Fantastic, I presume that as this government are going to compensate land owners for climate change impacts, that I should expect a subsidy should my farm suffer any loss of productivity or value from climate.
What an absolute hoot this thread is. I do enjoy when the standard decides to delve into parody topics. I enjoy reading how a bunch of urban f*#kwits think food is produced, in a thread championed by one of the most poorly performed regional councillors in...
If you only knew. Fonterra have probably got the most robust inspection and compliance regime in the country. They stopped collecting milk on 70+ farms last year because the farmers hadn’t met their effluent and waterway fencing rules. Fonterra make the ...
Yep, meaning that employees are clustered within a core group of 30% of businesses. I’m pleased that we got to the bottom of that quandary.
Then why hasn’t good stock index numbers resulted in a strengthening job market. The economy is slowing and it’s having real impacts. Stop being parochial and actually question instead of playing sheep.
I love how you made my point for me about posters having no grounding in reality. I’ll paraphrase your comment - “I’m very smart and very important and I’ve come to the conclusion that rising unemployment are business confidence dropping is of no ...
Are you people stupid. This post is the worst example of blind parochialism I’ve seen in a long time. Unemployment is up, and the confidence of business (aka the people that employ) is way down. If you’re not concerned that this is the direction that the ...
I’m not sure a self interest piece written by a union staff offical should carry any weight. We are an export nation, our competitors are not domestic. Increasing fixed costs (not just labour costs as you’ll note that the employer advantages also increase ...
It’ll stay in the news cycle because it’s like gold to the National party. It is only the beltway talking about meth testing standards, the populous will react to sound bites of the coalition government being soft on crime and soft on drugs. The narrative ...
Yawn... More urban versus rural rubbish on The Standard. What a surprise. I'm the 23rd post on this blog, and the 22 ahead of me show absolutely zero understanding of dairy farming. I remember asking on this blog once before what was industrial farming and...
I always equate The Standard trying to discuss rural matters to a bunch of 5 year olds attempting quantum physics. They’ve got absolutely no idea what their talking about but it’s mildly amusing watching them try. Seriously, if you can’t figure out the ...
My folks sold the farm several years ago for just over 7mil. Aside from a house in Hamilton, a Bach, an Audi A7 and a couple of cruises they haven’t really spent too much. It appears that they’re also now going to be receiving this additional payout too. ...
The boss seems like she accepts Assad as the source of the chemical attacks and the rationale behind the airstrikes. JA says all the right things re: diplomatic solutions and UN Security Council, but there isn’t any condemnation of the US, UK and French ...
So, rather than complain; what are the DIRA policy settings (as this is the topic at hand) that you want too see?
Could you advise what pollution from my farms do you pay for? Especially since you think it's my responsibility that I should subsidise your grocery bill as well.
And if Kaikoura was a nutritional drier, then you'd be right. But it was a old cheese plant that had big big issues with the whey by-product disposal with limited stainless utilisation in Autumn and Winter. It's roi was less then moving the milk south and ...
As we all do, what's often forgotten is that by being New Zealand's largest exporter that it's our largest money importer. Treasury did a review in 2012 during a DIRA review, and NZ went from 1st world to 3rd world in most OECD measures if Fonterra's ...
I'm most certainly rural. I've got 2200 ha across 7 properties of different land use in 4 regions employing 38 staff. I do approx 600k mskg per year, so have about 3.5mil of my own invested in Fonterra Did you happen to read my commentary around a flaw of ...
Incorrect. The Kaikoura product mix was a dog, and (as a legacy plant with significant maintenance costs), had a poor roi in comparison to other sites, especially when you consider the north Canterbury pasture curve. The stainless utilisation was horrible....
See, this is the problem with people commenting on the rural sector without knowing anything about it. Bonds were considered but were unable to be issued on the scale required. During the growth when the capital was required, Fonterra were constantly very ...
This post, and the articles of which it draws itself from, lack any genuine analysis of options, solutions and alternatives. It’d be worthwhile to reflect upon why Helen Clark and the then Labour government allowed for the formation of Fonterra, but also ...
I'm a dairy fonterra, supplier and shareholder of Fonterra. I'm not "up in arms". In fact I think the guy is underpaid. For context; my farm produced 198723 kgMS last year. Theo's salary cost me .004 cents per kgMS. Even if he got paid zero, it would not ...
Conversations in echo chambers don't count. The conversation nationally never went beyond fraud, otherwise it would've played out differently. Think strategically and pragmatically and think about how to win. The only conversations that matter are the ones...
Precisely, but don't mistake that support for a groundswell beyond progressive echo chambers, and it indicates "where you are" is out of step with conventional public opinion on Met. Not a bad thing at all, but do you want to change the government or ...
In the 3 weeks after Metiria's fraud admission, the greens (and the wider progressive movement) mistook social media support for real world support, which catastrophicly imploded. This absurd suggestion of the NZer of the year accolade is repeating that ...
I think the standard should avoid any blogs discussing agriculture as the knowledge on this blog is Pretty poor. I haven't seen a single post that convinces that any of you have stepped onto a productive farm. This, unfortunately, includes Nadine Higgins; ...
Why the hell would the left pursue this. It's been polled by both "left and right" and the polling seems to indicate that middle NZ does not agree or believe Hagar or the books claims. The public (right or wrong) want to side with the CDF and the SAS lads....
I'm not so sure, I think the worm has turned. The seeds of doubt about the Hagar/Stevenson narrative have well and truly sprouted. They've got too much wrong to be credible or reliable anymore. There NZDF insider has left them high and dry and they've ...
Once N is drained through the root zone with rainfall, it's gone and is not coming back. It'll make its way to surface or ground water eventually, but there will be some attenuation depending on what sort of parent material the soil is made up of. N ...
So, if I destock what do I do with the surplus grass? My feed (ie grass growth) matches my animal energy requirements. It'll still grow after all is said and done. Cows just convert grass protein to dairy protein at the end of the day.
Thanks for the response. You've listed some things that are clearly important to you. Interestingly enough several of the very examples you've mentioned have been tested already in the environment court, but the court (and the RMA) are not equipped for ...
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