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He will travel the country hosting the regional finals early next year before presenting the grand final in July. Te Radar says he is honoured to be the new face of the prestigious event. “It is one of New Zealand’s truly iconic events, with some great hosts over the years that have left a strong legacy.” The east coast finals will take place in Waipukurau on April 1 2017. This contest will see competitors Hamish Best, Hugh Abbiss and Ben Thomas of Hawke’s Bay, Richard Cameron and Henry Reynolds of Wairarapa, and Patrick Crawshaw, Daniel Tarbotton and Liam Kelly of Tararua pit themselves against one another. Te Radar is originally from an Ohinewai dairy farm in the Waikato and says he feels right at home narrating the contest having grown up watching the fierce competition on television and having a brother who was once a Young Farmer member. “I have these childhood memories of watching it on telly, thinking I could answer the quiz questions but never
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It’s been another busy year for students at St Teresa’s and South Featherston schools, but caring for their environment has been high on their list. This year both schools have completed kaitiaki, or guardianship projects, that support neighbouring internationally significant wetland Wairarapa Moana, and have celebrated this work to connect with the natural environment outside their school gates. “These children are very passionate about their environment. We were delighted to support them as they explored ways of caring for Wairarapa Moana,” said Greater Wellington Regional Council’s biodiversity advisor Toni de Lautour. St Teresa’s students wanted to understand how their community’s actions were impacting on water quality, focussing their attention on nearby Donald’s Creek. The school was awarded Bayer Primary School Science funding to pay for water quality monitoring equipment. They have learnt about stream health and established a data collection process. The second phase of their project will see the stream edge planted, and the students will measure the impacts this work has on water quality at this site. Featherston school students focussed on raising public awareness. Department of Conservation senior community ranger Garry Foster presented them with certificates and reflected on their work to raise awareness of the human threat to rare birds breeding at Wairarapa Moana. Students’ brightly coloured signs now adorn access points around the
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“We tested the market at the greater Wellington Brewday with our very first stout called Black Nectar and it was well received, and a couple of local bars were keen to sell our products. At that stage everything was hand bottled.” The business built momentum and the partners decided to expand as they were effectively giving up their weekends to brew small batches. Each batch takes 10 hours processing and it is a similar to produce a large batch. “It wasn’t viable commercially to stay small and we had to get larger equipment and premises that would work better for us. “We went from producing 50 litres per batch to 1,200 litres. It was a year’s worth of planning and we officially opened the new premises in January 2014.” They have since received several awards for their creations including the silver for Imperial Stout and a Scotch Porter, and bronze for Ohio APA at the 2016 Brewers Guild Awards. “We are staying boutique and we have a tasting room as we believe this is the best way to sell our product,” said Hayden. Janalle runs the operations and front of house aspect, and Hayden focusses on the brewing, processing and sales. They keep things simple with tapas-style food available at the brewery. Hayden says making beer is mostly science with a bit of art, processes and recipes. “It’s about how you put things together and pick the flavours. There is a lot of recording and repeatability, and a bit of chemistry, water temperature and pH levels involved.” He says learning on the small system was good because if things went wrong it wasn’t such an issue losing 50 litres down the drain. “Mike Neilson from Panhead Brewery in Upper Hutt initially
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The ladies working at the brewery helped create the salty sour ‘gose’ brew based on salted caramel and hazelnut helped with consulting. He showed us his brewery, helped source equipment, taught us how to set things up and helped with the very first batch in larger brewery. “It really was learning by doing. We had to upscale our recipes and we certainly hit the ground running.” Hayden says a lot of things with regional and local beers comes down to the profile of the water you use. “Our water is very hard and heavy in minerals so it suits dark beers. It is similar to Dublin and London. Dublin is famous for its guinness. There are certain styles of beer our water wouldn’t be good for like lagers and pilsners as they need soft water.
