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GPA SURVEY: 2025 GROWER POLICY PRIORITIES
Message from Barry Large, Chair of Grain Producers Australia GPA is seeking your views on current priorities, to help inform our policy...
Dec 23, 2024
GPA WELCOMES APVMA REVIEW EXTENSION
Grain Producers Australia (GPA) welcomes the Australian Pesticides And Veterinary Medicines Authority’s (APVMA announcement that the...
Dec 22, 2024
NEW VFF LEADERSHIP WELCOMED
TIME TO RE-PRIORITISE PARTNERSHIPS OF SHARED VALUE Grain Producers Australia welcomes the announcement of Brett Hosking’s election as the...
Dec 9, 2024
GPA: TIMELY REMINDER ON SPRAY DRIFT VIGILANCE
Grain Producers Australia is urging growers to be alert, vigilant and proactive, to maintain high standards for pesticide application,...
Dec 5, 2024
ANNUAL NRS GRAIN SURVEY RESULTS RELEASED
The 2023-24 National Residue Survey (NRS) Grains Brochure has again demonstrated strong results  with the recently published report...
Nov 20, 2024
AUSTRALIAN GRAINS SHOWCASE HELD IN CANBERRA
The Australian grains industry’s significant, invaluable contribution to rural communities, the national economy and more,...
Nov 14, 2024
GPA WELCOMES NEW INDEPENDENT BOARD DIRECTOR
Grain Producers Australia (GPA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Cindy Cassidy to its Board of Directors.  Ms...
Nov 12, 2024
GPA COMMENDS NUTRIEN INVESTMENT IN ROCKINGHAM FERTILISER FACILITY
Grain Producers Australia (GPA) is pleased to welcome Nutrien Ag Solutions' announcement of a $70 million investment in a Western...
Nov 6, 2024
STRONG PARAQUAT-DIQUAT RESPONSE HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR NON-POLITICISED TIMELINES
More than 150 submissions to the proposed regulatory decisions for paraquat and diquat consultation, which closed last week, sends a...
Nov 5, 2024
VICTORIAN NATIONALS MP DR ANNE WEBSTER: TRUST THE SCIENCE
GPA acknowledges and thanks Victorian Nationals MP Dr Anne Website for her speech in the Federal House of Representatives this week...
Oct 28, 2024
GRAINS SECTOR RALLIES AGAINST PROPOSED HERBICIDE CHANGES
Grain Producers Australia and its state farming organisation members are in the final stages of presenting data and science to...
Oct 16, 2024
SPOT SPRAYING BAN MAY BOOST PARAQUAT USE IN GRAIN REGIONS
Weed seeker and spot spraying technology is reducing the cropping area paraquat is applied to by between 40-90 percent for one Western...
Oct 10, 2024
SURVEY NOW OPEN FOR GROWER INPUT ON AUTONOMOUS MACHINERY
Grower understanding and use of autonomous farm machinery will be the target of a new online survey now live.   The survey is a key...
Oct 10, 2024
MENTAL HEALTH AT WORK: INVEST IN CONVERSATIONS THIS WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY
As farmers across the country are faced with tough seasons affected by weather conditions such as lack of rain and frost, Grain Producers...
Oct 8, 2024
PROPOSED DESICCATION BAN THREATENS SUSTAINABLE FARMING AND PULSE CROP VIABILITY
Thousands of grain producers will be put under unnecessary pressure to rethink sustainable farming practices that benefit the environment...
Sep 27, 2024
APVMA Paraquat & Diquat Chemical Review Resources
Useful links APVMA paraquat and diquat regulatory decisions public consultation HERE Download the GPA Paraquat and Diquat Chemical Review...
Sep 22, 2024
THE LAND | Weidemann calls out paraquat side issues, urges importance of submissions
By Grain Producers Australia Research, Development and Extension Spokesperson Andrew Weidemann Australian grain growers could be set back...
Sep 20, 2024
GROWER SPOT-SPRAYING RECORDS NEEDED TO SUPPORT PARAQUAT/DIQUAT SUBMISSION DATA
Growers using automated spot-spraying records could provide key evidence of reduced and targeted herbicide use to support ongoing use of...
Sep 18, 2024
WA LIBERAL SENATOR SLADE BROCKMAN: WE MUST REMAIN A SYSTEM BASED ON THE SCIENCE
GPA acknowledges and thanks WA Liberal Senator, Slade Brockman, for his speech in the Federal Senate yesterday (18 September 2024),...
Sep 17, 2024
GPA WEBINAR - YOUR GUIDE TO A STRONG APVMA PARAQUAT-DIQUAT SUBMISSION
Grain Producers Australia is holding an online information session to help groups and individuals develop their submissions to the...
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