Canterbury Farming, January 2017 by Integrity Community Media

January 2017 Edition

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Building and Construction Minister Dr Nick Smith has announced that 20 temporary housing units at the Rawhiti Domain used to support families through the Christchurch earthquakes are to be offered to farmers with significantly damaged homes from the Kaikoura earthquake. “We have farmers in the Hurunui, Kaikoura and Marlborough districts with badly damaged homes who need alternative accommodation while their homes are repaired but who practically need to stay on the land. This option of relocating the temporary housing now surplus from the Christchurch earthquake recovery is an additional option that will provide a workable solution for some,” Dr Smith says. The Government established the temporary accommodation villages on council reserves at Kaiapoi and Linwood in 2011 and Rawhiti in 2012, to provide local housing options for families while their homes were repaired. The Kaiapoi village was decommissioned in August 2016 with the 20 units sold by public tender to commercial and social housing purchasers. The Government was in negotiation to sell the remainder of the houses at Rawhiti and Linwood to the Christchurch City Council when the Kaikoura ear thquake struck on November 14. “We have been closely monitoring the housing

needs of families affected by the Kaikoura earthquake through the Temporar y Accommodation Service and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment established in November. Most needs are being met through vacant visitor accommodation but there is a particular problem for some farms with badly damaged housing who need on-site accommodation for their families or their farm workers. “These movable homes will provide a more secure option than caravans or motorhomes for some of these farms. The number of farmers who could potentially benefit who have registered with the Temporary Accommodation Service is 18 in the Hurunui district, five in Kaikoura district and five in Marlborough although the economic viability of relocating the homes to Marlborough through the Lewis Pass may not be viable.” The movable homes will be made available to qualifying farms at their residual book value of $24,510 — a significant discount on their market value. “The circumstances and costs of relocating and

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Trial targets invasive grass A scientist trialling the ability of pastures to survive in soils treated with a chemical herbicide to control Chilean needle grass has a hunch that the most successful may be plantain. AgResearch scientist Shona Lamoureaux said it would be 18 months before she could identify front runners among the 10 species being tested for Taskforce resilience at six sites in three regions. Eighteen months into the trial, broad-leafed herb plantain, was one species consistently surviving. “The 10 species planted were those that reliably germinated after being treated in petri dishes with tetrafluoropropanate herbicide, branded Taskforce, in a laboratory trial,” Dr Lamoureaux said. “Red clover, chicory and lucerne along with plantain were among the most tolerant in the laboratory. Upland brome and Atom and Matua prairie grass cultivars also did well.” Taskforce is used to kill invasive weed needle grass on about 3,650 hectares of pastures in Marlborough, Canterbury and Hawke’s Bay where the trials are based. Sites were prepared by spraying with herbicide glyphosate to get rid of everything growing. Seed from front runners in the laboratory were then sown with and without Taskforce to test for soil residual effects,

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FARMING MUMS The Farming Mums NZ facebook page as it is was established in 2013 as a means for farming mums to have a community to turn to for support and connect with each other via social media across the country. ANN MORGAN BYBY ANN MORGAN PHOTO’S COURTESY OF FARMING MUMS NZ

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have as much support as possible. “Rural Suppor t is impor tant for supporting farmers’ mental health and St John are a vital part of our communities,” says Chanelle. “Making the cookbook brought us closer together and having it in our hands as a finished product made it all worth it and we were approached by the national libraries to stock it.” The book includes a very diverse range of recipes including curries, baking and cider. “There are lots of good ideas and they are all practical and easy to make. They are great if you have shearers coming or the farm advisor and bank manager. “The next step for Farming Mums will Farming mums from across the country have hopefully be weekly contributed recipes to create the Farming blogs from various Mums NZ Cookbook sources including accountants, vets, counsellors and people in “It is incredible how “Suddenly as a female you education. I want to turn the community have come can go from a career to having being a ‘farming mum’ into together. A lot of people are a baby and living rurally. At a very positive thing and give dedicated to it. We have a times you can’t think outside the ladies the tools to have a team of eight administrators the box to keep doing what positive life. as well who do a hell of a lot you are passionate about. “I “There is a lot of support of work. We also have our want to encourage people to in the group. As soon as ‘Ask Daisy — Farming Mums be able to continue with their someone opens up and calls NZ’ facebook page and this passion outside and inside for help people will step up. gets up to 10 posts a day of their farming life. Living We had an incident of an which are kept anonymous.” rurally is a privilege rather accident where a farmer was Chanelle says the page is than a handbrake, it depends missing. Others rallied to only getting stronger and how you adapt to your help find him, and they did, there is a lot of industry surroundings and Farming sadly he passed away due support. “Through the group Mum’s NZ can certainly help to a hunting accident. They I want to make sure everyone you do that.” To order the then set up a funding page has equal opportunity and are cookbook go to the website to help the farming mum in a upskilled and ready for what www.farmingmums.com/ tough time. life throws at them. online-shop.

