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State farming organisations (SFOs) from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria have joined with their federal colleagues in calling for an urgent solution to the east coast’s harvest worker crisis.
Australia is set for a second consecutive bumper winter harvest, with total production forecast to come in just five per cent shy of last year’s near-record crop, according to Rabobank.
The agricultural sector is looking at another record-breaking year, with the gross value of production (GVP) forecast to reach $73 billion in 2021-22.
Australian agricultural land prices are set to continue to climb for at least the next five years – with the sharpest growth to 2023 – Rabobank says in its newly-released annual Agricultural Land Price Outlook.
The forecast of a wet spring in many key sheep producing regions in Australia will drive the national flock to over 70 million head in 2021, according to Meat & Livestock Australia’s 2021 October sheep industry projections.
The Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) is requesting urgent support for agricultural freight workers to comply with COVID-19 interstate border crossing requirements in the lead up to harvest.
NSW Farmers has put out the call for people in rural and regional areas to have their say on worsening phone and internet services.
A second consecutive year of good seasonal conditions and high commodity prices is helping shield Australia’s farm sector from the broader economic uncertainty of COVID-19, with farmer sentiment surging in recent months, according to the latest quarterly Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey.
Farmers should not be exempt from any Australian target of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, and governments should act now to curb agricultural emissions, according to a new Grattan Institute report.
NSW’s leading agriculture body has told a Senate Inquiry that plant-based proteins should be banned from using words like “meat”, “beef”, “lamb” and “milk”.
There have been a number of recent announcements regarding vaccination requirements for interstate travel that may impact farmers moving freight across state borders:
MLA modelling has indicated the Victorian government’s restrictions on processing capacity, which require metropolitan processors cut their capacity to 80%, could see spring slaughter volumes cut by 250,000 lambs if they extend through until November.
