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New area manager for AllianceBRITTANY PICKETT

New Alliance Group southern area

livestock manager Nathan Benfell.

BRITTANY PICKETT/FAIRFAX NZAlliance Group’s newsouthern area livestockmanager was born intothe stock industry,

almost literally.After being born in

Invercargill, Nathan Benfellmoved with his parents to theMakarewa freezing works, wherehis father worked as a shepherdand then head foreman.

‘‘I spent many of my youthfulyears helping in the sheep yards.’’

Benfell started his working lifeas an office clerk at H&J Smith at16, from there he worked in salesfor Prime Range Livestock for 10years.

Working in retail was anopportunity to work on hisrelationship building skills andhe learnt the importance of beingable to deal with people, he said.

He then worked different jobs,including selling vehicles, beforeending up at livestock genetics co-operative LIC in 2011 as acustomer relationship managerand later a regional solutionsmanager.

Benfell said working for LIChad been a privilege as thecommunicator of co-operativenews to those who owned thebusiness.

‘‘You can drive up thedriveway of someone’s place and

know you’re going to meet withan owner of the company.’’

As for the red meat industry,one of the biggest challenges hesees farmers having to overcomeis the weather.

Farmers were mostly helplessin this area, but Benfell could see

a future industry which was lessimpacted by climate.

‘‘We could be working withnature trying to smooth out thatsupply chain.’’

At Alliance Benfell will beworking with a team of livestockrepresentatives with 200 years

experience among them. Most ofall, he’s looking forward tomeeting farmers.

‘‘Being out there and beingable to meet farmers that’s goingto be key for me.’’

Being brought up at a meatworks, his passion for the red

meat industry has always beenthere. He said his previousexperience selling meat from‘‘Cape Reinga to Bluff’’ would be abenefit: ‘‘I have an understandingof what it means to go from gate toplate’’.

Despite his experience sellingthroughout the country,Southland is where he has alwaysfelt at home. Benfell said he hadalways had a desire to work withSouthlanders and the ruralcommunities.

Alliance livestock generalmanager Murray Behrent saidBenfell was well balanced andunderstood the industry.

Through his previous roles hehad developed good negotiationskills and had worked in the fieldwith people, Behrent said.

’’It’s about bringing the teamtogether and coaching them.’’

Benfell took over from JohnCrawford retired in Septemberafter 51 years in the industry.

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Level playingfield soughtfor beef tradeBRITTANY PICKETT

A trade deal with Japan would help level the playing field between Australian and New Zealand beef exports.

As the Trans-PacificPartnership Agreement(TPPA) looks less andless likely to go ahead,

meat industry executives are stillhoping the deal or another tradeagreement will level the playingfield between countries.

Meat Industry Associationchief executive Tim Ritchie saidNew Zealand needed to be able toaccess as many internationalmarkets as possible.

‘‘Trade is the lifeblood of ourindustry. We have a very smalldomestic market, we export 90 percent of what we produce.’’

International tradeagreements have made it possiblefor New Zealand to reap greaterrewards for its products,including lamb.

If New Zealand was only ableto export whole animal carcassesto single countries it would meanlower returns because differentmarkets had different valueperceptions on different parts of

the animal, Ritchie said.Barriers that could impede

international trade were tariffs,which free trade agreementstended to neutralise, and non-tariff barriers such as labellingand meat temperaturerestrictions, he said.

‘‘Why TPP is particularlyimportant is that sometimesanother country has a free tradeagreement, such as Australia andJapan.’’

The Japan-Australia EconomicPartnership Agreement came intoeffect last year.

Under the deal, a 38.5 per centtariff on beef from Australiawould drop to 23.5 per cent forchilled beef within 15 years. Thetariff for frozen beef would fall to19.5 per cent within 18 years.

The Australian beef industry isset to receive billions of dollarsfrom the agreement over the nexttwo decades.

Ritchie said the TPPA wouldhave delivered the samereduction in tariffs to ensure NewZealand retained its

competitiveness in the beefindustry.

If the trade deal were to goahead it would mean a reductionin tariffs on New Zealand beefgoing into Japan from 38.5 percent to nine per cent over the next16 years, he said.

The tariff would end up beingeight per cent for chilled beef and11 per cent for frozen beef, he said.

‘‘The TPP is very important torestore that level playing field.’’

The closing of trade borders

with countries is a growingconcern worldwide and UnitedStates President-elect DonaldTrump has stated he wouldwithdraw the US from the TPPtrade deal on his first day inoffice, instead opting for ‘‘fair’’trade agreements.

‘‘Trump was very specific interms of the election campaignand he’s made his views knownbut we don’t know what isunderneath that,’’ Ritchie said.

New Zealand had been in the

business of international tradingof meat for 134 years, butprotectionism, if it were tohappen, would be a major threatto that industry, he said.

New Zealand maintaining itstrust and recognition forpremium meat products wouldhelp it to retain and gain morefree trade agreements, whetherbilateral or collaboratively withthe help of organisations such asthe World Trade Organisation, hesaid.

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Fonterra most energy efficientBRITTANY PICKETT

Fonterra’s Edendale dairy factory has

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Authority’s One2five ratings.Solar lighting and heattransfer technology hashelped Fonterra’sEdendale facility to be the

most energy efficient dairymanufacturing site nationally.

The site has become the firstdairy processing facility in thecountry to be awarded four starsin Energy Efficiency andConservation Authority’s(EECA).One2five ratings. Theratings measure energy, carbonand sustainability and provide abenchmark for businesses tocompare themselves with otherparts of the industry.

Southern operations managerRichard Gray said energyefficiency was always at the frontof minds at Fonterra sites.

‘‘Since the co-operative beganits energy efficiency programmein 2003, the Edendale site hasreduced its energy intensity by 48per cent per tonne of product.‘‘

‘‘We’re continually challengingour staff to find ways to reduceour energy intensity – every littlebit helps and we have more than20 different energy savingprogrammes underway across thesite. Recent additions haveincluded solar lighting through tonew heat recovery technologyintroduced in last year’s siteexpansion that captures and

recycles the heat from ourprocesses, which eliminated theneed for a new boiler.’’

These initiatives wererecognised at last week’s NewZealand Sustainable BusinessNetwork Awards, where the sitereceived a judges’ commendation

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Fonterra’s Edendale sitecompleted an expansion projectearly this year, which started in2014.

