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NSW Farmers is warning state and federal governments must urgently respond to an acute cost-of-production shock with new data showing spikes in fuel and fertiliser prices caused by global shortages have slashed confidence.
NSW Farmers President Xavier Martin says the Albanese Government needs to provide answers after it scrapped a multi billion dollar freight project that was poised to connect productive farming businesses and communities across the country.
Australia’s livestock and rural transporters have welcomed a billion-litre national fuel reserve but warned the Federal Government the measure will only matter if diesel reaches the regions when supply fails.
NSW Farmers is calling on the NSW Government to pause plans to fast-track renewable energy projects in regional NSW, warning that rushing approvals will deepen community distress, entrench an unfair power imbalance between large developers and landholders, and generate more objections and conflict.
Rural residents are crying out for reliable roads, the state’s peak farming body has told an Inquiry into Local Government Funding.
Fire affected farmers in northern and central Victoria have benefited from donated seed to oversow new pastures to help fill their autumn-winter feed gaps.
Peter Garrett AM has been appointed chair of the Landcare Australia board, a national environment organisation, with Doug Humann AM stepping down after a 9-year tenure.
Australian farmland prices are expected to grow modestly in 2026, continuing the trend seen over the past year, Rabobank says in its latest annual Australian Farmland Price Outlook.
NSW Farmers has welcomed a coordinated national response on fuel security and fuel supply chain resilience, but says immediate, practical action is needed to fix regional distribution failures now impacting food and fibre production – with the latest data on Friday indicating at least 178 NSW service stations out of diesel.
Pest exclusion fencing has enabled a northern NSW family to take advantage of cropping and agistment opportunities to increase on-farm profitability and productivity.
The lessons learnt by livestock producers on confinement feeding and forage conservation in the drought were under the spotlight in Wagga this month.
NSW Farmers strongly condemns the NSW Government’s threats of compulsory land acquisition to support a multi-billion-dollar mining corporation.
