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RODNEY'S

NOVEMBER 2011

ISSUE 50

Landscaping – The low-down on native grasses pg 3 Land speed record triumph at Bonneville USA pg 8 Three generations on AAPA Council pg 10 Horsin’ around – Building your horse’s confidence pg 12 Ron’s fabulous cafeteria for chooks pg 14 Weeds – 3 of the most unwanted pg 16 Our 50th issue - see page 9 for a special reader prize draw

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developed and is now exporting a chook feeder. I met Ron and his wife Ruth almost a year ago and was amazed that he came up with the concept and developed it into a highly marketable product out of a garden shed.

We’ve reached a fairly significant milestone for us – 50 issues. Not bad when you consider I knew nothing about publishing a magazine just over 4 years ago. See page 9 for more on the magazine’s history.

to turn things around in a very short time frame, Nicky, my wife, who keeps the books and the numbers working, the advertisers most definitely and of course you the reader!

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The low-down on native

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Not all grasses are born equal, especially when it comes to our NZ native grasses. There’s a common misconception that all grasses will grow in all conditions, but that’s not the case and explains why some plantings fail. Some native grasses do have wide tolerances of various ground conditions, but others are quite specific in their requirements.

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Generally, what they all have in common is the ability to bounce back and regenerate when groomed. It’s quite natural for the older leaves of grasses to die off, just as they do on flaxes, cabbage trees and any other plant. But when it happens to grasses, it can make them look quite messy. Spend a little time doing some basic maintenance and your grasses can look as good as new again.

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The bright orange foliage of Carex testacea.

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Initially, we give the grasses in our garden a

If grooming as detailed above doesn’t

gentle ‘comb’ with a rake to get the bulk of

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brutal with grasses and use your secateurs

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above the ground. But be warned, if you

The grasses instantly look better and the grooming encourages the plant to

do this, it does take longer for them to recover.

regenerate and send up new growth. A top-

As a rough guide, grasses grow about as

dressing with a general purpose fertiliser at

wide as they do high. So if you’re planting

the same time will help them along.

out grasses that grow to 1m high and

you space them 1m apart, they’ll end up touching. Spacing is an important consideration when planting out. Do you want the mature planting to look like one big mass, or do you want to be able to see each plant individually? Both ways will look good. How you plant will depend to a large extent on what you’re using your grasses for. If you’re doing a bank, wetland or

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even a parachute for stopping – were all carefully studied and incorporated into the build. The car was finally finished the night before it was to go into a container to be shipped to Los Angeles. The first of two detailed technical inspections by the organisers took place in Los Angeles before the team arrived to transport the car to Bonneville in Utah, a long drive of 1,100km. The final inspection at Bonneville was completed and the car was ready for its first run on the salt flats. With temperatures hovering around 40 degrees and a week-long event, it was to be a test of physical endurance for the team as well as of car performance. “Attracting over six hundred competitors and around 4,000 crew members, it was a challenge just to find your way around,” says Merrie. “The pit area alone stretched for over two kilometres along the salt flats.” After completing rookie orientation (none of the team had previously taken part in the Bonneville event) the car was lined up for its first run. An understandably nervous Cook was waved away by the starter and at the end of the 3 mile mark the car had achieved a remarkable 168 mph ((269 km/hr). The team was delighted at how well the car performed straight out of the box. To qualify as an official record another run over the same course had to be completed the next morning. The average of the two runs would stand as the new record. At 8.00am the next day the car was on the salt again and this time reached 171 mph for a new record of 169.5 mph (272.8km/hr). With a record in the bag it would have been easy to sit back and enjoy the satisfaction of their achievement, but with typical Kiwi ‘never give up’ attitude the team set out to push their record even higher. By the end of the event, they had set a new Bonneville (and world) land speed record of 174.5 mph (279.2 km/hr), smashing the previous record by 17.7 mph! (28.5km/hr) And the final word from Cook – “Fantastic. Now what shall we do next?”

Our first Is sue in 20 07.

One of the pleasures of the job is meeting fascinating people who invent useful gadgets, bring their communities together and contribute to the local economy. There are too many to name them all, but examples include Lea Chapman, the Millhouse (#6), Maureen Maxwell, Bees On Line (#15), and Guy Shanks, drover (#38).

