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OPINION: Your old mate's ear has been chewed off recently by farmers voicing their displeasure with the National Party, particularly relating to how they're treating their farmer base.
OPINION: With the Government applying some fiscal discipline to scientific research funding, this mutt thinks it might be timely to look at what's still being done in the ag-science space.
While it's unlikely any research projects have been dreamed up as loopy as the 'whale song to cure kauri dieback' debacle, your old mate hears some farmers question whether research farms such as those run by various universities are operating in the real world.
Said farmers reckon they've stopped attending field days at these farms because they are promoting a low intensity farming scenario that is commercially unrealistic.
While the Hound is all in favour of keeping the research farms rolling, if our research farms are used for some sort of nirvana virtue signalling, they're simply not going to deliver value to farmers in the real world.
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