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Hot air balloonists from all over the globe will attend the Balloons Over Waikato festival from April 3-7

The event has drawn hot air balloon pilots from all over the globe.

“We are an international event,” said Classic Events managing director Michele Connell.

“So balloonists come from as far as Europe, USA and Brazil, with a contingent of Australians attending every year.

“The event is free, making it one of the last large scale free events in the country.”

As many as thirty balloons are expected during the five-day event which starts with the Hamilton city ascension launch on April 3. Balloons will be co-ordinated to lift off simultaneously at 7.30am from six parks across the city. At approximately 5.30pm, the balloons will once again commence inflation and fly from Hamilton Lake’s Innes Common.

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Hot air balloons of various shapes, sizes and colours will take to the skies in April during the Balloons Over Waikato festival.

Around 6.30am the following morning, a number of balloons will lift off from Innes Common just before dawn. The remainder of the balloons will rise as dawn breaks. The first 2000 people who arrive on the grounds will receive a free breakfast thanks to Fonterra, Sanitarium and Waikato Environment Centre Hamilton.

In the afternoon, the balloons will be on display at Westfield Chartwell between 3-6pm, providing an opportunity for children to have a tethered balloon ride from the roof top carpark.

On April 5 the balloons will commence inflation at Innes Common and various schools around Hamilton. Pilots will talk to the pupils and if weather permits launch from the school fields. The Balloons Over Waikato parade will take place down Hamilton’s Hood Street at 7pm.

The cash grab competition will take place around 7.30am the following day when balloonists will attempt to remove $1,000 from the top of a pole at Innes Common.

Between 4-9pm the nightglow at Waikato University will feature an orchestrated balloon glow show and fireworks finale.

“We outgrew our previous nightglow venue and now see approximately 80,000 spectators attend the nightglow,” said Ms Connell.

“Over the years many new ideas and initiatives have been added, making it fresh and exciting every year.”

The final day of the festival will see the balloons provide tethered rides for children for a gold coin donation at Innes Common. All proceeds will go towards Lions International Clubs.

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Taumarunui farmer Bill Love (centre) made two 200km trips to deliver grain and fencing to the Emmett’s livestock animal sanctuary at Te Akau after reading their story in last month’s issue of Waikato Farming Lifestyles. Jacqui Emmett is on the right and her daughter Charlea on the left

When Taumarunui farmer Bill Love read a story about Jacqui Emmett and her family’s efforts to provide a sanctuary for livestock animals in last month’s issue of Waikato Farming Lifestyles, he wondered how he could help out.

A short time later he was travelling north with a trailer-load of barley and a few rolls of recycled chain link fencing to deliver to the Emmett’s Little Acres Farm.

Bill wasn’t entirely sure where in Te Akau the Emmett’s lived, but he wasn’t daunted by the task of tracking them down. He stopped at the Hamilton police station, a veterinarian clinic and Animates Pet Store to ask directions. The staff at Animates checked their database and found a phone number for the Emmett’s. And a short time later, Bill was on his way to the Emmett’s property to deliver his trailer-load of livestock feed and supplies.

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The arrival of the barley was timely with the Waikato officially declared a drought zone.

Just the day before Bill turned up, Jacqui had arranged the purchase of several bales of hay and travelled 100kms to pick them up, only to be told on arrival that it had been sold to a farmer the day before.

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“Now, the very next day here was a total stranger who had gone out of his way to donate feed for our rescue animals after reading the article.”

The following day, Bill made another 200km trip to deliver a second load of grain to Little Acres Farm.

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“In the past 10 to 15 years it shows that our turnover has grown three fold as have our staff.”

Stephen’s great, great uncle, a Morrinsville solicitor, drew up the co-operative’s original deed of incorporation. Having learnt the history from a young age, Stephen identifies the great wars and innovation into long life milk products as being poignant moments.

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“I had to choose between motocross or horses,” Mikayla, now 18, says. “Dad or Mum. Mum won.”

All three Woods women got into competitive riding, often competing against each other. “The girls have long left me behind,” says Natalie. “But that’s how the sand arena first came about — we needed it for working with the horses. And then we wanted to jump.”

