Agribusiness
Hundreds of hectares of Hawke's Bay vines come out, and water limits leave the land with nowhere to go
Vineyard land on the Heretaunga Plains is selling at pastoral prices — one 30.7 ha block with a $2.8 million rateable value fetched $800,000 — as the wine downturn, Wattie's and McCain pulling back and years of paused water consenting under the regional council's contested TANK plan leave growers un