Tag Archives: Rowell Walton
Grain Growers To Be Saddled With New QA Cost Burden
QLD Wheat grower Rowell Walton [pictured] writes: ***** I have just returned from a visit to my old home state Western Australia and have witnessed a worrying development. It is… Read more
Most Talked About
Pick of Agmates readers comments. Nats Ploy To Get Rid Of Barnaby Joyce (7 Comments) Andrew Phillips (SA):Senator Joyce is a potential powerhouse and these reptiles certainly have reason to… Read more
The Harvest From Hell
A poem from the west that sums up the 2008 Wheat harvest in many parts of Australia. The Harvest from Hell… This year will always be one to remember We… Read more
A Wheat Grower Talks About Marketing The Crop In A Brave New World
With Wheat harvest approaching, the Aussie Dollar plunging and world financial markets in meltdown, I was wondering how growers were coping with the marketing of their crops. So I called… Read more
Myth Busted – Australia Exports Just 22% of Ag Production not 80%
Australia exports 80% of it’s Agriculture production is a long held view by governments of all persuasions. That leads to the cynical view that we can do without 3 out of 4 of our farmers.
Independent research has now revealed that that figure and all Ag & Trade policies that have flowed with are a myth. We export just 22% of or Ag production.
With a growing population, Tree Clearing legislation that blocks forever the opening up of new productive land and the buy back if irrigation water and country leading to a shrinking of Australian Ag it won’t be long and we will produce less that we consume as a nation.
What a political disgrace that will be.
AWB Board Asks Growers to Give Away Control of their $1billion Company?
(Australian Wheat Board) shareholders will vote on a change to the constitution at the end of next month. Under current arrangements, A-class shareholders (growers) elect 7 positions on the 12-member… Read more
Report into Ag Production Export Discrepancies.
From Whence it Came. May I begin this presentation with a little explanation as to what this committee was instructed to do. The committee was borne at Conference last year… Read more
