taranaki/manawatu farming lifestyles, august 2013

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Feilding Farmers’ Market wins again

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Farming through extreme weather events

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The award recognises community support and involvement in local farmers’ markets with customers around New Zealand voting for both their favourite market and a preferred stallholder. Feilding won the award against much larger markets in other regions.

The Feilding Farmers’ Market was established by Feilding Promotion’s Community Development team and is held every Friday in Manchester Square from 9am–2pm.

Following last year’s win, Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, included a visit to Feilding’s Farmers’ Market in November as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year.

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For the second year in a row, Feilding has won the New Zealand Farmers’ Market of the Year Award.

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contributing enormously to the vibrancy of the town.

“Winning the National Farmers’ Market Award is a stunning achievement.

“The win will once again put Feilding on the map and place our market as one of the great attractions for visiting this region.”

The official announcement was made at the New Zealand Farmers’ Market dinner in Lyttelton.

“Congratulations to the team, stallholders, management, volunteers and of course our customers” said Ms Loader.

As a result of winning the Taste Farmers’ Market award two years running, Feilding will host the 2014 Taste Farmers’ Market Awards Dinner and Conference.

Ms Loader said Feilding looks forward to hosting the event and there are plans to do something a bit different to add Feilding Farmers’ Market’s unique flavour to this prestigious annual event.

The Whanganui Farmers’ Market division of Whanganui River Traders were voted runner-up in the New Zealand Farmers’ Market Award. Established just 10 months ago, the Whanganui Farmers’ Market is held in conjunction with the Whanganui River Traders each Saturday from 9am–1pm on Moutoa Quay.

Around 40 independently owned and operated farmers markets’ are held around New Zealand with an estimated 50,000 customers supporting them each week.

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Taranaki Tree Trust calling for applications

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The Taranaki Tree Trust is calling for applications for the second and final funding round for 2013. Administered by the Taranaki Regional Council, the Taranaki Tree Trust is a charitable trust supporting the region’s ecosystems and landscapes.

The trust makes grants to assist landowners and community groups to maintain, restore and protect wetland areas, native bush remnants and habitats for threatened species. Grants to enhance community areas, such as schools, reserves and maraes, through amenity planting are also available.

Taranaki Tree Trust co-ordinator Leigh Honnor said the trust has been supporting planting projects in the Taranaki for 20 years.

“We are proud to contribute to the restoration work being undertaken in our community.

“We encourage people with planting projects to apply for funding as we are here to get alongside them and share the cost.”

One application per financial year, which runs from July 1 to June 30, can be made to the trust with grants between $300 and $5,000 available. All funding applications are considered individually and the trustees retain the right to grant funds in greater or lesser amounts.

The trust will contribute up to 75 percent of the total cost of a school or community project, and up to 50 percent for a project on private land.

The total cost includes cash and the dollar value of any in kind contributions such as labour. Grants must be used by successful applicants within two years.

The Taranaki Tree Trust is currently working on a booklet titled ‘Restoration planting in Taranaki — A guide to the Egmont Ecological Region’.

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Mrs Honnor said this booklet will provide the foundation for restoration planting projects.

“Copies will be available free from the trust and you will also be able to download a copy from our website in September.”

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Franco Harrison has won two races and placed in several others in the year the syndicate has been running.

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“That is what this type of syndication is all about, having fun and meeting people.”

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The Gray family on their 410ha Pohangina Valley farm

property in 2003, with takeover just after the February 2004 floods.

Tony said they’ve experienced every extreme in the nine years they’ve lived on the farm and don’t yet know what an average season is.

“Since we have been at Utuwai, there have been five dry/drought summers, and we thought that we had purchased a farm in a summer safe area.”

Originally from the Rangitikei, Tony was fourth generation of a Marton family farming on a 100ha finishing and cropping operation. A further 125ha neighbouring property was leased to create a more economic unit.

When the owner of the lease block sold the property, Tony and Lynda decided to offer their farm for sale as well.

