Youth Council member Catherine James reports about activities she has been up to. Recently, I have had the opportunity, through the Potatoes NZ Youth Council, to get more involved across the wider vegetable industry. I attended the Vegetables Research Roadshow in Pukekohe with the other North Island Youth Councillors, Molly Green and Jamie Wells. It…
POTATOES NEW ZEALAND & LINCOLN UNIVERSITY JOINT MEDIA RELEASE Embargoed Date: 24th February 2022 6pm The board of Potatoes NZ Inc. (PNZ) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Lincoln University to launch a research partnership which includes a Centre of Excellence for Potato Research and Extension, based in Canterbury. Lincoln University Associate Professor of…
Sustainable Vegetable Systems (SVS) monthly update: improving the modelling via Workstream 3 and extension activities in Workstream 4. Sustainable Vegetable Systems is a four-year, $7.5 million project, focused on reducing the environmental impact of intensive growing of potatoes, onions, brassicas and leafy greens. It involves research work to quantify and model nitrogen leaching and engages…
ECan notified plan changes to the Canterbury Land and Water Plan on Saturday, 20th July. You may have seen this in the HortNZ newsletter already. The submission period ends on Friday 13th September. This provides us with 8 weeks to prepare and lodge submissions. The standard submission period is 4 weeks. However, the rural sector…
Seven Sharp investigates which potato is king, as varieties explode in supermarkets.
(Potatoes NZ has permission to republish AUSVEG articles). In Victoria, Australia the first trials of x-ray technology in a potato packing facility are underway. This extract from a recent article in POTATOES AUSTRALIA gives insight to benefits which we could embrace here in NZ. A 32-year strong partnership between Red Gem (potato growers) and supermarket…
(extracted with permission from World Potato Markets 4/6/19 issue) Just two years until Ireland hosts premier event Organisers of the World Potato Congress are flagging up the next event in Dublin, Ireland, in two years’ time. The conference will take place between 31 May and 3 June 2021 and will coincide with the Europatat Congress,…
By Gemma Carroll, Communications & Engagement Officer, PNZ. Meet Chris Thorman. He’s a Potato Storage enthusiast with 30 years of experience in New Zealand and the UK. He works as Program Coordinator for the Post-Harvest Diploma, at Eastern Institute of Technology and he lectures in Crop Protection and other related subjects. Chris has been in…
(extracted with permission from World Potato Markets Report 4/6/19) Processed potato prices continue to fall against a global backdrop of rising prices, helping to build New Zealand’s export performance. April’s sales were 22.2% up on those of a year ago, at 6 842 tonnes, but this was still behind March’s record-breaking figure of 7 399…
It’s cold out there! All of a sudden, it feels like, winter is upon us. And with that comes the urge to head inside and hibernate somewhere warm and cosy. We also crave different foods in winter. I don’t know about you, but I lose my interest in crisp, cold salads around about now, and…
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