This stems from news that Aussie-owned and controlled Stuff (formerly Fairfax) is quitting lots of regional and rural newspapers – including the long-suffered NZ Farmer – and that the stock exchange operator NZX is quitting its NZ Farmers Weakly (sic). This has led to ill-informed speculation that publishers are abandoning the agriculture and rural sector in NZ. But, in fact, Rural News, its sister publication Dairy News and the website www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz are going nowhere. Their company – family-owned – has been nearly 50 years in specialist publishing and knows and enjoys the business. The Hound is assured by the publisher that this old mutt and his mates will be fed and published for many years yet.
