Free Eyre Ltd is an agribusiness based in Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. The company's objectives include exploring and partnering in ventures designed to reduce costs across the supply chain. The company was formed after

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during the 2000s caused hardship to many of the region's growers. It is an unlisted Australian public company whose 475 shareholders represent over half of Eyre Peninsula's farming families. It was incorporated in 2007.

Port developments

In 2016, Free Eyre entered a joint venture

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development partnership with Sea Transport with the intention to develop grain export facilities at

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. The joint venture company is called Spencer Gulf Trust. In 2018, Free Eyre supported the Weatherill government's plan to establish a South Australian Port Authority and to financially support the development of new port infrastructure{{Cite news, url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-24/deep-water-port-promised-for-eyre-peninsula/9481294, title=Cost of Labor's Spencer Gulf deep-water port estimated at $700m, date=2018-02-24, work=ABC News, access-date=2018-09-15, language=en-AU but the plan was abandoned when the

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won at the March election. In September of 2018, Free Eyre announced another prospect; a revised version of a port proposal previously planned by mining company

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under the working name: Port Spencer.

References

Agriculture in South Australia