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THE SOUTHERN

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Gippsland producers take food map online By DAVID PALMER

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AN interactive online map of food producers, suppliers and retailers launched in early May, now has 50 entities showing their locations, contact information and profiles. Organised by the Leongatha based South Gippsland Shire, the food map lists beef, lamb, fruit, vegetable, wine, mushroom, honey, poultry, deer and milk producers as well as where their products are sold raw or processed in restaurants. Shire sustainability officer Chris Hamilton said she expected the businesses on the site to grow by 12 or 15 in the next 12 months and site visits to expand gradually from the 350 or so recorded each month currently. As visitor numbers grow, an already established star system to record consumer satisfaction with a site’s produce will expand via Twitter and become more meaningful. Ms Hamilton said the site started when the shire brought together all the local food producers it knew of and floated the idea of the website, www. southgippslandfoodmap.com. au, to help them expand their marketing. “There were similar food maps established through local government areas up and down the east coast, but the

Graham Britt will harvest this perennial pyrethrum crop in the lee of Mount Warrenheip, near Ballarat, for the third time next January. Read more about the crop and its future on pages 4-5.

South Gippsland one was the first to start uploading video and multimedia content about individuals,” she said. Ms Hamilton said quite a number of producers and others said they just were not computer literate enough to upload material to the site. However, she said shire staff were available to help them transition their presence onto the site. Ms Hamilton said she was surprised by the variety of producers and retailers of whom she previously knew nothing turning up on the food map. A couple were free range egg producers with farms near her home and a Leongatha butcher who sells only locally produced meat but did not promote that backbone of his business. “Without the map they would have remained much less well known,” she said. Even a Toora community pear orchard with more than 100 pear varieties had remained quite low profile until the advent of the interactive map, despite having community pruning and picking days. The Wellington and East Gippsland shires were reported to be investigating food maps in their areas too. Their stated aim was to reconnect consumers with local food, restaurants with fresh food and generally encourage buying locally.

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AT the Foundry Hotel Complex, Bendigo on August 1, the Central Victorian Agribusiness forum will hold a summit on the theme of growing the value chain to Asia. The speaker list at the time of publication was incomplete but premier of Victoria Denis Napthine will speak on the enormous food export potential into Asia. His speech will centre on the theme that by 2030, the number of consumers in Asia with discretionary spending will increase six fold to around 3.5 billion. Book at www.trybooking.com.

for advice, service and products. It is aimed at people with a minimum of 12 months experience in the industry and participants may attend the whole course or parts of it. More information: bill. yiasoumi@irrigation.org.au, (02) 8335 4000, 0448 850 103. ON Wednesday, August 6, the Rural Press Club of Victoria will host a breakfast at 113-123 Queen Street, Melbourne, for CEO of the Regional Australia Institute Su McCluskey. She will discuss education, health and unemployment mitigation priorities for regional and rural Victoria, by addressing the question how can governments better deliver services to regional Australia that allow regional communities to grow and prosper? The breakfast runs from 7.30 to 9

and costs $45 per head. Register at www.ruralpressclub. com. MILDURA’s Quality Hotel Mildura Grand will host the 14th controlled traffic farming conference from August 27 to 29. Run by the Australian Controlled Traffic Farming Association, the conference is titled Concentratin’ on Trackin’ Right. To that end, there will be a forum on buying and modifying appropriate equipment and a session on the effects on south eastern Australian soils of soil compaction. Register at www.actfa.net. MORNINGTON shire offices will be the venue for five free one-onone sessions to assist in initial steps to overcome an issue or information gap in your business.

