10 May 2018
Getting more workers from overseas might be part but not the entire solution for a labour-strapped kiwifruit sector as it grapples with growing crop volumes and an unprecedented lack of pickers for this year’s crop.
7 May 2018
New Zealand’s pint-sized cluster of hop growers is expanding to cater for craft beer demand.
4 May 2018
A biosecurity intelligence team within government will be a good idea if it can provide earlier warning of biosecurity risks, Horticulture New Zealand chief executive Mike Chapman says.
1 May 2018
Four candidates will vie for two positions on the Horticulture New Zealand Board.
26 April 2018
New Zealand tamarillos have featured at a prestigious New York food awards, being judged best new product in the salad dressing category.
24 April 2018
With more than 2000 years of Chinese use as a tonic and medicine ginseng is a herb familiar to the world’s fastest-growing consumer market, one increasingly seeking traditional therapies and tonics for a growing list of modern ailments.
24 April 2018
Massey University researchers are now well down the path to better understanding what it is in ginseng that bestows health-giving properties on it.
23 April 2018
T and G Global will sell its Kerikeri-based kiwifruit orchards, packhouse facilities and assets to Seeka, New Zealand’s biggest kiwifruit grower, in a deal worth about $40 million.
11 April 2018
Seeka chief executive Michael Franks describes the move to exit from Zespri share ownership as a more efficient use of shareholders’ funds, enabling the company to lower debt and continue to expand its post-harvest operations.
11 April 2018
Industry and government agencies are planning a pre-emptive strike on the brown marmorated stink bug.