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Fonterra uses coal as its mainenergy source in all its SouthIsland factories and coal and gasin its North Island plants.

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Wastewater from all 13processing plants at Edendale ispumped to the wastewatertreatment plant on the factory’snorthern boundary which wascommissioned earlier this year.

Fonterra director of socialresponsibility Carolyn Mortlandsaid the co-operative had made acommitment to reducing energyintensity at sites by 20 per cent ofour 2003 levels, by the year 2020.

‘‘The results that the team atEdendale have achieved are proofthat we are on the right track toachieving that goal for the good ofall New Zealanders.’’

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Opinion

Healy’s View TPP a no go

BRITTANY PICKETT

The TPP could have had ahuge benefit for New Zealanddairy farmers.

Imade myself a weird promisethat I wouldn’t talk aboutDonald Trump in this column

because the mere thought of himangers me to my core, but alas,I’ve broken that promise alreadyso I may as well continue.

This week Trump said he wouldwithdraw the United States fromthe Trans Pacific Partnership(TPP) trade deal on his first day inoffice.

Calling the 12-nationagreement ‘‘a potential disasterfor our country,’’ the president-elect said he would file anotification of intent to withdrawfrom the deal pushed by PresidentBarack Obama as soon as he takesoffice on January 20.

The TPP could have had a hugebenefit for New Zealand dairyfarmers if high tariffs on dairyproducts were removed.

For New Zealand it would haveopened a door to a trade deal withthe United States – the world’slargest economy.

Now we’ve just got to wait andsee if Prime Minister John Keyand his team can work out a tradedeal that the Donald finds ‘‘fair’’.

However, there are benefits tothis TPP flop. The fears of somefarmers will probably be partiallyallayed with the news as theyworried the deal would open upNew Zealand to more foreigninvestment.

I can see a future where somesort of trade deal is struck upbecause as Key said, America isnot an island and it cannot just sitand say it’s not going to trade withthe rest of the world. But theproblem there is, New Zealand isan island and we will need tradewith the US in the long term.Shearers, woolhandlers

named for champsSIR DAVID FAGAN Invercargill

shearer

Nathan

Stratford won

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February.

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It’s been a long wait but wefinally have the New ZealandShearing and Woolhandlingteam confirmed to compete at

the World Championships inInvercargill in February.

Most of the talk has been aboutwho isn’t there with RowlandSmith missing out on selection,but in Johnny Kirkpatrick andNathan Stratford, we still have anincredibly strong New Zealandcombination.

You couldn’t wish for a bettercompetitor than Kirkpatrick tohandle the pressure on any of thewool types, whether it’s full wool,second shear or lambs. Mentally,he’s as tough as any competitorI’ve ever known. I have no doubthe will excel and give his bestpossible performance at theWorld Champs.

Stratford has been knocking onthe door of big competitions formany years and he alwaysperforms very well incompetitions in his home patchdown south. Together, they aregreat prospects for the WorldTeam’s Title and there’s a strongchance one of them could becomeWorld Champion.

Their toughest opposition will,without doubt, come from NewZealand Scotsman Gavin Mutch,who has won it before, with IvanScott from Ireland, the Welshshearers Ian Jones and RichardJones and Gavin’s Scottishteammate Hamish Mitchell alllikely to be right in the mix aswell.

In the woolhandling, JoelHenare has a proven track recordand will be very difficult to beat inInvercargill. Mary-Anne Baty has

been proving herself for a numberof years in the Open classthroughout the country so theytoo form a very strongcombination.

Blade shearer Tony Dobbs isan amazing man. He’s got theexperience having been to WorldChampionships before and bothhe and Phil Oldfield are in aposition to make the Open WorldFinal. But the South Africanshave been so hard to beat in thiscompetition through the years.They will take some tipping overbut hopefully the Kiwi boys willbe up to the task.

Competing at a WorldChampionship in front of a homecrowd is a unique experience. InStratford’s case, the crowd couldplay more of a factor, being ahome favourite in front of aparochial Southland crowd. Forhim it’s going to be huge and it’sgreat for our Kiwi team.

But from a personal point ofview, when I’m competinganywhere I don’t really mindwhat crowd you’re in. Even if it’sa hostile crowd, you’re focusingon what you should be doingyourself. Although, you’d always

rather have the crowd with youthan against you.

Our six-strong New Zealandteam will be enjoying the momentright now. It will still be a buzzfrom getting into the team lastweek. The World Champs may notbe far away, but when you are in asituation like this you can’t waitfor it to arrive.

Once January rolls around, thebig competitions start withLumsden and Winton in the southand Taihape, Rotorua, Wairoaand Tauranga up north.

At these events the heat willstart ramping up on ourcompetitors. They will becompeting each weekend andthey’ll be in the limelight at theseshows because all anybody will betalking about will be the WorldChampionships. That’s when thereal hype will start and thepressure will follow.■ Sir David Fagan has won 12world titles, is the chairman ofShearing Sports New Zealand anda member of the OrganisingCommittee for the 2017 WorldShearing and WoolhandlingChampionships in Invercargillfrom February 8-11.

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What on earth ishappening at Telford?Last week’s news that17 staff were being

made redundant and severalcourses would be wound backmakes absolutely no sense.Graduates coming out of Telfordgenerally have multiple job offersin front of them such is thedemand for their services and thereputation that Telford hasforged.

Telford appears to be collateraldamage as Lincoln Universitystruggles with on-going financialdifficulties. Some of these havebeen beyond its control as it wasbadly damaged in theChristchurch earthquakes, whilesome appear to be self-inflictedgiven question marks over theprudence of some managementdecisions.

As Telford had $10 million incash reserves at the time of the2010 merger, there will rightly bequestions over where that hasgone and if it is recoverable?

Unfortunately this is all toofamiliar territory for us in thesouth as we have already had tosuffer the downgrading ofInvermay by AgResearch when itdecided to invest heavily in aLincoln agri-hub,which alwayslooked suspiciously like anattempt to pull more resourcestoward propping up LincolnUniversity.

What is really hard to fathomis how this equates to theGovernment’s centre-piecePrimary Growth Partnershipprogramme which has thelaudable goal of doubling thevalue of New Zealands primaryexports by 2025. It was estimatedthat this would require an

additional 50,000 skilledemployees to achieve thatoutcome.

