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SOME DAIRY farmers in flood-hit Edgecumbe face hefty financial pressure as the impact of the floods is realised. Federated Farmers Bay of Plenty president Darryl Jensen, who is helping coordinate the recovery operation in rural areas, says if cows need to be dried off those farmers will lose about eight weeks of production. “On top of this, many will have to spend money getting their farms up and running.” Last week, the Government classified the flooding from Cyclone Debbie as a medium-scale adverse event. This provides for extra recovery assistance
including recovery coordination, more support from Enhanced Task Force Green teams and the Bay of Plenty Rural Support Trust, and tax flexibility. Jensen says about two dozen dairy farmers in the flood-hit Edgecumbe area have had to send their stock away because of the damage to their properties. “About half the farms were totally underwater and had to get all their stock away,” he says. “Farms close to Edgecumbe tended to be inundated
with water, while those further out near Taneatua tended to be affected by silt.” Jensen says some kiwifruit orchards in the area have been affected and maize crops damaged. Some farmhouses have had water through them, but many houses and dairy sheds built on higher ground are not so badly affected. Jensen says Urban Search and Rescue and the Rural Support Trust have been out check-
Tearful stuff THE WORST onion season for 70 years is how Horowhenua grower Chris Pescini (pictured) describes the year from hell that has struck his operation this season. Other growers nationwide are suffering similar problems – too much rain and too little sun. Pescini, a fourth-generation onion grower, and his family, have worked the land in Horowhenua, growing mainly onions and potatoes since 1946. They grow about 75ha of onions and a similar area of potatoes. He told Rural News that in the past 12 months the rainfall has been 1450ml – 40% up on a normal season. His father, who still works on the property, says he can’t recall such a cold wet season since he began in the district. – More page 5
ing on the needs of farmers and Fonterra has brought in its emergency recovery unit to help farmers clean out their dairy sheds and where possible get the farms up and running. “The silt that came down has gone into water troughs and they need to be cleaned up; depending on the size of farm hundreds of troughs could need cleaning out.” Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy visited the region last week and TO PAGE 4
GOVT COOL WITH BILL THE GOVERNMENT is now backing a Green Party bill requiring country of origin labelling (CoOL) on single ingredient food such as fruit and meat. Prime Minister Bill English says the change of heart is prompted by consumer preference as roundly dis- Bill English cussed in National’s caucus. “It’s reflecting pretty strong consumer preferences.” The Consumers’ Right to Know (Country of Origin of Food) Bill will have its first reading in parliament soon and will go to select committee after National agreed to support it. It will require mandatory CoOL for fresh single ingredient foods such as meat, fruit, vegetables, nuts oils and flour. English says National will decide after the select committee process whether to continue to support it into law. Horticulture New Zealand has congratulated the government on backing the bill. “Given that our recent survey showed more than 70% of NZers want mandatory CoOL for fresh fruit and vegetables, it is great to see the government listened to that,” Horticulture NZ chief executive Mike Chapman says.
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THE MAIZE harvest in many regions is being severely hampered by rain and high soil moisture levels. In Manawatu and Horowhenua contractors have been working around the clock in any breaks in the weather and when the ground is dry enough for machinery to go on it. Rural Contractors New Zealand president Steve Levet, who lives in Northland, says the rain has brought many problems. Ground conditions are now similar to what he’d expect in May – wet. A lot of maize in low lying areas hasn’t been harvested yet, as farmers wait for the ground to dry out. And this delay is holding up the re-grassing of paddocks. “Getting grass seed in at the moment is a real hit and miss affair,” Levet told Rural News. He says Northland has gone from a drought to too much rain, and some
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normally are because it was so dry and as a result the maize was not yielding as well as it could or should have because it was under stress from lack of moisture.” Levet says if maize gets a good dollop of rain in December it will respond well and this will carry the plant right through to harvest. Maize is not the only crop affected; hay crops have also been poor.
Milk plant remains closed FONTERRA’S EDGECUMBE factory remained closed last week and milk was redirected to nearby processing plants. The co-op and its North Island farmer suppliers were also bracing for flooding; two weeks ago, flooding caused by Cyclone Debbie had left many farms under water in the Bay of Plenty. Fonterra’s head of Farm Source Bay of Plenty, Lisa Payne, says access to some farms was still affected by the flooding. “The co-op is supporting those farmers as much as possible. We’d like to thank the huge number of
farmers who called in with offers of help and support. “Milk collected from farms in the local area is still being redirected to our manufacturing sites in Waikato.” While damage to Fonterra’s Edgecumbe site has been minimal, most workers live in the nearby town which was cordoned off after the floodbank breached and homes were flooded. Payne says some Fonterra staff have returned to the site and made good progress with cleaning and recovery. However, last week’s flooding was expected to put them back. “It will be some days before we consider returning the site to full
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grass seed sown will simply rot in the ground because it is too wet. The quality of some maize harvested so far is not up to the normal high quality. “With maize in Northland you really rely on that December rain, but in December it was dry so the maize didn’t cob up as it normally does,” Levet explains. “The cobs weren’t as mature as they
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WHILE THE public might hope for rapid restoration of water quality in all rivers and lakes in New Zealand, this is unrealistic and scientifically impossible, says Sir Peter Gluckman, the Prime Minister’s chief
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while farmers are part of the problem, we are by no means the whole problem, Allen says. However Gluckman says in the report the main drivers of change in water quality “are linked primarily to agriculture and recent intensification, mainly dairying”. “First, and perhaps most obvious, are the detrimental changes to water quality. Livestock farming’s impacts on water quality are both direct and indirect,” he says.
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flew over some of the worst hit areas, noting some maize crops wiped out and others damaged and sodden. Silting on pastures is a big problem, he says. “We need to get experts into the region who have been through floods and know how to handle regrassing on silt because there are all sorts of different theories about the best way to deal with this.” Guy is impressed with the way farmers and other rural organisations have worked together to deal with the problems of the flooding. “I also went on a kiwifruit orchard and had a look there with Zespri’s Lain Jager. How long the orchard has been under water will determine how long the crop survives, but every day they have wet roots it’s not ideal.” Guy says kiwifruit growers are coming into a bumper harvest and want to get the crop off as soon as they can. But a lot depends on what the weather does over Easter.
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Wet and cold hits onion harvest trying to do anything. Some of the crops were quite late, the last being sown in September. “Normally it’s not a problem if you get the heat, but that’s the other big thing,” Pescini says. In October, November and December last year the average temperature was just 14 degrees and it wasn’t much better in January, and in February there was even snow on the Tararua Ranges, which form a backdrop to his property. “We should be up in the 20s, but with all the wet and low temperatures the growing has been slow and we are a month behind. Onions are like hay, they need to be nice and dry before you bring them in,” he says. The wet weather has caused havoc in with trying to dry the onions. In a normal season this should take about three weeks, but in the present conditions it’s taking at least double that time. The delay in harvesting this season’s crop is delaying planting next season’s onions and with
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THE WORST season for 70 years, is how one onion grower in Horowhenua, Chris Pescini, describes the year from hell that has struck his operation. Other growers nationwide are suffering similar problems -- too much rain and too little sun. Pescini, a fourth generation onion grower, and his family have worked the land in Horowhenua, growing mainly onions and potatoes since 1946. They grow about 75ha of onions and a similar area of potatoes. He told Rural News that in the past 12 months the rainfall has been 1450mls – 40% up on a normal season. His father, who still works on the property, says he can’t recall such a cold wet season since he began in the district. “It started in June 2016, too wet, so we had a job getting the onions sown. From then on even with the spuds it’s been a battle all the way
the paddocks still wet this presents a further challenge. “Normally we’d have most of the crop in by Anzac Day, but at the rate it’s going it’ll be June before the harvest is completed,” he says. And Pescini reckons yields are also down, in some paddocks by as much as a quarter. The Pescini family are major growers for the domestic market and for export to Europe, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Japan. For them and other onion growers around the country this will be a season to remember for all the wrong reasons. @rural_news facebook.com/ruralnews
Chinese taste for NZ dairy grows Now in 76 cities, Anchor Food Professionals aims to grow this presence to 160 cities in five years. A lot of cream in China has traditionally been made from nondairy products such as canola. The teams working there in foodservice kitchens are showing customers the difference dairy makes to premium foods. This growth is prompting Fonterra to add to the production capacity of its UHT plant at Waitoa, in Waikato. It recently completed a new 1L UHT line and began work on a second such line to produce an extra 45 million litres annually for
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FONTERRA IS leading the charge in China to get consumers eating more dairy products. And to meet increased demand in China it is installing more production lines at its New Zealand plants. The co-op says it has 50-80% market share in most foodservice categories in China. To grow sales it launched Anchor Food Professionals -- foodservice specialists working with chefs and drawing consumers into their bakeries, pizzerias, restaurants or coffee shops.
the Asia, Middle East and Caribbean markets. The $35 million expansion will enable the Waitoa plant to add 120 million cream packs and 26 jobs in the region. Fonterra chief operating officer global operations Robert Spurway says decisions on these expansions are based on demand. “It reflects the work our foodservice team is doing in the markets, and our teams at our sites, to support one of the fastest growing and highest returning parts of the business.” Spurway says the Waitoa expension is good for the region.
