Meat processing will be near normal under level 3 - Alliance

Meat processing will be near normal under level 3 - Alliance
Rebecca Howard
Alliance Group expects its processing capacity to be nearly normal under alert level 3, good news for farmers who have been facing a bottleneck as they look to offload stock before winter. What’s the difference? Among other things, workers are now able to be one metre apart rather than the two-metre distance required under alert level 4.  “It makes a big difference in terms of productivity,” Danny Hailes, general manager of livestock and shareholder services told BusinessDesk.  Hailes said he expects sheep processing to be at 90 percen...

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