“The standstill is…

". . . you take the new data you just gathered during testing and adjust your hypothesis and repeat. Eventually, you end up at a model that fits. "

Well , we do hope that this can be achieved , but it is still some way in the future.…

FB: "increasingly fewer Steve"

"Disillusioned saviours search the sky
Wanting just to show someone the Way
Asking all the people passing by
'doesn't anybody want The Way' "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hTiyg1ivAk

If by GCMs you mean Giant Canine Mandibles the my prediction is “They gonna bite yur ass”
;-)

It's Knowledge Bro...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2294560/The-great-green-1-The-hard-proof-finally-shows-global-warming-forecasts-costing-billions-WRONG-along.html

All short-term trends are meaningless in the context of almost- imperceptible changes over century…

I think the term is knee jerk.

Mostly its a intuitive response assuming that the people making such claims are scum sucking politicians of an…

has anyone been out walking barefoot on the grass in the early morning?

The autumn equinox is one week away; we are halfway to the shortest day from the summer solstice (longest day).

The comments , from one or two posters, seemed to be fixed on that idea.
Farmerbraun attempted a correction , but may have got nowhere.

But the part of this video that p*ssed me of the most is this guy’s certainty that this solution of his is our only choice. He’s just as wrong about that as he was about shooting 40,000 elephants. He made…

I guess we'll see. Future prediction is tricky when you're talking about complex systems (like humanity). Energy use is increasing exponentially. The endgame for any exponential exhaustion comes fast and…

Nice tip, cheers. I just checked this now, since I do have a mustard patch in this stretch of garden. The Oxalis in…

They're extremely hostile to environmentalists, despite this actually being an environmentalist idea. Presumably there's a mentality that "Greenies hate on fossil fuel at all costs, so they couldn't possibly like any other solution than reduction of those". Which might…

I wouldn't know. This only just happened. Every day until yesterday, the bare earth could not be seen because the Oxalis were expanded, which is why I noticed this. I'm guessing they've…

There's a lot about it that makes sense, though. Grassland has, after all, had large herds of animals grazing it for millions of years. You'd expect it to actually need that, that a removal of an influence like…

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/08/a-bridge-in-the-climate-debate-how-to-green-the-worlds-deserts-and-reverse-climate-change/#more-81728

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/8405004/North-Island-drought-worst-in-history

Red herring! It was contamination.
Clean , green and fresh. Yeah right!
Contaminated , arguably unsustainable, storable commodity!

Fonterra's response did not win it many friends over here.

Farmer Green, if you're still hanging around, I'd be particularly interested in…

My much-loved neighbour
Judith Ann Maloney
has been brought back to
her house-
she died v. early (not long after midnight) this day.
I will miss her, all the rest of my life-

“In a century, we…

Here is James Hansen’s latest summation. Who to believe?

“The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing. ” – James…

For example, the July 2012 SOTC report, issued in early August, announced that a new record had been set with the average July temperature for the contiguous United States at 77.6 degrees, one-fifth of a degree higher than in July 1936. However, the…

That seems to Farmer Green to be entirely proper; certainly…

Seriously we have far too short a period of good data from which to validate the climate models.

But clearly something is going on . If the media is getting it wrong then we…

some are asking that here as well

Reply-To:

Following is an article written by our Chairman of the ODPG, Glenn Mead, and published in the Manawatu Standard.

“Two…

Sacha , here is a role that you might consider :-
The quote is from The SloG

" just as the trade unions became arrogant and the bankers insolvent, so too the infowar technocrats and the globalists they support will stumble…

That sort of vilification is unbecoming , but you are not alone :-

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/david-bellamy-i-was-shunned-they-didnt-want-to-hear-8449307.html?google_editors_picks=true

Best to put the effort into not becoming one of the useful idiots. FG sees that you seem to be in little danger of being so used.

That the earth isn't flat? I'm sure you can read it for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sigtpyVPRA

Have you ever thought that all true sciences share…

Maybe they’d like it all
just a tad warmer
and wetter?
Outvoted on the body corporate!

*maybe it's the other ten elevenths
10 :…

Joanne Nova’s degree specialities?
*microbiology & bacteriology*
O- and host for a kids’science programme-

Of course I’d prefer her to climatologists & metrologists – it just stands to reason
doesnt it Farmer Green?

where all intelligence drips out of it

Early candidate for quip of the year.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10857599

"Their view is they have to do something about their electricity consumption so they're looking to offshore effectively some of the processing cost of some of their industries. So they're looking and saying well, maybe we should invest.

"New Zealand…

In Otago, the local Roman Catholic churches have been vivfied- there are masses
conducted in Tagalog etc. It's hard to get numbers on Phillipino/a people but there are more than a few now involved in…

http://www.marklynas.org/2013/01/lecture-to-oxford-farming-conference-3-january-2013/

Saudi large-scale agriculture is a doomed extractive industry. In the mid-90s local wheat production, watered by deep-drilled aquifers in the desert, was so far in excess of their claimed goal of self-sufficiency that a…

FG thinks that was in reference to the Phillipines, the subject of the preceding paragraph.

More than once this year NZ or allegedly NZ milk powder has failed AQSIQ inspection. At least once also in Hong Kong. I've seen products of Sutton Group caught twice – though to be fair to Sutton Group it's not clear whether…

Not sure what you are referring to there. The NZ Food Safety Authority is not to be trifled with. And they're heavy.
Perhaps you mean the Asian NZers who buy tins of powder at the supermarket and export them?

From what I've read (in Chinese – the Chinese media, for all its faults, seems to…

Farmer Green thinks that a closet cloaca might be a more apt analogy.