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Consent chaos in Horizons region PETER BURKE peterb@ruralnews.co.nz
CHAOS AGAIN prevails over the future of resource consents in the Horizons Regional Council region because of an Environment Court judgement on the implementation of its controversial One Plan. The Environmental Defence Society (EDS) and Fish and Game (FAG) challenged Horizons’ implementation in the Environment Court and the court agreed, saying it was unlawful. At this stage, 46 consent applications now being processed by the council have effectively been rejected because Horizons doesn’t have a plan to deal with them because of what the court has now ruled. The council can now only say that the court’s decision does not apply retrospectively, meaning
any previous consents are okay. But even this view is being questioned by EDS spokesman Gary Taylor, who says if the process of granting those consents wasn’t lawful it casts doubt on them. He says the council may need to look at this and other issues. The court’s decision has taken Horizons by surprise; others aware of the issues are aghast at the decision and wonder whether a workable implementation process can be found that is legal and meets the needs of farmers, commercial growers and EDS and FAG. Rural News understands Horizons now doesn’t know what to do. The council is asking people who have applied for consents to withdraw and be refunded their application fee. The council is also telling farmers that any future consent lodged must be robust enough to meet the new standards, but
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it can’t say what these will be. In essence the consents process is paralysed and there is no obvious solution in sight. There also appears to be problems with the use of Overseer, which could affect consents for commercial growers in Horowhenua. In addition, the Environment Court seems to be saying it is not interested in practicality or reasonableness and has held that consents should be made on numbers alone. Horizons may reasonably conclude that the court seems to have little interest in whether a farmer will go bankrupt if a consent application is declined. The court says in its judgement that the economic circumstances of an individual should not be a consideration. “That is not a reason to manipulate or pervert plan implementation” the court says.
“WE JUST want to get on with it,” is the reaction of the region’s dairy farmers to the news. Manawatu Federated Farmers president and dairy farmer James Stewart says farmers are frustrated in facing more uncertainty about costings and consents. “[Dairy farmers] want to move on -- get consented and do the right thing. [They’re asking] what does it mean for those who already have consents?” Farmers are fed up with the drawn-out process of the One Plan, Stewart says.
“Farmers have been doing a lot of work in this space and we have seen some good results, such as the reduction in N leaching and improvement in water quality, and yet it keeps going on,” he told Rural News. “In my discussion with Fish and Game they claimed they had nothing against farming and that the appeal was about a point of law. To me that’s a cop-out and a contradiction. Of course, it affects farmers.” Stewart says farmers previously going above and beyond to improve the environment are now near to asking ‘why bother?’ It feels like dairy farmers are being used as a political football, he says.
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Environmentalists claim a win PETER BURKE peterb@ruralnews.co.nz
FISH AND Game (FAG) and the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) may seek costs against
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Horizons Regional Council as a result of the Environment Court siding with their claims about the unlawfulness of the
implementation of the One Plan. Gary Taylor of EDS says the court case cost them a lot of money and they are considering applying for costs against the council. He says Horizons needs to analyse the decision of the court and come up with a lawful process. Taylor claims they took the council to court essentially because it wouldn’t listen to their concerns – something the court agreed with. “We had meetings with the council but
they hadn’t satisfactorily addressed the concerns about the legality of the process. So we decided, with Fish and Game, that the only way forward was to test that legality and
that has now happened. “I am sympathetic to farmers who are caught up in this because of the uncertainty, but it’s of the councils own making,” he says.
WHERE TO FROM HERE THE IMPLEMENTATION plan Horizons had been operating before this latest decision had been an attempt by them to get around a High Court ruling on the One Plan. This was, in the eyes of farmers and the council, also unworkable and impractical and did not take full account of economic issues. The council appears to have two choices: run with a largely unworkable plan gifted to it by the court that could affect the livelihoods of farmers; or propose a ‘plan change’— in other words make formal changes to the One Plan. But this has fishhooks as well, not least that FAG and EDS may block liberalisation of the One Plan and this could take a long time.
River clean-up submissions top 1000 AT LEAST 1000 submissions have been received on the proposed controversial Waikato Healthy Rivers plan change. Summary extracts are expected to be available mid-year, then the council will call for further submissions. Hearings will begin early 2018 and the commissioners will make recommendations mid-year. Waikato Regional Council (WRC) is advertising for registrations of interest for five independent commissioners to sit on a panel to hear submissions on Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora: Proposed Waikato Regional Plan Change 1. “We understand the level of interest and the importance of the proposed plan to our community and we are seeking experienced and independent commissioners,” says the council’s director of science and strategy, Tracey May. The selections will be based on recommendations from a sub-group
of Te Ropu Haatu, the Healthy Rivers/ Wai Ora steering group. This sub-group will include two WRC directors, two iwi managers and one representative of the Waikato River Authority. Recommendations on the appointments will then be made to the Healthy Rivers Wai Ora committee and then on to the full council for consideration. The plan change envisages this decade as the beginning of an 80-year period in which to make the Waikato and Waipa rivers swimmable and safe for food collecting. WRC says much good work and money has already gone towards improving water quality in the Waikato and Waipa rivers, including $60 million per year from urban rates for improving wastewater discharge, $220m to the Waikato River Authority to clean up the rivers and $80m to the Lake Taupo Protection Trust. – Pam Tipa
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8 NEWS
Police investigating kiwifruit fraud
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ZESPRI IS taking action to protect and control its intellectual property, says Zespri chief operating officer Simon Limmer. New Zealand Police are investigating a complaint of a breach of Zespri’s plant variety rights to Gold3 (Zespri SunGold) and Gold9 (Zespri Charm). This involves plant material transferred to a third party contrary to the terms of Zespri’s licence, possibly relating to the fraudulent sale of licence rights. Zespri suspects that several years ago plant material was taken to China and planted there on a relatively small
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scale. As this breach could give rise to criminal issues in NZ, Zespri has passed on the information it holds to the police and understands they are investigating. Gold9 and Gold3 are subject to plant variety rights owned by Zespri in NZ and other jurisdictions. Licences are granted
by Zespri to growers on a country-by-country basis. These can only be transferred within the same country subject to the rules of each licence. The purported sale of a licence from one jurisdiction to another by a third party is a breach of Zespri’s licence and plant variety rights and could give rise to allegations of
fraud or misleading conduct. Zespri started investigating after receiving local information about possible plantings in April last year. The kiwifruit marketer says it immediately started an extensive due diligence process and confirmed those reports late last year, which led to the present investigation by NZ authorities. “We are seeking action to protect our plant variety rights in NZ and deter any future breaches,” Limmer explains. “Zespri’s plant variety rights are important intellectual property, developed by extensive investment over many years.”
THE AUTHENICITY of manuka honey exported from New Zealand is to be settled once and for all. The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has released a scientific definition to authenticate NZ mānuka honey, hoping to seal its premium position in overseas markets. Released last week, the definition arises from proposals for new requirements for the exporting of bee products. Questions have arisen in overseas markets about the authenticity of some honey being sold as NZ manuka honey. Maintaining the confidence of overseas consumers in the integrity of manuka honey is a key for NZ honey exporters. “The proposed definition and export requirements are important for the continued growth of our important export honey industry,” says MPI deputy director-general, Bryan Wilson. Working with contracted experts, MPI has spent three years determining a science-based definition of what makes manuka honey authentic to NZ.
“Our science has been carefully planned and executed and as a result the definition is robust, sophisticated and accurate,” says Wilson. The chief executive of Apiculture NZ, Karin Kos, is welcoming MPI’s move. “The introduction of a regulatory science definition is a milestone in the history of the mānuka honey industry. It is a relatively young industry growing very rapidly and with huge potential. “We signalled our willingness to work with MPI to ensure its proposed science definition is robust in meeting shared objectives for consumer confidence and authenticity, and we will make a detailed submission on behalf of industry.” Apiculture NZ, anticipating the release of the definition, is forming an expert review team on behalf of the industry; this will examine the proposed MPI science definition. “The group will be supported by science advisors. We are only going to get one shot at this and it is important we get it right.” MPI is aiming to bring the new requirements into effect in late July 2017.
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New dairy plant coming to the Bay PETER BURKE peterb@ruralnews.co.nz
PLANNING IS underway for a new Maori-owned dairy factory in the Bay of Plenty. It will be located at Kawerau and run on geothermal power from a plant owned by the Putauaki Trust that also has two large dairy farms in the region. The plant, to be modelled on the first Maori dairy company Miraka, near Taupo, will make milk powder. It could be producing by 2019. Putauaki Trust is one of the Maori trusts in the project, led by prominent leader Taika Huniat, trust chairman. This has dairy farms around Te Teko and Kawerau; one, Himiona, named after
his late father, was a 2014 finalist in the Ahuwhenua Trophy for the top Maori dairy farm. Taiki Hunia is a solicitor and the general manager, trusts for Te Tumu Paeroa. He is deputy Māori trustee and is a director of several trusts, companies and iwi authorities. He is a member of the Institute of Directors and the New Zealand Law Society and is well regarded in Maoridom and the agribusiness sector. “We are very excited about the project,” he told Rural News. “We have seen what Miraka has done and we’d like to emulate that. Eastern Bay of Plenty Maori trusts have been working together to upscale their dairy oper-
ations for greater economic viability. Taiki Hunia says that will continue. “I am involved because the factory will be built on our land, but there are six or seven other
Maori trusts who will be involved in the project -- from Rotorua, Bay of Plenty and Opotiki.” Some 15-20 farms – about 9000 cows -- may supply milk to the new factory.