The average age of sheep andbeef farmers is 58, hardly the idealdemographic to be dealing withthe challenges arising frommassive advances in newtechnologies, or indeed executingthe old ones if we’re being totallyhonest. The skills of young peoplewho inherently understand andadapt to these new challengeshave never been more relevant.■ Mark Patterson is a Lawrencesheep and beef farmer andformerly a deputy chairman ofMeat Industry Excellence.

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Velvet comes first for deer farmerThe national competition to find the bestvelvet and trophy antler is on next month.Brittany Pickettmet with new competitioncommittee chairman Bruce Paterson and hiswife Jenny at their Otautau farm DalmoreDeer Farm.

Otautau deer farmers Bruce and Jenny Paterson with velvet from their Dalmore Farm. PHOTO: BRITTANY PICKETT/FAIRFAX NZ

For Bruce Paterson his loveof deer farming is focussedon the velvet performanceof his animals.

Paterson is the newcompetition committee chairmanfor the National Velvet andTrophy Antler Competition,which is on next month. He, alongwith his wife Jenny, runsDalmore Deer Farm, nearOtautau, as well as raise theirthree daughters Laura, 5,Stephanie, 4, and Nadia, 6 monthsold.

The 283 hectare farm is splitbetween two blocks and runs 250DNA English red recorded hinds,480 English and eastern redcommercial hinds, 230 mixed agestags, 90 rising two-year-old stags,650 fawns, 120 ewes and 29 beefsteers.

‘‘We’ve had deer on here sincethe late 1970s when my fatherstarted catching them out of thebush.’’

Dalmore has been in thePaterson family for more than 100years, and range of stock has

passed through its farm gates. Butfor Paterson, deer is the stock ofchoice for him.

He took over the farm in 2007from his parents Clive and AnnePaterson, after working inCanterbury, Western Australia,the United Kingdom and Canada.

Meanwhile, Jenny works part-time as a veterinarian in Otautau,after previously working full-timebefore the girls were born, andwhen they get a bit older sheplans to join her husbandworking on the farm, whilemaintaining a part time vet job.

Clive still works on the farm,and Paterson jokes he is the ‘‘boy’’now, who helps out betweenwhitebaiting and fishing.

The farm mainly has a velvetfocus, with Paterson selling a fewstags each year by private treaty.

The velvet became a focus forhim because it is somethingvisual to work on. Unlike carcassweights, it is interesting to look atvelvets and their weights, he says.

‘‘It’s a visual thing that you cansee that you can make changes to

reasonably quickly.’’Velvet farming’s most exciting

time of the year is the harvestingof the two-year-olds because thatis when he is able to see the new

and up and coming stars in theherd, he says.

‘‘My aim is just for big clean,early maturing velvet antler onmedium-sized animals.’’

For the last three years thefarm has placed first and secondin the rising two-year-old class at

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Off the beaten track

The Southern Trail Blazers 4WD club was bornin Gore back in 1980 and is still an active clubtoday. Although the vehicles have changed

somewhat from Suzuki’s, Land Rovers and LandCruisers, the principles are the same, Four WheelDrive with a low range gearbox.

Benio sheep farmer Glen McPhail was born intoa keen four wheel driving family, and a son of oneof the founders of the Southern Trail Blazers 4WDClub. He says he has a long way to go before hetires of getting off the beaten track.

‘‘It does sort of get under your skin, you get ataste for what it’s like to be back country with noother people for miles. It’s much like tramping butfar easier on the legs and easier to carry a decentfeed!’’

‘‘One of the things I love about it is that I’veseen most of the South Island, and not just from atar seal road. It’s about getting to places mostother people don’t even know about, let alonevisit. But it’s not just that – it’s also about enjoyingthese places with people who otherwise mightnot be able to get there, like those unable to ridea bike or go tramping and hiking.’’

Driving off road is second nature to manymembers but the same can’t be always said forothers who hop behind the wheel of a 4x4. Hencethe importance of the clubs.

‘‘Anybody can buy a vehicle and go driving. Buta lot of people don’t have the skill or theconfidence to know how to do it safely andproperly, for themselves, their vehicle and theirenvironment. They want to do it, but they don’tknow where to go, what vehicle they need andhow to do it.’’

Four-wheel driving is many things to manypeople, but if you ask any of the members whythey do what they do, the answer is always thesame – exploring or recreation. Whether therecreation is being able to go where most of NZcannot, a competitive streak, whether it is a loveof the high country or simply seeing howsomeone else farms, it could be something new ordifferent, 4WDing is to many, more of a way of lifethan a simple recreational pastime.

It’s also the camaraderie you get with fellow4WD’ers, the camping trips, the meeting nights,the workshop nights, or discussing 4WD tripswhich would be great to do or old trips to revisit.

Steve and Judi Dennis of Waikaka started4WDing because Steve wanted to have an offfarm interest. ‘‘It’s become a great way to get offthe farm and meet other people. Plus we get todrive into NZ’s most remote and scenic placeswhere there are few other vehicles.’’

Even if you don’t mind walking, a good 4WDtrip can give you a whole new way of looking atand relating to your environment, says Judi. Akeen tramper, she packs the bird books, the alpineplant books, the camera bag and a strong interestin NZ history when she and husband Steve headout on a trip.

‘‘It’s not just one activity, four wheel driving.Going off road for me combines lots of things –camping, scenery, hiking, learning about thehistory of different places and learning aboutalpine plants. And when you get two generationsinvolved, it becomes a real family thing as well.’’

‘‘That’s why clubs are the way to go, if you’re atall interested in off-road driving. There’s a whole

range of activities to become involved in, coveringall levels of skill and vehicles. It just opens up somuch more opportunities.’’

It opens gates, too. Club groups can often gowhere other people can’t, because they makesuch strenuous efforts to be considerate visitors.We know if we damage tracks or surroundingenvironments, we won’t be allowed back. Moreand more DoC land in particular was gettingrestricted, mostly because individuals had goneout there in 4WD vehicles and made a mess. It’salso about doing these things in a sustainablemanner, Steve says. Like many similar groups inNZ and throughout the world, the Gore 4WD clubhas a ‘tread lightly’ policy, and a code of conductthat is rigorously adhered to.

‘‘When you’re on public land, you have to treatit with respect. You can’t just drive willy nilly. It’sup to us to show that what we do is sustainable,that we can go places time and time again,without making a horrible mess on thelandscape.’’

