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PRIORITY ISSUES
Agriculture today faces challenges that require innovative thinking, good planning and a whole of industry approach. As such the Gardiner Foundation considers project applications in the context of the overall dairy environment.
Dairy Australia provides the Australian dairy industry with an annual Situation and Outlook Report. In periods of rapid change in the operating environment, for example changes in climatic conditions or market returns, Dairy Australia provides additional reports to a wide range of industry stakeholders.
The Foundation encourages applicants for funding to be aware of the latest Dairy Australia Situation and Outlook Reports and to ensure their proposed project is aligned with the industry’s priority issues. Details of the latest Dairy Australia reports can be found at Dairy Situation and Outlook.
Of particular value is Dairy Australia’s description of the dairy value chain. This analysis gives applicants for Foundation funding a very sound understanding of where their proposed project makes an impact in that chain and who the suppliers and customers may be when the project is commercialised.
The use of Dairy Australia’s Situation & Outlook Reports together with the fact that the Foundation’s Directors and employees are deeply embedded in the Victorian dairy industry’s processes for identifying and responding to priority issues ensures the Foundation’s investment is aligned with those issues.