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Total milk production could drop for the first time in five years, according to Westpac's most recent forecasts.

HAWKE’S BAY is empty of stock says Bruce Wills, a local and the national president of Federated Farmers.

The West Coast is today forwarding its request to the Ministry for Primary Industries for a medium scale adverse event declaration.

With the South Island's West Coast in the grip of drought, which is a highly unusual event, most farmers on the West Coast will have no idea how to cope with it or its aftermath.

IrrigationNZ says water storage needs to be fast-tracked to drought-proof agriculture as New Zealand can no longer carry the cost of a significant drought every five years.

Agribusiness banking specialist Rabobank has moved to reassure clients impacted by drought conditions in the North Island that it will work to support them.

Special 'Farming in Drought' Farm Days will be held in Wellington (Sunday, March 17), Rotorua (Sunday, March 17) and Tauranga (Sunday, March 24). Free and open to the public, they are intended to show how farmers and farms cope with drought.

DON’T EXPECT too much change from the present weather patterns, says weather expert Philip Duncan of weatherwatch.co.nz.

Industry body DairyNZ is running a series of 'beat the heat' events in the Bay of Plenty and Taupo in March, to provide farmers with advice on getting through the drought.

A state of drought has been officially declared in the South Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Hawke's Bay regions today by the Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy.