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Taking to the sky Hawke’s Bay Regional Council will take to the sky with its 3D aquifer mapping project, which is due to take off in the new year.

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It is the first time any council in the country has used the latest airborne electromagnetic survey technology called SkyTEM. “The region’s aquifers are in effect having a scan to see what they look like inside, and greatly improve understanding of how they are working so they can be kept healthy for the future,” says science manager Dr Jeff Smith. “The regional council, in partnership with the Provincial Growth Fund and GNS Science, is spending money on tried and true, cutting edge Danish SkyTEM technology that has been used extensively overseas.” The total cost for the project is $4.3 million. It is a joint effort with the PGF contributing $2.15 million, the regional council $1.85 million and GNS Science assisting with $300,000. People may see a low-flying helicopter towing a large hoop hanging from a cable from around January 20 2020, until the beginning of March. It will fly over Heretaunga Plains, Ruataniwha Plains and Otane and Poukawa Basins and scan them. The helicopter won’t be flying over built-up urban areas like Napier, Hastings and Havelock. “The SkyTEM technology will give a 3D view up to 300 metres deep underground where no one has ever

seen before, to truly understand how the aquifer systems work. Water management is crucially important for the future of our region. The more we know about our aquifers and how they are working, the better our decision making can be. “The information from the 3D aquifer mapping survey has significant value for the community in understanding the region’s water resource. The results will be freely shared and available to tangata whenua, other councils and community groups. “The 3D aquifer mapping project is one of four freshwater projects announced during the PGF allocations to Hawke’s Bay in June. The others are a whole-of-region freshwater assessment, and pre-feasibility investigations on a Heretaunga Flow Enhancement/Water Storage Initiative and a Tukituki Water Security Initiative.” GNS Science is working closely with the regional council on the project. It says that internationally, similar initiatives have resulted in significant advances in the mapping, modelling and management of groundwater systems. For more information, go to hbrc. govt.nz, and search #3Dwater. During the flying period, there will be regular updates on the website, Facebook page and local radio stations.

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Central Hawke’s Bay Mayor Alex Walker was recently elected as the Local Government New Zealand National Council Rural Sector chair and representative. Mayor Walker is set to make her mark on a national scale after being elected into two positions within the Local Government New Zealand National representative framework. Nominated as LGNZ Rural Sector chair and Rural Sector National Council representative, she recently ran unopposed for both positions. Sector representatives are elected every three years with the term reflecting the local body elections triennium. Both appointments take effect immediately. The LGNZ National Council is the elected leadership of LGNZ, made up of 18 elected members from throughout New Zealand who represent the membership of 61 territorial, 11 regional, and six unitary councils and 21 local boards of Auckland. Mayor Walker will meet as a representative of the national council six times a year, with the first meeting, a strategy day, taking place Thursday, December 5. Representing the national interests of councils in New Zealand and leading best practice in the local government sector, LGNZ provides advocacy and policy services, business support, advice and training to assist members to build successful communities throughout New Zealand.

“I feel privileged to represent the rural sector on the national council and look forward to championing issues of social, economic, environmental and cultural importance to rural councils and communities as both chair and representative for the sector,” says Mayor Walker. “As Central Hawke’s Bay continues to grow and develop, we are an example of a rural district, which is truly thriving but which shares the challenges of size, infrastructure pressure and rates affordability that other rural councils around the country are facing. My aim is to continue to strengthen the position of our councils in the eyes of the government for the benefit of our community. As elected members in rural districts, we are more closely connected with the needs of our communities than any other elected representative at any level of government.” Each council across New Zealand is a member of one of four sector groups represented within the national council, including metropolitan, regional, rural and provincial. Central Hawke’s Bay District Council sits within the rural sector and meets with the provincial sector three times a year, seeing an attendance of up to 100 members.

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The Ahuwhenua achievement by Ann van Engelen

Iwinui Station shepherd, soccer player, and Gisborne Young Farmers member Kristy Roa won the 2019 Ahuwhenua Young Maori Farmer Award earlier this year.

