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GRAHAM AND GLENDA PAGE MANAGE KAWAKAWA STATION, ONE OF WAIRARAPA’S OLDEST SHEEP STATIONS, AND THE NORTH ISLAND’S SOUTHERNMOST FARM. BY ANN MORGAN

he station itself is rich in history and was first leased by the Russell family in 1847, and included an estate of approximately 4,000 hectares. “With his Crown grants and leasehold land, John Russell began farming with three men, three horses and 1,000 sheep, for the rental sum of 24 pounds,” said Graham. Graham and Glenda relocated from Cheviot, in Canterbury, to manage the station 18 months ago.

“I was born and raised on a small farm in Cheviot and worked my way up from stockman to managing and then we were asked to come here,” said Graham. “There are 200 Angus cattle and 2,500 Romney sheep, plus replacements. We do the usual stock work and are also involved in tourism to boost the farm income. We have a three-day walk, farm stay and glamping available. “We have Angus bulls which have come from Dandaloo stud in Masterton.

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We have Angus because it is what has always been here. We do have Hereford rising three-year-olds and we are going to try and move toward rearing a white face black.” Graham will do this by putting a black bull over the Herefords and a Hereford bull over the black. “It is store stock here and white face black will grow and sell better because of the hybrid vigour. “The farm has spectacular scenery, we go from sea level up to 616 metres and I believe the coastal environment is good for the stock. It is better than being further inland because it is milder and they have the fresh sea air.” Graham says this is particularly so for the sheep. “Our wool is brighter and whiter than a lot of others we see. There is a lot more wind and it opens the wool up and they get less discolouration. “We try to keep our costs down as low as possible and do everything ourselves. We get help in for docking and weaning of the lambs. It is self running and quite extensive rather than intensive. “There are challenges with the weather and the amount of bush we have got. More than half the property is native bush, which makes it quite hard for mustering and that sort of thing. It also becomes challenging when it is dry as we are on native grass. “It is a harsh environment and can dry out quite quickly because the winds are high, and it is prone to high rainfall in short periods of time so we can get flash floods.” The property has 30 hectares of rough flat. The flats have been covered by streams coming down the hill and washing debris onto them. As part of the tourism venture, visitors can participate in a three-day self-guided coastal farm walk. “We provide the food and transport the bags. On the first day you walk along the beach looking out to the Cook Strait and Kaikoura Ranges. You go up the hill with views looking over the Haurangi ranges and Palliser Bay to Lake Onoke and up to Lake Wairarapa. You go over the 616 metres and stay in the cabins there. “The second day is through various stages of regenerating bush where you can admire the enormity of the landscape and the Mangatoetoe

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Valley below winding its way out to the Pacific Ocean. “On the third day you walk down the river following the farm track and into the manuka trees to the Black Hut — this hut is an old logging hut that is still on skids. You go across Flood Gate Gully, this is where 40 men once camped in the early days, clearing scrub and bush to make way for pasture.” From here you drop down to the river bed and take in the landscapes of Kawakawa Station and Palliser Bay Station. “We have had a fit 80-year-old do the walk and thoroughly enjoy it. The glamping is in an isolated spot with a kitchen and ablution block with views looking up the gully. It is landscaped and people enjoy the privacy. “There are still historic aspects visible from the early settlers including old gardens with the stone hedging, the old stone chimney from the original homestead. We enjoy the lifestyle and there is fishing and hunting on the doorstep. It is fantastic and a great community to be involved in. Everybody knows everybody.”

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Pongaroa sheep and beef farmers Shaun and Tracie Baxter progressed, in 14 years, from weekend farming on a small lease block in Hawke’s Bay, to running their own 1,740ha breeding and finishing business south-east of Dannevirke.

he Baxters purchased their home farm, Wairakau, in 2002 and recently won the Horizons Ballance Farm Environment Awards. The judges praised their ability to capitalise on expansion opportunities and noted how ‘all facets of sustainability’ could be seen on their property. “We believe you are always learning, and the feedback

was really good and has given us things to improve on,” said 50-year-old Shaun. “We all like to think we are doing well and get a bit of recognition for our hard work, and we like to think we are sustainable and looking after the environment and heading in the right direction.” During Shaun’s high school years he grew up in Hawke’s Bay where

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“Our eldest son Mark oversees this property and we also employ another shepherd. Our second son Andrew is a shepherd on Patitapu Station nearby and our daughter Nicole is in Year 13 at high school.” Each block has its own capital stock but dry autumns see the shift of some home ewes to Range for the tupping period. “The country tends to dry in summer so the Range block, higher back towards the Puketoi Range, and summer safe, has rounded out our operation. “Leasing Lakeview has allowed us to begin breeding our own replacements. The progeny is from Highlander rams over Romney ewes. All our other ewes go to terminal sires. “The judges said our stock were in excellent condition and there had been

