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It's been the accumulation of a whole lot of adverse weather events that's been the real problem - not just Cyclone Gabrielle.

Murray McPhail, founder and director of LeaderBrand, has been named a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to horticulture and the Gisborne region in the 2023 King’s Birthday Honours List.

Taylor Leabourn, a 28-year-old agronomist at LeaderBrand, has been named the 2023 Pukekohe Young Grower of the Year.

"It's all about clawing our way back from a pretty ugly position of a week ago.”

HortNZ chair Barry O'Neil believes there is a huge opportunity for growing vegetable crops under cover - similar to what the large commercial grower Leaderbrand is doing in Gisborne.

One of the country’s leading commercial vegetable growers says there are a lot of positives happening in the sector and it needs to get these out to the public.

On the outskirts of Gisborne a huge new greenhouse is being erected, complete with its own water supply, to potentially help make the town the 'salad capital of NZ'. Peter Burke explains.

A leading horticulturist is questioning whether enough is being done to infrastructure in NZ to keep pace with the expansion of agriculture in all its forms.

Maninder Singh from LeaderBrand, has taken out the title of Gisborne Young Grower of the Year for 2022.

One of the big issues relating to the current supply of fresh vegetables has been the weather.