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“A significant amount of work has gone into protecting egg-laying sites, fencing and planting rivers, which all improve fish passage. An overall increase in catch rates may be a good indication that the adult populations are recovering,� says regional council Freshwater Ecologist, Dan Fake. “There is still plenty of work to do, and the regional council and DOC have had some good momentum working with Dan Fake, Hawke’s landowners and community Bay Regional Council Freshwater Ecologist groups with fencing and Chris Wootton, DOC Senior Ranger, planting lowland waterways around Community says “whitebait are actually the region.� Recently a 15ha wetland was the young of six different species of fish. “The adults of those are threatened by constructed in the Waitangi regional park, which is an ideal habitat for inanga, habitat loss and degradation, pollution and migration barriers, so work done to one of the main whitebait species. “Talking with whitebaiters that have address these issues is a step in the been fishing since the 80s, catches in right direction. “This year we have committed to an the bay have dramatically improved in increase in presence down the river, so recent years. It may well be that all the good work whitebaiters can expect to see more that has been done is paying off,� says DOC vehicles around ensuring everyone is playing by the rules.� ex DOC ranger, Hans Rook. DOC and regional council staff have met with the whitebaiting community in Napier and Porangahau. “We stressed that we would like to see [For farmers and hunters] stands removed from the river 14 days after the season finished, as leftover waratahs and building materials present dangers to other river users,� says regional council ranger Mark Brinsdon. “We want to work with the community Z N y l so they have a good season, and protect M ad e Proud our species for the future.� Since 1975 The regional council issues resource 021 441 180 (JC) consents for whitebait stands, and frigidair@xtra.co.nz each stand owner must comply with all conditions of their consent. Whitebait stands must be removed within 14 days of the season ending, which is November 31. If you have any concerns about illegal fishing, you can call the When only the best will do! DOC hotline 0800 362 468 any time Become Self Sufficient! and a ranger will be in touch.
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Estuaries will benefit Hawke’s Bay’s estuaries will benefit from a recommendation to target policy around their management, according to the regional council. The Managing our Estuaries report by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, has highlighted the complexity around management of the country’s estuaries. It recommends estuaries and the waterways that feed them should be treated as a single entity, from the mountains to the sea. “The parliamentary commissioner recommends that estuaries become part of the Freshwater Management Units under the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management. This is a good proposal as it means work would be prioritised nationally on linking freshwater limit setting to estuary health,” says Hawke’s Bay Regional Council chief executive James Palmer. “This complements the Action for Healthy Waterways policy reform package announced earlier this year, which aims to clean up rivers, lakes, streams and wetlands. “The proposals in this report and the Action for Healthy Waterways package would accelerate current efforts to improve the region’s freshwater and enable stronger, more targeted management for estuaries.” The land and river network of Hawke’s Bay terminates at the numerous large estuaries of Porangahau, Tukituki, Waitangi, Ahuriri, Wairoa
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Seizing an opportunity by Ann van Engelen Brandon Cross was born in Gisborne and has worked his way up to an orchard management position for kiwifruit orchard and post-harvest company Seeka through a chance meeting.
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he 24-year-old, of He Ngai Tukairangi, Ngai Te Rangi, Te Whanau-a-Apanui, Ngati Porou descent is also an entrant in the Ahuwhenua Awards. “After leaving school I started to study at Victoria University in Wellington for a degree in commerce. I didn’t like the thought of spending another three years in a classroom and after two months left and headed home,” says Brandon. “I was introduced to Michael Franks, the CEO of Seeka and he offered me the chance to join his company so I did. I moved to the Bay of Plenty a few months later. The work is based around the kiwifruit capital of New Zealand, Te Puke and Paengaroa. “I grew up in Gisborne city. My parents are from up the coast and my
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Brandon is now a manager and as an Ahuwhenua Awards contestant is looking forward to the competition results us through the hard yards first. It gave us an appreciation for the workers who do the mundane and hard manual labour jobs. This is the only job I have had so couldn’t compare it to other work, I just thought it was hard.” Brandon and Levi worked with the international workers and he says they are great to compare to for working hard. “We worked in the packhouse lifting 20-kilo boxes all day if we were stacking. You get tired and cherish your days off. In the orchard during winter you prune every day for three months. If you do just a week it is easy but pushing hard
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HOME&LANDSCAPING Build a bee-friendly garden
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Nature’s pollinators, hard-working little honey makers, and a welcome sight to any keen gardener; Apis mellifera, the common domesticated bee, needs our help after centuries of giving to humanity by way of making our crops and orchards grow. If you want to pitch in, it’s easy to turn your garden into a haven for the black and yellow insects that support all horticulture. The first trick is to see like a bee. With their compound eyes tuned in to different frequencies from ours, bees love the colours blue and yellow, favouring flowers with these tones. They also like to spend time foraging in a single area. So mass planting of nectar-rich, old fashioned and heirloom varieties of flowering plants can provide a great feeding area for bees. Bees need water. It’s important to have a drinking source for them, especially during hot summer days when these flying insects can cover vast distances at the speedy clip of up to 24 kilometres an hour.
