Mutual model blamed for bad management

Mutual model blamed for bad management

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Neal Wallace, Annette Scott and Richard Rennie. Too often the primary sector avoids confronting major industry issues until it is too late, says Dean Rabbidge, who farms at Wyndham in Southland. Alliance delayed asking shareholders for a capital injection and when it eventually did, Rabbidge said, meat prices had fallen and farmers could not afford to contribute. “It is frustrating the way we wait until things are at t…