🟢 Saturday's Club Notes (Free)

The living-in-town dilemma - We wrote a story about the growing trend of Farming families uprooting from Farm living and moving to town. It affects the next generation of Farm/Ag kids coming through. This is what one Farmer said: ‘Hi Dwain. I grew up as a town cockies son, and now my children have grown up the other way around as we have lived on the Farm. Totally agree with the disconnect for the whole family outside of dad, about what is going on when living as townies. I had jobs like paper boy and chemist boy, and my kids had jobs mowing lawns around the Farm yard, washing Tractors, moving and feeding Sheep, etc. To move to town is to lose connection with your children as to how a Farm runs. The real keen ones might get some exposure, but the others next to none. We are losing a generation with true connection to the Land’. Do you reckon this might be a hidden dilemma for the Farming industry?

Writings this week

We are told to work smarter, and we are, but in Ag we also have to work hard. We define what hard work looks like these days.

Want to impress or get shit loads of people at your next Ag event? We write about a technique that will get them through the door.

The young ones are now considered AI natives and will run rings around us older folk in the new AI world of business.

You won’t believe the fix-it cost of a busted transmission on a John Deere Tractor that has just gone past it warrenty.

We have 2 strong bits of evidence that the Chinese Farm Machinery is on the way.

More farming families are moving into town. We outline the effect it will have on Farming with the now generation.

We built a business on the back of this statement: “Farmers always pay, it's just a matter of when”.

Guest columnist Bec Lindert discusses how we are fighting each other for irrigation water.

How to piss Farmers off. Sell them expensive parts.

We have been trying to make Shearing easier for many years. This puts a new spin on the “grab race” that’s become a big trend recently.

We did our latest podcast with Scott McDouall, an Agri coach with Swiften. There are plenty of business takeaways from Scott.

Our guest columnist Vic Hoffmann Dohle talks about the mighty Kelpie. And the king of the Kelpies was Tim Austin, who passed away this week. Vic pays tribute.

Have a great Saturday.