Farmer’s Yarn No.3: Ben Moore, Federated Farmers and Farmy Army takes five to chat all things Repost!

We decided to have a yarn with JK Fencing’s John who was a lifeline for many farmers as part of the ‘Commence the Re-fence’, his team enabled over 90km of fence lines to be repaired a bloody good effort if you ask us!

Ted Roberts, a 82 year old farmer along with his son Edward acted as the main Eskdale Materials hub for the Farmy Army. Their fence lines were bowled over by Cyclone Gabrielle but they are already getting the “guts” back into their property.

Waste takes many different forms onfarm and there’s some great initiatives out there with an aim to give these resources another life - sometimes even back on the same farm! So when it comes to the circular economy of recycling onfarm waste, it’s about viewing it as a resource, rather than rubbish.

Do you have a stockpile of broken vineyard posts?

A message from Repost founders, Greg and Stu, on best stockpile practices for wineries

Farmers, Kyle and Emma, tell us their experience with Repost posts on their 700ha Tararua Properties.

Liam Garlick is our General Manager and the glue that holds the Repost day-to-day runnings together in Marlborough. We decided to sit down and get him to answer some questions.

Lesley has been following Repost since the start and was stoked when the team finally rocked up to the Pernod site, ripping it their waste and getting it to farmers. We thought we’d give her a quick-fire Q&A!

We are delighted to be nominated for the 2024 WasteMINZ Awards for Excellence. We are nominated for two categories: ‘Best initiative to encourage reuse, repair or repurpose’ alongside Hawkes Bay Council, and ‘Best resource recovery or value recovery initiative’.

We were recently fortunate to meet Sustaina Grow at Fielddays. Their unwavering passion for turning wool into a viable product is inspiring, and at a time when wool needs creativity and innovation this company is doing just that!

Over the years, we’ve accumulated a significant number of damaged vineyard posts, which we’ve been stockpiling to ensure they don’t end up in landfill while waiting for a sustainable solution. Repost has stepped in to solve two critical problems.

"Over any given year, you can see up to four percent breakage in some vineyards. And when you look at the size of the industry and Marlborough, that's a lot of posts. We're talking millions of posts out there."

Repost: Using No.8 wire mentality to recycle CCA treated timber posts. Get to know our members and what motivates them to be part of WasteMINZ.

Meet Lesley Coppell, married to Greg’s (founder) brother, Nick. Lesley and Nick run the Pahiatua depot, a great opportunity to start getting what we saw as a great product into the Lower North Island.

“Farmers just get it, and I wouldn’t be trying to sell it to any other group of people really. They’re just easy people to explain it to and understand it.”

Greg features in a Stuff article following Fieldays.

Repost recycles broken vineyard trellis posts for on-farm fence lines.

What started four years ago as a cost effective solution for Dansy and Greg Coppell’s 500ha Sheep and Beef farm is now a thriving business.

Dansy talks to Shepherdess about how she successfully juggles motherhood, their sheep and beef farm ‘Springers Block’ and Repost, which in Gregs words “D’s tireless work makes me look good!”

It’s clear (like many women will relate) it takes good time management, a village and a good coffee, and of course bucket loads of passion!

A NEW Repost 'hub' in Spring Creek will enable more Marlborough grapegrowers to divert their broken vineyard posts from stockpiles and landfill, to instead be repurposed into low-cost fencing posts.

- Winepress, p19

Talk about a win-win. On one side you have the wine industry, chasing a zero-waste-to-landfill target but facing multiple challenges, including the headache of broken viticulture posts, which accumulate in piles on New Zealand vineyards every year (they can’t be burned or mulched because the timber is treated).