Funded by the Mornington Peninsula Shire Economic Development Unit the small business sessions will provide general business advice as well. Sessions are available between 11am and 3pm on Tuesdays: August 12, August 26, September 16, September 30 and October 14. Book at www.sbms.org.au/events. More information: Kerri 5950 1842, business@mornpen.vic. gov.au. Exhibitors are being sought for South Gippsland’s first small farm and lifestyle expo at the PHILLIP ISLAND Grand Prix Circuit on November 22 and 23. An early bird 10 percent discount applies for bookings pre-August 7. More information: 5952 2710, info@phillipislandcircuit.com.au, www.phillipislandcircuit.com.au/ public-events

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By DAVID PALMER WITH Ballarat potato processor McCain’s continuing to cancel growers’ contracts and squeeze prices, there is increasing interest around the Western District city in two other Tasmanian ‘P’ crops: pyrethrum and poppies. Producing and expanding in the district for the past five years, there are now about 1600 hectares growing perennial pyrethrum established within 50 kilometres of the city. Poppies though are still only being quietly trialled on back roads because of security concerns as the crop stages its first break out from its bastion of security in Tasmania. The whole pyrethrum crop is exported for use in spray cans of domestic pest control products. During a field trip staged by the Grasslands Society of Southern Australia annual conference at Ballarat in mid June, attendees had a chance to assess pyrethrum on Graham Britt’s farm at Dunnstown, about 15km south east of Ballarat. A long time potato grower Mr Britt had last grown potatoes on the inspected paddock in 2008 and they were followed by a fodder crop and then Tonic plantain for a couple of years before being sown to pyrethrum at 1.5kg/ha in September 2010. Since then it has been harvested three times and early this year achieved the fifth highest yield in Australia.

COMPANY MAN: Allan Reid explains how he joined Tasmanian company Botanical Resources Australia in 2009 and helped establish pyrethrum as a viable crop around Ballarat. Beside him is this crop’s owner and Central Highlands pyrethrum pioneer Graham Britt.

Tasmania based Botanical Resources Australia Ballarat area manager for five years Allan Reid told the tourists his company had established the industry in the area in 2009. “We came to Ballarat because its climate is similar to the Australian home for pyrethrum on Tasmania’s north west coast; we like to piggyback on people growing spuds because the soil requirements are similar.” Further expansion looked likely around Koroit near Warrnambool for that reason, he said.

But because potato growers get a return from that crop in six months, an 18 month wait for the first return from pyrethrum might have initially discouraged growers from taking on the crop. To alleviate that wait, BRA offered joint ventures and paid many of the initial costs to the first tranche of pyrethrum growers. Mr Reid said, “That was one way of being able to say to the growers we’re serious about being here. “Now we’ve changed our model slightly so that

new growers enter a stand alone contract but get paid more.” He said in an ideal world there would be three harvests from the crop before most farmers took their paddocks back to pasture or potatoes. Mr Reid was initially quite evasive, to the annoyance of some visitors, about the prices BRA pays for pyrethrum. Eventually he suggested the return was roughly equivalent to a potato yield of about 50t/ha at the current McCain’s contract price of $260 a tonne.

Increasingly that is more attractive than growing potatoes on land in the area that has been selling for more than $30,000 a hectare in some cases. But pyrethrum yields are quite tiny compared with most broadacre crops; in the first year the top Ballarat district yield was 63kg/ha. Mr Reid said longer term an average yield would be about 70kg/ha. BRA spent about $2.8m setting up a pelletising plant in Ballarat to handle the area’s pyrethrum. Continued page 5

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It pelletises the seed with a binder at the rate of up to 3t/h before the pellets are shipped to BRA’s headquarters at Ulverstone, Tasmania for further processing. For sowing BRA utilises Nathan Lancashire, a local seeding contractor who uses a 6m wide press wheel drill and sows about 3ha in August and September. Fertiliser required was usually 250kg/ha of super plus 2.5t/ha of lime. Initial seedbeds were too fine and they tended to get too compacted which

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category of unqualiďŹ ed costs. Calculating the total tonnage of feed required is relatively simple. From there we must look at ration nutrient densities to ensure we achieve good conversion efďŹ ciency. I hasten to add, as a general rule, the higher the quality of the feed the greater will be the voluntary intake with obvious consequences to milk solids produced. Close on the heels of nutrient density is correct balance of nutrients (energy/ďŹ bre/ protein) for cow health. There is no high feed conversion efďŹ ciency in unhealthy rumens which without fail manifest into unhealthy cows. No dairyperson is unfamiliar with acidosis and its cascade of subsequent health issues. As manufacturing machinery loses efďŹ ciency with time, so too our cows as days-inmilk increase. Cows convert feed to milk far more efďŹ ciently in early lactation than mid or late lactation. In seasonal calving scenarios, autumn particularly, we have a double negative impact

