Harold27Z said:

Instead of imagining, look at reality where the African perception of farming is to overgraze with goats and scrawny cattle, desertify and move on to repeat the process.

That happens here too.

Instead of "desertify", farmers should diversify.

Harold27Z said:

No need to flatter me. It will make me suspicious.

No.  I was literally referring to desertification, not crop-rotation or allowing land to be fallow for a year..

Diversifying a farm is the best way to save it.

Farmers who stubbornly wait for rains that never come to serve one crop or species of livestock are putting everything they have on the line with no control over the success.

Jenifer (Zarknorph) said:

Farmers who stubbornly wait for rains that never come to serve one crop or species of livestock are putting everything they have on the line with no control over the success.

Farmers are totally dependent on their government for leadership in that respect.

If the climate is changing they need to be told and they urgently need research as to what's happening to the climate.

There ain't much you can tell us Boers about farming.  The Dutch The word literally means "farmer".

I can't see your profile, you must have made it private.

Who is that picture?  It looks like a character that belongs in "Are you being Served?"

I have to be extremely cautious what I post. There's a real risk I could be murdered.

However, I don't conceal my nationality - something Harold has done until now and I find odd.

BerrySteph said:

There's a real risk I could be murdered.

By who?  You irritate people on the forum, but no one here is going to kill you over that.