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Chinese strategy needs harder edge – bank

OUR CHINA export story needs to “get a harder edge”, moving from talk to execution, says ANZ’s chief economist Cameron Bagrie.

Anti-farming?

IT APPEARS to the Hound that his favourite (yeah, right) academic, Massey University’s Mike Joy(less) is not happy unless he is putting the boot into New Zealand farmers in some way.

THE HOUND is intrigued by the deafening silence from the Green Party over recent news that London-based company Craigmore Sustainables has been granted Overseas Investment Office approval to acquire up to 95% of the securities of five New Zealand farms.

Eckhoff is off

YOUR CANINE crusader mate notes that the united front of the Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) group is looking decidedly less united these days.

Protest too much!

THE HOUND notes that the Feds were lightning fast to distance themselves from the recent tour of New Zealand by well-known climate-change sceptic Lord Monckton.

Fonterra’s $300K man?

YOUR OLD mate hears that while All Black captain Richie McCaw may currently be on sabbatical from playing the national game, he’s still on the meter at Fonterra.

Heat on fert co-ops

THE BLOWTORCH of farmer shareholder action is firmly on meat cooperatives Alliance and Silver Fern Farms at present, but there’s a strong case for it also being applied to Ballance and Ravensdown.

Is it deja vu all over again?

PERSUADING ARCH rivals Silver Fern Farms and Alliance to join together is a vision that could be set to music.

Demand for meat industry change!

RECENTLY I attended a meeting in Gore where a clear and unequivocal message was given to the directors and executives of the meat companies that their owners and suppliers demand a change.

Rust risk from farm travel

NEXT TIME you return from a busman’s holiday overseas, change your clothes and footwear before checking on the farm, warns a global authority on cereal diseases.