Tiaki Hunia, Putauaki Trust : “We have seen what Miraka have done and what we’d like to do is emulate what they have done ”.
HIMIONA FARM A RECENT START-UP THE PUTAUAKI Trust is a relatively new entrant to dairying, having acquired Himiona farm in 2006. Until then its main activity had been beef production and grazing dairy cows on its land near Kawerau, a forestry block and an interest in geothermal power, also at Kawerau. Now the enterprise mix includes dairying, maize growing, manuka for honey, industrial land uses and a composting business. The farm is on the Rangitaiki Plains between Te Teko and Edgcumbe The original land purchased was just 57ha and barely economic. However, since 2006, the trust has acquired leases from several small holdings and built up the milking platform to the current 180ha on which they run 570 Kiwi cross cows. In 2015, Putauaki Trust converted its drystock property at Kawerau into a 650-cow dairy farm. This included a $1.5 million 54 bail rotary cowshed. The property is partly irrigated.
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Miraka launches new brand PETER BURKE peterb@ruralnews.co.nz
TAUPO MAORI dairy company Miraka is about to launch two new value add products, one aimed at the international market, in particular China, and the other for the domestic market. Chief executive Rich-
ard Wyeth says the product for the domestic market, branded Whai Ora (in pursuit of wellness), is a powder-based smoothie drink aimed at lifestyle consumers, especially women. It consists of milk powder blended with oats, honey, fruits and vegetables, all sourced locally and
packed in 400g cans. “Put some in a blender and mix it with water to produce a smoothie,” Wyeth told Rural News. “Though aimed at the New Zealand market, some will be sold in Malaysia and Singapore.” Blending and packaging of the Whai Ora drink will be outsourced but in
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products off their phone using to WeChat. There is nothing quite like it in NZ – its huge. The other week when I was there, we ordered Subway on WeChat and it was delivered in half an hour. It is incredible how the consumers are evolving their buying habits.” Wyeth says the Taupo Pure brand will help Miraka optimise the value of its milk powder and tell the story of the region where the milk is produced such as the lake, mountains and grass fed cows. These facts appeal to Chinese consumers.
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RURAL NEWS // APRIL 18, 2017
12 NEWS
No smoke without fire NIGEL MALTHUS
FARMERS ARE hoping to retain the right to burn off crop residue under the new national Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) fire authority due to be set up mid-year. Merging urban and rural fire fighting in one organisation, FENZ has
been in the pipeline since a fire services review of 2015. The Department of Internal Affairs is expected this month to release draft regulations for the new organisation, including rural fire permits. Federated Farmers arable section vice-chair Colin Hurst says in a
statement that it has lobbied to retain crop residue burning “in the face of stiff resistance”. He says it is an environmentally benign way of dealing with crop residues prior to sowing the next crop. “It removes residue, kills insect pests or other diseases and sets the soil up for the next
Farmers say burning off is an environmental benign way of dealing with crop residues prior to sowing the next crop.
crop, and is an essential part of farm management”. “Although it is done after many different crops, it is particularly valued for the removal of cereal residues prior to sowing high value and small seeded crops.” Current regulations for permits differ across different regional fire authorities and there is “some desire” to develop a nationally consistent regime. “Federated Farmers has talked with officials at FENZ and highlighted some of our concerns about permitting. Feds has recommended that any permitting system should be fit for purpose and balance the safety, compliance, education and land management requirements of FENZ.” The statement follows complaints from South Canterbury arable farmer Jeremy Talbot that Mid and South Canterbury rules were inconsistent and bureaucratic. Talbot claims that because of heavy autumn dews, a blanket ban on any burning after 1pm that remained in place after fire restrictions were eased in early March, conflicted with Clean Air Act rules that stubble must be clean and dry to reduce smoke nuisance. Farmers trying to do the right thing by burning dry stubble were all suddenly burning off together, about 12.30pm each day. It was the worst time of day for fire risk, because if the day was heating up it would be harder to contain any fire that got away, he said. “The common-sense way tells you to wait till the end of the day because with the katabatic effect of the wind and the sea on the east coast, with the evening-out of the temperatures between the sea and the land, the wind basically dies down. And you’re coming into the
cooler period of the night with the dew to put the fire out, if there are any remaining embers.” Talbot says the rules had cost him personally at least $5000-6000, including the purchase of a new hay bob to spread and turn the straw to try to dry it out in time. “That’s a direct extra cost to us, just because of bureaucratic stupidity.” Talbot also criticised the bureaucracy of a fire permitting system in place in South Canterbury, instead of the codeof-practice regime in place for Mid Canterbury. “Over the Rangitata River suddenly common sense prevails. Below the Rangitata River stupidity prevails, it would appear.” Even in drought-hit North Canterbury there were pockets of green, but farmers could not get their fields cleaned up ready for the next crop because fires were banned under a total area policy. Talbot called for one rule which would “work everywhere”. However, he fears that under FENZ “things are only going to get worse”. Talbot is scathing of “townies” who reported stubble burns to the fire brigade “just to wind us up and get it banned”. A regular business traveller to Britain, Talbot says environmental agencies in that country are beginning to realise the folly of having banned stubble burning some years ago. Pesticides such as slug bait are beginning to show up in grain above national health guidelines, and herbicide resistance is increasing.
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RURAL NEWS // APRIL 18, 2017
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SI achievers aiming for excellence NIGEL MALTHUS
MERELY BEING in the top 10% of meat producers was not enough for the 2016 Lincoln University Foundation South Island Farmers of the Year, Neil and Lyn Campbell. Speaking at the recent winner’s field day, Neil Campbell said being in the top 10% on measures such as lambing percentage and liveweight produced, “put groceries on the table, but not much else”. His life-changing experience came with the chance to participate in the 2007 Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme when he learned to push his comfort zone and, with thorough research, gain the confidence to run with new stock classes, crops and systems. “Studying the history of New Zealand’s meat industry, I quickly concluded the meat industry wasn’t going to change so our business had to,” he says. The Campbells farm the 760ha Parkwood Farm, near Fairlie, which ranges from 350m to 580m altitude, with silt loams in the valley and clay downs at altitude. With no irrigation,
rainfall also varies by year and altitude. They needed a better way to determine They now produce sheep, deer breed- the most profitable stock classes and ing and finishing, dairy heifer grazing how to fit them in their systems. and a variety of crops including 50ha of fodder beet. The Farmer of the Year judges commented on the Campbells’ ability to optimise systems to maximise efficiency and profit. Speaking to 300 people at the winner’s field day – held at the Fairlie community hall after strong interest prompted organisers to change the venue – Lincoln University councillor Andy McFarlane said the Campbells were thoughtful leaders, ready to innovate after careful assessment of new methods. “[They are] not often the The 2016 South Island Farmers of the Year, Neil and Lyn Campbell, tell their story at the winner’s field first people in the world to day presentation held at the Fairlie Community Hall. do something, but first to be PHOTO: RURAL NEWS GROUP second,” he told field day-goers. Campbell says they had “We now base all our stocking realised their good soil wasn’t being optimally utilised with ryegrass pas- decisions on cents earned per kg of tures, and most of their stock was dry matter consumed as the starting coming ready to sell between Janu- point.” Despite being in the top 10%, ary and April, the time of peak supply and poorest returns per kg of product. they had been getting “very average
returns” of about 10c per kg. However, he says putting breeding hinds on the farm’s higher land, where spring growth came later, made a very good fit with feed supply and demand and resulted in returns of 20c/kg. Meanwhile, 80ha of the better soil on the valley floor, with lower rainfall than ryegrass needs, was now in arable crops, including at least 50ha in fodder beet. Paying tribute to the “huge contribution” made by plant breeders, Campbell they rarely get four good seasons in a row and it is hard to pick which season will let you down, “so a crop that can be fed as early as March or as late as November offers huge security to our dryland farming environment”. Although a new crop to NZ, fodder beet is already being grown over a greater area than wheat. It grows well even in dry years, with a wide window to utilise or harvest, and bulbs can be left all winter with no deterioration in quality and can be
consumed in the paddock or lifted and sold. “This plant has had a huge impact on our business,” says Campbell. They also diversified into wine in 2011, buying an 8ha sauvignon blanc vineyard in Spring Creek, Marlborough, a compelling investment because the target market for sauvignon blanc is “middle class Australians and Americans”. Fully managed with no hands-on by the Campbells, the vineyard gave them a 15% return last year. Meanwhile, at the field day the Campbells revealed their next move – leasing two-thirds of the farm to Stuart and Ginny Neal of Neal and Co Farming, who also spoke of their journey in farming. The Campbells will retain the deer unit under the new arrangement. Acknowledging the rarity of leasing in sheep and beef, Campbell says there are many models of ownership in dairying -- share milking to contract milking and many variations in between. The relationship with the Neals is a “work in progress and an exciting time ahead,” he says.
