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Free help offered to farmersby Denise Gunn

The announcement of Fonterra’s forecast drop in the dairy payout in December prompted Taranaki woman Vanessa Ingram to set up a social media group offering free help to farmers.

Fonterra had reduced its forecast farm-gate milk price for the 2014/15 season from $5.30 per kgMS to $4.70 per kgMS.

Fonterra chairman John Wilson said although farmers were expecting this lower forecast, the revision will put pressure on their farming business budgets.

“There is st i l l considerable volatility in global dairy markets.”

“Falling oil prices, geopolitical uncertainty in Russia and Ukraine, and subdued demand from China as it continues to work through inventory are all contributing to ongoing volatility and weak demand,” he said.

Vanessa said the ‘Free help for our NZ Farmers’ Facebook page was set up to help farmers out.

“They are going through a hard time at the moment.”

Vanessa has received a positive response with people joining the group from all over New Zealand offering to lend a hand with milking, fencing, spraying weeds, grubbing thistles, working with livestock, cooking and baking. The help offered is available to all farmers, not just those in the dairy industry.

“I would like to see the farming community go back to what is used to be with everybody helping each other out, especially in times of need,” she said.

Vanessa grew up on a dairy farm near Toko and began milking cows from the age of 12. She is familiar with the challenges farmers face on the farm and the flow-on effect the drop in payout will have on businesses and the community.

Now a full-time mother living in Stratford, Vanessa is willing to help

farmers in the region with milking. “I don’t mind using my spare time helping,” she said.

Vanessa has also taken the free help concept a step further by placing fuel vouchers into a couple of farmer’s letterboxes in the Manawatu.

“I was given some fuel vouchers when I was shifting, then put them into random farmer’s letterboxes while driving from Dannevirke to Stratford.”

Vanessa would welcome more members with offers of help and encourages farmers to also join the group to take up these offers.

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Michael began building up herd numbers through purchasing stock from dispersal sales, and

from Colin and Catherine Hutchings of Brooklands Simmentals in Dannevirke. Eighty percent of his herd now descend from those purchases.

In addition, Michael bought an in-calf heifer, bred at Ladburn Stud in Leeston, South Canterbury, from the national sales in 2007. Michael’s current herd sire is out of this heifer. And three years ago he bought the top-priced polled Simmental bull from Idesia

Stud in Northland. Other bulls have been sourced from both Brooklands Simmentals and Glen Anthony Stud near Waipukurau.

Thirty-eight cows and in-calf heifers, four stud bulls, and 14 yearling bulls now run on Michael’s 41ha farm near Shannon. All his yearling heifers are grazed on his parents property which borders onto his farm. His parents previously milked an Ayrshire herd on their farm.

Michael named his Simmental stud after a small town called Peplow in England, where he stayed during his travels in 2002.

When Michael took over his farm that same year, gorse and scrub covered 10 acres of it. However, with continuous spraying, Michael said they’ve beaten it.

Scrub has been cut and Michael has even carved out a pond for ducks and other wildlife.

Fertiliser, usually dicalsic phosphate, is applied annually.

The farm is a mixture of flat and rolling country, situated close to the Tararua Ranges. Winters can be extremely wet with an average annual rainfall between 1,200–1,300ml.

“We can get a bit of pugging in the winter,” said Michael.

“Summers are not too bad, although last year we did have a drought.”

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Hay and baleage are bought in to feed stock.

Michael has an extensive farming background with both dairy and beef cattle.

The stud’s bulls are advertised through TradeMe. Some of these bulls have been sent as far south as the Catlins and north to Waikato.

Michael’s bulls are sold to farmers mostly wanting them for beef breeding. A few locals buy them for dairy breeding.

“Cull cows go to AFFCO after weaning their calves early March,” he said.

“Surplus bulls are killed at 18 months and usually kill out at 400 to 445kg.”

Simmentals particularly appeal to Michael due to the fast growth rate.

“They are killable before the second winter.”

Since the purchase of his first polled Simmental bull three years ago, Michael plans to keep breeding polled stock and easy-calving cattle with great temperaments.

He’s found polled stock are becoming more popular and there is no de-horning required later on.

“Every year it gets more exciting as you are striving to breed better stock by using good bulls,” he said.

Michael also manages cattle for Seymours Transport near Foxton. This stock management role involves caring for cattle arriving on their property during a stopover while being transported to the South Island. Up to 500 truck and trailer units deliver stock to Seymours farm on an annual basis. Michael ensures there is hay and water for the

stock. There is also a small eight-aside herringbone shed on the property to milk cows if required. Since 2004, Michael has milked more than 14,000 cows.

The length of time stock stay on this property ranges from

overnight stops to up to four days if the ferries stop sailing across Cook Strait.

“They won’t take cattle if there are four metre swells or more,” said Michael.

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Eric said their best guess is that Sasha was one of several hundreds of thousands of pets abandoned when soldiers were shipped out for the first war in Iraq.

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The couple were living in North Carolina in the United States at the time, and renting a house.

Their landlords owned three Siberian Huskies which they brought with them whenever they visited the Altermanns.

While Eric was in Europe for an overseas conference, Gaby took a short trip with their landlords and the dogs. It was during this trip, while stuck at traffic lights, that a woman knocked on the car window and asked if they would consider adopting a fourth husky. The woman had found the dog on the beach. Gaby went to have a look and came home with the dog, named Sasha.

Eric said when he arrived at the airport, Gaby whispered to him about his longing to have a Husky. “As you can imagine, even through the brain haze, several red warning flags came up and I cautiously answered that yes, when

we have our own home, and a big and secure garden, then I would very much like to look into the possibility of caring for a Husky.”

Gaby told Eric to look into the back of the car.

“And there he was, a black and white male Siberian Husky with one brown and one blue, piercing eye,” said Eric.

