date:Sep 01, 2012
senior analyst Hayley Moynihan, who wrote the report.
The heady days of more than 300 new farm conversions nationally in a single season are over. While a window of opportunity is likely to remain for a while yet in Canterbury on the back of their irrigation developments, future growth is likely to come from increase production per cow.
According to Moynihan, New Zealand-based dairy farmers will instead need to look at how to squeeze productivity gains from their existing herds.
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