Milked dry: Northland dairy goat farmers’ ‘beautiful dream’ sours in battle with BNZ

Milked dry: Northland dairy goat farmers’ ‘beautiful dream’ sours in battle with BNZ
Barry and Judy Foote have been milking goats since the 1970s. (Image: Jason Dorday/NZME)
Riley Kennedy
Garth Bray
Milking goats has been Barry and Judy Foote's life.“Farm becomes part of you, mate. Your animals, that’s why you get up in the morning,” Barry said, emotionally, while reminiscing on 50 years of farming along the old Russell Rd, out of Whakapara.The Northland couple bought a “little wee scrap heap” of a dairy farm in the late 1970s and began milking goats and cows.They’ve spent their entire working lives developing their farming business, tacking on and buying up neighbouring properties.  'A real...

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