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The MPI’s recently published Situation Outlook for Primary Industries has not only tackled fears about the fallout from the Covid-19 coronavirus but also contains positive prognosis for areas of the nation weathering drought conditions. “We’re supporting our farmers and growers to get through the current drought in the North Island, parts of the South Island and the Chathams with the comprehensive $2 million package announced today,” says Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor. Included in the package are drought coordinators and additional coordinators, a feed working group, animal welfare information and expertise and professional advice for recovery, he said. “In my recent visits to farmers and growers across the country, I’ve seen the effort they are taking to deal with current conditions. While our forecasts show export revenue will take a number of short term hits, demand for New Zealand food and fibre products should continue to be strong in the longer term,” O’Connor said. “There are still some good prices, compared to previous years, for many of our products, including dairy. The predicted growth in this sector in the face of current challenges is credit to everyone’s hard work and shows how people are calmly working through
things.” For the year ending 30 June 2020, some strategic industries hit by the ‘big dry’ received a positive report card for future progress. Dairy export revenue is forecast to rise 6.3 per cent to $19.2 billion, driven by strong domestic production and favourable export prices to December. Prices for cheese and casein continue to strengthen, particularly in North Asia. Meat and wool exports are forecast to rise 0.3 per cent on the previous year to reach $10.2 billion, taking into account a reduction of $220 million due to reduced demand from China caused by Covid-19. The longer-term outlook for meat exports also looks bright, particularly in beef and veal, which is forecast to hit $3.4 billion in the year ending 30 June 2020 — 2.6 per cent on the previous year. Horticulture continues to be one of the star performers, with export revenue expected to rise 2.9 per cent in the year ending 30 June 2020, hitting $6.3 billion. That is driven by strong performance in kiwifruit, apples and pears.
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with their knowledge. I have received an immense amount of help over the years, and I am forever grateful to everyone who has helped in all aspects of showing dairy cattle. If you ask for help, you’ll always receive help.� The 17-year-old has since travelled around the lower North Island to compete and would like to travel further. “I would like to help or even just watch other shows, including some time travelling to the international dairy week show over in Australia.� Lara said she loves the showmanship aspect of showing cattle, including clipping and presentation. It was her steady hand with a set of clippers that helped her win a national accolade for showing and handling dairy cattle. Lara was awarded the Holstein Friesian NZ Paramount Cup at the National All Dairy Breeds Youth Camp in Stratford earlier this year. “Attending camp was such a rewarding experience. I learned heaps of new skills.� Each participant had their own heifer calf to feed, groom, teach to lead on a halter and prepare for the show ring. The four-day event also held workshops on animal health, breeding and showmanship skills, as well as tuition on using electric clippers to trim the heifer’s coat. “There were many highlights, but some of the ones that stood out most was meeting new people who were around my age, that share the same passion for dairy cattle and showing them. I developed greater knowledge and learned heaps of new skills.� Lara is currently learning about the breeding side of the dairy industry. “At the moment I’m learning about which
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A funeral for a friend brings back memories. Saying goodbye to Mike Moore did just that. One was 1999 and the Battle for Seattle. As New Zealand’s International Trade Minister, I was escorted through the tear gas, weaving our way around the barricades. It was a full ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and protesters had gathered in their thousands. At the helm was new WTO Director General, the Rt Hon Mike Moore. He had just achieved the most important international role of any New Zealander in my lifetime. We were trying to launch a new trade round and Mike had me chairing one of the four working groups. We failed. Not Mike’s fault, but the Battle for Seattle, as it became known, was quite an event — subsequently made into a movie that typically bore little relationship to what really went on. The massive protests outside reflected one side of humanity — the events inside, another. In the final two days of negotiations we worked nonstop for 48 hours in what’s known as the Green Room, trying to negotiate a
positive outcome. I’ve never forgotten how unhelpful the EU was, or India for that matter, and how much I missed another constructive voice such as the UK could offer. But its voice, of course, was buried under the EU. Union leader, Ken Douglas, part of our delegation, became so worried about my well-being, that every time I emerged from the Green Room to update our team on progress, he’d bring me a fresh coffee. His thoughtfulness to someone from the opposite side of politics will stay with me forever. Their humanity sets good leaders apart. Ken Douglas had it and Mike Moore had it in spades. His was a life devoted to finding the forgotten, to empowering the underprivileged — he did it not just in New Zealand but globally. The work of the WTO has raised more millions of people out of poverty than any other organisation in human history and Mike Moore is part of that legacy. A kid from a working-class background, he grew up in Northland. His first job
