ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF FARMING LIGHT LANDS IN CANTERBURY

Abstract

This afternoon you will be visiting Ashley Dene, the College light land farm, approximately 70 per cent of the area of which is typical of the light lands of the Canterbury Plains. The term "light" when applied to soils may have many meanings, but Canterbury farmers know only too well what they mean by the term; they think immediately of that considerable area of approximately 850,000 acres on the plains where shingle is to be found within 18 inches of the soil surface and in some cases right to the surface.