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THE GOVERNMENT plans to change the law on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to make it easier to defer bringing agriculture into the scheme in 2015. This provision is one of many contained in a consultation document released last week. The other major aspect for agriculture is a provision to allow ‘offsetting’ of forest land, a move that would greatly benefit Landcorp and others developing dairy farms in the central North Island. Under the current law agriculture is scheduled to be included in ETS in
2015, subject to a review in 2014. The review will assess availability of technology for farmers to reduce emissions and whether major trading partners are taking steps to reducing their emissions. The Minister for Primary Production, David Carter, told Rural News that if the 2014 review said the entry of agriculture into ETS should be delayed, the Government would have to rush through special legislation. “What we are proposing in the ETS Amendment Bill is to put in a provision that if the review says ‘don’t put in agriculture in 2015’, we make that change by regulation rather than by legislation.” But Carter believes agriculture will
eventually be a part of an ETS – it’s a matter of timing. “At this stage, despite a lot of research into ways of reducing methane emissions, there are no known economic solutions available to farmers. But I am confident that over time science will give us some solutions to methane emissions. That’s why we are putting so much money into science and research to find solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – particularly methane. Once those solutions are available then we would quickly encourage farmers to use them.” Offsetting emissions with forestry would mean an owner of pre-1990
forest would be able to convert the land to another use, such as dairying, provided they plant a similar area of land in trees. Under current legislation the cost of converting pre-1990 forested land is very high due to its carbon liabilities. Carter agrees this will benefit Landcorp but there will be trade-offs. “The government previously gave
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SOUTH ISLAND wheat growers will have a new market from next harvest. Farmer-owned grain storage company Grainstor, Timaru, has announced it’s to build a flour mill alongside its 25,000t premises at Washdyke, and has reserved the company name Farmers Mill for the initiative. “It will be of a comparable size to the present [Christchurch] mills,” Grainstor chairman and large-scale cropping farmer Murray Turley told Rural News. “We hope it means there will be a bigger use of New Zealand grain and less
imported grain. As arable farmers we’re always looking for new crops to export but with wheat [New Zealand] imports a lot. We believe we can grow wheat at least as good as the imported, and produce top quality flour.” The aim is to cash in on the growing demand for food produced using locally grown and traceable ingredients, and in doing so add value to their crops. The move’s met an enthusiastic welcome from local growers. “It’s the best news we’ve had for a long time,” Federated Farmers Grain’s local chairman, Colin Hurst, told Rural News.
“Since I’ve been farming the Timaru mill’s closed, the Ashburton mill’s closed, and the Defiance mill in Christchurch’s been taken over, so we’re left with only two flour millers, and they’re both in Christchurch.” That’s caused many local growers to switch to feed cultivars, or in some cases abandon cropping altogether in favour of dairying or dairy support. “This is going to give the arable sector a boost and we won’t all have to become dairy farmers,” adds Hurst. The new market for milling grain could constrain supply of feed, helping to page 3
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TAF petition put to Beehive SUD ESH KISSUN
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A PETITION calling for a second vote on TAF (trading among farmers) is to be presented to Parliament by Fonterra farmers. Organisers say they are gaining overwhelming support but are running out of time to reach all farms. “The speed at which the DIRA Bill
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is being pushed through leaves us with little time,” Donna Smit, Whakatane, told Rural News. “It has been forced upon us.” The petition will be presented at a primary production select committee hearing on proposed changes to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA). Public hearings start April 30. The DIRA changes proposed by MAF lay the ground for the co-op to roll out TAF later this year. The bill is being fast-tracked by the Government; the primary production select committee will report finally by June 1. Smit says visiting farmers one-by-one is time consuming and they need to “reach more people quicker.”
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firm prices in that market too, he acknowledges. Turley says he and the other directors are well aware of the competition they will likely face from multinationals Goodman Fielder and Weston Milling, the only other two players in the market. “It will not be easy, but we want surety about where our grain is going
for TAF two years ago. “The TAF model requires a liquid market for farmers to freely enter and exit. The fund is an essential part of the proposal.” But Smit’s group feels the risks and ramifications of institutional investment were not fully explained at the time of the vote. She says it’s difficult to see how 100% ownership and control can be maintained under the proposed TAF. A possible solution is TAF without the shareholders’ fund, she says. “If Fonterra’s national milk supply is up 10% and in 2011 we produced 1320 million kgMS, a 10% increase would be 132 million kgMS at a share price of $4.52/share. “If each farm took up its entitlement, $596m would be ‘washed into’ Fonterra’s balance sheet. The shareholders’ fund was going to raise $500m. Once again the simplicity of the cooperative is at work; the suppliers could fund the strategy refresh. We don’t need the shareholders’ fund.”
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One organiser Smith knows visited 40 farms out of which 37 farmers signed the petition. She’s been to 15 farms of which 14 signed. They have “well above” the 5% threshold required for a special meeting, but are pushing for a second TAF vote because that’s the petition wording. Fonterra Shareholders Council chairman Simon Couper says the TAF process is progressing well with the board and the council still doing due diligence. “We will ensure all preconditions are met and Fonterra farmers have 100% ownership and control. Farmers expect us to do that.” Couper acknowledges some farmers, including Smit, are calling for TAF without the shareholders’ fund. The fund would allow farmers to cash in shares and exchange dividend rights – but not voting rights – with outside investors, through a unit trust custodian. Couper points out the fund was envisaged when Fonterra farmers voted
and this gives us more control.” The firm is “in discussions” with possible customers and is working with local merchants to secure supply over and above what Grainstor’s 12 farmer shareholders will provide. “The aim is to be manufacturing from the first quarter of next year... We’re working through some consent issues and expect to start building in July.”
AN AUSTRALIAN farmer cooperative leader has reiterated his warning that Fonterra should be wary of outside investors. Wally Newman, a director of Western Australian-based Cooperative Bulk Holding (CBH) Group, says outside investors will try to take “full control” of Fonterra. He was speaking at the recent Large Herds Dairy Business Conference in Palmerston North, echoing his presentation to the New Zealand Cooperative’s Association last year (Rural News, Sep 6). Wally Newman Newman pointed to the Australian Wheat Board as an example of the way things can go. It was owned by wheat growers until 2010 when it was swallowed by Canadian firm Agrium. “It was set up to get around the multinationals but ironically, farmers lost control to a multinational in 2010,” he says. “As long as Fonterra remains in farmers’ balance sheets, it will stay in New Zealand. “If investors are allowed in, Fonterra will go outside the industry and rest assured New Zealand’s economy will pay the price.”
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KVH boss looks at more Psa powers
Wool features at Science in City INNOVATIVE USES of wool, as developed by AgResearch, were on show last week at Auckland’s waterfront Cloud, as part of a combined one-day Science in the City exhibition by Crown Research Institutes. Plant and Food Research, Scion and Landcare Research were other farming related exhibitors at the event which for the first time brought together the work of government scientists in all CRIs. Pictured is Lavinia Calvert, co-founder of the martial arts apparel maker Gimono with a traditional gi (uniform) made from lightweight wool/polyester knit fabric developed over three years by a team lead by AgResearch’s Dr Surinder Tandon. The traditional gi is made from double-woven cotton cloth to withstand the stress of grabbing and throwing, but is heavy and stiff. The new textile developed by AgResearch with a wool layer next to the skin offers softness, thermal regulation and an outer layer strong enough to take martial arts activity. Other high fashion developments in wool textile were
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MORE LEGAL ‘teeth’ to control and stop the spread of Psa are being considered by Kiwifruit Vine Health’s new boss Barry O’Neil. The KVH (Kiwifruit Vine Health) chief executive will canvass growers in June to find out whether there’s support for a legalised strategy on Psa such those in place for TB control in cattle or American foulbrood control in bees. Legal clout would enable action to be taken against abandoned orchards, require growers to remove infected material, stop the movement of risk goods and require Psa to be reported. “One area I want to focus on in my new role is whether our current approach is sufficient or whether we need an approach with more teeth or use of legal power when necessary,” he says. Some growers and industry representatives have told him they think there should be a more legally enforceable approach to protect responsible growers. O’Neil says there will always be some growers who don’t comply with the requirements because they can’t afford it or they don’t understand. “In the wider Te Puke area there are 193 orchards that haven’t reported Psa. Is that correct, with Psa being so very widespread in Te Puke?” he asks. He says it’s an offence to knowingly spread an organism such as Psa but the rules are unclear. “With a legal pest man-
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agement strategy the rules would be clearly defined.” Psa-V has now hit 35% of New Zealand’s kiwifruit orchards, mainly in the biggest growing area of Te Puke but Hawkes Bay, Kerikeri, Waikato, Manawatu and Nelson are still free of the disease. Some green varieties such as Hayward have an element of resistance to Psa but the Gold crop Hort 16A is particularly vulnerable and KVH does not believe it is sustainable. New varieties of Gold are to be released by Zespri shortly. O’Neil will be talking to growers between harvest and winter grafting work. “We want new varieties to be grafted in an environment where there is little if any bacteria to infect them. This gives them the maximum chance to re-establish and get growers back into production again as soon as possible.”
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Graft ban growers’ poll Economic impact report due
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DAMNED IF we do, and damned if we don’t. That’s the likely reaction of many Te Puke Kiwifruit growers this week as they’re asked whether they will oppose a form of grafting (notch grafting) with new Psaresistant varieties. Using notch grafting, rather than cutting back to root stock, may give them some income next production season, but, according to Kiwifruit Vine Health, could threaten the success of the new varieties. KVH sent postal polling papers to Te Puke growers looking for 80% support for a ban on notch grafting as a practice with Zespri Gold varieties, G9 and G14. Many growers hope to graft these this winter to replace Psa-rav-
A LINCOLN report on the economic impact of Psa is due to be released this week. O’Neil says it will compare assisted recovery with non-assisted recovery and help in discussions with the Government and banks. Meanwhile a group of scientists at
aged Hort 16A. With notch grafting, canes are grafted onto one side of the old canopy thus allowing some fruit from the old vine to develop, perhaps providing some income next season. KVH believes it will hinder eradication of Psa and will not provide the best environment to establish the new varieties. It is not known how many Hort 16A growers in Te Puke were planning to use notch grafting, but
the University of Otago’s Department of Biochemistry recently released findings pointing to China as the most likely source of the Psa outbreak, ruling out Italy or Chile. They are now determining the pathway through which it entered New Zealand.