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2 Ju l
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10 Apr Last Ye ar
Last Week 6
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10 Feb
Change NZc/kg
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North Island 60kg stag price
8.5
10 Sep
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Export Market Demand
This Year
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k 10 0Aug
UK Leg p/kg
Last Year
4.0 6-Jan
S outh Island Weekly Lamb Kill
400 200k
10-Feb 10-Oct10-Apr10-Nov 10-Jun 10-Sep 5yr Ave Last Ye ar This Ye ar
$2.00
4.5
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500 250k
10 Dec
$2.50 200
5.0
10 Nov10 Jun
50k 100
95CL USc/lb NZc/kg 250 $3.00
This Year
10 Oct 10 Apr
100k 200
Change
6-May
Last Year
10 Sep 10 Feb
300 150k
Export Market Demand
6-Mar
5yr Ave
k 0 1010 Aug Dec
5k
5.5
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10-Nov 10-Apr
South Island Weekly Cattle Kill
0 k 10-Dec 10-Aug
6.0
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This Year
S outh Island Weekly Cattle Kill
4.5
$/kg
Last Year
10k 20
5.5
4.0 6-Jan
200
100k
15k40
4.0 6-Jan
Last Year 4.81 4.83 4.85 4.86 2.40 4.63 4.63 4.63 4.63 2.25
150k
k 0 10-Aug 10-Dec
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200k
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6.0
Thousand head
4.0 6-Jan
+5 +5 +5 n/c n/c n/c n/c n/c n/c n/c
Last Week 5.66 5.68 5.70 5.71 3.50 5.48 5.48 5.48 5.48 3.45
North eekly lamb N ort hIsland Islandw Weekly Lambkill Kill
250k 400
North N ort hIsland IslandWeekly Weekly Cattle Cattle Kill Kill
Change
Slaughter Thousand head
4.5
Thousand head
$/kg
5.5
c/kgCWT NI Lamb YM - 13.5kg P M - 16.0kg P X - 19.0kg P H - 22.0kg M utto n M X1 - 21kg SI Lamb YM - 13.5kg P M - 16.0kg P X - 19.0kg P H - 22.0kg M utto n M X1- 21kg
UKp/kg
c /kgCWT
S o u th Is lan d C h an g e L as t c /kg We e k n/c 5 .4 8
75 80%
3 Wks A go 71.7
Last Year 68.1
67.9
64.6
5yr A ve 69.1 67.6
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% of export returns
No rth Is lan d C h an g e L as t c /kg We e k +5 5 .6 8
LAMB MARKET TRENDS
70% 65 60% Last Year
This Year
50% 55 11-Aug 6-Jan 11-Sep 11-Oct 6-Mar 11-Nov 11-Dec 6-May11-Jan 11-Feb 6-Jul 75 80%
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Procurement indicator - South Island P rocu rement Indicator - South I.
70% 65 60% Last Y ear
This Year
50% 55 11-Aug 6-Jan 11-Sep 11-Oct 6-Mar 11-Nov 11-Dec 6-May 11-Jan 11-Feb 6-Jul 5yr ave Last Ye ar This Ye ar
Venison Prices NI Stag - 60kg
n/c
Last Week 8.10
SI Stag - 60kg
n/c
8.50
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2 Wks A go 8.10
Last Year 7.50
8.50
7.45
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MARKETS & TRENDS 15 PRICE WATCH
cow meat to the US market are beginning to increase. US imported prices have softened a little as a result, and it is expected that this market may see further downside. The higher price of imported beef relative to domestic cuts has some of the larger end-users looking for domestic alternatives to put
lamb slaughter market remain similar to recent weeks. Excellent pasture growth rates are keeping many lambs on farm, while a lack of any frosts is also keeping a lid on slaughter rates. This all working to hold lambs schedules firm. Demand for store lambs is still very strong in both the North Island and South Island. The high prices are enticing more numbers out. Croppers and horticulturists are in the market now, looking to secure large volumes. Some in the North Island are opting to sell lambs that would usually be sent to slaughter as heavy stores since prices are so strong. The tone in global lamb markets continues to be positive, as demand remains in excess of supply. The shortage of product from both Australia and NZ is making an impact on export prices, with firmer prices evident in key markets. Mutton slaughter prices are still exceptionally firm relative to last year. Kill prices are 45-55% more than a year ago.
Overseas Wool Price Indicators
Change
06-Apr
30-Mar
Last Year
Coarse Xbred
-9
375
384
553
Coarse Xbred
Fine Xbred
+4
411
407
565
Fine Xbred Lamb
Indicators in NZc/kg
Lamb
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401
416
615
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-
-
-
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Indicators in USc/kg
Wool indicator trends Wool Indicator Trends
850 700
06-Apr
30-Mar
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-7
261
269
375
+2
286
285
383
-12
279
291
417
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Mid Micron
Fine crossbred indicator
700 CXI
750
FXI
LI
650 500
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550 450 3007-Apr 7-Jul 7-Oct 7-Jan WeekNo 42110 42124 42138 42152 42166 42180 42194 42208 42222 42236 42250 42264 42278 42292 42306 42320 42334 42348 42376 42390 42404 42418 42432 42446 42459
CXI
650700
FXI
300 5-Jan
LI
Coarse crossbred indicator Coarse Xbred Indicator Last Year
600
5yr ave
5-Mar
5-May Last Year
5-Jul This Year
Lamb wool indicator
800
This Year
600
550500
c/kg
INTERNATIONAL BEEF: Offers of
into the grinder. As the US domestic kill increases, this may act to keep a lid on imported prices, despite the expectations of continued low supply out of Australia.
c/kg
BEEF: Supply has largely eluded processors, further exacerbated by rain through most of the island. Cow numbers are definitely building, but they remain a long way from being at typical levels for the time of year. Cow schedules could see some downside as supply picks up, and while three short kill weeks will also have some impact. The combination of surplus grass and a very expensive store cattle market is keeping killable stock on farm. Weaner calf sales have dominated the store cattle trade in recent weeks. Prices have been at or near record levels throughout the country, with the South Island exceptionally strong. As a general rule, prices have been $150-$250 above last year’s already strong prices. Few North Islanders have bother buying out of the South Island as prices there are simply too expensive.
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NEWS
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5yr ave
5-Mar Feb
5-May Jun Last Year Apr
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5-Feb 5yr ave
5-Mar 5-Apr Last Year
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FARMERS WHO resent the attention of WorkSafe inspectors in their workplaces should remember that more people still die on New Zealand farms each year than are prosecuted for safety breaches. Emphasising WorkSafe’s carrot rather than stick approach, WorkSafe agriculture sector leader Al McCone points out that a recent spate of prosecutions for not wearing safety helmets on bikes only followed 13 months of “to-ing and fro-ing.” McCone says that while warranted inspectors have the power to prosecute, there are different levels of enforcement, such as issuing a prohibition notice saying machinery could not be used until a missing guard was replaced, or a less formal notice if the machinery was not due to be used for some time. He says inspectors will come onto a farm to assess practices such as how machinery is used and maintained, how fuel and other chemicals are stored, and how a farmer is making sure staff are up to scratch. “What they’re looking for is that thread that sits underneath it, saying ‘I recognise there’s a risk and here’s what I’m doing about it’.”
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The message is being voiced by former All Black prop Richard Loe, who attended the recent South Island Agricultural Field Days at Kirwee, in his capacity as WorkSafe’s Safer Farms ambassador. “We’re trying to engage with as many farmers as we can,” he told Rural News. “We want farmers to invite inspectors to come and consult and see how they’re doing and how to improve.” Now aged in his late 50s and farming in North Canterbury, the acknowledged All Black hard man says, “when you get to this age, you don’t do ‘hurt’ very well”. Loe says the worst offenders are aged 55 to 65. “That is the problem, because we have done it for years and got away with it”. However, Loe
applauds the change in attitude toward safety he is now seeing, not just in farming but in all industries, for example, a new car display at a field day. “You go over to a car and show a bit of interest, and what’s the first thing they tell you about? The safety aspects of it, not how fast you can go from zero to 60.” WorkSafe says farming is among NZ’s most dangerous occupations: 19 people were killed in 2015 and 18 in 2016; some 20,000 are injured annually. Dairy, sheep and beef farming turn up most of the injuries. McCone says the danger on farms lies in handling animals, working in and around vehicles, slips, trips and falls, muscular strains, chronic harm such as poisoning and inhaling dust or fer-
tilisers, and stress and fatigue. “Many people in the sector treat these as ‘just what happens’, rather than saying ‘I could do more to keep myself and the people I work with safe’.” McCone says WorkSafe wants to unpick this attitude so that, “instead of just doing a job, it’s doing a job in the knowledge there are risks involved”. The person who runs the farm sets the culture, and the best way for the boss to change the culture is to have everybody engaged in the business, he says. McCone praises various industry groups now responding to the new workplace safety laws by promoting health and safety in their workshops and extension programmes.
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AGRIBUSINESS 17
Zespri plans aggressive marketing PAM TIPA pamelat@ruralnews.co.nz
ZESPRI WILL keep spending aggressively on marketing this year, says Jiunn Shih, the new global general manager marketing. At least $150 million will be spent worldwide, says Shih, based in Singapore. “We will continue building recognition [and awareness] of the Zespri
ica, we will be investing slightly more in digital platforms,” Shih says. “We see consumers changing and spending more and more time on digital media platforms, especially mobile phones, on social media, and watching films and videos online. So we need to shift our media mix to reflect that.” Marketing activities will start in most countries in May or June.
