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By Allan Barber The Tradable Slaughter Rights concept, raised by me several weeks ago and promoted last week by Mike Petersen, was first proposed by Pappas, Carter, Evans and Koop in 1985. But its purpose was specifically to solve the problem of an ...

By Allan Barber When farmers want certainty of income and livestock prices arent very good, thoughts often turn to fixed price contracts. But they have never really taken off because I suspect neither farmers nor meat exporters are very keen on ...

By Allan Barber The MIE organised farmer meeting in Feilding on Friday was attended by about 700 farmers which one speaker from the floor compared unfavourably with 2,000 at the Drought Shout. However there is obviously an increasing level of ...

Beef + Lamb New Zealand's chairman says he's had strong farmer feed-back supporting tradeable slaughter rights as one way of helping to rationalise the processing end of the meat industry. Mike Petersen says the concept was first suggested in a ...

Allan Barber is puzzled by the bad rap the meat industry gets when it has done a good job producing products for which the market pays a premium price. A brief comparison of sheepmeat and milk solids prices since 1991 throws up some interesting ...

By Allan Barber ANZCOs financial result to the end of September 2012 was posted on the Companies Office website on Friday in compliance with the statutory requirement for foreign private companies. They reported losses of $25.6 pre-tax and $19.2 ...

The use of lupins as a forage crop has helped a Mackenzie farmer win the fine wools section of the 2013 New Zealand Ewe Hogget Competition. Sawdon Station co-owner Gavin (Snow) Loxton said winning the section came as a complete surprise after he ...

WSOP Circuit, Vanessa Selbst, Poker events, PokerNews Updates, Harrahs, Alex Masek, Allen Kessler, Blair Hinkle This past weekend, the 2012-13 World Series of Poker Circuit came to a close as the last of gold 12 ring events, the $1,675 Main Event, ...

Ruralco Holdings Ltd 2012/13 Half Year Results Results Summary: 2012/13 Half Year • Reported net profit after tax (NPAT) was a loss of $0.5m, compared to a profit of $10.0m for the prior corresponding period (pcp). • Underlying net profit after ...