“We started with traditional style recipes but we are serving a mix of styles now, and have created a beer called Vintage Gold which is a Golden Ale and is 4.5 per cent alcohol. Many customers enjoy this, it has become very popular and is easily approachable for a craft beer.” Hayden says people that don’t like hoppy beer like this one start to enjoy the other flavours as they get used to the different style of boutique beers. “We have tried to keep things traditional but have recently done a few
experimental beers, one of which was a salty sour ‘gose’. We created this with the girls at the brewery as they wanted to create a flavour based on salted caramel and hazelnut. “We have also put our Imperial Stout in a wine barrel to age it and see what sort of different flavours we can get from the residual wine and oak. These are types of beers we think will tie in well, being in a wine region. It has been fun and challenging and we are enjoying it.”
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December 2016 WAIRARAPA FARMING LIFESTYLES
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When Alison Sutherland decided to keep goats on her new lifestyle property little did she know this decision would completely change her life.
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oming from a research background, and as a self confessed ‘workaholic,’ Alison spent four years learning about the Arapawa goats. The more she learnt the more she became fascinated with the part they played in early New Zealand history and is now sharing it in a book she has written called ‘No Ordinary Goat. The story of New Zealand’s Arapawa goats.’ “The old English goats that came out with Captain Cook became extinct in England but they remained on Arapaoa Island. In my book I’m able to prove the dates that they arrived on the island and show they survived and multiplied.
It became a very fascinating story. There is lots of DNA background proving they are unique in the world, so effectively they belong no where else but New Zealand,” she says. It all started when Alison and her husband Alan moved from Petone to Masterton in search of a quieter life and purchased 10 acres of land on which to keep some animals. “We thought it would be a nice lifestyle change and got a few mini horses and sheep. One day I said to my husband wouldn’t it be lovely to have a goat. We had never had farm animals before so I started doing some research to see what goats might be appropriate.
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I WANT THEM TO SURVIVE. TO ME THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. I thought we would go for the smallest goats we could find because we don’t know goats. I happened to read a book called Arapawa: Once Upon an Island by Betty Rowe and I thought they would be perfect.” Not only would they be able to have some goats on their property Alison was excited to know they have a significant history and belong to New Zealand. “Two years later I got my first pair of Arapawa goats, a beautiful unrelated pair that came to us on a truck in a box and so it began.” From that moment on Alison was hooked and wanted to share this unique breed with the rest of the country. She decided to set up a registry and founded the New Zealand Arapawa Goat Association. Her two original goats, Maana and Dobby, are first on the list. However the Depar tment of Conservation considers the animals a pest and had programmes in place to eradicate them from the island. “I understand DOC’s position. They are trying to protect the flora and fauna of New Zealand but I don’t believe
they have the right to eradicate an entire breed.” With a little talking Alison managed to convince DOC to remove some of the goats instead of killing them and these were then added to the registry on the mainland. There are currently 217 fertile Arapawa goats on the registry in New Zealand. “They are recognised as being critically endangered in the rest of the world but not in New Zealand. Six were sent to the United Kingdom and six sent to the United States of America. In the United Kingdom they can’t survive as there is not enough gene spread. In the US they are doing everything they can to keep the genetics.” Alison was motivated to write the book to put the facts out there so that other people will want to do something about ensuring the breed does not disappear. “This is New Zealand’s early European history and for someone who just has a little bit of land, even an acre or two, they are the most wonderful paddock pets.” As for the future of the Arapawa goat? Alison would like to see them officially recognised by the New Zealand Government as endangered, and the eradication programmes changed to being just about controlling the population on the island. “I want them to survive. To me that is the most important thing. We have no right to eradicate an animal because they belong to future generations.”
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PROGRESSING FOR THE FAMILY by Ann Morgan
Trixie and Greg Duckett live in Featherston on a 300 cow dairy farm which they purchased three years ago after sharemilking the property for eight years.
