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With calving and lambing in full swing and many farmers in the North Island recovering from floods, snow storms and FE outbreaks, Peter Burke asks around the regions to see how things are panning out.

Spring has sprung according to the new season's asparagus shoots growing in my garden, although the first few days of spring have been wet and miserable.

The spring months, as soils warm up, are when the work of fertilising begins.

WITH SPRING finally (hopefully) here and the grass starting to grow, farmers will be looking to rebuild their supplementary feed stocks by making hay and silage.

THE EAST of the North Island could be warmer than usual through October–December and the southwest and east of the South Island may be cooler, says NIWA.

NIWA is forecasting a warm, early spring. Temperatures over the August to October period are "very likely" to be above average in the North Island regions and in the north of the South Island. They are "likely" to be average or above average in the east and west of the South Island.

WHILE MUCH of this season's lamb crop is still in the paddock, thoughts should be turning to protecting next spring's drop, say vets.