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Irrigated fields

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Irrigated fields

This greener circular area in the dry lands of the Raggedy Range, Central Otago, is not an alien crop circle but rather shows the dramatic effects a circular irrigator can have on pasture growth.

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Mike Scarsbrook and Charles Pearson, Water resources – Managing water resources, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18204/irrigated-fields (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mike Scarsbrook and Charles Pearson, published 1 March 2009.