House Standing Committee on Economics (part 2 of 2)
19 November 2025
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House Standing Committee on Economics Australian Parliament
00:00 - 00:12
Speaker 9
On their... On managing their costs and and optimize their costs, and they're they're generally very, very good at that. But your point around them being, price takers for commodity prices is a fair one.
00:12 - 01:22
Speaker 27
And one of the trends we're seeing in the in the farming community across the country, well, I'm seeing and and talking to many farmers is we're losing, generational farmers. So, you know, in in many cases, children aren't going into the business, and there's a a consolidation of farmers. And and in some industries, we're potentially seeing two or three large suppliers, then dealing with one or or with two large corporations being more worse than coals. Now my theory of that trend can... Well, two questions.
Are you seeing that trend? I'm conscious of coming anecdotal for myself. And if that trend continues, I see a risk for us as a nation that we have two or three big suppliers in each category, let's call it blueberries, one or two large corporations on the other side, the natural result of that is a comfortable higher pricing structure that cost the Australian people more? And and if if we don't... And the reason I ask that is because many of these farmers are getting out because of these rising cost energy and other things.
They can't survive unless you get to a certain scale. So I'm interested in your thoughts and any commentary you could add to that.
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