NFF wants quarantine changes

Tuesday, 13/11/2007

The National Farmers Federation says confidence in the quarantine system has been destroyed by the horse flu outbreak.

It has been a long-time defender of the system, to the annoyance of some of its state members.

But NFF chief executive Ben Fargher says the group will push for changes after the election.

"We really want to make sure that the authorities have got the resources on-farm and obviously post-border as well to manage the quarantine system and with equine flu and other concerns there's no doubt there are many, many farmers that have a lack of confidence in the current scheme and it will be a challenge for whoever wins on the 24th to rebuild confidence in the scheme," he says.