Farmstrong ambassadors Paul Walker (left) and Sam Whitelock. Photo / Farmstrong
Farmstrong ambassadors Paul Walker (left) and Sam Whitelock. Photo / Farmstrong
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Monthly on The Country, Jamie Mackay catches up with a Farmstrong farmer, someone who is doing the right thing when it comes to looking after the top paddock. Today, he speaks with Pongakawa dairy farmer, Paul Walker, who shares his thoughts on getting through “the winter slog”.
Paul Walker farms 300 cows on 110 hectares in Pongakawa, just south of Te Puke, in the Bay of Plenty.
Pongakawa can get very wet in winter and is also at sea level, which poses some big challenges. In the last calendar year, Pongakawa doubled its annual rainfall.
With his farm only 4km from the Te Puke golf course, Walker is a fan of getting off-farm.
“In the dry period, some of us met up at 6.30 in the morning and had a five-minute swim in the local river and that set us up beautifully for the day.”
Walker, a Farmstrong ambassador, found that Farmstrong has massively changed his life; having been in a hole and not handling things as well as he could.
“It’s pretty easy to get isolated on-farm and get lost in your own thoughts and sometimes those thoughts aren’t helpful or positive,” he said.
“Farmstrong opened my eyes to a different way of thinking.
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“It shows you how you can coach your mind to have more constructive thoughts.”