Geoff Parker: Te Ao Māori Values – Now Apparently A Farming Superpower

According to the latest levy-and-government-funded burst of agricultural mysticism, New Zealand dairy farming has finally discovered the secret ingredient to producing milk: whakapapa workshops, cultural storytelling, and endless references to “relationships with the land.”

Apparently grass, water, fertiliser, hard work, genetics, and modern science were only part of the equation all along. The real breakthrough, we are told, is “Te Ao Māori values.”