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Agricultural efficiency measures tackling raising energy costs

A REPORT from the Australian Farm Institute into energy prices in the agriculture sector show that while farmers are becoming more energy efficient – and in some cases moving off grid – recent energy prices are outstripping the sectors ability to match price rises with efficiency gains.

Paul Hunt
Farmer Brent Finlay: image provided Farming Federation

Farmer Brent Finlay: image provided Farming Federation

  The Impacts of Energy Costs on Australian Agriculture report, released last month, indicated that the significance of energy costs to agriculture were being amplified by moves in many sectors to more...

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