KVH hopes to get more idea of that at meetings this week. Grafting onto root stock does not carry the same risk, and 80-90% of Te Puke Gold growers have suitable root stock, KVH chief executive Barry O’Neil says. Leaving Hort 16A on vines risks high inoculum
of the bacteria being present in the orchard. “Where there’s widespread Psa there’s risk that if growers try to grow another crop of Hort 16A while at the same time grafting one of the new varieties they will end up infecting the new variety. You will end up with the same problems going for-
ward in Te Puke.” KVH has two meetings this week with growers in the Te Puke area. O’Neil says provided 80% of growers support the notch grafting ban, the KVH board will go to Zespri after its board meeting on April 26 seeking a change to its release mechanism. As long as Hort 16A orchards remain infected, there’s risk not only to investment in new varieties abut also to those continuing to grow green crops, he says. NZ Kiwifruit Growers Inc chief executive Mike Chapman adds that young G3 growth is more suscep-
tible to Psa than mature G3 growth. “So the chances of that G3 growth taking hold are not strong [with notch grafting].” Removing Hort 16A would mean no income for those growers; but with
the low chance of success for G3 if notch grafting is used, there would be no income anyway, he notes. If G3 gets a chance to establish, growers will have a sustainable crop in a couple of years.
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Fencing rule looms in Canterbury p eter bu r ke
The countdown’s begun in Canterbury for all farmers, not just dairy farmers, to keep intensively farmed stock out of waterways with a new rule coming into effect June 11. ECAN’s director of resource management, Kim Drummond, says for
some time the council has had a rule in its regional plan that “didn’t allow stock to have an adverse effect in a waterway”. That was a hard rule to enforce and the new rule is a step forward in the message to farmers they need to keep stock out of waterways, he says. There’s already a high
level of compliance by dairy farmers, through the Clean Streams Accord, and they’re well aware of their obligations, he adds. ECAN’s launched a publicity campaign in the run up to June 11. “We are holding meetings for farmers right across the region. As well
we are putting out newsletters and brochures and attending field days and A&P shows to get the message across.” Drummond says there’s been good buy-in from farmers who understand where the pressure is coming from for them to comply. However, it’s “quite a
challenge connecting with the whole farming community and there are still farmers that may not quite have got the message,” he adds. The new rule is linked with the Canterbury Water Management Strategy. Among other measures is funding to help with riparian planting.
BLNZ stance welcomed GREEN PARTY spokesperson on water issues, Eugene Sage, welcomes BLNZ chairman Mike Petersen’s waterway fencing stance (Rural News April 3). But she says requirement to keep cows, cattle, deer and intensively farmed sheep out of waterways is long overdue. A regulatory system that does this would ensure farmers doing the right thing aren’t undercut by those who don’t, she maintains. Some hill country streams may be impossible to fence, but other mitigating actions such as lower stocking rates and water troughs can help. Only two regional councils have specific rules in their regional plans prohibiting stock in waterways, she notes. “There is a need for national standards to fence stock out of streams. There has been a lack of leadership from Wellington.”
Report benchmarks water use Environment Canterbury released it’s inaugural Canterbury Region Water Use Report at the Irrigation New Zealand conference. “It’s about informing the community about the relationship between allocation of water and actual water use,” extension services manager Judith Earl-Gourlet (pictured) of ECan’s resource management group told Rural News. While the data in the first report, collected between July 2010 to June 2011, comes from only 11.5% of groundwater takes, and 7.1% of surface takes, more metering will increase coverage. Earl-Gourlet says if all takes of over 20 litres/second are measured, as will be mandatory from November this year, 97.4% of groundwater and 99.3% of surface water allocations would be recorded. The report 2010/11 report shows 52% of allocated groundwater monitored was used, and 49.5% of surface water. “It was a relatively average year for climate. We’re predicting next year’s report will show a lot lower use because it’s been a lot wetter year (this year).” The report is online at www.ecan.govt.nz.
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Wool Equities buys Otago mill YARNS CRITICAL to the New Zealand non-carpet wool textile industry will continue to be produced at Qualityarns’ Milton mill after Wool Equities, as part of a consortium, stepped in to buy the plant which was on the brink of closure. The Otago mill’s ability to make “almost anything” in wool yarn means it is essential for many knitters and weavers making uniquely New Zealand garments and other products, says Wool Equities chair-
man Cliff Heath. The new company will be known as Bruce Woollen Mill with Wool Equities owning 67%. The other shareholders are customers of Qualityarns. The purchase was confirmed just before Easter and the new board met last week with a number of details to finalise. The mill will be fully operational again in the next two to three weeks, with forward orders to crank up the operation, says Heath. “There’s a large number of downstream
landers are also returning to New Zealand-made as part of a resurgence of wool as a textile. “There is a growing resistance to some imported product; people are prepared to pay a little more to get a degree of quality and something they know is NZ made.” The mill’s product range includes handknitting yarns, fine worsted merino, possum merino, through to heavy textiles for coatings and blankets. It was capable of making carpet wool but that isn’t the consortium’s
processors dependent on that factory for their feed stock, so we are keeping this business going because it is a cornerstone of the New Zealand noncarpet wool and textiles industry.” Some profitable businesses were at risk had the mill not kept going, he adds. Although Qualityarns was not directly exporting, its yarn was finding its way overseas through second or third parties, especially in uniquely New Zealand products. Heath says New Zea-
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intention. Heath says it’s critical for farmers to understand every time a business in the New Zealand wool industry closes, there is one less buyer for their wool. “It is important to keep the New Zealand textile industry going … it
Station signs lucrative agreement “The quality of fibre that grower Tony Clarke has achieved with this wool is impressive,” say buyers from Japanese fine clothing manufacturer Konaka Co. Technical Advisor Hori-san (left) and chief executive Konakasan (centre-left) were among a delegation that visited ultra-fine merino producer Clarke (right) at Closeburn Station, Otago, earlier this month to sign a supply deal at about double the current market price. “Deals such as this offer a win-win for everyone,” says Craig Smith (centre) of H Dawson NZ which brokered the deal.
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Oilseed growers unite a n d rew swa l low
OILSEED RAPE growers in the Central South Island have formed a group “to foster the long-term sustainability of the industry.” The move’s been prompted by concerns their main customer, Biodiesel New Zealand, isn’t maximising the value of the product. “They dropped the price offered to us this autumn when international prices are rising,” says group leader and crop pioneer, Jeremy Talbot. “Some growers have pulled out, others have reduced area. But it’s a crop that’s got huge potential.” In his own case the $700/t contract offered this autumn, down from $770/t last year, has prompted him to halve his area. “I was considering 80ha, compared to 100ha last year. Now I’m thinking it will be 40ha or less.” Talbot says Biodiesel New Zealand is now focussing on the cooking oil market, rather than fuel, which is welcome because it’s a higher value market. However, he’s concerned
Biodiesel isn’t capitalising on the New Zealand crop’s attributes which could allow it to command a substantial premium over imported canola oils. “It’s guaranteed GE-Free, which you can’t say about any of
or other allegenics put through the plant.” Federated Farmers Grain chairman in South Canterbury, Colin Hurst, also says it’s good to see Biodiesel New Zealand moving into the food oil sector.
Oilseed rape growers group leader Jeremy Talbot harvesting the crop earlier this year.
the imports, and cold-pressed which means there are no residues of hexane or other solvents used overseas. “Another thing we can do, which most Australian, US, and Canadian crushers can’t do, is guarantee there haven’t been any peanuts
“It will be worth more. The fuel thing’s been struggling.” While it’s only a small part of his cropping rotation – with irrigation small seeds contracts are generally a better option – for some growers it’s a good fit, at the right price. “It’s another option and there’s
real market potential there. We import quite a bit of food oil. If we can replace it with domestic product and get import parity or better then that would be great.” Biodiesel New Zealand Agribusiness manager Nick Murney was unable to be contacted before this article went to press. In a letter to growers noting their concerns about the drop in price earlier this autumn, he said it was due to the price Biodiesel could sell its products – meal and oil - in the market. Low pump prices for diesel and the end of the Biodiesel Grants Scheme on June 30, which had subsidised the fuel to the tune of 42.5c/litre, meant the market focus would now be the food sector. Talbot sympathises with Biodiesel’s management over the end of the subsidy scheme and lack of certainty they’ve been given. “They’ve constantly been changing the rules and now they’re looking to sell state assets, [Solid Energy subsidiary] Biodiesel’s been hung out to dry.”
Council chair seeks board seat LIC SHAREHOLDERS Council chair Jenny Morrison is seeking a seat on the co-op’s board in light of the impending retirement of chairman Stuart Bay. “I enjoy the governance role and am not scared to challenge assumptions to ensure robust decision making,” says Morrison. Nominations for the board election closed last week with voting starting Monday (April 16) and running to May 14. A full list of candidates wasn’t available as Rural News went to press. Morrison says she will bring strengths in constitution development, leg- Jenny Morrison islation and negotiation to the board. Thames Coromandel District Council put her through the Hauraki Coromandel Development Group’s leadership training programme, and she’s gone on to complete a Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme through Lincoln University and the Institute of Directors certificate in company direction. She says she has a passion for rural New Zealand and believes she combines leadership skills with strong community values.
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aimed at understanding what consumers buy and their attitudes to food in general. The aim is to be able to target marketing at specific demographic groups they wouldn’t otherwise know about, Finch says. “It’s important that we get a lot of data in the retail food service area. We want to know consumers’ habits in respect of impulse buying and what makes them buy lamb ahead of other products.” Better information will allow exporting companies and BLNZ to devise better ways to influence consumers at the point of purchase. Finch says the expanding middle class contains more young people looking to high value lamb cuts. “You’ve got aspects of generations these days who are quite mobile, and more exposed to the world and food and the options on offer. However, I don’t think this will happen overnight. The lamb flaps go into hot pot and I
don’t think that is going to change.” Elsewhere in Asia there is still a focus on key established markets for beef and to a lesser degree lamb, Finch says. Japan, Korea, and Taiwan are important markets for a variety of cuts, partly because of animal health problems in other countries, he notes. “From New Zealand’s perspective, food safety is a key issue.” Important emerging markets for New Zealand include Indonesia, Thailand , India and the Philippines. “The interesting thing about those markets is [their] strong population [and] economic growth. All are very different and have their own features and characteristics. But overall where you’ve got population growth and rising incomes, then demand is going to increase.” Given our closeness to Asia, New Zealand is well placed to meet that demand, he says.