The couple headed overseas for six months and on their return bought the Utuwai property.

Located near the Ruahine Ranges, the farm sits on predominantly Whetukura silt loam soil and receives an average rainfall of 1,200mm.

Farm improvements and maintenance have been ongoing.

Initially the farm received fertiliser every year. More recently this has been reduced to a bi-annual application.

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Following the devastation throughout the lower North Island caused by the 2004 storm, Horizons Regional Council formed the Sustainable Land Use Initiative (SLUI) in an attempt to reduce hill country erosion and assist with flood protection further downstream on the plains.

A Whole Farm Plan was developed and implemented under SLUI as a tool to identify sustainable resource management and sustained business growth opportunities on farms. A land management expert and farm consultant work alongside farmers who have volunteered to be a part of the scheme.

Tony and Lynda were the first to take up the offer and planted six hectares of Douglas Fir production forestry. Poplar poles are planted on an annual basis. Scrub has also been allowed to regrow to stabilise some hillsides.

In 2011 the couple retired another 52ha of regenerating land to add to an area of the farm under a QEII covenant. This required 2.5km of fencing and another 1km of deer fencing was completed last year to form a new lane and further subdivision. The total area now covered under a QEII covenant is 125ha.

A total of 1,050 Romney ewes, 300 ewe hoggets, 290 breeding hinds, 60 Angus breeding cows and 40 R1 cattle are currently run on the farm.

Lambing begins mid-September, the cows calve mid-October and fawning usually starts mid-November.

Tony said their lambs are sold to either Canterbury Meat Packers or Silver Fern Farms and the cattle are sold as weaners or finished.

“All deer are sold at weaning to a finisher as we are shareholders in Firstlight Venison.”

Tony said the major challenge on the farm, other than the climate, is the huge variability in product prices over the last couple of years.

Supplementary feed in the form of swedes and kale for winter, and pasja, rape and plantain for summer is usually grown.

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not put in a winter crop and will be relying on an oat crop for cattle for late winter/early spring,” said Tony.

“We usually buy in baleage to feed to hinds and cows over winter, and this year bought 15 tonne of PKE/barley to supplement the hinds through the drought.”

Tony and Lynda both work on the farm and are actively involved in various committees.

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Lynda handles all the farm paper work, annual accounts preparation and tax. She is also on the Awahou

School Board of Trustees.

The couple have two daughters, Rebecca (13) and Catherine (8).

Farm improvements continue on an ongoing basis with plans to further improve productivity, poplar pole planting, fencing off waterways and riparian planting.

Tony said they also intend to improve water reticulation to reduce reliance on dams.

In the long term, the couple would like to utilise more of the deer fenced area, increase soil fertility in the hills, plant more production forestry and fence off wetland areas.

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The saga is still unfolding at the time of writing, but the fallout has already registered in a drop in dairy product prices on the world platform.

As we go to press, there are still a myriad conflicting stories and comment. From a dirty pipe in a provincial factory in New Zealand, we have been led to a ‘first’ discovery of the infant formula powder problem across the Tasman.

While the crisis unfolded, the fact was that it beggars belief that it took so long for our farmer-owned company to react. This writer remembers a student stint in a paint factory in Auckland.

Before any batch of paint was even sent to the canning plant, it was sampled in the on site laboratory, obviously for quality, and a clearance was issued. It was not rocket science!

The fallout from of the Fonterra debacle can be measured in the world’s media and it’s headlines.

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New Zealand has sold itself to the world as a clean and green source of dairy products and the events this month have seriously sullied our reputation.

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PASTURE preparationNutrition — the life enhancer

by John K Morris

We eat food for its nutrient value to keep ourselves alive and energised, but what happens when the food we eat has no nutritional value?

We get no value from that food, worse than that, the cells in our bodies that look after us do not recognise food that has no value, they don’t know what to do with it, so they just store it in the body. Today, especially in the USA due to the lack of minerals in food, people weighing 200 kilos and more are dying from malnutrition while surrounded by food that has no nutritional value, but is engineered to be addictive.