Part and parcel of this attitude is the effortmade by clubs to give as good as they get, muchof it in the shape of voluntary work.

From clearing and maintaining tracks inconjunction with DoC and private landowners tocommunity fundraising and making their vehiclesavailable for Civil Defence and Search and Rescuecall-outs, these groups probably contribute far

more than those with a negative image of four-wheel driving would ever realise. But it’s not allgrown-up social responsibility and awe-inspiringscenery. Thanks to private landowners there’splenty of flat out muddy fun as well.

‘‘We have good relationships with farmers andrun-holders,’’ Glen says. ‘‘We’re fortunate in theopportunities we have to use our vehicles – thereare all sorts of things we can do, from backcountry camping trips to competitions. It’s part ofwhat makes off road driving such a great activityfor so many people.’’

Daniel Richardson from Mataura says ‘‘Compe-titions are great, because they give you a chanceto really push your vehicle, and see what it can do,in controlled surroundings, but even scenic cluboutings have a lot to offer.’’

Daniel’s Nissan is one of few competitionvehicles which actually has to turn up at work theday after an event and that gives the wholeprocess an extra measure of satisfaction, he says.

The Southern Trail Blazers caters to all 4WD’sand whether you have a 2015 Ranger with adecent set of tyres, a modified Nissan Safari or a1975 Series 3 Land Rover there will be somethingto suit if you are interested. The club meetsmonthly in East Gore at Christies Diamond Auto at8pm, all are welcome or for more informationdrop in and see Doug Christie or phone/text GlenMcPhail on 0274086494 for membership inquiries.

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Velvet comes first

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The National Velvet and Hard Antler Awards are being held in Invercargill next month.

Awards info

The 35thNational Velvet and TrophyAntler Competition is being held atAscot ParkHotel from5.30pmonDecember 13. Deadline for tickets isDecember 11, [email protected] topurchase. Entertainment on thenightwill be provided by comedianWilsonDixon.

the Rising Stars velvet awards.Paterson achieved his heaviestweight last year of 8.75 kilogramsfor a rising two-year-old.

Competing in the competitiongives him a chance to measure hisprogress against top performersin the industry.

‘‘In the competition you cansee what other guys are doing andsee where you should be headingand what is possible with theright feed and genetics.’’

On average, the rising two-year-olds reached about 3.9kg lastyear, while the mixed aged stagsdid 5.8kg.

This year, they are on track toreach about 6.4kg.

Most of the commercialyearlings are sold beforeChristmas at between 58 and 60kgcarcass weight.

The star stag on the farm isFergus and it has produced a lot ofthe up-and-coming sires atDalmore.

Paterson says Fergus won atRising Stars, while two of its sonsare also title holders. At two yearsold Fergus cut 6kg of velvet andby four years old, he had 10kg ofvelvet removed.

Outside of deer, beef cattlecome onto the farm as calves inthe autumn and leave the

following autumn at about 340kgcarcass weight, he says. The cattleare mainly on-farm to get rid ofthe surplus grass in the summer.

Likewise, the sheep serve thepurpose of cleaning up lanes andaround the yards. But it doesn’tsound like sheep will be on thefarm for the long-term becausePaterson says he is not a fan ofthem.

All of the animals must have agood temperament, or else theydon’t get to stick around for long,he says.

The farm winters all stock onthe property and annually 42ha ofwinter crops is produced.

The hinds are wintered on kaleand swedes, the stags on kale,while the fawns are put on a mixof fodder beet and swedes. Beefcattle go onto the fodder beet.

‘‘All animals just go on wintercrop to spell pastures for 100-120

days.’’ The Patersons also regrass30ha of the farm each year.

They bought their secondblock in 1993 and have beendeveloping it the past 23 years.When the family bought theproperty it was covered in gorseand had very little drainage andnow it is fully developed.

Paterson is in the process ofadding to the existing shelter beltshis parents planted on the farm,and he has completed deer fencingon a further 40ha of the farm.

He joined the Southland DeerFarmers Association committeethree years ago and this year hastaken over the competitionchairman position from Peter

Allan. Patterson originally put hishand up to get an insight into theindustry and became involvedwith the competition because theSouthland branch runs itannually.

‘‘When you’re passionate aboutsomething you don’t mindhelping out.’’

He says Allan’s work on thecompetition deserved praise.

He wanted to get the nextgeneration of young deer farmersinvolved.

‘‘This is the premier velvetcompetition in New Zealand, I justwant to make it bigger.’’

He also expects the quality ofthe entries to be high this year

because of the kind winter andspring most of the countryexperienced.

Competition categories includeopen red, elk/wapiti supreme,three-year red, four-year red, five-year red, three-year elk/wapiti,four-year elk/wapiti, restrictedSouthland red and elk/wapiti andtrophy antler, red, elk/wapiti andfallow.

Entries to the competition areavailable on the New ZealandDeer Farmers Associationwebsite deernz.org.nz, and mustbe received by December 9 and anevening function for thecompetition will be held at AscotPark Hotel on December 13.

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35th National Velvet & Trophy Antler Competition

PHOTO: JOHN HAWKINSDeer velvet on display at the 2014 National Velvet and Trophy Antler Competition in Southland.

NZ comedian and country singer Wilson Dixonwill be on hand to entertain particpants at thisyear’s Awards Dinner.

Next weekend deer farmers fromthroughout the country will convergeat Ascot Park Hotel in Invercargill for

the annual National Velvet and Trophy Antlercompetition.Now in its 35th year, the competition will

run through Monday, December 12 untilTuesday, December 13, concluding with anAwards Dinner on Tuesday evening.Last years awards attracted 70 entries and

200 attended the dinner.Completed entry forms for the competition

are due in on Friday, December 9, with velvetheads expected to be in Invercargill by Noon,Saturday, December 10 at the latest.These will be stored in a freezer at PGG

Wrightson, who is the main sponsor of theevent.Judging of all entries will take place on

