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Trial planting

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Trial planting

Alfred Cockayne (far left) and Bruce Levy (centre) are generally credited with developing and encouraging the establishment of clover-based pasture as the basis of farmland development in New Zealand. They are shown here examining a trial planting of white clover at the Plant Research Station at Palmerston North, where Cockayne was director, and Levy the grassland specialist.

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Julia Haggerty and Hugh Campbell, Farming and the environment – Expansion in the 20th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17891/trial-planting (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Julia Haggerty and Hugh Campbell, published 1 March 2009.