rural news 16 july 2013

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Key documeNt!Prime minister John Key launched a new pan-dairy industry strategy to improve environmental practices on farms at Parliament last week. the ‘sustainable dairying: water accord’ is supported by all dairy companies, 15 regional councils, fertiliser companies, Irrigation NZ, DairyNZ, fed farmers and Government. see more page 4

THE SUNDAY night telephone ring-round to procure livestock appears less of a factor in farmer behaviour than some suggest, judging by find-ings of a Federated Farmers mem-bers’ survey due out this week.

The survey – with 865 respon-dents in mainly sheep, beef and dairy farmers, plus a few from arable and other sectors – found 66% say they are “very loyal” to a company when selling stock, and 22% “extremely loyal”.

Meat and Fibre section chair Jea-nette Maxwell told Rural News the results suggest some of the behav-ioural changes being called for to reform the meat industry, such as greater commitment to contracts, might not be such a big ask.

“We’ve heard a lot about Sunday night trading but it doesn’t look like there’s a lot of that happening. We’ve just been told it’s happening.”

However, contracts have been broken “both ways” in the past, ie by farmers and processors, hence the current low uptake of them despite 83% of respondents saying they’ve supplied the same company for three years.

Contracts must also be reason-able: asking for more than one year’s commitment, or year-round supply from a single farm, is going to find few takers.

The detail of the findings will be mailed to Federated Farmers mem-bers.

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Farmers loyal – Feds

MIE plans dead meat?THE HOPES of the farmer lobby Meat Industry Excellence Group (MIE) for a major restructure of the meat industry look to be coming off the rails

The group has been asked to allow the big four processors to conclude their own discussions. However, MIE is not holding its breath for the four proces-sors – Alliance, Silver Fern Farms, Anzco and Affco – to accept radical changes.

MIE representatives attended the recent red meat sector conference in Auckland. Beef and Lamb chairman Mike Petersen, who spoke to the lobby group at the conference, says he encour-aged them to wait. “It’s better for the talks between the four meat compa-nies to come to a conclusion first,” he told Rural News.

But MIE official Ross Hyland doesn’t expect the processors will go far enough.

“We have said we are prepared to wait for the meat companies to conclude their talks,” he told Rural News. “But if what they come up with is not accept-able, we will push on. At this stage, we

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don’t think the meat processors will go far enough and if that happens, there will be no let-up in our campaign.”

Hyland says MIE is different from BLNZ and Federated Farmers, who deal with “all the fluffy industry stuff ”. MIE’s focus is on the long term sustainability of the industry, he says.

Among the meat companies there is no guarantee they will be able to find a workable solution. Cooperatives SFF and Alliance may bow to pressure from farmer shareholders and agree to work

together. However, privately owned Affco and Anzco are showing little appe-tite for a super meat company.

With Anzco and Affco unlikely to play ball, Alliance and SFF will have no incentive to merge.

One meat industry leader, who did not want to be named, says a merger of the four companies isn’t the only solu-tion to get processors back into prof-itability. “The meat companies can collaborate in certain areas to lift effi-ciency and boost industry returns. But

collaboration doesn’t mean the four companies have to merge.”

MIA chairman Bill Falconer told the conference forming a merger meat com-pany will take time. He referred to the formation of Fonterra. “It took a huge amount of time to form Fonterra… many years and deals to make it happen. “The meat industry is much more complex and more time will be required.”

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CHINESE OFFICIALS from the equivalent of the NZ Food Safety Authority visited here last week trying to sort problems that led to some New Zealand meat exports being stranded on wharves in China.

Officials from AQSIQ visited just days after Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy led an agri-cultural trade mission to China. There he met AQSIQ vice minister Wei Chuanzhong, inviting him to New Zealand to see “the systems we have in place and to assure the world our produce is high quality and safe”.

Within days the Chinese dis-patched officials to inspect our meat plants and to sort the verifica-tion issues.

Unbeknown to New Zealand, China had changed the rules on the verification of meat shipments, lead-ing to meat being held for a few days on their wharves.

Guy told Rural News MPI was not to blame for what happened because “China had changed the rules. In an ideal world we would have been told, but this happens in any export market. We found out on a Thursday and because of our warm and profes-sional relationship we were able to reach a resolution on Friday night.

“We are working on an [under-standing] with AQSIQ for our future relationship... and on a wider meat certification issue, which means we can get ultimately more meat into this market.”

Guy says it was a “communica-tion” issue and claims MPI have “beefed up” their capability in China. He says all MPI staff in the China market have a Chinese speak-ing research officer working with them who has good connections in the bureaucracy. Also, MFAT and NZTE, with MPI, help deal with in-market issues.

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Maori doing their own thingA MAORI initiative to gain greater con-trol across the red meat value chain is going well, says consultant Victor Gold-smith.

He says the Tuhono Whenua red meat coalition isn’t affiliated to Meat Industry Excellence (MIE), a farmer lobby seeking a super meat company.

Goldsmith told the recent red meat sector conference in Auckland that no decision has been made on whether the coalition will work with MIE.

MIE representatives met the coali-tion steering group for an “open and candid discussion”, he says. “They (MIE) don’t represent us and whether we work with them, no decision has

been made yet,” he told the conference.Goldsmith chairs a sheep and beef

farm on the East Coast and is a member of the coalition steering group, working to get a group of East Coast Maori sheep and beef farmers to work together in a “coalition of the willing.”

He says the coalition acts as “one farm and one family business”. He acknowledges it’s a challenge to get Maori red meat players to work together. The farms, working together on the East Coast, carry a total of 1.5 mil-lion head of stock.

“It’s been difficult for us. Not every-one has committed fully to the concept yet,” he told the conference.

But the initiative has been noticed by the major meat processors. The steering group has received calls from Talleys,

who own Affco, Alliance and Greenlea Meats.

Goldsmith says there is a commit-ment to work together; whether it will be a Fonterra model or Zespri’s market-ing model remains to be worked out. “If anything this project has got us together and we are talking.”

Goldsmith says scale does matter.The two core issues for the coalition

are participation and control.“The size of the prize is largely dic-

tated by the scale of the collabora-tion. The more willing participants we can get into this coalition the better. These proposals do not trample on our mana as owners; they look to reinforce increased sustainable earnings.”

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Corporate collaboration not easy!

COLLABORATION BY companies, even when the returns are high, can be very difficult, the meat industry has been warned.

Sealord Fishing chief executive Graham Stuart told the recent red meat sector conference that trust issues are real. “On one hand you are asked to col-laborate and on the other hand com-pete. Competition and collaboration can make very uneasy bedfellows.”

Sealord, one of four major fishing companies, controls 75% of the indus-try. The others are Talleys, Sanford and Independent Fisheries. Talleys own Affco, one of the four major meat pro-cessors locked in talks to restructure the struggling red meat sector.

Stuart gave examples of the four big fishing companies working together.

The Deep Water Group partnership with MPI involves chief executives of three companies working on major policy matters like managing fish stocks. The companies also work together on improving global sustainability cre-dentials and innovation.

But it stops there. While Stuart wants to see the companies collaborate fur-ther, such as looking into sharing fishing trawlers, the other companies aren’t keen.

He believes competitors are suspi-cious of each other. “They feel if we let competitors in our house, they will glean information and reduce our competitive advantage.”

Stuart says collaboration will work if participants are clear about the goals, know when to lead and when to follow,

develop mutual understanding and encourage information sharing.

In his presentation, ANZ rural econ-omist Con Williams floated a 80/20

model for the industry. A super meat company process-ing 80% of the stock would provide much needed scale and improved efficiencies in parts of the supply chain and better linkages to farms, he says.

He also touched on the costs of a meat industry

restructure. Figures of $400m to $1.6 bil-lion have been discussed in the industry.

Williams questioned how much of this is cash and how much is write-down in asset values. There has been little dis-cussion on the benefits, he says. “If the benefits were avoiding the $150 million loss last year, then the payback period could be fairly short.”

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Dairying commits to unified action on water qualityTHE DAIRY indus-try is joining forces with regional councils to tackle water quality.

A scheme launched last week – ‘Sustainable dairy-ing: water accord’ – lays out the dairy sector’s com-mitment to self-improve-ment. While not a ‘silver bullet’ to solve water qual-ity issues in all dairying regions, the accord nota-bly sets targets for exclud-ing stock from waterways and wetlands.

Targets are also set for each farm to have nutri-ent and riparian manage-ment plans, and for farms to comply with effluent management rules in their

respective regions.The accord, headed by

DairyNZ, is backed by 15 regional councils, all milk processors, fertiliser com-panies, Irrigation New Zealand, Federated Farm-ers and the Government.

DairyNZ chief execu-tive Tim Mackle acknowl-edged the accord will not solve issues in all water catchments. But it will go a long way towards solv-ing problems in most catchments, he says. “The accord addresses issues and seeks improvements that will result in good, tidy dairy farms around the country,” he told Rural News at the launch in Wel-lington.

Mackle says getting 15 regional councils to back

the accord was crucial. “The 15 councils cover all the dairying regions. The councils will engage with the dairy sector to develop and implement programmes to meet our shared goals.”

Federated Farmers’ dairy chairperson Willy Leferink says farmers are ready to play their part. The federation’s signature on the new accord repre-sents farmers’ commit-ment to do all we can to protect the water quality in our streams and rivers, says Leferink,

Farmers will also work on water quality projects at catchment and com-munity level as regional councils set about put-ting policies in place over

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the next few years, he says. “As dairy farmers we have to lift our game on water quality. If we want to meet the aspirations we have as an industry, meet gov-ernment expectations and earn the respect of the wider community, then farming sustainably is the way ahead.”

Leferink urged the

news media to understand modern dairying. “Feder-ated Farmers will make it possible for the media to get on-farm. I know the science of what we do can be hard for the media to portray, let alone when consents, policies and systems are added to the mix, but we need facts and not slogans in the public

domain.” Primary Industries

Minister Nathan Guy told the launch gathering there was a perception in some quarters of New Zealand media, and held by some political parties, that farm-ers don’t care about the environment, “that farm-ers are short term think-ers who care only about

profit, and that farmers are the main polluters of our waterways. As a farmer myself, and as the Minis-ter for Primary Industries, I completely refute these perceptions.

“Yes, there is a distinc-tion between good and bad farmers. And yes, a few farmers do act in a way that is not sustainable. But there are a few ratbags in any business, across any sector. I believe most farmers are environmen-talists, and want to leave the land in a better state than they found it.”

The new accord and a new dairy industry strat-egy to improve environ-mental practices on farms were launched by Prime Minister John Key.

Stock excluded from waterwaysTarget: 90% exclusion by May 31, 2014; 100% exclusion by May 31, 2017; 100% exclusion from signifi-cant wetlands by May 31, 2014.Stock crossings bridged or culvertedAll points on a waterway where cows cross and return more than once per month must be bridged or culvertedTarget: 100% of regular stock crossing points bridged or culverted by May 31, 2018.Riparian management plansAll dairy farms with waterways must

prepare a riparian management plan that sets out where riparian planting is to occur. Target: 100% of farms with accord waterways will have a riparian management plan by May 31, 2020. Planting is to be completed by 2030.Nutrient managementFarms must supply their dairy company with information that will allow for the modelling of nitrogen loss and nitrogen conversion efficiency. Companies will report comparative performance back to farmers to

drive continuous improvement in nutrient management.Target: Data collected and performance benchmarked for 85% of dairy farms by November 30, 2014; 100% of dairy farms by November 30, 2015.Effluent management compliance All dairy farm effluent systems must be capable of being compliant with the relevant regional council rules and/or their resource consent 365 days per year. Target: 100% of farms assessed by May 31, 2014.

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Better strategy neededTHERE’S A level of reactiveness and a lack of detailed planning in New Zealand’s approach to the China market, says Tim White, chair of the NZ China Trade Association.

White also heads up KPMG New Zea-land’s China business, part of a global China operation within his organisation. His com-ments follow a week in which some New Zea-land meat exports were held up on wharves in China, while a high level agricultural trade del-egation visited there.

White told Rural News New Zealand needs to be more planned in its approach to China. He notes that country is buying logs, meat and dairy products, but none of this is truly planned and this is creating nervousness.

It’s widely talked about in business circles that such an approach by New Zealand exposes it to the risk of non-tariff trade barriers, which the Chinese could impose at any moment. Arguably the latest delays to meat exports could be seen as one of these. However, White believes – given the somewhat ad hoc approach to the Chinese market – the risks of problems arising become greater.

“We have a New Zealand-China strategy, but it doesn’t go far enough. It says we want to double two-way trade with China by 2015, grow tourism 60% and education by 20%.

“On this basis, China will decide what we do and we need to have a much smarter view of where we are taking this. Are we just growing the volume of raw materials we are supplying out of New Zealand or are we trying to create value going forward and providing a

sustainable future?“If we do the latter, then we can share in

the growth of the exciting phenomenon that is China. In most cases, New Zealand is not shar-ing in enough of the value chain; wealth is being created elsewhere, not here.”

White says the same applies as foreign com-panies from, say, China, come to New Zealand and build processing plants to leverage the value of the New Zealand brand. The New Zea-land Government pitch on this is that it ‘cre-ates jobs’.

“Look into how many jobs are being created. The wealth is not being created in New Zealand and again we are going along with the flow.”

White believes New Zealand has to enter more arrangements by which we get a greater share of the wealth created through such as joint ventures.

understanding Chinese culture will ensure success

A RESEARCH project at Lincoln University on ‘Doing Agribusiness in China’ shows that if New Zealand entre-preneurs are to succeed in that market they need to under-stand and work within the cultural parameters of that country.

