumes to be satisfactorily processed instead of being sent to landfill, while a joint venture between Greenlea, Wilson Hellaby and Glenn Smith to operate the old Wallace plant at Waitoa will enable greater scale and efficiency in rendering in Waikato. As part of the joint purchase of the Waitoa farm and tannery, Greenlea and Wilson Hellaby have formed a 50:50 JV, which incorporates the tannery.

Fred Hellaby said the new owners are proud of taking over a plant that was near closure to create scale efficiency in this important part of the industry. The site has significant advantages of existing infrastructure and consents, as well as functioning dairy farms which enable irrigation with treated waste from the processing operations.

The partnership with Taranaki

LETTERS Who’s really fronting the smelter’s costs?

IN RAISING the question as to whether New Zealand needs an aluminium smelter, Alan Emerson (February 21) highlights the need for an overdue debate as to its subsidised existence continuing.

After all, every time a milking machine or an irrigation plant is turned on, the true cost of the smelter is a charge against the production of milk and grass, even wheat equals flour.

I have never been happy with the fact that the Government/ consumer continues to use rural NZ primary industries (i.e. food

By-Products and Bio Extracts shareholders, Smith and Dallenberg, provides a further added value opportunity to produce gelbone used by the pharmaceutical industry for capsule production.

A profitable offshoot of the meat industry is pet food production and raw material supply. Pasture Petfoods in Waipukurau is a privately owned JV formed in 2011 between Ovation, Taylor Preston and Venison Packers Feilding, which supplies raw material and contract processing to pet food manufacturers such as Nestlé and Purina.

Another logical cooperation involves the direct supply by two competitors to Affco of calf vells used in rennet manufacture and calf tongue roots for enzyme production, rather than selling these to traders. As Affco is the only meat company in this section of the market, chief executive Nigel Stevens sees selling these products direct instead of to a trader as a win-win situation made possible by the new level of communication between the companies.

An area of yet to be tested cooperation is the commitment to help each other out with processing capacity in case of covid-induced plant shutdowns.

The transmissible nature of Omicron may make this impossible, but the fact this commitment was possible in the first place is evidence of the maturity of the industry today.

More than one CEO made the point that the meat processing industry is much better off with this new level of cooperation, although it makes no difference to the fiercely competitive nature of livestock procurement and sales.

Another significant reason for the improvement in behaviour is the sustainable profitability enjoyed by the sector, while permitting the sharing of good returns with their suppliers.

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

More letters P22 production) as the ‘milch cow’ to subsidise the inflated cost of living. Maybe it is way past time that this leakage of ‘reinvestment (conservation?) funds’ off the land had the gate firmly slammed? This pathway is leading, once again, to the inevitable subsidising of farming, which puts the industry under the control of the Government, with obvious consequences. Anyone expecting the outcome to be any different to the mid ‘80s-‘90s firesale of farming family’s needs to get their head out of the sand. And, don’t expect the other parties on the right to be Sir Galahad; they ride to the fray on the side

of the party, sponsoring elite and corporate favour seekers/ blackmailers.

The smelter? Not so long ago thousands of tons of scrap metal left Bluff to be returned as substandard reinforcing and weldmesh requiring the use of overseas funds earnt – milked off the land – in other words, subsidised by farm production via power charges.

Thousands of tons of waste/ rubbish is continuing to clog the environment and services. I live a few miles from Kate Valley landfill being built in a gully that overlooks Pegasus Bay, close to a fault line that no one wanted

to know about. No plans have emerged as to what happens if/ when it ruptures or what happens when it is full.

Back to Tiwai. I’ve seen the highly efficient, electric-powered waste units in Copenhagen and Singapore, almost in the middle of town.

Rubbish in, add electricity/ incinerate, creating steam for heating and power generation, or residue (ash) to be mixed into roading, building materials, for example, concrete.

There exists, but for how long is the big question, a main trunk railway and there are rakes of bottom unloading coal wagons

(easily covered) that could be dumping into a covered pit feeding the incinerator.

The result? Waste dumps/ landfills eliminated, power generated, steel/cement produced, creating jobs, carbon reduction and ultimately, taxpayer relief. Oh, and hopefully an upgraded electrified railway system.

What’s not to like? Who knows, perhaps that bloody silage wrap will join the other plastics and emerge as fence posts/vineyard poles.

John McCaskey Waipara

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Carbon forestry in the spotlight The Braided Trail

Keith Woodford

THERE is considerable evidence that the Government plans to change the carbon farming rules and will do so in the coming months. The big risk is that unintended consequences will dominate over intended consequences.

Forestry Minister Stuart Nash has made it clear that he does not like the idea of permanent exotic forests. In an opinion piece published in the Herald on February 1 of this year, he stated there are 1.2 million hectares of marginal pastoral lands that should be planted only in native species. He said there is another 1.2 million hectares that is also unsuitable for pastoral farming, but that is suitable for production forestry.

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor states his opinion somewhat differently. On January 26, he was reported in the Herald as saying that he too disagrees with permanent exotic forests, but that it is up to famers not to sell their farms to people planning to plant forests. Instead, they should sell to those who will farm the land. Well, my experience is that this is not how markets work.

Native plantings are very expensive.

Let there be no doubt, there is no commercial justification for largescale native plantings. It has to be for other objectives.

Nash is convening a workshop in early March with groups described as key stakeholders.

Production-forestry groups, plus Beef + Lamb New Zealand, plus various local councils will be there. However, I am not convinced that there is anyone, and that includes B+LNZ, who truly represents the interests of the existing farmers.

The role of B+LNZ includes protecting the sheep and beef industries from other land-uses.

In contrast, the challenge for sheep and beef farmers is to find a pathway that protects their livelihood, which is not quite the same thing.

One of the key issues is the role of indigenous species. A lot of people are part of a bandwagon saying that only native forests should be permanent. But a lot of people on this bandwagon don’t seem to understand the challenges therein.

For example, Dame Anne

Salmond, who is an emeritus professor of anthropology from Auckland University, has authored multiple articles at Newsroom.

Her plan would include incentivising native plantings by granting them carbon units (NZUs) at the same rate as pine forests, despite the fact that native forests grow much more slowly than exotics.

This proposal would take all integrity away from the concept of a carbon unit, just like the Ukrainians did with the Kyoto units about 12 years ago. This illustrates how influencers can easily get it wrong when they latch onto apparently simple solutions to complex problems.

If NZ wants to incentivise native plantings, then it will have to be by direct subsidies. All such subsidies have an opportunity cost of other activities that have to be foregone. Those activities might be less ICU beds in hospitals, less houses built for the homeless, or less police officers.

When put in this context, then the issues are no longer quite so straightforward. Nor do largescale native plantings make sense in relation to meeting NZ’s short and medium-term commitments to greatly reduce the net emissions of greenhouse gases.

Native plantings are very expensive. Let there be no doubt, there is no commercial justification for large-scale native plantings. It has to be for other objectives.

These plantings may well be justified in relation to ecological issues on the most fragile lands, but that is a very different set of objectives. In most cases it is going to be very expensive.

As it stands, and here I quote some figures used by Nash in his opinion piece, “New Zealand has 10.1 million hectares of forests, covering 38% of our land. Eight million hectares is native forest and 2.1 million hectares is plantation forests. Of the plantation forest, 1.7 million hectares is productive and the remainder is in reserves or unplanted areas near water and infrastructure.”

These numbers put things in perspective. We already have a lot of land in native forests.

There are good reasons why we might put more land into native forests, but we also need to be clear that this is not the way to meet the targets that Climate Minster James Shaw promised at COP26 last year, with those targets endorsed by the Labour government.

NZ will get itself into big trouble with these COP26 commitments, with Shaw acknowledging that they will require large-scale purchases of carbon units from overseas. They will be purchased with hard-earned export earnings.

Where will that money come from? And what will be the opportunity cost of that?

If NZ is truly going to meet its new commitments, then it has to be by rapid sequestration of carbon in NZ. And that means exotics.

CATCH 22: Forestry Minister Stuart Nash has made it clear that he does not like the idea of permanent exotic forests, but Keith Woodford says if NZ intends to meet its new commitments, then it has to be by rapid sequestration of carbon in NZ, and that means exotics.

In recent weeks some of my farming-forestry mates have been showing me something of the diversity of afforestation options.

I have seen some magnificent native regeneration, including in association with grazing.

I have also seen plantings of pine trees on steep erosion-prone country, where native trees, at least in the short and mediumterm, are not an option. Quite simply, on much of the fragile land, the necessary conditions for natives to thrive do not exist.

And I don’t at all like the notion that those pine trees might be harvested if permanent pine forests are removed from the ETS. In another location, I have seen exotic plantings in which a wonderful understory of natives is now coming through.

These last two examples illustrate that implementing the ‘right tree in the right place’ is complex.

I have also seen land, currently in very productive pasture, which some years back was in pine trees.

The farmer removed the pine trees because he considered they were not the right trees in the right place.

In all of these situations, knowledgeable farmers with good information have made good decisions. In contrast, I am cautious about a centralised regulatory system imposed from above. It’s all very well to have a policy of the right tree in the right place. But who is going to make those decisions?

Within this complexity, one thing I am confident of is that the policy in recent years of allowing overseas entities to invest in farms under streamlined approval processes, as long as the dominant purpose is to convert the land to production forestry, was greatly flawed. I am aware of recent purchases of North Island land for production forestry on precipitous land that should never be harvested, where the purchasers are apparently driven by simple objectives of profit.

As foreign purchasers, these investors have been required to commit to harvesting the forests that they will plant.

It was several years back, when carbon was valued much less, that I first became concerned about foreign investors. Since then, my concern has only increased as the supply of global money looking for a home has increased.

I therefore applaud Minister Parker’s announcement that foreign investors will have to demonstrate that their purchase of farms for conversion to production forestry is in the national interest, as is already the case for all other land investments that they wish to make.

It is too late to worry about what has or has not already happened. The big issue is what is now going to happen, given current policy settings for foreign investors.

Among all of the complexity, I also see excessive difficulty in ETS registration of land that is

naturally regenerating. It would be great if Shaw, Nash and O’Connor could get together and sort that out. There is genuine carbon sequestration occurring that is not in the ETS simply because of the complexity.

There are other issues which need to be addressed with a nuanced approach rather than blanket bans on permanent pine forests. Perhaps one such solution would be to allow up to 20% of any sheep and beef farm to be planted in exotic trees as a permanent landuse. Most farmers have a good understanding of the parts of their farm where this makes both economic and ecological sense.

Under this system, planting of more than this prescribed area would require meeting some consenting hurdles relating to ‘the right tree in the right place’.

This would weed out the business entities, be they local or foreign, that are driven by narrow profit-making devoid of wider issues.

And some final words of caution. If anyone thinks there are simple solutions to the overall situation that we have created for ourselves, then they don’t understand the problem.

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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Flemington Te Maire Farm, 465 Tourere Road

Balance, fertility and carbon neutrality For the first time in over 100 years, comprising 1,038ha, Te Maire Farm is offered for sale in its entirety or options to purchase the top 419ha or 618ha bottom titles. Located only 25km south of Waipukurau in the Flemington district, Te Maire is a very well balanced farm wintering 8,000 to 8,500 stock units and boasts large areas of tractor contour, reticulated water, with a consistent fertiliser history. Plantations of Pinus radiata, poplar and willow (125ha registered in the ETS), provide the ecological balance and a carbon neutral status. Improvements include the five bedroom homestead, two further dwellings, two four stand wool sheds, an on farm airstrip, and strategically located sheep and cattle yards. For a business wanting to sell branded product to the market ‘Te Maire’ has the history, balance, and carbon status that could add value to the beef and lamb it produces.

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Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 4pm, Wed 16 Mar 2022 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 EASTERN REALTY LTD, BAYLEYS REALTY, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Kumeroa 926 Waituna Road

Talana Hill

660ha

Talana Hill is a genuine hill country property located in the renowned farming district of Kumeroa. The property has been meticulously and faithfully cared for by the current owners for 22 years and is set up for ease of management. The infrastructure is excellent, the property is beautifully presented and is a credit to our vendors.

The scale of the property gives options for both sheep and beef, or forestry with fantastic access throughout the property. The large character homestead has been beautifully renovated and, along with the modern threebedroom second dwelling, provides an outstanding level of accommodation.

Tender (will not be sold prior) Closing 4pm, Thu 24 Mar 2022 243 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North Paul Hofmann 021 084 60446 paul.hofmann@bayleys.co.nz Andrew Smith 027 760 8208 a.smith@bayleys.co.nz

Please do not hesitate to contact Paul or Andrew for further information or to arrange a viewing.

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Wellsford 115 Biddle Road

Puhoi 475 Ahuroa Road

Set away from the crowds, yet only a short drive from Wellsford township is this 67-hectare former dairy farm, with multiple income stream possibilities. The farm's predominantly undulating contour has been subdivided into approximately 30 paddocks and linked by an extensive central race system. Other notable features include a three-bedroom & two-bedroom home (which currently generate over $33,000 pa), an all year round water supply and much more. Currently being used as a beef fattening operation, this farm will suit those looking for extra grazing capacity, a lifestyle change, or solid investment proposition!

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Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Tue 22 Mar 2022 41 Queen Street, Warkworth View Sun 10.30-11.30am John Barnett 021 790 393 john.barnett@bayleys.co.nz MACKYS REAL ESTATE LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Farm, lifestyle, subdivide!

Bathed in sunshine and enjoying spectacular rural views is this beautifully presented 23 hectare lifestyle grazing farm, with a resource consent to create an additional title. The property is extremely well established, with sheds, cattle yards, an artesian water bore, and much more. Use the woolshed "as is" or convert it for stylish rustic living, or build a new home on your new title. The farm's old airstrip was one of the first to be created in the Puhoi area. It now commands 360-degree panoramic views over protected established native enclaves, neighbouring farmland, and beyond - an ideal position for your dream home.

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23.1524ha Tender (unless sold prior) Closing 4pm, Wed 23 Mar 2022 41 Queen Street, Warkworth View Sun 1-2pm John Barnett 021 790 393 john.barnett@bayleys.co.nz MACKYS REAL ESTATE LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Marlborough 1367 Waiau Toa Road, Clarence Valley

Mid Canterbury 556 Lauriston Barrhill Road, Rakaia

Waiau Toa, recreational playground

Brackley Farm

The stunning Kaikōura coast has an outstanding array of outdoor recreation and adventure activities, and this 7,370ha property has it all. A mix of dramatic hill country, native bush and miles of access to the Clarence River, this unique slice of New Zealand landscape is a private playground for outdoor enthusiasts. Opportunities for potential income include forestry for carbon credits, bees, cattle grazing, or a raft of tourism opportunities. Superbly equipped with four-wheel drive tracks, mains power, telephone, internet and great huts, this is the ideal place to take to hills to hunt, or to enjoy bush walks, mountain biking, fishing, river rafting or jet boating in the region. For adventure seekers and investors, Waiau Toa Station has so much to offer.

7,370.1349ha Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 12pm, Thu 7 Apr 2022 3 Deans Avenue, Christchurch View by appointment Ben Turner 027 530 1400 ben.turner@bayleys.co.nz Kurt Lindsay 027 469 9685 kurt.lindsay@bayleys.co.nz

Located in the renowned area of Barrhill, Mid Canterbury, this 235 hectare property shows all the attributes of diverse soils and irrigation, combining to produce a range of crops, specialist small seeds and vegetables. Supporting crop rotations, the grazing of capital stock and finishing winter lambs add to the various revenue streams capable from a property of this nature. Irrigation is sourced from an on farm bore and ground water consent, applied via pivot and fixed boom lateral irrigators giving effective coverage and application. A full complement of farm buildings, modern homestead and cottage.

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Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 12pm, Thu 31 Mar 2022 201 West Street, Ashburton View by appointment Mike Preston 027 430 7041 mike.preston@bayleys.co.nz Simon Sharpin 027 631 8087 simon.sharpin@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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CENTRAL HAWKE’S BAY IRRIGATED LAND Iramutu

Heron Creek

BAYLEYS AND PROPERTY BROKERS ARE PROUD TO BRING THESE TWO PROPERTIES TO THE MARKET. 255 hectares in two adjoining blocks 13km south of Waipukurau.

Heron Creek – 3361 State Highway 2, Takapau

Iramutu – 3389 State Highway 2, Takapau

175 hectares, flat/easy contour with three bedroom older home. Water

80 hectares, all flat contour, water consent for 31 Ltrs/sec, centre pivot

consent 58 Ltrs/sec. Two centre pivots and pod system waters 116

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yards. Presently finishing lambs.

lambs and cattle. Both blocks have grown process and cereal crops in

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LARGE SCALE GREEN BELT FINISHING UNIT - 269HA Moroa Farm, 1630 Alfredton Road, Alfredton, Tararua District Moroa Farm is a very tidy, well-balanced and productive finishing farm of scale, and quality. Moroa neighbours the community-based Alfredton School and is within commuting distance to Masterton or Palmerston North. With an annual average rainfall between 1,100-1,400mm the district is generally considered "summer safe".

One third of the property are fertile flats to very easy contour, with most of the rest being easy to medium hill. This contour class allows flexibility of management including options for crops and intensive finishing systems. 250 hectares are considered effective grazing land. Moroa has been very well farmed, is well subdivided, has reticulated water and great access off two sealed roads. The family sized, sun-orientated four-bedroom home sits within a mature garden setting, featuring a large lawn, swimming pool and shelter trees. The farm buildings consist of a four-stand woolshed, sheep and as new cattle yards, large high stud four bay workshop / implement shed and two haysheds. The native bush reserve, tidy woodlots and spaced poplar plantings makes Moroa a beautiful property to farm with a lovely feel, energy and vibe. Moroa will be highly sought-after - don´t delay, call us for more information today! A detailed property report is available. Viewing by appointment .

Tender Closes 4pm, Thu 17th March 2022. Address for Offers; NZR, Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810 or via email by arrangement.

A RARE OPPORTUNITY - STRONG TINUI HILL COUNTRY WITH SCALE AND FURTHER POTENTIAL Annedale Station, 1543 Annedale Road, Tinui, Masterton Annedale Station sits proudly on the road bearing its name with a history that matches that of the early farming families of the Wairarapa. There are 757ha available for purchase, with around 587ha of this effective grazing land. Tinui township provides a primary school and community facilities with a strong and active farming community base. The land consists of fertile mudstone-based soils with around 95ha of easier hills and the balance being medium to steeper hill country. The access is excellent with two major laneway systems and an all weather road through the centre of the farm. The water supply is a combination of reticulated supply to half the 50 main paddocks, and dams. Improvements to the land include a beautifully sited 3 bedroom family home, with an adjacent 2 bedroom sleepout, grass tennis court and swimming pool, 3 bedroom managers house and multi-use implement and storage sheds situated close to the main home. The Annedale Woolshed is a fine example of late 19th century woolshed design and features a mezzanine wool floor, a NP1300 and several other unique design features. Annedale provides a rare opportunity to purchase a long established, strong hill country farm of scale, that still holds potential for further productive improvements.

Tender Closes 4pm, Mon 28th March 2022. Address for Offers; NZR, Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810 or via email by arrangement.

269 hectares Tender

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757 hectares (STFS) Tender

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ATTRACTIVE IRRIGATED DAIRY FARM ON ALLUVIAL SOILS 560 Parewanui Road, Bulls, Rangitikei

75.2490 hectares See video on website

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Auction 2pm, Wed 30 Mar ’22, The Feilding Club 25 Kimbolton Road, Feilding The soils are predominantly free draining Manawatu and Rangitikei silt loams, some Foxton Black sand, with 60 hectares irrigated via pods. Alongside the farm is approximately 40 hectares of accretion that has assisted the business to be run as a fully self-contained operation.

Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | peter@nzr.nz The dairy facilities are very up to date, with the smart 20AS Herringbone dairy only 5 years old and a Kliptank for effluent. Simple accommodation is provided via an NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008 older three bedroom home that has been insulated in ceiling and underfloor. The Primary school bus runs past the gate.

This dairy unit, situated only 5km from Bulls, is one of the most visually appealing dairy farms we’ve presented, with its terraces and trees fringes.

Rare to find this scale of farm with irrigation, so well presented, with so many options. View at Open Days 11am, Wed 02/03 & Wed 09/03.

WELL DEVELOPED, 15KM FROM THE CITY 815 Main Drain Road, Rangiotu, Manawatu "Taonui" offers great soils, quality facilities and a location that has buses past the gate for Opiki primary and Palmerston North’s high schools. Milking times are short and compliance easier with the 60 bail rotary and a modern effluent system including a lined effluent pond. Comprised of alluvial Parewanui, Manawatu and Kairanga silts, 750 cows are split calved with a 305,000kgMS 3 year average. With two tidy family homes and cottage, it is rare to find this scale, so well located.

283.3267 hectares See video on website

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Tender Closes 11am, Wed 16 Mar ’22, NZR, 20 Kimbolton Road, Feilding Peter Barnett AREINZ 027 482 6835 | peter@nzr.nz NZR Limited | Licensed REAA 2008

SECURITY OF PRODUCTION 221 State Highway 56, Opiki, Horowhenua "Torunui" combines irrigation with favoured Kairanga soil types to provide production security, with 650 cows averaging 260,000kgMS over the past 3 years. Centrally located are the 38ASHB dairy and all farm facilities incl. the lined effluent pond, flanked by the two centre pivots. In the renown Opiki district, just 20km from Palmerston North, with primary & the city’s high schools buses running past the farm. Enjoy reliability of production, whatever your land-use preference.

204.0774 hectares See video on website

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NICE BREEDING & FINISHING BALANCE 307 & 325 Murimotu Road, Hunterville, Rangitikei Located just 6km north of Hunterville, 27ha of alluvial flat & easy cultivated country at the front, has excellent lane access to the hills. The finishing country is connected to the local water scheme with the balance served by dams. A tidy 4 std woolshed and adjacent cattle yards are supported by various sets of satellite yards. Within a great community the property has two homes and is on the bus run to the well-regarded Hunterville primary.

152.3313 hectares See video on website

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Auction 2pm, Thu 17 Mar ’22, The Feilding Club, 25 Kimbolton Road Feilding.

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OH THE POSSIBILITIES...

Lot 1 Mangarewa Road, Ohakune This diverse 37.86 ha block could add to your farm or lifestyle.

Boasting majestic mountain views, wonderful building sites and the Makotuku River encasing the western boundary. Currently used as a successful lamb fattening unit plus harvesting 720 bales annually. No recent market gardening history provides the options of many root and brassica crop rotations. The Easy contour and the soil profile of the highly regarded Ohakune Silt Loam open this property up to several possibilities including dairy support, supplementary fodder, horticulture crops or a large lifestyle block.

37.86 hectares AUCTION

nzr.nz/RX3168383 AUCTION 10.30am, Thu 17th March 2022 NZR, 1 Goldfinch Street, Ohakune Jamie Proude 06 385 4466 | 027 448 5162 jamie@nzr.nz NZR Central Ltd | Licensed REAA 2008

74 ha DAIRY FARM LEASE EXPRESSIONS ARE BEING CALLED FOR THE AN OPEN DAY FOR VIEWING WILL BE HELD ON THE 28TH FEBRUARY 2022 where tender & lease documents will be available for all interested parties

Tenders for this lease will close by 11th March 2022 highest or any tender may not be accepted.

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74.0229 ha DAIRY FARM FOR A 3 YEAR TERM

This property is a fully operational Dairy unit supplying Fonterra

Address: 1563 Gilbert Road, State Highway 2, Kaitoke, Upper Hutt City 5018 This property comprises two dwellings and 18 aside herringbone shed in good order, recently installed above ground effluent storage tank, storage sheds.

The farm contour is flat to easy contour 64 ha undulating 5.6 ha with a non-effective area of 4.1 ha. This fertile small dairy unit is well tracked and fenced with good stock water to all paddocks, average rainfall is 2,400mm and is considered summer safe. The farm would suit milking around 200 cows and production achievable of 70,000 to 80,000 kgs milk solids.

For further information email

Mike Helleur • mikeh@tekau.maori.nz • 0272226650

Waotu 110 Stringers Road

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Ready and established dairy opportunity A desirable 206 ha (subject to survey) dairy farm is an opportunity that you don't want to miss.

