Cut with care
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
IrrigationNZ says it's confident the Ruataniwha dam project will go ahead, but disputes costs for the project have risen by 50%.
A new integrated system that offers remote control, as well as monitoring and reporting of pivot irrigation is now available.
Ashburton's Carrfields Irrigation company has won 2016's IrrigationNZ Innovation Award in association with Aqualinc for its innovative irrigator stabiliser.
Much media debate has arisen recently on whether new irrigation schemes are necessary in the wake of the dairy downturn.
IrrigationNZ and Federated Farmers say greater scrutiny of claims irrigation causes increased 'rumbly-gut' is needed.
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has welcomed new funding of $895,000 for the Flaxbourne Community Irrigation Scheme in Marlborough.
The environmental effects of nitrogen that determine how much effluent you can irrigate onto land, says Waikato Regional Council.
If someone had told Matt O'Kane 15 years ago that his irrigator would one day ring to say it had finished its run he would have "walked off laughing".
An appeal to the High Court is looking likely as Mid Canterbury irrigators BCI digest the implications of the Environment Canterbury Plan Change 2 announcement two weeks ago.
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
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