Well Done Bryan and Bernard
Big clap to you for exposing further the practices of the Crafar Farms Operation.
But a word to the wise - don't make a trip to rural NZ for a while!!
It's quite clear now that having this bunch of dumb-arse blokes in charge of a $200 million business is a joke. Businessmen and women who cannot get much smaller loans from banks presently must be scratching their heads in frustration.
But a word to the wise - don't make a trip to rural NZ for a while!!
posted by Cactus Kate at 1:31 PM
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So Kate what would happen if this was your family? I mean they are farmers and all. If they were being picked on like this after their only crime seems to be a failed business.
Anonymous
It wouldn't be. Even the stupidest member of my family wouldn't act like these dumbos. Least of all get the family $200 mill up the crapper without the skills to manage that sort of business.
Farming (like most business) is all about managing your debt and knowing your limits and working within those limits. Most farming families do that well. This lot is a blot on the copybook.
And if any family member did that to their stock they would be "excluded" I think the PC teacher term for it is!
I wouldn't say that starving livestock and other dubious practices means they should get any pity or special treatment.
How much of a fail do you need Mr Anonymous?
their only crime seems to be a failed business.
Umm bullshit Anonymous:
Convictions #1-34: found guilty on 34 charges relating to the "systemic failure" of a problem-plagued effluent system on the company's 366-hectare Collins Rd farm, southwest of Hamilton. Fined a total of $90,000 - Aug 2009
Conviction #35: Napier District Court - found guilty of dairy effluent discharge on Taharua Farm, 40km southeast of Taupo - resulted in a $37,500 fine (largest ever fine for a single effluent spill) - early Aug 2009
Convictions #36-91: found guilty in Sep 2006 on 56 charges of neglecting dozens of dead and dying cows at Te Pohue farm two year earlier - fined just NZ$200 and allowed to continue operating (my, how the wheels of justice grind exceedingly slowly and ineffectually...)
By the time the 2006 judgements had been made, MAF had already investigated Crafer farms over 20 times and were also investigating an incident where a bull was sent to the meat works, in such an emaciated state that it couldn't stand.
Farming is also all about managing your assets and in dairy farming the most important assets are your livestock. Clearly there's no place in farming for this mob.
Anon @ 2.00pm: "their only crime seems to be a failed business"
You are clearly one of this inbred family of ferals as no other New Zealanders of any persuasion could look at that video and conclude that a crime had not been committed.
'A picture says a thousand words'
Seems that the Chinese are playing the long game with these dorks... lets them hang on their bad and nasty animal practices and then grind the price down...
Crappers [sic] are idiots and fools - but as we all know banks would far prefer to lend to a spreadsheet than to real people...
This is Blog is becoming like a slightly more corporate Fair Go. Sec Commissions, Lab Tests, Bomber, that chinese guy, the Pork Chops etc.
Its their stock management (or lack of it) practices that disgust me most of all.
Excuse the glamour of the Crafar whanau!
Sorry, all I see is every unkind rural cliche I have ever thought coming into glorius reality. What a ugly mob of inbred gingas, they all look they couldn't pull of an NCEA credit but no doubt are bloody good at lifting heavy things.
Someone on Radio Live today made the allegation that the family doesn't even own a computer and therefore has no reliable way to monitor the farm finances.
The continued flouting of environmental standards is one thing but they have done my head in with their animal cruelty, apparently something in the region of 200 bobby calves had to be destroyed due to dehydration recently.
The bankers who loaned for this folly are equally disgraceful and I also wonder at how many potential entrepreneurs missed out to keep the Crafar bubble afloat.
cheers, sally
Crafar aren't some small Mum and Pop cow cockie operation - its a greedy incompetent diary corporation that has accumulated many farms and obviously cares very little for its stock (in the way most farmers would).
It's in hock, should be put into receivership and it should be banned by MAF from ever owning a farm or stock again.
Anonymous 2pm: "picked on"... are you joking??
The Crafers are not paragons of the farming community. They are quite the opposite in fact. They give the industry a filthy name, inside and out, and their exposure by CK, Bernard and others is to be applauded.
...and what's more, they've all got a touch of the ginger.
What a bunch of retards.
These guys remind me of the inbred hillbillies you get in West Virginia.
Bronster
Nice Picture. Why do I have a banjo duel in my head?
i am a dairy farmer i am pissed off by the crafars. staving livestock poluting rivers all our hard work at being responsible citizens count for nought with dickheads like them around
so first anonymous, all farmers are incompetent thickos who mistreat their stock and vandalise the environment?
Utter bullshit.
Its mystifying how such a bunch of obvious inbreds as the Crafars managed to con $200 million out of allegedly responsible banks.
Its remarkable how quickly they've played the victim card too - they're just honest kiwis trying to make a crust and the nasty police/MAF/Judges/journos etc are picking on them.
No sense of personal responsibility for their behaviour whatsoever - perfect products of the modern NZ.
Its almost as though the overstocking, and the deliberate starvation of hundreds of defenceless animals just "happened".
The sooner they bugger off the better.
never trust gingas, ever !!
nor fat balding males with glasses
never, ever trust gingas nor fat people
Are you going to go after Dairy Holdings and John Key as well?
Photo reminds me of a movie......deliverance I think it was called. Treat these fucken hicks the same way they treated their animals.
TB
Crap Farmers in receicership
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/crafar-farms-placed-receivership-112412
Where are you Cactus - it's been days!
Bloomin' heck. That photo is a powerful advertisement for not lying down too close to your sister.
All together now (to the tune of "Yellow Submarine"):- "We all live in a genetic cul-de-sac"......
I cannot believe that banks would lend to a business like this that does not own a computer. I have watched people with 700+ cow herds. Their excel spreadsheets and their mobile phones go everywhere with them. The cash flow spread sheets are tweaked as the weather changes or prices change. In the good old days a not so bright young man could make a quid as a farmer. Those days are gone forever. As one cocky lamented to me, "my boy could never take over the farm as he just does not have the intellectual grunt to make the show work". But he is a first rate prop in club rugby and as honest as the day is long.
Obviously the Crafars were in way over their heads, but do you think Fonterra should accept any responsibility for ongoing breaches of the law and mismanagement by suppliers like the Crafars?
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