Dairy

Organics Aotearoa New Zealand (OANZ) will present their industry awards to leaders from the organic wine and dairy sectors, in a gala dinner at the University of Waikato this evening.

The Director of Switzerland's Federal Office for Agriculture, Dr Manfred Bötsch, will address the Organics Aotearoa New Zealand (OANZ) Organic Sector Conference in November.

Four leaders in innovative farming practices have today been announced as keynote presenters to the Organics Aotearoa New Zealand (OANZ) Organic Sector Conference, which will take place at the University of Waikato from 13 to 15 November.

Speech by Gavin Middleton, Organics Aotearoa New Zealand, to the "Fonterra Organics Conference", Matamata, Tuesday June 17, 2008.

One of my favourite things about being involved in the organic sector is that we are such a close-knit community.  It's great traceability - I can shop at the supermarket but know where my food came from.  Unlike many other city-dwellers, I can pick a product off the shelf knowing who grew it, the state of their farm and their animals, and then come to Fieldays - or conferences like this - and meet the people whose hard work I appreciate at dinner time.