New Zealand’s citrus industry recently gathered to celebrate excellence, innovation, and leadership at the inaugural Citrus NZ Industry Awards.

A new precision horticulture tool that guides fruit thinning workers with more accuracy has the potential to reduce unnecessary fruit losses and save New Zealand orchardists thousands of dollars in labour costs.

If your farmers are trying to work out which pasture cultivars represent best value for sowing this season, it’s time to point them to the latest National Forage Variety Trial results.

PGG Wrightson has renewed its partnership with Land Search and Rescue New Zealand, sponsoring it for another three years.

The Kapuni gas to urea plant in Taranaki, operated by Ballance Agri-Nutrients, will continue operating until 31 December after short-term gas supply was secured in September.

Nearly 50 years ago, Stu Stokes was introduced to deer farming by his father Bruce, and it’s fair to say the passion stuck.

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.