Displaying items by tag: the hound

OPINION: Your old mate notes that regulations governing NZ's pig sector could end up seeing us running out of locally produced pork - like we are currently experiencing with eggs.

OPINION: The Hound was astounded at the glib response from Greens leader James Shaw to a written parliamentary question from ACT MP Mark Cameron.

OPINION: Your canine crusader sees that the fun police have struck again and killed off an iconic rural event.

OPINION: A mate flew from Auckland to Nelson a couple of weeks ago to participate in an annual fishing and imbibing competition in the Marlborough Sounds.

OPINION: The Hound notes that NZ Rural Land Co recently announced a $5.3m profit for the year ended Dec 31 2022, down a staggering $31.2m from the $36.5m profit it recorded six months earlier.

OPINION: This old mutt notes that the lack of fruit and veges is not isolated to just here in good old Godzone.

OPINION: Your old mate reckons it could be a rather confronting AGM on March 30 for Beef+Lam when its board has to front an unprecedented number of farmer remits (9).

OPINION: The Hound understands there has been quite a bit of unrest in the hort sector over the naming of a recent strategy, aimed at growing NZ hort export to $12b by 3035.

OPINION: Your canine crusader understands it is very early into 2023 but he may well have already found his ‘2023 Dick of the Year’.

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.