I think if this becomes a reality we are entirely fucked, much as we were in the 1880s when wool prices collapsed and a decade of economic depression followed.

There were a whole bunch of incredibly large land holdings up to their eyeballs in debt that kind of just hobbled on for a while, but not able to actually adapt. Ultimately, the government implemented the land tax to break them up to make way for more productive activities on smaller farms. I see a few parallels here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Maybe, but there is a massive opportunity here to transition to supplying feedstock.

Look forward 30-50 years, will there be any dairy farming at all if this tech is perfected?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Oh yeah for sure there is, but whether structurally, institutionally we'll actually do that in a proactive way, I'm not so sure. Dairy farms carry quite a lot of debt so their business models are pretty locked in to an extent.

I wonder when they say sugar as a feedstock, do they mean like sugarcane or is it any sort of crop given everything we eat breaks down into sugars in the end. I wish these articles would link the reports theyre reporting on..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nowhere is NZ is warm enough for commercial sugarcane production, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yet...? 😬

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Savage!

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