Displaying items by tag: CORONAVIRUS
Italian innovation helps Zespri
Italian kiwifruit packhouses' experience in dealing with COVID-19 has helped New Zealand to fast-track innovation in its own packhouses to deal with stringent new safety regulations.
Mill grinds on in lockdown
COVID-19: The online future
COVID-19: Hort sector’s impressive response
HortNZ chair Barry O’Neill is impressed with the way the horticulture sector has worked collectively and positively on all the issues it has faced.
Greenpeace calls on Govt to back $1b regen ag fund
Breeder joins HFNZA board
The COVID-19 pandemic has effectively brought forward the appointment of Southland dairy farmer Helen Cummings to the national board of the Holstein Friesian NZ Association.
Fueling the global dairy industry
A team of bulls in the US has achieved ‘global essential worker’ status for its role in helping fuel the world’s dairy industry.
Quinoa growers urged to band together and take on the world
One of New Zealand’s very few quinoa growers is calling on his colleagues to band together to help market their product.
Fieldays reputation takes a battering
Since COVID-19 sent the country into lockdown, Fieldays has tried to re-group, but amid disquiet about its reluctance to refund deposits to cash-strapped agribusinesses, questions are being asked about its future.
NZ blackcurrant sales surge
A UK-based company, believed to be the single biggest exporter of New Zealand blackcurrant product, has seen “very strong” sales as consumers in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic seek healthy dietary supplements.