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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 farmers are very much wired to that anyway.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

Most dairy farmers do fantastic stuff with their properties because it's their main asset and they want to keep it productive as well.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

So we encourage planting of trees.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

We encourage protection of waterways through planting of trees.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

We do a lot of work with our farmers around creating sustainable farm practices and by being more efficient.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

Yeah, I think so.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

I think so.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

So a lot of work's been done around methane emissions.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

What we find is with efficiency, so as farms become more and more efficient, they tend to get better and better carbon outcomes.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

So the more you can get a cow to produce more

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

Each cow only produces the same amount of methane.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

So the more you can get a cow to produce actually makes your carbon emissions at a product level better and better.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

There's a whole lot of new farming techniques around sequestration of carbon within soil to help offset around cattle, the planting of trees.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

So we think there's a huge amount of work that can be done.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

Probably the bit that interests me is the energy piece and how we run our factories.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

And so we're working pretty hard on that.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

How do we eliminate gas from a lot of our factories, which are high gas users?

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

Yeah, so obviously just try and make your, so going from 22 factories to 15 is a start.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

So that improves your emission footprint significantly.

ABC Business Daily
Pete Findlay on Bega’s cost crunch

We try and spend capital on making our plants much more efficient.