In just two decades there’s been a complete turnabout on New Zealand’s Canterbury Plains. Driven by demand for milk products from China, the region’s farmers have shifted to dairying with big centre-pivot irrigators now dominating the skyline and black and white cows scattered between the windbreak tree lines.
Contracting on the Canterbury Plains, New Zealand

In just two decades there’s been a complete turnabout on New Zealand’s Canterbury Plains. Driven by demand for milk products from China, the region’s farmers have shifted to dairying with big centre-pivot irrigators now dominating the skyline and black and white cows scattered between the windbreak tree lines.
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