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Peter Hancox

Peter Hancox

Farm Manager, Lincoln University Dairy Farm (LUDF), New Zealand; 20+ seasons managing one of the country's leading dairy demonstration farms.

Jun 4, 2026

3:32
What's been the kind of the challenges, the good and the bad? It has been very wet for Canterbury, and I know that farm is probably well suited to a hot, dry summer.
3:42
Definitely.
3:43
Yeah, no, certainly it's been another challenging season.
3:45
We've had two fairly similar seasons in a row now, quite wet through the winter, then very wet through spring and into summer.
3:54
quite significant rainfalls at times.
3:55
So we were getting like sort of 40 to 60 odd mils in each rainfall, which was quite significant.
4:01
Irrigation, obviously the farm is 100% irrigated, but a normal year we would have irrigated at least 90 days through the summer.
8:18
Is it kale, fodder beet? What is it? And how that transition occurs?

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