New Broom
OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
FONTERRA WILL this week hold the first of 50 meetings with farmer suppliers on the new Sustainable Dairying Water Accord.
AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST dairy processor says farmers must stop blaming the supermarkets for poor farmgate returns.
GLOBAL GROWTH opportunities for New Zealand agriculture will continue, says ASB’s general manager rural Mark Heer.
RAVENSDOWN’S NEW chief executive Greg Campbell says he’s looking forward to refreshing the farmer-owned cooperative’s strategy.
THE CHIEF organiser of the 8th International Sheep Veterinarian Congress, held in Rotorua last month, says he has had nothing but positive comment about the four-day conference.
ASB is showing “corporate responsibility” by offering a rural environmental compliance loan at low cost, says ASB general manager rural Mark Heer.
“SUSTAINABILITY’ IS the dairy industry’s buzzword for 2013.
EVER BEEN to a conference where a speaker goes on and on and on and won’t stop? The Hound has learned a way of cutting that person off on cue.
YOUR OLD mate is constantly amazed at what terribly dour and sad lives some people lead, especially those of the do-gooder persuasion.
DURING THE last week of February Fonterra and RD1 ran “the biggest fencing promotion RD1 has ever run,” according to its joint PR-blurb.
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THE HOUND had a bit of a giggle at Fed Farmers’ meat and wool chair Janet Maxwell comments, in a radio interview with Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking, on the horse meat scandal in the UK.
LIKE HANNIBAL getting 30-odd elephants across the Italian Alps (218BC), the dairy industry, plus ‘friends’, has succeeded in drafting a new agreement on how to prevent dairying from dirtying our fresh water resources.
AMERICAN BASEBALL coach John Wooden, a man full of quotes, once said: “You can’t let praise or criticisms get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.”
I GOT a chance to look through the Great New Zealand Science Project website the other night.
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