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The Hounds notes that the two farmers standing for election in the vacant South Island director seat for Beef + Lamb NZ were both former leading lights in MIAG...
The very lobby group formed in the early 2000s demanding a restructure of the meat industry. John Gregan was the former chair of MIAG, and Bill Wright was a key member of the lobby as well. However, since MIAG went the way of the CD player, Gregan quit sheep and beef farming and went dairying and is now even on Fonter- ra's shareholder council. Mean- while, Wright has stayed in sheep and beef farming and been a member of BLNZ's central South Island council. Your old mate will be interested to see if Gregan's conversion to dairying is viewed as a 'Judas' act by red meat producers; or if sheep and beef farmers no longer view dairy farming as the enemy.
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Work together and stop throwing each other under the bus.
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