Waikato Farming Lifestyles, June 2011

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Welcome to the first edition of Waikato Farming Lifestyles ‌

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Dogs, sheep and shearing are not things you typically associate with Japan — but Piopio old boy Ross MacDonald is changing that Ross has been home only a couple of weeks and we took the chance to talk to him about his adventures in The Land of the Rising Sun. Ross manages a farming show in the vein most Kiwis are familiar with, but he stages it in Japan.

“It’s a family entertainment-style show that gives Japanese people a taste of all the typical things you find on a New Zealand farm,” says Ross.

“Dogs come in and muster the sheep. There’s shearing and all the typical things you find on a farm.”

The show promotes the farming side of New Zealand and hopes to attract more visitors and tourists to our shores.

“We’ve taken a little slice of New Zealand to Japan, and hopefully it will encourage people to visit us here,” Ross says.

The scale is more than most Kiwis can imagine with an average of over 10,000 visitors at each performance.

“We have a team of Japanesespeaking staff who’ve shaped the show, which includes dogs jumping onto the backs of sheep, shearing demonstrations, cows, and even horses.

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stringent than ours. If that quake had hit here not a building would be left standing,” Ross says.

Ross is currently in NZ but still managing his Asian based team via remote.

The demand for entertainment has reduced since the disasters.

Ross flies to and from Japan at least five times a year. “The air-points are good, he says. Got to be some perks eh?”

Ross MacDonald takes a little slice of New Zealand to Japan

“We have been affected by the latest natural disasters, so we’re not functioning too well right now,” Ross says.

Although cosmetically damaged by the earth-quake and the tsunami, the buildings are still standing strong.

Ross says one of the towns where they put on the show had 120 people killed.

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An Organic Life

Getting up before the crack of dawn is all in a day’s work for farmers worldwide, but for farm unit manager John Leech, the early mornings now herald exciting new challenges. That’s because John works for Marphona Farms, the largest organic dairy farm in Australasia that holds AsureQuality full organic certification Raised on a conventional dairy farm in the Waikato and managing various dairy farms once he left home, organic farming was a completely new way of doing things for him.

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Each weed has to be grubbed out by hand and the land area farmed covers 1,400 hectares Homeopathic treatments also require a lot more care and attention to start with, because they are only effective if the correct remedy is used.

This sounds obvious, but with over twenty recommended remedies just for different types of mastitis, it requires a great deal of attention to detail. The farmers really have to pay attention to the cows and treat them individually depending on their unique symptoms.

John Leech and his family enjoying an organic life

Weed control requires a lot more backbreaking work, with staff not able to spray the weeds. Each weed has to be grubbed out by hand — quite an undertaking when the entire land area farmed by Marphona Farms covers 1,400 hectares. They raise all their own stock too, so the animals are organically raised from day one.

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For John, it has been quite a learning curve. “I’ve had to change my whole way of thinking about farming, but it’s really exciting. It’s a healthier lifestyle for me and my family.”

Waikato Farming Lifestyles June 2011 On-site on Marphona Farms is the Green Valley processing plant. Various products are on offer, including certified 100% organic milk and regular milk, cream and chocolate milk, produced for the most part with organic milk.

This is where John buys milk and cream for his family. It has the benefit of having been processed for safety, but is treated gently and carefully to maintain all the goodness of natural, pure milk. “It’s great. We drink pure, healthy milk and there are orchards on the farm.

In season, I take my wife and two little boys out to them and we pick bags of fruit. We’re also thinking of getting some chickens so we can collect free-range organic eggs.�

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Rita van Vught at Onewhero near Port Waikato is an animal nut who has put her love of animals into a business proposition called Close Encounters Farm Experience “David, my husband, has been on this farm milking 130 cows since 1991. The farm is 230 acres so he let me have a few little paddocks to offer the farm experience to school children. The general community knew I was a bit of a soft touch and they’ve been bringing me unwanted animals for years. “Some kids have never been on a tractor or played in hay bales. It’s so enjoyable to watch them experiencing with firsttime eyes, the things we take for granted. We give them each a Milky Bar so they can link the animals back to the food they eat. “On the last school visit the cows were calving and one gave birth while the kids were around. There was absolute silence as the calf entered the world, and then murmurs of yukk, and uugh, and what’s that Mummy? Then they saw the calf licked clean. “In the last few months we’ve received many tourists, mostly Asian. People from Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, take photos of things we don’t even notice — a hay bale, a feather on the ground, drains, pine trees. “We start them in the paddocks with the Scottish Highland cattle, the Chilean llama, donkeys, emus, and pigs. They can

Rita & David van Vught with Lolly the Lorikeet and their youngest daughter

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Hugo’s Place

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Hugo is a ten-year-old golden Labrador ex-guide dog. He’s the apple of Jude MacDonald’s eye and has lent his name to the dog homestay Jude runs at Makomako between Raglan and Kawhia Jude, a qualified vet nurse, was raised in Whangarei.