Xiaomeng (Sharon) Lucock, who was born in China and moved to New Zealand in 2002, is now a lecturer in agribusiness at Lincoln. A paper which she, Keith Wood-ford and Malcolm Cone recently published points out “major cultural differences” between the two countries.

Lucock says the Chinese tend to “go with the flow” whereas western business partners typically expect to develop a contract and a plan and follow this to the end. On the other hand, she says Chinese see a contract or a plan as a “snapshot in time” and expect things to change to suit the situation.

“One New Zealand entrepreneur who was developing a large scale horticultural operation in China was ‘invited to hop on board what would be an exciting train journey’. Although the destination was unclear, the people involved perceived themselves in ‘good space’ from which great potential could be realized.”

Lucock says Chinese rarely resort to legal action when things go wrong and that China is a country “ruled by people – not law”. Chinese tend to defer to those in power and rely on kinship which is emphasised by Con-fucian teaching. Chinese rely on networks and patronage to establish good guanxi (relationships or connections, often long-term).

“The key to establishing a good guanxi is to create inter-dependency. Where there is interdependency, there is security in the relationship. The New Zealanders’ business goal needs to be in line with the target the Chinese central or local government wants to achieve. This is because the influence of the authorities on businesses in China cannot be ignored.

“On the personal level, it is important for the alignment to be such that it is in the best interest of each party for the other to succeed. It is through this symbiotic inter-dependency that a strong relationship or guanxi can be established.”

Lucock says New Zealand business people also need to understand another side to Chinese business culture: Chi-nese have become more and more “material driven” and are eager for “quick success”.

“Often Chinese officials are more interested in ‘proj-ects’ which have a shorter time frame than ‘products’ which are longer term.”

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Final Crafar bid knocked backX-ray boostTHE MINISTRY for Primary Industries is trialing a pioneer-ing x-ray image transfer process at Australian airports that will enable the biosecurity screen-ing of luggage before it arrives in New Zealand.

This was announced by Minis-ter for Primary Industries Nathan Guy at the opening of the ‘Biose-curity in New Zealand’ forum at Auckland University last Thurs-day, hosted by the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural and Hor-ticultural Science.

“A bag containing biosecurity risk items can now be matched with the passenger who will face further scrutiny by officials on landing,” Guy said.

“In the longer term, x-ray image transfer could be applied to routes with higher biosecu-rity risk such as those in South East Asia, parts of Europe and the Pacific.

“New Zealand is leading the game here. A number of coun-

tries, airport companies and air-lines are watching these trials as the technology gets closer.

“The system could provide another powerful tool for MPI to protect New Zealand from dan-gerous pests and diseases.”

In answer to questions Guy said a trial at Melbourne airport is extremely exciting. “Of course it is a trial; we need to work through and collect all the data and make sure it will deliver what we expect it to deliver. If the trial is success-ful there is opportunity to roll it out in other countries.”

Guy also said from time to time there is noise from certain political parties that numbers at the border have been slashed.

“This is completely political spin. While the total number of staff has decreased since 2008, the decrease is about 1.9% per annum. The largest factor in this reduction was the global finan-cial crisis which significantly reduced trade flows.

“The biosecurity system is a responsive one. When fewer people and products come

across the border, fewer people are required to check them. MPI are in the process, as trade vol-umes begin to increase again, of bolstering their staff.

“This is why late last year we recruited 45 quarantine inspec-tors. In January we recruited another 11 and MPI are in the process of recruiting another 30 frontline quarantine inspectors. The MPI detector dog [service] has also expanded its opera-tional capacity with 34 teams now active across the country.”

FORMER FONTERRA chairman Henry van der Heyden’s infamous “don’t trust the Chi-nese” line is right on the money, claims the chairman of a central North Island Maori Trust which tried to buy two dairy farms from the Chinese dairy giant Shanghai Pengxin.

The two farms in question were originally owned by Allan Crafar, but were sold to the Chi-nese by the receivers for the Crafar farms.

Te Hape B Trust has made several unsuccessful attempts to buy the farms. Its chair, Hardie Pene, says when the trust was specifically invited by Shanghai Pengxin to put in another bid he was hopeful a deal could be done.

But Pene has told Rural News the surprise outright rejection of their latest bid by the Chi-nese was “a kick in the guts for his people”.

Te Hape B Trust is located near Bennydale, King Country. Pene says although the farms have been in private ownership for many years they have been a strategic target for his people, due to the fact their ancestor Rereahu had a pa site on the property. The lands were originally

owned by his people, but lost to them during the 1800s through land acquisition.

Pene says on the basis of what’s happened he has concluded that Shanghai Pengxin did not act in good faith.

“They invited us to put in an offer. They sent us an email that there had to be one offer

and one offer only and it was not open to negotiation. So we then undertook valuations that they and Landcorp were well aware of. We also went onto the farms to do due diligence in January and February and we incurred quite a lot of expense which they were well aware of.”

Pene now thinks it was really an academic exercise by Shang-hai Pengxin to say that had

invited Te Hape to make a bid. He says this is not a good look.

“To me when you look back at Sir Henry van der Hayden’s comments ‘don’t trust them’ (the Chinese), he hit the nail on the head,” he says. Pene says their offer for the two farms was based on an independent valuation and they did not undercut this in any way in their bid. He says all he’s had from Shanghai Pengxin is an email saying basically ‘no deal’.

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Less gloss for GoldZESPRI’S GOLD crop will be down about 45-50% this year, but there are positives to the season.

That reduction is mostly due to about 70% of Gold growers grafting to the new Psa-resistant cultivar G3, rather than to the effects of the vine-killing disease itself.

Meanwhile, Green volumes will be the same as last year at 70 million trays. The impact of Psa on Green volumes has been “negligible”, says Simon Limmer, Zespri’s general manager of grower and government relations.

About two years of full production are lost in the transition from the old Gold variety to the new G3, he says. Gold, at 13 million trays, this season is about 45-50% down on

last season and even further on the previous peak season. But this year should be the lowest volume year in the recovery phase.

“Growers have had to cut the

heads off their old vines and graft a new variety into their trunk and it will take a couple of years before they start getting meaningful production. By December this year we should see confirmation of the

recovery and volumes start to grow again for next season. But we won’t recover back to previous volumes for a couple of seasons.”

But the new variety, G3, is “looking really good”. “We’ve been lucky with the summer. The drought was disastrous for most of the primary sector. But for kiwifruit it had two positive effects: it countered Psa and it created high tasting kiwifruit – a vintage crop – so that’s helping in the marketplace.

“And despite some of the challenges economically

in places like Europe and despite the strong

headwind from a strong New Zealand dollar, the markets

are performing pretty well.”

Market conditions, smaller volumes and good tasting fruit all

translate into good returns, but “it is a bit early to conclude how the season is going to do”. The season closes in October-November.

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News 9more red ink for Blue skyCustomer driven

change neededTHE FIRST premise of any industry is to pro-duce what the customer wants; the meat industry is not doing that now, says Blue Sky Meats chairman Graham Cooney.

Cooney called for a massive move away from the production-led indus-try to a market-led one, when announcing Blue Sky Meats loss of $3.8 mil-lion for the year ending March 31. The company deals in lamb and other sheepmeats, veal and goat cuts.

He says simply chang-ing the ownership struc-ture will have little or no effect.

“What we’ve had is an industry that responds to farmers’ requirements in terms of their feed,” Cooney told Rural News.

“So if you have a par-ticularly dry season then everyone takes the atti-tude - both companies and most farmers - that the obvious place for the animals to go is to the meat works. If you have a growth season like the year before then farmers hold them back and put weight on.

“In both cases, we are probably producing some-thing that the market doesn’t want – either too heavy or too light. The first premise for any industry is we must pro-duce what the consumer wants.”

Farm management sys-tems, either existing or under development, allow farmers to do different things in droughts than they used to. It is now possible to “get the right animal at the right time, to the right specification”.

“It’s a vertically inte-grated system where the customer communicates through the company directly to the farmers that produce for them. Some farmers might be produc-ing lighter lambs, some heavier and the majority in the middle, so it’s not one particular type of animal for every market.

“Some markets require different things. And so the companies and the people offshore that require the product and the producers all work as a group, which is not hap-pening at the moment.”

Asked how Blue Sky, in particular, would move towards that, Cooney says “we need specialist staff that work with the farm-ers”.

But the resources of most meat companies now are directed to just procuring livestock and

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Blue sky Meats has announced an after tax loss of

$3.8m for the year ending March 31, 2013.

This compares to a loss of about $449,000 in

2012 and a profit of $3.6m for the previous year.

Cooney says this is the second loss in the compa-

ny’s 27-year history and he hopes they will never be

repeated in the New Zealand meat industry.

In that period, international market prices for

almost all items the company sells dropped at an

alarming rate. eu challenges and the Northern Hemi-

sphere recession lead to reduced demand and major

uncertainty.

In New Zealand animals continued to be

processed and the products from these animals,

while sitting in store, lost value at alarming rates.

The prices paid to farmers dropped over the 2012

calendar year but that reduction was at a much

slower rate than the market price reduction.

The overall effect also increased the compa-

ny’s costs, including interest and storage, which

were 34.7% higher in june 2012 than in june 2011.

Currency movements added to the difficulties.

There were some positives. A strong balance

sheet, purposely planned over many years to cover

events such as this, has got the company through a

disastrous year, Cooney says. Past investment in the

Chinese market paid dividends, with that country

now the largest country of destination for both

volume and value.

“we’ve got to survive first, make some profit”.

Cooney believes the change will be led by the whole industry.

“It’s not just farmers;

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Dairy intensification not all bad – vet leader

WIDESPREAD CON-CERN about the welfare of fully housed cows in New Zealand is not well-founded, says the chair of

the National Animal Wel-fare Advisory Committee, Dr John Hellstrom. If such systems are good, animal health should improve, he says.

In a paper delivered at the recent NZVA annual

conference in Palmerston North, Hellstrom argues that many large-herd cows kept outside all their lives suffer poor welfare at cer-tain times of the year.

For example, sacrifice paddocks don’t provide

good animal welfare espe-cially when calving cows are not drafted out onto dry calving places. Hell-strom notes the current DairyNZ advice on sacri-fice paddocks makes no reference to animal wel-

fare.“The provision for

shade and shelter for out-door grazing is still inad-equate on many dairy farms. While the use of housing and stand-off pads is increasing, there

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are examples of poor animal welfare because some of these facilities are poorly designed or mis-used. Another potential animal welfare problem related to intensification is the risk of a skills gap developing between cow handlers and the increas-ingly complex welfare demands of intensive pro-duction systems.”

In respect of overall animal health, Hellstrom says intensive systems should lead to an improve-ment, provided good man-agement systems are in place. But he acknowl-edges a risk of disease spreading rapidly in an intensive operation.

Intensive farming is relatively new to New Zea-land and Hellstrom says we can learn from mis-takes made in such places as Europe. Most cow hous-ing now built in New Zea-land is more sophisticated than has been traditional in Europe.

Also of concern is lameness, resulting from a combination of the dis-tance some cows have to walk and state of the races.

“If you get a lot of ani-mals walking down big races that are not well maintained and if they have a lot of metal or are very muddy you end up with foot problems for sure – both lameness and footrot. I am not able to say if it’s increased, but there are certainly new strains of organisms turn-ing up and some of them are nastier than they we have traditionally had.”

A good outcome from intensification is achieved by good farm layout and having smaller mobs of cows for milking, Hell-strom says. New green-field operations have the best chance of getting this right.

“My key message is that intensification can work provided there is adequate animal welfare planning from the start; but if it’s not built in then things are likely to deteriorate.

“Animal welfare con-siderations have to be central to the planning. Intensification looks pretty inevitable; it’s a case of getting it right, not trying to deny it.”

NaIT seminarsAFTER AN overwhelming number of inquiries, a series of seminars to understand NAIT are being held by the Dairy Women’s Network nationwide this month.

Chairwoman Michelle Wilson says managing calv-ing is an exceptionally busy time. “Alongside birthing and caring for animals, it also requires new stock to be tagged, birth details entered into herd management software and often involves selling stock to other par-ties.”

Farmers who don’t comply with NAIT regulations risk being penalised infringement fees.

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HortNZ president to leaveHORTICULTURE NZ president Andrew Fenton is retiring from the role this month, after holding the role since Hort NZ was set up in 2005.

Fenton says he’s proud of HortNZ’s achievements in the past eight years; now it is time for new leadership.

“It has been a real team effort and we could not have achieved what we have with-out the strong support of our grower members. We started with a strong founda-tion established by the Fruitgrowers Federation and Vegfed and have built on that in a positive and powerful way for growers.”

He will continue to serve on the board (his current term expires in 2015) to sup-port the new president who will be elected by the eight grower board members fol-lowing the annual meeting on July 30 in Wellington.

New Feds leader keen to learnTHE NEED to get skills to manage his staff prompted Hawkes Bay’s Will Foley to put himself on a Feder-ated Farmers leadership course. Now, at 36, he’s the federation’s youngest pro-vincial president.

Foley manages four of his family’s farms in cen-tral Hawkes Bay, near Takapau. These include a hill country property with 5000 breeding ewes and three other farms, good winter performers.

He was born on one of the farms. Leaving school Foley began veteri-nary studies but changed courses and completed a B Ag. After that he returned to the farm.

“My grandfather had a contracting business in the 1940s which my father was still running so that was our main focus for five to six years. We had

the farms running in the background, but just look-ing after themselves, so to speak, so we were doing long hours on tractors – grain harvesting, hay and baleage and direct drilling.

“In the early 2000s, we decided the contract-ing business was going well. But we had these farms that had a lot more potential so we decided to merge them into one busi-ness and try to crank them up and get them earning to their potential. I was working with my brother at that stage and he stayed focused on the contracting and I moved more to the farming side, which was certainly more my pas-sion.”