Notice the acknowledgement that NZ could easily produce the same or greater quantity of milk with fewer cows(resulting in less pollution and better animal welfare; possibly a slight improvement in working conditions for dairy-slaves as well).

The giant Moreton Bay fig at Pahi on the North arm of the Kaipara, about 3 weeks ago.

2013 marks the 20th anniversary of the first recorded appearance of this Australian banyan's unique pollinator wasp in NZ. After 120-plus years of decorative sterility these…

see the ferrous wheel turn
compartmentalised, closed...
watch the rustyferrians burn
as coal scuttles coalitions
Fear is, the Key...

you'd think.

Farmer Green likes your turn of phrase: very well put.

As others , in fact many, continue to emphasise, it is about having a brand which says CLEAN, GREEN and FRESH GODZONE. And making it real (needless to say).

That has been the predominant…

You think that this would be a loss? (Sorry Tim)

I dunno, if Farmer Green is right and

Any proposal which sought ultimately to take milk directly from NZ dairy farmers by offering a better price than Fonterra would have the potential for more desirable outcomes vis a vis…

Lovely to see Don Brash furthering NZ's interests again.

all of which will flow to Chinese rather than NZ interests. Not an economically sustainable future.

I'm interested in what you say about offering a higher price than Fonterra. TVNZ's article says:

Yili said it has a…

” Much of the land in that area currently irrigated is supplied with water from underground aquifers that have been under severe pressure…

There are some interesting aspects to the proposal.
Any proposal which sought ultimately to take milk directly from NZ dairy farmers by…

Claire Browning from Pundit says it earned her two death threats and a dead possum in her letterbox.

“We need to be more militant and stand up like the French farmers do”. Yes there are times I dream of hiring a slurry tanker, sucking the effluent pond dry and then doing a few drive bys of various locations, but…

That's a very broad brush: the response to changed practice is different for each of the three measures commonly considered:- nitrate; phosphate ; coliforms.
It depends on which one you…

I'd be interested to see historical trends water quality data if you can point me to such a thing. It makes little environmental difference if some practices have improved if intensification and other changes have offset…

I didn't say that at all. My point was that saying people concerned about the environment and farmers agree on the issues (as I…

…plus this article at Farmwars – If a goat won’t eat it, why should I?

That's a very compelling argument.

Well, now that I strongly disagree with. Our food has got to come from somewhere, and it seems to me that both nature and science say our…

But you're right there is no story yet that is going to generate enthusiasm among those who do not farm. That doesn't really matter does it?

So if the LWF is no more , then what does happen next?

Except for there being little or no agreement between the two about what counts as "change", what the goals of this change…

yet we will continue to support our members doing nothing about it

Federated Farmers: we know that farming has to change.

Not much of a story there for the chattering classes, is there?

Regional council: stop polluting
Fed Farmers:
Corporate farming interests: hey govt, please remove this council
Critters in rivers: urgh

A one trick pony perhaps?

“lack of societal understanding of what it takes to farm is one of the biggest threats facing NZ agriculture”

“People here are making statements about what our farmers are allowed to do and then…

As a bald statistic, it means nothing. You think its bad? How so?

FG is slowly learning blog tikanga , including providing the…

My bad. It's considered extremely bad form to not at least indicate genesis, if not actually provide a link to the source.

Of course ; that perhaps is what you meant, but it is not what you said. here’s your words:-
“The idea that…

So if Shangai Pengxin approached FG with a view to buying the brand and expanding the business, and repatriating say 50% of the profits, then you would say go for it?

Perhaps you misread where I said I was an expert on farming or an agricultural scientist. I just said…

Do you think that we should leave it to Shanghai Pengxin to have a go?
It seems to be their strategy.

A Taranaki farming couple are "shellshocked" after 120 of their cows dropped dead one by one in their paddock.

Around 20 vets who rushed to the Oeo farm of Chris and Catherine Cook on Tuesday could not save the animals, part of a herd of…

Agrichemicals recommended to be phased out are:

Over a period of ten years: Diazinon, prothiophos
Over a period of five years: Fenamiphos, methamidophos
Over a period of three years: Dimethoate,…

Participation in the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme

Dear Participant

Please see the attached letter in respect to your participation in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
It is important that you read this letter as you may need to respond.
A number…

"Q.1 `First, please confirm that they do indeed reveal no warming trend since 1997.'

The linear trend from August 1997 (in the middle of an exceptionally strong El Nino) to August 2012 (coming at the tail end of a double-dip La Nina) is about…

Also a problem that any knowledgeable/trained individual can make a useful contribution on. Fixing these problems has to be a partnership between the farmers who own/work the…

Not when it comes to cows shitting in the river it ain't. Nitrate pollution may well be an over-stocking problem, but there's only one cause of shit…

That might be true in the whole. But there's plenty of people who can turn up at a bunch of cows crapping on the banks of a stream and…

That would involve moving from Lawful Neutral to Chaotic Evil!. Too much! Or did you mean Kiwiblog, mere Lawful Evil, diabolical rather than demonic?

www.biofarm.com
anyone know anything about this crowd

Q.2 “Second, tell me what this says about the models used by the IPCC and others which have predicted a rise of 0.2 degrees celsius per decade for the 21st century. I accept that there will always be periods when a rising gradient may…

Dare we suggest that he tackle the biggest site in, err, Kiwi blogging? That would be a "conversation" (one-sided and awful…

That's a pity.

FG chose to respond here because he thought there were likely more with a somewhat jaundiced view here.…

Maybe, maybe not. You've certainly had an impact on discussions here, and I'd be willing to bet other farmers are reading, and you may well have piqued their…

Individual farmers can change out of enlightened self-interest, even in the face of disparagement , isolation, or any other discouragement, provided that they can summon the personal resources needed…