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The National Farmers’ Federation’s flagship gap-year program AgCAREERSTART has hit a milestone, with 80 participants now on-farm for 2024 and the program boasting an 83% retention rate of graduates staying on in the agriculture industry. Despite the positive outcomes, the NFF is calling on the Federal Government to commit to the program in the May […]
Tags: Farm Business, Workforce
30 April 2024
NFF recognises that national circumstances underpinning the initial conception and development of the NWI have changed considerably in the past 20 years. This is apparent as new challenges have arisen, including but not limited to increasing urban water-use and demand, increasing population growth, changing climatic conditions (declining long-term reported rainfall trends, particularly during the critical […]
Tags: Water
26 April 2024
Today the Senate Rural, Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee holds the public hearing on the Biosecurity Protection Levy. Below is National Farmers’ Federation CEO, Tony Mahar’s opening statement: On behalf of the NFF, thank you for the opportunity to appear before the Committee today. Australia’s biosecurity system is fundamental to the success of our agriculture industries, to […]
Tags: Biosecurity, health and welfare
23 April 2024
The National Farmers’ Federation is calling on the Federal, state and territory governments to urgently ramp up the war on an invasive species that could slash agricultural output by upwards of 40%. The Senate Inquiry report into Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA) in Australia urges governments work together and commit to uninterrupted funding to escalate […]
Tags: Natural Resource Management
19 April 2024
Women wanting to increase their leadership skills and contribute to narrowing the gender gap in agriculture still have time to apply for the National Farmers’ Federation flagship Diversity in Agriculture Leadership Program. The mentorship-based initiative aims to deliver on the NFF’s goal to double the number of women in agriculture’s leadership ranks by 2030 – […]
Tags: leadership
The NFF supports efforts to ensure facilities and tower access regimes are fit for purpose and effectively facilitate competition and investment in the mobile services market for the benefit for rural, regional and remote consumers. Read the full submission here.
Conserved Area recognition must remain a voluntary process. The compulsory acquisition of private and/or leasehold land from primary producers and farming families by Australian Governments as a mechanism to deliver upon the national 30 x 30 target is not a policy supported by the agriculture sector. Such measures will have detrimental impacts for domestic food […]
Farmers are warning they will change what they grow or even walk away from farming if their access to overseas workers is reduced, new data from the National Farmers’ Federation has revealed. A survey of farmers from nearly every commodity across the country comes as visa fee rises and changes to the UK backpacker rules […]
Tags: Workforce
18 April 2024
The National Farmers’ Federation welcomes the Federal Government’s well-considered response to the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) review. NFF Chief Executive Officer Tony Mahar said it was imperative to the farm sector the APVMA gets back on track and empowering Ken Matthews AO’s review into the Authority’s future structure and governance was a […]
Tags: Farm Business, Trade and Economic
17 April 2024
The National Farmers’ Federation has warned the farm sector will be exposed to disruption unless farmers take an active interest in how their data is managed and secured. Speaking from the FutureAG conference in Melbourne today, NFF Data Policy Manager Gabi Ceregra said the increasing digitisation of Australian farms brought enormous benefits, but also risks […]
Tags: Farm Business
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