Dairy
Jen Corkran
Key insights, including feedback from farmers, around learning preferences and decision-making on pasture and homegrown feed.
- 2023
- Kellogg 50
Daniel Brocx
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.
- 2023
- Kellogg 50
Joe Ward
Is artificial intelligence a solution to disjointed KPI benchmarking: inconsistent data and manual processes hinder business performance measurement.
- 2023
- Kellogg 50
Scott Armer
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.
- 2023
- Kellogg 50
Tracey Reynolds
This report aims to understand the motivations behind dairy farmers adoption of innovations and learn how to accelerate uptake of practices that ensure long-term sustainability of farming in New Zealand.
- 2023
- Kellogg 49
Anna Sing
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.
- 2023
- Kellogg 49
Parmindar Singh
As an agricultural export dependent country, the New Zealand economy relies on its trading markets to return valuable revenue from the food the fibre sector. It is an opportune time for New Zealand to explore a replicable trade model, to extend trade into geographic regions through applying a gateway city model.
- April 2023
- Nuffield 2022
Cameron Burton
Recent and ongoing improvements have produced large-scale, commercially viable individual cow monitoring technologies that can significantly reduce the workload on farms as well as increase animal performance and health measures.
- 2022
- Kellogg 48
Troy Hobson
The Māori economic engine is significant in terms of both asset holding and in generating activity for
the economy of Aotearoa New Zealand. Despite this Māori have almost no presence in the
governance of the Agricultural cooperatives, despite these being businesses that they are significant
suppliers and customers of and hold equity in.
The purpose of this report is to understand the reasons behind this, identify ways to re-engage Māori at governance levels with the cooperatives and understand the benefits and costs to each from doing so.
- 2022
- Kellogg 47
Braydon Schroder
A surveyed 49% of farm assistants on New Zealand dairy farms leave their employment in less than one year from starting.
There is an abundance of recognised soft skills and human resources that can be altered to improve job satisfaction and retention in the New Zealand dairy sector. Although, there is a gap in the literature considering how physical aspects of a farm system may influence employee job satisfaction and retention, why this may be the case and how valid solutions can be implemented.
- 2022
- Kellogg 47
Ross Neal
To ensure family farm businesses, and the New Zealand dairy industry, can continue to thrive it is important that succession is done well.
The aim of this report is to understand the key challenges that farming families face when trying to navigate through the succession process and identify solutions to these challenges.
- 2022
- Kellogg 46
Jane Fowles
The New Zealand dairy industry has witnessed a steep growth in the number of workers from the Philippines (Southeast Asia) entering New Zealand to work on dairy farms. Like any dairy farm worker, there is an importance of keeping these migrant workers safe while working. However, with a different cultural background and a different understanding of health and safety, it can be challenging to build health and safety engagement on farm.
- 2022
- Kellogg 46
Daniel Butler
It was the objective of this report to discover current on-farm waste and recycling volumes within the NZ dairy sector as well as what is being done about improving waste disposal. The report also sought to determine what is being developed for greater future farmer engagement as well as what is currently being achieved with the recycling that we are collecting from dairy farms.
- 2022
- Kellogg 46
Tracy Brown
There are multiple stakeholders with various views of the world and we currently have no clear framework to understand what is going on around us. A better understanding of how we need to adapt and organise ourselves, will better position leaders to make changes.
- April 2022
- Nuffield 2020
Anna Benny
Alternative protein is not a new term and has not impacted the NZ primary industry in any major way so far. It would be easy to dismiss as a phenomenon that will happen elsewhere, that it won’t affect the pasture raised, free range, high quality products from New Zealand. Having researched this topic for a year, I do not believe this is the case – here’s why...
- 2022
- Kellogg 43/45
Tracey Perkins
This research was conducted with the purpose of understanding more deeply the current market in which we are operating and where our social licence currently sits. The major focus of our industry appears to be a focus on telling our story, which relies entirely on the truth of that story being palatable to the New Zealand public and the assumption that rural New Zealand shares the same worldview as urban New Zealand.
- 2021
- Kellogg 43
Stephen Ball
Historically, the primary constraint on moving to a high input system has been the financial and management ability of the farm and business operators. While this is still a significant factor, the environmental impacts of dairy farming have come under increased scrutiny.
- 2021
- Kellogg 44
Jordyn Crouch
“Cows are easy, people are hard”
This research project investigated what is being done in our industry and how we can learn from industry leading employers, and out of industry leaders. The question is, “Learning from global workplace trends, how can the NZ dairy industry design workplaces to attract the best of the next generation into our workforce?”
Over the past 20 years the dairy industry has seen huge expansion, with the herd size doubling in a twenty year period. As of 2018, the NZ dairy industry workforce was made up of roughly 40,000 people with 22,500 of these being employees.
- 2021
- Kellogg 43
Anthony Mourits
It feels in recent times public perception has been increasingly negative towards the primary Industries as a result of the water quality “showdown” between farmers, government and the general public. The urban rural divide has been perceived to be greater than ever, and social media has presented a new arena for robust debate about water quality.
However, this project discovered that...
- 2021
- Kellogg 43
Greg Hamill
I have conducted many interviews over the last few months throughout the bobby calf supply chain, these have been conducted in person and via “Teams” meetings over the internet. Some of the interviews have been recorded, and others who wanted to remain anonymous I only took notes. Once I had conducted all my interviews I broke down the information into common themes to ascertain what current value these calves currently contribute to our economy and was their life a life worth living? Did that life add value?
- 2021
- Kellogg 43
Keri Moore
Recognition among our rural women and their success is a topic I don’t think is acknowledged or emphasised enough. Being able to confidently believe and recognise you make an impactful contribution to meet your values, and have a definition of your success while being content with your moral compass is essential.
The aim of this project was to talk to a cross-section of rural women and then make an informed decision about the definition of their success, and how they believe it impacts over their lives and communities.
- 2021
- Kellogg 43
Chelsea Smith
I explored the ways that we can get dairy farming women into New Zealand boardrooms to see better outcomes for our businesses and economy. This is not about men versus women or disregarding the importance of experience, it is about what we need to do to be closing the gender gap on boards, having diversity of thought around the boardroom and avoiding ‘group think’. It is about the individual having the confidence to bring their true self to the table and express their views.
- 2020
- Kellogg 42
Rebecca Reith
The aim is to understand the current plant breeding technologies and compare them to the controversial genetic technologies which have recently become available to New Zealand, such as genomic selection, marker-assisted selection, genetic modification, and gene editing.
- 2020
- Kellogg 42
Brent Miller
This report investigates whether the dairy industry has a labour transience problem and what it truly costs a business to lose and retrain a new employee.
- 2020
- Kellogg 42