Water fight... a farmer seeding a field at Wudinna in SA
The head of Australia's key farming lobby group says competition with the mining sector over water is the biggest issue facing Australian agriculture.
The National Farmers Federation (NFF) is today launching the first stage of its blueprint for Australian agriculture, detailing the major challenges and opportunities for the sector over the next 40 years.
"Obviously it's going to be crucially important that politicians remember agriculture into the future and certainly have got some long-terms plans about how agriculture's going to develop over the next 30 to 40 years, I suppose," NFF president Jock Laurie told AM.
"You need to start putting some longer-term time frames on this, and what some of the impediments might be, and some of the things that you need to do to overcome some of those problems."
ABC News
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