Displaying items by tag: horticulture

Thursday, 16 May 2019 11:20

Successful salad story

Ready-to-eat salads are proving a hit with the leading horticultural producer LeaderBrand Produce Ltd.

Published in General News
Thursday, 09 May 2019 10:12

Is robotic harvesting the future?

Ngāi Tahu Farming is trialling two different trellis systems installed with an eye to eventual robotic harvesting.

Published in General News

Ngāi Tahu Farming’s plans to diversify into horticulture are surging ahead on the strength of excellent results from a trial orchard near Culverden, North Canterbury.

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Wednesday, 08 May 2019 09:02

Hort boosts farm syndicate’s result

An aggregate 10% cash return during 2018-19 is shown in the first full year financial results of MyFarm’s horticultural and commercial rural property syndicates.

Published in General News
Wednesday, 08 May 2019 08:22

Big hort conference agenda

The programme for Hort Connections 2019 has been released for the 3200 people expected at the ‘Growing our food future’ conference in Australia in late June.

Published in General News
Tuesday, 23 April 2019 10:55

Grower urges people to eat their veges

A big Canterbury vegetable grower is hoping people’s buying patterns get back to normal and quickly after the upheavals of the last couple of weeks.

Published in General News
Friday, 15 March 2019 10:31

High-tech spraying for orchards

FMR Group has turned its attention to the orchard industry with its new O-Series.

Published in General News
Tuesday, 05 March 2019 09:40

Labour pains rack growers

Horticulture's biggest challenge is the lack of people prepared to work in the industry, says Ben James, the president of Hawkes Bay Fruit Growers Association.

Published in General News
Thursday, 07 February 2019 13:45

Aiming to be the pick of the crop

A new horticulture recruitment and training cooperative has started in Te Puke, aiming to smooth the supply of workers to orchards.

Published in General News
Tuesday, 15 January 2019 10:55

Rush for a slice of the cherry pie

MyFarm has bought a 96ha property in Central Otago for its first cherry development.

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