It's about time tax relief was granted on imputation costs such as fertilizer so we don't pay tax on money we have to spend to make food for all. Why are we paying tax on money which we cannot do anything else with but use to try make food for our people. Let's also distinguish between real farmers and companies that come along dodging tax from their real enterprise and get the same benifits as farmers who solely rely on agriculture for a living?

Let us also make sure the large supermarkets are playing fair as in Western Australia we all know they are not but they are still allowed to lower farmer returns and raise there profits with no one caring at all! Also why are farmers still having to pay provisional tax or its nice new name, pay as you go tax? I know from experience that working for the same money as one may earn on a farm and working for wages for an employer, the farmer pays double the tax on the same money of which we never see again yet have to try pay it out of the same tax year. How unfair is that?

It's time we subject all imported goods to same tests and quality control that we in Australia are subject to and start to support our "real" farmers on all levels to ensure the continued supply of our quality food here in Australia , by doing what ever it takes to ensure the survival of farms and farmers who in turn have a very great knowledge base to pass on to our future farmers rather than allowing them to be starved out of the industry and increasing rely on our importation of substandard food and products from over seas driven by greedy supermarkets !!! It's time all Australian farmers and customers started a louder protest on our extremely short sighted way of treating our quality food producers here in Australia.

So come on every one start to tell everyone about it. Write to city news papers and parliament, the time has come to for once and for all start a ground swell agaisnt what is happening before all farmers are gone and we become import reliant!!!! Remember it's a waste of time voicing your opinion in a rural publication as you are preaching to the converted, so let's get into the city publications guys !

Forget about demanding so called subsidies, as I have read above, as that will never happen. Demanding free trade in both income and expenses will happen if the industry demands it, as it’s only logical and fair.

Sure urban people will start to complain, but then all we have to say is as long as they want to pay world market price for a food product, that when produced in Australia is much better and safer than a imported produced. Let the urban people demand subsidies for the difference between “world market and Australian market” costs for farm inputs. The difference is actually a subsidy to the urban people, and yes, I find it rather good!! BUT NOT FAIR.

There is plenty of fat in the urban economy; I will say that after working in both sectors. When urban business is required to be world competitive, they will soon demand the reduction of the “regulated market” they operate in, and they will still be able to be competitive as a result. Of course the cost of this regulated market is passed on, with a profit margin to their consumer, and continues until that consumer is a farmer.

So stop demanding subsidies to cover the “urban regulated benefit” that makes “$”s go from rural to urban, and demand the govt policy of free trade to be implanted in its true and fair form.