Kellogg Programme Reports

The Apiculture industry plays a key role in the economy: for its production, for the benefits that bees provide to the ecosystem and economy. This report focuses on female beekeepers and delves into their experiences in New Zealand’s Apiculture Industry.

Mortality in New Zealand lambing systems is potentially a significant issue for the primary industry, which is thoroughly explored in this research project. It is a must-read for all involved in the sheep and beef industry.

This report examines the potential of disruptive innovation and emerging technologies to enhance the sustainability and resilience of New Zealand’s sheep, beef, and dairy farming systems.

This report seeks to understand how farmers are using NFR to generate more value in their business, and how they communicate their non-financial information to stakeholders.

Regenerative Agriculture (RA) is regarded by some as the solution to the global food crisis. Positive environmental outcomes can be achieved with the use of RA. This Kellogg report by Kris Bailey looks at the benefits, opportunities, and challenges of RA use for NZ.

This report explores if industry leaders, representatives and lobby groups are further reinforcing negative sentiment by the way they are communicating with farmers. It also looks at the potential future consequences of their approach.

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between changing freshwater regulations and farmers appetite to innovate on farm to achieve freshwater improvements.

How does musculoskeletal health correlate with injury risk and performance outcomes in the Food and Fibre Sector?

This report translates scientific climate modelling into practical contexts for Manawatū-Rangitīkei sheep and beef farmers. It aims to provide knowledge of climate change predictions, risks and opportunities associated with climate change predictions, and what actions might future-proof farming businesses?

The aim of this report was to identify what leadership is and how it can facilitate or hinder transformational change. The report aimed to critically assess, compare, and contrast characteristics of leadership displayed in transformational change.

The aim of this report is to assist New Zealand aquaculture shellfish processors in determining what third-party certification is best for their operations based on current industry practices, consumer opinions, by providing an overview of the most prevalent third-party certifications.

This report was conducted to understand the current status of the representation of women in the Kiwifruit industry. Women contribute to increased levels of innovation, and better risk management.

This report is focusing on herbicide resistance and compars the situation in New Zealand to other OECD countries; highlights current knowledge and awareness gaps, shares information we might use to influence decision making and propose ideas that we might adopt to tackle this issue.

Changes in land use to dairy or dairy support and more extensive family farming operations buying up smaller operations have caused the number of arable farming businesses to decrease significantly over the last 20 years. Recent freshwater regulations now mean that converting to more intensive land uses is difficult. If profitability issues continue to worsen farmers now feel like they have few options.

While some farmers can seek added value for their products by trading directly with the consumer, many are operating a business model where they supply processors and rely on them to access and pass on added value from marketing particular credence attributes to consumers. Are consumers willing to pay for environmental action on- farm, and if so, how can farmers access these premiums?

This research report attempts to answer the question “how to support and achieve environmental compliance in a world of change?

There is ever increasing pressure for food and fibre industries to be producing in a sustainable manner. Winegrowers are producing a ‘luxury’ item in comparison to food producers. Due to this the decisions and actions of the NZ wine industry need to protect the landscape in which they operate as well as their social license to operate.

The target for my research report is to answer the question; how do we keep farmers passionate about farming when they are up against immense amounts of environmental policy change from our current government but more specifically, intensive winter grazing. From my report findings I am hoping to identify key areas to help farmers with their frustrations on the ever-changing IWG policies. These key findings will provide an insight to answering my report question.

This report explores the connection between confidence and career progression for our future female leaders. It aims to understand how we can instil confidence in our future female leaders to encourage them into their next role.

Seasonal horticulture work requires a group of individuals from diverse cultures, work experiences, and employment motivations to form a team in a short period of time. Often in the span of a few days, these workers are recruited, divided into teams, trained, and put to work. Their success in quickly forming a high performing team is directly linked to the success of the harvest season.

The aim of this project is to understand the entire supply chain of mid-micron wool, and how growers adapt their business to suit this chain. The research seeks to establish if there is a premium for a traceable wool clip, and who in the chain absorbs the benefit if there is one. Having a passion for wool, a byproduct, which is continuously decreasing in value, it seems appropriate to dissect the supply chain and understand it from a grower’s perspective and the impacts on their farming systems (positive and negative).

This report aims to create a resource that will inform and inspire entrepreneurial researchers interested in commercialisation and aspiring founders of investigator-led research to give it a go and help them increase their chances of successful commercialisation of their research.

This report aims to understand how the groundspread industry can support the New Zealand food and fibre sector during a period of increased regulation and reform. The sector is on track to achieve an export target of $64b by 2025 on less land than ever while caring for the environment on which we all rely.

This study looked at what is important for thriving early career development for rural professionals in skilled technical support roles in agribusiness. It aimed to understand the options and designs for early career development and the key features of a successful graduate programme. The methodology included a literature review, followed by semi-structured interviews with 12 early to mid-career employees and eight agribusiness support companies to understand expectations and perspectives from their experiences.