Farewell from Marie
I hope you all had a great Christmas and managed to get a little time off to spend with family and friends over the busiest time of the season.
EMS 2019-20 available
The Export Marketing Strategy or EMS for the 2019-20 summerfruit season is available online. It can be found on the Summerfruit NZ portal under Main Menu/Export/Export Marketing Strategy.
Welcome Jack Hughes
Welcome to Jack Hughes (seen above with his gorgeous granddaughter) who is taking over from Chris Hale as Summerfruit NZ's research and development manager.
Japanese inspector visits Otago
Summerfruit NZ and MPI accompanied the Japanese inspector around cherry orchards and packhouses in Central Otago this week.
New market monitoring contact
The SEC has appointed Neil McLoughlin to collect export market monitoring data for the 2019-20 season. Exporters can contact Neil by email to neil.mcloughlin@xtra.co.nz or by calling 027 403 6647.
Focus on fruit quality for new scholarship student
Congratulations goes to Michael Hutton who has been awarded the Plant & Food Research/ Summerfruit NZ Student Scholarship for 2019-20.
Export fruit queries
We've been receiving a few queries from people wanting to export summerfruit and we imagine growers have been getting similar queries too.
Updated quality manuals now available
The Summerfruit NZ quality manuals for exporters, packers and growers have now been reviewed and updated for the current season.
Summerfruit industry review underway
The independent review of the summerfruit industry is now underway, with interviews expected to start in Hawke’s Bay later this month (and into January), and with the grower interviews in...
Email address revamp for Summerfruit NZ staff
In keeping with modern computer protocols and practice, Summerfruit NZ staff have started using new email addresses that now include their surnames too.