As he started to manage the farms, Foley realised he needed more skills and opted to put himself on one of the leadership courses Feds runs regu-larly.

“I guess while we’d

always been Feds mem-bers, I hadn’t taken a lot of notice of what they got up to other than appreci-ating the results achieved on our behalf. I saw it as a chance to go to Wel-lington and learn. It was also beneficial learning what Feds got up to down there (Wellington) and it opened my eyes to some-thing I enjoyed.”

A couple of days after returning to Hawkes Bay from the course, Foley got a call from the provincial president Kevin Mitchell to come to a local meeting and talk about the course and what he was doing. By the time he left the meet-ing he’d been made local chairman of Meat and Fibre, taking over from Bruce Wills who was then national chair of Meat and Fibre.

“I’ve been involved in the Hawkes Bay executive ever since. I have really enjoyed going down to the

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conference and the coun-cil once a year and through this have learned more and more what Feds gets up to and does on mem-bers’ behalf.”

Today Foley has plenty on his plate as the new provincial president. The region has been badly affected by drought, but is also in the midst of a debate about a new water scheme – the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme which would see a 91 mil-lion m3 reservoir con-structed on the upper Makaroro River. The aim is to irrigate up to 30,000ha.

Foley recognises while some favour the scheme, others are not so sure. He’s a fan of the concept, but needs to talk to many

people including affected farmers before champion-ing it. He acknowledges farmers will invest in the scheme if there is financial benefit and says current

sheep and beef farmers will have to change their farming systems if they do invest. He knows that at just 36 years he has a lot to learn from the old hands

at Feds, but is keen to test his ideas and gain experi-ence. His philosophy is to enjoy the farming life in a way that is sustainable and profitable.

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‘REFORM RATES’ came the plea from Federated Farmers’ local govern-ment spokesperson Katie

Milne at the federation’s national conference.

“Government needs to build on its local govern-ment reforms and have another good look at the funding,” she said during

a plenary session dedi-cated to local government issues.

Milne admitted she thought she’d got “the booby prize” in the local government portfolio

when she joined Feds’ national executive, but it’s turned out far from dull with everything that’s going on.

In the past year the fed-eration has submitted on

68 district council plans, “on top of all the RMA work with regional plans.”

In her own district, Westland, farmers face rate increases of 20-28% due to a council account-

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ing error over waste management. “Other rate-payers’ increases are much smaller. It will be appalling if farmers are forced to pay for a council cock-up for a service they get little ben-efit from.”

Along with that par-ticularly severe one-off hike came steep rates rises levied on farms nation-wide, Milne said. MPI fig-ures showed the average rates bill for a dairy farm last year was $14,738, up 29% since 2009, and for a sheep and beef farm $12,165, up 25%.

“These are significant amounts when you con-sider them against farm working expenses and they keep going up…. The system of property value rates is fast becoming overwhelmed by the appe-tite for spending by local government.”

Speaking immedi-ately after Milne, Ashbur-ton District mayor, and farmer, Angus McKay said he agreed with that sen-timent, but argued farms are not unfairly targeted.

In the Ashburton Dis-trict, a farm worth $7.5m would pay $7348/year in rates, whereas a residen-tial or business address of the same value would pay $12,011 or $27,112 respec-tively, he explained.

Just over half Ashbur-ton District Council’s $26.7m revenue is in rates,

which he acknowledged are a tax. The other three main income streams are fees and charges, invest-ment income and central Government funding. The latter is mostly for road maintenance – a cause for concern for all councils, he said. “Councils need to receive sufficient Govern-ment funding to provide quality road networks for our communities.”

Fellow farmer and mayor, Kelvin Coe, from neighbouring Selwyn Dis-trict, echoed McKay’s road funding concerns. “It appears they’re taking funding out of the regions and putting it into roads of national significance.”

However, he warned Fed’ to be careful what they wish for in rates reform, because rates based on ability to pay would effectively be a tax on profits. “I just hope someone’s done the sums to ensure you are going to be better off.”

Peter Townsend, chief executive of Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce, wrapped up the session, calling for a “much more astute gov-ernance model” in local government. Council-lors should spend much less time in their roles – 15% of current hours he suggested – and focus on employing much better managers, he argued.

‘Can the consents’WHY DO so many activities require consents, when there are already rules in place to govern the activi-ties? asked Feds’ Grain section vice chairman, Hew Dalrymple, from the floor after the local government plenary session.

“We need to get on and get the job done. Why do we need a permit to do things if they are already in the rules?

“If someone does something that’s out of spec with those rules you give them a $100,000 fine so it’s really going to hurt them or they’ll go out of busi-ness.”

Townsend said Dalrymple’s idea “has a lot of merit” and Coe conceded he heard where Dalrymple was coming from but warned not everybody plays by the rules and consents are a check they will do that.

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no trade-off on environment in reforms – adams

Baby and the bathwater?

WE CAN have our cake and eat it when it comes to economic gains and environmental outcomes, Environment Minister Amy Adams believes.

Speaking to Federated Farmers’ annual confer-ence in Ashburton earlier this month Adams told delegates she does not accept there’s a trade-off between economic and environmental goals, par-ticularly on water quality.

“It’s an issue of time,” she said. “There are not many water quality issues that I’ve seen that can’t be got there in a win-win way if we give ourselves time.

“If it takes five years, fabulous. But it’s more

likely to take 20 or 30 years, and we have to be realistic about that and encourage the community to see we are on the track and we’re all committed to it and we’re moving in the right direction, but we’re not going to do it by throwing a particular sector under the bus.”

Despite what cer-tain sections of the news media, and some of her Parliamentary ‘colleagues’ would have you believe, water quality is affected by many factors, of which farming is just one, she stressed.

“If we think this is all about one sector, one pollution source, we’re dreaming…. Having said that, farming can’t pretend it’s not part of the solu-

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tion either…. The whole community has to be part of this.”

Earlier Adams had highlighted New Zea-land’s abundant natural

resources, notably water. Just using water already harnessed 5% more effi-ciently would add $100m to the economy, and more storage schemes are a “no

brainer” economically and environmentally, she says.

“We don’t have a water shortage problem, we have a shortage in the right place at the right time

problem.”Storage could har-

ness winter surpluses for irrigation in summer, taking abstraction pres-sure off rivers and acqui-

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER Amy Adams told Feds’ annual conference that reform of the Resource Manage-ment Act has become her “baby” to fix.

How to do that will be “really hard” – but it has to be done to clear what’s become a litigious log-jam preventing progress and an exces-sive cost to the economy.

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Adams fired off examples of RMA costs: Hort NZ’s estimate that its sector spent at least $30m on RMA compliance processes in the past

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Aussies get new Ag ministerAUSTRALIAN FARMERS have welcomed the appoint-ment of Joel Fitzgibbon as the new Agriculture Minister.

National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) chief execu-tive Matt Linnegar says it’s positive to see an MP with a regional background promoted to the portfolio. Fitzgib-bon represents the Hunter electorate in northern New South Wales.

“While this region is perhaps best known for its horse studs and mining developments, it is also an agricultural region, particularly dairy, horticulture, cereal crops, wool, beef, lambs and pigs,” says Linnegar.

“Farmers across the country will be pleased to see their new agriculture minister has this rural reach, and 17 years experience as an MP.”

Fitzgibbon was appointed by new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last month after toppling Julia Gillard to regain the Labour Party leadership he lost three years ago. Fitzgib-bons, a key Rudd backer, was shut out of the cabinet during most of Gillard’s tenure. He replaced Queensland Sena-tor Joe Ludwig, a Gillard supporter, who resigned after the Labor caucus ballot, as did seven other ministers.

Fitzgibbon paid tribute to Senator Ludwig’s work, particularly animal welfare assurance for the live export industry. He says the Federal Government’s support of the live trade remains solid.

The Rudd Government also remains committed to A$420 million in concession loans to debt-laden farmers, as part of the Farm Finance package announced by Sen-ator Ludwig in April. The loans are stalled because the Commonwealth wants the state governments to pay the administrative costs of the loans, while the states want the Commonwealth to pay.

Fitzgibbon says he is determined to see the loans made.Linnegar says the NFF wants an early meeting with

the new minister “at his earliest convenience” to discuss farmers’ immediate priorities such as advancing the Farm Finance package awaiting state and territory approval, and finalising free trade agreements with China, Japan and Korea.

“We look forward to working with all federal parlia-mentarians on the NFF’s election priority of [moving farming up] the national agenda.” Farming’s importance has been “overshadowed in recent years by the resources boom”.

“But now that the ‘dining boom’ is firmly on the hori-zon, ensuring agriculture is prepared requires sensible policy decisions to increase investment in innovation and R&D, to enhance farmers’ competitiveness and profitabil-ity, to build a stronger agricultural workforce, and to and ensure a balance between the needs of agriculture and the environment.”

station’s sale opens doors

STUDENTS FROM Taratahi Agri-cultural Training Centre now have opportunity to work on the large-scale beef and sheep farm Tau-tane Station, near Porangahau, in Hawke’s Bay.

The 3368ha property, sold to Ngati Kahungunu Iwi Inc on May 17 and leased to Taratahi, had belonged to the Elworthy and Her-rick families for 111 years.

Taratahi education delivery manager Nigel Udy said, “It’s an iconic property with a huge his-tory. We are thrilled to be part-nered with Ngati Kahungunu… a strategic alliance… with a signifi-cant iwi.”

Udy says Ngati Kahungunu Iwi and Taratahi share a vision to up-skill and educate the next generation to increase on-farm productivity for the sake of the national economy.

“Both organisations value and respect land as a critical founda-tion for the health and wealth of our society and are committed to

ensuring the cultural importance of the land is respected.”

Ngati Kahungunu chairman Rangi Manuel says “Tautane is a magnificent piece of land to have purchased and our people have reacted joyously to this news. Given that they are a government backed entity, we were keen to have Taratahi on board. We are at the start of a journey and antici-pate having a good relationship with them.”

Taratahi owns, manages or leases commercial dairy, sheep, beef and deer farms in Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay, Northland and Wair-arapa.

Leasing Tautane creates the scale and size needed for train-ing, while providing a farming and learning environment, says Udy. Students get real-life farming experience on Taratahi’s proper-ties on a rotational basis.

“We are in the process of employing sufficient staff to manage the day to day operations of the property and to facilitate the training and learning that will

be occurring on the farm.”Udy estimates seven or

more students would work and live at Tautane at any one time, for two weeks or longer. He expects the normal rotation of students going to Tau-tane would begin when staff began seeing to day-to-day needs. “Because it’s an older style, traditional prop-erty, the infrastruc-ture to accommodate large groups is already in place.”

At this stage, it was hard to tell what changes Taratahi would make. “We are still learning about the property; it’s in good shape and we’ll be looking to carry on with its manage-ment and improve anywhere that we can. However, now that it is a training facility, there will obvi-ously be some changes.

“30,000 stock units will keep the young farmers busy and give

them an opportunity to learn by doing and reinforcing all the skills they’ve learned in a classroom environment.”

vivienne haLdane tautane station• 3368ha• 30,000 stock units.• Sheep and cattle breeding and

finishing farm.• Property altitude ranges from sea

level to about 290m above sea level.

• 12km sea boundary• Paua, crayfish and seal colony in

the area.• Borders the coastal township of

Herbertville.• Six major bush covenants on the

property, including 130ha Cape Turnagain.

• Includes four-bedroom manager’s house, four cottages, stables.

• 718m2 wool-shed and variety of stockyards.

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Youthful countries offer big potentialTHE AMERICANS are excited about a Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement because those markets will be the areas of world population growth, says Craig Lynch from Beef+Lamb NZ.

That’s why it is so important to get trade and technical barri-ers removed, the B+LNZ conference call heard. Markets like Vietnam, Philippines, Indone-sia and Thailand have huge potential because they have young popula-tions, whereas other mar-kets including China are ageing.

Lynch, who is B+LNZ general manager market development, says fore-cast world population growth from 7 billion to 9 bn by 2030 includes 58% of that growth will be in Asia. New Zealand is nicely positioned to take advantage.

However, Lynch said growth in China had not finished and would sit high on the radar.

Earlier Lynch said B+LNZ had a strong focus on north Asia including Taiwan, Korea, Japan and China. “Those markets are beef-centric and much of our focus is on grass-fed beef and the point of dif-ference that sets us apart from our competitors,” he said. “Those competitors are largely the Americans who are grain-fed and Aus-

tralia who send in a mix-ture of grass- and grain-fed but they choose not to dif-ferentiate.”

A raft of marketing activities targeted media, the trade and consumers. Digital media was impor-tant because of the strong awareness and use in Asia. New brand, marketing and a new colour was just being released in some markets and there was an emphasis on health with a grass-fed emphasis.

Meanwhile retention of brand awareness is the focus in the UK. New Zealand achieved 86% recognition in a recent Omnibus survey in which participants are asked where lamb comes from. Our closest competitor there, the Welsh, achieved 53%.

Germany is tar-geted because they are wealthy and renowned meat eaters. Store cook-ing demonstrations are used frequently and could typically see a 150-400% increase in sales.

There is a genuine ‘wow’ factor from first-time triers but they do not know how to prepare lamb. A public relations campaign is pushing arti-cles and recipes in high quality online and print media. This year 118 arti-cles have appeared printed – worth 760,000 Euros in paid advertising.

High profile events are

needed to attract maga-zine interest and recently they held a barbecue in the middle of winter on the highest mountain with a celebrity chef. New Zea-land lamb and venison meals were recently on

sale at a show in the north-ern city of Kiel, attended by 3million.

Lynch says in the market place the price is well back on what it was two years ago but confi-dence is returning.

