Right-to-farm issues are causing concern for many farmers. NSW Farmers is lobbying for new legislation to protect them.

NSW farmers are being grind to a halt due to new non-agricultural neighbours moving next-door and complaining about farming activities.(i.e orchard netting obscuring a view)

According to the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI), the concept of right to farm has multiple facets, but the common interpretation relates to a desire by farmers to undertake lawful agricultural practices without conflict or interference arising from complaints from neighbours and other land users.

While NSW has a right-to-farm policy developed by the state government, the only Australian state with right-to-farm legislation is Tasmania. Here, the law aims to ensure that the arrival of new, usually non-farming neighbours in rural areas does not result in the everyday activities of nearby farms being impeded or stopped.   

In the United States and Canada, right-to-farm laws were developed in the 1970s against a backdrop of concern about the loss of agricultural land and conflict resulting from increasing urban encroachment. The US-based Farm Foundation, a non-profit agribusiness researcher, found that people not involved in farming were beginning to move into traditional agricultural areas, bringing with them new complaints about the way the work was carried out. Complaints included issues about odour, flies, dust, noise, spraying of farm chemicals and slow-moving farm machinery.

WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FARMERS 

WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR LOCAL FOOD SOURCES 

WE NEED MORE FARMS

WITH GLOBAL WARMING, GLOBAL POPULATION BOOM AND NATURAL DISASTERS PUTTING PRESSURE ON AGRICULTURE AUSTRALIA, OUR FARMERS NEED YOUR SUPPORT MORE THAN EVER! 

THIS SIGNATURE MEANS OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL EAT FOOD PRODUCED IN NSW