The Only Successful Agricultural Country

[@w.n2425]

I find it funny that Hoser has covered every commonwealth country except for ironically his home country of Canada.

[@SwankemasterSupreme]

lawsuit avoidance.

[@Bai183]

Literally waiting for that vid... maybe after our next election

[@GrantGraff]

He needs to cover Nigeria next

[@w.n2425]

@GrantGraff he did already Cover Nigeria in a video called “Is Nigeria the new China?”

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

“Sorry” - Hoser

[@DavidLimofLimReport]

And since NZ is so small, this will end up on free-to-air public news stations tonight. This is actually the best summary of NZs economic history I’ve seen on KZbin.. great research.

[@wildfire9280]

5 internet bucks it won’t be tonight

[@tengkualiff]

nah

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

It might be small, but it's not THAT small, lol.

[@MrThisucks]

id love to see the news coverage

[@component9008]

I don’t think so

[@monkeypie8701]

I grew up on a New Zealand farm, and I never understood why so many countries with such fertile land don't end up rich, as my brain always linked agriculture to wealth

[@jmlinden7]

Lack of mechanization, poor crop selection, poor infrastructure, and high populations.

[@Jaffjv]

NZ has more fertile land per person than anywhere. If you have too many people, the food can’t be exported

[@Epidian]

If you only had spades rather than tractors you'd never make the link.

[@monkeypie8701]

@@Jaffjv fertile for agriculture, not Horticulture, only 3% of NZ is fertile for crops

[@KojiCT]

Most don't even use fertilizers well

[@AustinCooper-q8m]

NZ is the best country in case of the zombie outbreak. It's isolated, developed and can produce food to sustain themself

[@NicoparaDEV]

Still needs equipment from outside

[@donnguyen3795]

@@NicoparaDEV The scavenger unit would be formed for that duty

[@msergio0293]

Okay now we just need the zombie outbreak

[@Annexation_]

Yeah, but if the island has its own outbreak, you guys are screwed lol

[@leGUIGUI]

He doesn't know: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpnGnGOJgch0bKs

[@onibenis6607]

>farming >lord of the rings >not australian simple as.

[@DavidLimofLimReport]

I’d add - leftist policies

[@msergio0293]

Sweet as

[@hikaniko7371]

you had me on "not australian"

[@brodyngabites3856]

Honestly, we’re hardly kiwis over here now

[@vlachlemnmichail]

@@DavidLimofLimReport he was not ranking the flaws

[@arandomzoomer4837]

This thing about mono-economies is a really good point. 62% of Norway's exports are oil and it is a very wealthy country. I think it has far less to do with some magical curse that leads to any country that predominantly relies on one economic sector failing, and more to do with the fact that some mono-economy countries are able to use their resources very functionally in a way that benefits the general population, and others are not.

[@alexv3357]

The resource curse is all about politics. Corrupt autocrats and oligarchies exploit resources inefficiently and misuse the wealth.

[@yvindhagester9613]

And as he said, that the mono economy is not built on something that suddenly ends. Like oil in the future, and slavery for the Kingdom of Kongo

[@MustraOrdo]

It's called having good policies with the right implementations supervised by good governance at the behest of sound market demands.

[@louisazraels7072]

pretty much, in the case of Norway they have an efficient democratic process to redistribute the oil wealth, in the case of new zealand agriculture is not too concentrated (many stakeholders) The difference is also that these countries are not truly mono economies either, they are "mono exporter" they don't rely too heavily on imported services for their own cunsumption, they have other good paying jobs serving their own population

[@azpont7275]

I don’t think it just or mainly about mono-economics. Sure, that is a common link between the 2, but so is co-ops. If people given the power to make their own democratic choices within their profession, it’s more likely they’ll end up organizing their industry more efficently.

[@thegreatkizo]

I like the fact that New Zealanders are already in the comments.

