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- Carbon farming is back in the melting pot
- Agriculture’s greenhouse gas proposals need a reset
- The carbon price marches on
- 2022 will be tumultuous for New Zealand’s primary industries
- Economic storm clouds lie ahead
- Managing inflation will be painful
- Crunch times ahead for agricultural methane and nitrous oxide
- New twists to carbon farming
- Dairy is a key to New Zealand’s future
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- The COVID trajectory has taken off
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- Post-1989 forest owners face complex decisions
- Fonterra moves on strategy and stucture
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- Carbon-farming economics are also attractive on easier country
- Carbon farming steps forward on the North Island hard-hill country
- The big picture with sheep
- Sheep remain dominant on South Island hill and high country
- Intensive sheep and beef provide cash but wealth depends on capital gain
- Searching for the future on the North Island hills
- Fonterra’s restructure proposal risks the co-operative
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Category Archives: The Fairfax SST Articles
Can green-lipped mussels be the next heavy lifter?
[This post first appeared in the Fairfax NZ Sunday Star Times, and on Stuff, on 22 March 2015 under the title ‘Green-lipped bounty all ours’.] If New Zealand is to double agri-food exports by 2025 in line with Government targets, … Continue reading
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The Sauvignon revolution
[This post was first published in the Fairfax NZ Sunday Star Times on 15 March 2015, and online at stuff.co.nz, both with the (inaccurate) Fairfax-chosen title ‘Analysing wine’s cash harvest’.] Last week I drew attention to the New Zealand Government … Continue reading
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Doubling agri-food exports
[This post was first published in the Fairfax NZ Sunday Star Times on 8 March 2015] The New Zealand Government has set itself a target of doubling agri-food exports between 2012 and 2025. The big question is where is this … Continue reading
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Fonterra and the two-company model
[This is the fifth and last post in the current series on Fonterra. It was first published in the Fairfax NZ Sunday Star Times on 1 March 2015 under the title ‘Don’t cry over spilt milk’ and then republished online … Continue reading
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Fonterra’s three-way dilemma
[This post was first published in the Fairfax NZ Sunday Star Times on 22 February 2015. It is the fourth of a series of five on Fonterra. The earlier posts were ‘The evolution of Fonterra’, ‘Fonterra’s jouney’, and ‘Fonterra’s global … Continue reading
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Fonterra’s global reach
[This is the third of five articles on Fonterra written in early 2015 and published in the Fairfax NZ Sunday Star Times. This one was published on 15 February 2015. Earlier articles in the series were titled ‘The evolution of … Continue reading
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Fonterra’s journey
[This is the second of five articles on Fonterra that I have been writing for the Fairfax NZ Sunday Star Times. This one was published on 8 February 2015. The previous article was titled ‘The evolution of Fonterra’ ] Last … Continue reading
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The evolution of Fonterra
[This is the first of a series of five articles on Fonterra that I have been writing for the Fairfax NZ Sunday Star Times. This one was published on 1 February 2015.] It is now a little more than 13 … Continue reading
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The winding path for agri-food
[ This post was first published in the Fairfax NZ Sunday Star Times on 21 December 2014] With another year winding down, it is time to reflect on how well the agri-food industries have been travelling, and to look forward … Continue reading
Generating wealth from dairy
[This post was first published in the Fairfax NZ Sunday Star Times on 14 December 2014] The current dairy downturn is inevitably turning attention to the wisdom of having so many eggs in the same basket. When times look rough, … Continue reading
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