George Dodson

Yeah, so I'm a dairy farmer down in Canterbury.

I've been managing dairy farms for the last three years and dairy farming for the last six.

And I've just gone 50-50 share milking in partnership with my parents out at Leaston.

So we share milk 400 cows there.

Farming and fence to me, well, we're actually going to put altar on this season.

So that's probably in a literal sense.

But it's about trying to push the boundaries of what we can achieve and utilizing technology and stuff to try and drive our business forward.

Yeah, look, I think Shane's 100% right on the difference in generations there.

My generation, I think we're real hungry for it.

We've seen our heart, the previous generation, we've seen our heart.

My dad worked when he was a young farmer many years ago and what they had to do on a day-to-day basis and stuff that we can do with technology now, you know, a click of the fingers.

So I think young farmers are really hungry to see what we can achieve with technology.

If you listen to the communists and that sort of thing, talking about New Zealand's GDP and productivity, it's something that really is important to productivity.

I think technology is the main lever we've got to pull to get in the right direction.

I would say that we're just starting small and just knowing that small incremental habits, I suppose, can build up to something pretty aggressive and that's...

I was investing in platforms like Sharesies to build things up.

And, you know, buying land is very expensive.

Buying a house is very expensive.

So there's got to be a way to do it that's a bit smaller.

You can put a little bit of capital in and grow up quite quickly.