Mandy Matthews is from a farm an hour inland on New Zealand’s central North Island, in the hills near Whanganui, where her dad still farms with a manager, running Romney-Perendale cross sheep, with Suffolk rams over the terminal ewes and beef cattle, over about 1200 hectares of land.
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