Chasing Zespri’s golden crop

Chasing Zespri’s golden crop
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Paul McBeth
MyFarm Investments is hustling to raise money for its new kiwifruit fund and has a clear eye for tapping into Zespri’s fields of gold. SunGold, that is. We all know the success story of SunGold kiwifruit.It had been under development for about a decade, but when the Pseudomonas syringae pv actinidiae (Psa) bacteria was discovered in late 2010 and went on to infect about 40% of the nation’s orchards, things escalated pretty quick-smart. It wasn’t a sure thing. Zespri said at the time that the Gold3 variety showed...

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