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OPINION: Your old mate reckons the new Government has a big turnaround job in getting farmers feeling confident again.

OPINION: Your canine crusader understands big power companies Genesis and Meridian recently coughed up some major funding to local iwi groups, under the auspices of the Treaty of Waitangi, as part of the renewal applications for their resource consents in relation to the Waitaki river.

OPINION: A mate of yours truly wonders if the impending departure of Silver Fern Farms chief executive Simon Limmer will see a number of other senior executives leave the meat processor and exporter.

OPINION: The Hound is astounded at the sheer audacity and bottle of (outgoing?) Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor and his ability to bury his head in the sand.

OPINION: Your old mate reckons he now understands just why state farmer Pāmu (Landcorp in everyday man's language) is such a dog of an investment and why it returns a paltry dividend - relative to the huge capital tied up in the SOE - to the country's hard-pressed taxpayers.

OPINION: You canine crusader wants to tip his hat to Fed Farmers for busting the Government’s dodgy tactics in trying to buy support to rush through its controversial RMA reforms.

OPINION: A mate of yours truly wonders just exactly how some of the so-called ‘leaders’ in the ag sector will fare if there is a change of Government on Oct 14.

OPINION: The Hound notes that the Taxpayers’ Union recently revealed that the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) spent more than $125,000 for its presence at this year’s Mystery Creek Fieldays.

OPINION: Your old mate wonders if the current chair of DairyNZ, Jim van der Poel, is the very same Jim van der Poel who is now canvassing to retain his directorship of the dairy industry-good body.

OPINION: This old mutt understands that Federated Farmers has recently ceased the production of its monthly publication Fed News, as the economic realities of producing the paper have hit home.