“I’ve been here for six years. In the beginning I commuted to Hamilton for work every day. The road was awful in winter and was often an hour and a half trip each way.

“Because we have 500 acres including several kilometres of Aotea Harbour shoreline, we often looked after other people’s pets. I decided to provide a service for people who wanted their animals to have a good time while they went on holiday. The result has been Hugo’s Place.

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“I only take two dogs at a time unless they come from the same home.

Our clients need to be honest in their assessment of their dog’s behaviour — for the dog’s safety. It’s a huge property with few fences, so we need to know if they don’t respond well to voice control. We wouldn’t put the dog in a situation where voice control is critical for its safety. They need to be well-socialised, non-aggressive animals because they live in the house with us, sleep inside, and have to be in Hugo’s company. They need to be stockfriendly too.

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National Fieldays Event Highlights AG Art: Passion and fashion collide at the Ag Art Wear shows, held between 10am and 1pm daily at the New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays in the Ag Art Wear pavilion.

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Competitors need endurance and fitness, as heats can take up to six hours, with contestants attempting to complete a 40-metre fence.

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A Temporary City Every year since 1968, about this time, a small city springs up south of Hamilton at the New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays.

The event is a showcase of everything agricultural or of interest to people of the land.

The National Fieldays is run by a notfor-profit society that relies heavily on volunteer input.

The Society was set up over 40 years ago to provide a conduit between urban and rural business.

Land at the Fieldays venue, Mystery Creek Events Centre, was purchased by the Society in 1971 and has been developed constantly since that time.

More land has been purchased and the society now owns 95 hectares.

The NZ National Agricultural Fieldays event remains the cornerstone of the Society, with more and more events now being hosted every year.

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The Society now owns and manages the Transport and Heavy Equipment Expo and jointly operates the Waikato Boat Fishing and Leisure Show.

The Society is run by dedicated volunteers and a professional event management team. Both of these groups report to the Board of Directors.

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• Fieldays was first held at Te Rapa Racecourse in 1969 with a budget of $10,500.

• The event was moved to the land known as Mystery Creek in 1971.

• The Mystery Creek Pavilion and Mystery Creek Events Centre were created in 1995.

• Today, Fieldays attracts visitors from an average of 38 countries.

• The first Fieldays event attracted an estimated 15,000 people.

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Best of the Best The bachelor boys are back. Eight former Fieldays Rural Bachelor of the Year winners are heading back to Mystery Creek to solve the mystery Who is the best of the best?

This year the men will be separated from the boys as they compete for the title of Fieldays Rural Bachelor Best of the Best.

The guys are coming back to compete in the special edition of the popular competition to determine who the supreme champion is.

Some of the men now have partners, wives and children but do they still have what it takes to be the best?

The competition will be fiercely fought as the boys battle against each other and prove to themselves that they can still contend with the best. The heats will have a strong rural focus reflecting the knowledge and skills required on the farm and in the agriculture industry.

The new challenges include; fencing, horse handling, general knowledge, dog handling and excavating.

The Rural Bachelor Best of the Best competition heats will take place during the four days of Fieldays.

The Best of the Best Golden Gumboot

will be awarded to the overall winner on Saturday, June 18 at 12 noon in the Ag Art Wear Pavilion.

The winner will also receive a huge prize package consisting of; a luxury trip for two to Rarotonga, a Suzuki Trojan motorbike, a Swanndri clothing package, a STIHL voucher and a Skellerup voucher.

The People’s Choice winner will receive a mountain bike from Cycle Time.

