I take from this statement that Mr Crombie and the NFF disapprove of the grants, mandates and excise rebates put in place by governments in Australia to encourage the biofuel industry because they indeed distort the flow of food stocks to the production of biofuels.

I approve of their stand.

For example when you look at what educated people did to wool you can see that collectively they have no more than half an education. The NFF has been telling us this for twenty five years now. For all of that time the NFF has enthusiastcally promoted policies which forced its constituency to operate with minimal support in a market in which our competitors are heavily supported.

For more than twenty years now they have blindly refused to admit that their policy was not delivering as promised. For all of that time the disadvantage at which these policies set us has been compounding.

When we complain that farmers are going broke because of this they tell us that that is OK because farmers are going broke all over the world.

Who the hell do they think they are working for?

For thirty five years now we have been ruled by people at all levels of government, and including our own lobby, who believe that they are governing for the world.

The chickens are now coming home to roost.

They are about to discover what their education failed to teach them, that the hallmark of the unfettered free market is the boom/bust cycle.

The boom/bust cycle serves neither producers nor consumers well.