The New Zealand Veterinary Association is urging dog owners to prioritise essential vaccinations.

Amid reports of an increase in the number of parvovirus cases, the New Zealand Veterinary Association (NZVA) is calling on dog owners to prioritise essential vaccinations.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon meeting Lucy the inflatable cow at Southern Field Days.

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.

Learn how Lepto could be impacting your farm

Leptospirosis is widespread on New Zealand livestock farms and a webinar, hosted by Zoetis on March 19, will provide resource, and offer insights into understanding and preventing the disease.

Kate Acland. Photo Credit: Claire Toia Bailey.

Farmers are being encouraged to have their say on a New Zealand Meat Board (NZMB) proposal to continue funding the Informing New Zealand Beef (INZB) genetics programme and supporting a new facial eczema research project.

FE can only be prevented but never cured and costs the NZ primary sector $200 million each year.

A disease that costs the primary industry more than $200 million a year is potentially coming to a place near you soon.

Sheep production systems in New Zealand have adapted and evolved over the past 30 years.

Sheep production systems in New Zealand have adapted and evolved over the past 30 years to match the drivers of on-farm income.

FE is predicted to become more widespread and track further south.

Facial Eczema (FE) is a production-limiting, potentially fatal disease that affects both sheep and cattle.

OSPRI has taken over the day-to-day control of the Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) eradication programme.

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.

The Veterinary Council of New Zealand (VCNZ), which regulates veterinarians and sets standards to support responsible antimicrobial use among veterinarians, is in the throes of developing a new strategy to minimize the risk of Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in New Zealand animals.

Total sales of veterinary and horticultural antibiotics in New Zealand have decreased for a fifth year in a row, dropping by 23% in 2022.

Abomasal bloat in lambs leads to excess gas in the abomasum, which causes it to expand like a balloon. This can rupture the abomasum wall and crush surrounding organs causing death.

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