Press Release – New Zealand National Party

The Minister for Biosecurity has confirmed he has been sitting on report tracing the outbreak of the cattle disease Mycoplasma Bovis since December last year, Nationals Spokesperson for Biosecurity Nathan Guy says. Read more »

Press Release – Goat Welfare

Goat Welfare NZ The habitual tethering of goats on and off roadsides is still not being addressed by the new animal welfare regulations. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

March 29 (BusinessDesk) – T&G Global named a new chief executive and chief operating officer to lead the fruit marketer, and said the acting chief executive will step down at the end of this month. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Government

Cabinet has approved a raft of new regulations to strengthen our animal welfare system, says Associate Minister of Agriculture responsible for animal welfare Hon Meka Whaitiri. Read more »

Press Release – AgResearch

Plantain shows potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions Using an alternative plant type like plantain in grazed pastures could help lower a farms greenhouse gas emissions, AgResearch scientists have found. Read more »

Press Release – Ministry For Primary Industries

Technical advice and pathway tracing reports released following compliance searches 28 March 2018 The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has today released reports by a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to its Mycoplasma bovis response and an internal … Read more »

Press Release – Environment Southland

An initial release of the RHDV1 (K5) rabbit virus on three sites in Southland will be made from next week, if the weather permits. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

March 27 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand farmer confidence picked up in the first quarter of the year following two consecutive declines as farmers’ fears about the policies of the Labour-led government stabilised. Read more »

Press Release – Rabobank

New Zealands farmers have started the year with increasing optimism, with rural confidence edging higher after two consecutive sharp declines recorded in the second half of 2017. Read more »

Press Release – Young Farmers

In less than four months Invercargill will be buzzing with FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final fever. Read more »

Press Release – Federated Farmers

The governments decision to cull all the livestock on properties so far identified as having been contaminated by the Mycoplasma Bovis disease will be a huge relief for all drystock and dairy farmers. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Government

Culling of all cattle infected with Mycoplasma bovis will give farmers much-needed certainty over their futures, says Agriculture and Biosecurity Minister Damien OConnor. Read more »

Press Release – Integrity Soils

Methods are emerging which are saving bees, waterways and farmers incomes. A peer-reviewed study just published challenges many preconceptions about how food production systems are managed ( https://peerj.com/articles/4428/ ) . The research, based in U.S. Northern … Read more »

Press Release – Federated Farmers

Federated Farmers is stunned to learn of a proposal to introduce a snow leopard sanctuary in the South Island High Country. Read more »

Press Release – NZ Beef and Lamb

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is urging all farmers to comply with the National Animal Identification Tracing (NAIT) scheme requirements following the announcement of a programme to track cattle movements as part of the Mycoplasma bovis response. Read more »

Press Release – BusinessDesk

Allied Farmers to net $441,137 for receivable as PVL liquidator drops suit against directors Read more »

Press Release – National Fieldays

Calling all agricultural inventors and innovators: entries are now open for the 2018 National Agricultural Fieldays Innovation Awards. Read more »

Press Release – Lincoln University

New research from Lincoln University shows poor relationships between farmers and their meat processors could be costing New Zealand. Read more »

Press Release – Cardinalspin

Workplace health and wellbeing takes centre stage in the highly anticipated Free Education Program at the safety worlds hottest NEW event, the Workplace Health and Safety Show 2018 . Running across two days (23-24 May), 14 insightful talks led … Read more »

Press Release – Ballance Farm Environment Awards

Manaia dairy farmers showing sustainable and appreciable biodiversity and conservation values have won the Taranaki Ballance Farm Environment Awards. Grant, Dinny and Leedom Gibbs from the Gibbs G Trust were announced supreme winners at the regions awards … Read more »