Monday, December 12.Entry forms for the 35th National Velvet &

Trophy Antler competition can bedownloaded from the website http://deernz.org.nz/35th-national-velvet-trophy-antler-competition#.WDSwBLJ95tQ and canbe posted or emailed to Chairman of thecompetition, Bruce Paterson by Friday,December 9. Bruce’s postal address is 410Lower Scotts Gap, RD 2, Otautau 9682 andhis email is [email protected], which must be confirmed prior to

judging, can be made by post or via internetbanking. Details are on the website.The Awards Dinner ticket request form can

only be found on the site. Tickets to theAwards Dinner must be purchased and paid

for by 9 December 2016 as the Ascot ParkHotel needs numbers to ensure there issufficient seating available.There will be no ticket sales or refunds

after Friday, December 9. Tickets to thebuffet dinner cost $100 including GST perperson.This year again the velvet will be in the

dining room area, not in the foyer and therewill be one complimentary beverage perticket in either the foyer or dining room.In addition to the distribution of the awards

at the dinner, there will be some lightentertainment in the form of New Zealandcomedian and country singer Wilson Dixon.Jesse Griffin who plays Wilson Dixon says

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Competition rules

PHOTO: DEERNZ2015 Trophy Antler Champion,Brusnik, Crowley Dear,Hamilton.

This year’s 35th National Velvet and TrophyAntler Competition is sponsored by PGGWrightson.

The competition’s mission statement is: ‘Toimprove, promote and display quality New ZealandVelvet and Hard Antler nationally and internationallythrough competition.’RULES OF THE COMPETITION1. All entries at the owners risk.

2. All velvet will be judged according to IndustryAgreed Velvet Grading Guidelines.

3. A completed copy of the entry form must bereceived no later than Friday, December 9.Another copy must accompany the velvet.

4. ENTRY FEES MUST BE PAID prior to judging forheads to be eligible for the competition.

5. All entries must have identification on each stickof velvet or antler and match the information onthe entry form that has been submitted. USETHE CUT OFF STRIPS FROM THE OTHER SIDEOF THE FORM and include NVSB tags.

6. Velvet and hard antler must be in the PGGWrightson freezer Invercargill by Noon,Saturday, December 10, 2016.

7. Velvet/Hard Antler must be of this year’s crop.i.e. cut after the closing date of last yearscompetition.

8. The committee reserves the right to disqualifyany velvet that is overgrown, damaged, or notfrozen and will not display such velvet.

9. All heads must be grown in New Zealand andthe animals able to be inspected at the judgesand the committee’s discretion.

10. Hard Antler must be fully dry Red, Elk/Wapiti orFallow type and non-odorous.

11. Three year old Elk/Wapiti Supreme velvet iseligible for the 3 year old class.

12. All Elk/Wapiti supreme must be of no less than20cm between bez and trez.

13. The Restricted Southland Section is for velvetgrown in Southland. Once the velvet from anygiven stag has won this section his velvet is noteligible for entry in this section in future.

14. Judges decision is final and no correspondencewill be entered into.

15. Entrants must be fully paid members of deerorganisations.

PACKAGING AND TRANSPORTVelvet should be packaged in suitable containers

and be serviceable for the return journey.Refrigerated road freight will be provided by oursponsor PGG Wrightson.Contact your local PGG Wrightson branch for

details and deadlines. Please supply clearinstructions and responsibility for the velvet/antlerreturn.Results and trophy presentations will take place at

the Awards Dinner, Ascot Park on Tuesday evening,December 13. All velvet and hard antler will be ondisplay at the Awards Dinner from 5.30pm.SPONSORSThe Southland Branch of the New Zealand Deer

Farmers Association would like to take theopportunity to thank our major sponsor PGGWRIGHTSON. We would also like to thank MountainRiver Processors who has provided the venison forthe Awards Dinner.And a big thank you to Class sponsors, Farmlands

fencing, Rural Livestock Ltd, MSD Animal Health,Great Southern Invercargill, Excell breeding services,Fogarty Deer and Livestock Ltd, FMG, DownlandsDeer Transport, Rabobank, ILT, Elk and WapitiSociety, Leader Products, VetSouth Ltd, Alpine DeerGroup, NZ Fallow Deer Society.

at a glance ...What: 35th National Velvet & Trophy Antler CompetitionWhen: December 12 and 13, 2016Where: Ascot Park Hotel, Racecourse Road, InvercargillInfo: Entries in by December 9 by post or email to Bruce Paterson,

410 Lower Scotts Gap, RD 2, Otautau 9682 [email protected] to PGG Wrighston, Invercargill by Noon, Saturday,December 10Judging, Monday, December 12Awards Night, Tuesday, December 13

Cost: Awards Dinner, $100 per person including GST. Reservationsand payment to be made prior to Friday, December 9.

2015 ResultsOpen Red Velvet Section1st, Black Forest Park, Clinton

Elk Supreme Section1st, Tikana, Winton

Three Year Red Section1st, Altrive Deer, Gore

Four Year Red Section1st, T J & M R Cruse, Tuatapere

Three Year Elk/Wapiti Section1st, Tikana, Winton

Four Year Elk/Wapiti Section1st, Raincliff Elk/Wapiti, Timaru

Five Year Red Section1st, Tralee Red Deer, Winton

Fallow Trophy Antler1st, Whyte Farming Company, Ashburton

Elk/Wapiti Trophy Antler Section1st, Whyte Farming Company, Ashburton

Red Trophy Antler Section1st, Crowley Deer, Hamilton

Allcomers Section1st, Tikana, Winton

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Robotic dairy farming: a better life for man and cow

Alvin and Judith Reid have been dairy farmers since 1978, starting off as sharemilkers. Today theyown one of New Zealand’s few robotic dairy operations.

Alvin Reid is content to manage his shifts from his computer in Wanaka.

Afarmer runs his dairy operation severalhundred kilometres away with the aid oftechnology, writes Pat Deavoll.

It’s the dead of night and Alvin Reid sits inhis office, lit up by a flat screen television.

A cow wanders across the screen, pauses tosniff the air, before sauntering into a milkingbail. Reid is in Wanaka and the cow is on hisRiverholme Farm at Pleasant Point, 270kilometres away.

Reid is doing his "shift" on the 125-hectarerobotic dairy farm. He shares the work withtwo other staff and chooses to do this via theinternet from his new Central Otago home.Technology, which Reid revels in, has allowedhim to work remotely.

"I have always been interested intechnology," he says.

"I’ve had a fascination with electronics sincethe 1980s when I bought my first computer."

Riverholme Farm was converted from a run-off block and opened as a robotic dairy farm in2013. It is now in its fourth season of milkingand third full calving.

