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The 33 finalists in the 2019 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards didn’t have long to celebrate their respective regional wins, as they began to prepare for the final round of judging.

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General manager Chris Keeping says the finalists are the cream of the crop from all the entries received, and it was a hard-fought battle. “It was fantastic to attend all 11 regional finals and feel the excitement of the wins and see the journey each finalist has taken, both professionally and personally,” says Mrs Keeping. “There is a mix of gender, age, farming experience and career backgrounds amongst the finalists. It is very clear that the New Zealand dairy industry is in good health with passionate farmers, managers and trainees with positive attitudes leading the way. “Previous Dairy Industry Award winners continue to make an impact within the dairy industry, and many are clear leaders.” The New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards are supported by national sponsors DeLaval, Ecolab, Federated Farmers, Fonterra, Honda Motorcycles, LIC, Meridian Energy, Ravensdown and Westpac along with industry partners DairyNZ and Primary ITO. 2019 New Zealand Share Farmer of the Year finalists: Northland — Colin and Isabella Beazley, Wellsford Auckland/Hauraki — Ethan and Sarah Koch, Onewhero Waikato — Marc and Nia Jones, Tokoroa Bay of Plenty — Matt Barr and Genna Maxwell, Awakeri Central Plateau — Tom Bridgens, Tokoroa Taranaki — Leah and Jacob Prankerd, Stratford Manawatu — Jemima and Thomas Bebbington, Ohakune Hawke’s Bay/Wairarapa — Hamish Hammond and Rachel Gardner, Greytown West Coast/Top of the South — Thomas and Hannah Oats, Hokitika Canterbury/North Otago — Ruwan Wijayasena, Darfield Southland/Otago — Cameron and Nicola van Dorsten, Outram 2019 New Zealand Dairy Manager of the Year Finalists:

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A FUTURE WITH BEEF BY ANN VAN ENGELEN

JESSICA GUY GREW UP ON HER FAMILY SHEEP AND BEEF FARMS AND WORKING WITH CATTLE FROM A YOUNG AGE HAS LED HER TO AN INTEREST IN FUTURE BEEF NEW ZEALAND.

essica decided to push outside her comfort zone to extend her opportunities in the farming industry and won the 2018 Intermediate Ambassador award. “I had no idea what to expect when I first entered to become an ambassador but was excited to try something new. It is an honour to have won, and I am extremely excited to be part of an event that is significant to so many people. I learnt so much from the competition, and I have met many awesome people. The opportunities that come from the event are endless,” says Jessica. “My family had Friesian bulls, but we didn’t

have a stud animal or anything like that when I was young. Growing up I drenched the cattle, got them in and did the everyday farm chores. We are a tight-knit family, and we had around 1,400 acres — it was cool growing up like that. I went to boarding school at Waterford House because we were quite isolated and we decided to do something different. Boarding school was definitely challenging being away from the family, and I loved going home as often as possible. It made me realise how much I loved the farm.“ Jessica became strongly involved in the Teen Ag club while at school as a way

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to stay connected to farming. “I have also been involved in stock judging days at A&P shows, Teen Ag days and other minor events. Doing lots of different things has given me a broad spectrum for the future. “I was pretty nervous entering to be a Future Beef Ambassador. The weekend was full of learning, competing and looking after your animal. I had no idea you had to weigh, wash and groom our animal on a Friday. It was a shock as I had never actually lead cattle until the event. I did have an understanding of how to be around animals, which made it easier, but I was an absolute novice. Everyone helps you if you are inexperienced, which was encouraging. The doors opened at 6am the next day to rewash and groom the animals and clean their beds in time for showing. “You are judged on all of these things if you are going for ambassador. Being an ambassador is a way to extend yourself and learn new skills like writing essays, a CV and apply the knowledge you have gained based on your age and you become a leader to other youth. The judges watch how you interact, help others and present yourself in all ways including animal showing. “As Intermediate Ambassador I won a trip to develop my skills. At this stage, I am still discussing my options, but am looking at visiting different studs to gain a better understanding of how they work.” At present Jessica is studying agri commerce at Lincoln University. “I am studying a BCom Ag because it is a broad degree and will allow me to pursue many options. During the holidays I help run the home farm, and I assist my dad at his job with cows and beef. I also help my grandpa with his bulls and sheep. “I also hunt deer with my family. We do this to get meat for the freezer and

