Every week, ACGC features on Flow FM 99.5MHZ Country Market Friday. Click play to hear some of the interviews here: 
15th Nov 2024: Heat stress and heat management of chickens
6th Nov 2024: How do meat poultry farmers make money?
30th Oct 2024: Emergency diseases: potential risks to Australia’s food security
24th Oct 2024: World Consumption of chicken meat, and the future for poultry meat consumption worldwide in the next 10 years.
17th Oct 2024: Chicken Consumption v other meats, and future growth of the industry
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 of the Meat Poultry industry Sustainability Plan.
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read moreACGC 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 […]
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