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January 2008 - Timbercorp's Water and 2008 Project Update Overview
Since the start of the irrigation season, Timbercorp has
been implementing a comprehensive management strategy
to deal with reduced water allocations.
This included: carrying over water from the previous year;
maximising the advantages of the company’s $150 million
state-of-the-art irrigation system; purchasing additional
temporary water; and implementing a range of water saving
measures.
Click here to view the full article.
November 2007 - Timbercorp’s water management
The majority of Timbercorp’s projects are not located in
regions that have been affected by the reduced rainfall
currently experienced in the Murray Darling Basin.
Timbercorp’s 96,000 hectares of eucalypts in the Green Triangle
region of Victoria and South Australia and in southern
Western Australia have experienced above average rainfall
this year. Timbercorp’s mango and avocado orchards at Cairns,
Mataranka, Bundaberg and Busselton all have access to
sufficient water.
Click here to view the full article.
October 2007 - Great Southern’s water management
As a major participant in the Australian agricultural sector, Great Southern
is committed to monitoring the threat of climate change and drought
conditions and managing the changing environment in relation to our
operations.
Overall, we are currently well placed in relation to this issue, with access
to adequate high security water, rainfall catchment on farm, private dams,
regulated ground water and river supply, and the ability to purchase
temporary transfer water as required. Importantly, growers will not bear the
costs for any additional water Great Southern has been required to purchase
for its existing investments.
Click here to view the full article.
October 2007 - Water: Almond Investors Limited’s Current Planning
Graham Johns, AIL’s Orchard Manager, is one of Australia’s most experienced and respected Almond orchardists and over his 26 years of
experience has developed a sound understanding of how to manage almond trees under a broad range of growing conditions.
For this potential dry period he has available to him some of the most modern and sophisticated irrigation and fertilising technology in Australia,
which he is using to maximise outcomes, even in a reduced water environment. This allows him to carry out a range of actions, in many ways
similar to what we do in our home gardens in times of water restrictions, on the large scale of a commercial orchard. His aim is to maintain the
health of the almond trees during the current dry period and obtain balanced growth and crop yields in proportion to available irrigation water. This
will enable the trees to always be in the best possible condition to quickly return to optimum levels of orchard performance when normal rainfall
patterns resume.
Click here to view the full article.
June 2007 - Great Southern update:
New secondary market for forestry MIS
In a recent announcement by the Government, investors in forestry
MIS may now be able to trade their investments. This comes as great
news for investors in Great Southern’s Plantation and High Value
Timber Projects.
What the announcement means:
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Initial
investors may trade their interests effective 1 July 2007,
after they have been held for a minimum of 4 years; |
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The secondary
market is expected to provide investors with a greater
degree of flexibility in being able to sell their forestry
interest before final harvest; |
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If the 4 year
holding period has expired, investors who sell their
interest on the secondary market will retain the 100% tax
deduction they initially received on its purchase price; and |
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Secondary
market investors will be able to deduct all costs associated
with the investment (such as interest) as they are incurred. |
Further information on the secondary market can be found in this
flier
Investors win with the announcement of a
secondary market for forestry MIS and
the article
Forests to escape rural schemes axe. Please keep in mind that as at the date of this
communication (20 June 2007) the secondary market has not yet been established, the
exact workings on how the market will operate are still being
determined and limited information has been released.
June 2007 - Water
update
"We are fast approaching the close date for many of
the non-forestry agribusiness funds, many of which are reliant on
seasonal rainfall, whether directly or to fill irrigation
catchments. As such, we thought it appropriate to provide an update
of seasonal conditions across Australia, including a map of rainfall
totals across the country in May.
Certainly Eastern Australia is experiencing much improved seasonal
conditions when compared to last year, which has wet catchments and
provided good potential for much stronger inflows in the all
important winter and spring period. It should also be noted that
the Darling River has started to flow again, bringing much needed
relief to orchardists around Bourke in northern NSW. Anyone who had
the opportunity to view the footage of the water finding its way
along the dry river bed would have felt their sense of relief.
Let us hope that the talk of a La Nina weather event comes to
fruition."
Source - Adviser Edge
Click here
to view the full article.
06 June 2007 - A river runs through it
- Article from The Daily Telegraph
BEER'S been the only thing flowing in Tilpa for 20 years _ until now. The rapids have finally
surged through Colin Middleton's property in the far west.
Three weeks ago the Darling River which passes through grazier Mr Middleton's property at Tilpa in
the state's far west was nothing but a dry, cracked riverbed. But on Friday Mr Middleton couldn't
believe his eyes when water rapids surged through.
He was so elated he rushed down to the river with his son-in-law Matthew Elliott to capture
something he wasn't sure he'd see again. "I thought it was a mirage. I had to drink it to see if it was
real,'' Mr Middleton said.
"It was bloody magnificent, it's the first time in 20 years I have seen fresh flowing drinkable water.
It's been so desperate for the past six years.''
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to view the full article.
08 May 2007 - Federal Government
listens to Industry - Secondary Market to be introduced
The latest Federal Government Budget included a
welcome announcement regarding the introduction of a secondary
market for forestry managed investment schemes (forestry MIS).
From 1 July 2007 investors in forestry MIS will be able to trade
their interests once they have been held by the initial investor for
a period of at least four years. The four year restriction will
apply only to the initial investors in a scheme and will be
applicable to interests in pre-existing schemes, meaning that
growers who invested in a forestry MIS project prior to 1 July 2003
will be able to trade their interests from 1 July 2007.
Click here to view the announcement.
27 March 2007 -
Extension welcomed
for agribusiness managed investment schemes
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has announced it will defer the
implementation of its reconsidered view of the tax treatment
relating to agricultural managed investment schemes until 1 July
2008.
Importantly,
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All 2007 Projects will
continue to be deductible for the life of the
Project under existing product rulings |
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The ATO will continue
to issue product rulings for investments in
agribusiness managed investment schemes until 1 July
2008 i.e. 2008 Projects. |
For further information on the
Treasurer’s ATO Press Release
click here
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