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Just what the industry Here comes winter needs
s temperatures get colder and the Bull Sales in June; and Beef + Lamb days shorter, we know winter is tells us about its genetics programme. Ajust around the corner. If you know of an interesting story Welcome to our 2021 winter issue of that we can feature in a future issue The Gisborne Herald’s From the Land please don’t hesitate to contact me on — our local farming publication. 869-0654 or email me at In this issue we expand on last issue’s [email protected] 10 discussion around the future potential We also welcome feedback and would of wool use with Henry Hansen; we love to hear from you. talk to Nina Marshall, whose career ‘Doing a path changed from agriculture to good job horticulture; we get an update on what is happening at Hauiti Blueberries Cara Haines and loving it’ in Tolaga Bay; Penny Wilson tells us Features Team Leader about her experience as a young female shepherd in a male-dominated industry; Giuseppe Martelli of Taruheru Nursery tells us about his operation growing citrus, avocado and kiwifruit plants for commercial orchards; we talk bulls in the countdown to the annual East Coast 12
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rench novelist La Bruyere said: “Those the things you ignore most because it’s the urgent) or Delete (not urgent or important) thinking time in the diary so you can become who make the worst use of time most loudest, squeakiest wheel that wins and gets remember that not everything that’s more efficient and effective. You can even Fcomplain of its shortness.” your attention. urgent is important. Take the time to block out uninterrupted time so you can get Bang on I say. There is always something else to do but is find a quiet spot and ask yourself: more things done. Here’s the thing. All of us are given the it worth doing just because it’s urgent? You could even set yourself a “power hour” same 24 hours every day. Are you fighting the right fires or do you ■ How are you valuing your time currently? first thing in the morning when your brain You might be someone who uses their need to let some die out? ■ How do you know? is fresh and ready to go. I did this and hands time well or you might be someone who So when someone doesn’t do something ■ Are you busy working on the right stuff or down, it’s been my single biggest productivity wastes time on the less important tasks just it’s never a question of time, it’s always a the wrong stuff? hack. I do the hardest thinking first (what we because they are question of priority. ■ Are you mistaking enthusiasm with call “eat the frog”). easier to do, or They don’t make the effectiveness? M Scott Peck said: “Until you value yourself, something you time because it’s not ■ Are you reacting or responding to events? you won’t value your time. Until you value your want to do, rather seen as a priority. time, you will not do anything with it.” than something What they Until you start measuring your time, you Value yourself and your time. You, your farm you need to do. choose to do with can’t manage your time. and your energy will be better for it. Maybe rounding their time speaks Start by keeping a time diary for a fortnight. by St John Craner, up your flock is volumes. After two weeks take the time to sit down and more fun than Walk not talk review what you could have delegated, deferred managing director spending time tells you all you or deleted. of Agrarian, doing plate metre need to know. I’m betting that there are tasks and jobs you which trains walks to measure Where and what can get off your plate and on to the plate of underperforming pasture covers. they do with their someone else. rural companies Maybe fencing time tells you what Start saying “no more” and set firm is more enjoyable their priorities are. how to improve boundaries because over-committing yourself their sales and than entering paddock data into Farmax or As US steel magnate Andrew Carnegie can come at a cost. marketing results. FarmIQ. said: “As I grow older, I pay less attention to Good fences make good neighbours, yes? And maybe duck shooting is more what men say. I just watch what they do.” Put strong boundaries in place and block out www.agrarian.co.nz important than spending that time with your This Victorian billionaire bloke knew what family. calls and he was talking about. It’s your life so they are your own You and your farm workers or managers choices. You make your own bed. will only do things that link with their When it comes to decisions, we often deepest desires and motivations. Sit down don’t do the things we know we need to get with them and work out what they want done, not because we don’t have the time, but and why. Show why what you’re asking is because we don’t have the energy. important. Give them the context so they When we don’t have the energy we can’t can see the bigger picture and how they fit get what we need to get things done. This into it. is because we spend time on the things that deplete our energy rather than restore it. If you are struggling with time The first thing you can do is get some crap management and productivity here (not all, because we have to be realistic) off are a few tips: your plate that takes precious energy away from you. ■ Run your life by this rule: “If it’s not in Who else can you delegate who might be the diary it doesn’t get done.” better at it than you to get it done? Does it ■ Use your diary to focus on your 1-3-5 need to be done at all? Can it be left and each day — that is, the one big rock you dealt with later? must do, the three pebbles you need to do I was once told: “Focus on the priority of and the five small sands you might decide the important not the tyranny of the urgent.” to do (rocks-pebbles-sand in that order). 28453-01 My coach told me that what’s important ■ Use the Eisenhower matrix so you don’t doesn’t scream out loud (family, health, time double-handle things — Do (important off the farm, exercise), it whispers quietly and urgent), Delegate (urgent but not instead. Often the most important things are important), Defer (important but not
