Open AccessINTENSIFICATION OF TARANAKI HILL COUNTRY
Author(s) -
P.L. Cook
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
proceedings of the new zealand grassland association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-4577
pISSN - 0369-3902
DOI - 10.33584/jnzg.1982.43.1587
Subject(s) - hectare , fencing , agricultural science , stocking , fertilizer , agriculture , agricultural economics , business , subdivision , economics , fishery , engineering , biology , ecology , civil engineering , computer science , parallel computing
When your farm of 200 ha with poor contour is surrounded by properties 600 ha and more, the ideal solution would be to acquire more hectares and carry on store farming. The "more hectares" are not readily available, so plan one is scrapped and you again consider what you can do with your 200 hectares. It has rundown farm buildings, a tiny woolshed, an ancient water supply and is divided into 25 reasonably grassed, set-stocked paddocks of varying sizes. Selling wool, store lambs, cast for age ewes and running beef weaners was not paying for much extra labour, let alone major capital improvements, such as more fencing, fertilizer, and a much bigger woolshed. More farm generated finance was needed to make progress, so out went the beef cows, the rough ewes, the set stocking and the pretty rams. In came the bulls, easy care higher fertility rams, electric fencing, subdivision, more fertilizer and the fatten everything policy. And so far it seems to be working.