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The Benefits of
Graincare
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Development of growers’ farm business management
skills in the area of food and feed safety.
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Graincare
focuses on Good
Agricultural Practice (GAP), which includes practices such as cleaning storage facilities
before filling them with grain, applying chemicals at applicable rates or ensuring that
spray contractors are competent to perform the task asked of them. These practices minimise and manage most of
the food and feed safety risks that arise on-farm. Where
a grower is not yet using GAP, adopting Graincare
will provide benefits in terms of improved on-farm management practices. Where growers are already implementing GAP,
implementation costs will be low, as few changes will be required to meet the requirements
of Graincare. For most growers, existing records will cover the majority of the recording
requirements of the Graincare
program.
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Graincare will
maximise growers’ marketing opportunities in terms of market access, price, or both.
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When
a grower or marketer is marketing quality assured grain to a customer they are marketing confidence – confidence that a customer is
purchasing grain that is reliably and consistently safe. This is an important dimension of grain marketing because customers want to be
confident that the grain they purchase meets their requirements. This assists them in maintaining their own
competitiveness and minimising the risks to their production process of a food or feed
safety incident. Growers who can give
customers this confidence will become preferred suppliers who have better access to
markets and may be able to achieve a better price than their competitors. In some circumstances, growers may not be able to
access markets if they are not quality assured.
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Graincare
will assist
growers in understanding and satisfying the requirements of their customers.
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The specific
requirements of Graincare
have been developed by
grower
representatives, marketers, end-users, bulk handling companies, other quality
assurance programs and government. Graincare
will be reviewed regularly in order to ensure that the program remains relevant to the
changing needs of producers and the market.
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Graincare
will assist
in minimising government regulation of on-farm food safety in the grains industry.
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Currently,
Commonwealth and State Governments are prepared to give primary industries the opportunity
to implement their own industry-based food safety mechanisms, rather than having to comply
with regulatory-based mechanisms. If growers
are able to demonstrate that they are producing safe food through industry-based programs,
then governments will not establish regulations that merely duplicate these programs.
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