Farm Tender Daily

Farm Tender Daily - All the news from Thursday, the 15th of February, 2024.

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

17 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 and Claire Booth.

The ability to cope - I‘ve been thinking. Many talk about resilience, and I reckon it’s a key ingredient in our make-up. Some have it in droves, and others don’t. 

I am talking about society here, not Farmers. But do you reckon as life becomes more and more convenient, the resilience bar drops? By convenience, I mean we don’t have to work as hard for things, so we lose the ability to solve problems, and we expect things instead of working to obtain them. 

Back when we had dirt floors and no running water, we had to work hard just to survive, but also life was simple back then; we might have had 10 tasks to do for the day, and that was it, and we didn’t have any great expectations either. 

So why are we seemingly less resilient these days than we were, say, 30 years ago? Even though life is more comfortable, it’s also more complex. So, do we have the artillery now to deal with that complexity? We have so much noise going on, and instead of the ten tasks we had back in the dirt floor days, we have a hundred or more today. Is that why our resilience levels are breaking down? Could it be, that if we simplified our lives, our resilience levels would rise? So many questions. Your feedback would be appreciated. Reply to [email protected]

The Farmers Club headlines - Our 3 topics tomorrow are:
1) We talk about how it’s time to out any new powerlines underground.
2) We discuss how the Supermarkets are charging Farmers a fee for early payments.
3) We preview the VFF AGM, which is next Tuesday. Could it be a bloodbath?
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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. For every one that completes the survey, Ag Surveys will make sure you get the results from each one you contribute to. Coming soon will be one on Council/Shire Rates, Headers, Insurance and Chaser Bins, with more to follow. So, if you have something to say, this is your opportunity to be heard.

Are you looking to advertise to Farmers? - If you are a business looking to promote your product to Farmers, give our new “Banner Ad” section a go. If you are interested, fill out the form here, and Janine will be in touch to discuss. Or download the media kit here.

Farm Inputs Report - See the report here.

Current Fertiliser Market Indicative prices: (all prices are Ex GST). Urea - $800.00 (NC) (All Ports), MAP - $1070.00 (All Ports) (NC) - DAP - $1,085.00 (All ports) (NC), SSP - $644.00 (Brisbane) (NC), $430.00 (Adelaide, Newcastle, Geelong, Portland) (NC), MoP - $770.00 (Geelong, Adelaide, Portland and Newcastle) (NC) $820.00 Brisbane, SoP - Price $1,230.00 (Brisbane, Geelong & Adelaide) (NC), $1,270.00 (Newcastle) (NC), $1,240.00 (Portland) (NC), Gran-Am $470.00. Please note: All ports include the following locations: Geelong, Portland, Adelaide, Brisbane, and Newcastle. Ring Ellen on 0418 137 224 for any Fertiliser requirements

Today's Trends - Sales trends included Sprayers, Prime Movers, Tyres, Windrowers, Tractors, Wheat Seed, Deep Rippers, 4wd Wagons, Lucerne Hay, Wheaten Hay, Single Super, Urea, Post Drivers and MAP.

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

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