Milk company Miraka reporting farm-specific carbon emissions
October 10, 2019
In what it says is a first for New Zealand, this month Taupō-based dairy company Miraka will be reporting farm-specific carbon emissions for each of the over 100 farms it works with. The reports will give a detailed understanding of greenhouse gas emissions, and compar...
New technologies for monitoring water quality and improving outcomes for farmers are key themes among finalists in this year's NZ Aerospace Challenge.The brief for the challenge was to design solutions to identify, monitor or measure water or soil pollution using satellite d...
Big data the future for farming, says LIC
October 5, 2019
LIC's positive financial performance for the year will act as a catalyst to investment in technology and data platforms, the company says.Speaking at the dairy co-operative's annual meeting on Thursday, LIC chairman and Nelson dairy farmer Murray King said LIC was in a stron...
Farming ‘ripe for internet of things technology’
October 3, 2019
Innovation and sustainability were the threads running through a Grow Waikato event focused on the dairy industry in September.Gallagher deputy CEO Kahl Betham, one of five speakers at the forum held at Wintec’s Atrium, said the internet of things was having a huge impact ...
LIC has a new CIO
September 25, 2019
Andrea Black, current GM digital solutions at Genesis Energy, has been appointed CIO at agritech and herd improvement cooperative LIC.She replaces Paul Littlefair, who is now focusing on his director role at ICT consultancy Acuity Partners and as co-founder o...
Launch of the New Zealand Agritech Story
September 16, 2019
New Zealand has a new story to tell, one that highlights the nation’s ingenuity, development of cutting-edge technology, and care for its people and place.The New Zealand Agritech Story provides a compelling way of promoting New Zealand’s agricultural technology internat...
High tech research for hort
September 16, 2019
A major research initiative in horticulture is underway in Bay of Plenty with the formation of the PlantTech Research Institute at Tauranga.
Its research director is Ian Yule, best known for his time as the professor heading precision agriculture at Massey University.Yule de...
Fruit bowl of opportunity in data analytics
September 11, 2019
The perfect tasting raspberry on the other side of the world is at the heart of research by a Hamilton data analytics company, which specialises in crop quality.
The work on raspberries is being done by Delytics at Waikato’s Innovation Park, in collaboration with their cli...
Technology helps assess which bee hives are busiest
September 4, 2019
Marsh's Honey, of Ettrick, is the only commercial honey producer in the South Island to use Hivemind high-tech equipment in beehives to determine which bees got up earlier and worked harder.The business is owned by Russell and Trudie Marsh and celebrated its 85th year in the...
Underwater vision tech offers advancement in aquaculture
August 30, 2019
Hendrix Genetics and Plant & Food Research have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co-develop underwater vision technology for measuring aquaculture breeding stock, using trout as a test case.To accurately select the right animal as a breeding parent, geneticists ...
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