According to Dr Melchoir Dikkers, professor of Biochemistry at Loyola University (Los Angeles) malnutrition is the most important problem confronting mankind at the present time. The United States, despite its boasted food production, is grossly undernourished and although per capita the expenditure on healthcare in the USA is the highest in the world, so is the incidence of cancer, obesity, heart and circulatory diseases.

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techniques, organ transplants, coronary by-pass procedures, chemotherapy, radiation and all various drugs, have not altered the advance of these killer diseases, but instead have merely enriched the chemists and medical practioners.

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Over recent times there has been much debate around the topic of ‘biological farming’.

Why all growing systems are essentially ‘biological’

As little if any nutrient enters a plant without first going through a biological process, all growing systems regardless of the label applied to them are essentially biological systems.

The most important issue presently, and is the one at the heart of the debate around different growing systems, is the use of fertiliser nitrogen.

Excess fertiliser nitrogen reduces the humus content of soil and when used regularly to promote growth, total pasture production steadily declines.

Recent work from AgResearch shows an 18% decline in pasture growth in the

second season after establishment of new pasture.

What we often observe is that where there is a dependence on nitrogen fertiliser, by the end of the fifth year the gaps between grass plants have steadily increased, a significant number of plants have been lost due to pulling in autumn, excess rain ponds for longer periods and total growth reaches a level where regrassing becomes the only option.

What is now well understood is that at least half of applied fertiliser nitrogen does not enter the targeted plant. Some is lost direct to the

atmosphere with the remainder finding its way into groundwater, and Ministry of the Environment figures show a steady increase in Nitrate-N levels in areas where intensive dairy farming is carried out.

Fertiliser nitrogen can be a useful tool; it’s the dependence on it that needs to be sorted. We only have to look to growing systems in Europe to know that its future use will be increasingly regulated. Farmers have the choice to modify their systems now, or wait until regulation arrives and other people start making decisions for them.

To know whether a property has a dependence on fertiliser nitrogen simply stop applying it, all of it.

If the result is less growth then there’s a dependency issue, it’s a simple test for any addiction, and the addiction to fertiliser nitrogen is evidenced by urea silos on farms. But it doesn’t have to be.

The use of DoloZest and CalciZest, soil improvers sold under the Functional Fertiliser brand are being increasingly used to successfully replace fertiliser nitrogen.

The measures collected over a number of years from the Berryman property, an intensive dairy operation near Edgecumbe, using a DoloZest/CalciZest based total nutrient programme, show total pasture growth based on Overseer to have been in

excess of 19 tonne for each of the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons.

Pasture cages showed growth for the same seasons to be 18.4 and 18.3 tonne respectively, with less than 20kgN/ha applied each year. Total milk solid production was in excess of 1,300kg/ha from an average of 200 cows, with around 20% of the total feed being bought in.

Long strong stemmed clovers flourish throughout the major growing season providing exceptional growth of calves and contribute significantly to the 0.87:1 protein to fat ratio of the milk produced.

Clover flea and weevil under close examination can still be found however given the health of the clover damage is minimal.

Careful digging and sifting also turns up the occasional grass grub and beetle larvae but again too few to cause damage. Total nitrogen tests showed 9,400kgN/ha in the top 30cm of the soil with 200kg N/ha available for plant use at the time of testing.

With increased carbon sequestered each year and more humus formed, a steady increase in pasture growth and total farm production can be expected, and with measuring continuing more data will be made available.

