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Agriculture and Biosecurity Minister Damien O’Connor says farmers have spoken up about the slowness of the response to the disease Mycoplasma bovis.

The Government is offering tax relief measures for farmers in drought-affected areas.

Droughts in two South Island districts have now been declared medium-scale adverse events.

Labour has scotched its pre-election plans to split up MPI and create stand-alone entities for food safety and biosecurity.

The massive change taking place in the dairy industry has the potential to prevent ambitious young people making a career in the sector.

Conflicting messages from Fonterra and market analysts is causing grief to dairy farmers.

Fonterra's profit announcement will be small consolation for dairy farmers facing an extended period of low milk returns.

The Primary Industries Minister needs to stand up for farmers during tough times rather than rolling over for banks.

Beekeepers need to endorse a proposal to combine two organisations into a single and effective industry body.

The Ministry for Primary Industries must name the imported berry products linked to Hepatitis A and recall them, says Labour's Primary Industry spokesman Damien O'Connor.