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ABARES Executive Director Dr Steve Hatfield-Dodds (Photo: Linked In)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 6, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Making tough choices will be central to Australian agriculture\u2019s continued success, ABARES Executive Director Dr Steve Hatfield-Dodd told the ABARES Outlook Conference in Canberra this week.<\/p>\n

During his opening address, Dr Hatfield-Dodds listed five key areas that were vital to meeting the National Farmer Federation\u2019s goal of lifting the value of Australian agricultural production to $100 billion by 2030.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must recognise that achieving the best outcomes for agriculture, our rural communities, and the national economy will require some tough choices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201c(These) include ensuring agriculture is attractive to workers and investors; harnessing innovation to boost performance; promoting on-farm resilience and risk management; persisting with water reforms and respecting and responding to evolving consumer expectations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should be mindful of the substantial, and sometimes painful, reforms that underpinned the growth achieved in recent decades, and that favourable global prices account for 90 per cent of past trend growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach of the five areas bring both opportunities and threats, but support the theme of enhancing the well-being of producers, consumers, regions, and the nation to increase prosperity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe sector is well aware of the need to attract workers, but actions are always going to speak louder than words in ensuring a positive experience for farm workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to continue to harness innovation.<\/p>\n

“Priorities include reducing fragmentation and improving collaboration on \u2018whole-of-sector\u2019 challenges, greater clarity and consistency around contributions and benefit sharing, and achieving faster adoption and commercialisation of successful research.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur farms must remain resilient and manage risk effectively. Australian farmers manage very significant variability, including variable climate and volatile commodity prices.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must persist with water reforms.<\/p>\n

“The view that healthy industries require healthy catchments has not always been visible in recent debate and finger pointing, which is often framed in terms of trade-offs between \u2018industry\u2019 or \u2018development\u2019 versus the \u2018environment\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is evident that achieving the NFF aspirations for agriculture requires sustainable management of Australia scarce water resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cRespecting and responding to evolving consumer expectations may well be both the greatest opportunity, and threat, facing Australian agriculture.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cProducers are particularly exposed where real or perceived poor behaviour by a few players can tarnish the reputation or market access of an entire sector. Assessing these risks and opportunities requires industry to understand how consumers think and feel, even when this is confronting.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralian agriculture has many advantages, and a track record of good performance, underpinned by tough choices.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut to thrive and grow\u2014to meet $100 billion\u2014some difficult decisions will need to be made.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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