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Hawke’s Bay farmer Alec Olsen demonstrates how to cut willow branches for supplementary fodder for stock In 2007. He first did this in the 1982–83 drought. ‘The cows were hungry, the trees were there and I had a chainsaw,’ he recalls. Each tree provides fodder for 20 to 30 cattle a day. The trees were originally planted for protection against erosion.
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