Wet weather delay
I wouldn’t say it went viral, but my post from last Thursday on ‘Tweeting with Tony Burke’ was extremely well received. I had lots of positive comments about it on twitter, and it was re-tweeted by several people, many with little interest in farming. It was easily the most viewed blog post I’ve ever had & was great to get positive comments and commenters.
This months ‘View From the Silo’ will be a few days late due to poor weather. For 2 reasons:
- Windy, cloudy, rainy weather makes for bad photos.
- Windy, cloudy, rainy weather makes me quite reluctant to climb our quite tall silos!
So while I wait for the weather to clear, I give you this YouTube video that appeared in my twitter feed a few days ago. It’s thought provoking and illustrates some of the reasons that I decided to try a career in agriculture over a career in the corporate world. Despite my earlier post about the shrinking of rural Australia, I honestly think that the future of farming can be nothing but bright. The reality is the world will struggle to feed it’s growing population, and that can only be positive for agriculture and rural areas in general. The other passion of mine that this clip talks about is technology. In order to feed an increasingly resource scarce and populous world it will have to use all the technology it can get it’s hands on.
Check it out and tell me what you think.
Themocracy
I have been farmer all my life and only just recently started an online business (which is Ag related). I am 40 and I actually stopped for about half a day an thought about how we all seem to take food for granted. Go to the supermarket, shop or restaurant and then consume….I have never really stopped and thought how important food is, everyone needs it and the whole community is based around it. I live in a community of about 8000 and there are many people who directly or indirectly make a living from the food industry.
My thoughts concluded with, what would happen if the supermarket, shop or restaurant ran out of food? For the first time in my life I realised how important farmers really are.