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Kiwi businesses amp up equipment investment for export push
9 Feb 2018
Expanding export markets remain a key focus for New Zealand businesses in 2018, as overseas demand for kiwi produce continues to grow. As a result, 42.8 per cent of businesses plan to increase their capital expenditure budgets over the next 12 months, according to the Maia Financial New Zealand Equipment Demand Index (the Index).
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Is Australia’s red meat processing industry at crisis point?
12 Dec 2017
Meat processors around the country are struggling with sky-high input costs especially with respect to energy and increase to production costs. Add the pressures of a strong Australian dollar, competition from lower-cost producers overseas and flooding the market, and an unstable political environment, and you’re headed for disaster.
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World of demand set to devour farming industry as exports rocket
29 Aug 2017
New, ambitious targets have been set for the farming and wider agriculture industry to drive Australian food and produce exports and to meet the world’s rising population. But are they ready to meet these new targets?
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Food manufacturing industry hit with country of origin labelling
10 Aug 2017
The clock is ticking for food manufacturing businesses who are yet to comply with strict new country of origin labelling laws that came into effect mid-last year.
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Kiwi Wineries are Defeating the Aussies in the US
15 Jun 2017
The New Zealand wine sector is undergoing a growth spurt, with sales of Kiwi wine to the US exceeding Australian wine sales to the US for the first time.
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Chicken Farmers – Wake Up and Smell the Protein
25 May 2017
Energy prices in Australia have risen sharply over the past decade, and putting pressure on businesses of all kinds, with the agriculture industry being affected more than most.
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Is Australia the Answer to Asia’s Long Term Food Security?
11 Apr 2017
We are living in ‘The Asian Century’, which provides a huge opportunity for large-scale Australian farmers and food processing plants to position their businesses to satisfy the ever-growing Asian middle class’s new tastes in food and produce.
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