Northern Farming Lifestyles, May 2021 by Integrity Community Media

May 2021 Edition

Saving the Kaimanawa horses Pages 4–5

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Memories are made of this

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Northland landowners looking at retiring erosion-prone hill country from pastoral use can apply for a grant that will cover roughly 75 per cent of the fencing costs, with the Northern Regional Council setting aside $600,000 for the purpose.

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Glen Coulston retired erosion-prone hill country now regenerating to native bush at Mimiwhangata

Chair of the Water and Land Working Party, Justin Blaikie, says the council has the fund to fence erosion-prone land for the next two years with $304,500 in 2021/22 and $303,000 in 2022/23, as well as funding for native planting. Councillor Blaikie represents the council’s Hokianga-Kaikohe constituency. He says eroded sediment is Northland’s single biggest natural pollutant, with the Bay of Islands alone losing an average of 500,000 tonnes annually for the past century. “It makes good environmental and economic sense to remove erosion-prone hill country from being actively farmed to reduce potentially unnecessary erosion and either leave it to revegetate naturally or plant it out.” The council requires retired land to be fenced with a three-wire electric fence as a minimum, and for those keen to

actively plant retired areas also has grants available to help with planting. “Grants include native retirement planting or native and exotic production with species suited to continuous cover harvesting, and council will help prepare a planting plan with landowners as part of this service.” One of those who have already taken advantage of the scheme is Glen Coulston of Mimiwhangata, who this year received $10,000, subsequently retiring approximately 12 hectares. He encourages those looking to retire erosion-prone land to take the opportunity council and MPI are providing to landowners. “It’s about protecting our soils from running off the hillsides into the harbours and protecting our water quality and kaimoana that suffer from the sedimentation,” he says.

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The Northland Regional Council is largely through the third annual construction season of the wider $15 million Awanui flood control project that is now expected to be completed in 2022/2023. Last construction season, about $1.1 million work was done but a subsequent multimillion-dollar injection from the central government as part of its Covid-19 recovery response package is allowing the upgrade to be done more quickly and at a less direct cost to ratepayers. Colin ‘Toss’ Kitchen, the Te Hiku council representative, says as well as dramatically shortening the time needed to carry out the upgrade, the government funding through the Provincial Development Unit would also lessen much of the associated burden on the NRC’s ratepayers. The 2020/21 construction schedule involves about $3,050,000 of works, including extensive earthworks for southern spillways currently underway over approximately 2.4 hectares of former farmland behind Rongopai Place. Those works include the construction of 280 metres of new stopbanking to better protect 29 flood-prone homes in Rongopai Place and approximately 900 metres of new spillway. Councillor Kitchen says the $1.1 million of southern spillways works will account for more than a third of this season’s works and are now 90% complete, although the spillways will not

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Tori has started around 50 horses in the last 10 years as well as helping with other horse work. “Over recent years my students challenged me to take on one of the Kaimanawa horses from the annual muster. I had no desire to train a wild horse, but this year the opportunity came up to be a part of the Freedom to Friendship Kaimanawa Challenge. “The Kaimanawa Heritage Horses Association has a group of professional trainers that they endorse. The trainers adopt a horse to care for and I was chosen as a wild card trainer. You have six months to tame and train the horse. “I decided it is time to take up the challenge and try my hand at putting the

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Two Kaimanawa wild horses are in Tori’s care, one which she is competing with and another that came as his companion and she is taming

principals that I use with domesticated horses to the wild horses. I received two horses, my one and another came as his mate, which I am taming for a friend. “The basic principles I teach are the concept of horses communicating with each other through facial expressions and body language. They see us as predatory and I am excited to see if what I am teaching is accurate. “Working with a horse that has had no human interaction before is a challenge. As much as I tame and train horses, they are going to teach me more. I can then pass what I learn to other people. It is like a little circle where I am helping the horses but they are helping me and that is very special. “Adopting the Kaimanawa horses is important as people don’t realise what a special breed they are. They have been in the Kaimanawa ranges in the Central North Island for around 150 years and are completely wild. They see army personnel working in the area but have never interacted with people.” Tori says that the Kaimanawa wild horses and the Ahipara wild horses in Northland are some of the only wild horse herds in New Zealand.

