November Issue Rural Lifestyle Magazine

ISSUE 50

RODNEY'S

NOVEMBER 2011

Landscaping – The low-down on native grasses pg 3

Land speed record triumph at Bonneville USA pg 8

Three generations on AAPA Council pg 10

Horsin’ around – Building your horse’s confidence pg 12

Ron’s fabulous cafeteria for chooks pg 14

Weeds – 3 of the most unwanted pg 16

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We’ve reached a fairly significant milestone for us – 50 issues. Not bad when you consider I knew nothing about publishing a magazine just over 4 years ago. See page 9 for more on the magazine’s history.

Our cover image, courtesy of Jeff Venuga, is of Ben Longwell wrangling a cavvy (Western vernacular for a group of riding horses). In June we wrote about Ben’s background as a working cowboy back in Western Colorado. We’re pleased to have Ben contribute his expertise on horse psychology this issue.

First up, Grant McKechnie tells us how to plant native grasses so they’ll survive.

Next, one of our regular advertisers, Peter Merrie of Kitchen Works, shares with us the experience of being a crew chief in the team smashing a land speed record at the famous Bonneville Flats in Utah.

Helen Martin writes on a first, the involvement of three generations from one family in the Auckland Agriculture and Pastoral Association, and interviews another local inventor, Ron Clarke, who

developed and is now exporting a chook feeder. I met Ron and his wife Ruth almost a year ago and was amazed that he came up with the concept and developed it into a highly marketable product out of a garden shed.

Lastly, I catch up with Dave Beattie to talk about how to tackle pasture invaders. There’s nothing appealing about seeing a sea of yellow instead of green pastures and as I found out it’s not good for stock or horses either.

50 issues is a milestone that gives me the opportunity to say thanks to our incredible team for helping create what has become a respected and well-read publication. Firstly to Marlene, our Sales Manager. Marlene has been driving sales since issue 9 and I know we wouldn’t have reached 50 if it wasn’t for her unfailing determination. Helen, our sub-editor and writer who tirelessly works on all the contributors’ stories as well as her own stories, makes the magazine so professional in many respects. Dan, our graphic designer who brings the stories and adverts harmoniously together and makes it work visually, and our accommodating printers who manage

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So what grass should you put where?Let’s start with dry conditions first. Carex testacea is a really popular grass that will cope well in dry spots (but will also handle slightly damp conditions). It grows to about 60cm high and has brick-orange colouring. Another carex that prefers life on the drier side is Carex ‘Frosted Curls’, which is best in good soil. It gets to 30cm or so and has a silvery tufted look.

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All the grasses I’ve mentioned above will also grow in normal soils.

When it comes to wet areas, there are several native carexes that

look quite similar, grow in similar conditions and do a similar job.

Carex secta, C. virgata and C. dipsacea all grow in normal to boggy

soil conditions. The variances come in their mature heights. Secta

grows to about 1 to 1.5m, and forms a little mound at its base over

time, while dipsacea gets to about 80cm. Both are green with an

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A Nissan stalwart, Cook chose a Nissan 2.0 NX Coupe with an SR20 twin cam 4 valve engine for the attempt and a dedicated group of 20 people spent a year building the car to the strict rules governing the class. While the rules allow for extensive modifications to the engine and suspension the outside body work must remain standard. The rules relating to safety – roll cage, on-board fire extinguishers, wheel rims, safety belts, and

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With temperatures hovering around 40 degrees and a week-long event, it was to be a test of physical endurance for the team as well as of car performance. “Attracting over six hundred competitors and around 4,000 crew members, it was a challenge just to find your way around,” says Merrie. “The pit area alone stretched for over two kilometres along the salt flats.”

After completing rookie orientation (none of the team had previously taken part in the Bonneville event) the car was lined up for its first run. An understandably nervous Cook was waved away by the starter and at the end of the 3 mile mark the car had achieved a remarkable 168 mph ((269 km/hr).

The team was delighted at how well the car performed straight out of the box.

To qualify as an official record another run over the same course had to be completed the next morning. The average of the two runs would stand as the new record. At 8.00am the next day the car was on the salt again and this time reached 171 mph for a new record of 169.5 mph (272.8km/hr).

