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One of the organisers of a dry season update meeting held in the state's south west yesterday says he was very pleased to see hundreds of farmers at the event, but was disappointed no one from the state government attended.

Over 200 people from 10 different shires attended a dry season update at Yornup, 270 kilometres south of Perth in the state's south-west, this morning.

Woolworths and Coles executives have been grilled in Canberra today at a Senate Select Committee inquiry on supermarket prices. 

The state government has established a dry season taskforce to help address the challenging seasonal conditions.

Tassal is best known for farming salmon in Tasmania but it's moved into prawns in New South Wales and north Queensland and has now bought up big in Western Australia's Kimberley region. It has options to expand but some locals are uneasy at that prospect.