Northern Farming Lifestyles, January 2017 by Integrity Community Media

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Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has welcomed an investment of $165,000 from Crown Irrigation Investments to scope irrigation scheme options in Northland. Northern Farming Lifestyles Distribution area

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“This is great news for a region that has suffered numerous droughts over the years,” says Mr Guy. “Storing water means we can use it in dry spells, giving farmers and growers certainty and a real boost to the local economy.” Nor thland Regional Council are also investing in the study which will focus on potential irrigation options in the mid North and Kaipara areas. “A g r i c u l t u r e and horticulture play a major part in Northland’s economy. Last year the Ministry for Primary Industries contributed $75,000 towards a report examining the potential of irrigation in Northland and this is another important step forward. “The report identified that with a reliable water supply, Northland has a natural advantage for high-value horticulture as the climate allows the growth of subtropical fruit. “We know that any increase in horticulture generates a major increase in employment because of the high amount of labour per hectare required.” The potential of irrigation and water storage is highlighted in the Tai Tokerau Northland Economic Action Plan which was launched in February 2016. “So far there has only been limited irrigation development in the region. As a Government we are strong supporters of irrigation and water storage because it can be a major boost to regional development, creating jobs and exports.

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 Northern Farming Lifestyles is a little different, as we’ve matched all of the

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“A recent report by NZIER found that irrigation contributes $2.2 billion to the national economy and this has the potential to grow even further. “Modern irrigation infrastructure also has the potential to improve the environmental, social and recreational outcomes from the use and management of our water, within a strong regulatory framework.” Crown Irrigation Investments provides both development funding and construction capital to irrigation schemes across New Zealand.

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Storage space secured for regional council An increasingly busy Northland Regional Council will soon have a new central storage facility in Whangarei’s industrial area to house an array of council equipment. The council began storing equipment at a sub-leased site on Robert Street, however council chairman Bill Shepherd says since the increase in fieldwork the site has become ‘vastly inadequate’. “Storage is now required for additional boats, vessel quarantine facilities, oil spill equipment, bikes, trailers, kayaks, monitoring buoys, furniture, traps, poisons, events equipment, civil defence emergency gear, hydrology, air quality and farm dairy effluent equipment and various tools.” Cr Shepherd says the council’s equipment is currently scattered over several sites including its Water Street head office, the Robert Street facility and a storage shed in the Lower Port Road area, the latter on a short-term lease and currently for sale. “During certain times of the year, extra space also has to be leased shortterm for Community Pest Control Area pest traps.” In order to consolidate equipment in an appropriately sized facility and avoid the risk of having to relocate again and rising rental rates the council have spent $600,000 from a property fund on the 2,167-square-metre fully-fenced site in Union East Street. The property already had an existing shed with a 200-square-metre floor

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area that could house maritime and biosecurity equipment and the council will shortly call for tenders for construction of a second shed 10 metres deep by 35–40 metres wide, to be divided into a number of five-metre wide storage units. Cr Shepherd says each powered and alarmed unit will have a roughly three-metre roller door, a side access door and the tender also calls for construction of an up to 60-squaremetre wash down bay, including sump, for washing boats and bikes. Tenders

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sort out what they need. “One lady had an old fence too close to her house and in her vision line so we moved it out of sight and it looked great.” Lifestyle blocks often need fences and paddocks rearranged and Brad says normally farms have post and rail or the conventional seven wire batten fence. “It generally depends on what look the client is after and what stock you have, such as sheep or cattle. People often go for a drive and look at the different styles available and what look they like. “I have built a chicken fence for a customer. It was 1.2 metres high and we put chicken wire around the inside and railed it. He gave them a lot of space to live in with toys and things and because they were happy they never tried to fly out.” Brad says deciding if you need new fencing is relatively easy to realise. “When you move onto a property and want to check if your fences are in a good state, walk the whole fence line and check if your wires are tight. “Make sure there are no broken wires or loose and rotting posts. If in doubt call me and I am happy to come and have a look if you are in my area. “If you have the old batten fences with moss all over them and they are in disrepair it’s often cheaper to build a whole new one and it should last a good