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Grassland Society whales in president THE Grassland Society of Southern Australia has elected south-west Victorian farm business and livestock production consultant James Whale its new president. Mr Whale, 33, a consultant with Ballarat based Mike Stephens andAssociates, hopes to push the society’s membership from just over 500 to 600 and to reactivate some branches that have been in a lull. He was instrumental in reviving the Western District branch and hopes to repeat that success in others. Mr Whale grew up on a sheep property and completed a degree in agricultural science at the University of Melbourne, worked for the Department of Primary Industries as a sheep and wool development officer and managed a fine wool Merino property in New South Wales before moving four years ago to his current role based in Hamilton. “Some of the branches are strong, some need a helping hand, and one of our main roles in the central committee is to make sure we’re providing what those branches need to run activities,” Mr Whale said. The society is on a strong footing and has grown its membership base over recent years. It will now try to capture the attention of younger producers, particularly those in beef and sheep industries. “We’d like to show them how they can benefit from being in the society,” Mr Whale said. “The technical information on pasture production is fantastic and they would also benefit from the social and networking

BRANCH REVIVER: As new president James Whale hopes to continue his success in reviving the Western District branch of the Grassland Society.

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August, 2014

Aussie Pumps boots new design AUSTRALIAN Pump Industries (Aussie Pumps) has expanded its range of personal protection equipment to now include professionally designed boots that can be used in harsh environments. The Aussie Jet-Stop boots are specifically designed for use with high pressure blasters of up to 500 Bar (7300 psi). According to Aussie Pumps’ high pressure safety trainer Hamish Lorenz, there has been a gap in the market for comfortable, practical footwear capable of withstanding accidental jetting from pressure cleaners. “Operators have been using steel toe-cap gum boots until now. “Toes are protected, however, the high pressure water jets can slice open a rubber boot. “Water sprayed under pressure penetrates flesh and can carry dangerous bacteria or poisons. “This can result in horrible infections leading to amputation or even death,” Mr Lorenz said. He added that high pressure, protective footwear has been available for a number of years, however, it can be cumbersome and difficult to walk in,

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“It also features a 70,000-litre water tank, which reflects the brigade’s commitment to reduce its environmental impact, and incorporates the headquarters for the Yarra Valley Group of 11 brigades, providing a modern and safe base.” Mr Wells was joined at the official opening by Brad Battin (MLA,

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August, 2014

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Rockbank wins Merino pair Top national honor to Victorian heartlands stud By DAVID RIZZOLI

SIRE POWER: Shane Baker, Booloola White Suffolks, Baringhup and judge Craig Mitchell with Booloola’s supreme White Suffolk exhibit at the 2014 Show.

TOP honor in the form of the national merino pair of the year at the 2014 Australian Sheep Breeders Association Sheep and Wool Show at Bendigo went to John Crawford’s Rockbank Merino stud, Victoria Valley in the heart of the Grampians. Rockbank had previously defeated the Walton family’s Wurrook Merino stud, Rokewood, to take Victorian Merino pair of the year and the honor of representing Victoria in the national decider. Rockbank also won Victorian ewe of the year. The prestigious title of 2014 supreme Merino exhibit was won by the Rayner family’s Grathlyn Merino stud, Mudgee, NSW. The Merino was the feature breed of the show with breeders from every state represented including 24 studs, which made the long

