'Looks like the Outback': Sun 'cooks' farmer's flood-hit plain 18 Jan, 2021 02:30 AM 2 minutes to read Dairy farm manager Dale Harris (right) and family members (from left) Jaclyn, Lexi (6) and Lane (8) try to make light of the situation, after their lush summer pastures were killed by flooding. Photo / Stephen Jaquiery Otago Daily Times By: John Lewis In an odd twist of fate, nearly 100ha of an Otokia dairy farm now looks like a little piece of the drought-stricken Australian Outback - not because of a lack of water, but because there has been too much of it. Farm owner James Adam said recent flooding on the Taieri left many of his paddocks under water.