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OPINION: Reports to your old mate tell of farmers who have tried, without success, to re-register with NAIT when prompted to do so by emails from OSPRI.

Farmers who plan to move farm or livestock over the Moving Day period (late May to early June) must update their NAIT accounts says OSPRI.

A closer watch will be kept on the NAIT accounts of farmers and NAIT users who choose not to record or confirm livestock movements, warns OSPRI.

OSPRI is calling on NAIT users to reregister all their locations and to update their NAIT accounts following a key system upgrade.

The government's change to the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) Act will result in some changes to the NAIT system in the coming weeks, says OSPRI chief executive Michelle Edge. 

OSPRI is inviting feedback on proposed TBfreepest control operations for 2019.  

Agribusiness leader Barry Harris has been appointedchairman of OSPRI, the primary industry organisation responsible for managingthe TBfree and NAIT programmes.

OSPRI Chief Executive Michelle Edge will leave the organisation in mid-September.

Minister of Agriculture and Biosecurity Damien O’Connor has hit out at the NAIT system and its manager OSPRI.

The science underpinning New Zealand’s TBfree programme has earned an award for its researchers.