It was good to meet many of you at the recent Growing strong summerfruit conference in Napier. I appreciated learning about where you fit in the industry and hearing your perspectives on the many issues and opportunities for the summerfruit sector. I’d like to thank our platinum sponsor MG Marketing and all the sponsors for supporting the summerfruit industry and helping the conference happen.
Thanks also to the speakers, exhibitors and to everyone who attended. I hope you all enjoyed the conference and learned something new or were inspired by one of the range of speakers. Once speakers' presentations become available, they will be uploaded on to the members' portal and notified via Prunings.
If you have any feedback about the conference – what you liked or think we should do less or more of next time, please let us know by email here.
I look forward to working with Roger Brownlie, the new Chair of the Board, and Trudi Webb, the new deputy Chair. I’d like to acknowledge Tim Jones for his leadership during his time as Chair – thanks for everything you’ve done for the industry Tim.