Lamb production
Sir,—First farmers are encouraged to produce heavy lean lambs. Now they are financially penalised for achieving this aim. This is obviously a productionled decision, not market-led, as the meat companies claim. Perhaps farmers were naive to expect better returns for their lighter lambs to encourage them to sell earlier, rather than receive less money for heavier lambs. The meat industry is naive if it expects this cavalier treatment not to hasten the headlong rush out of lamb production
into alternatives far less prone to self-serving manipulation and blind greed. — Yours, etc.,
H. C. STUDHOLME. Rakaia, February 20, 1986.
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Press, 25 February 1986, Page 18
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