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When Team New Zealand tosses its first rock at the men’s world curling championship in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in March, their former housemates in Calgary – a group of more than a dozen senior citizens at the Chartwell Colonel Belcher Retirement Residence – will be raucously cheering them on.
Lifting production in turn lifts profit, unless you've reached the point where marginal cost outweighs marginal return, in which case you lift production without lifting on-farm profit. Barrie Ridler does a lot of work with farmers to help illustrate this. The additional production past this point provides economic benefits to the nation by farmers sending their money to towns for goods and services and shifting more exports. The negative is additional environmental pressure that is unnecessary with respect to the profitability of the farmer. Many of our highly intensive systems could dro...