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MPI has released guidelines for ensuring food safety and animal welfare after spreading rocks and minerals from drilling oil and gas wells on land, including the practice known as landfarming.

Your old mate reckons the border security team at MPI will have a new take on the old saying “Is that a lump in your pants or are you just pleased to see me?” after detecting a Polish gardener trying to smuggle plants in his underpants through Auckland airport recently.

Budget 2015 is, I believe, one of the best for the primary sector since National has been in government. 

Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has met with drought-affected farmers in Cheviot, North Canterbury and says they are still feeling the impacts of drought.

Expect the volatility in the international dairy market to be around for some time.