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He’d run a typical Mike Moore campaign, living out of a shoebox in Geneva, the home of the WTO, doing the real hard yards. He’d captured a good proportion of the member countries to his cause, but needed the US — still a smidgen prickly over what they saw as the nuclear ships debacle. My working relationship with the Clinton administration by this time was pretty good. They’d even given me the White House operator’s phone number — an amazing system where, if they trusted you, you could get put through to key cabinet members wherever they were across the country. Towards the end of Mike’s WTO campaign, the US Trade Ambassador called me to talk about it. I backed Mike strongly. Whether it helped, I don’t know, but Mike finally got US support and the job. While we failed in Seattle, Mike succeeded in Doha with the new Development Round launched in 2001. He also successfully brought China into the WTO. I’d been a bit involved as the first Trade Minister in the world to sign China up to the WTO. Interestingly, for two politicians from the opposite sides of the political spectrum, we’d become great friends. When I was Speaker, Mike, then Ambassador to the United States, got me up to Washington for a couple of days to work with him around the Congress on trade issues. Mike was never boring. He had a unique way with thoughts and words, and while he made absolute sense to RD 20 02 Taranaki_Manawatu February 2020.qxp us Kiwis, you’d occasionally see a cloud
of confusion cross the face of some Member of Congress. Translation was sometimes required. Life was not a rehearsal for Mike. He lived it to the full. My head was never so sore as following evenings spent with Mike and Yvonne in Geneva or Washington. Their hospitality was legendary and solving the world’s problems invariably required more than one bottle of red. Much has recently been written about Mike’s contribution. But I think a bit has been missed, perhaps the most important of all. And it’s this. Over the past 30 years New Zealand built a unique global trade strategy. It involved not just working with our nearest neighbours on bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs), but doing things regionally as well, such as with South East Asia via ASEAN, and more recently, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) — all the while promoting progress at the WTO. But New Zealand also learnt the hard way that at times you need to move unilaterally — removing barriers to trade within our own system, as protectionism had been shown by the early 1980s to be so damaging to our own economy. I don’t think that smart global trade strategy, so crucial in helping raise New Zealand from near bankruptcy in the early 80s to number one in the world on the Global Prosperity Index in 2016, would have lasted through successive changes of government had Mike Moore not laid the foundations for a bipartisan 12/02/20 1:11 PM Page 1 approach to trade liberalisation here in
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grew, and that is how I initially visited New Zealand.” Teresa stayed with Jools while she was hosting a horse clinic on her first visit. “She told the trainer I worked with horses. One horse was very difficult, and the trainer asked me what I would do. I ended up working with it and teaching lessons for three days and loved it here. Jools and Lynda often came and visited me when they were in the States. “Michaela is a rider and nationally recognised in dressage. She came to America to train with a dressage trainer, and we connected through friends for work. I have ridden with and learnt from many fine horsemen and women. I had
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They have a real sense of order. It is about movement. “If a new horse goes into a new paddock, you will see one horse will make an ugly face and herd the newcomer around. That is, so the new horse knows who yields their feet to who, because if danger comes they need to know what order to run as a herd for safety. “If a horse bites and kicks, based on horse language, it is often trying to get
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the other horse or person to move and yield their feet, so you know to follow them or they, you. People often back up from their horse. That is sending a mixed message, and the horse thinks ‘OK, you will follow me’. “They are not necessarily dominating — they are establishing an order of who moves first, particularly in case of danger. “Often backing a horse is enough to get a change in behaviour as they
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A man ahead of his time Rural contractors everywhere would likely be praising the name of Hiram Moore every morning as they turned the keys to their combine harvesters; if only they knew who he was. The American inventor lived an eventful life but missed out on fame and fortune by reaching too far too fast. Today he’s known as the father of the combine, but in his own time, he was the man who missed out on patenting the reaping machine. Moore lived in the interestingly named town of Climax, near Kalamazoo, Michigan, a place he’d helped to found by wagon train. The strait-laced Christian settlers saw nothing funny about the name; they were talking about the fact that the founding of the town was the high point of their journey west. They also found nothing funny about the sheer amount of crops, which the fertile soil there brought forth. Enough that, in 1835, a friend of Moore’s asked him if he could design a machine to help cut it all, saving the town’s scythe-swinging menfolk a lot of aching backs. It’s possible that Moore’s friend had read about a machine made by Scotsman Patrick Bell in 1826, using the same scissor cutting method sometimes still used today. A few of these machines had reached the east
