Displaying items by tag: Ministry for Primary Industries

A proposed Dairy Cattle Code of Welfare is highly prescriptive and dictates what a farmer must do, rather than having an outcome that will need to be met, says Federated Farmers.

Investing in precision agriculture has provided North Canterbury farmer Roscoe Taggart with benefits - environmental, social and financial.

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor says that through a new Government-backed programme New Zealand’s apple and pear industry is aiming to become sprayfree by 2050.

A Canterbury farmer has been disqualified from owning calves and fined $26,000 following the death of a large number of calves he was raising.

The Ministry for Primary Industries is warning farmers to remain vigilant about biosecurity in their farms.

Labour and logistical issues are singled out in the Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries (SOPI) report as likely to lead to static or reduced plantings of some crops.

A Dairy Women’s Network (DWN) programme has been named as the recipient of two years of funding support from the Government.

The Government says it's got a high degree of confidence that Mycoplasma bovis found on a Mid-Canterbury dairy farm isn't widespread.

A Hastings man has been banned from owning livestock for five years and fined $7,800 after failing to provide 26 cattle with sufficient food, resulting in two of them dying and two being euthanised to prevent further suffering.

A Bay of Plenty truffle company is sharing the secrets of the industry in a bid to get landowners growing ‘black diamonds’ across the country.