With his trio of equestriennes demanding more space, Paul obligingly got in a digger and built a bank complex for jumping.

“By the time we decided to go all out and build the cross country course we had more and more people riding here, so we hired professional course

designer Robbie MacLean,” Natalie says. “And then we found that the dressage people tended to be intolerant of the show jumping people, and everyone was suggesting that we build an indoor

arena, so we thought, why not?”

“We definitely did not go into this as a full blown business venture — you could even say we went in with our eyes closed!

We were just green riders who wanted somewhere to ride, and we soon realised that other people had the same problem. Initially we thought we’d be lucky to get two people in a week, but it’s just grown and grown. And we get to ride all we want.”

Mikayla, who is studying for a Bachelor of Environmental Planning at Waikato University and Flagged water jump at Little Valley Farm

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also runs the office for the business, is currently training hard to qualify for the under 21 New Zealand dressage squad. Jessica and her horse, Too Predictable, are aiming for a world ranking in show jumping, and both sisters have an eventual Olympic qualification in their sights.

Natalie thinks Little Valley Farm is probably the only privately owned riding venue of its kind in New Zealand. But although their indoor arena is of professional international show jumping standard and they regularly host clinics tutored by top national and international trainers, the Woods maintain an open door policy and welcome all horse lovers, from pony clubs on up.

“We cater for everyone, from people who have never ridden before to Mark Todd. The entire facility is available for hire by the public and we just love to see them.”

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Hoof PrintWith Fred Hoekstra

Scientific trials haven’t shown any evidence of that. There is no proof that hard hooves minimise lameness. If you believe that lameness is caused by physical forces then you should be very surprised. Consider this, our soldiers in the army wear proper army boots rather than sneakers. The army boots can handle the rough landscape much better than sneakers. If you harden up the hooves then they accordingly should be a lot more hard wearing, and therefore be able to cope with their physical environment better resulting in less ‘stone bruising’ and white line disease. But that doesn’t seem to be the case at all. How can you explain that?

If you have been reading my articles then you probably know what I am going to say. Our experience is that we can go to a farm where the hooves are really soft and yet there is very little haemorrhage in the hooves. Then we go to farms where the hooves are very hard to the point where it almost feels like we are cutting concrete and yet the hooves display much more haemorrhaging.

How can you explain that from a physical damage point of view? The reason is that it is not physical force that causes the problem. The problem comes from the inside out rather than from the outside in. The live tissue (corium or quick) is unhealthy and this

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So no matter how hard you make the hooves if the corium is unhealthy you will still end up with lame cows. I would argue that if you have lame cows you are better off to have your cows on soft feet instead. Soft hooves don’t penetrate into the wound the same and therefore are more comfortable for the cow. So why do you want to harden the

the heel bulb of the claw. This is a big problem in Europe and America.

Cows over there are very lame when they have it. Digital Dermatitis has arrived in New Zealand as well. Cows don’t seem to get lame from it like they do overseas but it is very important that we treat cases here because it can turn into a major issue. When you see a case the best thing is to take a photo and email it to us, make it dry with a paper towel and spray it with tetravet. Repeat this treatment in about five days.

It is also a good idea to walk the herd through a foot bath with formalin. In this case it needs to be a bath and not a mat because the liquid needs to get up onto the skin above the claw. A mat can’t do that.

Apart from that you don’t need footbaths or hoof mats. You will have better experience if you use that money to buy a bunch of flowers for your wife!

How many of you use hoof mats or foot baths? What are you trying to achieve with it and how helpful do you find them? You may say that you are trying to harden the feet and find that it is very effective, and I would have to agree that footbaths can make cows feet very hard — especially when you use formalin. But does it minimise lameness?


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Blood-sucking insects are more than just an annoying, itchy pest — they carry with them all kinds of nasty diseases which can debilitate and sometimes even endanger life. But sometimes preventing the ravages of � eas, ticks and mosquitoes can seem just as pesky as the problem insects themselves!

“Living on a lifestyle block that was an ex deer farm with sandy loam soil brought with it the challenge of keeping ticks off the horses every year, resulting in a myriad of chemicals being applied at an alarming rate. Gloving up and spraying or washing the horses on a very regular basis seemed the only option,” say Karen and Chris, owners of innovative company Equipet +.

