The Organic & Biodynamic Winegrowing Conference brought together local and international experts to explore themes of soil, water, biodiversity and regenerative systems. Emma Jenkins MW shares some of the science, insights and passion from June's three-day gathering in Blenheim.

If you find a new consumer in a developed wine market, you are taking them from someone else, says Blank Canvas co-founder Sophie Parker-Thomson MW.

With adverse weather set to rain down on the Top of the South, the Bay of Plenty and parts of Northland, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says farmers, foresters, and growers need to prepare for possible challenges.

Grape growers who failed to sell their crop this year will be considering their options for vintage 2026, says WK Blenheim director Hamish Morrow.

Treat your farm boundary like a border. This was one of the messages delivered to farmers at a recent Beef + Lamb New Zealand Protect Your Patch workshop in Lincoln.

From nitrogen limits to ecosystem restoration –farmers and catchment groups are leading a new wave of environmental care, says DairyNZ.

OPINION: The Rural Support Trust ran a dinner and debate at the National Fieldays last month. In tables of 10, over 540 people were wined and dined, including the Prime Minister, supported by ministers from around the country.

Marisco Vineyards founder Brent Marris notes that when the 2008 global financial crisis hit, The Ned brand was very young, so succumbed to downward price pressure to secure sales volumes.

The large 2025 harvest will exacerbate the wine industry's "lingering" supply from recent vintages, New Zealand Winegrowers Chief Executive Philip Gregan told attendees at Grape Days events around the country in June.

The global wine industry is experiencing its first “demand-based correction” after three decades of sustained growth, according to the Silicon Valley Bank’s State of the Wine Industry Report 2025.