I posted this video on my facebook page yesterday but I am keen to get it out there to as many people as possible as it has some very pertinent information about farming and agriculture in Australia.
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Our farmers are farming for the future; to continue to be sustainable they have had to become more productive and more efficient and produce more with less. There is such limited knowledge and information out there about how our farmers are doing this and how the majority of them are very conscious of the use of the natural resources that we use to produce the food and fibre.
Given that we are Farming for the Future why do so many governments think it is OK to mine some of the most productive land in this country. I am not denying that mining brings this country a large amount of wealth but with out farmers there will be no food.
On a trip to a capital city (before the floods earlier this year) we were asked what we did for a living and when we mention we were irrigators the look on the people faces was one of shock and horror. There comment was 'you guys use all the water'. I bit my tongue and felt like saying that the lack of water has nothing at all to do with our usage of it, it is fact to do with the on going drought.
In hindsight I should have pointed out that farmers are some of the most efficient users of their resources.
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