New Mates
OPINION: Proponents of regenerative agriculture tend to be naturally aligned with a 'green mindset', so they will be nonplussed with their new mates in the US of A.
"A levy is still a cost of production," he says.
The Hound reckons Chapman is on the money here: scrutiny of the levy spend isn't what it used to be, especially with one rural publisher now in bed with DairyNZ, Beef+Lamb NZ and the Feds.
Chapman notes, we cannot move New Zealand closer to markets, create the scale of larger countries or match developing-country wage rates.
We can, however, influence the cost of our levy-funded industry organisations.
"That requires scrutiny of governance, overhead, duplicated services, separate offices, research, conferences and promotion," he says.
