Double standards
OPINION: Imagine if the Hound had called the Minister of Finance the 'c-word' and accused her of "girl math".
SEEKING AN outcome to the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, consistent with the vision agreed in the 2011 Honolulu statements, will be a top priority for the Government this year, Prime Minister John Key told Parliament yesterday.
ALMOST 200 traps in Whangarei have detected no more Queensland fruit fly.
AN AGRESEARCH scientist has become the third at the institute to win a prestigious pastoral science award.
THE COMBINED NORTH and South Island wool auction of 15,100 bales saw an overall firming trend with a 90.7% clearance, says NZ Wool Services International Ltd's general manager, John Dawson.
NEW ZEALAND'S horticulture industry, New Zealand's fourth largest export earner, is collectively holding its breath while it waits to find out if there will be any more Queensland fruit flies found in Northland.
THE MINISTRY FOR Primary Industries (MPI) is investigating a find of a single male Queensland fruit fly in a surveillance trap in Whangarei.
TOP VELVET and trophy stags were the sought-after sires at this season’s deer stud sales with several maximum prices in the $60,000 bracket, on par with the past few years.
A YEAR AGO farmers in the Hawke’s Bay and in parts of the central North Island were staring down one of the worst droughts the country has seen.
MIKE JOY USED to manage a dairy farm near Palmerston North many years ago and loved the job.
THE DEMAND FOR dairy products in China is unprecedented and Australian milk producers have been told they should grab the opportunity with both hands.
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THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT is using high-tech to confirm the geographic origin of foods claiming to be from the UK.
ALAN AND Margo Vliet Vlieland have regularly competed at New Zealand Ploughing Association championships, in the horse section, since emigrating from Holland in 1993.
THE HOUND notes that Transpower is currently advertising for a newly created position of ‘landowner relations programme advisor’.
YOUR CANINE crusader reckons Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) chairman Fenton Wilson has proven to be one of the country’s most canny local body leaders after it emerged he spent less than $400 to win a position that pays almost $110,000 a year.
The Hound
Debt monster
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