This impressive dairy farm consists of a 50 bail rotary shed with an office and a penicillin room, features in shed feeders with a 16T silo and a backup generator. This rolling farm is very well raced, enabling great access to all locations of the farm. There is gravity fed water throughout with around 80,000L of water storage available.

Not only does this farm have impressive infrastructures but it also has amazing housing. It has three houses available.

There are two homes consisting of three bedrooms with a double garage in each and a four-bedroom home with a garage, sleep out and a pool.

Of the 206 ha, around 179 ha is effective land. Currently, the farm has 10 ha in maize crop. There is a three million litre lined effluent pond which irrigates up to 50 ha of land.

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Turakina 1159 Turakina Valley Road Tender

Hill country farm This 680 acre hill country property is well-located just 20 minutes from Marton and 27 minutes from Whanganui and has three titles with purchasing options available. The 274 ha farm can be purchased as a bareland block or with the separate 1 ha title across the road - where you'll find the spacious, four bedroom, 239m2 family home surrounded by established gardens and with attractive views down the valley. The contour of the farm ranges from easy to steep and is subdivided into 15 main paddocks and three holding paddocks using a combination of conventional and electric fencing with good 4-wheeler track access around the property. Farm improvements include a tidy three stand woolshed with sheep yards and 300 np, fertiliser bin, cattleyards and an implement / hay shed (on house title). This property would be a great step on your farm ownership journey or for your carbon farming portfolio.

Tender closes 4.00pm, Thu 10th Mar, 2022, 54-56 Kimbolton Road, Feilding 4702 View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/FR12349

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Alfredton 14645 Route 52 Tender

Pori - multiple options 233 ha Located in the summer safe Alfredton district 25 minutes from Pahiatua, Pori offers multiple sale options from a larger lifestyle property to a smaller sheep and beef breeding and finishing unit of 233 ha. Currently run in conjunction with the neighbouring property, with approximately 150 ha effective, of which 28 ha is flat to easy rolling with the balance medium hill country plus some steeper areas.

Tender closes 2.00pm, Tue 22nd Mar, 2022, to be submitted to Property Brokers, 129 Main Street, Pahiatua View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/PR100135

Pori features excellent infrastructure including large covered yards and roadside cattle yards. The recently renovated three bedroom cottage with double garage is set in mature grounds completes the package.

From bareland to a first farm - Pori caters to all sectors of the market.

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Hororata 16 Cordys Road Tender

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• A nationwide network from Northland to Southland • Sound, trustworthy advice from market-leading experts • Shareholder benefits and preferential commission rates means more money in your pocket Bigger networks, more buyers, better results For more information call 0800 367 5263 or visit pb.co.nz/together PB053815

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Lifestyle, horticulture, arable - You choose Quality 21 ha BioGro certified property, with superior arable soils and irrigation situated on the edge of Hororata township, Central Canterbury, only 45 minutes from Christchurch.

Boasting a substantial modern three bedroom homestead with wellappointed open plan kitchen and three large living spaces. Excellent outdoor living options with two large decks opening off the main living space and an inground swimming pool with garden surrounds.

Currently producing a wide range of organic crops including potatoes, onions, carrots, garlic, broccoli and cereals.

Pivot irrigation covering 12.2 ha offering a highly productive smaller holding with excellent versatility. Sale price + GST (if any).

Tender closes 3.00pm, Wed 16th Mar, 2022 (unless sold prior) View By appointment Web pb.co.nz/DFR95461

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Exceptional Foothills Property

Versatile Farming Unit

Productive Small Farm

For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty closing Sheep and Beef Farmatfor Sale Thu 31 March 2022 4pm

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For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty closing Farm Sale 2022 at 4pm Thu 31for March Productive Small Farm with Options

Exceptional Foothills Versatile Unit 102 Lewis Road, ViewProperty Hill, Oxford, 344 DepotFarming Road, Oxford, North 86 Welchs Road, View Hill, Oxford, For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty North Canterbury For SaleCanterbury

by Deadline Private Treaty closing Thu 31 March 2022 atCanterbury 4pm For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty closing Thu 31 March 2022 atNorth 4pm (unless sold prior) closing Thu 31 March 2022 at 4pm (unless sold prior) 102 Lewis Road, View Hill, Oxford, North Canterbury

344 Depot Road, Oxford, North Canterbury

86 Welchs Road, View Hill, Oxford, North Canterbury

Shane O'Brien 027 471 6121 715.88 hectares

Very good balance of contour

Two wellpresented homes

Proven fertiliser history

Reliable rainfall

258.5694 High standard hectaresof paddock

Four titles, Richard Well presented two road O'Sullivan1980's, 4 frontages bedroom home

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Local scheme water

High standard 77.2949 of hectares infrastructure

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Handy to Oxford and Christchurch

Shane O'Brien 027 471 6121 Richard O'Sullivan 027 292 3921

“Miro Downs” is a most impressive offering combining scope and scale colliers.co.nz/p-NZL67018032 with strong production and performance credentials. A traditional sheep and beef finishing property, this beautifully balanced property offers a superior standard of development in this highly regarded farming location.

Stunning views from a commanding foothills location with outstanding recreational opportunities on your doorstep all within minutes of Oxford and an hour to the city. Offered in excellent heart by genuine sellers this farm is worthy of the most serious consideration.

Realty Ltd “Killarney” is a flat 258 hectareAgri holding with 3 road frontages within 45 Licensed under the REAA 2008 colliers.co.nz/p-NZL67017959 minutes of Christchurch. An excellent farming history it boasts good soil fertility, versatile free draining soils, high standard of fencing and farming infrastructure as well as attractive 4 bedroom family home in established grounds. Held in 4 titles it has all the hallmarks of a very prudent rural investment offering location, scale and potential so close to the city.

Rare opportunity to acquire well developed productive smaller unit in Licensed under a the REAA 2008 Agri Realty Ltd colliers.co.nz/p-NZL67017958 a tightly held farming location. Complete with 3 bedroom home and fullLicensed under the REAA 2008 farming infrastructure all in good condition. Very good shelter and fencing with an impressive farming history including livestock finishing and cropping. An impressive offering in every respect.

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Dairy

Payout + Productive Dairy = Great Investment Tender closing Thursday 17 March 2022 at 4.00pm (will not be sold prior) (plus GST if any) 672 Ruawhata Road, Mangatainoka, Tararua

Land Area: 225.3618 ha (more or less)

Dairy farm

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Two dwellings

Excellent infrastructure

Good location

Looking to invest or grow in the strong Dairy Industry? Colliers is proud to present to market this 225 hectare dairy farm located close to Pahiatua and boasting some of the best soil types in the lower North Island. Infrastructure and technology are forefront in this well-developed farm with a 54-bale rotary shed, auto cup removers, Protrack drafting and a 600 cow feed pad. This farm has the added benefit of not being subject to a “Horizons Intensive Land Use Consent” and has good consents for water and effluent through to 2033. Two sound homes and excellent shedding which includes calf sheds, implement and hay sheds completes the infrastructure.

If quality land and good location (35 minutes to Palmerston North) and proven productivity are key factors in your next farm purchase, then viewing this property is essential. For more information contact Rob or Jason.

Rob Deal 027 241 4775 rob.deal@colliers.com Jason Waterman 027 376 8313 jason.waterman@colliers.com

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Te Awamutu/Ngutunui 333 Pekanui Road Whitikahu 635 Whitikahu Road Highly Regarded Dairy Unit

This well appointed 68ha dairy unit located a short drive from Hamilton is sure to attract a strong level of interest.

Run under a lower cost structure system utilising the strong soils the option exists to purchase the great herd of cows too.

We look forward to meeting you at an Open Day soon.

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Auction Thursday 24 March 11.00am On site (unless sold prior) View Wednesday 2, 9, 16, 23 March 11.00am - 12.00pm harcourts.co.nz/ML4593 Kevin Deane M 021 907 902 Mark Ingram M 027 495 5941 Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Nestled on the foothills of the Pirongia Mountain, this exceptional 33 hectare property offers great contour, pockets of protected nature, incredible shedding and stock facilities as well as a home with a commanding presence and breath-taking views. Built in 2016 in a style that compliments the countryside with three bedrooms, two lounges and a 2.7m stud giving that feeling of space and light.

The true double garage incorporates a large multipurpose storeroom, third toilet and is adjacent to a new high-stud three bay garage of 12 x 10 m2.

The grounds are easy-care and don’t distract from the view from the attractive in-ground, heated salt pool.

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

Karen Lennox M 027 559 4468 P 873 8700 E karen.lennox@harcourts.co.nz Blue Ribbon Realty Limited Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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Morrinsville 180 Manuel Road Scope, Scale and Options

A Phenomenal opportunity to secure a large land holding so close to the major population bases.

Continue dairying, chickens, carbon, solar, the options are endless.

525ha – 8 Certificates of Title Multiple Purchasing Options Full Going Concern Available

Tender Friday 18 March 12.00pm (unless sold prior) View Tuesday 1, 8, 15 Mar at 11am-1pm harcourts.co.nz/ML4592 Kevin Deane M 021 970 902 Kevin Parry M 021 244 4668 Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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Iron Hill Chicken Farm Matamata

Te Awamutu Small Dairy Farm with Options - 31.3ha (approx.)

Situated in the prestigious Wharepuhunga farming district just 25 mins (approx) from the thriving centre of Te Awamutu.

Our vendors have lovingly cared for this property & brought it to the market in outstanding order. Currently milking 90 cows through a 12 aside Herringbone cow-shed with an in-shed feed system, this property lends itself to carry on with this operation or changing to calf rearing, cropping, drystock or other specialized uses. There is large shedding that can be used for a variety of reasons. A spacious 4 bedroom home with substantial outdoor living areas sits on a picturesque site overlooking the property.

Auction 1:00pm, Thurs 31st March 2022 (unless sold prior) at LJ Hooker office, 41 Mahoe Street, Te Awamutu ___________________________________

Progressive investors are recognizing the chicken industry for

Agent Mark Weal 027 451 4732 mark.weal@ljhta.co.nz

unit. The icing on the cake here is the location part way

LJ Hooker Te Awamutu (07) 871 5044 Licensed Agent REAA 2008

its secure and enticing return on capital. Iron Hill Farms has a secure contract with Inghams Enterprises and consists of six automated growing sheds totaling 9024m2 on 9.45ha. The property is fully compliant and will be sold as a going concern including two very good homes plus a neat two bedroom between Matamata and Cambridge. What more could you ask for, the figures stack up and the industry is thriving - look no further.

Deadline Sale Closes Thurs 7th April, 4pm (unless sold prior) ___________________________________ View

By Appointment Only ___________________________________ Agent Peter Begovich 027 476 5787 Rex Butterworth 021 348 276 LJ Hooker Matamata 07 888 5677

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NEWMAN FOREST LAND

FOR SALE

Newman Road Parawera, Waikato

For Sale or Investment Opportunity 234.5 hectares

37 Karewarewa Road, Rangiwahia

By Negotiation

• 234.5 hectare dairy farm Call Richard for more information or to arrange a time to view.

• 205 hectare milking platform • 160 hectares under irrigation • 50 bale rotary shed • Automatic cup removers and in-shed feeding • 2 houses • The Dairy farm was converted from a stud bull, beef unit and dairy runoff in 2008/09 with the first season being 2009/10 • This is an excellent opportunity to invest in a growth industry and maximise returns for your future 37 Karewarewa Road

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Rural and Lifestyle Sales.com Ltd Licensed REAA 2008

SECOND ROTATION FOREST LAND IN ACCESSIBLE LOCATION

Newman Forest land is a smaller-scale, second rotation production and carbon forestry opportunity located between Te Awamutu and Putaruru in the Otorohanga District. A combination of good growth rates, moderate contour and cost effective cart distances lead to favorable returns over the first rotation. Identified as having 42ha* of post-89 forest land, Newman Forest land offers the purchaser the added ability to claim valuable carbon credits through future registration in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

Deadline Offers:

Thursday 17 March 2022 at 4pm (NZDT) Wyatt Johnston Chan Singh

+64 27 8151 303 +64 27 767 7113

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51.76ha* freehold land Earn carbon credits via future ETS registration Proven productivity, moderate contour, existing harvest infrastructure Recreational appeal with expansive views 40km* to Kiwi Lumber, 107km* to Port of Tauranga

*Approximately Boundary lines are approximate only.

