Farm Tender Daily

Farm Tender Daily - All the news from Monday, the 19th of February, 2024.

By Dwain Duxson - Click here to go to the Farmer Tender website.

11 Days to go - Our FarmTender2024 - Entrepreneurs in Farming event is not far away. Click here for more info. See the media release here. Read some of the questions we are going to ask Danny Thomas, Rob Dawes, Claire Booth, Andrew Weidemann and David Jochinke.

Do we need to? - We hear alot about how we should be building relationships, educating or telling stories to our non-Farming friends in order to give them a better understanding of what we do.

But do we need to? Is it a lost cause getting people from outside Agriculture to understand how we work when they really have an opinion that would be nearly impossible to budge anyway?

I think we need to educate the ones that want to come into Ag from outside, but to anyone that doesn't, we would be wasting our time and energy?

Especially these days when the non-Agricultural people can hang their hats on the climate change story. This is getting off track a little, but I heard this today. "If we all grow Prairie Grass (Canadian native grass), the world starves. We get it. Nature grows biomass better. Agriculture grows food better. That doesn't mean agriculture is bad". Many non-Ag people want all of us to grow Prairie Grass and save the world. It might, but we would then starve. But who can be bothered telling the uneducated that? Not me. Do you think we need to be telling our story? Reply to [email protected]

The Farmers Club headlines - Our 3 topics tomorrow are:
1) We talk about equity and how 80% is the new 60%.
2) It’s a desirable trait to be accountable for the financial performance of the Farm. Here why.
3) Everyone has a reputation for something, What is yours?
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Mobile Phone survey - We have agreed to distribute a series of Surveys for a new Ag start-up called Ag Surveys. The first one is on Mobile Phones. Click here to contribute. I would be great if you could complete it. We put it out last week, and they had over 100 completions. Here’s a snippet. 31.8% rate their overall service as very poor or poor. 34% of respondents still have a home phone.

Today's Trends - Sales trends included Boomsprays, Generators, Tractors, Offset Discs, Grass Seed, Scarifiers, Spreaders, Field Bins, Wheat Straw, Stockcrate, Oat Seed, Mobile Fuel Tanks, Star Pickets, Lupins, Wheaten Hay, and MAP.

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Dwain Duxson
P - 0427 011 900
E - [email protected] 

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