Cyclone-hit farmers are frustrated with a lack of funding to help them recover.
They're facing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage, but so far have only been given a one-off payment of $10,000.
For farmers like Tim Nelson in Puketiri, it is a drop in the bucket when you have more than half a million dollars of fencing wiped out.
"I'm not one to have my hand out - but if there is money available and it's being given to other people and not farmers, that's not fair."
Properties with silt damage can claim up to $250,000 for its removal, and farmers have tried to access other relief funds but not had any luck.
"Lots of people we know, farmers, have been declined for the reason that they are a business, and it's for individuals."
He's speaking up on behalf of all those farmers, because they've all had enough.
"When you hear funding for MPI [Ministry for Primary Industries] silt removal in town, if there is money around, is it fair farmers aren't getting it?"
It is something Patoka farmer Sally Newall has also discovered.
"We've applied for an awful lot of grants and declined for all of them, so that includes two different types of grants from MPI and the regional council," she said.
"The regional council grant we don't fit into because it's slip damage, not flood damage, and the MPI grants, they say we need to be part of a community group."
She's calling for more equitable funding.
"Segregating off-hill country farmers saying you can't have anything because it's just slip damage isn't fair, and inequitable and shouldn't be happening."
But the Minister for Cyclone Recovery, Grant Robertson, promises more funds will be available soon.
"We've been working very closely with the horticultural sector, others in the farming sector, to be able to come up with a package of support. We'll have more to say on that very shortly."
It can't come soon enough, especially for the Nelsons who've just spent thousands on repairing their main access track, only to have last week's rain wash their hard work, and money, away.
"It's been one step forward and three back."
Parts of Hawke's Bay had more than 200mm of rain, and Nelson said he's recorded over three metres of rain in the past year.
"Our annual rainfall is usually about 1700mm - it's been really really wet."
It's so wet that it's created a canyon on the Bibby's farm in Ongaonga, Central Hawke's Bay.
"I've never seen anything like this before," said Hamish Bibby.
Metres deep and wide, it looks more like an earthquake's hit the land, but this is the result of too much rain.
"I came over the hill and thought jeepers, you don't see this every day. I was thinking, 'Now that is a bloody big hole'," Bibby said.