Arotahi Agribusiness Limited, Licensed Real Estate Agent REA Act

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RURAL | LIFESTYLE | RESIDENTIAL

NEW LISTING

EXCLUSIVE

ARIA, WAITOMO 3062 State Highway 4

THORPE, TASMAN 1517 Dovedale Road

TENDER

Great balance 247 hectares (more or less). This property is well balanced with a contour mix and is very well presented. Good fencing throughout, well thought out reliable water supply and a long fertiliser history.

Making an average of 175 bales of silage. Three bedroom dwelling, 4 stand woolshed, big garage, and tractor shed. 2021 wintering numbers - 800 ewes, 208 2th's, 104 dairy graziers, 30 MA cows, 25 R2 and 57 R1 cattle. All stock finished. A metalled traced laneway takes you to flat to easy rolling contour. Plateau type country with views down the Mokauiti Valley.

(Unless Sold By Private Treaty) Closes 11.00am, Fri 8 Apr PGGWRE, 57 Rora Street, Te Kuiti

Dovedale Dairy Dovedale Dairy is a 161ha mixed contour dairy farm centrally located between Richmond and Motueka for all services and to get the best out of the Nelson Lifestyle. The A2 herd of 380 cows is milked once a day, and supplies Fonterra and a local liquid milk processor for a premium return. A dam supplies irrigation water over the 50ha of flats, and the property could be utilised for Horticulture. The hub of the operation is a 54 bail high spec rotary cow shed centrally placed with the other farm improvements. There is one four bedroom bungalow.

VIEW 10.00-12.00pm, Monday 7 & 14 March

Peter Wylie M 027 473 5855 E pwylie@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/TEK35647

$4.25M

Plus GST (if any)

VIEW By Appointment Only

Doug Smith M 027 543 2280 E douglasjcsmith@pggwrightson.co.nz Joe Blakiston M 027 434 4069 E jblakiston@pggwrightson.co.nz

pggwre.co.nz/NEL34789 Helping grow the country

PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008

60 YEARS combined combinedservice service to tofarmers farmerson onthe the West WestCoast Coast

WEST COAST DAIRY FARMS - "value for money" ONE OF GREY VALLEY’S FINEST

complement farm buildings. All stock wintered on.

Winter crops, maize and supplement made on.

• PURCHASING OPTIONS: Buy 179ha $3.50M, buy or lease 26ha $420,000 and Lease 79ha. All separate titles.

• Available Going Concern with takeover to suit.

$5.2m L & B + GST (if any)

The Greg Daly Rural Team www.gregdalyrealestate.co.nz www.gregdalyrealestate.co.nz Real Real Estate Estate Agent Agent REAA REAA 2008 2008

and supplement made on. Approx. 200tn wheat and 100tn molasses fed through shed.

Available Going Concern.

• Rarely do we see properties of this quality in this highly desired location become available.

Inspection will not disappoint.

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• All flat, excellent shape currently run as 210ha milking platform and 60ha support. Five year average 209,857kgs MS. • Three 3-bedroom permanent material dwellings and a self-contained sleepout.

• 40 aside cow shed, meal feeders. Good

• Approx. 204ha effective freehold and 9ha DOC lease. Currently milking 530 cows on 228ha averaging 237,500kgs MS last 2 years.

• Quality improvements featuring spacious 2-storey 3-bedroom homestead, 3-bedrrom cottage and 2-bedroom small cottage.

• 50 bail rotary, ACR’s, meal feeding with crusher and molasses feeding.

• Full complement quality farm buildings. Option to purchase 92ha runoff located 1km away.

• All in calf animals and approx. 40 yearlings and 100 bulls wintered on farm and runoff on swedes

$5,400,000.00 L & B + GST (if any)

Greg Daly 027 478 3594 Mike Curragh 027 959 1267 Office 03 762 6463

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INNOVATIVE AGRICULTURE EQUIPMENT

• High-analysis nutrients pre-incubated with high allophanecontent subsoil • The allophane binds water-soluble phosphate, in plantavailable form, minimising phosphate leaching and run-off • It also stabilises the soil organic matter, sequesting carbon and greatly reducing CO2 GHG emissions • Reduces maintenance lime requirements by up to 50% • Contains N-vig™ nitrogenated root stimulator Also available: • QUINFERT Algerian RPR V2 and S90 blends Lime, dolomite and potash blends available • QUINFERT ‘PUSH‘ MAP/SOA blends (North Island only)

Geoladder for safe access & egress Qualified Technicians for installation

7680

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Price includes: • Jetter Unit • Pump & Motor • Hose Kit • Delivery to nearest main centre

Serving NZ Farmers since 1962

SHEEP JETTER

Call Regan Beaver at Quinfert Waharoa bag depot on 021 873 748 or Bert Quin direct on 021 427 572 or email bert.quin@quinfert.co.nz Quinfert – the thinking farmer’s choice Geoflow Venting & Drainage

Cost competitive with proven reliability

Material Warranty up to 20 Years

Testable seam welding with a full QA Report

Texshield Geotextile Protection

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Serving NZ farmers since 1962

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Liner solutions for dairy effluent and irrigation water storage ponds:

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Sheep dipping… made easier!

Fact 1. The overuse of soluble P fertiliser is by far the largest cause of P run-off and leaching, and therefore of the decline in the quality of Kiwi waterways.

Fact 2. Once you have Olsen P levels that are more than a third of the P retention (ASC), application of additional soluble P is very prone to loss to the environment.

Fact 3. If you want to build up your soil P in an environmentally-protective way, simply apply RPR. It does not get leached or lost directly in run-off, but releases P in a sustained fashion for plants.

Fact 4. There is nothing to lose and everything to gain. RPR-based fertilisers are even cheaper than super-based products as well! Added sulphur bentonite (sulphur 90) is far more efficient than the excess sulphate in super.

Fact 5. Following 1-4 above will greatly reduce P run-off and leaching. This should be done before anything else, and the situation reassessed before spending huge amounts of money!

Fact 6. It is nonsensical to give in to pressure to install expensive mitigations riparian strips, excessively large wetlands and ‘phosphorus walls’ when you have no idea of their long-term effectiveness and maintenance costs, and before you have established whether changing to sustained-release RPR is all you need to do!

Fact 7. in any case simple fenced-off 3-metre wide grass riparian strips are essentially as effective and vastly cheaper than more complex strips. Both reduce bacterial and sediment losses. Neither will have any significant long-term beneficial effect (on a whole -farm basis) on soluble P and nitrate-N loss. But grass strips can be harvested in summer to be fed out, to improve P and N cycling.

Fact 8. In a nutshell, for maintenance of P levels any genuine RPR (not an RPR/Boucraa mix please!) can be used. Just check the Cd content. For low fertility situations or low rainfall, use a blend of RPR and high-analysis soluble P. Fact 9. For N, rather than granular urea, use prilled urea, sprayed immediately prior to, or during, the spreading with urease inhibitor. Use of N can be literally cut in half with big savings.

Fact 10. Potash is more efficient, and must less likely to cause metabolic problems, if applied in small doses 4 times a year, adding up to 50-60% of the total annual amount you are using now. Easy to mix with your prilled urea. Leaching of anions like nitrate will be minimised as well.

For more info, email Bert Quin on bert.quin@quinfert.co.nz, or phone 021 427 572, or visit www.quinfert.co.nz

Amazing new fert sequesters soil carbon AND minimises P loss!

QUINFERT ALLOPHOS ™

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INNOVATIVE AGRICULTURE EQUIPMENT

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Require a feed system or an upgrade?

• Rotary & Herringbone Sheds

• Skiold Disc Mills and Silos

Spare Parts: • Drive Units & Control Units • Flexi augurs, elbows

• Unloaders & Anchor bearings • Stainless pool cables 48mm & 90mm pulleys

Employment

Noticeboard ANIMAL HANDLING

OUTSTANDING LEASE OPPORTUNITY TAUMARUNUI

• Excellent mix of easy to medium hill with approx 150 ha cultivable • 2, 3-bedroom dwellings, 4-stand woolshed with large covered yards plus outlying sheep yards

ANIMAL HEALTH www.drench.co.nz farmer owned, very competitive prices. Phone 0800 4 DRENCH (437 362).

• Good quality fencing into approx 41 paddocks • Reliable natural and reticulated water

ATTENTION FARMERS

• First RO Refusal offers potential for longer term relationship with compatible tenant

FARM MANAGER

Farm Manager for Ruawai, Northland Sheep & Beef with maize farm Productive 650ha beef, sheep and maize farm in Ruawai, south of Dargaville in Northland, (450ha effective) requires an energetic farm manager with broad experience to help us step forward as our current farm manager is retiring after five years.

With a great land mix for getting results across a range of enterprises, Greenhill Stud Ltd is a well-established and well-resourced farm with high-producing Ruawai flats land, finishing country and breeding country over three blocks. Current land use includes Hereford + Angus herd of 190 cows, trade cattle, 1000 breeding ewes, winter lambs and 86ha of maize for grain. Wintering capacity 4000SU plus maize land (grain yield 14t/ha).

Reporting to the fifth-generation farmer owner who lives nearby, the Farm Manager will be responsible for day-to-day activities and farm productivity.

Results-driven, the successful candidate will have the following attributes: • Significant farming experience (specifically beef cattle and sheep management) • Strong animal health knowledge and breeding experience • Pasture management experience and feed budgeting • Some cropping experience (maize knowledge an advantage) • Management experience of staff and contractors • Computer skills/tech-savvy for record-keeping, use of Farmax and other up-to-date software • Tertiary Ag qualifications preferable but not necessary.

A competitive remuneration package includes comfortable 5 bedroom “owner’s” homestead. Farm is 10mins from Ruawai village, schools and boat ramp for recreation on the Kaipara Harbour. Dargaville is 25mins north and Auckland is 1hr45 south.

Ideal opportunity for a keen, forward-looking farmer with a proven track record who drives hard for results and is passionate about the future of the sector, like the owner is.

If you think that’s you please send a covering letter and CV to Jason Smith jason@kauricountry.co.nz Check out @GreenhillStud on Twitter for more story All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa

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Employment

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

GENERAL FARM HAND WANTED We are seeking a reliable casual farm hand for a 120 ha sheep and beef farm 10 minutes from Wanganui.

The job will include maintaining adequate power and water levels around the farm, repair fencing + maintenance, irrigation and other general farm jobs.

Skills in these areas are a must. Flexible hours.

Accommodation not provided.

Enquires to Harry Duncan on 0272323888

10-MONTH-OLD grizzly Huntaway, working.

11-MONTH Heading dog, firm. Phone 027 243 8541.

ONE 15-MONTH and ONE 20 month Heading bitch.

Both have basic commands in training paddock. Ready for work. Phone 021 137 2714.

SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE! Deliver NZ Wide.

Trial, guaranteed! www. youtube.com/user/ mikehughesworkingdog/ videos 07 315 5553.

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Foreman and Riggers

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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.

DAIRY HEIFERS, between Putāruru and Tīrau. Well subdivided farm on easy contour, with excellent water. Regular weighing and animal health checks.

Start date 1st June. Phone 027 711 3598.

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

LOG BUYER HAULER CREW available for summer harvest.

Wairarapa area.

Phone 027 489 7036.

BOOK AN AD. For only $2.20 + gst per word you can book a word only ad in Farmers Weekly Classifieds section. Ph Debbie on 0800 85 25 80 to book in or email classifieds@globalhq.co.nz

DOGS FOR SALE

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Applications close 5pm, 6 th March 2022

CONTRACTORS

FARM MAPPING

GRAZING AVAILABLE

BARLEY & WHEAT STRAW LUCERNE BALEAGE PEA VINE BALEAGE MEADOW BALEAGE Available in Squares & Rounds

Phone Mark 0800 478 729 or Tracey 027 554 1841

QUALITY Feeds You Can TRUST

MOWER MASTER 12HP, diesel, electric start, 50 ton Heavy duty construction for serious wood splitting. Towable.

Assembly required.

Stock Manager Tractor/Truck/ Machinery Operator

*FREE upload to Primary Pathways Aotearoa: www.facebook.com *conditions apply

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

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Geoff Burton Farm Business Management, Taumarunui Phone 07 895 8052 • gtb@xtra.co.nz

Heavy duty long lasting

40c/50c PER KG dags fadges/bales.

