Ashley and the Dairy Farm

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    • Ashley and her husband live on the farm and are expecting their first child this winter. All through high school and college Ashley was extremely involved in organizations and associations. Today, Ashley and her husband are involved in Farm Bureau on a State and local level. In their little spare time, they love watching movies together, reading and are finishing a huge renovation of their year old farmhouse that they have done with a TON of help from their families.

    When I was a kid the farm seriously impeded my social schedule and I made my distaste very known in the form of toddler temper tantrums whenever we had to go home and milk cows. Fast forward about 10 years and I began to see the beauty in farming. After college, I decided to get some off-farm experience by having a couple of jobs in the industry.

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    It took me less than 2 years to figure out I am a terrible employee and I needed a different challenge. In I became a half partner with my parents in the dairy farm and I have been the herd manager since. I currently oversee anything that has to do with the animals. As a millennial and a future mom I want to share that we shop in the same grocery store you do. We buy milk from the same cooler as you do. Trust me; we want to feed our families the same nutritious product that you do.

    Whether conventional, organic, all natural, whatever; we take producing a safe, healthy, wholesome product seriously. Making this amazing product starts with the cows. When we take exceptional care of our cows, they made an exceptional product.

    My dad and husband and probably mom will cringe but I love Jerseys. They are funny, spunky and great little cows. My favorite cow is a beauty named Bambi.

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    She is over 10 years old and is more of a pet than a cow. She was the first Jersey born on the farm and she became one of my first show cows. I absolutely love this cow and she has become a farm mascot. For me, the most rewarding part is knowing I am carrying on a family legacy.

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    There are not very many people that can say, they are working to continue something their grandparents started. After time overseas and a short stint as a stock agent, Andy worked for the Cockrells at Linton before returning to manage the Fullerton-Smiths' farm.

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    Customer Ratings We have not received enough ratings to display an average for this book. A pair of small pink gumboots kick the dust on the laneway as cows wander from their paddock to the milking shed. They are funny, spunky and great little cows. I'm happy we've been able to forge lasting relationships that have enabled us to make our business our home. There can be a negative attitude to what dairy farming is all about.

    It was a great process and I really enjoyed it. I like my cows.

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    I like to know my cows, where the bigger farms can be more like factories. Andy also likes to have good relationships with his staff. Tim Hamilton is their farm manager — he works across the three farms although spends most of his time at White Stag. But he does still like to milk and see the cows coming through the shed to make sure they're all looking good," Robbie says. The herd produces kg of milk solids a hectare or kg MS for each cow.

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    The goal is to get back on track up there and boost that production again. In the first year after we converted it, White Stag was producing kg a cow but then we had those harder seasons.

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    This season we have cows and we're on track to produce kg a hectare. Cabbage Tree also milks heifers once a day from mid-September.

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    Smaller cows are kept up there and larger ones move to the herd at White Stag. Both herringbone sheds have in-shed feeding of maize grain. Their fodder crops, chicory and turnips, are direct drilled. There is 18ha of chicory up there but we've changed to turnips 8ha at White Stag because the chicory struggled in the dry last year. We're drier than the top farm. We've done well out of them. The remainder will be sold when the market is right but will be gone before autumn because Ratalea's business is to winter our cows.

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    The Hunts had signed up for water rights for the two lower farms from the now-defunct Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme. This season has been okay but this time last year we were milking once-a-day and struggling because the farm was brown and dry, which is summer in Hawke's Bay to a tee.

    It was done by Ravensdown's Colin Tyler, who lives down the road. Under the region's Tukituki Plan Change 6, the farm has to be under certain nitrogen limits by The three farms are leaching 45 units of N and under the rule change they will only be allowed to leach The main issue is high rainfall — mm a year at Cabbage Tree - and light soils. Through MyFarm, Rachel Baker, who also lives down the road from the Hunts, is gathering data on the three farms to use as a case study.

    That's one of the reasons we've increased the number of calves we're rearing — diversification in light of any future changes. The Hunts have planted trees since taking over the three properties — mainly natives and gums. Going forward it is definitely something we will carry on doing. White Stag also has a protected area of native bush and totara trees dot the landscape. Cabbage Tree has the Mangatewai River gorge along one boundary.

    The couple is adamant dairy farming gets a bad rap that is undeserved. They want a farm they can be proud of. There can be a negative attitude to what dairy farming is all about. But we love it and we're good farmers," Robbie says.