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Reply #15 - Aug 27th, 2016 at 7:51pm
 
it wont happen.
China will be farming on all their land, it just wont be available in Australia.
It will all be sent over to China.
Farmed by imported Chinese laborers, using imported Chinese machines with all profits sent back to China.

You can bet they will also claim that they are not making any profit, so they will pay ZERO tax, perhaps even getting grants from our stupid government to continue farming.

Yep we certainly get the bestest and brightest politicians in this country.
NOT
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Reply #16 - Aug 28th, 2016 at 10:18am
 
thehermit wrote on Aug 27th, 2016 at 7:27pm:
"Meat the hidden culprit of climate change" might help...


Yes but that is not the point you are trying to make.
You are claiming that the Australian government is closing down farms to meet UN methane reduction targets.
This is nothing more than a loony right wing conspiracy theory.

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The number of farmers in Australia has been declining for many decades as small farmers sell up to large-scale farming operations, and fewer young people take over family farms.
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Main+Features10Dec+2012

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Reply #17 - Aug 28th, 2016 at 10:22am
 
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I would post a damning link if I could...
The UN is in this up to its neck, and the Federal
Government is just letting the farmers go to the pack....
Of course they can sell the farm to China under Chafta
and the chinese can grow rice....for the chinese..
..



Cut and paste a paragraph, and we can google the article from that.

No reason you can't supply facts ... unless there are none?

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Reply #18 - Aug 28th, 2016 at 12:07pm
 
I call bulldust on this opinion. Agriculture has increased continually in both in quantity and productivity.

There is no decline in farming in Australia. What is happening is that small farmers cannot cope and are not profitable and are gradually taken over by bigger farmers and farming companies.

In fact this is a case of evolution. Small farmers who do not evolve and change their produce to higher value products and change their methods to higher productivity are the ones who fail.

http://www.pc.gov.au/research/supporting/agriculture

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...That said, in absolute terms, real agricultural output has more than doubled over the four decades to 2003 04. And agricultural exports have almost tripled in value (real terms) since the mid 1970's...

Agricultural productivity has exhibited strong growth over the last three decades — more than twice the rate achieved in Australia's market sector as a whole.

Productivity growth has accounted for the entire increase in output by the agriculture sector over the last 30 years...
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Reply #19 - Aug 28th, 2016 at 12:50pm
 
What's happening in the area I live in, small farmers are becoming non existent true, so the growing of potatoes, carrots, strawberries on the usual 20 acres, can't compare to the ones that have gone bigger in that area, with their own pickers, wrappers, cool stores, bigger machinery etc.

It's either go bigger or go bust.

And most of the farmland now is being used by flower growers, and vineyards, and agistment.

Some orchardists are still doing okay, with cherry trees etc.

At one stage, friends of ours, had a beaut lemon orchard, and lemons were worth nothing at a certain time in the past, and the trees were costing them a fortune to look after, especially if there was frost.

So they took all the lemon trees out.

Now, lemons are something like $1 each, 2 for $1 if you are lucky.

It's all to do with timing.

A lot of these older farmlands are being sold as 'renovated house on acreage' it's a desirable personal thing now to have space around a place.
Some people even bother to have their own vege patch, the rest they just slash or mow with tractor or big ride on mower.

Hence what is happening to what once was an intensive farming area owned by many families making a living off 10 - 20 acres.

The old farmers retire, the kids don't want to farm or be farmers (they hated it since having to work on the farm as kids).

So that's how the dynamics of a place can change.

Sometimes by choice, sometimes, giving in to the larger companies that can take over (as they say, big fish eats little fish).

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Reply #20 - Aug 28th, 2016 at 12:55pm
 
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The decline of farming in Australia


many blessings

this is a direct result of voting for criminal politicians

who is to blame ?

why is this happening ?

this and many other atrocities in your life is/are a direct result

of ignorant people/persons voting for elected criminals and officials and so ,

keep voting for your retarded existence or wake up to your self constructed paradigm ,

yet either way be at peace

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Reply #21 - Aug 28th, 2016 at 12:57pm
 
If politics did not exist, criminals would have fewer career opportunities.
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Reply #22 - Aug 28th, 2016 at 12:59pm
 
Unforgiven wrote on Aug 28th, 2016 at 12:57pm:
If politics did not exist, criminals would have fewer career opportunities.


and the first retort is that of fear ..

this is a direct result of programming from your tell lie vision

well done, and good muppeteering'

the " what if " paradigm is strong with this one ..

yet fear not for in your exposure you are also
forgiven


and so it is

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Re: The decline of farming in Australia
Reply #23 - Aug 28th, 2016 at 2:31pm
 
Google "Meat the hidden culprit of climate change"
The article says it all...
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Reply #24 - Aug 28th, 2016 at 2:36pm
 
The Australian Government is complicit in allowing milk to be bought so cheaply from dairy farmers that the dairy farmers have no choice to to sell up. Perhaps I should have entitled the thread "The decline of dairy farming in Australia"
As the dairy farms disappear the UN target of less methane
is gradually met..thanx to the inaction of the Fed Gov.
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Reply #25 - Aug 28th, 2016 at 2:50pm
 
thehermit wrote on Aug 28th, 2016 at 2:36pm:
The Australian Government is complicit in allowing milk to be bought so cheaply from dairy farmers that the dairy farmers have no choice to to sell up. Perhaps I should have entitled the thread "The decline of dairy farming in Australia"
As the dairy farms disappear the UN target of less methane
is gradually met..thanx to the inaction of the Fed Gov.


Go back to your cave buddy.

The price of milk is so low on the export market farmers have no choice but to divert to domestic market. Supply on the domestic market rises, price falls.

Australia is not the lowest cost milk producer.

There will be more bad news for dairy farmers if the A$ rises, effectively reducing the export milk price compared to international competitors.

Farmers are always seeking a handout from the government because they are not smart enough to manage their business during the agricultural commodity cycles.
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Reply #26 - Aug 28th, 2016 at 3:04pm
 
We will continue to pander to the UN as we pander to everyone else..our politicians are incompetent and complicit.
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Reply #27 - Aug 28th, 2016 at 3:07pm
 
"Go back to my cave.."....you mean my mansion....
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Reply #28 - Aug 28th, 2016 at 5:20pm
 
thehermit wrote on Aug 28th, 2016 at 3:07pm:
"Go back to my cave.."....you mean my mansion....


Do you live with denizen Valkie in a fetid hole in the ground?
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Reply #29 - Aug 28th, 2016 at 5:23pm
 
No..just about 100 metres from the beach on the 10th floor..
beautiful view facing east....lovely...
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