“Keeping them wild is a special thing between the Kaimanawa Heritage Horses Welfare Society, the New Zealand Defence Force and DOC. They are trying to give them the best possible life but need to keep them healthy. “The horses are one of the best managed wild herds in the world. In my opinion, we are doing a great job of caring for the breed without interfering with them. The annual muster is an important part of the process although it upsets people. “The reality is the two horses that I have from the recent muster are the healthiest horses I have seen. That comes down to the fact that they have enough feed and roam the land. Having the space to wander is important for them. If you overcrowd that area they can’t find enough food and become unhealthy. “Before the herd was managed they came out in poorer condition with issues such as excessive lice. That is nowhere near as bad now. “Keeping the herd numbers down by people adopting them means the ones left behind don’t have to struggle for resources and thrive.

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“This year there were 506 horses counted and they needed to get the figure down to around 300 for the optimum number. “They try to find homes for around 100 horses, but due to Covid the muster didn’t happen last year, so this year 200 homes needed finding. “KHH and DOC decided to only muster those they had homes for, so only 125 were removed and none were culled. “Although they are taken out of their natural habitat, they do thrive in domestication if that initial process is done kindly. You need to take it slowly to let them adjust, and understand they

have never been behind fences or close to humans. Staying in the Kaimanawas is not a reality considering the space that is there. “It is a special thing to be a part of helping them to adjust to what we see as normal but is foreign to them. Kaimanawa horses are a super special breed and to lose them because of mismanagement would be such a shame.” Read more about Tori’s experience with the Kaimanawa horses next month.

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documentary style after doing portraits in LA. “We had a baby and decided to move to New Zealand and pursue photography as a business. Eric had never been to New Zealand and I had come on a cruise once. We looked at a world map and decided New Zealand would be a great place to live and settled in Kerikeri. ”We decided to have a complete wedding photography business. Eric created our website and got things going and I delivered flyers letting people know I was available to catch their special moments. “I love being out in nature. Every wedding has its own flair and theme. Often weddings on farms have a big marquee overlooking the land and it makes a stunning backdrop. I have travelled to some beautiful locations and shot every kind of wedding you can imagine. “I use a documentary approach and even a sprinkle of rain can make

spectacular photos. I want people to experience their day to their fullest and enjoy the time. I also include animals if they are there. Once I captured a wedding in Thailand at a private beach and we found a baby elephant playing in the water. We were able to interact with it and got some beautiful photos. It was a very beautiful experience. “Ultimately it comes down to capturing the style people want. My best advice is to enjoy the day and don’t stress, that is all that matters. With everything going on worldwide, it is more important than ever to capture those special moments no matter where you are.” Rachel describes herself as a people photographer. “I can’t just take a landscape photo, I will always put a person in it. It is a passion that consumes me and is my outlet for creativity. When I am not doing photography I create works of art with Photoshop. I love being able to bring a story together and capture

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moments in time that bring you back to that place. “I love capturing the raw beauty of people, especially those who don’t realise how beautiful they are. Moments with children are also important as they grow up very quickly. Someone who isn’t a mum yet, may not know how important it is to have photos with their parents or loved ones until many years later, so I think ahead for them. “I think if you are passionate about something and keep trying the work will follow. I never did photography for the money, the money is just a happy thing that came from it. On the farm you can use hay bales, tractors

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Pushing her boundaries by Ann van Engelen

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Belinda Price has been involved in farming since she was a young child and appreciates being able to bring her own children up on the land environment and want our staff to come to work. If they don’t want to come to work, there is an issue. “When you are a 50/50 sharemilker, you need to be the best you can and meet the contract and farm owners’ wishes. You must run the business as effectively as possible in that system. “We have done A2/A2 breeding with our animals because our son had eczema quite severely as a young child, and we discovered he could tolerate A2 milk. “It wasn’t the science — it was that A2 worked for him. We are now working on getting our home farm up to our standard, and the staff will go on the journey with us.” Belinda, at times, gives staff ideas to solve problems, and together they decide what to try first. “I am also a rural support trust facilitator, and we always try to do performance reviews. We use a template