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proving they are unique in the world, so effectively they belong nowhere else but New Zealand,” she said. It all started when Alison and her husband Alan moved from Petone to Masterton in search of a quieter life, and purchased four hectares of land on which to keep some animals. “We had never had farm animals before so I started doing some research to see what goats might be appropriate. I thought we would go for the smallest goats we could find because we don’t know goats. I happened to read a book called Arapawa: Once Upon an Island by Betty Rowe and I thought they would be perfect.” Not only would they be able to have some goats on their property Alison was excited to know they have a significant history and belong to New Zealand. “Two years later I got my first pair of Arapawa goats, a beautiful unrelated pair that came to us on a truck in a box, and so it began.” From that moment on Alison was hooked and wanted to share this unique breed with the rest of the country. She decided to set up a registry and founded the New Zealand Arapawa Goat Association. Her two original goats, Maana and Dobby, are first on the list. Now the goats can be found in almost all parts of New Zealand including the Waikato. Marion Rogerson owns and operates Sam and his Farmyard Friends, a mobile farmyard experience based in Hamilton. She keeps two Arapawa Goats and was drawn to them because of their size and their temperament. She first

purchased three triplets, one of whom has passed away, from a doe in Waihi so that her children could raise them for calf club. “I wanted to have something a little different that we could have as part of the mobile farmyard after calf club. They also have a decent history behind them,” said Marion. However the Department of Conservation considers the animals a pest and had programmes in place to eradicate them from the island. Alison says she understands DOC’s position, however, believes there are other options. With a little talking she managed to convince DOC to remove some of the goats instead of killing them and these were then added to the registry on the mainland. There are currently 217 fertile Arapawa goats on the registry in New Zealand. “They are recognised as being critically endangered in the rest of the world but not in New Zealand. Six were sent to the United Kingdom and six sent to the United States of America. In the United Kingdom they can’t survive as there is not enough gene spread. In the US they are doing everything they can to keep the genetics.” Alison was motivated to write the book and put the facts out there, so that other people will want to do something

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THE HELPER by Ann Morgan

Perry Allen was originally a butcher by trade and now lives on a lifestyle property with an array of animals including sheep, muscovy ducks, beef and his much loved and appreciated Kunekune pigs.

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my guys just keep mowing my lawns, and they do a marvellous job keeping the area well-trimmed. They love interacting with people and are reasonably clean and tidy.” A butcher by trade, Perry says Kunekune meat is lovely to eat if they are fed this way. “I have made beautiful maple bacon in the past. The mistake people make is feeding them food scraps. They don’t need that as it makes them fat, they just need to forage on the grasses. “The pigs are fun and very social. Their favourite pastime is to have their bellies scratched by anybody and everybody — ours even sit on command.” The idea was to raise the pigs for meat but Perry now says they are too cute to kill. “If you raise them like we do, without scraps of food they are beautiful. Kunekune means ‘fat bellied pig’. They get fat looking at kikuyu grass and they don’t dig up the ground like other pigs. If there are wet spots they do try and make a wallow, they are amazing.” Perry says unlike Saddleback and Wessex pigs, he finds the Kunekune not as destructive and they clean around the flax and other plants, and keep his five acres of land looking like a park. “I have had other pigs, mainly meat pigs, but these guys are something else. In 1978 there were just 50 left in the world, I think they weren’t popular because of their size, but then a few people got together and formed the Kunekune Association and now they have made a comeback,” said Perry. “The story that they came on Captain Cook’s ship is debatable. I think they came out with the early whalers as food and they traded with the Maori. They fell

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Master of mulching

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Lifestyle blocks can be rewarding and picturesque — after all the hard work of clearing scrub and taming invasive undergrowth is done, of course. Breaking in new ground on this kind of scale may be too small a task to warrant a massive tractor slasher or bobcat, but it’s too much for the average mower. That’s where Kiwi company Masport have found a brand new niche for a new breed of ride-on machine — a beefedup, hard-core cousin to the average lawn tractor which they call the Crossjet. A cross breed of conventional mower and the kind of big slasher deployed by farmers to make new pasture from rugged regrowth, the Crossjet chews through its meal of blackberry, kikuyu and reeds with an insatiable appetite, shredding it all down with a pair of flail blades driven by a high-capacity V-twin engine. In a practical test, clearing half an acre neglected for over three years, the Crossjet was undaunted by growth up to waist height. The two-wheel-drive version — perfect for level ground — uses its weight and a set of tube steel nudge bars to crush even the gnarliest growth under, where a seriously heavy-duty cutting deck takes matters in hand. Even small wattle saplings, immature gorse and other pithy fare came out the other side as finger-length mulch,

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When there’s plenty to move around the farm — from sacks of fert to bales of feed and more — it’s easy to wish for another pair of hands. Or, in the case of Merlo’s Turbofarmer telehandler, one extremely large, hydraulic powered hand that can do it all. Merlo has been in the business of shifting heavy agricultural loads since the early 1980s — when the rest of us were still listening to new wave — the engineers from Piedmont, Italy were designing a whole new way to transport pallets, scoops and bales of just about anything. Having already designed goanywhere concrete mixers and tracked vehicles, Merlo SpA bosses conceived of a combination tractor, forklift and telescopic-boom crane. Calling it the SM30, Merlo debuted their new machine to huge enthusiasm. Today, with the benefit of three more decades of tuning and improvements, the top agricultural telehandler in the business just might be the big, capable Merlo TF42.7CS-156. Call it the toptier Turbofarmer for short, but don’t call it underpowered — under the hood the Italians have teamed up with ag engineering giant Deutz-Fahr to pack in a 156-horsepower four-litre diesel. This German-made mill complies with

