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Anthony Pangborn

The motivation to research what it takes to be a great employer in 2016? stems from the author’s 10-year involvement in the kiwifruit post-harvest sector and an acknowledgment that a number of forces both globally and within the kiwifruit industry have reshaped the employment landscape during this time. The author’s opinion is that the kiwifruit … Read more

Ian Handcock

More New Zealanders are dying of cardiovascular disease than cancer, diabetes and infectious diseases combined. Each month, around 860 people in New Zealand die from cardiovascular disease. Farmers do not compare well with the national population with 83% of farmers who took part in a nationwide farmer wellness and wellbeing programme having a cholesterol reading … Read more

John Murphy

Sometimes the purpose of a business is very clear, however many times it is below the surface, as businesses simply get on and “just do it”, but are driven by something in them that is great. Some themes come up frequently in terms of purpose – whether the businesses are outwardly successful or struggling. These … Read more

Murray Jamieson

Defining what is the true cost of managing a large scale dairy farm in New Zealand is not just about the financial cost but also the social cost and what the perception of the industry is. Through my study I have defined each area into the financial impact and the social impact it has on … Read more

Tafadzwa Manjala

Knowledge and skill alone does not result in practice change. Verbal persuasion, even well-articulated has low impact. Great extension is about a consistent focus on delivering to farmer needs that are self identified as well as those from gap analysis and doing it in a way that results in practice change. Seventy percent of change … Read more

Brian Russell

The deer industry struggles to shake off the perception of being a young industry with growing pains. Product price volatility contributes to banks, farm advisors and the media being wary of promoting this relatively small industry. The entrepreneurs who initially developed the industry are now retiring, exposing a lack of new and younger deer farmers. Encouragement of a new generation of low risk taking and successful farmers is needed to stabilize and grow the industries perception, as being an attractive and viable farming alternative.

Becroft Owen, D

I suspected that there is a significant problem in the New Zealand dairy industry with regard to high fatigue/stress levels. In researching this project I discovered that there has been very little work done in New Zealand with regard to fatigue/stress and none that looked at the dairy industry in particular. This may be due … Read more

Robertson Bruce, G

There is today no country in which man has not acted either as an agent of destruction or creation, New Zealand is no exception. In the early 1840’s man once again started to influence the environment with the introduction of animals in to New Zealand. One predator that is causing a lot of concern today … Read more