Brighter outlookUK LIVE auction prices for sheep are up 10% on last year, reflecting tight supply, following a tough winter and spring and late new season.

New Zealand will be down in total slaughter, the UK will be back by 1.4 million and Australia is under pressure. “There are supply problems but we don’t want to go back to déjà vu where prices spiked too far, too quickly,” says B+LNZ manager emerging markets & strategic project, Nick Beeby.

Meanwhile Craig Lynch says the US market is interesting – 85% of Texas is still affected by drought. Kill has been about 12% up in the last quarter on last year which has put pressure on pricing. Prior to that there was some record pricing – US$2.40 per pound – but that’s come off a bit.

“You’ve still got a lot of feedlot liquidations going on there; in terms of the total herd it’s at a 72-year low. There are no real positive signs that the herd is being rebuilt. Clearly they are not going to have the production they had.”

However he says traditionally the Americans only exported about 10%; now they are pushing 28%, targeting Asia.

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Peter Young Hawke’s Bay

Beef & venison prices are reported as gross (before normal levies & charges are deducted). Lamb & mutton prices are reported nett (after levies & charges are deducted). Note: Freight is paid in the North Island but not by all companies in the South Island.

MeatMeatMeatMeat North IslandNorth IslandNorth IslandNorth Island South IslandSouth IslandSouth IslandSouth Island

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LambLambLambLamb - PM 16.0kg +5+5+5+5 5.215.215.215.21 +2+2+2+2 5.055.055.055.05

SteerSteerSteerSteer - P2 300kg n/c 4.404.404.404.40 +2+2+2+2 4.024.024.024.02

BullBullBullBull - M2 300kg n/c 4.354.354.354.35 +2+2+2+2 3.973.973.973.97

VenisonVenisonVenisonVenison - AP 60kg n/c 6.456.456.456.45 n/c 6.676.676.676.67

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BEEF PRICES

c/kgCWT Change Last Week

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Last Year

NI P2 Steer - 300kg n/c 4.40 4.40 4.18

M2 Bull - 300kg n/c 4.35 4.35 4.30

P2 Cow - 230kg n/c 3.60 3.60 3.50

M Cow - 200kg n/c 3.47 3.47 3.40

Local Trade - 230kg +3 4.35 4.32 4.10

SI P2 Steer - 300kg +2 4.02 4.00 4.00

M2 Bull - 300kg +2 3.97 3.95 3.95

P2 Cow - 230kg +2 3.12 3.10 3.00

M Cow - 200kg +2 2.87 2.85 2.90

Local Trade - 230kg +2 4.07 4.05 4.10

NZ Slaughter Estimated Weekly Kill

1000s Change 2Wks Ago

3 Wks Ago Last Year 5yr Ave

Cattle NI -14% 33.4 38.8 34.0 36.7

Cattle SI -18% 19.4 23.7 16.9 15.1

Cattle NZ -16% 52.8 62.5 50.9 51.8

Bull NI +3% 6.9 6.7 7.2 7.3

Bull SI -55% 1.0 2.2 3.1 2.0

Str & Hfr NI -7% 15.5 16.7 16.6 16.1

Str & Hfr SI +19% 6.9 5.8 6.3 5.8

Cows NI -29% 11.0 15.4 10.2 13.4

Cows SI -27% 11.5 15.7 7.5 7.3

Export Market Demand

Change LastWeek


95CL US$/lb n/c 1.89 1.89 2.02 1.74

NZ$/kg -2 5.33 5.35 5.55 5.14

Procurement IndicatorChange 2Wks

Ago3 Wks

Ago Last Year 5yr Ave

% Returned NI +1% 81.6% 80.4% 77.45% 77.6%

% Returned SI +0% 74.1% 73.8% 71.1% 71.4%

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LAMB PRICES

c/kgCWTChange Last

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AgoLast Year

NI Lamb YM - 13.5kg +5 5.19 5.14 5.61

PM - 16.0kg +5 5.21 5.16 5.63

PX - 19.0kg +5 5.23 5.18 5.65

PH - 22.0kg +5 5.24 5.19 5.66

Mutton MX1 - 21kg n/c 2.95 2.95 3.40

SI Lamb YM - 13.5kg +2 5.05 5.03 5.76

PM - 16.0kg +2 5.05 5.03 5.78

PX - 19.0kg +2 5.05 5.03 5.80

PH - 22.0kg +2 5.05 5.03 5.81

Mutton MX1 - 21kg n/c 2.73 2.73 3.20

NZ Slaughter Estimated Weekly Kill

1000s Change 2Wks Ago


Lamb NI -8% 141 152 158 145

Lamb SI -9% 129 141 132 135

Lamb NZ -8% 270 294 290 280

Mutton NZ -28% 19 26 24 36

Export Market DemandChange Last

Week2 Wks


UK Leg £/lb n/c 1.82 1.82 1.40 1.75

NZ$/kg -14 7.72 7.86 5.97 8.48

Procurement IndicatorChange 2Wks

Ago3 Wks


% Returned NI +2% 68.4% 66.2% 96.2% 68.6%

% Returned SI +2% 65.4% 63.6% 98.8% 68.4%

Venison Prices

Change LastWeek


NI Stag - 60kg n/c 6.45 6.45 7.30 7.61

SI Stag - 60kg n/c 6.67 6.67 7.30 7.90

NZ Weekly Lamb KillNZ Weekly Lamb KillNZ Weekly Lamb KillNZ Weekly Lamb Kill

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Procurement Indicator - South I.Procurement Indicator - South I.Procurement Indicator - South I.Procurement Indicator - South I.

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Bill Hodgson Dunedin

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Peter Young Hawke’s Bay

BEEF

Export cattle prices continue seasonal lift

Farmgate prices for both export and local trade cattle have continued their seasonal lift over the past two weeks. Slaughter rates in both islands have declined markedly and companies have been competing harder to fill capacity. It is not unusual for company margins drop through June and early July but margins this year have dipped more than usual with US imported prices falling. Competition from companies is likely to level off over the next week or two however as capacity is shut down for maintenance and diverted to the bobby kill. 300kg export steer prices were mostly at $4.35-$4.45/kg in the North Island last week. There were contracts operating at $4.50/kg and some straight traditionals are making this money on spot. In the South Island, local trade prices were $4.00- $4.10/kg last week. It was similar for export steer with prices ranging from $3.90 and up to $4.10/kg on bigger lines.

Demand soft in US but prices set to stabilise

The US imported beef market has continued to soften in recent weeks. US imported beef prices for 95CL have dropped below US$1.90/lb and last week’s trading remained subdued as end users satisfied their demand for the Independence Day holiday. There is however potential for imported prices to be better supported in the near future. US cow slaughter has steadily declined through June and is now sitting in line with year ago levels. Pasture conditions in the US have improved markedly on average through May and June which has slowed the cow kill. Expectations are for the cow kill to run at or below year ago levels through to Sep/Oct given the early offload. Supplies from NZ and Australia will also decline seasonally into Jul & Aug. So while the supply side of the equation should help support prices, there is still a question mark over the demand side. Typically US demand picks up through Jul & Aug. But earlier this year there was a move towards the use of chicken and pork. If this trend continues, the upside for imported beef prices may be limited

LAMB

Steady lift for farmgate lamb prices

Lamb prices in both islands continued their measured lift through June and early July. Reports suggest that the lamb kill rates have been reasonable which has limited procurement competition given that companies have reduced capacity. With company margins for lamb above average at present, there is still room for further price upside. But companies will be reluctant to see the spot market move ahead of contract prices. Prices in the North Island headed above $3.30/kg (gross) last week. Prices in the South Island were $5.05/kg which is 10-15% below last year and 5yr average levels.

Store lamb demand remains subdued

Based on the current North Island lamb schedule of $5.30/kg, the current store lamb price of $2.20-$2.25/kg is well under par. This shows the continued lack of strength in the market. A 32kg store male lamb at $2.22/kg is 42% of the schedule price. Last year it was 47% and the 5yr ave is 45%. This indicates that the current store price is undercooked by about 20c/kg. In the South Island prices are 30-35c/kg lower than usual. The store price was low in relation to the schedule during the drought but has not recovered since. The lack of strength in the store market, given the margins on offer, is a function of higher than usual supplies of lambs on the market over recent weeks, and a fundamental lack of demand as farmers have committed to other policies including dairy support and cropping.

WOOL

Dollar, low supplies push wool prices higher

Low supplies through June have seen exporters struggle to meet shipping requirements so there has been added incentive to purchase at recent wool sales. The weaker NZ dollar has also been a positive influence over the last month. Prices lifted strongly for all wool types at the last sale of the season on June 27 with the South Island generally claiming stronger returns than the North.

WOOL PRICE WATCH DAIRY PRICE WATCH

Indicators in NZ$ Change 27-Jun 13-Jun Last Year Indicators in NZ$/T Change Last 2

WksPrev. 2

WksLast Year

Coarse Xbred Indic. +26 4.69 4.43 4.16 Butter -47 5230 5277 3553

Fine Xbred Indicator +20 5.27 5.07 4.99 Skim Milk Powder +95 5725 5631 3584

Lamb Indicator +14 5.18 5.04 5.12 Whole Milk Powder +92 6205 6113 3678

Mid Micron Indic. - 8.55 - 8.82 Cheddar -161 5502 5663 4488

Overseas Price Indicators Overseas Price Indicators

Indicators in US$/kg Change 27-Jun 13-Jun Last Year Indicators in US$/T Change Last 2

WksPrev. 2

WksLast Year

Coarse Xbred Indicator +13 3.65 3.53 3.26 Butter -13 4088 4100 2850Fine Xbred Indicator +7 4.11 4.04 3.91 Skim Milk Powder +100 4475 4375 2875Lamb Indicator +2 4.04 4.01 4.01 Whole Milk Powder +100 4850 4750 2950Mid Micron Indicator - 6.66 - 6.92 Cheddar -100 4300 4400 3600

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CURRENCY WATCH

vs. NZ Dollar Last Week 2 Wks Ago 4 Wks Ago Last Year

US dollar 0.782 0.779 0.799 0.802

Euro 0.606 0.597 0.604 0.648

UK pound 0.520 0.510 0.512 0.517

Aus dollar 0.856 0.840 0.836 0.782

Japan yen 78.38 76.68 77.71 64.11

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18 agribusiness

Product GDT Auction2/07/2013

1 Mth Change

3 Mths Change

Change in 2013

NZD/Tonne

Whole Milk Powder(WMP) $6,107 -4.8% -14.3% 47.5%

Skim Milk Powder(SMP) $5,702 3.1% -12.4% 33.6%

Butter Milk Powder(BMP) $5,918 7.1% 0.0% 36.1%

CHEESE $5,642 -10.2% -3.4% 25.9%

Trade Weighted Index (GDT- TWI) 5,961 -3.6% -12.4% 35.6%

NZ Dairy MarketDAIRY PRICES remained broadly stable in the Global Dairy Trade auction on July 2 as prices edged 0.7% higher on a trade-weighted basis. Looking at the one month and three month changes, of all the major product groups we cover whole milk powder is down the sharpest at -4.8% and -14.3% respec-tively. However it is interesting to note the whole milk powder remains up 47.5% over 2013 which is the biggest gainer in our product group. Butter milk powder remains the most stable performer with no price drops over one month, three month time-frames and up a strong 36.1% for 2013. Price volatility hitting the farmer directly could hopefully be a thing of the past as Fonterra’s guaranteed milk price (GMP) pilot for the 2013/14 season has been launched with a total of 328 farms having applied to supply 37 million kgMS. Fonterra’s director of commodity risk and trading, Bruce Turner, says the uptake by farmers is a positive result for the pilot and the co-op.

US AgricUltUrAl coMMoDity PriceS

Commodity units Price This Issue

Price last Issue Change

Live Cattle USD/Kg $2.694 $2.681 0.477%

Feeder Cattle USD/Kg $3.341 $3.239 3.144%

Lean Hogs USD/Kg $2.105 $2.148 -2.001%

Greasy Wool USD/Kg $10.470 $10.470 0.000%

Corn USD/Bushel $5.028 $5.478 -8.215%

Wheat USD/Bushel $6.635 $7.010 -5.350%

CORN IS down over 8% in the fortnight as the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) acreage report released on June 28 stunned investors by estimating domestic corn sowings at 97.4m acres. This was 2.1m acres more than expected by analysts who had reckoned on extensive losses to a wet US spring. Wheat prices have also fallen sharply as disappointing US export data appear, with cargo inspections coming in at 15.2m bushels – down 32% week on week, and well below market expectations. Also, forecasts for rain on the dry US plains eased supply concerns for drought pressed winter wheat seedlings. Wholesale pork prices, a gauge of lean hog demand, fell over 2% last week, the first decline in weeks and the biggest slump since March, US Department of Agriculture data show. Hog prices are sharply down from $2.4492/kg reached on June 26 this year, the highest since at least October 1997.There’s a feeling in the market that hog prices have topped out and more price pressure will follow.

THE RURAL News share index was relatively flat over the fortnight but Tenon was up at least 38%. The US is a large market for Tenon and being a wood products company the continued recovery in the US housing market is pushing up the company’s revenue expectations. PGG Wrightson is showing good strength, up 6.9% and has rebounded nicely off a low of 25 cents on May 31 this year after some management reshuffling. Fonterra Units are rising again up just under 4% as the flood of units from the farmers’ supply offer have been digested by the market.

This table and information is in no way a recommendation to buy or sell any share but a list of New Zealand agrishares that have the highest dividends. Please consult your financial advisor before entering into any sharemarket investment.