Replacement woolpacks.

PV Weber Wools.

Kawakawa Road, Feilding. Phone 06 323 9550.

DOGS WANTED 12 MONTHS TO 5½-yearold Heading dogs and Huntaways wanted. Phone 022 698 8195.

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To inspect please contact Zach Te Ahuru 027 4889109 or Lance Te Ahuru 07 8966390 Information pack with basic lease terms & conditions and proposal requirements available from

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Bull Beef Manager.

• Approx 6,000 su, 580 eff ha, 3 years from 01 May 2022 plus 1st Right of Refusal

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Our clients are seeking a Farm Manager for their 360ha Bull Beef business in the heart of the golden triangle, 1 hour to Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga and 5 minutes to the growing Te Kauwhata.

The Farm Manager will be supported by 1 staff member to run an increasingly systemised bull beef operation.

The ideal applicant will: • Be hard working, honest with an interest in data management and performance recording • Be motivated • Be willing to learn and committed to continuous improvement and open communication • Have a desire to get in and manage a development project, which will include environmental improvement works.

Please apply with up to date CV and references to recruitment@agfirst.co.nz using the reference

FLY OR LICE problem?

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Incredible chemical and time savings with proven effectiveness.

Phone 07 573 8512 w w w. e l e c t r o d i p . c o m

Taurewa Farm – 988 & 989 Hohotaka Road

WHANGAMARINO FARM MANAGER

In reward for your hard work, a fantastic homestead and tree lined grounds will be your new home.

The opportunity to work with a progressive team who will provide significant support and opportunity.

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REQUIRE SPARE PARTS? Call PPP and get the BEST price

Splitter with hydraulic lifting table $4800

Splitter

$4200

To find out more visit

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DOLOMITE

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

STOCK FEED

MOISTURE METERS Hay, Silage dry matter, grain. www.moisturemeters.co.nz 0800 213 343.

TRACTOR PARTS

0800 436 566

Rural Disputes Expert

SHARE FARMING OPPORTUNITY

Available to assist with resolving rural disputes, or for appointment as a Sharemilking Conciliator, Rural Arbitrator or Farm Debt Mediator Ph: 07 345 9050 | e-mail: copeland@copelandlawyers.com

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SAWN SHED TIMBER including Black Maire.

Matai, Totara and Rimu etc. Also buying salvaged native logs.

Phone Richard Uren. NZ Native Timber Supplies. Phone 027 688 2954.

HOUSES FOR REMOVAL. North Island. Phone 021 455 787.

KUBOTA TRACTOR STV40 HST or similar, in good working order. BOP. Phone 027 495 0224.

WHAT’S SITTING IN your barn? Don’t leave it to rust away! We pay cash for tractors, excavators, small crawler tractors and surplus farm machinery.

Ford – Ferguson – Hitachi – Komatsu – John Deere and more. Tell us what you have no matter where it is in NZ. You never know.. what’s resting in your barn could be fattening up your wallet!

Email admin@ loaderparts.co.nz or phone Colin on 0274 426 936 (No texts please)

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MASTERTON WEANER FAIR Weaner Steers & Bulls Tuesday 8th March 2022 Masterton Saleyards 11.30am JW110773©

Comprising Approx.

1200 weaner steers 300 weaner bulls Glenbrae 250 McFadzean Meat Maker weaner bulls

When only the best will do!

Patrick Cattle Co 70 Angus steers

HEALEY AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT

Onetai 60 Simmental steers

Looking For & Selling All Farm Machinery Market Gardening Valuations Cropping Dairy Orchard Contracting Machinery Brokers Pukekohe Contact Ph Brian Healey 027 231 5913 healag@xtra.co.nz Plenty of driveshafts available

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

Selling something?

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I am an experienced hunter and ex farmer, I can get rid of the pests eating down your farm, disturbing your stock, and frustrating you and your neighbors.

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See TradeME #2251190054 [For farmers and hunters]

021 441 180 (JC)

Cost-effective pest control using the latest thermal equipment & technology.

06 8356863 . 021 061 1800

CHILLERS & FREEZERS

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JOHN DEERE 6620, rollover damage, dismantling Andquiparts.

Phone 027 524 3356.

Deer to be different this season With livestock advertising in the Farmers Weekly.

Contact Javier on 027 602 4925 livestock@globalhq.co.nz

NZ’s Virtual Saleyard

UPCOMING AUCTIONS

TUESDAY 1ST MARCH

7.30pm Hagan Eyre Ltd Select Holstein Friesian Auction WEDNESDAY 2ND MARCH

10.30am Southern Man Cattle Sale Lorneville Saleyard THURSDAY 3RD MARCH

7.30pm Mt Mable Angus Stud Heifer Sale FRIDAY 4TH MARCH

10.30am Southern Man Cattle Sale Lorneville Saleyard (Day 2) 1.30pm Beltex NZ Annual Ram Lamb Sale NORTHLAND WEANER FAIRS: 7th-17th of March Wellsford, Kauri, Kaikohe, Broadwood & Peria Regular Livestream coverage of five North Island Saleyards Head to bidr.co.nz to find out more.

Weaner Heifers Wednesday 9th March 2022 Masterton Saleyards 11.30am

Hosted on Bidr.co.nz

Comprising Approx.

500 weaner heifers Onetai 25 Simmental heifers Awatoitoi 40 Angus/South Devon heifers Further enquiries to Steve Wilkinson 027 594 5110

Helping grow the country

Stud Quality Heifer sale Monday 7th March 2021 - 7:30pm

Mt ● Mable Angus Stud Quality Heifers

● 22 Registered stud replacement quality heifers ● BVD Tested Clear, BVD and 10 in 1 Vaccinated ● Breedplan Recorded, DNA profiled and Parent verified ● TB Status C10 ● Herd completely free of known genetic defects ● All vetted in calf with calving dates detailed ● A cross section of Mt Mable families represented Hosted on Bidr.co.nz

Enquiries and inspection invited.

Kevin or Megan FRIEL

ph: (06) 376 4543 or (027)625 8526 kev.meg.co@xtra.co.nz

www.mtmableangus.co.nz

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RAMS FOR SALE

Mark Copeland LLB, CMInstD

For a delivered price call ....

Quality Hereford cows available. Guaranteed incalf to Hereford stud bull. Term starts April, (negotiable). No cost way to increase herd numbers. 50-200 available.

Call Mark for more info. 021 330 425

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Key: Dairy

EXPORT WANTED ANGUS HEIFERS MARCH DELIVERY Un-Mated/PTIC up to $1400 Gross 2021 Weaners up to $1100 Gross

380 Kiwi x Cows BW 134 PW 177 RA 92% DTC 15/7 to LIC Kiwi x 6 weeks 400 M/S per cow 1224 M/S per HA (Will computer split) Ref #2722 $1950 Cory Duckworth 027 494 2544

170 Frsn/Frsn x Cows BW 127 PW 127 RA 91% DTC 14/7 to LIC Frsn, XBred 3.5 weeks tailed Hereford. 396 M/S per cow.

Good age structure.

Ref #2743 $1850 Ben Gordon 027 270 7729

SAILS Tagging Reps Please Contact

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North Island Wayne Doran 027 493 8957 Harry Van De Ven 027 486 9866 Luke McBride 027 304 0533 South Island Richard Harley 021 765 430 Burke Patching 027 441 1515

WAIKATO HERDS FOR SALE

BW 138 PW 182 RA 98% DTC 18/7 to LIC Frsn 4 weeks tailed Angus. 338 M/S per cow.

Hill contoured farm.

Ref #2702 $1850 Rhys Mellow 027 664 5143

FRANKTON BEEF WEANER FAIR FRANKTON SALEYARDS 7th March 2022•••12 Noon

Sheep

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TE KUITI CATTLE SALE FRIDAY 4TH MARCH 12PM START

WAIROA CATTLE SALE THURSDAY 10TH MARCH 2022, 11AM

A/C Otaki Stn C/o LW & LE Harper

PGG Wrightson will offer a top yarding of station bred cattle.

A/c Rangimoe Stn (x Waimaha & Marewa Stns) • 200 2.5yr Ang&Ang/Hfd Strs

Capital Stock 70% Hfd/Frsn x & 30% Shorthorn • 35 x R4 VIC Cows • 25 x R5 VIC Cows • 20 x R6 VIC Cows • 15 x R7 VIC Cows • 15 x R8 VIC Cows • 1 x R3 S/Horn Bull Bull dates 8th Dec to 19th Jan (42 days) Bull sire Shorthorn Shane Dromgool & Alan Parks bred Client has sold 15mth S/horn steers in our annual January Fairs for many years.

Bred on genuine coastal hill country.

Enquiries Paul Mitchell 027 273 3538

100 Frsn/Frsn x Cows BW 132 PW 233 RA 100% DTC 13/7 to LIC Frsn 6 weeks tailed Hereford, scanned to dates.

Immediate delivery or 7th June (your choice) Ref #2667 $1800 Dean Evans 027 243 1092 More Waikato herds available on www.agonline.co.nz

Cattle

A/c L&B Wallace • 60 2.5yr Ang&Ang/Hfd Strs A/c Mangatawhiti Stn • 60 1.5yr Ang&Ang/Hfd Strs A/c Tangihau Stn • 200 1.5yr Ang Strs A/c Kouhauroa Stn • 80 1.5yr Ang&Ang/Hfd Strs A/c Karamu Ltd • 40 1.5yr Ang&Ang X Strs A/c Shannon Stn • 40 1.5yr Ang&Ang/Hfd Strs

Buy your dairy herd today!

Talk with the experts and view our nationwide online listings now Go to: www.pggwrightson.co.nz/dairy-herd-sales

A/c Papuni Stn • 150 1.5yr Ang&AngX Strs Grand opportunity to purchase exceptionally well bred lines of hill country station bred cattle.

Contact Jamie Hayward 027 434 7586 Ian Rissetto 027 444 9347 Mason Birrell 027 496 7253

200 x Wnr Angus Steers 120 x Wnr Exotic Steers 100 x Wnr Exotic X Steers

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Friday 18th March 1pm

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Commencing 12:00pm with sundries trailer Livestock at 1:00pm

PLEASE NOTE: Weaner Steers and Heifers are being sold on Thursday. Steers will be auctioned first and then the Heifers.

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Sale Day: Tuesday 8 March 2022 AUCTION at Gore Showgrounds Viewing from 12pm Sale starts 2pm

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Livestock Noticeboard

FARMERS WEEKLY – February 28, 2022

MARKET SNAPSHOT

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Market Snapshot brought to you by the AgriHQ analysts.

Mel Croad

Suz Bremner

Reece Brick

Fiona Quarrie

Hayley O’Driscoll

Caitlin Pemberton

Deer

Sheep

Cattle BEEF

SHEEP MEAT

VENISON

Last week

Prior week

Last year

NI Steer (300kg)

5.95

5.95

5.05

NI lamb (17kg)

8.35

8.35

6.55

NI Stag (60kg)

7.95

7.75

5.45

NI Bull (300kg)

5.90

5.90

5.00

NI mutton (20kg)

5.80

5.80

5.10

SI Stag (60kg)

7.85

7.75

5.45

NI Cow (200kg)

4.30

4.30

3.50

SI lamb (17kg)

8.25

8.30

6.25

SI Steer (300kg)

5.90

5.90

4.60

SI mutton (20kg)

5.65

5.80

5.20

SI Bull (300kg)

5.75

5.85

4.60

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

SI Cow (200kg)

4.25

4.30

3.40

UK CKT lamb leg

14.13

14.06

9.95

US imported 95CL bull

10.27

10.66

7.44

US domestic 90CL cow

9.00

9.35

6.93

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Last week Prior week

Last year

Export markets (NZ$/kg)

$/kg CW

North Island steer slaughter price 7.0

$/kg CW

10.0 $/kg CW

South Island lamb slaughter price

9.0 8.0 7.0 6.0

8.0

5.0

7.0

5.0

6.0

Oct

Dec

Feb

5-yr ave

Oct

Dec 5-yr ave

5.5 5.0

WOOL

4.5

(NZ$/kg)

4.0

South Island stag slaughter price

11.0

Apr

Jun

Aug

2020-21

2021-22

6.0

6.5

Oct

Dec

Feb

5-yr ave

Apr

Jun

2020-21

Dairy

Aug 2021-22

Apr 2020-21

Jun

Aug 2021-22

Prior week

Last year

Coarse xbred ind.

