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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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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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Preparations 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.

The event will be held on the Henson’s farm, 137 Penny Road, south of Sanson. Property owner, Paul Henson, is the Manawatu Ploughing Match Association president and has represented New Zealand several times at the World Ploughing Championships.

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North Island every four years. This competition was last hosted by the Manawatu Ploughing Match Association more than 20 years ago.

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Originally purchased by John (Jack) Lander around 1895/96, the south Taranaki home farm

ran as a small dairy unit, along with sheep and steers. Additional land was purchased over the years to reach the farm’s current 700 acres. When Jack’s son Owen took over the property, he shifted the dairy unit to its present location eight kilometres away.

Owen established Wairere Angus Stud when he purchased five cows from John Ogilvy’s Ngawaka Stud in Masterton, and registered the progeny in 1936. This progeny became the herd’s foundation. Over the years, cows from other studs were introduced into the herd.

When Owen became ill, his son Cedric was pulled out of school to help his

brother Eric run the farm. Cedric had a passion for Angus and ended up running that part of the business.

Cedric said the largest input of cattle into the herd was in 1966 when his father purchased 34 cows and three bulls from Robert Fraser’s Heathfield herd in the South Island.

“The remainder of the Heathfield herd was integrated into the Stern Angus Stud of Robin Fraser,” said Cedric.

“A small selection of females have been added from several other dispersals to try outside bloodlines.”

Cedric and Eric run the farm in partnership. Eric oversees the dairy operation and an export orchid business while Cedric takes care of the stud and sheep side of the business.

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“My son is now farming with me and will therefore be the fourth generation of Lander family farming the home farm.”

Cedric’s wife, Jackie, handles the stud’s substantial amount of computer work and recording of Estimated Breeding Values (EBV’s) with Breedplan.

The Angus stud is situated on the farms’ front 230 acres. Sheep are grazed on the gullies and all lambs are fattened on the flats. The farm’s back 100 acres is used for grazing replacement dairy heifers and growing supplementary feed, including baleage and hay, for the Landers’ dairy farm. The dairy farm was bought to supplement the existing property and is running approximately 500 cows.

Sheep are finished and sold direct, generally to Silver Fern Farms.

“Stud cattle are either sold at our annual two-year-old bull sale in June, or as yearlings to dairy farmers to put over their yearling heifers,” said Cedric.

The stud’s cattle were originally sold in the paddock. However, when the annual Stratford Beef Breeders Sale was opened, Wairere Angus were sold through the ring there. In 1986 the Landers decided to have their own on-farm sales.

Females are either kept for breeding or sold for fattening.

Cedric has also taken several bulls to the national sale — now known as Beef Expo, achieving a reserve champion Angus title.

“All stud animals are break-fed behind electric fencing as opposed to set stocking as in many other areas.

“We have to do this to control the feed as we are farming more intensively

than most other sheep and beef areas, with land values being so much higher than traditional sheep and beef country.” Cedric explained this is due to the dairy influence in Taranaki. The farm usually receives an average rainfall of between 1,300–1,400mm per year.

Cedric said the rainfall over recent years appears to be arriving in blocks of weather when previously it tended to be evenly spread.

“We have had snow, but only very occasionally, and we have quite serious droughts at times with virtually no rain for several months.”

Salt spray and wind, blown in from the Tasman Sea, also causes problems as it can burn the grass off and damage wind breaks.

The salt also causes the stock to itch. It’s the hardiness of the Angus, and their ability to suffer the knocks, that particularly appeals to Cedric. “They are good foragers and when other cattle are

sitting at the top of the hill waiting for the food to come to them, the Angus will be out ferreting for anything they can get.”

Cedric has found the breed generally have a good temperament and are easy to handle.

He enjoys the challenge of trying to produce an animal which will go on to breed cattle he can be proud of.

“Their carcass attributes are well sought after with a high marbling ability giving flavour and tenderness.”

Cedric is currently on the New Zealand Angus Board, representing Manawatu, Taranaki and King Country wards.

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Developing their large lifestyle property to produce their own food and live partly off the grid, also led Mike and Desiree Avey to opening the farm gate to eco-tourism.

Desiree bought the property in 1989 and since then improvements have been

ongoing. Since she met Mike fourteen years ago, further plans for the block of land have taken shape.

