Most tree crops news is covered by our superb quarterly magazine TreeCropper.
Our main activities are updated in Events - fieldays.
Supplementary local news is likely to appear in Events - Branch pages
Exceptional national news is noted below - perhaps with some interesting trivia.
Contents - latest to top
2010 – more news here soon –
- Walnut blogletter launched by Nick Nelson-Parker
- Dr Don McKenzie Award 2010 presented to Dr Gordon Lees
- Doug (Douglas John) Davies passed away on 7th May 2010
- Fresh Local Produce
- Articles archive for TreeCropper updated, now sortable
2009
- Forestry Venture Scuttled by ETS
- Obituary: Jim Dunckley
- Internet Explorer version 8 – a Relief for the Entire Internet
- Tree-To-Earth pH Difference May Generate Harvestable Energy
- WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT THE BEE???
- Cinderella fruit: Wild delicacies become cash crops
- Vineyard Poles and Railway Sleeper Supply
- First commercial crop of vanilla pods grown in New Zealand
- Conference 2010 Early-bird Bookings Now Open...
- Hazelnut research makes progress
- 'Tree power' harvests bio-energy - for weather and fire prediction
- Tree pruning restrictions felled - Resource Management Act pruned
- New ideas take root at tree nursery - exporting live trees
- NZ apples sent to UK generate own weight in CO2
- Fruit trees will be rail trail attraction - replanting historic orchard
- Fruit Driller Caterpillar - Public Meeting
- Guava Moth threat
- Tree Croppers mourn the death of Dick Roberts
- Nick Nelson-Parker wins Dr Don McKenzie Award at Conference 2009
2008
- Bees and Trees - and nasty bee diseases from Australia...
- Papaya, and the Genetic Manipulation of food supply?
- Diana Loader Honorary Life Membership Award
- Jenny Lawrence wins Dr Don McKenzie Award
- Peter Fraser - Trees on Farms
- NEWS RELEASE - Fruit Driller Caterpillar has reached Auckland
- Conference 2008 in Cromwell was superb - some insights
- Eastwoodhill Road Trip - ANZAC Weekend 2008
- Sadly, Joe Polaischer left us
2007
- Fabulous new Apple Reference by Nev Dawkins
- ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) announced by NZ Government
- TreeCropper 51
- some recent fig articles
- promoting New Zealand Wood
- Robinia pseudoacacia
- The Overstory
- Tree Croppers' Stuff - and Properties - For Sale!
- FAQ archive
- This website moved
- Featured Newsletter
- The Story of the Apple
- Plums - An Introductory Guide
- Apple Cancer Research Update
- Murray Redpath wins Dr Don McKenzie Award
- TreeCropper 49 (March 2007)
2006
- Obituary: Graham Harris
- Farmers Market?
- New crops/tree crops are a long-term gamble - Open Opinion
- Obituary - Owen A G Long
- Olive alert
- Obituary - Brian Sprigings
- Arden Andersen to lecture in New Zealand
- Stakeholder Update - High Value Crops
- Tree Crops 2006 Conference
- Report on the Fig Workshop
2005
- Fig workshop in Upper Hutt
- Ernie New passed away
- death of Ross Jamieson
- Management Committee, Research Co-ordinators and Communicators meeting
- Bush Vitality - Assessed and Restored
2004
- Roland Clark died on 10 November 2004
- Hi-cane®
- Conference 2004
- 30 year anniversary
- Valuable timber salvage guidelines
- Branch Innovations Fund announced!
2003
- PAHOIA Estate Olive Oil win Gold at the New Zealand Extra Virgin Olive Oil Awards
- Waimea Nursery contracted to graft a seedling of Meyric
- Hortdays at Tauranga's new Baypark Stadium
- A modest tribute to Mary Banks
- Annual Reports are worthy of careful study by all tree croppers
- NZ Walnut Industry Group (WIG) Conference
2002
- Taumaranui, Taupo, Turangi Sub-Branch of Waikato and Thames-Coromandel Branch
- New diagnostic laboratory for honey bee viruses
- Hedgehogs confirmed as significant destroyers
- Renowned Tree Cropper and Farmer Mike Smith dies
- Our Website Is One Year Young
- Discussion - Genetic Moderation
- Hi-Cane® information
- Wanted - Coppice Poles
- Southern Woods Nursery retail web site
- Blacklisted weeds selling over internet
- The guava moth, another unwelcome insect pest
- Organic pipfruit research goes holistic
- Fruit-Driller Caterpillar Threatens Fruit Horticulture
- Tree Crops award for Gail's huge effort
- Honeybees in a Mite More Than Trouble
- Tree Crops in Schools
- Horror weed thrives in Bay of Plenty - Kudzu outbreaks
- Trees used as effluent sponge
- Plant Quarantine Facility
- Experimental antidote for 1080 successfully trialed
Launched May 2002