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ewes. We spend quite a bit of time weighing lambs for the meatworks.” Iwinui Station is 2,100 hectare (effective) and runs 5,500 ewes, 1,200 ewe lambs, 450 HerefordAngus cross cows and 1,000 trading bulls. Approximately three-quarters of the property is moderate to steep hill country, the rest is flats. “I do a large amount of yard work, which is good experience for my eight sheepdogs. I only had a couple of dogs when I started here and had to buy a few more to cope with my workload. “I bought pups so I could break them in myself and I really enjoy training them. It is quite cool to see them develop as they are invaluable to muster sheep off the station’s steep hills, which overlook

he 20-year-old shepherd is a keen soccer player and goalkeeper for a women’s team in Gisborne and two nights a week she travels from Tolaga Bay for practice. She jogs onto a floodlit sports field with her teammates and her way to the goal often after a hard day’s work. “Our team did quite well this year and we were at the top of the table with Gisborne United. It is a long way to travel, but I enjoy competitive sport and it is a good reason to get off the farm,” she says. “I started working at Iwinui Station in January and a typical day for me involves shifting stock to new paddocks until around lunchtime. In the afternoon I might have to drench lambs or dag

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Kristy is a shepherd on Iwinui Station working with 5,500 ewes and 1,200 ewe lambs

Tolaga Bay. I get around on a farm bike, but recently bought a horse as it is handy in winter when the tracks get a bit slippery and it is also a quieter way of handling the stock. “I grew up in Hamilton and got my start in the industry at Waipaoa Station, which is an hour’s drive north of Gisborne. By chance, I heard about Waipaoa’s two-year cadetship and attended the open day. It opened my eyes to the agri-food sector and endless opportunities within it.” Kristy was one of five accepted into the 2017 intake. “For someone new to the industry I couldn’t think of anything better than

doing a cadetship,” she said. “Over my two years at Waipaoa Station, I was exposed to all aspects of the industry. Our fencing and dog handling tutors were some of the best in the business. Cadets are trained in all aspects of livestock handling, husbandry and feed budgeting. “The skills we are taught in the classroom are able to be applied out in the paddock and we graduate with several qualifications and are work-ready. “When I started there I knew that sheep and cows ate grass and that was about the extent of my farming knowledge. Over the past two-and-a-half

years I worked hard to expand my skills and knowledge. My mum encouraged me to enter the Ahuwhenua Young Maori Farmer awards and I submitted my application two days before entries closed. I was nervous about putting myself out there, but then I realised I had nothing to be afraid of, so I gave it a go. “The award is designed to recognise talented up-and-coming young Maori farmers. Winning it this year has been an amazing experience and has been a great way to get my name out there and will look good on my curriculum vitae when I want to step up to a manager’s position.” As part of the award, Kristy went to the Fieldays with AgResearch and attended a dinner focussing on disruptive technologies in the agri-food sector. Lead judge Peter Little said Kristy exemplified all that is good about

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B r a g z n i ilian n i a G experience by Ann van Engelen Phoebe Topp is one of 65 students to be awarded the Prime Minister’s Scholarship, and is participating in an educational trip to learn the farming processes in Brazil

he 21-year-old is one of 65 students receiving the scholarships to study in China, South Korea, Brazil, Thailand, and Indonesia. The scholarships are designed to help improve understanding of the business practices and culture of New Zealand’s trading partners.

“About 15 of us are going to Brazil during November and I am really excited. We will get to attend lectures at several universities and visit different agribusinesses, I come from a farming family of four generations with a focus on sheep and beef. I have learnt from my grandad and dad who have very strong beliefs in traditional stockmanship, so I have been really lucky to gain old school experience.

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“My dad is big on ‘there is a right way and a wrong way of doing things’, and he believes stock care is the number one priority before anything else. They are passionate about animal health and wellbeing. The cycle of feed rotation is intensive apart from lambing when it is

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Growing up in a farming family Phoebe has had the benefit of learning traditional stockmanship from her father and grandfather

weeks of practical work on three farms including Rawahi Romney Ram stud and last summer I spent 11 weeks on Siberia Station near Hunterville, which has 19,000 breeding ewes and just under 2,000 cattle. “The job involved lots of yard work, dagging and drenching with eight of us during weaning and shearing. Learning about large-scale commercial farming was really eye-opening as you are critically looking at every animal’s potential.” Phoebe says with different goals and objectives, it was encouraging working as part of a big team in a different type of community. “We embraced new systems, and it’s going to be interesting to compare Brazil’s farming systems with what we

are familiar with, in New Zealand. Brazil has a population of 210 million and is the largest country in South America. It has the world’s biggest commercial cattle and beef herd and is the largest cattle meat exporter, according to Trade and Enterprise NZ. It is also the world’s top producer of coffee and sugar cane. “I have already secured employment at West Wanaka Station when I return. The station runs 14,000 breeding ewes, 2,000 deer and 1,500 cattle. I got the job through word of mouth and am extremely fortunate. A lot of students still don’t have jobs to go to after their exams finish. “A motto I live by is ‘you have got to be in it to win it’. A lot of people don’t apply for scholarships because they think they are not the smartest or that