We’re thrilled with this issue to be celebrating publication of the 50th Rodney’s Rural Lifestyle magazine. Having moved from the city to a Rodney lifestyle block in 2002, my wife Nicky and I started this publication to share ideas with other rural landowners on the kinds of practical issues we were facing living on the land. It’s fair to say we’ve come a long way since June, 2007 when we sent 10,000 copies of our first issue out into the world. We now distribute to 15,500 rural addresses across Rodney, from Muriwai to Kaiwaka. The first issue set the tone for what was to come with stories on plants, the land, equipment and safety on the block. Since then we’ve entertained our readers with the likes of chook reports and farming mistakes (the most notable being when we neglected to castrate a young bull who turned into 800kgs of muscle and horn

That first issue featured advertisers who are still with us: a big thank-you to Farm & Lifestyle Centre, Oikoumene Forest, Honda Warkworth, Gatmans Agricentre (now Mowers & More) and Kaipara Coast Plant Centre. Thanks also to all our other supportive advertisers – without you there would be no magazine. Readers, of course, receive the magazine free but, every time you mention to advertisers that you heard about them in RRL magazine, you contribute to its survival. Thanks a million for your continued feedback and support. Topics I’ve most enjoyed writing are product reviews of boys’ toys - ride-on lawnmowers, new vehicles, ATV’s, quads and chainsaws. And boy, have I learned a great deal! If you can remember a story that stands out for you, help us celebrate by emailing and telling us about it. Entries will go into a draw for one of six bottles of my favorite Pinot Gris or Pinot Noir (you can choose which) for Christmas. Entries close 15 Dec. We look forward to hearing from you.

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and who took apart our cattle yards with little effort.) We’ve had a great time attending Fieldays, where we are endlessly amazed by the great (and not so great) stuff on offer, and calf club days, where we never fail to be impressed by the community spirit of country folk.

rodNeY PeoPle By Helen Martin

Three generations on AAPA

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The purpose of the Auckland Agriculture and Pastoral Association (AAPA), which was established in 1843, is to promote excellence in agriculture by bringing the best of New Zealand together in competition. But while you might think that over the past 168 years the association has seen it all, this year’s AGM in August saw a first, with the election onto its Council of three generations from one family, two of whom live in Helensville.

started at the age of 10 by helping out with feeding and cleaning

The first of the family to become involved, Duncan McNab joined when, as manager of the Mount Albert Grammar School farm, he turned up in 1986 to the AAPA’s flagship event, the Royal Easter Show. While his plan was to show stud Border Leicester sheep and Landrace pigs, Duncan was immediately enlisted to stand for the Council. After moving to Helensville, he served several years as AAPA President, and has now returned to the Council after a short break away.

Councillor by some 20 years, has plenty of energy for the work

Duncan’s father Ian had always had an interest in wine and wine making and knew most of the growers around Auckland, so it was no surprise when, having retired from lecturing at Auckland Teachers Training College, the Glenfield resident joined the Council in 1989 to help run the Royal Easter Show’s wine competition as a quartermaster. He soon found, as had Duncan, that Councillors assist in all sections of Easter Show organisation, adding Farmworld organisation and public relations duties to his responsibilities. Fortunately for the Council, at 84 Ian has lost none of his enthusiasm for this voluntary work. With his father and grandfather heavily involved in the Easter Show it was a natural step for James McNab to join in. Having

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up after livestock James, now a Massey University agriculture graduate and successful dog trialist, is the newest member of the Council. Like his father and grandfather, James, the youngest ahead, and is already coming up with fresh ideas to help build public interest in next year’s Royal Easter Show. The McNabs are looking forward to contributing to the Show’s commitment to helping Show-goers feel part of the primary export culture the country was built on. But they are aware that not all ideas are without pitfalls. For example, the 1996 ‘sheep in Queen Street’ launch of the Royal Easter Show, as Duncan remembers it, was nothing if not hair-raising. The hundreds of people lining the streets were no deterrent to the sheep as, sensing freedom, they hurtled into shops and bars through self-opening doors and raced up side streets, trying to avoid the dogs, on hand to muster them back to order. Later that evening Duncan answered a phone call from a cheeky bar owner, asking if the sheep he’d left behind should be served another drink or sent home in a taxi! So, no sheep up Queen Street, then. But hold your horses! The McNabs are hatching plenty of other cunning schemes. Watch this space.

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Let him smell and look again. If he seems more confident, try touching his shoulder with the bag. If his feet move, just stay with him and keep your energy low. If he quits you completely, stop him and try to get back into the same position quickly, but without scaring him. As his feet stop, remove the bag (which creates pressure) to let him rest. Timing the release with his feet coming to a stop will indicate to him that standing and handling the pressure is what you’re looking for. Remember, you want to build confidence, not destroy it. Too much pressure without proper timing of the release will just confirm his fear of the bag. Keep your body language quiet to avoid giving him cues to move his feet. If your communication is unclear, you could end up with a horse that is completely desensitized to all stimuli and cues. If he won’t stop moving his feet and doesn’t seem to be trying to deal with the pressure, put him to work a little while (making moving of the feet your idea and taking the opportunity to relax and deal with the bag his idea). The more you engage his mind in choosing to cooperate with you, the more successful your session will be. Continue working back from his shoulder until you can touch him all over and with increasing noisiness. If he’s ticklish around his feet, tie the bag onto a stick or something that will extend your reach without putting you in danger. Take the time needed and recognise the “try” (the smallest effort to understand). Removing the pressure is the most significant reward you can use to indicate when he’s done the right thing. As your horse gains confidence to keep his feet still in spite of the noise of the bag, he’s learning to trust you with his feet – basically with his life. This is just one way to help build a strong, working relationship that is based on understanding, trust and respect.

