Rural
10:39am Wed 01 Aug, 2012
Mount Maunganui based farmer Colin Armer has resigned from the Board of New Zealand's biggest company Fonterra. Fonterra chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden released... Read More
10:19am Sat 28 Jul, 2012
Waikato's Young Farmer of the Year, Tim van de Molen is now Australasian Rural Youth Ambassador, beating competitors from throughout Australia to take the title. This... Read More
08:42am Thu 26 Jul, 2012
Former Kiwifruit Vine Health general manager John Burke is Seeka Kiwifruit Industries' new chairman, following the departure of Kim Ellis. It is reported Kim left... Read More
08:15am Thu 26 Jul, 2012
As growers throughout the Bay of Plenty pin their hopes on a new more Psa-V tolerant kiwifruit, Prime Minister John Key has sampled the new fruit to be marketed... Read More
05:00pm Wed 25 Jul, 2012
Te Puke grower Joel Wanhill impressed judges at the national Young Grower of the Year Awards in Auckland last night. The 24-year-old Bay of Plenty Young Fruit Grower... Read More
09:24am Wed 25 Jul, 2012
If New Zealand's fruit and vegetable growers are `ill-informed' about New Zealand's bio-security it is because the Ministry for Primary Industries is not keeping... Read More
09:48am Tue 24 Jul, 2012
Bay of Plenty's Young Fruit Grower of the Year Joel Wanhill is heading to Auckland this week to compete for the National Young Grower of the Year title. The 24-year-old... Read More
01:04pm Sun 22 Jul, 2012
It is the fruit which launched New Zealand's most successful horticultural industry and in its day had a reputation for glamour and novelty but the green, hairy... Read More
04:18pm Sat 21 Jul, 2012
The grafting of more than 2000 hectares of kiwifruit vines to new varieties this winter will result in a drop in crop volumes, but as those new cultivars come into... Read More
09:28am Fri 20 Jul, 2012
The vine-killing bacteria Psa may one day be `just another' disease on kiwifruit orchards and not the destructive infection it is today, Zespri CEO Lain Jager told... Read More
01:48pm Thu 19 Jul, 2012
A former Zespri director, who has admitted illegally injecting his vines with the antibiotic streptomycin, failed in his bid for re-election to the board at yesterday's... Read More
04:19pm Sat 14 Jul, 2012
Kiwifruit growers have been arriving at a Tauranga facility to collect their quota of more than two million pieces of budwood to be grafted onto vines this winter... Read More
04-Nov 18:00
BOP fisherman receives international recognition
04-Nov 16:25
Tauranga hit-and-run accused removed from court
04-Nov 16:00
Little girl's wish tops Katikati tree with star
04-Nov 11:45
More than 1400 hurt by fireworks in five years
04-Nov 11:00
Public art symposium seeks volunteers
04-Nov 10:00
Major Maketū culvert upgrade to start this month
04-Nov 08:04
Nangs-fuelled drive ends in home detention
04-Nov 07:00
Mum grows thriving food forest in Tauranga
04-Nov 06:00
Kiwifruit boom fuels Bay of Plenty land rush
03-Nov 18:00
Exports to Australia ease avocado glut
03-Nov 16:20
Man in custody after alleged hit-and-run
03-Nov 14:05
Te Puke artists put their creativity on show
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