This paper proposes amendments to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act 2001 (DIRA) and the Dairy Industry Restructuring (Raw Milk) Regulations 2012 (Raw Milk Regulations), largely arising from the recent review of the state of competition in dairy markets. This paper also proposes new regulations for ongoing monitoring of dairy markets and technical amendments to the DIRA to recognise the change in management arrangements for the New Zealand Dairy Core Database that was agreed by Cabinet in 2014.

Prepared for MPI by Chris Pratt and Adrian Walcroft (Landcare Research), Andy Shilton, Benoit Buieysse and Matthew Chung (Massey University), and Rupert Craggs and Stephan Heubeck (National Institute of Atmospheric Research). Contract: 12215 (IR-H 13)

This Primary Growth Partnership newsletter informs stakeholders and interested parties about PGP activities while also profiling one of the current PGP programmes in each issue.

2011-2014 Antibiotic Sales Analysis

The values for ruminant nitrogen (N) retention used by the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory and described by Pickering (2011) to predict nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions of farmed ruminants were reviewed and assessed for their accuracy and relevance to current New Zealand conditions.

This article appeared in a journal by Elsevier (Environmental Pollution, Volume 186, March 2014). Provided for non-commercial research and education use. Not for reproduction, distribution or commercial use. Authors: F.M. Kelliher, N. Cox, T.J. van der Weerden, C.A.M. de Klein, J. Luo, K.C. Cameron, H.J. Di, D. Giltrap, G. Rys.