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OPINION: Your old mate hears that recent claims made by Wairarapa MP and newly installed local government minister Kieran McAnulty that it’s too unsafe to hold and publicise mobile clinics around his electorate, may not be all the facts behind their demise.

OPINION: A mate of the Hound's reckons that while the princess of wokeness (former PM Ardern) may have left the building, the country's largest dairy co-op is fully ensconced with her style.

OPINION: The Hound notes that in all the media hoo-ha over outgoing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her replacement by a Richie Cunningham from Happy Days look-alike, news that another quitter was back went under the radar.

OPINION: This old mutt still struggles to understand the absolute disaster that strong wool has become over the past 30 years or so.

OPINION: Your old mate sees that state farmer Landcorp is planning a mass planting of trees on a couple of its Otago farms.

OPINION: Your canine crusader was disappointed - but unsurprised - by the complete lack of ag sector people given gongs in this year's New Year's Honours list.

OPINION: As they say, you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

OPINION: Your old mate well realises that politicians are slippery types.

OPINION: This old mutt notes that 'activist' Angus Robson tried a new tack in using woke, online media outfit Newsroom to reboot his ongoing - and thus far failed - attempt to muddy the name of NZ farming.

OPINION: Under fire Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has now conceded in a recent media interview that, “The Government hasn’t been stellar at communicating its message to the farming sector”.