THE TRANS Tasman horticultural conference PMA Fresh Connections 2014 kicks off in Auckland this week, incorporating the Horticulture New Zealand conference.

Just as NZWinegrower magazine was going to print came the news of the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between New Zealand Winegrowers and Air New Zealand.

Acclaimed for the diversity of its wine styles, Hawke’s Bay can equally offer an array of reasons to explain mounting confidence in the future of its wine industry.  

Selling multiple pallets of a particular wine is great for any business, in reputation and cash-flow, but it does not automatically catapult a wine into cult status; there’s much more than a good sales record involved in that.

FONTERRA HAS announced two senior appointments to its management team.

SYNLAIT HAS appointed Mike Lee to the newly created role of general manager sales reporting to the managing director Dr John Penno.

CHINA, WITH Chile and Morocco, won recognition this week from FAO for outstanding progress in fighting hunger.

SEVEN COMPANIES joined New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) at the 12th World Dairy Expo and Summit in Xi'an, China, over the weekend.

WITH LANDCORP eyeing the potential of dairy sheep, the United States could be to our sheep industry what China is to dairy cattle, opening a bold new chapter for New Zealand's most numerous farmed animal.

PRICES WERE up again at today's North Island-only wool sale as the weather and an overall reduction in the clip constrained supply.