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Kōrero: Organic farming

Inspecting drench-free cattle

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Inspecting drench-free cattle

In the late 1980s a comparative study of conventional and organic farming was undertaken at the Flock House research farm near Bulls. The farm’s manager, John Ransom (left), and scientist Antony Roberts pose in front of cattle that have been raised on organic pastures and have never been drenched.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1988/3337/23

by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Seager Mason, Organic farming – Organics in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/16950/inspecting-drench-free-cattle (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Seager Mason, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.