“Many people still don’t know the SunGold variety so that is a great opportunity to introduce it.” brand,” he told Rural News. “We have very aggressive targets [for] the success of SunGold, which has performed extremely well over the last three years, and consumption has increased significantly over six years. “Many people still don’t know the SunGold variety so that is a great opportunity to introduce it, to talk about vitamin C and vitality benefits... and its great taste.” In specific markets Zespri will increase its spending. “In markets such as China and North Amer-
Zespri is in 56 markets and will keep a strong focus on 27 of those as key markets. For example, it officially opened its Middle East office in Dubai in late March to manage growing sales and marketing in that region and other developing markets. Chief executive Lain Jager says Zespri is growing its presence in the Middle East, India and Africa and the new Dubai office will support this growth. “More consumers in the UAE and these regions are enjoying... Zespri kiwifruit. Sales are
set to increase by more than 50% in the next five years to four million trays of New Zealand fruit and two million trays of global supply (northern hemisphere) fruit,” he says. “Zespri’s gold variety SunGold is particularly popular with Middle East consumers.... Our team in the market is working
hard to expand distribution across the region.” The aim is to grow overall kiwifruit consumption worldwide and increase the fruit’s share of the ‘global fruitbowl’ from a fraction of one percent. New markets in the Middle East, India and the US are a key part of this.
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PASSION FOR THE FRUIT PASSION FOR the product is a key aspect of Zespri’s operation that has struck Jiunn Shih since he took up the global general manager marketing role six months ago. “My initial impression is that Zespri is passionate about the product and marketing it across the world,” he told Rural News. “The level of passion behind kiwifruit is significantly higher than other categories and brands.... And it’s exciting that we still have so much room to grow. “We sell into only 56 countries and we have prioritised 27, but... still in many of these markets there are people who consume the fruit once every three months or haven’t consumed it in a year, so there are many people [yet to try] Zespri kiwifruit. That... gives us a lot of room to grow.” Shih is Taiwanese Brazilian -- born on Taiwan but growing up and living most of his life in Brazil and the US. “I had an international upbringing and I have worked mainly in consumer goods companies – L’Oreal and Unilever. For Unilever, I worked in a number of countries -- Singapore, China and Brazil, and I was based in the Netherlands before coming to Zespri.” He had a senior marketing role at Unilever in the Netherlands, looking after tea and desserts categories. He moved back to Singapore for the Zespri role.
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18 OPINION EDITORIAL
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Time to own it THE IMMEDIACY of social media ensured that many dairy farmers shared in real time the horror of watching yet another PR disaster unfold on TV One’s Sunday programme last week. As Cameron Bennett and his crew systematically unpacked every negative stereotype in the F@*k Farmers handbook, distraught farmers lit up Twitter and Facebook, powerless to do anything more than share their grief about once more being misrepresented by media ignorance and bias. The fall guy for the piece was a well-meaning but hapless Hauraki dairy farmer. We won’t name him here, he’s copped enough grief already. But it was clear that as he led the cameras through knee-deep mud inside a wintering barn, put the hip lifters on a skinny cow, let the homekill guy shoot a beast while the cameras rolled – the list goes on – he obviously had no idea how the images would look on television. And he also had no idea that the affable Bennett, with his soothing demeanour, and a faceless video editor, would hack the footage to fit their title, ‘The price of milk: is our love affair with farming over?’ Only two farmers were spoken to, the hapless chap with the skinny cows and an alternative lifestyler with a tiny herd and an aversion to superphosphate -- hardly representative or balanced; and if Bennett and his team are ignorant enough to genuinely believe it was, then the urban-rural divide is wider than we thought. The wider farming community -- not just dairying – is damaged by this sort of misrepresentation and needs to pay heed to that title. For some interest groups, the love affair is not just over; they are out to end or at least severely limit farming. And the casual approach to both farming practice and to image management displayed by the main subject of the Sunday show has to stop. Could industry leaders have prevented a lone farmer being picked off by media and used to create more anti-farming material for YouTube? Probably not. There might, however, be a case for some industry-wide education about image, PR and media management. Most industries that operate in a fishbowl, as farming now does, put more effort into image management, top to bottom. That includes ensuring best practice is adhered to across the board so the cameras are unlikely to find outliers who do not represent the majority. The challenges that farming, as an industry, now faces is, first, to get its practitioners up to a level where they’re at least aware they’re a target for media and, second, to understand that perception now matters almost as much as good farming practice.
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YOUR OLD mate is quick to poke the borax at others for getting things wrong so, it is only right he fessesup when he does the same, so as to correct misinformation out there. In the March 21 issue, this column made disparaging remarks about a tweet sent by rugby commentator Scotty ‘Sumo’ Stevenson wrongly accusing him of saying ‘f@$ken farmers’ in the offending tweet – which he never did. What Stevenson -- who had previously done work for Fonterra but has not done so for some time – did in fact tweet was, “The proposal to take water from the Waikoropupu Springs for farm irrigation is f@$ken insane” and called on his followers to sign a petition to stop it. Your canine crusader may disagree with Sumo’s sentiments in this case, but that does not excuse him for attributing incorrect quotes to his name and apologises for this.
IT MUST be election year, because the Hound notes wiley old Winston is cranking up his usual antiChinese crap. Justly recently, the member for North Korea – sorry Northland – was invited to speak to North Canterbury Fed Farmers and couldn’t spew out enough antiChinese claims – bagging Fonterra, Silver Fern Farms, Synlait, Yashili and Oceania Dairies, to name just a few. Your old mate reckons Peters must have been ‘tired and emotional’, again, as any of the thousands of NZ farmers who supply his hit-list of companies will tell you how greatly this Chinese investment benefits their bottom line. Not to worry, Peters is such an economic genius (not) he still refuses to support our FTA with China that has seen NZ’s exports there rise from $3 billion to $12 billion in the eight years since it was signed – and rising daily.
YOUR OLD mate has no time for the multinational, tax dodging, political activist group Greenpeace, which spends most of its time and funds in this country telling half-truths and inaccuracies and smearing the farming sector. So, it was good to see it get a good kicking when one of its overpaid, spin doctors took to social media – during the recent flooding of Edgecumbe – to claim this was all down to climate change and insinuating the people impacted by the water inundation had brought it on themselves. Reaction was swift with many critics calling on the group to pull its head in and stop trying to make gains out of other people’s miseries. The Hound suggests it would be good to see the public react similarly when Greenpeace makes its fabrications against farmers.
YOUR CANINE crusader often hears claims that South Island’s West Coast is a backwater and behind the times. But this old mutt’s dealings with the farmers and agribusiness sector on the coast proves this is not so. However, he reckons the farming sector in the region is being badly let down by its regional council which still refuses to support the Ballance Farm Environmental Awards – making the coast the only region where these awards are not council-backed. The Hound suggests West Coast regional councillors need to pull their socks up and get behind the contest; these awards showcase some of NZ’s best and most environmentally sound farmers, of which the coast has many.
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OPINION 19
NZ farmers are making gains in the environment NATHAN GUY
TODAY WE live in an age when consumers are growing more aware of the products they consume. But at the same time they are also more detached from the processes that occur inside the farm gate. We all have a role to play in narrowing this urban/rural disconnect. Consumers need to know we are good stewards of our land and we need
under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We realise our emissions profile is different from many other countries, with 50% of our emissions coming from animals, although we are only 0.15% of worldwide emissions. That’s why we supported setting up the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse gases which now has 47 member countries. It’s not a one-size-fitsall work programme; it
The government has set a target of having 90% of rivers swimmable by 2040. This will require farmers fencing off 56,000km of waterways to exclude livestock and so reduce levels of E coli. to understand that we require a social licence to operate. In my opinion, farmers and growers are naturally environmentalists. They want to leave the land in a better state than they found it – for their children and their grandchildren.ains The New Zealand government has recently set a target to improve the quality of our waterways. NZ is blessed with beautiful natural resources, but agriculture and urbanisation have had an impact. Currently 72% of NZ rivers meet a ‘swimmable’ standard, meaning you can swim without getting sick from bugs in the water. The government has set a target of having 90% of rivers swimmable by 2040. This will require farmers fencing off 56,000km of waterways to exclude livestock and so reduce levels of E coli. This distance is from NZ to Europe – not once but three times. This follows the great work dairy farmers have voluntarily done for ten years to exclude nearly all dairy cows from waterways. NZ is also keen to be a part of setting the global economy on a pathway to a low-emission future
includes rice paddies, pastoral livestock and cropping. As a niche producer making a living in global markets, NZ experiences every day the obstacles facing agricultural producers seeking to make a sustainable income from exporting. We need to move away from jealously guarding domestic markets, and consider how we can best work together to seize the far greater opportunities and challenges being generated by spiralling global demand. A sustainable global agricultural sector requires stable trade flows between countries, and the increased involvement of farmers, harvesters and processors in the global value chain. At the centre of the global food security equation is the multilateral trading system, underwritten by the World Trade Organisation. That institution still sets the rules that govern the flow of food around the world, as it has done for 23 years. Increasingly though, regional and bilateral trade agreements are forming – coalitions of countries who realise the importance of upgrading
the rules of global commerce. There are many areas we should be focusing on to address sustainable development. One thing is certain: for anything to succeed, the farmer must be at the centre.
