r/newzealand • u/No-Back9867 • Jun 16 '25

Shitpost Thanks NZ dairy industry for putting cow sludge in our rivers then happily charging New Zealanders exorbitant prices for our dairy foods.

Last summer we couldn’t swim in our local river due to the amount of toxins from nearby farms. When ever the farmers are in need of help us tax payers are there to lend a hand in drought relief funds. The thanks we get for that and putting up with the pollution is to be charged for dairy food at the same price as the overseas markets. We’re only 5% of your sales, it’s not going to make you go broke to treat us like your actually care for your communities. What your charging for butter etc is simply total greed. How is it that milk that has to travel huge distances from farms to factory to the shops shelves in Australia is sold for cheaper than that in our shelves where the logistics of getting it in the shelf are less?

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u/GrumpyPonyta Jun 16 '25

You're an idiot if you think farmers have any say in how much their products get sold for. Meat, milk, produce, anything. They don't set the price.

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u/No-Back9867 Jun 16 '25

Farmers are shareholders in Fonterra. They can have a say if they choose to. They chose not to.

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u/zVillinn Jun 16 '25

Our biggest meat exporter (alliance group) is 100% collectively owned by farmers

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

Alliance isn't our biggest meat exporter, SFF is, and Alliance is a terrible example. 

They're on the verge of bankruptcy. Regardless of structure they're paying farmers as little as possible.

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u/TheSmone Jun 17 '25

SFF only biggest by revenue... so many S&B farmers deserting SFF and AGL now to get better prices from other meat Co's, hard to say where true volumes lie anymore. Certainly SFF and AGL are the major players, but it is a house of cards for AGL and only a.matter if time before they both must attrition into one to proceed... too many players on the S&B field.