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When will farmers escape their dependency mentality? – The Australian Financial Review
The irony of Australia’s oldest home-grown industry is that despite a history of turning adversity into success, it continues to ask for favours from everyone else…
Just as importantly, the long-term trend is up. A decade earlier, for the same area under cultivation, output was 20 per cent lower.
Small, inefficient operators are gradually selling out to some of the world’s most professional farmers, which bodes well for the National Farmers Federation’s ambition to grow output from $61 billion to $100 billion by the decade’s end.
The irony of Australia’s oldest home-grown industry is that despite a history of turning adversity into success and $5.4 billion…
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