The Country - Harvest edition
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Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay spoke to Sank Macfarlane, who has started harvesting at New Zealand s largest commercial medical cannabis crop on his Winterborn farm on the coast of Kēkerengū.
On with the show:
Pita Alexander:
The Christchurch farm accountant went back in time to 1991 to compare the fortunes of sheep and beef farmers in the intervening 30 years. Plus, we looked at the relative returns from dairy, horticulture, forestry and sheep/beef.
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Sank McFarlane:
We talked to one of the brothers (the other, Winston, was a Team NZ grinder in 2003 and 2007) about the harvest of New Zealand s biggest medical cannabis crop (10 hectares) in Kēkerengu, halfway between Kaikōura and Blenheim.
Resolution to expel French envoy: Pakistani lawmakers to meet today at 3pm
Pakistan
A photo of the National Assembly. Photo: File
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly will meet today at 3pm instead of Thursday, announced the secretariat of the lower house on Tuesday.
The National Assembly tweeted that as per the earlier plan the MNAs were scheduled to meet on Thursday, April 22 at 2pm.
However, it added that now the schedule has been changed and the session will be held today at 3pm in the Parliament House.
The secretariat did not identify the reason behind the change in schedule. It is expected that the change was made to present a resolution in the NA seeking the expulsion of the French envoy as demanded by the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
Former President George W. Bush on Tuesday weighed in on the state of the GOP.
NBC “Today” host Hoda Kotb asked Bush how he sees the Republican Party now over 10 years out of office.
Bush, who is promoting his new book called “Out of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants,” said he would describe the party as ” isolationist, protectionist, and to a certain extent, nativist.”
“I would describe it as isolationist, protectionist, and to a certain extent, nativist,” Bush told Kotb.
Kotb asked, “Are you disappointed?”
“Well, that’s not exactly my vision, but you know what, I’m just an old guy they put out to pasture,” he replied. “So, just a simple painter.”
CVS Caremark to stop selling tobacco products – USA TODAYby wpjljron
Wednesday, February 5th, 2014.CVS Caremark to stop selling tobacco products – USA TODAYPedestrians walk past a CVS store in Chicago in February 2012.(Photo: M. Spencer Green, AP) Story Highlights CVS counseling customers on health choices Decision is part of a larger shift in company priorities Company sells $1.5 billion in tobacco a year WASHINGTON Drug store giant CVS Caremark announced Wednesday it will no longer sell […]
Pedestrians walk past a CVS store in Chicago in February 2012.(Photo: M. Spencer Green, AP)
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Decision is part of a larger shift in company priorities