Foreign ownership has seen four hill-country stations farmed as an integrated business. Sandra Taylor reports.
Tony Plunkett is understandably positive about the benefits foreign investment brings to many of New Zealand’s farming businesses.
He is, after all, seeing these benefits first-hand in the hill-country sheep, beef and deer farms he manages for an American family, the Erdmans.
Reading Time: < 1minute
Based in Hawaii, this family now owns four large hill-country stations in central Canterbury.
There has been a recent focus on establishing drought-tolerant forage crops such as lucerne.