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OPINION: European farmers are going to extreme lengths to have their message heard.
A former dairy farm in a secluded valley on the fringe of Nelson Lakes National Park is set to become New Zealand's biggest hop garden.
A 175ha dairy farm in Kohatu, Tapawera, 52km west of Nelson, sold in October 2018 for conversion to a hop garden, is another example of change in land use driving sales of rural property.
Low interest rates are driving record enquiries for cash yielding real assets, says the rural syndicate property investor MyFarm Investments.
PLANT & Food Research, in partnership with NZ Hops and Chris Little Engineering, have formally opened a new research brewery at the company's Motueka site.
The 'Hop Lab' has been designed to allow the hops breeding team the ability to create experimental trial brews from promising new hop cultivars in order to evaluate sensory characteristics.
OPINION: European farmers are going to extreme lengths to have their message heard.
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