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Parts of Anne-Marie and her husband Chris s farm resemble a bombsite.
Their six-hectare water storage pond is destroyed, fences are buried, machinery has been damaged and logs, branches, rocks, gravel and up to a metre of silt have been dumped on the Ashburton Forks property. There s one pivot that was drowned, so we ll probably change its electric motors and of the two generators that run the pivots, one is written off and we re not sure if the other one can be repaired, she says.
Photo: RNZ / Cosmo Kentish-Barnes It s hard to quantify how we are going to tackle this problem, she admits.
Martin Van Beynen05:00, Jun 05 2021
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Beef and dairy farmer Rob Withers saw his Springburn farm, near Mt Somers, ravaged in the Canterbury floods, the geography of the land itself entirely redrawn by the power of the water.
An intensively farmed region of Canterbury lying between the north branch of the Ashburton/Hakatere and Hinds rivers was one of the hardest-hit by this week s floods. Reporter MARTIN VAN BEYNEN spent four days in the area assessing the impact. Farmers in Mid-Canterbury knew it would be bad. The MetService warned that 200-300 millimetres of rain was expected to “accumulate” about the high country between 3pm on Saturday and 11am on Monday. The rain would cause dangerous river conditions and significant flooding, the agency said.
Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 6:31 am
The
major winners in the 2021 Canterbury/North Otago Dairy
Industry Awards aim to continue to grow their farming
business while protecting the environment through
sustainable farming.
Dinuka and Nadeeka Gamage were
announced winners of the region’s Share Farmer of the Year
category in the Canterbury/North Otago Dairy Industry Awards
held at the Airforce Museum of New Zealand in Wigram on
Tuesday evening.
Other major winners were Maria
Alvarez, who was named the 2021 Canterbury/North Otago Dairy
Manager of the Year, and Mattes Groenendijk, the 2021
Canterbury/North Otago Dairy Trainee of the Year.
The
Gamages say the networking, strength and weakness