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CLIMATE Change and Water Minister Senator Penny Wong can expect to hear first-hand from angry farmers who are still awaiting on-farm water infrastructure – under the Government’s 12-month-old ‘Water For The Future’ plan – as she travels through the northern parts of the Murray-Darling Basin this week. “Premised on the two simultaneous prongs of water […]
2 March 2009
“THE Australian Government’s Drought Review must establish a comprehensive agricultural policy that sets us up for more than just the next drought,” National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) President David Crombie said today. “Drought has cost this country dearly through the loss of 90,000 on-farm jobs, slashing Australia’s economic growth, and placing individuals, families, businesses, local communities […]
1 March 2009
STRIKING a new trade deal with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) overnight, Australia has locked in low tariffs in the face of mounting global economic turmoil – effectively preventing ASEAN from sliding into protectionism – while, over time, reducing many tariff levels to zero. “Pragmatically, it’s not a bad result at all,” […]
28 February 2009
THE Westpac-NFF Commodity Index broadly held steady this month with both significant upward and downward commodity price movements recorded. While the prospects are for prices to consolidate off their 2008 lows, concerning signs are emerging that protectionism may endanger already fragile global markets. National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) Vice-President Charles Burke said: “It has been well […]
27 February 2009
“THE Federal Government must think outside the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) prism if it is serious about reducing emissions” – that’s the message the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) will take to Climate Change Minister Penny Wong and Agriculture Minister Tony Burke in Canberra tomorrow. “With politicians debating the pros and cons of emissions trading […]
24 February 2009
The NFF’s 18 February 2009 submission on the Regulatory Impact Statement highlights that over-regulation, or unpredictable regulation, can adversely impact on the cost of transport and the incentives for new investment. The submission calls for a coherent, transparent and stable regulatory environment to encourage investment in appropriate modes of transport.
Tags: Farm Business
18 February 2009
TODAY the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) applauded the efforts of researchers at the University of NSW who claim to have found correlating links between the Indian Ocean dipole and the weather and rainfall patterns experienced in Australia. “These findings, if verified and supported through scientific review, could be the missing piece in the puzzle for […]
5 February 2009
WITH the Australian Government releasing its $42 billion economic stimulus package mark II, capital works investment in regional Australia is vital to ensure farm production can continue to keep the national economy afloat. Today’s announcement mirrors the National Farmers’ Federation’s (NFF’s) imperatives for sustaining Australia through the global economic meltdown and creating jobs by putting […]
3 February 2009
AS THE Australian Government ponders its economic stimulus package mark II, the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) is urging capital works investment in regional Australia as farm activity continues to underpin the national economy “Agricultural production is the only thing keeping the Australian economy out of the red at the moment,” NFF CEO Ben Fargher explained. […]
2 February 2009
AS OF today the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) is calling for nominations under its inaugural 2009 NFF/DAFF Innovation in Agriculture Awards, which encourage and recognise excellence in modern farm activity. Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the NFF is instituting the Awards to acknowledge the pioneering advances and outstanding contributions made by modern farmers. The […]
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