Southland farmers dipping into feed reserves earlyJohn Hawkins/Stuff Balage lined up and waiting near Wallace Town. Southland Federated Farmers president Allan Baird said because of the mild winter and warm spring, farmers were able to get a lot of winter feed in the ground early and get hay bailed in October and November. While weather forecasts might indicate that dry weather was likely to continue Southland could buck trends quite quickly, Baird said. The company had been busy with delivering supplementary feed to farmers during the dry weather. The rain Southland had got was enough to be refreshing there had not been enough to support growth, Neame said.

Source: Stuff December 24, 2017 03:39 UTC