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Code Company Prices as 8/07/2013

Prices as at 26/06/2013 Change Change

in 2013

ALF Allied Farmers $0.018 $0.018 0.00% -40.00%

ATM A2 Corporation $0.630 $0.620 1.61% 16.67%

DGL Delegat’s Group $4.070 $4.090 -0.49% 38.44%

HNZ Heartland Bank $0.83 $0.82 1.22% 22.06%

FSF Fonterra Shareholders Fund $7.380 $7.100 3.94% 4.19%

FFW Foley Family Wines $1.350 $1.350 0.00% 12.50%

LIC Livestock Improvement Corp. $5.80 $5.80 0.00% 7.41%

PGW PGG Wrightson $0.310 $0.290 6.90% -32.61%

SAN Sanford Limited $4.700 $4.600 2.17% 10.59%

SEK Seeka Kiwifruit Industries $1.850 $1.800 2.78% 105.56%

TEN Tenon Limited $1.400 $1.010 38.61% 68.67%

WEL Wool Equities $1.600 $1.600 0.00% -3.03%

TUR Turners & Growers $0.120 $0.120 0.00% 9.09%

RNAI Index Total 30.058 29.218 2.87% 15.28%

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Tuffnell says Veritide has worked with ANZCO to prove its concept, and it and other food pro-cessing companies will assist prototype devel-opment, testing and val-idation, and as an actual product is taken to market.

Veritide’s technology, from the University of Canterbury, was in 2006 was at first used for ultraviolet light and florescence reading to detect anthrax spores. Then in 2011 Veritide and Powerhouse Ventures, an intel-lectual property commercialisation company, began looking at bacterial identification and contamination in the meat industry.

An animal’s carcass is essentially sterile as its pelt is pulled off. But

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Meat companies visually assess carcasses to determine if faecal bac-teria are present, and they take swabs from different parts of the slaugh-

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With increasing quantities of fresh, chilled meat, zero faecal toler-ance at such borders as the US, and reduced shipping speeds, the poten-tial grows for meat to be rejected.

Such meat company assessments and tests, where swabs are also being taken from surfaces within a process-

ing plant, cost a lot of time and money.“Those swabs are pretty hit

and miss, and even with hygiene standards that match hospital operating theatres, meat companies find it difficult to detect and remedy bacterial contamination issues,” says Tuffnell.

“What Veritide’s hand-held scanner and box of tricks offers is real-time, non-contact detection of bacteria, on both a carcass and on surfaces. If there’s a positive result, a food manufacturer can imme-diately deal with the issue, improve processes, isolate the carcasses.”

Veritide says it has proved its concept, and will finish its prototype development and testing by November before taking

a saleable portable device to market – with potential for being a “game changer,” Tuffnell says. “It addresses a bacterial-presence problem that importing countries are [going to tol-erate less and less]. While we intend concentrating on meat processing first, other industries such as poultry and shellfish share exactly the same bacterial detection and mitigation problems.”

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sisterhood A MATE of the Hound had a giggle when he heard Associate Minister for Primary Industries and Minister for Women’s Affairs jo Goodhew commenting on the Labour Party’s latest PC proposal to imple-ment a quota to ensure 50% of its incoming MPs are female. Asked about Labour’s ‘man ban’ – as it has been dubbed – Goodhew told a radio interviewer that Nation-al’s woman MPs were in Parliament because they’d “beaten off men to get their position”. A rather unfortunate choice of words, your old mate suggests.

Poor exampleYOUR OLD mate hears Horizons Regional Council is causing consternation in more than the rural sector with parts of its controversial One Plan. Apparently, the Manawatu/Wanganui regional council has also upset spraying contrac-tors in the region by engaging a non-regis-tered agricultural chem-ical applicator to do all the council’s spraying – despite its own air plan insisting spray users, ie farmers and rural contractors, must have agchem registration. Sounds like a real-life case of “do as I say, not what I do” by Horizons.

appropriateA CALL by Canterbury Regional Water Manage-ment Committee asking for local feedback on its water plan caught this old mutt’s eye – particu-larly the acronym used. It has been rather appro-priately named the ‘Regional Implementation Programme’ for water management – or RIP for short. The Hound hopes the RIP does not sound the death knell of farming and water use in Canter-bury, especially with so many green fundamen-talists and anti-farming groups accusing farming – dairying in particular – of taking all the region’s water and destroying its quality.

what next?jUST WHEN the Hound thought PC-ness had gone completely mad with the Labour’s proposed ‘man ban’ on male MPs, now some do-gooders have suggested banning throwing a stick for your dog to fetch because it is dangerous. Clyde Rogers, senior vice-pres-ident of the Kennel Club, claims most responsible dog owners never threw sticks these days. “Dogs could easily injure them-selves. I’d urge people to think carefully before they took a dog out and threw a stick around.”

sour milkYOUR CANINE crusader hears Fonterra has promptly got offside with locals in the Darfield region, despite a PR offensive while seeking consent to build its new factory in the region – the co-op promising to always use local contrac-tors and support the town. But not a year later it has cancelled contracts with local hay and silage makers and outsourced it all to an outfit 100km away. It seems this decision by head office bean counters has affected the local factory, with its farm manager quitting in protest. Your old mate is not sure how smart a PR move – getting offside with locals – this was by Fonterra.

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THIS LATEST fiasco over meat shipments being held up on wharves in China raises the question of just how well the primary sector is being served by the Ministry for Primary Industry.

All we are hearing from MPI over this issue, and the previous problems, is it was a complete surprise to them. Yet some people in the sector say it is no surprise whatsoever and that MPI is simply behind the eight ball.

Isn’t it MPI’s job – together with MFAT – to develop strong links inside the bureaucracy of any country, especially China, and find out about any changes before they happen?

That is clearly not happening, and there is a view among business people who have traded for years with China that our people are not ‘cutting the mustard’. We wonder how many MPI people are fluent Mandarin speakers and how many of these are on the ground in China and if so how long have they been there?

Free trade agreements are only part of the story – the nice political fuzzies. The real action is in the technical area and on the face of it MPI appears to be lacking in this regard.

The meat hoo-ha closely tails the biosecurity scare in which MPI took six weeks to discover that the hoof of an animal in a PKE shipment was that of a local sheep. Six weeks is outra-geous; six hours, even six days maybe, but six weeks is hopeless. Add to this the failures of MPI’s FMD exercise and the Psa issue and it’s starting to look bad. There are also complaints about the arrogant way that MPI handles some issues. The DCD scare is a classic example.

Have the constant restructurings bled the organisation of its institutional knowledge? New Zealand is at a crucial stage in its quest to develop new markets and protect our borders from catastrophic intrusions, but the organisa-tion delegated to do this is missing-in-action. That’s not to say there aren’t good dedicated people in MPI, but recent results are worrying and do not instil much confidence in the wider primary sector.

The first task of the new chief executive of MPI must surely be to build confidence and vastly improve the communications in the organisation.

Just how good is MPi?

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THE WORLD ploughing champi-onships are being held this week at Olds College near Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

New Zealand’s two contestants say they’re well settled into the dor-mitories at Olds College and have had several chances to practice on stubble and grass grounds.

Methven’s Murray Redmond is competing with a conventional plough and Malcolm Taylor from Putaruru with a reversible plough

Temperatures are in the low 30oC and humidity is 85%. Mosquitos are numerous and plenty of repellent is needed.

The ground is reported as sticky following heavy rain in the region including severe flooding in nearby Calgary. The ten days before the con-test were forecast fine to help dry out the ploughing area.

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ON TELEVISION and radio, in newspapers or at farming field days, more and more advertisements and conversations are about alternatives to main stream agriculture: is there a better way to produce food by a more ‘holistic’ approach?

Advocates of organic production are convinced they have the answers, despite much research showing no consistent evidence that organic food is better quality, nor that its production has less impact on the environment than conventional methods.

This same debate is occurring in other countries and has recently been featured in the farming press in South Africa. The Albrecht system, or base cation saturation ratio (BCSR), promotes the concept of maximum plant growth occurring when an ‘ideal soil’ with a balanced ratio between exchangeable base cations (calcium 65%, magnesium 10% and potassium 5%) is achieved. The goal of the original research in the 1940s was to reduce luxury uptake of potassium in lucerne and Firman Bear and co-workers proposed the ‘ideal soil’.

At the same time, William Albrecht, professor of soils at the University of Missouri, suggested from his research in pots that plants require soils with high calcium saturation for optimum growth. However, when Albrecht’s doctoral research student Eugene McLean took

the pot research to the field he couldn’t find an ‘ideal’ ratio, and concluded that “emphasis should be placed on providing sufficient, but not excessive, levels of each basic cation rather than trying to attain a favourable basic cation saturation ratio which evidently does not exist”.

A review of the Albrecht research by scientists at the University of Queensland, and published in the Soil Science Society of America Journal in 2007, reported that several of Albrecht’s experiments were fundamentally flawed, the research did not support the BCSR claims and that “the continued promotion of BCSR will result in inefficient use of resources in agriculture and horticulture”.

In the South African Farmers’ Weekly at the end of May, Dr Doug Edmeades (AgKnowledge) with colleagues from Stellenbosch University wrote that “the Albrecht system invariably results in substantial increases in input costs which do not translate into improved profitability”. This is because the

BCSR results in recommendations for chemicals that are not needed while overlooking some that are. “A recent case in point was a recommendation for a high rate of lime to correct the calcium:magnesium ratio on high pH

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1900 and 2000, population increased from 1.7 billion to 6.1 billion and yields increased from 5.5 GJ/ha to 26.1 – a 379% increase. Between 1900 and 1950, the use of phosphate-based fertilisers increased yields from 5.5 to 9.6 GJ/ha. But the green revolution of the 1960s – a combination of

short-strawed cultivars, irrigation, superphosphate, nitrogen, herbicides and pesticides – almost trebled yields from 9.6 to 26.1 GJ/ha. To feed the 6 billion population at the 1950 level without the above increase would have required a doubling of current land. To feed them at the current better state of nutrition would require even more.

Research has improved past production systems and shown efficient ways of progress. The sooner farmers start being rewarded for efficient production of high quality food – ie, meat and milk for least loss of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus – the better. New Zealand as a whole would benefit.• Jacqueline Rowarth is Professor of Agribusiness, The University of Waikato. Her attendance at the South African Large Herds Conference was supported by LIC.

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More ladders needed for new farming leadersGETTING THE right people onto farming-type boards should rely on more than the toss of a coin.

Future leaders should

be identified now and given opportunity to show latent skills, perhaps by taking on issues that are not popular. Some may have to go find a ladder.

The opportunities for an aspiring leader are not as easy to find as during the 1970s and early 1980s. Those were the days when Young Farmers Clubs and

Federated Farmers pro-vided a soapbox for those who had found a ladder and were already climbing.

After the Feds was gutted by Rogernomics in

the late 1980s, the organ-isation struggled to find a meaning for its existence. The many branch offices it had throughout rural New Zealand (there was even

one in ‘jafa’ country – Pon-sonby Road, Auckland!) mostly closed the doors and died.

Then came the time when farm-ing needed to be grooming future leaders.

The reality is that though farming com-panies such as Alliance or Silver Fern Farms appear to have enough directors, long term the cupboard is bare. This should be a worry: finding replacements for our pres-ent leaders. Most of the incumbents are likely to hang on until they hit 70, allowing minimal time for the industry to start pre-paring.

The inevitable fallout of men and women from the ‘baby boomer bulge’ is just around the corner. It could be an opportunity for a generation waiting for the call.

The gutsy efforts of the Meat Industry Excellence group has supporters ide-ally placed, given time, to move quickly up the ladder. In recent weeks we have seen them in action. They are young, moti-vated and have a plan that reads well. How long they last, I suspect, will depend on funding. At this stage, the likelihood is they are paying their own way.

I believe the next decade will see many new faces at boardroom tables; it’s important to ensure they include top perform-ers.

Former Silver Fern Farms chairmen Robbie Burnside and Reece Hart have accepted the challenge of develop-ing the Burnside/ Hart Cooperative Education Trust, aimed at up-skill-

ing people with leader-ship aspirations. Since it started in 2008, at least 100 people have taken intensive leadership

courses. So far three courses have been held at Inver-may and one in Ashburton. Numbers are held at 25.

Burnside has extensive experience as chairman

of a wide range of com-panies and cooperatives. He was chairman of Silver Fern Farms for 18 years. He has seen and been part of farming politics and understands how systems work. His advice for those coming through the ranks is to realise decisions are

made in the boardroom and by those near the top.

Being seen on the ladder is important and certainly much harder these days, with only minimal help available from organisations such as Federated Farmers or the now almost forgotten Electoral College which helped selection to the Meat and the Wool Boards.

The most exciting feature of the Burnside Hart Trust is its scope. Although driven by Silver Fern Farms, its brief is to be available to all potential or up-and-coming farming leaders.

At this stage, it is achieving that goal by attracting participants from throughout New Zealand. People are attending from a range of positions including some from southern meat pro-cessors. • John Stirling is a south Otago farmer who formerly was the agricultural editor for the Otago Daily Times.

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Mowing to drive pasture intake, not costOne of the more controversial workshop sessions at the recent South Island Dairy Event discussed the use of pre-graze mowing to try to boost cow intake and pasture quality. Andrew Swallow reports.

ARE DAIRY farmers who mow in front of cows busy fools driving up cost, or are they taking the next step in efficient milk production off pasture?

A workshop paper says research to

date has, generally, been inconclusive but recent refinement of the technique suggests it might be worth a revisit.

“It works in the right place and is highly effective and profitable,” said

Graham Kerr, technical development manager of Agriseeds and a member of the Lincoln University Dairy Farm (LUDF) management team. “But use it in the wrong place and it’s a cost, just

like anything else.”Kerr and fellow speaker Brent Boyce,

a farm consultant with Farmwise in the Nelson region, explained how pre-graz-ing mowing appears to have boosted cow intake, and in turn, milk produc-tion on LUDF in the past two seasons.

