February 13, 2014

CBH Group is calling on Western Australian grain growers who have a genuine desire and commitment to see the co-operative continue to grow and develop to consider nominating for a position on the Growers Advisory Council (GAC). The GAC was established by the CBH Group in 2003 to help facilitate communication between the CBH Board and growers at the grass roots level. Council positions for three year terms are currently available in Districts 1, 2,

The governance review steering committee for the Grains Research and Development Committee (GRDC) has announced that independent consultant Marsden Jacobs have been appointed to undertake a governance review.  The review steering committee, comprising of representatives of key industry organisations including WAFarmers, is chaired by Grain Producers Australia (GPA) Director Mr Terry Enright and will oversee the review of GRDC’s governance structure which has remained unchanged for 20 years. This industry led review seeks to ensure

The WAFarmers Grains Council has made a submission to the Wheat Industry Advisory Taskforce (WIAT) regarding their discussion paper ‘A Preliminary Assessment of Wheat Export Quality Management Practices’.  Comments to the WIAT include:  It is important that Australia has an internationally-recognised classification system with common standards and Wheat Quality Australia (WQA) is providing this function well; WQA’s charter should be to focus solely on variety classification; The long term funding of WQA needs to be

WAFarmers has made a submission to the Economic Regulation Authority (ERA) regarding Brookfield Rail Pty Ltd’s (BR) floor and ceiling cost determination.  Given the lack of specific information made available by BR it was argued that the current WA Rail Access Regime is failing the users of the system, including the CBH Group, and ultimately grain producers of WA by not providing effective fair and transparent competition.  It also argued that the current regime does