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“Safe use of hunting firearms is pretty basic,” said New Zealand Deer Association president Bill O’Leary. In the past decade the number of firearm licence applicants has more than doubled and this has increased hunter numbers. The Hunter Safety Interagency committee chaired by Mr O’Leary is reminding hunters to follow some basic rules. “Get a firear ms licence, get permission to access and hunt on land, communicate your presence to other hunters and understand and observe the basic rules of firearm safety.” Mr O’Leary said that the media and the public tend to focus on the ‘failure to identify’ incidents but he emphasises that most incidents are the result of ‘failure to observe basic rules’ such as always pointing the firearm in a safe direction. “The Hunter Safety Committee’s analysis of incidents has identified potential causal factors. Unlicensed shooters and illegal hunting are ‘red flags’ and along with spotlighting have featured too frequently in shooting incidents. “Experienced shooters are not exempt from making mistakes. Bad habits, complacency and deteriorated eyesight have been linked to past incidents. “Each and every hunter needs to look hard at their own and their

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mates’ attitudes and conduct and ensure that safety is the most basic of considerations when hunting.” The Hunter Safety Inter-agency committee promotes safe firearm usage and draws its members from NZ Police, Department of Conservation, New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association, Fish and Game NZ, New Zealand Pig Hunters’ Association and Firearm Safety Specialists NZ. The New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association is a national organisation of hunters with 48 branches running training in safe firearm usage and hunting.

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Winning at dairy The 2017 Hawke’s Bay/Wairarapa Dairy Industry Awards Share Farmer of the Year winners Rob and Shiralee Seerden say entering the competition has given them a better understanding of their whole business. Kenny Henderson was named the Dairy Manager of the Year, and Brandyn Beale the Dairy Trainee of the Year. “Being able to analyse why we make the decisions we do, and ensure they are the best for our farming enterprise, has been a huge benefit of entering the awards,” said Rob and Shiralee. The couple have been on their current 80ha farm since 2009 and say their goal is to look for a new role in the 2018/19 season and move to a 450–650 head position, either in 50/50 sharemilking or an equity partnership job. They have seven children and are currently contract milking 225 cows for John and Jean Ellison at Norsewood. Their farming procedures are continually evaluated through all stages, with a focus on measuring results through quality practices. “The end result is well-grown and healthy cows that are able to perform and produce well,” they said. It is fourth time lucky for Kenny Henderson. “Entering previously has made me more aware of my strengths and weaknesses as a manager, thanks to the judges’ feedback. I have increased my profile within the industry and made new contacts,” said Kenny. Kenny is the farm manager for Ben and Nicky Allomes, who are 50/50 sharemilkers for Kay Cassells on her Woodville property.

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“My farming goal is to remain in a stable work position in one area and farm for as long as possible to allow my wife and children a settled lifestyle. “Currently remaining where I am and progressing to self-employment would be ideal as the Allomes are very progressive employers and the farm is very well set out in a manner that enables it to be profitable.” Brandyn Beale is 21 years old and is the herd manager on Mike and Jane Joho’s 350-cow farm at Dannevirke and

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rudy was born and bred on a dairy farm in the Hauraki Plains and was living in Hamilton as a marketing manager for Hamilton Zoo when she met Peter online in 2008. “It was a bit of a change shifting from the mighty Waikato to central Hawke’s Bay. I missed my family, friends and restaurants, but things change and you just get on and make the most of it,” said Trudy. ”When I first moved to the farm Peter had sheep and a pic ‘n’ mix of cattle including some pretty crazy cattle — the cross-bred herd had resulted in some

temperament issues, which needed to be addressed. “Peter bought the farm off his parents six months before meeting me. Owning it ourselves gives us the freedom to do what we want and it allows us to drive our own destiny. We can plan and make changes without feeling guilty and we are trying to take the farm to the next level. “I see a lot of people work side by side for their parents and it can be difficult because you can’t make certain decisions. “We got a Hereford bull and are shifting across to Herefords. We are

