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The dairy industry is facing the prospect of losing some highly skilled staff because they are not fully vaccinated.

OPINION: Benjamin Disraeli once said, "Plan for the worst and hope for the best".

NZ's agricultural sector needs to recognise Covid-19 as the "new normal," says leading expert on international trade, Professor Hamish Gow.

The country's major meat processors say they are well down the road in planning how to mitigate the Omicron variant's impact.

Farmers are being urged to have good plans in place for dealing with any major community outbreak of Covid-19 and, in particular, the omicron variant.

OPINION: Two years into Covid and New Zealand dairy farmers are still struggling to get skilled farm workers from overseas.

Beef + LambNZ's (BLNZ) awards dinner scheduled for Wednesday 2 February is postponed due to the arrival in the community of the Covid variant Omicron.

The Mackenzie County A&P Show is the latest event to fall victim to Covid.

Organisers of the East Coast Farming Expo are confident the annual event will be able to happen despite stricter Covid restrictions now in place.

Vaccination against Covid-19 is absolutely critical to the success of the whole primary sector.