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The development behind Zespri’s RubyRed kiwifruit for domestic and world markets.

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New Zealand’s first B Corp certified wine brand.

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A business based on a traditional food preparation method.

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Romney NZ Ltd

Sat 03 May 2008

Romney New Zealand is out to help the breed reclaim the centre stage in the sheep industry. Among the measures adopted is a new venture...
May 2008
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Maori cropping support

Sat 26 Apr 2008

A group of scientists has been working with growers on the East Coast to help them develop appropriate strategies for small-scale organic vegetable production and...
Apr 2008
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Pinot Noir specialists

Sat 26 Apr 2008

The Martinborough region is renowned for its Pinot Noir wines. Here, small to medium wine companies are the major players, turning challenging growing conditions into...
Apr 2008
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Fodder trees for drought conditions

Sat 19 Apr 2008

Professor Tom Barry leads a team at Massey University looking at drought-resistant plants and alternative food sources.

Using the scientific definition from Niwa in the last...
Apr 2008
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John Bostock Apples

Sat 19 Apr 2008

John Bostock was the first New Zealand grower to embrace organic production on a commercial export basis due to international demand for clean, healthy, and...
Apr 2008
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Rob and Debbie Wilson - Hawkes Bay

Sat 12 Apr 2008

Rob and Debbie Wilson have a diverse and sustainable farming business in Central Hawkes Bay: with 40% beef, 40% organic apples & pears, deer 15%...
Apr 2008
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NZ-grown eucalypt vineyard posts offer alternative to pine

Sat 05 Apr 2008

The pine posts used to support grapevines in New Zealand vineyards have a couple of weaknesses; they break easily and are treated with toxic copper...
Apr 2008
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Making the Most of Water Starborough-Flaxbourne project

Sat 05 Apr 2008

In 2004 a meeting of farmers in the Starborough-Flaxbourne area, concerned at reducing rainfall, increasing erosion and falling profitability, set up a soil conservation group....
Apr 2008
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Chief Executive of NZ Landcare Trust, Nick Edgar

Sat 05 Apr 2008

Roger: Welcome back. My guest this week is Chief Executive of New Zealand Landcare Trust, Dr Nick Edgar. Nick, thanks for joining us.

Nick: Good morning...
Apr 2008
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Didemnum

Sat 29 Mar 2008

The aquaculture industry tackles an invasive marine pest
Mar 2008
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Moleta Family

Sat 29 Mar 2008

Waitui, in the outer Marlborough Sounds, is extremely remote with the nearest towns of Picton and Havelock over two hours drive away. However, Noel and...
Mar 2008
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Aquaflow biodiesel

Sat 22 Mar 2008

Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation (ABC) wants to be the first company in the world to economically produce biofuel from wild algae harvested from open-air environments, to...
Mar 2008
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Steve McKenzie Wairau Valley

Sat 22 Mar 2008

Steve MacKenzie is a crop and beef farmer with 350 ha near Wairau Valley township.

He is chairman of a trust is seeking to set up...
Mar 2008
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Hot water treatment for grape vines

Sat 01 Dec 2007

Corbans Viticulture is one of the largest dedicated viticulture nurseries in the country, supplying grafted grapevines to the wine industry. The company has a long...
Dec 2007
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Max Purnell, Waitakaruru

Sat 01 Dec 2007

Max Purnell was a dairy farmer, now raises dry stock. His interest in improving soil has spanned at least two decades, and he has farmed...
Dec 2007
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Dairybase

Sat 24 Nov 2007

About DairyBase

DairyBase is a secure, web-based tool for dairy farmers to analyse their financial performance. It helps keep farmers focussed on optimising farm profitability. Dairy...
Nov 2007
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Enzo Bettio

Sat 24 Nov 2007

Enzo Bettios family are Italian in origin but lived for several generations in Switzerland. Enzo grew up into the family business, which was largely to...
Nov 2007
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Biodiversity Southland

Sat 17 Nov 2007

This project focuses on protection of biodiversity/native vegetation on private land as part of good sustainable land management. It is a good news story that...
Nov 2007
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Clevedon Coast Oysters

Sat 17 Nov 2007

A fourth generation farmer on the Clevedon coast, Callum McCallum has diversified into acquaculture in order to stay on the land. These days he produces...
Nov 2007
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TEFRom sheep breed

Sat 10 Nov 2007

Russell Welsh started looking to develop a few more characteristics into his Romney flock back in 1997. He wanted higher fertility, better milking ability, better...
Nov 2007
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Barry and Liz Gray