JESSICA IS INVOLVED IN CATTLE SHOWING AND JUDGING AND HELPS ON THE FAMILY FARM WHEN SHE IS NOT STUDYING AT LINCOLN UNIVERSITY relax with no phones or anything. I have my own gun and got my gun licence when I was 16 years old. I believe it is important to keep busy with the interests and am a strong believer that nothing gets handed to you. You need to put yourself out there to get to wherever you want to go. “Throwing myself into all these little competitions and shows has helped me to get established. My brother Ashton is also involved in stock shows and gives me a run for my money. “Ultimately I want other people to experience the opportunities available. You can come from not knowing anything to becoming a great shower and stock judge.

“I will always be working in the farming industry; it is so cool and more girls are getting involved now. At Lincoln, there is a lot of like-minded people

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Colin Tremain spent seven and a half years in the building industry before changing careers to farming.

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Colin grew up on a 150 cow dairy farm and now manages a property with nearly 3,000 animals

bail rotaries and two dairy units and a support unit. “We have a mixed herd and 500 R1s and 500 R2s. We make our own silage, which we feed autumn and winter and grow turnips for summer and swede for winter for the cows and kale for heifers. Kale is good because they are still teething and swede is too hard on their gums. We also use palm kernel strategically throughout the year. Colin does rotational grazing depending on the time of year. “We milk once a day and have cows going back and forwards moving between the two sheds. Mixed age cows go through one shed and heifers through the other and then they are swapped over when late calving with one herd milking 850 cows. We also have one

of the lowest producing herds because some of the land we are farming is extremely steep. I can’t ride a motorbike down it, let alone up it. We just let the cows do their thing and go there after milking, and they walk themselves off to the next paddock, and then we shut the gate after lunch.” Renee is an AI tech and at present is studying veterinary nursing. “I was active in Young Farmers for many years and have competed in four district contests and two regional finals. This year was my second and last competition in the regionals due to my age. I had nothing to lose and everything to gain as it is competing across the entire spectrum, from general skills to agricultural knowledge. I enjoyed the personal development aspect of

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How we staff farms and deal with the variable income and regulations we are faced with means we are still finding our way, but I think we will see positive results. “The opportunities that will be around in five years’ time will look nothing like what we have now. “We believe there will be new ways of building equity because older farmers who don’t have children coming through the ranks can’t do day to day forever. Cow value and return to asset and land values are changing, and we will see new ways of progressing. Renee and I are excited to be in the industry, and we intend to look forward to what comes our way.”

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“I competed at a major Charolais event and was scored the top international points, which was extremely exciting. We had to tackle a range of modules, including livestock judging and handling. “I was also invited to work at Steppler Farms in Miami, which is Canada’s second-largest Charolais breeder. I went back over after my exams in November — my job was to help prepare animals for the biggest cattle show in western Canada and the stud’s annual female sale.” The top animal, a two-year-old heifer, sold for NZ$23,000 at the sale. “Steppler Farms has more than 900 registered Charolais cattle. They are hardy animals that live outside year-round. They are fed a mix of hay, straw, grass silage, maize and barley. The grain is grown on a nearby family farm and stored in massive silos. I had never seen silos that big until going to Canada,” said Lucy. “One of my jobs was to take straw bales and spread them under the trees, so the animals had a warm place to sleep. During calving, cows have to be checked hourly, because the ears of calves born outside can freeze off if they are not brought inside.” “The Charolais industry is a lot bigger in Canada, and they are one of the most popular breeds of cattle there. They also have a Canadian Charolais Youth Association. “Its objective is to strengthen the involvement of youth in breeding and connect enthusiasts from across the country. Every province has its own

