Wed 24 Jan 2024

GrainGrowers Pre-Budget Submission 2024-25

GrainGrowers has provided a submission to the Government ahead of the 2024-25 Federal Budget.

GrainGrowers has made detailed requests for investment across six areas impacting growers: Carbon and Climate, People and Workforce, Biosecurity, Grain Freight and Supply Chains, Trade and Market Access, and Farm Inputs.

These areas align with issues identified by growers across Australia through GrainGrowers' Annual Policy Survey.

GrainGrowers’ pre-budget recommendations aim to bring about structural cost reductions in grain supply chains and increase Australia’s global market share for grains, pulses and oilseeds.

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Policy & Research / Policy and Advocacy

Summary of Recommendations

Carbon and Climate

$50 million of existing funding allocated to theRegional Investment Corporation (RIC) for a pilot loan to assist growers in investing in the adoption of low emission practices, initiatives, and technologies, that is not contingent on current disaster, hardship or drought funding triggers.
$2 million to develop an agriculture-specific low emission vehicle roadmap and strategy.
$10 million over 5 years to fund development of a common framework, methodologies and measurement tools for GHG accounting in agriculture.

People and Workforce

$200,000 from the Community Childcare Fund (CCCF) to fund a pilot program aimed at facilitating building renovations to bring selected prospective family day care venues up to code in regional and remote grain growing areas.
$50 million over 3 years to enable a national roll-out of the Ag Skilled initiative. The Ag Skilled program has been a successful program by the NSW Government to upskill primary production industries.
$1 million per annum for ABARES, specifically for the employment of additional staff and resources to collect more granular grain grower focused workforce data, informing a better understanding of specific grains industry workforce needs.
$500 million funding to local councils for infrastructure projects to expedite the release of land and support an increase in key worker housing in regional Australia.
$17 million over 5 years for a bold, national, agricultural industry-based intervention to grow farmers’ wellbeing and prevent suicides across the sector.

Biosecurity

Maintain the commitment made in the 2023-24 budget of an additional $1.03 billion over 4 years (and $268.3 million per year ongoing from 2027-28) for biosecurity funding, whilst ensuring greater and more granular public accountability and reporting for biosecurity expenditure and activities, enabling improved biosecurity system performance.

Grain Freight and Supply Chains

$2 million for the Treasury to develop a mandatory code on port terminal access charges.
Increase funding for the Roads to Recovery Program to $1 billion per year to support ongoing maintenance of the nation’s local road infrastructure and address the current shortfall in funding for local councils.
$900 million per year in targeted funding for key regional freight corridors to improve the long-term resilience of freight networks.
$100 million in targeted funding each year as part of the Safer Local Roads and Infrastructure Program to rebuild critical aging bridge infrastructure.

Trade and Market Access

Invest $100 million into initiatives that ensure the sustainable growth and market expansion of Australian export-orientated agricultural businesses including additional agricultural counsellors and funding for the program.

Farm Inputs

Allocate $100 million of the National Reconstruction Fund to economically viable, fertiliser-specific domestic manufacturing projects that structurally lower the cost of fertilisers, reduce emissions, and shorten Australia’s fertiliser supply chains.
Maintain the fuel tax excise rebate for off-road fuel use.

GrainGrowers' Pre-Budget advocacy

Advocacy and Rural Affairs Manager Sean Cole has been on the ground in Canberra this month championing our 2024-25 Pre-Budget Submission asks to government.

GrainGrowers’ pre-budget recommendations include funding for domestic manufacturing of inputs as well as the call to maintain the fuel tax excise rebate for off-road fuel use.

GrainGrowers Pre-Budget Submission 2024-25

Read the full submission

GrainGrowers has provided this submission to Government ahead of the 2024-25 Federal Budget.

These requests are a constructive approach to investing in the on-going profitability, sustainability and resilience of Australian growers.

Pre-Budget Submission 2024-25

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[Webinar] GrainGrowers Federal Budget recommendations

GrainGrowers Pre-Budget Submission 2024-25

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Summary of Recommendations

Carbon and Climate

Carbon and Climate

People and Workforce

People and Workforce

Biosecurity

Biosecurity

Grain Freight and Supply Chains

Grain Freight and Supply Chains

Trade and Market Access

Trade and Market Access

Farm Inputs

Farm Inputs

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