12-03-2013 08:50 AM | New Zealand

Bone dry and at breaking point

Dave McGaveston does not mince words. It is, he says, his worst season in 40 years of farming.

He has just returned from a meeting with his bank manager to discuss how to make it through on his big farm at Tapawera, which has been ravaged by drought and depressing sheep and beef returns.
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