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Investment markets update Covering the three months ended December 31 2016 Global environment — higher growth and inflation in prospect The United States presidential election was the defining feature in the final quarter of 2016. It highlighted the revolt against the status quo, stagnant incomes and increasing inequality in favour of something new. Trump’s platform included many protectionist and inflammatory policies, but at its heart lowering taxes and investing in infrastructure is pro-growth. This should boost the already recovering US economy and lead to higher wage inflation. The timing of policy implementation should see tax cuts bolster growth as early as the first half of 2017, while infrastructure spending is not expected to commence until the second half of the year. However the increased borrowing and inflationary impacts have already started to be reflected in higher

long-term interest rates, and brought about the end to the bull market in global bonds. The Euro-area economy finished 2016 with the strongest economic momentum in more than five and a half years. Strength in both the manufacturing and service sectors was due in part to a weaker euro, but economic expansion was indicated in the four largest European economies, with Spain leading the way, followed by Germany. Whether this is enough to dampen the backlash against the status quo is unknown. Accordingly, it was unsurprising that the European Central Bank decided in December to prolong its asset-purchase programme through to the end of 2017, amid the uncertainty from looming European national elections and the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.

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The first question many of us will have is whether we have an up to date, valid and signed will which reflects our instructions for the administration and distribution of our estates. For people who die without having made a will, it becomes a costly process for a close relative or friend to apply for letters of administration. This is the formal authorisation of the high court to the administration of the deceased person’s estate. In those instances the residue of the estate is distributed in accordance with the provisions of the Administration Act, which is most likely, not necessarily what the deceased would have wanted. There are a lot of unreliable myths about the distribution of intestate estates. Hand in hand with a valid will are two enduring powers of attorney. One is for care and welfare, and the person appointed to act as your

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In 2016, B+LNZ stepped up its activity in the environmental policy space in response to farmer feedback. Two new positions were established mid last year — Environmental Policy Managers in the North and South Islands. Julia Beijeman started in the Christchurch office in June 2016, while Corina Jordon settled into the Feilding office two months later. Amping up capacity in this area was in direct response to farmer feedback. Levy payers saw a gap in terms of B+LNZ proactively representing farmers at a policy level. After completing a Bachelor of Forestr y Science, Julia worked in biosecurity with the Canterbur y Regional Council. She was then a policy analyst with the Ministry for Primary Industries. Julia moved to Ho Chi Minh City where she trained and worked as an English teacher before going on to Western Australia, where she was Environment Policy Manager for advocacy body, the Western Australian Local Government Association. “In all cases, it was about building relationships, communicating clearly, and

delivering on what you said you would do,” said Julia. Julia describes her role as being ‘’the translator and tour guide for farmers. “I translate policy language into plain English, so farmers do not have to read through thousands of pages, then they can respond back to council in an informed way.” Julia takes farmers on the submission process journey and helps them form their ideas. “If I do my job properly, I’ll hopefully do myself out of employment. Farmers will be doing it themselves.” Corina came to B+LNZ after nine years with Fish and Game, where she provided planning and freshwater ecology expertise; she later became the organisation’s National Environmental Manager. She has extensive experience working across government organisations and was heavily involved in the Land Water Forum.

Over the years, Corina had worked alongside B+LNZ senior management and directors and liked their values and approaches to environmental policy. She has a Bachelor of Science, Honours, in natural resource management and a Masters in environmental management and she is enjoying engaging with farmers. “I see real strength in building farmer capacity and capability around the sustainable management of land and water resources to enable them to advocate on behalf of themselves and the sector,” says Corina. She believes that solutions lie with communities, and will be dependent on strong leadership from individuals, including farmers. “The biggest challenge of the job is ensuring success. Farmers have a voice and they are using it, but ultimately we need to see farmers’ values reflected back in the policy.”

