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Central Southland dairy farmer John Kennedy finds it hard to talk about a tough period of his life.
He was the Southland Rural Support Trust chairman when

Central Southland dairy farmer John Kennedy finds it hard to talk about a tough period of his life. He was the Southland Rural Support Trust...

Central Southland dairy farmer John Kennedy finds it hard to talk about a tough period of his life. He was the Southland Rural Support Trust...

"It was the toughest time in my life ... and I don’t want to think about it anymore."

Sixty years of married life have given John and Margaret McDougall lots of memories.

The generosity of farmers and truck companies to support the cause was huge, she added. “It would [normally] be thousands of dollars to transport the baleage from Southland to Canterbury, but these companies are doing it for nothing or at a very, very subsidised rate.” Three transport companies are involved with the load leaving Gore on Saturday. One is carting it from Oreti Plains to a truck depot in Gore, where it will be unloaded and put onto a Canterbury-bound truck. Last week’s l...