Campaign Urges Growers to Plan Ahead on Resistance
Growers and farmers are being encouraged to have an important conversation before the coming season starts: how to prolong the effectiveness of the crop protection tools they rely on.
THE TRANS Tasman horticultural conference PMA Fresh Connections 2014 kicks off in Auckland this week, incorporating the Horticulture New Zealand conference.
More than 1000 delegates from Australia and New Zealand will attend the 3-day conference which starts in Auckland this morning with the vegetable industry's product group meetings at the Viaduct Events Centre.
The networking, educational and business building event is for the entire fresh fruit, vegetable and floral supply chain across Auckland and New Zealand.
The conference is being held in New Zealand for the first time but is run annually in the Australasian region by the Produce Marketing Association Australia-New Zealand (PMA A-NZ).
It is based on the highly successful Fresh Connections events run by PMA in the United States and around the globe.
The Auckland conference has the theme of Innovate. Collaborate. Thrive.
Representatives are expected from Bolivia, Canada, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Norway, China and the United States – about double the number of countries from last year.
Potatoes New Zealand has congratulated Peter Reynolds of TA Reynolds Ltd in Pukekohe on being awarded the Horticulture New Zealand Bledisloe Cup, recognising a lifetime of service and contribution to New Zealand horticulture.
Signing up to a benchmarking tool is not about competition, but about improving collectively, says Ximena Puig and Alvaro Luzardo who are 50-50 sharemilkers at a 164-hectare (effective) dairy farm in Eketāhuna in the Lower North Island.
A leading British farming politician says he's impressed with the positive attitude of New Zealand farmers that he met during his recent trip here.
OPINION: With 10,500 dairy farms, New Zealand continues to punch above its weight around the world.
The Southern Dairy Hub (SDH), which runs a demonstration farm for South Island farmers, has a new general manager.
Esther Guy-Meakin has been announced as the new chief executive of the New Zealand Meat Board (NZMB).

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