youth committee, and there are lots of young people interested in the breed. I made friends with heaps of CCYA members. A number of them want to visit New Zealand, which is awesome. “Being named the 2018 Allflex Senior Beef Ambassador has opened up so many doors for me, to be honest, I didn’t realise just how many it would open up.” Those international connections will prove to be very valuable for Lucy who is in her fourth year studying a bachelor of security studies majoring in biosecurity at Massey University in Palmerston North. “I am focussing on biosecurity because I recently bought my own Charolais cow for my 21st birthday. I want to breed my own stud cattle, and it is important to have good genetics. I want to use my biosecurity skills and qualifications to import and export semen,” she said. Lucy’s passion for the primary industries was sparked at a young age and as a weekday boarder at Iona College in Havelock North, along with fellow student Kate Ward, she helped establish the school’s first TeenAg club in 2013. “I chaired the club from years 11 to 13. “We went on a couple of farm tours and arranged to have interesting guest speakers come and talk to us. It was a great club,” she said. “Whilst at school my teammate Megan Hassle and I made it through to the TeenAg Grand Final. I encourage other students to get involved in TeenAg and the Future Beef event because

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osteoarthritis. It was painful and limited his mobility. His only medical options were strong pain relief and a future knee replacement. We made a number of enhancements to his diet. In most cases, this was more about substituting one food for another. I made changes to his supplement programme in particular targeting 1,600mg of high-grade chondroitin, the same amount of glucosamine and a number of anti-inflammatory antioxidants including curcumin from turmeric. The results after six months have surpassed what he expected. He has much less pain and in his own words just the odd twinge. He is now able to exercise; he has more energy and feels better. John Arts (B.Soc.Sci, Dip Tch, Adv. Dip.Nut.Med) is a nutritional medicine practitioner and founder of Abundant Health Ltd. For questions or advice contact John on 0800 423559 or email john@abundant.co.nz. Join his all new newsletter at abundant.co.nz.

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Following a meeting with the Minister for Agriculture on the commodity levy results recently Apiculture New Zealand is supporting the minister’s plea for greater unity to address existing challenges around bee welfare and biosecurity, food safety and export regulations. “We advised the minister a ‘no vote’ for the commodity levy means we do not have the investment fund needed, nor the collective focus that is characteristic of other primary industries in identifying, deciding and actioning priorities,” says chair of Apiculture New Zealand, Bruce Wills. “This lack of collective focus makes it particularly challenging to deal with the known issues that face the beekeeping industry, but also to promote the opportunities. “One of the opportunities we raised with the minister is how we grow the value of our key native and pastoral monofloral honey. It has become a priority for beekeepers given the erosion in prices for all honey types other than manuka. The minister was receptive to looking at how industry and government could work together on identifying the value of other native and pastoral monofloral honey particularly in relation to supporting regional and Maori economic development.” The critical building blocks for protecting the term manuka and potentially other native monofloral honey like rewarewa and kamahi through certification trademarks and geographic indicators were already underway and are supported by Apiculture New

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There’s an old saying that the good finish last and that it’s only an optimist who believes that ‘next year will be the year of the nice guy’. Well, when it comes to ecological credentials, it seems that year has finally dawned. A quick look at the Geneva Motor Show, the European Car of the Year, and our own local sales forecourts reveals that the electric revolution is gathering pace. Some grumblers will call it nothing but ‘virtue signalling’ that some of the top carmakers in the world are trading in horsepower for voltage. However, you have to admit, machines like the showstopping Pininfarina Battista are both jaw-droppingly pretty and insanely fast. Did it steal the thunder of Bugatti’s Voiture Noir and the new mid-engined Aston Martin Vanquish Vision? Perhaps. There’s no denying that Aston’s Lagonda SUV concept was 100 per cent electric as well. Jaguar has scooped its first-ever European Car of the Year award. The only one to go to the Brit automaker, despite the E Type being utterly deserving if a couple of years too early. They’ve done so with the I-Pace, a tidy, unfussy design, which is still clearly a Jag, while clearly encapsulating modern style. It’s also purely electric. The march of the crossover SUV continues across all marques, makes and brands in the auto world, but this one is something different, and it delivers one of the key factors, which

