Open AccessFarming with trees on sand country
Author(s) -
D M Hocking
Publication year - 1990
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.1990.51.1899
Subject(s) - agriculture , forestry , agroforestry , geography , service (business) , production (economics) , business , environmental science , archaeology , economics , marketing , macroeconomics
The property has been owned and operated by a collection of family members for 34 years, having been brought with a keen eye for its forestry potential. My father was in the New Zealand Forest Service, and was a keen advocate of farm forestry. Thus the property has been developed as a sheep and cattle and also as a forestry operation, with production forestry being concentrated on the Foxton and Motuiti soils, i.e., the dunes, along with shelter and woodlot/shelter plantings on the flats. Recently a further 80 ha have been added with the same objectives in mind.