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It is the culmination of four years of working with US-based technology partner Abundant Robotics, which T&G’s parent company BayWa AG invested in two years ago as part of its strategy to expand digitisation across its agribusiness. “The company is delighted to have reached this significant milestone in the evolution of the global apple industry and for T&G’s home operations in New Zealand to be at the forefront,” says T&G Global chief operating officer Peter Landon-Lane. “Automation enables us to continue to scale to meet increasing global demand for food, in the face of current and future labour market challenges. We have been actively driving towards this for the past few years, including preparing our orchards to be robot-ready. “This is in addition to the investment our parent company BayWa AG has made in Abundant Robotics, reflecting confidence in the technology, which has been developed with the apple industry from the outset. “It will be some years before all T&G orchards are harvested in this way, but this first harvest with Abundant Robotics is an exciting step forward. “Apple-picking is tough physical work, and it is seasonal. Robotic technology
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AN INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE by Ann van Engelen Lucy Collin comes from a sheep and beef farming family, and her parents breed Charolais cattle with 110 purebred animals on the property.
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ended up being president and judges — it takes at least five years of sitting exams to become a national judge.” Over time the couple started a nursery and specialised in miniature roses. “The first World Rose Convention was in 1974, and we had moved into a new house and couldn’t afford to go, but knew international visitors were travelling the country so we would get the children dressed in their best Sunday outfits and take a big bouquet of our miniature roses out to the airport and give them to the travellers.” One couple, were Americans Ralph and Ann Moore. Ralph is known as the ‘father’ of the modern miniature rose. “They bred all the miniatures at that stage and invited us to stay with them. Ralph suggested we open a nursery as
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TO BUILD OR RENOVATE Building your own home There are laws you need to comply with when you are building whether you are hiring a builder or doing the work yourself. If you want to build your own house and you are not a licensed builder, you have to get an owner-builder exemption. Ask the council for information they have about your property they can tell you about local and regional plans, and how they might impact on your project. You might need to apply for resource consent or other permits specific to your area. The more you know, the better prepared you will be, your plans will be better informed, and you might save time and money by making a good building consent application. You could also avoid the need to make last minute changes or costly amendments during construction. Building on an empty section is more complicated than altering or renovating an existing house. It involves more paperwork and legal processes whether you build from scratch or move a house onto the section. When buying a section find out about and land use restrictions, district plan rules, resource consents and land survey and find out about your land and whether your ideas will work, including consents or permits you might need to meet legal restrictions. Once you have got an idea of what you want to build, you can also purchase a project information memorandum (PIM) from your council. A PIM can
help you decide whether your planning and building project is possible and practical, and will help you and your designer create effective plans. You might also find useful information in a land information memorandum (LIM), often purchased prior to buying a property. However, it’s not project-specific and may be out of date. Your most up-todate information will come directly from your council.
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What lies beneath Some rural buildings that may have started life in pioneer days may by now need the foundations revisited because over time piles can move and deteriorate, causing them to fail. If the house was built in an era that used totara piles, an examination would determine if repiling has happened. New piles are either concrete or tanalised (H5) pine and are easy to spot. Make sure to check out that all the piles have been replaced. It is quite common that only a few piles are new, often just around the edge of the house. Sometimes all the piles move, but more often different piles move to different extents. It causes the house to twist, bow and crack, resulting in damage. The piles may have stopped moving or may be continuing to move. It all depends on the cause. If you are planning renovations, it pays to start with firm foundations or you are going to end up with an inferior result. That involves digging new piles down to a firm base and attempting to realign the house on this new foundation. To establish if there is a problem and to
what extent, ask the experts. A house inspector is a good start. Repiling is a major job, and different repilers use different methods. Some cut holes in the floor for access under the house, and some lift the entire building on jacks to make room to work. Ensure you have a building permit, other additions and changes to the house can be added to the same permit, so it pays to make plans in advance and discuss with council what permits and consents you need before starting any project. When doing other alterations to older homes, it is best to note that between the 1940s and the 1990s lots of building materials in New Zealand contained asbestos. Asbestos that’s in good condition, sealed or won’t be disturbed is relatively safe, but it can cause serious health problems if it’s damaged or you intend
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After twelve years in New Zealand, Teeter Hang-Ups have now established a long term track record with thousands of people throughout New Zealand. Inversion New Zealand was started by Dave and Nancy Hare, Dave had suffered over twenty years of back pain from Degenerated Discs and had basically given up and decided to just live with it. To him surgery was never an option as long as he still could walk, there was hope. “While on an overseas trip I discovered the Teeter Hang-Ups for the first time, when I tried it, the pain completely disappeared and I was pain free for about 30 minutes. I never would have believed it would fix me completely as specialists had told me it was irreversible, but I now knew I had a place to go every time I wanted some welcome relief”. To my surprise the more I used the table the longer the pain stayed away, until after nearly three months the pain was completely gone, after spending large amounts of money on everything I could find I finally had found something that worked and it was something I had never heard of sorting it out for me in a very short period of time.
