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Tuesday, 30 May 2023 12:55

Faustian pact

OPINION: Dairy News' stablemate Rural News, specifically The Hound, has upset a rural publisher by outing them for putting their snout deep in the trough of Labour's 'public interest journalism fund', something we refused to do.

Published in Milking It
Wednesday, 24 May 2023 16:50

Really?

OPINION: It seems wokeness is now well and truly infecting the brains trust at The New Zealand Merino Company, which now wants farmers to give lambs pain relief during tail docking.

Published in The Hound
Wednesday, 24 May 2023 15:50

Get off the grass!

OPINION: This old mutt was amused to read about a snowflake vegan in Perth, Australia who wrote neighbours a letter requesting that they close their window when cooking their "sickening" meat.

Published in The Hound
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 16:50

Shallow puddle!

OPINION: A mate of yours truly reckons the promotion of former kindergarten teacher Jo Luxton as new associate agriculture minister, following the defection of Meka Whaitiri from Labour to the Maori Party, shows just how shallow the talent pool is in the current government.

Published in The Hound
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 15:34

Acting up!

OPINION: The Hound reckons former Fed Farmers president Andrew Hoggard's move to stand for the Act Party at this year's election had to have been the worst kept secret in NZ agri-circles.

Published in The Hound
Wednesday, 10 May 2023 11:55

Wrong again!

OPINION: Remember when the once-crumbling Westland Milk Products company was bought out by Chinese company Yili in 2019 and the howls of outrage and derision from current Minister of Agriculture and West Coast MP Damien O'Connor describing it as a 'sad day' for the West Coast?

Published in The Hound
Tuesday, 09 May 2023 12:55

Bought off?

OPINION: There has been a lot of public scepticism and controversy about the Government's $55 million-odd Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF), which has seen various media outlets take this funding on certain conditions about how they report or not report on issues.

Published in The Hound
Tuesday, 09 May 2023 12:07

Dreaming!

OPINION: A mate of the Hound's reckons Westpac agri economist Nathan Penny is dreaming with his latest reckons about on-farm inflation.

Published in The Hound
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 15:25

Sticky mess

OPINION: Your canine crusader sees that NZ Manuka industry has upset its Australian counterparts – again!

Published in The Hound
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 14:25

Acland dynasty

OPINION:This old mutt suggests that the election of Kate Acland as chair of Beef+Lamb NZ – after the electoral demise of former chair Andrew Morrison – has seen many people miss the family link to producer board organisations.

Published in The Hound
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