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“An estimated 25,000 people came through the gates with Saturday being the busiest and many people told me it had been a great family day out.

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on Whanganui River, in the bush. With his father passing away when he was 16, he always envisioned going back to run the farm one day but this was not a viable option.

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“Having a variety of stock helps the pasture as each animal cleans up after the other in the paddocks, for example the cattle clean up the sheep worms on the ground, the different animals also provide a diversity of income and with the size of the land we own, we are able to utilise it all to the best use.”

“The goal is for the whole property to be successful, and we identify the areas of land that are not economic and high cost due to gorse and erosion or other factors and in those areas we plant pine trees, putting the land to the best use possible.”

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“I enjoy being involved in this role as the people are really down to earth and we have common goals. We get to give back to agriculture and are like-minded — the farmers are really smart and it is satisfying knowing you are making a difference.”

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great experience.”Mr Kidd received a pounamu trophy and is enjoying his $70,000 worth of prizes, including a new Honda motorbike, farm equipment from Husqvarna, communications gear from Vodafone and $10,000 in cash from the ANZ Bank.

Despite being named the country’s best young farmer, Mr Kidd says there is still a lot to learn. “I consider myself to be on a learning curve. I don’t know everything.”

In the future David says he and Janine want to buy their own farm. He has no regrets about getting out of the office and onto the land.

“There’s never been a day on the farm where I thought I’d rather be in an office.”

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It was a good result.” On the first day of the final Mr Kidd and the other finalists did interviews and exams covering topics such as financial management and human resources. The second day had a more practical bent.

“I had to do some ploughing — I had never done any of that in my life before. There was also fencing, driving machinery, installing an irrigation system, welding, and animal health tasks.”

In the evening, the contestants all had to deliver a speech to sponsors and guests and take part in a quick-fire quiz on farming knowledge.

“It was a good competion and I met some interesting people. I was absolutely thrilled to win,” says Mr Kidd. “It was a neat challenge and a

competition and was runner-up for the Northland region.

Last year, he won the Northland competition and became one of seven qualifiers for July’s national final in Christchurch. “A few things went my way.

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watching their progress. It could be that they start off being led, with the aim of walking around the arena on their own. They all usually reach their goals.”

Whangarei RDA office manager Sue Neilson says her job makes her look at her own life.

“You see what the families of our clients have to go through and it makes you appreciate what you have.

“Last year we had two kids who were told they would never sit up, walk or

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Riding for the Disabled officially started in New Zealand in 1972, founded by the president of the New Zealand Pony Club Association, Tom Atchison. In the following eights years numerous other RDA’s were founded.

The Whangarei branch began in Whau Valley and has since moved to Tikipunga and now Barge park. It is just one of 56

RDA groups around New Zealand and provides therapy to over 3,200 riders.

As RDA is a non-government organisation, it’s existence relies on

the support of the community and volunteers to keep it running.

For more information visit www.rda.org.nz.

A rider’s body exerts and relaxes it’s muscles duringthe ride, providing gentle exercise. Volunteers enjoy helping a young client at Barge Park in Whangarei.


Soil Awareness at ForefrontAfter two years of intensive work, 2015 has been declared The International Year of Soils by the 68th United Nations General Assembly.

Soil and water are the two most important ingredients for all life on our planet and without them life would not exist. As a soil fanatic, it is gratifying that soil is recognised, as it has spent many years below the scene, as dirt, with very little recognition of its powerful ability to look after and support all life on our planet. Farming would not exist without it.

As a commercial grower I used to think that dirt was just a medium to stand the plant in. The supposedly real deal was the synthetic NPK fertiliser to boost plant growth, and it did. However the synthetic nature and solubility of these types of fertiliser has over the years demineralised our soils down to dirt, taking the essential life out of the soil.

The perpetrator of the NPK balance sheet theory, Justus Von Liebig made the observation that plant

growth yields were in exact proportions to the minerals removed from the soil. Incorrect, if this was accepted as fact, how can we explain nature’s ability to achieve growth when chemical fertilisers are not added; such as the planets natural forests, jungles, savannahs and the likes of the Serengeti plains, the oldest self sustaining farm on the planet.

