by Vincent Heeringa | Jun 15, 2023 | Opinion
They’re both in the white powder business. Both produce protein for export. And they both love occupying flat, rain-drenched New Zealand pasture. So is plant-protein pioneer Leaft Foods a competitor or a complement to the dairy sector? The irony of the question is not...
by Vincent Heeringa | Jun 8, 2023 | News
New Zealand’s vast dairy infrastructure could be converted to create fermented proteins for millions more people, reckons a leader in the alternative protein space. Toby Lane, CEO of alt protein start-up New Fish, says New Zealand’s leadership in dairy science, along...
by Vincent Heeringa | May 3, 2023 | Opinion
Every so often the bowels of the public service blows out the kind of data analysis and insight you just hope someone in government is doing. Last month MPI released the first of its once-every-three-year Long-term Insights Briefings. All ministries must do this now....
by David Wrigley | Apr 13, 2023 | Opinion
Wanglin Ma, Lincoln University, New Zealand; Alan Renwick, Lincoln University, New Zealand, and Kathryn Blackman Bicknell, Lincoln University, New Zealand New Zealand is in an unusual position in the developed world when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. About...
by Editor | Feb 2, 2023 | News
A new study released today shows farming oats in New Zealand is much more sustainable than dairy, but dairy is still more profitable. The study found that oat farming releases only 7% of the greenhouse gases that are emitted by dairy farming on a per litre of milk...
