Rural Leaders Reports
Tim Bathgate
Which of the current climate change mitigation methods have the least effect on profitability?
- 2023
- Kellogg 50
Annabel Barnett
This report looks at the forces influencing the wool market pricing and the opportunities and challenges facing the industry.
- 2023
- Kellogg 50
Bryce Morrison
This report analyses the impact climate change will have on kiwifruit growing regions with strategies to help kiwifruit growers build resilience.
- 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
Murray Dyer
This report looks at the key denominators enhancing the commercial success for an agritech business.
- 2023
- Kellogg 50
Steve Hydes
This report looks at how smaller AgriTech start-ups have used professional assistance, with the objective of better understanding of why or why not assistance is obtained and the timing around these decisions.
- 2023
- Kellogg 49
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
Vanessa Thomson
This report examines who the stakeholders are in the rural psychosocial ecosystem, how farmers interact with these stakeholders, and how these stakeholders in turn interact together. It aims to understand the challenges to delivery of psychosocial services, and possible solutions.
- 2023
- Kellogg 49
Sol Tejada
The Apiculture industry plays a key role in the economy: for its production, for the benefits that bees provide to the ecosystem and economy. This report focuses on female beekeepers and delves into their experiences in New Zealand’s Apiculture Industry.
- 2023
- Kellogg 49
Richard Dawkins
Mortality in New Zealand lambing systems is potentially a significant issue for the primary industry, which is thoroughly explored in this research project. It is a must-read for all involved in the sheep and beef industry.
- 2023
- Kellogg 49
Kathryn Broomfield
This report examines the potential of disruptive innovation and emerging technologies to enhance the sustainability and resilience of New Zealand’s sheep, beef, and dairy farming systems.
- 2023
- Kellogg 49
Jemima Snook
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.
- 2023
- Kellogg 49
Kris Bailey
Regenerative Agriculture (RA) is regarded by some as the solution to the global food crisis. Positive environmental outcomes can be achieved with the use of RA. This Kellogg report by Kris Bailey looks at the benefits, opportunities, and challenges of RA use for NZ.
- 2023
- Kellogg 49
Duane Redward
This report explores if industry leaders, representatives and lobby groups are further reinforcing negative sentiment by the way they are communicating with farmers. It also looks at the potential future consequences of their approach.
- 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
Laura Hancock
How does musculoskeletal health correlate with injury risk and performance outcomes in the Food and Fibre Sector?
- 2023
- Kellogg 49
Grace McLeay
This report translates scientific climate modelling into practical contexts for Manawatū-Rangitīkei sheep and beef farmers. It aims to provide knowledge of climate change predictions, risks and opportunities associated with climate change predictions, and what actions might future-proof farming businesses?
- 2023
- Kellogg 49
Brian Henderson
The aim of this report was to identify what leadership is and how it can facilitate or hinder transformational change. The report aimed to critically assess, compare, and contrast characteristics of leadership displayed in transformational change.
- 2023
- Kellogg 49
Emily Clark
The aim of this report is to assist New Zealand aquaculture shellfish processors in determining what third-party certification is best for their operations based on current industry practices, consumer opinions, by providing an overview of the most prevalent third-party certifications.
- 2023
- Kellogg 49
Anthony Taueki
In this report Anthony examines how Aotearoa's primary industries are transforming through technology and innovation, arguing that Industry, Iwi, Government, schools, and tertiary providers must collaborate to build adaptive vocational pathways that deliver meaningful careers and prosperous futures for all whānau and communities.
- 2023
- Nuffield 2022
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
Lucie Douma
We are in the information age where access to and control of information is a defining characteristic of the current era. New Zealand’s agriculture sector is increasingly being asked to provide data and information to governments and consumers. We need to find a better way of collecting, managing, and using this information on our farms as part of the decision-making process and for this we need data interoperability and data sharing of systems.
- April 2023
- Nuffield 2022
Yvette Jones
This report was conducted to understand the current status of the representation of women in the Kiwifruit industry. Women contribute to increased levels of innovation, and better risk management.
- 2022
- Kellogg 48
Matt Strahan
This report is focusing on herbicide resistance and compars the situation in New Zealand to other OECD countries; highlights current knowledge and awareness gaps, shares information we might use to influence decision making and propose ideas that we might adopt to tackle this issue.
- 2022
- Kellogg 46