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From November 1, 2023, Ministry for Primary Industries’ Mycoplasma bovis Eradication Programme has been contracted out to disease management agency OSPRI, as it enters a long-term surveillance phase.

OSPRI is searching for a new chief executive following the decision by Steve Stuart to resign after a five-year tenure.

OSPRI chief executive Steve Stuart is stepping down after five years in the role.

OSPRI – the government agency that manages animal disease and pest control in the farming industry – has taken over the day-to-day control of the Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) eradication programme.

From this month OSPRI took over day-to-day operational and disease control functions of the Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) programme.

In the past year, farmers using MyOSPRI have created just over 15,000 electronic farm-to-meatprocessor and 1300 farm-to-farm Animal Status Declarations (ASDs).

Moving Day is the busiest day of the year for livestock movements.

OSPRI says it experienced a surge in demand at the end of 2022 which overloaded its capacity for processing audits, delaying accreditation for some applicants.

In the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, OSPRI says it is taking a pragmatic approach to TB testing in the Hawke’s Bay Movement Control Area (MCA).

The campaign to eradicate cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis could soon be handed over to Ospri.