Manawatu Farming Lifestyles, January 2016

Texels and tourism

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Safer Farms campaign launched

Safer Farms campaign gives farmers clear access to health and safety facts

Wo r k S a f e N e w Zealand’s new Safer Farms campaign endeavours to dispel health and safety misconceptions in the farming community and the role of its organisation.

The myth-busting series takes aim at the top ten tall tales doing the rounds about improving health and safety on New Zealand farms.

Worksafe agricultural programme manager Al McCone said the aim is to cut through the confusion so farmers can get the facts.

“We’ve been talking to farmers and listening to their feedback about what they’re hearing about health and safety, such as banning quadbikes, banishing kids from the farm, and mountains of new paperwork.

“The good news is none of that is true,” he said.

“With the myth-busting series, we have sorted the fact from fiction so farmers can be clear about what they need to do to keep themselves, their families and workers, healthy and safe.”

The series, which can be viewed at www.saferfarms.org.nz, provides strategies for making a farm safety plan, guides covering key points and information on a variety of topics, as well as identification of common hazards and suggestions on managing these. WorkSafe health and safety news is available and a resource section contains templates and information sheets. A list of some of the most commonly-asked

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health and safety questions offers quick-find answers with the opportunity to post additional questions.

Mr McCone said many farmers are surprised to hear that the claims they’ve heard are in fact untrue.

“The launch of our farming health and safety campaign, Safer Farms, has sparked some vigorous debate but busting these myths will go a long way to putting some of the rumours to rest so farmers can concentrate on making farms safe and healthy places to work and live.”

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Manawatu to host New Zealand Ploughing ChampsPreparations are well underway for this year’s New Zealand Ploughing Championships to be held in the Manawatu from April 16-17.

Hosted by the Manawatu Ploughing Match Association, the championships will cover four different classes: conventional; reversible; vintage and horse ploughing.

Thirty-three competitors, from as far as the southern tip of the South Island and north to Waikato, are expected to take part in the event. Six competitors have entered in the horse-drawn ploughing class.

An action-packed week is planned for competitors in the lead-up to the championships with two days of practise, a day tour around the Manawatu, a trophy-rededication service and a mayoral reception. This will be followed by the two days of competition with the first day ploughing on stubble and the second day on grass.

Winners of the conventional and reversible classes will represent New Zealand at the World Final in Kenya next year.

The vintage class winner and runner-up will receive an invitation to travel to England in September this year to compete in the first World Vintage Ploughing Championships.

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Ploughing Championships. The New Zealand Ploughing Championships are only held in the North Island every four years. This competition was last hosted by the Manawatu Ploughing Match Association more than 20 years ago. Plenty of entertainment is lined up for spectators with a tractor-pull competition, displays of vintage machinery and military vehicles, craft stalls, and a bouncy castle for children.


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grandparents emigrated from Poland in the 1880s and the family has lived in the area for four generations. Steve and Mary were the third generation to farm sheep on the family’s 1,000 acre property.

The couple raised their three sons, Hamish, Pete and Dave on the farm. All of the boys showed an interest in pursuing agriculture as a career when they finished secondary school. To

further their knowledge, two of them took up farm cadetships at Smedley Station and Dave attended Taratahi Agricultural Training School. Hamish and Dave worked together at Mount Linton Station in Southland. Hamish now runs an equity farm at Clinton near Balclutha and Dave has taken up the position as general manager at Craigmore Station near Timaru. Pete is a licenced builder, working in Christchurch. Over a period of time, Steve and Mary decided to switch to a sheep breed that was more suited to filling consumer requirements.

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They thoroughly researched Texels and decided this breed ticked all the boxes.

“We were consumer orientated and we went into Texels boots and all,” said Steve.

Originating from Texel Island, near Holland, Texels have become the leading dual-purpose sheep breed in Europe. The breed was first imported into New Zealand about 1985, and after release from quarantine five years later, was introduced to the farming community.

The Bielski’s first Texel-cross lambs were born on their high-country farm in spring 1992, following a cold winter with heavy snowfalls. Steve and Mary were amazed how quickly the lambs got onto their feet despite the freezing conditions, and how well they performed. Texel wool is white and bulky, and tends to spring back when squashed. It has proven ideal for use in top-quality carpet and also for Asia’s futon market. Steve said the meat, which is lean, tender and


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“They are a very muscular sheep with big hindquarters.”

