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How kiwifruit growers coped with Covid
NZ Kiwifruit Growers Incorporated’s (NZKGI) chief executive Nikki Johnson says growers came through the past season reasonably well.
International contacts helped NZ packhouse
The experience of PSA – and the way Italy and China dealt with Covid-19 – shaped how Trevelyans Packhouse proactively manages their way through the Covid pandemic.
Taming Covid!
The horticulture industry has come out of the Covid-19 lockdown more resilient and with better people management skills.
Action groups carry on-line
Red Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP) Action Group facilitator John Stantiall was unsure, at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown, how meetings could work.
Carbon crunching
Becoming Neudorf’s General Manager two weeks before the Covid-19 lockdown seems like “a pretty good hospital pass”, says Todd Stevens, acknowledging a few grey hairs from vintage 2020.
Pig sector joins the chorus
Pig farmers have joined a growing chorus in the primary sector calling on the Government to urgently review its migrant worker policies in the wake of Covid-19.
BVD stealing profit, hitting herd health
A disease equally infectious to Mycoplasma bovis and Covid-19 is threatening farm profitability and livestock health.
Let’s go dairying! — Editorial
OPINION: GoDairy is another example of the NZ agri sector spearheading the country’s journey through Covid-19.
Hort raring to go
Horticulture New Zealand says the findings of the survey confirm that the sector will help drive New Zealand’s post-Covid recovery.
Primary sector confidence re-emerges — bank survey
While most of New Zealand’s economy has taken a hit in the wake of Covid-19, the country’s primary sector has had a resurgence of confidence.