It’s been a steep learning curve to reach thisstage, Reid says.

Training the cow’s to milk voluntarily hasrequired time and patience. Never will amotorbike chase these cows up a lane, headds.

"Changing our mindset from a conventionalfarming system to a voluntary milking system(VMS) was the hardest thing," Reid says.

"It’s been a huge change of attitude; to behonest it’s more about changing the farmerthan the cow."

About six weeks passed before the cows gotthe hang of milking themselves. At the timeReid slept in the shed until the cows weresettled.

By day 66 every cow was voluntarily movingfrom the paddock and into the shed for milkingby a robot.

Reid and wife Judith have been dairyfarming since 1978 and began share milkingbefore buying their first farm at Winchester.Today they own Riverholme Farm plus haveshares in five others, three of which areoperated by their children.

What makes the Riverholme Farm so specialis that the 480 cows graze year round, not indairy barns, but on open pasture.

They walk up to three kilometres a day toget themselves to one of the six DeLavalrobotic milkers and at peak lactation will milkmore than twice a day.

"New Zealand’s strength is in its pastoralfarming. Our feeding system is no differentthan other farms - 80 per cent pasture," Reidsays.

Feeding costs are kept extremely low withthis system and robotic milking can be

introduced without adding to pasturemanagement or feeding costs.

Reid says the drop in labour costs andanimal health costs are balanced out with thehigher capital investment.

However, he believes the potential inincreased cow longevity, proactive farmmanagement and labour retention makes thesystem worthwhile.

Robotic technology starts at the gate witheach animal ear tagged.

The tag sends a signal to the centralcomputer that stores information on each

cow’s milk production flow. The computer’smemory then guides the animal through aseries of gates to milk or graze.

The DeLaval VMS robot comes with a "herdmanagement system" (HMS).

This collates a comprehensive record foreach cow and allows Reid and his staff tofollow each cow’s milking performance andmilk quality.

The herd management technology alsokeeps track of the cow’s milk production andnumber of visits to the VMS.

The optimal time for the next visit is

automatically calculated, based on the timeelapsed since the previous milking and theamount of milk expected.

"The HMS logs milk quality for each cow andsends alarms if threshold levels have beenbreached," Reid says.

"It alerts the VMS which automaticallydiverts abnormal milk and alerts staff viamobile phone and computer."

Cow traffic at the milking machines iscontrolled by a smart selection gate. Reid saysthis helps to get more milkings per cow perday, more regular milking intervals and highfeed intake.

Traffic is greatest from midday until 7pmand tails off as the night goes on.

"Eventually I don’t want people here," Reidsays. "Most days between 7pm and 5am thereis no staff here.

The plan is to get exceptional reportingsystems in place and if the farm is running theway it should I don’t want to know about it. Butif something is wrong I want to know about itstraight away.

"When I get a text I bring up the robots onthe screen. If the text is about teat cup gripthen I bring up the robot and can see the teatcup hanging; from my computer, I can controlthe robot and fix it."

The robotic farm project has cost Reid about$2.5 million and a rotary milking shed wouldhave cost less. But they will get that back, hesays.

"The milking shed probably cost $350,000 -$400,000 above the cost of a conventional 50bail rotary shed. But it uses only 2.5 labourunits compared with a rotary’s three labourunits. A conventional farm of the same sizewould take 3.5 staff."

Animal health costs have dropped. Despiteextensive walking, there has been a decreasein cow lameness and Reid expects cowlongevity will improve to perhaps an extralactation because of the new system.

Cows have less mastitis and produce moremilk with less staff.

"We have about 4.5 lactations per cow andwe think we will be able to extend that to about5.5 lactations, time will tell."

Well acquainted with the technology now, hedoes not believe the system is especiallydifficult to operate.

"You don’t have to be a computer whiz," hesays.

But he thinks its widespread adoption willtake time.

"Will it become mainstream? Probably not.Will all farmers want to handle this sort oftechnology? Probably not.

"But our cows are back to being individuals,not a herd. Our cows run the farm now, notus."

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Ewe hogget winners a cut aboveBRITTANY PICKETT

Willie Menlove speaks at the field day at Sweet Acres. Perendale hoggets at Sweet Acres.

When Willie Menlove’sgrandfather took overSweet Acres farmnear Lumsden in 1929

his biggest enemy was rabbits.Menlove says the man before

had been run off the farm byhordes of the pest, and in the firstyear of ownership his grandfathermanaged to kill off 30,000 rabbits.

While the rabbit populationhas declined in the years since,Menlove still has his worries.

‘‘I’m always wary of thatsaying that the first generationfarms, the second generationmakes and the third breaks.’’

Menlove, along with his wifePhillipa, won the New ZealandEwe Hogget Competition this yearwith their perendale flock. Theyopened their farm up for a fieldday last week.

The family runs the 2015hectare farm near Lumsden withjust two staff. It is a mix of stocktypes, with sheep, cattle and deer.

Menlove came home to thefarm from Lincoln University in1994 and by 2000 he had takenover as manager.

He runs the farm with fourphilosophies: to run simplesystems, employ resources asefficiently as possible, to make thefarming business produceconsistently and be self sufficient

and to be financially andenvironmentally sustainable.

‘‘We’re not trying to get 100 percent perfection. I think if youexpect to get 100 per cent all thetime you’re going to live a verydisappointed life.’’

The farm is run with 65 percent sheep, 20 per cent deer and 15per cent cattle.

With a topography of riverflats to steep hill, Menlove saysthere will always be a place forsheep at Sweet Acres. The farm

runs 1270 perendale hoggets, 1280two-tooths, 4020 mixed aged ewesas well as 55 rams.

Menlove says the biggeststrengths of the property are itstopography and ability to rundifferent stock classes.

But it also has its weaknesses;the farm is dissected into fourblocks, with some pressurerelieved by underpasses, but theproperty is also ‘‘only a weekaway from a moisture deficit insummer’’.

‘‘It’s a property that can kickyou in the ass if you take it forgranted but it can look after youwell if you look after it.’’

While the modern trend istowards lambing hoggets, theMenloves have steered away fromthe practice. A few years ago theydecided if they made it to a 140 percent lambing percentage theywould try mating hoggets.

When they did Menlove saysthey were dealing with 210-220live ewe hogget lambs, and they

were having to do a lambing beat -something which they would notusually do on the farm.