[@Xtraqk220]

🇳🇿NEW ZEALAND MENTIONED🇳🇿

[@Anthony97279]

You could say they are always ahead of our time

[@sneedler8661]

YEAAAAAASAHH MAAAAAATTEEEE

[@DawidEstishort]

2:35 Casein (with it's 2,5% share) is also a food related product since it's a milk protein.

[@interrobangings]

that's a good casein point HYUCK HYUCK HYUCK

[@samuel.andermatt]

Weird then that whey does not show up

[@chungaplea3323]

The china eating animation was such a big jaw rotation I couldn't tell what was happening

[@CatnamedMittens]

I thought it was that drake meme

[@YFNTacoGuy]

1:52 challenge accepted. 3 course meal (Assuming a few extra ingredients can be used btw) Appetizer: Steak frites with red wine reduction sauce Entree: Lamb chops with an apple honey lamb fat sauce Dessert: Sopapillas served with honey and a milk chocolate mousse For drink, the best option (according to my research) would be a Cabernet Sauvignon You're welcome :D

[@WhyGodby]

why'd you do that now I'm hungry and I'm broke.

[@DrippyPootis]

@@WhyGodby A man is hungry in lego city, and he has no money. Hurry, build the gourmet soup kitchen [lego tm] to save him!

[@artisanfps]

No main?

[@marny3559]

​@@artisanfps I can see you don't know much about hauté cuisine. An entree is a main.

[@tonyoliver2330]

Oyster Bay is one of the best affordable wines. For the $11 I paid I get superior flavor to anything around $30

[@mjr_schneider]

Sooner or later Hoser's going to need to make a video about the Canadian economy to counter all the sensationalist videos I've been seeing everywhere about how Canada has become a third world country.

[@ariehamm241]

germany too pls

[@oussamaalaoui9121]

It is not a developing country Yet.

[@CatnamedMittens]

2nd world

[@longiusaescius2537]

@mjr_schneider You're not in Brampton

[@fjooyou]

1st world (USA and friends) , 2nd world (USSR and "friends") and 3rd world (the rest) are outdated political terms from the cold war era lazily used as an economic term because most of the third world wasn't industrialized at the time

[@kidlikecrow7426]

As an Indonesian, I kind of love the fact they're pretty close by (yes they're 7,500km away but compared to other countries they're our next door neighbour). Hope to go vist one day and see their cray mountain on a bike.

[@milkismurder]

You should! Bikes and mountains are something we do well here

[@frozencatcake]

Same as a Australian

[@Jabjabs]

@@frozencatcake Yep here in Oz we have far less mountains. ;) A few of the Kiwi's I work with have mentioned that it weirds them out how there are no hills around to get any bearing. I get it, everytime I have been to NZ it is very easy to figure out where you are - well except in Auckland and Hamilton. But everywhere it is easy.

[@KNWBDY.important]

Nesian vibes 🇳🇿🤙🤙

[@JM4rch]

New Zealand is the absolute opposite of our Dutch Zeeland, in NZ there are young people, in Our Zeeland there are only old men

[@forestreee]

It's NEW Zealand, of course the people will be younger. Perhaps if you guys renamed Zeeland to Newer Zeeland, you will have younger people.

[@hikaniko7371]

@@forestreee then we can become Newest Zealand to become younger too, then the dutch can rename theirs New Newest Zeeland and bada bing bada boom infinite prosperity 😎

[@cvspvr]

dutch zeeland is the world's number 1 consumer of viagra

[@Sacto1654]

But isn't New Zealand running into an issue where they export too much of their food and the price of food for the native New Zealand population is higher than necessary?

[@milkismurder]

Yes, that's generally only meat though

[@billwilson1320]

NZ doesn't subsidise food production so consumer prices are higher, and we then pay the export price the farmer gets. 15% tax is added to food in stores. A lot of prepackaged food is imported from Australia which adds to the cost.

[@cg_2k72]

NZ’s main problem is there is a supermarket duopoly which controls 80% of the market.

[@Sacto1654]

@@cg_2k72 Given the small population of the country no wonder there's only a few large grocery firms there. And only a few firms means they could charge higher prices. No wonder why New Zealand meat pies are a thing, I guess.

