Dear complaining Country Calendar Farmers.
As someone who likes to credit myself with the wide spread use of the word ‘woke’ as a term aimed at identity politics activists in NZ, I’m sorry to tell you all that you are using the word wrong.
“Wokeness has invaded Country Calendar. Switched over to Family Guy after three minutes,”
As a class lefty, I see identity as an important personal journey that leads you to politics but feel Identity Politics becomes terribly limited in gaining the democratic 51% as its most shrill advocates in the cancel culture landscape manage to make progress as alienating as a cold cup of vomit.
Class solidarity can gain 51%, Identity Politics risks pure temple over broad-church and you get endless schisms and little to show for it.
For most ultra woke activists, their Holy Trinity Dogma is (in the name of the non-binary Mother) all white people are cross burning racists, (in the name of the non binary daughter) every man is a rapist (and in the name of the monthly ghost) anyone supporting free speech is a uniform wearing Nazi who hates the trans community.
There’s not much intellectual wriggle room there.
That virtue-signalling-middle-class-micro-aggression-policing-identifiably-Green-Party-militant-bike-riding-vegan-condescending-supporting-pronoun-Spinoff-subscriber in your social media feed screaming endlessly at you in the ubiquitous world of social media certainly thinks they are shouting truth to power, unfortunately it all ends up as a cacophony of self righteous struggle session outrage olympics alienating the vast chunk of voters who just want to know how they are paying for the roof over their heads and the food on their tables.
So that’s ‘Woke’. Identity Politics activists suffering the narcism of small difference and subjective triggering.
Two rich farmers playing soft music and mattresses for sheep being sheared of their wool isn’t ‘woke’, it’s ‘privilege’.
Your anger is at rich pricks having the wealth to sell their virtue signals and enjoying the privilege of it while you guiltily survey your own cost driven brutality of animal husbandry.
Just wanted to pop on in and help explain you are using my term wrong and unpack your fury in a reflective way.
You are angry at rich prick privilege, not identity politics activists.
Now gimme my Turkey’s in gumboots playing electric fences!
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Another example of the simmering anger boiling up to the surface. The rural seats in 2023 are going to be a bloodbath for Labour.
We are now not far away from the US in regarding to the lines being drawn between different groups in society.
This is our Glorious Leader’s legacy. Despite the hoopla now – history is not going to be kind to Ardern.
You are about as wrong as wrong can be. Most , (but not all), farmers like to whine even if it’s criticizing each other.
The weather’s never right ….
There’s either too much sun and not enough rain…too much rain – not enough sun….it’s too hot …too cold.
Some borrowed way too much money to exploit the white gold fever running at fever pitch and that Cindy needs to do something about it !!! ..or else !!
Cindy won’t let us tap into the immigrant slave market any more – they need them, because apparently, Kiwi’s are too lazy and don’t want to work despite the unemployment figures being the lowest in history… (go figure)??
And as for putting solar panels on our barn rooves to run an electric vehicle off the power to save money idea…. faaark that loopy greenie sandel wearing hippy dreadlocked shit talk… they can stick that idea up their dope smoking bong pipe… Cindy’s got a lot to answer for talking to that lot!!
Cindy this !!! Cindy that!! That pretty little communist needs to sort it out …otherwise .. otherwise she won’t get our vote again..
Why is Frank wrong??? You have just confirmed at length that he is 100% right!
Nothing Frankie says is right as clearly evidenced by Grant’s reply. Everything Frankie says is hearsay until proven otherwise.
It’s like saying you’re an idiot and then by reading your posts, this opinion is confirmed. !!!
It was an IQ test !!
Bert was onto it in a flash and wins hands down….Obviously highly intelligent. Sour Kraut and Bob the First failed …. The answer is in the last paragraph.
S.K’s Teutonic heritage is known for not being able to process irony or sarcasm well so could be cut some slack in this instance….but with Bob…. who knows ?
Yes hoopla accurately describes our glorious leader.
Frank is correct confirmed by Grant and seconded by Gus.
When did Labour ever landslide the rurals anyway?
I’d say virtue signaling rich prick privilege is a great thing to be angry about.
Genuine question for you Mr Bradbury, can woke be right wing? I know it’s a little off beam but I’m interested to know.
I doubt many right wing people are but there will definitely be some.
