Mrs Verna Rutherford looks at some of the new Columbia variety, of Jerusalem artichoke which her husband, Mr John Ruthford, is growing on their Moncks Spur property, on the Port Hills. Mr Rutherford; a lawyer and company director, believes the new varieties of artichoke that he has imported and shepherded through three years of quarantine will offer Canterbury irrigation farmers, a dual-purpose crop, for cattle and goat fodder, or as a feedstock for fructose sugar or alcohol production. Many home gardeners will be familiar with the Jerusalem artichoke but it has not been grown on a farm scale in New Zealand before. See Farm and Station, page 12. Photograph by DAVID ALEXANDER
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Press, 14 February 1986, Page 1
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112Mrs Verna Rutherford looks at some of the new Columbia variety, of Jerusalem artichoke which her husband, Mr John Ruthford, is growing on their Moncks Spur property, on the Port Hills. Mr Rutherford; a lawyer and company director, believes the new varieties of artichoke that he has imported and shepherded through three years of quarantine will offer Canterbury irrigation farmers, a dual-purpose crop, for cattle and goat fodder, or as a feedstock for fructose sugar or alcohol production. Many home gardeners will be familiar with the Jerusalem artichoke but it has not been grown on a farm scale in New Zealand before. See Farm and Station, page 12. Photograph by DAVID ALEXANDER Press, 14 February 1986, Page 1
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