Manawatu Farming Lifestyles, January 2015 by Integrity Community Media

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FARMING Lifestyles

January 2015 Edition

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Over the cattle stop feature What’s happening over the cattle stop? As any farmer knows, the answer is — ‘everything!’ — as you can see in our light-hearted front page cartoon. This January the Taranaki Farming Lifestyles is a little different, as we’ve matched all of the

top agricultural support businesses between our covers with a bustling rural scene on page one. The aim of the game is to match the numbers next to each little image of Kiwi farm life to the businesses who exemplify them.

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The announcement of Fonterra’s forecast drop in the dairy payout in December prompted Taranaki woman Vanessa Ingram to set up a social media group offering free help to farmers. Fonterra had reduced its forecast farm-gate milk price for the 2014/15 season from $5.30 per kgMS to $4.70 per kgMS. Fonterra chairman John Wilson said although farmers were expecting this lower forecast, the revision will put pressure on their farming business budgets. “There is still considerable volatility in global dairy markets.” “Falling oil prices, geopolitical uncertainty in Russia and Ukraine, and subdued demand from China as it continues to work through inventory are all contributing to ongoing volatility and weak demand,” he said. Vanessa said the ‘Free help for our NZ Farmers’ Facebook page was set up to help farmers out. “They are going through a hard time at the moment.” Vanessa has received a positive response with Dereck Davis puts a fuel voucher people joining the group into a letterbox to help out a farmer from all over New Zealand offering to lend a hand with milking, farmers in the region with milking. “I fencing, spraying weeds, grubbing don’t mind using my spare time helping,” thistles, working with livestock, cooking she said. Vanessa has also taken the free and baking. The help offered is available to all farmers, not just those in the help concept a step further by placing fuel vouchers into a couple of farmer’s dairy industry. “I would like to see the farming letterboxes in the Manawatu. community go back to what is used to be “I was given some fuel vouchers with everybody helping each other out, when I was shifting, then put them especially in times of need,” she said. into random farmer’s letterboxes while Vanessa grew up on a dairy farm driving from Dannevirke to Stratford.” near Toko and began milking cows from Vanessa would welcome more the age of 12. She is familiar with the members with offers of help and challenges farmers face on the farm and encourages farmers to also join the the flow-on effect the drop in payout will group to take up these offers. Visit the group’s Facebook page have on businesses and the community. Now a full-time mother living in ‘Free Help for our NZ Farmers’ for Stratford, Vanessa is willing to help more information.

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Restrictions taking effect with hot, dry weather by Denise Gunn

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SIMMENTAL

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The progeny resulting from crossing a Simmental bull with Hereford/Friesian cross cows so impressed Michael Malmo, he decided to establish a purebred Simmental herd.

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ichael began building up herd numbers through purchasing stock from dispersal sales, and from Colin and Catherine Hutchings of Brooklands Simmentals in Dannevirke. Eighty percent of his herd now descend from those purchases. In addition, Michael bought an incalf heifer, bred at Ladburn Stud in Leeston, South Canterbury, from the national sales in 2007. Michael’s current herd sire is out of this heifer. And three years ago he bought the toppriced polled Simmental bull from Idesia

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stock. There is also a small eight-aside herringbone shed on the property to milk cows if required. Since 2004, Michael has milked more than 14,000 cows. The length of time stock stay on this property ranges from

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Eric Altermann and his wife Gaby acquired their first Siberian Husky in very unusual circumstances — after a knock on a car window while stuck at traffic lights.

he couple were living in North Carolina in the United States at the time, and renting a house. Their landlords owned three Siberian Huskies which they brought with them whenever they visited the Altermanns. While Eric was in Europe for an overseas conference, Gaby took a short trip with their landlords and the dogs. It was during this trip, while stuck at traffic lights, that a woman knocked on the car window and asked if they would consider adopting a fourth husky. The woman had found the dog on the beach. Gaby went to have a look and came home with the dog, named Sasha. Eric said when he arrived at the airport, Gaby whispered to him about his longing to have a Husky. “As you can imagine, even through the brain haze, several red warning flags came up and I cautiously answered that yes, when

