Farmers cite 'poor consultation' and a lack of focus on dairy-specific issues for their decision to walk away from the VFF.
abc.net.au/news/dairy-farmers-leave-vff-for-new-group-victoria/102900364The leadership of the dairy branch of the Victorian Farmers Federation has resigned en masse to join a new organisation.Dairy farmers have walked away from the Victorian Farmers Federation's dairy group to form their ownThe new group hopes to attract more than 1,000 members within 12 months
"This has been a long time coming; we've been trying to talk to VFF over a long period of time but unfortunately the VFF leadership has made a decision not to sit down and talk to us and look at a way forward," he said. In a letter to members today, the VFF rejected this and said "the cost of running the VFF-UDV is about 45 per cent of VFF-UDV contributions".Mr Billing said there had been a lack of support from the VFF for industry-specific issues.
"We'd like to think that once we have the membership growing we'll have staff in the regions working direct with the membership, picking up issues and advocating on behalf of Victoria's fairy farmers."Mr Billing said he believed UDV had around 800 members, but that number had been falling in recent months.
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