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Australian Pork Limited director John Coward (Photo: APL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

December 11, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former Swickers managing director John Coward – a director of producer group Australian Pork Limited – is pressing the State Government to adjust piggery licence fees.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the ABC this week, Mr Coward said the increase in licence fees over the past few years and a hike in the cost of feed had seen profit margins for pig producers collapse.<\/p>\n

The fees are set on a sliding scale based on the fact that bigger piggeries produce more waste and therefore present a higher environmental risk.<\/p>\n

Murgon piggery owner Greg Upton told the ABC he may have to close down his farm if he can’t raise the funds for his licence.<\/p>\n

Mr Upton said his licence fee was more than $3000 and had risen $400 in the past five years.<\/p>\n

He said other producers had left the industry.<\/p>\n

Mr Coward said he had spoken to the State Government about the fee structure.<\/p>\n

“One of the things we’d like to see is a more equitable spread of fees across the whole production range, so that a person that has got say 10 pigs more than the lower limits doesn’t automatically jump up to a higher limit,” he told the ABC.<\/p>\n

He said the government was considering the request.<\/p>\n

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