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OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the job description of PR is to grease the wheels and ensure clients get good media coverage.
OPINION: A mate of the Hound's reckons that 'socialist strategies' are alive and well within the ag industry.
According to your canine crusader's source, members of the Beef + Lamb 'Environmental Reference Group (ERG) - an offshoot of the BLNZ Farmer Council - have been asked to sign a 'code of conduct' (aka code of silence) in order to make sure that they don't outwardly criticise or question BLNZ's modus operandi.
"This is a group that is supposed to be the eyes and ears of levypayers and feedback to the rest of us great unwashed farmers and to BLNZ!", the informer claims.
"Hence any farmers who have a backbone and were originally handpicked for this group are refusing to sign and walking away from the BLNZ Kremlin."
This will indeed be a worrying development, if it happens to be the case.
Managing director of Woolover Ltd, David Brown, has put a lot of effort into verifying what seems intuitive, that keeping newborn stock's core temperature stable pays dividends by helping them realise their full genetic potential.
Within the next 10 years, New Zealand agriculture will need to manage its largest-ever intergenerational transfer of wealth, conservatively valued at $150 billion in farming assets.
Boutique Waikato cheese producer Meyer Cheese is investing in a new $3.5 million facility, designed to boost capacity and enhance the company's sustainability credentials.
OPINION: The Government's decision to rule out changes to Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) that would cost every farmer thousands of dollars annually, is sensible.
Compensation assistance for farmers impacted by Mycoplama bovis is being wound up.
Selecting the reverse gear quicker than a lovestruck boyfriend who has met the in-laws for the first time, the Coalition Government has confirmed that the proposal to amend Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) charged against farm utes has been canned.
OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
OPINION: The Hound hears from his canine pals in Southland that an individual's derogatory remarks on social media have left…