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Successful Rural Resilience Programmes Receive MPI Funding Boost
Thursday, 12 May 2022, 1:14 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has renewed funding for two successful programmes training farmers, growers and other rural people to manage pressure and adapt to change. The Agri-Women’s Development Trust (AWDT) has been allocated $339,000 ... More >>
Feedback Sought On Draft Code Of Welfare For Dairy Cattle
Thursday, 28 April 2022, 10:14 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC), the independent Ministerial advisory committee on animal welfare, is calling for feedback on a new draft code of welfare for dairy cattle. NAWAC has reviewed the existing code of welfare for ... More >>
Tauranga Man Fined $5250 For Attempting To Smuggle Exotic Plants From Thailand, The United Kingdom And India
Wednesday, 6 April 2022, 3:20 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
A Tauranga man has been fined $5250 for attempting to smuggle exotic home and garden plants from Thailand, the United Kingdom and India. Scott David Peters, 33, was sentenced in the Auckland District Court today (6/4/22) on one charge under the Biosecurity ... More >>
Almonds A New High-value Nut To Crack
Tuesday, 5 April 2022, 1:27 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
Another ‘nutty’ idea could lead to a brand-new almond industry in New Zealand. Plant & Food Research is embarking on a feasibility study to see if almonds can be grown sustainably in Hawke’s Bay. The project has backing from central and ... More >>
Manawatū Farmer Sentenced To Home Detention & Disqualified From Owning Farm Animals After Cattle Found Starved To Death
Friday, 25 March 2022, 10:16 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
A Manawatū farmer has been sentenced to 10 months home detention and disqualified from owning or exercising authority over farm animals indefinitely after 28 cattle were found to have starved to death. Other cattle had to be humanely euthanised due ... More >>
Fishing Company And Master Guilty On 14 Charges Of Breaching International Fishing Rules
Wednesday, 9 March 2022, 11:03 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
Amaltal Fishing Co Limited, along with the master of its fishing vessel, the Amaltal Apollo , have been found guilty of 14 charges of breaching the conditions of a high seas fishing permit. Amaltal Fishing Co Limited is a subsidiary of Talley’s Group ... More >>
Tips To Safely Make Food Last Longer
Wednesday, 9 March 2022, 10:00 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
If you’re isolating at home, want to reduce your trips to the supermarket, or simply make your food dollars stretch further, there are some simple food safety tips that can help, says New Zealand Food Safety deputy director general Vincent ... More >>
Waikato Farmer Fined $35,000 Over Failure To Treat Flystrike In Sheep
Friday, 4 March 2022, 11:59 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
A sheep and beef farmer has been fined $35,000 for a range of charges related to failure to care for his sheep. Warren Michael George Koberstein (73) of Mangakino was previously convicted for failing to treat about 100 sheep with flystrike, and ... More >>
Timber Design Centre Will Enable Innovative And Greater Use Of Building With Timber
Wednesday, 2 March 2022, 8:52 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
An agreement to create an industry advisory service for building designers will promote and facilitate greater use of timber in New Zealand buildings, says Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service deputy director general Jason Wilson. “This ... More >>
2022 Primary Industries Good Employer Awards Open For Entries
Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 10:06 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
The search has begun to find Aotearoa New Zealand’s most exceptional primary sector employers. Entries have opened for the 2022 Primary Industries Good Employer Awards, which are run by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and the Agricultural and ... More >>
Applications Open For Community Planting Projects
Monday, 28 February 2022, 1:35 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
A Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service initiative supporting communities to take up planting projects, and at the same time honour local heroes, is continuing to reap rewards. Since its launch in 2018, Matariki Tu Rākau has funded 660,000 ... More >>
Farmer Prohibited From Owning Or Managing Cattle And Sheep For 10 Years, Fined $6500
Monday, 21 February 2022, 9:20 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
A farmer who failed to adequately feed cattle, treat animals for worms and tend to ill and injured cattle, has been fined and banned from owning or managing animals for a decade. Michael William Goodwin (75) is mainly a cattle farmer with up to 200 ... More >>
Longline Fisher Who Went To Sea Without Observer Aboard Fined $7,800
Thursday, 17 February 2022, 1:53 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
The owner of a longline tuna fishing company, who failed to take a Fisheries Observer on a fishing trip, was fined $7,800 at the Dunedin District Court (16/2/22). It’s the second time in a year that Wayne David MacFarlane (44), who is the director of ... More >>
Government Funds Hemp Research
Friday, 4 February 2022, 11:46 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
The Ministry for Primary Industries is investing $1.34 million in hemp research and development through its Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures fund (SFF Futures). Funding recipient New Zealand Natural Fibres (NZFN) is itself putting $2 million ... More >>
Stick To The Rules And Enjoy Kaimoana Into The Future
Friday, 4 February 2022, 10:19 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
Fisheries New Zealand is encouraging all recreational fishers to continue sticking to the rules when they’re out on the boat or at their favourite fishing or diving spot. The formal holiday season may be over, but the Waitangi Day long weekend and ... More >>
Flowering Plants May Hold Key To Pesticide Reduction On Citrus Orchards
Thursday, 3 February 2022, 12:03 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
A Gisborne-based project is exploring a biological method of dealing to pesky insects on citrus orchards by understorey planting to attract beneficial insects. “Leaving bare earth under citrus trees and intensively mowing the grass strips between orchard ... More >>
Salmonella Prompts Recall Of Chlorella Powder
Thursday, 27 January 2022, 8:12 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
Food company Hello Foods Ltd is recalling specific batches of Natava SuperFoods brand Organic Chlorella Powder and Organic Clean Greens Wholefood Powder due to the presence of Salmonella . The recall affects the following products: Organic Chlorella ... More >>
Driverless, low emissions tractor in development
Thursday, 27 January 2022, 10:24 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
An innovative, low emissions, driverless tractor able to perform up to three tasks at once is on the cards for New Zealand orchards. More >>
Fisher Gets Big Fine For Setting Nets In Dolphin Area
Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 12:08 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
Commercial fisher who set net six times in dolphin protection area fined nearly $12,000 A commercial fisher who set and hauled nets within dolphin protection areas has been fined $11,900. Following a successful MPI prosecution, Lance Edmond ... More >>
Funding Boost To Increase Forestry Workforce In Otago
Friday, 21 January 2022, 10:08 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
Forestry’s future workforce has received a boost through a partnership between the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and an Otago secondary school. MPI funded a two-week silviculture course for students at Milton’s Tokomairiro High School ... More >>
