Dairy Link provides independent, evidence-based dairy advisory services to support informed decision-making across complex production, market and
investment environments.
Engagements are undertaken on a confidential basis and are tailored to the specific context and requirements of each client.
Dairy Link has a 15-year history of specialising in dairy sector insight and analysis for New Zealand, Australia, and Southeast Asia. Dairy Link maintains a comprehensive and consistent series of published and proprietary data providing independent dairy sector situation and outlook analysis covering trends in production, consumption and associated trade flows. Dairy Link has assisted multiple clients across both public and private sectors to make well-informed strategic policy and investment decisions.
Global Insight: Dairy Link has enjoyed a long-term association with Geneva-based strategic food consultancy Gira, which hosts the annual Gira Dairy Club (GDC). This world-leading programme provides the most extensive qualitative and quantitative dairy forecasting base, identifying the issues influencing global milk supply and dairy commodities trade over the short and medium term. Gira provides comprehensive insights into what’s moving where worldwide and why, through its annual consolidation of analysis of 42 major dairy-producing and consuming countries.
Dairy Link provides objective advice to support major acquisitions, capital deployment and technology decisions affecting dairy farming enterprises. Dairy Link has served clients in both strategic and detailed investment and due diligence for farming businesses in New Zealand and tropical Asia, and has reviewed and advised on multiple assistance programmes for donor organisations.
Dairy Link does not sell, source or represent products or vendors. Advisory services are experienced, independent assessments of appropriate farming systems and operational delivery of outcomes. Recommendations are tailored to local conditions and to align with capital investment constraints, operating objectives and capability, as well as long-term performance expectations.
Dairy Link advises clients on farming investments across New Zealand and Asia. its founder, Earl Rattray
is also an active investor in multiple dairy farming companies. Current interests include shareholdings in one of New Zealand's largest pastoral farming businesses, with its subsidiaries in the USA, and in Chile’s s largest dairy farming company.
Earl is also a founding shareholder of Binsar Farms Pvt Ltd, a pioneering New Zealand/Indian dairy farming and Direct-to-Home dairy marketing venture. Binsar highlights a successful blending of appropriate technology transfer from New Zealand into a rapidly evolving tropical/confinement dairy model with lasting positive results.
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