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Native Affairs - Pay Out Blues

The volume is being turned down on NZ's "rockstar" economy; in particular the dairy industry is being exposed to the cold hard light of plummeting international prices.  So how are Māori farmers coping?

Billie Jo Hohepa-Ropiha ventured up the muddy paddocks around the King Country in search of whānau doing it tough and found one Māori whānau whose running things a little differently to survive.