trip across the Nullabor. A number of studs from the Southern Farmer region were represented in this year’s show and competed with distinction. One of the most successful was Shane Baker and his Booloola White Suffolks from Baringhup near Castlemaine which won supreme and grand champion ram and grand champion ewe awards. He entered 14 sheep in seven classes to win four first and two third ribbons. Mr Baker who was “ecstatic” with his showing said there were 130 White Suffolk entries judged by Craig Mitchell, Gemini White Suffolk stud, Werneth. Other wins of note were the following. Merinos Champion ultra fine unhoused ram (any age) Mac and John Barty, Beverley, Redesdale; champion ultrafine ewe (any age), Phil and Kim Hartwich, Mount Challicum, Ballyrogan;

champion ultrafine open ewe, Beverley; champion superfine unhoused ram, Graeme Harvey, Poplars, Murgheboluc. Reserve champion unhoused ram, Beverley; champion restricted superfine ewe, Glen Brothers, Wattlebank, Guildford; reserve champion unhoused fine wool ram, Poplars; champion restricted fine wool ram, Wattlebank; champion steward’s fine wool ewe, Poplars; champion open fine wool ram, Norm and Ryan Weir, Kerrlyn, Dunluce. There were 24 other breeds represented at the show and among the successes of Southern Farmer breeders were: Corriedale Junior champion ram, Jim and Brenda Venters, Liberton, Stonehaven; junior champion and grand champion ewe, Ellis family, Sweetfield, Mount Moriac; senior champion ewe, Liberton; reserve senior champion

ewe, Flinders Christian College, Tyabb; reserve junior champion ewe, Peter and Marie Baker, Loddon Park, Baringhup; champion shorn sheep, Sweetfield. Polwarth Senior champion ram, Geoff Kemp, Homeleigh, Heathcote; reserve senior champion ram, Homeleigh; junior champion ram, Fairview Corriedales; junior champion ewe, Fairview; reserve junior champion ewe, Fairview; champion Victorian ewe, Fairview; champion Victorian ram, Homeleigh. White Suffolk Supreme and grand champion ram, Shane Baker, Booloola, Baringhup. Not all results were immediately available at the close of the show. Those not included in this edition will be published in the next together with results from the Ballarat Sheep and Alpaca Show and the Hamilton and Western District Show.

:RUOG FODVV À HHFH FRQWHVW VFRUHV UHJLRQDO HQWULHV By DAVID RIZZOLI IN what can surely be classed the greatest display of fleece wool in the world, the 2014 Australian fleece competition at

Bendigo in mid-July as a major component of the Australian Sheep Breeders Association’s Australian Sheep and Wool Show, resulted in Southern Farmer region producers standing

out as winners across the spectrum of entries. And the honors don’t come any higher than grand champion fleece, won this year by Phil and Kim Hartwich, Challicum, Buangor,

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(69.92 points); Paul and Kylie Walton, second in the extra superfine Merino stud ram class, 87.9 points; George and Helen McKenzie, Montrose Hill, Illabarook, second, extra superfine Merino stud ewe or wether (89.97 points). Mac and John Barty, Beverley, Redesdale, second, superfine Merino stud ewe or wether (89.20 points);Malcolm and Greg Mortlock, Glenvue, Dunluce, first, superfine Merino commercial ewe or wether (91.83 points); Norm and Ryan Weir, Kerrlyn, third, fine-medium Merino stud ewe or wether. Norm and Ryan Weir, first, second, and third, medium Merino stud ram, (87,30, 84.5, 84.45 points) Malcolm and Greg Mortlock, second, Medium Merino, commercial ewe or wether (84.30 points).

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top honors, Challicum won champion ultrafine (15.6 – 16.5 micron) and champion Victorian fleece, while Wurrook won champion in the extra ultrafine (14.6 – 15.5 micron) class. Other Southern Farmer producers who flew the region’s flag were: Norm and Ryan Weir, Kerrlyn, Dunluce who took champion honors in the medium fleece (20.622 micron) scoring 87.3 points Malcolm and Greg Mortlock, Belview, also of Dunluce were successful in taking reserve champion superfine (17.6 – 18.5 micron) with a score of 91.83 points. Away from the Merinos, Bronwyn Ellis, Sweetfield, Mount Moriac took championship honors in the Corriedale sections with champi-

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