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Written by  The Hound

OPINION: The Hound hears that a slickly choreographed Silver Fern Farms roadshow went astray recently when faced with fired up farmer feedback in Kurow.

Chair Rob Hewett apparently shut down questions on the march of forestry being escalated by companies like SFF by instead simply singing his own praises in a valedictory-type speech.

One farmer asked the silently stone-faced board line-up, 'what happens to carbon zero beef when we literally run out of offsets, do we keep planting trees until there is no land for beef?'

The question still echoes around the hills, unanswered.

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