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The results in this year’s elections for Fonterra Board of Directors, Directors’ Remuneration Committee and Shareholders’ Council have been declared by returning Officer Warwick Lampp, of electionz.com Ltd.

Incumbent directors John Monaghan and David MacLeod have been re-elected and will be joined by new director Leonie Guiney.

Leonie lives and farms near Fairlie and is the director of four dairy farming companies. She has previous experience as a consulting officer, dairy production lecturer and has studied overseas co-operatives in the Netherlands and Ireland.

Leonie was also the 2014 winner of the low-input Dairy Business of the Year.

Shareholders Murray Holdaway and Philip Wilson were elected unopposed as members of the Directors’ Remuneration Committee. Wilson James joins the Shareholders’ Council.

Fonterra shareholders used their annual meeting to raise concerns over the reduced 2015 milk payout, the dairy giant’s forecasting and the way the milk price is set.

The forecast milk price it pays farmers was slashed in September from $6 per kilogram of milk solids to $5.30/kg MS plus an additional dividend payment of 25–35c/kg MS.

It comes on the back of a record $8.50 total payout last season.

In his exit speech, former director Jim van der Poel acknowledged shareholder concerns, by saying the dairy exporter had to set the benchmark for a competitive farmgate milk price.

He said it was important that Fonterra set the lead on payouts, which its competitors would then have to keep up with.

“This is not just good for our farmer shareholders but also good for New Zealand,” he said. “New Zealand milk has to be seen as a premium product and valued as such because the milk price has such a flow on in rural communities.”

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The organisation’s Beef and Fibre chairman Rick Powdrell says droughts in United States and Australia have decimated herd numbers and it may take years for stock levels to recover.

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Nuffield Scholar Satwant Singh has always enjoyed farming and spending time amongst farmers.

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During her studies at the University of Waikato, Satwant said initially like many university students, her goal was to graduate and gain employment in the city. Satwant has a Bachelor of Management Studies with Honours (majoring in Marketing and Human Resources) and a Graduate Diploma in Accounting from the University of Waikato. However, in her last year of university Satwant began working for Fonterra and has continued her career there.

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“I am really excited and look forward to the new learning’s and networks it will provide,” she said.

“It’s such a great privilege to have been given this opportunity to help me develop as a person, but also to be able to give back to the rural community.”

As a Nuffield Scholar, Satwant would like to research into understanding farmer’s stresses and financial pressure with a focus on price risk management.

“As we move forward, our farming businesses become more complicated as the environment becomes more volatile,” she said.

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Nestled in the heart of the Waikato, amidst a wide valley of peat lake and fertile farmland, is New Zealand’s Rose Town — Te Awamutu.

Home to 12,000 people, the town services a large rural community and its rich and diverse history has given rise to a unique range of visitor attractions.

Te Awamutu, meaning End of the Navigable River, is at the centre of bush clad ranges and close to the extinct Kakepuku and Pirongia volcanoes. The nearby Maungatautari, another extinct volcanic cone, is now the site of New Zealand’s largest ecological restoration project.

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Waharoa farmer Geoff Hicks has moved his herd of 700 milking goats indoors, providing them with cover from the elements and a new lifestyle.

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“They’re pretty happy now and production has increased.”

Geoff and his sharemilker Sean Baty used to mow grass every day for feed, but now they’ve gone one step better. They now mix ensiled grass with other feeds, creating a nutritious blend in their giant ‘farm sized’ food processor, built by the innovative Jaylor farm machinery company. After looking at other brands, Geoff — who switched from drystock to dairy goats 20 years ago — decided that the Jaylor stacked up the best,

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With summer sunshine replacing winter rain, many folks are turning their attention to holiday preparations this spring, gearing up for a journey to scenic, seaside vacation spots.

Campers, RVs and caravans are all popular choices for holidaymakers, as evidenced by LTSA figures which show a growing number of Kiwis opting to get out from under canvas and slip behind the wheel of something more substantial. But this time of year, it’s a good idea to give the family ‘land yacht’ a thorough once over.

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Fireworks all year roundby Andy Bryenton

Ford’s global reach and worldwide automotive plans continue apace, with the venerable US automaker watching the Focus dominate the Chinese new car market, the EcoSport sell out in India and the good ol’ F-150 remain evergreen in North America.

And while the planet-spanning master plan of the boys from Dearborn may mean the end of the Falcon badge downunder, there are surprises in the works from Ford to rival the announcement of Mustangs on Kiwi forecourts in the not-too-distant future.

