Meat industry in new zealand

1. … meat industry encompasses sheep meat, beef, venison and related products such as hides and velvet. Many in deer farming consider their industry to be somewhat different to the sheep meat and beef industries, however they are addressed together in this paper. There are extensive inter-linkages between the different industries, with meat, wool and by-products such as hides produced from the same animals, sheep and beef cattle raised in similar farm production

systems, and links between the beef industry and dairy farming, with much beef production coming from dairy cull animals.

2. … is internationally competitive and earns premiums in markets such as the EU and the US for the quality of its product and its responsiveness to customers. New Zealand lamb in particular has a very good image due to its consistency, quality and New Zealand’s "clean, green" image.

3. … is made up of sheep meat, beef and deer farms and the companies that process and export their products. Many producers farm some combination of sheep, beef and deer within a mixed farming system. Statutory boards continue to play a role in these sectors, with the New Zealand Meat Board ("Meat NZ") responsible for the allocation and management of quota rights to

overseas markets and for industry good activities funded through a statutory levy. The Game Industry Board ("Deer Industry New Zealand") funds industry good activity relating to venison and velvet. It is funded through a statutory levy.

4. … and exporting companies are the co-operatively owned Alliance and PPCS and the publicly-listed Affco and Richmond. PPCS is currently seeking to take over Richmond and if it succeeds the processing industry will be dominated by three companies, two of which will be co-operatives. There are a large number of smaller meat processing and exporting companies such as Taylor Preston, Canterbury Meat Packers, Blue Sky, Crusader, Te Kuiti Meat Processors

and Progressive. Most of these are investor-owned but unlisted companies, and a number are quite entrepreneurial in their business strategies.

5. … to entry into meat processing and exporting are relatively low, despite significant capital costs in processing, however it is an industry that has proven difficult to be sustainably profitable in. This is because of factors such as the high levels of competition in the industry, and the dependence of meat processors and exporters on successful stock procurement and on achieving

high throughput to utilise capital plant efficiently and to minimise long-run marginal cost. There is some evidence that over time the large co-operatively owned meat companies have out-performed investor-owned, publicly-listed businesses; however it should be noted that Affco was formerly a struggling cooperative business before it became a publicly-listed company. Co-operatively owned meat companies can take a longer-term view and their farmer shareholders

may be prepared to accept lower dividends in return for higher stock prices. However, it should be noted that small meat processing companies, some of them growing significantly, are often investor-owned firms and such firms are often well suited to niche market development.

Task 2. Find the appropriate translation to the following words. Recommended literature: L.V.Antipova – English-Russian Dictionary on meat and meat production.- Moscow/KolosS Publishing House-2005

Encompass venison, hide and velvet, inter-linkages, cull animals, statutory boards, venison, stock procurement.

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1. Meat and fish production in Kazakhstan.

2. Milk and milk production in Kazakhstan.

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