A step too far
OPINION: For years, the ironically named Dr Mike Joy has used his position at Victoria University to wage an activist-style…
A LEADING Maori agribusinesswoman says there’s a myth going around about the so-called ‘potential’ of Maori farming.
FONTERRA HAS reported a great start to milk production, but it may be too early to talk about a record season.
HORTICULTURE NZ’S new president Julian Raine wants to do things differently to get better value for growers.
THE EVOLVING focus on profitability means having the right people in the right roles is more important than ever.
FINNISH DAIRY processor Valio’s experiment with lactose-free milk 12 years ago had sceptics, even within the farmer-owned cooperative.
ON THE outskirts of Palmerston North, agricultural contractor Paul Linklater is busy, apparently like hundreds of other farmers, cultivating a paddock.
THE TWO major meat cooperatives must build more bridges with farmer owners, says ANZ managing director commercial and agri Graham Turley.
FONTERRA CHAIRMAN John Wilson is set to get a $1000 pay rise this month.
THE HOUND wonders if Labour’s primary industries spokesman Damien O’Connor’s increasingly shrill digs at targets in the sector including Fonterra, Zespri, MPI and the TPP trade negotiations, to name a few, have more to do with internal frustrations than anything else.
SPEAKING OF David Cunliffe, your old mate understands the new Leader of the Opposition turned down an offer to speak on the radio with Farming Show host Jamie ‘Don’t-you-know-who-I-am?’ McKay.
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YOUR CANINE crusader reckons farmers had better get used to the idea of bearing a backlash from any new Labour/Green government if they win power next year. Labour is, at best, ambivalent towards the rural sector; the Greens are openly hostile.
ACCORDING TO Sir Ralph Norris, chair of Fonterra’s internal board investigation into the botulism botch up, “No single event or action of one individual can be held entirely responsible for what occurred.”
THE HOUND sees Dr Mike Joy(less) has been awarded a gong from his union mates. The good ‘doctor’ was honoured for “his promotion of academic freedom and contribution to public education” at the Tertiary Educators Union’s (TEU) second annual awards recently.
THE CYNICAL suggestion “Vote early, and vote often” is attributed to infamous gangster Al Capone and his attempts to rig elections in his general favour.
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