Flooding and fresh produce food safety
22 June 2022, NZ: New Zealand has experienced severe weather resulting in flooding in many parts of the country over the
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Great mandarin season
21 June 2022, NZ: A great growing season this year has resulted in an early mandarin crop with high yields and
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Plants can help reduce emissions and chemical use
01 June 2022, NZ: Seeds for flowers to feed beneficial insects, for plants which help regenerate the soil, and for green
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HortNZ welcomes Government moves to improve supermarket sector performance
31 May 2022, New Zealand: Horticulture New Zealand has welcomed the Government’s decisions following the Commerce Commission’s supermarket review recommendations. ‘New
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Maatu Akonga wins 2022 Hawke’s Bay Young Fruit Grower competition
30 May 2022, New Zealand: Maatu vied against six other contestants in a series of theoretical and practical modules designed to exercise
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Flexible working conditions enhance industry’s appeal
25 May 2022, NZ: More flexible working conditions implemented by many in the horticultural industry during the Covid-19 pandemic are
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Gisborne growers hit by trio of massive rain events
11 May 2022, NZ: It rain, it rained again, and then it rained some more. Gisborne growers are counting the cost of
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Is fluorescence an answer to diagnosing plant stress?
04 May 2022, NZ: Kiwifruit vines on some Bay of Plenty orchards are under intense scrutiny from above and below
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Managing the plant pest fall armyworm
03 May 2022, NZ: Last month, Biosecurity New Zealand confirmed that a single fall armyworm egg mass has been found
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Stepping on the scales
29 April 2022, NZ: Jamiee Burns, the operations director of J R’s Orchards, likens working out their annual agricultural greenhouse gas
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