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FARM ONLINE | Import paperwork surge, shippers offer to pay farmers' biosecurity levy
New data has revealed a "significant upsurge" in import shipment paperwork awaiting approval, with the growing backlog causing "confusion...
Feb 26, 2024


FARM ONLINE | 'Extremely unlikely' growers will have access to double strength bait at sowing
The holders of an emergency Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) permit to produce double strength zinc...
Feb 20, 2024


STOCK JOURNAL | Pressure mounts on APVMA to make mouse bait decision
Pressure is growing on the APVMA from the grains sector to approve the use of 50 gram zinc phosphide baits, with an industry mouse expert...
Feb 20, 2024


THE WEEKLY TIMES | Cautious optimism for 2024 crops
Bountiful summer rain has provided optimism for cropping farmers preparing to sow the 2024 winter crop. Figures from the Bureau of...
Feb 19, 2024


FARMING AHEAD | Peak body pushing for mouse bait permit extension
GRAIN Producers Australia (GPA) has applied for an extension of the permit (PER90799) to produce ZP50, or double strength, mouse bait....
Feb 16, 2024


GPA STATEMENT ON ZP50 PERMIT APPLICATION
Grain Producers Australia has applied for an extension of the permit to produce ZP50 mouse bait (permit PER90799) with our application...
Feb 15, 2024


GRAIN CENTRAL | Bodies call for detail on revised biosecurity levy
FOLLOWING feedback from industry, the Federal Government on Tuesday announced changes to the Biosecurity Protection Levy (BPL) on track...
Feb 15, 2024


DETAILS STILL NEEDED ON BIOSECURITY TAX
Grain Producers Australia welcomes the government’s move to make adjustments to the proposed biosecurity tax, to address some of the many...
Feb 13, 2024


NSW COUNTRY HOUR | Biosecurity tax changes don't address main concerns
GPA Southern Region Director Andrew Weidemann tells NSW Country Hour host Michael Condon there has been a lot of pushback from...
Feb 13, 2024


WA COUNTRY HOUR | GPA wants to see detail before deciding if changes make biosecurity tax fairer
GPA Chief Executive Colin Bettles tells WA Country Hour host Belinda Varischetti the Federal Government's response to concerns raised by...
Feb 13, 2024


RURAL FOCUS | Biosecurity tax should still be scrapped
GPA Chair Barry Large and Rural Focus host Troy Stockden discuss changes announced by the Federal Government which it says will make the...
Feb 13, 2024


THE LAND | Government re-jigs biosecurity tax - what it means by sector
The government has responded to months of protests from the agriculture sector by announcing alterations to its contentious Biosecurity...
Feb 13, 2024


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HOLIDAYING at local destinations within Australia, spending quality time on the coast, touring exotic locations and rewarding family...
Feb 12, 2024


COUNTRY CALLER REGIONAL NEWS | Doubts over approach to farm produce price gouging
THERE’S an awful lot of noise being made right now about the prices every day Australians are being charged at the checkout, whilst the...
Feb 6, 2024


Australian Rural & Regional News | Not all farmers are farmers when it comes to fairness: GPA
There’s an awful lot of noise being made right now about the prices every day Australians are being charged at the checkout, whilst the...
Feb 5, 2024


2GB RURAL NEWS | Farmers fighting biosecurity tax
50 Aussie farm groups are uniting to fight the federal government's proposed biosecurity tax due to come in on the 1st of July this year....
Jan 24, 2024


QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE | GrainGrowers enters biosecurity debate
The biosecurity levy continues to bubble away as the ag sector's major priority in early 2024. Grains peak body GrainGrowers has gone...
Jan 22, 2024


2GB Ben Fordham Live | ‘Scrap it’ – Farmers furious about new biosecurity tax
Grain Producers Australia Chief Executive, Colin Bettles, explains to host Ben Fordham why Australian farmers are angry about the Federal...
Jan 22, 2024


FARMING AHEAD | Farms groups unite against biosecurity "tax"
AUSTRALIAN farm groups have united in strong opposition of the proposed 10 per cent biosecurity levy, sending a joint letter to the Prime...
Jan 19, 2024


AUSTRALIAN RURAL & REGIONAL NEWS | 50 groups unite to scrap biosecurity tax: GPA
50 Australian agricultural producer representative groups have unified to send a powerful, collective message to the Federal Government...
Jan 18, 2024
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