Graziers and croppers in the state's North West will get the chance to vent frustrations over land clearing laws and the future of invasive plants at a forum in Moree on Tuesday, hosted by NSW Farmers.
Moree producer Oscar Pearse, a member of NSW Farmers' native vegetation task force, said people were expected to attend the question and answer session from Walgett to Inverell and north to Goondiwindi, where commercial and environmental realities inevitably clash.
"There is a spread of activities involved with land clearing that require a notice to local land services," he says. "But farmers think it's better to not talk about what they're doing and yet satellite imagery tells the story.
"At this forum we're hoping to bust the myth that farmers should not talk to government."
Another North West farmer, who did not want to be named for fear of official reprisal, said the forum was 25 years too late and in the meantime invasive vegetation had cruelled agricultural enterprise in his district.
"We feel like we're national park rangers with zero pay, tasked with managing native vegetation for the good of all and we can't afford that."
