By Samantha Gee of RNZ Some farmers in the Tasman District have spent the last two months using winter supplies to feed their stock, as a drought continues across part of the top of the South Island. Near Murchison, the paddocks on Alf Kinzett’s deer farm on either side of State Highway 6 are a dusty brown.... read full story
"It's normally good grass out here, but it's just barren."