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Water, energy, food all linked
Attitudes changing says LAWF chair
Early this month, in Timaru, Irrigation New Zealand held its fourth biennial conference since it reformed in 2001. Andrew Swallow relays some of the headline messages. “YOU CANNOT talk about water over 5% of the world’s water.” In contrast, the greater Asiain isolation from other sectors of society,” global water strategist Pacific region has two-thirds of the Torkil Jønch Clausen told Irriga- world’s population but only a third tion New Zealand’s conference in of the water. “Some regions have very serious Timaru earlier this month. troubles, while others “We have to get out are blessed, but even of that water box and those blessed need to engage with the other manage water wisely.” sectors – food, energy,” Power generation the chair of the scienis a key factor in water tific programme comuse: in the EU and US mittee for World Water Week stressed in the Torkil Jønch Clausen 35-40% of water withdrawals are for energy conference’s opening use, mostly cooling powerstaaddress. Clausen outlined the “tremen- tions. “So energy is a major factor dous stress on what is a finite and in water use today.” And it works both ways, with vulnerable resource: big rivers are not reaching the sea, inland seas 7-8% of world energy used to pump are drying up.” But New Zealand is and treat water. “Yet 35% of [water] “very lucky” as we have “less than is wasted,” noted Clausen. It’s estimated in 30 years energy 1% of the world’s population but
demand will increase 60% which “adds to the [water supply] challenge and is an order of magnitude that is very serious.” Meanwhile drinking and cooking needs just 50L/person/day which “even the driest countries can provide” subject to political and financial means. But producing food takes 2500L/person/day. Farming already accounts for 70% of the world’s freshwater use, with irrigated farming delivering 40% of the world’s food off 20% of the land. Producing “more crop per drop” is the challenge, irrigated or not, says Clausen. “A lot of the world still depends on rain-fed agriculture. With irrigation you can do a lot more.” What we eat also has an impact:
cereals take about 1500L/kg to produce, sheepmeat about 10,000L/kg, and beef 15,000L/kg. “Forty-five per cent of all water embedded in food is in livestock.” Hence shipping meat is effectively shipping water – 15t of it for every kg of beef – exporting the resource from water-rich areas, such as New Zealand, to those short of water.” Clausen stressed Government and international policies need to straddle the silos of energy, food and water to account for their interdependence. “I don’t think the world faces a world water crisis; we don’t, but we face a crisis in governance in a world of uncertainty.... Our senior policy makers do not understand water per se. That’s why we talk about water as part of energy and food.”
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could look like’, and not just look at a list of problems to be overcome. If you could do that you could change the world.” An industry focussed more on leadership than management will help achieve that. “Put the manager part aside and bring out the leader part in us so the manager and leader parts are equal.” If that’s done there’s a “heroic future for New Zealand agriculture which
fixes all the problems as a consequence.” Ellyard’s view fits what he calls “planetism” – an attitude, notable among generation Y, that they’re part of a global society, ahead of nationalism or
We’re seeing a transition from the “cowboy to spaceship economy” and “interdependence” of nations. “The idea that we’re one humanity: we’re all planetists to one degree
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news 17 Secrets shared A REVIVAL of ‘growing your own’ has prompted Rural Women New Zealand to share members’ hands-on knowledge from the rural heartland in a new book, A Good Harvest – Recipes from the Gardens of Rural Women New Zealand. It includes 300 favourite recipes for jams, chutneys, sauces, relishes, pestos, marinades, cakes and more, and explains how to grow a good crop in the first place. Chapters are by individual fruit or vegetable, from ‘planting to plate’. Published by Random House, it is a companion volume to A Good Spread - Recipes from the Kitchens of Rural Women New Zealand, published 2010. Available online at www. ruralwomen+.org.nz
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and farm information to the consumer, depending on what they want to know. Then the farmer knows how much he’s making but more importantly, how he can change what he’s doing to make more.” If a farmer is consistently producing a carcass of great eating quality the whole idea is to pay him more, says Isaacs, but exactly how much more is not yet known.
“We don’t know the answer to that yet; that’s what we are working on right now. “Part of our consumer research is saying ‘how much can you extract from this eating experience and how can you pull that premium down the chain to the farmer?’ “Answering that question is vital to where we are trying to go; it will probably take another couple of years to do.”
Galloway breeders moot mainstream markets GALLOWAY CATTLE breeders are keen to see their stock accepted as a recognised meat breed, but it’s proving a long, slow process. “No one can predict the future and how this will go,” breed society Nelson region councillor Janice Beere told Rural News during the society’s recent annual meeting. “A number of breeders have gone commercial as well as having registered herds – keeping the bloodline as a speciality breed is important.” Some breeders in the south are “getting the animals out there,” based on their ability to cope with feed shortages and harsh conditions, plus high fertility, easy calving and good growth. The three day annual meeting in and around Nelson attracted more than 50 society members from the length of the country. Beere says it was a great success, despite some late arrivals due to delayed flights. The society’s next AGM will be in Waikato, date and venue to be decided.
in brief anz scoops bank accolade NATIONAL BANK has been rated the best agribusiness bank in New Zealand by financial services research and ratings group CANSTAR. CANSTAR compared five major agribusiness banks on value and quality of their products and services. ANZ New Zealand managing director Graham Turley says the award is testament to the commitment and hard work of the bank’s staff. “We are constantly looking at ways to grow the industry and support the people in it.” Strengths highlighted by the awards judges included the team of 173 agribusiness managers, a 24-hour agribusiness call centre, and free farming seminars.
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process and we look forward to following through with that. It is very good news indeed, but there’s a very long way to go on this.” Exports are important to Ireland’s 60,000 cattle farmers and China is the third-largest beef consumer and producer in the world. China became a net importer of beef for the first time in 2010 with 23,700t imported and 22,100t exported. That gap ballooned last year, with 33,900t imported and 17,700t exported. China banned Ireland’s beef shortly after it’s first BSE case was confirmed in 1989. Incidence has been falling since 2002 when 333 animals were confirmed with the disease. By 2009, only nine cases were detected with two in 2010
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Link to nitrous oxide rise AMERICAN CHEMISTS working with colleagues in New Zealand and Australia have shown increased nitrogen-based fertiliser use is responsible for the dramatic rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide. Researchers led by University of California at Berkeley report in Nature Geoscience how nitrogen isotope ratios in archived air samples from Antarctica and Tasmania provide a “fingerprint” of fertiliser use. Project leader Kristie Boering, a professor of chemistry and earth and planetary science says her team, including Dominic Ferretti, NIWA, is not vilifying fertiliser. “We can’t just stop using fertiliser… But we hope this study will contribute to changes in fertiliser use and agricultural practices that will help to mitigate the
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A2 milk moves in UK a n d rew swa l low
BRITAIN’S BIGGEST fresh milk supplier, Robert Wiseman Dairies, is offering the equivalent of a 5c/L premium for A2 milk. The firm, which in November announced a joint venture with A2 Corporation, says it has tested at least 8000 cows and begun building an A2 milk supply pool in the northwest of England’s Midlands, and in North Wales. The premium is a 9% mark-up on Wiseman’s current standard farmgate milk price of 28.43 pence/L, with conversion incentives and free A2 DNA-testing offered. Sean Uprichard, chief executive of a2 Milk (UK), says the aim is to launch a2 Milk there later this year, targeting “the growing market of people with a perceived intolerance to
milk and who don’t currently consume cow milk. “Results so far suggest most [UK] herds have about a third of cows with the A2 beta Casein protein which is required for a2 Milk, and we will work with farmers to help find the best solution to either convert their herd to solely A2 cows or segregate the A2 milk and offer appropriate financial assistance.” RWD says a2 Milk is one of the fastest growing grocery lines in Australia with at least 2% of the fresh milk market by volume. People who have self-diagnosed intolerance of milk but are not medically diagnosed lactose intolerant find their symptoms improved or completely alleviated by drinking a2 Milk, it adds. RWD procures, processes and distributes
almost a third of all fresh milk consumed in Britain. Earlier this year it was bought by non-listed German dairy giant Muller and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Müller Dairy (UK).
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20 agribusiness Half-year figures MEAT PRICES at record levels helped Landcorp Farming make a net operating profit of just under $11 million for the six months ending December 31, 2011. That’s up $3.2 million on the same period in the previous year and puts Landcorp on track for at least $20 million for the full 2011/12 year. Farm product revenues rose 14% to $104 million compared with last year. Meat prices were at historically
strong levels through the half year. Lamb prices (net/kg) were 31% ahead of last year; beef prices were up 14% and venison 15%. Livestock revenue was up 27% to $46.3 million due to higher prices for meat and store animals, and increased stock numbers. Dairy revenue was up 2.5% to $53 million on 5% growth in Landcorp’s milk production. Expenses for the half year rose to $87.1 million (2010/11: $80.5
million). Cost pressures remain high in New Zealand agriculture, particularly on fertiliser, fuel and other basic inputs. Landcorp’s farm working expenses rose 11.5% to $39.2 million, while personnel costs were up 5.2% to $23.1 million. Landcorp recorded a return to the Crown shareholder of $71.1 million for the half year, compared with $41.4 million in the previous corresponding period. See www.landcorp.co.nz
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THE HIGH New Zealand dollar is hurting, but fixedprice contracts for lamb will help give Landcorp a reasonably strong second half, says chief executive Chris Kelly.
“We fixed quite a lot of our lamb contracts this year early in the season. And we are able to hedge at a more favourable exchange rate. It’s an example of how fixed price contracts can work in farmers’ favour if they are prepared to commit to it and stick to it.” Landcorp fixed a lamb volume and price in New Zealand dollars with Tesco in the UK, effectively hedging that price against the pound.
long-run average was 57c. “There’s no doubt prices have come off in New Zealand dollars, due mainly to the exchange rate… the lamb schedule has dropped a lot in the last few weeks. Whether that continues to drop or not, we’re not sure. Fonterra is signaling a drop in their milk payout. Again that’s due to our strong dollar.” Commenting on a $7 million increase in costs to $87.1 million for the half
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“We can lock in a fixed price for the whole year and we know exactly what we are going to get for our lambs even if the schedule goes up or down or whatever.” Despite prices softening in Europe “the company we did the contract with was quite comfortable with the price they established and they are still selling lamb reasonably well,” Kelly says. “With the relative dearth of lambs for the past year or two because of the big conversion to dairying we’ve enjoyed some strong lamb prices and I think that will continue.” Landcorp chairman Jim Sutton, announcing the half-year result, warned about financial performance medium term because of uncertainties in the global economy. Kelly believes that again comes down to the strong New Zealand dollar at 82c last week when two to three years ago the
year, Kelly says a lot of the rising costs are hard to manage, such as rates and electricity. “We can manage the costs of inputs such as fertiliser and that sort of thing; we have arrangements with fertiliser companies and like all farmers we try to get a good deal. “But it’s the insidious ones we have no control over and we are not the only ones. Obviously I talk to quite a lot of farmers and they are all saying the same thing. Costs are starting to creep up.” Kelly says in general he is “pretty bullish” about prospects. “I would comment again about the exchange rate; at 81c it’s starting to bite and it’s pretty much at a record high and settling at that higher level. “But the general concept of the world wanting more protein… more milk, more red meat, will not go away. We are still a safe country to buy product from so I am pretty confident.”
