The season for awards - yawn!!
OPINION: It seems every bugger in this country can get an award these days.
Kiwi-made avocado milk has been named a winner at the World Food Innovation Awards 2020.
The milk took out gold in the awards’ best health or wellness drink category on Thursday night in London.
The ‘avocadomilk’ brand is the creation of New Zealand chef, Sachie Nomura.
The milk, said to be a world-first, is created out of avocadoes and oat milk in Hawke’s Bay.
The dairy-free milk “tastes like avocado” and “is good for you like avocado”, according to the avocadomilk website.
Avocadomilk says unlike avocadoes, the milk’s price stays stable and has a long shelf life of 10 months.
The milk is sold in 100 stores in the US, but it is not yet available in New Zealand.
South Waikato farm manager Ben Purua’s amazing transformation from gang life to milking cows was rewarded with the Ahuwhenua Young Maori Farmer award last night.
Bankers have been making record profits in the last few years, but those aren’t the only records they’ve been breaking, says Federated Farmers vice president Richard McIntyre.
The 2023-24 season has been a roller coaster ride for Waikato dairy farmers, according to Federated Farmers dairy section chair, Mathew Zonderop.
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) director general Ray Smith says job cuts announced this morning will not impact the way the Ministry is organised or merge business units.
Scales Corporation is acquiring a number of orchard assets from Bostock Group.
Family and solidarity shone through at the 75 years of Ferdon sale in Otorohanga last month.