A Step Ahead – The Future in Farming
Transcript for Three One-Minute Promotional Films (Vignettes)
Part One – VINCE VIGLIATURO – Stone Fruit Grower
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Vince Vigliaturo: I'm third generation Australian, my grandfather used to grow a lot of wine grapes, and as Dad took over, he went into the stone fruit industry. The market demands change, and varieties change, but the fruit is not up to the market expectations any more. We need to graft another variety on existing root stock.
We had a very severe frost in late September, the pump was programmed to come in, and it initiated the pump and saved the crop. Hope doesn't really pay the bills at the end of the month, you have got to have a little bit more than that..
Kerryne McClelland – Rural Financial Counsellor: It's so much more important to focus on where you are going and make a plan on how to get there…
The sooner you adapt to newer technology the sooner you start making money out of it….
Part Two – JOHN AND ELLEN WHITE – Cereal Farmers
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John White: With all the doom and groom around with global warming, it's sometimes very hard to keep your spirits up. I'm still positive on it all. We have gone all direct drilling this year. This one here is digging right down. It's a 5 inch point, some 2 cm accuracy, we can nudge it across next year 5 inches and we know we will be within 2 cms….
Ellen White: You have to take up the new technologies – if we are going to have less rainfall in this region, then you have to be able to harvest every single drop, and that is what precision agriculture allows you to do…
Kerryne McClelland – Rural Financial Counsellor: Change is the only constant in agriculture I think, get as much information accumulated as possible, information is power.
Part Three – HEAP FAMILY – Dairy Farmers
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Jason Heap: We have been dairy farming for three generations….
Lorelle Heap: We have four children, very independent children, which you will find most farm children generally are….
Jason Heap: We operate as a family farm, Lorelle and I do the main decisions, but we always pass ideas across to Mum and Dad…
Carol Heap: Yes, he decided that how about we think about looking at a new site and we go rotary….
Gary Heap: I said to my wife one night 'now he's made that decision, we have to give him some control' ….
Jason Heap: We think there is a future in the industry, otherwise we wouldn't have committed to an enterprise like we have…
Nigel McGuckian (Consultant): You can't make decisions unless you know where you want to go, you get together and you think and talk and clarify where you want to be in the future
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