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Mystery Creek 2017

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
It's about time I started posting what I saw and learnt from Mystery Creek - The biggest Ag show in the Southern Hemishpere - So here goes.

Feel free to chip in if you were there including @stewart , @FonterraFarmer etc..

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First impressions:

  • It IS as big as the Kiwi contingent claim (y) - Think Royal Show in it's heyday.
  • A very well run site
  • More of an agricultural show than a lifestyle one (y):D
  • Exhibitors from all over the world (though the UK innovations tent did look a bit lame :whistle:)
  • Very welcoming, typical Kiwi
  • Plenty of deals on offer
 

DaveJ

Member
Location
Montgomeryshire
I can't understand how it's viable to import fairly basic tipping trailers like that M4 to NZ all the way from the UK/Eire. Surely they can be made more cheaply locally?
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
I can't understand how it's viable to import fairly basic tipping trailers like that M4 to NZ all the way from the UK/Eire. Surely they can be made more cheaply locally?
@stewart is the one to debate this with - He has the Bateson Trailers agency for New Zealand. I spent some time on his stand at Fieldays and there was a steady trade for his products. The New Zealand made trailers are cheaper but of much lesser quality.

Machinery is generally a fair bit dearer in NZ making it worth importing from the UK as long as it's clean enough to pass border control.
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
I can't understand how it's viable to import fairly basic tipping trailers like that M4 to NZ all the way from the UK/Eire. Surely they can be made more cheaply locally?

Everything like that seem expensive n NZ. By the time you've built them its probably just cheaper to have some one chuck them on a boat in the UK or Ireland where machinery is cheap.:unsure:
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
Haven't you got a sheep conveyor in your toolkit @Gator?
I thought you'd have a couple, best invention ever for sheep farming IMO
Especially if you can roust up enough labour to keep it fed and one with a needle, one with tags, one with drencher, etc.
Nothing to put a few thousand through in short order (y)
 

Gator

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Location
Lancashire
Haven't you got a sheep conveyor in your toolkit @Gator?
I thought you'd have a couple, best invention ever for sheep farming IMO
Especially if you can roust up enough labour to keep it fed and one with a needle, one with tags, one with drencher, etc.
Nothing to put a few thousand through in short order (y)
Nope not got one of them, will put on mi wish list(y):D
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

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