The Best of the Best competitors are:

Mat Sherriff — Farm owner/manager from Te Awamutu, 2003 People’s Choice Award winner

Tony Buckingham — Farmer from Wyndham, Southland, 2005 Golden Gumboot and People’s Choice Award winner

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Christen Diamond — Farm and bar owner from Waitomo, 2006 Golden Gumboot winner

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Mark Woodcock — Dairy farm manager/owner from Dargaville, 2008 Golden Gumboot winner

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Mike Short — Bull farm manager from Sanson/ Bulls in the Manawatu, 2009 Golden Gumboot winner

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National Fieldays Bike Torque Brian Sheat, Heartland Yamaha Director, is hoping the weather will be fine for this year’s Fieldays. “It’s what we do. We’re right in the heart of the farming sector, based in Morrinsville, and that’s what the Fieldays are all about, says Brian. “You don’t get 30 to 40,000 people through Morrinsville — which you do on the site,� he says.

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We’ll have some great specials posted on a board and Yamaha Finance is offering some good deals,� says Brian.

All the Yamaha products, including All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs), AG bikes, offroad, motorcross bikes and trail bikes will be on offer.

Yamaha NZ is sponsoring the stand and dealers from around the greater Waikato and further afield manage the exhibit.

Brian has clocked up nearly 25 years in the motor trade industry. After leaving school he worked in a parts department providing parts for cars, bikes and even tractors.

In 1995 he bought his own franchise and has tied his fortune to farming. “The pay-outs for the farmers haven’t been good. If there’s a drought we feel it as hard as the farmers. When farmers close their cheque books, so do we,� says Brian.

“We’re all hoping this year will be a good year due to the higher milk-fat pay-outs, and that the farmers will come to our shop and walk away happy with the friendly service. “Our AG 100 and AG 200 are probably the best farm bikes around. “But all the top bike brands will be on display and they each have different features. It’s a horse for course situation, but we feel we have the field covered with the range of Yamahas on offer,� Brian says.

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Event Highlights Standard Farming Tractors, right through to highly modified machines, with only a passing resemblance to their original form, are all present and horsepower is the only unit of measure that counts.

Tractor preparation and modification is taken seriously by the competitors and many months are often spent working on the machines. Friendly rivalry and fierce competition go hand-in-hand with drivers enjoying the camaraderie of tractor pulling.

Stihl Festival of Logging Skills: Can I borrow ya’ chainsaw?

Every man, and some select women, love anything motorised or destructive.

Watch these clever artisans carve out stellar creations using nothing more than a chainsaw and a vision.

Visit the STIHL events arena at sites J14-16 behind the STIHL marquee to watch the best chainsaw operators compete at this year’s Fieldays.

On Thursday and Friday, New Zealand’s best carvers compete for a share of the $3,000 prize pool in the Waikato Challenge Carving Event. The public then bids for their favourite piece of art in the auction

held on Friday at 3.30pm, with all proceeds going to St John.

On Saturday the Castrol Logging Skills Competition takes place, with teams from around New Zealand competing for $3,000 in prizes. The six-man teams will compete in a variety of chainsaw skill events to decide the winning team.

The Ladies Race will also be held on Saturday, as well as the impressive STIHL Hot Saw Race, where modified chainsaws send the wood chips flying. All in all the Stihl Festival of Logging Skills can be described as creative, fast and noisy fun!

Cutting Horse Demonstrations: Wander along to the Agrisea Stock Handling Area to watch one of the most exhilarating events at the NZ Agricultural Fieldays; the Cutting Horse Demonstrations.

The cutting horse originated from the Old West during cattle drives as a way to control the herd.

The same techniques have been turned into a sport, inspiring cowboys from all over the world.

The horse and rider must work together to carefully select a beast from the herd, then without disturbance, ‘cut it’ from the rest. It is then up to the horse to keep the beast from returning to the herd by matching the animal move for move, illustrating to the crowd the natural ‘cow instinct’ of the horse.

Catch the cowboys working with the horses in the Agrisea Stock Handling Area during Fieldays.

Innovation Centre The Fieldays Innovation Centre hosts finalist entrants from the Fieldays Innovation Centre Awards, vying for the prestigious Golden Standard Award. To qualify, the invention must not be advertised, marketed or sold to the public, either before or during Fieldays 2011.

Located right in the heart of Fieldays, this well regarded competition provides a great opportunity to win prizes and gain exposure at Fieldays.

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The collection starts from size four for kiddies and continues up the scale to adult unisex standard, and extreme overalls are available in sizes from XS to 2XL. Unisex overalls featuring zip out sleeves, a two way zip, fleecy lined bottom pockets and two zipped top pockets for notebooks, cell phones or snacks.

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“PWC believes we are witnessing the beginnings of a major renewal of this wonderful, sustainable fibre” “The entire value-chain for wool will be laid out in our exhibition, so that visitors will understand how the simple fibre we see ends up in some of the finest garments, textiles, homes and premises in the world.