[@hikari-nn1ze]

In terms of calories consumed, NZ is actually quite import-dependent. Even in the fruit and vegetable and meat section, a substantial chunk of stuff in our supermarkets is imported. Sure we produce a shitload of meat, dairy products, and temperate climate fruit and vege, but outside of that virtually everything is imported. It might be made here, but the raw product is imported - eg, NZ-made bacon from Spanish pork, or bread from Australian wheat. A lot of pork comes from the EU, a lot of beef in our food service sector comes from Australia, all of our bread flour comes from Aus (due to mineral deficiencies in the soil), all of our rice comes from Aus/Asia, fruits come from everywhere, and finished goods/processed foods are mostly made overseas.

[@TheLIMREPORT]

Its 5am in this so called country as i watch this debut

[@oscarquizapa9280]

Goodmorning boss

[@loserlord549]

new zealand is a aussie pysop, im not falling for this one you fed

[@BodywiseMustard]

Have a great day 🫡

[@antonikudlicki1100]

"So called country". Self shaming = cringe

[@GrantGraff]

It's noon where I'm at

[@VechsDavion]

Having spent several years there, I will always have a soft spot for New Zealand and it's people. I wish the determined little Kiwis all the best.

[@Andrew-gu8uw]

Hi vechs lol nice seeing you here!! I love ur maps

[@ennui9745]

Hey, Vechs! I need to continue watching the "Waking Up" series!

[@h0ser]

Hi Vechs I used to watch you on Mindcrack

[@drowsy-fx8pc]

I found this video to be quite enjoyable, everything blended together perfectly, with the music serving as an unexpected bonus that tied everything together neatly, like a well-wrapped Christmas gift. Thank you hoser :)

[@NinnaJelly]

I will always have a special place in my heart for New Zealand and its people because I lived there for a number of years. Best wishes to the tenacious little Kiwis.

[@brawlaj5246]

Bot

[@ИванПетров-ь3е]

Very successfuly selling their country to Chinese

[@KNWBDY.important]

​@brawlaj5246bro what is up with these bot accounts just remixing eachothers comments? Tf is going on

[@TheLIMREPORT]

If only i could tell you about our infrastructure issues.. it takes 50 years to build a motorway

[@craig3916]

why use multiple logins ? in case ur banned?

[@TheLIMREPORT]

@craig3916 huh?

[@Xtraqk220]

@@TheLIMREPORTNah fr though the bus route to college I take has a busy road that has needed repairs like 4 times this year💀💀 The infrastructure is actual trash in NZ

[@peterelliott2914]

Yeah. Big (ish) country, few people. Never going to change. Although I think it was a massive mistake to privatise rail and send everything by road now. I reckon don't build motorways, incentivize people to move to the provinces instead - spread them out.

[@vvayoutvvest]

@@TheLIMREPORT See further down @DavidLimofLimReport

[@andrewb9942]

Amazing you showed SaltStick fast chews. Those are such a niche peoduct, but absolutely life changing for preventing cramps and replenishing electrolytes. How random! The peach ones are like my favorite candy.

[@HoopsKevinski.]

9:50 I call BS. Must be farm owners, not actual workers.(70% Undoc in US). And since "corps are people", many being centuries-old corps...

[@ironfin9406]

Absolutely the case. A lot of NZ's dairy Agriculture is done by younger landless "sharemilkers" who have flocks of livestock but have to find landlords whom they split the profit with. Meanwhile NZ Horticutlure is actually done by seasonal workers from the Pacific Islands who are paid and treated like shit.

[@purplehaze5607]

AOTEAROA MENTIONED CHURRRRR BOL!!!! My family has a farm in the South Island, i love it. I genuinely can’t imagine rural NZ as anything else, other than the forests it once used to home.

