Aussie rain takes edge off world prices
HOPE is returning to regional Australia as farmers welcomed scattered rains across the country through April. While one rainfall does not break a drought, it does go a long way to giving grain producers the impetus to sow winter crops and confidence to livestock farmers to hold onto, or even restock, on buoyed prospects of […]
Farmers propose way forward on national water plan
TODAY the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) reaffirmed its support for the ‘intent’ of the Australian Government’s National Plan for Water Security (NPWS), on the basis that it accelerates the implementation of the National Water Initiative (NWI). The NFF has sought, and received, assurances from the Government on vital issues of importance to irrigators, including a […]