When prices fall — quotes for lambs are back 20c/kg this week — the farming organisations will always fight hard to get things stabilised or returned to where they were. Their language on occasion is colourful with words and phrases such as “disaster”, “profiteering” and “scandalous opportunism” often featuring prominently. I have sometimes been very critical of the tactics used by processors as they go about the business of squeezing their primary suppliers.
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