6 May 2021
The potential for New Zealand to add high-value emerging protein products to its list of international export success stories requires nationwide collaboration, according to a new report.
6 May 2021
Usually the preferred beverage for urban hipsters, kombucha may have a new use on the farm, with AgResearch scientists discovering its fermentable properties lend themselves well to making dairy effluent less toxic, if not drinkable. Richard Rennie reports.
5 May 2021
There appears to be little consumer appetite for buying carbon-neutral red meat, but a researcher says that could change and New Zealand must be ready to respond.
5 May 2021
New Zealand’s Exchange and S&P Dow Jones have launched carbon-efficient versions of the benchmark NZX 50 Index, designed to incentivise companies to reduce emissions.
4 May 2021
Together with his sharemilkers Theo and Martin Sneek and their staff, Geoff Spark runs a 460ha dairy operation near Oxford. He’s a third-generation farmer and grew up on the family farm in Rangiora, which the family’s still farming after 55 years.
4 May 2021
Farmers and growers around New Zealand looking for rain should dig in for an extended dry period, with little prospect of a shift in weather patterns on the horizon.
3 May 2021
Demand for agricultural machinery and equipment has kicked 2021 off to a fantastic start, the Tractor and Machinery Association of New Zealand (TAMA) says.
3 May 2021
Garry Diack will replace Greg Campbell as chief executive of Ravensdown.
3 May 2021
The tension between New Zealand and China on human rights and other issues of principles “need not derail” relations between the two countries but “there can be no guarantees”, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.
3 May 2021
The release of a Government initiated online tool to help farmers manage intensive winter grazing may create confusion, a primary sector group fears.
