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Feilding Meat Industry Meeting Generates More Meetings
3 May 2013
Feilding Meat
Industry Meeting Generates More Meetings
So successful was the Meat Industry
Excellence (MIE) meeting in Feilding last Friday, 26 April,
where 700 farmers met to establish a mandate for meat
industry change, that further meetings are to be held in
Gisborne and Te Kuiti..
Local organising Chairman
and newly elected MIE executive member, John McCarthy, said
that there was great support at the Fielding meeting from
all over the lower North Island; “we got twice as many
farmers to the meeting than we had originally planned
for,” he added.
As a consequence, further
meetings are being planned for Gisborne on 15 May and Te
Kuiti on 17 May. Details of these will be released next
week.
Richard Young, MIE Chairman, said MIE is
fully supportive of any meat company initiative between the
top-four companies. It welcomed a two month timetable for
this to be announced.
Comments at the Feilding
meeting, from Alliance Chairman Owen Poole, suggested this
was not a long term solution but a starting point. “One
from which further change could take place,” Mr Young
added.
Mr Young however stressed that farmers must
remain focussed on achieving long term, sustainable change
in the industry. Farmers need to be aware that this may
take five years to fully achieve.
“We need to
survive the next 2013/14 season; retaining farmer ownership
and control and hopefully this meat company initiative will
help,” Mr Young said.
MIE also welcomed Beef and
Lamb NZ Chairman, Mike Peterson’s contribution to the
debate, with a proposal Beef and Lamb NZ will look at
Tradable Slaughter Rights (TSR).
MIE stresses that
all options need to be looked at, including TSR, but the
industry needs innovative long term solutions for it to
prosper and grow.
“Band-aid solutions may well be
the vehicle needed to avoid a potential “train wreck”
next season. It is essential a long term view is taken to
finding the right solutions,” Mr Young
concluded.
ENDS
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