Central West New South Wales farmer Rob Wass writes:
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Things are quite wet down in this neck of the woods. We have had about 50mls in the previous 24 hours and about 100mls for the previous 10 days.
Interesting to note from Today’s Australian Bureau of Statistics – GDP growth figures.
The second paragraph immediately below the first graph says this:
“On the production side, the strongest contributing industries to GDP growth (in trend volume terms) over the past four quarters was Agriculture (0.5 percentage points). The biggest detractions have come from Manufacturing (-0.8 percentage points) and Property and business services (-0.5 percentage points).”
From todays Australian Newspaper - World’s best exports may hold off recession.
AUSTRALIA has defied the collapse in world trade, achieving a growth in exports that may allow the economy to stave off recession.
China’s demand for iron ore and agricultural commodities gave Australia the world’s best export performance in the first three months of the year.
Trade has made its biggest contribution to Australia’s growth since June 1961 and may lift the March-quarter GDP into positive territory.
Agricultural exports are also doing well, rising by 18.2 per cent, with a big jump in wheat exports and strong sales of both meat and wool.
So the question is:
If “Agriculture” has kept Australia out of recession amidst the biggest global recession since the “Great Depression” then why is it that our politicians, in searching for preferences, along with the greens, why are they kicking agriculture to death ?
Of course, this is assuming that there is any life left in agriculture after having been kicked about for so long with the list of atrocities against farmers and their land bigger than the Nullarbor Plain.
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