Innovation, Best Practice and Sustainability in New Zealand’s Primary Sector
Episode 8 2024 Promo
The benefits of robotic milking for a dairy farming couple.
Evaluating the impacts of deferred grazing on hill country pastures.
Dragon fruit varieties developed for growing international markets.
Subterranean clover management on a dryland hill country station
Adding blueberry production to an apple operation in Hawke's Bay
Series 14 Episode 12 Promo
Plant & Food Research lead a bio-assault on the apple pest, codling moth
Creating more sustainable use of water and power on vineyards at SWE
A visit to a boutique wine company
Series 14 Episode 11 Promo
Searching for an effective biocontrol for the Tomato Potato Psyllid in glasshouses
A visit to Stonyhurst in North Canterbury - an historic farm with its eye on the future
How a passion for truffles led to a new enterprise at Limestone Hills
Series 14 Episode 10 Promo
Creating a high value sustainable sheep dairy industry in New Zealand
A visit to the largest certified organic vineyard in the country
Growing and processing gourmet poultry in Canterbury
Series 14 Episode 9 Promo
Scion research to reduce the use of oil-based plastics in the wine industry
Meeting the environmental and economic challenges of farming hill country in Hawke's Bay
A potential new use for milk protein
Series 14 Episode 8 Promo
Increasing yield and reducing disease in potatoes with mesh covers
Containing the spread of catfish in our waterways
The challenges of increasing the numbers of leafcutting bees, super-pollinators of lucerne and other crops
Series 14 Episode 7 Promo
Searching for the genetic markers for the structure of wool at AgResearch
A visit to a sheep station-turned conservation classroom in Hawke's Bay
Discovering the many uses of Miscanthus grass at Lincoln University
Series 14 Episode 6 Promo
Identifying the causes of variability in onion crops at the Centre for Land and Water's MicroFarm in Hastings
A new sheep dairy operation at Waikino Station is producing milk for Maui Milk and new genetics for the dairy sheep industry in New Zealand
Series 14 Episode 5 Promo
The science behind the development of a new nitrate detection tool
How biosecurity is being placed in the centre of operations at the Port of Tauranga
Design Spun is only one of three worsted wool yarn manufacturing mills in Australasia
Series 14 Episode 4 Promo
Series 14 Episode 3 Promo
New technology reduces nitrogen losses from dairy farms
A young couple building a career in dairying for a Maori Incorporation in Canterbury
A business based on the by-products of animal processing buys a farm for a Hawke's Bay businesswoman
Future-proofing through automation in a pine seedling nursery
Dairy farmer Kevin Davidson has taken a biological approach to his farm system