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25.01.2022 We are getting very close to the election, so it is time to think carefully about how you will cast your votes. If you think that this is a democracy, think again. Here are the results of the last election.

21.01.2022 Same product, same tonnage! Both of these boxes treat 1000t! Our new and improved Si-Lac and Si-Lac Extra Concentrate means you can use it exactly the same as our original formula but it takes up way less room and so easy to cart around!!

20.01.2022 Over the weekend I had a phone call from a mate who lives in urban Auckland and he wanted to have a yarn about the new Green Party Agricultural Policy, that to ...his mind seemed logical, fair and reasonable, almost an exciting step forward, but he wanted to see the policy through the lens of a farmer as well, I have been reflecting on his question regarding the launching of the Green Party Agricultural "Policy" trying to quantify the feeling of hopeless that I and many farmers feel. So let's unpack this a bit. How our business works is we have a farm income, that is the culmination of all the stock we sell and the grain and seed crops that we grow and sell to processors as it's eventually makes it way to your local Supermarket. Out of that income, we pay our farm expenses, seed, fertiliser, fuel and electricity, farm supplies, and various other goods and services. Most of this expenditure benefits businesses in our local town Ashburton and across the wider Canterbury economy. Once we have sold our produce and paid for our expenses, there is hopefully a wee bit left over, which is what most business owners refer to as their return on investment. Last year our arable and stock farming business made a pre-tax return on total assets of 3.6%. The Greens intend to impose a "Wealth Tax" of 2%. That leaves us with 1.6% return on assets before we pay any Income Tax. The Greens then plan to "charge a fair price" for the Methane burped by our sheep. I have previously heard prices of $50-$250/t of Carbon Equivalent suggested by the Greens, but let's say at the low end of that range, our Climate Change cost just for Methane will be 1.5% of total assets. That leaves us with 0.1%. The Greens intend to develop a Water Charge in consultation with Iwi. Previously the Greens have stated that charge should be 10 cents per cubic metre. David Parker publicly stated an intention for a water charge of 2 cents per cubic metre. Here a Valetta, even at the lower charge of 2 cents per cube, the cost of watering our arable crops would be another 0.4% of total assets annually. That leaves us making a 0.3% loss. The Greens then want to impose a levy of fertiliser, want us to run a zero-till or minimum-till system, not sure how that works in a long term seed production system and adopt Regenerative principles. But here's the clanger, they intend to impose a Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen (DIN) level of 1mg/litre for all waterways in NZ. Currently water flows out of DoC land at western side of Mid Canterbury at 3.2mg/l. To meet a DIN of 1mg/l, Environment Canterbury's own report from 2017 found that land use in the neighbouring Selwyn Te Waihora Catchment would have to revert to dryland sheep grazing. We have budgeted that impact on this farm and it looks like this- Crop Income, down 92% Sheep Gross, down 62% Expenditure, down 70% Wages, down 91% EBIT, down 68% Capital Re-investment, down 74% Net Profit, down 105% Tax Paid, down 75% The actual numbers are irrelevant, because the percentage drops will be seen across many or most farm businesses, regardless of size. Of course, that is before any of the other new taxes and levies they wish for detailed above. This conversation hasn't even begun to touch on the significant investment in technology and infrastructure we have made in the last 15 years to reduce our environmental impact, all of which would be both unaffordable, and irrelevant because none of it will get us even close to meeting the limits the Greens wish for. The end result of all this is we would now own a totally unviable, un-bankable business that is not much more than a glorified life style block and has no economic future in food production. The knock on impact is that land values will collapse. My suggestion to my mate, or anyone else in urban New Zealand reading this is to enjoy and savour the standard of living that you currently enjoy, make diary notes, take photographs so that you can look back on the "good ole days" as we embark on our journey to becoming a Zimbabwe or Venezuela of the South Pacific. It was not sensible policy announced this last weekend, it was the framework for economic destruction. Given the catastrophic economic news released in the PREFU today, I'm not sure we can afford to take a wrecking ball to the agricultural and horticultural sectors right now. (Feel free to share)