Working back from milk produc-tion off the 160ha platform they calcu-late the herd, which has been pared back to 630 cows from a peak of nearly 700, was eating an extra 20-30MJ/cow/day of metabolisable energy.

“The extra milksolids have come from a much slower decline from peak. Basically the cows are eating more,” Kerr commented.

Part of that is because more grass was grown –21.8tDM/ha compared to 19.3tDM/ha on average, driven by an increase in nitrogen fertiliser from 200kgN/ha to 350kgN/ha. With the cut in herd size it’s raised pasture/cow availability from 4.6tDM to 5.6tDM.

Pre-graze mowing helped the cows eat the extra grass and ensured post-grazing residuals were low enough that pasture quality in the next grazing round wasn’t compromised.

Kerr stresses mowing to the target post-graze height is critical. “Cows won’t graze below the mower.”

In practice, despite LUDF’s best efforts to mow low, post-grazing resid-uals have crept up from 1500kgDM/ha to 1650kgDM/ha under the regime. “You might need to modify your mower and you might need to roll your paddocks to get low enough.”

Without the need to make the cows chew covers down to a low residual – the mower’s already done it for them – the herd cleaned up paddocks faster, and moved on in 17-18 hours where his-torically they’d have been left 24 hours “to fix the post grazing residual”.

As a consequence, the herd rotated around the farm faster: at one point they were down to a 16-day round.

“If you want to pre-graze mow you need to have a surplus [by conventional calculations] because what happens is the grass disappears much faster in front of you.”

How much is wasted isn’t known, but Kerr speculates it’s probably about 200kgDM/ha/grazing, and may not be any more than under conventional

Busy machine: the mower made 243 “interventions” at Lincoln University Dairy Farm last season.

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should have kept cut-ting later into autumn.

A key benefit he believes is managing ‘the C word’ in dairy farming – clumps, caused by urine patches.

Mowing spreads the clump so it is eaten, and ensures a uniform resid-ual. To get a paddock to average seven clicks on the platemeter by grazing means pushing the herd to chew 90% of it even lower than that to compensate for the clumps, he points out.

Pre-graze mowing is also useful to make cows harvest covers that have gone slightly beyond the normal pre-graze target of 3000kgDM/ha, without resorting to shutting paddocks up for ensiling. “There’s nothing more annoy-ing than making two week baleage!”

Boyce and Kerr faced some pointed questions on the practice during the

workshop, in particular from Dairy NZ research scientist Kevin Macdonald who was critical of the presentation of a farm management system change as if it was “cause and effect.” “You don’t have a control.”

Award winning South Canterbury dairy farmer David Lister was con-cerned pre-graze mowing might make cows “lazy grazers” and that LUDF is “only one step away from building a barn and carting it”.

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2004-10 Average Past Two Seasons

Cows 670 630

Total milk solids 273,358 300,800

Income from milk at $6/kgMS $1,640,148 $1,804,800

Livestock sales* $467,480 $44,100

Total income $1,686,628 $1,848,900

KgMS/cow 410 480

KgMS/ha 1710 1880

Variable costs/cow @$300/cow $199,200 $189,000

N costs at $800/t $55,652 $97,391

DCD (2x20kg v 3x10kg) $32,000 $48,000

Mowing costs @$46/ha $0 $22,080

Total of changed costs $286,852 $356,471

Net of changes $1,399,776 $1,492,429

*Based on 10% culls @ $400/head and 60% of calves sold at $50/head.

Mowing to drive pasture intake, not cost

Farmwise consultant Brent Boyce.

grazing.Not every paddock was mown every

time, and of the 243 mower ‘interven-tions’, about a tenth were post-grazing to achieve residuals where cows would have made too much mess if pushed to clean up.

Besides increased milk output, Boyce pointed to a higher fat-to-protein ratio in the milk as evidence the easier eating benefitted the cows, though introduc-ing a two-herd policy probably also con-tributed because of reduced cow stress.

At a normalised payout of $6/kgMS

he calculated the combination of fewer cows and more milk added nearly $100,000 to the farm’s profit (see table). “You shake the money-tree and $92 grand has fallen out of it.”

While LUDF stopped mowing in February this season, he believes they

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In fact it’s the first & only New Zealand-designed calf nutrition programme to have its research peer-reviewed by the world’s most prestigious dairy publication, the US Journal of Dairy Science.

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“Wayne has been a driv-ing force in developing

NZIPIM’s new strategic plan and instrumental in its implementation,” says Collier, who says there’s an increasing need for NZIPIM and its members to play a leadership role within the primary indus-try, within and beyond the farm gate.

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tioning our farmers and growers to capture global market opportunities and ensure we have a highly profitable primary sector to levels New Zealand for-merly enjoyed as one of the best standards of living in the OECD.”

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and farm management consultants, education providers, farm financiers, accountants, farmers, rural valuers, vets and fertiliser firms.

It’s aim is to promote excellence in primary industry through profes-sional standards, conduct, recognition and continu-

ous professional devel-opment of members, and promoting and encourag-ing people into primary industry careers. Its annual conference is at Lin-coln August 5-7. See www.nzipim.co.nz.

Collier is a B.AgSci grad-uate of Lincoln who joined MAF in 1985 as a farm advi-

sory officer then founded AgFirst group in 1995.

His client base includes many substantial Maori farming operations. In 2012 he completed a Food and Agribusiness Market Experience (FAME) programme includ-ing a study tour of China. Hilton Collier

Newcomer tops tableA NEW barley tops the table in the Foundation of Arable Research’s spring cereal cultivar guide, which was released elec-tronically last week.

Sanette, bred by Syn-genta and marketed by Cropmark Seeds, is the standout – albeit on only one year’s trials data so far – says FAR project man-ager Rob Craigie.

Smart feeding cuts run-offSMART MANAGEMENT of winter graz-ing can slash sediment loss from sloping land, data from AgResearch shows.

A paired catchment study in South Otago saw 82% less sediment lost in winter 2012 compared to 2011 thanks to re-organising winter crop grazing so it started at the tops of slopes, avoided gullies, was back fenced, and had a buffer along waterways.

Meanwhile in the other catchment, where no management changes were

made, losses were up 307% in winter 2012, to just over a tonne/ha, suggest-ing the reduction in the first catchment was despite, rather than because of, the weather.

“By reducing overland flow, the yields of sediment and nutrients carried in the flow were… reduced considerably,” says AgResearch Invermay-based scientist Ross Monaghan who is leading the Dairy NZ-funded work as part of the Pastoral 21 programme.

“It just did so well in the trials, autumn sown as well as spring sown,” he told Rural News.

In Canterbury, its rel-ative yield under irriga-tion is 112 and off dryland 107. That compares to 102 and 100 respectively for tried and tested stalwart as Tavern. “Tavern is hanging in there, but some of the other older ones are really dropping away now.”

In spring wheat it is the tried and long-standing cultivars Raffles, on 107, and Morph on 106, which

still lead on yield, but as Craigie points out, end use is a key consideration.

“CRWT151 stands out a bit, as does CRWT185 which is poten-tially a premium mill-ing wheat and out yielded Conquest quite consistently so if it is accepted by the mills it will be quite interest-ing.”

Hard copies of the 42-page guide will be mailed to growers shortly. FAR’s Rob Craigie


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Too much seed can cut persistence

GARETH GILLATT

SOWING RATE could be a bigger driver of pas-ture persistance than cul-tivar heritage, an ongoing DairyNZ study suggests.

Results from the first two years of a five-year trial in North-land, Waikato and Canterbury indi-cate higher seed rates are detri-mental in times of stress, DairyNZ primary research scientist David Chap-man explained at a field day on Fonterra’s Jordan Valley farm, Hikurangi, last month [June 6].

Pastures were sown at seed rates ranging from 6kg/ha to 30kg/ha in 2010 with markers used to check plant survival.

In Canterbury and Waikato, plots sown at 6kg/ha to 18kg/ha survived the 2011/12 season better than those sown at 30kg/ha, especially in Waikato where plants sown at the lower seed rates were 15% more likely to survive.

However, in Northland a “champagne summer” in 2011-2012 saw no marked

difference in survival.The researchers

hypothesize that where there were differences it is because plants sown at high seed rates are smaller making them more vuner-able at times of stress.

Chapman notes this is in line with 1990s work in New Zea-land and Aus-tralia which found extra com-petition from higher seed rates

resulted in higher mor-tality when under stress, especially if stressed in the first summer after seeding.

“The ryegrass’ growth strategy tends to be to compete strongly for light. It favours putting energy into getting leaf growth at the expense of build-ing root structure so in cir-cumstances of drought it can fall over, especially when it has faced overgraz-ing.”

While lower seed rate may aid pasture persis-tence, Chapman warns this can be undone by putting pasture under too much pressure.

The trial includes AR37

endophyte-treated dip-loids Alto and Grasslands Commando, and tetraploid Grasslands Halo, as well as standard endophyte dip-loid Nui. All of the grasses

performed similarly for a given seed rate.

With the research due to run at least five years Chapman stresses findings to date are by no means

final. “We’re two years into it and its just starting to get interesting.”

Results for the drought affected 2012-13 season are yet to be processed.

OVER 370,000ha of pasture was renewed in 2011/12 according to the first Statistics New Zealand Agri-cultural Census to collect such data, says the Pasture Renewal Charitable Trust.

Based on 8mha of pasture in New Zealand, that’s a 4.7% renewal rate, with sheep and beef farms averag-ing 2.3% to dairy’s 8%.

In total 156,000ha was renewed on sheep and beef farms, split 108,000ha in the South Island, 48,000ha in the North, while dairy’s 176,000ha was split 106,000ha in the North, 69,000 in the South. The remaining 38,000ha renewed was on other farm types such as arable or deer.

Cultivation was used across 206,000ha, 54% of the area, with 173,000ha or 46% direct drilled.

Questions in the five-yearly census were initiated by the Pasture Renewal Charitable Trust with support from MPI.

PRCT chairman Murray Willocks says having the census as a tool to determine investment in New Zea-land’s most valuable crop “is a real boost and provides the big picture of pasture renewal activity nationally.”

He says there’s a real opportunity to increase farm profit by boosting annual pasture renewal rates.

“The return of investment from pasture renewal is sound if establishment is done well followed by care-ful pasture management.”

Census yields renewal data

Each of the plots at each site of the trial is divided into subplots with ten plants per subplot marked with a telephone wire loop. Every 2-3 months researchers have had to find each grass plant to check survival.

Chapman says finding the barely visible wire was no mean feat for the researchers. “If you drove past and saw them on their knees in the paddock wondering what they were doing, now you know!”

Random grass swathes were also measured for tiller length, tiller angle, maximum root length and total dry matter per plant.

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28 animal health

Cattle help could spell troubleDOGS WORKING cattle are always at risk but it goes hand in hand with owning a farm or work-ing on one. No matter how careful we are, how clever our dog is, or how quiet the cattle, an expensive canine injury can happen in the blink of an eye.

I was recently visiting friends who farm sheep and cattle in the Waikato on 600 acres of easy roll-ing hills. They do stock-work with two capable dogs, a Huntaway and a Heading dog. The neigh-bour, who leases land next door and oddly doesn’t have any working dogs, phoned and asked if they could bring their dogs and help him shift some cattle. Being obliging, good neighbours, they said yes. After he hung up I thought I’d offer some advice, something my friends may not have considered.

What if a dog was injured? It doesn’t take long for vet bills to reach hefty four figures when dealing with broken bones and serious injuries. Who would pay? And it might take weeks, maybe months, for the dog to heal so they wouldn’t have the dog power for their own work in the interim. What if a dog was killed? Many a dog has lost its life due to a wayward bovine. Would the neighbour cover the costs? A lot of farm dogs are covered by insurance, but a lot aren’t. I believe in this day and age any capa-ble farm dog should be insured.

Even if you are lucky enough to have a wad of money in your hand to buy a replacement dog, are you going to find one at short notice? If you’re happy with a mutt with no stop, that splits a mob,

leaves stock behind and is deaf, you’ll soon pick one up but trying to find an honest and capable dog is like searching for a hen with teeth. Even if you do fluke it and find one, will the dog work for you tomorrow? Will you remember its commands? Will it know the paddocks in time for shearing at the end of the week? The answer is no. When it is put like that, what would you do?

While we are on the subject of shifting cattle, I’ll touch on cows with calves. Too many people

wind themselves, their dogs and the cattle into an unnecessary frenzy. From the moment the muster begins cows and calves become mismothered and a team of frothy mouthed exhausted dogs try to bully a panicking herd in the desired direction, gener-ally the opposite direction to where the cows want to go.

Back in my heyday I did stock-work from horse-back with a working team of a handy Huntaway, a noisier Huntaway and a Heading dog; they were usually joined in summer by a young dog coming on.

I soon discovered the best way to move cows and calves on my own was to ride to a vantage point and bark the Huntaways for a moment or two. Then we’d wait quietly for the cattle to mother up: moving them before-

hand was asking for trou-ble. Once they’d done that I’d work only one Hunt-away, keeping it well back and directing the cattle with non aggressive noise. Because the cows had their calves at foot and were being guided kindly

by a controlled dog, every-thing stayed calm and they would walk anywhere. If I needed to ride among the cattle the dogs were com-manded ‘outside’.

The faster stock move the less control you have. Guide with your dogs

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Lame sheep on Ministry radarFARMERS ARE being urged to deal with lame sheep faster after a Min-istry and NZVA study of stock mobility at slaugh-ter.

Ministry for Primary Industry veterinarian and animal welfare advisor Richard Wild says lame-ness is a particular prob-lem in older sheep and intervention is needed

sooner rather than later if there’s a hint of a problem on farm.

