You are 100% wrong.
Where do you guys get such wrong information?
Government here has NO say or control over our farmers production or
marketing.
There has not been one cent in subsidies for 20 years and then it was 7% of
the total income, mostly in fertiliser transport to remote sheep farmers,
perhaps only 1% to dairy farmers, not 100% like some of you.
You guys are wasting my time and causing good people to leave graze-l
because so much junk mail comes daily.
Please become factual and constructive.
On 28/3/06 9:49 AM, "Richard and Carol Conklin"
<jaka@vermontel.net> wrote:
> Forgive me if I'm wrong Vaughan, but what about all those dairy products
> exported to other countries? 60% was the last figure I heard, at prices
> defined by your Gov to open markets while your farmers were payed a price,
> also subsidised by your Gov to maintain your farms?
> Dick Conklin
> Amity Farm
> Ft.Ann,NY
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "leon" <leon@grazinginfo.com>
> To: <graze-l@witt.ac.nz>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [Graze-l] Grazing into reality
>
>
>> On 6/6/06 2:43 AM, "KV9U" <mrfarm@mwt.net> wrote:
>>> Running a B&B is NOT FARMING, Fred!
>>>
>>> I would find it very surprising if many others could possibly
agree with
>>> you. Innovation is fine. Your mega auction is fine. But it is NOT
>>> farming. It represents the middle man!
>>
>>
>> Rick you are unbelievable.
>>
>> Some US farmers complain about being fleeced by middlemen, but do
nothing
>> about it. See Brad�s positive comments on things. FW I believe grew
>> vegetables and started selling them himself and then sold for others -
>> brilliant.
>>
>> Anyway middlemen are not bad, except in the eyes of those jealous of
them.
>> Most are very good and provide a service. No one has to buy from them.
>>
>> In New Zealand most farm products are marketed by farmer co-ops so the
>> farmer gets the margins. Most of US has left it too late to do so.
>>
>> Apple Macintosh, the most positive, advanced and constructive computer
>> company there is, has opened its own retail shops to provide a good
> service.
>>
>> NZ Kiwifruit growers have growers in Italy growing gold Kiwifruit under
>> licence to sell to the EU to keep supply going in our off season so as
not
>> to lose the market. I could go on.
>>
>> Rick please try and be positive and add useful solutions. Remember that
> the
>> farmers who farmed what is now New York city would have sold their land
> and
>> moved west. Go west young man. In New Zealand it used to be go north.
Now
> it
>> is go south and buy a sheep farm and convert it to dairying.
>>
>> Have you not heard that there are three definites we can�t do anything
> about
>> - taxes, change and death. If you don�t change you�ll be left behind.
>>
>> Many New Zealand animal farmers after their farms became too small
> (without
>> decreasing in size), have changed to growing Kiwifruit, avocados, blue
>> berries, grapes, etc., and loved it and the easier life and profit.
One ex
>> dairy farmer, now a blueberry grower, makes blueberry sweets, juice and
> wine
>> and has a restaurant and does tours over the estate and sells them a
lunch
>> using lots of blueberry recipes. The whole family is being employed.
>>
>> What FW has done is all good and employed his daughter and she has
> something
>> she can inherit an pass on which is more than can be done with an
> under-size
>> farm.
>>
>> When consulting I tell farmers to marry their wife and nothing else.
Some
>> marry their brand of tractor and some their breed on animal. Many in
USA
>> marry their land which does them more harm than good.
>>
>> Lastly, 12 years ago the wife of a dairy farmer client on 90 acres of
good
>> land which we were improving near Matamata in the Waikato, asked over
> lunch,
>> �Will this size farm ever give us a good living?� I replied, �No�. They
> sold
>> at a good price to an expanding neighbour and bought a Kiwifruit farm
at
> Te
>> Puke on the coast 2 hours drive away and loved the increased income and
> the
>> coast living with a good future. Many New Zealand animal farmers after
>> their farms became too small (without decreasing in size), have
changed to
>> growing Kiwifruit, avocados, blue berries, grapes, etc., and loved it
and
>> the easier life and profit. One ex dairy farmer, now a blueberry
grower,
>> makes blueberry sweets, juice and wine and has a restaurant and does
tours
>> over the estate and sells them a lunch using lots of blueberry recipes.
> The
>> whole family has been employed.
>>
>> Some of your countrymen (and women) have told me not to waste my time
>> replying to the senseless critics, but some attitudes are common in
North
>> America so I�m copying some of my replies to my eBook so as to answer
>> readers questions before they are asked. So my time is not wasted.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Vaughan Jones
>> Waikato
>> Hamilton
>> New Zealand
>>
>>
>>
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Best wishes,
Vaughan Jones
Hamilton
Waikato
New Zealand
