AgZero 2030
Glaring Gap: Inquiry pointless without climate response
Western Australian farmers have labelled the release of the Growing Australia: Inquiry into growing Australian agriculture to $100b by 2030 report, chaired by Federal Member for O’Connor, Rick Wilson MP, a grossly inadequate response to the challenges facing the sector.
Corrigin farmer and AgZero 2030 chair, Simon Wallwork said: “Climate change has already cost Western Australian farmers, with a consistent reduction of growing season rainfall of 60mm or 20 per cent growing season rainfall since 2010, and that’s at only 1.1 degrees of warming.
“At 12 kg/mm that is an opportunity cost of 720 kg/ha if it was not due to the extraordinary adaptation of farmers, but can this continue when the effects of climate change are accelerating?