That makes for thirsty work, and therefore a few shallow saucers of water, topped up regularly, can make all the difference. Those with ornamental ponds should consider placing rocks within, to give bees a drinking point, or planting floating ornamental cultivars to fulfil a similar niche. A functional and beautiful herb garden is also a bee magnet, and can, of course, benefit your kitchen as well as the welfare of our insect allies. Rosemary is a heavy hitter in this regard as it can grow to hedge-sized proportions, but herbs like thyme, borage and sage are also favourites. Of course, lavender is a contender for most bee-friendly flowering plant, and it also brings scent and colour to your garden. Where bees really get to work is among orchard trees, so if you like
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your apples, pears, cherries, peaches, plums and citrus, you’ll be entering into a mutually beneficial partnership with the queen and her workers. No matter what you plant, the best way to encourage bees is to cut back on harsh chemical sprays and go organic. Bees are part of the natural cycle in the garden, which is often disrupted in
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May this year saw the proposal of radical changes for building consents, opening up more scope for easier construction without ‘red tape’. The big winners alongside landowners looking to upgrade were Licensed Building Practitioners. They can now proceed with many kinds of mid-scale work with added costs and paperwork swept away. The changes take effect this month. “Single-storey detached buildings up to 30 square metres (such as sleepouts, sheds and greenhouses, carports, awnings and water storage bladders) will now not require a council-approved building consent,” said Jenny Salesa, the government’s Building and Construction Minister in May. “Some of the new exemptions will utilise the Licensed Builder Practitioners scheme, which recognises the competence of these building practitioners and allows them to join chartered professional engineers and certifying plumbers in having their own suite of exemptions.” The new exemptions will save building owners time and money, by not having to access their local council for consent for what is classified as low-risk building work. Cutting back building consents is also intended to allow council to pay closer attention to larger, more complex building projects with deeper environmental ramifications. What does this mean for you, the home or farm owner? Single storey detached
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The skid steer concept is not a new one. It arose from the need to handle heavy loads in a tight and confined space, as typified by construction sites and barnyards worldwide. adjust the angle when lifting the arm. Additionally, there’s plenty of reach, with more than eight metres of stretch available, and a set up designed for easy dumping of the standard skid-steer trapezoidal bucket into truck beds. It’s an all-round performer with lots of scope for customisation, to tackle a host of farming tasks.
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Getting the best crop Crop production forecasts for 2020–21 are largely positive and good yields will play a large part in primary industry playing a saviour role in the New Zealand post-Covid economy. Good grain production is vital to the food supply and yields have steadily increased over time due to better corn hybrids and planting practices. Technologies allow better soil, understanding and what nutrients will improve production — in short, science and technology have positively affected New Zealand’s production results. Crop yields not only determine farming success, but they contribute significantly to what’s in the bank at the end of the season. There are a number of factors to consider in increasing productivity for maize crops, covering soil quality, seeds, and planting practices to determine the overall strength of the final product. Using strong hybrid seed with the strength to sustain conditions and then choosing the right one to sow is often the most important part of planting. Planting early can result in increased yields by taking advantage of unexpectedly early favourable soil
conditions. It is not just enough to plant your seeds and hope for the best, you should always be sure to understand your field’s growth potential. Crop producers typically have an estimated idea of the yield potential of their seeds. Understanding this will help manage not only your expectations but indicate whether or not your yield potential is matching your actual production. Rainfall is pretty much the norm in crop growing in New Zealand conditions so there is always a major factor in the lap of the growing gods. Fertilisers are an obviously important part of maintaining optimal soil conditions and adding at seeding can give a boost to growth helping provide the seeds with essential nutrients like potassium, phosphorus and calcium. The root-zone at the base of your crops is the most important area to facilitate growth so your corn can thrive and
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RURAL CONTRACTORS & SUPPLIERS Bridging the technology gap by Andy Bryenton
Hydraulic excavators are the driving force behind most modern construction, with their action that mimics that movement of a human arm substituting pistons and hoses for muscles. The father of this technology was inspired by watching a water wheel while on a fishing trip in the 1840s. Sir William Armstrong noted that the wheel wasted much of the power of the river he was standing in, and wondered if a system of pipes would help channel the flow. That led him to look at the works of earlier experimenters, like Da Vinci and the ancient Greeks and Romans, who had developed musical instruments powered by water pressure. Fellow Englishman Joseph Bramah had invented the hydraulic press two almost half a century earlier. Still, Armstrong became convinced that the future of hydraulics wasn’t in pushing down, but in lifting things up. He developed a system for the port of Newcastle, where the city’s new piped water system had its massive back pressure tapped to power cranes to unload ships. These were so much more efficient than the steam cranes they replaced that Armstrong began to explore other ways to build on his hydraulic business. While he also used his knowledge of pressure in pipes to create more efficient army and navy guns, Armstrong developed the
first hydraulic excavator in the 1880s, using it to excavate the docks at Hull. It was an ungainly steam-powered monster, but it chewed through dirt and rock, like nothing before. Ultimately the design was improved by the Kilgore company, who did away with Armstrong’s extra chains and gears, developing the ‘opposing piston’ hydraulic set up we see today. Kilgore may have beaten him to the punch there. Still, Armstrong’s hydraulic works reached their pinnacle in 1894, when the company he’d helped found deployed gigantic new hydraulic accumulators, steam-powered pumps and giant pistons to build London’s Tower Bridge, perhaps the city’s most famous landmark. Downsizing those accumulators, replacing water and other fluids with modern hydraulic fluids and switching diesel power for steam led to the miniaturisation and versatility of the excavator, which reached its modern form in the rebuild after the second
world war. It’s thought that the first mini excavator, of the kind used on construction sites worldwide, was the Japanese Yanmar YNB300. Space pressures and the need to work amid tight confines as Japan rebuilt its industrial base after the war led to the construction of a machine with a small footprint, a swing boom and the ability to be moved on the back of a small truck. Today, hydraulic excavators are everywhere, but it all began with one man standing waist-deep in a British river, wondering how to make a better water mill.
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