Dairy's role in sustaining New Zealand - Fonterra
Dairy's role in sustaining New Zealand - Fonterra
Dairy's role in sustaining New Zealand - Fonterra
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Table 3 Farm<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>dustry structure<br />
Input Dairy farm<strong>in</strong>g Comment<br />
Land 21% Includes Gross Marg<strong>in</strong><br />
Capital 15%<br />
Labour 5%<br />
Domestic <strong>in</strong>termediates 47% Ag services, feed, fertilizer<br />
Imported <strong>in</strong>termediates 8% Fertilizer, pharmaceuticals,<br />
feed<br />
Marg<strong>in</strong>s 4% Transport<br />
Source: NZIER<br />
1.7.3 Dairy process<strong>in</strong>g<br />
The dairy process<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>dustry takes the raw milk and turns it <strong>in</strong> to products that can be sold to<br />
customers and consumers. The <strong>in</strong>dustry produces a wide range of dairy products, from milk<br />
and cheese to ice cream and butter.<br />
The vast majority of the <strong>in</strong>dustry’s <strong>in</strong>put costs are the purchase of the raw milk, which<br />
accounts for 70% of the <strong>in</strong>dustry’s costs. In addition, the process<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>dustry uses about $1.1<br />
billion of capital and employs close to 10,000 FTE employees.<br />
Of the $10.4 billion exported by our model’s dairy process<strong>in</strong>g sector:<br />
• $7.5 billion is used to purchase raw milk from the dairy farm<strong>in</strong>g sector.<br />
• $1.5 billion is reta<strong>in</strong>ed as returns to labour and capital (i.e. wages and rate of return).<br />
• $625 million is spent on <strong>in</strong>termediate <strong>in</strong>puts from <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong>. This <strong>in</strong>cludes $85 million<br />
of plastic conta<strong>in</strong>ers, $45 million on electricity and $22.5 million on f<strong>in</strong>ancial services.<br />
• Imported <strong>in</strong>termediate <strong>in</strong>puts account for $310 million – largely plastic conta<strong>in</strong>ers ($182<br />
million) and other food products to be used <strong>in</strong> process<strong>in</strong>g ($30 million).<br />
• $730 million is spent on retail<strong>in</strong>g/wholesal<strong>in</strong>g costs that get the dairy products from the<br />
plant to market.<br />
Table 4 Dairy process<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>dustry structure<br />
Input Share Comment<br />
Capital 7% Includes Gross Marg<strong>in</strong><br />
Labour 7%<br />
Raw milk 66%<br />
Other <strong>in</strong>termediates 12% Other farm <strong>in</strong>puts<br />
Other imported <strong>in</strong>termediates 6% Mostly plastic – packag<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Marg<strong>in</strong>s 2% Retail<strong>in</strong>g and wholesal<strong>in</strong>g<br />
costs<br />
Source: NZIER<br />
Dairy’s <strong>role</strong> <strong>in</strong> generat<strong>in</strong>g growth<br />
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