Debates have erupted about the best way for the South Australian Sheep Industry Fund and Cattle Industry Fund to be handled, going into the future.
The Sheep Industry Fund and Cattle Industry Fund are collected from the 55 cent sheep transaction levy and $1.50 cattle producers pay when they buy their NLIS tags and fund valuable industry projects from animal health programs to traceability and predator control.
The funds are used to support sheep producers as well as beef and dairy cattle producers, and are used to carry out projects and activities that benefit the industry.
Livestock SA has proposed a change in its constitution. Among some of these changes, it has considered abolishing the two committees formed to make recommendations about the use of these two funds.
This has stirred up some strong feeling, with many former members of the committee, and other industry members, speaking out in opposition to the plan.
