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Resources for
Primary Industry Bodies
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People in primary sector support bodies provide important direction to land managers, helping ensure that practices evolve in response to new evidence. These resources can help you develop best practices and guidance for farm management, based on impartial and robust evidence.
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Consumer Focus // The Value Compass
The price final consumers are willing to pay drives all value in the value chain. Hence, a value chain needs to understand how different groups…
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Incentives // The Value Chain Compass
As the name suggests, a value chain involves a series of linkages between the producers at one end of the chain and the final consumers…
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Chain Leadership // The Value Chain Compass
A key responsibility of governance is chain leadership. Typically, one of the partners in the value chain acts as chain champion. The chain champion has…
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Scale // The Value Chain Compass
In the research programme’s case studies of emerging value chains, scale was one of the key decisions that had to be made by the chain…
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Product Quality // The Value Chain Compass
Consumers pay a premium for a product only if they value it as a quality product. Quality begins with characteristics such as appearance, taste and…
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Risk // The Value Chain Compass
All commercial enterprise involves a degree of risk. In the food and fibre sector, there are specific challenges related to the chain’s continuity of supply.…
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Value Co-Creation // The Value Chain Compass
A feature of food and fibre value chains is that creation of value for consumers requires collaboration among the partners of the chain. There is…
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Information // The Value Chain Compass
A global value chain from New Zealand producers to overseas consumers can be lengthy, involving several links in the chain and diverse cultures. This means…
Technical Report
Enhancing Farm Assurance – A White Paper
Assurance systems are one of the cornerstones of the New Zealand economy and agribusinesses – ensuring compliance with regulations, enabling international trade, ensuring safety of…
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A survey comparing regeneratively and conventionally managed pastures and farm management policies
A pasture and farm management survey was conducted on thirteen geographically paired regenerative and conventional beef and sheep farms in the upper North Island to…
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Agronomic performance of summer forage crops on a Waikato dry-stock farm
Forage crops options are required by dry-stock farmers to fill summer feed gaps. This trial compared a brassica monoculture with simple and hyper-diverse mixtures containing…
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Assessing soil health following conversion from forestry to pasture in Canterbury
Soil health was assessed across land conversions from forestry (Pinus radiata) to irrigated dairy pasture. Samples were collected and indicators of soil fertility, organic matter,…