AR-News: (AU) SAMEX proposes changes to export payments -

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

A battle is looming over new livestock export contracts offered by South 
Australian-based exporter SAMEX, which propose paying producers when cattle and 
sheep are actually on board the vessel, rather than at the feedlot.

SAMEX lost $80,000 when protests by animal activists stopped the trade from 
the Port of Portland last year. 

Victorian farmers are outraged, saying that if shipments are cancelled, they 
risk losing $11 a head.

But the company's Viv Burton says the new contracts are designed to spread 
the liability of live shipments.






full story:

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/stories/s1056239.htm 
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