by Vincent Heeringa | Dec 17, 2021 | News
Trees in agriculture, and in particular a dairy farming landscape, are a hard sell. Especially when it starts to take up productive area of a paddock, let alone the mess they can make if a storm passes by and creates an entire clean up job. The question for the...
by Vincent Heeringa | Dec 17, 2021 | News
The harvest for New Zealand blueberry varieties has now begun and growers are encouraging Kiwis to buy them as larger volumes come to market, with prices set to drop below $3 a punnet in the lead-up to Christmas. Last year we consumed 8.6m punnets of blueberries in...
by Vincent Heeringa | Dec 17, 2021 | News
The latest quarterly small business survey by MYOB shows a negative outlook among New Zealand SMEs. In line with previous reports, the December SME snapshot shows that confidence in the economy has been heavily influenced by the impacts driven by COVID-19, with...
by Vincent Heeringa | Dec 17, 2021 | News
A new Christmas food parcel distribution model designed to meet COVID restrictions is also helping to preserve the dignity of whanau, according to organisers. Thousands of vulnerable Kiwis are set to benefit from the new model which will see food and toy parcels...
by Vincent Heeringa | Dec 17, 2021 | News
Agritech startup Croptide, which transmits plant water health to a farmer’s phone within seconds, has raised $1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Icehouse Ventures with support from Sir Stephen Tindall’s K1W1 and Masfen Group. Croptide uses internet-enabled...