01/09/2010
Tasmanian farmers will be among the hardest hit by the latest proposed 10.6 per cent hike in electricity tariffs, which will take the increase so far this year to almost 17 per cent...
30/08/2010
A group of 20 senior secondary students from Tasmanian schools and colleges is getting up close and personal with farms and farming this week.....
26/08/2010
Tasmanian farmers today will reciprocate the help they receive from advisers when they struggle to make ends meet during downturns or drought...
14/08/2010
Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association chief executive Jan Davis today welcomed the Gillard government’s Carbon Farming Initiative....
06/08/2010
The state’s peak farming organisation, the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association, has welcomed the key planks of the Coalition’s agricultural policy....
04/08/2010
Tasmanian farmers welcomed the Gillard Government’s commitment to a national food security plan if it is re-elected...
03/08/2010
Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association chief executive Jan Davis today advised farmers that a new regime was in place governing the use of on-farm scales....
29/07/2010
Tasmanian farmers, fast confirming they are part of the solution rather than the problem of carbon emissions, today called on the three major parties to clarify their carbon accounting and trading policies....
12/07/2010
Tasmanian farmers have once again shown that they are world leaders in adopting sustainable management systems, the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association said today....
23/06/2010
Potato growers who supply Simplot Australia’s Ulverstone potato processing plant have put their case for a four per cent price increase for the 2010/11 growing season, the equivalent of another $13 a tonne...
22/06/2010
Want to know more about the complexities and opportunities of Tasmania playing an ever more important role in feeding the nation? Want to know the implications from an irrigation perspective? Want to know what this could possibly mean for you? Then Tasmanian Farmers & Graziers Association’s Biennial Conference will be for you....
17/06/2010
The Tasmanian Government had delivered just the bare bones of its pre-election promises to farmers in today’s Budget, Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association chief executive Jan Davis said today.
“However, it is really disappointing that the Budget fails to flesh out the vision that Premier David Bartlett had painted of Tasmania as the food bowl of the nation,” she said...
10/06/2010
Intentionally or not, the Tasmanian Government’s decision today to go it alone in bringing forward a ban on sow stalls, three years ahead of the rest of Australia...
26/05/2010
The Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association’s 2010 Biennial Conference will be held on Thursday, July 15 at the Country Club Tasmania....
19/05/2010
Wendy Mitchell, a Launceston businesswoman with a particular interest in environmental and planning legislation, today was appointed one of the two independent directors...
14/05/2010
The Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association (TFGA) today welcomed the report of a Senate inquiry into the dairy industry....
12/05/2010
The Federal Budget failed to recognise the role of agriculture in the nation’s future, TFGA chief executive Jan Davis said today...
10/05/2010
The Henry Taxation Review is a curate’s egg for Tasmanian farmers, according to chief executive of the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association Jan Davis....
20/04/2010
The gates at Quercus Park at Carrick will be thrown open for Agfest 2010 on May 6, 7 and 8 and the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association (TFGA) is thrilled to be part of it once again. Our site is 506 Fifth Avenue....
19/04/2010
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has reauthorised Tasmanian vegetable growers’ collective bargaining arrangements, as the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association had proposed....