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AS SLUMPING global supply and bourgeoning demand take their toll on world agricultural commodity prices, Australian consumers are increasingly attuned to the impacts on their weekly food bills. Illustrating this international trend, the January Westpac-NFF Commodity Index – recording the weighted average world price of agricultural commodities – hit its highest point on record, 19.5% […]
29 January 2008
The NFF’s 21 January 2008 submission to the Australian Government presses the case for responsible capacity building investment in Australia – including climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, a wholistic transport infrastructure overhaul, education and training initiatives, and focused engagement on international trade opportunities – under the 2008-09 Federal Budget.
Tags: Farm Business
21 January 2008
THE National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) – having identified numerous substantive concerns through a survey of its members and making those findings available to Minister Stephen Conroy – is relieved by the Australian Government’s extension of the CDMA network to 28 April so that the kinks in Telstra’s Next G™ replacement can be rectified. “It’s sensible […]
18 January 2008
THE National Farmers’ Federation’s (NFF’s) submission to the much-anticipated ‘Climate Change Review’, by esteemed economist Ross Garnaut (the ‘Garnaut Report’), rams home the absolute need to turn the rhetoric around climate change adaptation and mitigation into tangible action. “This can no longer be a subject for pontificating and hollow rhetoric,” NFF President David Crombie said […]
14 January 2008
The NFF’s 11 January 2008 submission to the Garnaut Report calls for new investment in climate adaptation and mitigation strategies for Australian agriculture – including drought preparedness measures; and new research, development and implementation of technologies, systems and programs to fast-track adaption by farmers to the threat of increased climate risk.
Tags: Environment
DESPITE the Westpac-NFF Commodity Index reaching record highs in 2007, it has been a frustrating year for Australian farmers many of whom were unable to capitalise on the commodity boom due to poor seasonal conditions and the continuing drought. Commodity prices over the year were largely driven by a surge in global demand for biofuels, […]
13 December 2007
WITH the Australian Government ratifying the Kyoto Protocol and discussions now underway on a new international climate agreement in Bali, Australian farmers want the issues of climate change adaptation and mitigation brought to the fore. “Our farmers have already made a huge, and often unrecognised, contribution to reducing Australia’s net greenhouse emissions – primary industry […]
11 December 2007
“IT NEEDS to be stressed that the latest ABARE forecasts for farming in the face of climate change assume today’s technologies and production techniques will remain unchanged… of course, that’s a furphy,” National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) President David Crombie said today. “Australian farming never stands still. “In fact, Australian farmers over the past 20 years […]
7 December 2007
TODAY the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) moved to support the Rudd Labor Government’s process for implementing its industrial relations agenda – describing it as an “evolution, rather than a revolution”. “It may be little understood, but the policy Labor took to the federal election will not see any extensive changes to workplace relations laws in […]
4 December 2007
The NFF’s 1 December 2007 submission to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, outlines the issues faced by agriculture that require urgent attention by Government in the lead up to any Australian Emissions Trading Scheme.
Tags: Environment
1 December 2007
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