Livestock tracing to cost millions more than Minister admits

Extra costs for individual farmers creeping into thousands of dollars will be the result of the government's plans for a livestock traceability scheme.Nationally, new costs on farmers will climb towards $50 million, with no productive return.This week Agr

Liam Baldwin
Fri, 29 Jan 2010

Extra costs for individual farmers creeping into thousands of dollars will be the result of the government’s plans for a livestock traceability scheme.

Nationally, new costs on farmers will climb towards $50 million, with no productive return.

This week Agriculture Minister David Carter fired up the

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