Plant import pathway restored
After carrying out an extensive review, the Ministry for Primary Industries has issued the IHS: Prunus plants for planting as final, dated 23 January 2020.
Nzsummer series budwood orders extended
For those growers planning to attend the Nzsummer series field walks in the coming weeks; there is an opportunity to place a late order for Nzsummer budwood.
Compliance Based Intervention Scheme
In light of the upcoming apricot export season to Australia here is a reminder of how to increase your chances of success during the CBIS inspections currently implemented in Australia...
Korean inspector visits Central Otago
Last week Dr Kyu-Ock Yim from Korea's Department of Plant Quarantine, made her official visit to New Zealand to inspect Central Otago cherry exports to Korea.
RMD pest identification available in Clyde
Plant & Food Research (PFR) and MPI are offering remote microscope diagnostics (RMD) pest identification in Clyde, this season.
Happy new year to you and your families
As I swapped a drizzly Nelson morning for the overcast skies of Wellington today, I reflected on the challenges that nature provides us in the horticulture industry – for this...
Research for 2020
Jack Hughes, our new research and development manager, has provided a brief summary of the R&D projects we will be working on with Plant & Food Research during the year.
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.