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Positive start to Australian winter cropping season
21 June 2016
The latest crop report from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) paints a reasonably positive picture of Australian feed supply for the 2016-17 winter cropping season.
Riding wave of wine fashion
20 June 2016
The New Zealand wine industry is riding a wave of international beverage fashion, and is well placed to capitalise on emerging consumption trends in key export markets.
SunGold licences looking like gold
14 June 2016
SunGold kiwifruit licences of up to $200,000-plus a hectare may be the going rate as Zespri launches the first tranche of new fruit licenses onto the industry this month.
World wheat again in surplus
7 June 2016
Early estimates show there will once again be a surplus on the world wheat market, pushing cereal stocks to an all-time high.
$1.14b plan to stamp out bovine TB
3 June 2016
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has signed off on plans to embark on a $1.14 billion project to eradicate bovine tuberculosis by 2055.
Ginseng – the next high-return crop
24 May 2016
Maori forestry organisation Maraeroa C Incorporation is trail-blazing a large-scale wild-simulated ginseng industry in New Zealand.
Pharmazen boosts profit
18 May 2016
A weak dollar, increased capacity and production efficiencies boosted biotechnology company PharmaZen’s before tax profit by $850,000 for the last financial year, on turnover only $300,000 higher.
Connecting farmers with new wool consumers
12 May 2016
Bringing farmers to the forefront of wool marketing has been central to the NZ Merino Company successfully implementing a strategy of differentiation and branding for wool and creating value and stable demand in-market, says NZM business development manager Craig Adams.
Market opportunity in parasites
12 May 2016
Dunedin-based Techion Group has extended its system for diagnosing parasites in sheep to horses, cattle, goats and alpacas.
Kansas Wheat estimates high yields of winter wheat
11 May 2016
Kansas Wheat completed its annual Hard Winter Wheat Tour through Kansas last week. Calculated yields were higher than anticipated and disease pressure was lower than expected. The tour found an average yield of 48.6 bushels per acre – up 13 bushels from last year. Yields haven’t been this high since 2003. There was also more acreage planted at this time last year. Planted acres this year are 8.5m. The tour’s projection for the amount of hard red winter wheat to be harvested in Kansas is 382.4m bushels. Many fields have been treated with fungicide for stripe rust, as this was a big problem last year. Wheat is becoming a better managed crop, which is allowing the higher yields. The harvest is 30 to 45 days away from starting.