He also found they were selling400-500 store lambs, so instead oflambing the hoggets he hasdecided they will instead finishthose store lambs on lucerne.

‘‘I don’t care what other peoplethink is inefficient so we won’tmate them.’’

The family weighs all its lambsoff at 34 kilograms. For the lasttwo or three years they have beenable to have 1100 lambs processedstraight from the ewes, Menlovesays. This year he might aim for36kg.

About 15 years ago theMenloves decided to move theirsheep herd to the perendale breedbecause they wanted ‘‘a hardysheep that could look after itself’’.

The Menloves have beenentering the ewe hoggetcompetition for 10 years. Menlovesays the competition has beeninvaluable for him and throughtalking to the judges and seeingwinners’ farms he has madevaluable changes on his farm.

He sees more ways for the farmto grow, but won’t be making anydrastic changes this season.

‘‘I like to do things slowlyrather than do everything at once.It’s dangerous to make decisionswhen we’re having a season likethis.’’

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Working with farmers a privilege

Following her interestshas led a younghorticulture student toa challenging andenjoyable role at oneof New Zealand’slargest red meat co-operatives. She talks toAli Spencer.

Alliance technical manager Shona Frengley working with Nathan Parris, Alliance

Group pilot farmer.

Shona Frengley, thenGreenhalgh, was born inInvercargill, Southland to asheep farming couple.

Sadly, her father died when shewas just four months old, leavingher late mother, Colleen, to raiseher and her five older sisterssingle-handed on the RingwayHomestead in Otautau, with thehelp of a farm manager.

‘‘She was an inspirationalwoman, like many farmingwomen,’’ Shona reminisces.

The girls didn’t miss out onanything, she says. As theyoungest, happy childhoodmemories of the 1970s includeriding horses around the farm,checking all the creeks and pullingout ewes heavier than themselveswhen needed and sessions shiftingsheep during floods by torchlightat night.

‘‘We learned sheep don’t like tocross the beam of torch light, so allwe had to do was hold the beam infront of them and they’d staywhere they were till we could get tothem.’’

All six went on to university,Shona to Lincoln where she startedout on an agricultural sciencedegree. After work on a dairy farm,‘‘not an ideal position for me,’’ shesays, she looked for otherexperience.

She found horticultural work,including indexing avocados forSunblotch virus and tissueculturing orchids, leading her tograduate three years later with anhonours degree in horticulturalscience. The honours part was incomputing – not an interest assuch, but one she admits she foundcame naturally. It landed her jobsat AgResearch as a scientist insystems modelling and withMAFTech in computer support anddatabase management.

Another thing she leftuniversity with was a fiance, farmconsultant Don Frengley.

Marriage followed, then fouryears in London including ITwork, before a move back toSouthland and the 243 hectare

Greenhalgh family farm, where theyoung Frengleys achieved a goodlevel of performance from theircoopworth x east friesian flock.

A later family decision,however, meant the farm was sold.Farm consultant Ivan Lines hadbeen working with the couple andShona stepped in to help him withadministration and computerservices for eight years until 2002.

Next was 11 years with BillFraser’s Agribusiness Trainingbusiness, where she successfullyjuggled working part-time withraising their daughter, now 23, andson, now 21. She says she reallyenjoyed the work rising tooperations manager, before thebusiness was restructured in 2008and she was made redundant. Shethen spent two years as a self-employed contractor working withvarious companies to provide IT-related services.

Those roles drew on and furtherdeveloped her analytical andsystems development skills, broadthinking, attention to detail andpeople skills. All of which madeher attractive to meat processingco-operative Alliance Group, when

she responded to theiradvertisement in 2012 for a full-time technical manager.

‘‘That’s me,’’ she thought.The offered job, reporting to

Alliance Group’s then-livestockgeneral manager Murray Behrent,was split into two roles, one for herconcentrating on IT and datamanagement, while someone elsefocused on the farm-related aspectsof the role. She now supports theco-operative’s 56 sheep, beef andvenison livestock representativesand works to develop betterrelationships and services forfarmer suppliers.

She is also the Alliancerepresentative for the $64 millionRed Meat Profit Partnership(RMPP), one of the red meatsector’s five red meat PGPs withthe government, involving sixmeat processors, two banks andBeef + Lamb NZ. This is focused onimproving productivity andprofitability for red meat farmers.

Shona says she feels ‘‘absolutelyprivileged’’ to be working with topfarmers in the co-operative’s groupof 15 RMPP pilot farms. The aim ofthe pilot, involving 75 farms

selected by their meat processorsaround the country, is to look athow farmers learn with theintention of developing a nationalextension framework, sheexplains.

Within that, she has set up andcoordinates the Southland YoungFarmer Group – currentlycomprising five farms, soon to benine. In addition, she works with agroup of six Maori trust farms, theAwhina Group, and four otherindividual farms.

Recent reports from marketresearcher UMR have shown mostfarmers have found theirinvolvement with the programmeto date to have been highlybeneficial and have strengthenedtheir association with AllianceGroup.

‘‘Very little of what we’re doingis complicated. We can point themin the direction of people that canhelp them or they can getinformation to help,’’ says Shona,who believes there is potential forfarm consultants to work morewith meat processing companiesand farmers, which will strengthentheir relationships even more.

There are exciting times aheadfor the red meat sector in the nexttwo to three years, she believes.

‘‘It’s taken time to build themomentum within the RMPP PilotFarm project, as it is reallyimportant that time was taken tosee what had been done andlearned before, she says. Thanks tothe work to date though, she saysthat while there is always anunspoken commercial competitiveline that mustn’t be crossed, sheand her other colleagues at theother red meat processors – AnzcoFoods, Blue Sky Meats, GreenleaPremier Meats, Progressive Meatsand Silver Fern Farms – havebecome a team who support eachother.

‘‘It’s quite exciting actually thatwhenever we get a particularproblem or issue, we now get onthe phone to see whether anyone inthe other companies has comeacross a similar problem and how

they might have dealt with it,’’ shesays, adding that rather thanbattling through alone, it avoidsduplication of effort and speeds upthe process of extension.

Shona enjoys the variability ofher job, especially working withpeople.

Getting technology in hands hasbeen one of her key goals. Now allof the livestock reps are equippedwith an iPad and an iPhone tobetter connect them to base whilethey travel around doing their job.She also provides training and iscurrently involved with developingand testing applications for theirsmartphones to help streamlinedata flows.

