OPINION: Like many of you, I’m so over the uninformed knockers of primary industries.

A Canterbury vegetable growing company already well-recognised for its environmental initiatives has gone a big step further with a large solar power installation to power its packing and storage facilities.

Investing in precision agriculture has provided North Canterbury farmer Roscoe Taggart with benefits - environmental, social and financial.

It's often said the ingenuity of farmers and growers knows no bounds.

Kirstin Deuss believes the findings of her research work into soil drainage in Southland will have benefits for other parts of New Zealand as well.

Horsch's new Maestro precision drill offers the choice of the new AirSpeed system.

Machines with wider working widths have become a lot more common on the farm, particularly in the grass and hay production arena, where oversized rakes and tedders have helped to increase daily output dramatically.

With its Oxin autonomous vineyard vehicle now at an advanced stage of development, Marlborough-based start-up Smart Machines is beginning to eye the wider New Zealand and, ultimately, international market.

A stem-to-cloud tool that transmits plant water health to a grower's phone is "the way of the future", says a viticulturist trialling the water-saving technology.

New tools being developed through one of the Hill Country Futures programme aims to help farmers better manage sustainability and production across diverse landscapes within their farms.