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reg grew up on a farm in Carterton and he had a dairy farming uncle. Greg would milk with him during school holidays. He had always wanted a boat of his own and decided at 14 years old that if he became a dairy farmer he could get his own boat. “When Greg left school he went straight to Taratahi Agricultural Training School in Masterton and from there he worked his way up starting as a worker then 2IC managing, and we met and he took his first lower order job,” said Trixie. Trixie was a townie from Upper Hutt and visited family in the Wairarapa every weekend. She loved it and always wanted to be a farmer so went to Taratahi as well and then got a dairy farming job.
“I didn’t have a good experience and ended up considering what else I could do,” she says. “I was offered a job as an embalmer so I retrained and went to Melbourne for three years where I worked for a coroner. I returned to New Zealand and relief milked for a local farmer until I was full time and met Greg. From there he took a lower order position and I worked on another farm, earning more income.” The couple eventually purchased this farm which Greg runs with a worker, Trixie runs the business side of things and is now focussing on her embalming funeral directing business. The 84 hectare property is fully irrigated and the couple also have an 84 hectare run off which they lease.
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“The young stock are kept here and we take silage off it and do a bit of cropping through the winter. We grow fodder beet which we are having good results with. You have to be careful and know what you are doing planting, fertilising, watering and feeding this crop,” she says. “We are fortunate that our farm advisor is like a family member and is
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ourselves, we have not had farms passed down to us. We have worked our way up to farm ownership and our bank want us to try for the Business of the Year as we are doing so well. They go through all our books and procedures — it is an honour to have the bank suggest we enter. “We have three children and they love the farm life. All three are expected to work on the farm. They have their own jobs they are responsible for and even our two-year-old loves it.” At present the couple are preparing to build a new cowshed as the current one is very old and keeps malfunctioning. “The build starts on December 1 and we are deciding on builders and design which is huge. With the payout not being so great and taking out a larger mortgage it is quite stressful but worth it in the end to progress with our business. Greg takes care of all the AI and has been working on developing their calving spread. “This year we started calving
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Irrigation Matters with Clem Powell The mystery of irrigation Irrigation is the black art of replacing water which has been removed from the ground by evapotranspiration (ET) through plants. This is part of how plants ingest their nutrients. Important points to know: NIWA have ET rates for your area, check their website. It will show rates as a graph through the year, summer obviously higher but ET is also determined by the atmosphere’s ability to absorb the moisture, so it is higher on windy days due to higher dispersal. Every millimetre of rain you need to apply daily requires 10,000 litres/ha, so if ET hits 5mm you need at least 50,000 litres every hectare, every day. That’s if you want the plant to really grow, not just look green. You need to match ET rate plus allowance for percolation through the soil (over irrigation) plus loss during irrigation, minus rainfall (if any). ET rates follow quite closely to available moisture rates so it is important to begin irrigating early enough as the plant growth will have checked by the time you notice it. Woody plants have a higher ET rate than leafy plants so kale ET will likely be more than chicory. Admittedly plants with deep roots will hang on longer, mostly in heavy soils but in the end need still water replacement. Irrigating methods are just that, management tools, don’t be fooled by the fancy promises, they can’t make your plant excel with less than ET rate — assuming you are trying to hold constant moisture in the ground. Beware of stories telling you that a system allows you to get away with less application. They do exist but also require electronic monitoring and experience on the operator’s part. Keep water droplets as large as practicable. This is
100 where you can save some water. Despite public perception, small sprinklers can easily have the same losses as large sprinklers, it’s just not so visible. The law of physics tells us when you expose water to warm air it evaporates. Large bodies of water (large droplets) have a greater mass to surface area than small bodies, so fine mist tends to evaporate more — keep the nozzle size up/nozzle pressure down, within reason! There’s no free lunch with irrigation, either you can have a cheap system with lots of running costs and maintenance or a more reasonably priced system but with better application evenness, better growth patterns, and easier and less time consuming management and maintenance. Often the principal cost differences between the two are not proportional to the results. Clement (Clem) Powell of
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