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Peter Kerr
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Writer, communicator, simplifier, storyteller.
Versed in the art and science of translating something complicated into an understandable message.
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What does our agriculture offer?....romance and reassurance
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 8:58 am | sticK
I’ll be the first to admit that the frilly, intangible, non-scientific aspects of what and how we produce our agricultural products can be a tricky little number to get your head around. More >>
Officiating our way to an ATI totally the wrong policy
Thursday, 8 November 2012, 8:36 am | sticK
Now everyone wants to see the Advanced Technology Institute set up and thriving. More >>
Our agriculture’s much more than the sum of its parts
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 8:36 am | sticK
Too much, arguably all the time, we look at all the individual components of our farm production systems……and beat ourselves up about them. More >>
TIN100 again proves it is the meat of an innovation club san
Thursday, 1 November 2012, 8:30 am | sticK
The way you’d farm if you farmed yourself
Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 8:34 am | sticK
Think for a moment that you’re a Western consumer contemplating buying some animal protein for dinner that night. More >>
Let’s accept now that the ATI won't start in February
Thursday, 25 October 2012, 8:32 am | sticK
By the look of things, maybe we should accept, now, that the Advanced Technology Institute won’t be up and running by 1 Feb 2012. More >>
For want of a name our agriculture flounders
Tuesday, 23 October 2012, 8:42 am | sticK
Every story has a name – except the one which describes our agriculture. This, I argue, is one of the reasons we struggle to tell people around the world and in our cities about what exactly is and has been the basis of our farming’s comparative ... More >>
Foolproof market validation tool we who would be fools
Thursday, 18 October 2012, 8:58 am | sticK
‘Foolproof’ (great title) has been inspired by much of a working life immersed in entrepreneurial startups. More >>
If we imagine beyond the actuality of how we produce….
Tuesday, 16 October 2012, 8:32 am | sticK
Science has served New Zealand agriculture extremely well. It should and needs to do so in the future. It is also that pragmatic rationale approach that has delivered and developed a wonderfully integrated on-farm representation of responsible pastoralism. More >>
Getting to a BLISful state a long and winding road
Thursday, 11 October 2012, 8:40 am | sticK
Dunedin-based BLIS’s oral cavity probiotic products have “spent a long time on the runway”, as it chief executive Dr Barry Richardson described the other day. More >>
Standing for nothing does our agriculture a big non-favour
Tuesday, 9 October 2012, 8:37 am | sticK
If you stand for nothing; does that mean anything is acceptable….or not? More >>
New media + books = Literary Angels
Thursday, 4 October 2012, 9:14 am | sticK
Literary Angels, a Facebook (with other social media to come) book socialising, tracking and selling tool, could be exactly what the publishing industry has been looking for. More >>
Should we bother trying to get consumers closer to farmers?
Wednesday, 3 October 2012, 9:47 am | sticK
It is often said that farmers need to get closer to consumers. And while it is possible, and some marketers have set up the facility to, for a bar code (or QR code) to show exactly where a piece of meat came from, even though that’s good it’s not really ... More >>
ATI Establishment Board role far bigger than people realise
Thursday, 27 September 2012, 8:42 am | sticK
For something that has the extremely important job of kicking along (on an NZ Inc basis) the never simple endeavour of turning of an idea into income, the Advanced Technology Institute’s Establishment Board has so far operated very below the radar. More >>
The Patents Bill and the Wai 262 Report: two solitudes
Wednesday, 26 September 2012, 9:28 am | sticK
In an earlier post on the Patents Bill I mentioned that the introduction of the Bill had been delayed for 14 years because of concerns about the Wai 262 claim. More >>
If we think beyond the actuality of how we produce….
Tuesday, 25 September 2012, 8:40 am | sticK
Science has served New Zealand agriculture extremely well. It should and needs to do so in the future. It is also that pragmatic rationale approach that has delivered and developed a wonderfully integrated on-farm representation of responsible pastoralism. More >>
Our agriculture the opposite of the 'tragedy of the commons'
Thursday, 20 September 2012, 8:38 am | sticK
Patents Bill : A Software Storm in an Ideological Teacup
Monday, 17 September 2012, 9:20 am | sticK
Thirty years after the Muldoon government first looked at patent law reform, a new patent law is on track to come into force by the end of 2013. This guest blogger has been involved in working with and on the current act since 1974. And my reaction ... More >>
An angel lines up in books’ corner
Thursday, 13 September 2012, 8:13 am | sticK
Here are two aspects of books – an industry ripe for a social media makeover. Firstly, chances are, if you’ve had a good read lately, you’ve told someone else about it. More >>
We’re the only protein production system that can say VISIT
Tuesday, 11 September 2012, 8:45 am | sticK
Forget the science, briefly, about our agriculture, even though that’s the wonderful legacy that has got us to where we are today. Forget the rational. More >>