“In addition, we had not much success last year in keeping � eas and ticks off the dogs. Again chemical applications or pills the only possible solution — until we heard of a business for sale importing natural repellent products manufactured in France by AB7 Veterinary Industries.”

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It’s the best natural defence against � eas, ticks, mosquitoes and other pesky insects.No spraying, washing, or pill popping of chemicals is involved; each animal or person can be protected with a special collar or band, which is easy to put on and simple to replace as necessary.

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The way to maximise responses in winter is to minimise the energy the plant needs to expend to get fertiliser N into the plant, and in a form it can turn into protein as easily as possible. Plants, and this includes pasture plants, can take up urea directly through the leaves, provided it is in liquid or solution form. The application rate must not be excessively high as this can cause leaf burn as the leaf surface dries out during the day. It is very important to include a urease inhibitor — otherwise urease enzyme on the plant leaves can result in much of the urea being converted to ammonia gas and lost to the atmosphere.

Once inside the plant, urea can be processed into ammonium-N and then amino acids — the building block of protein — with less energy consumption by the plant than pulling nitrate-N up through the roots and then reducing the nitrate to ammonium-N.

Getting grass faster in winterby Dr Bert Quin, fertiliser and soil fertility consultant

Up to 40kg of additional DM can be produced with each kg of N applied in this way. This much higher efficiency gives several advantages, including lower costs per additional kg of DM, greatly reduced losses to the environment, and the ability to add in trace elements and sulphur (S), gibberellic acid (GA3), pasture weed sprays and so on.

When GA3 is applied by itself, the potential response is often limited because the plant roots can not take up the extra N and S needed to build the DM that the GA3 is ‘instructing’ it to do.

Applying N, along with S and trace elements if needed, with the GA3 fixes that.

As soil temperatures and sunlight hours drop, plants have less energy for growth. We can boost growth with fertiliser N, but plants struggle to turn the N into growth. For example, in the warmer seasons, a kg of N as granular urea will produce 10-20 kg of additional dry matter. In winter this drops to as low as 4-8 kg, which is often uneconomic


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“New Zealand settlers brought these traditions to this country when they settled the land, importing and releasing ducks, pheasants and quail.

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“In many regions the season for mallards is now limited,” adds Simon. However you can hunt pheasants for four months and an increasing number of hunters are now enjoying walked-up pheasant shooting over well trained dogs.

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The Step Forward fundraiser has been organised by international road safety charity, Brake. Founded in the United Kingdom in 1995 and formed in New Zealand in 2010, Brake has two key aims: preventing road deaths and injuries, and caring for people who have been bereaved or seriously injured in a crash.

Last year, 307 people died on New Zealand roads.

Brake New Zealand spokesperson Carolyn Perry, said that’s 307 families who found out the devastating news that their loved one would not be coming home.

“Many more families, friends and communities will have been affected by someone they care about being killed or seriously injured in a crash.”

An opportunity to remember road accident victims, their families and friends, and help to raise funds for support services for those families will run all this year.

The Step Forward campaign asks people to set themselves a sporting challenge that relates to the number 307, in remembrance of those who lost their lives on New Zealand roads in 2012.

“Everyone can take part — adults and children, individuals and groups, and there are lots of ways to challenge yourself,” said Miss Perry.

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Have you ever worked in a noisy environment or been exposed to high noise levels? Perhaps you contributed to the growth and development of our economy through industries like farming, forestry or manufacturing. Many New Zealanders who worked in such industries throughout the 60s, 70s, and 80s did not have access to adequate hearing protection. As a result there are thousands of New Zealanders living with significant noise induced hearing loss.

The damage caused to your hearing by noise is irreversible and permanent. For those affected this is a disability that will not go away. Unfortunately, the compensation and ongoing support has been dramatically reduced with the 2010 changes introduced by ACC. These changes mean that ACC no longer cover the full cost of hearing aids, hearing aid repairs, and ongoing assessments. Effectively, as those with Noise Induced Hearing Loss get older, they will need to pay more for the rehabilitation they had previously trusted ACC to provide.

