Farmers’ plight
Sir,—To back the Government policy of no subsidy in agriculture, Federated Farmers, and the Meat Board must act. Federated Farmers should direct farmers to pay 3y 2 per cent interest only on mortgages. The Meat Board must demand the
refund to farmers of all increases in killing charges since the Government welched on S.M.P.S and board funding. The 1967 Act allowed works to deduct from farmers’ proceeds, for Federated Farmers and the Meat Board, with no farmer-related direct vote for either body. This has resulted in a 20-year political drought in pasture farming, destroying the balance at union level, which left farmers bereft of a union as such. The Meat Board has put industry and Government policy before farmers for 20 years. To keep faith with lenders and farmers, pussyfooting must stop. — Yours, etc., F. D. BELL, Rakaia Gorge. June 15, 1986.
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