Two weeks - that's the deadline a rural contractor is setting the government to follow through with their December promise to allow 200 skilled machinery operators into the country to help with the busy autumn harvest.
Since then, not a single worker has managed to secure an MIQ spot because of the Omicron response.
It comes as the government announces it's got a voucher for pregnant journalist Charlotte Bellis in MIQ and has urged her to travel from Afghanistan to take it.
Brook Nettleton from BlueGrass Contracting in Waikato says if workers don't arrive in the country within the next fortnight, crops will deteriorate to a point farmers will not be able to milk their cows.
He talks to Lisa Owen.
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