Farmers wont be sidelined in new NFF structure

State farm organisations and commodity councils have been assured they will keep a "majority shareholding" in the membership of National Farmers Federation ahead of a vote in Canberra next week to change its structure and bring in corporate agribusiness.

NFF president, David Crombie, will put a new membership model to its farmer stakeholders next Thursday, attempting to bring about the first major structural change in the organisation’s 30 year history.