The ACGC News is a short information sheet emailed to chicken growers who are members of State Farming Organisations, Processor Grower Goups, and Associate members. It features business information, tracks diseases, provides information on grants and opportunities, and environmental scanning. If you are not a member of the above groups and wish to receive the newsletter, contact the office at meatchicken.farmers@gmail.com. Note that newsletters after 2022 are not posted on the site.
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ACGC Comments on National Competition Policy Principles and Plan
You might recall the “old” National Competition Policy and Principles. That’s the highy theoretical, economist-driven, philosophical document that resulted in removal of the Meat Poultry growers’ Countervailing power legislation in all states, resulting in grower not even having a full ability to use delegates to negotiate thier comtacts for them. Even the ACCC law changes […]
read moreACGC Comments on Proposed New/Updated National Water Plan
The old National Water Plan, published in the early 2000’s, brought us (eventually) the highly contested Murray Darling Basin Plan State goverments getting involved in your dam storages a trading scheme for water that works poorly during drought….. and so on. NOW the government wants to impose a NEW National Water Plan. It appears that […]
read moreRadio Interviews on Flow FM, South Australia
Every week, ACGC features on Flow FM 99.5MHZ Country Market Friday. Click play to hear some of the interviews here: 18th Sept 2024: Environmental issues affecting the meat poultry industry. 6th Sept 2024: Industry Sustainability Plan 28th Aug 2024: HPAI and Emergency Disease , planning for outbreaks. 24th Aug 2024: Launch […]
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