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If you're a lover of watermelons you might have noticed prices are nudging down lately, with some supermarkets even selling them for less than five dollars each. Crops are plentiful at the moment thanks to a hot summer season in Gisborne. It was a different story a year ago. Several rain events in quick succession first left crops unharvestable before Cyclone Gabrielle decimated them entirely, during what should have been peak season.
LeaderBrand general manager of farming Gordon McPhail tells Kathryn Ryan about the swift comeback.
