The Farmers Club Newsletter

The “Club Notes” for Monday, the 30th of October 2023

By Dwain Duxson

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Farmer helping our own (FHOO) workshops

See below the flyer for a series of workshops organised by Farmer Stu Austin and the crew. These workshops will be held in areas that are considered dry and droughty and also places where Livestock forms all or part of the Farm income. It’s a good idea in the fact that it brings people together and gets people off the Farm and talking. See the flyer below. Reply to [email protected]

How do you climb the Header Driving Ladder?

We have had some good responses from the Header Driving “Club Note” we put out on Saturday. We just thought it was the grand poobah who was the Header driver, but found out it was quite different to what we thought. So we found that sometimes the most tech-savvy member of the Harvest team is driving the Header, especially the later model ones. We wrote about this a while ago, how the tech in these Machines is getting beyond some people and how they don’t want to have anything to do with it. They are happy to drive the old Acco into the Silo. We also found that sometimes the chief decision maker was happier in the Truck, where they could go to the Grain Received Terminal and get a good idea of the spec of the Grain. They could then make some decisions about which Grain to sell and what to keep for future marketing. Do you like driving the Header, or would you prefer the Truck or other Harvest activities? Reply to [email protected]

The old-fashioned way

We bang on about service and how it’s disappearing in Ag. We always say old-fashioned service, and that means that service was good once but not good now. Why can’t we have good service in this day and age? Anyway, I am writing this from the stunning Canberra airport, a well-thought-out passenger-friendly setup. And guess what? They have baggage people here, not just machines with screens. It was a pleasant experience. I get the efficiencies of having machines replacing humans, but the experience is so much better when there is a human involved. Perhaps I’m old-fashioned, but I honestly think that those who provide a service that involves a human and that human engages the right way, they will be the winners. Especially in Ag. Reply to [email protected]

The new trust economy

This one probably follows on from what was written above. We now live in a world where trust is a declining attribute. In the world of fake news, anti-science, AI-generated materials, and copycatting, we have to work out what we take as gospel and what is BS. I mean, it’s less, much less in the Rural Communities of Australia where the last of the genuine, salt of the earth people exist. That’s why we need to keep telling it how it is and putting a positive spin on things so that people have reliability in their lives. But working out what and who to trust is not easy. What are some of the things/people you really trust in Ag? Reply to [email protected]

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Dwain Duxson
0427 011 900

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