MASTER BEDROOM ENTRY GARAGE WIR ENSUITE MASTER BEDROOM hwc LAUNDRY LIVING ENSUITE BEDROOM 2 PANTRY DINING BEDROOM 3 BATHRM KITCHEN DINING ENTRY LAUNDRY KITCHEN GARAGE LIVING GARAGE LAUNDRY BEDROOM 3 BEDROOM 4 LOUNGE ENTRY BATHRM LIVING DINING KITCHEN BEDROOM 2 MASTER BEDROOM ENSUITE 10 <strong>North</strong> NEWS <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>November</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2023</strong> Life members ... Philip and Kay Worthington with yearling heifer Woolstone Park Palace, freshly clipped for the NZ Agricultural Show. PHOTO: JOHN COSGROVE Couple honoured FIXED PRICE &GUARANTEED BUILD TIME Rangiora House and Land Packages Available Now! 146m 2 | 3 bdrm Lot 61Bellgrove FixedPrice $775,000 BEDROOM 2 BATHRM BEDROOM 3 180m 2 | 3 bdrm 158m 2 | 3 bdrm Lot 37Bellgrove FixedPrice $830,000 193m 2 | 4 bdrm By JOHN COSGROVE Kay and Philip Worthington’s decades of work breeding heritage Angus Lowline cattle has been recognised in Australia. The Fernside couple, who own Woolstone Park Lowlines Stud, have been awarded honorary life membership of the Australian Lowline Cattle Association (ALCA). The award is in recognition of Kay and Philip’s meritorious service to the association and the Lowline breed in Australasia. Philip has been aboard member of the association for the past 10 years. The couple, both former media industry professionals, started their farming careers later in life. They began on asmall property in Balcairn, then moved to alarger 100hectare site at Fernside. Philip says he wasn’t asheep farmer. He and Kay preferred goats, initially farming over 500 Angoras for their mohair. When the local irrigation scheme came on tap in the late 1990s, the couple decided to move into cattle farming with a couple of key provisos set down by Kay. ‘‘The cattle had to have no horns, be nicely mannered and not daunting to work with,’’ Philip says. More used to researching stories for newspapers, Philip hit the books and found suitable cattle breeds based on Kay’s requirements. ‘‘The Lowline breed are heritage Angus cattle and they fitted perfectly.’’ He says they are asmallersized breed of cattle and are very easy to work with. ‘‘I found the Australians had been researching the breed. ‘‘They set up the first DNA profiles of a cattle breed and were looking closely at its suitability to allow farmers to run more of the smallersized stock units on hardier paddocks up in the north of the country, compared to larger breeds.’’ He says the benefits of the smallersized animal are shorter gestation periods while getting the same amount of good meat, and they are much easier to handle. When the Australian research, which proved the worth of the breed, was over, breeders elected to keep all the documentation and set up ALCA to foster interest in the breed. The couple bought two Lowline embryos in 1999, and from that bred a couple of bulls, which were then mated to heifers —the rest is history. Today Woolstone Park has 114 registered stud Lowline cattle —about onesixth of the total number of 620 registered Lowline cattle in New Zealand. Philip and Kay have added another element to their business,expanding their passion for the breed into the education sector. ‘‘We saw high schools in Queensland running herdsperson training on their school farms, and so we started it here.’’ Working closely with Rangiora High School for the past 14 years, the couple have introduced herdsmanship and farm skills to many young town and rural students. ‘‘They love it. We still get students who have left school calling us up and offering to help out at the four shows we attend each year.’’ Cabinet art in Waimak Lot 71Bellgrove FixedPrice $909,500 Jennian Homes Display Centre 138 Kippenberger Avenue Rangiora P 03 741 1436 E canterbury@jennian.co.nz jennian.co.nz Opening Hours Wednesday -Friday 12-4pm Sunday 12-3pm or by appointment Lot 92Bellgrove FixedPrice $955,000 Come andvisit us in ournew Design Centre andlet us help you find yourdream home! Two murals on Chorus cabinets are brightening up Waimakariristreets. Painted by local artists, another three are due in the coming months. The first art mural, entitled Tatatau by artist Monti Masiu, features various Polynesian cultural patterns that cover the cabinet in Whitefield Street, Kaiapoi. Local artist AshleighRitchie painted the second mural on West Belt. Entitled The Regal Sheep, her mural celebrates the beauty and diversity of life using rainbow colours to symbolise joy and happiness. Some of the other designs chosen this year include ablue woven blanket that symbolises the unique history of Kaiapoi, and afriendly dragon peeking out to watch children going to school. Waimakaririisalso part of this year’s Rainbow Cabinet art initiative, with the chosen designcelebrating the Rainbow community in Waimakariri. It features ablack cat popping up to remind the community to be Rainbow allies. Waimakariri District Mayor Dan Gordon says the Chorus Cabinet Art programme supports artists to showcase their talents to the local community. ‘‘We always look forward to partnering with Chorus through their Cabinet Art programme and this year we’re happy to say that, once again, we received highquality designs.’’ Chorus Community Relations Manager Jo Seddon says it's exciting to see many creative designs come through. ‘‘Every year, we are amazed by the quality of submissions and the level of creativity artists bring to their designs and this year has been no different.’’ The Chorus Cabinet Art project is delivered with the support of the Waimakariri Public Arts Trust; artists will be out painting their murals over the coming months, so keep an eye out.
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