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Melbourne Farmers Markets ~ a permanent hub
The Melbourne Farmers Market has provided hundreds of small scale producers with a direct connection to their end consumers, giving growers valuable and immediate feedback on their goods. However, the Farmers Market organisation knew [...]
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3078
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Co-op establishment
Collaboration
Expert Support
Farmer Market events
Feasibility
Legal
Logistics & Distribution
Strategic Planning
Phone:
03 9499 3400
Tidying up governance for a clearer future
The Liebe Group is an established not-for-profit business supporting WA’s mid ‘wheatbelt’ region. Established to address concerns of isolation from agricultural R&D, most of the group’s 100 members run broad-acre cropping and livestock [...]
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Wheatbelt, Western Australia, Australia 6535
Phone:
08 9661 0570
Developing supply strength with solid legal contracts
Most Australian strawberries are eaten in the Australian market and many are grown in Victoria’s Yarra Valley. However, marketing and sale of berries to the major supermarkets is controlled by a few large companies, [...]
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3799
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Contracts
Expert Support
Fruit
Negotiation & Mediation
Pricing
Australian bee keeper co-op – a hive of activity
A group of beekeepers and honey packers in the Moreton Bay area of Queensland wanted to create long term partnerships between investors and primary producers to help them become export-viable. They wanted a new [...]
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Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia 4550
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Co-op establishment
Collaboration
Expert Support
Feasibility
Infrastructure Planning
Legal
Logistics & Distribution
Other crops
Phone:
+61 7 3881 3417
The power of local branding
Led by dairy farmer, Sue Harnett, the Burringbar Catchment Group, gathered to ponder a problem; their local produce was being overshadowed by products from the more recognised Byron Bay region. The group, which includes, [...]
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Northern Rivers (incl Lord Howe Is.), New South Wales, Australia 2483