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 | Workplace labelling laws should not apply to farm chemicals. | |
| The stubbornness and arrogance of a federal government entity will lead to confusion on how to use farm chemicals safely.
Officials at Safe Work Australia (SWA) are rushing to impose a new global labelling system onto agricultural chem..... |
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| "We need another green revolution" | |
| In 1968 Paul R. Ehrlich famously wrote “the battle to feed all of humanity is over… In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.”
At the same time plant s..... |
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| CropLife Australia urges farmers to spray responsibly | |
| All farmers should heed the confronting information which emerged from Cotton Australia today highlighting that spray drift cost the industry some $10 million last season and resulted in an 11% crop loss.
We commend the Chief Executiv..... |
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| Pesticides regulator must be allowed to regulate pesticides | |
| An Australian Anti-pesticides lobby group has called into question the effectiveness of Australia’s regulatory system to protect human health and the environment from the potential hazards of pesticides.
In seeking to promote an id..... |
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| Consumers not concerned about GM food: survey | |
| Results from the latest (Aug 2009) UK consumer attitude survey on food issues, which interviewed 2,100 adults, have found that UK consumers are not concerned about genetically modified (GM) food.
The results were published in the newe..... |
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| ACTIVIST GREENS “CRYING WOLF” ON FISH DEFORMITIES | |
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Claims by activist green veterinarian Matt Landos regarding chemical causing deformities in fish larvae, are irresponsible, will harm legitimate Australian farmers and are blatant lies.
Mr Landos claims that it is “highly l..... |
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| VFF unnecessarily alarmist about Control of Use reforms | |
| A resolution put this week to the VFF Annual Conference is an alarmist over-reaction to sensible, beneficial and long-overdue improvements to the laws that govern the use of agricultural chemicals in Australia.
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| GM Crops Put More Than $56 billion in Farmer Pockets! | |
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GM crops increased farm incomes globally by A$12.9 billion during 2007 and by $56.5 billion since 1996. That is the finding in the latest report by agricultural economists Brookes and Barfoot.
Approximately 40% of the to..... |
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| Providing Tomorrow's Bread | |
| CropLife Australia welcomes the support of wheat growers in the US, Canada and Australia for biotechnology research in wheat.
CropLife CEO Paula Matthewson said
“CropLife Australia believes that unshackli..... |
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| Don't let Greenpeace blindfold you | |
| Today’s protest at the Food Ministers’ meeting in Sydney is just another example of attempted political bullying by a loud but tiny minority.
Australia already has some of the strictest labelling requirements in the world for GM food. ..... |
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| WWF scare mongering over Great Barrier Reef Health | |
| Environmentalists continue to claim that the health of the Great Barrier Reef is being detrimentally impacted by the use of pesticides hundreds of kilometres away from corals.
The claims are exaggerated and alarmist. They claim that th..... |
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| Farm spray care is a lot of hot air | |
| We sometimes forget that agricultural chemicals are an important tool needed by Australian farmers to produce plentiful, high quality and affordable food. We forget because opponents ignore the benefits but inflate the potential risks. They..... |
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