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OPINION: The Hound was flabbergasted at the over-the-top censoring actions of the National Fieldays lackeys at this year's event.
Rural ginger group Groundswell - who had paid big money for a stand to exhibit at this year's Fieldays - were stopped by organisers from selling its signature golf balls featuring the faces of the Prime Minister, Agriculture Minister, Climate Change Minister, and Environment Minister.
Apparently, Groundswell were narked on by Labour supporters.
The Fieldays organisers then - acting like a bunch of government toadies and stormtroopers - acquiesced to this complaint and forced Groundswell to stop selling the 'offending' golf balls.
However, the censure move backfired on Fieldays organisers and Labour party hacks with various news outlets, social media platforms, and even the 6pm news reporting on the over-the-top reaction.
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OPINION: This old mutt is loath to sound like Groundswell has been topping up his bowl with brisket off-cuts, but the ginger group makes a good point about the arguments raised in favour of toeing the Paris Agreement line.
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Former Agriculture Minister and Otaki farmer Nathan Guy has been appointed New Zealand’s Special Agricultural Trade Envoy (SATE).
Alliance Group has commissioned a new heat pump system at its Mataura processing plant in Southland.
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Meat processors are hopeful that the additional 15% tariff on lamb exports to the US will also come off.
Fears of a serious early drought in Hawke’s Bay have been allayed – for the moment at least.
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