"Terryc" wrote in message
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FarmI wrote:

40 years is the time frame you mentioned and that is a very short time
span but one in which those things that I mentioned were (and still are
in some quarters) considered to be "new thinking" in the farming
community.

Lets no go there. It is too frightening.

Yeah, sadly.

Even today if you read 'The Land' the sodding farmers organisations go
on and on about how government bans on land clearing are stuffing up
farming.

True,but I do note that quite a few farmers have been equally stating the
opposite case for longer.

Yes, some certainly have done that, but what disturbs me is those who seem
to think it's a good idea. The case that Monsanto brought against the
farmer in Canada should have scared most farmers silly, and most farmers
should by now know about herbicide resistance and the potential problems
this could bring to Oz given our ghastly weed problems, so I can't
understand where they are coming from.

i do not see famers as a unitary mob, but a diverse collective of ideas.
Sadly too conservative in their approach to their "representatives".

Even their representatives are probably also a diverse mob too. I certainly
know that our politicians are. Teh farming organisations are the ones that
give me the pip though as they really aren't really representative at all.
I only know one farmer who belongs to one of these bodies and he's a total
and utter wally.