CHANCE TO SEE COLLEGE FARM

Press, 24 February 1978, Page 12

CHANCE TO SEE COLLEGE FARM

Farmers will have an opportunity for the first time to see Lincoln College’s irrigation farm near Lyndhurst in Mid-Canter-bury on the occasion of a field day on March 6 being held jointly by the college and Winchmore irrigation research station. The day will begin on the property, off Line Road, at 9.30a.m. Visitors will be able to see the irrigation development. which has taken place since the college took over the property. This has been done under normal commercial circumstances. There will be discussion of maximum production from Canterbury light land, and with Coopworth sheep on the property Professor I. E. Coop will be discussing high fertility sheep on irrigated land.

In the afternoon the field day will move to the Winchmore station. One of the topics will be on the management and profitability of ewes on dryland lucerne. Another subject will be fertiliser and water requirements of irrigated pasture. There will also be a session on the irrigated all-grass farmlet, which has been going for many years at the station and where recently a change has been made from running Romney sheep to Coopworths. Rotational grazing as compared with set stocking in the spring at a variety of stocking rates will also come under review and also winter feeding of cattle with reference to trials where beef calves are being wintered at different levels.