Unfortunately for MIE, its plea for more farmer money was voted down heavily by levy-paying farmers at BLNZ’s annual meeting in March. The scuttlebutt is that some of the consultants who helped the cash-strapped MIE put together its ‘Pathways’ report on the red meat sector last year – now gathering dust in dumpsters all around the country – may not have been fully paid. Apparently, there is a fair bit of discontent in some consultancy circles about MIE’s cheque ‘being in the mail’ so to speak. However, the Hound finds these rumours hard to believe about the good folks at MIE and is positive there is no truth to such claims.