Earlier this month Wild presented a paper to the New Zealand Veterinary Association conference at Massey University out-lining findings of NZVA and MPI monitoring of 10 meat processing plants from October to May this year.

The paper suggests time in lairage before slaughter may be caus-ing or exacerbating lame-ness, and holding animals on metal gratings may be

a factor in increasing inci-dence. Some floor designs appear worse than others.

Mobility scores were used to grade cases.

“We measured things like the age of animals, how far they had been transported because that does exacerbate or cause lameness. We also looked to see whether there was any difference in lameness between breeds,” Wild told Rural News.

“Some of the things

that came out of the survey were that in par-ticular parts of the coun-try lameness was more common than others. Not surprisingly lame-ness was more common in the South Island than the North Island. We cer-tainly see more lameness in Merino-type sheep.”

Overall, level of lame-ness was low probably reflecting the very dry season in most places.

There is not a great deal of lameness in lambs and when there is it tends to be ‘injury related’, he says.

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As well as the sheep survey, MPI and NZVA have been working on a joint project to get a consistent approach in dealing with transportation of ‘diseased, defective and injured’ animals of all species.

A roadshow between MPI and vets has reached agreement on how to deal with animals that might not be fit to transport, and how ‘diseased, defective and injured’ is defined.

Such animals need a veterinary certificate to be transported and Wild says a consistent approach to applying the minimum standards prescribed by the National Animal Welfare Council is a significant break-through.

“We see quite a number of animal welfare issues coming to slaughter and our normal approach is an educational one. We’ll ring up farmers and send them an educational letter to tell them these are the issues that we have found…. We will emphasise their respon-sibilities under the Animal Welfare Act and point them in the direction of the standards.”

A lot of farmers would not necessarily be aware of the standards and MPI’s role is to make sure that they know about the code for transportation of sheep or other species. In extreme case MPI compliance staff will visit a farm and take whatever action is deemed appropriate, he adds.

Consensus on transport code

Lameness in lambs tends to be injury related, the study found.

Overall, level of lameness was low probably reflecting the very dry season in most places.

“What we are coming at is how do we deal with lame lambs turning up for slaughter and has the person in charge of these animals taken appropriate action… or

have they let them get to a really bad state. A lot of it’s around husbandry and stockmanship.”

Wild says breeding also has a role in reducing inci-dence.

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Injection site is high on the neck, at the base of the ear. Prevents re-infection with Haemonchus contortus for 91 days, Ostertagia circumcincta for 112 days & Trichostrongylus colubriformis for 42 days. Effective against inibited larvae of Haemonchus. Ostertagia and Trichostrongylus.

EXODUS SE Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets MoxidectinSelenium

1mg/mL0.5mg/mL

0.2mg/kg 1mL/5kg 10 10x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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EXTENDER 100 Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets Albendazole 3.85g/capsule 0.5mg/kg/day 1 capsule 35-65kg 0 5 capsules YES 1 MATUREIMMATURE

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1. Gives continuous protection against all major species of worms for at least 100 days (120 days including worm prepatented 2 period. 2. Efficacy not yet established.

EXTENDER JUNIOR SeCo Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets Albendazole, Selenium, Cobalt

2.24g Ab, 11.7mg Sel58mg Cob/cap.

0.5mg/kg/day 1 capsule 20-40kg 0 5 capsules YES1 MATUREIMMATURE

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1. Gives continuous protection against all major species of worms for at least 100 days and treats and prevents selenium and cobalt deficiency. 2. Efficacy not yet established.

EXTENDER SeCo Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets Albendazole, Selenium & Cobalt

4.62g Alb cap, 24mg Se, 118mg Co

ABZ 0.5mg/day Se 0.24mg/day Co 1.18m/day

1 capsule40-80kg

0 5 capsules YES 1 MATUREIMMATURE

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Gives continuous protection against all major species of worms for at least 100 days (120 days including worm prepatented period) and treats and prevents selenium deficiency. 2. Efficacy not yet established.

FIRST DRENCH Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets Albendazole, Levamisole, Praziquantel

25g/L, 37.5g/L, 18.8g/L 5mg/kg, 7.54mg/kg 3.75mg/kg


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Milk. Note 1. First Drench Hi Mineral - each 10mlcontaining 5mg Selenium, 2.5mg Cobalt and 21mg Copper.

GENESIS ORALGENESIS HI MINERAL

Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets Abamectin 1g/L 0.2mg/kg 1mL/5kg 14 5x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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GENESIS INJECTION Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets Abamectin 10g/L 0.2mg/kg 1ml/50kg 28 5x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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GENESIS INJECTION + B12 & SE Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets Abamectin, SE & B12 10g/L 0.2mg/kg 1ml/50kg 28 5x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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GENESIS TAPE HI MINERAL

Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets Abamectin, Praziquantel

1g/L18.8g/L

0.2mg/kg 3.75mg/kg

1m/5kg 14 5x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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Additives: Iodine, Selenium, Cobalt, Copper, Zinc. Note 1.

NOTE – The Rural News Sheep Internal Parasite Control Anthelmintic Survey is compiled from information supplied by animal health companies. Although the information has been checked by our independent animal health advisor, Rural News accepts no responsibility or liability for inaccuracies. THE EFFICACY CLASSIFICATIONS RELATE ONLY WHERE NO RESISTANCE IS PRESENT. If a concern exists please contact your veterinarian.

★★★ = 95% to 100% efficacy.★★ = 75% to 95% efficacy.★ = 50% to 75% efficacy.Blank = No registered claimN/S = Information not suppliedN/D = No data

KEY TO SURVEY:

NOTE 1: Sheep milk intended for human consumption or manufacture for human consumption must be discarded during treatment and for 35 days following last treatment.NOTE 2: Must not be used undiluted.

bionic®

for 100 days lockdown of all major parasitesPROUDLY AVAILABLE FROM YOUR LOCAL VETERINARY CLINIC.

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GENESIS ULTRA HI MINERAL

Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets

Abamectin, Closantel

1g/L50g/L

0.2mg/kg10mg/kg


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42 days haemonchus contortus control. Note 1. Effective against mature and immature liverfluke.

IVER MATRIX TAPE HI MINERAL


Ivermectin, Oxfendazole, Levamisole, Praziquantel

1g/L Iver, 22.7g/L Oxf, 40g/L Le, 18.9g/L Prazi

0.2mg/kg Iver, 8mg/kgk Le,4.5mg/kg Ox, 3.76 3.75m/kg Prazi

1ml/5kg 14 3x YES MATUREIMMATURE

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Contains 2.2g/L Cobalt, 0.5g/L Selenium

IVOMEC LIQUID FOR SHEEP AND GOATS


Ivermectin 0.08% w/v solution 0.2mg/kg 1ml/4kg 10 20 x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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1. Effective against L3 stages. 2. Effective against inhibited (L4) stages. Also effective against BZ, Levamisole and Morantel resistant strains of Haemonchus, Ostertagia and Trichostrongylus Spp and BZ resistant Namatodirus also Itchmite. (Meat withholding period for goats is 14 days.) Plain and selenised available. Note 1.

IVOMEC MAXIMIZER CR CAPSULES LAMBS


Ivermectin 80mg/capsule 0.02mg/kg/day 1 capsule 20-40kg 126 3x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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Aids in control of dags and blowfly strike in the breech area and reduces pasture contamination from worm eggs for at least 100 days. (120 days including worm prepatent period.) Also effective against strains of H.contortus, O.circumcinta and T.colubriformil resistant to BZ, levamisole and morantel anthelmintics and strains of T.axei and N.spathiger resistant to BN anthelmintics. Effective against itchmite and keds. 1. Effective against L3 stages. Milk 126 days.

IVOMEC MAXIMIZER CR CAPSULES ADULT



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Comment same as above (Ivomec Maximizer Cr Capsules Lambs)

IVOMEC INJECTION Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets

Ivermectin 10g/L 0.02mg/kg 1ml per 50kg 35 5x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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Also for use in cattle and pigs. Effective against itchmite. Effective against L3 stages. Also effective against inhibited L4 stage Ostertagia. Note 1.

LEVICARE Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets

Levamisole 40g/L 7.5mg/kg 3ml/16kg 10 3x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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Minerals (Cu, I, Co, Zn, Se) Milk 24 hours.

MATRIX TAPEHI MINERAL


Oxfendazole,Levamisole, Praziquantel

1g/L Iver, 22g/L Oxf, 40g/L Le, 18.9g/L Prazi

0.2mg/kg Iver, 8mg/kg Le, 4.5mg/kg Ox, 3.76 3.75m/kg Pr

1ml per 5kg liveweight 14 3x YES MATUREIMMATURE

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MATRIX Hi MINERAL Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets

Abamectin, Oxfendazole, Levamisole

1g/L Ab, 40g/L Le,22.7g/L Ox

0.2mg/kg Ab, 8mg/kgLe, 4.5mg/kg Ox


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OXFEN C PLUS Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets

Oxfendazole Levamisole

90.6g/L150g/L

4.5mg/kgs7.5mg/kg


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★★ ★★ Also contains 0.8g/L Selenium

OXFEN OXFEN DBL STRENGTH


Oxfendazole 22.65g/L45.3g/L

5mg/kg 1ml/10kg 10 5x YES MATUREIMMATURE

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Also available with minerals (Cu, Co, Zn, I, Se) Oxfen Hi Mineral. Note 1.

TRIMOX HI-MINERAL Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets

Moxidectin, Albendazole, Levamisole, Selenium, Cobalt

1g/L Mox plus 40g/L Le HCI, 23.8 g/L Ab, with 0.5g/L Se and 2.2g/L Co

0.2mg/kg4.76mg/kg8mg/kg

1ml/5kg 28 3x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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Prevents reinfection with Ostertagia circumcincta for a minimum of 21 days and Haemonchus spp for 35 days.

SWITCH HI MIN Merial Ancare Veterinary outlets

Abamectin, Levamisole, Selenium, Cobalt

1g/L Ab, 40g/L Le, 0.5g/L Se, 2.2g/L Co

0.2mg/kg8mg/kg


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CYDECTIN PLUS TAPE Zoetis OTC, Veterinary outlets

MoxidectinPraziquantel

1mg/mL18.8mg/mL

0.2mg/kg liveweight3.76mg/kg

1mL/5kg 7 > 5x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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DECTOMAX INJECTABLE

Zoetis Veterinary Outlets

Doramectin 10mg/mL 0.2mg/kg 1mL/50kg liveweight 35 x15 NO MATUREIMMATURE

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1 Includes inhibited stages and BZ-resistant parasites. 2 1st, 2nd & 3rd Instars. 3 Aids in protection of blowfly strike. See label for details.

EWEGUARD, EWEGUARD PLUS SE B12

Zoetis OTC outletsVeterinarians

Moxidectin and 6 and 1 vaccine

5g/L 0.2mg/kg liveweight 1mL/25kg liveweight 49 3x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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Additives: contain antigens of 5 clostridial diseases and cheesy gland. Available with or without selenium and with selenium and vitamin B12 (vet only). Prevents reinfection with Haemonchus contortus and Ostertagia circumcincta for a least 35 days and Trichostrongylus colubriformis for at least 7 days following a single subcutaneous injection. Use in sheep that have been vaccinated against footrot is not recommended. Recommended for use in adult sheep. Milk withholding period 49 days. Effective against inhibited stages of Haemonchus, Ostertagia and Trichostrongylus.

CYDECTIN INJECTION Zoetis OTC outletsVeterinarians

Moxidectin 10g/L 0.2mg/kg liveweight 1mL/50kg liveweight 28 10x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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Non-irritant injection. Prevents re-infection with Haemonchus contortus and Ostertagia circumcincta for at least 35 days and Trichostrongylus colubriformis for at least 7 days following a single subcutaneous injection. Use in sheep that have been vaccinated against footrot is not recommended. Effective against inhibited larvae of Haemonchus, Ostertagia and Trichostronglus.

CYDECTIN LONG ACTING INJECTION FOR SHEEP


Moxidectin 20g/L 1mg/kg liveweight 1mL/20kg liveweight 91 5x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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CYDECTIN & VETDECTIN ORAL DRENCH


Moxidectin 1mg/mL 0.2mg/kg liveweight 1mL/5kg liveweight 10 >10x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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Prevents re-infection with Haemonchus contortus for 35 days and Ostertagia circumcincta for 21 days. Available with or without Selenium. Effective against inhibited larvae of Haemonchus, Ostertagia and Trichostrongylus. Milk intended for sale for human consumption must be discarded during treatment and for 35 days following the last treatment.

STARTECT Zoetis Veterinarians Derquantel, Abamectin

10mg/mL1mg/mL

2mg/kg0.2mg/kg

1mL/5kg 14 days meat35 days milk

3x No MATUREIMMATURE

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New family of drench in a combination. Controls worms resistant to macrocyclic lactones (ML), levamisole/morantel (clear), benzimidazoles (white), and closantel based drenches and combinations of these. Also controls itch mite. Accurately dose young lambs < 15kg. Use drench guns with silicone “O” rings. Extremely toxic to horses.



KEY TO SURVEY:


SWITCH On PrOduCTIOnSWITCH Off reSISTanCeThe powerful alternative dual combination

A MERCK SHARP & DOHME AND SANOFI-AVENTIS COMPANY. MERIAL ANCARE. LEVEL 3, MERIAL BUILDING, OSTERLEY WAY, MANUKAU CITY, NEW ZEALAND. WWW.MERIALANCARE.CO.NZ. REGISTERED PURSUANT TO THE ACVM ACT 1997 NO’S A9970. ®SWITCH IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK Of MERIAL LTD. SEE WWW.NZfSA.GOVT.NZ/ACVM/ fOR REGISTRATION CONDITIONS. ©COPYRIGHT 2009 MERIAL LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NZ-08-SWI-206

available only at your local vet

MAL-09-SWITCH 170x265mm Ad.indd 1 15/07/2009 11:54:30 a.m.