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which he rode on a number of cycle tours. “I have a very active mind. I just get an idea and I have to go and do it,” he says. As we all know, necessity is the mother of invention, so in 2006, when Ron and his wife Ruth decided something needed to be done about the “clouds of sparrows” devouring around 40% of the food they provided for their beloved chooks, Ron turned his mind to finding a solution. He knew there were chook feeders around but, unable to get his hands on one, he set about designing and making his own. His prototype was made with wood, with the component shapes cut by hand. Pleased with the effectiveness of the result – those pesky sparrows were well and truly foiled by the feeder – Ron and Ruth began selling what they eventually called the ‘chooketeria’ on Trade Me. Keen public interest in the chooketeria moved Ron to keep experimenting with materials and design ideas, with the switch to light aluminium proving a winner. Setting up the garden workshop as a factory, he adapted available machinery for the different tasks the process requires and engaged a Silverdale company to provide sheet metal aluminium blanks laser cut to his design. Between them, the couple now turn out around 200 units per month, with Ron working the machines and Ruth, a painter and print maker, assembling parts, packing the orders in boxes bearing their hand screen-printed logo and keeping the books. It can get a bit repetitive, they tell me, but they keep themselves entertained listening to audio books on their iPods as they work – enjoying Terry Pratchett, Jim Butcher and “anything else that’s escapist.” Like all inventors, Ron is constantly playing with new ideas for

Meanwhile Ron, who says the chooketeria business is giving him and Ruth “a great sense of achievement”, is working on a way to get rid of those pesky marauding ferrets that sneak into the chook house at night. He figures that if he can get a light sensitive device to trigger the chook house door to open when sun comes up...

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improving the process (automation of the metal folding process is on the cards) and the product. The latest chooketeria, yet to be released, is a very flash two-sided number that cuts down the chook queues. To make sure the quality is first class, all new prototypes are tested on the family chooks before being offered to the public (so far the new version is being met with hearty approval) and a Training and Maintenance Information sheet is provided to make sure customers get the most from the product. Distribution is always an issue for a small family business and Ron and Ruth, who are determined to “keep it Kiwi”, are working on a range of options. Advertising through two web URLs (www. chooketeria.co.nz and www.chooketeria.com) they currently sell wholesale to “fabulous agents” RD1, Falloons, Farming Lifestyle (Warkworth), Horselands (Kumeu) and Sharpes Grain+Seed (Lower Hutt). They send parts to a relative in Australia, who assembles the chooketerias and sells them on EBay and at local markets in Queensland, and to Chook Manor in the South Island, who do the same. While I was visiting the good news came in that a California company is keen to distribute the product.

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Dave advises that buttercup is best controlled in late spring to early summer with chemicals such as MCPA (although he typically sprays larger areas with a boom sprayer because MCPA damages clover, which is important for fixing nitrogen.) Dave recommends grazing pasture then allowing it to regrow for a few days prior to spraying. This has two benefits: it reduces the foliage on the clover, minimising damage and it opens the pasture up, allowing the chemicals to reach the targeted broadleaf weeds.

Pennyroyal Many paddocks will be now hiding an undergrowth of pennyroyal which will become evident later in November and into December. It is easier to control now before the purple flowers become visible. Although pennyroyal is usually avoided by stock it is highly toxic if ingested, affecting the heart, kidneys, gut, respiratory system and central nervous system. Dave finds a combination of MCPA and Dicamba is most effective in controlling penny royal. He avoids using chemicals such as 2-4-D at this time of year due to the risk of spray drift which in the right weather conditions can carry several kilometres. This is particularly a concern in this area with crops such as grapes about.

Carrot Weed Carrot Weed (aka Parsley dropwort) is widespread in pasture and on road sides throughout Auckland and Northland. Carrot Weed has a parsley-like appearance and grows between 30 to 90cm tall. Its flowers are white, grow on the end of long stalks and look similar to a carrot. This weed is particularly a problem in pasture as it is unpalatable to livestock in spring after flowering. It is not palatable to livestock so it can become quite dominant within pastures once it is flowering. Carrot weed lowers the quality of hay made from infested paddocks but it can be easily controlled with a combination of Agritone and Dicamba. It is important to leave pasture ungrazed for 10 days after spraying. Once sprayed the sugars rise up into the foliage making the plant more palatable. With highly toxic plants such as ragwort this is of particular concern as livestock can be poisoned. The effectiveness of the kill on the target plants is also reduced by grazing.

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