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The Ministry for the Environment’s Waste Minimisation Fund has allocated $381,000, to help farmers and growers more easily recycle or safely dispose of a wider range of on-farm waste such as agrichemicals, scrap metal, soft plastics and used oil. Rural recycling programme Agrecovery will manage the project by offering onestop-shop events where farmers and growers can drop off waste. The events will accept a wide variety of waste over and above what Agrecovery’s existing agrichemical scheme accepts. “This funding will enable the programme to offer a new one-stopshop approach to allow farmers to drop off agrichemicals and their containers as well as other farm waste, including bulk fertiliser bags, used oil, scrap metal, silage/baleage wrap and other soft plastics at the same time,” says associate environment minister, Eugenie Sage. “Waste on-farm has traditionally been burned, buried or stock-piled, which can have significant health risks and can cause air and water pollution. This project would see rural waste either recycled or disposed of, in an efficient, safe and managed way. This Agrecovery

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project will also help develop options for New Zealand’s first mandatory product stewardship for agrichemicals and their containers.” The one-stop-shop approach builds on an existing scheme. “Currently farmers are able to drop off agrichemical containers at close to 100 collection sites around the country under a voluntary product stewardship scheme run by Agrecovery.” Agrecovery also collects large quantities of containers and drums from farms and disposes of unwanted agrichemicals. The manufacturers who participate in the programme fund it by paying a levy on the products they sell into the marketplace. “We all need to take responsibility for reducing the impacts of the products we manufacture, sell and use on nature and the wider environment. Product stewardship helps us shift away from the ‘take, make and dispose’ economic model to a more efficient and

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After twelve years in New Zealand, Teeter Hang-Ups have now established a long term track record with thousands of people throughout New Zealand. Inversion New Zealand was started by Dave and Nancy Hare, Dave had suffered over twenty years of back pain from Degenerated Discs and had basically given up and decided to just live with it. To him surgery was never an option as long as he still could walk, there was hope. “While on an overseas trip I discovered the Teeter Hang-Ups for the first time, when I tried it, the pain completely disappeared and I was pain free for about 30 minutes. I never would have believed it would fix me completely as specialists had told me it was irreversible, but I now knew I had a place to go every time I wanted some welcome relief”. To my surprise the more I used the table the longer the pain stayed away, until after nearly three months the pain was completely gone, after spending large amounts of money on everything I could find I finally had found something that worked and it was something I had never heard of sorting it out for me in a very short period of time.

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Once I was sure it really worked I decided to introduce Teeter into New Zealand to help spread awareness of the one thing that truly helped me. Over the years I have helped tens of thousands of people in New Zealand get some serious relief and have seen results in not only backs, but necks, hips, knees, posture, circulation and lots more.

Inversion helps to: • Relieve Back Pain • Relieve Neck Pain • Relieve Muscle Tension • Stimulate Blood And Lymph Flow • Improve Posture • Increase Flexability

The results from what inversion does is nothing short of miraculous in areas we never thought possible, I believe there is a place for these in every single home regardless of if you have back issues or not. We have introduced them into a number of schools which are using them for their special needs children, the blood to the brain helps these kids and the results are excellent. What this means for the aging population is that it helps maintain the health of the brain as we all get older. I would not have believed the results had I not tried it for myself, and I would still be suffering to this day. This is why we travel the country showing people and letting them see for themselves how great it is and how life can be once your pain free again

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

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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 suction, this suction draws fluid from the surrounding tissue back into the discs, re-hydrating 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 f 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.

After twelve years there is a growing number of medical professionals in New Zealand endorsing the use of traction as one of the best methods of treating back pain Here in New Zealand, Dr Giresh Kanji, is one of the countries most respected Pain Specialists. Dr Kanji has been using Teeters in his clinics for the past 6 years and has discovered how effective traction is especially on disc issue. Dr Kanji is the author of "Fix Your Back" and "Fix Your Neck Pain, Headache & Migraine", both books are in most bookstores. Dr Kanji discovered in the research that the disc is the most likely source of low back pain and Inversion showed the best results of all the trials conducted. Three studies showed a 60% reduction in pain and one showed a 75% reduction in surgery for people with disc prolapse. Dr Kanji endorses Inversion as the best method to manage back pain, he has personally been using the Teeter Inversion tables for his own low back pain, has Teeter Inversion tables at both of his clinics in Wellington (The Sports and Pain Clinic) and has had such success that he is now conducting New Zealand’s largest study on Inversion Therapy. In his own words, "these things are gold and inversion should be a first line treatment for low back pain”. *Dr Kanji does not recieve royalties from the sale of Teeter Inversion Tables

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