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Although there appeared to be minimal impact on farm pasture and drinking water outside of the volcano’s immediate surrounding area, reviewing farm preparedness in the event of future eruptions is an opportunity to put a plan in place.

GNS Science head volcanologist Gill Jolly said a future eruption could have wide ranging impacts across the central North Island.

“It would depend on two main factors — size of eruption and wind direction at time of eruption.”

Dr Jolly said the ash from the Ruapehu eruptions in 1995 and 1996 was deposited as far north as Rotorua on one occasion and out towards Hawke’s Bay on another.

Moderate levels of fluorine found in samples of the ash from the Tongariro eruption were similar to that found during the Mount Ruapehu eruptions.

Fluorine attaches to ash and poses a risk to humans and livestock as it contaminates water supplies and pasture.

Professor Shane Cronin of the Institute of Natural Resources at Massey University said ash fall can impact pastoral grazing systems by covering pasture, meaning that it is ingested by grazing sheep, cattle and deer.

“Further, livestock drinking water in open troughs may be contaminated.”

Some livestock will avoid grazing pasture containing high levels of acidic and abrasive ash. This can lead to starvation if no supplementary feed is offered.

Professor Cronin said if significant ash is ingested along with pasture, livestock are also at risk of the disease fluorosis.

Fluorine poses risk following volcanic eruptions

by Denise Gunn

Photo: Steve Sherburn, GNS Science

The central part of the debris flow on Mount Tongariro. A new vent area west of

Upper Te Maari is the steaming area in the background

The recent Mount Tongariro eruption is a timely reminder that New Zealand’s North Island is volcanically active

“Experience from the 1995-96 eruptions has shown that ash covering greater than two millimetres, low-grazed pastures, and low rainfall following ash deposition are critical factors increasing hazard.”

Stock fatalities usually begin 4-10 days after ash fall if additional feed is unavailable.

Professor Cronin said deer were likely to be the most susceptible to the disease, followed by cattle. Sheep are the most resistant.

Rural residents reliant on roof-catchment for their drinking water supplies are advised to avoid ash runoff into water tanks by temporarily disconnecting intake pipes.

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A Perigord truffle grown in the Horowhenua has recently been unearthed on Arthur and Linda Cooper’s truffiere.

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Named after the Perigord region in France, this fungus variety is worth around NZ$3,500 per kilogram. The Perigord truffle is the main truffle grown in New Zealand and highly sought after in French cuisine.

Mr and Mrs Cooper bought their 10 acre lifestyle block in 1993, planting 225 infected trees four years later. The trees were a mixture of hazels and English oaks, sourced from Crop and Food.

The couple initially followed a theory that a very high ph level was required in the soil to grow truffles in New Zealand and applied 40 tonne of lime. This lifted the soil ph level from 5.5 to 7.8. But after years with no truffles appearing, the couple engaged the advice of Australian truffle grower and former Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) scientist consultant Nick Malajczuk. Dr Malajczuk visits New Zealand several times each year as a consultant to truffle growers.

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Professional truffle dog handler Tracy Billingsley travelled up from Marlborough to visit several properties in the lower North Island before heading to the Cooper’s truffiere in August.

Mrs Billingsley’s dog located one quality specimen weighing 20 grams,

Perigord truf� e unearthed in Horowhenua

Photo: Denise GunnA Perigord truffle, believed to be the first grown in the

Horowhenua has recently been unearthed on Arthur and Linda Cooper’s truffiere

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Shane and Jo breed and sell stags, with good velvet weights, to the trophy industry when they reach seven years of age.

Stags are put out with mating mobs in the first week in March and removed on May 1.

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deer farming in the Central Districts region. His time spent culling deer and hunting for meat in the Ruahine Ranges gave him the knowledge to successfully start capturing deer in the late 1970s

Shane said fawns are weaned after the roar depending on the season but usually around June.

“We’ve had good results with less stress to the fawns this way.

“We mother up hinds and fawns late February.”

It’s all hands on deck from October through to Christmas with Shane’s mother, Mary, and Jo helping out during velveting.

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Shane said fawns are weaned after the roar depending on the season but usually around June.

