NZ sheep and beef farmers will likely face different risks to their businesses in the coming years due to the Covid pandemic.

Securing MIQ spots remain the biggest hurdle to getting overseas workers for the dairy sector.

As Kiwis order their Christmas ham, NZPork is encouraging them to check the pork is actually from New Zealand.

Two Lincoln University scientists, Emeritus professor Keith Cameron and professor Hong Di, have delivered a breakthrough technology with immediate benefits for the dairy farming sector to combat climate change.

With dairy prices on the rise, how far can Fonterra go with its forecast milk price rises this season?

Get vaccinated - that's the message from the National Secretary of the Meat Workers Union to his members.

With the 90% double vaccinated target for all district health boards (DHBs) not expected to be met until mid-January, at current vaccination rates, pressure mounts with the continuing cancellations of A&P shows and field days.

Meat companies support Government plans for a clear and simplified risk assessment process to make Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory at their plants.

Biosecurity and Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor says he welcomes an independent review into the Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme, which has found it is on track to achieve eradication and made recommendations to boost biosecurity work.

An independent review of the Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme has found it is on track to achieve a world-first eradication and makes recommendations to improve the wider biosecurity systems.

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