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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.

OPINION: ACT's recent 'rural heartland' odyssey has shed some interesting new light on what issues concern voters in the provinces.

OPINION: The official and symbolic signing of the Free Trade Agreement between New Zealand and the European Union arguably signals a closure on Brexit.

OPINION: It was Federated Farmers' turn last week to play host to another round in the battle for rural votes in the upcoming October elections.

OPINION: New Zealand's economy recently entered a technical recession but any hopes for a quick bounce-back looks unlikely - especially as the country's all-important primary sector faces tougher times.