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Marc Soccio, Rabobank Senior Analyst
The New Zealand wine story continues to be one of expansion and international success but it is operating in an increasingly complicated market. This is reflected in the Q2 Wine Quarterly report published by Rabobank in mid April 2017. One of the authors of this report, Rabobank senior analyst Marc Soccio, joins Roger Bourne to discuss current global wine production and consumption trends.
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Analytica Manuka Honey Testing
Honey, especially manuka honey, has become a high value export. In 2015 New Zealand generated around $250 million from honey exports but the international demand for honey has also seen a rise in batches of honey adulterated with sugar, or poor quality honey from other sources but labelled as higher value manuka honey.
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Barry's Bay Cheese
Mike and Catherine Carey have owned Barrys Bay Traditional Cheese for the last 11 years. But the company, located at Duvauchelle on Banks Peninsula, has been in business for much longer, making old fashioned, hand crafted cheese since 1895. The current factory dates from 1952, as the previous factory burnt down.
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Muller 2015 Taranaki Environment Award Winners
Mark and Jacqui Muller run a 167ha dairy farm with a leased 35ha run-off property 3km away. The Muller’s operation has been in business for over 100 years. Mark is a third generation farmer. His Swiss grandfather Melchior began farming the original 48ha Muller family block in 1914.
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Derek Fairweather, Chief Executive, Dairy Solutionz (NZ) Ltd
The impacts of global climate change, the subsequent negative impacts of heat stress and low commodity prices are becoming more pressing issues for the world’s tropical dairy cows and their farmers. Since 2006, New Zealand company Dairy Solutionz has been developing heat tolerant breeds for tropical pastoral farming systems. Roger Bourne speaks with chief executive of Dairy Solutionz, Derek Fairweather, about progress of the breeding programme that’s designed to produce a heat tolerant Bos Taurus dairy cow.
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Longridge Agriculture
Hamish and Annabel Craw are the sixth generation of the Craw family to farm the outer bays of Banks Peninsula. They have three young children. Lincoln University-educated and highly motivated, Hamish and Annabel hosted a Beef + Lamb New Zealand Innovation Farm project on pasture management to encourage legumes on dry hill country. They had previously been a B+LNZ sheep profit partnership farm, with the aim to increase profitability by 5% annually compounded over three years.