24 Oct 2025

Southland farmers struggling to milk cows after storm

From Checkpoint, 4:55 pm on 24 October 2025

Hundreds of farmers are struggling to milk their cows with no power and limited generators to share around. Stuart Kent, a dairy farmer in Western Southland spoke to Lisa Owen.

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