Free-trade agreements, such as those negotiated with the UK, provide much more than improved access for Australian agricultural products, the boss of one of the nation’s biggest beef companies says.
“It also provides competition so that we improve our services,” Hancock Agriculture chief executive Adam Giles told the latest episode of The Australian Ag Podcast, out today.
“From a beef producing nation such as Australia … with high labour costs and high energy costs, being subject to competition drives innovation and drives productivity so that we are always getting the best we…