Jacks Machinery and Coast & Country News go way back. In fact, there’s not a single Coast & Country newspaper without a Jacks Machinery ad on the... Read More

There’s a knack to gauging what the next big thing in machinery will be, and Jacks Machinery has it. “When we started stocking ride-on lawnmowers... Read More

A photo of a gentleman with a long, curly mullet, large glasses and a patterned collared shirt – that’s how Bruce Pittams illustrates how... Read More

When it comes to stocking specialty orchard equipment, Jacks Machinery was ahead of the game. “We stocked our first horticulture specific tractor,... Read More

Jacks Machinery has lived through a lot in its 50 years. It survived the radical economic changes between the heavily-regulated Muldoon Government in... Read More

If you mix a passion for horticulture with a healthy dose of Kiwi ingenuity, a big spoonful of family values and a splash of entrepreneurship, you’d... Read More

Like a ponga fern, Phil Parker’s driveway off Wharawhara Rd slowly unfurls opening a glade behind a tree-lined boundary and your eyes to a relaxed... Read More

Five years ago, if anyone had told South African Nicky Brzeska that she’d be trading in her urban London life, her stressful, high-powered PR management... Read More

Standing in his self-built mushroom-growing room on his parents’ Whakamarama property, Billy Roy is worlds away from his former career in the film... Read More

Since 2002, Teresa and Philip Linehan have been producing quality sweetcorn. Initially growing on Teresa’s father’s farm, then on a four-acre... Read More

Fonterra’s Te Awamutu site is taking its next step in its transition away from coal use, with commissioning the use of wood pellets last month. The... Read More

A Waikato dairy farmer and regional councillor favours education over interrogation for farm effluent management. Stu Husband, who farms at Tauhei,... Read More

Caleb Higham is an ‘information broker’ between farmers and associated organisations in the management and disposal of dairy effluent. From... Read More

Taxpayers are likely to have to pay billions of dollars for imported carbon credits, if planting production forests is to be restricted with the idea... Read More

Avoco is excited to announce it has donated $10,000 to a Bay of Plenty project aiming to train and educate people of all ages in horticulture. The donation... Read More