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“According to the report, dairy contributes $7.8 billion to New Zealand’s GDP and is our largest goods exporter. This is a timely reminder of just how important the dairy industry is,” said Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy. The repor t, titled Dairy trade’s economic contribution to New Zealand, was commissioned from NZIER by the Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand (DCANZ). “While the dairy sector has had a tough few seasons, in the year to March 2016 they still earned more than $13 billion in exports for New Zealand. “According to the report, the dairy sector employs more than 40,000 workers, and employment in this sector has grown more Minister Primary Industries Nathan Guy than twice as fast as total employment, at an average of 3.7 per DairyNZ estimates that farmers cent a year since 2000. have spent more than $1 billion over “The dairy industry is especially the past five years on environmental important in regional areas. It accounts management systems such as effluent for 14.8 per cent of Southland’s systems, riparian planting and retiring economy, 11.5 per cent of the West sensitive land, which equates to around Coast economy, and 10.9 per cent of $90,000 for each dairy farm. the Waikato economy. “The report also highlights the “As a government we are investing potential of further trade liberalisation. $89 million, matched by the dairy NZIER’s modelling suggests that if all industry through the Primary Growth global dairy tariffs were eliminated, this Partnership, to help create new products, would result in a $1 billion boost to GDP. reduce environmental impacts, increase This is why opening up market access on-farm productivity and improve and tackling non-tariff barriers as well agricultural education.” remains a priority.”
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The steady progress the beef and lamb sector is making on environmental management issues was highlighted at Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s third environment conference recently. Farmer leaders from New Zealand’s sheep and beef sector have shared a range of stories, highlighting the steady progress the sector is making on environmental management issues. Sixty five farmers from around the country have been in Wellington to discuss the initiatives underway to improve environmental performance — and specifically to enhance catchment outcomes. “Those at the conference were some of New Zealand’s most environmentally proactive farmers and they represent the momentum gathering with farmers across the country,” said Beef + Lamb New Zealand chief executive Sam McIvor. This is the third environment conference Beef + Lamb New Zealand has run as a response to farmers looking for more help to support good environmental management on their farms. Mr McIvor told the conference that farmers understand their management of the environment is a key ingredient of their business and they know they are custodians of the land. “They also accept there are environmental challenges and finding solutions is as important for the sector as it is for rural communities, the wider
New Zealand population and our trading partners and consumers. “Since 1990 there has been a remarkable journey of environmental progress. Sheep and beef farmers have driven major efficiency gains — increasing lambing percentages by 25 per cent, and the lamb weight weaned by ewes by 93 per cent. What’s more impressive is that farmers have achieved this with 23 per cent less land. “We estimate that about one million hectares of steeper country is either retired or planted in trees, while a further million hectares of high quality land has been converted to dairy. With this efficiency drive it’s estimated that greenhouse gas emissions from the sheep and beef sector has decreased by 19 per cent.” Mr McIvor said he believed while sheep and beef farmers are focussed on being profitable and confident about the future, they are also focussed on meeting their responsibilities to the land and community. “We’re building tools and resources to support them with environmental management, measurement and reporting, while taking into account the many environmental issues that are specific to farms, catchments and regions.”
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don’t farm my llama for fibre but as working animals. We put packs on them and pick rubbish up down on the roads, take them down the beach for picnics and use them for community events,” says Julie. Julie grew up in the dairy farming industry and like most farming children had a lot of contact with horses. “I was involved in the horse scene and now I find llamas are really safe in comparison to horses. Llamas don’t kick, bite, stomp or throw hissy fits like horses can.” She has had her herd for 20 years and enjoys the fact that they are an intelligent animal. “You have to learn all about body language and how to outsmart them.
