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SHEEP AND beef farmers have supported all farmer remits and resolutions put to the Beef + Lamb New Zealand Annual Meeting, held in Feilding last Friday (March 14), including funding the Meat Industry Excellence Group.

MEAT INDUSTRY Excellence (MIE) chairman John McCarthy is calling for Beef + Lamb (B+L) to get behind a remit before next month's annual meeting seeking further financial support for the group's drive to reform the red meat sector.

FARMERS NEED to keep pressure on reform in the meat industry, says MIE chairman John McCarthy.

ANOTHER TWO Meat Industry Excellence group-backed director candidates have been elected to a meat company board making it three from three for the reform lobby.

ALLIANCE SHAREHOLDERS have voted for change on their board with Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) group-backed candidate Don Morrison, Gore, elected by a narrow margin.

MEAT INDUSTRY REFORM group, Meat Industry Excellence (MIE), says the industry's cooperatives need to move to best practice for farmer director elections, with the process run quite independently of the cooperative boards and management.

THE MEAT INDUSTRY Excellence (MIE) group has welcomed the appointment of James Parsons as the chair-elect of Beef & Lamb NZ (B&L) but says he will have "his work cut out".

Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) is holding more meetings in Te Kuiti and Gisborne next week.