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Our industry is changing rapidly – dealing with issues including changing water availability, advances in technology and threats from new pests and diseases. vegetablesWA has a team of highly skilled experts who tackle these issues daily, while providing valuable services to vegetable growers to help support their businesses.

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Growers Unite | The Gingin Roadshow Wrap-Up The vegetablesWA Gingin Roadshow was held in Gingin on Thursday, 13 August, bringing together growers from across the region for a valuable day…

Stable Fly Management and Plan

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The latest Stable Fly Management Plan has been released. You Can read the full document here: https://vegetableswa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Amended-2019-Stable-Fly-Management-Plan.pdf Stable Flies: Protecting Your Community Against the Painful Biting Fly As a vegetable…

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Our purpose is to assist vegetable growers, industry and government to maintain a profitable and sustainable vegetable industry.

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Strategy And Plan

Focus: Set a clearly defined strategy and plan for the purpose of the business over the 3-, 5- & 10-year time horizon
Considerations:
– What is the way of life that business needs to support?
– What is the purpose of my farm business?
– What’s the long-term plan for the farm?
– Who will inherit the farm, if something happens?
– How do we intend to achieve?
– What type of finance/capital model business do we want to be?
Typical Activities:
– Set up most effective business structure (family trust, company etc.)
– Identify scale of production required to meet financial goals
– Identify crop opportunity or niche (why do you decide to grow what you do and which method do you use – conventional, organic, protected cropping etc.)
– Understand cost of operation and production
– Put legal succession plan in place