A new company to drive the grains industry is being pushed by the New South Wales Farmers’ Association, following debate at its Executive Council meeting in Coonabarabran.

The Council have voted in support of the proposed company called ‘Single Vision Grains Australia’, to address fragmentation in the industry and coordinate strategy, market and product development opportunities.

Chair of the Association’s Grains Committee, Angus Macneil, says there are currently a number of participants in the industry, with a number of various strategic plans.

“Single Vision is designed to co-ordinate these plans and capture the opportunities of the industry to drive it forward,” Mr Macneil said.

“For the industry to make significant progress in the future, there needs to be one body overseeing where things are heading so that everyone is moving in the same direction and that’s what this new company is all about.

“The new body will not be a representative policy making organisation. Rather it aims to provide a way to improve returns for grain producers by capturing valuable research, market and product development opportunities which have been neglected in the past.

“‘Single Vision Grains Australia’, would focus on this with the aim to return the benefit to producers and has support from the Association for its staged implementation,” Mr Macneil concluded.

The new company is to be producer owned and funded and has been put forward by the Grains Council of Australia following extensive consultation with industry and this will continue when the proposal is presented at Grains Week on the 4th- 7th April in Brisbane.