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Windsor Farm Australian owned cannery liquidation
Windsor Farm in Cowra, New South Wales, has been placed into Voluntary Administration , causing the last wholly Australian owned cannery to shut its doors and disable its website. Windsor Farm has been a mainstay of the Cowra area since the Second World War where in 1943 the one millionth can rolled off the production line feeding Australian and US soldiers in the Pacific theatre.

A source of employment for 70 people in its Cowra factory, as well as for vegetable growers in the area, the loss of Windsor Farm is another nail in the coffin for Australia’s food processing sector.

“The loss of Windsor Farm is another crushing blow to the already struggling food processing sector that is trying to stand up under the enormous pressure placed on it from imported foods and the retail sector,” said AUSVEG Chief Mr Richard Mulcahy.

AUSVEG is the National Peak Industry Body representing Australia’s 9,000 vegetable and potato growers.

“This is the second agribusiness to close in as many weeks, after the liquidation of Basacar Produce in Bundaberg last week, and a string of others over the past 12 months. The Labor Government needs to stop its rhetoric about Food Plans, Asian Centuries and voluntary retail codes and implement programs that ensure the continuity of Australian jobs and the food manufacturing sector,” said Mr Mulcahy.

The financial woes which have bought Windsor Farms it to its knees are caused by a variety of factors.

Unsupportive retail environments with short term contracts on generic home brand goods haven’t allowed the company to reinvest and innovate. Windsor Farm was under constant pressure to lower prices to compete with cheaper manufacturing countries.

An increasingly difficult export market with a high dollar as well as increases to the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service export licenses from $500 to $8,300 have added to the pain.

“There is a litany of circumstances that prevent our food manufacturing sector from reaching its potential and keeping Australian jobs here, and unless government policies are able to address a lack of retail competition domestically we will continue to see this scenario unfold in regional Australia,” said Mr Mulcahy.

“Not every finger can be pointed at the supermarket duopoly but there needs to be proper competition in the retail space if food manufacturers and producers are expected to survive. These can be achieved through programs like a supermarket ombudsman such as that found in the United Kingdom and Government should listen to these calls from industry,” said Mr Mulcahy.
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Gourmet Buffalo Yoghurt Recalled

March 12th 2013 04:22
water buffalo cheese milk yoghurt recall
Victorian based company Shaw River Buffalo Cheese are pioneers in water buffalo milking to make gourmet cheeses & yoghurt from 100% water buffalo milk.

The company was forced to notify Food Standards Australia and New Zealand on the 8th of March that it was necessary to recall Shaw River Buffalo Yoghurt from some small gourmet retailers and health food stores in NSW, QLD and VIC due to microbial contamination (E. coli


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Jonathon Thurston Australian Kangaroos Test NZ
Indigenous rugby league legend Johnathan Thurston has accepted the honour of being the 2013 ambassador for the Queensland Reconciliation Awards. ‘JT’ plays for the North Queensland Cowboys as well as representative responsibilities for Queensland in the State of Origin, for Australia in Test Rugby League and for the Indigenous All Stars in their annual challenge against the NRL All Stars.

Premier Campbell Newman and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Multicultural Affairs Glen Elmes announced the appointment today, praising Mr Thurston’s achievements and commitment to the community


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Aussie Brand Rosella Goes Belly Up

March 5th 2013 04:24
Rosella logo Australian made tomato sauce
Iconic Australian brand Rosella will close its doors after well over a century. Aussies have been using Rosella tomato sauce on their pies since 1896 and enjoying other Rosella products such as soups, sauces and relishes for even longer.

Gourmet Food Holdings, the company that owns Rosella, entered into voluntary administration in December last year and on Friday the 1st of March, it was announced that a buyer had not been found


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homegrown mangoes Australian mango varieties research
Farmers producing fruit and nut crops may reap the benefit from research into smaller trees that yield more.

Speaking in Bundaberg, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry John McVeigh said the ‘small tree-high productivity’ (STHP) initiative was one of the biggest research projects in horticulture in many years


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Have We Been Eating Horse Meat Too?

February 27th 2013 05:57
minced beef meat horsemeat substitution scandal
The horse meat substitution scandal has now spread to more than 20 countries so how do we know it is not happening in Australia?

Food products supposedly made from beef have been found to contain horse DNA in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom


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What Food Is That? Pomegranates

February 26th 2013 06:27
pomegranates fruit whole pomegranate juice antioxidants
Pomegranates are a thick skinned red fruit with and edible seeds encapsulated in liquid filled sacs called arils. The taste is sweet but slightly tart, and the seeds are firm and crunchy.

The arils are commonly used in salads with cous cous, tabouli, rice, or to add a splash of colour in an ordinary garden salad


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Kids That Don't Like Their Food...

February 26th 2013 01:36
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Queensland Fisheries Gets New Skipper

February 25th 2013 02:48
Prawn trawler fishing Queensland East coast
Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Minister John McVeigh has announced the appointment of Scott Spencer as new Managing Director of Fisheries Queensland.

“This year has started with some significant challenges for our fisheries from Tropical Cyclone Oswald and flooding, and many in the commercial sector are still cleaning up and counting costs,” Mr McVeigh said


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Jindi Deluxe Blue Cheese Recall Listeria
Photo credit FSANZ
An ongoing investigation by Victoria’s acting Chief Health Officer, Dr Michael Ackland, has linked 18 cases of listeria infection to batches of Jindi manufactured cheeses sold nationwide at delicatessens and supermarkets.

Eight of the listeria cases were from Victoria, six from NSW, two from Queensland and single cases from Tasmania and Western Australia. Two people have died of listeria infection – a Victorian man, 84, and a Tasmanian man, 44, and a NSW woman miscarried. Dr Ackland said it is not possible to absolutely rule in or out a link for these deaths to Jindi


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