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A display of products made from the wool produced from the new carding machine that has been installed for Allwool Ltd and pictured behind Angus (left), Henry and Nicky Hansen. Their new products include bassinet mattresses, wool futon mattresses, cushions, bean bags, poufs, pillows and blankets. Wool nops, in a bale at front right, is the base product for stuffing and insulation. Dawn of a new era in wool enry Hansen was always going the bay. to step up, follow the generations As the only scourer in town, it was a Hbefore him and continue a business busy and prosperous business. started in 1894. Wool was a thriving industry for the WH Smith Ltd was established by nation, dominant in trade and boasting William Henry Smith, Henry’s great- quality that was sought-after the world grandfather and later became Gisborne over. Wool Company Ltd. In the early 1980s there were 70 million Breeding In the early days it was simply a sheep in New Zealand, often making wool-scouring machine on the banks of Kiwis the butt of many jokes albeit in the the Taruheru River at the property on best of spirits. But things have changed. Better Haisman Road where Henry and his The introduction of man-made family now live. synthetic fibres in the 1950s heralded a Local farms would send their wool to change that while welcomed as a saviour WH Smith Ltd where, once scoured, it back then is now cursed by many. Business would be shipped to the Bradford Wool Farmers were getting $8-$9 a kilogram Sales in Yorkshire, England. for strong wool in the 1980s but now at a Barges would come up the river to to net $1 per kilogram, the future is bleak. It collect the bales for the ship anchored in costs around $4.50 to shear a sheep, which
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Back where it all began . . . the Haisman Road property, where Henry and Nicky Hansen now live, in 1894 where the original wool scour operated from.
is done purely for the health of the animal. mistake in making so much clothing and sense.” outside influences and corporate companies.” Where it used to be a valuable by-product other products out of synthetics. It is now They have plans to build a new factory Now is the time to do it, he says of lambs (to eat), it is now a cost borne by getting into the food chain and becoming within the next two years, employ 20-30 “If we don’t it will be another industry the farmer. a massive issue . . . but one we can easily fix local people and create a hub where farmers that will disappear.” “In the 1980s wool boards tried to dictate by using wool more. can meet, chew the fat and solve the The Hansens bought their first machine that the world would continue to pay high “The world is geared to make and sell problems of the world . . . relatively speaking. during Covid-19 lockdown last year, which prices for our wool, which played right into synthetics. That comes with huge political “We want to show school children how added an extra challenge, but they are the hands of the synthetic companies who and corporate issues, where there are amazing wool is and what it means to our already talking about the next . . . and the thought they could nail the wool producers,” massive companies controlling what we buy region and the national economy. next. Henry says. and wear. “We want them to understand how “We envisage we may need 10 to 12 “They were right. We let it happen and “We have to get away from that. You can important this is. The scope for this is similar machines.” they did just that.” make anything out of wool. It is so versatile massive.” Henry is in talks with other investors but This is where Henry’s pioneering spirit and sustainable. Henry says all too often the chief his goal is to keep things local. kicked in. “What have we done in New Zealand executives of companies seem to think bigger “It calls for a multimillion-dollar-type “We are an industry in crisis,” he says. agriculture over the last 50 years? is best. investment over the next two years but this “We are now in a situation that if we do not “We have sold more wool for less. We “But none of them have the story we should be a legacy business. It isn’t just about do something in a very short space of time have been all about volume, pumping out do. Our story is totally unique. Our local us. This company has been going for there will be no strong wool industry.” kilograms of every product we can and farmers are the same families my great 140-odd years and we want to know it will It is something that keeps him awake at selling it too cheap. grandfather dealt with 140 years ago. go for another 100-plus if it gets that great night but for good reason. “Now is the time to change that. We have “It is a truly unique and international story community grunt behind it. Henry, with wife Nicky and son Angus, to sell less for more.” that, if we are not careful, could be lost to CONTINUED PAGE 6 are stepping into the unknown with their Nicky and Henry have been delving into new company Allwool Ltd. non-woven wool products. Already they Traditionally, strong wool has been used have imported a new machine from the UK mainly for