The former seed salesman, who describes himself these days as an ‘agricultural consultant’, ran the tired old MIE lines about Shanghai Maling – rather than New Zealand farmers – benefiting from the deal and how the Chinese would control all the company’s major decisions, blah blah. Your old mate wonders if the media types who run to Hyland for comment on this deal ever question him on the huge ‘consultancy’ fees he gouged out of Lincoln University over the last few years and what impact these have had on the university’s current dire financial predicament.
