Displaying items by tag: Ministry for Primary Industries

OPINION: The latest independent review into Mycoplasma bovis outbreak will be a relief for farmers.

New Zealand agritech startup Cropsy Technologies is leading a $1.3 million project to help growers identify and replace grapevines that are missing, dead, dying or otherwise unproductive.

New Zealand strong wool could bring a bounce back into soft upholstery – and woolgrowers’ bank accounts – through a new project seeking an alternative to synthetic fillers.

An ambitious project that aims to make Taranaki a horticultural powerhouse has received a major boost with the announcement of a $975,000 grant from the Ministry for Primary Industries. Nigel Malthus reports...

Recent research has found that the tiny parasitoid wasp Pauesia nigrovaria has the power to kick the invasive giant willow aphid to the curb.

The Ministry for Primary Industries says imported semen remains one of the possible pathways for the bacterial disease Mycoplasma bovis' entry into New Zealand.

The forestry sector continues to attract young New Zealanders, claims  New Zealand Forest Services as seven applicants join the Ngā Karahipi Uru Rākau – Forestry Scholarship programme.

A stock truck driver has been fined $3600 for mishandling goats while transporting them to a meat processing plant.

There is widespread anger and disbelief among farming leaders over the actions of MPI and MfE within the He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) partnership.

OPINION: Around the traps, rumours are flying as to who scuttled the so-called joint agri sector response to dealing with agricultural emissions.