Mark Hutchinson's Banks Peninsula farm is experiencing the second lowest rainfall in 100 years – but it's still not considered a drought.
Hutchinson's Akaroa sheep and beef farm only recorded 500ml for 2020, he told The Country's Jamie Mackay.
"Just to put that in perspective, the lowest recorded in our area in the last 100 years is 470ml," he said.
"Apparently we're still only very dry, we're not in a drought – I'd hate to see what a drought's like."