'Gypsy Day' offers peek into Kiwi dairy farms

Every year a massive migration of cows and dairy farmers takes place

Many have heard of the grandeur of the annual Great Wildebeest Migration in East Africa, while every year around early June, a similar massive migration of cows and dairy farmers takes place in New Zealand, in which thousands of households join the traffic with their herds, in trucks or on foot, to move to new properties.

As the hallmark of the Kiwi farming culture, the so-called "Gypsy Day" often falls on May 31 or June 1 as farms change hands and sharemilkers take up new contracts from the end of May.