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Once I was sure it really worked I decided to introduce Teeter into New Zealand to help spread awareness of the one thing that truly helped me. Over the years I have helped tens of thousands of people in New Zealand get some serious relief and have seen results in not only backs, but necks, hips, knees, posture, circulation and lots more.
Inversion helps to: • Relieve Back Pain • Relieve Neck Pain • Relieve Muscle Tension • Stimulate Blood And Lymph Flow • Improve Posture • Increase Flexability
The results from what inversion does is nothing short of miraculous in areas we never thought possible, I believe there is a place for these in every single home regardless of if you have back issues or not. We have introduced them into a number of schools which are using them for their special needs children, the blood to the brain helps these kids and the results are excellent. What this means for the aging population is that it helps maintain the health of the brain as we all get older. I would not have believed the results had I not tried it for myself, and I would still be suffering to this day. This is why we travel the country showing people and letting them see for themselves how great it is and how life can be once your pain free again
Frank Harwood (84 at time of picture) using his Teeter, Frank’s been Inverting for over eleven years and has found it keeps him young
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Discs:
It uses gravity to apply traction, the traction gently opens the discs and as they open up they create suction, this suction draws fluid from the surrounding tissue back into the discs, re-hydrating them. This is the key! Discs do not have their own blood supply, they rely on trans fer of fluid from the surrounding tissue to keep them healthy and hydrated and over the years as discs get thinner with age, they lose the ability to take on fluid (just like squeezing a sponge) and they start to de-hydrate.
Posture:
Poor posture is one f the major cases of pain and is a major contributor to the deterioration of the body with age. A difference in leg length causes most of the hip and knee issues, as they continue to place uneven loads on the joints; similar to the wheels out of alignment on your car. Trying to correct posture is extremely difficult due to muscle memory, as it constantly pulls the muscles back to where they were. At a level of 40 degrees or more on the Teeter, the muscle groups open up and eventually come back into alignment, using the table daily, does not allow the muscle memory to pull them back out of alignment and slowly the muscles start to lose their memory and go with the flow, allowing the body to come back into correct posture. Then using the table once a day will ensure it is kept there.
De-Hydrated discs are less flexible, they are harder, more prone to injury, they interfere with nerve roots creating pain and ultimately the de-hydration causes degen eration. The Teeter Inversion table slowly and gently brings the hydration back into the discs, plumping them up. It separates the nerve roots far more effectively and This is pure logic, if a machine is out of returns quality of life
Muscles: A lot of pain is muscular, when
muscles are stressed they become tight which restricts the flow of blood and lymph through the muscles so toxins build up, Co2 and Lactic Acid. Traction opens up the muscles, Rhythmic Traction, is a gentle rocking motion that stimulates circulation and encourages blood flow through the muscles, which clears the lactic acid into your lymph system where it stimulates lymph flow and deals with it. Most people with serious neck issues see a large improvement after only one treatment.
alignment it does not last long, the only difference between the body and a machine is that the body is constantly repairing itself, however if the wear and tear on the body is greater than the body’s ability to repair itself, it is a slow decline. The Teeter slowly brings the body out of its decline and allows the body to repair itself, resulting in a far healthier life.