@ Leftorium “Can woke be right wing?”
Culturally No, Economically Yes (kind of)
No culturally
Woke descends from neomarxism, takes tools of post-modernism and is an everyday or street version of Critical Theory. Ideologically and philosophically it is identitarianism that is left wing.
Right-wing identitarianism manifests in movements that preach supremacy. That is not in any way related to Woke which preaches equity (not equality). One can argue horseshoe theory between supremacy and equity in specific cases.
Yes economically by indifference
Woke typically ignores economic or class issues that cannot be framed as downstream of identity. Instead it favours a narrow identity based equity politics. This makes it is incredibly easy to ‘game’ the system which leads to virtue theatre, a kind of anti-politics where advancing anyone who is not male/cis/white/heterosexual feels highly progressive. In the meantime the underlying structures of neoliberal power remain unaffected. So in this sense woke is completely compatible with neoliberal economic policies. It also dominates in the zeitgeist and fashion choices of the cultural and economic elite.
https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/luxury-beliefs-are-like-possessions
Good summary Tui and interesting as well, if somewhat definitive.
Thanks
Ooo you are good Tui.
Spot on.
yes of course it can they’re just ‘woke’ about different things, ie-slavery is now ‘forced relocation’
So the farmers don’t like change what’s new this group have had too much power, there way and too much say for far too long. We are still a very patriarchal country, we also have race relation issues AND huge inequalities. But those with all the power don’t want to share it and they don’t like change unless it was their idea and they implemented it, in the meantime the rest of us are expected to comply and shut the fuck up.
CIP. Farmers haven’t had any electoral power for years. You people in the cities have that. Not sure what you’re on about. Or do you just not like farmers.
@ NV.
I don’t think CIP dislikes farmers per se. If anything, perhaps CIP merely dislikes ‘the system’, as do those of us not exploiting it. In AO/NZ, our [systems] are the property of plutocrats who’ve subverted the wealth and human resources that defines us as a country of people trying to survive while equally trying to repair historical fuck ups while planning for looming crisis after crisis, the complex nature of which is as mind boggling as it is terrifying.
I read this by the ever brilliant George Monbiot in which he tries to comprehend the latter. Here’s the link to his The Guardian piece. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/06/power-wealthy-earth-politics-democracy-plutocracy
What we must try to comprehend, and it’s no easy feat, is that our AO/NZ has been a plutocrat’s plaything for 140 years. I write 140 years because 140 years ago our early farmers were able to export perishable goods to the northern hemisphere because some one here invented refrigerated shipping. Now, I know I bang on about that but I feel I must because it’s so critical that people understand what that meant, and still means to all of us. And it’s not about eating meat etc. It’s about an opening to filter off farm earned export revenue via the mafia-like producer boards. I’m a farmer and I don’t eat meat. Eating the flesh of a once was living, sentient thing is abhorrent to me now. I used to eat meat. I killed a large, friendly, puffing, farting wether sheep. I laid it down sideways then bent its head around my shin and cut its throat while taking care to go through the spinal cord by bending its head back as far as it would go. A real party trick for the kids and whanau.
It thrashed about as it bleed out then I hoisted it up by a double hook through its heels, skinned it, gutted it then cut it up and ate it. Not there and then, and not all at once, I hasten to add. And that enduring memory is the price I must pay for enlightenment and even though I pay and pay and pay I can never settle the debt. If you know what I mean.
Where was I? Oh yes. The Kiwi Mafia.
Our Kiwi Mafia were not satisfied with simply killing off rival gangsters and their families. Our lot are not that classy. They had to steal an entire country’s wealth thus creating a burgeoning underclass who today know not much more the eating each other alive while living in poverty or they’re that other kind of animal, the one who works hard at pointless employment to be able to hock their lives to the banks to show, usually the neighbour who’s similarly afflicted, that they too can have a shiny car and an ugly house stuffed with expensive children running about like sugared up zombies back and forth over the plastic carpet as TVNZ spouts brainwashing pro bank, spend more, propaganda. So, you want to turn off the TV and listen to the radio, do you? Say hello to the plutocrats plaything, post Kim Hill. The dreaded Radio New Zillind.
Oi? Farmers? Actual farmers. Not you robo-cowsploiters who merely keep the agri chemical manufacturers afloat which in turn, ironically, pollute the waterways.