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Farmers learning from other farmers PAM TIPA pamelat@ruralnews.co.nz
FARMERS LEARN best from other farmers who have actually done it, says Extension 350 chairman Ken Hames. The first clusters of the innovative Northland Extension 350 programme will start on
June 1, says Hames. In year one, a sheep and beef cluster will get underway in the Far North and two dairy clusters will be running, one near Kerikeri and one around Whangarei south. Hames, a beef farmer from Paparoa, who also has shares in a dairy farm with another couple
near Wellsford, told the Northland Dairy Development Trust annual meeting what they have seen happen up north on the partner farm of Alister and Lyn Candy. A group of farmers got together to form a management team and with the Candys made decisions that resulted in
an $180,000 increase in annual profit. Now two further partner farms are benefiting from this approach. With Extension 350 they plan to set up 10 clusters in Northland over the next three-five years, he says. “At the centre of a cluster is a mentor
farmer -- an experienced farmer who has the skills and abilities to pass on knowledge to the target farmer. “The target farmer will be at a stage in their career where they are willing to learn and take on new ideas and the farm is at a stage where he or she is receptive to
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improvements. “Alongside the target farmers will be five associate farmers who will go on the journey of what the target farmers are doing and take what they learn back to their own farms. Each target team will have a consultant who will help them on the journey and give advice as needed. “What will happen on the target farms will be similar to what happens on the partner farms and whole farm assessments. We will put all that in place to help them. Each cluster will run for three years. “Over the period of the project there will be seven dairy clusters and three sheep and beef clusters.” For the first three clusters they have 80% of the mentor farmers in place and a number of target farmers. The investment in the project is about $3.45 million; the target farmers will be asked to fund 11% of it, Beef + Lamb NZ is putting in 6%, DairyNZ 17%, Northland Regional Council through Northland Inc is putting in 24%,
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and about 42% is funded by MPI. “Farmers are getting great leverage for their investment,” says Hames. “It is really good to see farmers with a project out there that can attract all this funding.” A Nimmo-Bell report shows a substantial gain from that investment in the Northland economy over 20 years, he says. They have modelled several scenarios and predicted gains to the Northand economy of at least $100m over 20 years. “That is substantial for the farmers and Northland. “As we set the clusters up geographically over the next three years I’d ask that you get involved as a mentor, target or associate farmer,” he told the meeting. “We need your support to make it work.” A project manager, Luke Beehre, has been employed. He is a former dairy farmer and banker. He will be the day-to-day face, along with DairyNZ regional leader Chris Neill and Beef + Lamb NZ extension manager Alison Whiteford.
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Biological fix for lucerne’s Achilles heel NIGEL MALTHUS
BIOCONTROL MEASURES that helped Australian farmers control a serious dryland weed for 20 years may at last benefit New Zealand, enabled by research funding from the Ministry for Primary Industry’s Sustainable
Farming Fund. Horehound is an unpalatable and bitter shrub, part of the mint family, which invades dryland pastures. Described as the Achilles heel of dryland lucerne, horehound is a major pest of high country Merino farming.
Of little nutritional value, it competes with lucerne, and its infestations tend to worsen if it is sprayed. If it takes over to the point where stock are forced to eat it, it taints the meat, and its seed burrs contaminate and devalue the wool. In Australia, however,
horehound has been kept largely in check by two moths introduced in the 1990s -- one attacking the green tops and one attacking the root. Landcare Research insect ecologist Dr Ronny Groenteman says the science community here “hadn’t had any signals”
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from farmers that horehound was a problem, while farmers struggled on unaware of the Australian solution. With a recent grant of $285,450 from the SFF, Groenteman is now managing a project which, accelerated by the Australian experience, could see the two biocontrol moth species released here in as little as two years. She credits Gavin ‘Snow’ Loxton, of Sawdon Station, Tekapo, for bringing the problem to light, forming the Horehound Biocontrol Group to co-ordinate the effort. Loxton says he had been battling horehound for a long time before realising, on a study trip to Europe, that biological checks had to exist. “I was looking around for this horehound, seeing as it came from Europe. I stomped all over the hills, all over Switzerland, and couldn’t find a single plant. We got all these problem plants from Europe, but they’re
not such a problem over there.” He says a survey of NZ farmers found the problem was worse than expected, especially in North Canterbury and Central Otago. “I went to a place three weeks ago where it looked as though he’d actually drilled horehound in the paddock. There was more horehound than there was lucerne.” Groenteman says they still want farmers to participate in the survey. It is hard to find even one Merino farm free of horehound, and it is now becoming a problem on equestrian properties. Groenteman says horehound competes with lucerne particularly in dry years, because of its long tap root. Lucerne is also sensitive to the herbicides used, and horehound is usually the first thing to come back on any bare patch. “The habitat you create by controlling
horehound chemically is favourable to more horehound infestation. It creates bare habitat that horehound then takes over,” she explains. However, Groenteman expects bringing the moths to New Zealand with relative ease because of the Australian experience. “If they hadn’t done the work we would have had to go to the native range of the weed – Europe and the Mediterranean -- and look at what’s attacking it there. But since the Australians have done the work for us we don’t have to do that and we can start with what they already use.” She says they will have to ensure the moths do not attack anything of native or economic value, but on preliminary knowledge she believes host specificity would be high and that the few native mints were sufficiently distantly related to horehound that the moths would not be interested.
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Mesh covers a possible answer to potato pest THE POTENTIAL for fine mesh covers on potato crops to control pests and diseases globally is “huge”, says a researcher now doing field trials near Christchurch. Dr Charles ‘Merf’ Merfield recently presented trial findings to a small group braving southerly squalls at the site, near Lincoln University. The research, over several seasons, arose originally from the need to control small flying insects, but the mesh has shown further unexpected benefits -- control of potato blight and better yield. Merfield heads the Future Farming Centre within the university’s biological husbandry unit, a charitable trust joint venture between Lincoln and the New Zealand Organic Movement. He says potatoes are now the third or fourth most important food crop globally, with tonnages grown in the developing world now outstripping the developed world. However, these are susceptible to a wide range of pests and diseases and so get large and frequent applications of agrichemicals. Plastic meshes, with various hole sizes, have been used in Europe for at least 20 years to control pests from flying insects to small animals Merfield began researching mesh in 2006, prompted by the arrival and rapid spread in NZ of the tomato potato pysllid (TPP). A sap-sucking aphid-sized insect with the appearance of a tiny locust, TPP stunts the plant. It can also act as a vector for a bacterium which affects the tubers, making them mushy when boiled and discoloured when fried, and therefore commercially worthless. Merfield says the main response to TPP was insecticides, but a nonchemical response is needed because chemicals face pest resistance, consumer opposition and legislative controls.
In the first season’s trial it was feared that increased humidity under the mesh would increase the incidence of potato blight, but the opposite was the case and the beneficial effect has been replicated in later years. Merfield says further research is needed to explain the effect, but it may be due to decreased UV levels under the mesh. He adds that a second “serendipitous discovery” was that even finer mesh produced better crop yields, probably because of the more humid microclimate under the mesh and less mechanical stress due to wind damage. Aphids are a tougher problem because of their ability to get through even tiny holes and their unusual asexual reproductive ability. Each aphid can be pregnant with offspring nymphs, and even unborn offspring can contain further generations. “These things are like Russian dolls,” Merfield explains. “Even a small incursion multiplies very quickly.” In the current season’s trial, three different mesh sizes are being tested alongside uncovered chemically sprayed plants and uncovered and unsprayed controls, in randomised plots. Aphids have been a particular problem despite various safeguards to ensure the mesh is viable. Merfield says their discovery of aphids’ ability to circumvent even fine mesh is believed to be a global first and it is not clear how they are doing it. He says the current hypothesis is that winged adults, too large to get through the mesh, are landing on the outside and giving birth to live nymphs that are small enough to get through. However, it is hoped that biological control agents such as ladybirds may effectively curtail them. Meanwhile, a separate field test – not a full field trial because there was no replication – of an espe-
cially fine, glasshousequarantine mesh called Econet, done in the 201516 season, has shown striking results – no aphid ingress, almost no blight and huge yields. @rural_news facebook.com/ruralnews
The yield from the 2015-16 field test of fine Econet mesh, left, compared with the yield from control plants, right.
