Vegetable Product Group collaboration - what do you think?

1 September 2025

Onions New Zealand, Potatoes New Zealand, Process Vegetables New Zealand, Tomatoes New Zealand and Vegetables New Zealand are inviting growers to provide feedback on the Business Case for a new, single Vegetable Industry Good Structure.

Click here to read the Business Case 

Each Board wants to hear from its growers, so its Directors can be confident they they understand their members’ viewpoints, before the proposal is taken any further.

Click here to read the letter to members

Meetings are also being held around the country to provide growers with the opportunity for robust discussion on the proposal. 

Location

Date

Time

Venue

Havelock North

10 Sept

5-7pm

Havelock North Events Centre

Ohakune

11 Sept

9am-1pm

Powderhorn Chateau

Levin

11 Sept

4-6pm

Levin Cosmopolitan Club (TBC)

Christchurch

17 Sept

1-3pm

FMG, Level 1, 3 Robin Mann Place

Ashburton

17 Sept

5.30-7.30pm

Ashburton Events Centre

Pukekohe

18 Sept

6-7.30pm

Navigation Homes Stadium

Nelson

24 Sept

5-7pm

TBC

Webinars

15 Sept (afternoon)

16 Sept (morning)

TBC

Online

Click here to RSVP to a local meeting

Providing feedback

Growers can provide feedback using this form.

Vegetable NZ members can also provide feedback directly to Vegetables NZ Board Vice Chair, Warwick Simpson, who is the Vegetables NZ representative on the governance group for the collaboration project. 

Email | wjsimpson@gmail.com

Phone | 022 637 2010

Feedback is requested by 20 September.