The debate about the percentage of agricultural produce exported, featured in recent issues of News Weekly, is vitally important to farmers. One can only wish that ministers and industry politicians realised that fact.Queensland academic, Mark McGovern, has argued that the politicians and industry spokespeople have turned the facts on their head. Eighty per cent of farm product is consumed domestically and 20 per cent exported, rather than the other way around. He makes his convincing arguments …
