Cropping shift at Benham

By Louise Preece
Updated December 11 2015 - 11:34pm, first published June 29 2011 - 9:31am
Rob O’Connor, Avoca, is implementing a gradual shift towards irrigated cropping on his Fingal Valley farm, Tasmania.
Rob O’Connor, Avoca, is implementing a gradual shift towards irrigated cropping on his Fingal Valley farm, Tasmania.

AT harvest time, Tasmania’s fields are covered by vivid yellow and red blooms, barley, wheat and vegetable crops. The multihued landscape is an upshot of a changing agricultural scene, where many farmers are seeing the benefits of irrigated cropping.

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