Displaying items by tag: the hound

OPINION: The Hound always considered the Government's $3 million propaganda - sorry, advertising - campaign, last year, to promote its takeover of local councils' Three Waters assets a huge waste of taxpayer money.

OPINION: This old mutt notes that NZ's mānuka honey sector recently lost a trademark case in the UK, which may end up costing the sector big money.

OPINION: This old mutt has been pointing out forever just what a dog with fleas - as both a business model and a return on capital investment - state farmer Landcorp is.

OPINION: Your canine crusader wants to know just what drugs the politicians and bureaucrats are on in Wellington.

OPINION: The Hound sees Greenpeace is still demanding the demise of farming in this country.

OPINION: Your old mate had a bit of a giggle at current Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor's effusive praise of the primary sector, when releasing the latest MPI SOPI report late last year.

OPINION: Your canine crusader understands calls by the Waikato Chamber of Commerce for Fonterra HQ to quit its Auckland office for the dairying heartland has been rebuffed.

OPINION: This old mutt wonders what information Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's office apparently "overlooked" in briefing notes relating to Groundswell NZ.

OPINION: The Hound reckons the country's hard-pressed wool growers will be pleased to know that rural banking specialist Rabobank has laid woollen carpets in its new Hamilton-based HQ.

OPINION: Your old mate is astounded, but not surprised, to learn that the New Zealand Film Commission gave anti-dairy documentary Milked a $48,550 "finishing grant".