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Food 'Superpower' you're kidding!

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So our PM says we are in a position to become a super provider of global foods.

I say, 'pull the other one' as she forgets one very important issue, and that is that we have the highest low/unskilled wages in the world.

How are farmers going to be able to pay the wages.

The only way this would have any chance of succeeding, was if the government provided the staff at highly subsidized rates, along with other links in the food chain, like transport.
Posted by rehctub, Friday, 4 May 2012 10:04:20 AM
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another motherhood statement.
Posted by runner, Saturday, 5 May 2012 10:42:41 AM
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Butch quit trying to rip money off of low payd workers. There is no such thing as unskilled, every body knows something.
Farm with your head instead of your back. No one uses a pick and shovel any more.
Food is a commodity that does not go out of fashion, so why not step up production and export more. There is a huge population base to our north so why not make it pay for AU
Posted by 579, Saturday, 5 May 2012 11:42:39 AM
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Well I'm not sure as to who is going to do all the work. The average
age of farmers in Aus is around 57 and they are not doing it for the
money, but in the past did it for the lifestyle. Young ones are
saying stuff farming, there are easier ways to make a living.

So as more and more farmers retire, things will become interesting.

Given that the price of grain is about the same as the price of
coal and given our high costs of production, I reckon that the
young ones will find it far easier to dig up coal rather then grow
crops for the world
Posted by Yabby, Saturday, 5 May 2012 1:27:00 PM
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Farms will be gigantic acreage's and listed on stock exchange. Head office will be in the city.
Posted by 579, Saturday, 5 May 2012 1:39:16 PM
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So what then for the communities that rely on the farmers and their families?

Do we want these smaller towns to become ghost towns ,hooked up with the latest the NBN has to offer, but no people there to use it.

Yet more evidence this was a wasteful venture. Another one.

Adding to what Yabby said, farmers were encouraged to better educate their kids. Problem is, once they became educated they soon realized what a poor choice, farming the land was.

They too are tipped to loose the diesel subsidy.

Perhaps the plan is for more imported cheap labor, to run the farms to grown the food.

Nothing would surprise me with Julia, in any case, who can trust anything she says.
Posted by rehctub, Saturday, 5 May 2012 1:49:35 PM
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