Kiwifruit growers are celebrating a trifecta of industry milestones next month.
Zespri, in collaboration with ANL/CMA CGM, has initiated a feasibility study to investigate the potential for a low-emissions shipping corridor from Tauranga to Zeebrugge, Belgium, through the Panama Canal.
Spring is the perfect time to re-set your eating habits and colourful in-season fruit and vegetables are the key to success, offering unbeatable value.
An initiative that supports networking and career progression of women in horticulture has received state funding.
Three leaders of Horticulture New Zealand (HortNZ) were honoured for their services at its annual conference and gala dinner last week.
Snack-size apple producer Rockit Global Ltd has appointed Grant McBeath as its new chief executive officer.
One of the country’s two largest supermarket chains is reporting that for the first time since the disruption of Covid, they have largely full supply on almost all fruit and vegetables grown locally.
Zespri has released its first full forecast for the 2024/25 season with per hectare returns up from last season for all categories, reaching record levels for Green and Organic Green varieties.
Work together and used the diversity of the horticulture sector to your advantage.
A digital campaign urging New Zealanders to show their support for fruit and vegetable growers has been launched.
For the second year in a row a horticultural enterprise has taken out the Supreme Award in the Auckland Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA).
New Zealand Avocado chief executive Brad Siebert says avocado growers are facing increasing cost pressure across all areas of their business.
Cider Apples New Zealand Limited has released a detailed 'roadmap' report that investigates how a premium cider industry could be developed in New Zealand.
The varieties of parsnips the Motts grow is dictated by what the buyer and consumer want, says Amy Mott.
The supermarkets say they want them straight and white and that's exactly how the Motts family grow their parsnips at Korioi near Ohakune.
As New Zealand's avocado growers struggle to stay afloat after three years of plummeting Hass prices, a new hero emerges in the form of the GEM™ avocado.
Could blemish-free fruit and vegetables be a thing of the past?
The horticulture sector is going through a very ambitious growth phase and the Government wants to see it grow.
The fight for global customers by fruit producers and marketers is on.
Food and vegetable grower and marketer T&G Global has trimmed its half-year losses compared to last year, as it makes progress delivering its strategy and continues to recover from the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle.
Horticulture New Zealand says that while it welcomes plans to extend planning permissions for post-cyclone rural recovery work in Hawke’s Bay, Tairāwhiti Gisborne needs to be included in that work.
In a ceremony held last week at Plant & Food Research in Lincoln, Horticulture Minister Nicola Grigg launched the Sustainable Vegetable Systems (SVS) Tool.
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