Texel lamb has consistently placed in the New Zealand Golden Lamb Awards, also known as the Glammies.

“They are a fantastic breed of sheep,” he said.

The Bielski’s previously marketed their lamb under the label Highland Texel Lamb.

Lambs were sent to an abattoir in Wanganui, the meat was then processed by a Marton butchery before being couriered, along with recipes, to the consumer’s door.

“When the butcher retired, that was the end of that,” said Steve.

In 2007, Steve and Mary sold the farm, retaining 35 acres to continue with a smaller flock of Texels. They now sell stud rams and ram hoggets to mainstream farmers and lifestyle block owners.

Steve’s Texel Society membership helps to keep him up-to-date with the farming scene.

Concentrating on a smaller flock of Texels has enabled the couple to also focus on promoting tourism in the northern Manawatu, including Rangiwahia and Apiti. The completion of the sealing of Main South Road in 2014

has opened up the area for visitors as well as sustainability and opportunities for tourist-based industries. Regional tourism organisation Destination Manawatu has been actively involved in promoting the area as part of Manawatu’s ‘The Country Road’.

“There are unique tourist assets in the area, which now have every opportunity to increase in numbers, with the user-friendly roading network,” said Steve.

“The scenery and the landscape with the backdrop of the Ruahines is stunning.”

The stretch of road from Mangaweka, via Main South Road, to Ashhurst is now referred to as ‘The Manawatu Scenic Route’. It is officially recognised as a tourist route by the New Zealand Transport Agency and the Automobile Association of New Zealand.

As a volunteer for the Department of Conservation (DOC), Steve has helped create tramping tracks in the Iron Gates area as part of ‘The Country Road’. Mary works as a practice nurse in Feilding but in her spare time she has also helped promote the area. With the assistance of Destination Manawatu’s leisure marketing manager Janet Reynolds, a website has been created for the Iron Gates area www.irongates.co.nz. Steve’s interest in community affairs led to his election as a Manawatu district councillor for the Northern Rural Ward, providing a rural voice.

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R E Harrison established Harrisons Nurseries when he began selling plants as a teenager in the

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Michael’s son, John, grew up in the family business and is current the owner of Fiesta Bulbs.

Fiesta Bulbs is a wholesale-selling business, supplying up to 500 different bulb varieties across a mixture of ranges to retailers throughout New Zealand. The business is also involved in exporting and importing. John said there is massive infrastructure and planning behind every bulb to make it work.

“Every single variety has to be handled differently from lifting, grading, curing and packaging.

“We are still learning — I don’t think it will ever stop.”

As with all nursery operations, there are set tasks that need to be completed which are specific to the lines produced. These tasks change with the seasons and can influence the workload considerably.

The number of employees varies depending on the seasons, but generally ranges between 15–20. During busier periods this number is boosted up to 40.

“It can be a labour-intensive business so we have to watch the costs very closely,” said John.

“When the bulb is in the ground it costs the least amount of money. As soon as you lift it, it demands attention and that comes at a cost and a risk.”

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With more than 80 years in the same location, the family and team at Fiesta Bulbs have learnt about the benefits and challenges of the land and climate through experience. The weather is the most challenging aspect.

“It is not easy to overcome and you have no power over it, and of course it can be changeable,” said John.

“Mostly we just toughen up and go do it. However you do need to plan for different scenarios where the weather can have an impact and this also depends on what varieties we are growing.”Fiesta Bulbs has supplied daffodils for the Cancer Society’s annual Daffodil Day since the inception of this fundraising and awareness event.

“My father came home from work one day when I was a young lad, and mentioned that there was a new promotion coming to New Zealand in support of cancer, and the main icon was the daffodil.”

He recalls an extra flurry of activity with early morning activities and late night runs for close to three weeks in the lead-up to the event. John also remembers the challenges it created.

“A quarter of a century on and that challenge is sitting on the next generation’s shoulders and I have to report that the stress levels and workload are not any less. However, it is not a bad thing and as we are all aware it is for a good cause. The team at Fiesta Bulbs put in more than 12

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Fiesta Bulbs plans to maintain their involvement with Daffodil Day fundraising, and to continue delivering their best products to customers.

