If your dairy farmers have been talking about emissions intensity lately, spring is a great opportunity to advance that discussion with practical steps to help get their numbers down.

Bakers, breakfast cereal makers and plant-based milk manufacturers are already eyeing up the arable industry’s new home-grown logo to help consumers choose products made from local grain.

With the economic forecast for the red meat sector predicting ongoing record prices for the 2025/2026 season, every lamb born this spring is an opportunity to make money.

Bremworth’s $6 million factory rebuild near Napier is a win not only for the company itself, but for the city and New Zealand manufacturing as a whole, says CEO Craig Woolford.

Business vehicle leasing specialist FleetPartners has launched a new calculator and car selector tool so business owners and fleet managers can browse, compare and view the estimated lease cost of hundreds of vehicles online.

PGG Wrightson has paid $20 million for Auckland-based drench maker Nexan Group, bringing it fully in house after years of close co-operation via exclusive distributorship through Agritrade.

One of New Zealand’s leading crop protection suppliers has lived up to a reputation of fostering its own talent with not one but two senior internal promotions recently.

Miravis Flexi, a fourth-generation SDHI (Group 7) fungicide powered by the active ingredient Adepidyn technology, gained registration in New Zealand in March 2024 and was widely adopted in the barley market last season.

Customers looking for ways to control a range of broadleaf weeds in straight ryegrass, or mixed plantain ryegrass pastures, can now utilise selective herbicide Kamba 750 from Nufarm, thanks to a new label extension approved in July.

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Ballance Agri-Nutrients is staying tight-lipped on plans for Kapuni after last month flagging a possible shutdown of the urea plant because of high gas prices.

Forage crops have long played a role in maintaining summer production and reducing health issues linked to wild type endophyte and facial eczema.

New Zealand’s Plant Variety Rights (PVR) scheme, which protects the intellectual property behind dozens of species driving our $57 billion primary sector, costs more than twice as much to run as it earns in fees from plant breeders.

Onside has launched an industry-first digital platform to revolutionise shared safety management across agriculture supply chains in Australia and New Zealand.

When bird netting became part of the problem instead of the solution, one determined kiwifruit grower turned to cutting-edge laser bird control technology — and reclaimed control over his orchard.

Cydectin Pour-On is a widely trusted worm and lice treatment for cattle, offering effective control against a broad spectrum of internal and external parasites. Its active ingredient, moxidectin, is a member of the macrocyclic lactone family, renowned for its potency and extended action.

A new processing model developed by one of New Zealand’s largest apple exporters is reducing the time between harvest and packing by a quarter, boosting fruit quality and shelf life for millions of consumers in Asia and the Middle East while significantly cutting waste.

Global R&D companies, the ones developing new tools to power the primary sector, are circling overhead, waiting to land innovation.

Bumper growth from a new kale has impressed both two and four-legged judges in mid-Canterbury this season.

The Environmental Protection Authority has approved a fungicide with a new active ingredient that controls blackspot and powdery mildew on apples and pears, and botrytis on grapes.