“The theme of the sponsorship is ‘Breaking barriers to productivity’. This is particularly relevant at the moment to wool farming,” says Mr de Lautour.

“Over the past two years PWC has literally broken the barrier to productivity on the farm as far as strong wool goes.

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A passionate statement about wool as a supreme natural fibre is the centrepiece of Mystery Creek this year.

Primary Wool Co-operative, a farmer owned group which invests in adding value to wool, will create an exhibition in the Mystery Creek Pavilion showing how the best wool from New Zealand is farmed, right through to the way carpets made from wool are sold worldwide. The exhibition will also show other uses of wool.

“We will pay homage to wool as a nation-builder and show it as a focus for a huge future for the farming sector in export markets,” says Chairman of Primary Wool Co-operative, Bay de Lautour.

“PWC believes we are witnessing the beginnings of a major renewal of this wonderful, sustainable fibre. We want to salute that — for all New Zealanders who visit NZ National Agricultural Fieldays — and raise the awareness of wool for carpets and rugs. We also want to remind farmers that they have a high value product which they need to farm carefully, to conserve its supreme quality — in order to get top prices.

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“Just Shorn is also a major break away from the historic model of wool marketing.

It gives one retailer in the USA — the upmarket International Design Guild — exclusive use of its brand. Through Just Shorn, and its well-developed in-store and consumer marketing tools, Elders Primary Wool aims to sell more wool carpets at higher value, producing a better return to sheep farmers.”

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The Same Soup in a Different Bowl Despite promises to fix our economy and improve our struggling living standards the current National-led government is proving itself to be just another group of politicians micro managing themselves towards a second term in office Fifty years of poor political leadership has seen our country slip from the fourth wealthiest country in the world to borrowing $300 million per week.

Spending is now higher than it was under the last Labour government.

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It seems no one in government is prepared to make hard decisions and

lead. We have become a nation of planners and report writers rather than doers. Local government are required to prepare annual plans and go through a consultation process that is so resource hungry and time consuming that by the time it is completed itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to start the next one.

Then we have the Long Term Community Plans and district and regional plans on top of this. Hundreds of millions of dollars are invested in planning that delivers bugger all outcomes other than to fund the pet consultantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; next Mercedes.

We spend millions on plans that few read, or are even interested in, while we

struggle to fund essential infrastructure.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s madness!

The agricultural sector is just as bad.

How many sector strategies do we need to fund before we actually do something?

Spending $500,000 on a red meat sector strategy has been great for Deloitteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s profitability but it reported nothing new or breathtaking.

The message has been the same for decades and, if history tells us anything, now that we have a new strategy document, the industry will feel they have achieved something and all the players will go back to what they have always done, achieving what they have always achieved.

I look forward to being proven wrong!

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We have produced many of these over the years. Anything â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;strategicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is usually something that loses money, or needs more money to be thrown at it, with little likelihood of a decent return.

A real strategy is a detailed action plan for success. If the Red Meat Sector strategy is not, or cannot be, implemented then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not worth the paper itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s printed on and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a strategy. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a $500,000 doorstop.

The consultant will hide behind the sector participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; inability to work together, or something similar, and gleefully look forward to writing another doorstop in a few yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; time. Local government plans and most central governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategies are of similar ilk.

Behind the farm gate farmers are successful because they prepare business plans and budgets that have to work.

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The project is being undertaken by a registered charitable trust â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Ossie James DC3 Conservation Trust, which has Ossieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter Lynette as its chairperson.

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Former pilots, who flew the aircraft, registered ZK-AZL, were on hand to entertain the VIP audience with tall tales of aviation adventures.

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Ossie James DC3 Conservation Trust Chairperson Lynette James turns the first sod on the project to conserve the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Highland Dusterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; alongside Crater Lake Developments principal Brian Hermann

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vi s R En nes si As my old tutor used to ram into my head Bu “Plant predators and disease are symptom ms of a failing crop, not the cause”. It is natural to bbe healthy, not natural to be sick. We are brainwasheed into believing that headaches are a lack of aspirinn.

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The lynch pin in the whole process is the atom of manganese. This is the element that splits the water molecule and kick starts off the whole cycle. When manganese is in short supply the cycle slows down; when this occurs sugars accumulate and become an invitation for predation. In nature there is always a cause and effect, don’t fight the predator, take the stress out of the host.

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