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Farmers Mill bold move YOU’VE GOT to take your hat off to them. A South Island farmer group’s plans to build a flour mill is one of the boldest moves ever seen in the sector. They not only face a major factory construction project, and governance of the plant thereafter, also they’re entering a fiercely competitive market. The two remaining millers, Champion and Weston, are subsidiaries of multinational food giants. They’ve bought, closed, or simply outcompeted every other miller in New Zealand such that they’re the last two standing. They’ll defend their turf with cut-throat prices to customers and attractive premiums to suppliers. Both millers, through parent companies, have in-house customers, meaning a proportion of their market for flour or by-products is secure. If the Farmers Mill, as the new venture is being called, hasn’t done the same by signing a cornerstone customer – possibly as a joint-venture partner – then it’s going to find the going tough. But looking at the shareholders and directors of Grainstor, the storage company that’s spawned Farmers Mill, it’s a fair bet they’ve got their ducks lined up. Among them are some of the South Island’s largest cropping farmers, several with substantial interests in other farming sectors. At least one has a proven track record in developing a paddock-to-plate business, albeit in potatoes, and Grainstor chairman Murray Turley has some experience of mill ownership, through the Temuka flour mill, before it was sold to baker Couplands, which closed the plant about 2001. The challenge with marketing flour is, unlike potato crisps, generally it doesn’t take you to the plate: it’s a food ingredient for further processors. Milling is a notoriously competitive, low margin business in which manufacturing efficiency has been king. Yes, there may be increased demand today for locally grown ingredients, and more opportunity to differentiate with provenance and quality, but with at least one extra step in the supply chain, it is harder to sheet home added value to the farm. On the supply side, procurement is unlikely to be a problem. Between them, Grainstor shareholders still grow a huge heap of wheat, even though some are now big dairy farmers too. Meanwhile there are plenty of other growers who’ve had enough of the overseas-owned mills’ domination of the market and the pay-just-enough contract policies. Even if Farmers Mill’s contracts are out of the money by a few dollars in comparison to the incumbents’ newly jacked-up premiums, they’ll likely back the local operator. The competition for grain could raise bids for other crops too.
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the hound NZX asks about sex WOMEN’S AFFAIRS Minister Jo Goodhew recently welcomed an NZX consultation on gender diversity, saying it would encourage companies to appoint more women directors and senior managers. But if, as Goodhew points out, women hold only 9.3% of private sector directorships and most NZX100 companies have no female directors, couldn’t the reverse be true? After all, there seems to be a correlation between a lack of female directors and NZX success.
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Parental leave poses problem AND WHILE we’re on the subject of women in the workforce (see NXZ sex story), your old mate wonders whether it’s crossed MP Sue Moroney’s mind that nearly doubling the paid parental leave period to six months will hardly encourage employers to take on women, given they’re the ones most likely to use this allowance. With near record unemployment, now is not the time to be making such changes.
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LANDCORP’S HALFYEAR profit of $11m and 14% increase in revenue is a good result, as would be its expected $20 million profit for the year, with a $15m dividend going to its state owner. Little wonder chairman Jim Sutton appeared pleased. The former Labour MP, trade negotiator and minister of agriculture seems much more at home in his current role than he ever did among the school teachers and unionists of Helen Clark’s administration. Something of a homecoming for the onetime South Canterbury farmer.
LAST WEEK your old mate read vandals had spent a night destroying 1500 apple trees on a Hawkes Bay orchard. The owner said the scale of the damage suggested more than one person was involved and that they’d used loppers. Growers in Hawkes Bay have long struggled to get local fruit pickers, despite high unemployment rates in nearby towns. Could it be that some of the no-hopers who won’t get off their backsides for a day’s hard work had the energy to execute this act of pointless destruction? It’s a sad irony if so.
WAIKATO REGIONAL Council, which is rolling out a controversial requirement that farmers taking more than 15 cubic metres of water a day for dairy shed washdown and milk cooling get a resource consent, says farmers affected by this Variation 6 water allocation policy “should only need to go through a ‘relatively simple’ process.” Excuse me? Given what we know about the mire the contestable RMA process can be, the council’s prediction of a “relatively simple process” seems supremely optimistic.
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Environment opiate of masses? WITH ALL the force of a new religious crusade the environment is becoming the opiate of the masses. As a closet greenie from way back I still get goosebumps thinking about saving whales, dolphins, yellow-eyed penguins, kakapo and rainforests. Southland’s a recent addition to the must-save list, for me prompted by the departure of controversial Environment Southland chief executive, Ciaran Keogh – a mate of mine from way back when he was with the Clutha District Council. He was, and still is, known as an ideas man, usually a bit ahead of his time. Among his suggestions was replacing the Balclutha bridge because it was causing a traffic bottle neck. He was right, but this was sacrilege to locals. In Southland, his mission was a serious rethink of its dairy industry as the standard model was fast reaching the stage of too
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many hooves for the land to support. With many of the easy conversion farms already dairying, the industry needed a huge change to continue its momentum, with it forced out of its comfort zone, possibly onto less suited steeper country. The reality is dairying in Southland is an industry whose growth has exceeded all expectation. It’s meant management changes are having to be made much earlier than expected. These include identifying non-dairy soils, wintering restrictions, and housing. While there is nothing fanatical about these changes, there probably
needs to be an evangelistic group to give leadership. It seems some dairy conversions may struggle to get off the ground under proposed new regulations. Before he left Environment Southland, Keogh wrote to Fonterra bluntly pointing out the apathy of the cooperative (and some dairy interests) towards environmental performance. The letter was widely circulated and seemed to arouse the response the writer had intended. Having pointed out the obvious problems he also explained possible solutions. However, they all came with a significant cost in the early stages. Those in the industry were not greatly enthused about changing systems, but some farmers accepted the letter spelt out what was unavoidable. The obvious quandary is getting cows off the productive country during the winter. Run-off blocks sound reassuring but only
relocate the problem. Wintering barns or standoff pads, while costly, should deliver the greatest economic benefits. Their use will allow the industry to expand well beyond the traditional pastoral system. Here and overseas the increased production with barns or pads can be dramatic, assuming appropriate management. Keogh’s vision was of
every farm having a wintering ‘facility.’ With such facilities come other options: solar panels on roofs, biogas production from waste, joint-venture building. Whatever happens, the environment will become increasingly sacrosanct. President of Southland Federated Farmers Hugh Gardyne says all sectors of dairy must come together
when writing dairying regulations. These would be with forward-thinking industry leaders that represent the new age, not the stone-age. They would have the common objective of making economic progress without compromising the environment. According to Vaughan Templeton, a former Southland Feds Dairy chairman, progressive
rural leaders have been brought together recently by Environment Southland as the Water and Land 20/20 Steering Group. Its membership includes everyone using Southland’s waterways – large or small. Vaughan says the initial key is getting everyone to trust each other in a holistic approach. And it isn’t just about dairying.
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26 opinion No land ownership for non residents RE DAVID Anderson’s opinion piece (Rural News, Feb 21), I politely suggest he pulls his head down out of the clouds. Comparing the sale of our farmland with the sale of real estate in Auckland, etc, is most unfortunate, for this practice has seen housing pushed beyond the reach of many Kiwis and left many more with mortgages beyond their ability to pay. It resulted in Allan Bollard warning of the real estate sector – in Auckland in particular – distorting the New Zealand economy, and requiring the Reserve Bank to raise the OCR, its only means at that time of slowing the real estate market. This in turn pushed up the value of the $NZ thereby hurting every New Zealand exporter. I suggest no non-resident of New Zealand should be able to buy land here. Let non-Kiwis lease land and/or own buildings perhaps, but never our land. This
would reduce the price distortion that is destroying the viability of our way of life. For sure, it might mean people have to take a lower price, but then at least the price would be relative to our economy not someone else’s. As for downstream benefits, I guarantee if Kiwis can buy Crafar’s farms the downstream benefits will increase for all of us. They will still be farmed, developed and hopefully loved by people of this land. The Government, through Landcorp, have no right to assist a business incapable of running a dairy farm here to take our land. Also, the geographical spread of the Crafar farms makes a nonsense of selling them as one going concern. Split them up and sell them individually so we can make them work for New Zealand. Gerry Dekker, Raetihi.
TAF worth a call to the CC? IT WAS heartening to read last week (Rural News April 3) that Linda Presow-Virbickas’ second thoughts dovetailed neatly with the first impressions I got from the last Fonterra suppliers meeting. In my opinion, TAF is a misnomer and I’m surprised some shareholder (I’m only a sharemilker) hasn’t invited the Commerce Commission to run it past the Fair Trading Act. Sure it will allow cockies to swap a few shares for the old Fergi over the back fence, within the tight limits of fully sharedup versus dry shares criteria. The theoretical redemption-risk protection is unlikely to be able to cope with the reality of a serious crisis situation, because everyone will be in the same boat. Effectively shareholders will be able to mortgage their shares to improve their
debt/equity, in exchange for the loss of the ‘added value’ portion of their payout, and herein lies the rub. The gnomes of Zurich, Wall Street and all the other financial barracuda who stage-managed the last two global financial crises for their own fiscal gain will be looking for 12.5-15% return. That’s 60-70c/$4.75 share price, which Fonterra would only deliver if they cut the bulk milk price. The repercussions don’t bear thinking about. It is what the opposition, the minister and the Commerce Commission would all love. That would kill the cooperative quicker than non-supply shareholders with a seat on the board. Vote TAF and mortgage your soul. Don Blumhardt Ruakaka, Northland.
