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Productivity Gap In Agriculture

5 items · 4 aliases · peaked week of 24 May 2026 · first seen 12 May 2026

A podcast discussion with Dr Jacqueline Rowarth highlights the 25% increase in farm operating costs since COVID, attributing the rise to structural factors rather than inflation, and emphasizes the growing productivity gap between top and average farmers, with sector-specific var

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 2 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 2 articles
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Heard on radio

Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.

  • Yeah, I do. I I I think the essence of what you're saying is absolutely true. That regardless of the sector, regardless of the business, they'll always be great performers. I think what we see is those that are embracing technology, you know, trying to make sure that their store has got a really compelling online offer, that they're really ahead of productivity where they can with the right tools, um, they are making ground. I also think there's a fantastic uh bunch of you know, high-tech companies, agri tech companies that are going great guns and selling into global markets that have got massive opportunities.
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Sample framings

Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.

structural issue beyond immigration control

Build it, and they will come home
11 Jun
mike-hosking-breakfast Government / N-A

tech and agri-tech leaders outperforming traditional sectors

Steve Jurkovich: Kiwibank CEO gives economic lay of the land ahead of Budget, OCR announcement
25 May
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