Commercial growers in parts of the lower North Island are facing one of their worst seasons on record due to the rain that just keeps on falling.
John Clark, owner of Woodhaven, a business just south of Levin producing 1.2 million cases of vegetables a year, says he's never experienced conditions like this in 38 years.
It's impossible to plant crops because the ground is too wet for tractors.
"We have had a year and a half of this. It started the winter before and carried on through the summer and this winter," Clark told Rural News. It will affect the yields of his crops enormously, he said.
"The only good thing is the prices have gone up, but on the downside labour costs have risen because of the state of crops and the time needed to harvest them in the wet conditions."
Just north of Levin, Geoff Lewis, an asparagus grower, is facing similar problems.
He's owned his property since 1980 and has never experienced such a wet season - so long that the ground is waterlogged.