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and activities could well be the reason why rural and provincial voter turnouts in the October elections were significantly higher than in metro centres. Rural voting around New Zealand was an average of 49.8 per cent, while the metro average was 41.3 per cent. While a number of councils have reined in spending, Federated Farmers wages an ongoing battle within many districts about rates burden unfairness, such as when revaluations push up rural property values. Land and improvement values can have little or no bearing on the property owners’ consumption of council services in relation to others. Yet some councils are reluctant to use tools such as annual charges, differentials and rates remittances to smooth out big rises in the face of factors such as farm incomes taking a severe buffeting this year. Other councils put up the rates to fund ‘growth initiatives’ and tourism, but overlook the fact that farmer businesses are also significant employers and drivers of district wealth, and it may be

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The counter-argument to progress is usually that ‘the original is best’. We’ve seen a brand new Mini and a new Mustang, but how about a motor vehicle that’s been stylistically unchanged since the postwar years? Classic Rolling Stones, or outdated rolling stock? Well, the comparison to Mick and the boys is a timely one, because the original Royal Enfield would have been right up there with the Triumph and the Norton as the mode of transport for those original rockers back in the 1960s. Let the mods have their scooters, it seemed to say — this is the ride for a rebel. Time may have turned those curves and chrome from cutting edge to charmingly retro, but the Bullet 500 and its Classic 500 counterpart have one thing that time can only improve — the longest production run of any motorcycle, ever. Part of that is down to the timelessness of the simple, cleanlined design. Part is down to the legendary, easyto-fix, hard-to-kill 500cc motor which chugs away at the Enfield’s heart. But another is the connection to India, that most exotic and dangerous of driving environments. When the Indian police force wanted a bike that could tackle everything from deserts to ice, policing thousands of miles of border and looking out for a billion people, they picked the Royal Enfield.

Production of these bikes continues today in Chennai (which was called Madras when the Bullet was new). The topic of popular travel stories, beloved of backpackers, and still the backbone of the subcontinent’s bike fleet, the Royal Enfield name is carried on by a range of models available here in New Zealand for more leisurely touring. Fuel injection may have replaced oldschool carburation, and Chennai is a long way from Redditch, but the familiar note of the Enfield remains as English as county cricket and apple cider. After all, there’s something about saddling up a real vintage-styled classic to take a trip through the Mackenzie Country or out down the coast. Without the searing power of a racing bike to handle, or the bulk of an American cruiser, it’s a refined and dare we say gentlemanly way to soak up the scenery and become one with the moment. The Indian connection with Royal Enfield goes back a long way. While it’s no big surprise that the subcontinent is a power player in vehicle design and manufacturing today — see

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You can’t improve on the classics. So the saying goes. Though of course, there are those who will insist that you can. 2016 Mustang? Or fusion cuisine wasabi pavlova? Opinions are divided on some modern remakes, though there’s one that’s not up for discussion. The new Mini may actually be a tiny BMW, taken away from it’s true blue British roots and kitted out with German engineering. But it’s got that funky cool britannia look, a whack of power from a turbocharged 231-horsepower fourcylinder engine, and a low, planted stance that helps turn twisty roads into an adventure playground. Now it’s also got a flagship feature film in New Zealand — another big remake of a classic. By the time you read this the trailers for Pork Pie will be on cinema screens, with all the talk and controversy which surrounds the re-imagining of one of New Zealand’s cinematic treasures. The update doesn’t just follow a new blondini gang as they burn a trail of comical destruction toward Invercargill. It also stars the new Mini Cooper S, in bright yellow. The actual car used in the filming of the remake was recently sold on Trademe to fund the final touches to the movie. Those who may scoff at the idea of the Mini

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$13,995

INC GST

ROUSE MOTORCYCLES LTD 1 KING STREET, HIKURANGI, WHANGAREI. PH; 0800 96 36 36 MAUNGATUROTO MOTORCYCLES LTD 117 HURNDALL STREET, MAUNGATUROTO. PH: 09 431 8555 CA MOTORCYCLES LTD 725 POUTO ROAD, DARGAVILLE. PH: 09 439 0170 ADVENTURE POWERSPORTS 34 FORGE ROAD, SILVERDALE, 09 444 0636 KUMEU CHAINSAWS AND MOWERS LTD MAIN ROAD, HUAPAI. PH: 09 412 8109 *Competitor pricing and specifications were cited on manufacturers websites on 19/12/16. Offer available at participating dealers.

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