Yes, you lot. The one’s who can farm thousands of animals and millions of tons of grain for export. Then there’s the tons of fresh produce daily to the supermarket cartels who simply stack your produce on shelves for the city shufflers to buy ( by using death pledge money.) to create signature dishes from the recipes found in glossy cook books. Do the shufflers know they’re paying four, or more, times the price you cockies get for growing the stuff? No. Would be the answer. That’s why the Wonk O, AKA The Jonky who turned abusing a young woman servant into headline news. The wee thing rebranded seeds as a licensed substance for which you must get a permit from the council to sell at farmers markets. Try selling fresh meat! Fuck! The army would be called in. There’d be helicopter gun ships and armed riot squads who’d put a bullet through your forehead at 400 meters at the mere sight of an uncooked lamb chop.
Farmers. You’re the most powerful group in AO/NZ. You just don’t know it. You’re all like that beautiful animal I slaughtered, processed and ate. It stood there beside me in that concrete killing shed oblivious to it’s terrible fate.
All you have to do is nothing. In an actual, literal sense. And before you resume your work you must insist on an enduring and very public royal commission of inquiry to probe as far up the urban plutocrat as the probes will go. And please, for Gods sake. Keep that crumpled old Machiavellian confederate liar winston fucking peters as far away as possible from everything. You don’t want a repeat of the wine box debacle.
Make a date. How about Matariki? The longest night, or near enough to it. From that date on, you farmers do nothing but wait. ( Hear that sound? That’s the sounds of expensive, designer toilets in Remuera frantically flushing. Aye Boys? )
Farmers. You’re a handful of people but you’re mighty powerful and yet, at this point, you’re also mighty vulnerable. Anyone in your group who’s anti union, anti group, anti direct action i.e. Do Nothing. Remember. No produce off the farm until there’s a written guarantee of a commission of inquiry.
My old man had a poster on the wall of his workshop on our farm which read ” Your strength is in your union.. You’re danger is in discord.”
Oh! Fuck! I nearly forgot. There’s a brilliant series on Netflix titled ‘Damnation’. If you’re a farmer, it’s a must watch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnation_(TV_series)
CB. I sort of get your spiel. Where governments override or disregard the will of the people to implement their agenda and stay in power, (which means budding up to banks and big businesses,) democracy is gone. Everyone has accepted MMP because it gives everyone a say and power but democracy went with FPP in my opinion. Then at least the most votes won, not like the charade we have now with king makers etc. As for the power of farmers, it’s more out of necessity that governments show them any respect. The government likes their money, but see them as privileged because of that need. Blert used the word exploit but really that means use. If we didn’t use the land we all starve. The word exploit means abuse or unfair use of. Some farmers unfairly use or abuse the land but many don’t. No different to employers not paying their workers fairly, or the workers not giving the employer a fair days work. Farmers are a big lobby group but can’t really withhold produce, alive or plant, because it has a time cycle. If you don’t put the rams out there’s no lambs that year, and a year without income doesn’t work.
@ New View. Yes. It was a spiel of sorts I guess but then I don’t want, nor expect, anything from anyone, particularly money, which is the underlying frame work of the concept of the word ‘spiel’. I thought my writing perhaps more closely related to a rant.I tried to work up a little foam for a proper foaming rant but my lips got stuck to my gums and what with my eyeballs sticking out that made me look silly and unsettling which made my dog bark. I think the neighbours just moved out. Too much laughing, drinking and deep base I suppose. Well fuck them then. It was their dog anyway.
Governments should always be at the behest of the people. If any or all governments are not, then they’re not governments so they won’t behave as *gubbimints should. And it’s then that what we might think of as a ‘government’ is most likely, certainly actually, a plaything of usually and inevitably rich people. In other words, people who were made rich by their now all bought and paid for government. Call me old fashioned if you must but I call that fascist, plutocratic autocracy. Not government.
Take a look at our government? All of them. All the little pretenders. If the pretence of a thing that they hope to perpetuate was a govern-ment it’d be flat out for the littlest, weeist, tiniest, poorest, most dismally wretched of us FUCKING FIRST! NOT! To keep lining the pocketses of the bludging already-rich. As they FUCKING do. And as they’ve FUCKING done since 1980 FUCKING 4.
