WEBINAR: Darling Group export market update
2025-02-26 10:00 - 11:00 (Pacific/Auckland)
Join the Darling Group marketing team for an update on the 2024-25 avocado export season and plans for 2025-26.
Most of the time in this webinar will be allocated to covering off your questions in a Q&A session so please come with a list.
If you have any topics or questions that you would like us to prepare information on to present or other questions you want to ensure we cover – please send them to midge@darlinggroup.co.nz by 19 February.
Register at the link below.

Meeting: 2024-25 season review and 2025-26 preview (Mount Maunganui + Livestream)
2025-04-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Club Mount Maunganui, 45 Kawaka Street, Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty, 3116, New Zealand
Join the Just Avocados and Darling Group teams to take a deep dive into the outcomes and activity in the 2024-25 season and discuss the forecast for the coming season.
PLEASE NOTE RSVPs for this event closed 5pm, 27 March and we are at capacity for the venue and licencing. Please register at the link below to watch this event over a livestream.
https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ac1dba2c-ca4c-48ba-805b-42adb27385a0@88d4ddc1-5fab-4f50-86c5-9c674a889347

Just Avocados workshop - Fertiliser, pruning, and orchard testing with Hill Labs.
2025-05-01 10:00 - 11:30 | Gordon MacLeod and Jane Watson-Baker, 5 Waiau Road, Athenree, Bay of Plenty, 3177, New Zealand
Hosted by Gordon MacLeod and Jane Watson-Baker where we will discuss basic fertiliser applications and pruning large trees while maintaining production. We will also have Sheena and Caroline from Hill Labs who will cover soil and leaf testing. You will gain a better understand of what happens to your samples when they go to the lab. Topics they will cover are:

Residue testing
Heavy metal testing
Water testing
Soil and leaf testing
Phosphate and Cadmium correlation and testing the soil.
Carbon:Nitrogen and organic matter profile testing, to track soil health changes

Light refreshments will be available.
This session will be recorded and available on Thrive.

Just Avocados workshop - Fruit size, harvest efficiency, and Uretara Orchard update.
2025-07-02 10:00 - 11:30 | Uretara Orchard, 189 Henry Road, Katikati, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Join the team from Avoworks for an update on Uretara Orchard and how they achieve cost savings without impacting yield.

Cameron Byrom will talk harvest efficiency and reducing harvest costs.
Nathan Darling will present a fruit sizing chart and a discussion on the cost benefit of fruit thinning.
There will be an opportunity for an orchard walk at the end.

We will start at 10:00am sharp so please arrive at 9:45am for orchard sign in.
Please note – Henry Road is off Busby Road.
Allow 90 mins for this session.
Take extra caution when crossing the river ford in the driveway.
Please register your attendance by emailing hello@darlinggroup.co.nz.
This workshop will be recorded and available on Thrive as soon as possible following the session.

WEBINAR: Darling Group export market update
2025-10-09 10:00 - 11:00
Join the Darling Group marketing team for an update on the 2025-26 NZ avocado export season.
Most of the time in this webinar will be allocated to covering off your questions in a Q&A session so please come with a list.
If you have any topics or questions that you would like us to prepare information on to present or other questions you want to ensure we cover – please send them to midge@darlinggroup.co.nz by 29th September.

WORKSHOP - High density planting and light interception
2025-10-29 10:00 - 11:00
Hosts: Moutere Farm – Kobus and Karin du Plessis
Time: 10.00am – 11.00am
Date: Wednesday 29th October
Location: 268 Woodland Road, Katikati
RSVP: By 21 October to kyra@justavocados.co.nz
Join us at Kobus and Karin’s Moutere Farm Orchard to talk about high density planting and light interception. This is a great opportunity to learn, share ideas, and see practical solutions in action. This workshop will be recorded and available on Thrive as soon as possible following the session.

COURSE - First aid course for growers
2025-11-19 07:30 - 14:30
Time: 7:30am – 2:30pm
Date: Wednesday 19th November 2025
Location: provided upon registration
RSVP: by 21 October to hello@darlinggroup.co.nz
Course details:

Course Type: Non–unit standard training contextualised to your workplace
Cost: $140+gst per person for up to 12, $100 per person thereafter

Includes: Certificates, participant books, and handouts over a 6 – 6.5hr time frame

Optional Qualification: NZQA Unit Standards 6401 and 6402 available upon request

Additional cost: $50 per person
Additional time: 1 hour for assessment paperwork
Government ID requirement: Passport or birth certificate only (driver’s licences cannot be accepted)
Lunch: Please bring your own lunch, tea and coffee will be provided.

Please register your attendance by emailing hello@darlinggroup.co.nz

WEBINAR: Darling Group export and domestic market update
2025-12-15 14:30 - 15:30
Join the Darling Group team for a brief export and domestic market update.
Most of the time in this webinar will be allocated to covering off your questions in a Q&A session.
If you have any topics or questions that you would like us to prepare information on to present, please send them to hello@darlinggroup.co.nz 10 December.