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Let’s celebrate our primary edge WHAT IS it with politicians wanting New Zealand to be like other countries? Back in the 1980s we had David Lange aspiring New Zealand to become the Switzerland of the South Pacific. Then in the 1990s Jim Bolger wanted us to all be Asians. Later, Helen Clark decreed Norway as the socialist utopia we should emulate. Even John Key talks about catching up with Australia. It’s all a bit like wanting your kids to be more like the ‘nice’ ones across the road – a fanciful idea that’s never going to happen. Now Labour’s newish leader David Shearer reckons it’s Finland we should be mimicking. In a much hyped speech last month, outlining his new found love of all things Finnish and his view of New Zealand’s future, Shearer criticised our economic performance saying “... We’re going to go right on relying on … a small basket of primary produce exports to earn our living ...” I don’t want to start another Gerry Brownleetype, international diplomatic incident by having a pop at Finland, but the only Finns David Shearer and the Labour Party should be promoting are the Te Awamutu-raised Tim and Neil and their musical endeavours. While David Shearer may view New Zealand relying on our primary products to earn a living as a major problem, I certainly don’t. While exporting the world’s best milk,
meat and other primary produce may not seem quite as trendy or de rigeur in social democrat circles as producing mobile phones, fact is New Zealand is good at it and the world is crying out for our primary products. Despite all this political rhetoric about change, New Zealand remains a world leading agricultural producer and exporter. And as a country – including our politicians – we should be proud of and celebrating this fact. Instead of looking at changing this, they should be investigating how we can do it even better. They need only look at the latest economic analysis of the value of pasturebased industries for the Pastoral Renewal Charitable Trust – the work of Business and Economic Research Ltd (BERL) – to see the vital contribution and continuing growth of the primary sector to New Zealand’s growth. Naysayers, such as Shearer, who bemoan New Zealand’s reliance on the primary sector for its economic well-being, need to read the BERL report. It points out how the farmgate value of dairy, sheep and beef products grew by 58% - from $10.2 billion in the 2006-07 season – to $16.3 billion in the 2010-11
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season. It also shows that if farmers can increase the quality and management of their pasture crop, pastoral farming can make an even greater contribution to New Zealand’s GDP – and deliver higher farm incomes and more jobs. In fact, the analysis concluded sustained investment in pasture
renewal has the potential to increase the farmgate value of pastoral products from $16 b/ann. to $19 b/ ann. and boost direct and indirect full-time employment associated with pastoral farming from 334,000 jobs to 390,000. These are impressive figures in any language – including Finnish!
No one would disagree with diversifying our economy and increasing our productive base. However, as Federated Farmer’s president Bruce Wills says, any technology success in New Zealand is likely to be in specialised manufacturing and information technology linked to agriculture.
Instead of politicians trotting out diversifying New Zealand away from agriculture as the next ‘big idea’ they should look at how they can implement policies to make the sector even more productive. Meanwhile, before David Shearer gets too excited about Finland, he should listen to Monty
Python’s lyrics about the country: ‘You’re so sadly neglected, and often ignored. A poor second to Belgium, when going abroad’. So let’s leave Finland to do what it is good at – bear hunting and Nokia phones. And concentrate on what New Zealand is good at – farming!
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Managing soil carbon sue e d m o n ds
validation, the better the price that can be asked for each unit.” Peter Floyd and his eCogent colleagues say they are able to do reli-
STORING CARBON in our soils may one day provide New Zealand farmers with yet another product to sell, delegates at an eCogent seminar in Hamilton last month heard. Our current ETS doesn’t make provision, yet, for selling soil carbon, but there are buyers on world markets hungrily looking for carbon credits just about anywhere, says Helen Robinson. Robinson, once chief executive of Microsoft NZ, set up the first carbon and environmental registry in the world, TZ1, at the behest of NZX in eCogent’s Carbon Search 2007. This was sold to the soil tester at work. worldwide registry company Markit Group in 2009 and she spent the next two years dashing around able soil carbon testing, and take many the world as global managing director, other measurements to determine what’s driving, or undermining, farm environmental markets. “The trick is to get a thoroughly profitability. They have built a trailerreliable and consistent measurement mounted machine to do deep soil testsystem, which will stand up to valida- ing, taking cores to 3m deep anywhere tion by any of the world’s knowledge- in New Zealand. Core samples are taken at fixed able experts. The more reliable the
points in pastures three times each year, and are backed up by visual soil assessments and lots of worm counting. It’s been suggested that, because New Zealand soils have fairly high levels of carbon, it won’t be possible to sequester more. But Floyd says what goes on in the soil itself only counts for 40% of the key performance indicators of sequestration. Of the remainder, 30% relates to pasture management on top: species, residuals, Brix levels, stocking rate and pasture growth. The final 30% is down to livestock management: calving or lambing dates, dry off dates, liveweight gain or MS/day production, etc. So there are plenty of things to tweak, says Floyd, And if you get enough of them right, and measure the difference they make, they could just grow you enough carbon to have credible units for sale. “Using several trial farms over the last few years we’ve already proved soil carbon can be increased, possibly up to 5% a year.”
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Many a slip with eye clips Wool was the topic chosen by the Pongaroa Focus Group for a recent Beef + Lamb New Zealand funded field day in Wairarapa – Peter Burke
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Raebone says stories about farmers who don’t bother preparing wool getting the same prices as those that do reveal a short-sightedness. “You’ve got to consider the customer who buys your wool further down the track. We’ve got to be selling a product people are happy buying and who want to keep coming back.” In his experience there is a price differential. “In our job we come across growers consistently passionate about their wool. They do it well, they always press it in new packs, so everything is 100%. These people consistently get top prices, whereas the ones who try to beat the system, that don’t take the care and don’t give attention to detail, are the ones who don’t get top dollar.” How a shed looks when the gang arrives can influence the outcome. “If the contractor turns up to the shed in the morning and walks into a pigsty, you’ll get a rubbish job. But if they walk
into a shed where the board has been washed and everything’s set out ready to go – tally books there, instructions on the white board – you’ll get a good job done. I also bet you’ll get a good price. It’s a mindset thing.” As shearing is only a once- or maybe twicea-year task, there’s little or no opportunity to put things right later. Employing an extra shed hand to class wool better will pay dividends. Raebone says, when times are tough that’s the time to raise the standards. A symptom of the lack of attention to wool is the fact many farmers don’t know exactly how many bales they’ve got, he notes. “You’d be staggered at the number of times we get a truck come in with one or two bales more than what the grower thinks he’s got. The reason is the pressers aren’t filling the tally books properly so they’re getting wrong numbers. Generally it’s more rather than fewer bales.”
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Shearer shares prep pointers DAVE BUICK is a sheep and beef farmer from Pongaroa, running 2000 stock units on steep hill country. But he’s also a shearer with his own gang of ten. At the field day (see opposite), besides demonstrating his skill, he advised how sheep and the shed should be prepared for the shearers’ arrival. “Preparation is everything. What you want the end product to be is directly related to the decisions you make earlier. “Make sure the sheep are emptied out and are nicely dagged and clean so they’re not going to have pen stain. Don’t put them in the scrub block prior to shearing, put them there when they have short wool.” As for the shed, keeping it clean is vital. Keep birds out to avoid droppings, grass and seed contamination. “Then there’s the cleanliness of the floor; that depends on what’s happened when you’ve been dagging. I recommend at least once a year giving the floor a good wash, and definitely give the woolshed a good clean-out every time you shear.” Sheds should be regarded as a proper workplace with good toilet facilities and made to look good. Scones with cream and jam also help, he jokes. But seriously, farmers should realise wool is a potentially valuable product on the sheep’s back that decisions at shearing can undermine. “If you’ve got a beautiful line of wool and you put those ewes in scruffy paddocks you’re going to contaminate the wool. If you don’t dag them when they get pen stain then more money is going to come off the final cheque. All these things – such as not removing raddle marks – are going to take away from the price you ultimately get.” Buick says he’s noticed farmers often drench just before shearing. While that seems okay 24 hours before shearing, when a farmer drenched in the morning just before shearing it was a different story. “The drench appeared to have caused a chemical reaction in their stomachs and they were tight and difficult to shear.” While this season’s rain and excess grass may have been
good from a production point of view, it’s caused problems with wool harvesting, he says. Keeping sheep dry was a problem and the holding paddocks needed to be cut because the grass was too long. “It was difficult emptying stock out and there was pressure on the animals themselves.”
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BERL SHOWED sheep and beef farms could boost farmgate value between 9% and 27% by increasing pasture renewal rates from the current norm of 2% a year, to 8%. Meanwhile dairy, where the norm is about 6% renewal, could increase output between 6% and 25% by increasing renewal rates to 12%. Nationally, adoption of such renewal rates could yield between $35 million and $196 million/year more from sheep and beef, and $43 million and $165 million/year from dairy, its report says. Across all sectors more frequent pasture renewal could take output from $16 billion to $19 billion in eight years. The study was commissioned by the Pasture Renewal Charitable Trust and is the second such study; the previous one was done in 2009. BERL director Kel Sanderson, who recently presented the findings of the 2011 analysis, says he had to do a lot of digging to get the numbers, but he’s confident in the figures produced.
BERL director Kel Sanderson presenting the report findings in Hamilton last month.
Pastoral product exports contributed 50% of increased exports from 2006-07 to 20102011 so pastoral products “had very largely pulled the New Zealand economy through this recession”. “We suspect if we had more continuous pasture renewal we could reduce the setbacks due to drought,” he adds. The Pasture Renewal Charitable Trust
was formed by a group of companies about five years ago because a lot had happened in pasture renewal technology, but the rate of uptake on farms was slow, said trust chairman Murray Willocks, of AgriSeed. “There was a period when grass was being taken for granted. The focus was more and more on the animal rather than what the animal had to eat.” he said.
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Welfare case response guide for farmers health. It’s mainly about helping people.” That’s echoed by Rose. “It gives WOULD YOU know what to do if good pointers on the sorts of quesyou suspected an animal welfare ‘sittions to ask, and emphasises the uation’ was developing on a nearby need to respect and support the farm? person.” A guide or ‘toolkit’, soon to be “We want them to try to It will also help farmers gauge released by MAF and Federated get away from the feeling the seriousness of the situation Farmers, aims to help. they are dobbing people they’ve come across, and the It’s a revision of an original appropriate course of action to booklet produced by Federated in and assist them in take, he says. Farmers, but this time MAF and situations where people A final draft of the revised industry bodies Dairy NZ, Beef + guide, produced and due for Lamb New Zealand, Deer Indus- need their help.” printing with MAF money but try New Zealand, NZ Pork and the “We want them to try to get away to be distributed by Feds, has been New Zealand Veterinary Association, from the feeling they are dobbing out for consultation with the parties have had input. “It’s a practical and user friendly people in and assist them in situa- involved and is “very close to sign type of book,” says Feds’ national tions where people need their help,” off,” says Rose. MAF has already released a similar board member David Rose, who has she told Rural News. “So many of the animal welfare guide for vets which is available online coordinated the revision. “We just hope we don’t have to use it very situations that arise happen because at www.biosecurity.govt.nz Click on people have other difficulties going Animal Welfare, then “publications”, often.” NZVA animal welfare coordinator on: family, financial, maybe mental and “other useful resources”. a n d rew swa l low
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year’s even though some local landowners say Otago’s rabbit population is reaching epidemic numbers. Alexandra Lions Club’s Dave Ramsay, organiser, says long pasture gave ample cover to the rabbits. The weather also favoured the furry foe. “It’s always a full moon at Easter, but this year it was clear and
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High stock health helps wool P E T ER BURK E
GOOD ANIMAL health and husbandry are vital for getting a good wool clip, says Dannevirke vet Simon Marshall, speaking at a recent Beef + Lamb field day, with a wool focus, at Pongaroa, southern Hawkes Bay. Marshall says some animal health issues often get overlooked, but if animal health is managed well the quality of the wool clip can be improved. Problems such as wool break and cotting, dermatophilosis, flystrike and lice are preventable and can be mitigated against with good management. Wool break, or fleece tenderness, is caused by poor nutrition, parasitism and pregnancy. All these divert energy away from wool growth. “Nutrition is obviously
a major factor,” Marshall says. “If you feed your sheep well when the wool is growing naturally fast in summer then you are going to get the biggest response. With parasites, energy is again diverted away from wool growth and again with pregnancy a ewe’s energy is being diverted into feeding the foetus.” A good drenching programme is important, as is making sure ewes identified at scanning as carrying twins are ‘preferentially fed’ especially in the latter stages of pregnancy. Farmers should do a feed budget so they know what to expect later in the year and if there is an adverse event be prepared to deal with it. Marshall points out that back in the 1980s it was estimated fleece tenderness (wool break) cost
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the industry at least $100 million. A pre-lambing
drench for ewes, if required, is one way of mitigating against wool break. Dermatophilosis or ‘lumpy wool’ can lead
to wool damage and loss. It is caused by a bacteria that gains entry when the wax layer on the wool is compromised. A ‘wetting event’ such as prolonged
rainfall or dipping predisposes sheep to this. Best to try to prevent this by including zinc sulphate in dips where possible, or treat if an outbreak occurs.
