{"id":75405,"date":"2025-11-30T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/29\/working-the-land-but-rarely-owning-it-life-for-new-zealands-young-farmers"},"modified":"2025-11-30T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:00:49","slug":"working-the-land-but-rarely-owning-it-life-for-new-zealands-young-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75405","title":{"rendered":"Working the land but rarely owning it: life for New Zealand\u2019s young farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A country built on agriculture is seeing the sector change as the number of farms shrinks and it becomes harder for young people to buy land<\/p>\n<p>On a farm south of Auckland, Cam Clayton breeds sheep and cattle \u2013 working alongside the dogs he\u2019s trained since they were puppies. There, he looks out on knobbly hills and tree-filled gullies in Waikato, close to where he grew up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have the best office, with the best views,\u201d says Clayton.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/29\/working-the-land-but-rarely-owning-it-life-for-new-zealands-young-farmers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A country built on agriculture is seeing the sector change as the number of farms shrinks and it becomes harder for young people to buy landOn a farm south of Auckland, Cam Clayton breeds sheep and cattle \u2013 working alongside the dogs he\u2019s trained since&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5084,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,653,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-farming","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5084"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75406,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75405\/revisions\/75406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}