Red meat prices forty years ago

We could be forgiven for thinking nothing has changed in the last forty years with regard to meat schedule setting, if not actual price levels. But an address to the Ruakura Farmers Conference in 1975 by then chairman of the New Zealand meat Producers Board, Charles Hilgendorff, gives an interesting perspective on the industry at that time.

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MPI risks loss of focus on food safety and biosecurity

Most people would almost certainly see the primary role of Ministry for Primary Industries as the protection of New Zealand’s biosecurity, food safety and primary production. The creation of MPI was designed to meet a number of objectives, one of which, probably the most important, must surely have been to ensure a world class agency to deliver this priority.

Surveyor believes in power of cooperative model, but says it’s up to farmers

Four months into his new job as CEO of Alliance, David Surveyor is really loving the challenge of heading a global business which is so crucial to farmers, consumers and New Zealand as a whole. He has always been interested in the agrifood space, as he terms it, and enjoys getting to know New Zealand through its agricultural producers.

Unlikely lower dairy payout will lead to immediate land use change

Previous downturns or relative changes in sector profitability have generally led to a change of land use; and because sheep farming was the predominant 20^th century rural activity, land use change was usually to a form of farming other than sheep.