There are also plans to develop new products to give New Zealand gardeners more options for their gardens.

“We enjoy producing a good quality, value for money product that people get pleasure from,” said John.

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months of meticulous planning and hard work nurturing daffodils for each Daffodil Day. During Daffodil Day week the business offers a range of fresh daffodils with a portion of sales donated to the Cancer Society. John recently handed over a cheque to The Cancer Society of New Zealand’s Palmerston North representative for a donation of $25,647.

Typically on Daffodil Day week, the Fiesta Bulbs team pick, process, pack and transport around 60,000 bunches.

“That’s 600,000 stems, 600,000 times bending over and picking each stem, attaching 60,000 rubber bands, preparing stacks of cartons, involving plenty of early starts and late nights,” said John.

“To us, it is absolutely worth it and is nothing compared to what many cancer sufferers are going through every day. For us, our motto each year is ‘let’s get stuck in and make it happen’.”

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Keeping carbon in the ground, not in the airThe environmental debate around intensive pastoral farming and fresh water quality is gaining momentum, and people are rapidly taking positions, with the ‘don’t blame me’ lobby seemingly gathering popularity.

Two things worth bearing in mind are, that a supply of clean fresh drinking water for both humans and animals now and into the future is non-negotiable in this country. Nothing less is acceptable — and rightly so.

Secondly, everyone wins when we finally reach that situation. No-one is ultimately disadvantaged by a sustainable environment, although in the short term some may have to change their practises, which may involve extra initial cost.

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were probably no more than an old steel container sunk in the ground, are no longer fully effective or acceptable, and the cost of alternatives is considerable.

A 30km direct pipeline to the urban treatment plant was found to be both expensive and culturally insensitive. After consultation, the communities here have agreed to take responsibility for their own waste via local treatment plants using bacterial processes — essentially sophisticated versions of the old septic tank.

When it comes to water nearly every drop of water in our lakes, rivers, and aquifers has travelled through or over the land surface. Soil is the ultimate filter, and when water is able to permeate it and steadily percolate downwards, a cleansing process takes place. And it’s carbon that has the lead role in this.

As a country we’re a net carbon emitter, which no amount of cheap carbon credits will change. The solution, however, is simple as it’s under permanent grazed pasture that carbon is most rapidly sequestered.

Intensive pastoral farming, seen by most as the greatest emitter, is actually potentially the carbon saviour, with one proviso. The use of nitrogen fertiliser must be limited, as excess nitrogen limits the speed at which carbon stocks

can be built. At present 600,000 tonnes of urea per year are applied to our pastures, with conservatively 500,000 tonnes applied to intensive dairy land, which equates on average to 135kgN/ha. With an increasing number of farmers using less, there are obviously a significant number using more than that amount.

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ill-health intervention. The transition to a long-term plentiful permanent pasture discipline, based on actively N-fixing clover and grasses by using alternative non-urea fertiliser, can be achieved amazingly rapidly, with no interim loss in production.

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When I started doing my trimming I had to explain what I was doing and it turned out to be quite different from the way that they did it.

This made me wonder how many people out there actually understand preventative hoof trimming and what its benefits are. Preventative hoof trimming is not cutting out white line cracks and any other issues that you may find in a claw. If anything, you will probably make things worse for the cow if that is all you do.

If all lameness issues are caused by physical damage then it would make sense to cut out any deformities, but the problem starts on the inside of the claw, in the live tissue, not the outside.

If the live tissue (corium) is unhealthy, then preventative hoof trimming will not heal it.

But with preventative hoof trimming we can reduce the stresses on that corium enabling it to heal quicker. The ideal is to have both claws on the one foot carrying the same amount of weight. If one claw is bigger (usually the outer one) it will carry more weight.

This, in itself, is not necessarily a problem as most cows have a bigger outer claw than the inner one, but not all cows go lame.

Most cows have laminitis as well but not all cows are lame because of that either, depending on how severe the laminitis is. A cow that has laminitis has all claws affected.

