Waikato Farming Lifestyles, July 2012 by Integrity Community Media

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Farming Lifestyles

July 2012 Edition

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Highland experience leads to farming in NZ

Breakthrough for quad safety

Home fare pays dividends in NZ

Animal Health Nutrition

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Tokoroa farmer prefers old-fashioned horsepower Page 4–5

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“Despite all of the positive environmental protection work being done within the farming industry, we are still finding dairy farms that simply do not place effluent management as a priority in their business, resulting in unacceptable discharges into the environment.” The Waikato Regional Council’s investigations and complaints manager, Patrick Lynch, had this comment after a Te Awamutu farming company was fined nearly $32,000 for illegally discharging dairy effluent. “Now that there is a code of practice and design standards for effluent systems, there is no excuse for not knowing how to manage effluent appropriately. Farmers need to ensure they have effluent systems designed by accredited designers so that they can comply at all times,” Mr Lynch said. Following helicopter monitoring by the council in August last year at a farm in Candy Rd owned by Wyebrook Farms Limited, a ground inspection was carried out at the Wyebrook property. This inspection showed that effluent from a holding pond was overflowing at five separate locations into a nearby stream, which was a tributary of the Waipa River. This stream flowed approximately 700 metres to the Waipa. A subsequent investigation found

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LTP cuts next year’s spending More than $770,000 has been trimmed from next year’s Waikato Regional Council Long Term Plan, adopted on June 28, and chair, Peter Buckley, says said the council has developed a sound plan to advance the region’s environmental and economic priorities

• Implementation of the council’s new policy for allocating water use rights in the region, which is likely to result in a big increase in consent applications for water takes and use and require an extra $580,000. A proportion of costs will be recovered by way of consent revenue.

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“We have done a good job of containing costs while improving services to our communities across a range of activities such as water management, pest management, coastal area planning, civil defence and river catchment and drainage work.”

The council decided to reduce the $825,000 requested by the AHB to $650,000 but to extend this assistance by a further year, continuing the collection in 2013/14 and giving the board more time to move to an alternative funding system.

The draft plan that went out for community consultation in March proposed an average 3.9 per cent rates increase to existing ratepayers for the financial year beginning July 1, but this was cut to 3.4 after three days of deliberations last month.

Other significant changes included:

Councillors reduced the second and third year budgets by $1.14 million, arriving at forecast rates increases of 3.9 per cent and 3.8 per cent respectively to existing ratepayers, after considering nearly 560 written submissions and hearing 120 people who spoke to theirs in hearings in Hamilton and Thames.. The council also decided to reduce the amount of money it collects from rural ratepayers for the Animal Health Board, but to extend the collection period from one to two years.

• A significant boost to the region’s disaster response capabilities with an extra $515,000 for civil defence, including the appointment of four additional staff • Significant increases in service across several land drainage and flood protection areas amounting to approximately $2.4 million in 2012/13. These were in response to catchment liaison committee requests. Services are on average 85 per cent funded on a user pays basis, with 15 per cent of the costs being met by all ratepayers to recognise the wider public good of protecting people, property and the environment from flood risk. • The need for the council to accelerate and increase work on improving the region’s water quality. The current $2.66 million budget will increase to $3.545.

• An extra $819,000 over three years for work focussed on marine planning and environmental improvement programmes in the Hauraki Gulf. • increased annual spend on priority possum control work in year two of $982,000 and a further $651,000 in year three.

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Tokoroa farmer prefers old-fashioned horsepower

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Tim and Gayle Sneddon have been dairy farming on their small 50 ha property at Tokoroa since 1976 and laughingly describe themselves as ‘hobby farmers’

hile their farm may be small they certainly are running a successful dairy farm that has supported them and their family of seven children throughout their married life. Today they milk 130 cows through a ten-aside herringbone milk shed and also have a higher order share milking job on another nearby farm were they milk a further 140 cows.

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horse that Tim admits he has a great love for. “I can remember as a little kid my father loading his Clydesdales onto a truck and sending them off when he got his first Fergusson 35 tractor and I’ve always thought I would like to have some and do what he used to do with them, so when I could, I did.” As well as using the Clydesdales on the farm for harrowing and feeding out straw and hay Tim also enters them in the working horse classes of competitions, and breeds them. They are currently looking forward to the arrival of another foal in August. Over the years the horses have played an important role on the farm and also provided a number of amusing

“Friends of ours moved and gave us a chook house. Now he was one of those very creative gentlemen and he had put wheels on it. Well in the middle of the night Gayle said “what’s that noise?” I could hear all this banging and crashing going on. Well one of the Clydesdales had got his head stuck in the doorway and he was walking around with the chook house coming with him I had a hard job getting his head out. “I’ve also had some lucky escapes. A couple of years ago I was harrowing and usually you drop the reins and tell them to stand while you go and shut the gate. A lot of female horses can be annoying and it was that time of the month, and the mare reached over and bit the gelding on the side. Well he was out of there — they took off down the middle of the road at a gallop with the harrows behind them and then turned and went down the main thoroughfare. I rang Gayle and said you should have two horses and a set of harrows come over in a minute, shut the gate.”

