Follow the Cultivar Import Project

New on the NZWIG Website is a section providing the background and updates on the cultivar importation project.  We intend to keep the pages up to date with progress through the years so that growers can take an interest in how the selections are doing.
Check it out — here.

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Talk on Climate Change for Tree Croppers

Tuesday 21 July, 7-9pm, Talk by NIWA on Climate Change
Venue: Canterbury Horticultural Centre, Hagley Park, Christchurch. Talk will be in the Wattling Room on the ground floor.
Climate science, adaptation to and mitigation of changes re tree crops; the value of trees as carbon sinks; tree species suitability in global warming scenarios; historical cycles vs anthropogenic [...]

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Choosing the cultivars to import for trial

[the following information has been supplied by Heather North from the NZWIG Research Committee, for members' information and comment.  It outlines the characteristics under consideration for each of the cultivars  - GN]
HOWARD + LARA
Going by the recent Special Information Meeting, people seem pretty happy with Howard and Lara as two definites for import. They came [...]

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