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Bull crap

This old mutt almost choked on his dog biscuits at Winston Peters’ latest ridiculous claim to being a dairy farmer – when he had a crack at ‘National party stooge’ Mike Hosking, recently.

Funny that

Your old mate has heard about framing a question to get the answer you want, but reckons environmental campaigners down south have taken this a step further.

No thanks

The Hound reckons the old adage ‘would you buy a used car off this man?’ should be applied when dealing with spin doctors and the companies they are promoting.

On the hook

It's a fallacy that the farming community need not worry about health and safety because of changes to the Health and Safety Reform Bill.

‘Painful reality’ as dairy re-sets

Professor Hamish Gow, Massey University.

The rural sector will need a major financial re-set as a result of the current low dairy prices, says the director of business, innovation and strategy at Massey University, Professor Hamish Gow.

Privileged to get a look at sector

Scholarship students at HortNZ conference.

The New Zealand horticulture Industry has created an integrated, robust and thriving foundation from which it is ready to “explode into future success”, says Waikato University student Jack Keeys.

Zespri calls for grads

Kiwifruit marketer Zespri is again looking for graduates to join the business, following the launch of its graduate scheme last year.

Passion ignited in hort’s next generation

Sponsoring students to attend the national conference is one way Horticulture NZ has set out to engage the next generation.

California drought tightens grip on farming

Direct costs of the Californian drought to agriculture will be US$1.84b for 2015.

Drought on the US West Coast is tightening its grip on California agriculture, squeezing 30% more workers and cropland out of production than in 2014, according to the latest drought impact report by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences.