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@*kazumi* wrote:

 

 

The problem with farmers is that we were told for decades the climate is changing; we were warned that we will have longer droughts, more severe storms, and fires of such intensity we will not know how to fight and many farmers just dismissed the warnings.  Giving money to them now will not do anything for long term solution.  We were warned  that if we do not take action it will cost us big, and it is starting to cost us big, yet out government as well as the the US government are still in denial. 

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Kazumi,.......... in light of your post above I thought you may be interested to see how Australian farmers are really responding to climate change. The link below is to a popular farmers machinery trading site. If you look at the photos of the seeders for sale, you will see the press wheels on the back which leave a furrow over the seed to collect moisture and also the knife points ( tynes ) which cut a narrow slit in the soil for seed placement. Another feature of modern seeding equipment is that the tynes are spaced widely apart. This is to handle the mulched stubble left on the soil surface from the previous harvest. If you look at the various adverts you will probably find a few for old style combine seeders, with a long box over the tynes.. The differences are absolutely remarkable and show the extreme changes that farmers are already making to the way they sow crops. 

Rather than being denialists and lagards, Australian farmers are way ahead of the rest of Australian society when it comes to adapting to changing climatic conditions. They have to be. Unlike city people, farmers are at the pointy end of climate change and their livelihood depends on rapid research and adoption of new technologies.

While the rest of the country has meetings and does research and discusses scientific papers and and holds protest meetings, Australian farmers have quietly been making real, physical, radical changes to the way they operate. They have completely revolutionised their systems and production methods to the extent that other countries are looking to Australian farmers for answers to food production in the face of climate change.

http://www.farmclearingsales.com.au/private-sales/section/?cid=7