coast before the founders of Climax saddled up to go west, but they were notoriously tricky to use and were never patented. However, Hiram Moore had a vision. He wanted to design a machine that could not only reap the grain but thresh it and winnow it too. All three parts of the machine were clear in his mind. He retreated to a large barn and began to experiment. In 1835, as the harvest came around, a monster of a machine came forth from that old building. Hiram Moore had done it. He had created the first-ever combine harvester, but it was gigantic. Twenty horses and a team of men were required to get it moving, and its internals were complex and made of wood and iron, not modern materials as we see today. Despite all this, the concept caught on. Poor old Hiram spent his later years wrangling with rival inventor Cyrus McCormick, who designed a simpler reaping machine at about the same time. Some Michigan folk say that Cyrus literally pinched patent blueprints from
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The employment status of some 140,000 self-employed contractors across New Zealand is now in the government melting pot with submissions closed on February 14 in a public consultation over their job conditions. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is concerned that some contractors are vulnerable to poor outcomes because they lack both the protections offered to employees by law and the power to negotiate a better deal. However, some contractors oppose regulation and have expressed their views accordingly, saying change could increase the cost of business in the country. Workplace Relations Minister Iain Lees-Galloway says some contractors, and particularly dependent contractors, are vulnerable in the workplace. “For example, employees who are labelled as ‘independent contractors’ by their employers miss out on their basic employment rights. Workers who are caught in the grey zone between employee and contractor status are also vulnerable. I have heard stories of contractors who work long hours, in some cases 80 hours a week, or others who receive an income, which works out to be less than the minimum wage once you account for their hours. Some workers are finding themselves dependent on one employer for all their income, with no flexibility or power to negotiate better conditions. “In some cases, workers are completely unaware that they have
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Chairman confirms retirement Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited chairman John Monaghan has confirmed that he will retire as a director of the co-operative when his current three-year term ends at its annual meeting this November. In a note to the co-operative’s farmerowners and unitholders, Mr Monaghan explained that his decision was the next step in the Fonterra Board’s
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Monaghan retires from the board. Under Fonterra’s constitution, its chairman must be selected from its pool of seven elected farmer directors on the board. Its independent directors are not eligible for consideration as chairman. The co-operative also provided an update on a replacement for former independent director Simon Israel, who retired from its board in November last year. Fonterra says it is making good progress on securing a replacement for Mr Israel and will update its farmerowners and unitholders once a suitable candidate has been confirmed.
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The ‘wizard’ vs the farmboy
March 2020
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by Andy Bryenton
One was called the ‘Wizard of Menlo Park’ thanks to his inventions, which transformed modern society. The other was a farmer’s son from Pahiatua. When the pair faced off over creating a new way to milk cows, all the smart money was on Thomas Alva Edison, enthroned as the ‘new Isaac Newton’, friend of industrialists Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone. However, the smart money would have lost. In turn-of-the-1900s Wairarapa, machinery was becoming a bigger part of farming. The leather belts, steam engines and turning wheels of wool processing machinery, and the shuttle ploughs and timber mills, which ran off traction engines fascinated young Norman Daysh. He knew that others had been trying to perfect a milking machine for some time. Previous attempts had all been made by engineers and scientists who did not have his practical experience. As a Kiwi farmhand, Norman was all too familiar with milking cows, and he knew that contraptions that hurt or scared the animals would be useless in the shed. Thomas Edison had fixed his sights on various designs, in an attempt to do for dairy what others had done before him for grain with the combine harvester. The inventor of the record player and the light bulb examined ideas with rollers,
gripping automaton ‘hands’, pulsators and many other concepts. None was practical in the reality of the farmyard, where complicated machines could be kicked to pieces or contaminated with dirt, and anything that spooked the cattle would cause more harm than good. Contraptions with belts, springs and tanks for the cow to wear were rejected out of hand. Enter Daisy, the first cow to experience a modern milking machine. In the farm kitchen of Norman Daysh, this pioneering animal was the test subject for his final development. It was a milking machine of the kind we know today, vacuum-powered, with cups that mimic the action of a suckling calf. Daysh took out a swathe of patents, then set off for New York, where the DeLaval company accepted his idea with open arms. They have been quoted as saying that “What Norman
Daysh achieved remains the basis of our company today”, and worked with Daysh to release a revolution in farming in 1917. The farmer’s son from the back blocks beat Edison, who was thankful
for the advancement even if he didn’t win the race. In his later years, he swore by fresh milk as a health tonic, and Norman and DeLaval’s creation kept it in ready supply.
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BACK
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NECK PAIN?
Then try a Teeter WHY INVERSION?
