Rukuhia Field Day Showed Station's Value To Farmers
The importance of the Rukuhia Soil Fertility Research Station in the knowledge that it is making available to the farming community was emphasised recently when approximately JSO North Island farmers attended the first major field day at the station since its inception. The field day was organised by the Waikato Farmers’ Educational Committee. In its research programme the station is engaged with many problems of particular interest to the farmer, and visitors to the station were given an interesting insi(ght into its investigational work. The field day provided a further example of the Rukuhia Station’s keen desire to make much knowledge as possible from research trials available to the farmer. The station’s experimental work with irrigation has been , another part of its investigations that has commanded the keen interest of farmers and has already convinced many of the great desirability of having small portions of their farm irrigated.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 10, 15 March 1950, Page 3
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156Rukuhia Field Day Showed Station's Value To Farmers Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 10, 15 March 1950, Page 3
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