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Business View Australia - July 2015 51

has remained constant throughout

these years. It has successfully

established its presence across the

length and breadth of the state and

given its members a voice at every

level of government and bureaucracy.

Its President Dale Park is confident

about the prospects of the farming

industry in the state, “One of the

problems is that the number of

farmers is getting smaller and this is

not just a Western Australian problem.

It’s happening all over Australia and

probably all over the world as our

farms get bigger and more efficient.

To that end what I think we are

working towards is a national farmers

federation. We are probably going to

end up having one organisation for

the whole of Australia rather than one

for each state. There is a constant

struggle to balance the amount of

food people want at the low cost they

expect it at. I’m not sure these things

can go hand in hand but as for our

members, for the first time in a long

while, we have a higher demand for

what we produce than what we can

supply. This means that the future

of agriculture looks very very bright.

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