Every week, ACGC features on Flow FM 99.5MHZ Country Market Friday. Click play to hear some of the interviews here: 
23rd April 2025: ABARES inquiry into the meat poultry industry.
16th April 2025: Avian Influenza human deaths, and tariffs effects on world chicken production
9th April 2025: Marginal Seats and the federal election
2nd April 2025: ABARES inquiry announced
26th March 2025: Federal Budget pre-election, salmon, Code of Practice (or not) and the rush to eggs in the face of crushing economics.
19th March 2025: SA Drought, and effects on feed grain availability
27th Feb 2025: New Outbreak of HPAI in Vic and scrapping of biosecurity tax
12th Feb 2025: New Outbreak of Avian Influenza
5th Feb 2025: RSPCA Certification issues
29th Jan 2025: Poultry meat shed space issues.
22nd Jan 2025: WA ban on Cage Eggs – what it means to meat farmers.
4th Dec 2024: Turkeys, Thanksgiving and Certification Schemes
27th Nov 2024: Carbon Farming and Carbon Emissions reduction
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 moreLocal Avian Influenza Outbreak Sparks Review of Biosecurity Agreement
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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 […]
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