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Fonterra shareholders will be watching hawk-eyed this week's annual general meeting in Waitoa.

The sanctimonious lot from Bitch & Complain (Fish & Game) have spat the dummy and walked away from the Land and Water Forum – like a petulant, spoiled child in a blaze of self-interested publicity.

Speaking of Fonterra, the Hound received a curt note from a failed board candidate in last year's election...

Fonterra's communications boss Kerry Underhill has left the co-op after only two years on the job.

With the payout down and dry conditions looming, what's the last thing dairy farmers need now? An ageing political mouth with an overactive media secretary using the industry to try to make political capital.

In a volatile market there is never a better time to take financial stock of a business.

Risk management is an aspect of strategic planning that many farmers are yet to fully use to its potential. It can offer the advantage of a wider perspective on events that might otherwise be a cause for worry.

Cooperatives have many positive benefits, but raising capital is not one of them.

This old mutt reckons it's hard enough having a rational discussion on the issue of PKE use in the dairy industry without halfwits spreading false information about it.

I was asked by a television channel to award a score out of 10 for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) recently concluded in Atlanta.