Events

Organisers re-energised as events prepare to set out their stalls.

The event also aims to highlight the benefits of exercise on your mental health, with the tagline ‘move your body, shift your mind’.

The head of methane mitigation company CH4 Global spoke to Richard Rennie about the need for speed around methane mitigation, as a lead into his visit for this year’s 2035 Agri-Food-Tech conference.

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Some of the best of the primary industry’s trail blazers have been honoured at the annual Primary Industries…

Lincoln University students who attended the 2022 BOMA summit share their takeaways from the event.

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Tessa Jopp considers herself fortunate to be able to combine her love of hockey and farming. The Central Otago farmer and New Zealand representative spoke to Neal Wallace on the eve of flying to Europe to the Women’s Hockey World Cup and Commonwealth Games.

Canterbury farmers and growers are being urged to make use of a subsidised programme to return their unwanted or expired agrichemicals.

A diverse range of speakers and workshops will offer inspired thinking to help solve farming challenges at the South Island’s largest dairy event, SIDE (South Island Dairy Event) 2022, in Oamaru.

Fifty years of service by Walter Scott of Morrinsville to the Royal Agricultural Society has been publicly recognised.

The 2022 Ahuwhenua Trophy competition for Māori sheep and beef farming is back on track after being postponed earlier in the year.

Financial skills workshops being run around the country by Rabobank aim to provide farmers with practical knowledge to help them better understand financial statements and banking requirements.

The cancellation of the Easter Show in Auckland for the third year in a row is a threat to the survival of one of New Zealand’s oldest organisations, the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral (A&P) Association.

The recovery of agricultural shows to put rural activities before urban audiences will be a mammoth task shared around more than 90 districts, Royal Agricultural Society (RAS) president Karen Walker says.

For the second successive year the New Zealand Century Farms and Station Awards (NZCFSA) has been postponed.

More than 4000 calves were set to go under the hammer at Matawhero and Wairoa this week, until the heavens opened.

DESPITE its low profile at home, New Zealand’s world expo pavilion has been the shop front for exporters and a destination for over a million visitors since the Dubai World Expo kicked off in October.

The Omicron outbreak has forced the New Zealand National Fieldays Society to postpone this year’s Fieldays until November 30-December 3.

A series of agritech-themed workshops, with a focus on climate change and agritech’s role in helping farmers mitigate its impact, will provide a lead into the inaugural 2035 Oceania Summit, scheduled for October.

Organisers are forging ahead with plans to hold a physical Fieldays in June, despite the uncertainty hanging around event management with Omicron.

Central Districts Field Days 2022 has been called off because of covid-19 event restrictions and the uncertainty of how long the Omicron variant will be active in the community.

The hardest period for Cole Wells during the 24-hour shearing marathon over Waitangi weekend was between 2am and 6am.

The Wānaka A&P Show, which was to be held on March 11-12, has been cancelled because of covid-19 red alert restrictions.

Ministry for Primary Industries chief science advisor John Roche says the New Zealand-Israel AgriTech Summit is a great opportunity for us to collaborate with and learn from a global leader in this space.

Up to 10,000 lambs will shorn over 32 hours in a West Otago woolshed next week, raising money for the Southland Charity Hospital.

New Zealand’s move to restrict the transmission of covid-19’s Omicron variant has forced the cancellation of a number of rural events.

Kiwi creatives are being urged to put their inspiring art forward for the Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award.

A team of King Country shearers are preparing to set a new five-stand nine-hour world record for strong wool lambs later this month.

Plant & Food Research chief executive David Hughes has claimed a top honour in delivering quality science in a commercial form in this year’s KiwiNet awards.

Richard Heath, executive director of the think tank Australian Farm Institute, will be sharing his country’s approach to developing a sustainability framework capturing all parts of the farming sector at Agri-Food Tech 2035 in October.

From October, New Zealand will re-engage with the international conference circuit as travel restrictions are lifted and the primary sector will be among the first to do so with the AgriFood-Tech 2035 Oceanic Summit.

Next year’s Golden Shears, which was to be held in March, has been cancelled because of restrictions and the unknown future caused by covid-19.

Strategy is turning into action for Campaign for Wool New Zealand (CFWNZ), but there’s concern over losing land to grow its product.

Christchurch has won the bid to host the 2023 Asia Pacific Seed Congress.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks in Geneva have been postponed because of the new covid variant Omicron.