6 April 2022
Online supermarket, Supie, has gone from strength to strength in the nine months since it was launched, and has even bigger plans for the future.
Though some regions are facing challenges from pests and disease, there are hopes that New Zealand's much-loved feijoas will become a big part of the food processing sector. By Kristine Walsh.
Hot, dry summers and mild winters are putting extra pressure on the country’s tamarillo growers as Tomato Potato Psyllid (TPP) populations thrive. Helena O’Neill talks with Robyn Wickenden.
Asha Chhagan was so intrigued by biology that when it came to deciding what to specialise in for her master’s degree, she couldn’t decide between birds or insects.
31 March 2022
Biosecurity New Zealand has confirmed that a single fall armyworm egg mass has been found in Tauranga. Fall Armyworm is an invasive pest that has been spreading rapidly around the world.
30 March 2022
Many of the late John Wilton’s articles were about looking forward to the next orchard management phase and how to best prepare for it using the information collected during harvest.
Allie Telfer knows exactly where she would have been without the Springboard Community Works programme mentoring and encouraging her into a future in horticulture.
Working with the variabilities of the natural environment to produce high-quality food for the world is among the reasons the horticultural industry is the career of choice for Melissa Bennett.
23 March 2022
Update: Michelle Sands, strategy and policy manager. When it comes to the challenge of climate change, we are all in this together: the primary sector and wider economy, rural and urban communities.
From midnight this Friday 25 March, the traffic light settings will be simplified with many restrictions and requirements being lifted.
