Membership
Become a member
Hort Innovation membership is more than just voting rights. Membership brings you closer to investment activities and results in your industry, and to the organisation as a whole. Remember, paying a levy doesn't automatically make you a member.
Benefits of membership
Membership is free and provides you access to:
- Member-only webinars
- Education and training programs, and trials/research collaboration opportunities
- Pre-registration for Hort IQ.
Additionally for levy payers:
- Event ticket offers
- Social media opportunities to highlight your involvement with research
- Voting rights at the Hort Innovation Annual General Meeting.
Join us to support a prosperous and sustainable Australian horticulture industry built on innovation.
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Criteria for membership
Membership is open to industry participants which are an entity:
- That is carrying on an enterprise within a horticultural industry in Australia
- Has a registered ABN
- Examples include:
- Growing and harvesting
- Processing
- Packing
- Transporting
- Marketing
- Wholesaling
- Retailing
- Exporting
- Supply of inputs for horticulture production.
Membership is open to all industry participants excluding:
- Industry Representative Bodies (including Peak Industry Bodies)
- Entities that are suppliers of goods or services to Hort Innovation.
Easier voting for members
Voting rights are available to members that are levy payers and/or producers who contribute to a Collective Industry Fund (CIF).
The levy payer is the entity primarily liable for the payment of a levy or charge on horticultural products. An intermediary which collects levies and remits them on behalf of a producer is not the levy payer.
Hort Innovation has made it easier for levy payers to receive one vote. One vote can be attained by completing an Annual Levy Return and ticking the horticultural products for which levies have been paid. The levy paying member will no longer have to submit levy amounts paid. To qualify for voting rights, the member must have been liable for $200 or more of levies in the last financial year.
One additional vote is provided for every $10,000 in average levies for the past three financial years. To secure more than one voting right, the levy amounts paid by horticultural product must be submitted on the Annual Levy Return.
If you have any questions about membership or require assistance with completing the form, please contact us at membership@horticulture.com.au.