“We’ve had good results with less stress to the fawns this way.

“We mother up hinds and fawns late February.”

It’s all hands on deck from October through to Christmas with Shane’s mother, Mary, and Jo helping out during velveting.

“All stag fawns are kept through until they’re velveted at two years and

culled on velvet weight and style,” said Shane.

Jo works as a teacher at Kimbolton School three days a week but also enjoys helping out on the farm.

“I love to help out when and where I can with the deer,” she said.

Although the Apiti area has a tendency to be wet through winter, the hotter months are considered ‘summer safe’ providing good grazing when the rest of the region is dry.

Around 250 bales of baleage are made on the farm and 3.5ha of swedes and chow crop are grown for the stags after the roar.

“We re-grass eight to 10 hectares per year into new grass including plantain in new grasses for its trace element benefits,” said Shane.

“I think that all deer suffer from some sort of mineral deficiencies in farming situations as they are browsers not grazers.”

Cattle and one-hundred ewes are also run on the farm for pasture control.

When Shane and Jo mother-up the hinds and fawns in late February, the young deer receive their first drench.

Shane said the deer are drenched on a fairly regular basis up to one year of age.

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Les Loveridge feeding the stags on Broadleaf Farm

Stags are drenched and given a multi-mineral injection after the roar in May and again towards the end of August when casting antlers.

Oral combination drenches are used.

“We generally don’t drench mixed-aged hinds.”

The deer do not receive vaccinations.

“Dad didn’t believe in them,” said Shane.

Shane and Jo believe breeding good trophy genetics and lifting the average velvet weights is the key to their successful deer farming operation.


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All photos: DENISE GUNNHorowhenua couple Diana and Gilbert Timms have had a lifelong involvement breeding, showing and judging sheep

by Denise Gunn

“I used to shear an old fellow’s Cheviots and eventually I bought them off him.”

Diana started with a small number of Romney sheep when she was 16 years old.

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Gilbert Timms and his wife Diana run predominately Perendale, Cheviot and Romney breeds on their Ashby Sheep Stud in the Horowhenua, along with 60 stud Hereford cows

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“We sometimes buy in lambs and fatten them as a cash crop from December to May,” said Gilbert.

“Wool is the thing that’s disappointing for sheep farmers.”

“It’s a big part of our income.”

Gilbert and Diana’s Hereford bulls are sold locally with most of them bought by dairy farmers.

“We’ve had the same clients buying bulls from us for over 40 years,” said Gilbert.

“In our selection for bulls and rams, breed type, soundness and shape (not too heavy in the front), comes first,” said Gilbert.

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Showing sheep around New Zealand is another interest Gilbert and Diana have shared. Gilbert has taken sheep

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After many years of involvement with the Horowhenua A. P. and I. Association, Gilbert and Diana were awarded honorary life memberships — both have also been past presidents. Diana’s connection with this association stems from her childhood when her mother was involved with the show organisation.

The pair are also members of the Western District Council of the Royal Agricultural Society and have judged at several Royal Shows.

Gilbert and Diana continue to breed good stock and set goals for their farm.

“We strive to improve every year with our stock,” said Gilbert.

“Farming is challenging and some years are worse than others but we enjoy farming every day,” said Diana.

“Our main goal is to preserve and improve the land for the next generations to come.”

[25 ewes] up from Merryvale but the original buyer had changed their mind,” she said.

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Gilbert and Diana’s Hereford bulls are sold locally with most of them bought by dairy farmers

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Riders also had to keep a lookout for squirrel and marmot holes.

George and Denise are well-used to riding motorbikes. George often rides off-road and has been on a couple of trail rides in New Zealand. Denise regularly rides a four-wheeler around the farm.

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George said the vastness of the countryside had to be seen to be believed.

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Both the motorbikes and the buggy also worked as a magnet for meeting the local people.

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A farmer once made a comment that he didn’t want to get his cow’s feet trimmed in the wet weather — opening up the wound would only create problems. This is an interesting comment, and I can appreciate his train of thought. Opening a wound would expose it to bacteria which will increase the risk of infection, especially in wet conditions. But, even though an exposed corium is running the risk of getting infected, not opening a wound would increase that risk. A lame hoof that has a hole needs to be treated.

