Kate Acland appointed deputy chair of B+LNZ board
Kate Acland, Northern South Island Director, has been appointed as deputy chair of the Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) board.
The very lobby group formed in the early 2000s demanding a restructure of the meat industry. John Gregan was the former chair of MIAG, and Bill Wright was a key member of the lobby as well. However, since MIAG went the way of the CD player, Gregan quit sheep and beef farming and went dairying and is now even on Fonter- ra's shareholder council. Mean- while, Wright has stayed in sheep and beef farming and been a member of BLNZ's central South Island council. Your old mate will be interested to see if Gregan's conversion to dairying is viewed as a 'Judas' act by red meat producers; or if sheep and beef farmers no longer view dairy farming as the enemy.
