GROWER-BASED conservation farming association, Conservation Farmers Inc (CFI), is to be wound up.
The organisation, which has driven the adoption of no-till farming practices for more than three decades in the northern farming regions of Queensland and northern New South Wales, has been put into voluntary liquidation following a claim by a former director for substantial expenses that is now in the hands of the courts.
CFI chair, Darryl Bartelen, said the magnitude of the claim was untenable for a not-for-profit company.
Mr Bartelen said the CFI was unable to confront the financial enormity of the legal proceedings, leaving the Board with no other choice than to seek the closure of the …
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