Farmers & Greens should be natural Allies

[Wheyibuggermair]

Same with the Adini project, why the OZ govt seems be hell bent on supporting a zombie industry is beyond most, but I suspect well stuffed brown envelopes comes to mind.

 

[Wheyibuggermair]

Depends what you mean by 'green'.

If you mean trying to conserve habitats and the natural environment, then yes greens and farmers are natural allies.

If on the other hand you mean the hard left who have created the 'climate change' movement as cover for their desire to destroy global capitalism, then while they may indeed welcome farmers as allies for now, they'll have no compunction in destroying them too, when the time comes. The hard left are all about power, and forming alliances of convenience in order to get it.Once they have the power they desire, all the former 'friends' will be in the same boat as everyone else, ie jackboot on the neck.

"If on the other hand you mean the hard left who have created the 'climate change movement"

The "hard left have created a lie but managed to convince approx 98% of the worlds most reputable scientists that's it's a fact?
Buggerinhell, the hard left are a lot more organised than I though, I'd better stop laughing at them.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Happy National Agriculture Day!
Do you know where your food comes from?
“Australia truly is a land of drought and flooding rains. To be a productive and profitable farmer – you must be a sustainable one.
That is why Australian farmers are frontline environmentalists.
All Aussies should feel proud of the contribution of our ag sector. An industry that spans from the top of Western Australia to the southernmost tip of Tassie.” (Fiona Simson)
I couldn't agree more.
Fiona Simson is the President of the National Farmers’ Federation and a Liverpool Plains farmer.
http://www.queenslandcountrylife.co...-a-sense-of-pride-in-our-farm-sector/?cs=6025

 

[Brisel]

Where do I sign up? This sounds fun

I don't think the hard left could organise itself enough to manage a whelk stall, let alone bring down capitalism. Luckily for them, global capitalism contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction with its ludicrous pursuit of endless economic growth in a finite world.

Farmers are seeing this with the unravelling of the miracles of the Green Revolution, yields are plateauing while we pile ever more inputs into our soils. The greens might well be our friends as they help us work out a way of regenerating our soils to produce food and fibre more in tune with nature. A nation's soil is, arguably, its most important asset and, as custodians of it, we perhaps need to be a little bit humble

The same greens who want to remove one of the key tools you use in Conservation Agriculture? I'm referring to glyphosate. They might be disorganised but you have to admit they are driving political policy right now. Neonics, glyphosate, post Brexit rural policy...

I'm wary of the Greens. Whilst we share many common goals many of their followers don't understand the bigger picture at all. Once farmers & greens have collaborated on one project they will turn on us for another. Next time there's an anti globalisation/anti GM protest, look out for how many of them are swigging from Starbucks cups and munching cereal bars mande from GM soya!

Working with farmers is just too much for some - we're the scapegoat for so many of their issues.