Farmers Don't Care About The Environment - Total Myth
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Its a total myth and false statement, Today the team from Koroneiki Developments are coming to plant 9,000 Natives in the areas I have fenced of in previous videos, which will create a great habitat for birds to bring in other natives.
I haven't met a farmer who doesn't care for the environment they farm on, after all, we are just custodians of the land!
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Hey I’m Andrew The Once A Day Farmer, I farm alongside my father on my family dairy farm in New Zealand.
Our Dairy system is quite unique as we only milk our 320 jersey cows Once A Day (hence the name), and they stay outside on grass for 365 days of the year!!
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Super video Andrew.
Anthony really is passionate about his job. Loved listening to him explain about the plants.
Can't wait to see the plants grow and create a wildlife habit.
Really nice to see all of your plants getting planted. 9k plants is amazing
As a Horticulturalist this planting is very interesting to see. I have sold lots of your natives as exotic garden plants here in Scotland. 😊
At farm source they said there is a shortage of glyphosate, that will be why the price is going up. It will look good when it’s finished
Not again, same issue last year
@@peasant5612 haha yeah, I’m lucky I stocked up on it last year so I’m sort this year😁
That'll be why then! they seem to always say that though...
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yeah there’s always a shortage of something 😂
How times have changed. As a kid growing up in the late fifties/ sixties we got paid to cut Manuka and Kanuka and now farmers are planting it 🤔Good to see. Are you paying for this Andrew or have you got Government subsidies? Your opening statement about farmers caring for the environment 👍 but then you showed the palm kernel stockpile. Do you know where it comes from and how many hectares of rainforest has been destroyed to produce that resource? I know it is a byproduct of the palm oil production but it is still detrimental to the environment. Thanks for the video Mate
If dairy farmers did not feed the palm kernel to their cows this product would end up in the landfill !
Presumably you don't use or eat anything with palm oil or labeled vegetable oil as this can still be palm oil
Seriously farmers cannot be held accountable for the production of palm oil, when you said so yourself palm kernel is the by-product, the left overs right ? With or without farmers using palm kernel , palm oil production will continue to be grown and produced.
Typically farmers and so called environmentalists take issue with farmers when why not take it up with all the companies that use palm oil. Go tell Indonesia and Malaysia how terrible it is
@@peasant5612 why not use your proper name instead of hiding behind an pseudonym . Yes we do avoid food that contains palm or vegetable oil. The EU was big on bio diesel until they found out how the palm oil was produced. Frontera knows there is a problem with PK and that's why it is trying to reduce it's use. Take away the market then those countries will have to change their practices
I get where you are coming from John I really do, How ever before we started importing it, it used to get dumped at sea.
It is a biproduct and they're not growing it for us dairy farmers. However I do realize they have cut down rainforest to grow it.
I'm pretty sure its Indonesia's biggest export earner so if you took that away from them they would loose so many jobs and it would be massive hit to there economy. Plus all that forest they have cleared from what I understand it is a production palm forest now and once cut they re plant.
I definitively like to look at both sides of the argument and if there was a locally grown product that is as good, same price and great availability Id look to change, but at the moment I don't think there is.
I Hope I have explained my reasons all right
Nice one hopefully one of your children will want to carry on farming with and after you , I’m sure it’s going to look stunning and a great thing to do for birds and bees x
The reveg in Qeensland where I did stone work they planted 40thousand trees and ground cover 15 years ago it now looks amazing full of animal and bird life the creek is still clear because the cows are kept away with fences there is also lots of native regrowth goog luck Andrew
Great collaboration. The native species get habitat, the government is off your back, farm looks nicer. Win, win, win.
Good man. It infuriates me how so called environmentalists denegrate farmers, especially as most of them havent got a clue
Great video, wonderful land stewardship
Andrew on Tuesday night (Uk) you got a mention by Tom Pemberton on his TH-cam channel, (and an awful impersonation of you ) as he had watched your video of you putting on the Cow Collars. 😊
He is nearly complete on his new milking palour. The collars will help improve his herd management.
Haha yeah someone pointed it out, he needs to work on his kiwi accent, that was terrible!
But Jacinda told me that all farmers have a primal urge to take a dump in the creek.... What you are doing is making me very confused..... Are the bushes just put in to squat behind?
You’ve got it all wrong! In the country cows take a dump in the creek, it’s in the city people take a dump in the creek and then they have to close the beeches
@@kiwifarmerpete5246 As a labour voter i believe Jacinda would never mislead me or dump in our pristine urban creeks... I'm not even sure if she can. I believe that like the great Kim Jong Un, she does not desecrate.
If milk prices are down, why not milk twice a day? What’s wrong with more production?
because if everyone do that it will lowering the price again
Also it's twice the work for only a marginal increase in production over the season. It completely destroys the cow's schedule and could actually lower production in the immediate term due to stress. Plus you have to put them through the whole ordeal again when you want to go back to once a day.
Doesn’t really work like that, if I milked tad I might get 1-2% more production..I might not get any at all. Then there’s extra shed costs such as power etc, I have to walk the cows further with increased lameness and would probably see lower reproduction results as well.
So all that extra work for potentially 1-2% isn’t worth it for me and I might even go backwards.
Hope that makes sense
Will come up well. How have you found your Honda bike looking at getting one for the farm
Dad said he would never buy one again..sorry, hes not a fan at all, every time it goes to town they need something done to them theyre so expensive to run.
We will be looking at other brands next time and we have been Honda for 20+ years
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yeah right very interesting to hear. Thanks for the reply
Shout out to PGG Wrightson... They save farmers a few hours in the days. Given fuel prices
Is your tractor able to lift two tonnes Andrew?. Brilliant video again Andrew 😊
haha nah not the landini
Have you seen Tom Pembertons video new video about his collars and how he has been watching your videos and he tried to do a nz accent 😂
About to say the same thing haha
Thanks for pointing it out, His kiwi accent needs a lot of work!
great video ..aye i was told when i started at the job son, try yer best tae leave the place better than ye got it ....that better may change from generation to generation but like you i dont think there are many farmers who wish to wreck their farms ...just wish the powers that be accepted that .. i recognise some of your native plants as ornamental garden plants here pittisporum and flax ( phormium tenax ) all that environmental enhancement without any affect to your productivity
Yep I agree with you, It would be nice to able to leave it in a better state than when I came back
Good vid mate, as for farmers and the environment id like to know the regional breakdown of farmers who get charged or convicted in the environment court. Because Ive noticed through reading in the media that alot of high profile cases seem to be in Taranaki. Now I dont know if thats because of over zealous regional regulations or a culture of disregard in pockets of the region. But it just seems that when I do read about cases where a farmer has released effluent into somewhere he shouldn't or carried out some type of work he shouldn't have, alot of the time its in Taranaki.
To be fair you don't hear of many cases these days, there is the odd one that pops up but everyone's farming standards has improved so much.
sheeesh - hes done that before
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Toetoe is a bloody bad idea, bugger that shit rip it out
That's what they've recommended?
you are so cool
keep it up
Hello
I truly appreciate all you're doing in your riparian areas for the environment. I truly do. But, spraying Roundup is undoing much of that work. Have you seen all the lawsuits in the States for cancers caused by Roundup? They've found it in breastmilk. So imagine your new child drinking Roundup. Sorry, but it it's a harsh truth.
Best wishes. Love your channel.
I know your only looking out for my thanks Shawn, I'm so sorry its taken me so long to tank you for the Dirt To Soil book as well I really appreciate it, Would you be able to email me your address please?