Farming Cartoons
A selection of cartoons by Chris Slane on issues related to farming - previously published in NZFarmers Weekly magazine.
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Country Road Congestion
Cartoon shows truck driver saying to a passenger "Lovely driving on a nice country road - so peaceful" while behind them snakes a queue of other service vehicles...Cartoon, truck,country ,road,queue,service,vehicles.,congestion,traffic,farming,
South Island Extreme Sports
Cartoon shows a billboard with the slogan "South Island Extreme Sports' as rain and wind sweep past.
Shrek Distancing
Cartoon shows a substitute old sheep home schooling farmer's kids in their living room saying "You wanna know about social-distancing? I'll tell you about real social distancing"
Weather Together
Cartoon shows a back of a farmer with an arm around the shoulder of a map of New Zealand
Duck Hunter Isolation
Cartoon shows two duck hunters heading off to their hides by a pond - one is saying "Two weeks isolation - No worries".
Bovine TB
Cartoon shows cows enclosed in a small area marked 'Bovine TB Quarantine' one cow says "Do you think AirNZ will get us out of here on a charter"?
Billion Wilding Pines
Cartoon,wilding,pines,pests,weeds,fires,New Zealand,farming,invasive,species,..Cartoon shows a wilding pine watching a helicopter with a lumberjack approaching "I thought they wanted a billion more trees".
Tractor Pilot
'News- pilots retraining as farm workers...' cartoon show pilot in a tractor asking a farmer "Ok now where is the pilot button again?"
Furture Food
Cartoon shows waiter serving two diners in a retaurant "Crunchy cricket nachos is our most popular dish" - 'Future Food'
Ploughing Champs
Ploughing champs and the carbon bill. The Feds are play lip service to action on climate change, but funny how it's never the quite 'right' action they can support.
Zero Carbon Cow
Cartoon depicts a cow with a gas tank and mask to collect emissions -'Zero Carbon solutions #1 Gas Collectors'
Cloudy Waters
Cartoon depicts a farmer and an Environmental Science Research scientist holding a sample of river water "How does it look?" "A lot clearer than the debate"
Fonterra Guillotine
Cartoon depicts Fonterra guillotine for CEO Hurrell :"As your CEO I thank you for the confidence expressed by our new performance and head count reduction system"
Wool Couch
Cartoon shows two farmers at home sitting on sheep saying "Unlike the old foam couch these hardly ever catch fire".
Emissions Agreement With Farming
Cartoon,carbon,environment,nzpol,politics,climate,change,global,warming,agriculture,..'Emssions Agreement' New Zealand Government Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern waters a tiny plant a farmer has helped to plant - a discarded sign 'ETS' - Emmissions Trading Scheme.
Black Hole Solution
"We could do with one of these on the farm to suck up all greenhouse gases and nitrogeon runoff notes one dairy farmer to another female farmer as he reads a newspaper headlining a photo of a black hole - while in the background a sewage treatment pond overflowing it's banks in the rain while cows in the distance graze in sodden grass fields...blackhole,cartoon,farmersweekly,greenhousegases,environment ,globalwarming ,carbon.
Gumboot toss
Cartoon depicts a farmer about to toss his gumboot "fetch" Sheep-"What's he doing?" Sheep 2 -"Practicing for next year's rural games"
Extreme Weather
how about something on the mad weather - tornadoes in Canterbury today, big rain here, maybe a farmer looking across his field while holding a paper that says ZCB passes, and he says, hopefully we'll get 24-47% less extreme weather too...Farmers will know the % figure, it's the range of methane emissions in the ZCB target.
Methane Satellite
Cartoon depicts a methane satellite broadcasting to a cow who has just burned "daisy Daisy You have exceeded your daily methane allowance!"
