Innovation

The envirommental charity founded by Prince William offering a total of £5m to the winners of five categories

High-profile indoor farming failures have made the news in the past two years, but that just means the sector is moving into a new era, says an expert.

While new to NZ, vertical farming is well recognised internationally.

Baked-in efficiencies take the worry out of processing plant.

Early promise of possible solution to the forest slash issue.

Major injection of cash spurs plans to turn breakthroughs into commercial reality.

More effective method comes in at a third of conventional method’s cost

The Innovation Awards are an opportunity to showcase an idea or innovation, receive feedback from Fieldays visitors, and connect with potential partners, distributors and investors.

Slowing the rate of spread could be problematic.

Smart app for mapping individual trees in testing phase.

Agritech was front-and-centre at Fieldays 2022.

Praised for potentially closing loop in waterway pollution control.

The US could soon have a new kind of meat available for consumers to choose from, but it won’t be from pasture-to-plate.

Alumni and academics on hand in main pavilion at Fieldays.

Traditional models not up to facing climate, conflict and covid all at once.

The aquaculture industry will receive a cash injection to ease workforce woes and grow the industry.

A blend of synthesised and conventional protein is quite possible in the near future to help meet protein demand.

Twenty years in the making, new variety aims to put fruit back in favour with consumers.

Kāuta is a one-stop search engine for all Māori kai businesses and they’re launching phase one of their unique platform.

A Massey PhD student may have come up with a better weed zapper.

A New Zealand-based company’s research project into using whey permeate to treat diabetes has received MPI’s stamp of approval, to the tune of $111k.

Industry body updates fencing contractors on latest skills, tools.

The number of dairy farmers in the US using beef breeds over their herds to produce beef for the market has grown substantially.

The partnership will help Fonterra deliver on its strategy of generating more value for farmers and for New Zealand over the coming years.

It will generate 400MW of energy for the national grid according to the company behind the proposal.

Company will farm NZ-native seaweed for use in methane-reducing supplements.

Farmers urged to register with MyOSPRI.

Primary sector holds its own on shortlists for innovation awards.

A research project due to start this spring hopes to lend a descriptive taste vocabulary to New Zealand’s array of honeys.

Award recognises benefits of combining indigenous knowledge with biotechnology.

Sir Peter Gluckman says genetic engineering is too important to be a political football.

For generations New Zealand’s agricultural academies have had a pastoral focus, usually with dairy and meat production at their heart. The decision by AgResearch and the Riddet Institute to recruit a professor for cellular agriculture research highlights how times are changing. Richard Rennie reports.

Joint venture funding for new centre will be close to $100 million a year.

Research points the way to a method for identifying other suitable forage legumes for hill country farmers in particular.

Three Waikato-based companies were responsible for just over 50% of the TIN200 Agritech revenue in 2021.

Chair in cellular agriculture set up at Massey to study digestibility and other aspects of the new biotech.