Grapegrowers should learn about Freshwater Farm Plans before the regulations are rolled out next year.

Conversations on the morning of the Hawke’s Bay edition of Grape Days 2023 were about the heavy rain watch in place for Auckland and its potential threat to the Football Ferns’ opening game against Norway.

When Dr Robert Holdaway was a kid, he wanted a bach and a boat in the Marlborough Sounds, not a block of marginal land up the Wairau Valley.

Successfully generating a reference genome for Sauvignon Blanc is just one step towards improving New Zealand's most important grapevine variety, albeit a big one.

The first genome assembly Dr Annabel Whibley worked on was for a butterfly, tracking 21 chromosomes fragmented into nearly 4,000 pieces, at the Museum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

Mal McLennan grew up in an industry steeped in generational succession, where politics was governed by an old guard.

Nearly 30 years after he joined Mission Estate, Peter Holley says every single day has been exciting.

Dr David Jordan has spent his career taking science into New Zealand vineyards, while heeding the knowledge and experience of those in the field.

When Judy and Neal Ibbotson met in the late 1960s, he was a farm adviser, she was a dental nurse, and they were each dating the other's flatmate. "We swapped partners," explains Neal. "It was the best thing we ever did."

Living in the heart of Waiheke wine country gives Chrissy Powlesland seasonal insights that delight her in life and work.

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