17.01.2022 We stand in 1987, poised for the collapse. Three years ago, I wrote that we were facing a repeat of 1984, a radical government agenda hell bent on being impleme...nted by politicians stuck on an ideology. We have not seen a reduction in child poverty, house prices have continued to soar, there is no light rail to Auckland Airport and little chance of it happening and less chance of Kiwi Build constructing 100,000 houses. What we have had is a relentless attack on the Primary Production Sector, much like the reforms of Roger Douglas who mistakenly kicked the productive sector to the ground first, the last three years have set the policy stage for a repeat of what befell Lange and Douglas in 1987. The Zero Carbon Bill and Emissions Trading Scheme have ignored the latest science and continues to divert attention from the fossil energy dependant modern human existence by moving cost and blame onto the food production sector. Methane is a recycling gas that breaks down into it’s original components, much like yesterday’s fart is tomorrow’s breath of fresh air. Fossil carbon, once released continues to cause warming for a millienium to come. The targets set for the agricultural sector can only be met by slashing livestock numbers. The Freshwater Rules that have been implemented are the result of an ideologically driven Minister who surrounded himself with activists and those who consider that animal agriculture needs to be phased out. Not only will the rules as currently written end pastoral and arable farming as we know it across much of New Zealand, it will impose billions and billions of dollars of cost upon Councils and in turn Ratepayers to overhaul sewerage and stormwater systems. The rules both place bottom lines that are impossible to meet in many circumstances, the legislation contains clauses of without human disturbance or alteration and has elevated the mauri of the wai, that is environmental and iwi considerations above social and economic benefits or costs. The end result of this is we may find ourselves in legislative paralysis. Don’t be thinking this is a rural problem, just remember the environmental impact of an urban sewerage system may well have to be totally mitigated before any discussion can be had as to the social or economic benefits of a sewerage system. Covid19 has now come along and kicked the blocks out from under our economy, the much-touted tourism industry is gone for the foreseeable future, but let us not forget that this economy was faltering well before Covid came along. We are borrowing at unprecedented scale as a nation, both privately and by way of a government that is spending with free abandon. Every attempt is being made to shelter us from, or delay the impact of brutal reality that is ahead of us. We are spending far more than we are earning, it just cannot last, it will not last, the largesse of bountiful and cheap credit will come to an end. If New Zealand Inc was a business, we are barrelling towards Receivership. Borrowing to support the economy cannot continue, at some point we will all need to live on the receipts we collectively earn as a nation. The billions in election promises are nothing more than borrowing from your grandchildren in a desperate attempt to hold onto power. So, who is going to pay this back? We have already heard The Greens promising a Wealth Tax and Julie Anne Genter stating it would be a bottom line in a coalition. A Wealth Tax is nothing more that the compulsory acquisition of private assets by the government with no consideration of profitability or affordability and will simply reduce the chances of businesses being able to be held in local ownership across generations and will lead to greater foreign, corporate ownership of our assets. Any Wealth Tax, or Capital Gains Tax, if not encompassing the family home it will do nothing to steer investment away from housing and into productive businesses providing foreign earnings and employment. But for any Wealth Tax to work, it will have to be accompanied by Death Duties, Gift Duties and Stamp Duties, making the retention of inter-generational assets exceedingly difficult. We cannot tax our way out of this mess, we can only earn our way back to prosperity, which will be extremely difficult to do given that legislation has been passed that can only cause a significant reduction in the productivity of our food growing sector which is our primary source of foreign earnings. We have a government who has targeted the productive sector, our economy has been impacted by a global shock, we are in an asset bubble of grossly inflated values due to bountiful cheap credit and likely will see a global share market correction in 2021 that will precipitate the collapse we have ahead of us. None of this is receiving the rational debate or critique that it demands. We stand in 1987. (Feel free to share)

15.01.2022 We have just had an email from immigration saying our application to bring in overseas workers has been declined.....apparently the workers we applied for are n...ot deemed critical and there are experienced kiwis who can do that job!!!! Its frustrating not only to us but sorry to all those workers who were counting on a summer in sunny western Southland, we were so looking forward to you guys joining our team. We thought we had explained our situation very throughly and that we had an weren't being greedy only asking for a couple.....but no. We hope the government see sense for next season, and that we get through this season with our sanity intacted See more