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earthworms, bene� cial insects and micro-organisms that improve soil structure and prevents disease e.g. compost contains nematode-destroying and other bene� cial fungi that prevent many plant diseases. It helps tight clay soil become friable and to breathe. It helps sandy soil hold more water and nutrients while helping to unlock previously unavailable minerals.Obtaining an active Organic Matter SystemComposting is the biological reduction of organic wastes into humus. It is a natural process used to return nutrients contained in organic materials that were once alive in the soil. Compost is composed of complex carbohydrates, proteins, amino acids, peptides, humic acids, fulvic acids, enzymes and bene� cial microorganisms. It contains growth-promoting hormones for plants that encourage

the development of an extensive healthy root system (wider & deeper), which helps plants tolerate drought conditions, insects and disease. It is not usefully measured in N-P-K units.Compost acts as a bu� er against chemicals and assists absorption and breakdown of heavy metals by plants. Microbes in compost break down hazardous chemical pollutants, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, and helps bu� er soils against extremes in acidity or alkalinity.When we use compost, the soils become healthier, so plant and animal health also improve at an accumulating rate. Using quality mature compost helps sequester carbon in the soil, measured by Pro� t Focused Farming on average, at 6% over three years.

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We live in a time when walls are falling. We are seeing the rise of the knowledge era. The power of the internet and the borderless economy allows us to study books and documents from the men and women who have observed and studied nature. In particular, those who have analysed soils globally, discovered and written the truth. Those that have used plain common sense to produce healthy crops and animals free of corruption and propaganda of the industrial giants pushing their own agenda to promote their baseless self-interest and greed at the expense of the majority of producers in the world. The chemical acid superphosphate manufacturing plants around the various ports of NZ are relics of a bygone Industrial mind-set era; they are well past their used-by date.Kiwi Fertiliser was formed primarily to change the face of New Zealand agriculture. We have responded to the call of forward thinking farmers who have become

disillusioned with declining dry matter production and increasing ill-health of animals, whilst the Industry continues to hand out more of the same.Biological farming and the Albrecht-Kinsey model of soil fertility has proven sound science behind it. Last week a group of 21 New Zealand delegates attended a three day Neal Kinsey Advanced 1 Soil Fertility Workshop at Sale, Victoria; followed by a day in the � eld with Albrecht-Kinsey soil fertility and nutrition advisor Peter Norwood on properties where he consults. They are making similar increases in production that we see here in NZ. On average, you can expect a 35% improvement over 3-5 years. There is sound science behind our programme, the course is very intense and teaches the delegates how much of each nutrient is required to maintain healthy soils; the mathematics required and the speci� c interactions of nutrients relating to nutrient de� ciencies and excesses.

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When nitrogen levels become high in ground water, it enters streams and rivers, leading to toxic algae growth and reducing the quality of the water substantially.

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As part of that, protein — the nitrogen source from feed — is very important as it is responsible for maintaining body condition, calf growth in utero, muscle, organs, hooves, hair and connective tissue, immune function and milk protein during lactation.

Interestingly, up to 60% of consumed protein in cows can be lost in urine if it is not fed as part of a completely balanced diet and if the animal, due to poor early nutrition as a calf, has reduced rumen efficiency.

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A 150th In MaungaturotoMaungaturoto in the Kaipara has taken on a whole new look for the town and district 150th anniversary celebrations from Friday, November 1 to Sunday, November 3.

Albie Paton

by Paul Campbell

On Sunday there will be an interdenominational church service and the dedication of a ‘memorial ashes wall’.

Throughout the weekend, there will be performances of a play written for the event, produced by the Otamatea Repertory Theatre, and history trails, with visitors guided around the district.

Inquiries: Contact Albie Paton at [email protected]

“We are issuing a hearty invitation to all of those people in New Zealand with connections to the town and it’s surrounding farming community to make a date to join us in our anniversary events,” says organising committee president, Albie Paton. Registrations for

the 150th will begin at 3pm on the Friday followed by a ‘meet and greet’ at the Maungaturoto Centennial Hall and the opening of a time capsule from the town’s 1963 centenary.

On the Saturday, at 10.30am, there will be a settlers landing re-enactment and a powhiri at the

landing site in Bickerstaffe Road followed by a parade ‘through the ages’ to the Maungaturoto Country Club.

Old time sports and entertainment will occupy the afternoon, followed by a celebration dinner at the centennial hall.

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