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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.

OPINION: 2023 will be an interesting year in both the farming and political spheres.

OPINION: Local Government rates have always been a bone of contention for farmers.

OPINION: Of all the submissions that Rural News has seen from the primary sector on the Government’s response to agricultural emissions proposal, none is so profound and damaging to Labour than that of the Māori Trustee and chief executive of Te Tumu Paeroa, Charlotte Severne.

After two years of Covid chaos, many growers and wineries will have entered 2022 hoping for a better, more ‘normal’ 12 months ahead.

I am often asked whether it's difficult whether it's difficult to find enough wine stories to fill a magazine.

OPINION: Over the coming weeks, government officials will start going through the raft of submissions on their bosses’ proposal to tax farmers on agricultural emissions.

OPINION: The Government's so-called plan to price agricultural emissions must surely rank as one of the most bewildering decisions in the history of New Zealand farming.

OPINION: The move to ban export of livestock by sea from April next year is yet another example of the current Government’s all-controlling ethos.

OPINION: When it comes to own goals, this latest gaffe by the Government tops the list.