Sir,Patrick Byrne’s article “The issues behind the rural crisis” (News Weekly, September 20) pointed up the stupidity of successive governments and academic economic theorists, which have virtually destroyed rural and manufacturing industry in Australia.When I started farming some 50 years ago, we operated under the system devised by “dynamic community-minded farmers, who had created rural co-ops, marketing boards single selling desks, regulated authorities and rural credit unions to ensure farm…
