Rural Leaders Reports
Simon Van Der Heyden
The New Zealand dairy industry has a broad range of career opportunities for people who are focused and disciplined to work their way through the stages of success. This report examines the pathways and steps to wealth creation within the dairy industry. Research shows that career progression is not as clear cut in today’s environment … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Stephen Thomson
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Richard Sutton
Producing beef off grass during spring and autumn is the most common practice for King Island beef farmers. Supplying Meat Standards Australia compliant beef during winter is a common, financially rewarding and challenging system given the environment of King Island at this time of the year. This case study looks into the supplying of compliant … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Jason Rolfe
The primary industry is known as the backbone of New Zealand’s economy, with large amounts of exciting and broad career opportunities. Yet as the population grows many graduates prefer to head to urban based careers in large cities, than return to heartland New Zealand and take up careers in the primary sector. The qualitative study … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Lorry Leydon
The issue of low taste being a significant risk to Gold3 was highlighted to growers very early in the Gold3 journey. Zespri was transparent with Gold3 growers about the risk and the fact that the answers lay with growers in ensuring they produced high taste fruit acceptable to the markets. Zespri research efforts aimed at … Read more
- August 2015
- Kellogg 31
Stu Kneebone
Firstly, when I talk about indigenous biodiversity, I am referring to biodiversity that is native to NZ, much of which is found nowhere else in the world. Despite some views to the contrary, biodiversity is very much a part of all of our lives. It is in our back yards, our farms and our native … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
David Kidd
The New Zealand (NZ) beef industry traces its origins back to the first European arrivals to NZ. While cattle were initially used as draught oxen to provide food and for the purpose of improving pastures, they are now a major source of export in come for NZ farmers. Today NZ exports chilled and frozen table … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Clint Gulliver
New Zealand has a long history around agriculture. Over time farms have grown in size from single owner/operators to more commercial-based, corporate style farms. The average dairy farm size in New Zealand has grown to an average of 413 cows in the 2013/14 season (Walsh, 2014). Due to this growth farm owners have had to … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Damian Buckley
The subject of my Kellogg Industry Applied Project is a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages for farmers investing in the production of sheep milk. I have determined there is value in the compilation of a discussion document which identifies the key variables influencing successful commercial sheep milking business. These are current and potential dairy … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Cam Brown
Health and Safety in New Zealand’s Agriculture sect or is a hot topic both in the media and in farmer’s discussions. Due to high incidences of injury and deaths in agriculture, farmers are coming under increasing pressure to conform to current legislative standards; however there are multiple issues surrounding both the current and proposed legislation … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Amanda Bowie
Family businesses play an important role in the New Zealand business landscape and are especially important in sheep and beef sector. The overriding aspect that sets them apart from other business forms is the level of complexity with the combination of family and business. The quality, speed and execution of decision making are the hallmarks … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Alan Cook
Purpose: To analyse and investigate the opportunity to develop a stronger Dairy Beef Industry from New Zealand ’ s growing Dairy Industry. Method: To understand the existing Dairy Beef industry in New Zealand and identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats within the existing framework Identify and analyse the existing value chains Identify opportunities to … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 30
Regan Barkla
Worldwide, there is a scarcity of women in leadership (Sandberg, 2010). In many organizations, even at the lowest level women struggle to make up 50% of the workforce. This number decreases steadily as you get successively higher. Worldwide, only 3–4% of women reach CEO level (Herminia Ibarra, 2013). Despite key advancements in the workforce for … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Jeremy Anderson
This paper and the associated research sought to answer the following research question: What is the impact of machine to machine (M2M) communication on the dairy industry in New Zealand, and what is the likely impact in the future? Information and communication technology (ICT) plays a significant role in the information flow across the dairy … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Mary Black
New Zealand is well known for being heavily involved in the primary sector and exports of horticultural crops are a significant part of the New Zealand economy. In particular the kiwifruit industry is of significant export value, contributing around $930 million towards a total horticultural export value of $3,901 million in 2014 (Statistics New Zealand, … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Duncan Mackintosh
There is global concern about food safety and the effect antibiotic use in animal production has on our ability to treat human infections in high profile “superbugs” such as MRSA. Antibiotic use in animals has come under significant scrutiny, with a call to reduce their use. Global consumer brands have increased the profile of this … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Kirsty Stratton
Currently the red meat sector does not have a clearly defined and documented pathway for young people to build a business to increase equity to pursue the goal of land ownership. Succession in the industry is a challenge as the average age of land owners is high beyond 55+. The purpose of this research is … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Sarah Heddell
This report looks at co-operatives as a whole. To gain experienced insight into the rural sector co-operatives a number of high level management and directors involved with co-ops have been interviewed. Essentially looking to define the mechanisms operating within co-operatives to ensure their long term success in the rural community. The Co-operatives section covers what … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Brad Tatere
- 2015
- Kellogg 31
Dan Steele
We have inherited a brand. New Zealand was the last major land mass on earth to be colonised by humans, it is distant from most of the world’s population and has beautiful scenery and biodiversity. This brand is about a safe, unspoiled last paradise, or to quote a Rudyard Kipling poem: the “last, loneliest, loveliest, … Read more
- 2015
- Nuffield 2015
Satwant Singh
NZ dairy farmers are directly exposed to uncertainty and fluctuations in commodity pricing. Over the past ten years external factors have had a significant impact on dairy farming businesses, leading to increased financial pressure, delayed investment plans and solvency issues. New Zealand (NZ) dairy farmers have been left behind. Sophisticated and diverse price risk management … Read more
- 2015
- Nuffield 2015
Sharon Morrell
This report investigates the wide variety of ways that producers (farmers and fishers) have coped with constraints. These constraints include industry restructure, market pressures and environmental restrictions. How environmental limits have been navigated, and even utilised, is a major focus of the report since this is a current issue for New Zealand (NZ) farmers. In … Read more
- 2015
- Nuffield 2015
Ben Allomes
Changing economic and social pressures in the rural sector mean farmers need to change the way they act and react to challenges if they want to survive and thrive. Strengthening rural leadership has been identified as a key opportunity to help famers to respond and adapt to their changing environment both on-farm and with in … Read more
- 2015
- Nuffield 2015
Barclay, Dennis
Engagement. Livestock Improvement Corporation and Livestock Improvement Corporation Shareholders Council. What is the interaction and what can be done to improve this? What is engagement? How does it manifest itself? What effect does it have on people and how do they react to it? What bearing does this have on the actions and interactions of … Read more
- 2015
- Kellogg 31