Farmers hit with 'indefensible' power price rise

Updated June 16 2017 - 4:09pm, first published 3:37pm
Farmers label power price hikes ‘indefensible’
Farmers label power price hikes ‘indefensible’

Today’s announcement by the Queensland Competition Authority (QCA) that electricity prices for irrigated agriculture will increase by up to 5.1 per cent will do nothing to allay the fears of farmers who are seeing their livelihoods slowly eaten away by rising power prices, according to CANEGROWERS. 

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