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“Despite all of the positive environmental protection work being done within the farming industry, we are still finding dairy farms that simply do not place effluent management as a priority in their business, resulting in unacceptable discharges into the environment.”

The Waikato Regional Council’s investigations and complaints manager, Patrick Lynch, had this comment after a Te Awamutu farming company was fined nearly $32,000 for illegally discharging dairy effluent.

“Now that there is a code of practice and design standards for effluent systems, there is no excuse for not knowing how to manage effluent appropriately. Farmers need to ensure they have effluent systems designed by accredited designers so that they can comply at all times,” Mr Lynch said.

Following helicopter monitoring by the council in August last year at a farm in Candy Rd owned by Wyebrook Farms Limited, a ground inspection was carried out at the Wyebrook property. This inspection showed that effluent from a holding pond was overflowing at five separate locations into a nearby stream, which was a tributary of the Waipa River. This stream flowed approximately 700 metres to the Waipa.

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that some five to six months earlier, a large pile of effluent scrapings had been removed from an effluent bunker and placed on the adjacent paddock surface resulting in further discharges.

The prosecution was based on the discharges from both the February/March and August incidents. The defendant pleaded guilty to the two Resource Management Act charges.

The matter was heard in Hamilton District Court before Judge Melanie Harland. Commenting on the environmental effect of the discharge to the stream on the waterway, Judge Harland said that “the over-riding concern is the cumulative effect of such discharges to waterways.”

The judge agreed that this was moderately serious offending and that the discharge to the waterway had been ongoing for at least several days. She was also satisfied that there were significant management failures that contributed to the overflow into the waterway.

In relation to the pile of effluent scrapings on the paddock surface, Judge Harland said “the message needs to be clearly sent that effluent management is a matter of top priority.”

Wyebrook was fined was fined a total of $31,875 and ordered to pay costs and fees of $491.78.

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“We have done a good job of containing costs while improving services to our communities across a range of activities such as water management, pest management, coastal area planning, civil defence and river catchment and drainage work.”

The draft plan that went out for community consultation in March proposed an average 3.9 per cent rates increase to existing ratepayers for the financial year beginning July 1, but this was cut to 3.4 after three days of deliberations last month.

Councillors reduced the second and third year budgets by $1.14 million, arriving at forecast rates increases of 3.9 per cent and 3.8 per cent respectively to existing ratepayers, after considering nearly 560 written submissions and hearing 120 people who spoke to theirs in hearings in Hamilton and Thames..

The council also decided to reduce the amount of money it collects from rural ratepayers for the Animal Health Board, but to extend the collection period from one to two years.

LTP cuts next year’s spendingMore than $770,000 has been trimmed from next year’s Waikato Regional Council Long Term Plan, adopted on June 28, and chair, Peter Buckley, says said the council has developed a sound plan to advance the region’s environmental and economic priorities

• Implementation of the council’s new policy for allocating water use rights in the region, which is likely to result in a big increase in consent applications for water takes and use and require an extra $580,000. A proportion of costs will be recovered by way of consent revenue.

• An extra $819,000 over three years for work focussed on marine planning and environmental improvement programmes in the Hauraki Gulf.

• increased annual spend on priority possum control work in year two of $982,000 and a further $651,000 in year three.

The council also decided to defer planning, design and contractual work on a proposed new building in Hamilton pending further information about local government reform. This means $1.53 million budgeted for preliminary scoping and design work has been removed from the budgets.

Extra frontline staff required rises to 29.6 full time equivalents, with some of the required work to be contracted out.

The council will adopt the final plan on Thursday 28 June after audit review.

The council decided to reduce the $825,000 requested by the AHB to $650,000 but to extend this assistance by a further year, continuing the collection in 2013/14 and giving the board more time to move to an alternative funding system.

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• Significant increases in service across several land drainage and flood protection areas amounting to approximately $2.4 million in 2012/13. These were in response to catchment liaison committee requests. Services are on average 85 per cent funded on a user pays basis, with 15 per cent of the costs being met by all ratepayers to recognise the wider public good of protecting people, property and the environment from flood risk.

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Tim agrees it’s a small farm but explains that it was originally a rehab farm, one of many that were given to men when they came back from the Second World War.

