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 Editor | Apr 29, 2022 | News
New Zealand scientists from Plant and Food Research, lead world first sequencing of bilberry genome Bilberries are a deep indigo /black colour. Softer and darker than blueberries, the leaves and fruit have been used for medicinal purposes since the Middle Ages and the...
by Editor | Mar 16, 2022 | Opinion
Aquaculture is booming. Half of the world’s seafood comes from aquaculture and this is expected to grow a third again by 2030. New Zealand wants to grow our agriculture industry from today’s 600 million to 1 billion by 2025 and 3 billion by 2035. Trouble is,...
by Vincent Heeringa | Feb 24, 2022 | Home Page Featured, Home Page Main Post, Opinion
When a US-based alt-meat company wanted to benchmark itself with the best in the world, it choose New Zealand lamb. Black Sheep, a Silicon Valley start-up making plant-based lamb, named its first product New Zealand Heritage Lamb, just to show how good it could be....
by Vincent Heeringa | Dec 10, 2021 | Opinion
Fish farming is all very well – but who feeds the fish that feed the world? Sourcing and distributing fishmeal is one of the biggest challenges for the growing aquaculture industry. Fishmeal depends on wild-caught fish, potentially depleting stocks, and is the...
