The real issue is the central communist party govt of China and their influence in NZ economy & politics. How often people in towns use detergents to wash their cars & plates? use fertiliser & chemical on their lawns and gardens? are the products used always environmentally friendly? Should they now all be charged to have scientists to come out and inspect the water in the drains, test the soils, see how much has changed every 6 months and the environmental impact caused? Wake up. About time people look at their own behaviour. įarmers live on the farm, it is their home-you honestly believe that they are recklessly polluting their own property? Think about it. If farmers don't pivot fast away from a story of "extraction" for production, who knows who their customers will be in 10 years. Consumers are quickly pivoting the world over - they will want to buy products that start healing the climate and have real "feel good" authentic stories about positive change, profit % donated to saving species etc etc. Or within a decade consumers the world over will be eating fake meat and overwhelmingly eating produce from places where farmers "do good" publicly and support ecology etc., Rather than just acting as private profit gathering business. And proudly tell those stories to the consumer, rather than fighting change. It's time to PIVOT THE BUSINESS MODEL FAST and become very environmentally savvy and proactive. Coupled with the rebellion against rectifying these issues swiftly. Outrageous watching the wetlands screwed, flaura and fauna disappearing from water and land, and exploitation of wateretc etc etc. Stop whining farmers, be grateful that you live in a tolerant society and try giving once in a while, not just taking.Ī whole lot of privatising profits in farming, while socialising all losses and public negatives. The truckers who cart the produce and the fertilisers, the factory workers who process the milk, beef and mutton, the engineers, mechanics and technicians that keep everything farmers rely on running, the waterfront workers, the seaman operating the ships are all vertebrae in the backbone of our economy, if anyone of them fails they all fail. Farmers are not the backbone of our economy, they're are simply one of the vertebrae. The old mantra of capitalize the profits and socialize the losses just doesn't work anymore. They expect taxpayer help when they are affected by weather extremes and claim it as their due, them being the backbone of our economy. The environmental problems farmers are trying to cope with are of their own making yest they expect taxpayer help at cleaning up their mess. Some members of the agricultural community annoy me. "We get accused, the employer, of exploiting the foreign workers but the Government needs to have a look at their own backyard because I feel that’s a little bit excessive."Ī very interesting article, although it has left me somewhat frustrated and angry. "Some of our workers have been here for nine, 10 years and even now they’re still getting one-year visas. However, the cost of having to reapply for visas every year was unsustainable. "Every time we advertise for a job, we rarely, rarely get a Kiwi apply," he said. "There’s a lot of criticism of immigration, of foreign workers coming here, but from what we’re seeing, and we’ve been in business for 15 years doing hospitality, if it wasn’t for the migrant workers we’d be in trouble. Those are pretty hot on the agenda at the moment for most farmers in this district." "We’re a farming community here, and a lot of pressure’s come on farming with water quality in particular, nitrate leaching, that sort of thing. Like Mr Sim in Kurow, Mr Kerr felt farmers had been in the firing line in recent times. He and wife Trish own The Wrinkly Rams cafe, gift shop and sheep shearing show, about 1km from their farm. Local stalwart James Kerr has a foot in both the tourism and farming camps. Omarama farmer and business owner James Kerr says people are relatively happy with the Government, but immigration restrictions are a concern.
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