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Dr Nick Cradock-Henry, Senior Scientist, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, comments: “The prospect of higher-than-average temperatures and lower rainfall than normal, for parts of the South Island, highlight again, the climate-related challenges for primary industries and rural communities. For example, drought has been a recurring feature of farming in North Canterbury over the last decade, overlapping with both the Kaikoura-Marlborough-Hurunui earthquake (2016) and Mycoplasma bovis ( M. bovis), a bacterial disease affecting dairy and beef cattle, which resulted in a major biosecurity...
The prospect of a dry winter, which will prove a challenge for farmers, may set the country back in its transition to a zero carbon economy.