date:Aug 17, 2018
As an industry we keenly feel the impact of federal, state and local government regulations.
Our farmers and processors everyday pay a bill in regulatory costs imposed by Australian governments from 5 25 per cent of their total profit.
Costs in our post farm gate sector in particular are skyrocketing and in some cases are 75pc more than that of our major competitors in Brazil and the USA; whilst many in the farming community on the East Coast continue to battle the drought with no break in si