MLA Chair Calls for Calm
Meat and Livestock Australia MLA Chair Don Heatley has said in an interview with Agmates, that beef producers should remain calm in the global credit crisis.
Our meat industry is 65% reliant on exports and we really just have to wait for any affect to flow back through the global supply chain. Having said that people should remember that a third of the market for our meat is domestic. That market is strong.
Earlier spoke to Damon Whittock from MLA who indicated there may be some benefits to exports via a weaker Australian dollar. To read the full interview with Don Heatley click here or for Damon Wittock’s update .
Sooner or later we are all bound to feel the pinch of the economic crisis. As certainly as markets go up markets come down and rain becomes scarce and well sometimes we get a fair bit of it too. That is part of the uncertainty we deal with living on the land.
At present BCCA is negotiating to secure investment for primary industries across the Burnett. While the Rudd government have called 2008/2009 a transitional year with arrangements and funding somewhat uncertain, there appears to be an earnest effort to get funding on the ground. The Better Burnett team hope to be in a position to announce opportunities for assistance for primary producers in the near future.
Posted: October 13th, 2008 under Better Beef by dean.
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Comment from Agmates
Time: October 14, 2008, 1:38 pm
G’day Better Burnett,
Get site – well done.
Thanks for publishing Agmates interview with Don Heatley. Please feel free to publish anything you like from Agmates News, as long as you mention us as your source.
Here is another article just published that you may like to run as it will be of benefit to your readers.
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Comment from dean
Time: October 19, 2008, 10:51 pm
G’day Steve, thanks for dropping by. Agmates is going dambusters congratulations. We appreciate your vote of support.
Dean Power
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