With a record in the bag it would have been easy to sit back and enjoy the satisfaction of their achievement, but with typical Kiwi ‘never give up’ attitude the team set out to push their record even higher.

By the end of the event, they had set a new Bonneville (and world) land speed record of 174.5 mph (279.2 km/hr), smashing the previous record by 17.7 mph! (28.5km/hr)

And the final word from Cook – “Fantastic. Now what shall wedo next?”

As crew chief for long-time Auckland race driver Reg Cook, Warkworth businessman Peter Merrie (co-owner of Kitchen Works, who’s advert features in our directory) has returned from the Bonneville Salt Flats with a land speed record.

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We’re thrilled with this issue to be celebrating publication of the 50th Rodney’s Rural Lifestyle magazine.

Having moved from the city to a Rodney lifestyle block in 2002, my wife Nicky and I started this publication to share ideas with other rural landowners on the kinds of practical issues we were facing living on the land. It’s fair to say we’ve come a long way since June, 2007 when we sent 10,000 copies of our first issue out into the world. We now distribute to 15,500 rural addresses across Rodney, from Muriwai to Kaiwaka.

The first issue set the tone for what was to come with stories on plants, the land, equipment and safety on the block. Since then we’ve entertained our readers with the likes of chook reports and farming mistakes (the most notable being when we neglected to castrate a young bull who turned into 800kgs of muscle and horn

We’re thrilled with this issue to be

and who took apart our cattle yards with little effort.) We’ve had a great time attending Fieldays, where we are endlessly amazed by the great (and not so great) stuff on offer, and calf club days, where we never fail to be impressed by the community spirit of country folk.

One of the pleasures of the job is meeting fascinating people who invent useful gadgets, bring their communities together and contribute to the local economy. There are too many to name them all, but examples include Lea Chapman, the Millhouse (#6), Maureen Maxwell, Bees On Line (#15), and Guy Shanks, drover (#38).

That first issue featured advertisers who are still with us: a big thank-you to Farm & Lifestyle Centre, Oikoumene Forest, Honda Warkworth, Gatmans Agricentre (now Mowers & More) and Kaipara Coast Plant Centre. Thanks also to all our other supportive advertisers – without you there would be no magazine.

Readers, of course, receive the magazine free but, every time you mention to advertisers that you heard about them in RRL magazine, you contribute to its survival. Thanks a million for your continued feedback and support.

Topics I’ve most enjoyed writing are product reviews of boys’ toys - ride-on lawnmowers, new vehicles, ATV’s, quads and chainsaws. And boy, have I learned a great deal! If you can remember a story that stands out for you, help us celebrate by emailing and telling us about it. Entries will go into a draw for one of six bottles of my favorite Pinot Gris or Pinot Noir (you can choose which) for Christmas. Entries close 15 Dec.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Our first Issue in 2007.


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But while you might think that over the past 168 years the association has seen it all, this year’s AGM in August saw a first, with the election onto its Council of three generations from one family, two of whom live in Helensville.

The first of the family to become involved, Duncan McNab joined when, as manager of the Mount Albert Grammar School farm, he turned up in 1986 to the AAPA’s flagship event, the Royal Easter Show. While his plan was to show stud Border Leicester sheep and Landrace pigs, Duncan was immediately enlisted to stand for the Council. After moving to Helensville, he served several years as AAPA President, and has now returned to the Council after a short break away.

Duncan’s father Ian had always had an interest in wine and wine making and knew most of the growers around Auckland, so it was no surprise when, having retired from lecturing at Auckland Teachers Training College, the Glenfield resident joined the Council in 1989 to help run the Royal Easter Show’s wine competition as a quartermaster. He soon found, as had Duncan, that Councillors assist in all sections of Easter Show organisation, adding Farmworld organisation and public relations duties to his responsibilities. Fortunately for the Council, at 84 Ian has lost none of his enthusiasm for this voluntary work.