we have our own home, and a big and Eric said their best guess is that secure garden, then I would very much Sasha was one of several hundreds like to look into the possibility of caring of thousands of pets abandoned when for a Husky.” soldiers were shipped out for the first Gaby told Eric to look into the back war in Iraq. of the car. When the couple moved from the “And there he was, a black United States to New and white male Siberian Zealand, they brought Sasha There is Husky with one brown and with them. He spent the one blue, piercing eye,” final two years of his life in nothing said Eric. this country. better to Currently Eric and Gaby “Skin and bones, frightened and giving me a take care of four Siberian see them look that melted my heart Huskies ranging in age smiling from seven years to just even today when I think back four months. on that moment. The breed’s character, temperament “Needless to say that I fell in love with him right then and there and we and independence particularly appeals spent the next two years integrating him to Eric. into our family, giving him all our love “I really like their intelligence and and patiently waiting for him to recover their ability to express their feelings so from his traumatic experiences.” very accurately,” he said.

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“All of our Huskies are an integral part of our family and they come each morning to wake us up, wanting kisses and belly rubs. “At the same time, they are very energetic dogs and require a lot of exercise. “There is nothing better to see them smiling and happily panting when coming back from a good training run,” said Eric. The breed’s same characteristics that appeal to Eric also make them a challenge to care for. “Huskies, and Malamutes, were originally bred to pull sleds over long distances, so there is a lot of endurance and independent thinking in them.” He explained that the breed is not owner-focussed or territorial. “They love you to bits, but if there is something interesting to explore, then they’ll do just that.”

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Eric and Gaby are members of the Ridge Runners Sled Dog Club which offers a range of dry-land sled dog racing options. The club, formed in the 1980s, has members all over the lower North Island. The emphasis is on animal welfare, along with support and guidance during training. Any dog breed is welcomed into the club. Eric said it is a common misconception that only arctic breeds like to run and pull. Training the dogs takes part on a variety of grounds including the local beaches, forests, and hill trails. Members are constantly scouting for new locations. Dog training begins at six months of age with command instruction and running alongside the team. As they grow older, half-harnesses are introduced and the dogs join the team on short distances on the way back home. Training is increased gradually. Dogs can participate in races from the age of one year. “They [the dogs] come into their prime at about the age of three or four years, when stamina and power have fully developed,” said Eric. However it is not necessary to start with puppies. “Many ver y successful dogs have started out training as adults and they are enjoying it right up to their retirement.” Eric has found people have mixed reactions to northern Arctic dog breeds. “While most people are curious and friendly towards Huskies and

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Observing a wild swarm of bees building a hive in a willow tree outside the door of a mate’s house two years ago, led Matt Telfer to take up beekeeping as a hobby.

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and digestion, while the queen and drones represent the female and male genital organs.” Matt explained that bees are able to calculate complex information regarding co-ordinates of flowers. “They have very dense brain cells and are capable of learning the location of up to three nectar sources as communicated through their waggle dance.” Through combining his teaching experience and his role as club chairman, Matt would like to increase involvement with community groups and events to raise awareness of bees, and encourage people to become beekeepers. He

would also like to see the acquisition of a permanent site for the club to use for hives, and to set up buildings for bee education and honey extraction. “As a teacher, I would like to further build my capacity as a bee educator. “I envision working with a number of country schools to run their own hives.” Matt finds beekeeping is a great hobby that helps him to relax at the end of

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have enjoyed good rainfall through December and generally there has been substantial grass growth throughout the region. The beef boom is providing a huge economic bonus. Despite the lowest milk payout forecast in six years, many dairy farmers have been able to capitalise on the current high beef prices by selling cull cows early, and beef stock that has been raised on runoffs. The current trade conflict between Russia and America is quite interesting to follow. The American alliance keep telling us that their trade embargo against Russia is causing the Russian economy to decline. But a recent article in the New Zealand Herald says that the Russians are looking forward to the 2015 year, despite the country’s economic and political difficulties The Russian president is enjoying up to 87% support according to a recent poll. It may take some time for the two world economic superpowers to

