Tag Archives: NFF
Aussie Dollar Crash Shields Farmers
If the Australian Dollar had not crashed from 98 cents US a couple of months ago to 65 cents US now there would be carnage in Australia’s rural sector. The… Read more
National Farmers Federation Selling Out to Big Corporate Agriculture
The National Farmers Federation is trying to ‘keep hushed’ a move that will allow major corporate agriculture corporations both pre and post farm gate to gain membership of the ailing… Read more
NFF & MLA Leave Farmers in The dark as the World Melts down
At the end of possibly the most tumultuous seven days the world has seen since 1929 we are yet to hear what it all means for our Farmers from Australian… Read more
Falling Dollar Good News for Australian Farmers.
The falling Australian dollar is a god send for Australian Farmers. The dollar is back at levels not seen since 2001. The Australian dollar has been heavily sold down as… Read more
Ron Boswell – Emission Trading Scheme will force Farmers to stop Farming
. Queensland Senator Ron Boswell [pictured] writes: . CARBON SCHEME TO HIT AGRICULTURE COSTS FROM DAY 1 . Farmers will be hit from day one of the government’s Carbon Pollution… Read more
NFF Calls For Free Emissions Permit to Protect Agriculture.
Agmates has been writing for months about the disastrous impact on Australian farmers of the proposed Emissions Trading Scheme in its current form. We have been critical of Australia’s peak… Read more
Farmers Must Know Massive Cost Impost of The Emissions Trading Scheme
CEO of the QLD Farmers Federation John Cherry [pictured] writes: The Australian Farm Institute has done farmers a huge favour pointing out the massive cost that an Emissions Trading Scheme… Read more
Emission Trading Worse for Aust & NZ Farming than Global Warming
In releasing an explosive new report the Australian Farm Institute (AFI) yesterday warned that the Rudd governments proposed Emissions Trading Scheme will do more damage to the farming sector than… Read more
Australian Beef Producers & Consumers left Seething after ACCC Grocery Inquiry
Australia’s beef producers are demanding Federal Agriculture Minister Tony Burke convene a royal commission into Australia’s beef industry. They have been left cluesless after the Rudd governments ACCC Grocery Inquiry… Read more
National Farmers Federation is out of Touch With Rural Australia
Australian Beef Association Chairman, and Northern New South Wales Farmer Brad Bellinger (pictured) writes: The NFF expressing its dismay at the Australian Fair Pay Commission (AFPC) decision to increase minimum… Read more
