新西兰英语 260 Indoor Dairy Farms on Hold

　　The three companies that were planning 16 indoor dairy farms in the Mackenzie country have decided¹ not to go ahead at the moment. They said it had cost them nearly $4m already but now the Environment Ministry² wants more information about the effluent. This is the waste from the cows. In the spring and summer, the farmers will spray it on the grass to help the grass grow but the Environment Ministry wants to know what will happen when the weather is cold. The companies think this will cost them another $2.6m to provide this information.
Listen to December 7th 2009 for more information about the plan for indoor farming.
Fonterra, which is the company which sells milk products in New Zealand and overseas, does not believe New Zealand needs indoor dairy farming, although Fonterra owns an indoor farm in China. There is already some indoor dairy farming in Southland in New Zealand. The owners of these three companies, which have land in the Mackenzie country, believe that New Zealand will have more indoor farming in the future. At the moment, many people do not like the idea of cows indoors for most of the year but we are running out of land for outdoor farming. Perhaps people will change their minds because milk products are now selling for such good prices overseas.

1 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

2 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。