Displaying items by tag: the hound

OPINION: Following Beef + Lamb NZ's rather testy annual meeting - and the ousting of former chair Andrew Morrison - the organisation decided to go on a charm offensive in an effort to get farmers back onside.

In what your old mate reckons is par for the course for the current Government, it has blown more taxpayer money on a wasted cause.

OPINION: This old mutt reckons the climate alarmists at multi-national, tax-dodging, fundraising outfit Greenpeace should be delighted with news that NZ's sheep and dairy cow numbers are falling.

OPINION: As your old mate - as well as many in the sector - expected, the Budget had nothing in it for the country's all-important primary sector.

OPINION: There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when the Hound revealed that a certain weakly (sic) farming publication had stuck their noses into the taxpayer trough via the Government's controversial $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF).

OPINION: The storm in a teacup caused by The Hound revealing another rural publisher took 'public interest journalism' funding reminds Milking It of an exchange supposedly between Winston Churchill and a socialite he met at a function.

OPINION: Dairy News' stablemate Rural News, specifically The Hound, has upset a rural publisher by outing them for putting their snout deep in the trough of Labour's 'public interest journalism fund', something we refused to do.

OPINION: It seems wokeness is now well and truly infecting the brains trust at The New Zealand Merino Company, which now wants farmers to give lambs pain relief during tail docking.

OPINION: This old mutt was amused to read about a snowflake vegan in Perth, Australia who wrote neighbours a letter requesting that they close their window when cooking their "sickening" meat.

OPINION: A mate of yours truly reckons the promotion of former kindergarten teacher Jo Luxton as new associate agriculture minister, following the defection of Meka Whaitiri from Labour to the Maori Party, shows just how shallow the talent pool is in the current government.