If this NPK theory is relevant, the problem of soil degradation would not be an issue today. Von Liebig’s theory has no foundation in nature fertility as it leaves out the biological cycle of life in the soil. In the United States Department of Agriculture, year book 1957, Von Liebig’s NPK theory was discounted as having no basis in the overall picture of soil fertility or management. Liebig, himself denounced the balance sheet theory before his death. Amazingly, this unscienti� c theory

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The soil is a living entity containing such diverse micro-organism, that today, the study of these organisms is one of the most complicated (and misunderstood) sciences. Of all micro-organisms bacteria make up the greatest number in the society of the soil. They are diverse in species and perform many different functions in the fertility cycle. Some are involved in � xation of nitrogen, both from the air and from the breakdown of organic matter. They control the nitrogen, carbon, sulphur and iron cycles in the soil. Bacteria are predominant in the creation of enzymes and the breakdown of mineral elements into available plant nutrients.

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A keen fisher, Debbie Bunns has been organising the Houhora One Base Game Fishing Tournament for the best part of ten years. The tournament will be held from 7am March 18 to March 21 finishing at 4pm.

Debbie and her co-organiser Lisa Lilly say it is the location of the competition that sets it apart from other game fishing contests.

“The stunning location is a major drawcard for people coming to our tournament. Anyone can enter as long as they are members of a fishing club affiliated with the New Zealand Sports

Fishing Council. The competitors can launch from either west or east coast from Hokianga to Whangaroa. Boats can stay away two nights giving anglers the opportunity to fish the Three Kings area.” says Debbie.

“The most rewarding aspect is seeing everybody having a great time. We have a good team of volunteers helping

Donna Pascoe and crew of the ‘Gladiator’ with their world record tuna, caught 2014

us during the four day event to make that possible.

“The event creates quite an influx of people into the community which is great for business up here. We have people coming from Taranaki, Tauranga, Waikato, anywhere from the middle of the North Island up and from Australia.

“We have got some great prizes this year including a $10,000 prize for the heaviest striped marlin, Simrad NSS9 pack including transducer valued at $3,500 for heaviest billfish and $1,000 for the heaviest snapper.”

Organisers are also tempting competitors with a lucky draw for a trip to Rarotonga for six nights, sponsored by Edgewater Resort and the Flight Centre in Kaitaia.

“We catch some very good sized billfish and tuna in this area,” Debbie says. “The biggest striped marlin we’ve

had during the tournament was 164.6 kilograms, the biggest blue marlin 456.8 kilograms.

“The tournament has been running for 21 years and last year we had around 260 people even though the weather was atrocious.”

The club rooms offer a two-lane concrete boat ramp with the benefit of no bar crossing at the harbour entrance.

Petrol and diesel will be available 24/7 along with lots of accommodation, food outlets, and the club is arranging a courtesy shuttle each night.

Other prizes including tag and release billfish and shark, tuna and kingfish are also up for grabs along with some very good lucky angler draws.

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Meanwhile export markets offer up some gains amidst a market segment displaying all the hallmarks of having the speed wobbles.

Last month I suggested CIF settlements in China would soften US$5 per cubic metre and, unfortunately, I was right. However, the price drop has been more than matched with shipping cost reductions and a weakening Kiwi dollar against the Green Back. The bottom line ‘at wharf gate NZ’ has been a net increase in wharf gate prices in February.

The cloud on this otherwise superficially glowing horizon, is the potential for further CIF settlement declines. Some commentators are suggesting there could be a further US$5 to $10 per cubic metre drop in March and April settlements with the market indicator A grade at US$115–$120 per cubic metre being the talk of the town. This is against February settlements at around US$125.

At the reduced levels and an expected firming in shipping costs, March prices at wharf gate New Zealand would not be what we wanted to hear.

The big question mark is will the declining interest in the NZ dollar and a resurgent interest in the US dollar off-set some otherwise sobering news. Time will tell.

In China the cause of our focus on prices is an economy which continues to maintain a negative sentiment even in the face of central Government policies which have relaxed credit conditions for new home buyers.

In China a new home is a 60 to 300 square metre apartment depending on where you sit in the wealth stakes. Apartment construction is very much at the forefront of the key drivers in the Chinese economy.