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Tim and Gayle Sneddon have been dairy farming on their small 50 ha property at Tokoroa since 1976 and laughingly describe themselves as ‘hobby farmers’

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“I can remember as a little kid my father loading his Clydesdales onto a truck and sending them off when he got his first Fergusson 35 tractor and I’ve always thought I would like to have some and do what he used to do with them, so when I could, I did.”

As well as using the Clydesdales on the farm for harrowing and feeding out straw and hay Tim also enters them in the working horse classes of competitions, and breeds them. They are currently looking forward to the arrival of another foal in August.

Over the years the horses have played an important role on the farm and also provided a number of amusing

moments that Tim and Gayle still laugh about.

“Friends of ours moved and gave us a chook house. Now he was one of those very creative gentlemen and he had put wheels on it. Well in the middle of the night Gayle said “what’s that noise?” I could hear all this banging and crashing going on. Well one of the Clydesdales had got his head stuck in the doorway and he was walking around with the chook house coming with him I had a hard job getting his head out.

“I’ve also had some lucky escapes. A couple of years ago I was harrowing and usually you drop the reins and tell them to stand while you go and shut the gate. A lot of female horses can be annoying and it was that time of the month, and the mare reached over and bit the gelding on the side. Well he was out of there — they took off down the middle of the road at a gallop with the harrows behind them and then turned and went down the main thoroughfare. I rang Gayle and said you should have two horses and a set of harrows come over in a minute, shut the gate.”

Despite the odd incident Tim says the Clydesdales are very easy to handle and good natured. “There’s never been any major accident. I did a wedding in Rotorua and our son Nick was outside minding the horse. However he was studying at the time, and I came out of the church to see him reading and two tourists kneeling around behind the horse feeling its hooves. The horse felt warm and they wanted to see if its hooves were warm also. Now any other

horse would have planted them — they are good natured.”

Does Tim prefer horses to tractors?

“You’ve got to make farming fun, and the horses are fun but for some things I do prefer tractors. I’m not silly — hay and straw is fine but I don’t want to use them to fork my silage out.”

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"It wasn't until we had them killed and saw how good the bacon was that we decided we should do it more," says Jonathan.

The Walkers, who name their 25 hectare farm Soggy Bottom Holdings, came to New Zealand in 2003 and settled in the Waikato, near Ngaruawahia where they began breeding the pigs for meat.

"We got in touch with the Rare Breed Society and found where we could get a pig for 40th birthday celebration and it really all started from there.”

"We found we preferred the quality of the meat.”

The couple bought a few more Tamworth (thought of as rare in New Zealand) and soon they had bred about 20.

The Walkers now farm three main pig varieties; Tamworth, Wessex Saddleback as well as European Wild Boar (this name covers both male and female), rearing up to 70 pigs for meat. They keep around 11 breeding sows and 3 boars.

Jonathan says the European Wild Boar is classed as the original pig all domestic breeds hail from and the meat is a darker red, stronger flavour to the others.

This breed still runs wild in France and Spain and pig hunting is a big sport in both countries.

"New Zealand feral pigs seem to be reverting to being more like the original Euro-type because the environment here suits them."

The Walkers have the pigs killed at a registered abattoir and then the carcasses are returned to them.

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Nothing is wasted with around 15 varieties of sausages being made at Soggy Bottom

"We use no brines or pre-mixes, only salt, herbs, spices, wine, Guiness, garlic and cider," Jonathan says.

Although the farm is not technically organic, Jonathan keeps to similar principles — no drenching, or chemicals like antibiotics or growth hormones are used.

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"I believe I'm making a living from free range pigs by adding value rather than farming by numbers. I might have a small number but I try to go for quality with the old heritage breeds and I believe they taste better than factory reared," Jonathan says.

He sells the pork meat at the farmers markets — Cambridge on Saturdays and Grey Lynn, Auckland and Hamilton on Sundays.

The farm has one full-time staff member to help out as Sarah works full-time as a nurse.

For the past five years Jonathan has had passing through young international travellers doing work on the farm.

Jonathan says good morning to some Tamworth pigs

Saddleback coat colouring is quite distinctive

"It's got to be better for the animals than barn farming, because they've got space to move, they can litter naturally, they are in the sunshine rather than on a slattered floor and concrete sty environment," he says.

While some free range sows having a tendency to smother their young by lying on them, Jonathan says it's not a great number and he is willing to accept some losses for the general good of the animals.

