Buoyant Bull Sales, Woke Commentators Talking Bull, Positivity in Agriculture
Buoyant Bull Sales, Woke Commentators Talking Bull, Positivity in Agriculture
Extract: Well, I think just to come home and read, a corporate climate change driven firm in the Rural News, that called out the Federated Farmers, Save our Sheep campaign, and I guess others, such as the Methane Science Accord asking for, what I think has sense and sensibility and science, around things like Methane Targets and the Paris Accord and Land Use Change and Property Rights and these are apparently, “no hope narratives”. I guess those three words. Really, really struck a chord with me, and not in a good way. And apparently we are chasing progress off the property, and we should be curious NOT outraged.
Honestly, if it means closing the gate on meaningless methane mitigation that the poor old taxpayer is paying for and actually doing some genuine environmental and production games on farm, yes I will be chasing them off the property.
And what really great me was; At the same time, I read McDonald's, a wealthy global junk food company, saying that New Zealand farmers should actually be thanking them, because instead of paying as a premium for our naturally pasture raised, free range red meat, they're actually investing or going to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars and I quote, “to fund projects to help New Zealand farmers with their on farm management”.
Well, bugger me. I'm not sure that we need McDonald's to be telling us, how to improve our farm productivity!
And I think, Jamie, we're spending far too much time listening to sermons from desk sitters and junk food companies, not enough promoting our unique, biodiverse productivity to the world. These are tangible things that we're doing not a piece of paper.
I went down to the Lawrence Winter Feed Competition on the weekend, and was lucky enough to be a speaker on the night and looking around that room, seeing an area that has been decimated by carbon farming, (which of course is a symptom of the bigger, bigger issue, which of course are things like the RMA and the Paris Accord, etc). But just seeing those good buggers in the room doing the right thing and carrying on just like the people up in Gisborne, it really gave me hope, that we can actually sort of from the ground up to actually make a difference and actually push back on some of these things.