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A significant research study (Wildi et al, 2011) that confirmed the benefits of high dose chondroitin sulphate (CS) for joints affected by osteoarthritis. This week we dig a little further. I have no doubt that the correct dose of high-grade CS is the most important natural compound to help joints affected by osteoarthritis. As an example, I have been helping a man with osteoarthritis in both knees. The pain levels had become quite debilitating. We started with a booster dose of 1,600mg of high-grade chondroitin with the same amount of glucosamine and 400mg of high potency curcumin (from turmeric). After three months, the pain level had significantly reduced and is now mobile again. More recent research from the British Medical Journal (May 2017) compared high-grade chondroitin with common anti-inflammatory medication and found that 800mg of CS was beneficial. Researchers commented: “This compelling benefitrisk profile, in light of the known clinical risks associated with chronic usage of NSAIDS and paracetamol, underscores the potential importance

of pharmaceutical-grade [chondroitin sulfate] in the management of knee [osteoarthritis], especially in the older population requiring longterm treatment.” The question is, how can it help? What does it do to arthritic joints? Researchers have found that CS has multiple benefits. Firstly it helps regulate inflammatory processes within the joint capsule. Secondly and more importantly, it helps specialised cells that reside in cartilage called chondrocytes. CS improves the ability of chondrocytes to secrete and repair cartilage. This comes as no surprise as CS is an important component of cartilage. I have worked with so many people with osteoarthritis that I am genuinely surprised if we cannot get an improvement within three months. For questions or advice, contact John on 0800 423 559 or email john@abundant.co.nz. Join his allnew newsletter at abundant.co.nz.

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Chris Penk, MP Kaipara ki Mahurangi electorate

I also have other hats to wear, however, like many MPs. In addition to my local advocacy work, I’m the opposition spokesperson for defence and the related portfolio of veterans’ affairs. These are subjects close to my heart as someone who had served in the navy as an officer based both here and in Australia, as well as on the proverbial seven seas, of course. Around the time of Anzac Day, it is particularly important to reflect on the contribution of our troops during the years, right up to the present day. I should add that it’s not only the military but also other uniformed services whose members work hard to keep us safe. On that note, please take the opportunity to thank our service personnel when you see them out and about. You might see them on the way to the airforce base, a fire station, coastguard

unit, surf lifesaving club, St John training, police station or similar. You might also see them living life in the community, as fellow ordinary Kiwis, (shopping, playing sport, picking up the children from school, etc), who just happen to do extraordinary things. To finish with a reflection on our armed forces more specifically. At recent local Anzac Day services, I was grateful for the opportunity to highlight some timeless words from the classic poem For the Fallen. Those who we lost in battle will not have the opportunity to ‘grow old’; those of us who remain (‘as we who are left’) must be mindful of our duty to protect the freedoms hard-won by that sacrifice. In doing that, we don’t glorify war but instead honour the legacy of those to whom we owe so much, not only yesterday but also today and tomorrow. Lest we forget.

John Arts comments: “My latest Bettaflex formula with more chondroitin and over double the Curcumin is based on the latest research into joint-support compounds. The normal dose is 2 daily but I recommend a double dose for 1-3 bottles to saturate joint tissue.” John Arts, Founder, Abundant Health Ltd

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Until the 1860s, all such arrangements had to be made in person or via a postal service which was determined but patchy in rural New Zealand. Gangs of shearers, musterers and reapers arrived according to the season in many areas, moving with the weather and offering their services to landowners. One could arrange by post the arrival of a traction engine with its shuttle plough, or machinery from England via ship, brought around for harvesting and baling time. The telegraph made morse code available for the farmer seeking help; by 1870, you could send 15 words anywhere in the country for a shilling. Cable Bay near Nelson got its name when the undersea telegraph linked us to Sydney, Australia, and by 1890 8.5 million morse messages were tapped out across New Zealand. A farmer could ride into town on his horse, dispatch a telegram to the city, and expect professional help or new machinery within the revolutionary time of only a week or two. The morse system served farms in far-flung places right up until 1988. The telephone changed all of this when it was introduced in the 1870s. The government demanded 30 households to take up the new and expensive device before they put in an exchange; the first was in Christchurch, with the first number going to the city’s psychiatric asylum. Some would say this was an ironic start for the phone, which

Remember talking to a real operator or picking up the phone to find that the party line was in the hands of teenage neighbours?

soon spread to rural New Zealand in the form of party lines. These will be fondly remembered by kids of the 1960s and 70s when the concept of several farms using one phone still existed. Still, when the line was free, it was possible to call in a stock agent or tractor mechanic with great haste. Sometimes, these professionals hitched a ride on crop dressing planes or braved the back roads in a fleet of beat-up but unbreakable Ford Populars and Dodge Sixes. Mobile phones have

