For Tararua dairy farmers, news the One Plan could be heading back to the Environment Court is being greeted with trepidation.
"Farmers are saying, 'Here we go again'," Tararua District councillor and Eketahuna dairy farmer Tracey Collis told the Dannevirke News.
"Dannevirke farmers are going through the One Plan consent process at the moment and are asking, 'How does this affect me'? And farmers in the priority catchment of Mangatainoka in southern Tararua who have been through the process are worried about the ramifications.
"They're calving, their incomes are down and in some areas it's been pretty wet," she said.
"Farmers have been building their relationships with Horizons Regional Council, but now the announcement from Fish and Game and the Environmental Defence Society has them thinking, 'Oh no here it comes again'."