If the outer claw is bigger and therefore carrying a greater proportion of the weight the corium is under more stress in that claw compared to the

inner claw — this is why most cows are lame on the outer claw.

So, the first step that any preventative hoof trimming should entail is paring away the sole on the outer claw. This will reduce the weight and the stress on the live tissue in that claw.

If we trim a cow that has a white line issue and we open it up, exposing the corium without taking the sole down, then there is a good chance that the corium will prolapse because that claw is still carrying too much weight. This obviously creates more problems for the cow than benefitting her.

I know it sounds simple and straightforward but it takes skill to achieve that balance. Both claws need to be level and flat, but on the other hand they are not allowed to get too thin either. That is why it takes more advanced training and time to become

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Lyn and her partner Steve currently have 84 coloured sheep, which includes last year’s lambs, on

their four hectare Aokautere property near Palmerston North. The couple also lease an additional four hectares to graze their sheep and a few cattle on.

Through trial and error, it’s taken Lyn several years to build a flock that ticks all the boxes. She said in hindsight their initial purchase of Romneys were a poor mixture with strong, harsh wool and inbreeding.

“We chucked in some Merino types and Polwarth — that didn’t work terribly well either.”

Joining the Manawatu branch of the Black and Coloured Sheep Association of New Zealand (BCSBA) helped Lyn to further her knowledge.

“I learnt by going to field days and talking to members how to breed good sheep with a good fleece.

“From then on with the use of superior Romney rams and with much culling, I now have, after 20 years, a nice flock of Romney and Romney-Corriedale sheep — well so I am told.”

The couple are due to cull some of the older ewes and replace with a few of the hoggets. It’s not a task she looks forward to.

A 21st birthday gift of a spinning wheel, along with an introduction to her mother-in-law’s fl ock of coloured sheep, sparked Lyn Watson’s interest in breeding a fl ock of her own. However, it was close to 20 years later before she was in a position to do so.

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“I don’t have the space to keep those interesting ‘what ifs’,” she said.

“I will keep 10–12 lambs, some to take through to hoggets and some for meat during the year, as we will only carry through 30 breeding ewes, three rams, the ewe lambs, and those for meat.”

Working out the breeding plan each year and seeing the surprise colour variations during lambing season are particular highlights. Her flock is made up of an assortment of black, black/brown, brown, dark grey, light grey, and spotted sheep.

Since taking over the property, the couple have referenced it into smaller paddocks to facilitate more efficient grazing. The flock can also be split up as suits during the breeding season.

Steve and Lyn planted poplars and various other trees to provide shade for the flock during the summer. A wetland and regenerated bush area is fenced off and has been placed under a QEII covenant.

One end of an old hayshed on the property has been converted for sheep shearing and wool sorting.

“We have a shearing plant but we have a shearer come in,” said Lyn.

Steve takes care of all the dagging and clean-ups throughout the year. Lyn said many people are surprised that coloured fleece wool does not fetch a great price.

“Unless you can find a specialised purchaser or you are prepared to do value-added things to it.

“I use some of it — card it, spin it, knit it, felt it or weave it as time permits.”

Larger amounts of fleece are sent out to be commercially carded. Lyn also takes the excess fleece to a BSCBA members’ baling day which is organised by the Wairarapa branch. Formed in 1976, the BSCBA has 12 branches throughout New Zealand. Lyn is currently the secretary and treasurer for the Manawatu branch.

“It brings together like-minded people from small block owners to large commercial flocks, and others involved in the owning, breeding, showing of coloured sheep, and production of natural coloured wool and products.

“Some members do not own sheep but have an interest in the natural coloured wool.”

A registered purebred section of the BSCBA aims to produce and record the breeding of sheep displaying the best characteristics of each breed.

Romneys and Romney-Corriedales form Lyn’s fl ock Lyn’s fl ock produces a variety of fl eece colour variations

“At branch level, we hold field days, do displays and exhibitions promoting our association, and have a branch newsletter.”

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It’s been sixty years since Yamaha’s ‘red dragonfly’ — a 125cc copy of a post-war German DKW street bike — hit the road. In that time the Japanese company have gone from strength to strength, earning a reputation for speed, power and precision engineering on both tarmac and dirt.

