A major new scheme has been launched with the intention of increasing, amongst other things, the amount of innovation used within the Australian farming industry.
Now the moment anyone combines the words “Government” and “Project” together in one sentence relating to agriculture, quite a few cynics will climb out of the woodwork and start predicting that the result will be nothing more than an expensive talking shop.
It’s true that all around the world, government projects aimed at radically improving agriculture have something of a very questionable track record. Quite a few of them have been largely irrelevant, apart from managing to dispose of large amounts of taxpayers’ money for no benefit, whilst others have been downright disastrous.
However, it may be important to recognise the benefits of sometimes taking a step back and having a bit of a ‘free think’ about the way we’re doing things. We can all slip easily into something of a rut in terms of going about our daily business because that’s “how we've always done things” or “it worked well for my parents so it’ll do the same for me” etc.
Tradition is fine but things have to change and you have more of a chance of controlling that change if you take time out from ‘business as usual’ to look for new ideas rather than if you are forced to adopt them simply because other people are doing so meaning you now have no choice but to do likewise.
Even here at White’s Tractors, we try to encourage people to think about ways in which we can run our business better, even including things such as how we sell and maintain our Kubota tractors.
In fact, we are always very keen to encourage our customers to point things out to us where there might be an opportunity for us to improve our services and to support them more effectively in doing so.
Sorry but we can’t set up a multi-million dollar project for you to join us to come up with new ideas! However, we’d always welcome a phone call or visit from you to point out where we could do things better.
Now the moment anyone combines the words “Government” and “Project” together in one sentence relating to agriculture, quite a few cynics will climb out of the woodwork and start predicting that the result will be nothing more than an expensive talking shop.
It’s true that all around the world, government projects aimed at radically improving agriculture have something of a very questionable track record. Quite a few of them have been largely irrelevant, apart from managing to dispose of large amounts of taxpayers’ money for no benefit, whilst others have been downright disastrous.
However, it may be important to recognise the benefits of sometimes taking a step back and having a bit of a ‘free think’ about the way we’re doing things. We can all slip easily into something of a rut in terms of going about our daily business because that’s “how we've always done things” or “it worked well for my parents so it’ll do the same for me” etc.
Tradition is fine but things have to change and you have more of a chance of controlling that change if you take time out from ‘business as usual’ to look for new ideas rather than if you are forced to adopt them simply because other people are doing so meaning you now have no choice but to do likewise.
Even here at White’s Tractors, we try to encourage people to think about ways in which we can run our business better, even including things such as how we sell and maintain our Kubota tractors.
In fact, we are always very keen to encourage our customers to point things out to us where there might be an opportunity for us to improve our services and to support them more effectively in doing so.
Sorry but we can’t set up a multi-million dollar project for you to join us to come up with new ideas! However, we’d always welcome a phone call or visit from you to point out where we could do things better.
