Saturday, September 18, 2010

North Island NZ

I stayed a week with Kiwi scholar Paul MaGill. Paul manages a sheep/cropping farm near Masterton at the bottom of the North Island. The winter here has been very wet and paddocks are waterlogged, and everyone is behind with fertiliser and chemical applications because they cannot get on paddocks.
The day I arrived all the rivers were full and some flooding occurred. The water disappeared fairly quickly though.
This is one of Pauls wheat crops. The line is the tile drain. Pity the whole lot wasn't that good. It was surprising how well the crops were handling the wet actually.
Paul and his agronomist working a plan of attack.

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