December 2018

WAFarmers welcomes Premier Mark McGowan’s announcement launching Streamline WA. Western Australian agriculture contributes approximately $8.5billion to the State’s economy, however one of the largest inhibitors on the sectors ability to grow and prosper is the impact of over-regulation. WAFarmers President Tony York said primary producers have a vast range of licences, permits and applications they must lodge and keep current in order to operate. “Many of these requirements could be removed or streamlined, creating greater efficiencies for

WAFarmers strongly supports AgForce Queensland Farmers’ campaign to have the Queensland Government hand the agricultural colleges at Longreach and Emerald back to industry, if the Government is unwilling to maintain them. WAFarmers CEO Trevor Whittington said the colleges play a critical role within the agriculture education and training system, a system that supports the future of our industry. “This decision will have wide ramifications not only for the Queensland industry, but agriculture right across Australia,”

WAFarmers has stated its concerns about the process adopted to evaluate the Expressions of Interest submitted for the South West Saleyard project. WAFarmers supported the Southern Dirt Expression of Interest (EOI) as it was based on establishing a cooperative model to be known as ‘The Southern Livestock Producers Cooperative’. WAFarmers Livestock President David Slade said the goal of Southern Dirt’s EOI was to build a modern, competitive livestock selling centre in the South West that