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OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
Hortplus and Plant & Food Research have upgraded the Myrtle Rust Climate Model with new modelling that gives plant producers real-time spray management advice, based on the actual sprays they use in their nursery.
Myrtle rust has been detected for the first time on the West Coast on a young pōhutukawa plant, Biosecurity NZ confirmed today.
A science project looking at manuka genetics, underway for some time, now may be useful in protecting the manuka species from myrtle rust.
Farmers in the Kerikeri region have been asked to assist in the Ministry for Primary Industries myrtle rust response.
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
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