The farming situation in Goulburn Valley - possibly changed

[Bird]

Vote Winner?
Not all as it seems

The future of SPC Ardmona in Shepparton has been secured with the Napthine government offering the company a $22 million lifeline as part of a $100 million investment with the company.

Up to 2700 jobs in the Goulburn Valley have been secured as a result of the co-investment.

Premier Denis Napthine on Thursday afternoon announced that the government had made a $22 million co-investment to secure the long term future of SPC Ardmona.

“This is a great co-investment in jobs,’’ Dr Napthine said.

“This co-investment will deliver a bright future for SPC Ardmona.’’

He said it was great news for jobs and the Goulburn Valley.

The decision, announced on Thursday, puts the Napthine government at odds with the Abbott government who rejected a plea from Coca-Cola Amatil, SPC Ardmona’s parent company, for $25 million.

Had the Federal Government offered the $25 million that was expected, the Napthine government would have matched the commitment.

When the Abbott government rejected SPC Ardmona’s bid it cited Coca-Cola Amtail’s healthy profits as a reason not to use government dollars to assist.

The $100 million will be used to upgrade facilities.


Under the Victorian government agreement, there must be a minimum of 500 staff employed by SPC Ardmona. If the company closes within 5 years it will have to repay the money.




Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/spc-future-secured-after-napthine-government-tips-in-22-million-20140213-32k7g.html#ixzz2tAcqaCCK

[Brumbypt]

it not only secures jobs for some country workers, but farmers have somewhere to sell their crops..

And it will mean the victorian supermarkets can stock SPC products, and you can eat aussie fruits and not imported cans.

I now think its a great idea to make sure that SPC keeps going for another 3 years.


Peter,
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[Bird]

it not only secures jobs for some country workers, but farmers have somewhere to sell their crops..

And it will mean the victorian supermarkets can stock SPC products, and you can eat aussie fruits and not imported cans.

I now think its a great idea to make sure that SPC keeps going for another 3 years.

agree.. hope its for another 10-20 years.

[Brumbypt]

actually its 5 year deal..

well the main part is 3 years, but part of the deal is that spc must keep going for 5 years or return the 22k.. very smart deal.


Peter,
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[Bird]

Not really sure what to make of this
I think its a good thing, but woolworths don't do anything they wont make money out of..

SPC on Tuesday announced the massive contract to supply 24,000 extra tonnes of produce to Woolies, just months after the federal government refused the struggling country Victorian cannery $25 million in assistance.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/sharman-stone-says-spc-ardmona-deal-with-woolworths-a-win-for-people-power-20140311-34ioi.html

[speewa158]

Lets look at it as a Good Start

[Bird]

Lets look at it as a Good Start

For sure... Hope the promise of 5 yrs support and work goes on for 10x that....

[speewa158]

There seem to be a ground swell of people buying the SPC product again 

[peter01]

 
A 60% increase in sales of SPC fruit in the first two months of this year

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/11/spc-ardmona-snaps-up-70m-deal-with-woolworths-to-supply-produce

[ATC]

Not really sure what to make of this
I think its a good thing, but woolworths don't do anything they wont make money out of..

But that is the point.
Woolworths are making money by selling the SPC products, and SPC make money by sellign the to Woolworths.
Workers in Vic & QLD keep their jobs, farmers can sell their fruit & beans to someone.

And we don't have to eat tasteless tomatoes & tinned fruit from overseas!
In our house we started paying a bit more and buying the Australian tinned tomatoes.

$0.70 for imported crap dumped here, or $1.20-$1.50 for Australian wasn't really a hard decision.

[Bird]

There seem to be a ground swell of people buying the SPC product again 

maybe we could have a swag trip to the factory

[Mrs smith]

But that is the point.
Woolworths are making money by selling the SPC products, and SPC make money by sellign the to Woolworths.
Workers in Vic & QLD keep their jobs, farmers can sell their fruit & beans to someone.

And we don't have to eat tasteless tomatoes & tinned fruit from overseas!
In our house we started paying a bit more and buying the Australian tinned tomatoes.

$0.70 for imported crap dumped here, or $1.20-$1.50 for Australian wasn't really a hard decision.

If only the government of the day would be smarter enough to buy tinned fruit to send over sea's as aid instead of cash, it'd be a win, win, win.     

[briann532]

If only the government of the day would be smarter enough to buy tinned fruit to send over sea's as aid instead of cash, it'd be a win, win, win.   

Come on.........
Stop ruining a perfectly useless system with thought and foresight..............
 

On a serious note - if enough people write to their parliamentary members with the suggestion, maybe some power hungry up and comer will claim it as their idea and run with it

Any help is good help.

[Barry G]

If only the government of the day would be smarter enough to buy tinned fruit to send over sea's as aid instead of cash, it'd be a win, win, win.   

In terms of bang for buck it makes sense to spend aid $ on locally provided goods.
1/. No cost to transport goods from Aus - just imagine the cost in fuel, air time, crew etc to send a plane loaded with pellets of cans.
2/.  Multiplier effect of spending $ on goods 'in country' benefits the local community far more than bringing stuff in.

Aid is about assisting the recipients, the exact same reason that most charities no longer send 'old clothes' from Aussie donors, as it isn't about our 'feel good' factor.

[Mrs smith]

In terms of bang for buck it makes sense to spend aid $ on locally provided goods.
1/. No cost to transport goods from Aus - just imagine the cost in fuel, air time, crew etc to send a plane loaded with pellets of cans.

Think of the employment this could generate locally 

2/.  Multiplier effect of spending $ on goods 'in country' benefits the local community far more than bringing stuff in.

This might the answer to restarting some smart manufacturing in Oz 

Aid is about assisting the recipients, the exact same reason that most charities no longer send 'old clothes' from Aussie donors, as it isn't about our 'feel good' factor.


In this country it always makes me laugh when I see those claiming there the needy or hard done-by, when a lot of the time there wearing a HSV or FPV shirt and Rip-curl bordies and smoke like there's no tomorrow, not to mention a large % have a better or latter model bogan-chariot than a lot of hard working commoner's. I'd suggest in a lot of cases they need to get there values right.