Lincoln College farm losses $113,000
The drought has cost Lincoln College farms an estimated $113,000. “This figure averaged out means a loss of about $19,000 each farm,” the college’s senior farm consultant, Mr Tony Whatman, told the Lincoln College Council yesterday. The land deterioration was estimated at about $78,000. The farm hardest hit
was the college cropping unit which had an estimated loss of about $49,000. The Ashley Dene farm lost $25,000, and the college dairy farm $19,000. The research farm had lost about $15,000, he said. The drought had had no effect on the Lyndhurst farm and the college sheep breeding unit had lost only about $5OOO. “Conditions will worsen
if the drought conditions continue through into the autumn,” Mr Whatman said. One of the council’s Federated Farmers representatives, Mr John Webster, said the drought had highlighted the problems the college farms were having with irrigation, and the problem was being looked at.
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