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21-06-2016

Cheap food has high price

A Lincoln University expert is warning of the cost of focusing on producing food cheaply.

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21-06-2016

2016 NZ wine vintage supports export growth

The 2016 New Zealand grape harvest has finished, with high quality fruit being picked across the country.

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21-06-2016

NZ needs UK in EU - Renwick

If the Brexit goes ahead New Zealand could lose its best ally in its struggle against European agricultural protectionism, according to Lincoln’s Professor of Agricultural Economics, Alan Renwick.

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21-06-2016

Hort360 benefits Sunshine Coast pineapple farms

The owner/managers of two successful pineapple-farming businesses located on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland say best practice is bringing real benefits to their businesses.

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21-06-2016

Biosecurity Act 2015 – 100 years in the making

On Thursday, 16 June, Australia’s new Biosecurity Act 2015 (Biosecurity Act) replaced the Quarantine Act 1908.

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21-06-2016

Trevaskis is Flowers Victoria’s ‘Florist of the Month’

Spending a day in the busy life of David Trevaskis, owner of Antaeus based at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Melbourne is not the luxe life one would think.

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21-06-2016

270 delegates attend HFF Conference

The 2016 Hydroponic Farmers Federation (HFF) Conference and technical exhibition was held recently in the picturesque seaside town of Lorne in Victoria and has been hailed as the most successful event put on by the HFF to date.

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21-06-2016

SA fruit fly protocols step up

Extensive baiting has been conducted in three metropolitan quarantine zones in South Australia, while sterile fruit flies have also been released.

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21-06-2016

HortNZ welcomes Bruce Wills as new board member

Former Federated Farmers president Bruce Wills has been appointed to the position of independent board director for Horticulture New Zealand.

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20-06-2016

Russian Wheat Aphid spotted in Australia

The Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) reports that Russian Wheat Aphid (RWA) has recently been found in South Australia but is not present in New Zealand. Until recently both Australia and New Zealand had the status of being RWA free, two notable exceptions, looking at global distribution maps.

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