Because they forage, free range pigs get a certain amount of sustenance out of the ground. Pigs do this to survive in the wild, but if fed good quality food, and rotation grazed domestically, they don't tend to forage as much, Jonathan says.

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Mr Vernon Suckling, from Ag Tech Industries Ltd in Dargaville, Northland, has won the Golden Standard Award for Innovation at the Mystery Creek Fieldays for his invention.

The device attracted the attention of Prime Minister John Key at Mystery Creek, as well as from innovation scouts from around the world. It is protected by patents.

Mystery Creek Fieldays, Golden Standard Award for Innovation winner,Vernon Suckling discussing his flexible quad-bike roll bar with Prime Minister John Key

A Kiwi businessman and inventor has won world-wide attention with a device to safeguard quad-bike riders from injury or death in rollover accidents

“I took the ATV Lifeguard as we have called it to Mystery Creek because a lot of people go there to look for new ideas,” said Mr Suckling.

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The quad will also stop rolling a lot quicker with the device acting as a shock absorber, reducing bounce and movement — in short preventing more rolls of an upturned quad.

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Farmers of New Zealand operations director, Bill Guest, says the ATV Lifeguard will be “invaluable for farm and recreational safety.” He said that sheer numbers of quads around the world will ensure a market. “There are 60 million quad bikes across the United States alone.”

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One of the most common forms of muscle pain is statin myopathy. This is a collection of muscular symptoms caused by side effects of commonly prescribed cholesterol lowering statin medication. While statins are very effective at lowering cholesterol they can cause muscle problems. Statins work by inhibiting an enzyme (HMG-CoA reductase) and subsequently reducing mevalonate needed to make cholesterol. Unfortunately mevalonate is also needed for the production of CoQ10.

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I recommend everyone on statins take 100mg of high grade CoQ10 to compensate. Interestingly I note an increasing number of doctors including cardiologists who suggest CoQ10 supplementation to counter statin myopathy. I also recommend CoQ10 for people with low energy and especially with any autoimmune or neurodegenerative problems. The one I prefer is a trademarked product that is proven to increase cell CoQ10 levels and includes compounds called tocopherols and carotenoids known to help cholesterol balance. In most cases this can help muscle function by restoring lost CoQ10.

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The statistics reinforce the need for quad bike safety and the work being done to improve this.

At the beginning of this year there was a flurry of media reports about quad bike accidents across the country — in that time there were at least 11 separate incidents involving 13 people — with an even split between those that were work-related on the farm and recreational accidents. The high number of people being injured on quad bikes prompted the Department and ACC to release a statement in January reminding riders of the dangers of not adhering to safety rules. Quad bike-related claims cost ACC approximately $8.6 million last year — with the emotional costs even higher.

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Mike Britton riding a Russian-built Ural motorcycle in northwest Vietnam near the Chinese border

What began as a hobby for motorbike enthusiasts Mike Britton and Angela Bruce has led to the couple building an adventure ride business.

Mike grew up in Auckland and bought his first bike, a Yamaha YZ125E, when he was about 17 and started riding, mainly off-road.

ride in 1991. The event was so enjoyable he decided to run a similar type of ride in the far north.

After their inaugural Far North Adventure Ride in 1992, the couple held the ride annually and began to add further rides in different regions of New Zealand.

They decided to go a step following a trip with friends to Bali in 1998.

“At our suggestion we toured the island by bike and had a ball,” said Angela.

“They suggested we start doing commercial motorbike tours to Bali because they had such a fantastically different holiday.”

In 1999 Mike and Angela ran their first ‘Bali by the Backroads Tour’ with 14 clients.

This proved so popular that clients were asking for more so the couple organised similar trips to Vietnam, Outer Mongolia, Laos, Angkor Wat, and High Andes Bolivia.

For Angela, motorbike riding was a natural progression when her father was one of the earlier farmers to get a farm bike, followed later by her younger brother buying a bike with his first pay cheque.

When the couple moved to the far north in the late 1990s Mike bought a Yamaha TT600 and went to an adventure

“Bali was a really good place for us tostart our overseas tours because we had travelled there extensively,” said Angela.

“We spoke some Indonesian and most importantly had strong connections with some local people that could help us.

“We learnt that attention to detail andgood people are what makes a good tour.”

