Need for ‘bad’ farming

Press, 25 February 1986, Page 3

Need for ‘bad’ farming

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OLIVER RIDDELL

in Wellington

Many farmers will have to adopt bad farming practices to survive, according to the Deputy Leader of- the Opposition, Mr Jim Bolger. He said that at today’s interest rates farmers could not afford to borrow to put on fertiliser. Fencing would become a low priority, while repairs and maintenance would have to be overlooked.

“I have every sympathy for the businesses that will be affected by such policies and I know that the aerial top-dressing industry is almost destroyed, and will not be there when next it is needed,” Mr Bolger said.

That was but one of the disasters “Rogemomics” was forcing on the farming community. Suppliers of many goods and services to farmers would go broke; that was bad because, like farmers, they were providing a valuable service to production. Consent

Two directors of a Wellington department store operator, James Smith, Ltd, Messrs D. A. Smith and B. K. Smith, or their nominees, have the Examiner of Commercial Practices’ consent to acquire 100 per cent of the company. -