Editorial: Great expectations
OPINION: As the new National-led coalition begins its term in office, there are high expectations that the promises and rhetoric of the election campaign will quickly be transformed into actions.
OPINION: The Hound understands that National’s newly minted agriculture spokesman David Bennett is in a long-distance relationship with Bridget McKenzie, a senator from Victoria in the Australian Federal Parliament.
She was former deputy leader of the Australian National Party and Minster of Agriculture in the coalition government under PM Scott Morrison.
Unfortunately, in the lead-up to Australia’s 2019 election, McKenzie oversaw a controversial $100 million grant program that led to claims of pork-barrelling.
An investigation found these allocations went disproportionately to marginal electorates held by the coalition or to electorates that the coalition was targeting and McKenzie subsequently resigned as Minister for Agriculture.
Your old mate suggests Bennett may want to steer clear of any pork barrel politics if he wants a long-term career – unlike his girlfriend!
Federated Farmers claims that the Otago Regional Council is charging ahead unnecessarily with piling more regulation on rural communities.
Dairy sheep and goat farmers are being told to reduce milk supply as processors face a slump in global demand for their products.
OPINION: We have good friends from way back who had lived in one of our major cities for many years.
Listed Canterbury milk processor Synlait’s shares have been placed in a trading halt.
OPINION: Even before the National-led coalition came into power, India was very much at the fore of its trade agenda.
A step-by-step guide helping farmers through the process of creating a Freshwater Farm Plan (FWFP) has been launched by FarmIQ.
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