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Friday, August 6th, 2021Grains & Pulses Forum – June 2021
Friday, June 18th, 2021With the 2020 Forum being cancelled due to Covid, the 2021 was attended by close to 100 merchants, suppliers, growers, grain end users and other industry professionals.
Developed and hosted the NZGSTA, Grains & Pulses Chair Ed Luisetti said he was “pleased with the turn out as it was an important annual fixture bringing industry colleagues together to discuss and collaborate around key challenges and opportunities in the sector”.
The forum was addressed by eight expert speakers on the day, followed by a BBQ lunch thank you to sponsor Mainfreight Air & Ocean and Owens Transport.
Thank you to everyone who attended to make the day a success and to sponsors.
Photos below – Nick Tuffley – ASB Bank; Ed Luisetti – NZGSTA Chair; Two Raw Sisters – Margo & Rosa; Rachel Baker – Kellogg Rural Leader
Grain & Seed Trade Golf Day – May 2021
Monday, May 24th, 2021The Ashburton Grain & Seed Association & New Zealand Grain & Seed Trade Association held the annual Ambrose Golf Day on Thursday 20th May on a perfect Canterbury autumn day.
Hosted by the Tinwald Golf Club with around 80 players made up of association members, managers, agents, office and store staff.
The Duncan Storrier trophy was up for grabs with the 2020 winners keen to retain it. However, being a game of 18 holes, the pressure was on and with only 2.75 shots between first and second place, the team from Hamburg Sud took out the win and the trophy.
The Hamburg team members were Mark Ryan, Grant Milner, David King and Gordon Kenton with a score of 55 shots; followed by second place Speciality Seeds with 57.75 shots.
A great day out was had by all and industry members got the opportunity to network and catch up.
Thank you to all those who took part in the day and sponsors to help make the day a success.
Hamburg Sud winning team – 2021Women in Seed Forum – 2021
Monday, May 24th, 2021Women in Seed Forum – May 2021
The second NZGSTA Women in Seed Forum was held at Riccarton Park Function Centre on the 19th of May and attended by 108 women from the Seed Industry.
The roles of these women varied from agronomists, lab technicians, logistics roles, administrative roles, account managers, research technicians, grain traders, farmers and those passionate about the grain and seed industries.
Developed and hosted by the New Zealand Grain and Seed Trade Association, Executive Councillor Charlotte Connoley, the purpose of the forum was to provide more opportunities for networking amongst women within the industry in addition to providing a platform for further discussion and collaboration around key challenges and opportunities that face the grain and seed industries.
Full article will be in the May/June Newsletter.
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Charlotte Connoley & Nicola Grigg MP
Alison Stewart – CEO FAR
Deb Francis – AgRecruit
Two Raw Sisters – Rosa & Margo
Alana Crampton – Tavendale & Partners
Milly Taylor – Mainfreight Air & Ocean
Megan van Lieshout – Soul NourishmentLuisetti Seeds – Commitment to growers and markets
Wednesday, May 5th, 2021Pektus machine marks a new era for Luisetti Seeds.
The cutting-edge Pektus seed and cereal cleaning, treating and packing production line represents Luisetti Seeds’ commitment to growers and markets.
Congratulations to the Luisetti team on the opening of the new Pektus plant in Ashburton last month.
Photos –
Richard Luisetti and Mark Frampton on the new Pektus plant;
Hon Damien O’Connor along with Max Luisetti cutting the ribbon to officially open the new plant alongside Vincent Luisetti
COVID-19 Update – From Ray Smith – MPI – 27 February 2021
Monday, March 1st, 2021Kia Ora,
The Prime Minister announced tonight that Auckland will move to Alert Level 3 from 6am, Sunday February 28, and the rest of the country will move to Alert Level 2.
The Alert Levels will initially be in place for a period of seven days while further investigations are conducted.
The primary sector can continue to operate at both levels 2 and 3. Businesses and workers need to comply with the Government’s COVID-19 alert level settings and observe any protocols for their particular industry. For more information please see here.
An Alert Level boundary will be in place around Auckland. Many primary sector businesses will be able to travel across the Alert Level boundary. These include businesses involved in:
- primary processing, production and supply of food and drink. It also includes businesses involved in the production of packaging for the products of primary production for food ordrink and all businesses transporting freight.
- veterinary and animal health and welfare services, but only if travel between Alert Level areas is necessary to enable the service to be provided and not providing the service would result in animal welfare concerns.
Please note, forestry and wood processing can operate within the alert level boundaries, but they will have to apply for an exemption to travel across the alert level boundary unless they are involved in packaging for food and drink. Note that forestry and wood processing freight can cross the border, but not employees going to work.
More information about permitted activities, exemptions and travel across Alert Level boundaries can be found here on the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment’s (MBIE) website.
Register to travel
A reminder that MBIE has developed a Business Travel Register (see here) to enable businesses and organisations to request travel documents: either for permitted activities or, if required, to seek an exemption to travel from the Director-General of Health if your business activity does not appear on the permitted activities referred to above.
The Business Travel Register will generate Business Travel Documents for workers to display at checkpoints. This includes a QR code, which enables Police at the cordon to verify the document digitally against the travel register. It is important that today you register your businesses for travel.
If you requested and received Business Travel Documents during the Alert Level 3 in Auckland earlier this month, or received an exemption, you can use those documents and do not need to apply again.
Thank you for your perseverance and commitment to continue operating while keeping your staff and New Zealanders safe from COVID-19.
Ray Smith
MPI Director-General
Webinar – 9 March from Midday – Challenges Facing International Traders in 2021
Monday, February 22nd, 2021Challenges Facing International Traders in 2021
A webinar will be held Tuesday 9th March from midday – for Grain and Seed “Challenges facing International Traders in 2021”
The webinar will be for approximately an hour and in conjunction with Western Union.
You will need to register and details will be sent out very soon.
It will be recorded so if you can’t make it at midday the recording can be sent to you.
This morning the USD has hit almost a 3 year high so given the major banks are calling it as a potential shift to .78 NZD/USD ( which of course ) is never guaranteed, and currency analyst’s are talking of potentially higher.
