Price taker farmers must be energy savers

By Allan Dingle, Farmers' Federation President
Updated February 19 2020 - 11:15am, first published 11:02am
Price taker farmers must be energy savers
Price taker farmers must be energy savers

While farmers are familiar with the inter-connection between energy, water and food production, policy and regulatory developments continue to treat these as distinctly separate areas. Current government policy does not provide essential and enabling services such as electricity and water at a 'fair cost' for agriculture. This, unfortunately, was further confirmed with the recent release of the Queensland Competition Authority's Rural Irrigation Price Investigation 2020-24 report, which I wrote about last week.

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