THIS opinion item published on Beef Central on Tuesday, Yawning gap between retail and livestock price information disadvantages producers, has attracted wide reader comment.
Indeed it currently appears among Beef Central’s Most Popular items list (click on the icon “Today’s News/Most Popular” at top left of our home page to view).
In it, NSW beef producer and former meat sales executive Andrew Dunlop draws attention to a lack of collection of retail beef price data, which he suggests means producers have no information on what consumers are paying and what should be a fair price…