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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 6552558" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>It can well support the costs, but it takes a serious shift in mindset to do so.</p><p>Selling meat is about the lowest returning activity that we do here, because that's the focus of so many - 'feeding the world'.</p><p></p><p>I ask, what the world is doing for me in return for me feeding it cheap lamb and beef, and the answer isn't forthcoming.</p><p></p><p>Therefore, running an extractive system that requires some quite expensive inputs (and damaging inputs) to produce cheap commodities, would have seen my business fail in the first year, and the next years...</p><p>That's really the folly of seeing things only in terms of production potential, which grips farmers and non-farmers alike.</p><p></p><p>As luck would have it, we have an economic farm surplus/ha of around 2.5x the NZ average, mainly because of a different course of action and a different focus - the bit that "you can't see, from over the fence".</p><p>Nothing really looks much different to what anyone else is doing, as [USER=71668]Roy[/USER] says it isn't "all about the long grass and no fertiliser" but facing several realities at once.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 6552558, member: 63856"] It can well support the costs, but it takes a serious shift in mindset to do so. Selling meat is about the lowest returning activity that we do here, because that's the focus of so many - 'feeding the world'. I ask, what the world is doing for me in return for me feeding it cheap lamb and beef, and the answer isn't forthcoming. Therefore, running an extractive system that requires some quite expensive inputs (and damaging inputs) to produce cheap commodities, would have seen my business fail in the first year, and the next years... That's really the folly of seeing things only in terms of production potential, which grips farmers and non-farmers alike. As luck would have it, we have an economic farm surplus/ha of around 2.5x the NZ average, mainly because of a different course of action and a different focus - the bit that "you can't see, from over the fence". Nothing really looks much different to what anyone else is doing, as [USER=71668]Roy[/USER] says it isn't "all about the long grass and no fertiliser" but facing several realities at once. [/QUOTE]
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