Vital trade paperwork giving our plant and timber exports access to overseas markets is about to get much more expensive, and the only unknown at this stage is if the hit will be short and sharp, or slow and gradual.

Gallagher Animal Management has appointed senior insider Hamish Wiig as a non-executive director to the boards of Goodnature and Farmote Technologies.

The application of crop protection and growth enhancement additives to seed is a very effective and well-established method of protecting forage crops and pasture during the critical plant establishment period.

Seed and Grain New Zealand (SGNZ) and the Australian Seed Federation (ASF) have successfully co-hosted the inaugural trans-Tasman Seed Business 2025 conference in Christchurch, bringing together the seed industries of both countries for four days of events.

As part of Greenlea Premier Meats’ continued focus on growth and leadership development, long-time team member Aaron Craig has been appointed general manager of Greenlea Premier Meats.

A landmark trial in Southland has confirmed what many farmers have long suspected – strategic spring nitrogen not only boosts pasture growth, but delivers measurable gains in lamb growth and ewe condition.

Ravensdown South Island shareholders have voted Jane Smith to the co-op’s board for a three-year term.

Industry has recognised and is addressing an advisory system bias impacting on how crop protection knowledge is extended to growers, New Zealand’s largest farm supplier says.

Early in 2025, Vegetables NZ and Syngenta Crop Protection NZ initiated a trial to evaluate performance of Durivo insecticide applied by multiple methods, compared to an untreated control.

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.