Wednesday, 30 Sep 2020
Alex Stubbs, AgForce Reef Taskforce chair. Columnist Mike O'Connor hit the nail on the head with his article 'Reports of Reef's death exaggerated' on the weekend.Treat yourself and have a...
Tuesday, 22 Sep 2020
By AgForce CEO Mike Guerin. Farming has always been at the forefront of Australia’s development, feeding and clothing our growing population while providing an underlying economic...
Friday, 18 Sep 2020
Originally published by Regional Development Australia (PDF)AgForce Queensland, who is a peak organisation representing Queensland's rural producers, advocates for the unlocking of key strategic...
Wednesday, 9 Sep 2020
By AgForce CEO Michael Guerin. It's true that farmers are the ultimate conservationists.Their land is their life and their livelihood (and often a family legacy).It's no exaggeration to say that...
Wednesday, 2 Sep 2020
By AgForce Ag Business Committee chairman Mark Collins.We primary producers have always been proud of our vital contribution to Australia's economy and culture. This role will be especially apparent...
Thursday, 27 Aug 2020
By AgForce NQ President Matt Bennetto. Australia punches well above its weight in so many categories.In my field of agriculture, for example, we produce three times as much food and fibre...
Thursday, 20 Aug 2020
The decision by the LNP to adopt AgForce’s landscape management policy in close to its entirety is a win for environmentally sustainable agriculture and AgForce’s progressive...
Thursday, 13 Aug 2020
By AgForce General President Georgie Somerset. Like me, I’m sure you were floored by media reports this week that the Department of Agriculture & Fisheries has further reduced...
Tuesday, 11 Aug 2020
Queensland’s failure to develop and fund a comprehensive and strategic road program – instead focusing on emergency fixes and urban roads that attract public attention – is costing...
Thursday, 6 Aug 2020
By AgForce CEO Michael Guerin. It’s no exaggeration to say that Queensland’s transport infrastructure is its lifeblood.We are one of Australia’s largest, most geographically...
Thursday, 6 Aug 2020
AgForce has welcomed today’s commitment by the agriculture industry to lead the national objective of carbon neutrality by 2050 – and has called for vital collaboration with...
Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020
by AgForce General President Georgie Somerset. It sometimes surprises me just how little people living in our cities know about their food and where it comes from.It is even more remarkable that...
Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020
by AgForce Reef Taskforce Chair Alex Stubbs. Primary producers and regional communities up and down the coast are holding their collective breath to see whether the Senate inquiry into Reef...
Tuesday, 28 Jul 2020
AgForce has welcomed the LNP’s plan to reduce water prices for Queensland farmers, as well as the release of the long-awaited Great Artesian Basin Strategic Management Plan, because secure and...
Monday, 27 Jul 2020
The Senate inquiry into Reef science being held in Brisbane today is our last chance to maintain a pristine Great Barrier Reef alongside a productive and sustainable farming sector and strong...
Tuesday, 21 Jul 2020
AgForce is calling on the State Government to invest in and improve access to the vaccine for Q fever, a little-known infectious disease that causes significant lifelong health issues for farm...
Tuesday, 14 Jul 2020
Widespread community misunderstanding about the health of the Reef – a result deliberately created by ideologically motivated players and scientific self-interest – is jeopardising not...
Thursday, 9 Jul 2020
By AgForce Water Committee Chair Kim Bremner Earth isn’t called the Blue World for nothing. The precious liquid that covers three quarters of our planet’s surface is essential to...
Tuesday, 7 Jul 2020
A future-looking, bi-partisan water strategy – that may incorporate a broader water allocation trading scheme – is essential if regional Queensland is to lead the State’s...
Wednesday, 1 Jul 2020
By AgForce Cattle President Will Wilson. The release of the third annual instalment of the Australian Beef Sustainability Framework, or ABSF, last week was a bit of a wake up call for...
Thursday, 25 Jun 2020
AgForce has welcomed the third annual update for the Australian Beef Sustainability Framework (ABSF) as celebrating the industry’s significant achievements, but noted that it needs to tell this...
Tuesday, 23 Jun 2020
By AgForce General President Georgie SomersetDrought, flood, fire and now COVID have made life on the land extremely tough, albeit that the silver lining to the COVID cloud has been the focus on the...
