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Fonterra discharging nitrogen-heavy water on to 'ghost farms'


Fonterra discharging nitrogen-heavy water on to 'ghost farms'
8 Feb, 2021 06:53 PM
17 minutes to read
Buxton Farm is a 'ghost farm' used to spread wastewater. Photo / RNZ / Claire Eastham-Farrelly
RNZ
By Farah Hancock for RNZ
Fonterra cleared the cows from 16 farms and is using the land to dispose of wastewater, which could be leaching a colourless, tasteless and odourless pollutant into private drinking water supplies.
It was on his runs that Neville Ross first noticed cows were slowly disappearing from local farms. In 2017 most of the stock vanished from two farms. A year later they disappeared from a third Cambridge farm.
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