A prediction has been made that by the year 2005, we are going to need another 5000 people in the dairy industry. We are currently struggling to attract enough of the right people. I am concerned about where these people ...

In years gone by farming was looked at as a life style option for people who wanted to work outside. It was not considered to be a desirable career option for most but was for those who had no other options. It involved ...

Every company has a reputation. Everyone you meet will form an opinion about your company, even if they have not done business with you yet. The challenge is to manage your reputation so that the opinion that people have ...

Over the past twelve months we have seen extreme fluctuations in factors affecting agricultural return such as exchange rates and dairy payout. This volatility is changing the risk status of agriculture in New Zealand. ...

Dairy farmers take feed and convert that to milk and other farm products which are converted, typically in New Zealand by member co-operatives into marketable products for sale. The net revenue is distributed back to ...

Dairy effluent and how it is managed has been the cause of much frustration and reputational damage of the dairy industry within New Zealand. As a farmer representative on the Waikato executive of Federated Farmers I ...

The issues surrounding retention and training of staff in the dairy industry have become a 'catch cry' over the last five years as the industry expands and skill shortages intensify. "Are we achieving the results we need ...

The objective of this report is to understand why farmland values have almost quadrupled since 1990 and perhaps more importantly analyse and try to predict where prices paid for farmland are likely to go from here. The ...

Frequently, within a development context values from a 'Western' perspective, framed within a teleological worldview, are imposed on communities. This often results in negative outcomes for the community for whom the ...

The aim of this study was to identify which breeding traits New Zealand dairy farmers believed were the most important and whether variations in farm system influenced these opinions. A random sample of 2000 herds, ...