textiles and carpets. to start making a new insulation product. “Strong wool is a product that is natural, And that is just the beginning. biodegradable, sustainable, fire retardant and “There are a lot of new products being has endless use possibilities,” he says. made from wool but they are small and Value has to be added to the product to have appalling marketing,” Henry says. “We ensure a future, otherwise farmers will start have to think bigger. producing non-wool-growing sheep. “There are around 800,000 bales of Sheep will die if they are not sheared, he strong wool produced each year in New says, but the wool they produce is totally Zealand and we should plan to hit the top sustainable, unlike other products such as right-hand corner . . . high end, top-quality plastics. products that tell an amazing story.” “They talk about recycling plastic — it Henry wants the local farming should be illegal. Just get it all out of the community to be part of the journey. system.” “We want all of the wool farmers in Henry says it is heartening to see an Gisborne to support us. We are not asking environmental renaissance happening for money but we do need their wool to around the world. take them along for the ride. We are the “People are realising we have made a big only local wool company here so it makes
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“I have not seen the potential of a new us. It gave us time to think and we talked wool product that is anything like what we and realised how ridiculous it is that we WILLIAM HENRY SMITH are going to start producing. It is exciting.” are in this situation with the most perfect Much will hang on marketing and product,” Henry says. re-educating people. “I am very optimistic of the future of “Wool is nature’s cleverness. Everything trade from New Zealand. The timing is we buy looks beautiful from the outside but right to export — everyone wants to be in is stuffed with plastic. We only look skin New Zealand. deep.” “This is our moment to shine. The company already has mattresses “We have to get out there and make being used in the The Hotel Britomart, things for the world, not send things to with more ordered. China to be made.” It has also started producing WiseWool, It is the dawn of a new era for a man a 100 percent strong wool insulation who has been around wool all his life. He product for ceiling spaces in old and new is like a kid at Christmas talking about the houses. possibilities of this new twist on an age-old In July, Allwool will welcome Henry’s product. nephew, Harry Urquhart-Hay, to head sales “Others may follow us, but none of them of the new manufactured products. have our story . . . and that’s what it all “Covid-19 was actually really helpful for hangs on.”
From humble beginnings
WH Smith Ltd wool scourers was around New Zealand. Now there are established by William Henry Smith just two. on Haisman Road in 1894. Bruce’s sons Henry and Andrew took His son, Albert Smith, was the next to over the running of the business in run the business but was called up for the 1990s. Andrew as the wool store duty in World War 2. manager and Henry oversaw the Eva Smith, sister of Albert, married business side of the operation. “It was Ruie Hansen and their son Bruce took never really talked about, me coming over the running of the operation when into the business,” Henry said. “It just he was just 18. happened.” As a teenager, Bruce would travel the In 2016, Gisborne Wool Company country to trade wool. He increased the joined forces with Fred Tate Wools and focus on wool trading and the company became East Coast Wools to ensure would buy and sell wool all over the continuity of supply. world. There are 26 million sheep in New In 1952, the business was moved to its Zealand — 1.4 million of those are current site on the corner of Awapuni in the Wharekahika/Hicks Bay to and Stanley roads largely due to the Hawke’s Bay area. wells on the property. A growing Gisborne produces approximately business, it needed a lot of water to 34,000 bales of strong wool annually, wash the wool. with over 35 percent of that being Back then there were 35 wool scourers traded by East Coast Wools. Orere Q9
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LeaderBrand’s Nina Marshall has worked her way up the ladder and is now a supervisor in the Just what the salad leaf department. industry needs
ina Marshall is making her way in crew supervisor. She supervises the herb Zealand’s leading supplier of baby leaf Nina balances her work with studying a predominantly male-dominated growing while overseeing the growing and spinach and salad products. the Level 3 and 4 Certificate in Vegetable Nindustry and impressing plenty of harvesting of small-leaf crops, including “The horticulture industry is mostly men Production through Primary ITO. people along the way. spinach, mesclun and lettuce. but the women in it are good at what they “I want to move up to a management role The 20-year-old previously had her She is hands-on with seeding and do. It may not be glamorous but when you within LeaderBrand and branch out into heart set on farming and was destined harvest plans and is always looking for see your product on the shelf, you have got other vegetable crops to see where this career for an agricultural training centre in the ways to improve the overall crop. to be pretty proud of that.” in vegetable production can take me.” Wairarapa, but when that fell through, she “I get to help make decisions about our had to make a quick change and turned to day-to-day running and help organise the horticulture. crew,” she says. “I love my job.” YOUR HYDRAULIC AND PNEUMATIC SPECIALISTS