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19-11-2015

Massive market for NZ exporters if they can perform

A Lincoln University expert says New Zealand exporters will have to be on their game to reap the benefits of a huge trade access deal, which has gone under the radar.

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17-11-2015

Protecting plants from stealthy diseases

Stealthy diseases sometimes trick plants by hijacking their defense signaling system, which issues an alarm that diverts plant resources for the wrong attack and allows the enemy pathogens to easily overrun plants.

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17-11-2015

Fern Bid Rejected

An application for permission to grow Asparagus Fern for cut flower use has been rejected. Bob Stoothoff reports on this disappointing situation

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17-11-2015

Southern Roundup

Here's what the South Island Growers are reporting about our spring cut flower growing conditions in New Zealand

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17-11-2015

Grower Costs Inevitable

In or out of GIA, biosecurity recovery and response costs are heading the grower's way, it's only a case of how much influence you may wish to have on outcomes according to NZFGA

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17-11-2015

Day Conference Notes

Speaker notes from the Flower Growers Day Conference in September are available in full form from the secretary of NZFGA on request

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17-11-2015

Flower Growers AGM

The notes and outcomes from the Flower Growers Association AGM held in Wellington in September are now available to interested growers

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16-11-2015

Change in WAFEX ownership

Australian cut flower company, WAFEX, announced that Managing Director and co-owner, Craig Musson, has assumed 100 per cent ownership of the business following the purchased of the shares of co-founder, Adrian Parsons.

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13-11-2015

Caleb Dennis is NZ’s Young Horticulturist of the Year 2015

The winner of the national Viticulturist of the Year sector competition and now the new Young Horticulturalist of the Year 2015.

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10-11-2015

How plant cell compartments ‘chat’ with each other

A team of researchers, led by scientists from the University of Bonn, has discovered a basis of communication in plant cells: the ‘MICU’ protein controls the calcium ion concentration in the cellular power stations.

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