2.70

2.67

2.08

37 micron ewe

2.65

2.63

30 micron lamb

3.05

2.88

Last week

Prior week

Last year

Urea

1190

1190

637

1.85

Super

368

368

305

2.15

DAP

1345

1345

849

$/tonne Apr-21

Jun-21 Aug-21 Sept. 2021

Oct-21

DAIRY FUTURES (US$/T) Nearby contract

Apr-21

Jun-21

Aug-21

Oct-21

Dec-21

Feb-22

CANTERBURY FEED BARLEY Prior week

vs 4 weeks ago

WMP

4715

4650

4490

SMP

4050

4050

3760

AMF

6850

6850

6085

Butter

6000

6000

5250

Milk Price

9.62

9.60

9.40

500

$/tonne

Last price*

450 400 350

Feb-21

* price as at close of business on Thursday

WMP FUTURES - VS FOUR WEEKS AGO

Apr-21

Jun-21

Aug-21

Oct-21

Dec-21

Feb-22

WAIKATO PALM KERNEL

5000

450

$/tonne

4800 4600 4400 Mar

Apr May Latest price

Jun

Jul 4 weeks ago

Aug

Close

YTD High

YTD Low

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Ltd

27.25

33.4

27.25

Meridian Energy Limited (NS)

4.71

5.29

4.33

Auckland International Airport Limited

6.88

7.885

6.88

Mainfreight Limited

4.59

4.66

4.3

76

94.4

76

Mercury NZ Limited (NS)

5.56

6.36

5.45

Ebos Group Limited

39.14

43.13

37.45

8

8.32

7.55

Infratil Limited

7.63

8.34

7.5

Fletcher Building Limited

6.65

7.44

6.28

Contact Energy Limited

400

Feb-21

Company

Spark New Zealand Limited

450

350

Dec-21 Feb-22 Sept. 2022

NZ average (NZ$/t)

Top 10 by Market Cap

CANTERBURY FEED WHEAT

$/kg MS

Feb-21

Fertiliser FERTILISER

Last week

500

10.00 9.50 9.00 8.50 8.00 7.50 7.00 6.50 6.00

4200

Feb

Grain

Data provided by

MILK PRICE FUTURES

US$/t

7.0

9.0

7.0

7.0 5.0

4.5

South Island steer slaughter price

8.0

8.0

10.0

4.0

9.0

6.0

5.0

Last year

10.0

9.0

5.0

5.5

Last week Prior week

North Island stag slaughter price

11.0

6.0

6.0

$/kg CW

$/kg CW

6.5

North Island lamb slaughter price

10.0

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

$/kg CW

Slaughter price (NZ$/kg)

Sara Hilhorst

Ingrid Usherwood

Listed Agri Shares

Close

YTD High

YTD Low

ArborGen Holdings Limited

0.235

0.27

0.23

The a2 Milk Company Limited

5.73

6.39

5.31

Comvita Limited

3.36

3.78

3.3

Delegat Group Limited

13.49

14.45

13.1

Fonterra Shareholders' Fund (NS)

3.52

3.78

3.5

Foley Wines Limited

1.49

1.57

1.43

Greenfern Industries Limited

0.22

0.25

0.205

Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd (NS)

1.45

1.45

1.3

Marlborough Wine Estates Group Limited

0.23

0.26

0.22

New Zealand King Salmon Investments Ltd

0.99

1.07

1.38

PGG Wrightson Limited

5

5.76

5

Rua Bioscience Limited

0.4

0.53

0.4

Sanford Limited (NS)

4.47

5.07

4.46

Scales Corporation Limited

4.79

5.59

4.79

Seeka Limited

5.1

5.36

5

Synlait Milk Limited (NS)

3.25

3.54

3.12

T&G Global Limited

400

5pm, close of market, Thursday

Company

2.91

3.01

2.82

S&P/NZX Primary Sector Equity Index

13379

14293

13330

S&P/NZX 50 Index

11733

13150

11733

S&P/NZX 10 Index

11311

12725

11311

350 300

Feb-21

S&P/FW PRIMARY SECTOR EQUITY

Apr-21

Jun-21

Aug-21

Oct-21

Dec-21

Feb-22

13379

S&P/NZX 50 INDEX

11733

S&P/NZX 10 INDEX

11311

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FARMERS WEEKLY – farmersweekly.co.nz – February 28, 2022

Analyst intel

WEATHER

Overview The week ahead is looking mainly settled. With an anticyclone in control, the airflow moving around the high comes in from the easterly quarter for the North Island, especially the upper half.

While it is mainly settled, there are still a few showers about, especially around the upper and eastern North Island. The atmosphere could also become a little unstable over inland hills and ranges of the South Island late afternoon on Tuesday. Looking right through to Sunday, there is a hint at some tropical activity for the upper North Island, perhaps meaning rain, although models are prone to change.

14-day outlook The pattern this week is looking quite simple, basically we have high pressure for the South Island and an easterly quarter airflow for the North Island, which is the airflow moving around the high over the south. Conditions may turn a little unstable for the South Island on Tuesday afternoon, but that is basically it for week one.

Sunday could see some tropical rain for Northland, then this quickly moves along. Week two starts off with some weak but broad low pressure. It will be drier in the east and showers at times in the west, then heading towards mid March we may return to high pressure and mainly settled weather.

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Soil Moisture

Highlights

24/02/2022

Wind

Winds coming up this week are light to moderate. The South Island has mainly light winds, although east to northeasterly winds may pick up a little in the east at times.

From Wednesday onwards east to southeasterly winds about the upper North Island could be a bit breezy.

Source: NIWA Data

Temperature

7-day rainfall forecast The South Island is dry today, with a few showers for the eastern North Island and Waikato northwards. Once again north of about Waikato could see showers on Tuesday and also showers may form about the Main Divide of the South Island in the afternoon.

Wednesday through to Saturday is looking dry in the south, showers at times for the eastern North Island and Northland with southeasterlies.

There may be some rain for Northland on Sunday.

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5

10

20

2022 fairs look a lot like 2019

A little cool at times in the east and warmer out west this week. Western regions should see clearer skies for the most part. Midweek onwards we may see highs reach into the mid-20s about some inland and western spots.

Highlights/ Extremes

30

40

50

60

80

100

200

400

Rainfall accumulation over seven days from February 28 till March 7.

Forecast generated at 1am on February 25.

With all the high pressure about this week, watch for mornings to be a bit cool about some inland spots and as we head into autumn this may mean areas of fog or low cloud, especially in the mornings about inland and eastern regions.

Suz Bremner suz.bremner@globalhq.co.nz

T’S that time of year again when sale yards around the country come alive with the sound of calves calling for their mothers who have been left behind in paddocks at home.

The beef weaner fair and calf sale season is a big event marked on the calendars of those who not only supply the market, but also take the opportunity each year to source top-quality traditional and exotic cattle in high volume.

Plenty has changed in the last 10 years when it comes to selling livestock and weaner cattle are no different. In 2011, prices would have been considered to be very respectable in relation to the previous 10 years, but over the next decade they surged ahead into new territory and set a new precedent for returns.

The weaner markets supply buyers with high volumes of mainly steers and heifers and beef bulls feature to a lesser extent.

Weaner heifers tend to trade 35-55c/kg behind the steers, though South Island did buck that trend in the 2016 season as demand outstripped supply and the gap closed to 25c/kg.

Average prices between the islands have been well-aligned over the past 10 years, with variances only occurring where there is more of a grass market evident.

This is particularly obvious in the 2017 season when the South Island enjoyed significant rain and growth and Canterbury buyers were exceptionally strong in the marketplace.

That year, South Island steers outpriced North Island as they averaged $4.65/kg LW and heifers $4.28/kg, compared to North Island’s $4.30/kg and $3.92/kg.

For both islands, 2017 was the peak pricing year in the past 10 years, and historically – it will prove hard to beat in the years to come.

Meanwhile, 2013 was the lowest-priced year since 2011, at an average of $2.29$2.37/kg for steers and $1.97-$2.03/kg for heifers.

Looking ahead to this season, the most comparable year will likely be 2019.

In 2019, North Island steers averaged $3.70/kg and heifers around $3.20/kg, while South Island steers averaged $3.65/ kg and heifers, $3.05/kg.

This year, feed levels for regions that are active in the weaner fair market have improved significantly, with recent rain, overseas outlooks are good and buyers have made good margins over the past few years.

That in itself should mean a very strong market, yet the covid cloud lingers in a different way. In past years the sales themselves have been directly impacted by lockdowns as sale yards had to close. That won’t be the case this year, but demand may indirectly be affected as buyers are forced to hold-over finished stock until processor space frees up.

No one in the supply chain is at fault, it is the hand that we’ve been dealt that has to be navigated. But the hope is that feed levels will counter any of those limitations and that the weaner market will be buffered from current covid woes, given they are a longer-term option.

Some regions are expecting more rain, which should help to keep demand strong throughout the long season, which runs from the beginning of March to early May.

Make sure you get wind of the weather ahead.

Next time I’ll check WeatherWatch

Get hyper-local, accurate wind forecasts for every small part of New Zealand. Exclusively on WeatherWatch.

WIND FORECAST

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SALE YARD WRAP

Grass delays older store cattle Store cattle pens at some North Island yards have stood eerily empty, as farmers enjoy the luxury of rain and subsequent grass and crop growth.

Rangiuru, Taranaki and Frankton sale yards have all recorded lower than normal throughput for February due too little to no pressure to offload stock.

Throughput is generally low at this time of year anyway, but even less so now as soil moisture deficit levels sit in the green, except for upper Waikato, meaning that the regions that these yards are in have had the rain and now the grass will follow. The extra feed will not stem the flow of beef weaners that are due to start arriving at yards enmasse in the next few weeks, however, but it will have a positive impact on those markets.

NORTHLAND Kaikohe cattle • R2 Friesian and Simmental-cross bulls, 350-400kg, reached $2.98-$3.05/kg • A nice line of weaner Friesian bulls, 176kg, achieved $615 • Vetted-in-calf boner cows made $1.80-$1.89/kg There were around 400 cattle at the KAIKOHE sale last Wednesday, PGG Wrightson agent Vaughan Vujcich reported. R2 beef-cross steers lifted to $3.20-$3.25/kg and heifers mostly $2.90/kg to $3.05/kg with nice types to $3.20/kg. Heavy weaner Simmental-cross and Herefordcross steers fetched $3.40/kg to $3.60/kg and lighter dairybeef types $3.80/kg to $4.10/kg. Weaner heifers ranged from $540 to $650.

Wellsford grown cattle fair • Good R3 dairy-beef and Charolais steers achieved $2.95-$3.05/kg and second cuts, $2.80-$2.90/kg • R2 heifers typically sold for $3.09-$3.13/kg • Very nice Hereford-Friesian cows, run with a Charolais bull, were secured for $1200-$1280 Just under 500 head was offered at the WELLSFORD grown cattle fair last Monday and the market was strong for quality types. R2 steers made up the bulk of the yarding and the top end of good traditional and lighter dairy-beef achieved $3.30/kg to $3.50/kg. The remainder was typically secured for $3.00/kg to $3.20/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.

AUCKLAND Pukekohe cattle • Medium weaner heifers made $500-$530, $4.58/kg to $5.16/kg • Cows with calves-at-foot achieved $1310 per unit • Boner cows firmed at $1.80-$1.94/kg There was just a small sale at PUKEKOHE on Saturday 19th February. Prime steers made $2.70/kg, $1580 and heifers $2.72-$2.83/kg, $1210-$1430. Light R2 crossbred steers earned $3.20/kg to $3.33/kg, $700-$710 and medium R2 heifers $2.81/kg, $870.

COUNTIES Tuakau sales • Prime Charolais steers, 496kg, made $3.28/kg • Weaner Hereford-Friesian heifers, 122kg, sold well at $640 • Heavy prime lambs realised $156-$188 TUAKAU drew some quality lines of store cattle last week and the market lifted, PGG Wrightson’s Craig Reiche reported. The 320-head yarding included 480kg Charolais steers which sold for $3.23/kg. Hereford-Friesian, 415kg, and 392kg Angus made $3.15/kg and 304kg HerefordFriesian, $3.25/kg. In the heifer section, 464kg Charolais traded at $3.01/kg and 429kg Hereford, $2.95/kg. HerefordFriesian heifers, 365kg, realised $2.89/kg and red coloured, 357kg, $2.95/kg. Heavy prime steers managed $2.81-$2.88/ kg last Wednesday with medium steers at $2.73-$2.81/kg and medium-heavy heifers, $2.65-$2.76/kg.