Nina grew up on a lifestyle block just out Billy Stackhouse, LeaderBrand’s crop of Gisborne on her parents’ orchard. manager for salad leaf, said he knew Nina “I developed a passion for tractors and would be an asset to the company as soon farming in my teenage years, which led me as he interviewed her. GISBORNE to do a Gateway course at high school and “She is just what the industry needs,” he gain work experience on farms,” she said. said. “She has been a great addition to my That also involved tractor driving so team for sure. I am very proud of her. She when her plans changed, she applied for is driven, motivated and passionate about HYDRAULIC and got a job driving a grape gondola over her work, and that will take her a long a six-week season at LeaderBrand. way.” There she impressed bosses and those Nina has worked her way up from six weeks turned into two years. She is driving tractors in grape to the harvest SERVICES now working full-time in the salad leaf crew and is now a supervisor. department helping the local company Billy says Nina’s attention to detail is produce tonnes of crops a week. hugely important in the role she plays, Nina is a harvest operator and harvest and especially for a company that is New
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by Jack Marshall orchard in July 2019 the operation has grown pots in tunnel houses. The computer system per hectare we’ll be keeping them in.” fourfold. monitors and controls the amount of water The replacement plan was one reason for ighteen million blueberries are set to be Starting with one hectare, it has grown to and nutrients required. the orchard’s staggered growth. Each year picked at Uawa/Tolaga Bay this year as four and increased its number of bushes from Each plant will be picked around 10 times more canopy cover and plants would be EHauiti Berries’ production continues to 9000 to just under 20,000. as the fruit ripens, meaning staff will rustle added so there would be a variety in the age increase — up from 6.5 million last year. Everything relating to the growing and through the bushes roughly 200,000 times of bushes for rotation. People can expect to see the punnets in maintaining of the plants is computer- over the three-month picking period. Hauiti Berries works as a supplier for supermarkets later this year. controlled. This will be the Hauiti Berries’ third BerryCo, which handle the sales. All Hauiti Since The Gisborne Herald visited the The plants are grown in individual 30-litre harvest. has to do is produce the best berries it can. In its first year, it picked 500 kilograms The only product to market Hauiti deals of blueberries. That was ramped up to with is rejected fruit — not up to the high 17,000kg the second year and this year it is standard of the retail market — which is hoped to reach 54,000kg. sold as a frozen product to places like fruit The company is aiming for 100,000kg by ice-cream shops. 2022 if everything goes to plan. Steve says the Eureka berry from BerryCo BREEDING BULLS Hauiti Berries continues to test growing produces large, firm, dark blue berries that styles and methods because, while it gets are juicy and flavourful. S I N C E 1 9 4 9 information from others in the business, “We’re six weeks ahead of schedule. If we each climate is different and localities have can stop the disease coming in we’ll start their individual quirks, operations manager harvest in the first week of August.” Steve Phelps says. Last year, Hauiti did not harvest until the The plants are known to have a productive second week of September. life cycle of around seven years but Steve Steve puts the potential earlier start this says they will wait to see how production year down to climate, different processes on goes. the farm and older trees. If they fruit well, they could go longer. The bulk of the picking, though, will be “We have a replacement plan in place but from September to the end of November, if they are still producing 25 to 27 tonnes followed by a month of pruning and clean-
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Hauiti Berries Blueberries still green operations before picking season. manager Steve Phelps among the blueberry bushes.
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Worker James Keelan keeping bushes free of weeds at Hauiti Berries blueberry farm on the Tolaga Bay flats.
up. With the bushes growing strong and “We’re looking at picking early morning, 100 percent local workers that’s fantastic, “We’re still figuring things out here but berries budding, now all they need to do and from 4pm to 7pm, which could open but there is a requirement . . . we expect they’re a beautiful product to work with and is lock down reliable pickers for when the it up to high school students keen to do a people to show up every picking day, which it’s only going to get better.” harvest arrives. three-hour stint at the end of the day,” Steve is Monday to Saturday.” Hauiti Berries is holding recruitment days “We’re looking for about 60 to 70 people says. This year Hauiti Berries will be over the next four weeks, giving interested to work this year.” “Obviously if we can’t find enough labour incentivising pickers by offering a base workers the chance to see the operation and Hauiti Berries is looking at different we’ll have to look at contractors or even wage topped up with a “paid-per-kilo rate”, talk with Steve about work options. strategies to encourage locals to join their further afield. meaning hard workers will be able to make It will be advertising on social media workforce over the four months of work. “If we can service our requirements with over the Living Wage, Steve says. soon.
