Larry Williams Drive

It is a hard time to be a farmer in the North Island, this week especially.  Yes, the cyclone has affected a lot of people, not just farmers, in some cases devastatingly. But the farming community have got to be among the worst affected. I really don’t mean to minimise this cyclone for anyone else, but farmers are isolated. They will probably be the last to have their power reconnected, the last to have their bridges fixed to get the milk tankers in; they’ll be the last ones in to the supermarket in town. And they’ll be the last ones to have someone turn up at the door and ask if they’re ok  And when most others affected have replaced the roof and dried the carpet, farmers will still be shifting forestry debris off their land, they will still  be counting the loss of dumped milk, spoiled kumara, damaged avos, wiped out maize crops, and lost apples for months, if not years. I can’t imagine how hard this must be for them, after everything they’ve been through. In case you’ve forgotten, they had Covid shutting