A small entry of beef cows earned $1.91 to $2.12/kg.

Light-medium prime lambs realised $130-$156 last Monday and store lambs, $70-$136. Heavy prime ewes fetched $144$191, medium $100-$144, and light, $60-$100.

WAIKATO Frankton cattle 22.2 • R2 Hereford-Friesian heifers, 385kg, made $2.88/kg • Prime steers and heifers strengthened to $2.88-$2.98/kg • Boner cows mostly fetched $1.28-$1.37/kg There were just over 200 head at FRANKTON last Tuesday bfor PGG Wrightson and the market firmed.

A handful of R3 Hereford-Friesian and Friesian bulls fetched $2.52-$2.61/kg and R2 dairy-beef steers, 391-425kg, made $2.79-$2.87/kg. Weaner Angus-Friesian steers, 108138kg, realised $490-$540 and Hereford-Friesian heifers lifted to $560-$600. A good line of 20 Friesian bulls, 188kg, sold well to $645.

Read more in your LivestockEye.

Frankton cattle 23.2 • R2 Red Devon heifers earned $2.98/kg and bulls $2.08/kg • Prime Hereford-Friesian heifers, 428kg, achieved $2.72/kg • Boner cows made $1.59-$1.64/kg A boost in grass growth kept cattle at home at FRANKTON last Wednesday for New Zealand Farmer’s Livestock. R3 Angus and Angus-cross steers, 417-465kg, realised $2.77-$2.85/kg and heifers $2.35-$2.44/kg.

Autumn-born weaner Friesian bulls, 273kg, were secured for $880. Read more in your LivestockEye.

KING COUNTRY Te Kuiti cattle and sheep • Heavy steers, 926-973kg, earned $1890-$2280, $2.03/kg to $2.35/ kg • Weaner heifers, 197kg, made $530 • Heavy prime lambs fetched $191 and medium $130-$139 • The best of the prime ewes sold at $152-$171 A small yarding of 150 cattle was sold to a local buying bench at TE KUITI last Friday. R2 steers, 357-485kg, made $2.79/kg to $2.92/kg and 320kg heifers $2.95/kg. There was a medium yarding of sheep on Wednesday and the market was firm with support from Taupo, Waikato, locals and agent orders. The best of the store lambs made $133.50, medium male lambs $114-$120 and lighter types $104$113.

BAY OF PLENTY Rangiuru cattle and sheep • R2 Hereford-Jersey steers, 330kg, made $3.11/kg • Eight Speckle Park-Friesian steers, 606kg, fetched $2.84/kg • Medium prime lambs traded at $131-$150 Another small store cattle yarding met a slightly softer market at RANGIURU last Tuesday. R2 Hereford-Friesian and Hereford-Jersey steers, 382-475kg, traded at $2.93$3.01/kg. Hereford-Friesian heifers, 237kg, managed $2.47/ kg and Friesian-cross, 330kg, were 20c/kg behind. R2 beef-cross bulls earned $2.11/kg while dairy breeds made up to 10c/kg less. Dairy-beef weaner steers and heifers near 150kg returned $550-$560. Prime Friesian steers, 613kg, collected $2.45/kg. Hereford-Jersey bulls, 486kg, traded at $2.88/kg. Three Angus cows traded at $1.64/kg. Boner Friesian cows returned a touch over $1.60/kg. Medium store lambs collected $78-$92 and heaviest ewes fetched $150. Read more in your LivestockEye.

POVERTY BAY Matawhero sheep • Top store ewe lambs lifted to $130-$134 and lighter types $97 • Run-with-ram Romdale ewes achieved $172.50 • Better prime male sheep sold at $125-$200 • Prime 2-tooth and mixed age ewes earned $150 The bulk of the male lambs earned $120-$139 at MATAWHERO last Friday though Wiltshire-cross reached $142.50. Heavy, shorn mixed-sex lines earned $134.50 and light $70. Mixed age ewes typically traded at $80-$110. Read more in your LivestockEye.

TARANAKI Taranaki cattle • R2 Hereford heifers, 342kg, reached $2.78/kg • Prime steers eased to $2.93/kg and heifers $2.79/kg • Better boner cows sold from $1.70/kg to $1.84/kg There was another small yarding of store cattle at TARANAKI last Wednesday and the market firmed. R2 steers met good competition and the top end lifted to $2.87$2.96/kg and the next cut mostly $2.70-$2.80/kg. Weaner Speckle Park-cross steers achieved $690, and Hereford heifers earned $590. Read more in your LivestockEye.

HAWKE’S BAY Stortford Lodge prime sheep • Very heavy ewes reached $190 There was a good bench of buyers on hand at

STORTFORD LODGE last Monday and heavy ewes traded at $150-$171. Most of the remainder were good or very good condition and made $129-$147. Prime lambs were in very short supply with only 30 head available. The top pen made $180 followed by the balance at $126-$144.

Read more in your Livestock Eye. Stortford Lodge store cattle and sheep • R2 traditional bulls, 381-387kg, made $2.91-$3.07/kg • One pen of 18 weaner Simmental-Friesian heifers, 119kg, returned $510 • Capital stock 2-tooth Suftex ewes made $188-$195 • Good cryptorchid lambs firmed to $133.50-$146 Cattle tallied up to just 180 at STORTFORD LODGE last Wednesday. Dairy-beef made up the majority and in the R2 heifer pens most sold for $2.76-$2.82/kg.

2300 ewes were offered and a consignment from Wairoa accounted for more than half that tally. Mixed-age Suftex sold for $168-$192 and 6-tooth Romdale, $187. Five-year Romney ewes varied from $139 to $187. Ram lambs were off the pace of the cryptorchid as good weights traded at $124.50-$135. Light mixed-sex lambs sold for $69-$90 and similar weighted ewe lambs $88-$93. Read more in your LivestockEye.

MANAWATŪ Feilding prime cattle and sheep • Top 39 lambs fetched $208 • Best 245 ewes made $195 • A Friesian bull, 830kg, collected $3.42/kg • Two Angus steers, 670kg, collected $2.93/kg Another small yarding of lambs met good demand at FEILDING last Monday. Most traded at $171-$178.50 on a stronger market. The ewes were a mixture of quality as medium types earned $129-$151 and good types returned $156-$180. Cattle were mostly boner cows and bulls.

Aside from Jersey, most bulls traded above $3.00/kg and a number made $3.40/kg, or a few cents either side of.

Friesian cows mostly earned $1.55/kg to $1.69/kg, though a couple of younger prospects traded up to $2.54/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye. Feilding store cattle and sheep • R3 dairy-beef steers, 6055-685kg, were $3.10-$3.20/kg • R2 traditional steers, 310-430kg, lifted to $3.25-$3.50/kg • Weaner Friesian bulls, 170-200kg, made $630-$665 • Store male lambs averaged $142 • Store ewe lambs averaged $117 Almost 950 cattle were traded at FEILDING. In-calf Angus cows from the South Island, 540kg, made $1150. R3 straight-beef steers, 520-545kg, were $3.15-$3.20/kg while 275-380kg R2 dairy-beef steers went for $2.95-$3.10/kg.

Both R2 and autumn-born 2-year Friesian bulls, 535-545kg, made $2.95-$3.00/kg while the better-type of R2 heifers were mostly $2.80-$3.00/kg for all breeds. Well-marked weaner Hereford-Friesian steers, 120-150kg, sold for $545$590 with similar 125-135kg heifers at $470-$570 The market was stronger on the 9000 store lambs. Heavy males were $155-$160, good types $140-$150, mediums $125-$140, and lighter sorts mostly $105-$110. Good ewe lambs were $130-$140, mediums $110-$120, and lighter lines mostly $85-$100. Decent-quality five-year ewes made $150-$175, near to $100 for lighter cuts. Read more in your LivestockEye. Rongotea cattle • R2 Jersey bulls, 275kg, realized $2.18/kg • Weaner Friesian bulls, 182kg, sold to $440 • Speckle Park cows with calves-at-foot earned $1230 per unit • Boner cows made $1.61/kg to $2.02/kg Quality lifted at RONGOTEA last Tuesday, New Zealand Farmers Livestock agent Darryl Harwood reported. R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 275-410kg, earned $2.40/kg to $2.80/kg and better heifers $2.77-$2.79/kg. Weaner Hereford-Friesian steers and heifers sold to $400-$495 and bulls $400-$570. Autumn-born feeder calves have arrived, and Hereford-Friesian bulls traded at $200-$255, Anguscross $140-$150 and White Galloway heifers $140.

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BUSY DAYS AHEAD: Scenes like these will be a common occurrence at sale yards around the country as the weaner fair and calf sale season kicks off.

CANTERBURY Canterbury Park cattle and sheep • Well-marked R3 Hereford-Friesian steers, 413kg, fetched $2.87/kg • R2 Angus-cross heifers, 347kg, reached $2.95/kg • Seven very heavy lambs fetched $220-$225 A large buying gallery gathered at CANTERBURY PARK last Tuesday where R3 Murray Grey-cross steers from Culverden averaged 373-439kg and traded at $2.78-$2.84/ kg. R2 beef steers over 350kg earned $2.70/kg to $2.87/kg though Angus and Angus-Hereford, 446kg, realised $3.10/ kg. Better dairy-beef steers sold either side of $2.90/kg and Hereford-Friesian heifers, 324-399kg, made $2.76-$2.80/ kg. Prime traditional heifers over 500kg realised $2.95$2.98/kg and dairy-beef steers, 615-740kg, averaged $3.02/ kg. There was greater competition over a still limited store lamb offering. Most were mixed-sex lines and larger tallies were woolly. Light to medium options realised $97-$110 and good types made $116-$131. Prime markets eased as good lambs earned $162-$174 and medium ewes traded at $145-$164.

Read more in your LivestockEye. Coalgate cattle and sheep • Weaner Simmental-cross heifers, 185kg, fetched $680 • Two Simmental-cross heifers, 575kg, collected $3.10/kg • Seven ewes made $246 Another small store cattle yarding at COALGATE met steady demand last Thursday. R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 334kg, made $3.08/kg and mixed-sex of the same breed collected $2.54/kg. Weaner Friesian bulls were all near 150kg and traded at $470-$500. Prime beef and dairy-beef steers, 505-685kg, earned $2.88-$2.98/kg 2and Friesian and Jersey, 586-605kg, $2.82-$2.84/kg. Beef-cross heifers, 521-603kg, mostly realised $2.84-$2.92/kg and those under 500kg made 10c/kg less. Bulls weighed 605-705kg and returned $2.82/kg to $2.97/kg. Mixed-quality store lambs sold on a steady market. Forward store lambs fetched $141 and medium $110-$118 which included large lines of shorn sex-drafted lambs. Prime lambs lifted a couple of dollars and good types returned $160-$177. Ewe markets held.

Read more in your LivestockEye.

SOUTH-CANTERBURY Temuka prime and boner cattle and all sheep

• Top prime steers achieved $2.90-$3.00/kg and the next cut $2.70$2.80/kg • Prime heifers averaged $2.76/kg • Prime Hereford bulls earned $2.95-$3.04/kg • Heaviest four lambs fetched $208 • Top ewes made $222 Throughput lifted to 617 head at the TEMUKA prime cattle sale last week and the market eased. Boner cows made up around half the yarding and the majority made $1.60-$1.70/kg and heifers averaged $2.08/kg. The store lamb section was small and met strong demand. Heavy males traded from $123 to $135 and medium types made $108-$121. Better ewe lambs collected $109. Woolly mixedsex lambs were discounted $7-$10. Prime markets held as heavy lambs returned $181-$199 and the predominantly medium ewes earned $120-$159. Read more in your LivestockEye. Temuka store cattle • R2 Red Devon-cross steers, 351kg, realised $2.96/kg • R2 Charolais-Shorthorn heifers, 260-306kg, returned $2.96-$3.03/ kg • Weaner Simmental-Friesian steers, 191kg, made $640 A small R2 steer section at TEMUKA last Thursday lacked quality which was reflected in returns of $2.82-$2.89/kg for Hereford-Friesian under 350kg. One pen which weighed 374kg reached $2.99/kg. Heifers of the same breed showed more style and 300-350kg made $2.94-$3.02/kg. Others which were either heavier, or had less-desirable traits, earned $2.58/kg to $2.78/kg. Scanned empty Friesian and Friesian-cross met a strong market and most over 300kg traded above $2.00/kg and as high as $2.21/kg. The balance realised $1.73-$1.85/kg. Weaner dairy-beef steers, 184239kg, earned $535-$670 and Friesian bulls, 161-180kg, made $525. Read more in your LivestockEye.

