by Luci | Sep 22, 2023 | Default
New Zealand-based agritech company Robotics Plus has launched Prospr, an autonomous, multi-use, hybrid vehicle designed to carry out a variety of orchard and vineyard crop tasks more efficiently while reducing reliance on labour. The Tauranga based company Robotics...
by Luci | Sep 22, 2023 | Default
This week is Mental Health Week and Rural Mental Health advocate Craig Wiggins does amazing work with farmers from all over NZ. He is about to leave for the US to spread the word there with his mantra “Lean on A Gate and Talk To A Mate” Craig joins Mark Leishman on...
by Luci | Sep 21, 2023 | Default
It is Mental Health Awareness Week and this year’s theme is Five Ways, Five Days, with the Mental Health Foundation providing a set of proven tools to boost mental health when needed. RURAL Mental health is a major issue and by nature farmers are often very isolated,...
by Luci | Sep 21, 2023 | Default
A Far North strawberry grower has had to change plans as there is a shortage of strawberry plants. Most of the propagating strawberry plants in NZ are grown in the bay of Plenty which was hit by extremely wet weather earlier in the year destroying nearly 4 million...
by Luci | Sep 21, 2023 | Default
Australia has abandoned its fight to eradicate the destructive Varroa mite, responsible for the collapse of honeybee populations across the planet including here in NZ. Desperate to keep Varroa out of the country, authorities destroyed more than 14,000 infected...
