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OPINION: With National Fieldays around the corner, many farmers will be making their annual pilgrimage to Mystery Creek this year.

OPINION: Vintage 2023 saw a welcome return to melting pot wineries, as companies threw open their doors to global wine workers, with all the excitement, experience and insights they offer.

OPINION: It's not common for industry-good body, DairyNZ and farmerowned co-operative LIC to publicly disagree on a key issue facing the dairy sector.

OPINION: Farmers and growers in Hawke’s Bay are rightly angry and frustrated at the lack of action from Wellington in sorting out a recovery plan for them.

OPINION: As the Galloway Express left Port Taranaki last month with cattle for China, it marked the end of livestock export.

OPINION: The National Party’s election pitch to farmers will likely bring much joy to a primary sector that feels drained by over-regulation, labour shortages, rising interest rates, inflation, and the terrible woes of a series of climatic disasters.

OPINION: News that about 17% of the national herd of 4 million cows did not get pregnant and won't be producing milk in the coming season will come as a blow to many farmers and the economy of the country.

OPINION: Reality is going to smack New Zealand in the face this year and it should be the wake-up call the Government needs to reset its priorities around agriculture.

OPINION: There is unease among Fonterra’s 9000 farming families on what the looming Scope 3 emissions target may look like.

Going, going, gone. It's perhaps an apt phrase for some of those amid the devastation of Cyclone Gabrielle in February, such as Philip Barber of Petane as he watched his steel tractor shed rip apart and its tractors float away.