News

14 October 2022

Growing up in Bulgaria in a region where winemaking has been a way of life for hundreds of years introduced Marlborough winemaker Diana Katardzhieva to her lifelong career.

22 November 2021

With 41 dedicated dairy experts across the motu, Primary ITO’s people are dedicated to getting on every farm – wherever learners need them.  

9 July 2021

Ahuwhenua Young Māori Farmer of the year winner Quinn Morgan almost gave up on finding a job in Aotearoa in 2020 and was headed back to Australia to live with his young whānau when he landed a job on a dairy farm.

19 February 2021

An innovative West Coast education initiative aims to get more agriculture learners in jobs more quickly by giving them better training options.

12 February 2021

Accountants, bankers and chefs are now among the people looking for dairy training supported by Dani Low.

11 February 2021

Coming from farming stock, Taranaki’s Jaclyn (Jax) Flintoff was always going to pursue a career in agriculture, but it was the television show McLeod’s Daughters that sealed the deal.

11 January 2021

West Coast dairy farmer Sian Madden looks back and laughs about having a “diploma baby” when she recalls mixing first-time motherhood with studying for her diploma.

22 June 2020

'Every Minute & Every Cent’ Spent on Diploma Well Worth It

24 January 2020

Primary ITO is announcing some exciting changes in 2020 with the splitting our New Zealand Certificates in Agriculture (both Levels 3 and 4) into “modules”. Each of the modules making up a certificate will be able to be completed within a year.

16 October 2019

Having won the 2007 national Farm Manager of the Year Award with her husband, Daniel, Emily Woolsey had a pretty good grasp of dairy farming – yet she knew there was so much more to learn.