"All the equipment we use is what the best pasta-makers around the world and Italy use," Petrie told Country Life. Follow Country Life on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart or wherever you get your podcasts. "We put all this prestige around wine grapes [...] but why do we look at, say a paddock of wheat any differently?" Photo: RNZ/Sally RoundThey had grown five hectares each this year producing 60 to 80 tonnes of flour in total. Back at Monty and Sons, Petrie said his experience working on big broadacre cropping farms in Australia was also a factor in his support of locally-grown wheat.

Source: Stuff April 04, 2026 12:49 UTC