Rural Industry Profitability

Ironic really isn't it Jamie. So what that stems from is that the way the algorithms work in Overseer is that you can demonstrate a reduction in discharge to the environment with Overseer and show that by moving from an arable rotation as we are at the moment to a fully self-contained dairy rotation we can reduce our impact on the environment so that look that's a really good news story for Canterbury that we we can do this and and have a lighter touch on the environment but also too it is as ironic that we applied for a status quo consent with ECAN and they they gave us all sorts of a run around which was widely canvassed at the time we didn't get the consent we Put it on hold and we're now going to amend it and go back and attempt to get a consent for dairying on this property which will leave us our options open for our future to be everything from where we are here at the moment as arable farmers. uh right through to the ultimate other end of the scale as being fully self-contained dairy farmers and now whether we convert we're looking at that we're giving that a lot of thought it's an expensive development process to do or we might land somewhere in the middle that we might end up with uh trading cattle trading lambs uh some winter grazing uh and some arable uh or we might end up with a dairy shed growing a little bit of arable crops around the fringes but uh we're we're very keen to make sure that we keep our options open uh so that we've we've got some flexibility going forward and where that where that lands um Lots of really, really neat discussions going on within the family at the moment and we'll see where it lands. It's an expensive development and there's a lot of upheaval and probably want to wait to see how the war shakes out before we commit to big capital development.