Tuesday, 10 September 2013 16:19

Bailey to chair red meat profit partnership

Written by Rural News Group

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HIGH PROFILE agribusinessman Malcolm Bailey has been appointed chairman of the Red Meat Profit Partnership.

Bailey is a former Federated Farmers president, a former Special Agricultural Trade Envoy for the Crown and a current director of Fonterra.

He is also a Westpac NZ Ltd director, chairman of the Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand and a member of the Food & Agriculture International Trade Policy Council (IPC), based in Washington DC.

Bailey says: “The Red Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP) provides an opportunity to achieve a step change in farm productivity and sector performance. We have a strong consortium of private sector interests co-investing with the Crown and the challenge of helping steer this group is exciting.”

The RMPP, which is in the final stages of contract negotiations with the Crown, will invest in projects intended to build capability and make the red meat sector more profitable, confident and productive.

$64 million will be spent on the project over seven years: $19.3 million from sheep and beef farmers through B+LNZ, $13 million from industry and $32 million from the Crown.

The participating meat companies are Alliance Group, ANZCO, Silver Fern Farms, Greenlea, Blue Sky Meats and Progressive Meats, two banks – ANZ and Rabobank, business services firm Deloitte, and industry-good organisation Beef+Lamb New Zealand. Half of the RMPP activities will be funded by this private sector consortium, the other half by the Crown.

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