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Housing cows not the only way to increase dairy production

The recent visit by Professor Aalt Dijkhuizen, president of Topsector Agri and Food in the Netherlands, raised some interesting points about how New Zealand dairy farmers can learn from their Dutch counterparts.

Beware when importing overseas experts and their advice!

New Zealand suffers from ‘overseas expert syndrome’: people from any other country, especially those armed with a PowerPoint presentation, know best.

That’s it! - Editorial

Enough is enough! That’s our message to the nutter or nutters responsible for the latest food safety scare to hit the dairy industry.

Bad attitude

Your canine crusader will be interested to see whether anything new comes out of the much-hyped MIE report due to be publicly released today.

Numbers game

The Hound understands the recent crowing by Massey and Lincoln universities about the ‘huge growth’ in ag student numbers this year needs to be put into perspective.

Strange lot!

Meanwhile, it appears some readers of Slaters blog were upset at being labelled ‘nutjobs’ and ‘loosers’ (sic). Perhaps not all the blog’s readers are nutjobs or losers. However, many appear to be not only mentally unsound, but illiterate and ill-tempered as well.

Big sook

Your old mate’s comments last issue about the rampant anti-Ruataniwha dam stance of blogger Cameron ‘Whaleoil’ Slater had the overly sensitive ‘major player in political views and news’ stir up his cesspool of sycophantic acolytes to cry like babies on his behalf.

Is rural contracting not sexy enough?

Rural Contractors New Zealand is questioning why the Government has made changes to immigration rules to help Queenstown employers recruit much needed staff, but continues to ignore similar requests from the rural contracting sector.

Aussie farm outlook brightens

Australian farmers are hearing that good times are coming: a top economic researcher predicts farm production will increase 5.3% to about A$54.4 billion next financial year.