SOUTHLAND Lorneville sale • Boner cows above 500kg earned $1.70/kg to $1.90/kg • Prime bulls above 600kg, achieved $3.00-$3.10/kg • Weaner Hereford-cross heifers, 127kg, traded at $395 • Heavy prime ewes made $140-$168, medium $120-$132 and lighter types $90-$116 There was a large yarding of boner heifers at LORNEVILLE last Tuesday and the top end made $1.70/

kg to $1.90 and the next cut $1.60-$1.70/kg. Prime steers reached $2.90-$3.00/kg and 450-500kg heifers $2.50-$2.60/ kg. In the store pens, R2 Hereford bulls, 455kg, made $2.96/ kg, $1345. Weaner Friesian bulls fetched $500 and Angus $560. A medium sized yarding of store lambs firmed with the top end $115-$128, medium $105-$112 and light mostly $90-$100. Heavy prime lambs realised $150-$185, medium $139-$147 and light $120-$137. Prime 2-tooth ewes sold in a range of $132-$194.

Omarama and Tekapo ewe fairs It was breeding ewes turn at the OMARAMA and TEKAPO sales last Thursday and a smaller total of 8300 were offered. That number was easily absorbed by a good turn-out of buyers and as a result prices were pleasing. At Omarama, capital stock Dohne ewes featured and the top pen of 1-shear reached $200 and 2-shear $164. Three-shear returned $125 and four through to 6-shear $114-$118. A big yarding of 6-year Merino sold for $158-$174 and one pen of mixed-age $163. Annual draft returned $130-$131. The top cut of 2-tooth halfbred reached $184 though the second cut were off that pace at $142, which was the same value placed on a pen of 6-year. Other 6-year sold for $150$160 and lighter 5-year $126. A smaller yarding at Tekapo sold well with only one line of 6-year falling below $140.

One pen of 2-tooth Merino reached $240 and a pen of nearly 740 6-year Merino ewes came in second to top at $184. Other older ewes, including annual draft, sold for $160-$179 and second cuts, $144-$149. One pen of annual draft halfbred returned $180.

South Island on-farm lamb sales Lamb sales are winding down though demand remains strong. At MOUNT WHITE Station last Wednesday 2250 halfbred wether lambs were offered and the top three cuts made $131 and the balance sold down to $91. Ewe lambs of same breed totalled 812 and made $80-$121. A similar market played out at FLOCK HILL Station where different cuts sold for similar values.

760 blackface-cross mixed-sex returned $108-$163 and nearly 3300 halfbred wethers, 108-$139. Halfbred ewe lambs sold for $94-$131 and annual draft ewes, $128$149.

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Covid a black cloud over fairs ACROSS THE RAILS

Colin Williscroft HE weaner fair season kicks off this week, with what looked like shaping up as a very good one now slightly

less clear.

AgriHQ senior analyst Suz Bremner says that despite all the factors that farmers want before the weaner fair season – everyone’s had some rain, there’s good grass growth and strong overseas demand – there’s uncertainty around the impact of covid.

“In any other year, we would be going ‘it’s going to be a goodie’ but we’ve got covid. That’s a big black cloud,” Bremner said.

“Fortunately, given they are weaners, they’re long-term cattle, anything that’s happening at processors at the moment won’t have a big direct impact on those cattle being sold.”

However, she said any processor uncertainty means some farmers could still have finished cattle on-farm, so will have limited room to start filling up again from the bottom end.

The North Island weaner fair season gets under way on Tuesday and Wednesday at Stortford Lodge, with other sales following at Rangiuru and Tuakau.

North Island sales will keep rolling until early May, while South Island calf sales begin mid-March in Culverden and Balclutha.

Bremner said stock numbers at Stortford look to be running on a par with previous early season fairs.

She is expecting prices to be similar to what was achieved last year.

“We’ll probably see steers probably sitting around $3.60-

TOP STOCK: Wairarapa farmer Johnie McFadzean yards some of the 270 McFadzean Meat Maker weaner bulls that will go to the Masterton Weaner Fair on March 8. $3.70 a kilo, heifers tend to trade about 35-55c/kg behind that,” she said.

“But farmers will be looking very closely at per head budgets because that’s what they work on.”

Calves will likely come in a little bit lighter weight than last year.

“The spring was slower to start but they’ve probably had a bit of a catch-up (with recent rain and grass growth),” she said.

“As long as the animal health has kept up-to-date, because it’s been a season of bugs and worms and things, which is typical when you get that sudden growth, calves have been able to do okay.”

She said the growth in popularity of online platforms should even out the effect of restricted numbers at sale yards due to covid.

“Typically at weaner fairs and calf sales regular buyers will target

regular vendors,” she said.

“They know the cattle and they know how they grow.

“So even if they can’t be at the sale, they know what a particular vendor is selling, so they’ll just jump on bidr or MyLiveStock.

“They will use the online platforms and be confident that they know the cattle, they know what they are buying.

“That is the beauty of the weaner fairs.”

Two weeks of weaner fairs in Northland begin at Wellsford on March 7 and PGG Wrightson Northland regional livestock manager Bernie McGahan is expecting plenty of interest, with prices to be slightly up on last year on good quality cattle that will also be better than last year.

“The record books won’t be broken but they’ll be very good sales,” McGahan said.

“We trialled them because of Tru-Test’s reputation.

We’re now running with them across the herd because of the results.”

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He said the best spring calves will weigh around 300kg-plus, with some autumn calves close to 370-400kg, attracting buyers from around the country.

Online sales will play a role in that, with PGW subsidiary bidr operating across the Northland sales.

Wairarapa farmer John McFadzean says McFadzean Cattle Company will have around 270 weaner bulls at the Masterton

Weaner Fair on March 8.

The top line will be in excess of 380-390kg liveweight, with other lines not far behind.

Wairarapa has two weaner fairs, one in March and another in April.

McFadzean said despite the hard spring in Wairarapa cattle are picking up following good rain in February.

AgriHQ will be covering the results of the weaners fair and calf sale seasons.

Need help with Nait?

OSPRI will be running pop-up Nait help desks at this year’s Stortford Lodge and Matawhero weaner fairs.

East Coast regional partner Rhea McColl will be at both events to offer support with farmers’ Nait accounts, whether it be their obligations or assistance operating the Nait system.

“We invite you to take this opportunity to learn more about your Nait obligations. All questions are welcome,” McColl said.

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Farmhand Swingbail

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Crutch and Weigh Combo Sheep Handler THE ONLY EEP AUTOMATED SH BLE HANDLER AVAILA THAT GIVES FULL ACCESS TO FEET & BELLY

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Entry shut off gate

Tips sheep on side for crutching and dagging

Auto Catch

Daggers MateSheep Handler Daggers Mate Daggers Mate Sheep Handler Sheep Handler • The ultimate machine for fast and efficient dagging and crutching • Air controlled on skids • Tips sheep on their sides for dagging and crutching • Adjustable overhead clamp • Made in New Zealand

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3-way drafting

Automatic ramp clamp

Optional extras: Belly flap, Transport kit.

Entry ramp (adjustable) Air controlled Hot dip galvanised

Rubber lined floor and slides

Sheep Weigh Crate Sheep Draft Auto Weigh Sheep Handler Weigh Sheep Handler 3 way drafting Module V-Sides • Manual weighing and Auto

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Open access to feet and belly

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+GST

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26,990

Swing Gates

• 12, 15, 18 & 20 meter round pens • Kitset easy pin together system • 5 & 7 rail options

6,495.00

+GST

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$

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Farmhand Round Horse Pens

$

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2,995

.00

$ Woolshed Lift and.00 Wool Fadge Hold +GST Gates Wool Fadge Holder WoolshedSwing Lift and Sh

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2,995.00

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Sheep Weigh Crate/ Portable Sheep Ra

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2,495

.00

Portable Sheep Ramp Sh Sheep Weigh Crate/ 1,250 Head Sheep Yard 710 Head Sheep Yard Weigh Scale Combo • Includes adjustable sides draft Weigh module Includes adjustable sides draft module Scale •Combo

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• Large bale, 2m diameter • 1200mm high • 9 head positions

$

• Flip top lid keeps hay dry • Bottom tray minimises hay wastage

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995.00

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189.00 +GST

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Large Round Bale

Sheep/Calf Small

Large Square Bale Cradle Feeder

Rectangular Hay Bale Feeder

• 2250 W x 1780 L x 1200 H • Drop down sides for calves

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p Sheep / Calf Ramp Farmhand Sheep

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Sheep Draft Module Sheep Draft Module Sides Draft Module ep V-Sides Draft Module SheepAdjustable

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Farmhand Lifestyler Hanging Hayfeeder with Lid Hay Feeder

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11 Piece Knife Set

2 piece filleting set

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Farmers Skinning Knife Set

$

69.00

BUKIT

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Butcher Saw

Magnetic Knife Holder

•

Stainless frame

18” $ 52.00 25” $ 72.00 $ .00 BU110 22” $ 62.00 +GST 6 pc Butchery BBQ Knife Set 6 pc Chef Knife Set

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139.00

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Plastic Knife Pouch and Belt

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• Ergonomic polpropylene antimicrobial handles

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119 .00

BU47

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Chainmail Butchers Glove

Knife Roll Bag

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3L $195

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BU94

Burger Pattie Press • 130mm diameter

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20

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595

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Stainless Steel Workbench

Butchers Block Workbench

• 1200 L x 600 D

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$

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BU80

BU08

529.00 +GST

BU83

BU131

BU10

900 L x 900 D

$

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BU83

Butchers Chopping Board

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$

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•

900 L x 600 D

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$

Corner Bench Unit

Railed Wall Shelf

Double Burger Pattie Stainless Steel Press Sink Bench • 130mm diameter

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• 600 L x 400 W

399.00

+GST

$ BU82

79 .00 +GST

BU84

0800 843 024

$

129.00 +GST

BU95

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Throat size 270mm H x 200mm W 1.1kW motor 210mm alloy pulley wheels Table 500 x 600mm

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Mutton Skid Swivel Hook •

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• • • •

$

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Stainless steel

• •

Throat size 460mm H x 285mm W 1.5kW motor 300mm alloy pulley wheels Table 700 x 550mm

• • • •

$ BU92

2,995 .00

•

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4” & 5” available

The orginal farmers meatsaw

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2,595 .00 +GST

BU01

Double Hanging Swivel Carcass Hook

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Rural Meat Saw

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12mm x 300mm

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2,795 .00

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15 .00

329 .00

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24

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85.00 +GST

BU137/138

0800 843 024

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129 .00 +GST

BU47

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THE RURAL BUTCHER 6” Cleaver Red Handle

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29

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25

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BU59

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Butchers Apron The Rural Butcher

$

8” Cleaver White Handle

.00

$

Meat Pan & Lid - Large •

Stainless Steel • 530 x 325 x 150mm deep

59

.00 +GST

BU58

+GST

49

.00 +GST

•

BU189/194

BU147

39

.00

.00 +GST

BU144

$

27

.00

BU148

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Ox Cleaver Red Handle

$

75

.00

+GST

BU145

Double Burger Pattie Press •130mm

$

diameter

20 .00 +GST

BU131

The Rural Butcher BUG ZAPPER

Stainless Steel 325 x 176 x 150mm deep

$

60

$

Bacon Hanging Hook

Meat Pan & Lid - Small

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$

.00

15” Brisket Knife

BU105

+GST

45

8.5” Cleaver Yellow Handle

220 V 40 W Chemical and odour free No Pesticides Coverage for up to 80m2

BU193/196

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