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Does Landcorp have any business converting land for dairy farming?

Federated Farmer's chairman Andrew Hoggard says he is unsure why the government needs to even own Landcorp.

Jason Walls
Wed, 19 Aug 2015

Questions have been raised over the prudence of government-owned Landcorp converting more land to dairy farms when the price of milk has globally been sluggish.

Finance Minister Bill English told The Nation that Landcorp is having a "good hard look" at its massive dairy conversion in the wake of a

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Jason Walls
Wed, 19 Aug 2015
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