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Grant Jackson

The New Zealand dairy industry, like many other primary industries, fuelled by market volatility is at a pseudo crossroads in its evolution. Does it look to secure its past dominance in global dairy commodity trade and optimise its investment into established commodity infrastructure? Or does it forego past heritage and investments, adopting a more singular focused strategic migration into revenue dominance from consumer value-add exports and secure the perceived provenance value of our dairy products?

Richard Fowler

Synthetic food (SF) is being touted as a revolution in food production that could replace animal products. While the industry is more bark than bite at the moment, it’s rapidly gaining awareness and attracting significant funding by being portrayed as a solution to many of the global problems associated with conventional agriculture. As the pressure … Read more

Grant Mckay

Each of these areas, discussed either individually or collectively, has the potential to increase marketable yield and minimise waste through the supply chain directly or indirectly. The solution to reducing fruit waste and gaining efficiencies “lies in a combination of planning, investing, controlling, and partnering across the supply chain.” (Harz-Pitre 2013) The pipfruit industry needs … Read more

Mary Johnson

The following report has been completed as part of my participation in the 2013 Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme. The scope of this individual research project was to select a topic of interest to the participant and spend ‘Phase Two’ of the Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme completing the individual research project. Findings are then presented on … Read more

David Campbell

In the last decade New Zealand (NZ) agricultural exports to Asia have increased 71% to NZ$6 billion, and China is now the largest of these Asian markets. This growth is set to continue as the Asian economies continue to outpace those of the US or Europe. An increasing proportion of Asia’s large population will develop … Read more

Bowker, Lucy

On-farm Certification programmes and the successful uptake of them by producers relies on some key elements especially if the programmes are to help mitigate the ‘licence to operate’ debate that is currently hampering intensive agricultural practice. Certification programmes operate in many different contexts – the size, depth and distribution of them through the supply chain … Read more

Les Keeper

For as long as I can remember, the catch cry of New Zealand agricultural producers has been to “add value”.  Governments and business circles have pointed the stick at the agricultural sector demanding we step up and add value to our commodity products by further processing and marketing before we on-sell that produce. Dairy companies … Read more

Andrew Watters

The quality of our NZ economy depends on our ability to acquire, protect, translate, combine and apply knowledge.  This knowledge is required to solve today’s problems and to prepare the ground for solving tomorrow’s.  Without new knowledge, and new combinations of knowledge, there will be no innovation.  And without innovation, NZ will struggle to keep … Read more

Limmer Bryan

Intrigued by a Ministry for the Environment report on the value of New Zealand’s clean green image in dollar terms; and the economic possibilities of branding products to such a flagship, led me to research the topic further – with a commodity product – apples -as an example. As an orchardist, I am well aware … Read more

Amanda Ryan

NZ pork industry rapidly transforming: consolidating farms/processors, becoming consumer-focused and industrial. Report examines changes and Board's future role.

Redmayne, Richard

The concept of traceability in the food supply chain becomes more important each time a consumer falls ill or dies as the result of a particular problem in a food production system. This report sets out to define the supply chain in relation to beef production. It is also an investigation into the necessary components … Read more

Julian Raine

The Consumer The Supermarket The Grower Conclusion IFP is the best response for New Zealand export fruit growers to both consumer trends and environmental concerns.  We are very good at producing fruit with low residue, but as the industry moves down the IFP track, there needs to be a greater focus on justification for every … Read more

Alexander, Philip

The New Zealand Beef Industry is a niche producer of a global commodity which is undifferentiated in the market place. Being grass fed beef from a huge number of different breeds, we have a product that lacks consistency and is badly affected by the production cycle of the US Beef Industry. The future for The … Read more

Doug Brown

European agriculture is dominated by small holdings. Like New Zealand declining product prices in real terms are forcing farms to amalgamate and large units are producing an increasing percentage of the output. Subsidies still play a major part in European agriculture but reductions will occur as subsidies are not sustainable in the long term at … Read more