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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Submission on draft Australian Standard AS 7531 – Rolling stock lighting and visibility Steve McGuire, President WAFarmers 17 February 2026 Introduction The Farmers Federation of Western Australia welcomes the opportunity to provide comment on the draft Australian Standard AS 7531 – Rolling Stock Lighting and Visibility. WAFarmers represents primary producers
WA’s peak agricultural bodies are demanding that the government make immediate changes to ensure existing and new Aboriginal Heritage sites are shown on property Titles. The call comes ahead of a Supreme Court appeal by Toodyay farmer Tony Maddox who was charged for repairing a creek crossing on his property
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