PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERYThese commercial vegetable crops near Outram, on the Taieri Plain, may look parched, but owner Graeme Young says they are doing well, despite the hot dry weather over the past couple of months. He said the land was not irrigated. Quality might not be as good but we still manage to get there.'' The situation is more dire in other parts of New Zealand. Some market gardeners have had to throw away hundreds of thousands of new vegetable plants because they cannot afford the water to plant them.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 15, 2018 16:07 UTC