Opinion piece submitted by Northern Territory cattle producer and former Cattle Council of Australia president Markus Rathsmann
No one likes extra taxes but Australian farmers are major beneficiaries of a robust well funded Biosecurity system.
Former Cattle Council of Australia president Markus Rathsmann.
Our island continent has been free of many of the worlds major diseases and Australian farmers have certainly the most to lose when there are biosecurity breaches.
The beef industry which exports over 70pc of production would be economically crippled by lack of market access with the…
