“You don’t have to go far to find a grumpy farmer around here,” says Lina Day. She’s standing in a livestock pen at the sales yards in Feilding, in the north island of New Zealand. Farmers are having a tough year: the inflation rate for farming materials and resources – known as on-farm inflation – stands at 16.3%, or more than double the national figure.
“Everyone is feeling it,” she says. “We need a change – I’m not saying anyone’s better than the ones we’ve got now, but we need a change.
