September 22, 2014

WAFarmers President Dale Park and Chief Executive Officer Stephen Brown will be holding a meeting with the Department of Mines and Petroleum for an update on the Coal Seam Gas industry in early October. If any members have any specific queries or concerns they would like us to discuss please email Stephen ([email protected]) with your comments. An update will appear in the WAFarmers newsletter once the meeting has been held.

WAFarmers has helped to protect the farmgate returns of grain growers and secure the least cost pathway to port by contributing to the successful lobbying of government to exempt grower co-operatives from port regulation. For the past few months, the WAFarmers Grains Section has been working hard to prove to government that grower co-operatives should receive an exemption because they are owned and controlled by growers for their benefit, rather than external shareholders. “WAFarmers is