They have a personal space and have to be trained to be touched.” Julie says once trained they will go in the direction you want them to go in simply by moving your head or shoulder. Llamas in New Zealand were originally imported from England, Canada, the United States and Chile. Although they originated in South America, coming from different regions around the world means there are more types including long, short or medium wool coats. “I have the short wool which are classic. The woolly ones need grooming and the shorter coat ones tend to be taller. “We use ours for charity work including rest home visits, daffodil day collecting and fundraisers.” A male llama is called a macho, a female is a hembra and a
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baby is a cria. The gestation period is around 11 and a half months and up to a year sometimes. “Some breeders want one baby a year and get the mothers pregnant again within two weeks of giving birth. We don’t do that to ours, we let them rest.” Llama is not an eating meat although they were imported into Australia for colonial settlers but it is said the settlers did not like the taste. “Those I know who have tried it have only ever tried it once — even dogs walk away. It has a very strong flavour.” Julie believes llamas are good for lifestyle blocks as they are low maintenance. They only need to be shorn once a year, and if you only have a couple this can be done with a pair of scissors. Toenails can need trimming either six weekly or six monthly depending on the genetics. “They love hills they can clamber up and they love to stand at the top and look at the view and see what is going on. They enjoy licking lichen off a rock and having rubbishy stuff to chew on like gorse and blackberry. We feed ours hay for roughage as we just have grass.” One of the biggest health issues for llama is facial eczema, and this is now creeping across the country with the weather changes. “Check with your local veterinarian if there are any cases in your area in sheep or cows. There is lots of information online or call the Llama Association for advice if need be. “We feed ours zinc oxide mixed in their food when we know the season is approaching. Don’t take your eyes off facial eczema because they are very sensitive to it. “Like humans, they have the fight or flight instinct. Flight is their first defence. They can run fast but if they are cornered and feel under attack they
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will stomp their front feet. They used to stomp on pumas which were their main predator.” Julie says if any strange animal walks onto their land they will alarm call to let everyone in the herd know. “A friend came to visit with their dog and one llama was in the house paddock. The llama looked at the dog and slowly walked away. Five minutes later 25 other llamas came back to the house paddock to sort out the dog. They are an amazing animal with looking out for themselves.” There are approximately 1,500 llamas in New Zealand — they are kept more as a hobby. “They like working and getting out to do things — they don’t like being stuck in a paddock and being
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It’s all too easy to slip into a boxing metaphor when talk of the tussle for top light commercial comes around. Utes are big business and right now the Ford Ranger rules the roost, with even the mighty Toyota Hilux relegated to second place. We’ve even got an ‘undercard’ of lower-priced utes out of Asia and India battling for supremacy, but there’s been a notable gap in the top tier lately that has had certain badgeloyalists fuming. Back in the day, the Holden 1-tonne ute was king. Before the idea of a utility truck was redefined by the modern demand for car-like handling and leather interiors, the benchseated, chrome-grilled HQ was the working man’s first choice. Up against the Valiant and Falcon, the big Holden literally helped build most of our towns and cities. Now Holden are back, with a ute of a different mould. After their previous Colorado failed to topple the blue oval, GM bosses went back to the drawing board, and they’ve delivered an amped-up contender for 2017 — a new Colorado that embraces both modern aesthetics and safety while still staying true to the spirit — and lugging power — of the legendary one tonner. Under the hood a big 2.8L Duramax diesel pumps out 147 kilowatts and a maximum 500 newton-metres of torque — the key to the immense towing capacity of the Colorado, rated at 3.5 tonnes. Add in that classic one
Headed for the top — the new Colorado is set to take on Hilux and Ranger as NZ’s best ute
tonne of deck load and you have a machine which can handle the caravan, the boat or anything for the farm. That sense of comfort is more than apparent inside, with options for all the modern conveniences of a luxury sedan and standard features which older utes could only dream about. The suite of electronics, both visible and invisible, are state of the art as well. It’s hard to miss the big touch screen centre console which serves as a hub for both Android and Apple’s in-car
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The tough and dependable little Suzuki Jimny 4x4 has a long history of use in all kinds of off-road applications — and success as a road vehicle to boot. Still the weapon of choice for many 4x4 drivers, and a companion for all walks of life from hunters to farmers to adventure sports enthusiasts. But sometimes even the toughness and utility dialled in to these machines at the factory is not enough. That’s why one company from the Bay of Plenty is set on evolving the platform, creating a range of interesting alternatives keyed in to what Kiwis want from their 4x4. Pete Weatherly’s Evolution Custom Utes company has turned the popular little Jimny into the basis for four specialised machines, after listening to what the rural market wanted and needed from an off-roader. While Suzuki themselves offer the Farm Worker ute as an alternative to their road-going Jimny SUV, the ‘overengineered’ super toughness of the Work Mate, Farm Mate, Road Mate and Z Mate variants, makes these more than just a custom curiosity, but a clear upgrade over the basic quad or UTV. The original Suzuki Jimny is no slouch when it comes to taking on the rough stuff. Developed from a long history of compact 4x4s from the Japanese company, the underpinnings of a serious farm vehicle were there all along. Mr Weatherly comes from a background in farming, but also has a literal track record racing cars
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The mystery of pumps
