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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.

OPINION: Beef + Lamb NZ's annual meeting will be an interesting affair this year in a number of ways.

OPINION: The importance of rural and provincial roads has suddenly and dramatically come to the fore with the advent of cyclones Hale and Gabrielle and other massive storms that have hit Northland and along the east coast of the North Island.

OPINION: As the initial shock of the devastation to large parts of the rural landscape in the North Island by Cyclone Gabrielle eases, attention now turns to the recovery and rebuild.

OPINION: By the time Auckland mayor Wayne Brown made the symbolic act of declaring a ‘state of emergency’ during recent flooding, the actual emergency response – everyone from council and emergency services to citizens helping each other – had been underway for hours. Nobody was sitting on their hands waiting for a sign from on high.

OPINION: The latest independent review into Mycoplasma bovis outbreak will be a relief for farmers.

This long lean country, with its fringe of beaches, spine of mountains and korowai of cloud, is altogether unique.

OPINION: The sudden resignation of Jacinda Ardern and installation of Chris Hipkins as Prime Minister will see many in the farming sector looking to the old maxim about 'putting lipstick on a pig' - which means making superficial or cosmetic changes to a product in a futile effort to disguise its fundamental failings.