
Further water restrictions may push some Marlborough vineyards to the limit as costs mount up.
The Marlborough District Council's been forced to shut off irrigation to around 100 property owners and six-thousand hectares of vineyards after groundwater levels reached a worrying low.
Marlborough Federated Farmers president Greg Harris says vineyards are costly and if owners can't sustain them, they'll have to fold.
"Estimations at the moment from rural professionals are the crop yields from the vineyards around Marlbourough is about 100,000 tonnes short of what they were expecting from this region without the recent water restrictions."
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