Kite Consulting
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Kite Consulting provide business services to the entire food supply chain, from farmer to retailer and are widely recognised as one of the UK's leading dairy consultancy companies.
Kite Consulting
5d ago
Chris Walkland kicks of this week’s podcast with his market update and he is followed by Erik Elgersma; Founder & Director of Strategic Analysis Services BV who joins John Allen to delve deeper into the developments of the Dutch situation and address the unexpected winner of the recent provincial elections - The Farmer Citizen Movement Party. They discuss structure of the Dutch Parliament and senate, who The Farmer Citizen Movement Party are and what this means for Dutch politics along with sharing their thoughts on how other Governments within the EU and UK could view the situation ..read more
Kite Consulting
3w ago
Firstly, before his milk market report, Chris takes some time to say a few words following the sudden passing of Ian Potter this week, recognising a giant within the dairy industry who will be sadly missed. On a more positive note, Ben is joined this week by the winner of the 2022 NMR / RABDF Gold Cup, Alistair Logan of the Logan Family in Ayrshire, as well as David Keiley, Senior Consultant with Kite to discuss the winning business. Alistair talks us through the business and the key areas they focus on in terms of breeding the right cows for herd performance and the use of technology to maxim ..read more
Kite Consulting
1M ago
After our usual milk market report from Chris, Will and Ben are joined by James Allen, CEO of Agfirst in New Zealand and Edward Lott, Kite Director to discuss the current dairy outlook in NZ. James outlines the devastating consequences of Cyclone Gabrielle on the north island of the country and the impact on horticulture and dairy farming in these areas. James and Edward discuss more broadly this dairy season and the challenges NZ farmers are facing including what is driving increased costs for farmers there, how environmental constraints are impacting on production & how this compares wit ..read more
Kite Consulting
2M ago
We couldn’t discuss anything other than Semex conference this week so after Chris’ milk market report, Will and Ben are joined by Drew Sloan, Vice President in Corporate Development at Semex and Rose Jackson, Senior Consultant and Head of Genetics in Kite to do just this. Rose and Drew discuss the power of genetics to improve the environmental credential of the industry, even more so with the announcement from Semex regarding development of their genomic test to identify methane output, leading the way to low methane cows. They discuss how this will work in practice and what it could mean for ..read more