with Rob Cope-Williams

You are confused, ask the shoppers Silver Fern farms has announced an after-tax loss of about $30 million and that’s after making a good profit last financial year. There are those who will be saying that it is very confusing because Silver Fern Farms sold a lot of their shareholding to a Chinese company, so one would expect a huge influx of cash. Despite the producers and the processing company obviously being paid bottom line prices, the meat on our grocery shelves still make chicken look like a good buy. The same can be said of Fonterra who is saying times are very tough and producers are being hit hard in their earnings, while cheese is still in the luxury area. What local consumers don’t realise is that we here in paradise aren’t the main markets for our amazing produce. There was a time that exporters would take

all the prime produce and leave us to eat the rest, but we are now paying for top line produce. Remember years ago Just Juice putting foreign wordings on their boxes of juice and telling us it was a cancelled export order. The country would go broke if we relied on locals to chew through everything we produced so that is the answer. What is a problem is that we are a small producer in a sea of competition and trade barriers. While our marketing people and top government officials do everything they can to swing trade agreements, the other countries have to want our produce. Bill English, whom I still can’t see as our Prime Minister but I am sure I will in time, is hammering away in Europe talking us up and trying to get things in place.

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urban and rural industries and communities. While dairying is being targeted for degradation of fresh water, little is being done to reduce the ongoing pollution of saltwater environments. New Zealand must be a country where we all appreciate the relatively pure environment in which

we live. We need to improve our knowledge and practices related to every activity not just farming. The debate that continues to rage where the same opponents line up on either side of the river is unhelpful, unproductive and sometimes unethical. It’s time we sat down together with a strong

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A big year ahead This is my first column for 2017 and so I would like to wish everyone a happy New Year. I hope everyone was able to take a break where they could and spend some quality time with family and friends. We had a very full agenda in 2016 but I have the feeling that 2017 is going to be another level altogether. There’s plenty of work I want to progress before we head into election mode later in the year. My first priority is continuing to support those farmers and growers who are affected by the earthquakes in the top of the South Island. Applications have been open for the Earthquake Relief Fund, and we will be looking to facilitate skilled workers onfarm to help with the recovery over the next few months. I’ve visited the region three times now, and I’m heartened by the community spirit being shown by farmers supporting each other through tough times. The government has employed Rural Recovery Coordinators in the Hurunui, Kaikoura and Marlborough districts and has given $500,000 in extra funding for local Rural Support Trusts. These groups will all have important roles in the recovery phase. I’m also keeping a close eye on weather conditions across the country. While the weather bomb in late January didn’t appear to have too

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Post quake law changes to help farmers Despite firsthand experience of the power of earthquakes from living in Christchurch, I was still unprepared for seeing the impacts of the Hurunui/Kaikoura earthquakes with the land torn apart, the seabed uplifted, and massive slips on State Highway and the main trunk railway line.

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Strong shearing performance New Zealand team members Nathan Stratford and Joel Henare impressed the other World Championship hopefuls ahead of next month’s 40th anniversary championships with comprehensive wins in two shearing and woolhandling competitions in Southland. Joel continued his recent domination of the Northern Southland Community Shears winning his third open title in four years, thanks to a strong all-round performance in the final. He backed that up in emphatic fashion at the Winton A&P Show, earning his first Southland Shears title since 2012. This is another step in Joel’s World Championship preparation as he eyes up a second title at next month’s event. “These events are very important because it gets you into competition mode. You want to do well and you are here to win but a lot of it is a dummy run for World Champs. In some ways, you want a few curve-balls thrown at you, an oversized fleece or something similar to strike out of the blue so that when you do get to World Champs you’re more familiar with handling that kind of circumstance,” he said. “I’ve been doing a lot of mental work just trying to get my mentality right to handle the pressure and trying to get used to the type of wool here in Southland and get my head around

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Deer workshops share what’s working on the farm Regional workshops for farmers are the latest initiative to come out of the deer industry’s Passion2Profit (P2P) programme. They are designed to communicate lessons learned within P2P Advance Parties to all deer farmers in their area. The Mackenzie Advance Party is holding one on ‘Feeding hinds during lactation and pasture management’ at Clayton Station on February 28. Another, on ‘Fertility, fertiliser and how to get good legume performance in dr yland operations’, is being held in North Canterbury on March 22 — location to be finalised. P2P is a Primary Growth Par tnership programme between DINZ and the Ministry for Primary Industries. P2P manager Innes Moffat says the workshops are organised in association with local branches of the NZ Deer Farmers Association. The four held to date have attracted good turnouts, ranging from 17 in Wairarapa to 70 in Canterbury. “Farmers attending the workshops have really enjoyed discussing ideas

they could apply on their properties. They have also been interested to find out how Advance Parties work and the lessons learned on individual farms,” he said. “A feature of the P2P Advance Parties as well as the P2P Regional Workshops is that they are facilitated discussions, not speeches. The whole concept is to have farmers learning from other farmers, not just being talked to by experts. It’s an important difference.” Moffat says the aim is to have each Advance Party involved in at least one Regional Workshop each year, with some combined workshops in those regions where there is more than one Advance Party. With 23 Advance Parties underway it means DINZ is aiming for around 20 workshops in the next 12 months.

