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Irrigation Survey

The report prepared by the farm management and rural valuation department at Lincoln College for the Irrigation Development Association, comprising irrigators on the Ashburton-Lyndhurst scheme, is apparently not the only assessment of the economics of irrigation farming.

Speaking at a field day held this week by the Valetta-Tin-wald Irrigation Association, Mr W. R. Lobb, superintendent of the Winchmore irrigation research station, said that an economic survey had been carried out in this area. With carrying capacity approaching 3.8 to 4 ewe equivalents on developed irrigation farms in this area he said that these properties were returning the farmers concerned a reasonable income “whereas in other surveys this has not been reasonable,” added Mr Lobb.

The chairman of the Val-etta-Tinwald Association, Mr L. Tarbotton, confirmed afterwards that this survey had been done by the Department of Agriculture at the request of his association whose members had irrigation farms with

a high level of irrigation activity. He said he understood that the survey had finally covered a total of eight farms-

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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30919, 27 November 1965, Page 9

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Irrigation Survey Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30919, 27 November 1965, Page 9

Irrigation Survey Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30919, 27 November 1965, Page 9