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Tradition on the page by Andy Bryenton

There’s a whole lot of history behind the pages you’re reading right now. Though it seems that most of the businesses in this section are thoroughly modern, the concept of rural professionals reaching out to their customers via newsprint is truly venerable. The first-ever Kiwi newspaper for farmers was actually printed in London, for migrating land-buyers to read on the ship as they sailed to these shores. The idea of the inventive Edward Wakefield, the New Zealand Gazette was all about promoting the colony and agricultural advancements. Soon after setting up on Kiwi soil, the paper was shut down for fulminating against the government on behalf of Wakefield’s New Zealand Company. By June of 1840 the government had fired back, establishing the New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette in Russell, then the capital of the country. That ‘advertiser’ part of the name was apt, as part of the purpose of the publication was to offer new technology and services to settlers establishing farms. Pages much like these, in oldworld typesetting, would dominate early newspapers in our small towns, selling milk separators, advertising the availability of shearing gangs and farriers, or even promoting steam power for the farm. By the 1870s, a town was not considered thoroughly modern without a printing press. Consider the problems involved with manhandling such a machine — two tonnes of cast iron — on and off wooden sailing ships and voyaging halfway around the world, and you’ll comprehend how important the news and its concomitant advertising was to early New Zealand.

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Editors covered local news as it was very hard to gain access to up-to-date stories from other towns. Northland was a four-day trip from Auckland, for example, and the telegraph cost serious coin; only top stories warranted a message in morse code. International news came off ships from England, and it was not unknown for journalists to wait on the wharves with bribes of rum and money to buy copies of the Times from sailors, then rush back to their editors with the ‘hot’ international news, three months old. Today, your local Farming Lifestyles paper turns up regular as clockwork in your letter box, filled with colourful images of the latest tractors, quads, professional services and farming implements. Our forebears would consider the ability to telephone for a fertiliser spreader or well driller the next best thing to magic, but aside from the time and convenience, their need to know ‘who you’re going to call’ was much the same as ours.

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In many areas, it is a matter of finding such a source. For centuries, a mixture of legend and mystery has often preceded actual drilling for water. The practice of water dowsing, also called divining, to find a source to drill down to has its adherents. It involves using a forked stick, rod, pendulum or similar device to locate underground water and has long been a subject of discussion and controversy. In the classic method of using a forked stick, one fork is held in each hand with the palms upward. The dowser then walks over the area to be tested. When passing over a source of water, the butt end of the stick is supposed to rotate or be attracted downward. Water dowsers operate in rural or suburban communities where residents are uncertain as to how to locate the best supply of groundwater. The drilling and development of a well often costs a lot, so property owners turn to the water dowser for advice. A more science-based method comes from a hydrologist drawing up a geologic map of the different kinds of rock at the land surface. Some through fissures provide openings to carry water underground. Hydrologic, geologic and geophysical knowledge is needed to determine the depths and extent of the

different water-bearing strata and the quantity found in each. Information on other wells in the region is also a pointer to water sources. It all comes down to a degree of guesswork, so ultimately the hydrologist may employ a well driller to put down some test holes to see if water is

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Vintage newspapers were filled with images in woodcut print of chipping machines, ploughs, milk separators and other modern inventions of their day, all available to the Kiwi farmers should they be willing to wait for them to come from England. In those early days, one could call for assistance on the farm with all kinds of tasks, but the time it took to reach the homestead was a deciding factor. Take the simple matter of hiring in some extra hands to bring in a harvest. When the roads around New Zealand were either tracks made of mud or simply theoretical lines drawn on a map, the only way to travel was by boat. Seasonal workers and specialists alike would turn up by sea, which led to some memorable scenes loading and unloading giant steam-powered machines like traction engines to run shuttle ploughs or threshers. The first of these roadgoing steamers arrived concurrently with the growth of the railways, and almost universally, they were made in Britain. The first steam engines arrived in the South Island rather than the north in 1863. By the latter part of the 1800s, the slow progress of traction engines from town to town to assist in farming tasks meant that people demanded the first driver’s licences. In one case, a hitch-

hiker fell off a road steamer and was killed. While in another, a man paid to walk in front of such a machine holding a lantern was crushed when he stopped to tie his shoelace, and the driver could not stop. Luckily, safety soon improved, but so too did speed. In the early 1900s, the car and truck revolutionised road transport. William McLean helped pass the law allowing the road use of cars, so long as they could not go more than 20km/h. He imported two Benz motor carriages to Wellington in 1898, but more were to follow. The first world war saw the advent of reliable aircraft. Soon it became possible to call for help in far-flung towns and provinces, having your vet or architect, engineer or stock agent land in a flat paddock using a Le Rhone aircraft or some similar model. Roads got better too, at least in the dry summer months. Today, a mobile phone call can summon any kind of farming help by van or ute within hours, not days. Much valuable data and information for the farmer come in at the speed of light