Sunday, 21 Jun 2020
A joint statement by AgForce, the Queensland Farmers’ Federation (QFF) and the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA).Queensland’s peak agriculture bodies...
Thursday, 18 Jun 2020
By AgForce CEO Michael Guerin.Earlier this week, I was pleased to be able to stand beside the Premier when she announced the first of several rounds of measures supporting primary producers to lead...
Wednesday, 17 Jun 2020
Despite their rhetoric on Tuesday morning that agriculture would lead the post-COVID economy recovery, the Labor State Government just a few hours later showed their heart isn’t really in...
Tuesday, 16 Jun 2020
AgForce has welcomed the Premier’s announcement of measures to support primary producers to drive Queensland’s post-COVID economic recovery.A number of measures included in the $12.5...
Monday, 15 Jun 2020
News that some of Australia’s largest insurers are refusing to provide public liability cover to producers with CSG infrastructure on their properties is a “deeply concerning”...
Wednesday, 10 Jun 2020
AgForce is encouraging Queensland’s 1,300 remaining perpetual lessees to weigh up whether to freehold their properties before costs rise at the end of the financial year.While freeholding can...
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
AgForce Cane is now a reality, with AgForce and the former Invicta Combined Growers Organisation (ICGO) signing and lodging the official paperwork on Friday.From today, any cane farmer in Burdekin /...
Monday, 25 May 2020
AgForce has applauded the State Government for its decision to continue offering essential drought support measures for a further year as drought conditions continue across much of Queensland.In...
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
It is expected that North Queensland cane farmer group Invicta Combined Growers’ Organisation (ICGO) will become AgForce Cane before the end of the month.ICGO members have formally voted to...
Monday, 11 May 2020
BackgroundThe Northern Australian Livestock Export Working Group (NALEWG) was formed in September 2018 and is a collaboration between:AgForce Queensland Farmers Limited (AgForce)Kimberley Pilbara...
Friday, 1 May 2020
Pastoralists with grazing leases on crown land are celebrating this week after the State Government announced a 6‑month waiver on land rents – other than minimum rent leases – to...
Friday, 1 May 2020
The establishment of cane as AgForce’s fourth commodity is one step closer, with a Special General Meeting of the Invicta Combined Growers’ Organisation (ICGO) today endorsing the...
Tuesday, 28 Apr 2020
AgForce has welcomed the decision by MSF Sugar to guarantee a molasses supply from their mills to the Australian cattle industry as it recovers from a record-breaking drought.We encourage other mills...
Tuesday, 28 Apr 2020
By AgForce CEO Michael Guerin. More than 20 years ago, the agriculture industry was surprised when three very different peak bodies – the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia, United...
Friday, 24 Apr 2020
The AgForce Board has decided in-principle to introduce cane as the peak body’s fourth commodity – subject to several prerequisites.One of these prerequisites is that members of Invicta...
Tuesday, 21 Apr 2020
The apparent refusal of some banks to lend to industries they believe are “socially sensitive” – such as firearms and live animal exports – has been condemned by AgForce as...
Tuesday, 24 Mar 2020
While we live in troubling times, there is one thing Australians don’t have to worry – running out of high-quality fresh food.The agriculture industry is reassuring Australians that...
Tuesday, 17 Mar 2020
AgForce has asked that the Queensland Government immediately and publicly retract misinformation being spread by its officers that AgForce supports the new Reef regulations and mandatory...
Tuesday, 3 Mar 2020
AgForce is warning primary producers throughout Queensland not to delay if they want to object to their new land valuations – or risk being lumped with higher rates and rent.The Valuer...
Wednesday, 19 Feb 2020
Widespread rains across northern Queensland have reinvigorated the region’s cattle producers with a new sense of optimism and a desire to set the industry on the path to meet its full...
Tuesday, 11 Feb 2020
Last week’s abolition of the Queensland Agricultural Colleges Act without any vision or plan for replacing the institutions has led a frustrated ag industry to hand the State Government an...
Thursday, 6 Feb 2020
AgForce has congratulated Queensland-based Ministers David Littleproud and Keith Pitt on their new portfolios and looks forward to further strengthening our relationships with their critical...
Wednesday, 5 Feb 2020
AgForce has called on the European Union – one of the world’s largest consumers of red meat – to play fair when it comes to international trade.CEO Michael Guerin said the...
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