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Aerial topdressing trials

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This 1948 newsreel shows a trial of aerial topdressing at Ōhakea airfield near Palmerston North. This method of spreading seed and fertiliser was invented in New Zealand and later adopted around the world.

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Reference: Weekly Review 370. National Film Unit, 1948

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Mark Derby, Inventions, patents and trademarks – Farming inventions, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/25398/aerial-topdressing-trials (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mark Derby, i tāngia i te 11 May 2010, updated 1 February 2015.