2+ week, 6+ day ago   (942+ words) Richard Dawkins, Federated Farmers pest management spokesperson, says individual farmers are already doing plenty, but their efforts are being undermined by pests reinvading from neighbouring land. "We've spent years trying to tackle this species by species and property by property....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (356+ words) Melissa Tripe knows what a downturn feels like. In the mid-1980s, when she was 12 years old, her parents pulled out their Müller-Thurgau vines as oversupply and high interest rates plagued New Zealand's wine industry. Forty years on, as winegrowers grapple with…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (522+ words) Presented annually by Holstein Friesian New Zealand, the Mahoe Trophy recognises the top New Zealand-bred Holstein Friesian sire based on a combination of production, conformation, management and daughter performance traits. Tronnoco AR Sadio-ET S3F achieved the highest overall score of 385 points…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (633+ words) She says ‘fork to farm’ is the way to go, meaning that producers and manufacturers should be tailoring what they grow to the ever changing and sometimes fickle future food preferences of consumers. Achariya says clinging to the old farm…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (436+ words) Lynnette Hudson's 30-year obsession with Pinot Noir was sparked working vintage in Burgundy, seeing how subtle changes in terroir were expressed in the glass. It was, she says, "an elightening moment in every way". That obsession was fuelled over two…...