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Lisa Portas

Strong Wool, Stronger Returns

New Zealand strong wool's profitability depends on aligning with international market expectations through credible certification, robust environmental data, and intentionally designed, transparent value chains.

Olivia Smith

Trading in Turbulent Times: Positioning New Zealand’s Global Food Trade, in a Shifting Global Order

NZ’s food exports depend on strong global partnerships and market trust. This report by Olivia Smith explores how innovation, integrity, and strategic investment, not volume alone, enable lasting competitiveness, helping the sector stay resilient and relevant in volatile global markets.

Campbell Smith

What are the Key Considerations of Weighing Technology Adoption on Sheep and Beef Farms in NZ?

This report by Campbell Smith looks at the adoption of livestock weighing tech lags due to trust, usability, integration, support, cost thresholds, and peer influence despite clear benefits.

Zac Howell

Overcoming Barriers to Data Interoperability Within New Zealand’s Wine Industry

NZ wine confronts rising costs and unpredictable markets. This report by Zac Howell reveals how smarter data use, strong governance, and industry trust can unlock interoperability, boost traceability, secure market access, and drive efficiency for sustained growth and global success.

Jess Ross

Softer Crop Protection, the Way of the Future?

This report explores integrating biopesticides and IPM in NZ horticulture. Barriers include limited knowledge, resistance to change, and outdated regulations. Recommendations highlight education, expert collaboration, and technology use to support adoption and meet export demands sustainably.

Malinda Wynyard

Building Diversity in New Zealand Dairy Export Markets for Independent Manufacturers

Malinda’s report examines how NZ’s independent dairy manufacturers can future-proof for financial sustainability amid a decreasing milk pool and global market shifts. It finds that success depends on strong value-chain relationships, targeting values-driven markets, and exploring alternative access strategies to overcome distance and risk.

Carlos Bagrie

Beyond the Farm Gate: Rethinking New Zealand’s Economic Future

New Zealand’s economy can’t rely indefinitely on agriculture and tourism. This report calls for a national conversation on future export strategies to ensure resilience.

Oliver Hampson

Can we add value to non-replacement calves?

The management of non-replacement calves, or bobby calves, is a constant challenge for the NZ Dairy industry. This report investigates potential options for reducing bobby calf numbers.

Sophia Hunt

Algeria – New Zealand – Nations turning liquid commodities into economic prosperity.

This report analyses Algeria's dairy market and its significance as a major importer of New Zealand's dairy products, particularly Whole Milk Powder. It aims to assess our potential to enhance dairy exports to Algeria, and identify opportunities for value-add.

Kerry Worsnop

The mountain we need to climb. Designing agricultural policy for a future in farming.

This report primarily addresses those in leadership, and to a lesser extent agricultural policy makers and others with an interest in how we move forward in delivering better outcomes for those on the land and the land itself.

Abdul Jabbar

Predicaments around storage pooling in the kiwifruit industry.

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

Jemima Snook

Non-Financial Reporting: Generating Value and Improving Sustainability from Non-Financial Farm Information.

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.

Shannon Harnett

Getting Plant Varieties Right

The tension between science-led and consumer-led research and development is unavoidable. There is a need for both. Successful consumer-led innovation directly produces economic value. Science for the sake of obtaining knowledge leads indirectly to economic, social, and environmental benefits.

Anna Benny

Milk Without a Moo.

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...

Johanna Olsen

What is New Zealand’s red meat marketing strategy in China?

China is New Zealand’s largest export market for red meat by both volume and value. It is important that we demonstrate our commitment to the market by exploring and investing in our opportunities there.

Fiona Foley

What are the barriers to the adoption of new technologies and innovation by the New Zealand Farmer?

Market signals and regulation necessitates sustainably produced products that meet the expectations of the conscious consumer and society. These will require improved ways of doing what has been done before and in some cases a transformative change. This report identifies barriers facing New Zealand farmers towards innovating and taking on new technologies.

Kathryn Reid

A proposed plan of action for meeting the immediate requirements and future expectations of the New Zealand honey industry.

New Zealand relies on bees to pollinate crops and pasture worth at least $5 billion annually to its economy. In 2019/20, honey export value reached $425 million. In July 2020, the Government released its Fit for a better world vision. While it did not separate the impact on the New Zealand honey industry individually, the numbers infer the industry is being tasked to add $65 million in export earnings cumulatively over the next 10 years. This task falls to the 935 export registered beekeepers (about 10% of total registered beekeepers) to supply Mānuka and/or non-Mānuka honey for export. So, how well is the industry set up to accomplish this task?

Thomas Creswell

Understanding strategic alliances and their role in New Zealand agriculture

New Zealand exporters face high costs, regulation, and distance to markets. This report explores how strategic alliances can overcome these barriers, their risks and benefits, and key steps for successful collaboration.

Rebecca Turley

Adding value to Onions

This paper is aiming to add value to second grade onions that unable to be sold locally or exported. The aim was to understand what could be done with them to make them more saleable in the market place here and overseas. It is very early on looking into the process of adding value to … Read more

Nicky Brown

Future people capability requirements: A post farm gate perspective

Major global agri-food trends and changes to the workforce in the future are expected to have an impact on people capability needed in the New Zealand primary industries. With New Zealand’s reliance on exports and competing in international markets, it is recognised that the skills and knowledge will need to keep pace with the evolving … Read more

Simon Witheford

Establishing and operating a sweet cherry orchard in Central Otago.

This business plan, to establish and operate a cherry orchard in Central Otago, intends to achieve the following objectives: Understand the costs of establishing and operating a cherry Gain an overview of the challenges and risks within the Understand the market dynamics for NZ produced cherries and what the future market trends might To be … Read more

Rob Kidd

Potential threats to New Zealand deer pet food from international wild deer supplies.

“The large-scale commercial farming of deer started in New Zealand, and New Zealand remains the world’s largest and most advanced deer farming industry” (DINZ, n.d.). Recently, a significant increase in demand for pet food products has developed. This has been fuelled by American and European customers buying for pets which are now so highly regarded … Read more

Nicky Brown

People capability in the New Zealand primary industries.

Justin Geary

Collaboration through the Cervena appellation.

An industry founded by entrepreneurs and innovators, the deer industry is relatively young. Farming the most recently domesticated animals, deer farmers have experienced all of the highs and lows that markets can deliver. With boom and bust cycles a regular occurrence, industry leaders developed a strategy to create an appellation for premium New Zealand Venison … Read more

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