[@joemundy3584]

The importance of co-ops in NZ cannot be understanded. For every sector, there is a co-op that helps farmers maximise productivity, bulk buy inputs like fertilizer, and negotiate higher prices

[@TyreseSummers]

Your completely right, I'm hoping the government tries to jump the barrel on aquaculture to see if thats something that can be expanded and turned into a cooperative which would be cool to see

[@stan5936]

This is wild. I’m a dairy farmer in Taranaki where a lot of these photos and film are from.

[@IcedicStar]

Man if New Zeeland ever get 1# in Kiwi exports it would be the funniest thing ever

[@broyderpole7497]

it is

[@DavidLimofLimReport]

I think we are.

[@msergio0293]

They should do it, you know, just for shits and giggles

[@msergio0293]

Ok I just google it and they actually are the #1 kiwi exporter, 3x as much as the next country

[@hikaniko7371]

There's a reason it's called kiwifruit y'know, because it looks like our national bird. we had control over what it was named because we produce the most of it.

[@magicjuand]

new zealand is an inspiration, i hope that more governments and farmers can see that you can make a high quality and valuable agricultural sector by avoiding subsidies which encourage waste and the abuse of land. amazing video hoser, really great job.

[@Epidian]

Pity they haven't sorted the nitrate pollution problem.

[@williamwallace9944]

​@@EpidianYeah it's beginning to become quite an issue. The fact that NZ only fully switched to dairy farming about 50 years ago and is already facing debilitating freshwater pollution makes me think we need to really dial back the ground/water pollution if we want NZ to be as prosperous and habitable in another 50 years time.

[@hamishfullerton7309]

Yeah and price New Zealanders pay for there own food products and imported ones are so inflated after co vid that a kiwi who moved to New Zealand said the grocery bill in Australia made him cry tears of joy, because in New Zealand it was $1000 dollars in Australia it was $400 a $600 difference, if your charging your citizens that much for groceries I wouldn't call your farming policy's a success for kiwis as whole

[@laurencefraser]

substantial portions of the land used for dairy farming in New Zealand isn't actually suitable for it.

[@TyreseSummers]

​@laurencefraser yeah bro I don't know if your right. Because no one is going to do dairy farming on land that isn't 'suitable' for it. If so can you explain how it isn't

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

4:10 spot on New Zealand satire accent

[@DavidLimofLimReport]

So glad he didn’t try an Aussie accent and pawn it off as a Kiwi accent

[@EggsBenAddict]

It really is, you can tell this guy listened to other Kiwis.

[@Xtraqk220]

Nah listening to Americans trying to do a Kiwi accent is torture to me

[@trevornorfolk3103]

​@Xtraqk220 Hoser is Canadian, if that makes you feel better 😅

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

@Xtraqk220I didn’t say it was accurate but it was a good satire of it. Most North Americans aren’t even familiar with the kiwi accent and when they have heard it and try, it’s always an Aussie accent. This was noticeably kiwi but exaggerated.

[@ClarkThompson-j7p]

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[@Williams647-e9f]

I'm favour , $27K every week ! I can now give back to the locals in my community and also support God's work and the church. God bless ilryou lkr America

[@HondaAtom]

As a beginner what do I need to do? How can I invest, on which platform? If you know any please share.

[@LucasMario-y8b]

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[@OliverJames-t6m]

when someone is straight forward and good at what she does best. People will always speak for them. For me I can would say give Mrs Sharon Duke of finance education a try and you be happy you did

[@IrinaChelsriu]

I started with 5,000$ and Withdrew profits 89,000$

[@pissedoffnation]

I love the little eating sound an animation china bear has its so cute

[@jackphillips6742]

Greetings from rural NZ

[@DavidLimofLimReport]

11:53 - Hey I know that Ford factory. it’s in Seaview, just outside Wellington.

[@artekchanel9358]

My regional security courses in university : there is no country in the world that can even come close to being completely food secure. New Zealand just silently exist being almost completely food secure. 🤔🤔🤔

[@dieptrieu6564]

It depend on what your criteria for "food secure" is. If it just mean enough food to survive, then a lots of countries can do that. However, if you also want variety, then yes, no countries can have food secure, even NZ.