Founded in the 1800s as a producer of pianos, Torakusu Yamaha’s company diversified into other areas early on, amassing engineering and metalworking knowledge.

Building finely tuned instruments crossed over nicely into building finely tuned bikes, and down the decades there have been some big wins for the

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To commemorate those years of podium spots and constant technical advancements, Yamaha have gone back to their roots this year, offering up a range of brand new bikes in their old racing livery.

Famously decked out in blue these days, the Yamaha colours were once a combo of yellow and black, and they have returned to this palette with the special 60th anniversary edition 2016 YZ250F.

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Cleverly, Toyota have not tried to wrest the crown from Ford by a battle of similarities. Instead they have sharpened up the previous Hilux, and played to the brand’s well publicised strengths. This is not the Rolling Stones playing dubstep, then. It’s old fashioned rock ’n’ roll, re-upped for 2016.

The Hilux has always been known for its unbreakable, go-anywhere nature — a real bonus on the backblocks. So the gen-8 turns up the Hilux recipe past ten, with a beefed up chassis and platform under a bigger, more menacingly styled body. So its rivals can tow 3.5 tons? No problem — now, so can the 2.8 litre turbo-diesel Toyota.

Here, too, you’ll find a stark contrast with the frankly agricultural handling of ancient utes — the Hilux plays the ‘sedan-like road manners’ game with the best of them.

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Back ta werk? Nah......Well readas, hear we are in 2016,

an’ orl back to werk. Me an’ Boss have bin with kontracters doing sum silage ona farm. Boss has also bin chortlin’ away about the front paddick wot he planted in maize. He reckins we got a millyin dollar rain so we shood have a grate crop.

“All in all, Dog,” he sed, “the New Yeer got off ta a good start.”

Mine you readas, ya shooda bin hear for New Yeers Eve!

Boss an’ Sharlene hada big nees up inna woollshed. They had their mates over for a barby an’ drinkies. Well, they was dancin’ an’ singin’ an’ than at midnite, that Gazza set offa firewerks. Not only did that skare tha helloutame, but he set fire to a hay bale. Boss hadda pour beer froma keg all over Gazza before he got burned too.

Then his mate Pete tripped over wile he was dancin’ wiv Plumbas gerlfrend, an’ knocked over tha drinks table. Broken bottils everwhere. But Bob tha golfer went to the clubhouse an’ got sum more.

Orl rite for Boss an’ them, but a borda colly needs his rest. I was up orl night eh?

Any way, as I sed, Boss was chortlin’ away about crops as Recks an’ Cracka, tha kontractors, were packin’ up an headin’for the pub when Sharlene called us in fer smoko. She hada papa froma kattil stop atta road gate, an’ tole Boss not ta get to ixited. “Look here deah,” she sed.

“They reckin the stock markit in fer a but of a fall, ‘cos China mite be fudgin’ tha books. (I wasint sure wot that ment, but Boss sat down an’ pickt up the papa.)

“Bit of a wurry,” he sed. “Hear we are with a good crop of maize, plenty of feed stored away, hada darn good lambing last year, beef prices okay, an’ now we gotta wurry about stock markits.”

Well readas, I thort stock markits were held over atta Matakohe saleyards. But Boss sed it was orl about munny` goin’ round tha world. “Ya see Dog, if China sneezis, we mite getta cold, or even the floo.”

Well, I mite tell yer, this was soundin’ a bit sad after a beaut New Yeer party, anna good crop, an’ lots silage. But then Sharlene hada grate ideea.

“Its too soon ta wurry about all this,” she sed. “We still got a coupla months of beaut summer to go.

I reckin we shud hitch the boat ona ute, pack up tha tent, an’ go to Poto. Lots peeple gone back ta werk now, so plenty of campin’ space. They got sum good fish ata Tinerpy fishin’ contest, so we shud git some good feeds of snappa. An’ Dog kin chase sticks an’ seegulls instead of lookin’afta kattil beests an’ sheep.”

Well I tell yer readas — yer neva saw me an Boss move so fast.

“Yep Dog,” he sed. “Let tha blimmin werld go by itself for a wile. Summertime, an’ tha livin’ is easy eh?

That’s my Boss! Happy New Yeer readas!

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