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After twelve years there is a growing number of medical professionals in New Zealand endorsing the use of traction as one of the best methods of treating back pain Here in New Zealand, Dr Giresh Kanji, is one of the countries most respected Pain Specialists. Dr Kanji has been using Teeters in his clinics for the past 6 years and has discovered how effective traction is especially on disc issue. Dr Kanji is the author of "Fix Your Back" and "Fix Your Neck Pain, Headache & Migraine", both books are in most bookstores. Dr Kanji discovered in the research that the disc is the most likely source of low back pain and Inversion showed the best results of all the trials conducted. Three studies showed a 60% reduction in pain and one showed a 75% reduction in surgery for people with disc prolapse. Dr Kanji endorses Inversion as the best method to manage back pain, he has personally been using the Teeter Inversion tables for his own low back pain, has Teeter Inversion tables at both of his clinics in Wellington (The Sports and Pain Clinic) and has had such success that he is now conducting New Zealand’s largest study on Inversion Therapy. In his own words, "these things are gold and inversion should be a first line treatment for low back pain”. *Dr Kanji does not recieve royalties from the sale of Teeter Inversion Tables
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Environment report reaction Forest Owners want clarity for what New Zealand plantation forestry is expected to deliver on climate change targets with the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton issuing a report, which downplays the contribution of forestry in sequestering atmospheric carbon, and instead wants to drive down fossil fuel use. Forest Owners Association president, Peter Weir, says Simon Upton is contradicting the Productivity Commission’s report earlier this year, which pointed to planting trees serving as carbon sinks as the main means of getting New Zealand to carbon neutrality by 2050. “The PCE takes a different tack to the Productivity Commission. The PCE makes the argument that long-lived gases from the burning of fossil fuels should be treated differently to shortlived greenhouse gases from biological
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The devastating Port Hills fire showed how much indiscriminate and widespread damage a rural fire can inflict. Fighting these fires is dangerous and expensive. Predictions of drier summers point to a growing hazard. The risk is greatly reduced though, if you check out the local rules for lighting a fire – ‘Before you light, check it’s alright’. At different places, at different times, there will be complete fire bans. Or, you might be able to light a fire with a permit. Or, there might be no permit necessary. You need a clear area for the fire. Make sure you can, and do, put it out before you leave. So, ‘Before you light, check it’s alright’.
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The power of three by Andy Bryenton
Kawasaki is no stranger to beating the competition with more power. On the road, their sports bikes are second to none when it comes to laying down horsepower in a game of superlative numbers. Winning hearts and minds in the rural backcountry take a different skill set. That’s why the key number for the new Kawasaki Mule Pro FXR isn’t in the hundreds or thousands — it’s the number three. It all begins with a three-cylinder 812cc liquid cooled engine. More cylinders mean smooth power delivery, and Kawasaki is the master of the triple layout. Bike fans will remember the 500cc Kawasaki Triple two-stroke from 1968, and the walloping power to weight ratio of that machine. While this is a four-stroke engine, and fuel injected, the advantages are similar, and the legacy carries across to this new platform and new purpose, mated to a CVT box with both high and low ratios and reverse. Rather than speed, the Mule is all about torque and the power to perform in rough terrain. It can tow more than 900kgs and pack 450 into its own generously sized flatbed. Carrying capacity reveals another incidence of the magic number three. The Mule Pro FXR can seat not two but three occupants in comfort,
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for stability even on sloping terrain, and a shorter wheelbase for agility and a tiny turning circle. With a two metre wheelbase, the Mule Pro FXR can turn within just a hair more than four metres. That’s tight, and it makes it easier to access hard to reach places not only in the field but in the barn or the yard as well.
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