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OPINION: The current pandemic has generated so many messages of gloom an doom that it's a pleasure to discover a chink of light in the darkness. The Drinks Business reports that drinking wine could lower risk of Covid infection.

Havoc wreaked in parts of China by Covid is being blamed for the latest drop in whole milk powder (WMP) prices.

Southland's normally wet climate is counting against it as the region struggles under what is thought to be its worst drought in 80 years.

Rural Support Trust chair Neil Bateup says it has had very few calls from farmers wanting help to deal with Covid.

Rural doctors are under pressure and juggling unrelenting work loads.

It's tight and challenging keeping the country's meat processing plants operating.

Federated Farmers Manawatu/Rangitikei president Murray Holdaway is warning farmers to be ready for further disruption due to the pandemic.

Some dairy farmers, their families and workers, have contracted Covid, according to DairyNZ's general manager for the farm performance team, Sharon Morrell.

Vegetable growers in South Auckland are bracing for Omicron and making contingency plans to deal with the fallout.

The New Zealand National Fieldays have been postponed for 2022 until Wednesday 30 November to Saturday 3 December.