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Perceptions of a career in the dairy industry : survey of Taranaki secondary school students
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Commerce. Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme., 2001)
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 ...
Mentoring for the rural sector : identifying the needs of the participants
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Commerce. Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme., 2006)
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 ...
Branding a dairy farm operation
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Commerce. Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme., 2004)
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 ...
Financial budgeting in sheep and beef businesses
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Commerce. Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme., 2009)
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. ...
Farmers should continue to farm Holstein Friesian cows : (New Zealand milk pricing models have to change!)
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Commerce. Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme., 2008)
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 ...
Improving farm dairy effluent management!
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Commerce. Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme., 2010)
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 ...
Can human resource practices improve staff retention on Canterbury dairy farms?
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Commerce. Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme., 2004)
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 New Zealand rural property market - where to from here?
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Commerce. Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme., 2006)
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 ...
Cultural values, power and development practice
(Lincoln University, 2007)
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 ...
Dairy breeding traits : the farmers' perception
(Lincoln University, 2006)
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, ...