Clydesdales are very easy to handle and good natured.

horse would have planted them — they are good natured.” Does Tim prefer horses to tractors? “You’ve got to make farming fun, and the horses are fun but for some things I do prefer tractors. I’m not silly — hay and straw is fine but I don’t want to use them to fork my silage out.”

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Highland experience leads to farming in New Zealand Couple believe in the taste and quality of rare breed pigs

uying a couple of pigs to clean up some rough ground in the remote highlands of Scotland was the catalyst to English couple Jonathan and Sarah Walker rearing rare breed pigs in New Zealand.

The Walkers, who name their 25 hectare farm Soggy Bottom Holdings, came to New Zealand in 2003 and settled in the Waikato, near Ngaruawahia where they began breeding the pigs for meat.

"It wasn't until we had them killed and saw how good the bacon was that we decided we should do it more," says Jonathan.

"We got in touch with the Rare Breed Society and found where we could get a pig for 40th birthday celebration and it really all started from there.” Piglets lining up at the milk-bar

"We found we preferred the quality of the meat.” The couple bought a few more Tamworth (thought of as rare in New Zealand) and soon they had bred about 20. The Walkers now farm three main pig varieties; Tamworth, Wessex Saddleback as well as European Wild Boar (this name covers both male and female), rearing up to 70 pigs for meat. They keep around 11 breeding sows and 3 boars. Jonathan says the European Wild Boar is classed as the original pig all domestic breeds hail from and the meat is a darker red, stronger flavour to the others.

This breed still runs wild in France and Spain and pig hunting is a big sport in both countries. "New Zealand feral pigs seem to be reverting to being more like the original Euro-type because the environment here suits them." The Walkers have the pigs killed at a registered abattoir and then the carcasses are returned to them. Nothing is wasted — the meat is turned into 15 sausage varieties; bacon, ham and the offal is made into pate and traditional English black pudding, pork pies and the Scottish delicacy, haggis.

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Jonathan says he likes pigs because they are "really intelligent, fun, friendly and interesting".

Although the farm is not technically organic, Jonathan keeps to similar principles — no drenching, or chemicals like antibiotics or growth hormones are used.

He admits to getting attached to pigs, but because he doesn't have anything to do with the killing process, he can also enjoy farming them.

The pigs are free ranged in all weathers, all year round.

"I believe I'm making a living from free range pigs by adding value rather than farming by numbers. I might have a small number but I try to go for quality with the old heritage breeds and I believe they taste better than factory reared," Jonathan says.

As a forester in the UK, Jonathan saw far more free range pig farming there than there is here in New Zealand.

He sells the pork meat at the farmers markets — Cambridge on Saturdays and Grey Lynn, Auckland and Hamilton on Sundays. The farm has one full-time staff member to help out as Sarah works full-time as a nurse. For the past five years Jonathan has had passing through young international travellers doing work on the farm.

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"It's got to be better for the animals than barn farming, because they've got space to move, they can litter naturally, they are in the sunshine rather than on a slattered floor and concrete sty environment," he says. While some free range sows having a tendency to smother their young by lying on them, Jonathan says it's not a great number and he is willing to accept some losses for the general good of the animals. Because they forage, free range pigs get a certain amount of sustenance out of the ground. Pigs do this to survive in the wild, but if fed good quality food, and rotation grazed domestically, they don't tend to forage as much, Jonathan says. He doesn't know how many rare pig farmers there are nationally, but he believes not many farm commercially as he does.

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The quad will also stop rolling a lot quicker with the device acting as a shock absorber, reducing bounce and movement — in short preventing more rolls of an upturned quad. Production of the device is expected to get underway before the end of the year and it has already won approval from New Zealand’s Industrial Research Ltd., the Department of Labour, Australian Health and Safety, Land Corp NZ and the ACC.

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Farmers of New Zealand operations director, Bill Guest, says the ATV Lifeguard will be “invaluable for farm and recreational safety.” He said that sheer numbers of quads around the world will ensure a market. “There are 60 million quad bikes across the United States alone.” Statistics on quad bike accidents tell their own story. In 2011, 41 kiwi workers died and, of the deaths last year, 15 were in the agriculture A flexible roll-bar mounted behind the bike seat can industry — more than a third of support tonnes of weight all deaths. The majority of these deaths involved vehicles or machinery The statistics reinforce the need for quad bike — four were quad bike accidents. safety and the work being done to improve this. At the beginning of this year there was a flurry of media reports about quad bike accidents across the country — in that time there were at least 11 separate incidents involving 13 people — with an even split between those that were work-related on the farm and recreational accidents. The high number of people being injured on quad bikes prompted the Department and ACC to release a statement in January reminding riders of the dangers of not adhering to safety rules. Quad bike-related claims cost ACC approximately $8.6 million last year — with the emotional costs even higher.

