The Farmers feel sad sad – here’s why it’s so hard to care

Triggered Farmers are behaving like triggered white males the first time they go on twitter.

And that’s tough.

Farmers have lived their entire lives in NZ being worshipped and coddled and loved and told they are the soul of NZ. Imagine then going onto twitter and being bombarded by everyone else who thinks you aren’t special.

Farmers are feeling sad…

Southland farmer pens powerful open letter to Jacinda Ardern

“I am a farmer. I am a mother. I am not a monster.

…and on it goes…

MP Barbara Kuriger: ‘If we undermine farming, we undermine our entire economic fabric’

Sadly, the outlook for New Zealand’s primary sector is the worst that I’ve seen in my lifetime. I don’t make this strong statement lightly, nor to scaremonger – but rather to reflect the policy settings under a virtue-signalling government which is setting the dairy industry up for failure. As a rural MP, but more importantly as a farmer, I won’t sit back and allow the ladder to be pulled up behind future generations of New Zealanders wanting to pave their way in the farming sector. 

…and on it goes…

The Detail: NZ farmers down in the dumps over environmental issues

Farmers are feeling under siege over environment issues – and it’s dragged their confidence to the lowest point in three years.

Farmers’ outlook for the rural economy for the next year has dropped to a net minus 33 per cent, from minus two per cent three months ago.

“The drop of this magnitude is significant,” says Rabobank agricultural analyst Blake Holgate. “It follows three quarters where confidence was gradually increasing.”

…boo hoo.

A lot of crying over spilt milk.

Let me see if I can get this completely straight.

After a history of land confiscations to provide land for farms, after decades upon decades upon decades of stealing and polluting water and after having 49% of our hydro assets sold off to create a $400million irrigation slush fund to empower intensive dairy, the Farmers are sad that they are now being required to be responsible custodians of the land?

Boo hoo.

Let’s not forget that this Government have spinelessly bent over backwards and allowed mass immigration slave labour to prop up the agricultural industry again…

The Government will increase the cap on seasonal workers allowed into New Zealand

The Government will lift the cap on the number of seasonal support workers allowed into the country in a bid to bring more workers into the regions.

The cap on the number of temporary visas that can be granted to employ foreign seasonal workers will rise by 3150 over two years to 16,000.

Starting next year, the cap will increase by 1550 to 14,400 and approval has also been given for the cap to be raised by a further 1600 places to 16,000 starting in 2020.

Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway said the increased quota would address concerns over a labour shortage in regional New Zealand.

…yay, more slave labour so our exporters can remain ‘competitive’.

And yet Farmers continue to bitch because the rest of us is sick of their power and undeserved economic and political dominance, especially when synthetic meat and milk have made their product a sunset industry.

Look, I grew up on a farm, I am very wedded to my early memories and respect how hard it is, but these Farmers aren’t feeding us, they are feeding the 45million other people overseas and we get the scraps.

I have no problem respecting those who provide the food to feed me, but their interest isn’t in feeding us, it’s feeding their exporters.

Farmers have been conned by National into intensive farming and now have nothing but a bloated debt bubble to show for it.

It’s time Farmers understood they’re treasured self importance is only important to them.