She also works with 130 ofAlliance’s suppliers in producergroups linked to overseascustomers, bringing the two sidescloser together and doing on-farmbenchmarking.

‘‘Almost every farmer wants tocompare their performance withhow other farmers are doing. Tosee where the differences are andwhere they can improve one thing,even just a little, to produce betterresults.’’

Shona has one of the best jobs inAlliance, she tells people.

‘‘I work with great farmers andin all parts of the company – on-farm, in the plant and in the office.It’s a pretty awesome job,’’ shesays.

Like other busy women, Shonafound enough spare time to gain anational certificate in Ambulance(Patient Care and Transport) in2004. She and Don volunteeredtheir services over 15 years, untilFebruary this year, when theystepped down due to otherpressures on their time.

Following in her mother’sfootsteps, this inspirational andpassionate southern woman madesure her two children both went touniversity and her son is nowheading towards post-graduatestudy. Neither are thinking ofprimary industries as yet, but ifthey’re anything like their mother,watch this space.

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Shanghai Maling president Weiping Shen and Silver Fern Farms chairman Rob Hewett at the announcement of the

deal in September last year.

Silver Fern Farmsshareholders can lookforward to an earlyChristmas present this

year as the co-operative hasannounced it will bring forwardits merger with Chinesecompany Shanghai Maling andreceive an injection of $267million – more than the $261moriginally stated.

Initially planned for January 4next year, the transaction couldbe completed earlier because‘‘with everything ready ahead oftime it makes sense’’, said SilverFern Farms (SFF) chairman RobHewett.

‘‘There is little merit in simplywaiting. Both boards are keen toget on with the partnership anddeliver on the benefits alreadyidentified. The final date forcompletion will be confirmedshortly.’’

It is understood the sign-offdate will be mid-December. Afterthe investment is completed, SFFwill pay a special dividend of 30cper share to all ordinary andrebate shares expected to be paidprior to March 31 next year, andwill commence the redemption ofthe remaining approximately

$5m of supplier investmentshares outstanding.

Shanghai Maling, a subsidiaryof Bright Foods, was grantedOfficial Information Office (OIO)approval for the deal inSeptember after a year-longcampaign by promoters andopponents.

Shanghai Maling will investapproximately $267m in cash inreturn for a 50 per cent stake inSFF. The additional $6m abovethe original estimate, which wassubject to a net tangible assetadjustment at September 30 lastyear, is an adjustment foradvisory costs and the cost of

redeeming any rebate andsupplier investment shares upuntil completion, SFF said in astatement.

Of the $267m, $57m will residewith the co-operative, along withthe co-operative’s 50 per centshareholding in Silver FernFarms Limited.

Drench resistance on the riseBRITTANY PICKETT

Wormwise trainer Rochelle Smith shows farmers the life cycle of worms.

A national programme ischallenging farmers to find waysto control parasites in stock.

At a central Southland fieldday about 20 farmers worked tomanage parasites on their farmswith Wormwise trainer andsheep veterinarian RochelleSmith.

Smith told farmers 90 per centof worms lived on pasture, whilejust 10 per cent lived insidesheep.

Managing internal parasites isone of the biggest challengesfarmers face. Research showsthat there is widespreadresistance to several drenchfamilies across both sheep andcattle.

Smith referred to a 2013McKenna study on 125 NorthIsland farms which found therewas a 47 per cent resistance towhite or clear drenches, a 31 percent resistance to a combinationdrench of white and clear, and afour per cent resistance to tripledrench.

She asked farmers what theywere doing to prolong theeffectiveness of drench, reducelarval burden on their farms foroptimum stock performance andcreate refugia, a practice ofallowing non-drench resistantparasites to survive throughhaving a worm population notintroduced to drenches.

Parasites can be identifiedthrough clinical signs ofscouring, weight loss, wastageand death.

There are also subclinicalsigns such as appetitesuppression, lower feed intake,higher nutrient loss and reducedgrowth rates, Smith said.

‘‘Even by drenching every 20to 21 days you’re still dealingwith larvae and reduced growthrates, you’re still gettingproduction losses.’’

Lambs which were dealingwith parasites took an average of44 days longer to reach slaughter,she said.

Smith had farmers work ingroups to come up with ways toreduce exposure to parasitesthrough reducing contaminationand intake.

The ideas for reducingcontamination includeddrenching, running multi-speciesthrough pastures, spellingpaddocks for a minimum of threemonths, cultivating pastures andplanting specialised crops.

Reducing intake ideasincluded hard grazing of ewes,planting clover/herb-onlypaddocks, rotating stock class,strategic drenching, rotationalcropping and not buying in store

lambs. Smith said parasites withdrench resistance used to be ableto be killed by drenches but nolonger could be.

With drench resistanceincreasing in stock throughoutNew Zealand, farmers had to beconscious of how they were usingdrenches in their stock, she said.

She said farmers had to askthemselves before drenching ifthey needed to do it.

They also should think aboutthe nearness of stock to their killdate or if they were going on touncontaminated feed.

The drench status of the stockalso had to be questioned, shesaid.

Creating refugia was one wayto combat drench resistance instock through having worm

populations which had not beenexposed to drenches previously,Smith said.

There were ways to createrefugia both in paddocks and instock.

Farmers could change theirdrench, break paddocks withewes, add undrenched cattle inwith lambs, leave the ewesundrenched and create stockexclusion zones to create refugiain the paddock.

Refugia in stock could beachieved through extendingdrench intervals, leaving somestock undrenched, or simply notdrenching all stock, Smith said.

Wormwise is the nationalworm management strategy andis aimed at helping farmers andtheir advisors manage worms.

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PETERS GENETICSAngus & Romneywww.petersgenetics.co.nz

Bulls 4 U, Rams 4 Ewe

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Matheson Agri-Services LtdSupplying Natural, safe & healthy farming products,

also to improve soil health.

Colin MathesonM: 027 201 0484 H: 03 417 8586

[email protected]

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rock salt

• CarboUrea

• CarboPhos

• TM soil

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fine particle fertiliser - granular fertiliser - liquid nitrogen - pasture sprays - mineral licks

Our si ere tha ks to all our alued usto ers for their support & loyalty throughout the past year.

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