There was a lovely, very big house built near here a couple of years ago. That looked to be similar construction to a steel framed farm building.
No brainer really, if for some reason you can't live in New Zealand then Pembrokeshire is the next best
My late father once told me NZ grew grass well because it has twice the sun and rain of the UK.Well sun I can agree with as it is on the same latitude South as Spain in the North,but rain,no,bloody hell its rained almost continually in Pembs since the beginning of August!
What part of NZ? I never seen much rain, could not grow grass without irrigation, that was Canterbury plains
Still FA rain down here yet.
would be early to mid September I'd say.
Had about 75, mm so far this year ,but sweet FA in November, December 2017, had 1 phase drop out at 10.30am still not fixed and just had milk tanker collection at 8.15pm, no vat wash, no hot water, no running vacuum pump ,no idea if I can milk tomorrow morning....Still FA rain down here yet.
Can't remember the last time I tipped more than single-digit mms out of the guage....
North island just had a hammering though, so it will come at some stage
(You know when NZF Facebook page has questions about lucerne not growing because it's too dry, then it's really quite dry.)
4 dead and the line is still liveHe was there in the 1960s, North Island. Was there even dairying down South back then?
Dairy only came to Canterbury when irrigation started, 70s some time I think
Pete I can send you some rain if you want, we can do a swap for some sunshineStill FA rain down here yet.
Can't remember the last time I tipped more than single-digit mms out of the guage....
North island just had a hammering though, so it will come at some stage
(You know when NZF Facebook page has questions about lucerne not growing because it's too dry, then it's really quite dry.)
Much more than a like,may be an infinite like!
I think our farm was a dairy farm up until about then
Pete how long ago was the flax mills ?I think our farm was a dairy farm up until about then
All very small scale by todays standards though, my workshop used to be the old dairy plant shed I believe.
But 40 cows was large in those days, dairy factories everywhere.... then along came subsidy and suddenly sheep took over
Then they stopped again and things that pay took over
But to answer shortish, dairy was everywhere, and flaxmills for linen, and logging native trees.
In those days it was cream cans on a dray so each little factory was a dairy hub, between here and Balclutha (20 minutes) there would have been 3 small factories for dairy and many flaxmills, and a railway line.
"Progress"