Amy Wills organises the workshops with local NZDFA branches. At the Wairarapa workshop on 17 November, hosted by Carterton farmer Quentin Connell, she says the discussions focussed on internal parasites. “Some farmers commented on the relationship between stress, nutrition and internal parasites, noting that wellfed deer farmed in a lowstress environment were less likely to lose condition as a result of parasites. They were also less likely to fall victim to other diseases such as yersiniosis,” she said. “Grazing management, either by cross grazing with other stock classes or giving young stock a period on crop (where they are less likely to ingest parasite larvae) were recognised as useful ways to reduce

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Canterbury farmers at a P2P Regional Workshop at Quartz Hill Station in 2016. A discussion point was tall fescue for deer, shown here in the full flush of growth.

the impact of parasites.” The workshop, which was facilitated by veterinarian Pania Flint, was told that using combination drenches would delay the onset of drench resistance in parasite

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Welcome to the 2017 calendar year and the second half of the 2016/2017 wool selling season. At the time of writing, already three wool auctions had been held nationally (two in Napier and one in Christchurch) resulting in further price downturns for many of the types on offer. The quality of the South Island wools on offer had also deteriorated in many instances, due to a reasonably good feed availability and damp conditions, particularly in southern areas. The cross-breed wool market has taken a major turn for the worse over the past three months, in particular driven by a lack of demand from China. Whilst New Zealand wool production may be regarded as mainly carpet types, Chinese buying power has normally covered the full spectrum of coarse, medium and fine wool types, and whilst that remains the case, there appears to be a stockpile of finished product containing mainly cross-breed and mid-micron type wools sitting unsold in Chinese manufacturing plants, which will take an unknown time span to clear. Not good news for the New Zealand “bred & butter” cross-breed type wools! Conversely to the lack of demand for coarser wool types from Chinese buying interests, the fine wool market (mainly merino wool types) has gained strength over the past few weeks fuelled by — you guessed it — China! Word from Australia over the past week prior to writing, was that Chinese buying interests were the major bidders at auction and a wider spread of pricing was evident across all micron ranges. Mid micron wool types at Australian auctions

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Suzuki’s motorcycle division has never had any problem breaking the mould — from big cruisers like the Boulevarde through to race-bred monsters like their world-famous Hayabusa superbike, and all the way down to rugged farm two-wheelers, public perception has accepted that the big ‘S’ logo means all kinds of motoring success.

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But when it comes to road cars, Suzuki has fallen into the same minor quandary which afflicted Volkswagen many decades ago. Having produced the Beetle, a dependable, affordable small car beloved by millions, it took something special to break the mould. In VW’s case it was the Golf GTI — but as recently as the early 2000s, the big German firm was met with incredulity when they rolled out the Mercedes-beating Phaeton limo. For Suzuki, it’s the success of the Swift which has dominated the charts, and the discussion. Make no mistake — it’s because the Swift is so good. But it’s time for change in the range for 2017. Suzuki are moving beyond the template of a peppy supermini with a larger, more refined and more luxurious addition to their range — the Baleno. Picking up a name from an earlier model, the new Baleno looks and feels

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nothing like its predecessor, but instead offers a premium touch coupled with the usual precise engineering and small-capacity, high funfactor motor treatment you can expect from the maker of both superbikes and the Swift Sport. The emphasis on utility, space and an airy and open cabin feel is immediately apparent — as are a full suite of electronic devices

which put the Baleno on a par with much pricier about-town hatchbacks. What becomes apparent only when you hit the road is the incredibly frugal fuel economy achieved by the 1.4-litre engine under the hood, mated to a 5-speed manual or 4-speed auto box. With figures of just over 5 litres per 100km — and the ability to really fit the whole family, this is more than a successor to the Swift —

it’s competition for Toyota’s segment-dominating Corolla. With prices starting at just a shade over $20,000, it’s a stylish proposition which may break the stereotype for the whole brand. That would be fine thing, because Suzuki have more in store — and a resurgence of nonSwift sales may even see them contemplate a second generation of the excellent but under-appreciated Kizashi.

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