Embattled dairy farmer Allan Crafar is back in court on dirty dairying charges, and warning authorities he won’t be paying fines.

Mr Crafar, along with wife Beth and brother Frank, were fined more than $60,000 for breaching effluent standards on one of their Waikato farms.

They tried unsuccessfully to have the charges overturned in September, and are back in court after failing to pay up.

Mr Crafar says he’s next to broke after months of legal wrangling following his farming empire being place in receivership late last year.

“They can give me jail or whatever, it doesn’t really matter."

They’ve got options, they can give me community service but I reckon I’ve already done over 40 years of that.

"They can give me house arrest – well I’ve already done a year of that anyway.

"If they want to give me community service, well they’ll have to send out a bus to get me, I can’t afford to travel."

Allan Crafar says the case against his family isn’t justified.

"Personally I can’t believe the way in which one of the country’s most productive families can be so callously disregarded by New Zealand society.

"We’re continuously subjected to unjust and untrue accusations by people and organisations who have not, and never will be as productive and dedicated to production as my family was.”