“Skin and bones, frightened and giving me a look that melted my heart even today when I think back on that moment.

“Needless to say that I fell in love with him right then and there and we spent the next two years integrating him into our family, giving him all our love and patiently waiting for him to recover from his traumatic experiences.”

“All of our Huskies are an integral part of our family and they come each morning to wake us up, wanting kisses and belly rubs.

“At the same time, they are very energetic dogs and require a lot of exercise.

“There is nothing better to see them smiling and happily panting when coming back from a good training run,” said Eric.

The breed’s same characteristics that appeal to Eric also make them a challenge to care for.

“Huskies, and Malamutes, were originally bred to pull sleds over long distances, so there is a lot of endurance and independent thinking in them.”

He explained that the breed is not owner-focussed or territorial.

“They love you to bits, but if there is something interesting to explore, then they’ll do just that.”

Eric Altermann and his wife Gaby acquired their first Siberian Husky in very unusual

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Eric and Gaby are members of the Ridge Runners Sled Dog Club which offers a range of dry-land sled dog racing options. The club, formed in the 1980s, has members all over the lower North Island. The emphasis is on animal welfare, along with support and guidance during training. Any dog breed is welcomed into the club.

Eric said it is a common misconception that only arctic breeds like to run and pull.

Training the dogs takes part on a variety of grounds including the local beaches, forests, and hill trails. Members are constantly scouting for new locations.

Dog training begins at six months of age with command instruction and running alongside the team. As they grow older, half-harnesses are introduced and the dogs join the team on short distances on the way back home. Training is increased gradually. Dogs can participate in races from the age of one year.

“They [the dogs] come into their prime at about the age of three or four years, when stamina and power have fully developed,” said Eric.

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“Many very successful dogs have started out training as adults and they are enjoying it right up to their retirement.”

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Dr Robertson arranged for Matt to be involved in two projects involving bees — kiwifruit pollination and a manuka honey project.

“In the first few weeks, Alistair arranged for me to visit Dr Mark Goodwin

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“I was provided with an opportunity to spend a day with his beekeeper and learned a wealth of information.”

Matt was lent two hives for his research and he drove them back to Palmerston North in the back of a station wagon.

As he reached Bulls, the bees had found the smallest of gaps and were escaping.

“By the time I got them to the apiary, there were masses flying through the car.”

Matt, who is the Manawatu Beekeepers Club chairman, now has five full-sized hives at different sites in the district. “I am currently splitting these hives and hope to have 10 to 15 by next

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Matt said beekeeping involves a range of seasonal tasks with spring and summer being the busiest months.

Preparations for the nectar flow are made in spring and honey is collected in summer. In autumn, measures are taken to winter the bees down and ensure they have enough food to get them through the coldest months and early spring.

“In winter, we pretty much leave bees alone, other than checking to see there is enough food for the upcoming spring build-up,” said Matt.

The bees are treated for Varroa twice a year and checked for American Foul Brood regularly.

Supersedure and swarm cells are removed, and extra room provided or hives split when required to prevent swarming.

“Bees perform best when they are left to their own devices as much as possible.”

Matt finds every aspect of bees and beekeeping fascinating from their anatomy and lifecycle, through to the botany skills acquired to identify nectar and pollen sources.

“Bees are self-organising and have a complex adaptive system based on a network of communication,” he said.

“They are the only insect with a known communication that people can understand.

“As a superorganism, they have been accorded the status of vertebrates with the worker bees representing the body organs necessary for maintenance

and digestion, while the queen and drones represent the female and male genital organs.”

Matt explained that bees are able to calculate complex information regarding co-ordinates of flowers.

“They have very dense brain cells and are capable of learning the location of up to three nectar sources as communicated through their waggle dance.”

Through combining his teaching experience and his role as club chairman, Matt would like to increase involvement with community groups and events to raise awareness of bees, and encourage people to become beekeepers. He

would also like to see the acquisition of a permanent site for the club to use for hives, and to set up buildings for bee education and honey extraction.

“As a teacher, I would like to further build my capacity as a bee educator.

“I envision working with a number of country schools to run their own hives.” Matt finds beekeeping is a great hobby that helps him to relax at the end of

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The recent action taken by WorkSafe New Zealand inspectors against a Marlborough farming couple, which resulted in them being fined $40,000 altogether between them in the Blenheim District Court for not wearing helmets while riding their quad bikes on their farm, raises some very serious issues in regard to the right of entry by government agencies onto a farmer’s property.

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Summer temperatures are soaring. Groundwater is getting warmer and there is added challenge to keep milk cool once in the vat so farmers across the region will be finding their on-farm refrigeration systems are put to the test.

Regardless of whether temperature warnings are issued from the dairy company, any difficulties around getting milk cool down and collection temperatures where they ought to be should be heeded, now more so now than in previous years. Difficulties meeting current milk temperature requirements

this season may signal problems around the shed’s current capability to meet the tighter milk cooling regulations under the new NZCP1 Code of Practice for milk pre-cooling and storage coming into force next year. Compliance rules will initially apply to new sheds, major upgrades, and sheds which are regularly

non-compliant. Farmers with new sheds and major upgrades will know who they are.

For farmers with existing sheds it’s a good idea to know where they stand. Industry experts recommend getting a thorough audit of dairy refrigeration systems rather than leaving it to the last minute or spending too much in the hope that trouble spots will be sorted.

Good quality refrigeration assessments use accurate data

collected from the individual farm refrigeration plant. Problem areas and times can be pinpointed so farmers know how they will fare under the new regime.

Rather than risk financial disadvantage from spending too much up front or getting pinged with dairy company disincentives farmers can then plan ahead and have the time and knowledge to focus on what work needs to be completed before the regulations take effect.

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