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Aquaculture farming is set to make a splash at this year's NZ Agricultural Show in Christchurch, 15–17 November. For the first time in its 160-year history, The Show will feature a dedicated Aquaculture Tent, showcasing the finest ocean farmers ...

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The Organic Exporters Association says an mutual recognition arrangement announced this week mean China now acknowledges New Zealand's organic standards.

NZ's free trade deal with the UK has been broadly welcomed by a local wine exporter after Covid-19 caused freight costs to increase four-fold.

This years harvest is looking promising for Marlborough-based vineyard Nautilus Estate. But its winemaker and general manager Clive Jones is already looking ahead to what will happen to Marlboroughs roughly 65 million grapevines that will mostly need hand-pruning straight afterwards. "Were typically getting a couple of thousand RSE workers at least coming into this region, and also backpackers, people on working holiday visas so thats where there is quite a big gap that were going to struggle t...

Photo: 123RF Their focus so far has been scraping together enough workers for the harvest which is about to start. Many companies have come through the summer in better shape than expected and are now ready for picking. This years harvest is looking promising for Marlborough-based vineyard Nautilus Estate. But its winemaker and general manager Clive Jones is already looking ahead to what will happen to Marlboroughs roughly 65 million grapevines that will mostly need hand-pruning straight afterw...

Photo: AFP Next weekend the international shipping firm Maersk will begin a new service carting containers away from Ports of Auckland, down to Timaru, Lyttelton, Nelson and Dunedin. Esther Guy-Meakin from the Meat Industry Association said worries about capacity, and what to do with the perishable stock had been on farmers minds, so the certainty was a relief. "Its not uncommon that container relocation occurs, but at this time were facing additional congestion and further challenges so this m...

Ports of Auckland delays costing businesses export deals 21 Dec, 2020 04:40 AM 5 minutes to read Aimee Shaw is a business reporter focusing on retail, small businessaimee.shaw@nzherald.co.nz@AceeyShaw New Zealand companies are grappling with export shipment delays of up to six weeks as Ports of Auckland struggle to unload ships waiting out at sea. The log-jam of ships unable to dock and off-load containers of stock is having a knock-on effect for local exporters trying to get ...

Stacy Squires/Stuff Terrace Edge Vineyard has had an increase in domestic visitors, which has made up for the lack of international tourists. Owner Jill Chapman said they usually entertained a significant number of tourists from Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and the USA. “At first it was significant not having those international visitors, but we are now getting a steady stream of visitors from all over New Zealand.” Chapman said a lot of bookings had already been made for summe...