The Winchmore Irrigation Research Station, 16 kilometres north-west of Ashburton, investigated the benefits of irrigation to pastoral and arable farming. Trials also evaluated the long-term effects of phosphate fertiliser application, losses of phosphate in irrigation water, differing pasture species and insect pests.
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