Because in most cases it works! Inversion Therapy is the oldest recorded medical cure for back issues, first recorded by Hippocrates in 400 BC, otherwise known as spinal traction. Traction was used by modern hospitals for many years however because it is a slow process and ties up hospital beds for many weeks, they recently stopped using the treatment. Inversion Therapy is gentle and relaxing if done properly and has many other benefits apart from relieving back pain, it helps realign the spine and pelvic area, loosens up tight muscles, increases oxygen to the brain, stimulates circulation and the lymphatic system and has many other benefits.
Inversion helps to: • Relieve Back Pain • Relieve Neck Pain • Relieve Muscle Tension • Stimulate Blood And Lymph Flow • Improve Posture • Increase Flexability
Inversion NZ have been teaching people how to use this treatment for over twelve years, it is an amazing process with most people getting off the Teeter pain free for the first time in years or with their pain substantially reduced. The relief usually lasts around 30 minutes to three hours and as the pain returns you use the machine again, after using this method of treatment, in a few weeks the relief increases, which is the discs starting to retain more fluid, muscles starting to loosen up and the body coming back into alignment. In our experience most people are pain free in around three months, then the Teeter is used daily to maintain the health of the body.
WHY TEETER?
The biggest issue with inversion tables is there is no safety standards that need to be met. Because of this, other brands use mild steel for 100% of the metal involved. Mild steel is great for static loads, in other words things that don’t move such as chairs, tables etc, however with Inversion Therapy there is considerable movement and this movement causes mild steel to flex. Because it always flexes in the same place it eventually causes metal fatigue and can result in failure. 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
All Teeters are manufactured for extreme safety. Heat treated high tensile steel has been used in all areas subjected to stress. High tensile steel is far stronger and most importantly does not flex. This means Teeters are the strongest and safest tables on the market today.
IT IS PURE LOGIC AS TO HOW THE TEETER TABLE WORKS
Discs:
It uses gravity to apply traction, the traction gently opens the discs and as they open up they create a suction, this suction draws fluid from the surrounding tissue back into the discs, rehydrating 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 of 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.
If you are serious about investing in your health and really sorting your issues out, come see us at one of our local roadshows, you have nothing to lose and chances are, a lot to gain.
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Our Back Pain Expos We host a number of back pain expos throughout the country almost every weekend, these expos are a way for people to try out a Teeter Inversion Table and feel the benefits for themselves in a way that is instructive and informative. It is also a great way for people who already own a Teeter to come along and get a refreshment course on the use and operation of their Table and clear any questions they have about it. Sessions run continuously from 10am to 4pm and there are no bookings required, just come along at a time that suits you. There may be a wait during certain times and in these instances chairs are set out for anyone waiting for a turn, or anyone who just wants to ask us a few questions. We strive to cover the entire country and always try to book the most accessible venues we can. All our upcoming shows in the region are listed in the blue bar below, otherwise check out our website for more
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March 2020
WHEELS
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Twin-spin induction for Ranger by Andy Bryenton
Ford’s success with the Ranger ute is verging on the biblical, with variants of the popular light commercial popping up everywhere you turn. Stand on a busy street corner and count them going past, and you’ll see just how deep New Zealand’s love affair with the Ranger goes. Now there’s a new name in the line-up, and it’s not so much filling a gap as it is creating new demand, with the magic words ‘bi-turbo’. It’s not the first twin-forced-induction Ranger, but it is the return of the FX4 badge to the line-up, slotting in just between the XLT and the top-spec Wildtrak. It’s not just twin-spooling action under the hood which recommends this new machine. There’s a whopping 10 gears behind the bell housing as well, and some distinctive styling to make the new FX4 stand out from the pack. “We are excited to be able to offer our customers the new FX4 with the biturbo engine alongside the class-leading 10-speed automatic transmission. To have the addition of both a 4WD and 2WD Ranger FX4 really steps things up for them. “It is the first time we have offered the bi-turbo/10-speed combination in a 2WD Ranger,” said Simon Rutherford, managing director of Ford New Zealand. “It’s all wrapped in its very own design elements and features, to offer customers a Ranger with a genuine identity as a stand-alone model.” Ford’s bi-turbo powertrain was first introduced on the Ford Performance
Ford’s Ranger FX4 bi-turbo stands out from the rest with new styling and that signature double-forced-induction engine note
Ranger Raptor and produces a healthy 157kw of power and 500 newton-metres of torque. In this iteration, it’s mated with a specifically tuned, new generation 10-speed paddle-shift automatic, allowing the convenience of auto with the option to take command of downshifts for effortless passing manoeuvres. The
10-speed automatic includes a lockout feature to hold specific gears when towing, giving the Ranger FX4 bi-turbo a braked towing capacity of 3,500kg. It’s not all about sheer muscle, though; the
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