https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8 This is the latest news from Grower News. en PHP RSS Feed Generator With a huge garden full of tulips on the Dam in Amsterdam, a new cut tulip season started on Saturday, 20 January 2018. Tens of thousands of people queued to pick a bunch of free tulips. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5513 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5513 NZPPI reports that the total number of properties with Myrtle Rust now at 218, with thirteen current sites with reinfections. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5511 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5511 Six new varieties will be available from Treloar Roses in 2018, all bred by the world’s most reputable rose breeder W. Kordes’ Söhne of Germany. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5503 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5503 An air passenger has been fined $2250 for following his cousin's advice to smuggle plant cuttings and seeds into New Zealand. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5499 Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5499 NGIA’s Structure Review discussions continued through 2017 with a second report delivered to industry representatives last November. This is the single most important issue facing the Industry as it’s network strives to maximise the delivery of benefits and value to its membership. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5488 Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5488 The annual NGIV industry awards are an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of those working in the industry. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5482 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5482 Everything from kiwifruit orchards to vineyards relies on pollination by domesticated honey bees, but as their numbers plummet from a destructive pathogen, scientists from Massey University are working on deploying viruses to protect them. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5481 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5481 The NZPPI annual conference will be held in Rotorua at the Rydges Hotel on 27-28 June 2018. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5471 Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5471 The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has introduced new treatment requirements to stop brown marmorated stink bugs arriving into New Zealand in sea containers from Italy. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5467 Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5467 LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Honey bees are attracted to a fungicide used in agriculture with ‘unsettling implications’ for global food production, a scientist said on Tuesday. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5464 Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5464 Biosecurity SA has declared an outbreak of Queensland fruit fly (Q-fly) in West Hindmarsh following the discovery of a gravid (with eggs) female in the area on Monday, 8 January. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5462 Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5462 ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After René Castro-Salazar attended the first UN-led climate talks in Berlin in 1985 as Costa Rica's environment and energy minister, he tried to talk about agriculture and climate change – but few wanted to join the conversation. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5445 Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5445 The team at GrowerNEWS would like to wish our readers, news sources and colleagues a happy and prosperous 2018. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5444 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5444 New data released by Hort Innovation and Nursery & Garden Industry Australia (NGIA) has shown Australia’s thriving green life businesses produced an estimated $2.29 billion of green life in 2015-16. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5437 Wed, 27 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5437 In close to thirty years of operation, Lizard Mountain Nursery near Yeppoon had not really felt the wrath of nature until 2015 when Category Five Tropical Cyclone Marcia crossed the coast of Central Queensland. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5434 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5434 Horticulture New Zealand CEO Mike Chapman notes that the 23 December 2017 'Listener' magazine reports that, in the last five years, Aucklanders have chopped down a third of their trees, and that 90% of what is left is at risk of also being cut down. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5429 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5429 In December 2017, a worker on a Tamborine Mountain avocado farm was killed when a single seat ride-on mower being driven by another worker rolled over on a steep slope and crushed her. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5412 Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5412 NZPPI reports that with a number of new finds over the past week, the number of new finds since 7 December brings the total Restricted Places to 183. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5411 Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5411 Parks and Recreation Senior Lecturer Stephen Espiner and Associate Professor Emma Stewart are delighted with the return of the unique major, which the University offered from 2008 to 2014, as they say it will help to meet a greater demand for skilled workers in the sector. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5410 Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5410 MPI provides a searchable database to help exporters determine whether certain plant pest or disease organisms are present in New Zealand. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5401 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5401 NZPPI reports that it is with great sadness that it marks the passing of Alistair Waters, who died suddenly on Thursday 7 December, aged 47. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5400 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5400 Ball Australia says it has exciting times ahead with the expansion of its existing young plant production and seed distribution business. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5381 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5381 Thirty-two new quarantine officers have graduated from their training, bolstering the Ministry for Primary Industries' biosecurity defences at New Zealand’s border. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5378 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5378 2018 National Conference is featuring three informative workshops. These workshops are included in the concurrent program and are a great opportunity for more in depth learning. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5374 Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5374 Every two years a national Nursery & Garden Industry Conference is held in an Australian city. over the past thirty years it has attracted an average of 250 delegates: growers, retailers, suppliers and stakeholders. In 2018, the conference heads to Hobart, Tasmania from 19-21 February. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5370 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5370 Now that Queensland fruit fly (Qfly) is established in regions of Australia that were previously thought too cold for the insect, asking questions about winter survival mechanisms seems reasonable, suggests Dr. Penny Measham, Qfly AWM coordinator, SITplus, Hort Innovation. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5369 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5369 New Zealand farmer confidence remains at net positive levels overall, but has dropped sharply from the record highs recorded in the previous two quarters, the latest Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey indicates. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5367 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5367 Horticulture New Zealand reported that a vigilant staff member at Gough Industrial Solutions in Christchurch detected and reported a number of live brown marmorated stink bugs discovered in a recently imported piece of machinery. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5361 Wed, 06 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5361 Western Australia’s annual campaign to keep the State free of the invasive insect pest, the European wasp, has begun. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5357 Tue, 05 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5357 Management of prickly invasive cacti has received a boost with a new comprehensive manual now available in South Australia. https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5356 Tue, 05 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1300 https://www.growernews.co.nz/news_article.htm?cat=8&news_id=5356