Also markedly affecting wool production is flystrike, usually in wetter, warmer regions during summer. Preventing fly strike must be a high priority, Marshall says. “There is a risk of high morbidity and mortality if a flystrike problem is left uncontrolled. As well as problems it causes to the animal it will affect wool production and quality. With flystrike a sheep takes some time to recover because it has to deal with the damage to the hide and re-grow its wool.” Flystrike also harms reproduction. “A lot of flystruck sheep don’t get in lamb. Vets and farmers note that at scanning time they often see dry ewes coming through with evidence of flystrike.” Once a farm has flystrike, the ‘horse has bolted’ to some degree, Marshall says.
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Biosecurity Network support call VETERINARIANS HAVE a moral obligation to support the National Biosecurity Capability Network, says Totally Vets chief executive Nigel Coddington, in the New Zealand Veterinary Association’s March newsletter Vets@ Work. The Feilding and Palmerston North practice is one of two so far signed up for the network of people and organisations ready to respond to a biosecurity emergency. “This is a necessary ini-
tiative that should have been done years ago,” says Coddington. “Hopefully it will not involve our practice in any way other than training and preparedness because otherwise it means the country is facing an animal health incursion.” The network has a range of organisations and individuals with skills, equipment, materials or services for field operations in biosecurity responses such as foot and mouth disease or other
“We would like to get all veterinarians involved in the network, particularly those in rural practice.” animal or plant diseases. It is managed by AsureQuality working with MAF. Coddington says it’s
economically not viable for the ministry to maintain a workforce just in case of a biosecurity emer-
gency so it makes sense to use existing capability. “However, like all private practice veterinarians we have a business to run so we require some assistance to cover the costs of our involvement.” NZVA says it supports the network but recognises resistance by veterinary practices to providing
a largely voluntary, unpaid workforce. Vets@Work reports AsureQuality biosecurity business manager Andrea Murray as saying participating veterinary practices can be involved in training and will be supported and paid if deployed in a biosecurity emergency. “We would like to get
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ONTARIO PROVINCIAL police and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency are hunting a flock of rare Shropshire sheep which disappeared from a farm hours before the animals were to be culled. Farmer Montana Jones had been fighting the cull ordered by the CFIA because the 41 animals were suspected of having scrapie. The missing sheep include 20 pregnant ewes. All the condemned animals had tested negative for scrapie but a sheep Jones sold to an Alberta farm in 2007 was found to have scrapie. It is not known if the sheep developed the disease before or after the sale, but officials placed Jones’ farm under quarantine in January 2009. The sheep were taken from Jones’ barn in an overnight operation and a note was left stating the animals were in “protective custody.” Jones says if the CFIA kills her pregnant mothers, there will be only 107 Shropshire females left in Canada. Shropshires are classified by livestock conservation group Rare Breeds Canada as being in critically low numbers. CFIA chief veterinary officer Brian Evans says it recognises disease control activities can be difficult for producers, but eradication of animal diseases such as scrapie “is critical to ensuring the long-term sustainability of the sheep industry.” Scrapie is a neurological, transmissable disease of sheep which has been linked to BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy). New Zealand is listed as scrapie-free by Biosecurity New Zealand, as are Australia, Argentina and South Africa.
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Cattle Internal Parasites Treatment 2012 BAYMEC INJECTION
Bayer NZ Ltd
BAYMEC POUR-ON
Bayer NZ Ltd
CONCUR CATTLE HIMIN
Bayer NZ Ltd
DUELL CATTLE
Bayer NZ Ltd
EON POUR-ON
Bayer NZ Ltd
IPLUS INJECTION
Bayer NZ Ltd
OUTLAW POUR-ON
Bayer NZ Ltd
SATURN POUR-ON
Bayer NZ Ltd
BOMATAK.C
Bayer NZ Ltd
Allied Farmers, CRT & Farmlands Allied Farmers, CRT & Farmlands Allied Farmers, CRT & Farmlands Allied Farmers, CRT & Farmlands
Concentration
Ingredient Dose Rate
Formulated Dose Rate
Withdrawal Meat
Milk
Safety Margin
Abamectin
10mg/mL
0.2mg/kg
1mL/50kg bwt
49 days
49 days
3x dose rate
Abamectin
10mg/mL
0.5mg/kg
1mL/20kg bwt
Nil
3x dose rate
Oxfendazole Levamisole Albendazole Levamisole
90.6g/L 160g/L 100 g/L 75 g/L
4.53mg/kg 8mg/kg 10mg/kg 7.5mg/kg
1mL/20kg bwt
Cattle: 35 Bobby calves: 16 Deer: 28 10 days
6 days
3x dose rate
1mL/10kg bwt
14 days
35 days
3x dose rate
Allied Farmers, ATS, CRT, Eprinomectin Farmlands, PGG Wrightson, RD1
5mg/mL
500µg/kg
1mL/10kg bwt
Nil
Nil
5x dose rate
Allied Farmers, CRT & Farmlands ATS, PGG Wrightson, RD1 Allied Farmers, CRT & Farmlands All sellers
Ivermectin Clorsulon Abamectin Levamisole Abamectin Levamisole Oxfendazole
10mg/mL 100mg/mL 10mg/mL 200mg/mL 10mg/mL 200mg/mL 90.6/L
0.2mg/kg 2mg/kg 0.5mg/kg 10mg/kg 0.5mg/kg 10mg/kg 4.5mg/kg bwt
1mL/50kg bwt
28 days
14 days
1mL/20kg bwt
42 days
42 days
3-5x dose rate 3x dose rate
1mL/20kg bwt
42 days
42 days
3x dose rate
1mL/20kg bwt
10 days
72 hours
BOMATAK.C MINERALISED Bayer NZ Ltd
All sellers
Oxfendazole
90.6/L
4.5mg/kg
1mL/20kg bwt
10 days
72 hours
BOMATAK POUR-ON
Bayer NZ Ltd
All sellers
Oxfendazole
75g/L
15mg/kg bwt
1mL/5kg bwt
21 days
7 days
10 x dose rate 2-3 times dose rate 5 x dose rate
BOMECTIN INJECTION
Bayer NZ Ltd
RD1
Ivermectin
200µg/kg
1mL/50kg bwt
21 days
21 days
Bayer NZ Ltd BOMECTIN GOLD POUR-ON Jurox NZ Ltd STRATEGIK MINERALISED COMBO DRENCH FOR CATTLE Jurox NZ Ltd PARAMECTIN INJECTION
RD1
Abamectin
0.2mg/kg
1mL/ 20kg bwt
35 days
Nil
OTC stores
Albendazole Levamisole
10mg/mL (1% w/v) 10mg/mL 1% w/v 100g/L 75g/L
10mg/kg 7.5mg/kg
1mL/10kg liveweight
10 days
35 days
3-5 x dose rate 3 x label dose rate 3 x dose rate
OTC stores
Abamectin
10mg/mL
0.2mg/kg
1mL/50kg bwt
49 days
49 days
3 x dose rate
PARAMECTIN POUR-ON
Jurox NZ Ltd
OTC stores
Abamectin
10mg/mL
0.5mg/kg
1mL/20kg bwt
35 days
Nil
3 x dose rate
ALLIANCE
COOPERS
All outlets
10 days
35 days
3x dose rate
COOPERS
All outlets
10 days
35 days
3 x dose rate
COOPERS
All outlets
1mL/10kg bwt
10 days
144 hours
3 x dose rate
SCANDA SELENISED
COOPERS
All outlets
1mL/10kg bwt
10 days
144 hours
3 x dose rate
ALBENDAZOLE C
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
80g/L 2g/L 45.3g/L 80g/L 45.3g/L 80g/L 150g/L
1mL/10kg bwt
SCANDA
Levamisole Abamectin Oxfendazole Levamisole Oxfendazole Levamisole Albendazole
4.53mg/kg 8mg/kg, 0.2mg/kg 8mg/kg 0.2mg/kg 4.53mg/kg 8mg/kg 4.53mg/kg 8mg/kg 10mg/kg
1ml/10kg bwt
CONVERGE
Oxfendazole 45.3g/L Levamisole, Abamectin 80g/L, 2gL
1mL/15kg bwt
14 days
35 days
ECLIPSE POUR-ON
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
35 days
Veterinary outlets
1mL/10kg bwt
91 days
91 days
3 x dose rate
ARREST C
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
1mL/10kg bwt
14 days
35 days
3 x dose rate
OXFEN C PLUS
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
1mL/20kg bwt
10 days
35 days
3 x dose rate
OXFEN C HI MINERAL
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
0.5mg/kg 10mg/kg 0.5mg/kg 30mg/kg 10mg/kg 7.5mg/kg 4.5mg/kg 7.5mg/kg 4.5mg/kgmg/kg
35 days
Merial Ancare
10mg/mL 200mg/mL 5mg/mL 300mg/mL 100g/L 75g/L 90.6g/L 150g/L 90.6g/L
1mL/20kg bwt
GENESIS ULTRA POUR-ON
Abamectin Levamisole Abamectin Triclabendazole Albendazole Levamisole Oxfendazole Levamisole Oxfendazole
10 x dose rate 3 x dose rate
1mL/20kg bwt
10 days
5 days
5 x dose rate
DOUBLE STRENGTH OXFEN Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
Oxfendazole
45.3g/L
4.5mg/kgmg/kg
1mL/10kg bwt
10 days
5 days
GENESIS POUR-ON
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
Abamectin
10mg/mL
0.5mg/kg
1mL/20kg bwt
35 days
Nil
10 x dose rate 3 x dose rate
GENESIS INJECTION
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
Abamectin
10mg/mL
0.2mg/kg
1mL/50kg bwt
49 days
49 days
3 x dose rate
IVOMEC PLUS INJECTION FOR CATTLE IVOMEC INJECTION FOR CATTLE AND PIGS EPRINEX POUR-ON
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
0.2mg/kg 2.0mg/kg 0.2mg/kg
28 days
14 days
Veterinary outlets
1% 10% 1.0% w/v
1mL/50kg bwt
Merial Ancare
Ivermectin Clorsulon Ivermectin
1mL/50kg bwt
28 days
35 days
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
Eprinomectin
0.5% w/v
500mcg
1mL/10kg bwt
Nil
EXODUS POUR-ON
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
Moxidectin
0.5% w/v
500mcg
1mL/10kg bwt
Nil cattle 7 days deer Nil
MATRIX C
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
Abamectin, Levamisole 4g/L 0.2mg/kg 1mL/20kg Oxfendazole 160g/L, 90.8g/L 8mg/kg, 4.5mg/kg bodyweight
14 days
35 days
20 x dose rate 20 x dose rate 5-10 x dose rate 10 x dose rate 3x
SWITCH C HI-MINERAL
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
21 days
