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Farmers across Australia have welcomed today’s announcement of a Competition Taskforce to review Australia’s competition policy settings. Farmers have long identified concentrated markets and supply chains as a handbrake to the economy with small businesses and consumers feeling the impact. “Australia has a competition problem – there’s not enough of it,” said NFF President Fiona […]
Tags: economic
23 August 2023
The National Farmers’ Federation Horticulture Council has today joined with the NFF and other agriculture industry bodies in welcoming the announcement by Treasurer Jim Chalmers of a competition policy review. The review will look at competition laws, policies and institutions to ensure they remain fit for purpose, with a focus on reforms that would increase productivity, […]
Tags: economic
Farmers have responded with dismay at the Government’s decision to reach prematurely for water buybacks, before alternative options have been considered. National Farmers’ Federation President, Fiona Simson, said today’s announcement to deliver the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in full with buybacks squarely on the agenda would be met with disbelief given the Government’s recent consultation. “Just a few […]
Tags: Environment
22 August 2023
The NFF favours the implementation of a Plan, that gives equal weight to environmental, social, and economic outcomes. The NFF believes that there are several improvements which need to be made to make it fairer and more workable. Read full submission here.
Tags: Environment
18 August 2023
Australia’s peak farm body has called on delegates at the ALP National Conference this week to vote down a radical anti-farming motion backed by the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN). Farmers say the “Climate, Clearing and Cows” motion, which calls for methane emissions to be halved in the next 6.5 years, is misinformed and in conflict […]
Tags: Environment
15 August 2023
The National Farmers’ Federation National Conference program is locked in, bringing together some of Australia and the world’s most eminent thought leaders in Canberra on October 26-27. This year’s theme ‘Australia to the World’ will look at Australia’s role in feeding the world, its trading relationships, and global leadership in sustainability and innovation. NFF CEO […]
14 August 2023
The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has welcomed the announcement by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Agriculture Minister Murray Watt of $38 million from the Future Drought Fund to boost the farm sector’s resilience to climate change and dry conditions. However, NFF Vice President David Jochinke noted the funding would primarily be directed into research and […]
Tags: economic, Farm Business
11 August 2023
Comments attributable to NFF Chief Executive, Tony Mahar We welcome today’s announcement that China will lift anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs on Australian barley. Scrapping these tariffs is welcome news for some 23,000 Australian grain producers who have been impacted by the tariffs imposed in 2020. These tariffs significantly impacted the barley trade between Australia and China which […]
4 August 2023
Sweeping paddocks of grain crops are a familiar sight that greet people across much of regional Australia, but how many stop to think that those crops end up in their sandwich or breakfast bowl? In fact, the average Aussie wheat farmer produces enough grain to make 3 million loaves of bread and 2 million tins […]
31 July 2023
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) has been advised by the Indonesian Agriculture and Quarantine Agency (IAQA) that Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) has been detected in a small number of Australian cattle exported to Indonesia—after those cattle had arrived and spent some time in Indonesia. “Australia is and remains free from lumpy skin disease, as […]
Tags: Biosecurity, health and welfare
30 July 2023
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