{"id":8359,"date":"2013-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/dry-curtails-growth\/"},"modified":"2013-09-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:00:00","slug":"dry-curtails-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/news\/dry-curtails-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry curtails growth"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

So farmer Ian Brickell put Goliath rape into his hill-country paddocks in March instead. It didn\u2019t do as well as he had hoped, mainly because of the lack of moisture.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re break-feeding it now to the weaners. It\u2019s not as good a crop as it should have been but it\u2019s certainly getting us out of this tight patch at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ian was hoping for the forecasted rain at the start of August, and said it was desperately needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis time last year the farm was a bog-hole. So I\u2019m hoping the rain doesn\u2019t all come at lambing.\u201d<\/p>\n

He expects he will put the Goliath paddocks back into grass rather than a summer crop. And his flats, which have \u201cburnt out\u201d Italian ryegrass, will be sown into permanent pasture this spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer weather conditions at Putere in northern Hawke\u2019s Bay were just too dry to plant swedes this year.\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t