[@mladenmatosevic4591]

When you are size of Japan, Italy or UK with population of 3.5 mil. it is not hard to be food secure.

[@CrayCow]

I wouldn't say we are "successful" when our residents pay export prices for our own food. Worsened by a price gauging supermarket duopoly. We have an economic system that's deadlocked to inflating house prices than actual productivity. We top the charts in homelessness and suicide rates. Our current government removed smoke-free initiatives, imposed public service cuts so that they could give tax cuts to landlords. Our public health care is on the brink of collapse. Ambulances wait in line to enter hospitals, patients wait a whole day in emergency department and rural areas with no doctors. I don't know how to describe this country in one word but I know it's certainly not "successful".

[@qcthesxientist]

idk man the economy is better than other agricultural places like Argentina and its not that hard to get a job thatll pay for rent and food. We have a pretty sweet country, don't need to be too down about the economy. If we have to spend more on food because we export it at high costs and we have to pay so much for houses because of the tourists who come here and want to stay the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

[@MrJaimejhs]

In the export graph at 2:33 some other chunks are also derivated from farming such as wood (from tree farms) casein, protein powders. wool, leather and some smaller ones too

[@Nthsey]

Damn I just rewatched your China videos all about how when you mess up the agriculture, you mess up the country. Perfect timing!

[@genedalefield]

5:33 most of New Zealand's soil isn't actually adequate for crop lands, livestock and wine, sure. However the statement about millions of years of volcanic activity making it fertile is just wrong, millions of years is still young soil without significant organic material. Nothing like the black earth of Ukraine, American Mississippi watershed, or Indonesian peatlands. Even then, our most fertile soil around Auckland is wasted on suburban sprawl. New Zealand is a lovely country with a significant livestock economy, but that is not the same as "fertile soils".

[@laurencefraser]

A large portion of the land used for dairy farming isn't actually suitable for it, and requires extensive irrigation as a result.

[@fairynuff167]

Come on! We do have fertile soil. Everything I pick and put in the ground grows, from flowers and vegies to trees. It is fertile!

[@gj1234567899999]

It’s not free trade. Its farmers have huge plots of land. The same is true in the USA. The thriving farms in US are massive farms. You can make a good living from a 10,000 acre farm. Low population with lots of land = farmers with lots of land and can make decent income. In other countries poor farmers have 1 or 5 or 10 acres. Barely enough to feed the family let alone get money from the surplus.

[@Farazormal1]

Also for those sized farms you can't justify the capital for mechanisation that makes farming so much more efficient. a 10,000 acre block can justify buying a fleet of headers at 500k a pop, and require much fewer . 100 different farmers on 100 acre blocks will be stuck holding their dicks and probably working the same hours for a miniscule fraction of the revenue.

[@qrzone8167]

100% A farmer who owns 10,000 acres benefits from scale. They are always the ones that can afford cutting edge ag tech which just makes farming easier and more profitable. Meanwhile the poor shmuck that has 10 acres is simultaneously getting shafted by a house and tractor mortgage 😂

[@scottparker1741]

As someone living in NZ I thank you for this video ❤🇳🇿

[@frontman4736]

also as someone living in recession 😹😹

[@Randomstuffs261]

*NEW ZEALAND STRONG* *FARMING STRONG*

[@actsu7589]

Despite producing this much food to export, New Zealand's living costs are actually high compared to its median salaries. Hell, NZ food exported to other countries are actually cheaper than the ones sold in NZ.

[@arbe4326]

Nice for a country that is omitted in a lot of maps

[@rosscalverley]

New Zealand is propped up by farmers, no doubt. But we do have some serious issues too. Cost of living is ridiculous, the bureaucracy is out of control and infrastructure is years behind what it needs to be. We also lose many skilled workers to Australia.

[@ry4n737]

I wish it didn't cost $40 for a leg of lamb in nz...

[@KungLao-b5v]

Great content bro! Chur

[@imperfect1395]

New Zealand mentioned 🥳🥳

[@h0ser]

first

[@_jord.n_3970]

no

[@TheLIMREPORT]

2nd

[@kims4149]

Damn.