Farmers. Please. Grow a fucking pair. We all depend upon you to do that. You’re up. It’s your turn. Check the mike. Take a deep breath. Step up. Now? …. Do nothing! That’s all you have to do. The special, rare secret within my spiel is that you must ALL do it TOGETHER then ALL do nothing. Together. Together…. Together……………. To-geth-er. ……………………………………………………………………………………!
@ New View. Good on you, though, for engaging. You’re a spark of hope. I assume you’re a farmer. Well, go you then mate.
If you’re a farmer you’re more vital, more important and more vulnerable to exploitation currently than anyone else I can think of.
* Gubbimint. A hair fetishist Jonky-ism.
P.S. The little shit, a multi millionaire, sucked a sav to be prime mincer of AO/NZ on a shitty $477,000 PA salary. He did that by sticking to a script. My question is why? Why did he do that? He didn’t need the money so my guess is he didn’t need the publicity even more. He went in, did a little Jiffing, a spot of polish. Bagged the dirt then popped the bin out.
Farmers are a powerful lobbying group and I do like meat, my father was a butcher but when many NZers cant afford meat that is wrong.
@ Covid is pa
“Farmers are a powerful lobbying group”
No, they’re not. They should be, but they’re not. They’re fucked instead. And not in that good way. Trust me.
The numbers are enlightening. 52 thousand people derive their sole income from agrarian practices. I.e. Farmers who farm. ( Dept of Stats.)
Farmers. ? For those unsure, they’re the poor fuckers who grow that which you eat an’ export for money an’ that dumbasses. ( Seen Idiocracy. You must see the film Idiocracy )
Population of AO/NZ = about 5.2 million.
Subtract 52 thousand from 5.2 million and you have a conundrum.
That leaves 5,148,000 people who do what? Export plump tourists to hungry northern hemisphere human-meat eating markets ? Hannibal Lector would be impressed. OK, fictional character. So how about Jeffery Dahmer then for all you pickers of nits.
Ever wonder how a Nit might feel after all your picking? Not cool man. Don’t pick the nits. They love and feel too y’know.
Go here. https://www.nitclinic.co.nz/
AO/NZ farmers are a very, very special wee beastie. They only know abuse and exploitation so that’s all they expect. When they get other things, like respect and fairness they have no idea what to do with it, or about it. The psychology of that was touched upon in this documentary I saw awhile ago when I was in Wellington. It’s a fascinating insight into how vulnerable we are to suggestion.
And I use the word ‘suggestion’ in it’s broadest scope.
‘The Wolfpack.’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolfpack
” The Wolfpack is a 2015 American documentary film, directed by Crystal Moselle. It is about the Angulo family, who homeschooled and raised their six children in the confinement of their apartment in the Lower East Side of New York City. ”
Farmers. You ARE awesomely powerful but it’s just that you’ve been deprived of the knowledge of how and what you can do with that power. And the reason for that is because there are a lot of people out there who’ve become dependent on that bankable, incredibly lucrative ignorance. That’s right. All 5,148,000 of them.
@ Covid is pa
“Farmers are a powerful lobbying group”
No, they’re not. They should be, but they’re not. They’re fucked instead. And not in that good way. Trust me.
The numbers are enlightening. 52 thousand people derive their sole income from agrarian practices. I.e. Farmers who farm. ( Dept of Stats.)
Farmers. ? For those unsure, they’re the poor fuckers who grow that which you eat an’ export for money an’ that dumbasses. ( Seen Idiocracy. You must see the film Idiocracy )
Population of AO/NZ = about 5.2 million.
Subtract 52 thousand from 5.2 million and you have a conundrum.
That leaves 5,148,000 people who do what? Export plump tourists to hungry northern hemisphere human-meat eating markets ? Hannibal Lector would be impressed. OK, fictional character. So how about Jeffery Dahmer then for all you pickers of nits.
Ever wonder how a Nit might feel after all your picking? Not cool man. Don’t pick the nits. They love and feel too y’know.
Go here. https://www.nitclinic.co.nz/
AO/NZ farmers are a very, very special wee beastie. They only know abuse and exploitation so that’s all they expect. When they get other things, like respect and fairness they have no idea what to do with it, or about it. The psychology of that was touched upon in this documentary I saw awhile ago when I was in Wellington. It’s a fascinating insight into how vulnerable we are to suggestion.
