Future dairy farm employment

Abstract

This report presents the outcomes of Dairy Insight Project 10015/2003 and provides a view of the future employment situation of the New Zealand dairy farming industry. It seeks to establish the future employment needs of the industry from a study of the future dairy farm labour market, to estimate future labour required and available, and to provide a full discussion of factors affecting those estimates. The report was intended to provide a foundation document for any future studies of work and employment in dairy farming. The report is divided into six parts, with an introduction and references. The introduction specifies the intended outcomes for the project, and the research strategy to be adopted, which is to use the Human Capability Framework to analyse the dairy farm labour market.