Blog Stats
- 499,227 hits
Categories
-
Recent Posts
- The green grass of Taranaki
- Dutch cows graze below sea level
- Synlait purchases strategic blending and canning assets
- Learning from Tillamook dairy
- Alternatives to dairy in New Zealand – the challenges are under-estimated
- Fifty years of Canterbury farming revolution
- Synlait transforms from bulk powders to infant formula
- Fonterra produces a solid half-year set of results but it is not all plain sailing ahead
- Dairy outlook cools down
- Synlait and The a2 Milk Company strengthen their alliance
- Land Use and Vegetation on the Christchurch Port Hills
- Fire and Devastation on the Christchurch Port Hills
- The search for new agri-food markets
- How do we get a rational debate about water?
- Developing wealth from water
- Bellamy’s organic infant formula derails in China
- Fonterra provides encouragement for non-seasonal milk
- Dairy volatility has not gone away
- China’s infant formula market continues to evolve
- Trump’s rhetoric puts American dairy at risk
- Is Forestry the Answer?
- All-grass farming at the Lincoln dairy farm
- The Rise of China’s Agriculture
- China Farms and Australia are Fonterra ‘work-ons’
- Changing agri-food perspectives
- Lessons from Australian dairy
- Milk powder prices still look vulnerable despite mini-boom
- Value-add products need a point of difference
- The pros and cons of PKE
- The snow has come again
- Nervous times at Silver Fern Farms
- Reducing the seasonality in Kiwi dairy systems
- Shocks versus structural change is the big dairy question
- Will losing guaranteed milk supply stir Goodman Fielder to action?
- Back to the drawing board for Fonterra governance
- Dairy price estimates are consistently wrong
- Fonterra’s governance and the Trojan horse
- China dominates global dairy imports
- Vietnam aligns with the West
- Rattling Fonterra’s governance is not enough
- EU ramps up dairy production again
- Dairy prices are not predictable
- America’s mega dairy farms
- Understanding European Dairy
- Fonterra’s six-month results – good news but some underlying issues
- Profits, trust and culture at Fonterra
- Controlling dairy farm cost of production
- A Fonterra thought experiment: where to from here?
- Surviving the dairy downturn
- A2 cows are the future
Category Archives: Meat Industry
Alternatives to dairy in New Zealand – the challenges are under-estimated
Readers of my articles will know that I believe we can find solutions to the multiple problems that face our New Zealand dairy industry. However, the current conventional wisdom within New Zealand’s dominating urban constituency is that there is no … Continue reading
Posted in Dairy, Land and water, Meat Industry
4 Comments
Fifty years of Canterbury farming revolution
The ideas for this article were triggered by a recent reunion of former Ministry of Agriculture Canterbury farm advisers. There were about 45 of us who got together to tell tales of former years. Our collective experiences that day went … Continue reading
Posted in Dairy, Land and water, Meat Industry, Uncategorized
4 Comments
The Rise of China’s Agriculture
Although it leaves many New Zealanders uncomfortable, there is a stark reality that the future of New Zealand’s agricultural industries, and hence the overall economy, is highly dependent on China. The reason is very simple: there is no-one else in … Continue reading
Posted in Agribusiness, China, Dairy, Meat Industry, Rural development
7 Comments
Changing agri-food perspectives
When I was an undergraduate back in the 1960s – in some ways it seems just yesterday – the dominant agricultural paradigms were about farm production and management. As students, we learned nothing about marketing. And when marketing did come … Continue reading
Posted in Agribusiness, Dairy, Meat Industry
5 Comments
The snow has come again
Every year we all talk about the weather and how fickle it is. This year is no different. In most parts of the country, June and July were unseasonably warm. Where I am in Canterbury, winter grass growth has possibly … Continue reading
Posted in Agribusiness, Dairy, Meat Industry
1 Comment
Nervous times at Silver Fern Farms
Silver Fern Farms announced last week to its farmer suppliers that it now expects no more than a breakeven return for the year ending 30 September 2016. This should focus the minds of its farmer shareholders, who vote on 12 … Continue reading
Posted in Agribusiness, Meat Industry
4 Comments
The year ahead for agri-food
The year ahead is going to be challenging for many of New Zealand’s farmers. There are no quick solutions for either dairy or sheep. Amongst the bigger industries, only kiwifruit and beef have a positive outlook. The wine industry could … Continue reading
Posted in Agribusiness, Dairy, Meat Industry
6 Comments