35 days
3x
NOROMECTIN INJECTION
Norbrook NZ Ltd
49 days
NOROMECTIN POUR-ON
Norbrook NZ Ltd
Ivermectin
0.5% w/v
0.5mg/kg
1mL/10kg bwt
21 days
Not allowed (note 1) 11 milkings
PARAFEND LV
Norbrook NZ Ltd
Oxfendazole
90.6g/L
4.53mg/kg
1mL/20kg bwt
10 days
72 hours
20 x dose rate 10 x dose rate 5 x dose rate
FASINEX 10
Novartis
Vets, Agmax, some OTC Vets, Agmax, some OTC Vets, Agmax, some OTC All outlets
1mL/20kg bodyweight 1mL/35kg bodyweight 1mL/50kg bwt
3x
Veterinary outlets
0.2g/kg 8mg/kg 0.2mg/kg 6.37mg/kg 0.2mg/kg
35 days
Merial Ancare
4g/L 160g/L 7g/L 223g/L 1.0% w/v
14 days
ECLIPSE E INJECTION
Abamectin/ Levamisole Eprinomectin/ Levamisole Ivermectin
Triclabendazole
10%
12mg/kg
6mL/50kg bwt
28 days
5mg/mL 300mg/mL 1% w/v
0.5mg/kg 30mg/kg 0.2mg/kg
1mL/10kg bwt
91 days
Not allowed (note 1) 91 days
20 x dose rate 3x dose rate
1mL/50kg
cattle 35 days
35 days
5 x dose rate
Nil
FASIMEC CATTLE POUR-ON Novartis
All outlets
CYDECTIN INJECTION FOR CATTLE AND SHEEP CYDECTIN POUR-ON FOR CATTLE AND DEER CYDECTIN PLUS FLUKE POUR ON FOR CATTLE DECTOMAX INJECTABLE
Pfizer Animal Health
OTC/Vet
Abamectin Triclabendazole Moxidectin
Pfizer Animal Health
OTC/Vet
Moxidectin
0.5% w/v
0.5mg/kg
1mL/10kg
Nil
Nil
5 x dose rate
Pfizer Animal Health
OTC/Vet
0.5mg/kg 20mg/kg 0.2mg/kg
84 days
84 days
5 x dose rate
Veterinary outlets
0.5% w/v 20% w/v 1% w/v
1mL/10kg
Pfizer Animal Health
Moxidectin, Triclabendazole Doramectin
1mL/50kg bwt
35 days
35 days
DECTOMAX POUR-ON
Pfizer Animal Health
Veterinary outlets
Doramectin
0.5% w/v
0.5mg/kg
1mL/10kg bwt
35 days
VALBAZEN MINERALISED CATTLE
Pfizer Animal Health
All outlets
Albendazole
150g/L
7.5mg/kg
1mL per 20kg bwt 1mL per 15kg* bwt
7 days
Parasite Maturity
Tric. Axei
Active Ingredient
Ostertagia Type II
Available through
Ostertagia
Company
Haemonchus
Product
Abomasum
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Tapeworms Monezia
L/worms Dictyocaulus
Trichuris
Lge Intestine
Chabertia
Oesphagostomum
Trichostrongylus
Bunostomum
Cooperia
Nematodirus
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This survey will give a ready and easy-to-follow reference to the efficacy and spectrum of the many cattle anthelmintics available. It is compiled from information supplied by animal health companies. While the information has been verified by our animal health advisor, Rural News cannot accept responsibility for any inaccuracies. Key to survey: Note 1: Do not use in lactating cattle when milk is to be used for human consumption, or ★★★ = 95% to 100% efficacy within 28 days prior to calving. ★★ = 75% to 95% efficacy Note 2: Extra care must be taken to use the correct dose in calves under 100kg, particularly ★ = 50% to 75% efficacy if they are in light body condition because they may be susceptible to overdosing. COMMENTS... ND = Not detected Controls sucking lice. Has persistent activity against Cooperia and Ostertagia. Must be administered subcutaneously.
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Also for the control of internal and external parasites in deer. Also for the treatment and control of biting and sucking lice. Extended activity 14 days Cooperia, Ostertagia. Rainfast.
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Low dose formulation ideal for cattle.
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Contains eprinomectin. Nil milk, meat and bobby calf withholding period. Suitable for beef and dairy cattle. Also for the treatment and control of sucking lice. ★★★ Also for the control of sucking lice, Chorioptes spp. and Psoroptes spp. mites and biting lice. Persistent activity – up to 14 days Ostertagia ostertagi, up to 7 days Cooperia spp, up to 21days Dictyocaulus viviparus.
Outlaw Pour-on is also highly effective in the treatment and control of mature and immature strains of Cooperia spp resistant to the endectocides (including eprinomectin and doramectin). Levamisole is also very active against benzimidazole-resistant strains. Also for the treatment and control of sucking lice in cattle. Saturn Pour-on is also highly effective in the treatment and control of mature and immature strains of Cooperia spp resistant to the endectocides (including eprinomectin and doramectin). Levamisole is also very active against benzimidazole-resistant strains. Also for the treatment and control of sucking lice in cattle. Ovicidal.
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Contains selenium, copper, cobalt, zinc and iodine. Ovicidal.
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Also controls sucking and biting lice and mange mites. Persistent activity 14 days for Cooperia, 14 days for Trichostrongylus, 21 days Oesophagostomum, 28 days for Dictyocaulus, 21 days for Ostertagia. Rain resistant.
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Persistent activity: Oesophagostomum 7 days, Ostertagia, Cooperia, Trichostrongylus 14 days, Lungworm 21 days. Do not treat calves under 16 weeks of age.
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Persistent activity: Ostertagia spp, Cooperia spp 14 days.
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ALLIANCE is a triple combination oral drench for cattle and sheep. ALLIANCE contains: 25mg Cobalt and 5mg Selenium per 5mL dose.
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CONVERGE is a dual combination oral drench for cattle and sheep. CONVERGE contains: 25mg Colbalt and 5mg Selenium per 5mL.
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SCANDA is a dual combination oral drench for cattle and sheep.
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SCANDA SELENISED is a dual combination oral drench for cattle and sheep. SCANDA SELENISED contains: Colbalt 0.4mg/mL and Selenium 1mg/mL.
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Controls sucking lice. Has extended activity for 28 days against Trichostrongylus, Ostertagia L4, Haemonchus spp and 21 days against Oesophagostomum and Ostertagia spp and 14 days against Cooperia. Must be administered subcutaneously. Also available with B12. Contains 2mg/ml Vitamin B12. No sting formulation. ★★★ Also for the simultaneous control of sucking lice, psoroptes sp mites and aids in control of biting lice and chorioptes mites. Label claim for persistent activity – product continues to control certain worms for 7-21 days after treatment. (Lungworm and hookworm 21 days, Ostertagia 14 days, Cooperia spp. Up to at least 7 days.) NZ studies show product is effective (>95%) against adults. Simultaneous control of external parasites including sucking lice and aids in control of biting lice. Label claim for persistent activity product continues to control certain worms for 7-21 days after treatment. (Lungworm and hookworm 21 days; Ostertagia 14 days, Cooperia spp. up to at least 7 days.) Weatherproof including rainfast. Bobby calves from treated cows have no withholding period. Controls roundworms and lungworm. Approved for use in all ages and classes of deer at same dose volume and rate as for cattle. For control of sucking and biting lice and manage mites (sarcoptes and chorioptes). Has label claim for increased milk production.
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Rainfast. Not adversely affected if applied when the hide is wet or if rain falls shortly after treatment. Also controls sucking and biting lice, mange mites. Persistent activity against re-infection up to 28 days for Ostertagia, Trichostrongylus axei and Dictyocaulus and up to 21 days against Cooperia, Oesophagostomum and Bunostomum.
★★★ ★★★ ★★★ Contains 6.8g/L Copper, 1.5g/L Selenium. *1mL per 15kg for Liver fluke. Ovicidal to worm and fluke eggs of cattle. ★★★
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CVT utility runs on 100% bio-diesel CAREFUL PAIRING of engine and transmission, and 100% bio-diesel capability are key features of Power Farming’s medium-power offering from SAME-Deutz Fahr. This company’s SAME Silver Continuo has a CVT gearbox developed and made by SDF specifically to match its own group’s Deutz Tier III engine, a 4-cyl. turbo, the New Zealand distributor says. Says national product manager Ken Bill, “This is a day-to-day utility tractor – flexible and with transmission suited to repetitive tasks such as feed loading that demand a smooth transition between forward and reverse, and within a speed band.” Electronically controlled power lifting at the rear eases the driver’s task, so does the variable transmission, Bill says. The transmission delivers power in a stepless gradient as ground speed
rises, matching load and ground conditions. It has two ranges: heavy duty and normal. Set to heavy and the tractor can operate in a band of ground speed from 1km/h to 24km/h; normal range takes that up to 40km/h. Driving the Continuo is as simple as
a car thanks to the electronic systems handling engine speed and power delivery (no programming); in manual mode the throttle reverts to a straight accelerator. A third driving mode (PTO) is chosen automatically with activation of the PTO, ensuring a constant PTO speed is maintained regardless of terrain and conditions, the foot throttle adjusting for forward speed while engine speed remains steady. The operating speed can then be stored and deactivated by push-button.