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In most water reticulation or irrigation systems, you are going to need a pump, unless the water is from a pressurised scheme at farm gate or as some lucky farmers I visited recently in Middlemarch Otago have, gravity fed from surrounding hills — a whole 160psi of it! Could this be why some couplings had leaking O-rings? I often get asked about gravity for irrigation but there are a lot of considerations, enough for another blurb perhaps? Pumps work via energy transferred from the shaft to the water in the pump body. So what? Well the critical thing here is that energy costs money, pumping usually occurs over a considerable period and the wrong pump can, consequently, be a very expensive purchase! Just as Mum’s shopping basket’s engine has a different power curve to the farm ute, which is also different to a truck engine, so pumps are also massively different in performance and efficiency at the particular performance you require. Yes, you may get away with towing the boat with Mum’s shopping basket — for a short duration, but the fuel bill is going to be the highest ever and it can’t last. It’s the same with pumps. I often see pumps from clearance sales which have run a low pressure system, being applied to a medium or high pressure system. After all ‘it’s a big pump isn’t it? The guy before was running way more gear than me’. Yup, but now your diesel motor is valve bouncing trying to produce the
pressure required, and also the pump is not running in its ‘happy spot’. You could also be pressurising a lot of water, which is going nowhere due to different irrigation flow. Energy cost again! Actually the chance of buying the right pump from a clearance sale are about the same as a winning lottery ticket! One in a million. The best efficiency is usually somewhere around two-thirds full flow on most pumps. This is not maximum pressure, so beware of advertising stuff from certain companies saying ‘Max flow… Max pressure’. This does not mean you can get both at once. Even then some of the claims are at best, ‘optimistic’, as observed by our technicians. Buying a pump Using a reputable irrigation professional should avoid these pitfalls. 1. Ask for proof that the pump you are considering is the correct one! Pump curves are not so difficult to read and you can always ask regional council field staff or other professionals to help impartially. Irri-Max Ltd and others have an open policy about what the client is getting. Don’t allow ‘secret squirrel’ stuff. Look for the best efficiency point —
is this the same as your intended flow? Does the pump have the ability to produce the required pressure at reasonable input speed? Ask about the pumps Nett Positive Suction Head (NPSH). You might not understand it but a simple calculation is this — start with value of nine then subtract your suction height (pump above water), then see if the balance is larger than the NPSH value at your intended flow. Say your pump is 4m above water (not the best installation), then the NPSH can not be more than five, in fact even this would be a call to get some proper hydraulic engineering done to avoid disappointment. Probably pump techs will laugh at my equation above as there are more factors to it than this, but my intention is merely to give the layman some warning
signs of what may work or not. NPSH available varies massively from pump to pump! 2. Have you the right of return if it doesn’t meet specs? What is the cost of this ‘experiment’? eg you may have to change mounting points, flanges, engineering, etc. if it doesn’t work and you need to fit another model. Don’t buy a pig in a poke! 3. Pressure gauges: Insist the pump has a pressure gauge so you can verify the promised performance on your system. 4. Is the suction system large enough? Avoid the ‘thick shake with small straw effect’. 5. Irri-Max Ltd have been importing and supplying irrigation and effluent pumps for more than 20 years. Please contact Clement (Clem) Powell on 0800 426 296 for more information.
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toxin (sporisdesim) produced by the spores of the fungus Pithomyces chartarum growing on pasture. The fungus grows in the dead litter at the base of pasture in warm moist conditions, and when ingested by cattle or sheep, damages the liver and bile ducts. It can cause liver failure and death. The number of CRV Ambreed bulls with ‘high’ or ‘very high’ tolerance to FE has jumped from 18 in 2016 to 25 this year. “In addition, the number of bulls with daughter proofs in the team has jumped from eight to twelve,” he said. “These bulls have high protein, fertility and type so there is little trade-off in index for farmers who are looking to breed cows with a superior tolerance to facial eczema.”
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World wanderer returns Eighteen months and 30 countries later… Vet Services (HB) Ltd is delighted to announce the return of Mike Fitzgerald to the Waipukurau team. Mike spent time working and travelling from the UK as a locum equine vet — moving from region to region and filling in where needed. “Working for seven practices within about as many months certainly had its challenges,” said Mike. “But this organised chaos taught me more than I had ever imagined. The Brits are really up with the play in the horse world — cutting edge technology, an unmistakable ingrained love of horses, and at times a seemingly unlimited budget. This means the skills of vets and vet clinics is incredible; certainly a great learning experience.” Mike takes on a predominantly large animal role in Waipukurau and the wider business. He is also excited to be putting his experience and knowledge from the UK into practice, pursuing his everincreasing interest in equine dentistry, surgery and medicine, and providing expertise to clients and their horses in CHB. Services that Vet Services Hawke’s Bay offers: Companion animal ser vices — vaccinations, health checks, microchipping, digital radiography, blood tests, orthopaedic and general surgery, weight management, dog
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Love our forests Our ka-rearea does
Our native falcon – the kārearea is one of our most spectacular birds. You can see it on our $20 note. It speeds through the air at more than 100 km/h and catches prey larger than itself. It’s unique and phenomenal.
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It’s also threatened. Much of the kārearea’s natural habitat has been lost to farming and its numbers further reduced by cats, rats, stoats and weasels. Our plantation forests have become important breeding grounds for this wonderful native bird. They nest there, they hunt there, and they have found a congenial home among the exotic trees – along with many other native species.
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