Perth-based grain handler CBH Group has refuted AWB Ltd's claims to the corporate watchdog that its grain supply chain proposal will lessen competition.
AWB's role as Australia's monopoly wheat exporter may officially still be in the balance, but Western Australian wheat growers have already begun preparing for a shake-up of the 68-year-old wheat marketing system.
Growers are voting with their wheat, according to WA grain handlers CBH Group, with figures indicating that more than 70 per cent of total tonnages received so far this harvest have gone into warehousing, or to the CBH Group wheat pool.
AWB International has used its veto power to reject a bulk export licence application from Co-operative Bulk Handling Group, protecting wheat growers delivering to the national pool, while leaving Wes
AWB International has used its veto power to reject a bulk export licence application from Co-operative Bulk Handling Group, protecting wheat growers delivering to the National Pool, while leaving WA wheat growers with few options.
PGA Western Graingrowers has questioned why AWB Ltd is going to extraordinary lengths in its efforts to deny the Cole Inquiry access to documents crucial to the commission's deliberations.
Wheat export monopoly AWB Ltd has rejected a bid by CBH Group to sell bulk quanitities of the commodity overseas, a move the Western Australian grain handler claims will cost farmers.
THE farm lobby is not considered to be at the vanguard of corporate governance reform, but that has not stopped the WA Farmers Federation taking on wheat marketing company AWB.
AWB has claimed vested interests are spreading confusion and misinformation about the operations and objectives of the AWB group, and the Grains Council of Australia has endorsed th
MUCKINBUDIN wheat farmer Allan Watson and Morawa wheat farmer Chris Moffet should have a lot in common.
But their common interest in the future of WA's grains industry is divided by their off-farm roles.