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Cattle Internal Parasites Treatment Concentration
Ingredient Dose Rate
Formulated Dose Rate
Withdrawal Meat
Milk
Safety Margin
Parasite Maturity
Tric. Axei
Active Ingredient
Ostertagia Type II
Available through
Ostertagia
Company
Haemonchus
Product
Abomasum
EON POUR-ON
Bayer NZ Ltd
ATS, Farmlands, PGG Wrghtson, Farm Source
Eprinomectin
5g/L
500µ/kg
1mL/10kg bwt
Nil
Nil
5x dose rate
OUTLAW POUR-ON
Bayer NZ Ltd
10g/L 200g/L 90.6g/L
0.5mg/kg 10mg/kg 4.5mg/kg
42 days
42 days
3 x dose rate
Bayer NZ Ltd
Abamectin Levamisole Oxfendazole
1mL/20kg bwt
BOMATAK.C MINERALISED
ATS, PGG Wrightson, Farm Source All sellers
1mL/20kg bwt
10 days
72 hours
EDGE INJECTION
Bayer NZ Ltd
All sellers
Doramectin, Levamisole
4mg/mL doramectin, 200mg/mL levamisole phosphate
0.2mg doramectin and 10mg levamisole phosphate/kg bwt
1mL/20kg bwt
21 days
21 days
2-3 x dose rate 2 x dose rate
ALLIANCE
COOPERS
All outlets
Oxfendazole Levamisole, Abamectin
10 days
35 days
3x dose rate
COOPERS
All outlets
1mL/10kg bwt
10 days
35 days
3 x dose rate
SCANDA
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
PARAMECTIN INJECTION
Jurox NZ Ltd
All outlets
Levamisole Abamectin Oxfendazole Levamisole Cobalt, Zinc, Selenium Abamectin
4.53mg/kg 8mg/kg, 0.2mg/kg 8mg/kg 0.2mg/kg 4.53mg/kg 8mg/kg 4.53mg/kg 8mg/kg 0.2mg/kg
1ml/10kg bwt
CONVERGE
45.3g/L 80g/L, 2gL 80g/L 2g/L 45.3g/L 80g/L 2mg/5mL, 6mg/5mL 5mg/5mL 10mg/mL
1mL/50kg
49
49
3 x dose rate
PARAMECTIN POUR ON
Jurox NZ Ltd
All outlets
Abamectin
10mg/mL
0.5mg/kg
1mL/20kg
35
NIL
3 x dose rate
ARREST C
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
Albendazole Levamisole
100g/L 75g/L
10mg/kg 7.5mg/kg
1mL/10kg bwt
14 days
35 days
3 x dose rate
ECLIPSE E INJECTION
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
Eprinomectin Levamisole
7g/L 223g/L
0.2mg/kg 6.37mg/kg
1mL/35kg bodyweight 21 days
35 days
3 x dose rate
mature HHH HHH immature HHH HHH
ECLIPSE POUR-ON
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
Abamectin Levamisole
10mg/mL 200mg/mL
0.5mg/kg 10mg/kg
1mL/20kg bwt
35 days
35 days
3 x dose rate
mature ND immature
EPRINEX POUR-ON
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
Eprinomectin
0.5% w/v
500mcg
1mL/10kg bwt
Nil
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
Moxidectin
0.5% w/v
500mcg
1mL/10kg bwt
Nil
5-10 x dose rate 10 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
GENESIS POUR-ON
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
Abamectin
10mg/mL
0.5mg/kg
1mL/20kg bwt
35 days
Nil
3 x dose rate
GENESIS ULTRA POUR-ON
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
91 days
3 x dose rate
Veterinary outlets
0.5mg/kg 30mg/kg 4.5mg/kgmg/kg
91 days
Merial Ancare
5mg/mL 300mg/mL 90.6g/L
1mL/10kg bwt
OXFEN C HI MINERAL
Abamectin Triclabendazole Oxfendazole
1mL/20kg bwt
10 days
5 days
5 x dose rate
OXFEN C PLUS
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
35 days
3 x dose rate
Veterinary outlets
1m/10kg
14 days
35 days
3 x dose rate
IVOMEC INJECTION
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
4.5mg/kg 7.5mg/kg 0.2mg/kg 8mg/kg 4.5mg/kg 0.2mg/kg
10 days
Merial Ancare
90.6g/L 150g/L 2g/L 80g/L 45.4g/L 1.0% w/v
1mL/20kg bwt
IVER MATRIX CALF
Oxfendazole Levamisole Ivermectin Levamisole Oxfendazole Ivermectin
mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
EXODUS POUR-ON
Nil cattle 7 days deer Nil
1mL/50kg bwt
28 days
35 days
20 x dose rate
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
IVOMEC PLUS INJECTION
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
14 days
20 x dose rate
Veterinary outlets
1mL/20kg bodyweight 14 days
35 days
3 x dose rate
MATRIX MINI DOSE
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
1ml/10g
14 days
35 days
3 x dose rate
mature HHH HHH HHH HHH immature HHH HHH HHH HHH
SWITCH FLUKE 10
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
1ml/10kg
49 days
35 days
3 x dose rate
mature HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH immature ND
SWITCH C HI-MINERAL
Merial Ancare
Veterinary outlets
1mL/20kg bodyweight 14 days
35 days
3 x dose rate
Norbrook NZ Ltd
1mL/50kg bwt
49 days
Norbrook NZ Ltd
Ivermectin
0.5% w/v
0.5mg/kg
1mL/10kg bwt
21 days
Not allowed (note 1) 11 milkings
20 x dose rate
NOROMECTIN POUR-ON PARAFEND LV
Norbrook NZ Ltd
Oxfendazole
90.6g/L
4.53mg/kg
1mL/20kg bwt
10 days
72 hours
5 x dose rate
COMBO LOW DOSE
Ravensdown
Vets, Agmax, some OTC Vets, Agmax, some OTC Vets, Agmax, some OTC Ravensdown
35 days
3 x dose rate
Ravensdown
4.53 mg/kg & 8 mg/kg 0.5 mg/kg
10 days
Ravensdown
45.3 g/L & 80 g/L 10 g/L
1mL/10kg live-weight
ABAMECTIN POUR-ON
Oxfendazole & Levamisole Abamectin
1mL/20kg live-weight 35 days
NIL
3 x dose rate
ABAMECTIN INJECTION
Ravensdown
Ravensdown
Abamectin
10 g/L
0.2 mg/kg
1mL50kg live-weight
49 days
49 days
3 x dose rate
MOXIMAX POUR-ON
Ravensdown
Ravensdown
Moxidectin
0.5% w/v
0.5mg/kg
1ml/10kg
Nil
Nil
10 x dose rate
CYDECTIN INJECTION FOR CATTLE AND SHEEP CYDECTIN POUR-ON FOR CATTLE AND DEER CYDECTIN PLUS FLUKE POUR ON FOR CATTLE DECTOMAX INJECTABLE
Zoetis
OTC/Vet
Moxidectin
1% w/v
0.2mg/kg
1mL/50kg
cattle 35 days
35 days
5 x dose rate
mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
NOROMECTIN INJECTION
0.2mg/kg 2.0mg/kg 0.2mg/kg 8mg/kg 4.5mg/kg 0.2mg/kg 8mg/kg 4.5mg/kg 0.2mg/kg 12mg/kg 8mg/kg 0.2g/kg 8mg/kg 0.2mg/kg
28 days
Merial Ancare
1% 10% 4g/L 160g/L 90.8g/L 2g/L 80g/L 45.4g/L 2g/L 120g/L 80g/L 4g/L 160g/L 1.0% w/v
1mL/50kg bwt
MATRIX C
Ivermectin Clorsulon Abamectin Levamisole Oxfendazole Abamectin Levamisole Oxfendazole Abamectin Tricalbendazole Levamisole Abamectin Levamisole Ivermectin
mature immature mature immature mature immature
Zoetis
OTC/Vet
Moxidectin
0.5% w/v
0.5mg/kg
1mL/10kg
Nil
Nil
10 x dose rate
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
Zoetis
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
Zoetis
Moxidectin, Triclabendazole Doramectin
1mL/50kg bwt
35 days
35 days
25 x dose rate
mature immature mature immature mature immature
DECTOMAX POUR-ON
Zoetis
Veterinary outlets
Doramectin
0.5% w/v
0.5mg/kg
1mL/10kg bwt
35 days
Nil
25 x dose rate
mature immature
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
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10 x dose rate
mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature
mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature mature immature
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
ND
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HH
HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HH
HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
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HHH HHH
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HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
ND
HHH HHH
ND
HHH HHH
ND
ND
Flukes Fasciola
Tapeworms Monezia
L/worms Dictyocaulus
Trichuris
Lge Intestine
Chabertia
Oesphagostomum
Trichostrongylus
Bunostomum
Cooperia
Nematodirus
Small Intestine
HHH HHH HHH
Contains eprinomectin. Nilk milk, meat and bobby calf withholding period. Suitable for beef and dairy cattle. Also for the treatment and control of sucking lice.
HHH HHH HHH
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. Contains selenium, copper, cobalt, zinc and iodine. Ovicidal.
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
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.
EDGE is also effective against strains of Trichostrongylus axei and small intestinal Trichostrongylus spp. and Cooperia spp. that are resistant to members of the avermectin/milbemycin family of anthelmintics.
HHH HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
ALLIANCE is a triple combination oral drench for cattle and sheep. ALLIANCE contains: 25mg Cobalt and 5mg Selenium per 5mL dose.
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
CONVERGE is a dual combination oral drench for cattle and sheep. CONVERGE contains: 25mg Colbalt and 5mg Selenium per 5mL.
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
SCANDA is a dual combination oral drench for cattle and sheep.
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
SCANDA SELENISED is a dual combination oral drench for cattle and sheep. SCANDA SELENISED contains: Colbalt 0.4mg/mL and Selenium 1mg/mL.
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
Controls sucking lice. Must be administered subcutaneously. Do not treat calves under 16 weeks of age.
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
Paramectin Pour On is Rain fast. Also controls sucking and biting lice.
HHH HHH HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH H HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH Ideal use in cattle under 18 months of age due to the dual combination action against Ostertagia and resistant strains of Cooperia. The albendazole will also kill adult liver fluke. HHH
HHH HHH HHH
The world’s first dual action broad spectrum injectable parasiticide for cattle. Ideal use in cattle under 18 months of age and as a quarantine treatment. Keep refrigerated to ensure highest levels of efficacy. No other injection is more effective against parasite resistance.