With his father and grandfather heavily involved in the Easter Show it was a natural step for James McNab to join in. Having

started at the age of 10 by helping out with feeding and cleaning

up after livestock James, now a Massey University agriculture

graduate and successful dog trialist, is the newest member of the

Council. Like his father and grandfather, James, the youngest

Councillor by some 20 years, has plenty of energy for the work

ahead, and is already coming up with fresh ideas to help build

public interest in next year’s Royal Easter Show.

The McNabs are looking forward to contributing to the Show’s

commitment to helping Show-goers feel part of the primary

export culture the country was built on. But they are aware that

not all ideas are without pitfalls.

For example, the 1996 ‘sheep in Queen Street’ launch of the

Royal Easter Show, as Duncan remembers it, was nothing if not

hair-raising. The hundreds of people lining the streets were no

deterrent to the sheep as, sensing freedom, they hurtled into shops

and bars through self-opening doors and raced up side streets,

trying to avoid the dogs, on hand to muster them back to order.

Later that evening Duncan answered a phone call from a cheeky

bar owner, asking if the sheep he’d left behind should be served

another drink or sent home in a taxi!

So, no sheep up Queen Street, then. But hold your horses! The

McNabs are hatching plenty of other cunning schemes. Watch

this space.

CouncilThree generations on AAPABy Helen Martin

The purpose of the Auckland Agriculture and Pastoral Association (AAPA), which was established in 1843, is to promote excellence in agriculture by bringing the best of New Zealand together in competition.

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Let him smell and look again. If he seems more confident, try touching his shoulder with the bag. If his feet move, just stay with him and keep your energy low. If he quits you completely, stop him and try to get back into the same position quickly, but without scaring him. As his feet stop, remove the bag (which creates pressure) to let him rest. Timing the release with his feet coming to a stop will indicate to him that standing and handling the pressure is what you’re looking for. Remember, you want to build confidence, not destroy it. Too much pressure without proper timing of the release will just confirm his fear of the bag.

Keep your body language quiet to avoid giving him cues to move his feet. If your communication is unclear, you could end up with a horse that is completely desensitized to all stimuli and cues. If he won’t stop moving his feet and doesn’t seem to be trying to deal with the pressure, put him to work a little while (making moving of the feet your idea and taking the opportunity to relax and deal with the bag his idea). The more you engage his mind in choosing to cooperate with you, the more successful your session will be.

Continue working back from his shoulder until you can touch him all over and with increasing noisiness. If he’s ticklish around his feet, tie the bag onto a stick or something that will extend your reach without putting you in danger.

Take the time needed and recognise the “try” (the smallest effort to understand). Removing the pressure is the most significant reward you can use to indicate when he’s done the right thing. As your horse gains confidence to keep his feet still in spite of the noise of the bag, he’s learning to trust you with his feet – basically with his life. This is just one way to help build a strong, working relationship that is based on understanding, trust and respect.

Desensitization, or “sacking out”, is an important part of training and building confidence. Even a horse that’s not spooky can benefit from desensitization.

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In 1972 he built a small, simple land yacht, very much like the modern blokart. Later he came up with a recumbent bicycle,

which he rode on a number of cycle tours. “I have a very active mind. I just get an idea and I have to go and do it,” he says.

As we all know, necessity is the mother of invention, so in 2006, when Ron and his wife Ruth decided something needed to be done about the “clouds of sparrows” devouring around 40% of the food they provided for their beloved chooks, Ron turned his mind to finding a solution.

He knew there were chook feeders around but, unable to get his hands on one, he set about designing and making his own. His prototype was made with wood, with the component shapes cut by hand. Pleased with the effectiveness of the result – those pesky sparrows were well and truly foiled by the feeder – Ron and Ruth began selling what they eventually called the ‘chooketeria’ on Trade Me.

Keen public interest in the chooketeria moved Ron to keep experimenting with materials and design ideas, with the switch to light aluminium proving a winner. Setting up the garden workshop as a factory, he adapted available machinery for the different tasks the process requires and engaged a Silverdale company to provide sheet metal aluminium blanks laser cut to his design.