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Phoebe has gained valuable experience by working at Rawahi Romney Stud and Siberia Station near Hunterville

they won’t get it. My advice is to have a go.” It is advice the third-year Bachelor of Commerce (Agriculture) student lives by. Phoebe was recently awarded a $5,000 scholarship from Silver Fern Farms. “I applied after seeing a post encouraging applications on a NZ Young Farmers social media account. I attended the co-op’s three-day shareholders’ conference, which had an impressive lineup of thought-provoking guest speakers. There were lots of forward-thinking ideas — it definitely got my brain ticking over and engaged. I was astounded to be chosen and am going to put the money towards my student loan. “I will miss being part of Lincoln Young Farmers. It is a very active club, and we

have 27 club events in the 24 studying weeks in the university calendar. One of the biggest benefits is that you get to know students in younger and older year groups. It is a great way to make friends and contacts. “I am looking at going rural banking, but those graduate roles are difficult to secure so until then I will gain onfarm experience. “In Brazil, I am looking forward to being exposed to a new culture, beliefs, objectives and morals behind why they do things. “It is a good scholarship, and it is cool how they give young people the opportunity to go out and see the world. I recommend all young people interested in a career in farming to apply as it is a once in a lifetime opportunity.”

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Dung beetles to the rescue

by Ann van Engelen

Dr Shaun Forgie grew up travelling the world and is now helping New Zealand farmers transform animal dung into a useful product through dung beetles.

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ost of my childhood was in New Zealand, and as an adult, I lived in places like Argentina and South Africa,” said Shaun. Shaun gained his bachelor’s degree majoring in marine biology and master’s degree in zoology with honours in entomology, which is the study of insects. “I investigated dung beetles here in New Zealand, then completed my PhD in Pretoria, South Africa on ball-rolling dung beetles. Dung beetles here are restricted to native forests and bush habitats. When we started importing livestock, no one thought about needing the dung beetle to clean up the poo, and that is where the problem started. We have an abundance of poo, creating a loss of productivity as it just sits on the paddock.

“Hawaii and Australia pioneered the way and imported exotic pastoral dung beetles as the native ones were not going in to demolish it. Cow’s poo about 10 times a day creating a habitat for nasty flies such as the biting flies in Australia. Dung contains disease pathogens and gut parasites that get shat out to complete their cycle. “New Zealand has lots of rain, so we have water contamination problems in high rainfall areas with water coming off pastures getting into the waterways. In many instances, it may contain contaminants like pesticide residuals plus disease pathogens such as E coli, salmonella and giardia — mainly because dung is not getting buried into the soil rapidly because of lack of the beetles. I could see there was a problem here and set about improving my understanding and establishing a

solution. We went through a very fastidious process applying through the government and the Environmental Protection Authority to bring in 11 different types of beetles suitable to our conditions and climate. Ours are mainly from South-West Europe and Southern Africa. “Dung is a 24/7 — 365-day problem and the beetles get rid of a pile in around 24 hours to a few days. Different beetles are active at different times of the year, giving year-round dung control. They fly from dung pat to dung pat and set about making tunnels 30cm and 90cm in the soil underneath the pats for nesting. These are filled with the dung and made into balls or

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sausages each containing an egg. The hatching larvae feed on the ball and what is left in the soil once the new adults emerge is organic carbon and nutrients.” Tunnelling, excavating subsoils to the surface opens up the soil, greatly improving aeration and soil structure, allowing greater infiltration of fertilisers and urine. “Burial of nutrient-rich manure means nutrients go into the ground instead of running across the surface to our waterways. “We are getting more than 80 per cent reduction in the surface flow of waterway contaminants like sediments following dung beetle nesting activity. Improved soil structure and nutrient loading deep in the soil enables grass roots to grow down deep, which is great for improving drought tolerance. “We are finding earthworms that we introduced have increased fivefold and a greater depth they can occur at. This is nature’s solution to pasture management — the process was busted when we added livestock onto our farms with no beetles to transform the manure. “Many studies report dung beetle activity results in at least 70 per cent reduction in gut parasites.A fourseasons pack comprising seeding colonies of three to four different types of dung beetle is required for roughly 300 cows or 2,000 sheep, and beetle

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Dung beetles can dispose of one cow pat in 24 hours to a few days, burying the product in the ground saturation off manure from this many stock happens by year nine. You release them and leave them to reproduce. “The economic saving through dung beetle use in Western Australia alone is estimated to be one billion dollars per annum. New Zealand is just waking up to them. Australia started introducing

dung beetles in the 1960s, and every farmer knows how important these beetles are as nature’s solution to solving many pastoral problems. “My single purpose is to fix the many problems with a common-sense solution. We have fencing and planting, but we need a self-sustainable low-

