New Zealand's live lobster industry is worth about $320 million annually, much of it sold to China. However, back on January 24 exports came to a halt when China shut down its Chinese New Year celebrations and closed restaurants as the coronavirus spread. Andrew Harvey from the Fiordland Lobster Company says things are looking up now that flights carrying live lobsters have resumed but he says the industry is monitoring whether China will be affected by a second wave of infections.

Originally from Oklahoma, Matt is a PhD student at Lincoln University. He's working with Callaghan Innovation and Agriseeds on promoting better health and nutrition for dairy cows, sheep and deer.

Frosts tickled much of the North Island this week. Now saleyards have opened the demand for store stock has improved.

The Shearing Contractors Association says it may have to recruit newcomers to the industry if shearers and shed workers form the northern hemisphere are unable to come in to New Zealand this year.

It's back to business in market town Feilding and the live lobster industry claws its way back now that air freight to China has resumed. The Shearing Contractors Association says it may have to recruit newcomers to the industry and frosts tickled much of the North Island this week.

Hundreds of bales of donated hay, emblazoned with smiley faces and messages like "kia kaha", are heading to Hawkes Bay this weekend as part of the Rapa Feed Run. Organisers Sophie and Daniel Hansen are hoping the convoy of trucks will nail home the desperate need of their farming cousins further north and remind those farmers they have plenty of community support.

The Jowsey family are among many Hawkes Bay farmers struggling with drought. The daily grind of feeding and watering stock on the parched paddocks is being documented on camera by the youngest in the family, 12 year old Selby.

Helensville dairy farmers Scott and Sue Narbey have been adding up how much this year's drought has cost them.

The honey production season has been better this year, but there are still large numbers of beekeepers trying to get out of the industry because they are not making money. Chris Honnis is a small Waikato beekeeper who will stay in the industry he loves, but he says it is in the doldrums.

It's still horrifically dry in Southern Hawkes Bay and some Gisborne mandarins are being held on trees until demand picks up post lockdown, while in the South Island green kiwifruit are being harvested in Nelson, while Marlborough through to Northern Southland is desperately dry and supplements are hard to find and expensive.