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Kōrero: Sheep farming

Sheep and cattle grazing hill country

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Sheep and cattle grazing hill country

In hill country cattle improve the quality of the grazing for sheep. Cattle trample weeds and open up rough pasture. They do not compete for the same feed as sheep, but eat rough long grass that sheep will not graze. At the same time, they eat the eggs and larvae of intestinal parasites that affect sheep.

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Hugh Stringleman rāua ko Robert Peden, Sheep farming – Environment and sheep farming, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/16675/sheep-and-cattle-grazing-hill-country (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Hugh Stringleman rāua ko Robert Peden, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 1 March 2015.