Western Australia’s dairy industry has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to adapt to changing seasons, markets and consumer expectations. However, resilience today means more than simply surviving difficult years. Dairy farmers face sustained pressure from rising production costs, labour shortages, increasing regulation, climate variability and a retail environment negatively impacted by global events and international agreements. This leads to farmgate prices often failing to reflect the true cost of production. Building a resilient industry requires improving profitability at the farm level, strengthening confidence to invest, adopting new technologies, attracting the next generation of producers and ensuring government policy supports, rather than hinders, a competitive and productive dairy sector.
Join WAFarmers with agricultural experts, researchers and other farmers to learn how you can improve your business through risk management. This one day conference will bring together farmers, researchers, industry leaders and supply chain representatives to examine practical strategies that strengthen the resilience, profitability and long-term future of Western Australia’s dairy industry. Full details found here.
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“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design” Friedrich Hayek 25 Feb 2025: the State Minister for Agriculture announced a $3.3m to Beaufort Rivier Abattoir as part of the live export transition. 25 Feb 2025: Beaufort
Toodyay landholder Tony Maddox fought back tears before heading into WA’s Supreme Court to appeal a criminal conviction for building a culvert on his private land on Friday. Maddox, a former real estate agent, was convicted under the Aboriginal Land Heritage Act 1972 last year after he was charged and
This is yet another instalment in my running theme: the State rail debacle. A saga of privatisation, monopoly infrastructure, and governments that appear to have misplaced both the keys and the contract. Twenty-five years after Western Australia leased out its freight rail network, one basic question still has no straight answer:
When Tony Maddox walks into the Supreme Court tomorrow, Friday, February 20, supporters say he will be carrying more than his own defence. He will be testing how Aboriginal heritage law applies to freehold farmland across WA. The Toodyay farmer has pursued a judge-only appeal against his conviction for breaching
There are moments in public policy when you read a document, glance at the date, and briefly wonder whether someone has accidentally fed the printer a filing from another era. The Western Australian Planning Commission’s draft Renewable Energy Planning Code is one such moment. Released for public comment at the
