Rural Delivery - Series Four, Episode Nine

Horticulture returns have now increased every year since 1980 and the industry predicts annual sales of over $10 billion by 2020.

– Presenter Roger Bourne

Most of the apricots grown in New Zealand are for the domestic or Australian market, but there is a gap in the European market that New Zealand growers are keen to fill with robust late-season varieties.

– Presenter Roger Bourne

We are concerned where farming may go in the future. There are ups and downs, there seem to be more downs than ups. So we've got to use the farm — the land side of it — as efficiently as we can to establish other cash flow streams.

– Wānaka-based farmer Jerry Bell on diversifying into the deer industry