Main points of report

Rationlisation the number of processors from 20 today to about 4-6.

Start a self funded buyout scheme in which the stayers help to fund compensation for those leaving the industry.

Market groups that build partnerships between groups of producers and processors should be launched.

Improve quality by ensuring that the prices paid reward producers for good animals and penalise them for bad animals.

Utilise whatever "degrees of freedom" that may exist today or in the future to adjust the rules governing the subsidy support system to promote productivity.