The couple have established good connections in all the other countries they take tours to and still use their original contacts and crew in all their overseas destinations.

Angela said finding the right people to work with and having some other inside connections make a huge difference to organising adventure rides overseas.

The couple now organise between six — eight rides through New Zealand and up to four overseas rides each year with their business Britton Adventures.

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New Zealand is the only country in the world where specifi c antibodies against specifi c pathogens — (Rotagen Combo) — is a registered animal remedy.

The Rotagen Combo range is based on Globigen, a spray-dried egg yolk powder derived from vaccinated chickens which contains IgY’s specifi c to a particular organism — rotavirus 6 and 10, coronavirus, salmonella, cryptosporidium, and E.coli (K99).

Globigen is made by vaccinating high health status fl ocks against a specifi c pathogen. The hen then passes maternal immunoglobulins from serum to the egg yolk which is collected, then spray-dried, heat-treated and standardized to a determined IgY titre. This is then formulated into a Rotagen combination

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IgY antibodies provide a passive immunity effect in the gut in the same way bovine colostrum would. Studies show that IgY’s successfully pass through the gastro -intestinal tract in an active form and are not altered by the digestive process. Their ability to

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of calf scours caused by cryptosporidium, this is available as a stand-alone product without the addition of rotavirus. This is particularly useful in cases where the herd has been vaccinated for rotavirus, but the farm has a history of cryptosporidium parvum scours in their calves.

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With the payout high and interest low, it’s a really good time to fix the things that are causing some grief around the Dairy.

Before you upgrade to new Milfos cup removers or a Milfos Variable Drive Vacuum System it would be sensible to evaluate things that could impact on your proposed upgrade.

Sparkies generally do a great job, however, we regularly come across wiring of all sorts that has been installed incorrectly.

For instance we see the right cable used on say, a milk pump controller, but still bundled with everything else so it creates interference with the controller and bingo, a slightly crazy controller. Unless you know what to look for it can be a painful process to find as it looks like a faulty controller.

This is important for all sorts of systems from pulsation controllers to cup removers and the more sophisticated the system the more careful you have to be. We recommend keeping data cables as far away from power as possible.

We have all heard about stray voltage, yes it does exist and can cause all sorts of issues, we have found a major source is the cable and terminations between Variable drives and Motors.

There is a lot of documentation supplied with variable drives with regard to the cable to be used and metal glands for terminations etc, these are minimums and a good Sparky will follow manufacturer’s recommendations or better. If in doubt get it checked.

Don’t forget the effluent or water pump, same deal, and move the electric fence unit to the implement shed, they can be an interference nasty in the dairy.

For sensible advice on Upgrades, find your local Milfos dealer or Area Sales Manager at www.milfos.com.

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It was fantastic to see many of our clients and to meet so many others interested in our products. Thanks for your company and enthusiasm, it made our Fieldays special.

After a long and often contentious eight year wait, the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme finally arrived on July 1st 2012 for cattle (with deer to follow in March).

The benefits to the industry are well reported, with birth to processing traceability, and the ability to react quickly to biosecurity threats if they arise.

The Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) eartags are the key to the system, with a range of around a metre, depending on tag brand and model.

The RFID ear tag technology does one thing and that is to individually identify an animal. In this respect it

can also be used for a number of other things.

RFID is an integral part of herd management and is used in many ways around the milking parlour. Automatic drafting is quite common, as is in bail animal ID on rotary milking machines (which can be linked to milk data and feeding decisions), and walk over weighing just to name a few.

What is an initial expense in the tags can lead to savings over time with easy automatic drafting during mating or improvements in herd information such as weight or in bail data like yield, fat, protein, lactose, and mastitis detection. There are a lot of options to choose from.

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Fieldays 2012 was a resounding success. There were people from all over New Zealand and around the world, and visitor numbers were high.

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The masses certainly think so — 128,271 visitors walked through the gates from June 13-16. That’s a 9% improvement on 2011 figures, with the last day — often dubbed ‘townie day’ by exhibitors and farming regulars — reporting an impressive 40% jump in attendance on Saturday last year.

They were there to see over 1,000 exhibitors — ranging from industry groups, to companies selling large machinery and sheds to clothing retailers.

Whakatane-based Wilco Klein-Ovink — also a regular feature at South Island Fieldays — says the national event makes up a big proportion of their annual revenue.

