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“This partnership provides farmers with a more environmentally-friendly fencing option, made from the packaging of our farmers’ milk, which is pretty special,” says Fonterra Brands New Zealand’s Sustainability and Environment manager, Larisa Thathiah. “It is not enough to just recycle anymore: it is about creating less waste full stop, or at least turning it into something useful. That is why these fence posts are so exciting — they are made from 100 per cent recycled material, and have a life expectancy of more than 50 years.” The Future Post partnership is the latest waste reduction initiative from Fonterra. Managing director of Future Post, Jerome Wenzlick, says it is great to have support from Fonterra, and he is looking forward to developing other sustainable products for farmers. “What we are doing is repurposing waste that could have gone to landfill and turning it into a valuable product

for consumers. Our partnership with Fonterra gives us access to a steady supply of raw material from the co-op’s own recycling initiatives. It also gives us access to a network of nationwide Farm Source stores that can sell the fence posts, and access to 10,000 farmers who are actively engaged in environmental initiatives, like fencing to keep cows out of waterways and planting along river banks. “Future Post is a start-up, but we have plans for some new products in 2019, including those for non-farming sectors.” Anchor Light Proof milk bottles are collected from the Fonterra Takanini site and transported to the Future Post Waiuku plant, where they are mixed with soft plastics and turned into fence posts. The fence posts will be available in selected Fonterra Farm Source stores across the North Island in the New Year, with plans to launch in South Island stores mid-2019.

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The crop cup competition The Taranaki Federated Farmers’ Turnip and Fodder Beet Competition has returned after more than 70 years bringing trophies back to life in what was once classed as an important regional competition. The competition was re-established in 2017 after the trophies were found stored at the Federated Farmers office — some dating from the 1930s. “I came across the trophies and thought the competition would be great for farmers now,” said provincial office manager, Jessie Waite. “It is crazy to think they had been redundant for more than 70 years and last year we had some great entries including from a relative of one of the original winners.” The Turnip Cup was first awarded to J Phillips in 1933, and in 1935 L Bishop was the inaugural winner of the Mixed Crop trophy, which is now the Fodder Beet trophy. “I encourage people to enter as they are able to benchmark themselves on where other farmers crops are and what is best for their farm. “Winning one of the cups is about the nostalgia and getting your name alongside past winners — the history makes it a unique event as some trophies date back to 1929. Many were last awarded in the early 1930s, including the cup for best carrots in North Taranaki, which was won in 1934 by JH Paulger.” Eltham contract milker, Sam Ebbett has planted nine hectares of fodder

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Mustering sheep with her dogs, in the Taranaki hill country, is one of Anna Hardwick-Smith’s greatest passions. Adding sheepdog trials to the mix has helped build a deeper working connection with her team.

nna was born and raised on the family farm, Kohunui, at Mangamingi. Her grandfather bought the property in 1917 and then her father took it over in 1952, farming it for nearly 40 years. Anna was farming in Te Anau when her father needed to slow down a little, so her brother took on running the family farm. As a child and later a teenager, when Anna was home for holidays, she helped her father on the farm with mustering and other stock jobs. “I always loved the farm, and spent a lot of time with my father,” said Anna. It was during her teenage years that she first learned how to work sheepdogs,

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sheep and beef farm near Manapouri. While Brian started up a veterinary practice in Te Anau village, Anna farmed the property. She also got involved with the Mararoa Dog Trial Club, initially just helping out. “Eventually I got brave enough to have a go at trialling at those local trials. But I was too busy running my farm on my own to get too involved with travelling to other trials.” Anna ran that farm for close to 10 years. When her parents’ health began to fail, Brian and Anna returned to Mangamingi. Anna’s six dogs and her horses came too. The couple bought a 40-acre property near Anna’s home farm, and where her parents still lived. Anna took up mustering and stock work for several neighbours and was on hand to help her parents when necessary. She also began helping out with the Eltham-Takau Dog Trial Club, based in Mangamingi and ran her two heading bitches, Leaf and Jan. In 2006, Anna’s horse fell over on the side of a slippery hill, leaving Anna with a serious foot injury, which took almost a year to heal. During this time, Anna was persuaded to have a go at the yarding trials in Hamilton, followed by Piopio three months later. “In yarding trials, one doesn’t have to limp quite so far,” said Anna. “I ran my four-year-old Grip (who was a son of my Jan) and a son of Grip’s called Deal.” At the Piopio event, which was Anna’s second attempt at yarding trials, Grip

