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December 5, 2018

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Labors Carbon Tax on Farms

Carbon emissions and targets are back in the news and farmers should be keeping a wary eye on what the competing promises could cost them in the future.  The first one is the National Farmers Federation target of being carbon neutral by 2030, by all accounts this is achievable at minimum cost to farm businesses by utilising land management offsets. Then we have the Liberal Party’s emissions reduction target of 26% by 2030 which is

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WA Farmers December 5, 2018

WAFarmers supportive of live sheep trade moratorium

WAFarmers is supportive of the new three-month moratorium in sheep shipments to the Middle East during the Northern Hemisphere summer, endorsed by the members of the Australian Livestock Exporters’ Council (ALEC). WAFarmers President Tony York said the moratorium will mean no shipments of Australian sheep will depart Australia for the Middle East during the highest heat-stress risk period, which will take effect 1 June 2019. “WAFarmers are confident this moratorium will provide certainty to sheep

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WA Farmers December 5, 2018
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