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Rural round-up

homepaddock wrote 7 months ago: Kiwifruit breeder honoured for $3 billion contribution: The inaugural kiwifruit industry award – the … more →

Tags: Business, farming, Rural, Brent Miller, Brian Harris, Chatham Islands, Hayward Medal, Kiwifruit, Linda Clarke

Greens want to keep milk price high2 comments

homepaddock wrote 9 months ago: Remember how the Green Party was concerned about high milk prices in New Zealand and wanted somethin … more →

Tags: Politics, Business, Trade, farming, kiwiblog, Green Party, Subsidies, Trans Pacific Partnership, dairy farmers

Make trade not war1 comment

homepaddock wrote 11 months ago: Make love, not war was a catch-cry of the 1960s. Make trade, not war might not sound as good but tra … more →

Tags: Politics, Business, Trade, farming, Otto T. Mallery

Consumers pay price for protecting producers4 comments

homepaddock wrote 1 year ago: The Canadian commitment to dairy farmers to continue protection is putting the interests of the mino … more →

Tags: Politics, Business, Trade, farming, Tariffs, Free Trade, Canada

Whose money is it?2 comments

homepaddock wrote 1 year ago: Opponents to the sale of the Crafar farms to Shanghai Pengxin, and other foreign investment, talk ab … more →

Tags: Politics, Business, farming, Michael Fay, Crafar Farms, Shanghai Pengxin

Finding the money to fatten the assets - UPDATED6 comments

homepaddock wrote 1 year ago: Quote of the day: Once a basket case, Air NZ is now a prized asset – and it only got that way becaus … more →

Tags: Politics, Jane Clifton

Rural round-up2 comments

homepaddock wrote 1 year ago: Young Farmer contest #5 Will Grayling – RivettingKate Taylor: Photos make the world go around… … more →

Tags: Rural, farming, Fonterra, Don Brash, ballance, david graham, Sally Rae, rivettingKate Taylor, Tim Worstall

Economic literacy9 comments

homepaddock wrote 1 year ago: My decision to study what was then called Stage I Economics at university was not made for the best … more →

Tags: Education, economic literacy test, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Did you see the one about . . .

homepaddock wrote 2 years ago: The tertiary education conundrum - Mydeology thinks it’s time for a rethink. I wannabe a pseud … more →

Tags: blogs, Lindsay Mitchell, Zen Tiger, Larvatus Prodeo, Credo Quia Absurdum Est, mydeology, Michael Edmonds

Rural round-up

homepaddock wrote 2 years ago: Current season better than last – Allan Barber blogs: After what all processors termed a chall … more →

Tags: Rural, farming, Visible Hand in Economics, Jon Morgan, rivettingKate Taylor, Te Kuiti, Will Type For Food, Allan Barber, Steve Wyn-Harris

Trade makes both parties better off1 comment

homepaddock wrote 2 years ago: Prime Minister John Key spelled out the benefits of trade in his opening address to the US-NZ Partne … more →

Tags: Economy, Politics, Trade, John Key, Murray McCully, US-NZ Partnership Forum

Short term gain long term pain on benefit6 comments

homepaddock wrote 2 years ago: Benefits aren’t designed to give recipients a very good living for a very good reason – … more →

Tags: Politics, Employment, Welfare, Benefits

Did you see the one about . . . 2 comments

homepaddock wrote 2 years ago: Eat up those carrots - Michael Edwards at Molecular Matters (via Sci Blogs) – on the beauty be … more →

Tags: blogs, Larvatus Prodeo, News Biscuit, Eye to the Long Run, Around the World, Michael Edwards, Moledcular Matters, Cake Wreck Blob

Recipe to make Adam Smith weep

homepaddock wrote 2 years ago: Take a  house once lived in by one of Scotland’s great thinkers, Adam Smith. Set aside to dete … more →

Tags: Bureaucracy, Adam Smith, The Scotsman

Did you see the one about . . .

homepaddock wrote 2 years ago: Happy Solstice Day Larvartus Prodeo celebrates the solstice with photos. While there check out All I … more →

Tags: blogs, Liberty Scott, Offsetting Behaviour, Larvatus Prodeo, Roger Kerr

Did you see the one about . . .

homepaddock wrote 2 years ago: Undo, cut, tape . . . wait that’s not right - old technology meets new at Something Should Go … more →

Tags: blogs, Keeping Stock, MacDoctor, Something Should Go Here May Be Later, rivettingKate Taylor, quote unquote, Laughy Kate, Eye to the Long Run, Cafe Hayek

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homepaddock wrote 2 years ago: Same planet, different world Oswald Bastable on bookless homes. Mapping internet sensation stereotpy … more →

Tags: blogs, Cactus Kate, nz conservative, Oswald Bastable, goNZo Freakpower, Lucia Maria, Patrick Smellie, Credo Quia Absurdum Est

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homepaddock wrote 2 years ago: New Zealand and Uruguay as sporting equivalents - Pablo at Kiwipolitico compares one small country w … more →

Tags: blogs, No Minister, chris trotter, Oswald Bastable, MacDoctor, In a Strange Land, Liberty Scott, rivettingKate Taylor, Bowalley Road

Did you see the one about . . . 1 comment

homepaddock wrote 2 years ago: Countdown employee-redfaced - Dim Post at his satirical best. Devastating, just devastaing - Adolf a … more →

Tags: blogs, Visible Hand in Economics, In a Strange Land, Dim Post, Busted Blonde, roarprawn, Adolf Fiinkensein, A Little Whine & Cheese, Brunette


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