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also making a change with our rams and moving to Coopworths.” Peter takes a relaxed approach and is trying to build natural resistance and defence in the stock. “There are a lot of intense styles of farming but we want to build our animals immunity naturally and we minimise the amount of drench we use. “He does the shearing himself as a way to control our costs. I rousie if and when I can. It was easier when the children were younger, but now I have other commitments so we tend to get someone to rousie.” Trudy and her mother started a new online business last year. “The Cotton Pony is an online feminine subscription. We started off thinking we would sell to farming mums, but our clientele are women in all industries and girls at boarding schools. “The idea came about because you rush to the supermarket and often forget your own stuff. We have to drive close to an hour to town and if you are caught without feminine products it is a nightmare.” Customers go online and pick and mix up to 20 individual sanitary items. These get delivered a week before needed along with chocolates, tea and a New Zealand beauty product. The packages are a little white box with the pony sticker on it. “It is about celebrating that time of the month.” Trudy also runs an Ag marketing business — Tag 4 Consulting. “We offer a wide range of marketing aspects. When I came here there wasn’t a lot of speciality marketing companies in the

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Peter bought the family farm off his parents Trudy has other businesses and helps around the farm when she can now their children are older Hawke’s Bay. “I have had the opportunity to work with some fantastic companies, and help other mums launch their own businesses off farm. Sometimes it is a juggling act but that’s where Peter and I work well as a team, making sure that nothing and no one gets left behind.” Peter is also involved with the local volunteer fire brigade and is a qualified senior firefighter. “People don’t realise firefighters have to take two weeks off farm to do the basic firefighting course, plus ongoing training. “It is a big commitment. He will be out on the farm and have to drop his tools and head off to an incident. When it is in the middle of the night I don’t get back to sleep until he gets home. “You want to know if they are ok. It could be a road

accident of someone they know and the job takes a toll on them emotionally, but they deal with the situations and continue on.” Trudy says avoiding fires on a farm can be as simple as ensuring there are no bird’s nests in the wool sheds. “A lot of fires start in wool sheds because the birds build their nests in electrical areas, or old appliances. Bird’s nests in tractors are also a problem because when you start it up the nest goes up in flames. It pays to check all these places and keep them clear of hay. “Peter and I are now at the stage where everything is falling into place and we are familiar with all aspects of all three businesses.”

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A HARDY BREED Shirley Jenkins is the secretary and herd registrar of the Welsh Black Cattle Society of New Zealand and she and husband Bruce moved into Welsh Black cattle in 1980 as an alternative type of stock for their 600 acres of rolling land, now reduced to 200 acres.

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e farmed the family property that Bruce grew up on for some 40 years. It was originally Bruce’s grandfather’s property. “We started with a Friesian dairy herd and went back into Jerseys. We then wanted beef cattle to go with the sheep running on the steeper 400 acres as well, and thought we would try a different breed of cattle to go with them,” said Shirley. “The Welsh Black have a good reputation for being hardy and providing

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as well as the horned ones. They are a good breed for anything really.” Last year the Welsh Black Cattle World Congress was held in New Zealand with 46 people visiting from across the world, including, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom, Luxembourg and Wales. “They are still popular in Wales and have been cross bred with an exotic cow but the farmers there are going back to the original now. A Canadian visitor said they are great for the snow conditions where they live,” said Shirley. “They are good for cold climates because of their thick winter coat. They need a shelter to hide from the wind but they don’t necessarily need housing in tough snow conditions as they hold their own heat longer than other breeds. They have very thick hides and like all animals they do need shade in the summer.” In summer and in hot climates this coat is replaced with a smooth, glossy coat. “Welsh Blacks are a true hill country breed of cattle and are generally easy calving,” said Shirley. “Their history of being raised in harsh, outdoor environments and their ability to convert rough feed into weight gain and having a willingness to forage makes them an ideal animal for any property.” The calves are known to be vigorous and hardy and do not present feeding problems in dairy operations. The cows have a long, even lactation up to 300 days and they have a long productive life of 15–20 years. “This hardy breed has much to offer modern

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It used to be the case that far-flung rural areas were renowned for being free of crime and theft. Being a long way from the big city with its perceived villainy was a good reason for local pride — in a time when doors were never locked and the keys stayed in the ute at night. It’s sad but true that times have changed, and now farms are often at the front line of the security ‘arms race’ between sneak thieves and those who work hard for their money. Fuel supplies, quad bikes and even the contents of the homestead have been brazenly targeted by criminals, but technology is allowing rural folk to fight back with devices unheard of in previous years — at least outside of spy blockbusters. A popular choice on the shelves of many electrical stores is the Arlo wireless camera kit — a collection of four small cigarette pack sized camera modules and a single central hub or ‘base station’. The cameras are wireless with long life internal batteries, weatherproof to put up with showers of rain, and record information to a remote ‘cloud’ on the internet. Snap them to their special dome-shaped fittings to

cover any area of the home, and they even come with light amplifying night vision to help capture movement in the dark. Users can set the cameras to pop into life when they detect movement, or alternatively they can be controlled remotely from any cellular device. This means that anywhere you are in the world, the farm can be watched and kept secure. Picture this — an alert comes late at night while you’re out at dinner. A shadowy figure is trying to access the equipment shed. Snap to high-resolution night vision, and suddenly you have a clear view of the burglar’s face in real time. This image can be sent right to the police force for a quick ‘pickup’ — or used later as evidence to track down wrongdoers. Then again, as some Arlo camera models have a speaker and microphone,

