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<blockquote data-quote="FonterraFarmer" data-source="post: 6374066" data-attributes="member: 750"><p>Ahh, but what is a "conventional farmer"? The one who farms like their father or worse their grandfather, or the one continually following the fashion of the day or the slave to technology?</p><p>The perspective of reality is distorted by the politics of the country that you farm in and merely replicating what is done abroad without understanding the dynamics of the environment that you are farming is doomed to failure.</p><p>The ultimate question is, is it possible anywhere in the world to be able to be a farmer and to be able to farm without subsidies, supply management or direct or indirect government intervention and restrictive tariffs?</p><p>Very easy to be insular and narrow minded, but travel abroad will either open the mind or give one the focus or justification that give one the confidence to farming on a tangent.</p><p>That said , as a statement is directed at no one, it's said as an observation or generalisation as result of going overseas and returning to NZ over the years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FonterraFarmer, post: 6374066, member: 750"] Ahh, but what is a "conventional farmer"? The one who farms like their father or worse their grandfather, or the one continually following the fashion of the day or the slave to technology? The perspective of reality is distorted by the politics of the country that you farm in and merely replicating what is done abroad without understanding the dynamics of the environment that you are farming is doomed to failure. The ultimate question is, is it possible anywhere in the world to be able to be a farmer and to be able to farm without subsidies, supply management or direct or indirect government intervention and restrictive tariffs? Very easy to be insular and narrow minded, but travel abroad will either open the mind or give one the focus or justification that give one the confidence to farming on a tangent. That said , as a statement is directed at no one, it's said as an observation or generalisation as result of going overseas and returning to NZ over the years. [/QUOTE]
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