Farmer Power chief executive Garry Kerr described the dairy plan as "a joke"."Commonsense tells you that you can't have processors involved in an advocacy group with dairy farmers."More people and fresh capital are brought into the industryThere are significant increases in the proportion of farmers with business plansBega Valley dairy farmer Phil Ryan said the process represented a lost opportunity.
NSW Farmers dairy committee chairman Colin Thompson said delivering the remaining commitments was a work in progress. "Farmers are certainly disappointed. We envisaged something different. In the end, it wasn't possible," he said.Question of funding advocacy As a result, member-based dairy farmer advocacy groups like the United Dairyfarmers Of Victoria must save money and rely more heavily on their membership base to fund their work.
"The primary issue is how we make the structure work with what we've currently got. But more importantly, how do we go about funding it," Mr Mumford said."There's a lot of work that can be done in the advocacy space in policy development that isn't agri-political, and we need to find ways of funding and resourcing that better," Mr Ryan said.
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