09 October 2019
It’s great to be back in New Zealand. Having just returned from the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland, where I joined 20+ New Zealand agritech entities on the Callaghan Innovation-led agritech mission, leveraging our expertise globally is especially topical.
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18 September 2019
Beannachdan bho Irelad (Greetings from Ireland). In fact, greetings from the 2019 Irish Ploughing Championships in Carlow.
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19 August 2019
Agritech New Zealand is looking forward to co-hosting the All of Government agritech taskforce roadshow when it visits Hamilton next Monday (26 August), Lincoln on Thursday week (29 August) and Tauranga (Monday 2 September). This is industry’s opportunity to provide feedback to the taskforce on their strategic thinking about how to support and scale New … Continue reading "Calling Palmerston North & Auckland. Have you registered for the government’s agritech consultation workshops yet?"
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The New Zealand Government Agritech Strategy Consultation Workshops are designed to enable industry to provide feedback to the recently released Government strategy document supporting the growth of the New Zealand agritech sector. The first two workshops are being held in Palmerston North &
July 28, 2019
Kia Ora Readers It’s been a very busy few weeks with a number of major agritech initiatives and events taking place. These include: the formal preview of the New Zealand Agritech story, Powered by Place. View it here. the establishment of a new agritech venture fund, bringin
July 25, 2019
The NZ Government Agritech Strategy Consultation Workshops are designed to enable members of Agritech New Zealand & the Precision Agriculture Association of New Zealand (PAANZ) to provide feedback to the recently released Government strategy document supporting the growth of the New Zealand agr
July 17, 2019
Agritech New Zealand is proud to be the first ‘Country Partner’ of the Farm2050 ecosystem, committed to advancing the future of food by supporting agritech entrepreneurs and start-ups. This unique ecosystem will be coming together in an Ideation Day, hosted by Innovation Endeavors and Fini
July 16, 2019
Scale-Up NZ is a significant platform that is being built out by Callaghan Innovation. It is designed to shine a light on New Zealand’s thriving innovation ecosystem. It delivers accurate insights on ambitious, innovative New Zealand companies, removing information gaps that too often prevent our
July 10, 2019
Callaghan Innovation, in partnership with Agritech New Zealand and NZTE, is coordinating a mission around the 2019 Irish National Ploughing Championships and UK Dairy Day. If you think National Fieldays is big, think again. The Irish National Ploughing Championships attracts over 300,000 visitor
July 9, 2019
On Friday morning, Jacqui and I were invited to a small ‘town hall’ event just outside Watsonville in Northern California. We joined 60+ local specialty crop growers listen to US Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue (pictured above) and Congressman Jimmy Panetta talk about the US Federal gove
July 1, 2019
Today a large delegation of experienced New Zealand agri robotic and automation researchers and entrepreneurs arrived in Salinas, Northern California. We are here to meet Agritech New Zealand partner, Western Growers, the largest producers of fresh produce in North America. That’s 50%+
June 25, 2019
At Agritech Unleashed, it was great to hear the positive commitment from the Hon Damien O’Connor towards New Zealand’s agritech sector. It was a commitment that I heard repeated several times during National Fieldays from others including Prime Minister Jacinda Arden and Minister David Parke
June 18, 2019