GrainGrowers believes New Breeding Techniques (NBTs) should be excluded from regulation if the outcomes they produce are similar to, or indistinguishable from the products of conventional breeding.
Calendar Comp EditorApril 12, 2018
Members have reported a significant variation in grain sample discrepancies across many receival sites in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons. In particular, there is reported to be significant discrepancy in…
Calendar Comp EditorApril 9, 2018
GrainGrowers encourages the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources to ensure the efficiency of its internal operations, given any charges imposed on industry directly impact the international competitiveness of Australian…
Calendar Comp EditorMarch 29, 2018
In relation to the APVMA's proposed approach, GrainGrowers supports the need for: - reasonable buffer zones, - clearer label instructions, - the use of spray drift reducing technologies and tools, and…
Calendar Comp EditorMarch 28, 2018
GrainGrowers supports enduring profitability as the key driver of the GRDC strategic plan, and the associated investment in the five identified priority areas - yield, price, on-farm and post farm-gate…
Calendar Comp EditorMarch 13, 2018
GrainGrowers is opposed to a separate mechanism to consider Genetically Modified (GM) contamination as it is likely to compromise a farmer’s ability to choose to grow Office of the Gene…
Calendar Comp EditorFebruary 27, 2018
GrainGrowers seeks a subcategory of regulations for plant breeding that exclude certain new technologies from regulation, based on the outcomes they would produce, to enable plant breeding sciences to advance…
Calendar Comp EditorFebruary 7, 2018
GrainGrowers believes that the Port Terminal Access Code (the Code) is necessary to support fair and transparent access to port terminal services and should be retained. It must continue to…
Calendar Comp EditorJanuary 1, 2018
