Farmers with properties either side of Auckland's southern border are frustrated they haven't been able to check stock or get essential supplies because of the alert level 3 lockdown.
Travel in to, out of and through Auckland is heavily restricted, with only alimited number of exemptions.
Federated Farmers Auckland president Alan Cole said that was causing headaches for farmers with properties in both Auckland and Waikato.
"You need to be able to get to your stock basically every day or every second day to feed out, check them. Some of the guys are calving at the moment and they've got properties on either side of the boundary."
Cole said farmers understood the need for the lockdown and wanted to do the right thing.
But he said they had been hamstrung by a lack of clear information from the Ministry of Health.
"It's unclear how to get through the border. If you go to the website, it sends you to other websites."
Some Federated Farmers members had applied for travel exemptions, but they were still waiting on the outcomes, Cole said.
"We just want to get out there and do our work, get to our other properties, look after our stock."
Cole understood that vets were now included on the exemptions list, after initially being left off, but the website was still to be updated.
Some farmers were also cut off from their usual rural supply stores, which could make getting the right feed for calves, in particular, more difficult.
