Open AccessThe More Summer Milk project - a participant's view
Author(s) -
A. Singer
Publication year - 1997
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.1997.59.2251
Subject(s) - ponding , surface runoff , environmental science , soil water , hydrology (agriculture) , swamp , stock (firearms) , peat , geography , zoology , forestry , drainage , biology , geology , archaeology , soil science , ecology , geotechnical engineering
We purchased this property at Pokeno as a dry stock unit and converted it to dairying. Production in the first season (1989/90) was 16 500 kg milkfat (29 500 kg milksolids). Our farm is 60 effective ha (plus a large undeveloped area of the Mangatawhiri swamp), with a 20 ha runoff. The farm is 30 ha of stumpy peat soils, stopbanked but floodable from upstream ponding, and 30 ha of rolling Hamilton clay soils (75% mowable).