Across most Chinese cities the 15 to 30 storey apartment block has a 60% chance of having been built with concrete that has been held in place until it dried with NZ Radiata pine in the form of boxing lumber or plywood. In short the NZ Forest Grower very much relies on a Chinese consumer agreeing to the purchase of a new apartment, and at present they are doing so in much

less numbers than is good for them or us.

Constrained credit lines are a factor but it is more likely an exit of the capital gains seen in recent years has removed the speculation element from the market. House prices are continuing to fall although recent comment suggests this is likely to be in a bottoming out phase at present.

The mood then is one of overall negative sentiment. In recent months there has been a significant increase in volumes of log and lumber being imported from Russia. A resurgent volume of lumber out of Chile and utilisation of what was a huge stockpile of Douglas fir and Hemlock logs out of PNW add to the mix of competition for NZ Radiata pine logs.

Add to the mix a cessation of practically all construction activity for Chinese New year (a two week holiday starting 18 February) and we have a recipe for all that may not be good in April and May.

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There are 27 branches with nearly 2,000 members throughout New Zealand and about 200 are expected for five days of information and field days in Whangarei.

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They’re the biggest auto maker you may never have heard of — with a combined output measured in the hundreds of thousands of vehicles.

From the successor to the Willys jeep through to aircraft and mighty military transports and tractors, Mahindra are a force to be reckoned with.

Mahindra’s Pik-up is relatively new to these shores, and the fully kitted out version we were given to test drive — complete with bull bars, a double cab and a timber-and-steel deck — looks as different from its competitors in the utility sector as the outgoing Land Rover Defender did from a RAV4. If the term ‘military’ comes to mind, that’s no mistake — the Indian army, one of the world’s biggest forces, looks to Mahindra for transport. The other word which comes to mind is ‘spacious’, as the interior boasts enough room for a whole burly crew, with ample legroom and headroom for those in the back seats. Even behind a double cab, the back deck is the size you’d find on some single-cab utes, and looking at the single cab variant wellside, one can tell that these machines are made to indulge heavy, bulky loads.

That means a ton on the back, four passengers, two and half tons towing capacity — and the ability to take that load anywhere.

Our test track for the Pik-up was not a parking lot (though it did slide neatly into a supermarket parking space).

Not even a country gravel road. No — the Mahindra’s minders insisted we take their new ute properly off road — which meant visiting a range of coastal sandstone cliffs, rolling, rutted paddocks and steep hills.

On street tyres, in second gear, the Pik-up handled terrain which would have been a television commercial for certain of its rivals. It did it all with a sense of mechanically engineered acuity — the nicely balanced click and slide of a rifle bolt.

Under that tough exterior, Mahindra’s 2.2 litre turbo diesel packs parts by Bosch, and the kind of variable geometry turbocharger pioneered by the Porsche 911. Eaton supply a clever automatic differential locking system. The five-speed manual box recalls certain great off-road utes we could name, but shouldn’t. It all comes together to create a balanced and functional whole.Read the paper online

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Wool market reboundsAfter a rather disappointing start to the 2015 calendar year with large volumes of crossbred fleece wool being passed in from the auctioneer’s rostrum at the first January auction, the wool market rebounded in late January with further improvement experienced in February, due to renewed interest from the exporting trade as new orders began to filter through from overseas mills.

During late January and through until time of writing in mid-February, a substantial volume of lamb’s wool was offered via the auction system with prices extremely buoyant compared to earlier predictions.

Crossbred fleece prices (both full length and early-shorn types) regained most of their lost ground to reach levels around 520 cents per clean kilogram by February 12.

Buyer interest in second-shear types remained fully firm with prices for these wools reaching levels just off the pace of full length fleece at around 495 to 500 cents per clean kilogram. Crossbred lamb’s wool was, as usual at this time of the year, a feature at each auction

during February and buyers were keen to bid on all lamb’s wool but with particular interest in those measuring finer than 30 microns.

Those measuring 27.5 microns reached levels just above the 700 cents per clean kilogram mark, whilst 28.5 to 29 micron types received approximately 690 cents, and 29.5 micron approximately 680 cents. Coarser crossbred lamb’s wool in the 30 to 31 micron ranges also sold extremely well reaching 655 and 630 cents per clean kilogram respectively.

Halbred and Corriedale wool types continued to draw very good support from the exporting trade and were keenly bid for.

Any lines of similarly bred lamb’s wool were extremely well sought after.