So until the throaty V8 rumble of the sixth-gen ‘Stang is heard on Waikato roads, please consider exhibit A — a three-door hatch so hot that it’s positively incandescent. Especially in the fire-engine red trim we got to see up close and in the flesh. This is the 2014 Fiesta ST, a car which was marketed with its own brand of hot sauce on its arrival to these shores, and which throws its diminutive weight around with such precision and verve that older petrolheads can be heard whispering the words ‘Escort Cosworth’ in hushed tones after a quick spin. Not that the mad, fun little Fiesta ST shares a lot in common with the raucous, rally-bred ‘Esky’ — this is a more sophisticated beast. But consider. The roadgoing 1992 Escort Cosworth weighed 1,320 kilos and packed 168 kilowatts of power. The ST, on the other hand, is packed with far more luxury, safety and technical gadgetry, yet only

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She is bred to be an Oaks and Cups filly and is a good size with a deep girth and lovely smooth action. She has been broken-in and will come into training for the first time in December. She will trial and possibly race as an autumn two-year-old, but it is as a three-year-old that she will come into her own.

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Debating a beef cooperativeAfter some lean years that produced a fair bit of hardship for beef farmers, their prospects are looking up as they enjoy high prices of up to $5.90 per kilogram for prime steers and with bulls fetching $6.00 a kilo.

The has been much debate in the media on ‘where to from here’. Some are advocating that the beef industry should form a Fonterra-type cooperative – but on the opposite side of the coin are those who ask that if the Fonterra cooperative model is the way forward for beef farmers, how is it Fonterra can’t halt the fall in milk prices.

The suggestion of a lack of modern-day farmer loyalty has also been raised as an argument that forming cooperatives does not guarantee continued farmer loyalty and supply. It’s suggested many modern-day farmers like to enter into their own negotiations with independent processors and it is evident since the formation of Fonterra there has also been the establishment

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of a substantial number of independent proprietary milk processing companies, some with overseas shareholding and others like Open Country where the main shareholders are the Talley Group in the South Island who have acquired ownership of Affco - the former Auckland Farmers Freezing Company.

Fonterra director Ian Farrelly, who rears 10,000 calves, said last week that the beef industry lacks a strategy for adding value to the 1.9 million dairy farmer bobby calves which are processed every winter for veal and by-products.

Farrelly claims that if these calves were on-reared they could add billions of dollars in extra revenue to New Zealand’s agricultural export industry.

Depending on weight bobby calves can realise $2.10 per kilogram or $37.38 per head. If they were reared to 220kg–320kg weight range, at today’s prices they could realise from $1,200 to $1,800. With regard to loyalty and what is good for farmers, I believe that today’s farmer should remember that history has shown that in the early years due to a lack of organised cooperative marketing, many farmers felt they were at the mercy of the skilled negotiators of individual companies whose offices and cool store facilities were located in Tooley Street, London.

Dairy produce was all sold on the free market system with the directorates or proprietors of individual Tooley Street companies accepting full responsibility for sales and trading. They decided upon the terms of sale, methods of transport and choice of agents.

London Tooley Street traders’ representatives used to deal directly with individual New Zealand dairy companies. It is said that a farmer’s yearly income depended on how much whisky was applied to the local dairy company manager during the negotiations.

For many decades 95.6% of New Zealand’s income came from products grown on its pastures. The New Zealand government eventually formed the New Zealand Dairy and the Meat and Wool Producer Boards in an endeavour to bring organised marketing of New Zealand’s agricultural products, with a guaranteed price system which was

the price that the farmer received for his produce.

Over the years these structures have changed. It is important that we farmers should never forget the many years of hard work and investment that New Zealand farmers have committed to not only producing our agricultural products on the farm, but also being involved in the marketing and receiving our rightful share of market profits.

While there are some farmers who believe that they can better manage the marketing of their own produce, in the long term, I firmly believe that New Zealand’s farming history demonstrates that farmers who take the cooperative approach will win in the end.

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Michelle Wilson and Angela Fullerton have stepped aside, but not out.As long-serving members

of the Dairy Women’s Network board, they plan to retain a keen interest in the organisation.

At the AGM last month, Michelle Wilson officially handed over the reins as chair to Justine Kidd, and board member Angela Fullerton also officially stepped down after 12 years.

They cite giving other women opportunities in the Network’s governance roles as one of the main reasons for taking a step back.

“The network has evolved over the last couple of years and it’s time for someone else to step up,” says Michelle.

Having just completed stage one of the Fonterra Governance Programme, she says her new focus will be on increasing her governance knowledge so she can give back to the rural sector. She hopes to be selected for stage two of the programme.

Michelle became a member of the Dairy Women’s Network in 2003 and took on the regional convenor coordinator role in 2004.

She first appeared on the board in 2006 and was appointed chair in 2010.

Since 2006, membership has almost tripled and the Network’s regional groups have grown from 12 to 30.

“The membership growth has been an absolute highlight, as was being invited to represent Dairy Women’s Network and the New Zealand dairy industry at the APEC Women in Leadership Forum in Beijing, and managing to continue Dairy Women’s Network business as usual whilst in the executive chair role.”

Angela said in her address at the AGM that it was after attending her first DWN conference in 1998 that she gave herself permission to get involved in the dairy farming business.

“I want to thank the Network and its members for recognising my strengths and abilities and allowing me to grow. You are women I treasure.”

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