With
farmers as shareholders, they not only get paid at the farm gate, but if the business succeeds they also get paid a dividend.
Not exact matches
For Murray Goulburn
shareholders, a quick sale would be ideal given it is battling trust issues with
farmers and is yet to stabilise its milk intake
as farmers continue to defect to rivals offering higher farmgate prices.
One
farmer shareholder urged others to vote against the election of Mr Spark
as a special director, saying he did not have a good understanding of the dire straights many
farmers were in over the past year, while others said the board has done a good job in tough circumstances.
The capital raising,
as foreshadowed in the Australian Financial Review last week and co-ordinated by Lazard, «is expected to offer investors tradeable units in a «
shareholder fund» that is floated on the Australian stock exchange, while continuing to allow only dairy
farmers who supply milk to remain full
shareholders in the unlisted Murray Goulburn co-operative,» the Australian reported on its web site.
The dairy
farmer co-operative said it is confident it will obtain merger authorisation from the Australian Competition Tribunal
as it scrambles to derail the pace of
shareholder acceptances for Saputo's unconditional offer.
How do we regulate food and farming markets so that they deliver the outcomes of human well - being, ecosystem health and
farmer viability
as first priorities, rather than
shareholder value?
Now, I must point out: i) Independent News & Media is currently in the throes of a debt & pension restructuring — this could possibly improve things, but I'm not convinced it's going to be sufficient, and / or dilution for existing
shareholders might be so bad ultimately the shares might
as well be worthless, and ii) I still say my zero valuation for Continental
Farmers Group was about right (God, just look at cash, debt & cashflow in their latest results), but
shareholders are v fortunately getting bailed out by the Saudis at GBP 36p per share.
As shareholders, the
farmers also receive a share of the profits from the sale of Divine.