A few facts about the dairy situation in NZ.
Cow chasers tend to badly over stock, creating a lot of cost by doing this. IE: pouring fert on at huge rates to get that grass growing, when if stock levels were managed properly they wouldn’t need anywhere near those amounts of grass or cows.
They only think about cows, well grass then cows. When if they were thinking properly they would also be finishing units for lambs. Having a mob of lambs following the cows to clean up paddocks, turn over every six weeks at 20-30% profit, but instead, and this is how stupid (to harsh?) they are, they pay someone to go through and mow those same paddocks with a tractor. NOTE for the townies; cows like a long lick of grass where as sheep prefer something a bit shorter. But they mow the paddocks to get better grass growth.
Now the water, which seems to hardly get a mention, the amount of water they require to run these cow farms is huge. In town now there is water metres and townies are paying by the litre. The councils already own all the supply services which have been paid for and maintained by said rate payers. What do the cow chasers pay?
Sustainable farming it’s called, the way dairy is being run it’s not. In fact it’s not even close. At the top of the food chain in fonterra you ten + people being paid $1 million PLUS. Now let that sink in………then ask yourself how did they let an over supply happen? All those mill dollar plus people didn’t see this coming? REALLY??? ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME?
By the way, if us rabbiters knew the Russian market was disappearing because of the yank embargo over 12 months ago why didn’t fonterra? Pardon? The silence is deafening.
If I was a cow chaser I would be wanting to know when the heads would roll in the boardroom.
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