Dairy Farm Workforce

Well, look, sure, they are buoyant times, and I don't think we can question that at all. I mean, I know diesel, fertiliser, animal health compliance costs through the roof. But as a raucous, with the exception of arable farming, these are boom times. But I have a strong belief, this is my view, we have a bit of an imposter syndrome as farmers, born of the very volatile nature of farming and, you know, how much can you sort of bank on the future? Can we have some sort of... sort of security so i've been a question has been posed to me to have a closer look at this and where do the boom times lead us and what does farming in new zealand look in five to ten years so there's a bit of a blueprint there so that we can you know how do we take advantage of technology uh without without and this is the kind of the well that the crunch thing here without seeing without the seemingly all conquering desire to reduce staffing costs let's face it we're not good with that so what i'm looking into and what i'm getting some research done on them and i want to come through with the answers what do humans do better than the machine you know focusing on the people so that we're getting the best out of the land and our people and you know there are great dairy farms great sheep and beef operations but this whole thing of all cutting back on people because we've got halter and low emission breeding and and auto milking machines and the like you know We've just, it's just, there's got to be this on something called people that might just serve to underpin New Zealand farmers and their self-belief, which is sometimes not the greatest, that they are the leaders of the world.