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Shepherd Penny Wilson with her four dogs — huntaways Grit and Pearl and heading dogs Liz and Haze. She has two pups, Floss and Witch, in training.
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enny Wilson says being a shepherd Penny was the only young woman in isn’t for everyone but she is thriving 2019 and was there to mentor a junior on the challenges in a male- young woman for her senior year. dominated industry. Cadets do Level 3 and 4 agricultural The 19-year-old from Wairoa is the fifth certificates, with the junior year focused on generation from her family on the land. general work before moving to stock work She grew up on a 260-hectare farm and for their final 12 months. was always the one helping dad Fenton During lockdown Penny and two other when anything needed to be done. senior cadets headed to Hadley Charteris’ She remembers vividly at around 10 farm for seven weeks work. seeing neighbour Bex Scragg work some On return to Waipaoa, Penny said she stock when helping on their farm. was intent on just putting her head down “She was so pretty and just out there and finishing the year strongly. doing it,” says Penny. “She has been my Waipaoa manager James Maher left in role model ever since.” October of her final year but she says it Bex lives on Tukemokihi Station and was heartening to have such strong support Penny says she’s a strong personality who from him. gets plenty of respect from the men in the “I am proud of what I achieved at industry. Waipaoa.” Penny’s lifelong affinity with animals She headed to Parikanapa Station at meant she was always going to do Tiniroto as a casual for two months and something on the land but wasn’t sure ended up being offered a full-time job. what direction that would take her. “I love it there,” says Penny of her work Watching Bex inspired her into on the 3700ha — 2600ha effective — shepherding. sheep and beef station, where she is one of While in Year 12, she applied for the a “really great” team of six. Waipaoa Cadet Training Trust programme. Penny has six dogs. She broke in She made it to the short list, which meant huntaway Grit and heading dog Liz while heading back to school for Year 13. at Waipaoa, bought huntaway Pearl and “It kicked me in the guts a bit and heading dog Haze, and is working on two I almost went off the idea of it all and pups — Floss and Witch. Penny Wilson at home working on Parikanapa Station at Tiniroto. started thinking about going to university “Witch is well named. You can’t tell her instead,” she said. off otherwise she sulks. Let’s just say she is But in February she got a call from learning her trade.” Waipaoa saying a junior cadet had pulled While they usually get around on side- out. by-side buggies, during winter they use “I went up there with Mum and Dad to horses for safety. look around.” Penny plays netball for Ngatapa and says Put on the spot when asked what she while her job calls for fitness, she struggles was going to do, Penny said, “I could see with a different fitness on the court. Mum was pretty hesitant because she “Farm work is physically challenging, wanted me to finish Year 13, but Dad was and you need to be ready to be challenged, into it. but key is working smarter, not harder. “I was worried if I didn’t take it, I That way you aren’t wearing your body out. wouldn’t get another opportunity and I “There is still that old-fashioned really just wanted to be there. So I was at mentality out there about where women school one week and there the next.” should or shouldn’t be, but I adore it. I am Five weeks in and she faced her first working with animals, with cool people big challenge when she fell off the two- who you can have a good laugh with, wheeler and dislocated her elbow. and at the end of the day you can see the “I was put on light hostel duties for two progress in both yourself and the farm. months, which was a tough run.” Every day is different.” When she finally got back to work, she When she heads home to her little was six months behind the rest but she whare at the end of each day she is made up for it, winning the top academic rewarded by a stunning vista. prize at the end of the year. “I look out there and think how cool it Waipaoa takes in five cadets annually for is to be a woman in this industry. the two-year course. They start as juniors “More and more women are coming and then move to seniors for their second through and it is great to be one of them, year. out there doing a good job and loving it.” 33983-01
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Taruheru Nursery owner Giuseppe Martelli with tens of thousands of young kiwifruit plants.