The transmission’s ‘power zero’ function averts the need to use the braking system when having to stop on slopes. A proportionally engaged PTO system also ensures the transmission is protected from sudden load peaks. Four PTO speeds are on offer with that proportional control. The hydraulic system has two valves with fully programmable flow rates for multiple implement use. The system also delivers energy savings of up to to page 40
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2kw, thanks to flow sensing solenoid valves that determine whether hydraulic oil flow is required, and diverting unneeded oil back into the transmission. Cab location slightly forward of the rear axle and a short bonnet give good visibility, and rear vision to the drawbar is on a more user-friendly angle than most brands, Power Farming says. Turning circle is 3.55m.
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A new mobile weighing platform with three-way drafting, built for bigger farms or where properties are some distance from each other, is on offer from Permbrand S.I. Ltd. “Being able to use the scales at different locations is a cost saving to farm owners,” said manager of Permbrand S. I. Ltd, Steve Waters. Built on a tandem axle trailer, the platform is raised and locked for travelling, then lowered for use. An electro/hydraulic mechanism per-
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forms the raising and lowering. When positioned and lowered it sits on the ground and can be used at the end of a race or gateway, with railings and panels to direct the stock after weighing. The mobile platform has Gallagher weigh scales sitting on the weigh cells, with an EID reader panel. Figures recorded can be downloaded to home computers for storage.
“For weighing to check on growth rates or to draft stock for selling, accurate figures are paramount,” Waters says. The animal enters the platform, the rear gate shuts, the weight is recorded and the three-way gate system changes according to the weight options already programmed. The gates are operated by air rams from a portable air compressor. www.permbrand.co.nz Tel; 03 347 3171
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NOW YOU’VE built the business and its plant, who will look after it all? That problem has been solved in New Zealand for 25 years by Programmed Maintenance Services – now renamed Programmed Property Services. This Australian company (founded in the 1950s) lists among its New Zealand agribusiness clients Fonterra, PGG Wrightson, AgResearch and RD1, also Wharekauhau Lodge and Country Estate, Wairarapa; Ruanui Station, Taihape, and Mount Alexander, Maniototo. Now looking to service more farmers, Programmed points out the “ever increasing maintenance dilemma” facing agribusiness, says national sales manager Tony Jane. “This is a distraction management doesn’t need,” Jane says. “Take a large farm with, say, 10 buildings – houses, woolsheds or dairy sheds, barns, equipment sheds, pump houses, etc.
“The bill could amount to $150,000 to paint them all. The alternative offered by the company would be to have a Programmed plan for, say, 10 years at $16,000 per year. The company would prepare and paint as well as come back, clean the buildings and carry out maintenance to keep them in good condition.” Programmed’s 15 New Zealand branches employ or retain staff expert in painting, building
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“We’re proud of our achievements, especially with farming clients,” Jane says. “We have a workforce of at least 200 skilled staff, trades people and apprentices. “And we have four maintenance programmes for customers to choose from – different levels of
involvement to cater for all budgets and requirements.” The company recycles waste materials from painting jobs, including leftover paint; sends empty plastic paint buckets to council recycling centres; sends empty paint cans to metal recyclers; and collects and chemically treats waste water from washing paintbrushes.
Clever gear foils thieves THIEVES IN Britain are using jammers to block security system signals as they steal NZ$2.9 million of farm machinery a week. Stolen vehicle recovery firm Tracker says police need to tackle growing use of GPS jammers. It told a Lancashire farm crime conference that thieves are using cheap, imported GPS jammers to steal prestige cars and 4x4s, and now are branching out into pinching farm gear. Rural insurer NFU Mutual confirms GPS jamming is widely used. Tracker sells a system (GSM, GPS and VHF technology) resilient to GPS jamming. It works much as an electronic homing device and is recovering about NZ$3.9 million of stolen vehicles and gear a month. The system places a covert transmitter on the owner’s vehicle, showing no sign to a thief that there’s a security device onboard. The signal is then tracked by any UK police force, directing them to the exact location of the stolen vehicle. “Systems that rely on GPS alone are susceptible to jamming, confirming the potential weakness of most tracking devices available today,” a Tracker spokesman told the conference. “The current over-reliance on GPS as a security and recovery system increases the threat of jammers. Although GPS has a part to play, it is vital we recognise the impact of its vulnerability and put a stop to businesses becoming victims of jamming devices.”
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Soil prep as usual in direct-drill setting KUHN SPENT three years developing its Striger cultivator (for preparing soils for seeding in strips) with input from farmers of different backgrounds, says marketer Kuhn New Zealand. Notably, the Striger “provides conventional soil preparation in a direct drill context – a means of lowering production costs without affecting the output.” In operation, first prepare; then proceed with seeding while giving the soil time to increase in temperature. Says Kuhn, use this implement for soil preparation and achieve a number of advantages: • Increase soil temperature in the drilled band for faster germination. • Preserve moisture contained between the rows, and rainwater infiltration channels between the rows to limit soil erosion. • Loosen soil with fine tines without creating a deep pan. • Preserve organic matter on the soil surface and limit weed emergence between rows by containing the flow of soil worked on the seeding row.
• Position fertiliser underneath the seeding line. • Save time and fuel. The range will come in several versions – single bar or foldable. Spacing available as standard ranges from 450-
800mm in models with four to 12 rows. All soil preparation components are spring assisted to work in stony conditions. The machine will also work in different soil conditions and with
different organic matter. Starshaped, height-adjustable trash removers give bestpossible cleaning of trash from the seeding line. Wavy discs that channel the soil flow are adjust-
able to create a strips 100-200mm wide. Light ridging is also possible. Tines (carbide coated) are adjustable to working widths up to 300mm.
Press wheel pressure is also adjustable “to ensure a seedbed without hollows,” Kuhn says. Tel. 0800 585 007 www.kuhn.co.nz
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More crop/ha, no digging EXTRA LAND is in production today thanks to growers’ use of GPS Corner Guidance technology, says the New Zealand marketer, Lindsay International Ltd, Feilding. Developed as an option for Lindsay Corporation’s Zimmatic irrigators, the 9500CC Custom Corner system increases land use and gives more irrigation flexibility, the company says. The GPS-guided 9500CC averts the use of buried wire for irrigator guidance. This allows for easier path adjustment if needed in future seasons. And it saves time and labor during installation. Murray Pike, Ashburton, recently installed GPS Corner Guidance on his Zimmatic 9500CC Custom Corner systems, chiefly because it needs no buried wires. “We have water lines running under the field feeding other irrigation systems on our farm and we didn’t want to have to tear them up, so this was a key benefit for us,” Pike says. “And we do some sub-ripping in the fields and now don’t have to worry about the sub-rippers pulling up cables.” GPS Corner Guidance uses a real time kinematic (RTK) correction signal emitted from a built-in base station to provide a
precise corner arm path without the need for traditional buried wire guidance. Third-generation Nebraska, USA, farmer Neal Hentzen recently bought a 9500CC irrigator with GPS Corner Guidance. The unit is located on land previously flood irrigated.
manager for Australasia. “The 9500CC can even be moved to a different field, if needed, without the extra expense of additional guidance wire.” Tel. 0800 438 627 www.zimmatic.com
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Now here’s the weather SPRAY APPLICATORS using John Deere machines are offered this maker’s Mobile Weather equipment to obtain – in the field – “precise weather information to make proper product application and other weather-related decisions.” Mobile Weather uses a weather sensor connected to JD’s Application Controller 1120. It presents real-time weather information including wind speed and direc-
tion, Delta T, and temperature and relative humidity on the John Deere GreenStar 2 or GreenStar 3 displays. The GreenStar 3 2630 display is capable of recording weather data, which can be transferred to Apex or other brands of farm software for analysis and record keeping. According to a John Deere spokeswoman, Mobile Weather enables operators to decide in the
cab about which products they will apply and how, based on locationspecific weather data. Also, operators need not rely on hand-held devices or make multiple stops to manually check and record weather conditions during spray jobs. “Mobile Weather is perfect for producers or applicators who need to capture weather information as part of their record keeping, documentation and data analysis, or
for maintaining government compliance. It integrates easily into existing sprayer and GreenStar displays.” The equipment has brackets for mounting on John Deere 4940, 4930, 4830 and 4730 Self-Propelled Sprayers with GreenStar displays. It can be programmed to warn the operator when weather conditions are outside preset parameters . Tel. 0800 303 100
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Use your thumb to draft FARMERS CAN now remotely set up the drafting of cows for next milking from any location with cellphone coverage, and in the time taken to send a text. This is a feature of the new LIC Protrack Drafter released this month. It works on Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices. Says LIC general manager farm systems Rob Ford, “Farmers enter the cow numbers into their device and the direction they want to draft them, then once they get back within range of their shed it will sync with the Protrack Drafter system. Milking will take place, as normal, and Protrack Drafter will draft those cows out, as instructed.” This identifies cows by identifying their EID tag as they leave the shed after milking; then it drafts them as instructed, automatically. “It’s a simple, low-cost, extra pair of hands, at a moderate
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price,” Ford says. Nick and Wendy Vollebregt took part in a trial last year on their Kiwitahi farm. “We installed the original Protrack Drafter in 2011.... The new features make it user friendly and the mobile application is good.... It’s handy for when I have all the cows in the yard, and see one that needs drafting.” to page 45
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Popular front links, PTOs ex stock FRONT LINKAGES and front PTOs are among the Zuidberg Frontline Systems products now marketed exclusively in New Zealand by Schouten Machines, Gore. Schouten expects to supply ex stock by late April. The company, which opened here in 2009, is a subsidiary of Schouten, Netherlands, maker of feedout wagons, slurry
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systems and other farm and turf care machinery. Zuidberg Front Line Systems, also a Netherlands-based manufacturer, is prominent in front linkage and PTO systems. In business 30 years, and certified ISO 9001:2000 compliant, it now makes 23,000 linkages and 11,500 PTOs per year for factory or retro fitting. Schouten Machines managing director Marcel
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World design acclaim for Rangie RANGE ROVER’s Evoque has been picked the shortlist, then each of 66 named World Design Car of the World Car Jurors cast a vote. The Year 2012, taking its awards tally to jurors are automotive journalists from 25 countries. 100. “This prestigious accolade recognises the positive response that we have “It is a car that truly received to the Evoque’s resonates on an emotional bold and dramatic design,” level. We are honoured.” said Gerry McGovern, Land Rover’s design director. “It is One of the panel of five was Silvia a car that truly resonates on an emoBaruffaldi, managing editor of Auto & tional level. We are honoured.” The Evoque was shortlisted from Design magazine, who said: “True to an original 46 nominations and beat the concept car it derives from, it is off competition from two other final- a contemporary automotive design ists – the Citroen DS5 and the Volk- masterpiece. Besides not having equals on the markets, it is able to swagen Up! A design panel of five experts deliver the Land Rover DNA in a
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