Inside a New Zealand family farm milking 1,000 cows

Inside a New Zealand family farm milking 1,000 cows

Hayley and Gareth Lewis are milking 1,000 cows in Methven, New Zealand with their three children Harry, Mack, and Neve. The couple spent 13 years sharemilking with Dairy Holdings, in which time they had grown enough equity and cow numbers to place a deposit on a farm of their own. When a 280ha platform went up for sale at the base of Mt. Alford, just outside the small town of Methven, which is situated in the Canterbury region of the South Islan…