[@DwoopyNxva]

second

[@minnijawsx9060]

Second

[@KiwiCommander0]

Thank you hoser for making my country on a KZbin video

[@vplayzprobro7263]

What a banger! Keep the good work up!!!

[@aswath134]

tangential to this is the concept of economic complexity. what matters (according to that model at least) is not how much value you produce in the short run, but how diversified your knowhow is. For example, in year 1 economy A produces $100 worth of mutton per capita and economy B produces $10 worth of bamboo $20 worth of cotton and 10$ worth of wheat per capita. If they’re all functioning market economies with business friendly governments economy B would grow faster simply because it has more avenues to grow (bamboo-> paper-> notebooks) (wheat->biscuits) (cotton-> yarn-> t-shirts) than economy A which has potentially less options to diversify its knowhow. Through backtesting this complexity index which i’m not sure how exactly it is calculated, just enough to know it takes into account exports and their complexity, is a good determinant of economic growth.

[@aryamannpaliwal306]

Hoser: Makes a Video of how NZ is rich even with farming New Zealand: Goes into recession.

[@ManimsohungryIcouldeata]

wow, i never knew NZ was agricultural. i finally learned something from hoser that won't make me sound like a nerd when i brag about knowing it to my friends

[@j-Gappy-h]

Hoser never fails to fail at agricultural development

[@jackie_baphiwe1630]

How do you research for these videos man, they're fantastic and so informative.

[@lucianolago2871]

Been missin' u hoser

[@pissedoffnation]

Those cows are fucking ludicrous, i love them

[@KeithMelville]

Thank you for your commentary. I have to say it was hard work getting to where we are. At one time we had a protected economy which was impoverishing us. Believe it or not at one time we had a car industry, which was really a car assembly industry. Our cars were among the most expensive in the world. We removed protectionist tarfiffs and subsidies in the 1980s. The car indistry collapsed along with the protected clothing and other industries. The result led to an economy based on what we do best - agriculture. Thank you for mentioning our agricultural co-operatives. New Zealanders owe much of our wealth to these. Imagine if the corporate model took control of our co-operatives. Instead of farmers and our provincial towns reaping the benefits, the benefits would go to shareholders in other countries.

[@laptv2144]

I’m so happy that I guessed New Zealand

[@asdaneedsfunds]

I've barely noticed any agricultural imports from NZ here in the UK, but we're about as far away as possible and have a very similar climate, so there's not much of a reason to do so

[@mapper7310]

The UK actually used to be NZ's biggest importer, taking about 90% of butter and 70% of Cheese, and around 60% of NZ's total exports, until 1973 when the UK joined the EEC which meant they couldn't trade as much with NZ. Whilst this didnt really affect the UKs economy, because they just switched to importing from Europe, it nearly crippled NZ's economy and we only barely got out of it by negotiating a deal with the UK and the EEC that would let us keep trading for a few more years with the UK. After that NZ barely traded with the UK (only like 3%) and switched to other countries, predominantly China, though some still feel like we were betrayed by the UK. If anything, it certainly solidified our independence from the UK. Before WW1 and WW2, many NZers identified as British and this "betrayal" was pretty much the nail in the coffin for the NZ-UK relationship. As of 2024 however, NZ just signed a very favourable free trade agreement with the UK following Brexit, so who knows what the future will be like. Maybe you'll see more NZ products on your shelves? Edit: I just realised he covered this in the vid anyway lmao

[@Xalta_Sailor]

Gov gave the NZ imports to the illegals. Only the best for thems….

[@5-Minutegeography]

Can't believe your New Zealand video didn't mention the word "Kiwi" until minute 13:57

[@kaliyuga1476]

Damn, what a great video, I feel like you are getting very profesional with these late ones. I’m no geopolitics/economics expert but I feel like you are very unbiased

[@oskarkoperczak6746]

I love your channel. Intresting and educational. Do what your doing, it's great!

