David Jupp - Waitara
David Jupp has 261.4ha of mainly hill country land, with 217ha effective, divided into 62ha flat and rolling, 146ha medium hill and 9ha steep hill. The flatter country consists of alluvial soils, the hills are ash covered, plus ash over sandstone and consolidated sandstone outcrops. The property is 15km from the Waitara coast and rises from 60m above sea level to 180m. The rainfall averages 2025mm annually. The property is subdivided into 28 sheep paddocks and 30 cattle paddocks.
David is carrying 1150 mixed aged Romney ewes and 300 ewe hoggets (at June 1, 2006) plus 20 rams. The cattle are 242 grazing dairy heifers, placed by local dairy farmers for one year, from May to May, 19 hold-over dairy cows, 19 rising two-year steers and 35 rising one-year bulls. He is lifting lambing rate toward 145% and bringing in more facial eczema tolerance. The older ewes in their last season are mated to Primera terminal sires 10 days earlier in April and begin lambing at the beginning of September. The main mob is mated to Romney rams from April 20 and start lambing on September 15.
The ewes scan at 157% and achieve a lambing result of 120%.
The ewe hoggets are mated if they are up to weight and there is sufficient feed available. Target weights for lambs are 30kg LW at 100 days (weaning) and 16kg CW for prime lambs. Last season 38% of lambs were sold as stores and 300 ewe lambs kept as flock replacements. The shearing interval has been moved to eight months and the farm produce 10,800kg of wool, including slipe wool, in the 2004-05 season.
Dairy heifers come in for grazing in May around 200kg LW and leave 12 months later at 400-440kg LW target weight range. Some of the heifers were replaced with dairy bull weaners at 100kg last November/December. These can be sold stores if feed gets tight.
The farm has produced 312/313kg/ha of meat and fibre in the past two farm years, with $217/ha and $179/ha economic farm surplus respectively.
David has begun a three-year term as the Taranaki sheep and beef monitor farm and his goals are to increase income sustainably, achieve 145% lambing, reach 30kg LW lambs at 100-day weaning, maintain wool weight and complete riparian fencing, with 400-500m to go (1km already done). The financial targets are 324kg, 333kg and 341kg of meat and fibre per hectare, while increasing EFS to $181, $209 and $236/ha over the three years, which would be a lift of $55/ha or 30%.
Davids farm is located over the McKee field, which was first drilled in 1979 and connected to a production station built in 1984. David says 14 or 15 seismic surveys have been conducted on his land during the years since McKee was first drilled and many done before. There are 6 producing wells located on the farm, connected by pipeline with the production stations and the farm titles contain five different easements for the pipelines and waste water outlets. Twenty hectares of land was sold to build the production station, now operated by Petrocorp, so that a buffer zone exists around the station. The unused land is leased back to David for grazing. When a well is drilled about 1ha is required for the site and for access, including roads capable of taking heavy trucks. Wells are not usually abandoned, because the exploration company knows it will strike gas about 300m down. The operator is now Shell Todd Oil Services, supplying Todd Energy.
Federated Farmers and the then Petroleum Exploration Association of NZ (now Petroleum Exploration and Production Association) drew up a code of conduct for survey work, drilling and pipeline building which came into effect in 1993 and has been revised twice since. On most titles the Crown retains the mineral rights under the title. The code contains provisions over access and compensation for prospecting surveys, exploration wells and production wells and facilities.
Davids worst experiences have involved breaches of the code, such as the time he went on holiday and returned to find a pipeline being built on his property without approval to begin. He pointed out the provisions of the code and the company concerned admitted poor performance. David has also been in some danger of blow-outs at various times and finds it hard to muster stock near noisy facilities.
Pipelines should always be built during the period from October to April, but companies often try to gain access during winter months. Pipelines are laid a minimum of one metre below the surface and the land access code contains detailed provisions for operational access, compensation for loss of pastoral production, crossing streams and fences, tree removal, easement width (usually 12 metres) and land restoration including reseeding. Also agreed land valuation and solicitors fees are covered by the code.
David is carrying 1150 mixed aged Romney ewes and 300 ewe hoggets (at June 1, 2006) plus 20 rams. The cattle are 242 grazing dairy heifers, placed by local dairy farmers for one year, from May to May, 19 hold-over dairy cows, 19 rising two-year steers and 35 rising one-year bulls. He is lifting lambing rate toward 145% and bringing in more facial eczema tolerance. The older ewes in their last season are mated to Primera terminal sires 10 days earlier in April and begin lambing at the beginning of September. The main mob is mated to Romney rams from April 20 and start lambing on September 15.
The ewes scan at 157% and achieve a lambing result of 120%.
The ewe hoggets are mated if they are up to weight and there is sufficient feed available. Target weights for lambs are 30kg LW at 100 days (weaning) and 16kg CW for prime lambs. Last season 38% of lambs were sold as stores and 300 ewe lambs kept as flock replacements. The shearing interval has been moved to eight months and the farm produce 10,800kg of wool, including slipe wool, in the 2004-05 season.
Dairy heifers come in for grazing in May around 200kg LW and leave 12 months later at 400-440kg LW target weight range. Some of the heifers were replaced with dairy bull weaners at 100kg last November/December. These can be sold stores if feed gets tight.
The farm has produced 312/313kg/ha of meat and fibre in the past two farm years, with $217/ha and $179/ha economic farm surplus respectively.
David has begun a three-year term as the Taranaki sheep and beef monitor farm and his goals are to increase income sustainably, achieve 145% lambing, reach 30kg LW lambs at 100-day weaning, maintain wool weight and complete riparian fencing, with 400-500m to go (1km already done). The financial targets are 324kg, 333kg and 341kg of meat and fibre per hectare, while increasing EFS to $181, $209 and $236/ha over the three years, which would be a lift of $55/ha or 30%.
Davids farm is located over the McKee field, which was first drilled in 1979 and connected to a production station built in 1984. David says 14 or 15 seismic surveys have been conducted on his land during the years since McKee was first drilled and many done before. There are 6 producing wells located on the farm, connected by pipeline with the production stations and the farm titles contain five different easements for the pipelines and waste water outlets. Twenty hectares of land was sold to build the production station, now operated by Petrocorp, so that a buffer zone exists around the station. The unused land is leased back to David for grazing. When a well is drilled about 1ha is required for the site and for access, including roads capable of taking heavy trucks. Wells are not usually abandoned, because the exploration company knows it will strike gas about 300m down. The operator is now Shell Todd Oil Services, supplying Todd Energy.
Federated Farmers and the then Petroleum Exploration Association of NZ (now Petroleum Exploration and Production Association) drew up a code of conduct for survey work, drilling and pipeline building which came into effect in 1993 and has been revised twice since. On most titles the Crown retains the mineral rights under the title. The code contains provisions over access and compensation for prospecting surveys, exploration wells and production wells and facilities.
Davids worst experiences have involved breaches of the code, such as the time he went on holiday and returned to find a pipeline being built on his property without approval to begin. He pointed out the provisions of the code and the company concerned admitted poor performance. David has also been in some danger of blow-outs at various times and finds it hard to muster stock near noisy facilities.
Pipelines should always be built during the period from October to April, but companies often try to gain access during winter months. Pipelines are laid a minimum of one metre below the surface and the land access code contains detailed provisions for operational access, compensation for loss of pastoral production, crossing streams and fences, tree removal, easement width (usually 12 metres) and land restoration including reseeding. Also agreed land valuation and solicitors fees are covered by the code.