Displaying items by tag: the hound

OPINION: Your canine crusader wonders if the Primary Sector Climate Action Partnership, under the guise of He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN), is now up a creek without a paddle?

OPINION: It has been a bad couple of weeks publicity-wise for the Ross family, not great news for the supposed marketing experts.

OPINION: The Hound notes that marketing/promotion couple and Lake Hawea Station owners Geoff and Justine Ross came in for a fair bit of criticism about their 'woke' farming practices after recently featuring on Country Calendar.

OPINION: Your old mate wonders how both Beef+Lamb NZ and DairyNZ are feeling about their 'wonderful relationship' with the Government following the announcement of a FTA deal with the EU.

OPINION: A mate of the Hound's has pointed out a key fact missing from the letter to the editor, in the last issue (June 21), heavily criticising yours truly for having a crack at the latest Beef+Lamb NZ overseas junket - or 'fact finding mission' to the EU and UK.

OPINION: This old mutt is never surprised by the stupidity of local councils and their bylaws.

OPINION: The Hound's reckons something has seriously gone wrong with the 'luck of the Irish' with news that Trevor Mallard is retiring from Parliament and will become New Zealand's Ambassador in Ireland.

OPINION: Your canine crusader reckons genuine muck-ups made by bureaucrats can often be right on the money.

OPINION: This old mutt is getting somewhat tired of multi-national, tax-dodging, fund-raising group Greenpeace always given front and centre mainstream media space to coment (i.e. bag) NZ agriculture.

OPINION: A mate of yours truly is questioning exactly why the Māori ag sector have been given special budget funding by the Government to ramp up their efforts to reduce agricultural emissions.