by Jack Marshall Gisborne orchards at Taruheru Nursery. “I come from a family of academics in iuseppe Martelli was sitting inside the agriculture sector. My father was a wearing a lab coat in front of a virologist — a plant pathologist — and my microscope in southern Italy when grandfather was an entomologist. heG noticed two men fixing — or trying to “I broke the cycle. I wanted to get my Best wishes to the East Coast fix — a tractor. hands dirty not only doing technical stuff Tired of being indoors he went out to but practical things as well.” have a look. He succeeded. “They were attempting to fix it but Giuseppe’s Nelson Road nursery & Wairoa bu br ders nothing much was happening. produces some of the best plants for Giuseppe went out and had a chat with growers around the country. them, fiddled around with a few things on “We grow citrus, avocado and kiwifruit the motor and the tractor roared to life. plants for commercial orchards. That was the end of indoor life and the Eighty percent of our clientele is local.” beginning of a life outdoors about 30 years For the last three years, Taruheru ago in southern Italy, says Giuseppe, who Nursery has sold many plants to growers now grows tens of thousands of plants for wanting to expand.
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FUTURE GUACAMOLE: Rows of avocados at Taruheru Nursery getting ready for planting. Picture by Paul Rickard.
began growing when he was a teenager. countries, making the most of a 12-month He has heard people say there was no “It started as a small business in my summer. money in citrus, so they replanted their parent’s backyard, growing mushrooms and In 2006, when Janine got pregnant, they orchards in apples and kiwifruit with higher selling them at the farmers’ market in Italy. decided to move permanently to New returns. “Then things grew to a point that it Zealand. However, Giuseppe says those returns can was too much for me to comprehend and “I had a few midlife crises before getting be temporary in a volatile market, whereas manage. I burnt myself a few times due to into this business (he is in now). I joined the citrus proved steady. lack of experience and being too young and police force for a while but about five years “It is always going to be up and down, and wanting to have a Porsche under my ass, ago I found there was something missing in someone is going to lose money for someone rather than focusing on the business.” my life and it was this. else to make money.” After this reality check, his business “So I joined the farmers’ market, But at the end of the day, Giuseppe says started to tick along nicely. producing a few plants for gardeners and the nursery is a market-driven business. Then the pan-European currency came home growers, and then my first commercial “We have our eyes on the market and we into force with the euro in 1999 and client approached me and asked if I could know what is going on.” everything changed. do big numbers.” And business is booming beyond what The European market opened up and They asked for 5000 plants and Giuseppe Giuseppe thought was possible. many more players entered the market. agreed. “I shouldn’t say this, especially coming Suddenly the products Giuseppe was Now the nursery sells tens of thousands of from Italy . . . but Covid has been the best growing in southern Italy were undercut by plants a year. thing that could have happened to us. cheaper goods flooding Europe. With his knowledge of plants and soils, “All of a sudden we had clients that would But there was a silver lining. The high growers can go to the nursery to get advice order 10, 20 percent of our stock, then they worth of the euro made his farm assets on the best plants for their land. were placing orders for 50 or 60 percent of worth a lot more. There is also a lot of information out our stock, and I was thinking, ‘what is going “So I decided to sell the business and there for growers to tap into, he says. on?’” CONTINUED PAGE 14 have a break.” With New Zealand one of the rising players in the wine industry, Giuseppe says The operation looks modest from the it became a very appealing location because street but the number of trees coming out there was room for growth. is impressive. When he came here at the turn of Farm & Lifestyle sheds The business sells 25,000 to 30,000 the millennium to test the waters he citrus trees a year to garden centres and found operators were not quite his cup of commercial buyers. cappuccino. Last year it sold 35,000 avocado trees, “I didn’t fit within the brackets of the but that plummeted to about 12,000 this New Zealand wine industry at the time. It year. was too new and . . . maybe too arrogant for Giuseppe speculates the drop in avocado my liking, and I didn’t want to put money tree sales might be because people are into something I didn’t believe too much moving to cloned trees rather than in.” planting from seed. While he failed to find a place in the The nursery also grows thousands of New Zealand wine industry, he did succeed plants for the booming kiwifruit industry. in finding his future wife, Janine. Movement in the market is something When Janine headed to England for nurseries deal with and Giuseppe has been her OE and Giuseppe went back to Italy, in the game long enough to know. He they spent five years travelling between the
