Steady progress with Primary Growth projects

It is eight years since the Primary Growth Partnership programme was announced by the then recently elected National Government. At the end of 2016 there were 20 projects under way and just two completed, but 30^th June sees the completion of FarmIQ, the largest of the red meat sector programmes. This seems to be an appropriate point to evaluate the success of PGP, in particular the six meat and two wool programmes which have been allocated total Crown and industry funding of $342 million.

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Silver Fern Farms ticks the boxes with Eating Quality System

I confess to a degree of scepticism when I read the press release about the launch of the new Silver Fern Farms retail range of prime beef cuts just launched in New Zealand supermarkets. But my research, admittedly not as comprehensive as I would like, suggests this is a well designed programme which ticks most of the boxes for suppliers, consumers and the company.