This article showcases our top picks for the best New Zealand based Farming companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Farming industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top New Zealand Farming Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
WayBeyond
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WayBeyond creates technology for a better world. Transforming agriculture using data, artificial intelligence, and plant science.
Agrimap
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Agrimap is a farming app for agribusinesses and farmers to search, share, and collect farm data.
croptide
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Croptide is delivering unprecedented real-time plant intelligence directly to farmers’ hands from the plant stem.
Mainland Poultry
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Mainland Poultry is the producer of egg and egg products in New Zealand, with over 1.2 million layer birds across seven farms.
FMG
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FMG offers farming insurance and farm risk management services.
Bucky Box
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Bucky Box is a cloud commerce and logistics app helping local food businesses sell direct to consumers via subscription
FoodChain
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A digital solutions startup focused on making local sourcing more efficient for both producers and wholesale purchasers
Ballance Agri-Nutrients
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Ballance Agri-Nutrients is a New Zealand farmer-owned co-operative that helps its customers to farm more productively.
Pgg Wrightson
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Pgg Wrightson Ltd is an agriculture related company that provides a diverse range of products and services, support and expertise.
Eastpack
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Eastpack is a kiwifruit farming company that provides packing, orchard management and grower advocacy services.
New Zealand King Salmon Investments
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New Zealand King Salmon is a producer of farmed King salmon.
Tuaropaki Trust
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Tuaropaki Trust specializes in businesses such as communications, geothermal power generation, hydrogen energy, and dairy processing.
OPAC
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OPAC is a kiwifruit post-harvest and orcharding service company.
OSPRI
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OSPRI helps protect and enhance the reputation of New Zealand’s primary industries.
Hustler Equipment
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Hustler Equipment is a farm & garden machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers.
ravensdown
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ravensdown is a farmer-owned co-operative, and our products, expertise and technology help farmers reduce environmental impacts.
Mr Apple
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Mr Apple is New Zealand’s largest, fully integrated grower, packer and marketer of apples.
Regen Ltd.
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Regen Ltd is a provider of cloud-based, precision effluent and irrigation decision support tools.
Balle Bros Group
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Balle Bros Group is an integrated agricultural business.
LeaderBrand
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LeaderBrand specializes in harvesting and distributing fruits and vegetables like broccoli, lettuce, sweetcorn, asparagus, and salad leaf.
AsureQuality
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AsureQuality provides food assurance, biosecurity, certification, inspection, testing and training services to the agricultural industry.
Craigmore Farming
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Craigmore Farming specializes in on-farm management, sustainable farming, grazing, forestry, and horticultural services.
Trevelyan’s
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Trevelyan’s provide packing and cool storage for green and gold kiwifruit as well as avocados.
AgFirst
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AgFirst is a leader in developing innovative and constructive solutions for farming and agricultural businesses.
Power Farming
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Power Farming wholesale distribution of tractor and machinery markets.
Pioneer Brand Products
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Pioneer Brand Products is an agribusiness that represents Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
QCONZ
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QCONZ is a consulting firm that offers custom design and app development, quality assurance, animal welfare, biosecurity & on-farm services.
Farmax Ltd.
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Farmax Ltd. is a decision support tool for pastoral farmers.
Scales Corp Lt
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SCALES CORPORATION LIMITED is a farming company that provides high-quality market information.
McGrath Nurseries
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McGrath Nurseries is a wholesale plant nursery that specializes in growing deciduous fruit trees.
OREGON GROUP LIMITED
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OREGON GROUP LIMITED is a Investment Holding Company.
Dairy Holdings
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Dairy Holdings is a dairy manufacturing company that uses quality pasture to produce and distribute nutrient-rich food and milk products.
Milk New Zealand
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Milk New Zealand offers financial and investment management, dairy farming, branding and supply chain services.
Farm Focus
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Farm Focus provides farm financial and management software services.
AborGen Holdings Ltd
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AborGen Holdings is a producer of tree seedling products and provider of a technology-enhanced genetics for the forest industry.
Allied Farmers
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Allied Farmers has experience in trading livestock, specialising in dairy herds, but operating across all major stock classes.
Pamu
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Pāmu is engaged in the farming sector that offers products such as milk, beef, lamb, wool, and venison.
CLAAS Harvest Centre
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CLAAS Harvest Centre is a retailer that distributes a wide range of agricultural machinery of various brands for all farming activities.
Rayonier Matariki Forests
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Rayonier Matariki Forests provides forest management and harvesting services.
Orion Agriscience
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Orion AgriScience is a leading supplier of crop protection products in delivering practical and effective solutions.
Southern Pastures
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Southern Pastures produces premium healthy dairy products with a focus on climate sustainability, environment and animal welfare.
Horticentre Group
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The Horticentre Group provides horticultural products such as fertilizers, insecticides, screens, fungicides, and evaporators.
NZ Agritrade
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NZ Agritrade manufactures and distributes time capsule, vetmed, and centramax for improving agriculture.
Cropmark Seeds
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Cropmark Seeds is agriculture for animal feed
Speirs Group
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Speirs Group is a food manufacturing company that supplies salad products and vegetables to supermarkets and foodservice customers.
Wools of New Zealand
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Wools of New Zealand is a wool manufacturer.
EcoCover
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EcoCover manufactures biodegradeable weed mat products that are made from waste paper sourced from landfill waste streams.
Donaghys
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Donaghys specializes in horticulture, aquaculture and manufacturing.
26 Seasons
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26 Seasons is a technology to grow plant produce microgreens packed with nutrients, for all seasons of the year.
Nelson Forests
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Nelson Forests is a vertically-integrated plantation and sawmill business.
