Soils
Alan Brady on Neil Diamond's Cracklin' Rosie
29 Nov 2020
Fifty years ago, Neil Diamond's 'Cracklin' Rosie' was on top of the NZ music charts. 'Crackling Rose' was an inexpensive sparkling wine. The founding father of Central Otago wine, Alan Brady remembers… Audio
First global assessment of soil quality
3 Dec 2015
December 5 is World Soil Day and the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization is preparing for the release of the world's first report on the quality of our soils. Audio
Science of stony soils and water
8 Oct 2015
There are a million hectares of stony soils in New Zealand - and scientists are using lysimeters to measure how water and cow urine move through them Audio