Third-generation sheep farmers are adapting to climate change on drought-prone hills. Mike Bland reports. North Waikato farmers Jon and Fiona Sherlock are fine-tuning their sheep policy in an attempt to reduce the impacts of increasingly dry summers. The Sherlocks run Otorohaea, a 660-hectare (575ha effective) hill country farm at Waingaro, west of Ngaruawahia. Otorohaea has...
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