News
23 June 2020
Nga Rakau Nurseries was founded by the Beaumont family in the 1930s, on a block of land at Mudgeways Road in Massey, which is their home base to this day.
23 June 2020
Rainbow Park Nurseries has been growing plants and trees since 1977, and now supplies over 1. 5 million plants to retailers across the country from their 15-hectare nursery.
22 June 2020
'Every Minute & Every Cent’ Spent on Diploma Well Worth It
22 June 2020
If you’ve ever wondered where a career in sports turf can take you, Ben Engels can attest that it can take you quite literally around the world.
16 June 2020
The Government’s announcement of more school-based trades training is a great opportunity to attract promising learners into farming, horticulture, and the wider food and fibre industries, Primary ITO chief executive Nigel Philpott says.
16 June 2020
We recently contacted sheep, beef and deer farmers across New Zealand to see how valuable Primary ITO on-farm learning is for their farming businesses.
20 May 2020
Most New Zealanders picture a shepherd as being a ‘good Kiwi bloke’, surrounded by dogs, driving an ATV and patrolling vast high country stations.
24 January 2020
Primary ITO is announcing some exciting changes in 2020 with the splitting our New Zealand Certificates in Agriculture (both Levels 3 and 4) into “modules”. Each of the modules making up a certificate will be able to be completed within a year.
16 December 2019
It’s hard not to feel outnumbered when you’re an equine vet surrounded by dairy and sheep farmers.
16 November 2019
Viticulture is a practical industry suited to practical people – so discussing budgets and financial spreadsheets with an accountant isn’t usually an enjoyable conversation.