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OPINION: The UK dairy industry is celebrating a win after plant-based drink maker Oatly lost a long-running legal battle over its use of the word "milk" in its marketing.
Kiwi-made avocado milk has been named a winner at the World Food Innovation Awards 2020.
The milk took out gold in the awards’ best health or wellness drink category on Thursday night in London.
The ‘avocadomilk’ brand is the creation of New Zealand chef, Sachie Nomura.
The milk, said to be a world-first, is created out of avocadoes and oat milk in Hawke’s Bay.
The dairy-free milk “tastes like avocado” and “is good for you like avocado”, according to the avocadomilk website.
Avocadomilk says unlike avocadoes, the milk’s price stays stable and has a long shelf life of 10 months.
The milk is sold in 100 stores in the US, but it is not yet available in New Zealand.
New Zealand's diverse cheesemaking talent shone brightly last night as the New Zealand Specialist Cheesemakers Association (NZSCA) crowned the champions of the 2026 New Zealand Cheese Awards.
Tracing has indicated that the source of the first velvetleaf find of the 2025-26 crop season, in Auckland, was likely maize purchased in the Waikato region.
Fish & Game New Zealand has announced its election priorities in its Manifesto 2026.
With the forage maize harvest started in Northland and the Waikato, the Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) is telling growers of later crops, or those further south, to start checking their maize crop maturity about three weeks prior to when they think they will start silage harvesting.
Irrigation NZ is warning that the government's Resource Management Act (RMA) reform risks falling short of its objectives unless water use for food production and water storage infrastructure are clearly recognised in the goals at the top of the new system.
More than five million trays, or 18,000 tonnes, of Zespri’s RubyRed Kiwifruit will soon be available for consumers across 16 markets this season.

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