In the midst of the debate between independents Bob Katter and Nick Xenophon and Australian supermarkets and producers over price displays, Queensland’s leading horticultural body has come up with an alternative.
Growcom agrees with many producers and representative bodies that while the suggestion to have the farm paid price displayed next to the retail price in supermarkets is good in theory, it would not work in reality.
Growcom chief executive Alex Livingstone wants a less complicated measure put in place.
"(It) might rely on things like average pricing over a period of time, a bit like banks publishing their interest rates every week," he told the ABC
"There might be something along those lines that can be done that will achieve the same, but be a lot cheaper for the industry."