by Vicki Ravlich-Horan | May 31, 2023 | Opinion
It’s a miraculously sunny Monday morning and I’m standing in a field in Pukekohe. No, it wasn’t a crazy weekend gone awry, I have purposely turned off the motorway to be here. In fact, I love the chance to don my gumboots and quite literally get out in the field. ...
by Editor | Mar 15, 2023 | News
New Zealanders are being asked to buy local and fresh, to support vegetable growers across the country hit hard by continued bad weather. ‘Vegetable growers have endured exceptionally bad growing weather for several months now,’ says Vegetables New Zealand Chair, John...
by Vincent Heeringa | Feb 24, 2023 | News
The effect of Cyclone Gabrielle on North Island’s horticulture sector is still to be calculated but images of mud-covered orchards and buried machinery tell the story of devastation – and of hope. Overall, the death toll stands at 11. Some 152 people are...
by Vincent Heeringa | Feb 9, 2023 | Opinion
If the rain that deluged Auckland is the ‘new normal’, how are hard-hit growers meant to think about the future? Can they grow anything in the ‘normal’ way again? Vincent asks senior cropping scientist Brent Clothier what he’s telling his clients about the...
by Vincent Heeringa | Feb 2, 2023 | Opinion
As the backwash recedes on Auckland’s flood, the backlash begins. Pukekohe’s growers are some of the most affected – so who’s to blame when food goes to waste? It was heartbreaking this week to see piles of onions and potatoes, freshly...
