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Wednesday, 20 October 2021 14:30

Oh dear!

OPINION: This old mutt suggests that farmers' growing discontent with Beef+Lamb NZ's performance is going to reach fever peak after its latest stunt.

Published in The Hound
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 15:30

Woke and broke?

OPINION: Speaking of woke, Government-owned entities that love wasting public money and producing fluffy PR pieces, the Hound sees that Landcorp - known as Pāmu - has just released its 2021 annual report.

Published in The Hound
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 14:45

20 pieces of silver?

OPINION: Your old mate notes that MPI is now trying to buy favour with agricultural journalists for its 'Fit for a Better World' (FFBW) programme.

Published in The Hound
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 11:00

Lock him up!

OPINION: This old mutt notes that Geoff Reid, an 'environmental activist' - whose activism appears to be limited to surreptitiously creeping around farms in Southland taking photos on the dime of Greenpeace, recently published more of his creepy farm shots.

Published in The Hound
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 10:00

Milking it?

OPINION: Your canine crusader understands members of the 'strategic groups' invoked in the Government-backed 'Fit for a Better World' programme - grandiosely labelled as: "A roadmap to accelerate the transformation of the food and fibre sector over the next 10 years" are on a pretty good wicket for not doing much.

Published in The Hound
Tuesday, 05 October 2021 11:00

Too much sizzle?

OPINION: A mate of yours truly asks if the financial pickle that milk company Synlait currently finds itself in is a case of the people supposed to be in charge of the company taking their eyes off the ball.

Published in The Hound
Tuesday, 05 October 2021 10:02

About time!

OPINION: The Hound, like many in the agriculture sector, is worried about the growing increase of good farmland being lost to trees - especially carbon sinks - and the negative impact this is having on rural communities.

Published in The Hound
Wednesday, 22 September 2021 15:30

Murky waters

OPINION: Your canine crusader knows there is a great deal of unease - especially in rural NZ - about the Government's three waters reforms.

Published in The Hound
Wednesday, 22 September 2021 14:30

Who?

OPINION: The refusal of both Damien O'Connor and PM Jacinda Ardern to release some of the correspondence they received about Groundswell begs a question or two.

Published in The Hound
Tuesday, 21 September 2021 15:30

Dirty tricks?

OPINION: An email from Fed Farmers' president Andrew Hoggard to Ag Minister Damien O'Connor saying some unkind things about the Groundswell movement - before its big countrywide protest in July - was recently released to a media outfit under an Official Information Act (OIA) request.

Published in The Hound
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