Food insecurity
OPINION: Good on the UK'S NFU for battling to get supermarkets to prioritise local farmers' produce.
A new $1 million project will develop a new information system to help shape the genetics powering New Zealand's dairy sector.
Good strides are being made in the Ministry for Primary Industry’s Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme, according to its new head.
OSPRI has suspended possum control operations in support of its TBfree disease eradication programme during the COVID-19 lockdown.
MPI is wanting to provide guidance around potential contracts signed by small forest owners – many of whom are farm foresters.
MPI has received hundreds of calls from businesses in the food and beverage sectoring wanting to ensure that they are correctly complying with COVID-19 requirements.
MPI boss Ray Smith has appealed to all those involved in food and beverage processing to be meticulous about hygiene.
MPI’s new head of the Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme has some good news for the fight against the disease.
With the closure of saleyards under Alert 4, New Zealand’s virtual saleyard bidr says it will be an essential tool for the trading of livestock during lockdown.
MPI director general Ray Smith has praised the country’s farming leaders for their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
OPINION: Good on the UK'S NFU for battling to get supermarkets to prioritise local farmers' produce.
OPINION: Seven of the UK's major supermarket chains have now responded to the call for them to back the nation's…