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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 5373412" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>Few things are really very straightforward - the trouble with agriculture is striking that balance between nature and business.</p><p></p><p>Most of the common endorsements seem as much of a conspiracy as theory, shall I list some? Apparently what we need to do:</p><p></p><p>Increase scale</p><p>Increase production (to feed the world)</p><p>Be more efficient (by what measure?)</p><p>Invest in labour saving technologies</p><p>Specislise, yet diversify...</p><p></p><p>I may have missed some but I really don't pay much attention to what your government/supermarket/corporate "powers that be" tell you, because the meaning seems common: accept lower margins per unit sold, keep chasing the carrot that things will soon be better...</p><p></p><p>However, there are real gains to be made by persuing value, not volume. NZ has long been "giving away" lamb and beef simply because it doesn't cost much to produce; yet pasture fed meat is a top-end product, basically a health food, and capturing the value is priority - not simply bulking it out and selling more, but marketing it to potential.</p><p></p><p>We don't have 10 billion people to feed so why are we listening, why are people starving yet livestock and energy plants consuming food, why are soils being degraded and lost simply because the food supply model needs work?</p><p></p><p>Fairly simply, bribery helps the system operators turn the other cheek.</p><p></p><p>No theory in this, it is fairly evident that by the time we need to produce more food, the ability to do so will be lost.</p><p></p><p>The fact remains that the wealthy nations have affluent, aging populations that are capable of researching what they feed themselves, and the tide is slowly turning from short term thinking (trying to swim harder against the current) to a more long term view (going with the flow) but the sad point is as you describe: common sense food production is still a minority. Only poor nations behave in accordance with nature, wealthier countries seem to think they can buy success.</p><p></p><p>I had a friend from north America come to shoot some ducks this year, he had about $10000 worth of camouflage and hunting aids, but couldn't keep quiet or still...... so success was limited.</p><p></p><p>The basics are important, yet many farmers are wrapped up in the details.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 5373412, member: 63856"] Few things are really very straightforward - the trouble with agriculture is striking that balance between nature and business. Most of the common endorsements seem as much of a conspiracy as theory, shall I list some? Apparently what we need to do: Increase scale Increase production (to feed the world) Be more efficient (by what measure?) Invest in labour saving technologies Specislise, yet diversify... I may have missed some but I really don't pay much attention to what your government/supermarket/corporate "powers that be" tell you, because the meaning seems common: accept lower margins per unit sold, keep chasing the carrot that things will soon be better... However, there are real gains to be made by persuing value, not volume. NZ has long been "giving away" lamb and beef simply because it doesn't cost much to produce; yet pasture fed meat is a top-end product, basically a health food, and capturing the value is priority - not simply bulking it out and selling more, but marketing it to potential. We don't have 10 billion people to feed so why are we listening, why are people starving yet livestock and energy plants consuming food, why are soils being degraded and lost simply because the food supply model needs work? Fairly simply, bribery helps the system operators turn the other cheek. No theory in this, it is fairly evident that by the time we need to produce more food, the ability to do so will be lost. The fact remains that the wealthy nations have affluent, aging populations that are capable of researching what they feed themselves, and the tide is slowly turning from short term thinking (trying to swim harder against the current) to a more long term view (going with the flow) but the sad point is as you describe: common sense food production is still a minority. Only poor nations behave in accordance with nature, wealthier countries seem to think they can buy success. I had a friend from north America come to shoot some ducks this year, he had about $10000 worth of camouflage and hunting aids, but couldn't keep quiet or still...... so success was limited. The basics are important, yet many farmers are wrapped up in the details. [/QUOTE]
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