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OPINION: News of the discovery of a new case of Mycoplasma bovis on a dairy farm in Canterbury should not come as a surprise.

OPINION: I am writing this the day after the opening game of the Rugby World Cup and the All Blacks' loss to France.

OPINION: People have been "pivotal" to Dr David Jordan's career in wine, from the generosity of those who shared their knowledge when he was starting out, to the insights he still gleans from those in the field.

OPINION: Plan for the worst and hope for the best!

OPINION: The time it’s taking the various bureaucracies to ease the pain of farmers, orchardists and townspeople affected by storm damage is grossly unfair.

OPINION: Hopefully agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has metaphorically penned his own resignation letter with the release of his government’s agricultural emissions policy.

OPINION: Last week's Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction result doesn’t make good reading.

OPINION: The country is in the midst of a frantic rush as politicians of all creeds, shapes and sizes emerge from the woodwork to ply the gullible public with a range of seemingly attractive but basically undeliverable promises.

OPINION: Kiwi guts and determination have shown the world that the impossible is possible.

When Philip Gregan began working at the Wine Institute of New Zealand in 1983, this country had 6,000 planted hectares and an abundance of potential.