@WAFarmers

WAFarmers is a leading rural advocacy group, working to represent the collective opinion of primary producers and ensuring a long-term future for agriculture.

 Western Australia
wafarmers.org.au
Joined May 2009
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China's Party is Over - And Australian Farmers Could Be Left with the Hangover linkedin.com/pulse/chinas-pa…
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Phosphine: When the Regulator Fails Its Own Risk Test linkedin.com/pulse/phosphine… via @LinkedIn

Phosphine: When the Regulator Fails Its Own Risk Test

Western Australian grain growers are about to become the subjects of a rather large workplace safety experiment, only nobody appears to have bothered running the experiment before the rules arrive....

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After the decision regarding the ban on live export, look at the sheep now.... linkedin.com/pulse/all-quiet…
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GRDC from Farthing to Fortune by Trevor Whittington, CEO of WAFarmers linkedin.com/pulse/grdc-from…
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Phosphine: When the Regulator Fails Its Own Risk Test linkedin.com/pulse/phosphine…
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WAFarmers - Paddock to Parliament retweeted
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Appreciation post @WAFarmers 2 uk workers got their visa approved this morning. They’ll get here about the day we start harvest. Wouldn’t have happened without our farm lobby groups going in to bat for their members
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Want to see what happens when non farmer/non scientists get involve in the agricultural science: linkedin.com/pulse/when-non-…
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Net Zero Food Security by 2050 linkedin.com/pulse/net-zero-… via @LinkedIn

Net Zero Food Security by 2050

Last month Australian agriculture gathered in Canberra for the National Farmers’ Federation’s big celebration of cracking the $100 billion farm-gate target — four years ahead of schedule. It sounds...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Canberra Opens the Migration Taps — Then Blames the Backpackers linkedin.com/pulse/canberra-… via @LinkedIn

Canberra Opens the Migration Taps — Then Blames the Backpackers

Australia has a migration problem. We don't have enough houses, our major cities are choking on population growth, infrastructure cannot keep up, and after one of the largest post-war surges in...

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What is WAFarmers' response to the latest working holiday visa restrictions? linkedin.com/pulse/wafarmers…

WAFarmers on the Visa Crunch

DON'T LEAVE WA'S HARVEST WAITING FOR A VISA WAFarmers is calling on the Albanese Government to immediately reverse its slowdown in Working Holiday Maker visa processing, warning the decision could...

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Australia has an insane amount of compliance for ag producers. But what about all that food we import? linkedin.com/pulse/whos-poli…
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Will the Australian agriculture policies being pursued today leave us producing enough food for ourselves and the world in 2050. linkedin.com/pulse/wrong-100…
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Listen to Epidode 3 of ON WAFarmers: Visa Throttling Threatens $10B Grain Harvest youtube.com/shorts/fsSx8jUhx… Subscribe to @WAFarmersFederation to listen to the full episode, and access the full library.

Throttling the visa that is actually feeding Australia #ONWAFamers #podcast #whm #visas #immigration

85% of the migrants we bring in go to Sydney and Melbourne.They do...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: WA Farmers Get a Roadmap. The National Bodies Get the Money linkedin.com/pulse/wa-farmer… via @LinkedIn

WA Farmers Get a Roadmap. The National Bodies Get the Money

A few months ago I wrote about the confusion and chaos surrounding the funding for the live export transition. I questioned how much of the $139.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: I dont fish but I vote - I want my share of the catch linkedin.com/pulse/i-dont-fi… via @LinkedIn

I dont fish but I vote - I want my share of the catch

By Trevor Whittington Back in December last year I wrote in in the West Australian that the Cook Government's cuts to commercial and recreational fishing weren't really about fisheries management....

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WAFarmers welcomes you to our second podcast. Listen to Trevor Whittington, CEO of WAFarmers, and Mic Fels, our Vice President, chew the fat about the Australian oil refinery history and the future of biofuel. Let us know what you think in the comments youtu.be/_HmDU5cYLew?si=wk-y…

Fuel for harvest, renewable diesel, & do farmers really need another...

ON WAFarmers has moved home! Watch all future episodes of this podc...

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MiC FELS 🇦🇺⚙️🌾✏️⚖️
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Will we really get a new WA oil refinery; is there enough fuel for this year's harvest; are biofuels really good or really bad; and do we need yet another sustainability framework?   All this and more in the ON WAFarmers podcast, Episode 2. Just dropped! Click the link 👇🏼 youtu.be/_HmDU5cYLew

Fuel for harvest, renewable diesel, & do farmers really need another...

ON WAFarmers has moved home! Watch all future episodes of this podc...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: GRDC's $55 Million Sustainability Experiment linkedin.com/pulse/grdcs-55-… via @LinkedIn

GRDC's $55 Million Sustainability Experiment

Last week I wrote about how GRDC's new Nitrogen Mission risks helping Russian, Canadian, American and Argentine farmers grow more grain using research funded by compulsory levies paid by Australian...

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Are GRDC compulsory levies working for a farmer here in WA? Trev doesn't think so: linkedin.com/pulse/why-grdc-…
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Who is 'Sustainability' really for? Let's diver deeper: linkedin.com/pulse/sustainab…
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