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Your old mate’s piece on the perceived penny-pinching by rural services company PGG Wrightson (PGW) in not issuing pencils with its annual notebook has drawn correspondence from aggrieved farmers bemoaning the fact.
Spies tell the Hound PGW’s ‘carefulness’ was also evident at the recent Wanaka Show where, according to reports, they were cutting sausages in half (lengthwise) as they came off the barbecue. “And they ran out of onions at 12.30pm and clients were not impressed”, one informant told your old mate. Meanwhile, the Hound hopes that given PGW’s improved half-year result announced recently, perhaps whole sausages(!) – and notebooks with pencils – could be back on the menu next year.
Federated Farmers has launched a new campaign, swapping "The Twelve Days of Christmas" for "The Twelve Pests of Christmas" in an effort to highlight the most troublesome farm pests.
The Rapid Relief Team (RRT) has given farmers in the Tararua District a boost as they rebuild following recent storms.
The Government is set to announce two new acts to replace the contentious Resource Management Act (RMA) with the Prime Minister hinting that consents required by farmers could reduce by 46%.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change would be “a really dumb move”.
The University of Waikato has broken ground on its new medical school building.
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