Climate change and the future of agriculture
Woh, that was a hot old night!
Hi this is Colin at quarter-to-seven on Friday the 21st. Last night was quite steamy as well, and we didn’t get the thunder showers that they forecast us so it looks as though we’ve missed any opportunity of rain which as you’ve probably gathered is quite a disappointment for us, particularly for our later crops.
We reckon from our review yesterday that we’re going to be finished round about the 11th of August, and those last crops would have really benefited from some rain, so it actually gets you thinking about global warming.
It’s an important aspect for us, certainly climate change is something that’s exercising our minds with regards to the future and strategically what impact that’s going to have on agricultural production systems.
There’s a lot of diverse views about the impact of it and we’re continuing to get a handle on what it means for us both for our current crops and opportunities for different ones but also the impact of the availability of water for agriculture more generally. That’s only going to get more difficult.
So we need to have on our horizon the impact of all this and react to it. it’s all part of what we’re doing in sustainability. We’ll talk a lot more in the next few days about our sustainable development as we lead into our ISO 14001 audit next week…
Watch this space.
Hi this is Dug, as this is such an important topic, I’m adding a few definitions from Wikipedia. Please let Colin know if there are other issues you’d like to hear his opinion on
