This isn’t as easy as digging a pond, especially seeing as our farm is situated on swamp about a metre above sea level.

What we will be looking at is possibly a solid separation unit and a bloody big swimming pool. We will be looking at all options and would like to hear from anybody who can give us pros and cons of any of these and their experience.

Also, the foresight by some that Fonterra payouts could reach $8 per kilo next season has given optimism to us and fellow dairy farmers and could help go towards the bureaucratic bullshit that will be costing us with ETS, effluent management and so forth.

Good to see Greenpeace doing their magic again at Fonterra’s operation using a coal burning plant and dumping wood pellets, wanting these to be used instead of coal. What’s the bet that if Fonterra did use these, all hell would break loose because of the trees cut down to make the wood pellets.

I’m sure my last comment will cause reaction and venomous comments coming back at me; if you are considering sending some of these comments, can you also do favour and inform me where these wood pellets come from, how they are transported, etc.

Have a great month and don’t forget to throw some coal on the fire, wrap yourself in synthetic polar fleece and trade your hybrid for a hummer. Just jokes, I wouldn’t ever recommend polar fleece to the detriment of the wool industry.