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Ron’s company has recently taken delivery of a shipment of Sechura Reactive Phosphate Rock — and he was at the Port of Tauranga in February to see 2000 tonnes of it discharged for Kiwi Fertiliser from the MV Lolland. “This RPR fertiliser is the gold standard — the real McCoy of RPR. Its natural phosphorus is not acidified before it is spread on to pasture. “It is tested prior to loading in Peru and is above the minimum 10 per cent phosphorus and 30 per cent citric soluble criteria set for New Zealand RPR standards,” says Ron. “The shipment has arrived at the perfect time for autumn top dressing applications.” Because it is extracted from the ancient seabed in the Sechura region of Peru it also contains a lot of calcium, magnesium, sulphur and minor trace nutrients, which are all readily available to plants through the actions of soil life. Although the Sechura is not altered in anyway, Kiwi Fertiliser does add Brimstone 90 — an elemental sulphur — before application to the product to increase phosphorus plant availability. Reduced leaching “The RPR still has all of the colloidal clay attached to it.” Because it is a fine, sandlike substance, Ron says the risk of leaching into waterways is reduced by up to 80 to 90 per cent. The MV. Lolland spent 22 days at sea to bring the product from Peru to Tauranga and the Sechura RPR was discharged in 26 hours from her holds by a giant grab that can hold the equivalent of a full truck-and-trailer load of

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Fighting kiwifruit pests

Kiwifruit Vine Health (KVH) Inc and the Ministry for Primary Industries recently signed an agreement to help reduce the damaging impacts of the four most common biosecurity threats to the kiwifruit and kiwiberry sectors. The operational agreement under the Government Industry Agreement for Biosecurity Readiness and Response (GIA) sets out the contractual arrangements of how industry and government will work together to manage potential pests. “This means the kiwifruit and kiwiberry sectors and MPI can work together to manage and help reduce the impact of a number of pest threats on our sector, which has exports of almost $2 billion per year,” said KVH CEO, Barry O’Neil. “There are a number of biosecurity threats facing our industry. The Psa incursion, which impacted us from 2010,

cost the kiwifruit industry $1 billion. With the signing of this agreement we have committed to doing everything we can to stop another Psa-type event from occurring.” The agreement establishes the operational details for readiness and response activities and costsharing arrangements, to deliver better biosecurity outcomes for the kiwifruit sector. It includes the roles and responsibilities of all the parties, including how joint activities will be cost shared. The GIA partnership currently has 14 partners from across government and the wider primary sector, who have agreed to work together to jointly

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David Law, Managing Director of Forward Farming Consultancy

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A little over four years ago I left the farm after 10 years of farming on the biological trail. Some people thought that to go in that direction you were brave, and others thought you were just plain stupid. There is still a very strong feeling that to take away the dependance of high usage of nitrogen, and more recently palm kernel, would be devastating to many farmers. To even contemplate moving into organics for them would be inconceivable. While regulations stay as they are then these farmers can rest easy and carry on managing their business unchanged. However, whether we like it or not, there is a wind of change blowing and early adopters to this change may well be better prepared for the storm that will inevitably arrive. We may well find that the way that the majority of farms are run will change over the next 5 years. Enforcement of strict regulations are likely to be rolled out during this time. High phosphate and nitrates in waterways are testament to a fertiliser system which clearly needs an overhaul. Whether it’s the farmers who apply it or the fertiliser companies who sell these nutrients, it’s obvious that there is too much for the plants to absorb. If the plants can’t absorb these surplus nutrients then they end up polluting our

precious water. So the regional councils have identified that restrictions are needed to stop the surplus nutrients, by decreasing the amount applied in the future. The overseer programme is the preferred system for measuring and managing this huge undertaking. This all seems fair, particularly from an environmental point of view. But is this scenario really fair? Well, from my experience as a farmer, the biological approach showed a lot of difference from the chemical way. So are these two obviously talked about systems so vastly different? I have found that the more I look and observe, the more the chemical system doesn’t make sense. The more I watch and observe over time the more I see that the chemical system is the very practice that is actually leading farmers down the wrong road. The largest part of my work has been to focus on the end point of our business, the effluent pond. The obvious practice to manage effluent has been to tackle and manage effluent with machinery. Solid separators, stirrers and weeping walls. The majority of farmers still think this way. There are even consultants that will advise farmers that this is the only way to manage effluent.

