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Be ready to be nimble. That's the message to New Zealand primary exporters from international trade expert, company director and farmer Mike Petersen.

OPINION: Your old mate reckons a wake-up call is overdue for the platoons of non-productive (and now unemployed) bureaucrats, researchers and various other bludgers whingeing about the current government putting out the bonfire of taxpayer money that burned so brightly in recent years.

The world is now amid potentially one of the most disruptive periods in world trade for a very long time.

Alliance Group has secured greater access for chilled beef exports into China following approval of its Levin and Mataura plants to supply that market. With its first load of beef from Levin clearing Chinese customs in early January and a shipment from Mataura recently arriving in China, journalist Leo Argent talked to Alliance general manager safety and processing Wayne Shaw.

Alliance Group says it has secured greater access for chilled beef exports to China, following the approval for two of its processing plants to supply the market.

The ongoing rise of the Chinese middle class will drag up demand for New Zealand products there in the future.

Fonterra has introduced a new UHT bakery cream for its booming foodservice business in China.

Chinese buyers are returning in force to replenish stocks and helping send global dairy prices higher.

The a2 Milk Company (a2MC) says securing more China label registrations and developing its own nutritional manufacturing capability are high on its agenda.

OPINION: The New Zealand red meat sector, with support from the Government, has upped the ante to retain and expand its niche in the valuable Chinese market - and the signs are looking positive.