Right To Farm

Right-to-farm still needs defending, say Melbourne's green wedge primary producers. Yarra RangesCouncil Rural Advisory Committee member Meridie Jackson tells Stock & Land how it is and the importance of the right to farm. "The real concern is that we will be increasingly bound up by regulations that dictate what can and cannot be done on our farms." - Meridie Jackson, Yarra Ranges beef producer.
Yarra Ranges council social and economic development director James Collins said the municipality had the largest proportion of green wedge land in all of the Interface Councils. "We have a high use for, and demand, for this land for agricultural and horticultural purposes," Mr Collins said. DELWP draft mapping had shown a significant amount of strategic agricultural land in the Yarra Ranges. "Current arrangements with green wedge zoning serves our community well now, and into the future, ensuring land is available and dedicated to the use of agriculture and horticulture," Mr Collins said. "This being said, green wedge policies must adapt to changing agricultural practices, so we can continue to supply our growing population." Yarra Ranges Business Victorian Farmers Federation Richard Wynne Peter Walsh MP Agribusiness Yarra Valley Cindy McLeish MP