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… Loss of biodiversity Many of New Zealand’s tens of thousands of native species are not found … species. Building biodiversity Proponents of organic farming believe that a holistic approach to production, and … grown by about 1% each year. As agriculture changed from sheep-dominated to mixed farming – with intensive dairy …
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Part of story: Farming and the environment
… Early wild deer in New Zealand were generally healthy, as they were well fed and had … became problems from the 1970s when deer were caught for farming. Even so, the death rate of deer on farms is low compared with sheep and cattle. The group at greatest risk are young deer …
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Part of story: Diseases of sheep, cattle and deer
… 1848 association charter Canterbury settlers set aside land for educational endowments. By 1873, 321,761 acres … original endowment, Lincoln was required to teach practical farming and related sciences. Accordingly, it set up a … to nearly 900 hectares, on which cropping, dairying and sheep farming were practised. In 2007 the university farms …
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Part of story: Agricultural education
… economic activity through parts of the lower North Island and much of the South Island came to be farming sheep for wool. Flocks were pastured across the grasslands …
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Part of story: Regional economies
… their immigrant clothes – moleskin trousers, a blue jumper and a floppy cheese-cutter cap or billycock hat made of … on the goldfields wore them outside their trousers. On the sheep station In the mid-19th century, men working on sheep stations only left the farm once or twice a year. They …
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Part of story: Rural clothing
… During the 30 years following the Second World War, New Zealand became overwhelmingly an urban society. Work on farms … and new immigrants settled in the cities. By 1975, although farming still gained much of the country’s export earnings, … she twice saw champion shearer Godfrey Bowen shearing sheep; she visited two agricultural shows, a dairy factory …
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Part of story: Rural mythologies
… Because of the significance of agriculture to New Zealand’s economy, high-quality agricultural training is … of agricultural education. To complicate matters, many farming families wanted their children to be taught the … learning the art of agriculture. Marsden imported merino sheep from his Sydney farm, and his missions grew cereal …
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Part of story: Agricultural education
… ‘New Zealand farms are, in general, so bereft of ornamental trees … – a farmer more interested in growing trees than raising sheep. The 150 hectares of tree plantings are now managed by … of oak species is nearby at Hackfall’s arboretum, on a sheep station at Tinorito. Over 300 conifer species grow on …
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Part of story: Trees in the rural landscape
… New Zealand’s country shows are – almost without exception – … pastoral (A & P) associations, which were set up to promote farming pursuits. Origins The idea of these societies and … in October 1863. It attracted 22 horses, 23 cattle, 18 sheep, six pigs, a pen of poultry and three dogs. Four …
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Part of story: Shows and field days
… Aquaculture in New Zealand developed in a haphazard fashion, with regional councils … hectares of coastal waters – about the size of a large sheep farm. Some councils had become inundated by … There is potential for the industry to diversify into farming high-value species such as pāua, kingfish and rock …
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Part of story: Aquaculture
… As in Canterbury, the first Pākehā explorers in Otago and Southland were sealers who kept to the coast, and whalers who took up farming and went inland. Sub-protector of aborigines (Māori) … of Tuturau (between present-day Mataura and Wyndham). Sheep men A settlement was established at Dunedin in 1848, …
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Part of story: European exploration
… is dominated by Lake Taupō, the largest lake in New Zealand. The volcanoes of the Tongariro National Park lie to the … in the north. Pumice soils are used predominantly for sheep and beef farming, although dairying has expanded in recent years. … Central and western North Island …
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Part of story: Soils and regional land use
… Burke of Raincliff Station in the late 1850s. Between 1876 and 1891 the Mt Cook Road Board and then the Mackenzie … holiday homes. Cave Originally an outstation of the Levels sheep run, 29 km south-east of Fairlie, Cave became a small … is the service town for the Fairlie basin – including the farming districts of Clayton, Ashwick Flat and Sherwood …
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Part of story: South Canterbury places
… 1841, aged 22. He almost immediately founded a general merchandising business for the early settlers, selling food, … to farmers. When Charles Clifford and Frederick Weld drove sheep around the coast from Wellington to Wairarapa in 1844 to begin large-scale pastoral farming, they were already customers of Levin’s. In that …
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Part of story: Stock and station agencies
… at Christchurch on 6 April 1865, the son of George Gould and his second wife, Elizabeth Lewis. His father, one of the … he bred imported Jersey and Guernsey cattle and Suffolk sheep. In 1902 he bought The Hermitage, a sheep station of … Gould, Beaumont and Company. Gould's major contribution to farming stemmed from his importation of Suffolk sheep (six …
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… An 1862 letter to New Zealand Governor George Grey, signed by 30 Moriori elders, … New Zealand history). Many Māori leased land for grazing sheep to a few Pākehā men of means who had missed out on … aside. Moriori survivors gained land only for subsistence farming or in forested areas where sheep could not be …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… their Presbyterianism, Scots inherited a strong work ethic, and from the Scottish Enlightenment a self-confident … and were well represented among the very successful. Farming In the second half of the 19th century, when many … as pastoralists, owning large tracts of land on which sheep were grazed. In south Canterbury, Jeanie Collier was …
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Part of story: Scots
… Land purchases By the late 1840s pastoral farmers in … pushing north in a quest for more land. The first flock of sheep in Hawke’s Bay arrived in Pourerere in 1849. Early … 1 Large-scale pastoralists soon dominated the region’s farming economy, and smaller operators found it difficult to …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… James Randall Corrigan was born at Woodend, North Canterbury, New … land. Corrigan made numerous big deals, once shipping 4,000 sheep from Picton to Whanganui, and on another occasion … and Shropshire sheep. About the same time he began dairy farming, often using leasehold land and sharemilking …
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… born on 12 October 1888 at Waikaka Valley, near Gore, Southland. He was one of nine children of John Pearson McIntyre … Maitland, near Gore. His grandfather had brought the first sheep to Merino Downs in the 1850s. Hugh attended Waikaka … from 1941 to 1959. Hugh McIntyre had been involved in farming politics since before the war as chairman of the …
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