K50 Reports

This report, Eradicating Complacency, investigates the current perception and understanding of Bovine TB with farmers and industry, to gauge if there is a level of complacency happening with the disease in NZ.

This report proposes recommendations for New Zealand dairy exporters to explore further growth between New Zealand and Nigeria.

This report aims to help support work in the germplasm import industry, find solutions for import pathways, and keep NZ safe from biological threats.

Key insights, including feedback from farmers, around learning preferences and decision-making on pasture and homegrown feed.

The efficacy of a four-day week amongst the office-based knowledge workers of the New Zealand dairy industry workforce, is explored in this Kellogg report by Daniel Brocx.

The potential options for New Zealand livestock farmers to decrease their methane emissions.

This research report examines the current state of women in food and fibre governance.

This report seeks to uncover if improved governance is something that family farming businesses requires and how could it be implemented.

How rostering technology can improve wellbeing, retention and productivity of NZ’s seasonal workforce and what the technology looks like.

This report outlines the principles that should underpin the development of a new regulatory regime and provides suggestions on how to proceed.

This report examines how storage pool formats might influence grower behaviour regarding earning time payments.

Investigating both the current and future emission reduction efforts in the New Zealand Kiwifruit supply chain.

This report looks at what causes drench resistance in sheep and what can be recommended to farmers to mitigate the risk.

This report examines New Zealand's secondary school education system's effectiveness in guiding students towards careers in agriculture/horticulture.

This report seeks to understand NZ's small-scale growers’ integration into the landscape, ecosystems, and communities.

Is artificial intelligence a solution to disjointed KPI benchmarking: inconsistent data and manual processes hinder business performance measurement.

This report looks at how process mapping could be used in farm consultancy for application in a case study setting.

This report examines how to change from a supply chain strategy to a value chain strategy and what that means for the farmer.

Which of the current climate change mitigation methods have the least effect on profitability?

This report looks at the forces influencing the wool market pricing and the opportunities and challenges facing the industry.

This report analyses the impact climate change will have on kiwifruit growing regions with strategies to help kiwifruit growers build resilience.

This report examines how genetic technologies could boost New Zealand’s dairy industry, assessing opportunities, risks, and regulatory needs to enhance productivity, sustainability, animal welfare, and regional economic benefits through improved plant breeding for animal feed.

This report looks at the key denominators enhancing the commercial success for an agritech business.