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Winchmore Irrigation Research Station

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Winchmore Irrigation Research Station

The Winchmore Irrigation Research Station, 16 kilometres north-west of Ashburton, investigated the benefits of irrigation to pastoral and arable farming. Trials also evaluated the long-term effects of phosphate fertiliser application, losses of phosphate in irrigation water, differing pasture species and insect pests.

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Ross Galbreath, Agricultural and horticultural research – Department of Agriculture research, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19655/winchmore-irrigation-research-station (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ross Galbreath, published 1 March 2009.