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a significant production lift in the past five years with weaning weights and live weight gains increasing despite more lambs and calves being on the ground.” Shaun attributes much of this to their sustained use of the Stockcare farm productivity monitoring programme, and their switch to the Abron approach to fertiliser with humates, trace elements and lime added to phosphate in reactive phosphate rock (RPR) form. “We joined the ‘stockcare’ programme in 2007 and it has allowed us make good decisions and make great gains in our business. It was started by a couple of vets in Te Kuiti and records and monitors a lot of detail on the farm system as a whole in the first year. “The results help identify areas to improve and we switched to Abron

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because we wanted to look at what was going on under the ground, not just what was growing on top.” The couple now do thorough quarterly soil assessments and say they know their soil is healthier and what they are growing is better quality feed. Tracie helps on the farm and works seasonally as a wool handler for a local shearing contractor as well as running the farm books. “We enjoy the challenge of improving what we are doing, especially now that we have farm ownership. For us, succession planning is not necessary, we don’t want our property to be classed as a family farm, it is our retirement fund, but we would like to have the ability to help our children in the future to achieve what they want to do.

“I think sometimes people that take over family farms don’t necessarily want to and the pressure is too much. We don’t want that stigma for our children. “We were both overwhelmed winning the competition, especially entering for the first time. Some competitors are doing very well in their businesses. “The whole family has helped get us to where we are. “The children have been with us all the way through from when they were small and we did the hard yards together to get to where we are.”

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Correction of awards photo The Wairarapa Farming Lifestyles apologises for printing the incorrect photo in last month’s issue of the 2017 Hawke’s Bay/Wairarapa Dairy Industry Awards Share Farmer of the Year winners Rob and Shiralee Seerden.

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CELEBRATING NZ FIRE SERVICE 150 years since the act of parliament which established the first fire service constitution

In 1867, parliament convened to set up a firefighting plan for all of New Zealand. When the Municipal Corporation Act was signed it contained a chapter which took fire safety from the stop-gap necessity of colonial bucket brigades and privately sponsored volunteer forces and into the modern age. As it was reported at the time: ‘The act empowers the council to deal with fires, to lay on any works necessary for this purpose, to appoint fire inspectors and to remunerate any association for the extinguishment of fires. A fire inspector may take command of any fire brigade and enter on any

premises, or order any building pulled down with a view to extinguish a fire’. It was a turning point for firefighting. Local councils could at last appoint an empowered representative to combat fire hazards. The core principles of this act formed what became the Fire Service constitution right through until 1900, the founding document of many fire brigades. Even when that constitution was updated, the key ideas it contained remained all the way through until the mid-1970s when the many district and regional brigades were merged into a single cohesive force. With every

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Waterways journey improving Protecting New Zealand’s waterways are a priority and the Ministry for the Environment’s Our fresh water 2017 report released recently identified that more needs to be done to reduce phosphorus, nitrogen and E coli from entering the waterway, in both rural and urban settings. New Zealand’s dairy farmers have been on this journey for many years now, and the improvements to the quality of their waterways are beginning to show. Dairy farmers have built 26,000km of fences to protect waterways on their farms during the past five years. That is the equivalent of a journey from downtown Auckland to the steps of the United Nations in New York — and almost all the way back again. A range of native species such as manuka, flaxes and sedges have also been planted along their farm streams and in wetland restoration, which helps filter runoff, cooling and shading water and protecting biodiversity. “They have done this work voluntarily, well ahead of regulatory requirements, and their actions speak louder than words,” said Tim Mackle, DairyNZ CE. “Most dairy farmers are on a journey that will see them hand over their lands to the next generation in a better environmental state than they received them. I believe this is something our country should be proud of. “We know there is more work to be done and protecting New Zealand’s waterways is a job for every single person in the country — including dairy.”

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David Law, Managing Director of Forward Farming Consultancy

