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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: The Hound sees that the Australian National University in Canberra has taken ‘going woke’ to the next level.
The university is encouraging its staff to use “parent-inclusive language”, such as “chest feeding” instead of “breastfeeding” and “human milk” rather than “mother’s milk”.
Similarly, the terms “mother” and “father” should be replaced with “gestational” and “non-gestational” parent, according to the ANU’s ‘Gender-Inclusive Handbook’.
It notes that while “many students will identify as ‘mothers’ and ‘fathers’, using these terms alone to describe parenthood…“excludes those who do not identify with gender-binaries”.
Stone the crows! Or should that be: ‘Stone the ‘non-binary, feathered, gestational and non-gestational avians’?
Questions are being raised about just how good the state of the dairy industry is - especially given that the average farmgate payout for the coming season is set to exceed $10/kgMS.
A leading financial and banking advisor says he doubts if most dairy farmers fully understand the dynamics of banking.
Dairy farmers are shoring up their balance sheets, with almost $1.7 billion of debt repaid in the six months to March 2025.
Virtual fencing company Halter is going global but for founder Craig Piggott, New Zealand farmers will always remain their main partners.
A former Fonterra executive is the new chair of the Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand (DCANZ).
New Federated Farmers national dairy chair Karl Dean is looking forward to tackling the issues facing the sector.
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