Sat 10 Nov 2007

The Grays farm at Owaka, in Southland, comprises three blocks: the original family farm of 248 ha, fairly steep and exposed to the south; another...
Nov 2007
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Coloured sheep

Sat 03 Nov 2007

Clifton WoolN Things is found in a barn on the historic Otago Peninsula property of Pat and Ian Robertson. For 30 years, it has sold...
Nov 2007
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Waianiwa Pastoral

Sat 03 Nov 2007

Waianiwa Pastoral is a recent large-scale dairy conversion in central Southland, organised by AGInvest, of Feilding, which forms farm syndicates of investors with an equity...
Nov 2007
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Wishart gene offers double-barrelled fertility benefits

Sat 27 Oct 2007

The Wishart gene is the latest in a stable of four sheep prolificacy genes investigated by scientists at AgResearchs Invermay campus, near Dunedin.

Scientist, Dr George...
Oct 2007
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Dairy Farm Conversion

Sat 27 Oct 2007

Fonterra's milk-payout announcements have fuelled an unprecedented demand for farms for conversion, in particular, and equity partnerships are becoming more common. Dairy Trust ( Talleys...
Oct 2007
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Kim and Mary Nilson, export orchid growers, Whangarei.

Sat 20 Oct 2007

The Nilsons were leasing a tobacco, maize and cattle farm in Zimbabwe that they hoped to buy, when they were forcibly evicted. Zimbabwe- born Kim...
Oct 2007
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Doug and Sally Lane, Kaeo

Sat 20 Oct 2007

Doug and Sally Lane are featured in a recently published booklet, Farming with Native Trees, a Guide for Farmers from Northland to Waikato, as inspirational...
Oct 2007
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Surviving Two Floods in Four Months Evan & Sherleen Smeath

Sat 13 Oct 2007

On the 29 March Northland had a rain bomb that caused widespread damage, severe in certain localities. Approximately 400mm of rain fell in the Hikurangi...
Oct 2007
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Don and Jacque McKay

Sat 06 Oct 2007

Don McKay is a former chairman of the Northern Beef Council and a former monitor and focus farmer in Northland. Don and Jacque have owned...
Oct 2007
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Slug control

Sat 06 Oct 2007

Integrated pest management (IPM) aims to maximise the ecosystem services that beneficial predators can provide, to minimise unnecessary pesticide use and to ensure that where...
Oct 2007
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Moveable Irrigation

Sat 29 Sep 2007

Water is a very important issue for dairying in Canterbury and North Otago. In these areas, irrigation by dairy farms uses a lot of water....
Sep 2007
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Clifton Corriedale Stud

Sat 29 Sep 2007

Clifton Corriedale Stud, founded in 1929 has become under Arthur Blakely the leading Corriedale stud in the country, winning numerous Canterbury and Royal Show championships...
Sep 2007
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Paua Polyculture

Sat 22 Sep 2007

Four years ago Hongoeka Development and NIWA got together to talk possible uses for a strip of coastal land that their people own at Plimmerton...
Sep 2007
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Murray & Linda Harmer

Sat 22 Sep 2007

Through resourcefulness and hard work, a Mid-Canterbury couple have progressed to owning a sheep and cattle farm. Starting with nothing as 18-year-old newlyweds, Murray and...
Sep 2007
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Bee Keeping Post Varroa

Sat 15 Sep 2007

Until the arrival of the varroa mite, beekeeping had a low but important profile in New Zealand agriculture. Seven years on from the mites arrival...
Sep 2007
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Francis and Shireen Helps, Flea Bay, Banks Peninsula

Sat 15 Sep 2007

The Banks Peninsula Track was New Zealands first private walkway, opened 18 years ago as a means of earning off-farm income for cash-strapped farmers on...
Sep 2007
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Murray Heays, Te Rangi station

Sat 08 Sep 2007

The 960ha Te Rangi station has been owned by the Heays family since 1917, which is now 90 years. Murray Heays was born in 1931...
Sep 2007
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Identifying campylobacter: from poultry to petrie dish and back again.

Sat 08 Sep 2007

Veterinary public health research at Massey has expanded to new dimensions of diagnostic capability with its relocation to the new Hopkirk Research Institute.

Professor Nigel Frenchs...
Sep 2007
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Automated Calf Rearing System

Sat 01 Sep 2007

Noelene Taylor and her husband farming 230 ha near Rongotea. At the peak theyre milking 670 Friesian cows (milking platform 210ha). The Taylors aim for...
Sep 2007
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High Performance Farming Systems

Sat 01 Sep 2007

The Hawke's Bay High Performance Farming Systems programme commenced in 2004, with the aim of developing a greater understanding of the key drivers of productivity...
Sep 2007