Coping with dry conditions on Otago farms and the ongoing implications is about taking action, as agribusiness reporter Sally Rae reports. Soul-destroying. That is how Otago Rural Support Trust co-ordinator Pat Macaulay describes living through drought. Mrs Macaulay, of North Taieri, knows first-hand exactly what it feels like, having farmed in the Strath Taieri where drought was a regular occurrence. She also knows about the ongoing implications of such an adverse event.‘‘Weeks and months of drought is soul-destroy-ing. It's not easy to live with,'' Mrs Macaulay said. Parts of Otago, along with Marlborough and Canterbury, have had their medium-scale adverse event drought classification...
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