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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Draft Renewable Energy Planning Code Submission to the Western Australian Planning Commission Executive Summary This submission responds to the Draft Renewable Energy Planning Code released for public consultation in December 2025. It focuses on wind energy facilities and large-scale solar developments in rural and agricultural areas, grounded in established principles
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“WAFarmers are reaping what they sow,” Ben Wyatt declared recently, reflecting on the looming Maddox case and claims by WAFarmers that the current laws are being selectively targeted by the department (Heritage stoush ‘makes mockery of WA laws’ intent, The Australian, 20 January 2026). There is a curious habit among
“Well, this is the roadmap that’s been on the road for a long time” That’s how WAFarmers’ CEO Trevor Whittington started his interview with ABC WA Country Hour host Belinda Varischetti today in response to her question about the clarity of the Federal Government’s WA roadmap out of the live
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