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Alan Crafar - Source: Close Up -
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Allan Crafar was at work on his Reporoa farm on Saturday, despite the expiry of a receiver's deadline to vacate the property.
Debts of around $200 million have led to the banks calling in the receivers on the Crafar family's group of 22 of dairy farms.
But Crafar says he is prepared to fight any moves to evict him.
He says the receiver's offer to pay six months of rent on another property is hollow, because it would be his money they would be using.
The farmer is vowing to stay where he is until his properties are officially sold.
"The farms aren't sold. Why shift out? This is our life. We shift out of here, we're dead meat," Crafar says.
He says he has not heard from receiver Michael Stiassny for over a month. Stiassny did not return ONE News' calls on Saturday.
The Crafar family lost a court case on Friday over the discharge of effluent and received a fine of $40,000. They have been convicted seven times in the past three years of dirty dairying.
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