Limited Merino wool types were offered during the early February period however those offered generally sold at levels equal to those received in Australian brokers’ catalogues, where large volumes were catalogued and with noticeable market improvement predominantly for the best wool types. Buyer comment in Australia at time of writing was that the poorer tender wools catalogued recently, but held over from earlier sales this season, remained difficult to place.

Sheep numbers have been decreasing at a rather rapid rate over the past ten years and, along with that, the obvious decrease in wool volume has perhaps offered an optimistic outlook for those growers who have stuck with a traditional dual purpose sheep breed, however we have witnessed a roller-coaster wool market soaring to extremely good highs but dipping, often very quickly, to unexplainable lows before travelling along more modest humps and hollows prior to the surge beginning again.

Whilst there appear to be some very good orders on exporters’ books at present with processors in places like China, United Kingdom, Europe, India, as well as Australia and local mills, there are manufacturers using wool who are loathe to commit too far ahead and some who have already indicated that they have larger than desirable quantities of stock on hand at present

and therefore will only commit to buy again once those stocks have reduced.

PGG Wrightson have secured some very good forward orders, via its subsidiary Bloch and Behrens, for a variety of wool types including crossbred, mid-micron and merino types, many of which are being forward contracted with wool growers currently.

Whilst forward contracts offer certainty some maybe limited for quantity therefore growers should be in contact with their PGG Wrightson wool representative early with expressions of interest. That’s my view.

Wool PerspectiveFrom Rob Cochrane GM, Procurement, PGG Wrightson Wool


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A local company is importing military and aviation certified products that will change the way people deal with corrosion.

The Whangarei based company, Corrosion Control NZ, owned by four Kiwi shareholders with Tom Muller as Commercial Director, aims to save customers’ money whilst being environmentally friendly.

“We want to contribute something to the local community,” Thomas says of his motivation to start the business.

Two years ago, after speaking with councils, campsites, and those in the agriculture industry, Corrosion Control founders saw there was high demand for a product that would solve corrosion issues and decided to import CorrosionX products from Texas.

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$10,283INC GST

$21,400 INC GST

°Subject to credit approval, fees, terms and conditions apply. Based on a 24 month Hire Purchase Contract. To approved Registered GST No Holders for business purposes only on applications for Polaris Ranger 570 H.D. and Ranger XP 900 models. Offer expires 31/3/2015. Polaris Finance is a program operated by De Lage Landen Ltd Company No: 135515. *Offer ends 31/03/15 or while stocks last. Offer only available at

participating Polaris Dealers. Not valid with any other offer. Excludes fl eet clients. ^This accessory offer is only valid for genuine Polaris Accessories on the purchase of a new Polaris Ranger ETX model only.

RANGER XP 900FINANCE OFFER

0% P.A. OVER 24 MONTHS

RANGER 570 H.D.FINANCE OFFER

0% P.A. OVER 24 MONTHS1/3UPFRONT

1/3IN 12

MONTHS

1/3IN 24

MONTHS

$1000 FREEACCESSORIES

• 31HP EFI Pro-Star Engine with Polaris Variable Transmission• Seat Belt Interlock • Speed Key capability

• On Demand true All-Wheel-Drive (AWD) • Independent Front & Adjustable Rear Suspension • Certifi ed Roll-Over Protection Structure (ROPS)

• Towing Capacity - 680kg • Dump Box Capacity - 227kg

• New for 2015, 1028cc Kohler 3 Cylinderoverhead cam liquid cooled Diesel Engine

• 110 AMP Alternator • Polaris Variable Transmission• 56 km/h Top Speed • Towing Capacity - 907kg

• Dump Box Capacity - 454kg • Heavy Duty Features• On Demand True All-Wheel-Drive (AWD) with Turf Mode

• Adjustable Independent Front & Rear Suspension• Certifi ed Roll-Over Protection Structure (ROPS)

INC GST

• Built for New Zealand with Heavy Duty “HD” Features• Mirrors, Indicators and Horn • Dump Box with 180kg Capacity

• Engine Braking System & 4 Wheel Descent Control (4WDC)• Electronic Power Steering • On Demand True All Wheel Drive

• 567cc EFI Engine with Polaris Variable Transmission • Narrow Seat and Back Rest

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NEW MODEL DUE MARCH 2015

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