Who'd be a farmer?

Who'd be a farmer? Good question.

It's either fire, rain, drought, disease, fertiliser shortages, or over-under supply that impacts on those people who, working long days against great odds, feed us.

Where I live, there are 72 vineyards - or more and the owners with whom I speak tell me they either aren't getting enough rain, they're getting too much rain or the amount they are getting or not getting is at the wrong time.

Nature has a way of doing its own thing.

Now, I read that the government of our neighbours in New Zealand is implementing some kind of carbon tax on sheep and cattle. Can you believe that? What next, a fart tax on human beings?

It's all mindless, Leftist nonsense. There is no climate emergency, despite the South Australian Government declaring one. C02 isn't a deadly gas. Australian and New Zealand C02 emissions, even if they were a problem - and they're not, are miniscule compared with those of China and India, both countries of which are increasing their coal-fired power station capacity.

Fossil fuels are back in vogue since anyone over 10 years old knows that so-called renewables are unreliable and inefficient at the times when they are needed most. It's a failed experiment.

In Australia, after years of uranium being banned because of the Greens/Left policies, they are now talking about installing nuclear, the only emissions-free power generation tool other tha hydro. 

This won't make much difference to farmers who have other problems on top of high energy costs.

If farmers leave the fields, we will suffer even more food shortages than we are now, so it's in our best interests to ensure farmers survive.

#Robinoz