Record returns are the time to build slack into farm systems
Brazil is amplifying production, which she expects to push prices down even if demand holds.
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Record returns are the time to build resilience, because commodity markets will turn.
AgFirst NZ chair Erica van Reenen says cost pressures have not declined and will bite harder as prices come off the peak of the commodity cycle.
“Suddenly, when you’ve got no slack in the system, you have to make really big dramatic decisions often,” she says.
She says resilience needs the whole supply chain, not only farmers and their advisers.
She says now is a good time to think about the triggers that would make a farm change what it does, and about tenure and market trends such as GLP-1.
“The key ingredient that everyone wants is protein.”
To learn more, visit agfirst.co.nz
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