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Farm groups want more harvest information

14 Jan, 2009 12:50 PM
WAFARMERS and the Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) want greater transparency in grain marketing with the release of detailed information on the progress of WA grain production.

Currently, harvest information is made available to growers, industry and the media through CBH storage and handling's weekly harvest reports.

The reports provide basic information on harvest progress and the volumes received at grain receival sites in port zones across the Wheatbelt.

However, WAFarmers and the PGA have both expressed dissatisfaction with the current level of information available in the reports.

They say the reports only include overall grain volume and there is no breakdown of grain grades and quality.

The organisstions are frustrated this information is not made available through any other source.

The issued was raised with Farm Weekly last week by PGA Western Graingrowers chairman Leon Bradley.

Mr Bradley farms at Bolgart and is a key spokesperson in the WA grains industry.

He said the PGA felt CBH was obliged to release more detailed information on the progress of grain stocks.

CBH may be obliged to release this information, under the terms of approval for Grain Express, given by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, he said.

WAFarmers grains council president Derek Clauson agreed with Mr Bradley.

He said there was a need for greater transparency with harvest information and more of it.

Mr Clauson said grain growers were promised greater transparency and more detailed reporting on harvest progress in the deregulated wheat export market, and he was concerned it had "not yet been delivered".

"With its ACCC exemption for Grain Express you would have thought CBH would be making information of this nature free and open to growers and everyone else in the industry," he said.

"We were told this information would be provided to growers to assist with their marketing decisions but that promise has not been kept."

Read full story in this week's Farm Weekly.

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