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National’s much-touted free trade deal with India featured in the Rural Issues Debate at Mystery Creek, Hamilton on Wednesday night.

It was billed as a chance for all the political parties to woo the rural vote, but question marks hang over just how effective this was.

Red meat farmers are welcoming Labour’s plan to review the Emissions Trading Scheme and not to campaign on pricing agricultural emissions.

For the first time in a quarter of a century, Federated Farmers has something positive to say about the Labour Party’s climate change policy leading into a general election.

Opportunity says its land value tax (LVT) is unlikely to force farmers into a position where asset sales or increased debt are required.

The Opportunity Party has faced criticism during the election campaign that its policies are too urban-focused and offer little for rural communities.

The agricultural aviation industry has reacted angrily to government plans to cut regulations to make it easier for farmers to buy drones and use them on their farms.

OPINION: As the general election approaches, political parties are churning out policies in the hope of attracting more votes.

OPINION: After hogging the media limelight for telling a NZ Chinese MP to "go back home", Winston Peters has decided to focus on a domestic issue - oil and gas drilling.

Waikato farmers have been told that the Government’s new planning system legislation and the region’s Plan Change 1 (PC1) “won’t mesh together very well”.