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issue thr
ee 2009
voice of the dairy industry
How to
survive your
first year
a t u n i
Rink Tacoma shares
her top tips pg7
Leading
the way From
Baz Nelis takes us on a tour competition
of his environmentally winner to
pg6 dairy farmer
friendly farm
Sarah Po
pg3
female perspective pg5
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getfre Get a taste for it!
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dream Fraser
Living theassis
this issue will encourage you to go out and
find your dream job in the dairy industry!
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• Missing city friends – but they can Lincoln University is one of New Zealand’s
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Baz talking about
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importance of nutri
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Providing plentifu
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Baz showing us his Baz Nelis
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efficient water whee ergy JOB: Sharemilke
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for future genera
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AREA: Tirau, Waika
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What is AgITO? At 21, Baz Nelis runs a 180 ha farm in Tirau with 500 cows. He
ent and his staff onto the
brought his herd, his own equipm
s after the over all m an agem en t of the farm.
farm and lo ok
Agriculture ITO learning is practical, and
focused on CAN DO - meaning learners and fertiliser from leaching into the water. This
know how to do the job, and they can So how did Baz get into dairy farming?
keeps the waterways free from pollution and
do it. This sets out learning and skill “When I left school I wasn’t too keen on training, encourages bird life and aquatic life, which gives
programmes for people who want to so I did AgITO which is a correspondence Baz an excuse to go swimming and fishing with
make dairying their career. There are course – every second week I went to a class his mates!
also programmes for those ready to take which taught me everything about farming. I’ve
steps into management, contracting or done it over four years, and now I’m going for the Water wheel
sharemilking. big diploma of agriculture.” Baz has a water wheel on his farm which
provides free energy to get the water from the
How does it feel to be the boss at such a stream into the cow shed. Not only does it look
CAN DO qualifications
young age? good, but it saves money too!
1.
Tell us about the week in th
e life of a uni student. Go into a hall
You’ll meet lots more people that way
On Monday I start at 9am, .
go Rink is flatting this year with people
day and finish at around 5p for lectures and labs the whole met in the halls last year.
she
m – or sometimes 9pm if
a late lab. Then I do a bit I have
of studying. That’s the sam
till Thursday, and then we e story
all go out partying. It makes
2.
mornings quite hard! On Friday
Fridays nights I usually go
with the Alpine Club, go clim up north
bing and get back on Sund
ay.
Apply for a DairyNZ Undergraduate
So how did you get to this po Scholarship
int? Rink’s getting her tuition paid for than
ks
In 2007 I did a science fair to DairyNZ. To see if you qualify for
project with the help of a
Plant and Food and enter scholarship, visit www.getfresh.co.nz
ed it into the Canterbury and
Science Fair. I did well an click on “Studies”.
d DairyNZ approached
me about applying for the
3.
ir Undergraduate
Scholarship.
Be really keen to meet people
What have you been doing he Just remember, all the other first years
re at are new too, so don’t be shy and mingle!
Plant and Food Research?
I’ve been working with sci
entists on projects and see
ing what it’s like to be a scien
4.
tist.
How does your job help dairy Work hard during the week
farmers?
Scientists do the groundw If you get all your work done during
ork and research which helps dairy
farmers stay at the top of the week, you can have a break on the
their game. weekend and make the most of it.
What do you enjoy the most?
Working out the method,
Sign up to clubs and go to events
5.
finding a result in the end
and I like the challenge of and passing on your knowle
it. dge. I enjoy the team work
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ck I’d like to study
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further or get a job in the
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animal science field.
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Job opportunities:
I’ve grown with the business. My bosses
recently moved from a smaller farm with
270 cows, and now they’re on a bigger one
with 535 cows. One of the reasons they took
Technical/Agribusiness Benefits:
h . c o . n z
If you want to find out more
available to you in the dairy
There’s lots of useful inform
about all the opportunitie
s
industry, just visit our webs
ite.
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