by Editor | May 10, 2023 | News
A new collaboration between Clayton Hops and Plant & Food Research will see new varieties of hops being grown in Aotearoa New Zealand, offering brewers worldwide exciting novel flavours. Clayton Hops, New Zealand’s largest hop grower, have partnered with Plant...
by Editor | Oct 26, 2022 | News
Handmade Tales: For the last six years, Raglan’s Hunt & Gather Bee Co has championed all sorts of rare New Zealand honey. Now the star of the show, an award-winning kānuka honey, is debuting in the UK. In the latest of our Handmade Tales series, Doris Neubauer...
by Editor | Oct 20, 2022 | Opinion
Bill Kaye-Blake, principal economist with NZIER, reflects on 20 years of research into creating greater value in New Zealand’s primary sector. I’ve been doing research on agri-food systems for 20 years in New Zealand and in California before that. The same...
by Ben Fahy | Aug 11, 2022 | Opinion
Some people dream of winning Lotto. Some dream of fast cars or knights in shining armour. Caroline Saunders vision is more, shall we say, micro-economic: “That not an ounce of food leaves the country without a premium being attached to it.” Saunders, who is the...
by Vincent Heeringa | Jul 15, 2022 | Opinion
You’ve heard the phrase so often it’s become a cliche: New Zealand’s primary sector must move from ‘volume to value’. We must shift from being low-cost, commodity producers – think logs, carcasses, bins of fruit – to quality food and fibre producers, achieving a...
