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An extra $600,000 in funding to support driver licensing and education programmes in rural communities across NZ has been committed by the Government.

OPINION: The dairy sector has a simple message for the Government - please take our plight seriously.

OPINION: Your old mate finds it rather ironic that the Government is going to open up the border to allow in 300 overseas educators to help fill the gap of teacher shortages in schools around NZ.

At a time when New Zealand's rural sector is already carrying a large can to keep the country's finances in the black, it looks like that can will get a little heavier.

A Government directive for farmers to pay new overseas workers higher rates has been slammed.

Farmers will continue to apply pressure on the Government and hope for a change of heart on the need for skilled overseas workers.

OPINION: A mate of the Hound reckons if you ever wondered why the current Labour Government seems so far removed from rural and farming interests, one only has to look at the make-up of its supposedly 'rural' caucus.

OPINION: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivered a ‘nice’ speech at last week’s Primary Industry Conference, organised and run by Federated Farmers.

The Hound notes that despite the new government having been elected for well over a month, there seems to a real lack of urgency on its behalf. 

OPINION: Now voters have had their say, the incoming Government has some important decisions to make about farming in New Zealand.