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Abamectin, Closantel

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0.2mg/kg10mg/kg


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42 days haemonchus contortus control. Note 1. Effective against mature and immature liverfluke.

IVER MATRIX TAPE HI MINERAL


Ivermectin, Oxfendazole, Levamisole, Praziquantel

1g/L Iver, 22.7g/L Oxf, 40g/L Le, 18.9g/L Prazi

0.2mg/kg Iver, 8mg/kgk Le,4.5mg/kg Ox, 3.76 3.75m/kg Prazi


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IVOMEC LIQUID FOR SHEEP AND GOATS


Ivermectin 0.08% w/v solution 0.2mg/kg 1ml/4kg 10 20 x NO MATUREIMMATURE

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1. Effective against L3 stages. 2. Effective against inhibited (L4) stages. Also effective against BZ, Levamisole and Morantel resistant strains of Haemonchus, Ostertagia and Trichostrongylus Spp and BZ resistant Namatodirus also Itchmite. (Meat withholding period for goats is 14 days.) Plain and selenised available. Note 1.

IVOMEC MAXIMIZER CR CAPSULES LAMBS



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34 machinery & products

New HQ ‘a celebration of progress’NEW HEADQUARTERS opened by New Zea-land-owned tractor and machinery firm Power Farming marks “outstand-ing success” despite some of the toughest economic conditions in memory. And it underscores the company’s confidence in farming.

So said managing direc-tor Geoff Maber and chief executive Bruce Nixon at

the opening of the $2 mil-lion building at Morrins-ville on July 2.

Attending were deal-ers, farmers and rural con-tractors from near and far, and some major over-seas suppliers, among them Francesco Caro-zza, vice-chairman, SAME Deutz-Fahr; Paul McHale, McHale Engineering, Ire-land; and David Palmer, Kverneland Group. All

three companies supply Power Farming, now ranked as Australasia’s largest independently owned farm machinery supplier.

Chief executive Bruce Nixon says the opening ceremony was a celebra-tion of the phenomenal progress of the company over the last decade, and marked a line in the sand about where the group has

come from and where it’s going.

“It’s a celebration of our progress as a com-pany.”

In 10 years NZ annual sales revenue has risen 75% to almost $400 mil-lion and Australian sales since 2001 have exceeded $180 million a year. Ear-lier this year the group opened a $20 million premises in Melbourne; it now has branches in Vic-toria, New South Wales and Queensland.

Power Farming is the largest independent importer and distribu-tor of tractors and farm machinery in Australasia. It sells almost 3000 trac-tors annually here and in Australia, operates 14 wholly owned or joint venture retail centres in New Zealand and employs almost 400 people in the two countries.

Growth has contin-

ued despite market ups and downs, and the trend during the life of the com-pany has been strongly upward.

The passion and drive of managing director Geoff Maber has “unques-tionably been a key ele-ment in our success,” Nixon told the gathering.

“Another factor has been our drive into Austra-lia: ten years ago, we were just getting established there, now it accounts for almost half our business.

“And the third factor has been building a stable of high quality product brands that have enabled us to grow our position here in New Zealand and

in Australia.”New buildings, and

major new brands such as SAME Deutz-Fahr and McHale, signal the group’s optimism and confidence in its future and its deter-mination to increase its position as a key player, Nixon says.

Geoff Maber told guests the future for agri-culture in New Zealand is incredibly strong and farming is going to be one of the best industries to be involved with.

“There is a rapidly growing middle class throughout the world and particularly in Asia, which is driving a rapidly increas-ing demand for the food

products and protein that the New Zealand farmer is producing.

“New Zealand and Aus-tralian farmers are better positioned than any others to meet that demand because of their geograph-ical proximity to Asia, and because they’re the most efficient growers in the world.”

Maber says the high value products exported worldwide by compa-nies such as Fonterra are a world away from the com-modity once exported – such as frozen lamb car-cases to the UK – and this adds much to the pros-pects of New Zealand farming.

Among the guests at the opening of the new Power Farming headquarters in Morrinsville, was a team from Taupiri-based Gavins Contracting Services, which provides agricultural contracting and cropping services throughout the Waikato and South Auckland.

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Mike (left) and Denis Heenan like everything about their Fusion II baler, from its stability on slopes to its drop floor and slick netwrap system.

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Hay-making wrapped up nicelyTHE HEENAN family in Mossburn, Southland have several dairy farms that total 1600ha and support 1800 cows. Denis Heenan does the baling for the operation.

The farms use a lot of pit silage but also need 7000 bales each season. That’s where the McHale Fusion II baler/wrapper comes in. “It’s a good, reliable bit of gear. My wife calls it ‘the mistress’ as I’m always with it and never home on a sunny day.”

Baleage gives the family the flexibility to ensile the grass or crop when it’s at the highest quality. They also grow specialised crops such as lucerne, a red clover mix and whole crop barley, which all go through the McHale. Barley straw is also baled later in the season.

The baler comes out of the shed in mid-Octo-ber for the dairy platform. Last season it didn’t go back in again until mid-May. “We wouldn’t nor-mally do that but we had to last year as feed was short. It was wet stuff and the baler did well to bale it.”

Heenan says the Fusion II is easy to operate. “It’s set up pretty simple and it’s a job I enjoy doing. I would definitely get another McHale.”

Heenan pulls the McHale with a 165hp or 185hp tractor. “It’s a lot of weight and you need that power, especially on the hills. The low centre of gravity keeps it stable and it follows the contours well.”

The baler has its own console in the cab, and Heenan has set up cam-eras so he can see what’s happening with the wrap-per.

The Fusion II has a 2.0m pick-up and the driver can choose whether or not to engage the knives. Heenan only uses knives for bales for the

dairy platform.If anything clogs there

is a drop floor, operated from the cab. “I always get a few blockages but it is an operator problem, not the machine. The prob-lem is usually the guy on the V-rake, creating lumps and throwing one row into another. The odd rock has got into the baler. It has a slip clutch so if you hit a rock, it starts slipping and you stop it and drop the floor.”

The Fusion II has a fixed chamber that pro-duces bales 1.25m2. The pressure is variable but Heenan always uses high pressure to produce dense bales. “We try to make them as heavy as we can. They’re at least 250kg of dry matter.”

Heenan also likes the Fusion II’s netwrap system. “They’ve put a lot of thought into it and it’s very simple to use and to change rolls. There’s a self-greasing cartridge that takes care of most maintenance and the rest is easy to get at.”

He can’t see any disadvantage in a combined baler/wrapper. “We consistently do 50 bales an hour. Some peoples say that’s the downfall of a combi wrapper but to do more than 50, you’d have to be flat out and what’s the life of the machine if you do that? Our priority is the quality of the grass and we don’t see the speed of wrapping as an issue.

“A distinct advantage is having one less labour unit and one less tractor on the job. In addition, once you’ve finished the paddock you don’t have to go back.”

The McHale Fusion II arrived last season from Power Farming Southland, who service the machine when needed – that’s not often. “We’ve only seen them for the winter ser-vice. Nothing’s gone wrong and we haven’t needed a call-out.”

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went from there.”Once he had the concept

worked out in his head he advanced by trial and error to put together something that worked. An offer of $4000 worth of steel for $200 made the project possible. “I’d have never made it if it wasn’t for that.”

At first he had no plans to commercialise the product – it was just a useful attachment for on-farm use. Then Fieldmas-ter spoke to him about commer-cialising it.

Fieldmaster marketing manager Rachel Stock says the company’s chief engineer, Rudolf Vorschezang, told them about the loader. “We are always open to looking at new innovations.”

The Swivel Tach is a face plate which mounts between the loader and the attachment and Toft says it works with all his existing implements.

He has since found a wide range of uses for a tilting front-end loader bucket, includ-ing picking up hay bales on an incline and pouring precise amounts of meal and feed into bins and feed trailers.

With a load capacity of 1 ton the unit is incredibly sturdy, he

says. And he and Fieldmaster engineers have tested it exten-sively. “It has been tested exten-sively on my working dairy farm and have found it capable of assisting with almost anything.

“I can put a ton weight on and twist it easily, so if I’m driv-ing along and I come to a slope I can just twist it to keep the load level.”

Though sturdy the mount doesn’t add a lot of weight to the loader. “Four men can lift it easily. We had to carry it into

the innovation tent [at Fiel-days] because they couldn’t let machinery in there.”

Because of the huge vari-ety of front end loader widths and attachment mounts the Swivel Tach is built to custom-er’s order.

“There are different loader widths so when dealers take an order they will take details and we will engineer the product to that.”Tel. 0800 500 275www.fieldmaster.co.nz

Swivel option adds flexibilityWANTING TO avoid driving on hillsides while clearing surface drains, Kaiawa dairy farmer Paul Toft hit on an idea for an attachment to swivel his front loader bucket 23.5 degrees to left or right in the vertical plane.

The Swivel Tach, as called in its commercial guise, was launched by Fieldmaster at National

Fieldays. Two hydraulic rams

driven by an extra hydrau-lic system enable the movement while keeping the bucket steady under pressure.

Toft says he was doing the job with a shovel and wondered if there was a way to do it with the loader. “Initially I just welded a couple of attach-ments to the side of the bucket but then I wanted to do the other side so it

WELLSFORD AGRICULTURAL contractor Steve Levet is the new president of Rural Contractors New Zealand (RCNZ), succeed-ing John Hughes.

The election was at the annual meeting at Cromwell in June. Southland’s David Kean, South-land, was elected vice-president.

Said Levet, “I pay tribute to and thank John Hughes for the sterling service he’s given Rural Contrac-tors NZ over the past six years on national council and the last four years as our president. John’s lead-ership and advocacy over this time has placed RCNZ in a strong posi-tion and attained important gains for the sector, including the recent changes in agricultural transport legislation.”

Levet now looks forward to working with Kean and the new national board, “continuing RCNZ’s role as the leading advo-cate and strong representative of rural contractors engaged in a wide range of activities in the agricul-tural sector throughout the coun-try.

“Our association has some 450 member companies and repre-sents about 2500-3000 workers in the sector. We need and intend to be a powerful and influential advo-cate for our members.”

Levet says farming remains the engine of New Zealand’s economy and rural contractors are vital to keeping that engine running.

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WHEN THE people from Isuzu NZ, and the local dealer, Manawatu Isuzu and Commercial, suggested testing the Isuzu D-Max Ute, I anticipated an interesting ride.

My memories of the old Rodeos were just that – a bucking ride. The advertising says it is the only ute made by a truck maker and so one assumes it may ride and handle like a truck. Not so. I was impressed by the ride comfort, handling and appoint-ment of this good-looking machine.

Tested in LS Crewcab form, the 4WD rig came with a 20-inch wheel and tyre package that set the silver ute off. With a 3L diesel engine making 130kW at 3600rpm and 380 Newton metres torque, mated to a good 5-speed manual gearbox. It isn’t the most powerful ute on the market, but it has a lineal and usable power output that suits the machine. Not peaky like some new engines, this one will pull happily from 1500rpm in fifth gear with no grinding of com-ponentry or transmission snatch.

Inside the cabin, the D-Max has good ergonomics, with all controls

falling readily to hand. There is plenty of storage in the cabin with a good sized glovebox and a large shelf above it. The steering wheel has radio function buttons as well as cruise control fitted. The stereo has six speakers including roof mounts, iPod and Bluetooth connectivity.

Safety-wise this ute has six air-bags, antilock braking, traction and stability control. Out back, the test rig sported a smart hard top cover that tilted up, or could be lifted to access the wellside.

Put through its paces on and off road, the Isuzu acquitted itself well, given the road-orientated tyres. An uphill climb with a lip at the top proved the ute’s undoing, but it was

quite damp. Our companion vehi-cle with a clever traction control system and aggressive tyres man-aged the climb, but it shoveled a bit of stuff too.

The D-Max didn’t disgrace itself, especially given the wheel and tyre combo! The ute proved sure-footed on the road, whether sealed or not. Where the road has been widened and the seal is uneven, I did notice some tramlining.

We’d recently been in another model’s top range machine, a popular ute that was refurbished recently. We thought the overall ambience, per-formance and comfort of the D-Max was superior, as was the ride comfort, even with the big wheels.

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D-Maxed to the limit!

Wheeled feeder enhances grain use

A NEW wheeled version of Advantage Feeder’s NGF 1800 feeder can enhance a farmer’s management of supplementary feeding, says the company’s managing director Gerard Roney.

Advantage last month launched the MGF 1800, a road legal, trailed version of its 1800L grain feeder.

Roney says though the skid-mounted NGF 9 feeders were suitable to move short distances in paddocks, moving them any distance required a tractor. But the new feeder, hitched to a tractor, would suit even lease-block use.

“With lease blocks a long way from your property you can put 1.2 tonne of feed in the feeder, take it out to the lease block, leave it for a week or two, then if need be bring it back and refill it. It’s allowed to be

towed at 60km/h in Australia.”The MGF 1800 is said to be notably

durable because it has leaf spring suspen-sion.

“It means the trailer has good longev-ity, which is important because workers can treat them pretty tough at times.”

The axle is positioned centrally to improve towing performance by reducing load on the towbar, a major consideration when towing a trailer rated at 1200kg pay-load.

“A lot of meal feeder trailers have their wheels at the back, putting a lot of stress on the towbar.”

Adjustable legs stabilise the load, and supplementary feeders can be hooked to the outside of the trailer for extra versa-tility.Tel. 09 431 7276www.advantagefeeders.co.nz

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Gerard Roney pictured with the wheeled feeder.

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