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Waikato dairy farmer Jimmy Cleaver is a 23-year-old farm manager who is passionate about his work in the dairy sector and looking after his team.

After 30 years’ dairying on the same Bay of Plenty farm, Donna and Corrie Smit have learnt lessons on weathering everything from devastating floods to milk price fluctuations.

Reaction to the latest missive from the Government is somewhat muted and there appears to be a sense of suspicion of where emissions pricing may end.

The Government has announced the next steps in its agricultural emissions pricing plan.

DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel says the latest SOPI report shows that NZ still relies on the agricultural sector for its wealth.

So what went wrong? That's the big question being asked by industry leaders.

Primary sector partners have signalled a united determination to advocate strongly for farmers on emissions pricing.

Multiple submissions are heading in from top farming groups to the Government in response to its deeply unpopular agricultural emissions proposal.

OPINION: When the primary sector took on the challenge of an emissions pricing alternative, there was a clear goal – to secure the best possible system for farmers and the climate.

OPINION: It seems that the high level of farmer anger over the Government's emissions pricing plan is finally reaching levy-paying bodies.