Displaying items by tag: Damien O'Connor

The Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme is closing in on another milestone as 2019 draws to an end.

Primary industry “gave the finger” to attempts to overhaul the original NAIT scheme, Biosecurity Minister Damien O’Connor says.

The Government taskforce report on winter grazing says farmers are not solely to blame for all the problems associated with this practice.

Rural News last week summed up the disconnect going on in rural communities: “It seems incredible that in times when commodity prices are strong, interest rates low and climate favourable there should be so much angst and concern in rural NZ”

OPINION: There’s some agitation out there at the moment about farming being under threat from forestry. Much of what’s circulating is based on misinformation so it’s time to lay out the facts.

With the Government wanting to implement huge costs on the livestock farming sector by making New Zealand the only country to include farming in an ETS, this old mutt thought it might actually get serious about funding mitigation research.

The Government will take the next few months to go over 12,000 submissions and work on the proposed Essential Freshwater package.

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor is predicting huge international demand for a native seaweed if research proves its worth as a potential methane buster for agriculture.

Compensation issues are “always complex,” says Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor.

Biosecurity Minister Damien O’Connor is warning travelling Kiwis to be vigilant as the high-season for the crop-eating brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) is under way.