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Kōrero: Soils and regional land use

Sheep farm, Southland

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Sheep farm, Southland

Southland has a reliable climate for grass growing. Despite cool temperatures compared with the North Island, with adequate fertiliser the region can produce just as much pasture. As in other areas of New Zealand, large tracts have been converted to dairy farming.

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Bruce Burgess Photography

by Bruce Burgess

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Allan Gillingham, Soils and regional land use – Eastern and southern South Island, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/17113/sheep-farm-southland (accessed 4 June 2026).

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