Producing more without getting more productive
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.2026.88.3893Abstract
In the 2023/24 season New Zealand dairy farms are producing more milksolids per cow and per farm than ever before, but sector total factor productivity has been broadly flat since 2012/13.
• The difference reflects input intensity. Since 2012/13, additional output has increasingly been supported by increasing reliance on purchased feed, fertilisers and labour resulting in flat productivity trend.
• Flat productivity is better read as robustness through a difficult decade, but future competitiveness will depend on lifting pasture utilisation and input efficiency rather than simply spending more to produce more.
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