Displaying items by tag: Jacqueline Rowarth

The nostalgia button is being pushed with releases of chocolate bar flavours from the past, milk in traditional glass bottles and constant references to food “as it was meant to be”.

‘The right to food’ was the focus of a special report to the United Nations general assembly at the beginning of the year.

Food safety is in the news again in Europe after a media release from the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) in the EU in February.

The era of 'peak antibiotics' might have arrived, but not because of antibiotic use in farm animals in New Zealand.

Failing to market our products properly is costing us billions, says Jacqueline Rowarth, agribusiness professor at the University of Waikato.

We will see a $8/kgMS milk price again – but we will also see $4/kgMS again, says New Zealand special agricultural trade envoy Mike Petersen.

More developments in dairy processing operations, this time in Northland, are yet another nail in what must not be allowed to become Fonterra's coffin.

The 'businessman' who threatened the NZ dairy industry with 1080 contamination in baby formula if use of the pest-killing poison wasn't terminated apparently intended to gain economic advantage for a product of his own.

Cooperatives have many positive benefits, but raising capital is not one of them.

The dairy downturn could be an indicator of how the economy will suffer if farmers have to reduce inputs to meet environmental compliance standards.