Meat industry serves up briefing to new govt

Meat industry serves up briefing to new govt
Topics for discussion include trade, climate change, biosecurity and carbon farming. (Image: Unsplash)
Riley Kennedy
The red meat industry has put together a package of priorities it wants the incoming government to focus on after next month’s election.Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) and the Meat Industry Association jointly produced a briefing to incoming ministers called “Putting Meat on the Bone”, saying they wanted a bipartisan approach to the sector.As with other parts of the primary sector, prices for red meat are under pressure from the economic slowdown, particularly due to a fall in demand from China.Parliament adjourned last week a...

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