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“With PGF support the rail line has been rebuilt, and KiwiRail has established a road-rail log yard in Wairoa. On Sunday, January 26 the first loaded log train left Wairoa for the Port of Napier,” said Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones. “Export log volumes in the Hawke’s Bay region are predicted to reach 3.3 million tonnes per annum in the next few years and remain at high levels until the mid-2030s. The harvest growth around Wairoa is part of that picture. Trains will begin running from Wairoa on Saturdays and Sundays, carrying 1,400 tonnes of logs each weekend, with more train services expected as harvests increase. That means 5,000 fewer truck journeys between Wairoa and Napier a year, as a start. If we are to avoid more logging trucks on the region’s roads, keep congestion under control and lower our transport emissions — rail is a necessity.” Forestry harvests across New Zealand have been increasing

since 2008. They are currently at around 36 million tonnes a year and are forecast to remain at high levels for the next decade. “Having options for transporting logs to port ensured a strong supply chain and gave confidence to the forestry industry. “New Zealand is an export-led economy, so the ability to get our goods to port efficiently and safely is crucial. That is why the coalition government is focussed on an inter-modal approach to transport that makes the best use of trucks and trains. It is also why we have invested $40 million through the Provincial Growth Fund in a regional road-rail hub near Palmerston North.” KiwiRail has employed two additional train staff and three track staff to support the new log trains and maintain the line. Local companies were used to develop the Wairoa log yard, which will be run by ISO Ltd and KiwiRail expects to employ more people as services increase.

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Debt Mediation Scheme from February 1. The other is being open for business for farmers and creditors on July 1. “We don’t want to reinvent the wheel for farm debt mediation completely, and the processes we are designing will be familiar with current mediators. We will require mediators to have farm business and rural sector knowledge, and we want good regional coverage. “Two organisations, the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand and the Resolution Institute, have advised MPI they intend to apply to be Approved Mediation Organisations Karen Adair, MPI’s deputy under the new legislation. director-general Agriculture and Investment Services They are jointly developing a day-long seminar in mid-February to train to provide for mediation according to existing mediators. tikanga was highlighted by the Family “One feature of the Farm Debt Justice Review report in May 2019. Mediation Scheme will be that, if a We are working with mediators who farmer prefers, mediation can be are experienced and knowledgeable in based on tikanga Maori (protocols). It tikanga to set this up.” could help get better engagement and outcomes. That is timely too, the need

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a Suftex flock selling more than 200 rams a year, this is the source of my ewe stock. There is always something new happening within the sheep industry, and you are always challenging yourself to breed a better animal. It is exciting to see your genetics out there working well for people. “LCL work involves travelling all over the country and helping farmers achieve their goals. We sort their ewe flocks into A and B categories generally on type and conformation. Allowing farmers to put the best ewes to maternal rams to get replacements and the B ewes to a terminal ram. That helps clients increase performance working out ways of getting the most bang for their buck.

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vigorous from birth. After the first week, they put a huge amount of weight on and continue growing rapidly — reaching killable weights quickly and efficiently. It is definitely a breed to watch and have stood out within my flock. People can follow us on our Waihau Sheep Genetics Facebook page and see who we are going. “We are importing a Scottish ram — Beltex is a double muscle Texel from Belgium. They are a white sheep with quite a lot of pigment in their head and breed darker than a Texel, giving

the first crosses a dark head. I like to run the stud ewes and lambs with the commercial sheep. Ram and ewe hoggets are bred, and I use rams hoggets over the commercial flock. It gives them experience meaning they breed better as a two-tooth and rams not up to scratch are found early. I would rather a ram doesn’t perform at my place then a client’s. A ram failure gives you a bad name. I also believe there are advantages with leasing rams to people so they don’t have to carry it all year round.”

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Commitment brings reward by Ann van Engelen

Life Member of the NZ Dog Trial Association, Merv Cameron, was born at Invercargill and in 1952 moved to a small dairy farm in Kaitaia until leaving at 15 years old when he was offered casual work.

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to keep raising young ones. When the club was formed at Kaitaia, I was part of the team, and in 1959 we became a standard trial at Victoria Valley. I didn’t have a dog but helped with the chores, and that was when I was given Cap, who was a young dog. He scored my first open win in either 1960 or 1961. “I also reluctantly agreed to take over, as after the first year and fifty-nine years later was still the club secretary. We removed an old shed that was gifted to the club, and we rebuilt it on skids. It became our clubhouse for many years until it was falling to bits, but with not much money to play with I decided to raffle a five-month-old heading dog I had bred. We made up books of 10 tickets at $2 each and sent some to every club across the country, and as a result, our club made $4,000. “Kaitaia Hospital had some corrugated iron advertised, and I was successful in buying it. “My brother and I had poles and timber, and with voluntary labour, we built a new clubhouse, which still stands beside number one highway today albeit as a farm shed. “As our club is the most northern in New Zealand, we always aimed to have workable sheep so competitors would come back and I feel we have certainly achieved this. Most years, I have sold a dog or pups to help the club survive financially. One year my dog Harry ran at Tux Kaitaia at eight and a half