HHH HHH HHH
Eclipse 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 controls sucking-biting lice. Ideal use in cattle under 18 months of age and as a quarantine drench.
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH
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. Ideal use in lactating cattle.
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH HHH
ND
HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH
ND
HHH HHH HHH HHH
HHH HHH
ND
ND
For cattle and deer. The potency of moxidectin gives superior persistent activity against lungworm (42 days), Ostertagia (35 days) and trichostrongylus (28 days) in cattle. Ideal use in lactating cattle.
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. Ideal use in non lactating cattle over 18 months of age. 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. Ideal use in adult lactating cattle where a treatment for HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH ostertagia is required. HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH Also controls sucking-biting lice. Persistent activity for at least 14 days against Ostertagia. Ideal use in non lactating cattle over 18 months of age where roundworms and all stages of liver fluke require treatment. HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
HHH HHH HHH HHH
ND
HHH HHH HHH
ND
HHH
HHH
HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH
Ideal use in cattle where Ostertagia and Cooperia are known to be sensitive to oxfendazole. Contains selenium and copper. Can be used in deer.
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Ideal use in cattle <18 months of age due to the dual combination action against Ostertagia and Cooperia. Contains selenium.
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view of animal performance including growth, reproduction, health and disease traits. A beef progeny test similar to the central progeny test for rams is under development. Issues noted by the NZVA included: • Elimination of several congenital diseases in Angus cattle • Previously, heavy selection for meat production, such as the double muscling gene in Belgian Blue cattle, has produced negative outcomes such as dystocia (birthing difficulty) requiring surgical delivery of some calves. Overall NAWAC is satisfied that the beef industry’s approach to selective breeding, focused as it is on the resilience of these animals in a variety of environments, is appropriate. Broadly similar concerns occupy NAWAC in respect of the sheep industry. “An ethical approach to breeding focuses on producing productive but resilient animals that handle the natural variation in feed supply and climate while producing high quality products in NZ’s range of farm environments,” the NAWAC
report says. “Improved longevity, lamb survival and ewe body condition score are the key to such resilience. In addition, control of inbreeding, which in the past led to the buildup of deleterious recessive genes and inherited diseases, emphasises the need to maintain genetic diversity. “Selective breeding has brought significant improvements in animal health in the sheep industry, with selection for resistance to the facial eczema toxin and internal parasites. Identification of and selection away from deleterious individual genes has also been possible.” An example is the condition Microphthalmia found primarily within the Texel breed and crosses made out of that breed, which results in blindness due to extremely small eyes – or no eyes, the report says. Whereas in the past increased fecundity led to lower lamb survival, farmers can now select for improved lamb survival, setting a maximum reproductive rate they believe to be sustainable for their farming system. “There has been con-
siderable selection for increased growth rates and carcase leanness in sheep. On the other side of that, there is anecdotal evidence that the selection for leanness in slaughter animals has produced breeding ewes that have lower fat reserves, which can impact negatively during times when feed supply is restricted. “Work is underway investigating increasing fatness in lamb carcases to improve eating quality. “BLNZ Genetics sees that many of the negative effects of selective breeding have come from taking a narrow view of performance based on very few traits, and is doing research on animal welfare issues associated with selective breeding to develop suitable indexes for a range of farming environments. These indexes take a wide view of animal performance including growth, reproduction, health and disease traits.” NAWAC says it is satisfied the sheep industry’s approach to selective breeding, focused as it is on the resilience of these animals in a variety of environments, is appropriate.
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Raising the bar at harvest MARK DANIEL markd@ruralnews.co.nz
WHEELED LOADING shovels have become the must-have for contractors looking to clamp the huge output of self-propelled forage harvesters. In that sphere, the JCB 400 series has made a name for itself, so the arrival of the new 435sAgri is sure to prick the ears of the informed. A key upgrade over the old model is the fitting of a Tier 4 (final) Cummins 6.75L engine pushing out 230hp and 945Nm torque, with emissions treatment by a combination of EGR, SCR and DOC. Its new Command Plus cab is said to be 20% larger than the unit it replaces. Fuel consumption is kept in check with systems such as automatic idle which reduces the engine speed to 700rpm after 30 seconds of inactivity, and an eco mode that limits the engine to a maximum of 1800rpm. Coupled to the engine, a ZF-sourced lock-up torque convertor transmission offers six speeds, which achieves 100% efficiency in all gears, and a road speed that peaks at 48km/h.
Auto clutch cut-off control diverts power to the hydraulic circuits, so reducing brake wear and helping save fuel. Meanwhile, wheel speed braking means the brakes rotate at the same speed as the wheels which helps reduce drag and consequent heat build-up, and it saves fuel. Traction issues are taken care of by limited slip differentials in both the front and rear axles A hydraulically driven cooling fan reacts to ambient temperature and adjusts its speed to the optimum to reduce fuel use and noise. The Command Plus cab has redesigned A pillars said to result in a larger interior and better overall visibility. All controls are seatmounted and have electro-hydraulic control. To the driver’s right, two full colour LCD screens provide information on operating parameters and integral operator manuals, and one unit also doubles as a display for the rear-view camera. Driver comfort is taken care of with six operator vents, which work with nine de-misting vents for improved
visibility. Outside, electrically adjusted and heated mirrors help provide a good rear view particularly in tight spots. As part of a customer Pro package specified for the New Zealand market, the machine sports LED lighting, a leather, air conditioned air suspension seat, the obligatory fridge, carpets, and air conditioning with climate control. Daily maintenance is by an auto greasing system, and engine access is achieved via an electrohydraulically lifted, onepiece engine hood. The final bling is the stainless steel exhaust stack. Weighing about 14.5 tonnes, the loader is equipped with the HighTorque loader layout which uses a parallel lift system, which product manager Steve Gorman suggests “offers a better flick control when loading grass or maize into clamps”. As expected on a machine of this capacity, hydraulic power is delivered by twin variable displacement piston pumps delivering up to 264L/min, with instant flow on demand.
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Taking lift and pull in its stride MARK DANIEL markd@ruralnews.co.nz
TELEHANDLERS HAVE brought about a big change in materials handling on farms, with increased lift and reach capacities that traditional tractor/loader combinations couldn’t achieve. So much so that any sizable operation is likely to run such a machine and find it invaluable for many tasks. Merlo, of Cuneo, Italy took the concept a stage further with its MultiFarmer launched in 2000. This combined their telehandler with the rear linkage and PTO system of a conventional tractor, to produce a dual-purpose machine. On the recent regional field days circuit, the latest MultiFarmer II -- the MF 40.7CS -- was catching eyes as the only machine of its type in the sector. Weighing in at about 8.7 tonnes and capable of lifting 4 tonnes to 7M,
the machine is powered by a 4-cylinder Deutz engine pushing out 156hp to Tier 3 emission standards, so negating the need for DEF/Ad Blue treatment. At the rear, in what might be regarded as the tractor area, a Cat 3 rear linkage can lift up to 7 tonnes, coupled with a 540/1000 rpm PTO system that delivers up to 138hp at the shaft, and four rear remote hydraulic valves. As is usual for the Merlo camp, transmission is hydrostatic with twin motors coupled to a two-speed box. Shifts between range 1 and 2 are automated, or can be locked out manually if required. Range 1 offers speeds from 0-14kph, and range 2 takes the machine right out to the maximum speed of 40km/h. In operation there are three drive mode choices: eco, which will achieve up to 40km/h at lowest engine revs; heavy, which delivers maximum power at all times so is ideal for clamp work
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S series hits the 400hp mark MARK DANIEL mark@ruralnews.co.nz
HOT ON the heels of its A and N series, Finnish tractor manufacturer Valtra has topped out its fourth-generation S series with the flagship S394 model. Fitted with the AGCO Power 8.4L AWF engine, the tractor delivers a maximum output of 405hp and 1600Nm torque, and mirrors the already released numbers of its sister company’s MF 8740. Emissions are taken care of by an SCR (diesel exhaust fluid) only solution, which removes the need for diesel particulate filters (DPF) or diesel oxidisation catalysts (DOC). Transmission is the company’s stepless variable speed set-up in the shape of the AVT version which offers the operator the choice of pedal or joystick control for best efficiency and reduced fuel consumption, while for those who like it simple a further mode mimics manual gear shifting. At the rear end of the tractor
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PO Box 73 Tuakau 1892
Tel: (09) 236 8414 Feed & Drinking Fax: (09) 236 9321 Email:trays PPP.LTD@xtra.co.nz • Plastic egg
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QUADBAR
595
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+GST delivered
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PROTECT YOUR VEHICLE FLOOR WITH OUR HARD WEARING FLOOR MATS
“I have no doubt that if I did not have a Quadbar fitted, my accident would have been fatal!” – Rozel Farms
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“The Quadbar saved our employee from significant injuries.” – Colin van der Geest
For a Quadbar, call me, Stuart Davidson, owner of Quadbar NZ, on 021-182 8115. Email sales@quadbar.co.nz or for more info go to www.quadbar.co.nz
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QUADBAR 5 YEAR SURVEY
NUMBER OF QUADBARS 479
ROLLOVERS 61
NUMBER OF DEATHS 0