The National Farmers Federation (NFF) is supporting MP Tony Windsor's calls for a scientific fund to study the impacts of coal seam gas (CSG).
Walcha farmer Jock Laurie, who has just been re-elected unopposed as the NFF's president, says he expects his next term to focus on land use conflict between miners and farmers.
Mr Laurie says it is obvious CSG is not well understood.
He says the New England independent MP's demands for more science to be done and for the Federal Government to fund it, are reasonable.
"When we get into mining coal seam gas we need to understand what the potential impacts are," he said.
"We think it's the responsibility of Government to make sure that that work's done because they've got a responsibility to make sure that whatever developments they're letting happen, they've got to be done based on fact and based on science."
ABC New England North West
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