Farming

Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters was in Bluff today announcing an $8 million loan from the Provincial Growth Fund for a new salmon hatchery for Sanford Limited. The Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) hatchery will be built in the Bluff area.  It will be designed to produce six million Chinoo

Alliance Group is to invest $3.2 million to further upgrade its Lorneville plant near Invercargill as it seeks to improve the operational efficiency of the co-operative’s largest site. The plant’s Engine Room Two provides key refrigeration for four cold stores, some blast freezers and several produc

A potentially revolutionary vertical growing system is the centrepiece of a $3.3 million Provincial Growth Fund-driven expansion for Drysdale Hydroponics – with 30 new jobs set to be created. Angela Beazer and partner Craig Macalister have operated Southern Hydroponics, which trades as Drysdale Hydr

Fonterra Chairman John Monaghan says the narrowing of the 2019/20 milk price toward the lower end of the previous range is the result of a strengthening New Zealand dollar versus the US dollar over the past two months. The Co-operative will announce the final 2019/20 Farmgate Milk Price as part of i

Southern Institute of Technology’s (SIT) agricultural faculty Telford has a long-held tradition of running Taster Camps for students thinking of training there for a career in agriculture. Due to unprecedented job losses through the Covid-19 lockdown, Telford is running a series of three-day Taster

The government has launched a plan to boost primary sector export earnings by $44 billion over the next decade. It said the plan was focused on unlocking greater value for a sector which is vital to New Zealand’s economic recovery post Covid-19. The report is a follow up to a strategy unveiled in De

The National Agricultural Fieldays was officially opened online today (Mon) , replacing its usual opening event, normally held at Mystery Creek near Hamilton. The event, which attracted 130,000 people last year, was due to start in June but was postponed as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak. New Zea

Low methane appears to be a breedable trait that does not affect economic value in sheep, and could lead to a cumulative 1 percent reduction in emissions each year, farmers have been told. AgResearch scientist Suzanne Rowe told a webinar organised by the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Resea