Fencing: Being the proceedings of a series of talks presented at a field day held at Lincoln College in April 1980, together with some additional material

Abstract

Along with most other farming costs, the relative cost of fencing is rising. Yet there is an increasing demand for more intensive and permanent fencing to allow the maximum utilisation of pasture production. Hill country is high on the list for development but is this economically viable? The answer to some of these questions is wrapped up in the technological advances made in such things as on farm log peeling and timber.preservation; permanent electric fencing; conbinations of standard wire and electric fencing; the development of battens that do not require electric insulators and in netting fencing. To display these new technologies, to pass on tips about standard fencing and to discuss other aspects became the aim of a group of interested organisations in the Canterbury area. What resulted was a field day to display and discuss wares and a series of six papers on several fencing subjects. These papers, together with some supplementary material are reproduced here. They do not represent a definitive statement on all aspects of fencing, but will give some very good hints on the topics covered.