Successful candidates in Livestock SA’s second board member election have been announced this morning at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting at Roseworthy.

Results of Livestock SA’s board member elections will be announced this Friday at its Annual General Meeting and combined AWI South Australian Wool Producers Forum.

Livestock SA will hold a vote for membership of its board after receiving nine nominations for five vacant positions.

Livestock SA is calling for producers to nominate for five vacant board member positions.

Cuts to funding for Biosecurity SA’s livestock area is one of a string of disappointments and missed opportunities from the State Government’s Budget announcement today, Livestock SA President Geoff Power says.

Livestock SA is calling on the State Labor Government to reaffirm its commitment to livestock production in South Australia by abandoning any plans to remove land tax exemptions for primary production land or make changes to road transport taxes.

Livestock SA is calling on the State Government to support recommendations identified by the South East Drainage Community Panel and honour its commitment to the region’s residents that the community will direct how maintenance of the network will be funded.

Livestock SA is calling for a halt to further mining developments using hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’, arguing that mining companies should not be permitted to experiment with the relatively new process on agricultural land.