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Hardy rootstocks are planted then later grafted with Low interest rates and closed borders la crème of New Zealand and should be productive varieties of citrus. are what happened. recognised for that. “You can’t go overseas, you can’t Like Amalfi Coast in Italy is famous spend that money on travel, and they for its lemons, so too should Gisborne be. say keeping money in the bank is not “It should be recognised as the best worth it . . . so investing in land, plants citrus in the whole country. and permanent cropping seems to be the “We are very fortunate with the climate thing for buyers. — the fact that further down south there “If clients would have asked me before is not much growing and up north there Covid if there was a way to increase our are only one or two other regions that do business 40 or 60 percent in six months, I it. would have said, ‘I don’t know, Bitcoin?’ “It could be quite an elite niche market “But no, Covid. It has been crazy.” here if it was controlled and tightly And this rush of money is driving managed. growers to battle for plants. “I think Gizzy could thrive.” “With kiwifruit is it war. We get people As far as the future of horticulture in who are happy to pay a deposit for the Gisborne goes, Giuseppe believes growers plant, then come this time of the year, should be more involved with each other, when they get the licence, they ring us working together as cooperatives rather and ask if their plants are ready . . . I tell than as individuals. them ‘as we agreed, everything will be “Sometimes it is hard for those in ready in December.’ the apple market because there is huge “Then they say, ‘no worries, keep the control from multi-national companies. deposit, I have found plants elsewhere’.” “For instance, the grape industry. For This has happened a few times already. years there have been blocks with a half- Fortunately, Giuseppe can sell the plants hectare or two hectares that were growing within a week to other buyers when the grapes and selling them to winemakers. time is right. “The grower is just an operator and Then there is the matter of poaching. they can be told to spray with this, spray Giuseppe says clients call him and say with that.” they know he is growing kiwifruit for Giuseppe says if businesses work another person and they are willing to pay together they can have more leverage more. over the sale and better control over the Although the kiwifruit business is growing conditions. booming, Giuseppe says in his humble “The tendency is always the same. I opinion, growers should not forget about look after my backyard, I look after my Gisborne’s high-quality citrus. vege garden. “There has been a revival of citrus in “But if they can change that mentality Gisborne.” I think that would be a benefit for He says Gisborne citrus is the crème de everyone.”
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Angus Association and basing their herd’s “To be honest, the property is better than performance data analysis in Australia. we anticipated and Patrick (Lane) has been “We know the Australian beef sector fantastic to deal with, making the transition is more focused on the use of estimated very smooth,” he says. breeding values (EBVs) in bull selection and Tom will oversee the farm’s commercial we know the science supports the use of operations and stud cattle enterprise while EBVs and indexes for selection of the best Andrew will contribute to overall strategic genetics for our clients.” decision-making and provide animal health Ill-health forced Patrick to lease out the advice and services. Whangara farm, but he is delighted with the The pair have employed two permanent outcome. staff to run the day-to-day operations at “The farm is in excellent hands and I could Whangara. not be happier for Tom and Andrew who Chris Richardson took on the role of now have the chance to run it like their own.” managing the farm from mid-April and was Patrick says the whole beef industry is joined soon after by a shepherd general. evolving and changing so rapidly. Tom says he enjoys the genetics side of “I’ve seen it in the United States and it’s cattle breeding and is looking forward to coming on fast here in New Zealand and building on the great foundation laid by across the Tasman, too.” Whangara stud principal Patrick, a stud To take full advantage of the power of breeder he describes as innovative and an genomics, Patrick says it requires youth and outside-the-box thinker. dynamism to capture the gains through “Patrick placed a lot of emphasis on innovation and new technologies. breeding values and performance so we want “Every other business is heading that to build on this with a vision to breed high- way. They are quickly adopting any new, performance, highly-functional maternal proven technologies to create better or cattle that will deliver maximum value to more products. The beef industry will be no our commercial clients on East Coast hill different,” he says. Future country.” Patrick predicts the wider adoption of Tom’s own Gold Creek Simmental genomics-based selection will lead to fewer stud bull sale is about a month before the larger studs with the size and genetic diversity Whangara sale slot in the Gisborne Angus to deliver large numbers of predictable bull week in early June. performing bulls for the beef sector. focused “That will help to spread the workloads for “These will be used widely through preparing bulls for the auctions.” artificial insemination and natural mating.” Tom says the stud’s fifth bull sale after Tom