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GAVIN Vanner, 41, a second-generation dairy farmer in Taranaki, New Zealand, believes in working hard. He started from the bottom and worked his way up. Today, he owns a 377ha farm with 880 cows.

“There’s a certain core of New Zealanders that got it in their heads that you can’t start where we (he and his wife) started, with dirt on our hands and coming through to farm ownership. Most of them just want to go straight to farm ownership,” he says.