It is a good sign that the rural industry is really starting to hurt and following on from the protests in Canberra over land rights, is the Forum to be held in Armidale on Feb 27th. This is in regards to the performance of our red meat industry organisations, being led by the Bindaree Beef Pty Ltd.
With costs of close enough to $10 per head, just in levies, many in the industry are asking ”are we getting any bang for our buck?”. The main concerns appear to be of the use of Peak Councils, Red Meat Advisory Councils and other organisations such as the MLA which appear to be eating up funds at an alarming rate with little to show in return. An example being the blowout of the MLA’s budget from $96million to $160million whilst in real terms, cattle prices are 20% lower than those paid twenty years ago.
Another fact being that the per-capita beef consumption has continued to decline at a long term rate of 1.7% per year.
Is it a fact that we have too many fingers in the pie with very little results showing any marked increase in sales or consumption?
Any people wishing to go this forum, please contact me at the office, as I feel we need to get these questions answered or maybe reformed.

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