ACC funding is now structured into funding levels, with the amount you qualify for depending on the level of hearing loss that an independent Ear Nose and Throat specialist determines is caused by noise or an accident.

Sadly, even the highest level of funding available may fall well below the cost of the hearing aids required to meet a persons individual hearing needs. The impact of the ACC funding changes means that some people simply cannot afford to ‘top up’ the funded amount to purchase the level of technology they need.

People with untreated hearing loss can experience feelings of isolation, anxiety, depression and reduced job performance. However research shows that hearing aids can help improve the confidence and self esteem of those who wear them, and lead to improved family relationships.

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Hearing aid technology has improved exponentially in recent years, and amazing results can be achieved with the latest models, so this is a huge advantage for Bay Audiologyclients.

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Genomic Selection holds huge promise of faster value gains from genetic improvement of commercial tree species

The Radiata Pine Breeding Company Ltd. (RPBC) is a New Zealand company focussed on the provision of superior radiata pine germplasm to its shareholders and customers in Australasia. RPBC is embarking a development programme which can halve the traditional 25-30 year breeding and deployment cycle. The economic impact is huge as the rate of improvement in key traits, eg growth and wood quality, is doubled.

Genomic Selection is the key technology to enable this development. Genomic Selection is bringing changes to animal and plant breeding because it:

• speeds the breeding and deployment cycle by reducing the need for progeny tests

• allows the selection and evaluation of multiple traits simultaneously

• reduces cost and time for assessing traits that are difficult or expensive to measure

• allows the quick introduction of new traits such as disease resistance

• establishes a platform for introduction of other molecular technologies

The major overall gain arising from genomic selection is that genetically improved planting stock is deployed more rapidly in commercial forests. Unlike GE, there are no regulatory barriers to uptake.

What is Genomic Selection?Traditionally, breeding values are

calculated by observing and measuring the expressed trait in the subject tree as it is growing (phenotypic data). It can take some years before such traits can be observed or measured

for. Genomic Selection, on the other hand (and this is where it can get pretty technical), involves identifying patterns of molecular markers along strands of DNA, the genetic blueprint, of trees being tested. These patterns are compared to those of a pedigree of genotypes with known phenotypic data (called a training population).

This allows individuals with good genetic matches to desired traits/phenotypes to be identified. Such diagnostics can be done in the nursery when the plant is less than one year old. By contrast, to generate phenotypic data using traditional methods the plant would normally be grown to six — eight years old.

RPBC considers that Genomic Selection is sufficiently well developed and commercially proven in many plant and animal applications to be implemented in the NZ radiata pine industry.

In addition, there is a small window within which the chance of obtaining government funding is high, after which the chance of funding will be seriously diminished as new processes and priorities are introduced. Work already underway, funded mainly by Scion with some RPBC assistance, has built a robust R&D programme and created a network of international technical experts to help guide the programme.

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And, it’s not just farmers, most people believe that electricity prices are too high. They find it difficult to understand why the costs have escalated well above the rate of inflation since about 2002 when the government introduced the market led model.

Despite obvious evidence of profitgauging and poor capital reinvestment politicians have steadfastly defended the current structure.

Electricity is as vital to our economy as our roads and water resources. The cost of not having supply is huge. Ask

Bill Guest, Farmers of New ZealandBe my GuestPowers costs continue

to be far too highthose in the Far North District of New Zealand who have had to put up with a third world electricity supply for years. The network is actually turned off for a day each year for maintenance. Close to the whole district is simply turned off! I wonder if Auckland or Wellington would find this acceptable?

Power should not be managed through an artificial market model. We should simply pay the cost of supply plus what is required to maintain the current asset and build more as it is required.

This “market” system based on selling kWh has serious shortcomings that should be obvious to all. All power generators get paid at the price bid by the highest bidder. Because generators only earn income when they actually generate electricity there is no incentive to build spare generation. The greater the shortage the better the price!

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We should not be privatising this commodity because there is simply no alternative or substitute. The market model does not work either effectively or efficiently in such circumstances. If this government was really determined to build and grow our economy to provide good well paid jobs they should not have an energy policy that escalates cost per kWh and reduces any incentive to maintain or build capacity.

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