By Gemma Carroll, Communications & Engagement Officer The year has started with a bang, as we head straight into planning and beginning our summer field walks. This has also resulted in a great little booklet publication, which outlines many of the Research and Development Projects, that PNZ is currently undertaking or supporting. If you miss…
The 2019 Field Walk Booklet is now available for you to view. This booklet covers all of the 2019 field walks which are being held: 13 February, Canterbury 20 February, Pukekohe & Matamata 27 February, Manawatu, Horowhenua/Levin For more information on each walk please visit our Events page.
Food Industry Enabling Technologies (FIET) will be holding a workshop at University of Otago in Dunedin to discuss the impact of Pulsed Electric Field technology on potato processing. This is a free to attend workshop. Please see more details below. FIET – PotatoesNZ workshop
Two very interesting reports have kicked off the year for anyone interested in food, health and sustainability. Which should be anyone who eats, really. The first was a piece of research from Otago University researchers, looking at the links between fibre intakes and health. The research found a link between higher intakes of dietary fibre…
It’s always interesting to look at food trend predictions, which come around every year telling us how and what we’re going to be eating in the next year. It’s fun to look back, too, to see which predictions have stuck. I remember when I was a kid being pretty keen on the idea of those…
Here is the latest update from the PMTV team at PNZ. Potato mop-top virus update 14 December 2018
By Heather Chalmers The continued presence of soil and seed-borne diseases in potato crops can be partly mitigated by sowing crops in paddocks with good soil structure, Plant and Food Research work shows. Previous potato yield gap work from 2012-15 identified that soil- borne disease and soil physical quality were two major yield limiting factors. …
By Heather Chalmers Providing tools to assist the potato industry to manage and control Tomato Potato Psyllid is the focus of several research projects being undertaken by Plant & Food Research. Plant & Food science group leader, annual crops group, Dr Gail Timmerman-Vaughan said it was five years into a six year MBIE-funded programme with three research aims. Firstly,…
By Gemma Carroll, Communications & Engagement Officer Potatoes New Zealand The 2018 Biosecurity Forum held in Auckland, was an opportunity for Biosecurity New Zealand to celebrate it’s successes and to present the Biosecurity Implementation Plan 2025. The plan speaks of transforming “the way we do biosecurity” under increasing pressure and acknowledges that things need to change. There are five…
By Gemma Carroll, Communications & Engagement Potatoes New Zealand Spring and Summer in New Zealand represent all of the best things about our country. Camping, picnics, BBQs, socializing and always great food. It’s the time of year where our sweetest produce is abundant: new potatoes are as popular as strawberries and with as much nostalgia and tradition surrounding them. It…