It makes your old mate wonder if the Aussies are using their organ to bowl another underarm delivery and run down New Zealand’s farming sector for the benefit of their Australian producers.
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THE HOUND wonders if the Aussie-owned and controlled publisher of weakly (sic) Straight Furrow will offer a full apology to dairy farmers, Fonterra and its local readers (both of them) after running the unsubstantiated, profoundly wrong and discredited claims of Matamata ‘veterinarian and farm performance consultant’ Frank Rowson during the Fonterra botulism botch-up.
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