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The Oppenheimer of cider: Among 12,000 trees, John Powell is searching for the future
The breeding programme now includes about 12,000 genetically unique trees.
One in a million: Rare split apple becomes core attraction at city fruit shop
The chimera fruit shows two colours split by a near-perfect straight line.
Agritech success story Hectre scores major NZ Hi-Tech Awards double | Herald NOW Business
Hectre's co-founder Matty Blomfield tells Herald NOW Business how it went from orchards to awards. Video | Herald NOW Business
'We're making pears sexy again': New variety fetches $7 each in global markets
'We want PIQA Red to be the new avocado, a fruit people get genuinely excited about.'
The do’s and don’ts of picking fruit in your neighbourhood
Here's what you can and can't pick.
Beat the winter blues with these produce hacks | Ryan Bridge TODAY
Fruit and vege expert Glenn Forsyth with top tips for buying the cheapest produce. Video / Ryan Bridge TODAY
Not quite free trade, but apple growers welcome reduced 25% tariff to India
Tariffs for apples drop from 50% to 25% into India and growers are 'over the moon'.
Dragon fruit a sweet choice for storm-scarred Northland?
Researchers in Kerikeri are trialling three new Northland-grown cultivars.
'No mean feat': Envy apples surpass $1 billion in global sales
Envy apples are grown in over 13 countries and sold in more than 55 markets.
'Serious worry': Tairāwhiti growers fear impacts of Cyclone Vaianu
'You’ve just got to look at the skies and sometimes pray for the best.'
Bananas in the sand: Inside Jake's Secret Garden
On raw coastal sand, Jake Wyatt-Trillo grows a lush subtropical garden.
Kiwifruit crop still on track for record 221 million trays despite storms
Localised slips and flooding hit only a small number of low-lying orchards.
Glenn Dwight: The feijoa is our national fruit - hear me out
OPINION: Yes I know they originated overseas, but feijoas are as Kiwi as jandal tan lines.
19,000 jobs: Record kiwifruit harvest boosts the Bay of Plenty
Hiring now: Average orchard wages are about $25.70 an hour, 9% above minimum wage.
A Napier man grew a near-1kg tomato – here's how he did it, and what he ate it with
Grant Blair's tomato tipped the scales at 966g, beating his 860g record.
Zespri expects global sales to double or triple in a decade – CEO
More than 600 people attended the kiwifruit marketer's Momentum Conference today.
Golden visa cash helps fuel $12m raise for AI fruit-scanning start-up, Immigration NZ updates AIP numbers
Hectre's AI tools have already analysed 17 billion apples and 37 billion cherries.
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Top fruits and vege picks this Christmas
Vege man Glenn Forysth reveals the best produce to be eating this festive season.
'No plans to ship to the US': Tariffs bite into apple grower's profits
“Until the tariffs are gone, it will be difficult to make a dollar.”
Chris Bray: 3 tech megatrends driving NZ's post-harvest revolution
OPINION: We need machine-driven agriculture, but with human oversight and innovation.
'We've got to deliver': Rockit apple chief on what it got wrong and plans to fix it
Rockit plans a three-year reset after supply outpaced demand post-Cyclone Gabrielle.
Bay grower's 50-year avocado gamble pays off in wild spring winds
Doug Brown planted hundreds of pine trees to shield his orchard from the wind.