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Council’s Long Term Plan open for consultation
Eggcellent eggs at Ngaruawahia
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Council’s Long Term Plan open for consultation
By Denise Gunn
The Waikato District Council’s 2012-2022 Long Term Plan opened for consultation on April 5 giving residents an opportunity to provide feedback A summary of the plan, containing submission forms, will be posted to all ratepayers and will also be available along with the full document at the council’s offices, libraries and service centres. Submission forms are also available online at www.waikatodistrict.govt.nz In a press release from the Waikato District Council, chief executive Gavin Ion said many people rely on the summary for all the information.
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“We have included the main consultation issues in the summary.” The plan, which contains the council’s strategic direction and proposed budgets for the next ten years, also includes details about proposed rates levels and projects. Some of the major issues put forward for consultation include financial strategy, rates, waste management and minimisation plan, the discontinuation of road seal extensions, dog registration fees, water quality, wastewater quality, council borrowing through the Local Government Funding Agency, council review on Hamilton Airport and the Strada corporation board, and the feasibility of a train service between Auckland and Tuakau. Several open days will be held throughout the district, providing the public with an opportunity to ask questions before making submissions. “While this is a council plan, it’s really about the community and what they want for their district,” said Mr Ion. “The council relies on public feedback through the submission process, to help give a picture of what the community thinks of what’s proposed as the decisions are made for the final plan.”
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Enjoying the lifestyle and
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Growing demand for
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Twenty years ago, Bill Hensley an experienced deer and pig hunter, possum trapper, and eel fisherman began manufacturing venison salami
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COLOUR AND PERFORMANCE
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Waikato Farming Lifestyles April 2012 property unless it is safe and ready for a new home.” says Martin. Some foals are sold as weanlings, particularly geldings. At this stage no new colts are being retained for future breeding. Once broken and competed fillies are assessed for temperament, ability, confirmation, quality and colour to determine whether they will be retained as future brood mares or sold on for competition. The next few months will be busy at O.L Pintos as the next crop of youngsters will be `brought on’ for the new show season later in the year. “We are happy to say we are proving the dream we started with,” says Martin.
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Many spring calving herds generally produce only 30-35% of their milk after December, often due to low milk yields in the latter part of lactation and/or short lactations. This indicates there may be an opportunity to increase farm income through a combination of higher daily yields later on, and extending days in milk for another 20-40 days. The extra milk produced will increase farm profitability, as its value exceeds the marginal cost of producing it, as overheads have already been covered. There would also be a carry over benefit to the next lactation if feeding supplements also increase condition scores at drying off. There are an increasing range of supplements being offered to dairy farmers, of widely varying nutritional value and handling characteristics. These can be used effectively to reduce feed costs whether purchased on their own, in blends or meals, according to feed storage, handling and feeding facilities and equipment on individual farms. There are a number of potential pitfalls when purchasing and using unfamiliar feeds that need to be considered. High moisture feed prices should be converted to a dry matter and energy basis, and allowances made for losses in handling and storage, to gain a better understanding of their costs. Care needs to be exercised with many of the energy density predictions based on laboratory analyses, as these may be incorrect if based on inappropriate calibrations or calculations. Many of the supplements available are not complete feeds, being by-products of some food or other manufacturing process. Therefore, it is important to understand their nutritional
composition, to identify how best they can be included in a balanced ration. This will also help minimise any risks associated with feeding some high risk feeds, such as those containing high levels of rapidly degradable starch or sugar, which could lead to acidosis. Supplementary feeds can comprise a significant part of the daily ration, often exceeding 15% on a dry matter basis. The higher the proportion of supplements, which includes maize or whole crop silages, and the lower the proportion of pasture, then the more imbalanced rations can become. It is common to balance for protein, but less so for the major trace minerals and vitamins, which can significantly compromise production, health and fertility. Therefore, it is important to seek sound advice on the best products to avoid or correct any imbalances, which can easily be determined using a reliable feed rationing programme. If supplementary feeds are fed in troughs in paddocks, on feed pads or in barns, then appropriate mineral and if necessary vitamin balancers can be added to or mixed in with these. It is slightly more difficult to include minerals if feeding supplements in milking sheds, unless these have been blended and pelleted, as there may be risks of blockages or separation if inappropriate grades, ie too fine, of minerals have been used. This may be the case with mixes made on farm, added to which is the risk of inaccurate weighing and mixing. Therefore, it will generally be safer to use products specially formulated for this purpose.