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New Zealand Shearing Magazine editor and Des Williams initiated shearing’s recognition in New Zealand, becoming the National Shearing and Woolhandling Committee’s first publicity officer in 1991, instigating the change to a more formal structure as Shearing Sports New Zealand. In January 1993 heading to Wellington gain acceptance from Chris Ineson, the CEO of what was then the New Zealand Sports Foundation. Shearing Sports New Zealand teams are currently funded only by sponsorship and through the sport, including support from the independently-run competitions throughout the country. The current squad of seven competed across the disciplines of machine shearing, blade shearing and woolhandling in Dubbo. The machine shearing team comprises Nathan Stratford, Paerata Abraham, Troy Pyper, Allan Oldfield, Tony Dobbs, and woolhandlers Pagan Karauria and Sheree Alabaster. Australia has held the upper hand in the machine shearing tests in recent years, including several wins at New Zealand leg the Golden Shears. The New Zealanders have dominated the woolhandling and blade shearing matches.

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It’s now pretty well established that the celebrity of the Christmas season (a small child from Bethlehem, Israel) was not born in the middle of a northern winter. In fact, with shepherds on the hillsides, a climate suited to robes and sandals, and a trio of ‘wise guys’ popping into the al fresco accommodation to deliver presents, the nativity is looking more and more like a Kiwi Christmas. We’ve got a lot to be proud of when it comes to our Yuletide festivities. There’s another thing, of course. Old Yule, and the image of a bearded man in furs who epitomises the season with snow and a big dinner, actually refers to Odin the old Norse god (and dad of Marvel’s blondest Avenger). One of his names was Jolnir, the ‘Yule Father’ or Langbardr ‘old long beard’. The real Saint Nicholas? He lived among pirates and sailors in Turkey, rather than carving the turkey. So, another Christmas icon who would be up for some beach cricket and a bit of a barbecue (also invented by pirates). We’ve lived in the shadows of frosted pine trees (a German tradition) and dancing snowmen for too long.

It’s time to admit it to ourselves; a New Zealand Christmas is just better. A long, leisurely lunch sizzling over the charcoal. The best excuse ever to have a cold beer with uncles, cousins and friends and discuss the cricket. Pohutukawas overhead and the option of a quick swim, half an hour after pudding, of course. The kids can play with their new presents outdoors, which is a blessing for those that come with repetitive whooping and exploding sound effects (or for parents foolish enough to have bought this year’s hot item, the Baby Shark singing soft toy). Right after Christmas, our northern relatives have to head back to grim, icy workplaces in the middle of winter. We get a couple of weeks to go fishing and finish off the leftovers. So here’s an idea. Let’s go all out with the Kiwi trappings of Christmas at this time of year. Santa in board shorts. Festive pina coladas. Carving

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The best under the tree by Andy Bryenton

When those sleigh bells are jingling, it’s time to consider how to one-up Santa and source the best gifts for your own friends and family. Here are the hottest picks for 2019, alongside some ideas that are better than the mainstream! For him — The hottest gift for the grown-up man this year may very well be a kind of cologne or a very expensive hot sauce. The hype for both Tobacco Vanille Cologne and Oprah’s pick, Truff white truffle chilli sauce, is astounding. However, the facts are that the man in your life would rather have something practical. That is to say, a fishing drone from Splash Drones, which can shoot HD video or harvest a fresh dinner from the ocean. That, or for gamer dads, the latest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on Playstation or Xbox. Oh, and don’t forget the DraftPour beer tap, which makes any can or bottle into pub-fresh beer on tap. Check it out on Amazon. For her — The mass vote is all for meditation and mindfulness colouringin books, cashmere clothing and the latest Apple ear-buds for crisp wireless music and sound. Moreover, there’s a better way to get awesome quality sound while looking good in summer

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Living in the countryside, and especially near the ocean, is a wonderful thing. When there’s time to get away for a spot of fishing or a dip in the surf, it’s right on your doorstep. The thing is, all of our relatives know it. That’s why this season is often one of unexpected drop-ins and long-lost reunions. Most of us are more than glad to see old mates and rellies coming down the driveway, especially if they observe the rules of BYO (B enough for the hosts as well as YO, naturally). However, anticipating a visit from the twice-removed and former flatmates can take the stress out of summer visits, even when your guests have packed an RV with more kids than you thought they had. The key to it all is entertaining outdoors. First up, use this as an excuse to rope the whole family into giving the yard a spring clean. Chop back overgrowth in the cool of the morning or early evening to avoid that sunripened feeling, and give concrete areas and patio furniture a spray down with the water blaster. It is also a good time to renew any rustproofing on metal outdoor equipment, including the barbecue trolley and surrounds. As cooking will formally move from within

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