AGRICULTURE: ABARE report underestimates dairy backlash*

The country backlash against the Federal Government is likely to continue, if the recent Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) report on the deregulation of the dairy industry is anything to go on.Of 111 dairy regions examined, ABARE found that in 57 regions the impact of deregulation was moderate to high on farmers and moderate to high on their country regions. In another five regions the effects were high on both farmers and their regions. And the ABARE report may we…

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