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OPINION: In this edition we check out vintage perspectives from around New Zealand, with many reporting lighter than typical yields in a delightfully disease-free harvest.

OPINION: Politicians the world over have as their priority - get elected and stay elected.

OPINION: The recent Federated Farmers / Rabobank 2024 Farming Salaries Report revealed strong growth in farm salaries over the past two years.

OPINION: In recent years farmers have been crying foul of unworkable and expensive regulations.

OPINION: The distress that the politicians and bureaucrats are causing to the people of Wairoa and the wider Tairāwhiti is unforgivable.

OPINION: The Government's recent announcement that methane targets will be reviewed is bringing relief to farmers.

David Anderson reflects on the agri-sector as he steps down from his editor’s role.

OPINION: DairyNZ's latest forecast data on the Econ Tracker, that the outlook for the current season has improved, will be welcome news for farmers.

OPINION: Rachael Cook is the smiling grape grower on this month’s cover, tending vines on the miniscule, beautiful and dream-driven vineyard she and her husband Murray have created on an east facing hillside of Marlborough’s Brancott Valley.

OPINION: Even before the National-led coalition came into power, India was very much at the fore of its trade agenda.