New Broom
OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT is using high-tech to confirm the geographic origin of foods claiming to be from the UK.
ALAN AND Margo Vliet Vlieland have regularly competed at New Zealand Ploughing Association championships, in the horse section, since emigrating from Holland in 1993.
THE HOUND notes that Transpower is currently advertising for a newly created position of ‘landowner relations programme advisor’.
YOUR CANINE crusader reckons Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) chairman Fenton Wilson has proven to be one of the country’s most canny local body leaders after it emerged he spent less than $400 to win a position that pays almost $110,000 a year.
THE HOUND suggests the price of the following fancy burger would have struggling red meat producers and the MIE boys drooling with envy all around NZ.
FONTERRA AND dairying copped some light-hearted flak in a South Canterbury town’s Christmas parade, late last year.
THE HOUND reckons that meat industry politics must be a real family affair for the Morrison brothers of Southland.
THE LATEST media beat-up on Fonterra’s fresh cream recall cannot go unchallenged.
IN 2005 Livestock Improvement Cooperative (LIC) became the first company in the world to offer a team of crossbred bulls.
AS WE EMBARK on what is hopefully another busy and profitable year for the agriculture sector, it is vital new blood is attracted to the economic powerhouse of New Zealand’s economy.
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“WHAT WE have here is like a big sandpit – a place where people can get together to play to try and achieve great outcomes.”
HIGH MILK urea? No problem, says Dairy NZ.
A NOVEL technique to determine lambs’ brown fat reserves could help identify techniques to increase survival rates, particularly of multiples, says Agresearch.
LIC’S Fertility1 variation is just one of several to be uncovered internationally recently.
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