[@LilyKittyCatto]

I binge watched all of your videos so im happy to see a new one 😹

[@JoeeyTheeKangaroo]

Go go gadget British colony.

[@DrippyPootis]

Go go gadget (few indigenous people island) British colony*

[@StarMaker8442]

Missed these country specific videos.

[@TNKfoxxx]

Great video and good point on having a different outlook on economic progression around comparative value generation.

[@Unfamiliar_Fruit]

New Zealand is the greatest place on planet earth. I named my son Zealand

[@ProudTurkroach]

Agricultural economies can become rich if they export their goods and rise up the product value chain

[@FinnWhite-bq2pf]

Come on, nz 🇳🇿 🥝

[@EggsBenAddict]

Hoser, by making this video, you've just summoned the entire country of New Zealand, good luck!

[@migueljuarez448]

Me watching this at work and getting paid for it

[@Michael-jg8pw]

Interesting, straight to the point and no ads. Great vid 👌

[@spacebud1]

I am a Kiwi of New Zealand that is also a farmer, and I thank you for being able to talk about us.

[@slader-13]

Can you make more videos about Finland? As a finn i would like that❤

[@Succatag67789]

Finno-korean hyperwar

[@gouthammahesh3298]

hoser this is one of your best vids dude

[@Andrewdeank]

New Zealand is the most underrated accent. Change my mind.

[@KNWBDY.important]

There's like 6 New Zealand accents, which one?

[@lorehammer7694]

New Zealander here love my country but it fucking sucks since everything is so expensive

[@Xtraqk220]

Same here mate🇳🇿🇳🇿

[@TyreseSummers]

Honestly I'm 21 and am definitely moving to aus in 2 years shits going down hill, and I've lost hope here. I can still succeed I rekon here but I think the government just wants to screw everyone over. I love living here but I hate the politicians on all sides.

[@thelostgeneration2000]

It sucks when your country is sold out to greedy corporations

[@elsiedwyer3329]

Ive been lucky enough to grow up on an NZ dairy farm 🇳🇿 great video as usual!

[@flamesintheattic]

Uhh New Zealand is a 73% service based economy. It's not an agricultural country, the farmers are just ridiculously productive and other countries only employ like 1% in farming. This is mostly because they have large populations of Pacific Islanders they can exploit as farm labour. They're also paving over much of the best farmland for housing.

[@alexandersteel7272]

One additional factor for low-cost dairy and meat production is the weather. As it is (relatively) mild year round, cows can stay out in the fields rather than having to be brought into barns and fed silage.

[@forestreee]

Damn New Zealand during the era of farming subsidies sounds just like my country (India) right now.

[@fly463]

The govt tried to bring new reformed farm laws which will increase farmer's productivity through private companies & the farmers protested against it 🤣

[@fly463]

But they haven't given up They broke up all those new reformed laws they thought of & converted them into hundreds of small laws which they are implementing one by one sneakily at the state level so the farmers don't notice it 😅.

[@rotaxmax72]

The netherlands is an even better example, this being because its a very tiny country but are ranked 2nd when it comes to agricultural output

[@Xalta_Sailor]

The EU is doing its best to “fix” this. Keep your head down.

[@danpop1235]

The netherlands has a higher population then NZ

[@sederryan3270]

You should've used the Lazer kiwi

[@LazMan-w2g]

Not so successful anymore, NZ Government having to borrow tens of billions of dollars to keep essential services going. A lot of NZ farms are now owned by corporations who are importing cheap labour to run their increasingly automated farms. Also the soils here are heavily reliant on fertiliser now due to decades of intensive farming.

