Beef mince prices in New Zealand have surged 18% year-on-year due to high global demand, particularly from the United States, leading to shifts in consumer buying habits and increased costs for businesses like McDonald's.
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One of the things that we've been talking about with organizations like Frontierra, though, is that you know, a lot of this is happening already, regardless of what the New Zealand government's targets are. The targets actually that farmers are working to are the ones that are set by their customers. And so uh, you know, we're we're just sort of seeing how that unfolds over the next little while uh before we make any decisions because if ultimately if what the market's dil, you know, demanding um is driving what we need, uh then I don't want to add another layer of government uh over the top of that if it's happening already.
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