“We also find by having stuff on site here, people will come, will look and then months down the track they’ll come back and make a purchase. People do like to kick tyres. Yes, they can see it on the website, but there’s still that ‘touchy-

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“To be quite frank, if we didn’t come, we’d be shooting ourselves in the foot.” This sentiment from exhibitor, The Wrangler’s Wilco Klein-Ovink, has been echoed around National Agricultural Fieldays 2012. Put quite simply, for four days in the middle of every year, Mystery Creek on the outskirts of Hamilton is the place to be

feely’ thing where they like to actually see it working.”

His wife Waverley describes the spending mood this year as positive.

“There have been a lot of people who’ve read articles or heard about us before the event, and they’ve come in to see it in person, or have seen it at other shows and are finally coming in to order.”

Wilco agrees things are looking up. “It’s definitely not as good as before the 2008 financial crisis, but there’s been a very good feel. Farmers are still very cautious. I believe, they know there’s going to be a drop in the dairy pay-out from what they had last year, but they’re still quite interested.”

The shift in the global economy is just part of the idea of this year’s premiere feature, which sets the theme for the event — The Changing Face of Farming.

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For Society President, Lloyd Downing, it’s all about the technology — and he admits he can’t always keep up. “The mind boggles with the technology, cows do actually milk themselves and we have a number of robotic milking systems on display. The innovation in new milking machines, farm mapping and fertiliser software is unbelievable.”

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Home fare pays dividends in New Zealandby Annette Lambly-Robinson

When former royal navy engineer Neil Macarthur, his wife Melanie and their four children emigrated from Cornwall seven years ago they never dreamed they would be making and selling their homeland’s famous baked fare — Cornish pasties.

Four years ago finding the cost of living in New Zealand expensive the couple were keen to earn some extra money and like all good ideas the concept was born over a few drinks with a group of friends.

“We liked the thought of incorporating our own heritage origins and culture into what was then a fledgling business,” said Melanie.

After trialling and perfecting the pastry and two flavours — a traditional steak and vegetarian cheese and onion — they set up a small commercial kitchen in a purpose-built garage in their back yard.

“We took 77 pasties to our first market in Cambridge and within 45 minutes had sold out,” laughs Melanie. “The following week we increased the number and once again sold out — from there things just snowballed.

Word of mouth and a good reputation has seen the business flourish — so much so Neil has resigned from his engineering job and the couple, having outgrown the garage kitchen, have purchased a bakery with an attached small shop frontage so customers no longer have to wait for the weekend markets to buy the Cornish wares.

It’s easy to spot with its flags and bus blinds featuring Cornish towns which lend themselves as great conversation starters.

They love the customer contact and are surprised how many people in New Zealand have Cornish origins or OE experiences to share — all keen to relive the memories with the state of Cornwall and plenty of banter.

The Cornish pasty traditionally met the needs of tin-mining

workers — once a very important industry in Cornwall.The hearty meal of meat and

vegetables wrapped in a pasty casing was a very practical lunch down in the dark and damp tunnels of the mine.

Some mines even had ovens to keep the pasties hot until it

was time to eat.The uncooked ingredients are prepared and wrapped in the

pastry for a long slow cooking. Early pasties had jam or even fruit at one end so the miner could have dessert as well.

“It’s makes me happy to think I’m keeping and sharing my origins, while living in our adopted country we now call home,” said Melanie.

They make and bake around 1,000 pasties except during the week around the National Agricultural Fieldays when this is stepped up to around 3 — 4,000.

Ingredients are all sourced locally with the exception of the two pastries (quantity demand has seen this contracted to a Tauranga Bakery). Nowadays they sell six flavours with a special turkey and cranberry pasty made at Christmas.

The intention is to expand their licence to allow them to supply commercial premises and even exporting. Plans are also afoot to import Cornish clotted cream.

“We’d like to have a little Cornish Shop selling traditional goods such as saffron cakes and buns, lardy cake, cider cakes, Eccles cakes and other bakery delights.”

There are also opportunities to expand the pastry business, but for now the family are content to take small steps at a time.

Melanie says while the work can be tiring it’s a happy place to work and allows time to be enjoyed with the children.

“Even if we do smell badly (from onions and spices) at the end of the day,” she laughs.

The Macarthur family enjoy the market life

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