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Meat co-ops must build bridges – banker

THE TWO major meat cooperatives must build more bridges with farmer owners, says ANZ managing director commercial and agri Graham Turley.

Fonterra chair gets an extra $1k

FONTERRA CHAIRMAN John Wilson is set to get a $1000 pay rise this month.

On the outer?

THE HOUND wonders if Labour’s primary industries spokesman Damien O’Connor’s increasingly shrill digs at targets in the sector including Fonterra, Zespri, MPI and the TPP trade negotiations, to name a few, have more to do with internal frustrations than anything else.

Ego clash

SPEAKING OF David Cunliffe, your old mate understands the new Leader of the Opposition turned down an offer to speak on the radio with Farming Show host Jamie ‘Don’t-you-know-who-I-am?’ McKay.

Green envy

YOUR CANINE crusader reckons farmers had better get used to the idea of bearing a backlash from any new Labour/Green government if they win power next year. Labour is, at best, ambivalent towards the rural sector; the Greens are openly hostile.

Why?

ACCORDING TO Sir Ralph Norris, chair of Fonterra’s internal board investigation into the botulism botch up, “No single event or action of one individual can be held entirely responsible for what occurred.”

50 pieces of silver!

THE HOUND sees Dr Mike Joy(less) has been awarded a gong from his union mates. The good ‘doctor’ was honoured for “his promotion of academic freedom and contribution to public education” at the Tertiary Educators Union’s (TEU) second annual awards recently.

Editorial - Vote!

THE CYNICAL suggestion “Vote early, and vote often” is attributed to infamous gangster Al Capone and his attempts to rig elections in his general favour.

Do you want uranium with that?

CONCERNS ABOUT ‘peak phosphate’ are raised every few years.

Farmers need to do sums on water scheme

FARMERS FACING decisions on the Ruataniwha Water Storage (RWSS) in Central Hawke’s Bay should not base them on a few figures jotted on a napkin from a bar.