Newsletters

Top stories in the April 2018 newsletter include: 

• Meet the new GPSA CEO - Caroline Rhodes
• Save the date for GROWING SA!
• GPSA supports rural health initiative
• Submissions open for safety award
• GPSA ready to work with new State Government

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Top stories in the March 2018 newsletter include:

• No premiums for majority of SA farmers under GM moratorium
• GPSA and the 2018 State Election Campaign
• Enthusiasm brims from Thriving Women conference
• New Chain of Responsibility laws
• Weather station funding welcomed
• New NFF leadership program
• Regional Community Capability Fund grants

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Top stories in the February 2018 newsletter include:

• Register now for EP grower meetings with DPTI and NHVR
• Have your say in GPSA's 2017-18 Harvest Review Survey
• GPSA election policy released
• EP growers off to Thriving Women
• Written agreements important in grain trading

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Top stories in the January 2018 mid-month update include:

• Heavy Vehicle Inspection Scheme to be expanded
• GPA, NFF working hard on tariffs issue
• Last chance for Thriving Women sponsorship
• Expressions of interest sought for new farm business program

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Top stories in the December 2017 newsletter include:

• Field bin safety warnings issues with compliance to start in 2018
• Professor Wendy Umberger a new GPSA independent director
• GPSA farewells inaugural CEO Darren Arney
• GPSA offers sponsorship for Thriving Women 2018
• Storage container availability, ESCOSA review feature of Parliamentary inquiry
• ESCOSA timeframes reviewed
• GPSA supports initiative to get students in grains industry careers
• Reminder on responsible spray application
• Thanks for completing GPSA's latest survey

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Top stories in the November 2017 newsletter include:

• Changes to heavy vehicle access start November 4
• Help GPSA to better advocate for you
• Call for participation in APH project
• Draft mining legislation introduced to State Parliament
• Celebrate National Ag Day

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Top stories in the October newsletter include:

• IMP on the agenda at Kadina grain market access forum
• GPSA meets members at YP Field Days
• Spring edition of Grain Producer magazine released
• Mining Act review update
• NFF submission to drought program review
• Know Your Code this harvest
• Be mindful of grain hygiene

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Stories in the September newsletter include:

• Market access challenges of delivering SA grain
• GPSA at the Yorke Peninsula Field Days
• Call for producer input on national machinery movement notice
• National Ag Day set for November 21
• ARLP applications open
• GPSA on container panel

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Top stories in the August newsletter include:

• GROWING SA and GPSA Annual General Meeting to be held
• Three directors fill vacancies for GPSA board
• South East on-farm grain storage meeting
• Joel, Dion win GPSA's supply chain scholarships
• Have your say on how industrial hemp is grown
• Controlling snails increases market competitiveness
• Safework SA releases plan for agricultural WHS
• Update on mouse populations
• Flinder Ports update on Thevenard

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Top stories in the July newsletter include:

• GPSA board nominations are open
• Feedback required for Parliamentary Inquiry into Primary Producers
• Content hub for grains information launched
• Opportunities for grains businesses in new $200m government Future Jobs Fund
• Changes to award rates from 1 July 2017
• Registrations open for Growing SA Conference
• Yorke Peninsula road upgrades top $40 million
• ElectraNet considers EP power supply options

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Top stories in the June newsletter include:

• Dion Woolford, Kimba, appointed to the GPSA Board
• Save the date: GROWING SA 2017
• SA Power Networks renews campaign to ‘look up and live’
• Tax changes highlighted for small businesses
• NHVR pursues national approach to agricultural vehicle movements
• Small business help available for farmers
• New firearms regulations to start on July 1
• Diary dates

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Top stories in the May newsletter include:

• Save the date ... GPSA AGM - Friday 11 August 2017
• Deadline looms for supply chain review
• Last chance to take the transport issues survey
• Project update - the 90-day Change@SA Project 1 Status Update Report
• AGIC scholarships on offer through GPSA

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Top stories in the April newsletter include:

• New 90-day project seeks grower feedback on transport hot spots
• Discussion to start on Mining Act
• Industrial relations member update available
• Reminder on multi-peril rebates
• Location differentials vary across Australia
• Header insurance working group forms
• Churchill Fellowship applications open
• Last chance ... complete the post harvest survey

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Top stories in the March newsletter include:

• Call for feedback - post-harvest review
• Workshops lift on-farm safety expectations
• Not sure where to start with work health and safety? Here's some tips ...
• Free work health and safety workshops
• Reminder to grain growers to take care when spraying with later grape harvest
• Preparing for a clean harvest starts now!
• Flinders Ports charges exceed CPI increases
• Entries open for young growers to attend AGIC

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Top stories in the February newsletter include:

• GPSA meets with growers on Mining Act review
• Have your say … mining on ag land
• AGT takeover of InterGrain under scrutiny
• Grain Trade Australia reviews pool provider standards
• GPSA welcomes new policy expertise for 2017
• Work health and safety regional workshop events

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The December / January 2017 edition includes details of GPSA's grower meetings regarding the review of South Australia's Mining Acts, the Work Health & Safety Roadshow, new board director Adrian McCabe and the Know Your Code harvest fire safety campaign.

Stories in the November 2016 newsletter include GPSA's response to the mining act review, new grain hygiene campaign and feed barley permit for glyphosate.