We need to bridge the gap between rural and urban

June 21 2018 - 6:00am
We need to bridge the gap between rural and urban
We need to bridge the gap between rural and urban

The urban-rural divide does not serve farmers and it does not serve consumers. Australians generally value farmers, the original Aussie battlers. But when generations of people are disconnected from farming, they tend to create one of two ideas about who farmers are. In their minds, we are either the idealised farmer milking by hand, or we are villains who use and abuse animals for economic gain.

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