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Motorbike hobby leads to adventure ride business by Denise Gunn What began as a hobby for motorbike enthusiasts Mike Britton and Angela Bruce has led to the couple building an adventure ride business. Mike grew up in Auckland and bought his first bike, a Yamaha YZ125E, when he was about 17 and started riding, mainly off-road.

For Angela, motorbike riding was a natural progression when her father was one of the earlier farmers to get a farm bike, followed later by her younger brother buying a bike with his first pay cheque. When the couple moved to the far north in the late 1990s Mike bought a Yamaha TT600 and went to an adventure

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ride in 1991. The event was so enjoyable he decided to run a similar type of ride in the far north.

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After their inaugural Far North Adventure Ride in 1992, the couple held the ride annually and began to add further rides in different regions of New Zealand.

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They decided to go a step following a trip with friends to Bali in 1998. “At our suggestion we toured the island by bike and had a ball,” said Angela. “They suggested we start doing commercial motorbike tours to Bali because they had such a fantastically different holiday.” In 1999 Mike and Angela ran their first ‘Bali by the Backroads Tour’ with 14 clients. *All prices are excluding GST. Select monthly, quarterly or yearly repayments, no financials, just rates notice required for asset backed loans. Low documentation primary producer loans to approved purchasers only. Fees and charges apply. Offers at participating dealers, while stocks last, conditions apply. Prices and specifications are subject to changes. **YFM450FAP with Electronic Power Streering available at the price of YFM450FA without EPS.

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This proved so popular that clients were asking for more so the couple organised similar trips to Vietnam, Outer Mongolia, Laos, Angkor Wat, and High Andes Bolivia.

“We learnt that attention to detail and good people are what makes a good tour.” The couple have established good connections in all the other countries they take tours to and still use their original contacts and crew in all their overseas destinations. Angela said finding the right people to work with and having some other inside connections make a huge difference to organising adventure rides overseas. The couple now organise between six — eight rides through New Zealand and up to four overseas rides each year with their business Britton Adventures. “Motorcycle travel really does allow you better interaction with the locals,” she said.

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Winter in the wild is a tough time for animals, but with the care and attention of responsible caretakers animals on the farm can survive and thrive in the cold weather. As with any time of the year, good health begins with good nutrition, but it doesn’t end there — and to help you maximise returns from your livestock it’s good to know that there are a host of local companies ready to lend a hand Miro Feeds supply a wide range of feed solutions to Waikato farmers, bringing local knowledge and top quality advice together with very competitive prices. This time of year one of their top selling lines is Miro Mix calf feed powder — fuel for growing calves that gets them off to a great start in life. Miro Mix is manufactured right here in NZ by Miro themselves, and they also carry the perfect followup in the form of meals and pellets. Of course that’s not all Miro are famous for — they cover a huge range of animal feeds, from poultry to horses, and even alpacas! Pasture and forage are usually the main ‘fuel’ for New Zealand cattle, but sometimes the vital minerals and nutrients livestock need aren’t readily available from the available food source. To keep your cattle healthy, happy and productive Seales Winslow have developed a range

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When former royal navy engineer Neil Macarthur, his wife Melanie and their four children emigrated from Cornwall seven years ago they never dreamed they would be making and selling their homeland’s famous baked fare — Cornish pasties. Four years ago finding the cost of living in New Zealand expensive the couple were keen to earn some extra money and like all good ideas the concept was born over a few drinks with a group of friends. “We liked the thought of incorporating our own heritage origins and culture into what was then a fledgling business,” said Melanie. After trialling and perfecting the pastry and two flavours — a traditional steak and vegetarian cheese and onion — they set up a small commercial kitchen in a purposebuilt garage in their back yard. “We took 77 pasties to our first market in Cambridge and within 45 minutes had sold out,” laughs Melanie. “The following week we increased the number and once again sold out — from there things just snowballed.

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Phone: (07) 883 8272 Fax: (07) 883 8165 Email: putarurutowing@xtra.co.nz Manager Peter Cranch: 027 442 0219

Australian-made Hydraulic Woodsplitters

Creative Architecture

Setting new standards in Safety, Design and Performance

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Taupo Plan Service 2001 Ltd Ph: 07 378 4847 Mob: 021 402 005 Fax: 07 378 4868 Email: rich@taupoplanservice.net.nz 107 Tamamutu Street PO Box 678 Taupo 3351

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Tank Teller out deco

Quirky Metal Garden Art and Wall Hangings. View more designs or buy online at www.outdeco.co.nz or phone 0800 55 88 89

To purchase Tank Teller either: Phone 09 537 4148 /027 471 7198 or Email: info@tankteller.co.nz For more details visit: www.tankteller.co.nz

Water Tank Level Indicator

• Tank Teller enables you to manage your valuable water supply. • Can be installed on plastic or concrete tanks. • Tank Teller measures only the usable water. • All parts are UV protected non-toxic, insuring a long lasting maintenance free life. • $170.00 including P&P.

July 2012

Waikato Farming Lifestyles

RBL250/RBLV250

EG242A

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242 Peachgrove Rd Hamilton 07 855 7100