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reconcile their differences. Meanwhile, New Zealand farmers will face some challenging issues this year which will have an impact on their private property rights, and the way they conduct their farming business. The government’s new legislation regarding water rights and the threat of agency bureaucrats using their power of right of entry onto farmers’ private property are just two of the issues of concern. The recent action taken by WorkSafe New Zealand inspectors against a Marlborough farming couple, which resulted in them being fined $40,000 altogether between them in the Blenheim District Court for not wearing helmets while riding their quad bikes on their farm, raises some very serious issues in regard to the right of entry by government agencies onto a farmer’s property. Surveillance cameras were used in an ‘out to get them’ approach and that is abhorrent to right thinking people. When one looks at court fines that have been awarded in other cases, the award of $40,000 is extremely excessive and is out of kilter with how the rest of New Zealand society is treated. It is ironic that there is now a call by some cyclists for the law regarding the wearing of cycle helmets to be reviewed, and it seems that if you have a sympathetic doctor a cyclist can obtain an exemption certificate which does not require a helmet on the road. Farmers

of New Zealand is of the view that the current policy of forcing farmers to wear helmets when driving quad bikes on their private farm properties is unworkable for many reasons. Farmers of New Zealand does support the wearing of helmets for road use. But many of the helmets that are on the market today do not guarantee full protection. It is our understanding that the majority of deaths on farms due to farm bike accidents are caused through injury to the body. According to reports by the Department of Labour the most common accident causing serious injury or death was a slow speed sideways roll on the side of a hill. There are thousands of bikes ridden on farms and by the urban community. We believe that farm bike manufacturers, farmers and Government agencies need to come to a common position on how to safeguard riders of farm ATV bikes as a result of bike rollover, and get the law changed accordingly. While Farmers of New Zealand concedes that a four-post rollover frame is not the most practical way of dealing with this important issue, we strongly support the work that has been done by a Dargaville company in all-terrain vehicle rollover protection. This is a flexible roll-over lifeguard protector. The manufacturing company claims their design has passed all required tests and the concept is a world first in ATV safety, providing good rider crush protection.

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diesel does the honours, with a claim of 20 per cent more fuel efficiency and hefty torque output of 430Nm. In Thailand, the Triton is offered with both a six-speed manual and a five-speed auto box, and these sound likely to go global, arriving here as options when the Triton lands on Kiwi shores. The fourth generation Triton was famous for another factor too — good value for money. While other utes topped the sixty thousand dollar mark, a nicely spec’d model would come in at just a whisper over half that. And while the price in Thai currency helps us just a little in discerning how much the fifth gen Triton may cost in New Zealand, if it’s in that ballpark then buyers will be getting a lot of ute for their dollar.

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Series five rolls out — the Thai release of the new Triton showcased improved versatility for the popular ute

Which means that when they set out to replace a popular existing model of ute, they do so with the big picture in mind. What works in the Waikato, for example, has to work in Manila and Rangoon, and possibly even northern Wales as well. Which is why the upgrades — beyond the purely cosmetic — to the next generation Triton ute are so well rounded. The main thrust of development however, has been to bring the new Mitsubishi — released recently at a large motor expo event in Thailand — up to date with the biggest trend in light commercials. Sedan-like handling and ride comfort have been aimed for, here as in the top-tier utes on the market, the venerable Hilux and the currently super-hot Ford Ranger. Which is not to say that the outgoing

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In the shed with Megan Fowlie Summer temperatures are soaring. Groundwater is getting warmer and there is added challenge to keep milk cool once in the vat so farmers across the region will be finding their on-farm refrigeration systems are put to the test. Regardless of whether temperature warnings are issued from the dairy company, any difficulties around getting milk cool down and collection temperatures where they ought to be should be heeded, now more so now than in previous years. Difficulties meeting current milk temperature requirements

this season may signal problems around the shed’s current capability to meet the tighter milk cooling regulations under the new NZCP1 Code of Practice for milk pre-cooling and storage coming into force next year. Compliance rules will initially apply to new sheds, major upgrades, and sheds which are regularly

non-compliant. Farmers with new sheds and major upgrades will know who they are. For farmers with existing sheds it’s a good idea to know where they stand. Industry experts recommend getting a thorough audit of dairy refrigeration systems rather than leaving it to the last minute or spending too much in the hope that trouble spots will be sorted. Good quality refrigeration assessments use accurate data

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collected from the individual farm refrigeration plant. Problem areas and times can be pinpointed so farmers know how they will fare under the new regime. Rather than risk financial disadvantage from spending too much up front or getting pinged with dairy company disincentives farmers can then plan ahead and have the time and knowledge to focus on what work needs to be completed before the regulations take effect.

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