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Merv has been involved with breeding and competing in sheep dog trials for more than 60 years

months and scored 94 points. He was immediately auctioned off for $3,200 to Neville Child and has gone on to win two NZ titles. Six years ago we bought calves, which we raised to rising twoyear-olds to raise funds for the club as well. “I have been at most levels of the NZ Dog Trial network, was Northland president for 10 years and on the NZ council. Helping younger people has always been a priority, and it is amazing to see so many ladies joining the sport,

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We were once proud farmers

January 2020

THE SHORT DROP LIMITED

by Mark Cameron

The rural sector in New Zealand is in crisis. Our way of life on the land is now being emotionally and fiscally evaporated and expunged, eroding away in the face of a pontificating political machine that is bloated on grandstanding. In the rural sector, I see palpable despair at a frequency that I believe this country has never seen before. It has become abundantly clear that there is a real feeling of loss, frustration, fear, sadness and looming capitulation. Farmers that routinely had high esteem now, all too often, walk around with their heads below their belt buckles, disillusioned, their pride once held true and dear slipping away — all too often to emotional oblivion. Front and centre in all of this is the dire nature of the government and bureaucratic machinations of industry leaders and their overreaching interference into rural lives. The levels that we see out of this current government and its proposals feel emotionally cataclysmic. There are ideological pipe dreams to mitigate global warming with no practical or pragmatic solutions to offer, other than to add monumental compliance costs and create a palpable fear of ‘what’s coming next’. Farming is being left at impossible fiscal and emotional levels. The bureaucratic machine keeps turning, and farmers’ lives are irreversibly changed to a point they leave the land or at worst case, take their own lives.

Moreover, what of the banks? They increasingly have turned their backs and retrenched their faith in an industry they once lauded as front and centre to the nation’s economic health. That once inspirational attitude is now a metaphorical malignancy. Where are our industry leaders in all of this? They seem to have deserted their posts and their very shareholders in lieu of cosying up to politicians to get their next caffeine fix at yet another expensive meeting. The more I shy away from this truth, the more I’m brought back to earth by the court of public opinion — rural families. We must have a front and centre dialogue with those on high about the truth of where rural New Zealand sits in the overall New Zealand scheme of things, to find a way forward in this mire of confusion and despair. To look and seek out what once was and hold it again dear to our hearts. Rediscover our appetite to succeed; our drive and ambition, our self-belief, and a resurgence of rural pride. The time for that is right now! Mark Cameron is an industry activist leader who farms in Kaipara District.

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We grew up together, went to school together, ended up being flatmates for a while in those university days; no surprise, as we both came into this world in 1978. That’s where the similarities between this writer and the Holden Commodore end, however. Nevertheless, I’m only one of the millions who are sad to see it disappear. Holden’s flagship sedan hit the roads as the oil crisis gave way to the decade of excess. However, it was lighter and therefore more economical than its rivals, or its HQ predecessor. New blue series engines came in with the upgrade to the VC Commodore in 1980, with the SS badge returning the year after, and the third-generation VH seeing the debut of Peter Brock’s HDT group one, two and three highperformance packages. Through to the VK and VL generations, motor racing legends were built and consolidated. Many a V8 Commodore was adorned with the stickers and paint jobs of racing icons from the tarmac of Bathurst. Commodores took many of us to school and many more on holiday. Big Commodore wagons were the family hauliers of the day, before the advent of the SUV and the people mover. The shape of the distinctive VR and VS car’s noses, especially in white, can still cause a pang of worry in drivers of a certain age, who have developed pattern recognition in their brains that identifies them as traffic cops. It all came to an end with the launch of the ZB Commodore just a couple of years ago, with construction moving away from Australia. Now comes the news that the Commodore badge is history, with

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There’s been a worldwide trend towards the sensible and forward-thinking in the annual ‘car of the year’ sweepstakes. In a year notable for the nativity of some big horsepower and sporty new generations of classics past, the winners have universally been of a different stripe. Take the winner of our own Kiwi Car of the Year, as chosen in December 2019. In a field, which included some major players, including the much-feted Toyota Supra, the winner was Ford’s all-new Focus hatchback — a car well within the grasp of the average motorist. When this latest model of the Focus was launched, Ford was enthusiastic about its combination of economy, performance and safety, and Ford’s spokespeople followed through when it was shortlisted, saying: “This all-new generation has the best combination of the well-renowned Focus character, performance all with the latest technology throughout. Being a Top Ten COTY Finalist is further recognition that our Ford engineers and designers in Europe aced it!” In North America, it was a similar story. Ford had reason to anticipate a win there too, with their Mustang continuing to dominate and a Shelby 500 sports model crushing the competition. Chevrolet’s new corvette, the first to mount its engine amidships like a supercar, has also been called ‘sublime’. The winner was the allelectric Hyundai Kona, a small SUV that runs on batteries and originates from South Korea. Finally, the last bastion of

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