Comment: Just as this year's Anzac Day was an Anzac Day like no other, so too will Moving Day be a Moving Day like no other. And you know what? says Rowena Duncum, it won't matter a bit.
The reason that this Moving Day will be no different is because the very word many farmers have come to detest keeps popping right back up: resilience.
Look, I hate it just as much as the next person, but the fact remains: it signifies just how strong rural New Zealand is, despite the continual shite flung at them.
So take a seat in line, Covid-19. Because, behind Rogernomics, droughts, floods, plunging stock, wool, meat and milk prices, increased legislation and a barrage of hostility from the rabid anti-farming posse, trade wars and biosecurity events or threats like Foot and Mouth, Mad Cow disease and Mycoplasma bovis, you're just another headache – and just another day at the office.
The cows still have to be milked, the sheep shorn, the crops harvested. And, as many of my friends are finding out the hard way, the schooling must go on – at home, with limited and temperamental internet for some and an ineffective disciplinary system.