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            Armstrong, D. 1980 Agriculture: the Auckland region. pp. 75-76  Hupkens van der Elst, F.C.C. ; Kinloch, D.I.  (ed.). Soil groups of New Zealand. Part 4: Organic soils. New Zealand Society of Soil Science, 1980

        

            

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                Agriculture: the Auckland region 
            

        

        

            

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                Armstrong, D. 
            

        

        

            

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                Chapter in book 
            

        

        

            

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                Two main areas of peaty soils are found in the Auckland region. At Mangawhai the land has been developed for dairying and at Omaha-Point Wells there has been a change from dairying to cropping. 
            

        

        

            

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                Socio-economic 
            

        

        

            

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                horticulture; auckland; nzms262 03; dairy farming; nzms262 02; point wells; peat soils; mangawhai; peat; socioeconomic--auckland regional council--pest management--freshwater--lakes--drain surveys--baseline data--spatial data; omaha; agriculture