Worldwide Costs of Food Production.

[Bury the Trash]

I'm pretty sure we're not allowed to do this....

Or aerial spraying for that matter , even if the ground is a bit steep for tractors....

I'm not being funny BTW ...the whole thing just strikes me as totally out of whack...
I mean surely the World's food resources are going to need a much more joined up approach for future??
Especially with global warming looming on the horizon....

 

[Muddyroads]

I worked on an estate in Herefordshire pre college where we did that in the spring of 1984. 2 of us had to stand in the tramlines to act as markers for the pilot to see where to go.
Did some aerial spraying too, but there was considered to be too much drift when all our cars had a yellow film on them, half a mile from where he’d been working.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Messing with my head filming it through those electric wires

 

[Bury the Trash]

Messing with my head filming it through those electric wires

Love the way he keeps it in hopper only takes one bump in the track for me to lose it...


It is petty detail really,( even though our lamb sits beside theirs in the supermarket. )
That was just an example I happened upon as you do.

but No its the big, big picture I'm on about, i promise.

 

[kiwi pom]

Don't forget we have a government that has now declared a "climate emergency" and is busy bringing in all kinds of new restrictions around water quality, nitrate levels, farming practices and stoking rates.
No mention of any schemes or subs to pay for any of it either, so you might be better off there.

 

[Steevo]

I'm pretty sure we're not allowed to do this....

Or aerial spraying for that matter , even if the ground is a bit steep for tractors....

I'm not being funny BTW ...the whole thing just strikes me as totally out of whack...
I mean surely the World's food resources are going to need a much more joined up approach for future??
Especially with global warming looming on the horizon....

I'd love to see the expression on the face of the man from SCS when he turns up to do a tray test on farm.....!

 

[Steevo]

Don't forget we have a government that has now declared a "climate emergency" and is busy bringing in all kinds of new restrictions around water quality, nitrate levels, farming practices and stoking rates.
No mention of any schemes or subs to pay for any of it either, so you might be better off there.

Declaring a climate emergency seems to be the fashion these days.....even our Parish Council have jumped on the band wagon and declared one!

 

[Steevo]

Oh, and I'm sure Red Tractor will happily create a New Zealand variant for you guys down under to help you implementing all those regulations. Should be pretty cheap to set up too being as you guys use our national flag as part of your own - the Union Jack is the complicated part of the artwork, just need a bit bigger blue label with a few red stars stuck on......

 

[kiwi pom]

Oh, and I'm sure Red Tractor will happily create a New Zealand variant for you guys down under to help you implementing all those regulations. Should be pretty cheap to set up too being as you guys use our national flag as part of your own - the Union Jack is the complicated part of the artwork, just need a bit bigger blue label with a few red stars stuck on......

I don't think it would worry them too much, there's already various schemes that processors require. As most things are exported there's a lot of hoop jumping involved - as the UK is now discovering - and we have to supply what each country wants. As I understand it a lot of Kiwi produce is grown on contract, or with a specific market in mind each contract has its own specs and hoops.

How big is the Fonterra supplies handbook these days @FonterraFarmer ?

 

[FonterraFarmer]

I don't think it would worry them too much, there's already various schemes that processors require. As most things are exported there's a lot of hoop jumping involved - as the UK is now discovering - and we have to supply what each country wants. As I understand it a lot of Kiwi produce is grown on contract, or with a specific market in mind each contract has its own specs and hoops.

How big is the Fonterra supplies handbook these days @FonterraFarmer ?

64 pages long and large enough to do serious damage if thrown.
Took all of 60 seconds to find something that would cause major problems for the UK to actually meet NZ standards too.
Sufficient "energy content" for soon to be illegal bar-b-que...

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Yes

bloody helicopters poaching

 

[FonterraFarmer]

I don't think it would worry them too much, there's already various schemes that processors require. As most things are exported there's a lot of hoop jumping involved - as the UK is now discovering - and we have to supply what each country wants. As I understand it a lot of Kiwi produce is grown on contract, or with a specific market in mind each contract has its own specs and hoops.

How big is the Fonterra supplies handbook these days @FonterraFarmer ?

Given my username, should I be the one to write the "supplier handbook"???

 

[Bury the Trash]

Given my username, should I be the one to write the "supplier handbook"???

Being able to keep using them sound old utes for donkeys years in that relativly dry atmosphere is yet another unfair advantage whereas ours rust out in 5 minutes..

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Being able to keep using them sound old utes for donkeys years in that relativly dry atmosphere is yet another unfair advantage whereas ours rust out in 5 minutes..

Eh??? Admittedly no salt used down here, but I can assure you it can be far from dry down here and then not to mention cow shite
I do keep it clean and shed stored , but that's mainly to prevent paint fade.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Eh??? Admittedly no salt used down here, but I can assure you it can be far from dry down here and then not to mention cow shite
I do keep it clean and shed stored , but that's mainly to prevent paint fade.

1. We don't have the time to clean pick ups

2. The Sun here rarely gets bright enough to fade paint, let alone ripen grapes for Wine.....

 

[Wolds Beef]

@FonterraFarmer Are you not far from the Late Norman Whymer? International Ploughman! Who ploughed for NZ in 1984?
WB

 

[FonterraFarmer]

1. We don't have the time to clean pick ups

2. The Sun here rarely gets bright enough to fade paint, let alone ripen grapes for Wine.....

Paint fade is a big problem.
It's kept clean means it does get dirty, and it wasn't clean that time I drove though Otara/South Auckland either....

 

[FonterraFarmer]

@FonterraFarmer Are you not far from the Late Norman Whymer? International Ploughman! Who ploughed for NZ in 1984?
WB

Apparently yes!!!

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I'd love to see the expression on the face of the man from SCS when he turns up to do a tray test on farm.....!

They get the best spread out of those bins. Pilot says 45m but more like 50 if there's no crosswind!

T'was actually my first job yesterday morning, bulk driver rang in crook so I tipped the load off his truck, put a bit over 7T of coated urea on and went out lakeside to the heli.
Left at 7.30 back and washed out by 9.15, the
Squirrels can lift a much heavier payload than those silly Robbies can and much safer on the turns (no rotor topple).

Quite interesting talking to the pilots and groundcrews about throughput

 

[Wolds Beef]

@FonterraFarmer Small World!! Norman practiced on our farm, and I drove his NZ spec tractor back from Wispington to the MF dealer in our Market Town of Horncastle Lincolnshire.
WB