HeyJaredDavid Wolpert
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DAVID WOLPERT | The chicken import South Africa cannot do without (opens the original)
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South Africa imported almost 240,000 tonnes of mechanically deboned chicken meat (MDM) in 2024. More than 90% came from Brazil. At first sight those figures might appear to strengthen the argument that South Africa is far too dependent on imported poultry and should be producing more of it at home. Yet in the case of MDM they demonstrate almost the opposite. South Africa produces virtually no MDM commercially. This is not because Brazilian imports destroyed a once-thriving local MDM industry. Lo
DAVID WOLPERT | Why Australia exported 54 times more beef than SA last year (opens the original)
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Australia exported a record 1.55-million tonnes of beef in 2025. South Africa exported about 28,700 tonnes. In other words, Australia exported roughly 54 times as much beef as South Africa. Even more troubling is the direction in which the two industries moved. Australian beef exports increased 15% in 2025. South African exports fell by about 26%. Australia is admittedly one of the world’s great agricultural exporters and this is far from a like-for-like comparison. Its beef industry has been bu
DAVID WOLPERT | Is poultry protection now costing consumers? (opens the original)
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The review of antidumping duties on frozen bone-in chicken from Germany, the Netherlands and the UK raises a question that goes considerably further than whether those particular imports are being dumped. After years of protection and substantial investment under the poultry master plan, at what point should South Africa expect its poultry industry to become progressively less dependent on protection? There is no argument here against legitimate antidumping measures. If South Africa’s Internatio
DAVID WOLPERT | What chicken prices say about SA’s economic competitiveness (opens the original)
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Having recently moved from South Africa to Australia to be closer to my children, I expected many things to be different. What I did not expect was to find myself standing in Australian supermarkets comparing the price of chicken. Before readers assume I am advancing the interests of a particular industry, a disclosure is appropriate. Though I spent a number of years in the meat sector, I retired nearly 10 years ago and have no direct or indirect business interest in either the meat or poultry i
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