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OANZ has taken a seven-point election manifesto to Parliament, saying the sector is worth a billion dollars and is being held back by a lack of policy and investment.

Tracy Henderson runs the Legendairies page with husband Steve, posting through the season as they live it.

Citrus NZ’s forum brought growers together in Gisborne last week to ask what it will take to become a genuinely investable, high-growth sector.

The events are part of the group's election-year work, spokesperson Hugh Devereux-Mack says.

Central Otago Wilding Conifer Control Group programme director Pete Oswald says enforcement is the missing piece.

Climate change spokesman Richard Dawkins says they back the government's lower target instead.

An 80ha dairy farm at Turua on the Hauraki Plains is pitched as a first-farm option.

Cooperative Business New Zealand CE Saya Wahrlich says more competition in groceries should come through new co-operative models.

Lincoln Uni Professor of Agricultural Economics Alan Renwick says breaking up New Zealand's supermarkets could leave rural communities worse off.

Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network CE says the rural health funding gap could be closed for less than $100 million.