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Kōrero: Soils

Southland plains

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Southland plains

The Southland plains rarely suffer from drought, so their cultivable brown soils form some of New Zealand’s most productive land. Recent years have seen a sharp increase in dairy farming.

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GNS Science

Reference: CN2802/20a

by Lloyd Homer

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Allan Hewitt, Soils – The most extensive soils, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/12305/southland-plains (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Allan Hewitt, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.