Between them, the couple now turn out around 200 units per month, with Ron working the machines and Ruth, a painter and print maker, assembling parts, packing the orders in boxes bearing their hand screen-printed logo and keeping the books. It can get a bit repetitive, they tell me, but they keep themselves entertained listening to audio books on their iPods as they work – enjoying Terry Pratchett, Jim Butcher and “anything else that’s escapist.”

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improving the process (automation of the metal folding process is on the cards) and the product. The latest chooketeria, yet to be released, is a very flash two-sided number that cuts down the chook queues. To make sure the quality is first class, all new prototypes are tested on the family chooks before being offered to the public (so far the new version is being met with hearty approval) and a Training and Maintenance Information sheet is provided to make sure customers get the most from the product.

Distribution is always an issue for a small family business and Ron and Ruth, who are determined to “keep it Kiwi”, are working on a range of options. Advertising through two web URLs (www.chooketeria.co.nz and www.chooketeria.com) they currently sell wholesale to “fabulous agents” RD1, Falloons, Farming Lifestyle (Warkworth), Horselands (Kumeu) and Sharpes Grain+Seed (Lower Hutt). They send parts to a relative in Australia, who assembles the chooketerias and sells them on EBay and at local markets in Queensland, and to Chook Manor in the South Island, who do the same. While I was visiting the good news came in that a California company is keen to distribute the product.

Meanwhile Ron, who says the chooketeria business is giving him and Ruth “a great sense of achievement”, is working on a way to get rid of those pesky marauding ferrets that sneak into the chook house at night. He figures that if he can get a light sensitive device to trigger the chook house door to open when sun comes up...

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At this time of year a number of weeds can take over paddocks. Neville Walker talks about the key culprits with Dave Beattie of registered chemical contractors Vegetation Specialists.

ButtercupButtercup, particularly the perennial creeping variety, invades paddocks and becomes highly visible when it f lowers in spring. Some might regard paddocks covered in a sea of yellow as pretty, but in reality it is a problem that needs managing, as buttercup flowers contain the toxic glucoside ranunculin, which can be problem for horses and other stock when there is little else to eat. Ranunculin poisoning symptoms include bloody diarrhoea, excessive salivation, colic, and blistering and inflammation of the mouth and gastrointestinal tract. Once the buttercup flower dries out when it is cut with hay the toxicity disappears.

Dave advises that buttercup is best controlled in late spring to early summer with chemicals such as MCPA (although he typically sprays larger areas with a boom sprayer because MCPA damages clover, which is important for fixing nitrogen.) Dave recommends grazing pasture then allowing it to regrow for a few days prior to spraying. This has two benefits: it reduces the foliage on the clover, minimising damage and it opens the pasture up, allowing the chemicals to reach the targeted broadleaf weeds.

PennyroyalMany paddocks will be now hiding an undergrowth of pennyroyal which will become evident later in November and into December. It is easier to control now before the purple flowers become visible. Although pennyroyal is usually avoided by stock it is highly toxic if ingested, affecting the heart, kidneys, gut, respiratory system and central nervous system.

Dave finds a combination of MCPA and Dicamba is most effective in controlling penny royal. He avoids using chemicals such as 2-4-D at this time of year due to the risk of spray drift which in the right weather conditions can carry several kilometres. This is particularly a concern in this area with crops such as grapes about.

Carrot WeedCarrot Weed (aka Parsley dropwort) is widespread in pasture and on road sides throughout Auckland and Northland. Carrot Weed has a parsley-like appearance and grows between 30 to 90cm tall. Its flowers are white, grow on the end of long stalks and look similar to a carrot. This weed is particularly a problem in pasture as it is unpalatable to livestock in spring after flowering. It is not palatable to livestock so it can become quite dominant within pastures once it is f lowering. Carrot weed lowers the quality of hay made from infested paddocks but it can be easily controlled with a combination of Agritone and Dicamba.

It is important to leave pasture ungrazed for 10 days after spraying. Once sprayed the sugars rise up into the foliage making the plant more palatable. With highly toxic plants such as ragwort this is of particular concern as livestock can be poisoned. The effectiveness of the kill on the target plants is also reduced by grazing.

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