won the Open North Island section still as a maiden dog. Deal placed third in the maiden class. Anna was so inexperienced that initially, she didn’t realise what she had won. “Knowing I had won, purely because of a good dose of luck (getting good sheep), it rather put me off further trialling for a while. “I thought people were going to think I was good at it and would expect me to do well again. “I also didn’t realise that most people who do trialling know how easy it is to be on the top one day, then have a totally embarrassing run the next, so as a sport it is a great leveller.” Eventually, Anna began to compete in the hills trials in Taranaki with two younger heading dogs. Five years ago Anna acquired a heading dog she renamed Rip, from another farmer in the valley. “He was already a year old and quite a handful,” said Anna. “Rip was a very intense dog with terrific focus on the sheep and none on the human at that stage.” Anna took Rip to visit Whangamomona dog triallist and sheep farmer Dan Murphy. Dan encouraged Anna to persist with Rip and gave her some tips on how to cope with the dog’s intense attitude. “So Rip joined my mustering team, and soon became my main heading dog as he is a big, strong dog and always keen to go all day long.” With a tentative start, Anna began trialling Rip at hill trials.

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“I found he was not very good at settling flighty sheep. If the sheep were bold and argumentative, he did much better, because his power and presence persuaded them they had better behave.” As Anna always helped out behind the scenes at the Hawera Indoor Trials, she decided to enter two of her dogs, Tui and Spark, in 2015. The following year she ran Rip, placing third. In 2017, Anna and Rip won. “This year I ran Rip and another young bitch called Star.” Rip placed second. “He is getting calmer and smoother in

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A broken leg and a lifelong passion for tractors, machinery and technology saw Phillip Hopkins switch from dairy farming to a career as an agricultural contractor.

hillip grew up on a Taranaki dairy farm. After leaving Stratford High School, he spent six seasons working in the dairy sector. Tractor work has always been a big feature in Phillip’s life, and when he broke his leg, he decided to give agricultural contracting a go. During the four years working for a Stratford-based agricultural contractor, Phillip’s career enabled him to travel and work overseas, regularly leaving New Zealand’s winters to follow the sun, sowing crops on the arid plains of Western Australia and harvesting wheat in the United States. Between April and July last year, Phillip worked on a 5,500-hectare sheep and cropping farm near Esperance in Western Australia. He planted wheat and canola.

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THE INCREDIBLE ORCHID by Ann van Engelen

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flower industry in its infancy around the 1970s they needed stock, so we became a supplier. “In the beginning orchid exports were financially profitable, if not better than the New Zealand wine industry. Due to government restrictions over the past 30 years, it is now almost a non-existent export industry. We had approximately 300 growers exporting cymbidium cut flowers across the world, and we are now down to 30 because MPI put so many rules in place with no support and that businesses got sold up. “It was devastating for our growers, and the Taiwanese saw the opportunity and took our market and customers. They now earn around seven billion dollars a year. “I now produce pot plant orchids for the New Zealand market and some varieties most people have never seen. Some are so rare; they cannot be exported, including New Zealand natives. Many are threatened, and the national orchid body are trying to conserve them but keep running up against issues with MPI restrictions — because MPI don’t understand the plant biology and should consult with people that are experts not rely on their limited knowledge.” Ross sends plants offshore believing other countries will be the heroes and keep them in circulation. “I brought a shipment in from China, and MPI literally took plants that were 6,000 years old and destroyed them. They just killed them with no understanding of what it was they were

destroying — that is horrific,” says Ross. “I believe Chinese philosopher Confucius grew them thousands of years ago. The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taiwan has the rice drawings of orchids. Scientific research is phenomenal, and documentaries note that Darwin watched orchids and they really do seek a specific pollinator. “The subspecies of an insect is specific to each genera, and without that pollinator, you cannot keep the orchid alive in its natural environment. MPI refuse to understand; it is that simple and uncalled for restrictions mean plants die.” “Ross finds perfumed ones fascinating and hybridises colours, forms and scents. Orchids grow in every climate and continent except Antarctica that I know of. “Some grow under snow, die down and return in spring. It is the most evolved plant in the plant kingdom and its reproduction is often called ‘sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll’. “This is because some mimic the insect to attract it to procreate, some produce a drug, which gets their pollinator high and some offer pheromones.” Ross breeds plants unique to New Zealand and speaks at events around the world. “My line is highly scented and called Zygopetalum, which means tongue. We have developed scents and have thousands of varieties on-site, but there

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