The Kaipara Konnection - Kaipara Konnection - Dargaville.BIZ

If you don’t know where you’re going,
any road will take you there. -- George Harrison,
Metservice and NIWA believe there is little chance of useful rain until the middle of March at the earliest.
For the west coast, rainfall since October has been well below average, and especially dry in January and February. At
Dargaville the soil moisture deficit is nearing the permanent wilting point (150mm).
Some eastern regions received short falls of rain in late December and again in early February but the benefits have
long since dried up.
Dairy farms throughout the province report daily milk production 20% below this time last year and many have dried off a
portion of the herd or turned to once-a-day milking.
Spot supply of palm kernel supplementary feed is getting tight and the cost to farmers is increasing.
Beef cattle and sheep farms have been forced to destock to deal with the drought, but livestock prices are well down.
Orchards fear irrigation restrictions and report a lack of effectiveness of irrigation.
Farmers and orchardists who are feeling the pressure and are unable to see a way out are urged to get in touch with the
Northland Rural Support Trust without delay.
The Northland Rural Support Trust can be reached on 0800 787 254 through its coordinator Julie Jonker.
Ends
Hugh Stringleman,
Farmwrite Partnership
P.O.Box 87, Maungatapere
Ph 09 434 7626, 0274 744 003
New Books In the Dargaville Library
LARGE PRINT
Trail of Blood – Lisa Black
All the Colours of Darkness – Peter Robinson
Bending Toward the Sun – A Mother and Daughter Memoir – Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
The Gift – Cecilia Ahern
Keeping Faith – Jodie Picoult
Voyagers of the Taitanic – Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From – Richard
Davenport-Hines
Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
FICTION
The Mill River Recluse – Darcie Chan
Gun Machine – Warren Ellis
The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
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