A new arable industry strategy aims to provide cropping farmers with the skills, quality assurance and infrastructure needed to achieve future growth and profitability.

Farming has many moving parts, but fundamental to a profitable pasture system in New Zealand is the need to grow and harvest homegrown feed.

Grosafe Group, based in Tauranga, has become part of Sipcam Oxon, a global plant protection organisation headquartered in Italy.

Now known as Sipcam New Zealand, it is headed by chief executive David MacGibbon, who says his team is excited about future opportunities in the wake of the change.

The New Zealand Grain and Seed Trade Association has become Seed and Grain NZ in a change it says better reflects what it does.

Local growth and rising demand for services have prompted FMG to open a new office in the heart of Ashburton.