[@laurencefraser]

That'll happen when you (in this case the National government a couple of decades back) completely bugger the funding system for your entire health system, and the subsequent government changes the funding policy back to something sane but refuses to then actually fix the damage already done. And when you INSIST on cutting taxes when the country really, Really cannot afford it. And jack up public transport prices and scrap every improvement project you can get your hands on (never mind centuries of evidence that more and cheaper public transport leads to Increased Economic Activity and thus More Tax Income while having less and making it more expensive does the opposite. No no, build more car focused infrastructure, which is actively detrimental to anyone who isn't selling cars, fuel, or road repair services, instead!) Remeber, the Labour government was actually managing to return a surplus and reduce government debt while improving the state of things before the pandemic got involved (admittedly, improvements were Slow, but they were happening). The pandemic necessitated borrowing a lot of money... but that sort of situation is exactly when one Should be borrowing money. That and when financing infrastructure and similar improvements that will lead to improved profitability (and thus the ability to repay the debt and come out ahead). Increasing automation and importing cheap labour are two completely different issues... contradictory ones, even. More automation leads to needing More Expensive labour... just a lot Less of it. can't speak to the fertaliser issue one way or the other beyond that what I do know about such things rather implies that it's unlikely to be as direct a chain of cause and effect as you're presenting it as.

[@razareg0808]

I see kiwi, I click

[@SplashYTK]

hey love your vids.... it helps people to learn new stuff

[@janedrill]

And food is very very expensive in New Zealand

[@kevinnewb]

brother please do not display my birth year and say it was a lifetime ago im crying

[@midnightflare9879]

This has to be the best argument for worker co-ops I've ever seen

[@carraway8084]

Hi, very interesting as always! Could you next make a video about Italy’s surprisingly large (and unusual) export economy ?

[@physic3524]

Oh yeah one more thing: our gloriously exported food is more expensive in our own supermarkets than the ones it's being exported to overseas. Disgusting.

[@booradley6832]

Very interesting outlook you have on farming.... because beef and milk dont stop in the winter either. In milk winter is the stronger months and summer is weaker. Cows arent big on heat, but they make a lot of it.

[@neilc.8368]

With a country whose people is literally named after an edible fruit, it’s not surprising they do well with food.

[@blakegilmore9360]

we're named after the bird not kiwifruit

[@gurugurumawaru7869]

Kiwi fruit is named after the bird. It came from China, and they need to market it somehow. They see that the fruit resembles the bird, so they marketed it like so.

[@teslakiteable]

It’s the other way around. The kiwifruit is named after the bird

[@user-qw9yf6zs9t]

​​@@teslakiteablefirst oranges.. now kiwis.. dont tell me watermelons are also made of water😭

[@albery1472]

Too right! What I find really weird, though, is that the UK copied a quarter of our flag for their own...

[@gato249ar]

Argentina and New Zealand have a surprisingly similar history about farming during the 30's-50's

[@Xtraqk220]

We also just have very good meat and dairy products too

[@siddharthtripathi5806]

And both of them are now being ruled by Libertarian leaders.

[@DemocraciesinData]

Interesting take on some events I had studied at grad school here in quite some depth.

[@SafwanBaari-v1o]

babe WAKE UP hoser just DROPPED

[@alexmiller8644]

😁

[@portablepc]

Aren't there two? The Netherlands also is a huge exporter of agriculture; it's the second biggest food exporter in the world and the biggest flower exporter. It doesn't quite make up for it in amount of people in agriculture (around 200,000) but can't be overlooked right? EDIT: missed the point completely lol

[@Zip_wr123]

Moldova is in your video hell yeahhhhhhh

[@mladenmatosevic4591]

New Zealand has size of Japan, UK or Italy so it does not need to create production in other branches. In fact, it does not even need to shift all agriculture to productions requiring larger workforce on smaller plots of land, such as berry growing. But New Zealand farmers do not have "lifestyle choice" farms, and average dairy farm has around 500 cows with just one family working on it.

[@SteelKicker01]

If you want to become NZ - just say "Fush n Chups"

[@patrick247two]

Not too shabby. I really enjoyed seeing the images of politicians of the time. Especially the pair showing the previous and current National/Act/NZF coalition Prime Ministers making contradictory statements. Well done. Another factor, I feel, contributing to the health of the country was decimalization during 1967. And don't forget Ron Brierly, who helped bring the world the concept of asset stripping businesses for profit.