What science? There is a lot of talk about science, how we apply it on our farms and probably to the confusion of who it was supposed to help, the farmer, which science will best suit his or her needs. I have discussed in previous articles the findings that our team are discovering repeatedly when applying international science and principles to soil. This is proving a superior path ahead for farmers involved in all aspects of farming. We’ve travelled to Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States to learn more, expand our thinking and advance our techniques to empower farmers to step into the light towards better ways of farming. Don’t be fooled into thinking that we are better than the rest of the world, that our cow dung is better or even different from what cows produce in Wales, England or the US. I have even noticed that cows moo the same! It is also a misconception to think that soils are different in any other parts of the world. The differences we find in our own country’s soil from Cape Reinga through to Invercargill would come close to the variances across the world. The advanced courses we have attended have us working with international tutors teaching fertiliser

recommendations on different soils from different countries and a diverse range of crops including avocados, grapes, oranges, walnuts, kiwifruit, trees and all aspects of livestock farmed soils. The principles to balance any soil by adding nutrients that are lacking is simply universal. Every soil which will grow anything efficiently demands the same approach to give the sufficient nutrients to do the job. During the last five years, many of our team have been to five to seven advanced scientific courses to learn these advanced international techniques which are helping our farmers in NZ become more in control of their destiny. The more science we apply to our clients’ farms, the more we understand how farmers, without realising, have built the two large competing co-operatives. They supply 90% of the fertiliser to NZ farmers. Ballance can trace its origins back to 1954, setting up bases in Southland and Bay of Plenty, whereas Christchurch-based Ravensdown began later in 1978 to provide some

healthy competition. These two giant fertiliser companies are now of similar size turning over approximately $1 billion annually. Both of these companies over time have adapted a set of policies or parameters, which have been accepted and followed by farmers, generally known as the NPK fertiliser approach, and it works! Our NZ farmers have grown all aspects of farming based on this approach throughout many years. However some of their policies, I believe, have been very cunningly set up to sell fertiliser rather than follow scientific principles. The main product produced by both companies is superphosphate, and there would be no surprise to find that this is sold wherever there is an opportunity, even if it isn’t needed. Phosphate is the least leachable nutrient in the soil provided it is not in excess to plant requirements. During these last few tough years, when we find phosphate is at good levels, then farmers are wasting their money applying more, when other nutrients are lacking. I have attached the nutrient availability chart, which is accepted science, showing the pH line that gives the best availability of nutrients to plant roots in the soil. Simply, if you move a vertical line from left to right, the availability of each element changes. Note how the availability of phosphate is twice as available at 6.4 compared to 5.9 pH. We are finding that lifting the pH in the soil will naturally increase the

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availability of phosphate without needing to apply more. We are also finding that in some instances, particularly when calcium or magnesium are low with a correspondingly low pH, the cost to balance your farm and increase grass growth can be less than what you would expect. Even nitrogen is more effective above 6 pH. I would encourage farmers, especially in these tough financial times, to apply some forward thinking principles. It starts with some independent international soil testing and will guide you into a more scientific, healthier and more productive future. David Law, Forward Farming Consultancy, forwardfarming.co.nz, 027 490 9896.

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true pedigree of other Toyotas such as the RAV4, which as you’ll recall, began its life as a small SUV in its own right. Perhaps they weren’t late to this party at all. The answer comes as another option, at least in Europe — the CH-R is indeed available with a frugal but peppy 1.2-litre turbocharged engine and fourwheel drive. A popular option, however, has to be the front wheel drive only hybrid drivetrain, which delivers 122

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While the overall vehicle of the year award is a coveted prize in the realm of automotive manufacturing, the engineers behind the scenes hold their breath for another yearly accolade — the prestigious Engine of the Year competition. Covering everything from fire-breathing V8s to frugal sub-1,000cc power plants, this is a closely contested fight between the big names in motoring. While 2016 was a big year for big power — with Ferrari’s 3.9-litre biturbo V8 taking overall top spot — it was a motor with a cross section smaller than a piece of A4 paper which racked up the most talked about accolade. Ford’s diminutive but powerful 998cc EcoBoost three-cylinder turbo took home its ninth award in the Engine of the Year competition, holding on to the top ranking in its category convincingly, despite a spirited challenge from Volkswagen and BMW. “Despite lots of competitors recently launching their own three-cylinder turbocharged designs, Ford’s wonderful 1.0 EcoBoost is still the number-one engine in its category class,” enthused La Repubblica’s Massimo Nascimbene, while L’Automobile Magazine’s Christophe Congrega marvelled at the tiny unit’s unparalleled capability: “With high torque at the very low end, this

high-tech three-cylinder turbo provides the driving performance of a small turbo diesel, but without any of the noise or vibration. It may be small, but the EcoBoost is one of the great engineering achievements of its time.” Smar t computer control, turbocharging and compression make all the difference in this category, and the EcoBoost engine has them all. It is now at the heart of no less than eight Ford vehicles worldwide, including a Kiwi favourite, the new Ford Fiesta. Needless to say, that tiny displacement means big gains in fuel economy, but the real surprise for those getting behind the wheel of an EcoBoost powered vehicle is the amount of ready power on tap. Combine this peppy response with Ford’s ability to construct a light yet rigid-framed chassis and body and 998cc suddenly feels just as willing as the ‘big’ two-litre mills of

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