Articles Archive
September 25, 2023
How to thrive in Protected Cropping using innovative CO2 solutions
While many growers consider an uncertain energy and CO2 landscape, Optimal Group is developing and supporting Australian engineered low carbon solutions to address a global challenge.
July 31, 2023
Reduce your energy costs with a free energy assessment!
Vegetables New Zealand’s, Ellery Peters to assist with energy reduction options
July 14, 2023
Australasia’s largest greenhouse builder sells minority stake to Dutch CEA player GreenV
New Zealand and Australia’s largest commercial greenhouse construction company, Apex Greenhouses, has agreed to sell a minority stake to GreenV B.V, a Dutch-based aggregator of smart greenhouse technology suppliers around the world.
June 19, 2023
The best way to increase consumption is to make produce more affordable
Greenhouse vegetable prices have risen sharply in previous weeks and could go even higher. On Saturday night, on the TV one news, there was a report on the cost of tomatoes at present, and how expensive they are (and will possibly continue to rise in coming weeks). The reasons given for the increase in price is due to a shortage in supply, which has been put down to recent harsh weather conditions and crop losses. These are part of the reason, but other significant factors are at work.
April 24, 2023
Glass that combines an AR coating with a low-e coating can save about 22% additional energy
The anti-reflection coating increases light transmission, while the low-emission coating reduces heat loss from the greenhouse
April 24, 2023
Anaerobic Digestion (AD) technology – Could this be used to provide energy for protected cropping?
Gaia’s biodigester to assist AgVic’s Ellinbank SmartFarm to become the world’s first carbon-neutral grazing-based dairy farm
March 28, 2023
UPDATE – Apply for an extension on your ETS return
Twenty working day extension avaialable to submit emmissions return
February 28, 2023
Managing your emission units in the NZ Emissions Trading Register
What do you do with your allocation of emmission units
February 28, 2023
Applying for an industrial allocation in the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme
EPA Industrial allocation:
February 28, 2023
Time is running out to make a submission to claim Industry Allocations (IA’s) for last season. Grower2Grower can help growers claim the units they are entitled to
Final or Provisional allocation applications must be applied for between the 1st of January – 30th of April each year. A staggering number of growers are still not registered or applying for their IA’s. As of 2021 only 15 of 90 levy paying tomato growers were receiving IA units. Potentially growers are missing out on tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of units each year.
