February 28, 2014

The Department of Agriculture & Food (DAFWA) have commissioned a team to help identify where industry is suffering from the ‘red tape’ and bureaucratic inefficiencies emanating from poor policy and practice that plagues the transport industry. Whilst WAFarmers has successfully worked on, and continues to work on identifying the ‘red tape’, and providing solutions for industry, feedback from individual farm families is useful to augment the issues that are identified through Zone meetings. WAFarmers has

It is still unclear whether WA will be eligible to access much of the $324 million allocated in the Federal Drought Support Scheme announcement. The existing Farm Finance Concessional Loans Scheme is not specific to a particular farming sector, region or reason for hardship. In contrast, the assistance available under the Drought Concessional Loans Scheme is targeted to those farm businesses that have limited or no short-term income as a direct result of drought conditions,