Farmers complain about climate change events they are helping generate
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What?
Canterbury hail and wet summer leave arable farmers struggling to harvest
He said the cost of the hailstorms this year had totalled $10 million in Canterbury alone.
“The frustrating thing is that the crop was looking really good this season and now some of it’s not usable.”
The point was that growers had already spent all the money on the crop, so when it was ruined, they lost all that income, he said.
Another arable farmer RNZ spoke to said the losses were putting a lot of strain on finances.
“It’s not just the hail; the ongoing wet weather means we can’t harvest, and the quality of the crop is going down.
“My milling wheat won’t make the quality grade, so I will have to sell it as feed wheat for the dairy industry, so I’ll lose about $100 a tonne.”
NZ Herald
There’s more
‘Plan B’ wanted for highways that keep getting damaged by storms
Farmers on the East Coast are worried about how long it will take to reopen storm-damaged State Highway 2.
A large part of the Waioweka Gorge – which connects Gisborne/Tai Rāwhiti and Bay of Plenty – has been closed for just over a week, after heavy rain on 16 January caused about 40 slips.
New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) said it was going to take several weeks to clear the road.
But farmers were concerned taking the long detour to avoid the Waioweka Gorge closure raised animal welfare issues and put extra costs on farmers.
Let me see if I can get this completely straight.
Farmers, who have had the Government bend over backwards for them by burning environmental protections, are complaining about the extreme damage being caused by the extreme weather that is being caused by climate change that they ar helping cause.
It’s like an arsonist complaining about not having a home to live in after they have burnt it down.
The Political Right and Federated Framers have done everything in their power to destroy or water down environmental protections and are now complaining as climate change arrives.
I thought you right wing trolls claimed climate change was a socialist hoax.
Who’s laughing now chumps?
As TDB has been pointing out for its 13 year history, climate change is real, it is here and it’s going to get worse.
The time of consequences is upon us.
You reap what you sow.
You should learn the difference between cropping farmers and dairy farmers before suggesting that they reap what they sow. In Ellesmere there are strict rules about nitrogen use in cropping which is the most efficient way to provide food so while they might not be protesting against the dairy industry those suffering a loss from hail damage are more deserving of sympathy than condemnation. I can’t argue against your linking the political right and federated farmers and their denial of environmental concerns to the extreme climate events although it’s only a major change in the diet choices of people around the world that will change the economic incentives that support the current farming to provide animal products.
I am having a visit from a farming family next week which should be interesting because they have jumped on the vote Winston band wagon .My question to them what part of his policy are they voting for?Is it HEALTH ,which means we will do what ever Robert Kennedy says .Is it foreign affairs ?which means we will do what ever the orange one wants and throw in a blow job .Is it mine baby mine ,which means lets rip up every part of NZ and give it away for nothing then get the bottom dwellers to pay for the clean up .Or is it rape the ocean of every living creature and fill it with shit ,animal and human .Apart from the above I see no policy .