Regional Telecommunication Review
The NFF consider reliable broadband and telephone services as not only essential for survival in the Australian bush, they are also crucial to the creation of new opportunities in agriculture. State-of-the-art tools such as Big Data and fast internet greatly increase on-farm productivity by enabling farmers to digitally analyse soil moisture, meteorological records and satellite […]
Farmers say 'about time' as all rural lenders introduce FMD offsets
The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has praised all major rural lenders for making what most said was impossible – possible, with the introduction of a farm management deposit (FMD) offset. NFF President Fiona Simson said the decision was welcomed at a time when many farmers were doing it tough. “In the long term, access to […]