Tim Ritchie Archives - MeatExportNZ

Trust focus at NZIFST Conference

June 11, 2018

This year’s New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Techology (NZIFST) ‘In Food We Trust’ Conference has plenty on offer for red meat sector food scientists and technologists. “Consumers have become heightened to fake news […]

Opening of EU-NZ FTA talks welcomed by red meat sector

May 23, 2018

News that formal negotiations can now begin for the European Union-New Zealand free trade agreement (EU-NZ FTA) has been welcomed by the red meat sector. This follows a decision reached yesterday by the Foreign Affairs […]

MIA Matters: British delegation visits New Zealand red meat sector

April 10, 2018

New Zealand recently hosted a delegation from the United Kingdom, who were here for a week to get a closer look at how the New Zealand red meat sector operates, reports Meat Industry Association chief […]

Red meat sector welcomes release of CPTPP text and analysis

February 22, 2018

The release of the text of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (CPTPP) and New Zealand’s National Interest Analysis represents important progress for trade leadership in the Asia-Pacific region, says the Meat Industry Association […]

Comment: Catching up at start of 2018

January 29, 2018

Its 2018 … Happy New Year to you all! It’s a good start too. We’ve been catching up with recent news and it seems the red meat sector needs to hit the ground running with […]

Free trade successes will benefit New Zealand red meat

November 13, 2017

It’s been a momentous weekend for free trade and the red meat sector, which has welcomed two successes for its export trade. Firstly, a nail-biting on-again, off-again run towards completion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership between […]

Barber’s Wire: Dismantling MPI is not without risks

November 8, 2017

The best aspect of the new government’s decision on dismantling MPI up is the separation of food safety and biosecurity from the core sector responsibilities of agriculture, fisheries and forestry. However, one downside is the […]

The beef in Japan

October 19, 2017

New Zealand beef exports to Japan lifted in volume and value in the year to end June for the first time in five years. However, there’s a downside to that. The Meat Industry Association’s newly […]

Meat industry scholarships offered by the MIA

October 17, 2017

Meat industry scholarships are to be offered by the Meat Industry Association (MIA) in order to promote a pathway for talented graduates into the industry. The initiative will be funded by the MIA’s half share […]

“Considerable uncertainty” ahead in red meat markets

October 17, 2017

The coming year will be testing for New Zealand’s red meat exporters, with considerable uncertainty in some of our key overseas red meat markets. The Meat Industry Association (MIA)’s 2016-2017 recently released annual report shows […]

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