Flour milling in New Zealand: How today's industry evolved
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| Authors & editors | |
| Publisher | New Zealand Flour Millers Association Research Trust |
| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Languages | |
| Medium | Book |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN | 9780473319762 |
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| Scope & content | Publisher’s description: The New Zealand flour milling industry has an extraordinarily tumultuous history, with flour millers struggling with insufficient quality in the wheat crop and growers vigorously asserting their right to what they argued was a fair price for their wheat. This anecdotal account ... reviews the twists and turns of development in the industry form their beginnings in the late 19th century. It continues through the extraordinary 50-year period in the mid-20th century when governments wrested control to ensure Kiwi’s bread remained affordable, in the process creating a bureaucratic monster. Interwoven is the parallel attempt by the academic and state research sectors to improve the quality of wheatgrowers’ product, and its ultimately futile endeavours to develop wheat varieties for regions for which whet growing was not fully suited. |
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- Shelf location: O200-MCK
- Donor: Peter Allport
Divisions within this publication
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The First 150 years
- 3: First, Auckland
- 4: Flour Millers Association rides in
- 5: Part II. Government control: Anomalies abounding
- 6: Regulations imposed
- 7: Wheat breeding and research begins
- 8: The move to bulk handling
- 9: NRM flexes its muscles
- 10: Bake testing whole harvest
- 11: The Wheat Board
- 12: Wattie buys Wood Brothers
- 13: Wellington gets a mill again
- 14: Sorting out "…a bloody shambles"
- 15: Breeding in the North Island and the Karamu Saga
- 16: Pat Goodman ousts Alex Paterson
- 17: Training young millers
- 18: PVR changes the landscape
- 19: Competitions to boost growers' skills
- 20: Electronics come to Fort Street
- 21: Southland and sprouting
- 22: A broken system
- 23: The heavyweights speak their minds
- 24: High Noon
- 25: Board begins to buckle
- 26: Goodman reaches across the Tasman
- 27: Part III. Regulations lifted. Taking the road to reality
- 28: Wheat Board goes out in a storm
- 29: Protein testing comes to stay
- 30: The two big players merge
- 31: Locals fight to save Tiny Mill
- 32: The end of WRC and WRI
- 33: Growers and millers at last talking
- 34: Goodman Fielder unloads Wattie, takes defiance
- 35: Growers start own research group
- 36: Timaru rolls stop rolling
- 37: Shifting a huge mill 200 kilometres
- 38: Goodman Fielder wraps up rationalisation
- 39: More changes in state wheat breeding
- 40: Milling rises again in Timaru
- 41: The Industry today
- 42: Appendix 1 How wheat is milled
- 43: Appendix 2 In the lab
- 44: Bibliography
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