LUCERNE FOR THE 80s

M. Brosnan.
Hakataramea Valley.
Paper presented to,  Farming Beyond The 80s Conference at Lincoln College, 1980

Paper 16:   LUCERNE FOR GRAZING – A FARMER’S VIEW

Introduction
I am not sure it’s fashionable to defend lucerne these days so I won’t do that.  I’ll just tell you about my property, which revolves around lucerne, and what lucerne has done for me. How in a few years , on a relatively small holding, with a 400mil. rainfall, it took the sheep numbers from 1000 to 5000, to then support, and give our family a good standard of living.