May 21, 2019

The recent sighting of camels near Esperance provides an opportune time to remind the State and Federal Governments of their responsibilities to manage Crown Land and protect the State’s primary production zones. This has been a growing problem for decades, today there is over one million feral camels stomping around not just the outback, but through fences into our Wheatbelt in Western Australia. This population has been growing by 8 per cent each year. More

WAFarmers remains hopeful that arrangements can be negotiated, and sheep and cattle will continue to be shipped from Fremantle port before the end of the year. A viable option, could see Kuwait Livestock Transport and Trading (KLTT) the owners of the ships which have been responsible for moving 80% of WA livestock moving to a position to obtain their own export licence. Failing these potential arrangements, we hope KLTT will charter their vessels to a

WAFarmers remains hopeful that arrangements can be negotiated, and sheep and cattle will continue to be shipped from Fremantle port before the end of the year. A viable option, could see Kuwait Livestock Transport and Trading (KLTT) the owners of the ships which have been responsible for moving 80% of WA livestock moving to a position to obtain their own export licence. Failing these potential arrangements, we hope KLTT will charter their vessels to a

Politics for most of us is a painful process of watching divided parties spend more time hunting each other like children on the island in the book The Lord of the Flies than building the coalition of the willing to defend the homeland. Australian political history is littered with examples of political parties that have flogged it out on the same side of the fence, often competing over the political scraps of a few seats

At the farm level, the economics of farming practices clearly do play an important role in shaping what farmers choose to do. Many factors influence farmers’ decisions about the adoption of new landcare practices, but where major changes are required, commercial reality is likely to be the decisive influence. Even with intervention, salinity will still cost farmers. Strategies and action plans that have been developed in the past have failed, and the government is yet