You don’t need to work full-time on one of New Zealand’s farms to know that the weather conditions can affect anyone, at any time. Indeed, rural service providers – the intrepid guys that make regular deliveries to Kiwi farms, or those that externally inspect the land and animals, among many others – will need protection from the elements just as much as the farmer will.
If you're employed in the field of service provision and have ever undertaken work on one of New Zealand's thousands of farms, you'll know how temperamental the weather can be. Our country is one of massively changeable fronts - one minute you could be auditing livestock levels and conditions in the beautiful sunshine on a South Island sheep farm, the next you could be soaked to the skin as the heavens open.