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High alert for FMD

Biosecurity New Zealand says it has implemented revised border measures to manage any possible threat of foot and mouth disease (FMD) from air passengers arriving directly from Bali.

Facing up to the FE problem

Tokaora Diagnostics chief researcher Frey Livingston says the company has developed a rapid antigen test aimed at early detection of facial eczema.

A rapid antigen test (RAT) aimed at early detection of facial eczema (FE) in ruminants may help manage a disease that costs the New Zealand economy millions of dollars each year.

'Shearing' NZ's knowledge

Mongolian herder Budee demonstrates how to shear with scissors at the Shear for A Cause event in West Otago in early February.

Four Mongolian sheep herders have returned to their homeland with new knowledge and skills, honed in NZ, that have the potential to change their lives and reshape their home country's shearing scene.

'Shearing' NZ's knowledge

Four Mongolian sheep herders have returned to their homeland with new knowledge and skills, honed in NZ, that have the potential to change their lives and reshape their home country's shearing scene.

Research programme aims to halt pesky weed's bite

Alligator weed, which grows in both water and soil and can form a dense mat in either, has plagued northern farmers and growers for many years and is now spreading south.

Rural contractors and regional councils are supporting a new AgResearch programme on invasive alligator weed.

Dear John, what's the story?

Doug Edmeades wonders just exactly what MPI’s new ’On Farm Support Team’ will actually do.

OPINION: As soon as the ‘pen hit the paper’ this column quickly morphed into a ‘Dear John letter’.

Farm emissions bottom lines

OPINION: It's the business end of the season when it comes to emissions pricing discussions.

Editorial: Certainty needed!

Damaged roading in Tairawhiti. Photo Credit: Chorus

OPINION: Farmers and growers in Hawke’s Bay are rightly angry and frustrated at the lack of action from Wellington in sorting out a recovery plan for them.

OPINION: Your canine crusader was staggered to learn that an investigation by the Taxpayers' Union has revealed that taxpayers and Otago ratepayers have forked out more than $2.76 million to kill just... 18 wallabies!

Wrong again!

OPINION: Remember when the once-crumbling Westland Milk Products company was bought out by Chinese company Yili in 2019 and the howls of outrage and derision from current Minister of Agriculture and West Coast MP Damien O'Connor describing it as a 'sad day' for the West Coast?

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Bought off?

OPINION: There has been a lot of public scepticism and controversy about the Government's $55 million-odd Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF), which has seen various media outlets take this funding on certain conditions about how they report or not report on issues.