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Farm leaders walk out on Watt

Peak industry bodies abandoned yesterday's budget breakfast in protest of the sheep trade shutdown.

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NFF president, David Jochinke, said the group of farm industry leaders turned their backs on the ag minister at the industry budget breakfast, just "like he turned his back on farmers." Credit: NFF.

NFF president, David Jochinke, said the group of farm industry leaders turned their backs on the ag minister at the industry budget breakfast, just "like he turned his back on farmers." Credit: NFF.

IN a display of solidarity, farming leaders walked out during yesterday's industry budget breakfast after Federal minister for agriculture, Murray Watt, started talking about the live sheep export ban. ...

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