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Pete Findlay

👤 Speaker
295 total appearances

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ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

Dairy, we're becoming more and more competitive.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

And so I think that some of the evolution we've seen around scale that's impacted broadacre cropping and beef production, I think will start to flow through to dairy now.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

So I think we do, absolutely.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

I think our farmers are becoming more and more advanced in the way they're farming and our techniques.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

If you have a look at some of the data, our production levels now are very high and much more resilient than what they used to be, even in terms of

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

of weather.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

And I think we're getting some really good investment in the ag space.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

I think we've got a fair bit of work to do at our level at processing and manufacturing.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

And so my great fear is that a lot of our product gets shipped offshore in its war format and that we don't add value to it through the manufacturing process.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

So I think we've got challenges to remain competitive as a

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

But, you know, that's the challenge that we face.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

And we're certainly very keen to take on that challenge.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

Yeah, so I think migration is excellent.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

So certainly from consumer demand, it's great.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

And we're very conscious of it.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

So I'm very pleased to say that our Farmers Union Greek style yogurt is extremely popular with people of some continent descent.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

So they love it in their curries and

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

We see a lot of people buying our product there.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

And we're also becoming more and more cognizant of creating product that meets those consumers' needs.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

So, yeah, it's been terrific for our business.