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A little over a year ago, I first wrote about the farm economy crisis. Since then, Washington has responded with aid, and #corn prices are higher—but margins remain tighter than ever.
August’s rally looked like a light at the end of the tunnel. It turned out to be the light of an oncoming USDA supply freight train.
The chart shows the longer-term squeeze: crop prices have fallen back while input costs remain high.
Full report in this week's HOT TAKE ⤵️
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WA grain grower groups have united in an urgent appeal to Premier Roger Cook to delay new grain dust exposure limits due on 1 December.
GPA, @WAFarmers @WAFarmersGrains @WAGrainsGroup @PgAofWAInc are calling for action before the changes take effect during harvest.
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BREAKING: THE BIGGEST CLIMATE SCANDAL IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
The Albanese Labor Government has just been caught red handed. New forensic evidence suggests they are using a compromised Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) to fabricate a climate crisis that simply does not exist.
A explosive forensic audit led by investigator Tom Berger and retired scientist Geoff Sherrington has uncovered widespread, systematic errors and fake readings within the BOM’s raw climate data.
We aren't talking about minor glitches, we are talking about copy and pasted data designed to make the past look cooler and the present look warmer.
The audit exposed blatant data manipulation at the Sydney Observatory:
•The Fabricated Data: Minimum temperatures from August 1907 were found completely duplicated and inserted into the August 1867 record.
•The Cover-Up: The Australian fact-checked the National Archives and confirmed this "double-up" does not exist in the original handwritten records. The online data used to justify sweeping climate policies is completely wrong.
For years, the BOM has operated on a “trust us” basis. Dr David Evans, the scientist who built Australia’s carbon accounting software, warns that this “secret climate business” mirrors the worst days of fraudulent medical drug trials, where researchers were under immense pressure to exaggerate results to fit a narrative.
Labor is terrified of an independent audit because they know their Net Zero house of cards will collapse if the public sees the real numbers.
Dr Jennifer Marohasy confirmed that outside of Adelaide, there has been no proper audit of Australia's weather stations.
If our historical data is corrupted with fake inputs, the AI forecasting models used for future planning become entirely useless.
The Albanese Government doesn't want the data audited because the data doesn't support their narrative.
They are destroying our economy, killing our energy grid, and forcing Net Zero targets on regular Australians based on copy and pasted climate fiction.
The question is simple, if the records are sound, why is Labor so opposed to an independent audit?
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In GPA’s survey so far, 95% of respondents don’t know how they’ll measure grain dust exposure in their business.
The new limit starts on 1 December, during harvest. Tell us what you need to manage the change: rebrand.ly/22e283
Doug Smith retweeted
Latest @DPIRDbroadacre rainfall and soil water maps from 1 April. Pingrup 77 mm, Pemberton 540 mm. (red dot is Borden has missing data). Year to date maps can be found here dpird.wa.gov.au/environment-… (Kukerin 101 mm, Pemberton 623 mm since the start of the year). #climate
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It appears the SA grains group GPSA has withdrawn from the national grains group GPA. Seems like an opportune time to review the PIFS funding model to directly fund the work the national grains group undertakes without GPSA being the funding gatekeeper.
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Replying to @DPIRDbroadacre
@DPIRDbroadacre historical maps of rainfall, rainfall deciles, days above 30C and nights below 2C have been updated to include 2025 data. Find them on the DPIRD website. dpird.wa.gov.au/environment-…
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The United Nations is trying to levying a global tax for the first time, in international shipping. This will give the United Nations about $12 billion per year.
Until now, all funding for the UN came from donor countries. If the UN no longer needs donor countries, it becomes a new monstrosity unleashed on the planet.
There is nothing in the UN charter that gives it the authority to tax anyone or anything. This scheme needs to be rejected now, before this cancer is allowed to grow out of control.
Doug Smith retweeted
Who does Ag Canada sell the grain data to before they release it to the public? You are telling me it takes a month to release data that is already a month behind?
Poor data makes farmers poor.
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Replying to @James_Stacey_
The members orgs. They get a different number of votes based on how much they pay in (I believe).
Doug Smith retweeted
A few readers have been inquiring about who is eligible to vote for the NFF president.
It's hard to find concrete numbers on which organisations get a vote, but this is the voting based on late last year.
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The NFF is funded in part by member contributions. We were asked recently by a subscriber who paid what.
This chart shows the total paid by members in recent years.
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We currently require 4x more land to generate the profit to purchase a hectare of land than we did during the 2014-2021 period. By @GarrenKnell and @Trent_Butcher at the ConsultAg client seminar
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The gross value of Australian ag is set to hit record levels.
Net value is, however, only the third largest, due to the increased cost of farming.
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The advocacy industry and government are celebrating being close to 100bn.
Costs have also increased dramatically as well.




































