Category Archives: Processed food

Fishing for a complementary use of fire reservoir ponds

Posted on January 28, 2016 by sticknz

Years ago for a farm management report at Lincoln University, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek plan around the integration of goldfish in troughs on dairy farms (we’d spotted the use of such technology to help keep the troughs clean). Well here’s … Continue reading →

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Is the future for our sheep their milk?

Posted on July 16, 2014 by sticknz

  Being the farm raised boy I am, I’m keen on the idea of clever new and profitable products from our ability to convert sunlight, soil and water into them. So, Blue River Dairy, the sheep milk products company which … Continue reading →

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In the rush to all things digital, are we missing a biological trick?

Posted on June 12, 2014 by sticknz

New Zealand is missing a trick when it comes to the startup weekend, incubator, accelerator programme ecosystem that’s got lots of attention lately. And sure, I can appreciate how the digital side of things is extremely quick at developing and … Continue reading →

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Primary industry mobile tech forum draws the digerati

Posted on August 20, 2013 by sticknz

Numbers tell a story on their own. And the fact that over 220 attendees ponyed up at the Mobile Tech Summit 2013 in Wellington on August 7 & 8 underscores the message that our natural resources aren’t as old-hat as … Continue reading →

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Magritek looking to be less lonely

Posted on July 23, 2013 by sticknz

I had the pleasure of catching up with Magritek last week when it announced a new cornerstone shareholder in Wellington-based private equity investor Rangatira. It is an opportunity for Magritek to up its sales and marketing effort around its relatively … Continue reading →

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Bacteria detector set to scale up for food industry

Posted on July 2, 2013 by sticknz

I’m always a bit of a sucker for innovations and improvements that add value to our biological industries. After all, as a country we’d be fools not to play to our major strength in producing food and fibre. An innovation’s … Continue reading →

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Achieving virtual scale for our largest industry

Posted on January 30, 2013 by sticknz

(This blog also appears at pastureharmonies.org) Scale matters in exporting according to the World Bank…..so here’s a way to get virtual scale for our biggest industry. The World Bank’s recent report ‘Export Superstars’, shows that company size matters when it … Continue reading →

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Food & beverage stars for NZ to hitch its wagon to – report

Posted on December 13, 2012 by sticknz

There’s not that many reports you can sit down and study and go – uumm, interesting. But Auckland-based Coriolis has done it (again), and their ‘Investors guide to emerging growth opportunities in NZ food and beverage exports’ is, and I … Continue reading →

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If we knew what we were inventing when we figured it out…..we would’ve named it

Posted on December 11, 2012 by sticknz

The concept of rotational grazing has been around for so long now (but only about 60 years really) that we take it for granted. It is ‘just’ the way we do things at the on farm level, and there’s no … Continue reading →

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What does our agriculture offer?……..romance and reassurance

Posted on November 13, 2012 by sticknz

I’ll be the first to admit that the frilly, intangible, non-scientific aspects of what and how we produce our agricultural products can be a tricky little number to get your head around. Much of what we’re good at doing as … Continue reading →

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