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Be my Guest Farming facing a lost generation by Bill Guest, Operations Director, Farmers of New Zealand
In a press release last week, the banks have now decided they believe farming is under threat of a lost generation, because young people are not turning to farming as a career. Banks are now planning to make available special financial loans to encourage emerging future farmers. No doubt this will include future sharemilkers In our agricultural history over the last hundred years, thousands of young men and women began their farming careers starting on wages. Those who chose the dairy industry worked on wages followed later on by 29%, 39% and 50/50 sharemilking agreements with dairy farm owners. It is generally accepted that sharemilking originated from the Scottish concept of share farming and was melded with the American sharecropping arrangement in the 1880s to produce an agreement which has led to the development and institutionalisation of sharemilking in the New Zealand dairy industry. In 1937, the Sharemilking Agreements Act was introduced by statute of Parliament. This lower order sharemilking Act allowed young men and women to be independent contractors, without having to own dairy cows to enter into the New Zealand dairy industry. Many over the years have purchased their own farms.
The Sharemilking Agreements Order 2011 has been ratified by Parliament and while there have been some changes to dividend related payments, it is still, we believe, the best performance related employment agreement available for dairy farm owners today, when employing an employee in a farming management position. As the farm manager, the sharemilker is responsible for the employment of staff and the farm owner is not subject to concerns about staff employment, the involvement of statutory and annual holidays, sick leave and ACC payments. All this is the responsibility of the sharemilker. The farm owner still controls the farming business under a sharemilking agreement and he is comforted by the knowledge that if he has a good sharemilker and production increases, the remuneration for the farm owner and sharemilker reflects the benefit. Some dairy farmers pay their employee
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Waikato Farming Lifestyles April 2012
A passion for dogs
Modern Environmental Erosion Control Gary Bjerring is a director of Wild Exposure; a landscaping company with its roots going back some 22 years, and creator of some of the Waikato’s most iconic and recognizably original designer gardens.
Training working dogs takes years of experience and a real passion for the craft Traditionally it’s been the realm of hardy farmers. But for former city girl, Anna Holland, that’s a mould that just had to be broken and she’s sharing her knowledge in a successful North Island tour.
Garry’s unique environmental control system, TerraLock, is used to solve a variety of erosion and stability problems around the region. The system is created using bags made from a modern technology Geotextile fabric designed to be water permeable whilst retaining the fill material inside. Being felted rather than woven the fabic is rip-resistant and has a designed lifespan of 20 plus years. A clever spiked locking plate placed between layers of bags forms the basic engineering of the system. The bags are root permeable and are therefore
School holidays on her uncle’s farm ignited a passion for working on the land that, much to her parents’ consternation, led to her becoming one of the few women shepherds in New Zealand. Twenty-five years on, and with an abiding passion for breeding and training top-quality working dogs, Anna now lives on a remote Wairarapa coastal sheep station. She quickly realised that training dogs for other people was a lot of hard work for very little return and hit on the idea of training people to train their own dogs. A couple of early courses run in the Wairarapa for women were well attended and very well received. Encouraged by the positive feedback Anna ran her first North Island tour with a couple of dogs and a handful of quiet Romneys. Again the feedback and participation were both great which brings us to the current tour starting in Taupo on April 22nd.
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Course participants are taken through the steps that Anna uses to train her own prize-winning dogs. For authenticity she uses untrained or partially trained dogs; proof positive that her methods work. As if that wasn’t enough, the mornings are free. Students only pay if they want to finish the course by attending the afternoon.
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