Allan Crafar’s latest day in court hasn’t gone according to plan.
The embattled Reporoa dairy farmer is fighting to stay in the house on his home property, but the receivers for his farming business want him and his family gone.
Mr Crafar represented himself in the Rotorua High Court, but his defence based on the peppercorn rental system didn’t hold sway with the judge.
"Well, it didn’t got the way I wanted it to go. Obviously the law doesn’t work logically like I would."
Mr Crafar says banks’ lending policies are making it too hard for farmers to operate.
"The banks and Fonterra have transferred the pain from their boardrooms into everyone’s kitchens and its financial genocide nationwide.
"They're killing people in their kitchens quietly while they're looking pretty good in their own boardroom making profits and reducing their debt levels.
"Farmers have been the ones they're standing on to do it though."
No dates have been set to hear other aspects of the Crafar case.