I have found that the farmers with the biggest effluent problems, particularly crusting and solids, are heavy chemical fertiliser users. In fact I can look at a heavily crusted pond and have a pretty accurate assessment as to the fertiliser a farmer is applying and what his soil is doing. After studying the fertiliser and soil science available to us, I have deduced that fertiliser companies have fabricated or left out some scientific facts, which has led our farming industry down a problematic pathway. If regional councils are now pointing the finger at farmers for their bad fertiliser practices, I would suggest the fault lies with the advice given to the farmers about the best fertilisers to use. I believe that fertiliser choices can be improved and farmers do have better avenues to procure quality products. My research and observation, along with similar practitioners, indicates that a biological approach demands a higher balanced pH soil which always shows increased microbiological activity. Microbes require the best possible conditions to digest food in a cow’s stomach. Science has shown that higher pH is a factor here. The more food the microbes and enzymes digest, the less undigested solids end up in the pond. Again, the effluent ponds with the least solids always have a higher pH in the pond. Chemical fertiliser teaching embraces a pH in the soil of 5.8 to 6. My research has very simply shown this soil pH will produce a crusted pond and the lower the soil pH the thicker the crust on the pond. I would suggest that a change to inputs which will lift the pH in a balanced approach, will also lift your efficiency throughout your whole farming system. For more information visit my website or arrange for me to visit.

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Recent inclement weather throughout the North Island is a reminder for farmers to ensure they are reaching average pasture cover and cow condition targets ready for spring. DairyNZ recommends farmers should complete an autumn feed budget to identify shortages and ensure quality of any pasture renewal and also target autumn pests such as black beetle, aphids, clover root weevil and grass grubs where possible. Good grazing management through early autumn includes maximising pasture growth balanced with allowing pastures to recover following the summer dry period. ‘When planning renewal, identify the poor performing paddocks first and address the underlying problems behind pasture deterioration, and consider soil fertility and pH, pugging, overgrazing, weeds, pests, soil compaction and drainage,’ DairyNZ says. ‘Buy quality seed and select the right pasture species and/or cultivar for your farm. Sowing a small area well is less risky than sowing a large area poorly.

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A leap forward in efficiency by Andy Bryenton

When it comes to power and economy, there’s little question that electronic fuel injection beats traditional carburetted aspiration hands down. It may not have always been the case, but the modern computerised fuel delivery system is the key to better compression and more horsepower. The old style of carburettor went out of automobiles in the early 1980s, with the final examples being cars like the Triumph 2500 S and the first-edition Mazda RX7. It hung on in motorcycles until recently, and persists in even smaller engines such as those in lawnmowers. Or does it? It seems that times are changing in the world of ride-on zero turn mowers at least, with the coming of computer controlled electronic fuel injection to the Ferris mowers range. A good example of why this brand is being picked up enthusiastically by both lifestyle block owners and grounds maintenance professionals, the Ferris IS 3200 Z is more than just an engine upgrade. But once the comfortable seating position, responsive turning circle and wide, durable cutting deck are taken in, it’s the big twin-cylinder 28-horsepower mill mounted behind the driver’s seat which inevitably draws the attention. Similar in size to many other V-twin motors in the Ferris garage, this unit boasts 25 per cent greater fuel efficiency and a super-smooth purr from

the get-go. Ferris claims that piloting the IS 3200 Z across the turf is like taking a relaxing drive — with the coincidence that you also cut the lawn. That matters, because more fuel economy matched to a bigger fuel tank means more time in the field between breaks to fill up. Having made its new machine more efficient, Ferris has also gone out of its way to make it more comfortable, due to the inevitability of more hours ‘in the saddle’. Its engineers have taken another cue for modern autos — adjustable rear coilover-shocks and front independent adjustable shocks combine with a cushioned seat to make the IS 3200 Z one of the smoothest in the business. Even maintenance is easier, with plug-in diagnostics like a top-end Euro sedan. As more and more people realise that the old push mower is not going to tackle the sward on their lifestyle block or rural property, the zero-turn mower is growing in popularity. This move to a new fuel delivery technology means a big leap ahead for Ferris — from 1980s tech to the 21st century in one go! PROUD SPONSOR OF

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