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Hope for farmers over exclusion by Andy Bryenton

There’s new hope for farmers battling the onset of new legislation, which they, and rural advocacy groups, are calling ‘unworkable and inaccurate’. The government’s controversial livestock exclusion policy of 2020 raised the ire of farmers due to what was seen as ‘wildly inaccurate’ mapping of zones in which fencing would become mandatory. Seeking to exclude livestock from waterways in ‘low slope’ areas, the government released a map on which to base new regulations. However, farmers were shocked to see low-intensity, very steep hill country included. Places where fencing would have to be undertaken by helicopter for a negligible amount of sheep a hectare. The contentious map showed that areas labelled ‘low slope’ increased from the 3.8 million hectares indicated in 2019 to 6 million hectares. Fencing these areas would cost $4.5 billion for the farming sector. However, recent moves by the government to accept industry-driven alternatives to their ‘hard targets’ on another issue, winter grazing, have been welcomed, with Beef + Lamb New Zealand saying the move provides hope for more workable options.

“We’re not against the ‘why’: the intent of the rule is good, but we are concerned about the ‘how’,” says Beef+Lamb boss Sam McIvor. “We have been very clear that farmers need workable and relevant rules and have been advocating for effects-based approaches at the paddock scale to both intensive winter grazing and to stock exclusion, delivered through effective farm planning. “We ask the government to give certainty to farmers and to apply a common sense approach to the low-slope map. We’re very willing to work with the government on getting this right.” The government has delayed the implementation of 2020’s winter grazing regulations and accepted an interim solution in the form of an industry-developed Intensive Winter Grazing module added to farm plans this season. A reasoned, regionally-based and common sense bilateral approach to the low slope exclusion issue could follow this bridge-building success; and should, if Beef+Lamb and their many farming supporters have their say.

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When Yamaha wanted a name for its new lightweight, nimble, go-anywhere adventure bike, it looked at the kind of places where this machine would excel over bigger, more bulky rivals. That’s why it chose the name be measured in making it Tenere; a double pun, because to the next petrol station not only does the name refer to feeling exhilarated rather a vast sandy desert in Chad, than beaten up. Africa, but it also translates To further add to the from Italian as ‘to take and fun factor and make this hold’. The meaning couldn’t be adventure bike a thing more fitting, as the new Yamaha that flies over the terrain Tenere 700 not only looks like rather than slogging it could excel in the desert through it, Yamaha has sands, it’s also been built to ‘added lightness’. Wire spoked wheels, a compact take and hold the lightweight wheelbase and attention adventure bike crown. to detail in materials Yamaha set out to achieve technology all combine this by looking at the skeleton to make this a machine of their bike first, creating a that is as precise as a super lightweight double-cradle surgeon’s blade. The frame that allows for a slim influence of Yamaha’s cross-section and the ability motocross and rally bikes for the rider to shift their own is clear, though make no weight about for effortless, almost instinctive riding mistake; slap on a number Rally-bred looks and a lightweight frame make the new tactility. There’s a long heritage plate and this is an able Yamaha Tenere 700 an all-terrain monster without being a ‘tank’ of big single-pot off-roaders in on-road commuter, too. this engine size and weight, but instead through to peak output at 6,500 rpm. Jack of all trades doesn’t mean of opting for the big bore and stroke of a While this is screamer territory for a road master of none, however. The Tenere mono-piston, Yamaha went for a parallel car, it’s low and grabby for a bike, and it shares a rugged desert name with twin, double overhead cam setup with makes the Tenere adept at three things; machines like the Dakar and the Baja, acceleration, control and fuel economy. and out in the wild is where it wants to water cooling. The upside of this layout is torque on When the road runs out, all three are key be. If you’ve got a yearning for adventure, tap from low down in the rev range right indicators of success, and success can this is one to seek out.

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