Cut with care
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
The deer industry hopes its good prices will stem the decline of the national deer herd and even cause a slight increase, Deer Industry NZ chief executive Dan Coup says.
Deer farmers are enjoying the best venison prices in four years with the schedule up 11% at the spring peak on the year before.
Sheep and beef farmers, especially in the South Island, are going to take a substantial hit in their incomes this year as lamb prices weaken.
Alliance Group is now processing, packaging and exporting Pure South lamb directly to a Spanish supermarket retailer.
No amount of noise from farmer ginger groups will bring change in the meat industry if the company boards choose not to adopt the measures they are calling for.
Beef+Lamb NZ say it is looking at changes to its market development investment strategy – if it stays in market development at all.
The Trans Pacific Partnership will eliminate over time most of the tariffs on New Zealand's red meat sector, says Beef + Lamb chairman James Parsons.
Rural News asked the country's second biggest meat processor and exporter – Alliance Group – about the current woes in the red meat sector.
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
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