Sanson (left) and Andrew “Cribby” Cribb, have leased the Lane Brothers’ taking over will be particularly significant for property at Whangara. Picture by Strike Photography them. Reprinted with permission from Country- “That fifth sale is our first generation of Wide, May 2021. To subscribe to Country- armer Tom Sanson and veterinarian detailed appraisal for the family. bulls based on our selections, so that is the Wide or sign up to regular newsletters, Andrew Cribb are the new leasees of For Tom, the long-term lease is a similar real test of progress we have made based on visit www.nzfarmlife.media.co.nz Whangara Angus FLane Bros stud. arrangement to his home farm at Otoko, our own decisions.” Tony Leggett, of Country-Wide which he and his wife Adeline have leased magazine, spoke with Tom to find out more from his parents for the past 12 years. 18 QUALITY WELL FLESHED BULLS about the duo’s plans for the farm, which “The 20-year term means we can invest also runs commercial cows and sheep. in the property almost as though we own it JOIN US AT OUR ourselves, which is great,” he says. Tom and Andrew are equal partners “Andrew and I have looked for ways to TUESDAY in the venture and took over in March expand and opportunities like this don’t ON-FARM 29TH JUNE 2021 after agreeing to a 10-year term, with come up often, so we were keen to give it another 10-year right of renewal for the our best shot.” AT 9AM 1006-hectare (900ha effective) farm. The farm has 76ha of flat country and a SALE AT VIEWING FROM 7:30AM They bought the entire livestock, water system which feeds troughs in almost comprising 300 Angus commercial cows every paddock from a massive lake on the RATANUI SIRES: and young stock plus sheep, and the highly- property. MANGAPAPA SCOTTY respected Whangara Angus stud cattle “The infrastructure on the farm includes herd developed over decades by studmaster an all-weather central lane, plus several sets ANGUS RATANUI GLADIATOR Patrick Lane. of yards and a bull sales complex. 899 TAUWHAREPARAE RD RATANUI KODIAK The opportunity to lease the farm was “It is an amazing property and one that I TOLAGA BAY TWIN OAKS K065 handled by Bayleys Gisborne real estate could only have dreamed of owning myself.” agent Stephen Thomson, who produced a The lease agreement also includes an 18 GOAT BUYER BULLS
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39598-01 20 FROM THE LAND B+LNZ ahead of the game future-focused beef programme “These will be focused on this performance data and feedback. designed to generate more country’s pasture-based system, where Mr Brier said B+LNZ Genetics Aincome for beef producers and cows play the dual role of supporting would use its experience of building the economy while protecting the sheep production and producing a a genetic engine for sheep to build environment is being hailed as an high-quality product.” a similar engine for beef, combining industry answer to increasing demand A data measurement and collection phenotypic, genotypic and genomic for high-quality food with a lower system is being developed to collect data to calculate breeding values for footprint. phenotypic and genotypic data, and a agreed traits. The Beef + Lamb New Zealand new Beef Progeny Test, using Angus, Ultimately, under Informing NZ Genetics programme builds on Hereford and Simmental genetics, Beef, B+LNZ Genetics plans to previous work, including the Beef will identify the performance of extend nProve genetics systems to Progeny Test and transtasman the agreed-on traits, linking with include stud cattle. This would give Maternal Cow Project. international beef and dairy-beef commercial users the ability to quickly B+LNZ Genetics’ general manager genetics. and easily source the right genetics for Dan Brier said with the right science “The Beef Progeny Test got under their environment and farm system. and tools farmers will be able to way last spring after having secured “The final and arguably most produce great-tasting meat with a farm and identified bulls to create important part of the beef programme a good environmental story while linkages to international datasets and is industry uptake, and we will bring maintaining and improving their previous progeny tests,” Mr Brier said. a laser-like focus to this challenge, production efficiencies. “Time is of the essence when dealing ensuring we are transferring knowledge “Our meat companies are already with biological systems so we took the to commercial farmers and making moving in this direction, with opportunity to get started so we have cutting-edge tools and resources several introducing quality grading calves on the ground this year.” available to the industry.” systems and working under the Taste The third area Pure Nature initiative to target the of work is the use ‘conscious foodie’ consumer,” Mr Brier of next-generation said. commercial genomic Modelling has shown that through tools to support stud the programme farmers can increase and commercial the beef industry’s income by operations. $460 million while improving the Commercial environmental and social outcomes for farmers, who are their farms and communities. performance- The beef programme incorporates recording, will be Beef + Lamb NZ four areas of work, which start with used to ground-truth general manager the development of New Zealand- the tools and provide genetics Dan Brier. centric breeding objectives. broader-based
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