Tuesday, 18 August 2015 09:00

Still doing ok

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The Hound notes that many commentators and armchair critics are all down in the mouth about the prospects of agriculture and farming at present, especially because of tumbling dairy prices.

However your old mate reckons there are still lots of people around the primary sector who are doing ok. A quick scan of the recent NBR rich list – for which you need at least $50 million to be included – revealed a number of names associated with farming and agriculture: Green family, Talleys, Colin and Dale Armer, Alan Pye, Gallagher family, Cushing family, Skeggs family, Lowe family, Turley family, Harvey family, Forbes Elworthy, Jim van der Poel and Ian McKelvie, to name a few.

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