And I use the word ‘suggestion’ in it’s broadest scope.
‘The Wolfpack.’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolfpack
” The Wolfpack is a 2015 American documentary film, directed by Crystal Moselle. It is about the Angulo family, who homeschooled and raised their six children in the confinement of their apartment in the Lower East Side of New York City. ”
Farmers. You ARE awesomely powerful but it’s just that you’ve been deprived of the knowledge of how and what you can do with that power. And the reason for that is because there are a lot of people out there who’ve become dependent on that bankable thus incredibly lucrative ignorance.
Actually, Covid I dont think we are very patriarchal at all if you compare us to many countries.
We have always been conservative and slow to change and apt to dig our heels in when others force change on us, especially when we werent consulted.
Hence the Co Governance issues we are having. Many support some element of co-governance but they dont support doing away with democracy. The plight of indigenous people is changing worldwide but no-one else is looking at this model because it almost certainly wont work. And now because the government, has done this by stealth they have quite possibly set back Maori/Tau Iwi unity by a decade or so.
The main power base in this country driving absolutely everything is Money, whether its Tribal Money or good old rapacious whites and others.
Rogernomics killed Maori development. Maori were left in an absolute hole apart from the wealthy tribalists. Maori grew rightly more and more disgruntled, then they got sold the line that separate development and equity would solve it. When its a class issue, cultural considerations notwithstanding. If we dealt with the fundamentals like education and housing, Maori and all the others would have a far greater shot at success. Then we could look at what else needs to be done and what the sticking points are.
Simon Bridges Dad in the 70’s was a qualified Auditor/Accountant and his Mum was a poor Maori barmaid.
Bridges ended up where he was for a number of different reasons but the fact that his Dad was educated and was born at the right time is in part due to his Mum’s commitment and in part being due to effectively free higher education and plenty of state housing.
Your paragraph beginning “ For most ultra woke activists “ sounds like it’s straight out of the Green Party manifesto.
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I’d love the woke to go farming and fruit picking so they can get their white/brown/other privilege hands dirty.
Bets on, that the woke will be too tired to cancel some female author’s fictional dog, after waking up at 4am, 7 days a week and working 80 hrs a week for 10 plus years.
Likewise the $600 less tax for 8 hours+ of fruit picking and going back to your caravan @ $200 p/w.
How will the little wokie daaarlings get their gween GST off their fruit, if there no fruit – because nobody is expected to do a hard day’s labour in their latte, avo smash, mentally traumatised, lives to pick the f**king fruit?
Yes a bit if Xi down on the farm would help the wokies wake the fuck up.
Farmers whole being is to exploit. If they are not exploiting the land, they are exploiting the animals. If they are not exploiting the animals they are exploiting foreign humans. They only know selfishness.
Tripe. Most farmers know – if they look after their land and they look after their animals they will in turn be looked after themselves. Did you know Blert, that sheep and beef farmers have protected 1.4m hectares of native forest on their private lands? Very exploitative that. Try and get out a bit Blert, maybe go visit a farmer and see what they actually do…
yes jason but they still insist on hyper-intensive farming and attack any attempt to ameliorate the destruction wrought on the NZ environment and NZers don’t even get cheap food because of the ‘export price lie’
green washing convinces no one but farmers and their lobbyists.
Gag – you are making some woefully sweeping generalizations here. A bit like me saying all city dwellers must be Green party voters because I saw some on the Telly. The only “hyper-intensive” farmers are in dairying – and even then not all dairy farmers are. There is no such thing as a “hyper-intensive” sheep and beef farmer. Most of us sheep and beef farmers operate very low-intensity systems, have great biodiversity and can still drink from our creeks. Oh and we also employ people and export food if that counts for anything these days.
and hyper intensive dairying is not the dominant form in NZ?, we can all quote ‘a billy is a good guy story’ as I say greenwashing convinces no one but farmers.
Gag, I am against “green washing”, “brown washing”. I am equally opposed to unfairly tarring all with the same washbrush. If you choose to beleive NZ is “hyper intensive” you are simply wrong. It is a small minority of dairy farms and no sheep and beef farms.
well less intensive than the dutch but frankly that isn’t that much of an achivement
since 1990 dairy herds have increased 82 percent and cattle density to an AVARAGE of 143 per km2 sounds pretty hyper-intensive to me
Mostly the increase was at the expense of sheep and beef. Yep too much dairying in some areas, but that is a different argument to calling all NZ farming hyper intensive
ok so how about dairying our dominant farming sector is hyper-intensive, happy?
