This is where I have got to. I’ve put a fair bit of our own know-how in here so my hope is that others are as willing to share so we can all benefit.

One of the most damaging ideas in modern risk communication is that hazard equals risk. IARC helped popularize this confusion. A hazard tells us what could cause harm. A risk tells us what is actually likely to cause harm at real-world exposure levels. Those are not the same thing. Yet for years, hazard classifications have been reported as if they were measures of real-world danger. The consequences have been enormous: • Public confusion. • Sensational headlines. • Multi-billion-dollar lawsuits. • Erosion of trust in regulatory science. And when everything looks dangerous, the public loses the ability to distinguish genuine risks from theoretical ones. Good science requires both hazard identification and risk assessment. Ignoring either one leads to bad decisions. The challenge is that only one of them tends to make headlines.

IARC has confused hazard with risk. IARC has promoted chemophobia IARC has fueled litigation. IARC is politicized. A decline of IARC would result in less fearmongering, fewer lawsuits and a greater reliance on risk assessments.

Here is the @WAFarmersGrains letter to the editor of the @australian regarding Ros Thomas’ article on paraquat. We have asked for the opportunity to respond in this weekend’s paper with our own op-ed on this important issue. @DavidPocock

Un professore di economia di una scuola superiore aveva dichiarato che nessuno degli studenti del suo corso era mai stato bocciato, ma si è recentemente ritrovato a far bocciare un'intera classe. Tutta la classe aveva insistito nel dire che il socialismo funziona e che, di conseguenza, nessuno sarebbe stato né povero né ricco. Un mezzo egualitario eccezionale. Allora il profesoore annunciò: "OK, faremo allora un piccolo esperimento di classe. Al prossimo compito in classe, farò la media di tutti i vostri voti e ve lo assegnerò. Avrete tutti lo stesso voto, nessuno riceverà un'insufficienza né prenderà un dieci". Dopo il primo scritto fu fatta la media dei voti e tutti ottennero un 7. Quelli che avevano studiato molto erano delusi, quelli che avevano studiato poco erano contenti. Nel secondo compito in classe, quelli che avevano studiato poco studiarono meno e quelli che avevano studiato tanto decisero di seguire la strada dei loro compagni furbetti studiando poco. La media del secondo esame fu un 4. Nessuno era contento. Al terzo compito in classe, la media fu 2. Nel corso dei successivi esami i voti non migliorarono mai. Cominciò a crescere il nervosismo e gli scambi di accuse, gli insulti colorivano le conversazioni e tutti vissero male quella situazione. Nessuno volle studiare a beneficio degli altri. A grande sorpresa di tuta l'intera classe fu bocciata. Fu allora che il professore affermò che il socialismo era il viatico del fallimento, poiché quando la ricompensa è grande, l'impegno nel riuscire è altrettanto grande. Ma quando lo Stato elimina ogni possibilità di premio, nessuno offrirà il proprio impegno né vorrà ottenere successo. Non potrebbe essere più semplice.

Grain growers in Western Australia and South Australia are being urged to provide on-ground evidence of mouse activity after applying ZP25 mouse bait to assist an emergency permit application for use of ZP50 mouse bait. More-> tinyurl.com/3x2svp6r

Was anyone suspicious of how quiet China and Russia have been lately? From May, China will ban exports of sulphuric acid, roughly two-thirds of which feeds fertislier output. supplychaindigital.com/news/…

If you really have to think about the value of the farm lobby organisation @WAFarmers then getting @CSBPfertilisers to honour it’s commitments to nitrogen supplies pays for your subscription over and again. Time to pitch in and become a member v being a free rider!

@WAFarmers has advocated strongly on this issue (as it has on so many issues) on behalf of ALL WA farmers, despite only a third of WA farmers being members. If your business has benefited from this advocacy, and you are not already a member, then we would urge you to join up.

UPDATE on #csbpforcemajeure: CSBP to honour its UAN contracts by providing alternative N products at the same $/kgN as originally contracted. 👏 Listen to the discussion on today’s WA Country Hour (about 17:00). abc.net.au/listen/programs/w…

My thoughts on the lessons & impacts from the recent action by @CSBPfertilisers and @summitfertz to declare force majeure on supply contracts.

WA farmers will be watching CSBP closely to see if they go on to make any new sales of urea or UAN at the now market price. If they do, it will be clear that this has been about margin, not availability.

A great interview on yesterday's ABC WA Country Hour with @belvarischetti. @WAFarmersGrains President, @mdfowler100, spoke in plain English about the concept of Force Majeure and the current situation with fertiliser. Listen around 39:55 abc.net.au/listen/programs/w…

Great job & big thanks to the Service Manager, Byron Blevin, at McIntosh & Son, Narrogin for coordinating and personally attending to our in-field issues yesterday (Sunday).

Everyone who let your advocacy subs "slide" to save a few dollars this budget (and the consultants who encouraged it), just a question: How much will you have really "saved" if govt caves in to the left on diesel excise when they drop their budget? Or CGT discounts? Or any of the myriad other POLITICAL threats to your business? The best way to protect our industry is to financially support an advocacy group. Don't be penny wise and pound foolish!

Nails it.

That’s it for hay/harvest 2025. Many thanks to our team who have worked tirelessly since mid-Sept. It’s been a long run and a huge effort. Well executed and great results. @BaydenEdwards @HolgerBinding

WAFarmersGrains response to this article in The @australian, which discusses: 1. a potential “takeover” of CBH: and 2. increasing competition in the WA grains supply chain.

Yep, every tonne of grain, straw, fibre or meat that leaves the farm takes with it kilos of N, K, P, S and other nutrients. If you don’t replace them you are mining not farming. If you’re not replacing these elements you aren’t by definition sustainable.