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Westgold still bringing home gold

Both the salted and unsalted butters won gold.

Westland Milk Products (WMP) butter range is continuing to win awards.

Published in General News

RAT tests for FE on the horizon

MPI’s Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures fund will invest over $35,000 in a project with Tokaora Diagnostics to develop a prototype facial eczema (FE) rapid antigen test (RAT) and undertake field testing.

Published in Farm Health

Vintage 2023: Hawke's Bay and Gisborne

Sacred Hill's Riflemans Vineyard for harvest 2023.

Hawke's Bay and Gisborne winegrowers were hit hardest by Cyclone Gabrielle, capping off an inclement season already beset with disease pressure.

Published in General News

Vintage 2023: Northland and Waiheke

The 2023 harvest has been the toughest in Rod McIvor's 30-vintage career.

Published in Regional Updates

B+LNZ appoints first female chair

New Beef + Lamb NZ chair Kate Acland says it needs to keep fighting for sensible and practical policy settings.

Published in General News

Organic & Biodynamic Winegrowing Conference

When Bart Arnst dug into organics in Marlborough in 1996, the blooming interrow was a pretty lonely place.

Published in General News

Upcoming Events

Clyde Wine and Food Harvest Festival

Published in General News

Catchment project to better manage E. coli

The upper Nguturoa catchment, looking back to where it starts in the Tararua foothills.

DairyNZ says its collaborative project with the Nguturoa Catchment Group in the Manawatu aims to understand, model and manage E. coli in rural waterways.

Published in Management

New man on the case

Aaron Bett will take over the position of general manager Case IH Australia/New Zealand in early April.

Aaron Bett, current managing director for CNH Industrial Capital Australia/New Zealand, will take over the position of general manager, Case IH Australia/New Zealand, effective April 4.

Published in Machinery & Products