Given this is the 100th issue of New Zealand Winegrower magazine, it seemed timely to bring out the crystal ball and consider just where the industry is likely to be by the time we produce our 200th issue.

Horticulture and viticulture are, together, New Zealand’s fourth-largest export industry.

Despite the terrible weather, and thanks to marquees still available from the recent Canterbury A&P Show, the Synlait Boys and Girls Agricultural Club Championship Day was held yesterday (Thursday, November 17) at ASB Agricultural Park.

A disease which is devastating trees in the Western United States and Europe is a major threat to New Zealand plantations and ornamental trees, should it ever arrive here.

Interactions between agriculture and the environment have rarely been so much in the face of the public, and finding a path for the future is proving challenging.

A husband-and-wife “super team” has secured the title of the Lincoln University Foundation’s South Island Farmer of the Year at the 2016 finals held tonight (Wednesday 16 November).

I have lived in and around Wellington all my life and I have never experienced an earthquake as big and as frightening as this latest one.

Stick to your knitting and fine-tune what you do, advises Beef + Lamb NZ chairman James Parsons, for farmers to get through the next year, with forecasts down for lamb, beef and wool.

Show stalwart Harry Prescott-Ballagh started successfully at the Canterbury A&P Show, his 16-month-old Beal of Abberley bull winning the Champion and Supreme of Breed ribbons on the first day.

Irrigating farmers need to take care as they turn infrastructure back on following Monday’s devastating earthquakes.