https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4 This is the latest news from Grower News. en PHP RSS Feed Generator Vineyard management in heatwaves is the focus of a new project to better understand vine stress during hot conditions. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5508 Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5508 Three Victorian women have been recognised for their contributions to regional Victoria, being announced as the 2018 Victorian AgriFuturesâ„¢ Rural Women's Award finalists. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5498 Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5498 A novel system for protecting plants from pests, infection and adverse weather has been awarded one of the top prizes in the University of Canterbury’s (UC) Tech Jumpstart competition. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5483 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5483 Everything from kiwifruit orchards to vineyards relies on pollination by domesticated honey bees, but as their numbers plummet from a destructive pathogen, scientists from Massey University are working on deploying viruses to protect them. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5481 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5481 A joint venture between a McLaren Vale winery and a new spirits distillery will create fifteen fulltime equivalent jobs, while showcasing some of South Australia’s best wine and spirits in the one place. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5480 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5480 Around 25% of international tourists to New Zealand now seek out a ‘wine experience’, visiting the country’s beautiful wineries, cellar doors and vineyard accommodation. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5473 Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5473 LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Honey bees are attracted to a fungicide used in agriculture with ‘unsettling implications’ for global food production, a scientist said on Tuesday. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5464 Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5464 Dr Peat Leith, Senior Research Fellow at TIA notes that Tasmania’s food and agriculture sectors are booming. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5460 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5460 Registration is open for the annual Australia Day Tasting in Dublin, which will feature over 300 wines from 54 wineries across Australia. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5457 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5457 Wine businesses exporting to China, Hong Kong, Macau and the USA can now apply for up to $25,000 in Australian Government funding to support specific export promotion activities. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5451 Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5451 ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After René Castro-Salazar attended the first UN-led climate talks in Berlin in 1985 as Costa Rica's environment and energy minister, he tried to talk about agriculture and climate change – but few wanted to join the conversation. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5445 Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5445 The team at GrowerNEWS would like to wish our readers, news sources and colleagues a happy and prosperous 2018. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5444 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5444 A recent IBISWorld report has highlighted strong growth in recent years for Australia’s online grocery sector, with the impending launch of AmazonFresh prompting major supermarket chains to expand their e-commerce channels. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5441 Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5441 Plant & Food Research has announced the appointment of David Hughes as its new Chief Executive Officer. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5430 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5430 Farmers and growers in very dry regions around the country are urged to make plans to get through a summer that has turned hot and dry sooner than usual. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5428 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5428 Western Australia’s Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development is offering a total of $150,000 in grants to help agriculture, food and beverage businesses attract investment and growth capital. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5416 Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5416 New investment into the Australian Centre for Genomic Epidemiology (Ausgem) will help safeguard the state’s agriculture, horticulture, livestock and equine industries, which underpin the $15 billion primary industries sector in NSW. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5414 Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5414 In December 2017, a worker on a Tamborine Mountain avocado farm was killed when a single seat ride-on mower being driven by another worker rolled over on a steep slope and crushed her. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5412 Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5412 Researchers are boosting their understanding of native stingless bees as pollinators in a $10M effort to help safeguard Australia’s fruit, nut, vegetable and cut flower supply into the future. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5409 Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5409 There is a lot of excitement and talk about ‘blockchain’ but yet little is known about what it actually is, and how this digitised technology could be implemented in the agrisector. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5402 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5402 Nearly forty yachts raced across Cook Strait to deliver 29 Marlborough wines to New Zealand’s Capitol in the WineWorks Wine Race. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5397 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5397 Want to know if you are being targeted on Facebook by food and beverage companies? https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5392 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5392 Agriculture Victoria suggests that now is the time Mallee grain producers start their summer weed control, at the same time local grapevines are at a delicate stage of fruit development. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5390 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5390 New Zealand Winegrowers has announced the names of two New Zealand-based sommeliers selected to participate in the 2018 New Zealand Winegrowers International Sommelier Scholarship. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5385 Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5385 Thirty-two new quarantine officers have graduated from their training, bolstering the Ministry for Primary Industries' biosecurity defences at New Zealand’s border. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5378 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5378 A scarecrow made by the Lincoln University Students’ Association is the latest to strut his stuff alongside a group of other straw people outside Broadfield School. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5376 Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5376 Now that Queensland fruit fly (Qfly) is established in regions of Australia that were previously thought too cold for the insect, asking questions about winter survival mechanisms seems reasonable, suggests Dr. Penny Measham, Qfly AWM coordinator, SITplus, Hort Innovation. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5369 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5369 IrrigationNZ says it supports Minister of Regional Development Shane Jones’ announcement that regional economic development funding could support some water irrigation projects. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5368 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5368 New Zealand farmer confidence remains at net positive levels overall, but has dropped sharply from the record highs recorded in the previous two quarters, the latest Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey indicates. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5367 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5367 Western Australia food businesses are jumping on board to help consumers make a ‘good choice’ and buy local produce. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5347 Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=4&news_id=5347