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As far as farming nightmares go, finding an invasive biosecurity pest on your farm ranks up there with the worst of them.

The forestry industry has become the sixth industry group to join the Government Industry Agreement (GIA) biosecurity partnership.

Scientists waging war on Australia’s nastiest agricultural parasite have mapped the blowfly genome in a development that offers the potential for new drugs and vaccine.

The anti-1080 lobby Farmers Against Ten Eighty (FATE) is claiming possums are scapegoats for TB outbreaks nationwide.

Like a martial art, sustainable and smart pest and disease management relies on understanding opponents’ strengths and weaknesses and using these against them, says Charles Merfield of Lincoln University’s biological husbandry unit (BHU).

New research into sustainable pest management controls might soon offer avocado growers an effective non-chemical control against leafrollers.

In the wake of the Queensland fruit fly threat Lincoln University PhD student Laura Nixon is working hard to develop a weapon in the fight to stop the introduction of another unwanted destructive pest, the brown marmorated stink bug.

The dairy industry has joined with NEXT Foundation and the Department of Conservation in the fight against invasive predators.

FRUIT GROWERS in Temuka, South Canterbury are searching their crop for more yellow spotted stink bug. This follows the discovery of a single unmated female bug last week.

THE PARLIAMENTARY Commissioner for the Environment has welcomed the latest Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) monitoring report on the use of 1080 for the control of pests.