Located 550 metres above sea level and at the base of the Pouakai Ranges, the property is set amongst native trees and bush receiving an annual rainfall

between 5,000-6,000mm. Through establishing orchards, a large hothouse, several outdoor garden beds, as well as berry and currant enclosures, the couple now have a ready supply of fruit and vegetables.

“We always have something coming from the garden,” said Desiree.

“The hothouse gives us all-year-round veggies and the summer crops are done

outside. We have cranberries and feijoas as well as the berries and currants.”

Beef cattle are raised to provide meat for the freezer, and free-ranging hens supply eggs. Desiree said her larder is always full with homemade chutneys

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Large compost bins and a worm farm supply most of the gardens with fertilisers. In addition, a seaweed solution is also used on the gardens and to fertilise the pastures.

Mike and Desiree make potting mix from leaf litter gathered from around the property. Plant cuttings are taken and raised for future plantings, and seeds are also collected at the end of each season. Keeping seeds dry, and preventing rot on the outside before collection, is a constant challenge however due to the high rainfall in the area.

The couple’s venture into eco-tourism began when they converted a shed into a hangout area for their five children.

“We got a bit carried away with a hot tub so decided to rent it out,” said Desiree.

“It was going so well that we decided to purpose build the second one in the bush.”

With two self-contained cabins now on the property, visitors provide the Avey family with an additional income.

Desiree supplies guests with a breakfast hamper using homemade ingredients, bread, jams, and free-range eggs.

During the summer when vegetables are plentiful in the hothouse, guests are welcome to pick fresh ingredients for salads.

One of the cabins, situated in a bush glen, is totally off the grid. The other uses solar power to boost the hot tub.

Mike and Desiree also use a combination of solar and mains power to run their house. “We live partly off the grid as we can have days that we do

not generate enough solar to keep the batteries fully charged,” said Desiree.

“We did have a wind turbine but our turbulent conditions meant it did not work effectively in our location.”

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Keeping carbon in the ground, not in the air

The 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.

And it’s not just farming that is coming under the microscope. In our area ageing septic tanks, some of which 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. 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.

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Preventative hoof trimming

What is preventative hoof trimming? I have been on farms where they had done their own preventative hoof trimming during the year.

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,

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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.

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“I didn’t grow up on a farm but my grandparents had dairy, sheep, beef and horses. My grandfather, Dick Brice, sold his farm before I was born and I grew up North of Auckland in Whangaparaoa.

“I wasn’t enjoying my last year of school and left with just level one NCEA and through farming courses gained my level two and three certificates and am quite happy about that.

“My grandfather had purchased a few acres with Simmental cows, pigs and ducks in Wairoa, and I really enjoyed helping him. He taught me so much about farming like how to safely ride the

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“We have the same love for animals and even our favourite cow, number 30. My grandma, June, looks after the farm if he needs to go away but granddad is the mainstay but he doesn’t leave the farm often.”

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age. The whole theory side of study is really interesting and it’s great being able to take what we learn back to farm and put it into practise like bike safety, mastitis and how to identify and manage sick or lame cows. Family friends helped Gemma to get into the industry.

“Their calving worker was just going back to Chile and they offered for me to go and work for them. It was meant to be a three month trial but I ended up staying for 16 months.

“I then had a bad car accident and had to stop working for a few months. As I recovered I went to a farm up the road and worked there but decided I would like a change and had interviews in Taranaki.

“I worked on an Ayrshire farm for a few months but finances became tight so I couldn’t continue and I went full-

time relief milking whilst I looked for permanent work and then found this job. I work for contract milkers and the farm owner also does a lot of the tractor work and different things around the farm.

“I love nature and being outside every day and riding the motorbikes. I love working the animals and wherever I go I end up with pet cows.

“We milk twice a day and are on grass only at the moment as our farm is still really green because we get quite a lot of rain.

There is a run off down the road where 90 percent of our supplements are made, silage and hay, and this is where the calves and heifers also go.

“I entered my first Young Farmers District Finals competition last year to give it a go and there were only two girls competing. I found this to be a

great experience, it definitely boosted my confidence as I didn’t know what to expect.

“I would suggest to other girls who want to go farming, not to be put off. It is definitely not just a man’s job, it is really rewarding. If you are curious, give

it a go, you can go as far as you like in the industry, including management.

“The Taranaki area is very different for me because I came from the Waikato. There is nothing else I would rather do. I love farming and want to go as far as I can with the career.”

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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

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