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    Letter of the Month

    Dec 19, 2021 4 minutes

    Congratulations to Nicola Harvey for her well-researched article trying to give an accurate assessment of the tremendous challenges facing our farming and rural communities today (“The Fight for the Future of Farming”, December 2021).

    As a past successful South Island livestock farmer, a gold medal award winner for farming excellence back in 1983, and someone who has remained connected to rural New Zealand and agriculture ever since, I feel I am in a position to make some practical comments on this very complex issue.

    There is no question that the famers of our great country are facing some of the most challenging, uncertain and unprecedented

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