13 September 2019
Zespri's first payment forecast for the 2019-20 season puts SunGold kiwifruit growers firmly in the six figure a hectare earnings category with returns falling firmly in the top end of the range predicted in June.
11 September 2019
With the new avocado season starting exporters are continuing to work on building penetration into the Chinese market after last year’s first shipment success.
28 August 2019
Apple sizes might have been smaller after a difficult growing season but Scales Corporation has a bumper balance sheet after a busy time of deal-making.
27 August 2019
Continuing sales of Northland kiwifruit orchards and income from sales of Australia orchards will reduce Seeka’s debts to more conservative levels, the directors say.
14 August 2019
New policies and standards could protect the most fertile and versatile land as soon as next year.
14 August 2019
Far North iwi Te Rarawa has spent a substantial but undisclosed sum buying the Bell’s Produce horticulture business near Kaitaia.
13 August 2019
Two scientists on opposite sides of the world are at the forefront of the battle to keep some of the most insidious, damaging pests at bay from valuable food crops. This summer in northern Italy they are working closely in an effort to try to stymie the spread of the voracious brown marmorated stink bug there and keep it out of New Zealand entirely. Richard Rennie spoke to Professors Claudio Ioriatti of Foundazione Edmund Mach and Max Suckling of New Zealand’s Plant and Food Research and University of Auckland about their battle with bugs across the hemispheres.
12 August 2019
Difficult weather has affected T and G Global’s pipfruit business.
1 August 2019
Major avocado, kiwifruit and berry fruit developments in the north signal strong confidence in horticulture and point the way for Northland iwi investments from Treaty of Waitangi settlements.
1 August 2019
Hydrophonic growing of berry fruit is to be expanded and a centre for skills education and employment developed at Maungatapere, near Whangarei, with a $2.37 million loan from the Provincial Growth Fund.
