Posts Tagged ‘EU dairy production’

Trade negotiations like water dripping on a stone

April 28, 2016

Before he left for China last week, New Zealand’s Special Agricultural Trade Envoy, Mike Petersen, gave me his thoughts on the process of trade negotiation and a brief list of successes he has been involved with since 2003. At that time he was Chairman of Meat & Wool NZ as it was called in those days. (more…)

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MPI’s SOPI report suggests it is on different planet

December 23, 2015

When I read the headline forecast in the December update of the Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries report, my initial reaction was “they must be joking, what planet are they on?” After a slightly more in depth study of their analysis, I am still baffled. (more…)

MPI’s SOPI report suggests it is on different planet

December 21, 2015

When I read the headline forecast in the December update of the Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries report, my initial reaction was “they must be joking, what planet are they on?” After a slightly more in depth study of their analysis, I am still baffled. (more…)