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	<description>Where Sauerkraut does his thinking about the fresh produce value chain &#38; beyond</description>
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		<title>Greeks, Kiwifruit, &amp; Supermarkets  &#8211; They All Come Together In The NBR</title>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/greeks-kiwifruit-supermarkets-they-all-come-together-in-the-nbr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just returned from the annual Horticulture New Zealand conference in Rotorua.  After a day and a half at an industry gathering one cannot help but come away with some thoughts about an industry’s future. And as I was pondering the future of the New Zealand horticultural industry, I opened last Friday’s NBR which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If It Cost More, Would It Get More Respect?</title>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/if-it-cost-more-would-it-get-more-respect/</link>
		<comments>http://hortsource.org/if-it-cost-more-would-it-get-more-respect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grower]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[low prices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing is a mug’s game – or so one of my team members often says.  Growers are at the mercy of so many things, 75% of which are completely beyond their control!  There’s the weather, the market, transport and fuel costs, compliance, staff, pests…and that’s not the complete list. So really, why would you be a grower? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cavemen and Calculus</title>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/cavemen-and-calculus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[5+ A Day]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fresh food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I've been thinking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a team member with a propensity for out of left field utterances.  A recent one got me thinking, especially as it matched a theme I’d been exploring for that presentation at Peking University I mentioned in the previous post.  It went something like this: “We’re still cavemen trying to live in a 21st [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pineapples &amp; Portugal</title>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/pineapples-portugal/</link>
		<comments>http://hortsource.org/pineapples-portugal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as one might want to, escaping the wall to wall media cover about the Royal Wedding is nigh impossible.  Based on my democratic roots (one of my ancestors was a leading light in the German revolution of 1848), I have a highly developed ability to tune out most party political broadcasts related to Royalty, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Railway Waggons, TV Shows &amp; Produce</title>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/railway-waggons-tv-shows-produce/</link>
		<comments>http://hortsource.org/railway-waggons-tv-shows-produce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Labour Resource]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[survival of the small grower]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of news items on National Radio caught my attention this morning.  The first one related to Kiwi Rail&#8217;s intention to buy more rolling stock from China instead of having the waggons built from scratch in its own workshops in Lower Hutt and Dunedin .  The second item concerned the intended sale of TVNZ&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Its All Back To Normal In Christchurch.  Yeah, Right!</title>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/its-all-back-to-normal-in-christchurch-yeah-right/</link>
		<comments>http://hortsource.org/its-all-back-to-normal-in-christchurch-yeah-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The initial shock is over.  The aftershocks are still happening though, both in a physical sense and as far as getting business life back to normal is concerned.  For some people normally is still a long way to go &#8211; and anyone who watched the TV footage of frustrated and desperate small business owners trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Have Been Shopping (II)</title>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/i-have-been-shopping-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://hortsource.org/i-have-been-shopping-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Produce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supermarket - produce]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fruit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Granny Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Cleese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[purchasing behaviour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, actually , I haven&#8217;t been shopping just yet, but I am working myself up to it and what I am writing here kind of relates to shopping, so there&#8230;. I had a look at the content of my fruitbowl this morning.  Californian Navel oranges, Ecuadorian bananas, a Philippine pineapple, Hawkes Bay nectarines, apricots and plums [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Security</title>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/food-security/</link>
		<comments>http://hortsource.org/food-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hortsource.org/?p=486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As journalists go, Gwynne Dyer is one of the better ones and whenever I see one of his syndicated articles appear in the NZ Herald I read it &#8211; even if the topic is not necessarily my flavour.  At the very minimum, I will learn something. His latest article discusses food supply.  He takes the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does your Blackberry or ipad Need Rebooting?</title>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/does-your-blackberry-or-ipad-need-rebooting/</link>
		<comments>http://hortsource.org/does-your-blackberry-or-ipad-need-rebooting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greengrocer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hortsource.org/?p=452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Serving at restaurant tables is a trade in my birth country. Young people interested in a career in the industry undertake an apprenticeship, just as someone else would become an apprentice plumber or butcher.  One could argue that it should not take three years to learn something as basic as taking someone&#8217;s order. delivering someone&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Margin Shrink In The Grocery Aisles</title>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/margin-shrink-in-the-grocery-aisles/</link>
		<comments>http://hortsource.org/margin-shrink-in-the-grocery-aisles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Produce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supermarkets- the other stuff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[groceries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[margin shrink]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you supplying a supermarket chain with your produce?  Indirectly through a broker or market?  Directly to a distribution centre or a store?  Are you worried about your margins?  Well, it seems you are not the only ones.  Grocery manufacturers  also have a few things to say these days.  In one of the better articles [...]]]></description>
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