Yes how much native forest do the members of the Green Party nurture.
Couple of trees in Queen St?
the greens being useless does not excuse farmers deliberately polluting our environment..does it really, not the same thing is it? really? no it’s not.
Blert no doubt you don’t consume, wear, or exploit anything our farmers produce. Hungry and cold are you.
Blert you are clearly an idiot who doesn’t know farming. If you are a vegan activist, unless you grow all your own food, you are turning a bling eye to the billions of small creatures killed to harvest soy or other vegetables instead.
*If a farmer exploits the land and destroys the soil, there is no farm. Farming more than anything is tending the soil.
*If a farmer exploits his/her/their animals, productivity is less and they go broke – starved or maltreated animals don’t reproduce, produce meat or milk as well as those well cared for.
Hahaha I wondered how long the DB would take to run with this item.
Just finished shearing our e-we,s and wool is worth SFA anyway so just sweep the first halve dozen fleeces down the porthole , I find this works better than those sleepyhead mattresses and have found that our sheep prefer to listen to AC/DC rather than concert fm classical stuff. Each to there own I guess.
I bet they’d love reruns of Supernatural as well!
Farmers? Strike. Until there’s a [royal] commission of inquiry into AO/NZ politicians and the hyper riche urban elite spanning the last 140 years.
It could be titled ” Who’s money was, and is it anyway ”
Farmers. Strike. It’s easy. All you have to do, is nothing but wait.
Strike.
Some farmers saw something so upsetting in that episode of Country Calendar they turned it off? After three minutes? So much for farmers being hardy souls. What a wimpy, blinkered, weak, need to ‘get-a-life’ attitude.
I wonder how the hell they handle a bit of wet weather, droughts, low prices and all the usual other vagaries of farming.
They handle it just fine as taxpayers prop them up.
More tripe. Since 1984 NZ farmers have been a rare beast – farmers without government subsidies. Most other places in the world farmers are heavily subsidized by governments. Here in NZ farmers contribute not only taxes like any business but around about $50 billion in export receipts so we can afford imported TVs and cars and fridges.
+1 peter
yeah yeah yeah, like the mythical sex pistols grundy interview kicking in the tv incident
Farmers are a powerful lobbying group and I do like meat, my father was a butcher but when many NZers cant afford meat that is wrong.
And dairy even more so. I cant understand why the argument ‘this is what we get for it overseas’ is still being flogged as the transport costs add on hugely to the price but they have been saying the same thing for the last 35 years.
Again a lot of this comes down to the National Govt greenlighting Fonterra monopoly and successive governments supporting Turner and Growers and supermarket duopolies. Money, money, money. We used to have numerous successful dairy Co’s in this country and reasonable dairy prices in country.
I get your grievance FT but you can’t have it both ways. The increase in price for dairy and meat products is linked to what it can be sold for overseas, and the increased tonnage’s now sold there as against what was sold in the past. The people here lose because of our low pay economy as compared to the countries we sell to. Farmers are not being greedy selling for as much as possible, and they’re not selling the produce at a cheaper price so the locals can afford it. The locals are paying distribution or local transportation costs, whereas the farmers are paid a net price after killing charges are taken off and cartage to the works. The on farm costs of production are huge these days. If farmers were instructed to sell cheaper to locals the farmers lose income and the country loses export earnings. If we weren’t getting good export earnings for our produce at the moment this country would be bankrupt. As it is we’re going down the tube. In my opinion the only way to solve the affordability of locally produced food or anything else is to raise wages to a level that’s similar to the countries we trade with.
Well said.
Deregulation toppled those successes Fantail, why? As you say…money money money!
Add to that and to use National’s and English’s low wage economy theory, the profit margins were wider.
In fact a lot of similar industries, car assembly, timber and including meat were able to thrive because those whom failed to reach school certificate standard were able to be employed ,but, at the lowest possible wage.
it’s a nominal ‘futures market’ figure that conveniently ignores other costs fantail
Fantail it was Labour that created the Fonterra monopoly.