SHARING OPTIONS: Access to water is a big issue for Australian livestock production, with prolonged droughts a regular feature. Further evidence of inherent hostility within the EU commission towards EU beef production can be found in the disproportionate allocation of promotional funds to organically produced produce. This is highlighted by Farm Europe, a Brussels-based think tank on the performance of the EU rural economy. EU promotion funding for organic The think tank challenges the fact that half the EU promotional funding is allocated to Farm to Fork projects, with a particular focus on organic produce, despite the fact it represents just 10% of EU farm output value. Farm Europe also highlight that this special focus on organic is discriminatory against mainstream EU production, which is the majority output from EU farms. Its final grievance with the promotion policy is that it jumps the gun in earmarking funding support for the Farm to Fork policy, which hasn’t yet completed its journey through the EU approval process.