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There can be several causes of mastitis from environmental to mechanical. Consulting with your animal health professional (local vet) should be first on your list, at the same time ruling out your milking plant. Here are a few tips that may help you find some of the basic issues preventing your machine working at it’s peak:

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3. Check your claw bowl seals — are they cracked or split?

4. Check your claw bowls for cracks.

5. Check the pulse tube leading to the claw for splits or cracks.

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It’s great to finally see the sun shining and the grass growing. It has been a wet but a warm spring so far and unfortunately this is prime condition for all those nasty bugs that cause mastitis to thrive.

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Friesians, so we have a happy balance.

“We have a Delaval tester that we use to sample all cows before their milk enters the vat post-calving.”

Since converting to organics, Stephen and Janet have noticed less illnesses and ailments in the herd. The cows also appear healthier and less stressed.

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Janet said the knowledge that their farming methods are

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The couple continually aim to improve their farming systems and increase production sustainably. Eventually they would like to make their product more readily available to the wider public.

The Flemings’ Oeo property has been part of the Grow Organic Dairy project funded by DairyNZ and the Sustainable Farming Fund. Nine certified dairy farms throughout the North Island are included in the project. A research team of the farms’ owners, Massey University scientists and professionals run trials and studies on the properties over a three-year study period.

The pair have an organic winter milk contract with Fonterra on the home farm where they are milking 320 cows – Mainly Friesian and Friesian cross

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Janet said the family have always eaten healthy.

“We have six children, ranging from 15 to 25 years of age, two of whom were born with congenital heart disease, requiring seven different open-heart surgeries to be performed between them.”

“We looked for the healthiest food options and as we ate our own meat and drank the milk, eliminating chemicals from our own food source was a logical option,” she said.

“We were also uncomfortable with the amount of chemicals we were forcing into our cattle either through fertiliser, drenches and herbicides.”

The pair have an organic winter milk contract with Fonterra on the home farm where they are milking 320 cows — mainly Friesian and Friesian cross. There are two separate calving spreads — March-April and September-November.

“We have winter milked at our Oeo farm the last two winters with normal seasonal calving, commencing late July with 200 Friesian/Jersey and cross cows milked in total,” said Janet.

“Stephen likes Jerseys and I prefer


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While it all sounds very confusing, with terms like Fonterra Shareholders’ Market, Farmer Trust Custodian, Units, Fonterra Shareholders’ Funds, the underlying theme ensures 100% dairy farmer control giving the opportunity to farmers to reinvest profits back into the company, through the purchasing of extra shares on which they will receive a dividend. Dairy farmers will be able to increase their shares up to 200%, from the current 120%.

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In setting the Farmgate Milk Price, the Fonterra Board will always set the milk price and that right is not negotiable. This is set in accordance with the Farmgate Milk Price Manual and the Milk Price Principles which are all publicly available. A Milk Price Panel has been set up to advise the Board, comprising of three Fonterra Directors (two Independent Appointed Directors and one Farmer Director) and two appropriately qualified nominees of the Fonterra Shareholders’ Council (at least one of whom must not be a farmer shareholder).The Commerce Commission informed the Parliamentary Primary Production Committee hearings that there still needed to be a substantial amount of work done, as the proposed legislation did not actually spell out how the Commerce Commission’s role would be implemented. No doubt there will be a strong awareness that farmers do not want outside influences manipulating and undermining the true valueof milk.

Fonterra representatives are making it very clear to bankers, sharebrokers and outside investors that TAF protects 100% farmer control and ownership. Voting rights remain fully linked to milk production. Fonterra’s Constitution will guarantee voting rights cannot be transferred to anyone who is not a dairy farmer shareholder. The Trust Deed for the Fonterra Shareholders’ Fund and the Funds Contract with Fonterra will contain tight controls that further entrench 100% farmer control and ownership. The Fund can never hold any Co-operative shares. The shares will be held by the Fonterra Farmer Custodian which will be owned by all farmer shareholders and can’t be changed without the approval of 75% of farmer shareholders.

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