Category Archives: Processed food

Achieving virtual scale for our largest industry

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

(This blog also appears at pastureharmonies.org) Scale matters in exporting according to the World Bank…..so here’s a way to get virtual scale for our biggest industry. The World Bank’s recent report ‘Export Superstars’, shows that company size matters when it … Continue reading →

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Food & beverage stars for NZ to hitch its wagon to – report

Posted on December 13, 2012 by

There’s not that many reports you can sit down and study and go – uumm, interesting. But Auckland-based Coriolis has done it (again), and their ‘Investors guide to emerging growth opportunities in NZ food and beverage exports’ is, and I … Continue reading →

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If we knew what we were inventing when we figured it out…..we would’ve named it

Posted on December 11, 2012 by

The concept of rotational grazing has been around for so long now (but only about 60 years really) that we take it for granted. It is ‘just’ the way we do things at the on farm level, and there’s no … Continue reading →

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What does our agriculture offer?……..romance and reassurance

Posted on November 13, 2012 by

I’ll be the first to admit that the frilly, intangible, non-scientific aspects of what and how we produce our agricultural products can be a tricky little number to get your head around. Much of what we’re good at doing as … Continue reading →

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Our agriculture’s much more than the sum of its parts

Posted on November 6, 2012 by

This post also appears at http://www.pastureharmonies.org Too much, arguably all the time, we look at all the individual components of our farm production systems……and beat ourselves up about them. We could use less fertiliser, our use of water isn’t that … Continue reading →

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If we imagine beyond the actuality of how we produce….

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

This post also appears at http://www.pastureharmonies.org Science has served New Zealand agriculture extremely well. It should and needs to do so in the future. It is also that pragmatic rationale approach that has delivered and developed a wonderfully integrated on-farm … Continue reading →

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Should we bother trying to get consumers closer to farmers?

Posted on October 3, 2012 by

This post can also be seen at http://www.pastureharmonies.org It is often said that farmers need to get closer to consumers. And while it is possible, and some marketers have set up the facility to, for a bar code (or QR … Continue reading →

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ATI Establishment Board role far bigger than most people realise

Posted on September 27, 2012 by

For something that has the extremely important job of kicking along (on an NZ Inc basis) the never simple endeavour of turning of an idea into income, the Advanced Technology Institute’s Establishment Board has so far operated very below the … Continue reading →

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If we think beyond the actuality of how we produce….

Posted on September 25, 2012 by

(This post can also be seen at http://www.pastureharmonies.org) Science has served New Zealand agriculture extremely well. It should and needs to do so in the future. It is also that pragmatic rationale approach that has delivered and developed a wonderfully … Continue reading →

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We’re the only protein production system that can say VISIT

Posted on September 11, 2012 by

(This blog post also appears at http://www.pastureharmonies.org) Forget the science, briefly, about our agriculture, even though that’s the wonderful legacy that has got us to where we are today. Forget the rational. Forget the food safety, the genetics of plants … Continue reading →

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